judge moore wants to lower taxes. judge moore wants a military that is strong. and that's who judge moore is. our opponent, this democrat, doug jones, wants the exact opposite. >> we haven't seen roy moore -- we haven't seen roy moore out on the campaign trail much this week. why is that? >> well, judge moore has been out for 25 years across alabama. and he's known by the people of alabama. he's talked to the people of alabama. and they're with judge moore. that's why i believe if we get our vote out, and we will, judge moore will be the senator going to washington on december 12th and helping donald trump with his agenda. >> you have said of the accusations against judge moore, i have known him. he's never ever said anything derogatory or sexual toward any person, any person, man, woman, ever. the kind of behavior he's accused of would not likely be in front of you or anyone else, would it? >> well, what he's been accused of is falling apart. on friday, on one of your shows, the lady sh -- gloria allred's client was trotted out there again to tell the world, he

roy moore did win in the primary. do you think it's going to have ramifications for the republican party assuming he wins. >> i think it will. i think brian is right. there is going to be kind of a double gift. he is a gift to the democrats as a candidate because he is certainly a flawed candidate. but i think he would abgift if he got elected. i'm speaking politicly here. but you know if i was the democrat party i would say oh do you think he has a right to agree to the head of state? does he have a right to vote on this bill that has children rights or women's rights. the democrats won't let it go. i don't think republicans would either if the shoe was on the other foot. i do want to say something, though, i spoke to people from alabama they agree with what bill just said. in their opinions the polls aren't necessarily telling the story. the polls are showing a really strong win for roy moore at this time. but there are a lot of discerning people having second thoughts about it. the one of the factors out there is t

he still needs moore to happen. let's go back to alabama, and remember the runoff, we just had a short time ago between roy moore and luther strange. look at where luther strange, even as he lost by 10 points, you see birmingham, huntsville, you see over here, who are those voters? more moderate traditional voters including women. if doug jones is to pull this off tomorrow night, how does he do in jefferson county? how does he do in the suburbs of birthing ham? and we'll look at shelbey county. can doug jones get people who voted for luther strange? republicans not to stay home, but to come out and vote for him, that would be the key third part of it. democratic turnout up. and doug jones must make end roads among moderate republicans in the suburbs. we'll count them tomorrow. >> thank you very much, john king. >>> next, breaking news, the pipe bomb exploding in new york city, officials call it a terror incident. the suspect had a second device, and there's video of the explosion. >>> president trump reportedly drin

president trump stumping for republican roy moore and even recorded a robo call for moore's campaign des pate molestation allegations facing moore today. he claims he doesn't even know the women making the accusations. >> i do not know any of the women who charged me with sexual allegations. molestation. i did not know any of the women. when i saw these pictures on the advertisements of my opponent, i did not recognize any of those women. i did not know them. i have written cards, graduation cards and have known families and a lot of people throughout my life, but these allegations are completely false. i did not date underage women. i did not molest anyone. these allegations are false. >> that coming up also. moore's challenger doug jones courting the african-american vote. cory booker campaigning for jones. . we have team coverage of this critical race. the president is in west palm beach. covering the doug jones campaign, we will start with kaylee hartung covering roy moore who has no events scheduled today. nothing since tuesday. kaylie, what is moore's campaign doing in the fina

trump 74%. 64% for moore when he nearly lost. what do we have 62% for moore. what we are seeing counties, we got 100%. a lot are partial totals but that's a clue. the rural counties in the northern part. closer to the 12, those are numbers you want to see if you're the jones' campaign. take huntsville, madison. take madison as a different entity up here. the madison, the hunlsviltsvill metro, this county here is number two in the state in concentration of college graduates. that is the target for the jones' campaign. they think they can win over college educated suburban voters. this is the place they want to be getting them at to set this up, madison 55% is the total that donald trump got in this county. 48% for roy moore when he nearly lost in 2012 and what is -- this is a partial return. right now you see moore coming in at 39%. this is a big one to keep an eye on. democrats don't just want to win this. they want a margin out of this county. that's what is going on in the northern part of the state. the flip side, if there is encouraging news from early cou

>> get out and vote for roy moore! >> and the president pours gasoline on his own "me too" moment. >> it was a sexist smear attempting to silence my voice. >> the first results from election night in alabama when "all in" starts right now. >> one of our attorneys is a s7m >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes and it is a very big night. the polls have just at this moment closed in the special senate election in alabama at this hour, nbc news characterizing the race there as too early to call. with polls closed we can now begin tow8u returns. we don't really have any of those yet because they have literally polled -- polls closed 41 seconds ago. there's a lot to keep an eye on as the returns come in and we begin tonight with our first fresh exclusive look at the actual exit polls for the day. joining me to breakdown the latest batch of exit poll data hot off the presses, msnbc national political correspondent steve kornacki. as this happens at 5:00, i believe? now this is the apm, this is the full day what can

if you're a democratic and roy moore wins, it's going to be a victory in everything that roy moore says or does will then be affixed to whatever republican candidate is running in 2018. in the end, though, don, let's just say from a moral perspective you could say the nation would lose if roy moore wins tomorrow just based upon all the information we know about him. >> this is moore's wife kaila at the rally tonight. >> fake news would also have you think that my husband doesn't support the black community. yet my husband appointed the very first black marshal to the alabama supreme court. we have many friends that are black, and we also fellowship with them in church and in our home. fake news would tell you we don't care for jews. i tell you all this because i've seen it, so i just want to set the record straight while they're here. one of our attorneys is a jew. [ applause [ applause ] we have very close friends that are jewish and are rabbis. >> don, do you consider me a friend by any chance? >> yes, i do. >> i can say i have a black friend now. i'm very excited. >> listen, what of

and it's not judge moore. everybody in alabama's known judge moore's been telling the truth the whole time. this is absolute proof that this woman went on tv, national tv, people, somebody from california, trying to influence the elections in bm. . went on tv and told the whole world that judge moore wrote all of that. now she's coming back two, three days before the election saying, i'm wrong. he didn't write all of that. somebody is not telling the truth. it's not judge moore. we believe he's been telling the truth the entire time. this received that he's been telling the truth. >> so where do you think this story came from? this original "washington post" story? you have eight people talking about some sort of inappropriate behavior or, flat out assault. do you think these women all just made it up? the women in "the washington post" story didn't even know each other. >> well, that's a good question. the people of alabama want to know why, 30 days before an election, that people would come out of the the wo

instead, steve bannon back roy moore and roy moore beat the trump candidate. then steve bannon is calling in the oval office and sank to the president you made a mistake. jared kushner misled you. you should be back in roy moore. he's a populist and you are a populist president. this is the guy who's going to discombobulated, shake up the establishment. and look what happened tonight. >> bret: it will be interesting to see the fallout here. we will toss it back to laura. laura, to your point on your ankle, i think that this is going to embolden democrats to use this issue, specifically against this president. you are already seeing it as you predicted last week. but it's only intensifying in recent days. >> laura: i would like to hear from the panel about this. it may be brit hume can weigh in on this. if they are able to take out a senate candidate in alabama with these allegations as lurid as they were, what does this mean for the umpteen number of democrats who will inevitably come forward to urge the president to resigned. the constantly airings of the old

for royld not vote moore. i did not vote for roy moore. i understand more the president is coming from. i understand we would like to retain that seat in the u.s. senate. but i tell you what, there is a time -- we call it a tipping point. and i think so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip, drip, drip when it got to the 14-year-old story, that was enough for me. i said, i can't vote for roy moore. amy: that was senator richard shelby of alabama. a republican. or more, we go to washington, d.c., where we're joined by peter montgomery, senior fellow at people for the american way. his recent piece is headlined "there's more than one roy moore scandal." talk about roy moore peter montgomery. moore: wrote "roy history of bigotry, tourism, contempt for the rule of law." talk about the scandals around the former alabama judge. >> you are to the action did a great job outlining some of them. i think it is scandalous that we have republican party and a president supporting someone from the senate whose hold career has demonstrated such con

roy moore made it out. like i said, he may not have been the first choice for many republicans in the state of alabama, but he is the one left standing in this. those statements, some of them give people heartburn. others say, yes, i believe exactly what he says. we're down to the democrat and the republican. or you can stay home or write in a name if you want to. that's where we are. >> matt, doug jones is the democrat. he has to -- in order to win, conventional wisdom is he has to turn out the black vote. he has this mailer that he has sent out to democratic voters. let me just put it up on the screen for everybody. i don't know if you can see this. it is basically a campaign ad that says do you think if a black man went after high school girls anyone would try to him a senator? and you see a skeptical young black man there. >> we were at a christmas parade and talking to younger african-americans and all were appalled that doug jones would drag race into something they didn't feel had anything to do with

so roy moore is underperforming roy moore in that very competitive 1992 race. i want to, again, it's very early on as you watch this -- as you watch this fill in, but if you're in the two headquarters, you are now calling into these places. most of this is absentee ballots and you are trying to get any intelligence you can about whether these numbers are going to stand up. another key area for doug jones, montgomery county, montgomery, alabama, of course, african-american base. then you get out into the suburbs out here. that number holds on a night when you know it's close, and you're sitting in the campaign headquarters, this is the tense time, you're looking at these numbers, if you're doug jones, this tells you i'm in play, at least for now. we'll have an interesting night. if you're roy moore, you know -- >> you see a 3% still in, but it tightened up a bit. the difference, it's getting tighter even as we speak. >> not a lot of people up here. this is just over 100 votes, but as these come out, it's just 5%, 60% in this county. the key is going to be if a,

if, and it's a big win. >> sean: if roy moore loses it will be because of roy moore. he has been notorious in running very close statewide elections. last election the statewide supreme court 52-48. in alabama that's a close race for republicans. >> i understand that. this is going to be nationalized to a rejection in part of trump because he came in did the robo call and rally in pensacola. it will embolden the democrats rest assured. >> sean: will it be that joe concha or be that even with trump's help he couldn't pull him over the finish line because of all the news and information we have been discussing for a long time. >> all the news and information we have been discussing for a long time. if roy moore ends up losing in this case, this will be an election that was decided ultimately by one news outlet and that's "the washington post" when they did this story a couple of months ago. if this story doesn't come out, race already called roy moore wins in heavily republican state. the story was never debunked. "the washington post" did good solid vetting in terms of

democrat doug jones or republican roy moore. moore, who rode to the polls on

roy moore finally speaks out today. what he's saying about the allegations as the president goes all in. >>> and the reckoning. franken out, farnhrenthold stil in. and should the president answer his accusers? >>> and prosecuting the prosecutors, the push to discredit bob mueller and his investigation. can they withstand the onslaught? >> are you comfortable that the leader of your party is all out for roy moore? >> within the party, there will be disagreements. obviously we're seeing one now. >> how should people assess the accusers of the president? >> the same thing, is women who accuse anyone should be heard. >> so, you are calling leigh corfman a liar? >> i'm saying leigh corfman's not telling the truth. >> when it got to the 14-year-old story, that was enough for me. >> we have a president who is embracing a candidate in alabama who has ban accused of child molestation, right? >> i couldn't vote for roy moore. i didn't vote for roy moore. >> when roy moore, if he should win, goes to washington, we will always be q

moore reached over and began groping me. him putting his hands on my breasts. >> he just grabbed me from behind on my buttocks. and he just squeezed it really hard. i remember thinking i was so ashamed. i felt humiliated. >> moore has denied these allegations and for some voters that's enough. suzie has been volunteering with door knockers for the moore campaign. >> but these are allegations. and in america i believe it still holds true that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. >> kevin cavanaugh came all the way from arizona to show his support for the republican candidate. >> i'm going to give roy moore the benefit of the doubt. he has been solid for his entire political career, and nothing has popped up, there's nothing recent. so i have a hard time believing these allegations. >> but those allegations have left other staunch republicans deeply troubled. >> i think those women are the most courageous women on the planet. and i'm so proud of them. i do believe them. >> kim is a trump supporter and says she's never vot

he's behind roy moore. amanda carpeter made the point earlier, roy moore followed the donald trump play book. >> totally, deny deny, deny, deny. it's hike the "access hollywood" play book which the president has since denied that the tape is real, but it's a play book of deny, deny, deny. he knew what his base was. he knew that he had to keep them. as long as the president climbed on board, i think that was hugely important to him endorsement from trump. if moore were to win how important this would be for bannon. i think bannon and trump right now are virtually are indistinguishable. i think it's the same thing. i think trump is -- donald trump, president trump is playing out of the bannon playbook, and if roy moore wins, i think steve bannon is going to have a lot to say about nevada and arizona. and i think the president is going to listen to him much more than he would ever listen to mitch mcconnell. >> i think the president will have a lot toc say to mitch mcconnell. he's going to feel em bold understa

this wasn't just a loss for moore. this was a stinging defeat for president trump who broke with much of the gop leadership to back this controversial candidate. >> i think that i have been waiting all my life and now i just don't know what the hell to say. >> reporter: democrat doug jones becoming the first democrat in decades to win a senate seat in alabama. stunning the country by defeating embattled republican roy moore in the deep red state. >> as dr. king liked to quote, the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. >> reporter: the moore campaign refusing to concede. >> when the vote is this close, it is is not over. what we've got to do is wait on god and let this process play out. >> reporter: doug jones's campaign telling cnn, moore did not call jones to congratulate him. but the alabama republican party declaring the race over. >> do you expect anything other than mr. jones being the next senator from the state of alabama? >> i would find that highly unlikely. >> reporter: a source clo

moore's voters like moore. they're unlikely to stray. doug jones' voters have been following his trajectory and movement in civil rights for many years. what's most interesting has been watching women talk to other women. jones supporters talking to traditional republican voters. and seeing these groups actually come together to some extent and make some progress in talking to each other and working through issues. if a positive trend comes out of this election, it will be that coming together. >> and joy, richard shelby when he last ran, 2016 last year, he got 64% of the vote. the democrat got 35.9% of the vote you. think of alabama as being just this impenetrable spot for democrats. but if you would compare that to, say, new york, where chuck schumer got 70% of the vote. >> right. >> and new york is capable of electing republicans statewide. >> it's a strange state. because it has a very high percentage of african american voters, which is usually an indicator that democrats should be able to win statewide. but the white vote is as pol

>> if moore loses he will have lost because of who moore is and who's back moore, not the president himself. the president is popular in alabama. in a special election the republicans will turn out disproportionately. if this were the normal republican we wouldn't be talking about this. the last time the democrats won a statewide election was in 2006, and they lost every single statewide election since then. in the last couple elections there have been a number of races in which the democrats haven't even put up somebody. neil: it's jeff session's term through 2020. >> whoever is elect ld serve through the 2020 election for the remainder of jeff sessions' seat. it will be three years. and those are going to be potent years. if the republicans keep this seat, at the end of this senate election they could be up to 53, 54, 55 seats. if they lose it they will be lucky to be at 52, 53 or 54. neil: so much more we are getting. 52-48 or 51-49. now you are beginning to understand why republicans are such a mad dash to get thanks cuts done. whoever wins in alabama may i pact where they go. and there

moore stumbled. he managed to lose alabama. another big loser are people who like the second amendment, people who don't like abortion, people who don't like amnesty. conservative voters have lost an important voice. this is not a good night. we got another one coming up in the year! >> shannon: [laughs] it's never over. as you all know and as the president tweeted tonight, it never ends because there is always another election. richard, walk us through your winners and losers with jones being the winner tonight. >> with jones the winter, i will add to my list. i think black voters were a big winner because they once again showed up for the democratic party in a major way. the other one is "the washington post," who was the first publication to rollout a story about roy moore and i think they are big winner tonight. the third big winner is the establishment. to go off of what bret was saying a couple of moments ago is they normally have to worry about the guy sleeping downstairs, but now that he is n

moore by horse, but for moore,e that was not even the most unusual part. the most unusual part is roy moore took questions from the press. which as far as we can tell is the first time he's done so since the allegations first broke, more than a month ago and it isn't hard to see why he may have waited until the last possible moment to actually answer questions. >> i am not talking to acowsers. i am talking about this race, and the people in it and the allegations. we're done with that. >> judge moore, senator cory gardner said as soon as you get to the senate, he wants you expelled. what will you do? >> we will take this up when we get to the senate. >> we take those problems up when we get to the senate when we win. >> i am joined now by nbc news' vaughan hilliard, he is outside where row moore is holding his election party, vaughan, you were here for weeks. you seen the ebbs and flows, you got a batchful of voters you have been talking back and talking to. have you seen any change in sentiment over the last 48 hours? >> reporter: i think, chuck, be point

and to think you can elect roy moore without getting the baggage of roy moore is pretty naive. there is no winning with roy moore in my view. >> so, mark, democrats are positioning themselves as the party with zero tolerance. they're starting to take a stand against lawmakers who have accused of them. they successfully pressured al franken, john conyers. are you concerned your party is now becoming the party of sexual misconduct? >> absolutely. senator graham is nothing if not candid. don't always agree with him, but he always speaks from the heart, and he says the tough things. and he's right about that. if roy moore gets elected tomorrow, he's going to get wrapped around the axle of every republican running next year. he's going to be the face of the republican party, he and donald trump. but i guarantee you it will just help the republican party claw its way to the bottom in 2018. >> what do you think that's going to do -- a possible roy moore victory? what will that do to women around the country? we've heard the folks in alabama, and this is religious thing and, you know,

president trump makes it clear, he's all in for moore. >> get out and vote for roy moore. "meet the press" headed down to alabama where accusations of sexual misconduct of moore is the issue. >> it is something that nobody is comfortable with. >> democratic doug jones had a real chance but could a moore

let's check in at moore headquarters. we saw a lot of long faces on the live camera coverage earlier. vaughn hillyard is our man who has covered the moore campaign throughout. hey, vaughn. >> reporter: hi, brian. let's set it up this way, if i could. i've been here now on the ground since that "washington post" story came out on november 9th. it's been more than a month we've been on the ground with the moore campaign and the doug jones campaign. the contrast between these two campaigns couldn't be more clear. roy moore, out of the last seven days, he was missing for six of those, brian. he was nowhere to be seen on the campaign trail until last night when he appeared with steve bannon. there was a ten-day stretch in which he didn't appear on the campaign trail. over the last month, brian, he never visited mobile county. he never visited shelby county. he avoided the press at every single turn along the way. i talked to a campaign official last night, i said, why has your candidate not been out here meeting voters, answer

moore introduced at his final rally by his wife. she made the case despite statements from his past that her husband is no bigot. >> fake news will tell you we don't care for jews. i want to set the record straight while they're here. one of our attorneys is a jew. >> yes, that happened. today's election has consequences for the gop if moore loses. if he wins, certainly a significant feather in the president's cap but the sexual misconduct allegations could burden the party. >>reporter: good morning, christine and dave. after being introduced by his wife, roy moore took the stage and attempted to down play the allegations. >> if you don't believe in my character, don't vote for me we're up to the neck with people who don't want change in washington, d.c. we've got to change. >> we saw some of roy moore's biggest surrogates return in an attempt to rally support for the candidate just hours before the voters head to the polls. we heard from sheriff david clark, congressmen and steve bannon who at one point seemed to take a shot at pre

moore in his early 30s. she said no and finally tina johnson who says moore grabbed her buttocks as she and her mother were living her law office in 1991. that's the first accusation against moore while he was married to his whief kala. moore told an pam tv station that he did not know his accusers and the sexual allegations against him are nothing more than ritual defamation and when asked by sean hannity about dating teenage girls, he responded not generally and it would have been out of his customary behavior. he didn't remember dating any girl without the permission of her mother. so you'll hear roy moore himself in just a moment essentially saying that all of these women are lying, but first i want to bring in reporter for "the guardian" sabrina and the alabama media groups kyle whit meyer. let's listen to judge roy moore in an interview released today commenting on the women accusing of him sexual assault and mol lessitation. >> i do not know them. i never molested any one and for them to say that, i d

. >> roy moore has never served our state with honor. >> they want to destroy judge roy moore. you know why? they want to take your voice away. >> president trump declaring jerusalem capital of israel. >> i'm concerned about the threat of terrorist reaction. >> we will always keep the safety and security of americans paramount. >> the president's son set to testify before the house intelligence committee today. >> i want to know about his relationship with wikileaks. could the vice president b have been the only senior person in the dark on this? >> he thinks there's nothing to it. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day". the white house defending president trump's support of alabama senate nominee roy moore. the president's endorsement of an accused child molester forcing republicans to pick between controversial candidate and their principals. former trump strategist steve bannon rallying for more, slamming establishment republicans again. accusing mitt romney of hiding behind his religion to avoid serving in stree

voted for roy moore. which suggests to me they're single issue voters, they're protesting the way that the media ganged up against roy moore. but it is interesting that at least a few percent of the electorate effectively is believing all of these sexual assault allegations against roy moore but is still voting for him. that's necessarily going to be the case if roy moore ends up pulling out this race. >> the other thing when it comes to what the president was saying when he was going in there, he was talking about the larger republican agenda and moving his agenda through the congress and how roy moore will be a better vessel to facilitate that than doug jones and i think roy moore will be benefitting from that message. because it does take away from his issues and his troubles and it broadens the -- we're talking about conservative justices, we're talking about abortion. and i think that those voters would be in favor of moore and aren't going to vote for a democrat, no matter who he is. >> paul, the st

, said he wouldn't vote for roy moore and doesn't think roy moore is fit to be in the u.s. senate. this is on front of minds. football bowl games aren't happening for a couple weeks. politics is the story here come tuesday. it's quite fascinating to be in alabama for competitive u.s. senate races in the mix. >> it's the bowl game. quickly here, how is it being seen since roy moore has not been out? have his supporter who is are on the cusp here, have they seen the swing negatively? >> reporter: it's something. we have been to a lot of corners of the state and i've been reaching out to people i've been in touch with for the last couple of weeks to ask where they stand. those questions still don't know which way to go. it's interesting, some republicans said they were going to vote for doug jones despite the defiance of roy moore said they are sticking by doug jones. but what does that mean? i really don't know, rich administrate. because the steatz is so complex from the rural areas to the suburbs with more flunlt white women that doug jones is going to rely on to turnover,

judge moore is a good man. good -- judge moore is a righteous man. [cheering and applauding] >> and judge moore, they've tried to destroy judge moore. >> nba star and alabama native charles barkley was in birmingham for doug jones where he also talked about judge moore. >> there's no way possible this guy should, number one, be in an election. >> i mean, that's no way. i mean, it's unbelievable that this guy is still in the race when people in your own party say they won't vote for you or support you. i am begging and urging everybody to get out, call all your friends. we got to at some point, we've got to stop looking like idiots to the nation. >> both the current president and the former president recorded robocalls for their respective candidates. the polls in the race have been volatile. a new fox news poll is generating a lot of chatter tonight because it shows doug jones leading roy moore by ten points, 50/40. other recent polls have shown a much tighter race with roy moore ahead by a few points. the prospect of moore arriving in the senate has

they know who judge moore is, and they stand with judge moore. and we're not living in a third-world nation with a dictator, so they need to back off. the people are going to speak tonight, and they need to seat judge moore and get to the business of passing president trump's agenda. >> dean young, thank you very much. i appreciate your time. >>> obviously, very, very confident, mentioning baldwin county there, michael, with a 40% turnout. obviously, usually in a special election, you're looking at 20% or so. that's one county. he's talking about a record. what do you think about the point he made about mitch mcconnell? >> if roy moore wins tonight and republicans don't seat roy moore and there is then a special election and roy moore is a candidate, he'll win by a larger margin in that special election than he wins today. >> which is pretty stunning. >> i think to michael's point, and also to dean's point, it is going to be very difficult for republicans to turn around after this election and say, we're just going to forget that this whole thing

the trump/moore. that's going to be the branding of the party and if i were a strategist, i would hope for a victory allowing you to push this point relentrelentless, fr purely political standpoint, there is an upside. >> steve bannon, built a brand being an outsider, fighting the establishment. wouldn't you want to stand behind someone like roy moore who enflames the national discussion and angers liberals and angers the news media, and he can come out and say, i am just like donald trump. i am fighting for you, and do the same schtick, same populist schtick over again in 2020 that was so effective? >> that's why it matters that the president endorsed roy moore. it has implications beyond the senate race in alabama. it you're a republican in congress now and want to move forward with an ethics investigation on roy moore, do you get pushback from the president? roy moore is not going to go the way of al franken. we know that, if elected. not going quietly. >> would have already stepped aside. >> right

moore, judge moore, when he thought america last was great. moore said, i think it was great at the time when families were united, even though we had slavery, they cared for one another. our families were strong, our country had a direction. close quote. one moore official told nbc today, judge moore clearly made his point, which is america is great when our families and our faith is strong. to suggest that judge moore condones slashry is wreckressly malicious, except that's what he said. how are families, african-american families treated when they were slaved in terms of taking the families together? >> terribly. they were taken abart. they were beaten. >> they were ripped apart and sent to different states. >> they didn't have a family, moe of them. they had to look for their family. but look, this is not surprising. roy moore has said racist, islamophobic, homophobic things before the sexual assault accusations came out. and you know, back in 2002, trent lott, if you remember, he said something similar. he was a minority leader as a u.s.

roy moore did win in that primary. do you think it's going to have ramifications for the republican party assuming he wins? >> i think it will. i think brian is right. there wi there will be a double gift. he's a gift to the candidate because he's certainly a flawed candidate. and i'm just speaking politically here. but if i was the democrat party i would say, oh, do you think he has a right to vote on this particular bill that effects women's rights or children's rights? so the democrats are not going to let this go. and i don't think republicans would either if the shoe was on the other foot. i do want to say something though, anderson, i spoke to some people from alabama today and they agreed with what bill bret just said, in their opinion the polls aren't necessarily telling the story. the polls are showing a really strong win for roy moore at this time. but i think a lot of discerning people who are having second thoughts about it. and one of the factors that's out there is that mr. jones is on the tv nonstop, and

president trump has outright endorsed roy moore. he's told his aides improvemently that he thinks roy moore's statement that these accusations are not true matters, that he takes roy moore at his word. if he's around in the senate every day and making comments and showing behavior that republicans, including those in the white house are going to have to answer for, it really complicates the political calling lulls. andrea: one thing i do think is becoming apparent is that we're in the middle of a cultural revolution and we don't know what the rules are. rumente marcus has a thought-provoking column in the "washington post" suggesting that there is a lack of proportionality with al franken and some of the others, especially considering the possibility that roy moore is going to get elected >> that's part of the conversation, are we able to make distinctions between million dollars and felonies? where does the line be crossed to the points where you have to be fired, lose your seat, pay the ultimate price and is there anymore superb i

shut up president trump and judge moore. they're trying to shut you up. >> reporter: former president obama making a last-minute robocall plea for jones. and president trump doubling down on moore. >> hi, this is president donald trump and i need alabama to go vote for roy moore. >> reporter: the stakes have never been higher. effective control of the senate hangs in the balance. after jeff sessions vacated his seat to become attorney general. >> if roy moore loses, which is a big if, the democrats obviously get another seat in a very, very closely divided senate. >> reporter: a victory for jones depends on suburbs like this one outside birmingham. it's become an unlikely battleground with an even more unlikely band of supporters for the democrat. >> we consider ourselves republicans for doug jones. >> reporter: this group of lifelong christian conservative republicans -- >> how are you? i'm kim. >> hi, kim. >> hello there. >> what's your name? >> that's will. >> what's up, will? >> reporter: -- says moore should not be the

they've been pointing to juck moore. and then when you've -- judge moore. then when you've got your own members of congress accused of this behavior there's a bit of a zero tolerance and they felt they had to make that statement. and you saw it with john conyers. >> trent franks. but to the president's accusers. this focuses again the white house on the accusers that came up during the campaign. guest: the u.n. ambassador broke and said these women need to be heard, should be heard. i think naffs a bit of a shift. you would know better covering the white house. host: reaction to that? guest: i have not gotten any reaction because i think that came a bit later on sunday. we didn't see the president at all on sunday. but the -- the white house strategy and the steve bannon strategy has been deny, dig your heels in, don't back down. al franken, back down, stepped away. roy moore, deny. it wasn't me. didn't do it. he has a chance at winning a senate seat. so al franken will be gone and roy moore will have a senate seat. so fight fight fight, don't back down. af

and it is moore's opponent on top tonight. doug jones came out for a victory speech 0 minutes ago. >> i have always believed that the people of alabama had more in common than top divide is. we have shown not just around the state of alabama but we have shown the kupty the way we can be unified sfwlxt and of course a couple months going there would be no doubt the republican candidate would have won this race because it's albama. after washington posts detailed allegations of miss con doukt against moore he lost support from dpxt op and denied any support came back in form of cash from rnc and enforcement of the president. the president did not campaign with moore but went to alabama florida border for a rally floor bama and there were sweets. he immoved people in alabama to khoyz moore. >> the write in votes played a big fok or and win is win people of alabama are great and republicans will have another shot at the seat in a short period of time. it never end. >> you know what, he's right. let's talk about the win for doug jo

so get out and vote for roy moore. do it. do it. >> it will be alabama that decides whether they want roy moore to be one of the two who are the voice for alabama in the senate and we'll see what happens next week. >>> good morning, everyone. >> i'm victor blackwell. good morning to you. in just a few hours president trump will head to the opening of the mississippi civil rights museum. there's resistance from several calling the president's visit a mockery of the civil rights movement. >> trump's visit to mississippi comes just hours after campaigning for roy moore, an accused child molester. roy moore raised more eyebrows this weekend. >> they attempt to discredit the multiple women who accuse moore of pr suing them as teenagers. >> we want to get right to cnn white house reporter caitlyn collins who was at that rally. the president not holding back. >> reporter: certainly not. he gave his full endorsement to roy moore last night and that didn't come as a surprise to anyone because we've only seen the president grow louder

>> no, it means i voted for judge moore, and i stated the reasons that i voted for judge moore. judge moore is not the victor in this campaign. >> this, as you said, is a referendum, and it was more about two choices, decency and the bottom of what we accept towards -- >> chris, it's about a number of issues, absolutely. i think one of the things that is very important to remember is that there were so many things that were introduced. i think that's one of the reasons that judge moore's support was as strong as it was considering everything that was introduced throughout the campaign, especially in the last month of the campaign, people made votes for judge moore because of issues related to the supreme court, and because of issues related to tax reform, and so there are a number of things like that that had to be considered as were considered by me when i decided how to cast my ballot for the republican nominee. >> i am saying now this is a period of reflection and people are trying to figure out the way it did. how did you reconcile voting for moore with the seriousness of th

roy moore will always vote with us. vote roy moore! so certainly, hallie, the president coming out strong for roy moore. we heard that again last night with steve bannon, just taking on the establishment as he mentioned, within the next hour or so, we expect roy moore to vote himself riding in on his horse named sassy. you can't make this up. >> it's going to be -- it's going to be a moment. gabe gutierrez in mountainbrook, thank you. you'll be plastered all over the network all day along with steve kornacki looking at the data for us. steve, we talked yesterday about how the polls are everywhere, up in the air, it really is a crapshoot at this point who will be on top. but i want to talk about the coalitions that you think doug jones or roy moore needs to put together in order to pull out a win. >> yeah, let's take a look at it. it's sort of old fashioned. forget the polls now, we'll see who votes, where they vote and who they vote for. let me show you this is, this is what it looks like when they have an election in alabama. nobody r

moore. >> i'm disappointed that the rnc has resumed the support of its roy moore. i think that is a mistake. >> and the new poll this morning shows roy moore with a four point lead. vaughn hillyard is in birmingham, alabama with a welcome to you vaughn. this tight race is certainly in the home stretch, just a couple days to go. what are you hearing from the voters on the ground there? >> reporter: there is only one campaign on the ground at this point and that is doug jones. he stopped in selma, montgomery and birmingham where he had a get out the vote concert with the band st. paul and the broken bones. today this will be his third church here this morning in the birmingham area right behind us, he will be then making his way to multiple get out the vote campaign canvases. roy moore hasn't been seen since tuesday. and it is quite something. you know, usually the weekend before the tuesday election, you see both candidates out. you know, knocking on door, trying to rally their volunteers. bu

and if that's the case roy moore is in trouble. >> what happens if roy moore wins, john -- i'm sorry, bill? >> again, i would disagree with john's assessment. but that's because what we are seeing on the ground. voter turnout in rural black communities is terribly low. it's terribly low across the state right now because doug jones has never given african-americans to vote for them other than 30 years ago he did alioic thing. but he has done nothing for african-americans in the state of alabama. if he loses, doug jones is in office for a couple of years and then he will thoroughly rejected because of his outrageous stand according to the people of alabama for liberal ideas. i mean, we are a conservative. you can paint it any way you want to. even most of our african-americans are very conservative, conservative, but they do vote democratic. >> bill brit, and john hammondtry, sorry about the snafu about that sound byte. that was richard holidayistson, join chiefs of staff. thank you for joining us. we'll be right back. so that's the idea. what do you think? hate to play devil's advocat

what is it that you like about roy moore? or is it that you have always been a republican and you will always vote republican? , i am ally conservative, and i was on mo brooks' campaign. but when mo brooks didn't win, i switched to roy moore, because we cannot afford to send a left-wing democrat to congress, because this is ground zero. this is the direction of our country. it is a razor-thin majority in congress. we can't send another democrat. if roy moore goes to congress, he will be there to help trump with his agenda. katty: for you this is as much about not voting for a democrat for the senate seat in alabama as it is voting for roy moore. but i'm assuming there are things you like about roy moore as well. >> yes, absolutely. he is staunch conservative. he stands his ground. he is not afraid to buck the system. and we seriously need people in congress that are not afraid to stand up and say that is not what the american people want. i have been elected to do this, and that is what i'm going to do while i am here. katty: