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Ethics process. he remains a sitting senator in the state of new jersey. al franken, on the other hand, heads back to his home state without that process having taken place. the bottom line is a lot of this has to do with not the democrats themselves but a man who works at 2016 pennsylvania avenue, and there is discussion about why president trump was not having to face a higher bar. >> menendez was awarded yesterday, awarded, with a seat on the conference on the tax bill, which is not his specialty. he doesn't have that kind of seniority on finance or anything else, but he was given that seat...

What's your reaction to al franken calling out president trump and roy moore for their alleged indiscretions? >> clearly he feels like he is punished beyond what other people have been. i agree with him about roy moore. i think roy moore should have stepped aside. i think the republican party should have disowned him. they haven't done that. and i think when roy moore if he gets to washington which is not a foregone conclusion-s going to face a senate ethics inquiry just like al franken was. the difference of course is franken succumbed to political pressure. i don't think roy moore if 1,000 p...

Because the public mood does not -- you know, we are in the age of the iphone and instant access to everything and instant gratification. we need to figure out an ethics process that doesn't take three years but that also doesn't -- never even occurs within three weeks where you have unnamed accusers who are believed maybe they should be believed but we don't know because we don't know who they are, you have allegations that involve conduct that occurred before allegedly occurred before senator franken took office. you have conduct that's very different, for example, from the conduct that the ...

For senator franken. he said he's confident if the ethics process went through, that he would be cleared. and i wonder about his colleagues can. they say they're confident that he would have been found guilty or liable or responsible if the ethics process finished up? it should make everybody a little uncomfortable. >> senator menendez is still being evaluated before the ethics committee. i've heard some democrats say, whoa! so senator franken didn't get a chance and senator menendez continues to get a chance. his has nothing to do with personal behavior. his has to do with potentially abusing...

Prologue, this is not the end of it, peter. they have no guarantee they can hold onto that seat in 2018. it now will be in play. and they don't know who else is going to be outed in all of this and whether another major player in the senate is going to face this kind of problem, and now they've got the standard. in this case it was a little easier for them politically because mark dayton in minnesota is a democratic governor replacing al franken. that may not be the case the next time this comes up. >> reporter: that's the challenge with, as we sort of find the gradations of this, andrea. thes...