kiersten gillibrand says she will not be silenced following an attack by president trump some see asually suggestive. >> he tweeted in response, lightweight senator kiersten gillibrand, a total flunk ey fo chuck shum irwould do anything for contributions. >> reporter: a fight ignited president trump in 2le80 characters. >> it was a sexist smear attempted to silence my voice. and i will not be silenced on this issue. >> reporter: senator elizabeth warren tweeting, are you really trying to bully, intimidate and slut-shame senator jigillibrand >> the president refused to reply. so we asked the white house, press secretary sarah sanders insists the president's tweet was not sexual. >> if your mind is in the gutter, would you have raid ead that way, so no. >> reporter: a day after three women renewed their claims of sexual misconduct against the president, the number of democratic senators calling more his resignation grew to six. and more than 50 democratic congress women called for an investigation. >> what took place this morning when the our colleague, senator kiersten gillibrand is g

kiersten gillibrand's argument that suddenly after being part of the clinton machine she is appalledxual abuse of women that is topic a for her apparently after ignoring it for years. >> isn't it good politics? bill should have resigned in the 1990s, throwing the clintons under the bus, hoping to run herself on this theme and saying i am going to run to mobilize women against trump. >> she is saying is that 5 minutes after her clinton pals are no longer politically useful. we didn't hear a word about this for a decade or more but the clintons are gone. the game to make this the war on women seem all about trump and pretend what he said was a sexist comment, even if you go back to his campaign launch in 2015 this was the premise of his candidacy talking about politicians who will do anything for money and to buy them off. that was the heart of his message, nothing to do with gender. >> democrats are cleaning their own house, al franken, john conyers, anybody who pops up, any man accused of sexual harassment, they are gone. because they think this is a good issue against trump. >> it i

. >> i want to ask about the tweet aimed at kiersten gillibrand. you saw that tweet. come begging, and he put in parentheses, and would do anything for them. for those campaign contributions. i don't foe if you spoke to senator gill braibrand, but wheu saw that what went through your mind? >> again, vile and despicable, but how many tweets are so unbecoming of the presidency should we be enduring before we conclude this is who he is. i have no words on kiersten gillibrand. she's one of the strongest most honorable people. she's a titan down here fighting for the very people that donald trump demeans and degrades. she's been sticking up for people whether it's coming out of 9/11, those families, whether it's gays and lesbians in the military, women facing sexual assau assault. nothing donald trump can say about her is going to diminish her. in fact, as i know from my position of faith, that god has a way of making your enemies your footstools. i think that she's going to rise up beyond this. >> does the president need to apologize to her? >> listen, if we want to start

kiersten gillibrand's argument that suddenly after being part of the clinton machine she is appalled abuse of women that is topic a for her apparently after ignoring it for years. >> isn't it good politics? bill should have resigned in the 1990s, throwing the clintons under the bus, hoping to run herself on this theme and saying i am going to run to mobilize women against trump. >> she is saying is that 5 minutes after her clinton pals are no longer politically useful. we didn't hear a word about this for a decade or more but the clintons are gone. the game to make this the war on women seem all about trump and pretend what he said was a sexist comment, even if you go back to his campaign launch in 2015 this was the premise of his candidacy talking about politicians who will do anything for money and to buy them off. that was the heart of his message, nothing to do with gender. >> democrats are cleaning their own house, al franken, john conyers, anybody who pops up, any man accused of sexual harassment, they are gone. because they think this is a good issue against trump. >> it is a

host: let's talk about senator kiersten gillibrand. the tweeting back and forth. andnature of the tweets, where does the story go from here? guest: now we have democrats, jell-o brand and others calling otherstor gillibrand and calling for the president's resignation. i don't think that will happen, but it moves the ball forward. it is the logical next step to some extent where this would be going after al franken announced he would be resigning his seat. that there would be calls for , atpresident to do likewise least from democrats. the bigger question is what the congress will do about what happened in its own house, and how much is the resignation method, the way that things is aop, and how much conversation that falls short of resignation? if there is really, as there has been some suggestion, a report from "the washington post" with 20-30 names of members of are in anro on it, we entirely different situation than we are this morning. is this the senate, or are there larger aspirations? gillibrand, i do not think it is a surprise. is one of therand people tha

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kiersten gillibrand says she will not be silenced following an attack by president trump some see asin response lightweight senator a total flunk eyey for chuck shum irwould do anything for contributions. >> reporter: a fight ignited by president trump in 2le 880 characters. >> it was a sexist smear attempted to silence my voice. and i will not be silenced on this issue. >> reporter: senator elizabeth warren tweeting are you really trying to slut-shamegillibrand. >> the president refed reply. so we asked the white house, press secretary sarah sandersinsists the sexual. >> if your guttou raid itead it that way, so dwomen renewed their claims of he president, the number of democratic senators calling more his resignation grew to six. and more than 50 democratic congress women called for an investigation. >> wlace this morning when the president tweeted about our colleague senator kiersten gillibrand is grotesque. away. >> reporter: that number now growing to more than democratic representatives, including men, all signing letter saying we cannot multitude of women come forward with mr.

senator kiersten gillibrand prompted the editors at usa today to publish what has to be the most damning and disturbing commentary about the us president they write it is a shock that only six democratic senators are calling for our unstable president to resign a president who would call a senator or a whore is unfit to clean toilets in obama's presidential library or to shine george w. bush's shoot. our first report takes us tonight to the deep south of the us. and all the states in which the democratic fight should take shape alabama was an unlikely starting point the poxy has not won a senate seat here in a quarter of a century. we have rehab just around the state of alabama though we have shown the country the way the real of was. and the celebrations here on much to the control vis a surrounding his opponent. barely or in the day the republican crusader roy moore had hoped his horse named sassy would carry him to victory. it was the final bed to cast him as a thorough bred conservative in a campaign marred by multiple allegations from women claiming he had molested them decades ago

president trump and democratic senator kiersten gillibrand in a heated battle this week. >> the president tearing into gillibrand on twitter after she called on him to resign amid sexual allegations of misconduct. mocking the democrat as someone who would come to my office begging for campaign contributions not long ago, and would do anything for them. >> gillibrand speaking out on "today." >> it was certainly just a sexist smear, intended to silence me. >> new allegations of sexual misconduct against prominent men this week. dustin rof mhoffman. >> growing and specific list of allegations. hoffman exposed himself in a hotel room in the '80s. hoffman's a defamatory falsehoods. >> batali allegedly touched them in unwelcome ways. >> he said, much of the behavior described does match up with ways i've acted. the behavior is wrong and there are no excuses. >> and former "today" host matt lauer. >> addie zinone, a former production assistant, said she had a sexual relationship with lauer. she said, though my situation with matt was consensual, i ultimately felt a victim because of the power di

amy clover char tweeting she would make the right decision, it began with new york senator kiersten gillibrand continue to serve. when we have to talk about differences between sexual assault and sexual harassment and unwanted groping you are having the wrong conversation. you need to draw a line in the sand and say none of it is okay, none of it is acceptable. >> reporter: new the resignation was opened, franken f-stops templated saying he is talking with his family at this time, plans to make an announcement in dc tomorrow. any reports of final decision, the pressure group, senate minority leader chuck schumer joining calls to step down saying senator franken should resign, i consider him a dear friend and respect his accomplishment but he has a higher obligation to his constituents he should step down immediately. we will see what the day brings, some pushing the timing of the outrage, roy moore could be headed to washington and will face an ethics investigation. jillian: and fbi agent believes and on-duty border patrol officer was murdered, a major break in the death of officer martinez. i

a new round in the war between donald trump and kiersten gillibrand. she again called on the present it to resign. so what is the political effect of all this? and a democratic lawmaker is facing backlash for suggesting that some women may actually be inviting sexual harassment. what she said, and whether she has a point. a stay close. >> sandra: this is breaking right now. we are learning that house speaker paul ryan is considering retirement after the 2018 midterms. this is being reported by politico at this moment. thank paul ryan has made it known to some of his closest confidant that he plans to retire after the 2018 elections, amid swirling speculation that he could step down even sooner. his most likely successors have been meeting, should a leadership shake-up occur. if so, house speaker paul ryan considering retirement after the 2018 midterms, after potentially a major legislative victory, his baby, tax reform. >> jason: i have no first-hand knowledge as to whether or not he would do that. it will not surprise me. he cares deeply about his fam

. >> what took place this morning, what the president tweeted about our colleague, senator kiersten gillibrands grotesque. it represents the conduct of a person who is ill equipped to be the president of the united states. >> dana: she's basically talking about the parenthesis in that tweet that she would do anything. what do you know is the benefit to the white house to having something like that out there? is it a distraction enough that allows the other legislative issues to skate under the radar? >> i'm not sure it's that calculated. over the last 18 months we've grown acustom to having policy that comes forward through the trump administration for that trump campaign. then we've got the tweets. i think most of us, with the exception of a few members of democratic party over in the house of representatives, understand that these tweets are part of the thinking of the president. they had in his own two hands. and they're different from how we go forward on policy and run investigation and other things. i did what i normally do. i looked at it. >> dana: and moved on. but the democrats are no

> reporter: the president routinely lashes out on twitter, critics say the sexist targeting kiersten gillibrand went over the line, they highlighted the attack on gillibrand, arguing president trump showed he is in the fit for office, reading, quote, rock bottom is no imped imt for a president who can always find room for a new low. this morning ago ens the backdrop of the "me too movement" backlash for his attack on senator kirsten gillibrand. >> it was a sexist smear attempting to silence my voice and i will not be silenced on this issue. neither will the women who stood up to the president. >> reporter: the president earlier tearing into gillibrand on twitter after she called for him to resign amid renewed accusations of sexual misconduct, mocking the new york democrat as someone who would come to my office begging for campaign contributions not so long ago and would do anything for them. democrats rushing to defend gillibrand, elizabeth war reason accusing the president of shut shaming. he ignored the chance to glorify. >> what did you mean when you said -- >> reporter: his press secretary

. >> reporter: new york democratic senator kiersten gillibrand was the first among others to demand al franken resign. >> i think he should immediately resign, and if he doesn't, we should have the investigation. >> reporter: the call coming after several women who accuse the president of bad behavior before he was elected are now coming forward again speaking out for the first time on megan kelly today. >> for us to put ourselves out there to try and show america who this man is and especially how he views women and for them. you know, now it's just like, all right, let's try round two. >> jessica lee said trump groped her on a plane in the 1970s. >> he suddenly lurched on top of me. he was like an octopus. it was like his hans were all over, and he was kissing me, and he was molesting me. >> reporter: rachel crooks, a former receptionist at trump tower says when she was 22, trump kissed her without permission. >> on one occasion, and he shook my hand, kissed my cheeks, sort of normally, but then he sort of held my hand and asked me questions that kept drawing me back in to kiss me. >

host: let's talk about senator kiersten gillibrand. the tweeting back and forth. dnature of the tweets, where does the story go from here? guest: now we have democrats, jell-o brand and others calling otherstor gillibrand and calling for the president's resignation. i don't think that will happen, but it moves the ball forward. it is the logical next step to some extent where this would be going after al franken announced he would be resigning his seat. that there would be calls for , atpresident to do likewise least from democrats. the bigger question is what the congress will do about what happened in its own house, and how much is the resignation method, the way that things is aop, and how much conversation that falls short of resignation? if there is really, as there has been some suggestion, a report from "the washington post" with 20-30 names of members of are in anro on it, we entirely different situation than we are this morning. is this the senate, or are there larger aspirations? gillibrand, i do not think it is a surprise. is one of therand people that m

senator kiersten gillibrand of new york was the first woman to call on franken to resign, writing inh. senate majority leader schumer said he personally called franken yesterday morning and had a meeting with the senator and his wife in the afternoon urging him to step aside. there are a number of reports suggesting that franken will anuance he is, in fact, resigning during his news conference today but his office denied that on twitter yesterday writing any reports of a final decision o are inaccurate. heidi, what are you hearing? >> this really was a coordinated attempt, mika, by the women of the senate. if you saw how this went down yesterday, yes, senator schumer did call franken after that politico story. it seemed to be the critical mass of the number of people coming forward accusing franken. but few look at how all the statements came out. they were within an hour or two of each other, seven democratic women came forward and said time to go. so there was a sense this just reached a point where it was no longer possible for the conference to turn the other way and say that fra

that attack against kiersten ji gillibrand is offense ive. immigration.the president on that policy, but when he says that mika brzezinski is bleeding badly from her face, her going to stand together and call it out. >> i totally agree. that requires a sort of entrepreneur ship by republican members. they need to take the lead. they're so used to following leadership and deferring to the white house and deferring to their own to mcconnell and ryan. it will be interesting to see if they can -- >> hold on. hold on. i have one more. >> we just spent ten months where we said this is where they're going to break. >> i have one more. we don't like joe scarborough, but the president shouldn't suggest he's a murder. that's another one. >> see? i mean, come on. >> i was 50/50 on that one. no. you know, guess what. the constitution provides that that's what the congress is supposed to do. congress is supposed to put restraints on -- >> here's what they can do now. they can protect bob mueller. that hearing yesterday was laying the ground work for trump firing muell