Stories. An attack on my character reputation and a desperate attempt to stop my political campaign. These attacks involve a minor child, completely false and untrue. And for which they will be sued. Moores defiance right now in contrast to some National Republicans saying that they do believe it is time for roy moore to drop out. Cnns kyung lah in the hometown of alabama. Whats the situation . Lets contrast what were hearing on the ground from what were hearing from National Republicans. Some republicans over the weekend went a step further beyond the if true phrase saying if true he should step aside to a couple saying look these are serious allegations and he should step aside. The white house saying these accusations, that they need to be looked at but saying that they dont want him convicted in the press. Now locally, we are hearing a bit of a mixed bag. It is not a uniform voice. Heres what voters here are telling us. Roy moore is my friend. Im a democrat. Im not going to vote for him because im a democrat, but ive known him a long, long time. The thing that bothers me about those charges is that hes been in public life, run for many offices and as many times as this happened no one has ever said anything until now. Well, i never was a Roy Moore Supporter to begin with, but i see no reason why several women would come out and Start Talking about this stuff, you know, if it wasnt true. Im waiting for more information to come out. But again, right now, i feel that theres where theres smoke theres fire. I really hate that all of this negative attention is on my home state and especially on my city gadsston, alabama. Now the big question is going to be, what are all these voters going to do on december 12th. What is going to be the impact on that election. I have spoken to a republican woman who says that she did vote for moore in the primary, but since the Washington Post report, shes decided not to vote for moore in the election. But, i also spoke to another republican woman who said this is simply energized her even more to support moore. John, still right now, we simply cant predict it but it certainly is not a uniform voice coming out of this state. A range of responses. Look, people still digesting the news which is relatively recent. Key yang law in alabama. Joining us bill brit editor in chief of the alabama political reporter always a pleasure to speak to you to get a sense of the situation on the ground in alabama. Do you think that roy moore is feeling any pressure this morning to get out . John, thanks for having me on. I am actually in the county this morning at our family home, its a farm up here in the county not far from roy moore. The sense weve gotten over the weekend is that, much like the report that we just heard, there are folks that are just diehard, theyre going to stay republicans and back roy moore, there are others who are saying im staying home. Were not seeing anyone, at least here in the county, saying that theyre going to switch to doug jones from a republican. But were hearing they just will not vote. What about the pressure that is now being or the signals now being sent by some National Republicans, senator tim scott, senator pat toomey, bill cassidy, those who have supported roy moore or stayed out of the race who now think he should drop out . Any impact . Well, it does. It does to a degree, but in alabama, i say were kind of the make me state, just like a missouri is the show me, were the make me state. We want people we have to be made to do certain things. Its very contrary to the nature of alabamians for someone from d. C. Or anywhere to come down here and tell us what we can do. Now that may be good and that may be bad, but it is the nature of what we see here, even on the ground. People dont want to be told how to vote. So thats kind of where we are. Its a stubborn crew down here. There is one person who has not weighed in definitively yet on what roy moore should do and thats President Trump. He, obviously, is very popular in alabama. Do you think if he came out wednesday, for instance, when he gets back from the asia trip and says i think roy moore should drop out, do you think that would have an impact . Well, it didnt have much of an impact when he said he supported luther strange. Of course its going to have an impact on certain republicans and certain folks. Donald trump is hugely popular here. But so is roy moore. And what weve seen is a hardening, on both sides, folks that have always been against roy moore or have more reason to be against him and those who are for him calling this a washington conspiracy. We are on the ground with our reporters trying to illuminate the story even better. Bill brit for us, keep us posted to what you hear, thanks so much. Joining me now joining me now cnn political commentators angela and ben and selena. You have an interesting story, you were already seeing the impact of the roy moore case in alabama in other raise around the country. Republicans are feeling pressure here. Yeah, absolutely. Theres a special house election to replace former congressman tim murphy who left under his own cloud of scandal for encouraging the woman he was having an affair with to have an abortion. So he left, but he left immediately, as soon as the scandal came out, he went to paul ryan, paul ryan said time to go, and hes gone. But so now theres a special election. The republicans and the democrats have to pick their nominees through a process within the party. The republicans picked first. They picked rick sacone and within two minutes of him being picked on saturday, an email went out from one of the other seven democratic rival, they pick next week, saying he was just like roy moore. He was pennsylvanias version of roy moore. And so boom, right there, the republicans, you know, sort of see in the first election after this scandal came out, that democrats have no problem using this as a tool to sort of bludgeon any republican candidates that come out afterward. En and many republicans, including your own senator pat toomey has come out and said roy moore should step down, he believes the woman more than he believes roy moore. Angela, one area which one place they havent come out with a definitive response is the white house. The white house put out a statement early on saying if the allegations are true, moore should step down, but this weekend, Kellyane Conway and mark shore went on tv and said we need to hear more from roy moore. Thats as far as were going to go. Is that far enough . Of course its not. Whats mostly interesting on folks on the other side of the aisle is the way in which we will politicize these issues when it comes to democrats, right. Theres a no tolerance policy when it comes to democrats, look no further than harry weinstein, but harvey weinstein, but there should be a line we draw in the sand on a sexual assault, molestation, on sexual predators. That should not be a partisan issue. This is something we should come together and say there is no place for a sexual predator in the United States senate and that message should come from the commander in chief. I think the challenge he has is hes been accused of the similar behaviors, not with underage girls but other women. Does it open up that can of worms for him and is that why theyre keeping their hands hands off. Ben ferguson, how do you see it . Does the white house need to say more than it already has . Not at this point, no. I think what you see here is theres a lot of people in alabama, those that dont like roy moore have come out and said, i talked to one of them last night, a democrat, on my radio show in birmingham that said i dont like roy moore, i cant stand his politics, but this is a guy thats been investigated by the attorney general of the state. This is a guy thats been investigated by three different branches of the State Government and never did any of this information ever come out. Hes been unseated from the state Supreme Court and they did an investigation and didnt find it. People in birmingham and alabama, i think they say, lets continue to look into this, but lets also not just immediately, because someone makes an accusation, assume that automatically he is guilty. I think the white house saying if its true, or if this comes to light that it is true or factual or accurate, you know, then yes, well have him step down. I think thats a more appropriate response at this point. I think look, roy moore is in a situation where you got to ask yourself this, do you care more about what you claim you believe in or do you care more about you as a person . If im advising him i would tell him to step aside because the issues you claim you care about are bigger than the person. I dont think hes going to do that. I think hes going to go down swinging. Interesting. You say two things, you think roy moore should get out but at the same time you think its too early to ps pass judgment. Angela, with one of the issues,s they goes beyond politics, to allegations of sexual abuse, is sometimes we dont get more than this. This is actually a lot. You have four on the record accusations from one woman who says she was 14 who said roy moore did this. Roy moore says no. This may be all we ever here. Unless there are more accusers and i dont understand what that number is, right. Is three enough . Is four enough . 60 . At what point do you begin to believe these stories sound similar. If there are people from alabama who say that this is wellknown information about roy moore, right, which is which has been said, i dont know what else you really need. Again, i go back to the point that republicans, when its on the democratic side, this is all they normally have, john. Look, selena, my hope on this thing it wouldnt be a partisan issue, this is an issue of someone, a woman who says she was molested when she was 14 on the record, she makes this claim, you know, i think that a womans words have to be taken into account if we want to move forward in this society. But, is this one of those cases where so many times over the last 18 months weve seen that a lot of people are saying that oh, my god, this is the biggest thing ever, but there are other folks who think its all overblown, a media creation . Well, i mean what this this woman said about what happened to her when she was 14, and even the subsequent women who said it happened within the range that is legal, but still is kind of culturally creepy, you know, i think we need to take those things as valid concerns about the character of the person thats running for office and i think the best thing that could happen in terms for republicans is even if they lose this seat, or even if they refuse to seat him, they took the higher moral ground and they and if youre just talking pure politics, they lose less seats down the road than just losing one seat in the u. S. Senate. Ben ferguson, i want to ask you go ahead, ben. No. I think theres one thing here very clear and that is, the fact that people in alabama, they feel like they know roy moore better than people outside of the state. I mean this is a guy that has lost his job multiple times because he went against what the law said. Right. I never thought that he should have been running in the first place, but the people of alabama feel like they know him and they also feel like hes been investigated by his enemies. Hes been investigated by his enemies and this never came up. I know what youre saying, 100 . When youre dealing with sexual abuse, though, and allegations of Sexual Harassment or molestation, we have histories here which tell us that often women dont come forward. Its not the kind of thing necessarily that comes up in investigations. Necessarily. Maybe it would, maybe it wont, but this is a different case. This isnt, you know, tax returns from 25 years ago. We have seen patterns like this, bill cosby, people come out decades later. Yep. It just happens. Thats the way sometimes you see it in these cases. Go ahead. And i was just going to say, i think one of the things that we kind of have to acknowledge is there are some things that are about antiquated values, right. We know more than 30 of alabamians are evangelicals and coming out of that tradition, i understand that some of the kind little house on the prairie values dont materialize or cross over as well in 2017. There are some things about the way that people are conditioned to think that have to change. To that point, that is why women are get the courage that they now have to come forward. That is why youre seeing that from california to alabama. All right. Angela, selena, ben, thank you for being part of this discussion. Its an important one. Mixed messages, President Trump under pressure to talk about human rights with the president of the philippines, but did he . Plus, a shocking report says that two navy s. E. A. L. S. Are accused of killing a green beret after he discovered they were stealing. Were on that. And more than half of puerto rico still without power, but the Top Commander leading u. S. Response there is planning to leave this week. 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Duterte has been waging a very bloody war against drugs here in the philippines, one that has raised concern about among human rights watchers, saying thousands are being killed without going through the judicial process. These two did not take questions when reporters tried to ask them questions about human rights and the drug war. Duterte referred to reporters as spies. That a drew a laugh from President Trump. There were, of course, some lighter notes in this summit, though, one of them was this socalled family photo, this is when all of the leaders get together, pose for a picture. John, youre used to seeing this, of course, at the asean summit. President trump appeared to struggle a little bit with this crossbody handshake. I think we have some video of him trying to get around to it. He makes it there, eventually. This is a president who has somehow managed to make news repeatedly about the way he shakes hands on the world stage into thats a very awkward position to be in. 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