MSNBC: GOP Rep. Trent Franks Expected to Resign Amid Allegations of Inappropriate Behavior

‘Arizona Republican Congressman Trent Franks is now announcing he will be resigning amid allegations of inappropriate behavior’

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TODD: “Breaking news -- that's right. There's another. Arizona Republican Congressman Trent Franks is now announcing he will be resigning amid allegations of inappropriate behavior. Go to our Capitol Hill correspondent Kasie hunt for more details on this. Boy, this came fast. I think I got the roll call alert like about 30 minutes ago?”

HUNT: “33 minutes ago. Here we are. So what we know right now, chuck, not too much. Some of this is still kind of in the swirling discussion phase here, but we can report that Trent franks, the Republican congressman from Arizona, is preparing to resign, and there are potentially allegations of inappropriate behavior. At this point we don't have any details beyond that, and so I want to be careful about how we're characterizing this initially. But he has been quoted in some of these stories saying they'll have a statement at some point later today, Thursday. So we will see and keep an eye on all of that, but, of course, were this to be a part of this kind of wave of inappropriate behavior, that certainly would be no worthy considering capitol Hill is grappling with this in a lot of different ways here. Trent franks is a member of the freedom caucus from Arizona. One of the more conservative members of the conference. Been here since 2002. At some points he's contemplated running for the Senate. Thought about it in 2012. Again, we'll see what the details of this turn out to be, but potentially another member of Congress stepping down.”

 

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