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Here? i respect maya love for coming out and saying that this is not fiscal conservative for u.s. taxpayers to be paying settlements for blake farranthold and that he should voluntarily resign. >> all right, jason, we know that trent franks said in a statement that he was resigning in part because of, quote, in the midst of this current cultural and media climate, i'm deeply convinced i will be unable to complete a fair house ethics investigation. now, does he have a point here? al franken said lets have an ethics investigation. that didn't happen. public pressure is so big. look at joe barton...

There's nothing in the statement about the retaliation part of this, and i think that's sort of as we probe this a little bit more, as we reported out a little bit further, i think that's what we're going to find out, maybe the reason why the speaker's office felt and why franks felt he had no choice but to resign. >> all right, more interesting to me, the 84 grand. we previously heard that republican congressman blake farranthold used taxpayer monther to settle some sexual harassment claims from a staffer. last night, one of his colleagues, nia love, said this. >> this is something to me that...

Congressional civil rights icon georgia representative john lewis and mississippi representative benny thompson will boycott president trump's attendance this saturday at the opening of mississippi's new civil rights museum. the congressman issued a joint statement calling the president's presence at the ceremony an insult to the people honored by the museum. all of this comes as tonight the president will hold a campaign-style rally in pensacola, florida, a stone's throw from the border of alabama, also a stone's throw of a big old gun show. nbc white house correspondent kristen welker is at ...

Tight tidal wave. senator al franken resign, taking one final shot at the president. >> i am leaving, while a man who has bragged on tape about sexual assault sits in the oval office. >> another congressman steps down. now more accusations and more calls for resignations. >> i think that he should voluntarily resign. >> out of control, 140,000 acres of california engulfed in flames. nearly 200,000 people evacuated. some of the 6,000 firefighters on the front lines are going from heroes to victims. >> i ask them to go by and check my house and he texted me back saying i'm sorry, you know, told ...