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november 2008, franken beats norm coleman by 225 votes.ith a 60 vote filibuster proof majority which franken was part of. interesting note on history. >> perhaps the november 2008 was the most significant date because there were credible allegations there were some problems with that election and it was such a narrow victory for al franken. there is no question that by the standard recently set by the political and media establishment that al franken should be expelled. they have been saying for days that conduct 40 years ago should lead to expulsion from the senate. there is no question this is a credible allegation. behavior before he was a senator, and that's the standard that's being used for the last few days. but i do kind of wonder if maybe what should happen here is a little bit of everybody taking a deep breath, thinking through how to properly handle credible allegations of sexual assault and sexual impropriety. how to balance the allegations with the defense and whether we should institute better systems for handling this. it ca

was running in a tightly contested senate race, six years, maybe ten years ago, 2006, against norm coleman was a tight race, we were discussing, if something like this had come out then, it probably wouldn't have been breaking news and cnn in the middle of the day or had the preponderance and willingness of the public to validate the victory has totally changed in the last six months. >> i think senator mcconnell calling for the ethics committee to investigate franken -- >> this is coming in from politico. mitch mcconnell called for the ethics committee to investigate al franken. this is according to politico. >> as with all credible allegations, i believe the ethics committee should review the matter. i hope the democratic leader will join me on this. regardless of party, harassment and assault are unacceptable in the workplace or anywhere else. >> this was before franken went to the senate and roy moore's happened before he may go to the senate. it's unprecedented to kick someone out for behavior that happened before they went. mcconnell may be setting a precedent for that happened befor