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He seemed pretty frustrated today. he's going to resign but seems to feel almost as if he was forced out by the party. do you feel as if the party forced him out? >> i think what happened yesterday was the seventh rep t report, and a group of our women senators who looked at this very, very closely, reached a conclusion that that was just enough stories substantial enough, numerous enough that it was time to take a stand and i think with that seventh report many of us agreed it is it was a painful day for us, but i think the right thing was for al franken to step down and that's what he did to...

Change or the worry this is the tsunami, which will wash away all the progress that women are making, because we don't make distinctions. crime versus distinctions. >> i am so worried. >> really? >> i am really worried. as a woman's activist defending women's rights, there is a big distance between rape and big violence which women, one out of three women still faces some kind of violence, sexual violence and between incidents that are violating but not rape. we need to have due process. we cannot fire people with an act ation is. >> exactly. >> that's what, there was going to be due process h...

Capitol hill that donald trump essentially forced mitch mcconnell to retreat from his position which was to say, i believe the women, to his position as a moving target, but that he retreated to say, it's an issue for alabama? and i think yesterday updated that to say, well, we would consider an ethics process, should he prevail? >> reporter: so i think that mcconnell, seems to me, reading kind of the tea leaves and body language, mcconnell didn't want to come across quite the way it was received when it comes to roy moore. when he talked to reporters yesterday he said i called for him to with...

Franken says he'll make announcement tomorrow. >> senator frank ken is entitle to the senate ethics process. but i don't think congress is equipped, i don't think they have the tools to do the kind of accountability that the american people are searching for. i do not feel that he should continue to serve. everyone will make their own judgment. i hope they do make their own judgment. >> cnn national politics reporter mj lee is live on capitol hill. and mj you have been following this issue. just in general, sexual harassment allegations settlements there on capitol hill, you've been doing trem...

Officials. our process right now we are limited to a member of congress voluntarily resigning or going through the ethics process. i agree 100%. i agree with you. i agree. when i see the swift action that is happening in the industry and then we're confronted, what do we do when this is -- >> then why not call for him to resign? why not push a little bit more if you want to see things change and see the way things are handled change, stand is up and be "the voice" in a different way. >> john conyers is in the hospital right now. and i am standing here today as a member of congress representing...