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Home town, rival tabloids with similar headlines after the president urged alabama voters not to choose roy moores liberal opponent. for more on this, jessica tarlov, a democratic strategist. jason johnson is a republican strategist and former chief strategist for the ted cruz campaign. glad to have you here today. i never thought this issue would become partisan, but in a way it seems like we know the credibility of the accusers is less important than the political identity of the aqued. jason,...

The president saying he denied everything. roy moore in the interview in alabama, interesting comments he had about mcconnell and the others that he thinks are out to get him. >> whatever that is, the fiction, the idea put forward by some republicans. if roy moore comes here, we will discharge him from the body. yeah, right. >> shannon: you dont think they will do it? >> with donald trump backing him? i wonder if trump doesnt have a few feelings he experienced something like what roy moore is ex...

>> melissa: the idea is that the democrat in this race is for a partial birth abortion and for a lot of people that is absolutely morally reprehensible and they would feel like well, i dont know. there is huge moral problems on both sides here, that might be one thought. >> i think to draw an equivalence between a political position and someone who wants to rate eighth graders is absolutely disgusting. from people who are saying that. i think it is absolutely disgusting. >> i have made very clea...

The idea that theyre willing to accept anything not the status quo. every single republican and democratic lawmaker is going to be asked if theyre comfortable having that man brokering des with him and working with him on legislation. >> moores lawyers made the argument its a conspiracy between the gop establishment and the accusers. somehow they got around a table and decided to take him down. i want to talk about something else. the president before he went out golfing tweeted renewing his fig...

What is happening to moore as similar to what happened to him one year ago. so in the presidents mind, if you follow this reporting, he learned a lesson one year ago and hes repeating it now. whats the lesson? >> you know, this president has a long history actually of backing men who are accused of sexual misconduct. roger ailes, for example. is someone that the president defended. there are several other examples. so i guess its disappointing. hes choosing not to believe these women. its kind o...

Be believed if they deserve to be believe said, and they do deserve to be listened to, if it happens this way. outside the context, we have to care not just when hollywoods imploding and not just when charlie rose is getting fired from cbs. it has to be all the time. >> then every time it happens you have to respect it, and you have to give it the dignity of hearing them out, and not attacking them and telling a different back story of who they are, and assailing the timing and ignoring the fact...

Of assault. but tuesday on his way to the thanksgiving holiday the president seemed much more concerned of the idea of another democrat in the closely divided senate. >> we dont need a liberal person in there, a democrat. jones, ive looked at his record. its terrible on crime. its terrible on the border. its terrible on the military. i can tell you for a fact, we do not need somebody whos going to be bad on crime, bad on borders, bad on the military, bad for the 2nd amendment. >> as for why the ...

>> before this ethics investigation is eastern started whashgsz do you make of congressman james clyburn saying he has reason to doubt the accusers. he doesnt think that basically coming to conyers defense saying hes not sure the claims have real substance? >> i dont think its appropriate. i think, you know, leader pelosi said we want an ethics investigation so we can make that determination. im not going to prejudge that, but i think -- >> with an investigation, there are -- youre not going to ...

The alabama case and the situation, his own "access hollywood" video, and he privately doubted moores accusers. what do you make of that? >> well, that sounds about right for this president. and its also what people in his inner circle are thinking when it comes to parallels with the on-rush of sexual assault and harassment allegations that came out against him during october of the 2016 election. there was this moment where so much of the republican party was denouncing or distancing from donal...

Many people wont want to say yes, to that. im not saying a poll is a good poll, we question it when you have all those allegations before you ask the question, "will you vote for roy moore." i think doug jones is seeing what were seeing is that the race is close but hee not got it in the bag? >> why do you think he decided to now directly address the accusations against roy moore? >> because like all good politicians he did you know care about the polls until their not favoring him. the smart st...