His fellow Democrats have been just withering

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MADDOW: And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour.

It is a good day to stay up late, if only to absorb everything that
happened today, right? It has been just a whiplash day of big news
developments. I feel like we`ve got a lot of ground to cover in this hour
tonight, including, of course, the news about Democratic icon, Senator Al
Franken of Minnesota, a Los Angeles radio host publishing and then
describing an incident on a USO tour in 2006 when she says Senator Franken
forced a very unwanted kiss on her in the guise of rehearsing for a skit.
He then says that he groped her for what was essentially a prank photo
while she slept on the flight home from the Middle East.

This incident happened two years before Al Franken was a U.S. senator, but
it has now called into question the future of his Senate career. Senator
Franken today has issued two statements in response to these claims. A
short apology and then a much longer one. His fellow Democrats have been
just withering and unanimous in their condemnation of him today, which
itself has been remarkable to watch over the course of the day.