Al Franken on returning to radio after facing MeToo allegations: 'I'm not that guy'
on the SiriusXM satellite service, but he couldn't help but address re-emerging to the public after his controversy.his U.S. Senate seat in 2017 following sexual misconduct charges. An investigation by magazine published this summer called some of the charges against him into question. In the piece, seven current or former senators who had demanded his resignation now said they regretted doing so.
"My staff would be isolated. I couldn't serve the people of Minnesota. It really needed to have a process but I just couldn't stay either. It was awful. There was no good choices," he shared. "When this first happened, if you had asked me, 'how you ever made a woman feel uncomfortable by the way you put your arm around her or touch her?' I would've said no," he explained. "After all these allegations came in, I thought I must be doing something wrong."
"He was the number one law enforcement officer in the country and I confused him. You'd think that speaks with my effectiveness," Franken quipped.
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