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Breaking news tonight. the republican national committee getting back into the alabama senate race saying it will transfer money to the state republican party. this move follows president trumps full endorsement today of gop candidate roy moore. tweeting that he wants moore to win in alabama because he needs his vote on legislation involving crime, illegal immigration, the border wall, the 2nd amendment, and other issues. telling you, you just cant keep up. lets bring in now cnn political commen...

They will make the decision a week from tuesday. >> you are prepared to take action if he is indeed elected. >> they will have to consider the matters that have been litigated in the campaign should that particular candidate win. >> im focused on congress. roy moore is trying to come to congress. my job as speaker of the house is to make sure thats an institution we are proud of. the allegations are very, very fair. >> joining us to talk about it. our commentators and john thomas. good to see...

Every time they come out, the president says these are fake news. this vindicates a lot of that. its fair for experts and commentators in the media to be analyzing the guilty plea and what it means for the administration. mollie: that was an illegal leak about mike flynn. he was doing something completely legal. >> he lied to the fbi. lying to the fbi was not legal. mollie: this is a big part of the story, whether the intelligence apparatus were doing thing properly or not. >> i think some trump...

>> yeah. david gergen, carl, dana, thank you very much. coming up, a lot more to cover on this. reaction from two of our senior political commentators weigh in on what michael flynns guilty plea signals and what could be coming next. remember how the economic crash was supposed to be a wake up call for our government? people all across the country lost their savings, their pensions and their jobs. im tom steyer and it turned out that the system that had benefited people like me who are well of...

As we mentioned tonight, as you might remember, former fbi director james comey who was heading up the russia investigation was fired in part because, according to the president himself, "this russia thing." he posted on instagram and captioning the photo with a piece of the old testaments book amos, let justice roll down like the waters and righteousless like an ever flowing stream. joining me now, two of our cnn political commentators, ed martin and van jones. so van, the republicans have repe...

Pelosi. the former executive director of the congressional black caucus. all three are cnn commentators. knowing the -- congressman conyers was hospitalized today amid alligations of sexual harassment. >> i do think he will in fact resign and i hate the way this process has played out for someone who has dedicated his life not only to service but to justice. it is not only serving as the dean of the house of represents, the dean of the cdc and one of the founders of the congressional black caucu...

Now? third quarter economic growth came in 3.3%. thats pretty good. the argument against these corporate tax cuts is why dont we wait until we really need a boost to economic growth, hold it in our back pocket and then cut taxes when its really needed potentially in a down turn. >> christina, thank you very much. joining us now, two cnn political comment airports. commentators. steve israel, i saw a sour face come across your visage. >> first off, trillions of dollars over seas. everybody knows ...

And that is that the mueller team takes very, very seriously the idea of lying and of obstruction, and i think we also know that the mueller team still has a long way to go, as i think some of the commentators are have opining about on the show before i came on. there are a lot of other witnesses to talk to. there are a lot of other shoes to drop. theyre in some ways just sort of getting started. and, you know, most sort of tellingly, there is a lot of lying going on and they have to get to the ...

Commentators, some of the things they say back to women like me, what its questioning my qualifications or questioning my substance or cutting me off, it happens quite often. and i think frankly the culture needs to take a real shift in board rooms and meetings and regular conversations, and we have to get used to not talking over people, just because they may look different or because theyre women. >> in contrast, heres how matt lauer treated donald trump when he talked about his support for ge...

Probably feeling that the analysis is missing the point, whatever, its not turning on the notion that this is a very sick man. >> well, i think thats true its not what they are saying isnt so. many observers say he is ill. not just the commentators, but the congress needs to understand all those people supporting donald trump are kidding themselves if they think this is not an extremely incapable disordered sick individual, theyre kidding themselves. no one seems to want to accept that. its some...