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Demensia. David cassidy was only 67yearsol 67yearsold. Did you watch . Yes, i did. They were like the monkeys. Nobody realizes, David Cassidy was massive, massive reporting star and showing up at the houston astrodome at the time nobody did it. Huge, massively successful. As you say no love from the critics. I will say in your high school, too the number of guys. I went to a girls school. A local girl school, the number of guys with puca shell necklace because of David Cassidy, along with these songs, brought to the fullture. The brady bunch and the Partridge Family were passive my brother loves puca shells. Do you remember andy gibb . Slightly later. Only slightly. Im 50. Good morning, everyone, its wednesday, november 22nd. We have political commentator susan dell persio, back with stories to tell. More work you have been doing there, nbc news, capitol hill correspondent and host of casey d. C. , cmon, guys. Laser rock i bet she has a puca shell necklace. She will have a tribute on ac already dc the brand, sprit it from casey d. C. , this week another huge loss. Another member of that great fa fan. All right. Well, good to have you all on board, President Trump yesterday broke his silence on roy poor and the Alabama Senate race. Trump took questions from reporters as he was departing the white house to board marine one. I can tell you one thing for sure, we dont need a liberal person in there, a democrat. Jones, ive looked at his record. Its terrible on crime. Terrible on the border, terrible on the military. I can tell you, we do not need somebody bad on crime, bad on borders, bad for the military, bad for the second amendment. Mr. President is an accused child molester better than a democrat. Well, he denies it. Look, he denies it. Few look at what is really going on and you look at all the things that have happened over the last 48 hours, he totally denies it. He says it didnt happen and you know you have to listen to him also. You are talking about he said 40 years ago this did not happen. So, you know. Ill be letting you you know next week. I can tell you, you dont need somebody who is soft on crime like jones. So do you not believe the accuser . What was your message [ inaudible ]. Let me just tell you, roy moore denies it, thats all i can say. He denies it. And by the way, he totally denies it. So, casey, obviously, the president of the United States did do what the white house and Kellyanne Conway sort of tipped their hat to earlier, saying we need a contev e servetive in there that will vote along with the president s agenda, have you the president of the United States yesterday saying we dont need a liberal. This is a defact o endorsement of roy moore and again its once again the president finds himself on the opposite side of most republicans in the senate on capitol hill. Whats it mean . Mitch mcconnell is not saying he needs roy moores vote in the senate. He thinks the opposite. He thinks roy moore for a variety of reasons would fought be a great member of the republican conference. I think the president and i talked to people who are familiar with his thinking in the wakeskating of roy moore winning this runoff election. He felt burned when Mitch Mcconnell and other Republican Leaders sent him down to campaign for Luther Strange. It was something that took am while to get over. Now he still talks to steve bannon who of course is standing by roy moore. Look at the kind of campaign moore is now running. He is denying aenk everything. He is trying to undermine the awe accusers, saying they were lying. Another was accused by multiple people recently who ran a similar kind of campaign and said repeatedly the women were like he now one his election. Susan, the white house is trying to walk a line that cant be walked, they say privately, but they want to get tax reform through. By walking that line, its a defacto endorsement of the candidate they say theyre appalled be. It is, it has echos of charlottesville when you think about it, he says there are good people out there when there were neonazis killing one person. We look at it today. Well, he said he didnt do it. Well the president basically admitted id rather have a child molester in the senate than a democrat. He set the standard. Bob corkner charlottesville says he doesnt understand paraphrasing or the character of the country. Once again clearly donald trump doesnt get it, we dont want child molesters in the u. S. Senate. He says he denies it. Totally denies it. Hes taken the word of roy moore against the nine women. The white house isnt walking a line jaromir t. President endorsed roy moore yesterday. There is a reasonable chance he will campaign for roy moore. He i think the, casey came close to saying what i said is right, exactly right, he sees himself in roy moore. Whats the impact . The imspakt now the president if he goes all if and ends up campaigning for roy moore the exact disaster Mitch Mcconnell foresees will happen, you will see a biggest gift wrapped present for democrats heading into 2018. Theyre already sal ivating. For democrats headed into the midterms. A president , despite the fact that the rest of the party runs against roy moore the president of the United States now embraces roy moore, a ped dial. You are starting to hear, that obviously, on tv, fought only democrats but some conservatives that want to see roy moore lose on twitter are saying republicans rick being called the party of pedophiles. That label sticks a little tighter if the president of the United States jumps in, doesnt it . It does, its another very important data vote for women voters in the midterm elections. Look at what happened if virginia . What drove democrats to sweep the seats in areas previously where were accepting republicans . A lot of the exit poll data say it was women. You talk to operatives behind the scene, what are they looking for . Especially considering the broader National Climate and the moment we are living in. Women are more engaged if politics and feel as though there is more at stake for them with their votes with every passing day. I think this is something that you know republicans who are looking at the midterm map, they know that. At the same, i very carefully say what the president said was not inaccurate. Which is what . He denies it. Right. And they accuse him. And i do think that is something some voters will look at differently. Look, there are cases like this that seem like a slam dunk even if they are 20, 30, 40yearsold because such a pattern is out there. Its still accusations versus someone pushing back. That does stay in a certain place. With voters. Especially in alabama and i dont say that in any correct cal way or stereotypical way. Its a different culture that has had a different generational shifts over time, susan. It definitely sits, i look at 2018 when you look at nevada or arizona, you will see, there will be a fight in the Republican Party yet once again, is it going to be the party of child molesters or a party of responsible fiscal republicans . Thats how its going to affect the president Going Forward is who wants his line i should stay say in a primary . He is saying i dont believe these women. Roy moore can win this race. This is now about alabama. This is not about who wins that race . Roy moore can win. The polls will be sketchy to election day for a million reasons, in the end, the president getting involved in way, it will get nationalized, for a lot of suburban women and spring districts that have watched the testimony of roy moores accusers and seen the women talk too Savannah Guthrie on the today show, seen them on cam ramp. A lot of women around the country are regardless of how it plays in alabama, i agree with you, roy moore may win the race in alabama. But there are a lot of suburban women around this country who believe these accusers. They sounded extraordinarily credible. Of course, they do. Again, i very carefully say what i said because i wouldnt want anyone to think the accusers dont sounds credible. They do sound credible to me. They are accusers. They are. If this would be a different state, i would be much more sure about the outcome. Im not saying anything about alabama by the way. Think about the politics, the president of the United States now saying clearly and out loud he takes the side of roy moore versus the word of the nine accusers. He made that very clear yesterday. So if your moral code doesnt dictate you come out strong against these things, maybe a strategic argument would appear, you will be saddled as you all have just said as the party of a pedophile for the rest of roy moores term. Be i the way the president will be saddled with that, saying you stood up in this moment of truth, you stood up and took the side of an accused pedophile. Before, though, we have been saying we dont know what will happen with the polls. People will lie, a lot of people will say you will vote for roy moore . That said, alabama of 2017 is not the alabama of 19 sfempblt its not the alabama of 1997. Oh, no. I think its more likely than not that actually roy moore will lose. Right. Can i ask you a question . Who votes in alabama if terms of age demographics . Roy moore . The young people . If any off year elections where the president is not on the ballo ballot. The voters are older, wiser, more conservative. In virginia we saw women and suburban voters come out at an extraordinary clip and washed away that natural builtin advantage. Eddie gillespie didnt have horrific time getting loyal republicans out. Just more democrats came out. Im say it again, there are educated suburbs all around birmingham Mountain Brooke him homewood. Parts of montgomery. A lot of mobile you have a lot of educated women standing in line a long time. I think just like virginia that could make a difference even in the headest of head states in america. In that case, you lose the seat and youve lost it. In the process of losing it, you become the party of pedophiles. Which is a double whammy the president is trying to pull off here. For donald trump reports were for several weeks, willie, after he lost, the Luther Strange race, he was beyond himself, he could not believe it and he was enraged, according to again this race. Imagine he loses in the primary and loses in the gem election in a state they told me during the campaign if you lose this race,ly move to alabama because they love me so much. I remember the summer of 2015, in mobile, alabama, that was an earlial, he was embarrassed with Luther Strange. He deleted the tweets. If he does it again, sticks his neck out. Not just for republican, but this republican, thats beyond embarrassing. All right. Casey. Jump in. Quickly, one thing that democrats have going for them here. Is that they actually had a really food candidate who really fits their state. Yes. Its not a situation where its a nationalized race, you know, where the dfcc went in there. Its a progressive. It doesnt lean up. He is somebody who can actually go into churches with white voters and africanamerican voters, he fought this cold case with a kkk bombing. He is somebody who the democrats lucked out, quite frankly. He did not tell the truth about that. I think he said he was soft on crime. Maybe soft on the crimes the president , whatever. The president seems to have a thing about race, an issue with it. So this candidate is strong, are you right, casey a federal judge blocking one of President Trumps orders, partially based on something he tweeted. Those tweets come back to haunt you. Time and time again. Speaking of tweets, President Trump is still fighting with the College Basketball coach. Where is john kelly . Its not working. Willie, trump has to have stock in the shoe company. I started to think the same. And i promise he is going to tweet that hes going to take credit. I promise you, he will. He knows. Exactly. He knows he is helping. He went to the Washington Post and shows like this. Which he doesnt watch. He had the highest revenue ever. We had our highest ratings ever this year. But im saying, he knows this. The New York Times, the Washington Post, doing extraordinarily well. He has the know he is selling a ton of sneakers right now. Thats what i thought. This is professional wrestling. This the a fake fight between two guys who know exactly what theyre doing. They threw out the bait. The other one takes it. Lavar ball goes on and pounds his chest, Big Baller Brand is going to have a great thanksgiving. I hope the president does, too. This is about selling sneakers, his three sons, marking them. Lets read these Early Morning tweets this morning t. President called lavar ball a quote ungrateful fool and a poor mans version of don king. And that was before he started attacking Hillary Clinton and the nfl. So a busy morning on twitter. We await now. Lavar balls response and the spike in big baller shoes. The president is not interested in himself at all. Im sure he wouldnt want to download on spotify, what is that very drunk christmas . Its all about him. Every word of it. 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They are the two most powerful forces, ashaad is here for the forseeable future and then some the question is what happens to those lands . Gradually the russians move in. Iran has large control over iraq, does it not . I had somebody tell me this past weekend, you can have whatever sanctions. Southern iraq looks like an extension take a step back. Iran has become imperial iran. It has influence from lebanon, which is nothing new, which is obviously one of the key things in the yemen civil war. Iraq and obviously iran. Its interesting, this administration focused on the Iranian Nuclear deal. What do you do . We have cast our lot with the saudis. We have kals wit the weaker side we dont want to get heavily involved. Is what sunni arabs have been feeling has happened . That is the rise of iran . Thats true. Thats why they fear iran more than israel. Its a good sense, some of the barriers have broken down because they now have a common enemy, but this is in some ways a delayed consequence of the iraq war. Without a strong iraq there. Iran was the strategic principal. We are seeing the fruits of that now. So the exit of zimbabwe and mugabe, it was like the last lord of the rings you never knew when it was finally the screen was going to come down, is he gone for good . I think thats the real challen challenge. Is this one dictator to another . Ro decemberia had it all the minerals the fertile land. So many people have left. This shows you what happens with terrible leadership. Mugabe destroyed his company, the question is whether they will come back. People dont know when he went in there. There was so much hope for that country he wrote about it. Peace has come to zimbabwe. Again, its been 37 years of horrid leadership. That transition didnt bring in something good, this transition, there are positive sides, its wonderful. They can have real politics, not face threats, well see. So in richard, now placed on the st. Sponsor of terrorism list. Yesterday there was an incident on the border. The United States says they broke the armistice, whats the impact from our side the United States side of placing north korea on the list of state sponsors of terrorism and ratcheting up sanctions . There are so many sanctions is negligible. Richard, excuse me, this is incident along that border, defecting and being shot before he was rescued. This doesnt happen a lot. Its quite stunning this happened it may be further terrorism. Its not clear yet were prepared to play cards we have all this pressure, these threats, are we prepared to put forward these initiatives, so far its not obvious. I think we should. It might be stabilizing, so it doesnt get worse, a freeze, no more testing. That would be a great deal. What are we prepared for a freeze on testing. Thats diplomacy. Ripped, a topic youve followed closely. One you have written about in yet another landmark bill. It was not grilling. You talked how the security risks abroad are matched at home and the u. S. Did he tell you believe and most rational thinkers believe is one of the great longterm debts for this country and yet were looking at strapping another 1. 5 to 2. 2 trillion on the National Debt with the tax be ill. We will drive up the relationship between debt and gdp. What this will do is crowd out domestic spending. Because it will cost us more to pay what we owe. 99 to 100 of gdp. What impact does that have . Can you explain to our viewers . Its the opposite of a virtual circle. What we have to do is pay more money, the debt goes up. Paying interest on the debt. So we have to raise taxes, which we dont want to do, that slows growth, which is the opposite of what the tax zut meant to be. Or if we spend more on the debt. We dont want to cut defense, that means discretionary spending, or investment in our own future. That gets crowded out, squeezed. So there is that problem. Foreigners say, hey, before we lend you money, places like china, japan, the two largest owners about american debt, they will get nervous. That will force us to raise Interest Rates and slow our economy. So everything done in the name of accelerating Economic Growth when it increases debt, it may force us to do things that will slow Economic Growth. We wont be able to invest in our future. That eats our seed point. Thats what makes us competitive. In the long run, thats the basis. We are talking about crises abroad, what about here at home . Susan you got back from puerto rico, which you described in one word. Horrific. The six down there is unbelievable. I was up in the mound tonys on an aide mission with some Health Care Doctors in the Red Apple Group the first day, we were able to open a health care clinic. What was amazing was to go up into the mountains and go to the povertystricken gnomes you can call them that with no water, no electricity bathe income dark brown water. This is the quality of life these people have and it is heart braking to see. When we talk about not having money for infrastructure, we dont have money in priek. There is no money exchanging, so the hotels are opened. Theyre not spending mine like tourists do, on our mission, instead of bringing supplies down decided to put money into the pharmacies. So we can circulate the money within the towns. Everything we did was on the ground. We were able to do most of all with just the community involvement. We didnt relate with the government. We went down there. And figured it out. Did quick work. Went back on this mission a and was able to have a tremendous effect. We will be doing it again. The numbers are staggering. You are hemorrhaging. The most educated and well loved. One of the scariest things are there are hospitals not performing procedures, because the medical supplies are made in puerto rico. People leave, when the factories are getting online, the pfizers and others, the work force isnt there its come back. Unfortunately, we will hear from this, people on the homeland are not necessarily getting procedures. Not necessarily the first. Now the president s tweets, the military gender bans are coming back to haunt him with a federal judge. By the way, a federal judge appointed by a republican president. I hate when that happens. That story is straight ahead. Zplmpblths. So a federal judge yesterday temporarily blocked the entirety of Donald Trumps ban on Transgender Americans serving in the military. Now this comes after a federal judge in washington, d. C. Blocked parts of the ban a week ago t. President announced the ban, seemingly out of the blue on twitter back on july 26th. In his decision, maryland judges, appointed by republican president george h. W. Bush called trumps announcement of the ban via twitter quote shocking, adding, quote, a capricious, arbitrary and unqualified tweet of new policy does not trump the methodical and systematic review by military stake holders, qualified to understand the ramifications of policy changes, now, this is the latest judicial roadblock to the Trump Administration, following a travel ban to executive cities, just like those tweets are hurting the president with a lot of supporters, they say that and a lot of independents and persuadables is hurting him time and time again with federal judges blocking orders based on those tweets the white house called official white house policy. The problem is i believe those specific tweets werent they at a time when he needed the a distraction. Thats right, his house was scoured and there was a big story on the russia front. He did this hand fisted desperate tweet to distract t. Problem is, if you dont think about what you tweet, you end up paying for it. Hes a day trader. Im wondering. As we head into the how much do members on capitol hill at this moment think donald trump could at any moment under mine their strategy and taking to twitter as he under mines his own moves by taking to twitter as we pointed out with judges . John i would say its a constant ever present fee, its also a fear they have gotten used to living with and disregard it sort of happened, he said it should be included in the bill paul ryan and company said we will not do that. Its a riskier path forward in the senate at the end of the day on tax reform, you never know with this president i dont think members know, they feel in this political everybody wants to get this done. At the end of the day, my sense is that will carry forward. There is a military reality. When donald trump surprised everyone with that tweet in july you had general dunford and mattis saying, hold on, we will study this. They know, they are the 1 . They are dealing with racial issues, gender issues and issues like this they know how to deal with this. They said let us manage this the president were dealing with it at the granular level theyve succeeded here. All right. Well. Casey, before you go, john conyers. Go. Well. Where shall i start . Look a. Lot of people think this is the tip of the iceberg on Sexual Harassment. I think in this particular case, there is a story in the New York Times this morning i would commend to you that includes details about conyers overall state of being. He is the deny of the house, 88yearsold, there is a lot of frustration within the democratic ranks this guy should step aside and make loom for new leadership. The times reports he showed up at two separate meetings in pajamas, the woman filed the lawsuit earlier this year, decided not to go forward after a woman said she would keep it sealed t. Environment the processes in congress for people who are able to walk through the process, it takes forever to i think everybody is getting set on capitol hill for a a real seat changer on this. The Detroit Free Press is say ing that he must resign. But i saw some reports yesterday and even before this part of the story came out that there were a lot. You talked about him showing up in pajamas two times. Talked about the john conyers hasnt been mentally fit for the office for quite some time. Democrats in washington and in michigan have feared that he would continue to embarrass himself. That he is too old and not fit mentally to be in the congress. I think there have been some questions about how much good hes able to do now. I would just say. This pajama thing, i have seen you on this show in your bottoms. I have never questioned your sanity. I walk into 30 rock in my pajamas every morning. But thats at 3 00 a. M. Casey hunt, thank you very much. Here it comes. Kasie hunt d. C. Thank you, richard. Happy thanksgiving. And what chapter are you going to in your book this weekend . Were smoking the turkey. Chapter 14 is. Coming up it was very moving. I didnt expect that. Coming up, the president contradicts his own point man ob capitol hill over whether he believes the women accusing roy moore of Sexual Misconduct. You work for the president. Does the president believe the women or not . Obviously, if he did not believe that the womens accusations were credible, he would be down campaign iing for roy moore. Hes not done that. Hes run eight races and this has never come up. 40 years is a long tile. The women are trump voters. Most of them are trump voters. All you can do is you have to do what you have to do. 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Top of the hour. Is there a nearby taco bell we can go to after the show . Its america. Of course, there is. Can you check and see where the nearest taco bell is . They only have the Breakfast Menu at this hour. Im very impressed with chickfila is finally invaded the north. Two blocks from here. For political reasons. They were republican rats. Democratic rats it would have byebye fine. Be they are doing well. They are going up into connecticut. Its the top of the hour. 7 00 on the east coast. Im inviting willie over to my house. I havent approved that. She hasnt approved that yet. Its approved now. Alabama and auburn game. The iron bowl. Will you bring the cute kids . Wed love for you to come over. Alabama or auburn . Alabama is going to win. But its on the road. Auburn is good. I have two losses. She makes these massive eggs. They are like goose eggs. The big game is at 4 00 though. With us onset when you go and see 26,000 people on a cold thanksgiving. This is the most unassociated five minutes of the show. I have no idea. We have six topics going here. Sgl im a little worried. Alabama has to be worried about auburn. Then we have to be worried about georgia. But you think oklahoma piegt be the best team . Oklahoma is really good. They had the slilt slip up against iowa state, but otherwise they are good. He also disrespect by the little kids. We have fine balm. Joining us, susan is never going to come back if you guys dont shut up. Who is your Favorite College Football Team . I dont like College Football. Im a seahawks fan. For some reason, its kind of bizarre. Jack is a seahawks fan. They are fun to watch. One more time. John heldman is is here. Carol lee, National Political reporter for nbc news joins us. Shes just been waiting. Another crimson tide fan im sure. And also with us taco bell, rescue dogs, what am i going here. Shes like breaking real news stories. Also with us for the New York Times peter baker. Peter is an expert on all the topics mentioned. He has something to say about every one of those. Topics. Taco bell, whats your favorite item . Dont go there. Its gross, right . Its too early in the morning. Favorite College Football team. Im an nfl guy. Im a redskins fan. Were looking for more creative ways to lose tomorrow. Thats kind of funny. You were wrong about peter baker. He doesnt want to play. He has serious things to say. So lets get serious now and talk about whats going on with donald trump, roy moore, the state of the Republican Party. They have to be very concerned. Democrats and a lot of never trumpers and also conservatives are starting to say, if donald trump and the republicans back roy moore and seat him, they are going to be the party of pedophiles. Thats harsh talk. But how concerned are republicans on the hill . They are very concerned on the hill. This has put them in a terrible biebd. They at least have some degree of solidarity until yesterday where the republicans have taken a strong stand against roy moore being elected. Now President Trump has muddied the water. Where does the National Really party stand. On the one hand Mitch Mcconnell is saying, no, we dont want to seat somebody thats been accused o terrible things. Then you have the president of the United States who seemed to say he believes roy moore gives him credit and a democrat would be worse. So up until now, that message had been pretty clear. Now its kind of muddy. Is this steve bannon . I think whats interesting is theres a contrary spirit. And the president. Doesnt like being pushed into taking positions by what he sees as the chattering class of the washington elite. And i think his view is that if everybody is attacking him, this fellow roy moore, maybe theres a reason to standby him. Hes got his own issues in the past that are obviously there and influence his view of how allegations are made. He believes he was unfairly accused if thats the case. You can see why he might be more willing to give the benefit of the doubt to somebody else who has been accused. He was a president weighing in yesterday in the senate race. I can tell you one thing for sure. We dont need a democrat in there. Ive looked at his record. Its terrible on crime. Its terrible on the border. Its terrible in the mull tear. I can tell you we do not need somebody thats going to be bad on crime, bad on borders, bad with the military, bad for the second amendment. Mr. President trump is an accused child molester better than a democrat . He denies it. If you look at what is really going on and you look at all the things that have happened over the last 48 hours, he totally denies it. He says it didnt happen. You have to listen to him also. Youre talking about he said 40 years ago this did not happen. Ill be letting you know next week, but i can tell you you dont need somebody who is soft on crime like jones. Do you not believe the accusers . Wahats your message for women, sir . Talking about Sexual Misconduct, you had your own allegations against you. Let me just tell you. Roy moore denies it. Thats all i can say. And by the way, he totally denies it. Mr. President , whats your message to women . Women are very special. I think its a very special time because a lot of things are coming out. I think thats good for our society. I think its very, very good for women. And im very happy a lot of these things are coming out. Do you believe the accusers . Should assad go . He denies. Roy moore denies. What about the women . What about the nine women . Hes in total denial. 40 years ago is a a long time. Hes run eight races and this has never come up. So 40 years is a long time. The women are trump voters. Most of them are trump voters. All you can do is you have to do what you have to do. He totally denies it. That was the voice of our Kristen Welker shouting a lot of those questions. The president of the United States effectively wont say it explicitly is endorsing roy moore. Hes endorsing this man who has been accused of pedophilia, of having sexual relations with a 14yearold. He also has a problem. If you listen closely. He has to say, i believe roy moore because he denies it. Because the president of the United States has claims against him. If he says we have to take the word of the women, we have to take the credible word of the women in this case, that argument then would be applied to him in the 16 or so women that have accused him as well. Thats exactly right. Two things are happening here. Theres the political calculation that we saw the president make yesterday. And that Kellyanne Conway previewed a few days ago. Saying that roy moore is the one more likely to implement the trump agenda in the sfat. Then you have the other piece of this, which is the president sent a clear message that in this moment in the country where theres this big National Debate and this issue of Sexual Harassment is is really coming to a head. Hes going to take the word of the man over women. And that, in part, could be derived from what you explined, which is if the president were to back the women in this, he would be undermining when he did during the campaign, which is to try to discredit the women, say they were lying and to say that to issue repeated denials about accusations he face d. So it doesnt it sends a clear message and i think that the lit call ramifications of that are yet to be seen. E we dont know how this race is going to turn out. We dont know how women voters are going to respond to the president taking sides this way. The fact that this is even a question i think probably has longterm ramifications for the party. We still remember the rape candidate which won. But i dont think its that easy to predict whats going to happen on december 12th. I feel like the president was saying something that could definitely resinate in this environment. We also dont know what else hes going to say. Hes going on a long Holiday Weekend now. Hes going to be there with his phone. Im concerned for these women. Is he going to start attacking them. Hes taking the first step by saying they are not credible. Will he defend roy moore and go one step further. As far as the party goes, i have been a republican in new york, which is not an easy feat, for 25 years. As much as we have had to endure as a party, being a woman in the party at times, this is the worst its ever been. To have the president to back a child molester makes it even how do women continue to support this party. Its a challenge im starting to hear more and more of. So how do you feel about being a republican these days . Im not a trump republican. I know that. Im just wondering watching all this. Im not ready to give up yet. I think there are too many hard working people and people who want to do the right thing. There are legislators. If people like me back out, where are they going to go . Wheres the support they need to have to succeed . Im not willing yet. Its a hard time. I got it. Were following a new report that the Mueller Investigation is Digging Deeper into Jared Kushners contacts with foreign leaders during the transition. According to the wall street journal, the latest instance involves the december 2016 u. N. Resolution that condemned israel for building settlements in disputed territories. Then president elect trump posted to facebook it should be vetoed. It was adopted the next day after the Obama Administration refused to block it. People briefed on the matter tell the wall street journal that officials then began reaching out to senior transition officials including kushner. Muellers investigators want to know what role l kushner may have played in any talks. Officials are already looking into the june 2016 trump tower meeting that kushner attended with a kremlin lawyer. And a december 2016 meeting with the head of a Stateowned Bank sanctioned by the u. S. Then there are the two other meetings he disclosed with the russian ambassador. Kushner has also had an issue disclosing foreign contacts on his federal disclosure forms. Hes had to update the list three separate times adding more than 100 people who had previously been left off. Why would bob mueller be investigating them . Would that be illegal if he was reaching out to the israelis and trying to influence the vote . There is the logan act from the 18th century that prevents american citizen who is are not in office from trying to undermine their government. Its never been prosecuted, certainly not in modern times. Its held out there from time to time when somebody does something that is counter to the administration. Its hard for me to imagine thats what bob mueller is looking into. Thats why i asked. I cant imagine either. I dont think the Obama Administration was really excite ed about the possibility of israel being whacked at the u. N. At the end of the year. We knew at the time that there were contacts between Benjamin Netanyahus government and the trump camp during that debate at the u. N. One thought maybe that he has told the mueller people presumably that his contacts with the other russians was part of his role in the campaign. Maybe they are looking to back that up to see whether that checks out and that was jared cukushner or was there somethin unusual about the contact with russians. Mueller is is also looking at the angle of Jared Kushner playing the role and the firing of comey. It seems like theres a lot of attention on Jared Kushner and you wonder whether other people in the white house are pointing fingers a the him either because he was at the center of all of this or because he has quite a few enemies in the white house. We know theres one person outside the white house who is point iing fingers at Jared Kushner and thats steve bah non. Jared kushner was the point of contact during the transition for any foreign government. He had a on to of discussions with people representing foreign governance. The expansiveness of the investigation if hes looking at just meetings that kushner had with foreign governments, thats a whole other area. Then you have the comey firing and thats another area. Pafrt of whats happening is where a bunch of witnesses getting interviews and they are talking. And kushner is coming up in these interviews. I dont know exactly where in the story, it doesnt purport to know, where mooueller is going specifically with the israel issue. We know at the time the oball administration was furious that the Trump Administration was taking these steps and trying to undermine them. I dont think we know where its going, but it has this feeling of an investigation thats taking on a number of different fronts to come up with something or investigate thoroughly the president s soninlaw. Steve bannon as never had affection for Jared Kushner. Theres speculation that we hear from people that steve bannon is out there outside the white house now pulling the strings and maybe dropping some of these stories about kushner. Theres no question that that history is not a pleasant history. Its a history between the two of them and no question that steve bah nonis out there in obvious ways through the channel of breitbart and is working to try to undermine his rivals and people he sees as undermining the trump agenda. The bigger thing here is that if you think back about how we started this week with thai cobb still insisting that this investigation is winding down and that, well, i thought it would be over by thanksgiving. Maybe not thanksgiving, maybe by. The end of the year. This thing is is cruising towards conclusion. Wp the span of the last 48 hours and see reporting other things, it continues to amplify the opposite conclusion, which is this investigation is not winding down and is growing. Whether you want to say its justified or not justified, its growing rather than narrowing. I cant imagine the president hearing this happy talk is not reading these reports in the press and saying my lawyer totally out to lunch here because this does not seem to be the way this investigation is going. Sounds like you might just be trying to keep him out of control. So peter baker, theres an hour call with Vladimir Putin yesterday. Not so sure that there was a lot of news out of the call. What can you tell us about what happened and what the big takeaway was. In sol ways the call was interesting. They were going to have a sitdown meeting while in vietnam for the asian summit. They sort of talked on the sidelines. Now it seems to have developed into this phone call on syria. Vladimir putin is in the middle of putting together a regional deal involving turkey, iran and syria to reshape the region while President Trump is sitting back here on the sidelines. Its an interesting moment when russia is asserting itself in a region dominated by the United States. President trump signalled that he wants there to be peace in syria, but he did not say anything on the call, sfrs were told, about whether bashar al assad, the dictator and president of syria who waged war against his own people, should step down. His aids say he just wants there to be peace at this point. Thats his top priority. Hasnt changed policy. Youd see what Vladimir Putin would get out of that. Hes the one calling the shots right now in the middle east. Peter baker, thank you so much. And peter, every time you come on, you leave with a parting gift of the San Francisco treat and a 15 Gift Certificate to the nearest taco bell. And chickfila. Still ahead on morning joe, Kellyanne Conway sent the message. Im serious. Reports say some Senate Republicans heard it loud and clear. The gop starting to privately acknowledge that its better to have a 52seat majority even if it includes roy moore. That new reporting is still ahead on morning joe. Dad molly, can you please take out the trash . sigh dad molly trash whoo mom hey, molly . Its time to go bell ringing class, lets turn to page 136, recessive traits skip generations. Who would like to read . molly i reprogrammed the robots to do the inspection. Its running much faster now. See . Its amazing, molly. Thank you. thank you. If yor crohns symptoms are holding you back, and your Current Treatment hasnt worked well enough, it may be time for a change. Ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohns. 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We work here at comcast spotlight, and we have the best tools for getting your advertising message out there. Anywhere, any way your audience watches. Consider them found. Joining us now, White House Correspondent shannon, and New York Times reporter jeremy peters. Jeremy, was the president saying something that might resinate with voters in alabama . Absolutely. Especially the subset of conservatives very loyal fervent voters who are inclined to support roy moore. Trump, im told, himself does not believe the allegations against these women. Remember, this is a president who himself has been accuse d o a similar types of inappropriate activity with women. So hes naturally inclined to take their side rather than to actually believe them. So you have trump coming out and contradicting his daughter and Mitch Mcconnell saying, no, you have to listen to moore. I thought ivankas statement stopped short of talking about roy moore. Take something that someone else said and repeat it. She has not spoken out on this in a passionate authentic way, has she . What did i miss . I think the two statements are inconsistent. Ivanka is saying you have to believe these women. That theres a special place in hell for i abusers of women and trump is saying nothing like that. Hes saying the judge denies it. You have to listen to the judge. These allegations have never come up before. Hes casting doubt on the ve s veracity of the allegations. I think they are inconsistent. Is there were going to be talking about the defense fund, but is there a womens advocate in the white house . The interesting thing is theres a lot of strong, powerful women in this white house. Kellyanne conway, Sarah Huckabee sand e ivanka trump, dena powell. The last one i agree, but i dont agree with the first four. I dont think they are strong or powerful or stand up for women in any way. As far as standing up for women, i cant go there. But hope hix is very influential in the white house in the messaging. The president trusts her. Kelli ann, he keeps her close. Which is whatever. They also have a certain power because they are there around the president. But as advocates for women, who speak passionately and with their own voices on behalf of women. Kellyanne conway went on fox and friends and laid the groundwork for this. The president has not come out and condemned roy moore, even though there are powerful women in the white house. They dont work for the white house. They are not working for the kocountry. They serve one person. Thats donald trump. And thats the difference, if anything. They are not working for the white house and all the people in this country. They are working for donald trump and going. Thats my question. Who is the ed a advocate for won the white house. Because its not the president. That we know. There are few people in the white house who arent justed advocates for donald trump. My reporting out of the white house even in the last 24 hours is that some of the people you just laid out are appalled by roy moore. I believe thats true, but if its true, why havent any of those views per vailed on the president of the United States . If they are disgusted, why did he walk out in tropt of the cameras and say, he deny it is. If you take the argument that Kellyanne Conway made on fox that we dont want a democrat on there. We need someone who is going to be on our side who are is going to be. Ai ain antiabortion and help us repeal obamacare. No senate seat is worth a child. She made it clear she didnt think it would be a good idea. But two days ago, that changed to lets get a republican. Theres a consensus in the white house regardless of opinions, they will debate behind the scenes, but trump is the president. Hes the one who gets the final call on these things. I have to ask one thing. Do you think any of those women would allow roy moore to babysit their children . I have another answer to follow up, which is dead on. It certainly is about having the republican vote. Its also about the republican majority. If you lose that seat to a democrat, if youre republicans, you have to win either nevada or arizona, which right now look pretty tough. And the map is already looking difficult for republicans. Their advantage still, but likely that they could lose the senate if things go bad ly with this tax cut. If the russia investigation worsens next year and its a bigger headache around republicans necks. Theres that factor as well. But i think also what people arent talking about and this is a little short sided, roy moore is no more reliable a republican vote than doug jones. You dont know what the guy is going to do. And if i were Mitch Mcconnell or Republican Leadership who are saying right now quietly that its better to have a republican in that seat than a democrat, i dont think i would count roy moore on team. Shannon, youre writing about the Trump Campaign not paying don jr. s legal bills anymore. First of all, how much were they and tell us whats behind this story. So the Trump Campaign paid out about 300,000 so far for don jr. s legals. And theres concern its not a superpac. They can only raise a certain amount of money. He and other staffers will be a major drain on the Trump Campaigns funds. Same withing with the rnc. They paid 200,000 in President Trumps legal bills. The rnc is no longer paying his legal bills. As the white house has said and ty kolb says this investigation should be wrapped up soon, our sources say it will go well into 2018. Were looking at millions and millions in legal fees. A fund for Campaign Staffers is being set up . Theres two discussions going on now. A fund for Campaign Staffers. Another funds for white house staffers. Why would they need this . To help pay legal fees. There are dozens of staffers in the white house who have minimum of 30,000 for one interview with mueller. The big question on the table is whether the president will be able to contribute to any of those. And that is still on the table. Theres no decision that has been made yet, but thats something thats being considered and obviously comes with an enormous ethical question about whether someone at the center of the investigation giving money to witnesses in an investigation is a conflict of interest. This is really what you have to ask yourself if you work in the white house. Do you really want to work there . Would you . Ien cant even imagine. This is just a mess. Thank you so much. Its great to have you on the show. Coming up, two things republicans care about deeply. Debt and tax cuts. But are they willing to sacrifice the first to satisfy the second. That conversation is next on morning joe. Trust 1 doctor recommended dulcolax. Use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. 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Joining us now is Columbia University professor and director of the center for Sustainable Development economist dr. Jeffrey saks. I think its a big, beautiful, huge christmas gift. But for who . For the trump family. Really . Absolutely. Billions of dollars in ending the estate tax, in these gifts to the billionaires. Its not only worthless for most people in this country, its actually a huge burden on them. Because its going to raise the debt phenomenally. Its going to mean future cuts in. Medicare, future cuts of basic services in this country. And there are already saying its going to automatically trigger medicare cuts just after this starts. Its the most outrageous policy we have seen in budget policy in ien cant even remember a comparable deal. I want to ask you this. If you had to name a redeeming quality in this bill, what would it be . Even what they were trying to do, im going to put it this way, to create some incentives for investment, the senate says, no, those will be temporary because they are not i affordable. So what they are doing is giving a gift of 1. 5 trillion to rich people and they are saying, quote, well have incentives but those go away after five years. You cant even make this stuff up actually how completely crude it is. People dont understand it. Its all painted if it this glorious were going to help workers. Its beautiful. We have already a deficit of 700 billion right now. The debt is rising rapidly. And were playing games with the future of this country thats really you cant even imagine. Let me ask you this question. If back in 2016 as we headed into the election towards election day, there was a pretty broad consensus on the part of a lot of democrats in addition to a lot of republicans, that the Corporate Tax rates should come down. There was a bargain they wanted to strike thats very different from whats in this bill. Just address the question of corporate rates and whether or not theres any merit to the notion that u. S. Corporate rates have made american corporations compared to corporate rates in other. Developed democracies. Its a very tiny difference. The reason is theres a head line rate of 35 . Then theres what we call the effective rate, which is what Companies Really pay. Thats much, much lower. And people can get online and look at the study of the Congressional Research service, which shows if you look at the effective rate, its basically the same as the other high income countries. So the head line is misleading to begin with. Why . Because under our tax code, Companies Get whats called accelerated depreciation. They get benefits in being able to write off their investments. Thats the real benefit to all of this. And that means that the things that are stated in the headline are not correct. Maybe you could take the top rate down, the head line rate on a little bit, but you have to pay for it. And to take it down this way is basically just to give to people who already own the stocks. Thats why the stock market is up so much. But thats owned by a very small proportion of americans. And thats the gimmick that they have. They are giving 1. 5 trillion. It still does matter. And this will hurt us for years and years and years to come as just a hand out to the richest people in this country. You have been concerned for a long time about debt in this country. We are racing towards 100 of gdp in the next 15 years or Something Like that. What would this tax cut mean to the acceleration of the debt in this country . Both parties ive been against that dont you care about the future of this country. Back in 2008 when we talked about it on the show then and afterwards, the democrats wanted to spend a lot. I said how are we going to pay for that. The debt at that time as a share of our National Income was 37 . Today its 77 . If this thing goes through it will be 100 plus. It will be 150 . Shall we just give everything to china. Should we forget the future of america. Let me take that point and jeremy jump in. In terms of the party overall. One of the reasons many believe that donald trump is president is because both parties have let americans down. Does this bill continue to do the same . It does. I guess as a republican, ive never seen or heard of a tax cut on the table that didnt require entitlement reforms. Donald trump made a lot of promises on the campaign trail. Hes broken a lot of promises on the campaign trail. If we wanted to have meaningful conversation on middle class tax cuts, we could probably get democrats involved even if we talked about entitlement reform. Isnt that the only way we get from here to there . Whats sad is theres one obvious place to make savings and thats in health care. Not by cutting people off the benefits, but because the costs are so astronomical because we have monopolies in drug pricing. Monopolies in local health services. No one talks about that because the lobby of the Health Sector is so powerful that they dont want to talk about the prices that were paying. Jeremy, last word. The bottom line is this is a Corporate Tax cut. Americans do not believe it will help their bottom line financially. Something like 16 of americans according to the latest poll actually believe this bill will cut their taxes. So its not great politics. If republicans dont get it done, they feel they will pay a steep cost with voters. Im not so sure thats really true because this is not at the front of voters minds. You ask them what they are worried about. They are worried about health care and worried about having a job and not getting blown up by north korea. So the idea that this tax cut is something that republicans absolutely must ram through by before december is more of a concession to the donor base than it is to their actual voters. Jeremy peters, dr. Jeffrey saks, thank you both. Happy thanksgiving. Up next, plenty of eyeballs on alabama. It has nothing to do with roy moore or the senate race. Well explain that, next on morning joe. Us. Its what this country is made of. But right now, our bond is fraying. How do we get back to us . The y fills the gaps. And bridges our divides. Donate to your local y today. Because where theres a y, theres an us. We make sure youre in the loop at every step from the moment you decide to move your money to the instant your new retirement account is funded. Because when you know where you stand, things are just clearer. A little bit o soul, yeah i dont want to filibuster on a show, but. I want to say one thing first. Nine years ago we were together and i was giving you credit for something. I want to accuse donald trump of ripping you off. Nine years ago you called me and said how do we change alabama. How do we make alabama great again. And you came up with the idea to bring nick saban in. You wrote an oped and came on our show. Look what happened. Nine years later, alabama is in the midst of a dynasty. America, thank joe. That was ours last year giving credit to joe. Will the crimson tide will another National Championship this year under nick saban. Joining us is espn College Football analyst paul finebalm. Thats why Everybody Loves me that calls in. They love my politics. They love this show. The favorite son. The favorite son. More like prodigal son. Look whats happened. He saved alabama. Now hes trying to save the world. Thats it. So far, so good. By the way, before we get to that. Thats very true. And i said it with a smile on my face, but its an absolute fact. I will say it a thousand times. Without Joe Scarborough years a the university of alabama off raised its standards and quit hiring a bunch of losers for head coach and gone after nick savin. Joe had a tremendous impact on what were doing and on College Football. It was a rather pointed op ed in the birmingham news directed toward the people that were running the Football Program so thank you for that. You bring up a couple of fascinating statistics. I love your show. Every time i miss birmingham and miss alabama in the fall, i turn on your shows. Couple of unbelievable stats you brought up. One, the last National Championships have been determined by whoever won the iron bowl. Theyve gone to the National Championship but even more remarkable than that nick sabin is what, 0 and 5 or 0 and 6 . Thats unbelievable. That goes back to lsu. Its interesting that he has not done well against the better teams and but its interesting if you go back on the iron bowl. I sat here a year ago this week listening to all the National Pundits talk about how michigan ohio state was the greatest Football Game in history and i remember that stat. If you go back to 2009 through last year including this year now probably, every iron bowl has had an impact on the race. Not only as the winner gone on and played for the National Championship, the unyear they didnt play was 2014 and alabama was in the playoff. It is the most significant rivalry game in the country the michigan ohio state game is important but its not the iron bowl. So paul, lets talk about this iron bowl. Alabama goes to auburn. Alabama of course undefeated and number one rankinged but auburns been playing really well. They lost early in the season. Who do you like in the game . I like alabama and i say this because you better think twice before going against nick sabin. Hes just absolute money. I realize in vegas the line favors alabama by three or four but the feeling is that auburn is going to inthe game. I was in auburn two with weeks ago for the georgia game, auburn is playing very well and not that the country is overly concerned about alabamas deficiencies. They just replaced a junior five star with a freshman five star thats the way things roll. But i think theres a little pressure on auburn in this game and alabama has just dealt with this so many times. They came from behind two weeks ago at Mississippi State and my sense is theyll do it again. And nick sabin doesnt get a chance to be an underdog very often or even people thinking that it favors auburn. Give him that opportunity to go in and say look at all weve done, they still dont respect. By the way, not that i need to willie, your school and my school are playing this week. I understand. And the winner will win its first game this week. We started hot. We were 3 and 0 and a lost season there. I was in nashville for the alabama game and these van der belt students were screaming at me saying were going to beat alabama and i thought that school was supposed to produce smart students. Bring on alabama. Dont do that. I knew we were doomed. Lets paint a scenario, paul, where auburn pulls off a mild upset. They win they go to the championship game. Alabamas season is over but they still only have one loss. Could they still get into the playoff if they lose on saturday, alabama . Yes. If auburn wins out and beats alabama and beats georgia again, theyre in the playoffs. Alabama will need help and there are a number of scenarios that could enable alabama to get in but in my mind they would be the best one loss team in the country. Clemson lost as syracuse which is a team that has imploded down the stretch. They wont have that 13th data point. This is what the Football Committee talks about in terms of a conference championship but last year ohio state didnt win the big ten and they made it into the playoffs. Let me ask you, a couple other teams, miami, how good is miami . I think theyre very good. Theyve won their big games at home the last three weeks. They won a sleepy game against virginia. I still would favor clemson a little bit in that acc championship game next week. That games in charlotte. Considering mark rick got fired at georgia two years ago because he couldnt beat nick sabin, hes done a remarkable job and thats another subset of the fcc right now, there are already two vacancies, theyll be five at the thanksgiving weekend and its all because of one person, the man you hired in alabama. You make sure to tell people calling in wisconsin are they good . Theyre good, my sense is theyll lose to ohio state in the big ten championship game. Lrts. Espn College Football analyst the great paul finebaum. 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David cass did is death came after a close family friend said over the weekend he had been hospitalized for organ failure. Cassidy rows to stardom after he was cast to play keith partridge. For four seasons the show built an allegiance of fans. Cassidy announced earlier this year he was suffering from dementia. He died surrounded by loved ones. David cassidy was only 67 years old. Did you watch . Of course. Its like the monkeys. Its never got any respect in the 60s. Same thing here, what people dont realize David Cassidy was a massive, massive recording star and live act filling up the houston astro dome at a time nobody else did it. Massive, massively successful. People loved him. I will say and im sure this is true in your high school and your high school too, the number of guys of young boys i went to a girls school. At the local boys school near your girls school the number of guys in pookca shell necklaces just because of David Cassidy. Oh, gross. Brought to the culture and they were the brady bunch, the part ridge family. Do you guys remember andy gib . Sure. Slightly different family. Im 50. Good morning, everyone. Its wednesday, november 22nd. We have heilman but also joining us this morning we have republican strategyist and political come men tater. Just back from puerto rico with some stories to tell, my god the work youve been doing there and nbc news and host of kasie dc. Oh, yeah. I bet she has a pooka shell necklace. Shell have a tribute on ac dc, the band, how they got their name and inspiration from kasie dc, another huge loss in the music field. Another one of the members of that great band. All right. Well, a lot to get to this morning. Good to have you on board. President trump yesterday broke his silent on roy moore and alabamas senate race. Trump took questions from reporters as he was departing the white house to board marine one. I can tell you one thing for sure, we dont need a liberal person in there, a democrat, jones. Ive looked at his record. Hes terrible on crimes, terrible on the border, terrible in the military. I can tell you for a fact, we do not need somebody thats going to be bad on crime, bad on borders, bad with the military, bad for the second amendment. Mr. President , is an accused child molester better than a democrat . Is an accused well, he denies it. If you look at what what is really going on and you look at all the things that have happened over the last 48 hours, he totally denies it. He says it didnt happen and, you know, you have to listen to him also. Youre talking about he said 40 years ago this did not happen, so, you know are you going to campaign for roy moore . Ill be letting you know next week. But i can tell you, you dont need somebody whos soft on crime like jones. Do you not believe the accuser . What is your message to women, sir, during the Pivotal Moment in our country where were talking about Sexual Misconduct, you had your own allegations against you, what do you say to women . Let me just tell you, roy moore denies it. Thats all i can say. By the way, he totally denies it. So kasie, obviously the president of the United States did do what the white house and Kellyanne Conway sort of tipped their hat to earlier saying we need a conservative in there thats going to vote along with the president s agenda. You have the president of the United States yesterday saying we dont need a liberal. This is an endorsement de facto endorsement of roy moore and, again, once again the president finds himself on the opposite side of most republicans in the senate on capitol hill. Whats it mean . Mitch mcconnell is not saying right now that he needs roy moores vote in the United States senate. Hes saying the opposite. I think Mitch Mcconnell thinks roy moore would not be a great member of the republican conference. The president i talk to people who are familiar with his thinking in the wake of roy moore winning this runoff election, he felt burned when Mitch Mcconnell and other Republican Leaders sent him down to campaign for Luther Strange. It was something that took him a little while to get over and now hes watching this unfold. He still talks to steve bannon who is standing by moore. Look at the kind of campaign that moore is now running. He is denying everything. He is trying to undermine the credibility of his accusers. Hes saying that they are lying and theres another person who is accused of Sexual Misconduct by multiple people very recently who ran a similar kind of campaign and said repeatedly that the women who brought the accusations were liars and he now he won his election. So susan, the white house is trying to walk a line that cant be walked. We heard it first from Kellyanne Conway which is that theyll say on background in privately theyre appalled by roy moore but they cant afford to have a democrat sitting in the senate. By august that line, its a de facto endorsement of the candidate they say theyre appalled by . It has echos of charlottesville when he said there were some good people out there. Hes like, he said he didnt do it. The president basically admitted id rather have a child molester in the senate than a democrat and hes set the standard for our country. Bob corker back in charlottesville said he doesnt understand para phrasing or the character of this country. We dont want child mow lefters in the u. S. Senate. He says he denies it, he totally denies it, so in other words, hes taking the word of roy moore versus the nine women who have accused roy moore. The white house isnt walking a line any more. He endorsed roy moore. He i think kasie came close to saying what i think is right. Which is to say he sees himself in roy moore, not whats the impact . Now the president especially if the president goes all in and campaigns for roy moore, the exact disaster that Mitch Mcconnell now foresees where youre going to see a thousand campaign ads calling republican the Republican Party of pedophiles, this is the biggest boat gift wrap present for democrats heading into 2018 you can imagine. Theyre already salivating. Regardless of the outcome of this race, its one seat. For democrats heading in to the midterms, a president who despite the fact that the rest of the party has run away from roy moore, if the president runs toward him and embraces him, this is a huge gift for democrats who will say the Republican Party, the head of the Republican Party, the president of the United States now embraces credibly accused roy moore in the senate. Well see that played out over and over for the next year. And youre starting to see it on tv, not only democrats but even some conservatives that want to see roy moore lose on twitter, are saying republicans risk being called the party of pedophiles as john heilman says. That label sticks a little tighter if the president of the United States jumps in, doesnt it . It does and its another very important i think data point for women voters in the midterm elections. Look at what happened in virginia. What drove democrats to sweep these state legislative sweeps that they hadnt across the state in areas that were previously sending republicans . A lot of that the exit poll data suggests it was women and you see that kind of as you start to talk to operatives behind the skeensz, what are they looking for and especially considering the broader National Climate and the moment we are living in. Women i think are more engaged in politics and feel there is more at stake for them with their votes with every passing day and this is something that republicans who are looking at the midterm map like Mitch Mcconnell and others, they know that. At the same time i very carefully say that the president what the president said was not inaccurate . Which is what . He denies it. Right . And they accuse him, and i do think that is something that some voters will look at differently. Look, there are cases like this that seem like a slam dunk even if they are 20, 30, 40 years old because such a pattern is out there but accusations versus someone pushing back and that does stay in a certain place especially in alabama and i dont say that in any critical way or stereotypical way but its a different culture that has had a different generational shifts over time, susan. It definitely sits there. I start looking toward 2018 when you look at the primaries in states like nevada or arizona and youre going to see, is it going to be there will be a fight in the Republican Party yet once again, is it going to be the party of child molesters or is it going to be a party of responsible fiscal republicans and thats how its going to effect the president Going Forward, where does he draw the line or who wants his line i should say in a primary because he is saying i dont believe these women. Roy moore could win this race. This is now no longer about alabama. This is not a race about who wins that race. The polling is going to be sketchy all the way to election day for a million reasons. In the end, what the president getting involved in this way is going to get nationalized and the reality is for a lot of s suburban women who have watched the testimony of roy moores accusers on television, have seen the woman talk to Savannah Guthrie on the today show, seen these women on camera, regardless of how it plays in alabama, i agree with you, roy moore might win this race in alabama but there are a lot of suburban women around the country that believe these accusers. Of course, they do. I just very carefully say what i said. I wouldnt want anyone to think the accusers dont sound credible. They do sound credible to me. They are accusers and if this were a different state i would be much more sure of the outcome and im not saying anything bad about alabama, by the way. Think about the more ality of it. The president of the United States saying clearly and outloud that he takes the side of roy moore versus the word of the nine accusers, he made that very clear yesterday. If your moral code doesnt dictate that you come out strongly against someone thats been accused of these things, maybe a political strategic argument would prevail, which is you win this seat, this senate seat for roy moore, you will be saddled as the party of a pedophile for the rest of roy moores term and the president will be saddled with that. You stood up in this moment of truth, you stood up and took the side of a accused pedophile. Before, though, and ive been saying that the polls we dont know exactly whats going to happen with the polls because people are going to lie. A lot of people when you call up and say are you going to vote for roy moore, that said the alabama of 2017 is not the alabama of 1977. Its not even the alabama of 1997. I think its more likely than not that actually roy moore will lose. Right. Except, can i ask you a question . Who votes in alabama in terms of age demographics, morge, the young people . In any special elections, in offyear election, when the president is not on the ballot, voters are older, theyre wider and theyre more conservative. What we saw in virginia, though, was, we saw women and suburban voters come out at a pretty extraordinary clip and wash away that natural builtin advantage. Eddy gillespie didnt have a time getting loyal republicans out, just more democrats came out. There are educated suburbs all around birmingham, homewood, you go parts of montgomery, a lot of mobile, you have a lot of educated women going out there and standing in lines a long time. I think just like virginia that could make a difference in the reddest of red states in america. And in that case you get the worst of all world, you lose the seat and in the process of losing it, you become the party of pedophile which is a double whammy that the president s trying to pull off here. And for donald trump, reports were for several weeks, willie, after he lost the Luther Strange race that he just he was beyond himself. He could not believe it and it just he was enraged, according to inside reports. Imagine if he gets involved in this race actively and goes down and campaigns and he losses in the primary and he loses in the general election in a state that he told me during the campaign had his most faithful followers and said if i lose this race, im going to move to alabama because they love me so much. I remember the summer of 2015 that event he had in alabama, in the football stadium where the place was packed. That was an early signal to a lot of people. He loves it down there. Hes been rebuked once with Luther Strange. He deleted all those tweets in support of strange and if he does it again, and sticks his neck out, but for this republican, thats beyond embarrassing. Kasie, jump in. One thing that democrats have going for him here they actually have a really good candidate who fits their state and who is its not a situation where its a nationalized race where the dscc went in there or didnt understand or its a progressive that doesnt line up. Hes somebody who can actually go in to churches with white voters and churches with africanamerican voters. He fought this cold case with kkk bombing. He is somebody who the democrats lucked out, quite frankly. The president did not tell the truth about that. I think he said he was soft on crime. Maybe soft on the kinds of crimes that the president , you know, whatever the president seems to have a thing about race an issue with it. So this candidate is strong, youre right, kasie. Still ahead on morning joe. As many of you know, i have been very active inover turning a number of executive actions by my predecessor. 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So mika has watched she has such a blind spot. Yes. Shes watched every modern family ever. Ever. Shes watched every office, ever and shes one of these people and im not for some reason. I think i was working during those years every single seinfeld. When i was in labor, i watched seinfeld like binged it. Its interesting that you dont know anything else about pop culture. She knows every seinfeld, every line from every seinfeld. And arrested development. Theyre all a little sick and twisted the shows i like. Just something wrong. Wonder why that is . Maybe because i work with coming up on morning joe, how the future is history for russia. A new book explains how russia moved from soviet rule toward democracy and back again. Morning joe is coming right back. Lets get the big guy in place. The ford yearend sales event is here. I can guide you in . No, thanks , santa, i got this. Looks a little tight. Perfect fit. Santa needs an f150. Thats ford, americas best selling brand. 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But here we are nine years later and this president and the Republican Congress are making a bad situation even worse. They wont tell you that their so called tax reform plan is really for the wealthy and big corporations, while hurting the middle class. It blows up the deficit and that means fewer investments in education, health care and job creation. Its up to all of us to stand up to this president. Not just for impeachable offenses, but also to demand a country where everyone has a real chance to succeed. Join us. Your voice matters. The message to any one listening is clear. In effect, russia accepts the use of chemical weapons in syria. How then can we trust russias supposed support for peace in syria . How can anyone take russias proposal of politic talks seriously . We had a great call with president putin. Were talking about peace in syria, very important. Were talking about north korea. We had a call that lasted almost an hour and a half. We just put out a release on the call, but were talking very strongly about bringing peace to syria. Were talking very strongly about north korea and ukraine. Joining us now staff writer at the new yorker and best selling author ma sha guessen. How totalitarianism reclaimed russia, just received the 2017 National Book award for nonfiction. Very good to have you on the show. Congratulations. Thank you. Also with us former d. O. D. Official, now a senior fellow at the atlantic council, dr. Evelyn farcus. Marcha, how concerned should we be that the future is history . We should be very concerned. What i was trying to figure out when i set out to write this book is how people turn away from democracy. We all assumed and by all, i mean western journalist we all assumed russia would be democratic and it turned out theres not so simple. Theres quite a few lessons in the book how People Choose not to have democracy. Are there lessons in the book for the United States of america . I think there are. I didnt have that in mind when i was writing the book but i think i think people do have reasons to turn away from freedom. So talk about in russia, talk about the transition from what happened on december 25th, 1991 to yeltsons reign and how corrupt it was and the social and political anar can i that seemed to spread across the country . Was a part of his ineffectiveness what led russians, Many Russians to want somebody that was a bit stronger like putin . I actually think his ineffectiveness lay in a different area. The fact that russia didnt look for a new story after 1991, the fact that it didnt look for a post imperial identity. The fact that it didnt reckon with its past, with the legacy of state terror. All of those things basically made people want to go back to a time that was simpler, the imaginary past. Driven by resentment mainly. It seems that Russian Foreign policy, a lot of the people observed for some time its been driven by resentment, by what they no longer were. But its also what they discovered they hadnt been. One of the most traumatizing things that happened to people when they traveled abroad, they realized that even poor European Countries actually lived better than people who considered themselves pretty well off in the soviet union and it was a strong sense that they had been denied something that was theirs. I want to read a part of your prolog and then you can take it to dr. Vrgs argas. I spent my 30s and 40s documenting the death of a russian democracy that had never really come to be. At one point, i was convinced that i would be writing the story of the decline and fall of the putin regime. Soon after i found myself leaving russia for the second time, this time as a middle aged person with children. And like my mother before me, i was explaining to my children consider we could no longer live in our country. The specifics were clear enough the russian citizens had been losing rights and liberties for nearly two decades. The crackdown, the wars and even russias reversion to time on the world stage are things that happened that i witnessed and i wanted to tell this story. But i also wanted to tell about what did not happen. The story of freedom that was not embraced and democracy that was not desired. How do you tell a story like that . Is that true that the people in russia did not want democracy or that it was not presented in a way that they could digest it . I think theres a brilliant book that eric from wrote in 1940s and he talked about the need to escape from freedom and freedom becomes an unbearable burden because it brings with itself so much uncertainty and that goes a long way to explaining what happened in russia. Evelyn, you look at polls, you read in the western press at least that suggest Vladimir Putin is a very popular leader in his country. Seeing what else are they going to say . Ive seen over the past few eekz, i read in Foreign Affairs that stalins popularity is rising once again. Hes now of all former russian leaders, the man that may have been responsible for the 30 million people. Now hes gaining a bit of reser genesee. What does that tell us about where this country is right now . The strong man is putin right now. He has helped to rehabilitate stalin. Hes made it acceptable for people to accept stalin. Victor os troughski, a russian journalist wrote a book about the fact that some people did have hope in the 1990s so i just wanted to add that. Obviously we are all still hoping and rooting for russia but under putin, hes not interested in obviously any democracy except for the veneer of depositimocracy. Are you suggesting he doesnt have Popular Support . Im not doing putins bidding but i think i dont know. I think that when were talking about the kind of support that were talking which is 86 , were no longer talking about the public expressing its opinion. Theres no public or opinion. Were talking about measuring the degree of totalitarianism. Those are totalitarianism numbers. Theres no political conversation, theres no alternative. From what you found, though, are the russians more often than not pleased with putins performance . Actually, if you look thats a great question, if you look at the polls closely, when theyre asked to express their opinion on putin, they say they support him. When they ask about specific aspects of the job theyre not so happy but the thing about the return of totalitarianism, it brings back both of those things, they can think both of those things at the same time. Im getting to a larger point and the question is what do the russian people then want themselves . Thats a question that she would have a better sense of. Right now we have a president who is round little and rightly criticized for being too sympathetic to putin. My question is to go back further than that. Ten reagan and gor ba chof and the role the west was playing in the end of soviet toll tal tearion, what were the failures of the west if there were any, before donald trump, in allowing putinism to come take hold in the period over the course over the last decade or so . My take on it is if i can, was not that we expanded nato and government the russian government nervous about militaryism. We failed to understand that when the soviet union collapsed that this was actually a huge shock to the russian people, that they that they didnt want the russian leaders and people didnt want to become just another european state and thats all we offered them. You can join the European Union and you can join nato and you can be like france and they didnt want to be like france. When they say they didnt feel treated with respect, thats what they mean i think. Whereas, of course secretary albright and say we did treat them with respect, it was that fundamental lack of understanding that they were suffering a loss of empire just like the french, aus treeions and others, the brits, the brits were able to soften the blow to their people because of us because we were the little brother. How devastating was it to the russian psyche and how problematic was it for american and russian relations when barack obama called russia a Regional Power . We were pretty deep into renewed conflict by that point. I dont think it was devastating for the russian psyche. It was insulting. The west doesnt take us seriously had really taken hold in russia. So what could the west have done to take up where evelyn just said about the ways in which we may have misplayed the sense of what russians wanted and their sense of lost empire and to treat them just like another member of europe was not enough . What could of happened . What would have happened in the late 1990s that might have eased the transition . The fact of the of the matter that i dont know that anything could have happened and i wouldnt overestimate the role that the west has played in it. Im not even sure that russia itself court of law done anything differently. The tragedy of the soviet past is so enormous that i dont know if its possible to reckon with it. I know that didnt happen but i dont know if thats possible. Shifting awkwardly to another topic, you wrote in the the new yorker an incredible piece that was entitled when does a water shed become a sex panic and were talking about Sexual Harassment and all the stories in the news that have been coming out. Can you explain what you mean by that, just that question alone . So i think that theres something that happens when we talk about sex, which is that certainly when weve been talking the last few weeks, we started lumping everything together and basically the line between rape and bad sex has begun to blur and when were talking about actual rape, actual abuse of power, actual systematic stuff thats one thing. When were talking about somebody like glenn thrush the the New York Times reporter who was just suspended on allegations of Sexual Misconduct from the one piece that has been published so far, basically appears to amount to several bad dates. That is too far on that spectrum. I guess the counter to that would be and ive been studying that a lot, reading a lot about glenn thrush and im not sure where to put that in this conversation as well, but it involves alcohol, office parties, not blaming anybody involved who shouldnt be blamed, but it is in a different category. How do we categorize . How do we categorize in the world of Harvey Weinstein, charlie rose, mark on our show. Al franken. Louis c. K. . Do we put them in categories . All the men should be gone . All the men. Do we want to hear from them because my concern has been that there are some men that do want to come forward and and admit to their failings, do we want to hear that . I dont know. I dont know, actually, that we want to hear that. What we need to talk about is power and we need to talk about abuse of power and we really need to try to distinguish between situations where the man had the power and abused it and i think the way that i think of the weinstein stories for example, theyre stories of hostage taking thats a different category. They couldnt leave and even even if they went up to get their oscars, they knew they came tainted, they came tainted with the sexual abuse, they came tainted to the silence to which they had acquiesced. I dont think that when were talking about al franken were talking about power. And yet when you talking about a sex panic, you open up websites and theyll have a picture of Harvey Weinstein and glenn thrush and roy moore. Right. And al franken. Thats exactly right. Thats a problem. So everybody as far as the sex panic goes, everybody gets painted with with the same brush. Thats why we call it a sex panic. I think we will need categories because someone like me who made my career because powerful men helped me and i had access to them, i could travel with them when i was a junior and that led me to really important jobs because i got to know those males very well, professionally and personally, and then once i became senior and i was working in congress, some members there, you may know, joe, had either outright bans. They wouldnt travel with women because of how it would appear, nothing was even happening, but and others would just not talk about it but you knew that you couldnt travel with your boss unless there was another person, a male on the trip. If youre really senior you need to be on the trip where your issue is being discussed, lets say its in afghanistan and youre the counterterrorism expert. Right. Theres so many different ways. You have to come back. Thank you very, very much. Congratulations. And you have a lot of admirers on twitter because the second you won this, my entire twitter feed was lit up with congratulations. In a good way. Thank you very much. Weve posted an excerpt from her new book, the future is history, how totalitarianism reclaimed russia on our website, msnbc. Com. The search is under way for three Navy Personnel after a plane crashed near japan this morning. But there are signs of hope. That is next on morning joe. 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The publication is celebrating its 50th anniversary commemorating the occasion with a fantastic book. High brow, low brow, brilliant, despicable, 50 years of new York Magazine. First of all, its huge. And then wait, adam told me a secret, joe. Help me out with this. Help me out. This is so cool. Unwrap it. There you go. You get a gigantic approval matrix of 50 years. But now put the cover back on. Ill work on that while we interview adam. Go ahead. You know, this really has been such an iconic magazine, and you have been legendary editor. What is it what is it about this magazine thats so important to this city and obviously the people who love this city outside of the tristate area . Well, i think it comes down to what clay felker principally founded the magazine on, which is very simple. New york is not a place, it was really an idea as a way of looking at the world. There was a kind of cosmopolitan point of view that was political, social, culinary, it was consumerist, which was he understood something before it was true. He kind of made it true. And then it became an export and became this philosophy of cities everywhere, in the United States and globally. And thats it was just a powerful idea. It gets more and more powerful. Its very powerful in this day and age when the city point of view and the rural point of view are actually at war. So it just was a super compelling idea. That city over 50 years. Yeah. Has changed so much. It has. The landscape. Its been bull dozed over, its been knocked down, its been built back up, its been made in different mirrors images. It was the ungovernable city under john lindh ssay. Then you show up in the 1990s and think maybe i can take my family to broadway. Thats actually the story of the book. So one of the things we learned when we were sort of studying our own history for this 50th anniversary was that the magazine in 1968, the first issue came out, Martin Luther king was assassinated that day. And the magazine itself was founded in the midst of the city was at its lowest moment. It was disintegrating. People were leaving in droves. And the magazine had this strange idea, because it was optimistic. Right. The idea was that it believed in new york at a time when new york the third issue of the magazine was a city on the eve of destruction. And the book itself is meant to tell the story of the rise of the modern city, the rebirth of the modern city. And more than an anthology of the magazines stuff, we try to use that stuff in the service of telling the story of the change youre talking about. Are any of you willing to admit here that new york is just overrated . Says a washington guy. Lets go through some of these covers. A little crowded . A lot of traffic. And sam stein often comes to town. And we do have to say two of the worst airports lets be honest about this. If it werent for the pizza and bagels, what else do we have . We talked about the first issue, april 8th, 1968. Then july 22nd, 1968, a gentiles guide to jewish food. One of my favorite covers. August 17th, 1970, who murdered who in new york. Should be who murders whom, by the way. Very good editors. December 20th, 1971, ms. Magazine. It was launched in the pages of the magazine. Gloria stein em was a contributor. Tribal rights of the new saturday night. Which was the basis of saturday night fever, of course. The interesting thing about this story is that it was made up and nik cohn later admitted he made up the story. The illustrator drew these pictures which actually were the inspiration for the film. In the artwork, new york, if you look at the old New York Herald tribune thats basically yeah, the logo. February 11th, 1985, a different kind of donald trump story. Tell us about that. Well, this is an amazing story because this was a story by Tony Schwartz that was actually eviscerating, scathing about trump. Trump loved it. And then as a consequence of this story, he hired him as his ghost writer or his cowriter. Ghost writer, for art of the deal so in some ways this article created donald trump. January 9th, 1992, bill clinton, who is this guy . One year published on january 20th, one year before he became president. This was the first time he was on a cover of any magazine outside of arkansas. And joe klein, who was the magazines Political Correspondent at the time, picked him out and said this guy is going to be president. And he was right. From bill clinton to eliot spitzer, march 24th, 2008. My favorite cover of our little time there. Barbara kruger, we gave her the picture. She put the brain on. There you go. Basically he resigned on a tuesday, closed the magazine on a thursday. I dont get that. Can you explain a little bit . I can tell you, white space is very powerful. Less is more. Lets get a couple more in. April 2nd, 2012, lena dunham, very cool. November 4th, 2012, hurricane sandy. The city and the storm. Wow. So weve called you a legend, said youre the most incredible person ever, and weve said that for a very long time. I get that every day. Sam gets it every day. So lets end with a negative. Is there a story that you missed that you wish you would have gotten . Is there a story there always is. Put out there that you look back at and wince . Because all we have to do is go back 24 hours from right now. Oh, my god, did we do that on tv . Well, i will say i actually have a ready answer to this question because we spent after we had done the bill cosby cover, after we had all of the wonderful gabe sherman coverage of roger ailes, we tried for many, many months to do the Harvey Weinstein story. I knew you were going to say that. You know, we knew the story, we just didnt have the documentation on the record, testimony that would enable us to publish it. And so the New York Times did, the new yorker did, they did great jobs. But thats the one that got away. But theres so many more appreciate your honesty. There were so many more that they caught. Well turn this into something positive. You need to get this. Great christmas gift. Just remember, this is such an extraordinary magazine and such an extraordinary editor that they even survived john heilemann. Im serious. I dont know how you do it honestly. What is it about you . Okay. 50 years of new York Magazine is out now. Adam moss, thank you very much. And that does it for us this morning. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage. Hi there, im stephanie ruhle. This morning breaking his silence. The president weighs in on the Alabama Senate race, all but endorsing, all right, endorsing roy moore. He totally denies it. He says it didnt happen, and, you know, you have to listen to him also. Wow. Meanwhile across the aisle, trouble for the democrats. The longest serving member of the house, michigan congresswoman john conyers admits to using, are you ready for this, taxpayer money for a Sexual Harassment settlement. Now the Detroit Free Press calls for his resignation. Plus more fallout for a tv legend. Charlie rose fired from cbs as one of his accusers speaks out. I feel like whats his intention . Does he want me to feel ashamed . And uber under fire. 57 million customers