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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...

Senator rand paul. elise, i want to start with you. longtime journalist neil king tweeted this, that he is hearing the total number of congressional members who may ultimately be linked to sexual harassment allegations could hit 40, 40, as a former senate staffer yourself, listen, when i read these stories and i see so many of them are different, i think of the 14 years i spent on wall street, not that it's good, bad or otherwise, and i think if we are running people out of town for a grab and a tickle and a this, and yes there are huge problems, holy cow, there's a lot more coming. >> well, t...

Pressure hit farranthold here. >> that's the million dollar question. >> it's the $84,000 question. >> franken resigned because of pressure from his colleagues. if mia love is the iceberg, you see more republican women come out and say farranthold should resign over this, that might build pressure. right now farranthold still has support of the leadership. he's sort of gone through the process. we're going to find out here if the pressure and the design p sire to have a sort of zero tolerance environment is enough to push farranthold to resign at some point. again, this will have to bubble up ...