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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171208:09:20:00

saturday night live star who made the leap to successful politician, announced today he will soon be a former u.s. senator, while firing a parting shot there at the president and republicans accused of sexual misconduct. franken, a second term minnesota democrat, faced the same accusations from at least seven women, the first emerging about three weeks ago now. 35 of his fellow democratic senators had called upon him to step down. and his announcement comes a few days after congressman john conyers, democrat from michigan, seniormost man in the house, ended his five-decade career on the hill over accusations of harassment. then just hours after senator franken s announcement today came congressman trent franks, republican of arizona. he also said he was resigning after admitting he had spoken with two former female staffers about his interest in finding a surrogate. it came after the house ethics committee began an investigation ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171208:09:24:00

Of stepped forward and had to take account. but that makes perfect sense. we in the media hold other people accountable. we have to hold ourselves accountable first. we haven t seen the same kinds of resignations in big pharma or business or universities quite yet. i m sure that will be coming. i want to say on congress that one of the things i think is most striking about this is that it was women, led by senator kirsten gillibrand of new york who has made sexual assault her issue, who led the calls for al franken to resign. one thing that we haven t talked enough about is the fact that one-third of the democratic caucus in the senate are women, whereas fewer than one tenth of the republican caucus are women. and i think that this makes a big difference, you know, along with overall the party leaders stance in why al franken was called on to resign and why you see the rnc and president trump still backing roy moore, not to mention blake farenthold in congress for that matter, who ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171208:07:15:00

Corner, nervous and scared, he usually does things, he lashes out on twitter. sometimes he makes his own situation worst. they have them h i am him busy. he ll be in mississippi. the first thing you re watching is how does trump react because eventually that reaction always comes. great points all around. eli stokols, miller, jennifer. thank you for the lead off panel. coming up six major wildfires tearing across southern california. we ll go there live. and the ethics scandal continues its tear through congress. franken leaving the senate and tonight an arizona republican took himself out of the house because of some bad news that was breaking about him. we ll have all of it when we continue. when you ve got. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171208:09:21:00

Into this. congressman francs issued a statement late this afternoon saying in part, i have absolutely never physically intimidated, coerced, or had any sexual experience with any member of the my staff. he said, my wife and i have long suffered with infertility. we pursued adoption on more than one occasion only to have the adoptive mothers in each case change their mind prior to giving birth. this is all unfolding against the backdrop of roy moore s campaign to win a seat in the u.s. senate from alabama. today the president will hold a rally in pensacola, florida, less than 20 miles from the alabama state line, well within media reach of many of the state s voters. this has presented what some might call an optics issue for the president and his party. our own kristen welker brought it up today in the briefing room. we ve seen democrats forcefully call for john conyers resignation, al franken s resignation, which happened today. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171208:07:25:00

Mention blake farron hold in congress for that matter who used taxpayer money to settle a sex harassment complaint from one of his former staffers. endera, you re so right where senator gillibrand is concerned. she started with sexual assault in the u.s. military and reporting procedures and chain of command. and if you think about it, it s the same issues writ large now for all of congress. jonathan, the two parties are dealing with this, you could say, differently. i heard democrats today on television calling conyers and franken, in effect, human sacrifices because they need to have the moral high ground. do you buy that? i think that they are trying to get to the moral high ground on this. as endera points out there are more women in the democratic caucus and the house. what happened for the democrats as it became with their own ....

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