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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171208:04:26:00

Sacrifices because they need to have the moral high ground. do you buy that? i think that s i think that they are trying to get to the moral high ground on this. as indira points out, there are many more women in the democratic caucus in the senate and the house. what happened for the democrats is it became, with their own constituents, and certainly with the women in their caucuses, it became much more politically painful for them to stand by al franken and john conyers than it was to abandon them. i think the morality and the politics here are intertwined in a way that really can t be sort of disambiguated, right? i think in order to have the moral high ground, or in order to have the political high ground they have to feel like they have the moral high ground. sometimes, occasionally, the political high ground and the moral high ground are actually the same thing. so indira, this is the tough question. what are you looking for next, how broad does this get, and what s the chan ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171208:09:26:00

i think that s i think that they are trying to get to the moral high ground on this. as indira points out, there are many more women in the democratic caucus in the senate and the house. what happened for the democrats is it became, with their own constituents, and certainly with the women in their caucuses, it became much more politically painful for them to stand by al franken and john conyers than it was to abandon them. i think the morality and the politics here are intertwined in a way that really can t be sort of disambiguated, right? i think in order to have the moral high ground, or in order to have the political high ground they have to feel like they have the moral high ground. sometimes, occasionally, the political high ground and the moral high ground are actually the same thing. so indira, this is the tough question. what are you looking for next, how broad does this get, and what s the chance that innocent lives get entangled in this? well, look. i want to say fir ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171208:09:19:00

Today i am announcing that in the coming weeks, i will be resigning as a member of the united states senate. i of all people am aware that there is some irony in the fact that i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the oval office. and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full support of his party. the intentionally ironic title of al franken s latest book is giant of the senate. al franken, who once worked in this building, one time ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171208:07:23:00

We saw just last week, i spoke to a number of senators on the democratic side who were basically saying they wanted to see the ethics process play out on al franken by wednesday. three dozen of them, almost three dozen of them called on him to resign. john conyers resigned earlier this week as well. there is absolutely been a c-change. this national reckoning we re having across all sorts of industries is now focused on the capital and focused on politics. i don t expect that this wave is going to break any time soon. endera, the question is where is d.c. and congress in relation to the wave? are they catching up? do they have like right about in the middle, or is any aspect of washington ahead alarmedly of societal change in this country? well, i would say that congress is probably a little bit behind the curve of what we re seeing in the media, which has really sort of stepped ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171208:04:25:00

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 used taxpayer money to settle a sex harassment complaint from one of his former staffers. indira, 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 ....

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