native and one of my favorites, charles barkley, used to play for the sixers, here he is.soñ i am begging and urging everybody to get out, call all your friends. we got to at some point, we got to stop looking like idiots to the nation. love barkley. early this morning the president weighed in and reminded his supporters where he stood tweeting, the people of alabama will do the right thing, jones the pelosi schumer puppet, roy moore will always vote with us, vote roy moore. for the latest, joe archibald, columnist for the alabama media group. and the host of the most?yk listened to radio news program in alabama. john, thank you.hp÷ay first, what do you smell tonight? that s my favorite question politically, what do you smell? you know what i mean. i smell a tight one. i don t know what s going to happen. it s getting intense out there. the exit polling is really interesting.
united states. and this investigation, for which there is a special counsel, russian collusion, that s about the integrity of american democracy. it s more consequential than watergate. for them to play politics about this and say, oh, we need another special counsel, that s unconscionable. that s what they do. they did it before during the iraq war cover-up. they went after a u.s. ambassador that reported back from africa because he wife work the for the wcia, theyout out heard toçscñ show something tha don t prove anything except that they were scurrilous. alabama, the polls close in 20 minutes. will republicans break with theirasz&x candidate roy moore not? it looks really close based upon all the numbers we ve looked at. will democrats see heavy turnout at the polls, especially african-american and women voters? more from our exit polling coming up next. what s inside the box. it s what s inside the person who opens it.
have been saying for months now, your numbers with republicans across the board are tracking down in a bad way. and you do need to pay attention to this. that is still a long way off. a lot could happen. if there are third-party candidates in a number of states, that will likely help donald trump. but this is an electorate that is clearly restless and is going to be hard to keep with the president. also, look, we are seeing there is just a limited to this personality of the president. the republicans have won in special elections over the last year more than they have lost. and they re feeling very good about that. this is a dangerous harbinger. let s talk about the allegations and what role they play. exit polling suggests that 52% of the people who voted felt that the allegations were definitely true or probably true. 42% probably false, definitely false. this is interesting, michael. women with children who are
thank you. for more, josh moon, columnist with the alabama political reporter, jon meacham, author, editor and msnbc contributor and eugene scott, political reporter for the washington post. coming to us from birmingham, alabama, on this wednesday. josh, let me start with you. let me show what may be the biggest number out of last night s exit polling. in is the president s approval rating. this is back on election day 2016. president trump won 62% of the vote. 62% with almost a 28-point advantage. last night voters gave trump a 48% approval rating, dead even with his disapproval. what message should national republicans take from that number? i think you should take that even in a very, very red state, you are losing voters over some of the policies that you have implemented here and some of the scandals that have taken place. and by marginalizing a lot of
best political reporters in the great state of alabama. one of the numbers that jumped out from the exit polling tonight is the approval rating of a guy whose not on the ballot. last fall, president trump won alabama by 28 points. but tonight, with alabama voters, the president is under water. approval 47%, disapproval 48%. maybe that means alabama has soarsow sower soured on the guy or maybe that means a different group came today as opposed to the 2016 electret. joining us today at doug jones headquarters columnist. john, nice to see you. thanks forthanks for having me,. washington post broke the news of four women that said they were pursued actually by roy moore and teenagers as young as 14. i talked with you here on this