why are we listening to well? why could we hear today than what we couldn t hear before? i have to give the women s march credit for that. all of this is difficult, as michelle said, all of this is very difficult, very painful and again the more people lean into it, the least amount of plain and blow we re going to feel. michelle goldberg, thank you so much, we ll continue this conversation with scott ditro on the other 150id of this break. stick around. than anyone else in the country. because we know, even the smallest things are sometimes the biggest.
first he received a letter there was a letter that came out from about a dozen of his former staff who said it was one of the best work environments they ve ever had. i ve spoken to people who have both signed on to that letter and some who have not signed on to the letter as well and just today we got another letter from more than 60 local minnesotaens, some elected to state government and other community leaders who say they don t approve of what senator al franken has done but they say he s been great for women in the state and they re willing to look past this. richard? leigh ann caldwell, jeff bennett, thank you both. i d now like to bring in our panel. scott ditro is the npr political reporter. we have tamika mallory, president of mallory consulting and national co-chair of the women s march. we also have new york times columnist michelle goldberg. i ll start from this side and move my way across here. we have two stories and let s