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Charges, what theyre most vulnerable on, try to change the subject and get back to the real issues. in alabama this wouldnt be a competitive contest without these allegations. now its a tight race. >> for constituents is there a difference are democrats and republicans with these issues? >> i dont think thats the case. we have both democrats and republicans accused of at the vesvery least. they say some of these allegations are four decades old with roy moore. al franken isnt up for another four...

Things up about him. theres been tremendous demonizing of the press. hes threatened to change the libel laws. hes gone after individual reporters. every president hates their press coverage but no president has taken the conflict between the media and the president to this level. >> howard? >> well, networks dont like this. >> they did talk about it. >> constant attacks on fake news. donald trump has in fact, you know, driven our negative sky high. at the same time, my fear here is that too many...

Remind everybody that theres going to be nfl games three throughout the day which means there could be a good chance we could see the president tweet, tweeting about the national anthem and players kneeling. theres a lot of criticism from civil rights leaders and people who study this who say weve seen a pattern of the president going after african-american players, commentators, in one case a father, but staying quiet when it comes to prominent people on the other side, including white coaches....

The president called lavar ball, quote, an ungrateful fool and the poor mans version of don king without hair all over twitter who could have spent, quote, the next five to ten years during thanksgiving with your son in china but no nba contract to support you. so adding to that today, the ghost writer to the presidents best-seller "art of the deal" is saying this about why the president crossed the line to cut down lavar ball. >> i think trump is half aud and half frightened by black people and...

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I have never known them. i have never met them, to my knowledge. i later found out beverly nelson had a case in front of my court in 1999. but i dont know -- never spoken to them. certainly, i didnt do anything to them. >> reporter: moore has been denying all allegations of sexual impropriety in interviews with sympathetic political commentators. he did not attend a public candidate forum in huntsville which his opponent used to mock him. >> who do you want to represent you in the united states ...

Commentators who are more sympathetic to his cause. take a listen. >> i never dated underage women and i never engaged in sexual misconduct with anybody. i mean, you have to understand i was deputy district attorney and then a circuit judge. i go by the law. >> moore says his campaign is still in the process of gathering evidence to debunk claims against him of sexual impro pry tee. >> eric: lets talk to guy benson. welcome, guy. you know what the critics are saying and the democrats are saying....

The 10 commandments. listen. >> twice the people of alabama elected roy moore to the states highest judicial office, and twice, twice, he violated his oath. he violated the rule of law, and he was removed from office. >> roy moore was invited to that town hall but did not attend. instead hes been granting interviews to sympathetic commentators. hes been using these friendly forums to dispute allegations of inappropriate behavior with teenage women including a "new yorker" report suggest heg had ...

Predawn twitter rant, stepping up his feud with the father of a ucla basketball player and the nfl as well. were back with democratic congresswoman debbie dingell of michigan. i want to reference back to one of these predawn tweets this morning targeting lavar ball, the father of one of the three ucla basketball players. the essence of it, one, the president claiming victory here. it was me in all caps there that got him out. and calling lavar ball a poor mans version of don king and then later ...

Then i would have said thank you, mr. trump, for taking my boys out of china and bringing them back to the u.s. theres a lot of room on that plane. did he help the boys get out? i dont know. >> why do you doubt it? >> if i was going to thank somebody i would probably thank president xi. >> all right. that was one part of it. >> of 20 minutes. >> it went on and on and on. didnt get more cogent. joining us political commentators paul and alice and washington bureau chief for the "chicago sun-times...