you know about that very well. you've covered it for most part accurately, which is surprising for you folks, but that's okay. we're on the verge of a historic victory that cuts taxes for the middle class, for businesses, brings back probably in excess of $4 trillion as you know, we've been saying $2.5 trillion for years. that number has greatly expanded and we'll be bringing back in excess of $4 trillion. it will be put to work in our country. there will be a lot of jobs being brought back with that money. right now, that money is being spent overseas. it's not going to be spent overseas nip. the house and senate are now negotiating the fine bill. and i cannot wait to sign these giant tax cuts and reforms. i mentioned tax cuts. it's also reforms. but i'm looking forward to signing it. it will be the largest tax cuts by far in the history of our country. we'll be bringing the business tax from 35 all the way down to

20. at 35, it's the highest in the industrialized world. at 20 we're on the very low side. we'll be very competitive. you look at china, it's 15%. other countries are 18%. some are 23, 24%. the average is actually of the primary competitors is actually 23%. so we'll be pretty much below the average. and we'll be able to compete. and despite all of that and despite before we even get the massive injection, we have a stock market that has hit record highs 81 times since our election victory. 81 times. it's at a new high right now. unemployment is at a 17-year low. very shortly it's going to be at a 19-year low. we think the numbers are going to continue to go down. we're also getting into the pool of the 100 million people that are not working. that pool is now coming back, as you know, that's not considered

in the low employment numbers which means we have a lot of people that want to get to work and that will be working. consumer confidence is at a 17-year high. we've created nearly 2 million jobs. think of that. 2 million jobs since election day. that's based on consumer confidence. that's based on enthusiasm. every enthusiasm poll especially for business enthusiasm and job enthusiasm is at an all-time high. that's why companies are coming back into our country. they're opening up new plants. most of you have written been toyota came back in. we have many car companies coming back in. they're going to michigan, they're going to ohio, they're going to the states where they want to be. they can go anywhere they want. south carolina, north carolina. but they're going all over our country. they're coming back in. we had many years where we had no new plants, only closures. now we have openings. and that means a lot of jobs.

but to get it going the way i really want where we have gdp getting up to 4, 5, and even 6% because i think that's possible, if you look back in your notes, you'll say when i said 4%, people said that would be years. well, it's turned out that i'm right because without the hurricanes, this last quarter we would have hit 4%. at 3.3%, which was adjusted previously this is far beyond what anybody thought we would be at. so we're at 3.3% gdp. i see no reason why we don't go to 4%, 5%, and even 6%. i don't want to the go beyond that because then i'll be criticize fundamental we don't hit it. but every time we go up one point, just so you understand, one point means $2.5 trillion, means 10 million jobs. so one point in gdp is an incredible statement. $2.5 trillion for each point, 10

million jobs for each point. and i think we're going to be going up a lot of points. so in order to really keep it going the way i want and the way we all want around this table, we have to get past our taxes. i call it the mixer. it's in conference right now but i call it the mixer. i think when it comes out, it's going to be a beautiful mix. there are things that i like better in the senate bill. there are things that i like better in the house bill. i think when they come out, we'll have some new additions and we'll have the best of each. i think we're going to have a fantastic tax bill. there are very, very few people that aren't benefiting by but there's a tiny little sliver. we're going to try to take care of that very small group of people that through circumstances maybe don't get the full benefit of what we're doing. but the middle class gets a tremendous benefit and business which is jobs, gets a tremendous benefit. we'll be giving the cabinet

today an update on national security and strategy. we'll also receive briefings on the latest developments in the tax cut negotiations and administrator mcmahon who has done a fantastic job at small business administration, where is linda? linda. did a really fantastic job, is helping small businesses in record numbers. and they've needed help really because of the hurricanes. the hurricanes were devastating. as i said, gdp, if we didn't have the hurricanes, we would have just about 4% but we had, as you probably know and probably everybody remembers, we had five really bad ones. and we have a lot of businesses that have been severely hurt. linda mcmahon has done an incredible job in helping those businesses out through the small business. thank you so much, linda. so we're in a great period in this country because jobs are coming back, unemployment is low. business has never been

stronger. but we have a military that we have to build. i want to thank general mattis for doing such a great job respect to isis. he's knocked the hell out of them. of course, i've made it possible with what i've let you do, i think. >> yes, sir. >> wouldn't you say? >> absolutely. >> but he has done a fantastic job. he and the military have done a fantastic job with isis. they're essentially knocked out of syria, knocked out of iraq. that's the good news. the bad news they go all over the place. and i'll tell you where we don't want them, we don't want them in our country. tell them to stay wherever the hell they are. we don't want them coming back into our country. they do go back into some countries. we're watching that closely. so i'd like to wish everyone a really great season. i'd like to wish everyone a merry christmas, happy new year. and i will tell you that we have a big announcement coming up at

1:00, perhaps a couple of you will be there, maybe not. but it's a big announcement. it's an announcement concerning israel and the palestinians and the middle east. and i think it's long overdue. many presidents have said they want to do something and they didn't do it, whether it's through courage or that he changed their mind, i can't tell you. but a lot of people have said we have to do something and they didn't do it. we'll be talking about that something at 1:00. and i look forward to seeing you then. thank you all very much. thank you very much. >> mr. president had, how will it affect the peace process. >> we'll talk about it in a little while. >> do you still have confidence in director mueller, sir? >> thank you very much. >> are we going to have a shut down? >> it could happen. the democrats are really looking at something that is very dangerous to our country. they are looking at shutting down. they want to have illegal immigrants in many cases people

that we don't want in our country. they want to have illegal immigrants pouring into our country. bringing with them crime, tremendous amounts of crime. we don't want to have that. we want to have a great, beautiful crime-free country. and we want people coming into our country. but we want them to come on our basis. and that's why we're being so careful with our process and our screening. and as you know, we had a tremendous victory the other day in the supreme court with the ban. got quite a bit of attention, probably not as much attention as it deserved. we had tremendous -- that was a tremendous victory for this is the country. not a victory for me. it was a victory for our country. so the democrats may be will want to shut down the country because they want people flowing into our country. and i want people coming into our country but i want to vet those people. and i want to vet them very carefully because we don't want to have a radical islamic

terrorism in this country and we don't want to have crime in this country. you look at what just happened in san francisco. that was a disgrace. and as you know, the federal government just got involved. and did a great thing. because they're going to take that at least to the next step. they did a great thing by getting involved. so thank you very much. i'll see you all at 1:00. >> and you were just watching president trump meeting with his cabinet, making remarks, welcome to "inside politics." i'm dana bash. we want to get straight to the breaking news from capitol hill. now, eight democratic senators are calling for their colleague, al franken, to resign. this has been kind of a slow roll in the past half an hour or so. first, it was six female democratic senators. you see them on the screen. and then bob casey of

pennsylvania just literally moments ago came out and said that it is time for their colleague al franken to resign. all of course, because of multiple allegations of sexual harassment by the minnesota senator over the past several weeks. the senators we are talking about who have now called on their colleague to resign. senator kirsten gillibrand, claire mccaskill, mace i hirono, maggie hassan, patty murray, cam ma la harris, tommy baldwin and bob casey of pennsylvania. straight to our reporters to share insights and reporting on what is going on. bloomberg's sa heal kapoor, july i pace from the "associated press," politico's eliana johnson and matt adviser to the boston globe and as i was saying your names, another democratic senator, another male democratic senator chair brown came out and said it is time for his colleague, al franken to resign kind of a remarkable in a lot of

ways. let's start with the substance of what these women and now women and men in the senate are saying. first from patty murray who all of it is significant. it's most significant in the way that they are doing it because they're doing it in bulk. they're doing it together. but the top ranking woman in the united states senate, patty murray, she's third ranking democrat in leadership. she said i'm shocked and appalled by senator franken's behavior. it is clear to me that this has been a deeply harmful persistent problem and a clear pattern over a long period of time. it is time for him to step aside. kirsten gillibrand was the first to put out her press release and went through a very long explanation about a moment of reckoning for friends and colleagues and that this is something that they have to do in order to make sure that someone else should serve, that

if her words that doesn't mistreat women. julie, thoughts? >> well, this, of course, comes on the heels of another allegation against franken this morning. it feels as though the pressure had just grown to the point where these democratic women, i think it's notable that the first seven or so we heard from were democratic women felt like this was just unsustainable and they couldn't stand by as these allegations continue to drip out. i think it's interesting we've not heard from chuck schumer yet, the democratic leader. i think there's going to be a lot of attention and pressure now that so many of his colleagues and again so many female democratic senators have come out and taken this step. putting it in the broader context what we've seen over the last two months, i was struck this morning in looking at the "time" magazine cover, it's only been two months wins the harvey weinstein allegations. the speed which this has come together feels like capitol hill is catching up now to where private industry has been, bus certainly i don't see a way for franken to continue in office at

this point. >> it's hard to imagine. you mention the "time" magazine cover. "time" magazine announced their person of the year. we can put it up. it was people as they sometimes do. silence breakers. there you see those who came out and broke their silence about sexual harassment. sexual misconduct, particularly in hollywood there. but across the board. you're absolutely right. this is the congress catching unto that. i should also say senator franken has admitted to some of the claims against him. this new one this morning he has said is not true. let's also just kind of take a step back and look at the way that these, let's focus on the women right now. seven out -- there are 16 democratic women in the senate. seven so far have cop out. they did it as a sisterhood. now it's a sister and brotherhood. what does that tell you? obviously, it was very carefully coordinated anchor graphed. it was statement, statement,

statement, statement, as i said it was a slow roll. >> i was going to say it's pretty clear these democratic women talked to each other beforehand and had pretty carefully choreographed that. i think it speaks to the fact or the importance of having not just a couple of women but a critical mass of women in order to get this sort of thing roll. we saw the difficulty of that nancy pelosi had in the house calling on john conyers to resign. that was a very slow moving thing. i think that this started yesterday at politico, we had women rule summit yesterday and kirsten gillibrand on stage visibly in tears talking about this. they said i hate being asked to distinguish grope from a grasp from a rape and i think women in congress were simply tired of being asked to distinguish one gross and untoward thing from another. and wanted to begin speaking out about this.

i also think from a purely political standpoint, having the rnc and the president go all-in essentially for roy moore, it really does give democrats an opportunity even though they've been slow and mishandled them in their own right to draw a pretty stark contrast with the position the republican party and the president are in right now. >> you're exactly right. remember it was just yesterday that john conyers, dean of the house, somebody who has been there for decades who was a very big player in the civil rights movement, but also did settle. so he said he didn't really do it, but he definitely did settle on at least one allegation of sexual harassment and obviously, there were many, many others. it did take the democratic leadership awhile 0 kind of get it. and figure out that they needed to pressure him to do what he did yesterday. and at the beginning of this reckoning on capitol hill, it

was oddly the opposite. you first heard mitch mcconnell just a few weeks ago, three weeks ago when roy moore's allegations came out said i believe the women. now, you have the reverse and you have mcconnell saying alabama voters are going to do what they do and more importantly you do have the rnc and you have the president of the united states going full-in on a candidate who has these allegations, multiple allegations against him of sexual misconduct, even child molestation. >> yeah. and i also, i am struck as you've alluded to the sort of drum beat anchor graphed nature of these statements coming out. they seem designed not only to make a statement that what will al franken did was wrong but it seems designed to force him to resign. i mean, it's a pro active move rather than just reacting to the news. and i think that is the striking nature of this where you're seeing so many democrats which

does change the calculus and draws the contrast. we shouldn't get so political about this but it does draw the contrast i think democrats want here. >> i think it is political. look, you can't ignore the politics here. you're right. that the democrats saw the backlash. the understandable backlash against them for not -- for being very slow to never mind john conyers in the house but even to do what they're doing now on al franken and you're seeing them trying to make up for na. i think this is probably going to happen throughout the hour, the chairman of the democratic national committee tom perez saying that al franken should resign. >> this is democrats trying to reclaim the moral high ground after a lot of hedging at first when these allegations came out against of senator franken, against mr. conyers. the idea that franken admitted to some of the wrongdoing he's done in the past and said he would cooperate with the ethics committee.

>> i don't think he's admitted it, too. i don't think saying i'm a warm person is an admission that you squeezed somebody in an inappropriate place. so i didn't take his apologies as admissions. into fair enough. it was different than conyers and roy moore and various others completely defiant. i think there was some hope among democrats maybe this would come to fruition. this was the straw that broke the camel's back. this shows in all the allegations and resignations recently shows the extent to which this issue has no ideological partisan, professional, regional, any tribal boundaries, generational bound drifz any kind. centuries of men setting up a culture where they can take abuse and take advantage of women. this is society coming to grips with gender equality. >> we had somebody say at ho lit coyesterday that it's really a sad time when the only bipartisan issue on capital issue is that members of both parties are sexual harassers. >> i think this moment is where the tribalism is breaking down

where you have democrats calling on a democrat to resign. because up till now, have you had people in their own tribes, not willing to believe something that is impacting their own party but calling on the opposite party to take action. so i think this is the significant development. >> and republicans are moving in the other direction with roy moore. the rnc jumping back in to help him. senator mcconnell is not calling on him to resign. president trump has is endorsed him. >> president trump will be on the alabama border carefully avoiding going into the state on friday. in pensacola, that event will turn into something akin to a roy moore rally. that has to make republican leaders cringe. this is not the context they want to be in this week. >> let me read for you and also our viewers what tom perez, the dnc chair said. he said senator al franken should step down. he said everyone must share the responsibility of building a culture of trust and respect for

women in every industry and workplace and that includes our party. i should say we haven't heard from the leader in the u.s. senate, the democratic leader chuck schumer. i would imagine it's only a matter of time we hear from him if we don't hear from al franken first which might be more likely. i just want to also mention that there are 21 women in the united states senate now. 16 as i mentioned are democrats. can you imagine this reckoning happening even with the cultural reckoning in and around congress but happening without 21 women in the senate? still only 21% of the senate but it's more than they've had. >> absolutely not. i think the fact that the women came out first today and really set the tone, kristin gillibrand who has made military sexual assault a real passion project for her, it is hard to imagine as sad as it is that we would be in this position if it weren't for having those women on capitol hill. >> senator gillibrand has talked

about harassment she faced herself in the senate. >> she wrote about it in her book. >> she became the first woman to come out. >> we'll have more to talk about on breaking news what, we expect from the president. you need to stay here for the president's announcement. it will be at 1:00 p.m. eastern. wolf blitzer will anchor special coverage. we'll talk more about it after the break. by it, i mean his announcement about the jerusalem and the u.s. embassy in israel. stay with us.

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kirsten gillibrand of new york. she addressed this topic. let's listen. >> senator franken is entitled to the senate ethics investigation 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. and as a mom who has to explain had to my children as somebody who has to set an example for what have this country should be tolerating and not be tolerating, it's not equipped to do that. and so yes, of course, he's entitled to that process. but i think it would be better for the country for him to offer that clear message that he values women, that we value women and that this kind of behavior is not acceptable. >> again, that was senator kirsten gillibrand speaking moments ago on capitol hill about her call for her

democratic colleague, al franken, to resign and again, she is one of ten democratic senators, plus the dnc chair. i thought what she said about the senate ethics committee is interesting. because for the past couple of weeks that, has been kind of the go-to. it's like f1 on the computer for the democratic staff. oh, let's wait till the senate ethics committee figures out what they're doing. a lot of people even a lot of democrats said that's a copout. >> her saying it's not equipped to handle this, juliette reference this had earlier. gillibrand being at the forefront of trying to change the military and how it handles allegations like this. it's a powerful message we can't deal with this. so senator franken needs to you know, do the right thing and resign. it's striking. and it's a different development. like you said, it's been a copout a lot of democrats pointed to before. >> she's right. one thing revealed on capitol hill through this process is that congress is not equipped to deal with these kind of

allegations, the process for staffers to come forward and report when they think there has been misconduct is incredibly arcane and slow. so it is -- it makes sense that people have not felt compelled to come forward before then. they felt like there hasn't been an outlet for them to tell their stories and there hasn't been an outlet for accountability. the question for lawmakers is can they move forward and change that process in a fast enough way to make it look like they really do take this seriously. >> you mentioned the process which when they put it together, they thought it was so current and ahead of the time in the '90s to at least put a process in place. but it turns out that now it looks incredibly antic quay and very unfair to the victim because it is very hush hush. you have to go through several processes even to get to the point where you can face the person you're alleging has

sexually harassed you. and then when you settle, you have to sign an nda, a nondisclosure agreement so you can never talk about it apparently even with your therapist which is nuts. absolutely nuts. that is in the process of changing thanks to democrats like gillibrand and others. but it has to change now and it is up to the senate ethics committee. the committee doesn't run on the same time frame as raw politics. >> what essentially we heard gillibrand say is we need a clean slate with this stuff going forward. the people who have been accused essentially need to resign so there's nobody in the democratic conference who is understand any sort of scrutiny in this regard. we have got to the wait until there's a new process in place and where members of congress accused are really and truly publicly accountable for this behavior. the idea there was taxpayer money being paid out and no accountability or transparency

for the payouts is seriously problematic. female members of congress want to press the reset button on all of this going forward. >> m.j. lee who has been doing tremendous reporting on this issue from capitol hill just caught up with the democratic senator from california, cam ma la harris who is one of those who came out this morning saying that her colleague al franken should resign. let's listen to what she said. >> senator, can i. >> thank you. >>. >> sorry about that. it looks like we have a little bit of a problem with the tape. as soon as we get that fixed we'll get back to you and get back to the tape. i'm told what senator harris told mj lee was it was a difficult situation and she wasn't sure how to deal with that. we're waiting to see if we can get m.j. lee to give us a report on that. not surprising it was a difficult decision. >> yes, and no, i guess. yes, i can imagine why it would be difficult. this is your colleague, someone

you've worked alongside. at the same time, this has been such a steady stream of accusations against the senator. he has admitted some role in these, not fully denied all the accusations. we're in a moment where i think it is incumbent for people talking about colleague who are elected by the american public not ceos, not executives who are in private industry but who come to washington to represent the american people to hold themselves to the aim standards as we have seen private industry. >> let's try with that tape one more time. we are on breaking news, guys. let's hope this one, would. >> first of all, it was a very difficult decision and i respect senator franking for the work that he has done as a senator on issues that are right now a lot of issues that we are fighting like daca. i think he's done good work as it relates to those kinds of issues but frankly, the num rossity of the complaints and allegations against him i found to have weight bearing weight.

>> that was our m.j. lee talking to cam ma la harris, democratic senator from california about, her decision to call on al franken to resign. we now have i believe m.j. with us. there you are, with some other very important breaking news that perhaps this growing number of democratic senators has worked? >> reporter: well, dana, this is pretty remarkable in just a span of maybe 30 minutes or so, the number of senators who have all come out at the same time to make this decision to call on senator franken to resign and obviously, this is something we have been keeping track of over the last couple of weeks as these allegations began to mount against senator franken. up till this point, the silence was remarkable. whether it was female senators

or male senators, democrats or republicans, these members were very develops reluctant obviously to call on to rein. i think today we saw sort of a turning point where it took one member, that was kirsten gillibrand to first say she is calling on him to resign. obviously, there were a slew of other members who decided to hit the send button. i think just behind the scenes, you know this place better than anybody else, you know that senator franken is someone who is just very widely and well liked. he is a popular colleague among senate democrats. i think you have gotten the sense talking to aides, talking to senators privately there was a sense they truly did not want see something like this happen to senator franken, that he was not someone anyone sort of wished ill on, that this is someone that they liked having in the senate. and you know, at some point when these stories just really began to bid and mount, you know, there reached a point where it became impossible almost for the

senators to not call on him to resign. >> m.j., because this is fast-moving and i know what it's like to be running around as information comes on to your phone, on the bottom of our screen and what i was referring to coming to you, it says franken to make an announcement on thursday which is information that we just got. have you heard anything at all about what he might be saying? and is it what likely we expect based on the avalanche now of colleagues saying it's time for you to go? >> reporter: well, i haven't been able to look at my phone for the last 30 seconds or so. but no. >> which matters in this. >> it really does. they have not indicated you know, what this announcement might be or you know, what his thinking is, quite frankly, as his colleagues come out to say that he should resign. you know, he hasn't really been really out there advocating for himself or defending himself

other than the one press conference that he had some days ago. you know, this is not an issue he has engaged on. he has not sat down for a lot of interviews. but i do think whatever he decides to announce tonight, this is clearly going to be a big decision. either he will say he is resigning or he will stand his ground and say look, the senate ethics committee is going forward with this investigation. i prefer we wait for the results of that investigation, but as you know, dana, that is ves very difficult to do when the backdrop is that a lot of your colleagues are now saying you need to go. >> m.j., thank you so much for that report. as we were saying, this is so fast moving as you were talking, mj, debbie stabenow, another fee may democratic senator, has come out and said that al franken should resign. as a bring it back around the table, i want to mention one other thing. my intrepid colleague ted barrett on capitol hill just spoke with senator susan

collins, a republican who also said she believe has this latest allegations are disturbing and it would be best for the senate if he franken followed the advice of his democratic colleagues meaning she added her voice to those saying resign. i put mj on the spot there. i shouldn't have done it. but the fact that al franken is saying he's making a speech tomorrow. first of all, tomorrow? i mean, this is moving like this. i mean in, some ways you have to kind of understand that it takes a little while to process this kind of thing when you're getting -- when your colleagues are closing in on you. which is exactly what is happening. senator by senator as we speak. >> he's entitled, certainly to the ethics committee investigation and you know, the verdict of that, but his colleagues are entitled to say we don't want you here that that's what they're saying. > they're basically saying you're not entitled to it. >> is an a rank and file senator, relationships matter a lot. who is going to cosponsor bills with him or work with him?

if all these senators are saying he doesn't deserve to be here now, i think his future in the senate is pretty much over even. >> heidi heitkamp of north dakota it, democrat, also came out. we have not yet heard from amy chlo char the. >> reporter: seminar from minnesota, al franken's colleague in the senate. we'll see if she cops out or lets her colleague coz that. >> if he does resign, there's a democratic governor of minnesota who will be able to appoint a democratic replacement for al franken but it's not as if it's a light schedule right now. you know, in the senate. on capitol hill. democrats are not controlling a lot of that agenda, but you know, you can imagine thank process wanting to move fairly quickly if al franken does announce his resignation effective immediately, who is going to replace him. >> the tide of history is watching too leading to all of these accusations coming out so

quickly. everyone is going to remember who stood strong and said resign, that frankly includes to a point president trump's accusers and the people who said they're all liars. >> in some ways, there are two factors i think made this a relatively easy call for democrats. the first is mark dayton, the governor of minnesota is a democrat. they're not losing a seat in the senate ahead of the 2018 midterms. and the other is that with roy moore, seeming more and more likely to cop in the senate, it sets democrats up in a good position to really put the squeeze on republicans to expel him. that's something that mitch mcconnell seemed determined to do a month ago but has seemed more and more reluctant to do. he essentially adopted what was originally the white house position. which was that if you want to elect somebody who seems pretty certainly guilty of some sort of sexual misconduct, so be it. mcconnell did not take that

position originally but he's essentially come to that position now. but i think democrats with this franken move have been pretty politically savvy. >> listen, i think that that is very likely going to change the dynamic. we should remember in six days, it is very likely that roy moore will be elected to the u.s. senate. and so mitch mcconnell has kind of been moving towards let the alabama voters decide, but now, he's got probably or potentially i should say a new republican senator coming in against the backdrop where you have all these democrats who just pushed one of their own out for allegations, different allegations but in some ways maybe not as egregious. >> republicans are in a real box on this one. there is a difference between a senator like franken potentially under real pressure from their colleagues saying i'm going to choose to step aside versus party leaders saying, we know that your voters elected you to

this office, in this case with a full understanding of what they were getting into. and we are going to push you out. that is really complicated. it goes beyond the actual allegations. it goes beyond this moment we're talking about and goes to the core of our democracy if voters in alabama choose to put roy moore in the senate, how does it look for republican leaders to say we won't seat him here. >> makes it even tougher. we're going to take a quick break. a reminder that at this point, more than a dozen senators mostly democrats but now according to our ted barrett, one republican susan collins saying it is time for al franken to step aside to resign his seat as senator from minnesota. and he has said is he going to make an announcement tomorrow. look at that screen at this point, we can barely fit all the pictures on the screen. this just happened in the past hour. in the past hour. we're going to take a quick break. we'll be right back.

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welcome back to "inside politics." >> you see a picture of the white house there. president trump at the top of the hour is going to make a very big, very important statement on the status of the u.s. embassies in israel. we'll formally talk about the fact that the u.s. is going to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and will signal that although it has been technically the law of the land since 1995 for 22 years, that the u.s. embassy in israel should be in jerusalem but he is actually going to be the first

president to finally make that happen. we're waiting for that announcement at the top of the hour. in the meantime, we're having a warp speed political story happen. but by warp speed, i really mean that we can barely have a conversation here at the table or with our reporters on capitol hill for more than 30 seconds without hearing another democratic senator coming out and saying it is time for al franken, the democrat from minnesota who has been accused now by multiple women of sexual harassment, that it is time for him to step down. you see some of the pictures on the screen there. it starred again with kirsten gillibrand, democrat of new york putting out a statement and then one after another after another. their offices hit send on the press release button. and you saw them coming out with press releases on twitter and elsewhere, democrats, women and as you see there men, as well. i'm going to bring it back around the table.

matt, as the boss guy here, one of the most prominent women in politics, never mind in the u.s. senate is elizabeth warren. she has been silent on this at least in the last 30 seconds. >> it's striking. we saw ed markey, the junior senator from massachusetts her colleague sign it, just tweeted that he's joining those calls. you know, and elizabeth warren this morning had an event with bernie sanders doing a facebook live during this whole thing as these statements were coming out. as we talked about earlier, the orchestration of this, i find it hard to believe that elizabeth warren's office was not given a heads-up that this is going to be happening. it is striking she has not done this. a couple of weeks ago. she talked about her own me too moment as an early professor being harassed by an older professor. and so she's talked in personal terms, rare personal terms for warren about these kind of

incidents. she and franken have been simpatico politically which makes it a little bit harder. it is striking. she's probably the most prominent woman maybe aside in amy klobuchar, pranken's colleague from minnesota who has not joined yet. >> and dianne feinstein who is -- he's not the highest ranking technically woman. that is patty murray. she was one of the first to come out this morning. dianne feinstein hasn't said anything yet. we'll see. >> and again, i do think that chuck schumer is someone we need to be looking at. >> no question. >> he's the leader of the senate democrats. he has been silent as this unfolded. if the al franken is coming out tomorrow to resign, we have to watch 0 see if schumer holds back, let's him make that announcement on his own or whether he joins the chorus and tands with a pretty sizable number of his own members. that will accepted a significant message to his members what he stands for and what he thinks

the standards for his democratic party should be. >> and that's key where you draw that line, right? it seems franken clearly crossed the line in the eyes of many colleagues. the democratic leader or republican leader, once you hold that line, you have to hold that standard for everybody. >> with elizabeth warren, she's an interesting case. i think she was probably the most outspoken female member of the senate in terms of standing up to donald trump. and so her silence in this regard and many of the allegations against trump, they do mirror the franken allegations in certain respects. and so her silence is striking and interesting to me. >> not just standing up to donald trump on this issue. >> across the board but on this issue, as well. >> also remember when she tried to speak on the senate floor and was out of order and mitch mcconnell made that known. you know, she started a whole movement about not being silenced. obviously the issues are different but the point is that she is a leader among women in

politics. >> and you look at some of the people who have cop out more forcefully on this in terms of 2020 presidential ambitions. gillibrand, kamala harris. they have been leading the charge on this. and warren, this is, it's an hour delay. so you know, how much to make of it. >> where is cory booker, guys? >> striking. > and actually, just looking at my phone, fib me because you have to in situations like this. michael bennett, democrat of colorado tweeted sexual harassment and misconduct are never acceptable. he said he understands that senator franken will make an announcement tomorrow. i'm confident he'll do the right thing and step aside. i should a we now have nine female democrats, five male democrats. one republican, then of course, the dnc chair tom perez. >> i also think if we put this back in a political context, you said thissyer, we can't look at this completely through the

political lens but we have to to some extent. how do republicans manage the next several days between now and the alabama election? i think they're in an untenable position. dd is beak going to be campaigning for roy moore. the rnc is putting money into the state right now. roy moore is almost certainly going to be the next u.s. senator from alabama. they can't hide from these questions going forward. he's going to be up there. they're going to be relying on him for votes and trying to lobby him for votes. it feels untenable to me. >> it does. as we're having this important discussion about al franken and much more importantly the broader impact and import of this on sexual harassment, sexual misconduct in politics, you see on the right side of your screen the diplomatic room in the white house and the podium where the president is going to speak in just a matter of moments on something that is very, very consequential, that

is the u.s. embassies in israel, he will say he will actually move it to jerusalem. and the impact that that is going to have globally not to mention just with the whole notion of mideast peace is something that you can't understate. we do want to finish the conversation here back around the table about the big political story of the day. you know, it's hard to get into al franken's head right now, but you know, i'm just seeing reporting from colleagues, those i've talked to that it's not like this cape out of the blue from democratic senators. this has obviously been, there's been a lot of the pressure on them to call on al franken to resign. this came after a lot of soul searching and political pressure as i said. but i would imagine just real quick that for al franken to see this, the walls closing in on him by his colleagues. >> it's huge. this is why i think it's unsurvivable. up till two hours ago, there was a theory in which he could stick

around maybe till nextlection and trudge along and say he's sorry and try to make it go away. i don't think it's possible anymore. to julie's point about roy moore, there's only one republican senator, literally one who said he will support his opponent to try to defeat him. jeff flake. he posted a photo of a collect that he donated to doug jones yesterday. all the others are wavering. >> we have a lot more to watch on that especially as that election comes up next week. thank you all for rocking and rolling this hour. thank you for joining us on "inside politics." wolf blitzer picks up our special coverage after a quick break.

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this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. we're following two breaking stories out of washington right now. the first calls are growing right now at a fast speed for senator al franken to resign be amid allegations by several women of groping and harassment. the calls started with seven female democratic senators and now more than more are doing the same. senator franken is expected to make some kind of announcement tomorrow. we'll stand by for that. you're also looking live at the white house right now. where in moments, president trump will make a historic announcement that is expected to send some serious shock waves throughout the middle east. president trump is expected to direct the state department to begin the controversial process of moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. and recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. in doing so, the united states would become the only country

with an embassy in jerusalem. in fact, 86 countries currently have their embassies in tel aviv and none in jerusalem. the city was divided in the 1948 war which led to israel's independence. israel ended that war in 1949 with control over west jerusalem and jordan with control over east jerusalem. in the 1967 wars, israel took control over all of jerusalem. the palestinians believe the formation of an independent new palestinian state must include east jerusalem as their capital. world leaders including turkey, france, saudi arabia, and so many others are now warning that the move by the trump administration will destabilize the region. there are also calls from some palestinian groups for what they call days of rage and response to the president's promised move. we have our correspondents spread out throughout the region to bring us all the late-breaking reaction to the president's message. let's start with our senior

white house correspondent jim acosta over at the white house. jim, we expect president trump any moment now to tell us precisely what he intends to do, tell us what the white house is saying in advance. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and just to set up the scene here for us, we expect the president to start speaking right around 1:00, he'll enter is the diplomatic room here at the white house with the portrait of george washington over his shoulder. there will be a table in the room. we expect the president to sign a waiver that will keep the u.s. embassy in tel aviv for a period of years. they can't move the embassy to jerusalem right away. it will take a few years for that project to be completed. but make no mistake, this is upending and changing decades of u.s. foreign policy precedence in this country in that the president is about to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. of course, it is something that he said he would do during the campaign. he's making good on a campaign props. as you mentioned it does