Werent all excited about voting for roy moore once this came out, even a weak endorsement from trump might get those people excited. Alabama is very much trump country. Reporter no one here seems to think that trumps backing is any game changer, not in a state where voters take pride in putting a thumb in the eye of the establishment, even the republican establishment. Even if all of these allegations were proven definitively to be positive, i would still vote for him over doug jones. What were getting nationally is, oh, alabamans would vote for a pedophile over a liberal democrat. In this circumstance, yes. Reporter now lets get to the bad news coming out of the Roy Moore Campaign and that is the Communications Director, thats john rodgers, suddenly called it quits. The campaign is trying to downplay this, saying this was a decision they reached last friday. However, they also say its because of the intense Media Scrutiny that they felt they needed a more experienced hand
in the communications job. But to change a Communications Director this close to election raises a lot of eyebrows, poppy. It does indeed. Marty savage, we appreciate the reporting. Thank you. App ry april ryan, tom bates, and Kiersten Powers joins us. Tom, let me begin with you given your position there in alabama. What do you think after seeing martys piece and from all the folks you talk to. Do voters care what trump thinks about moore, or do those other republicans who spoke out against moore carry more weight . I think marty did a good job of capturing where we are now. Trumps statement yesterday i think will give some voters cover to vote for roy moore, but right now both candidates are fiercely focused on a small segment of republicans who
believe the allegations and are really struggling between Party Loyalty and moral values. If it goes party lines, of course more wins. If it goes values he may not necessarily win. I dont think his platform really reflects what the majority of folks in alabama think at this point. Kiersten, we learned in the president ial election in 2016 voters are not always honest when it comes to what they tell polsters. We saw the trump effect right after that access Hollywood Tape dropped in october. Voters didnt want to admit they were going to vote for the president but went on to do so. The latest poll we have out of alabama shows the democrat, doug jones, is up by 8 points. The Moore Campaign says dont believe that for a second. Heres the chief campaign strategist, dean young. Fox news puts out their fake polls and everybody else can. The people of Alabama Dont Go for what yall are trying to sell. Okay, thats his take. Now that the president has
weighed in with such staunch support of roy moore, does that give other republicans cover to say how they really feel . First, its a little hard to believe an 8point lead by a democrat. Is that what you said . You said the democrat is up 8 . Yeah. Thats very hard to believe, even in these circumstances. Roy moore already wasnt a particularly strong candidate prior to this happening. I think he was up about 6 points prior to this in a state that trump won by almost 30 points. But at a minimum, the polls seem to be neck and neck. The other thing is that they have definitely eroded his support has eroded since the news broke. So its being factored in. Does trump make a difference . It certainly doesnt hurt him. I think it probably helps him but we need to remember the primary where Republican Voters chose to ignore what trump had to say and went with roy moore in the first place. I think that it helps him
by him on capitol hill and also at the rnc, and the rnc has broken ranks by not giving funding and support to roy moore. People on the hill, you have senate and House Leaders who have said, look, theres credible evidence about this. You even have Senate LeaderMitch Mcconnell talking about, look, were going to find a way to get him out if he wins. And i listened to the former head of the rnc, michael steele, saying this is not about the Republican Party and its not about the women. What does this boil down to, and were going to wait to find out to see if the president next week hes going to give us word next week if hes going to campaign for roy moore. This is beyond politics. This is beyond politics. Tom, im old enough to remember when the president wanted Luther Strange to win this race, right . That was like a few weeks ago. Him out campaigning with roy moore knowing what he know now would be quite an optics issue potentially for this president. When it comes down to it, back
moore theres a special place in hell for people who prey on children. Weve seen before where she defers from her father on issues and it doesnt seem to move him much, especially on this kind of issues. Hes dig into making his own political decisions. Roy moore, he regretted immediately that he hadnt endorsed roy moore. Roy moore was always his kind of person than Luther Strange and he went along with the establishment and he regretted it. Thank you all very much. Have a great thanksgiving. I appreciate it. Outfront, next, President Trump goes oneonone with the father of a ucla basketball player. Does the president s later twitter attack hit a new low . And Breaking News of abusive behavior against congressman john conyers. A woman who worked for him on the hill said she was called
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those old grievances and drive the conversation. But it was a bit odd for him to be tweeting like this when there was a National Security event happening. Its not every morning that theres a plane crash that happens in okinawa in the Pacific Ocean while the president is waking up. So that was a bit odd. But he was briefed on it around 8 00 or so this morning we were told and then he tweeted about that shortly afterward. What im struck by here is the president wants to be in the conversation. Other president s, president bush i covered, barack obama i covered, they enjoyed being on vacation. The white house went to Great Lengths today to say the president was not on vacation. He did spend five hours at his golf course here which is fine. No one would ever blame a president for doing that. But the white house would not even say he was playing golf. All he know he did today was sent out a lot of tweets. Jeff zeleny, thank you very much. Ben ferguson, host of the Ben Ferguson Show and former white house aid under the clinton administration, keith boykin. Nice to have you both here. Ben, why . Why tweet about this again, 5 25 in the morning. Im walking into work and this is what im reading and its not until 8 00 a. M. That he tweets about the Navy Plane Crash with these americans on it. I dont understand. Help me. One, he wasnt briefed at 5 00 a. M. About the navy. As you just heard jeff say he reads the news. We all do. He was briefed at 8 00 in the morning. I think its appropriate for the president to wait until hes briefed to find out what happened with this plane crash. The other thing is I Dont Know Why people are so surprised. This is what donald trump is going to do with his twitter. Whether you like it or not, hes going to be blunt. Hes going to fight back. Theyve said that from the white house. I dont know why anyone is surprised that the president decides to tweet about things like this. Is it my style . No. I wouldnt do it this way. Clearly the president believes that this is what he should be doing. He did it through the entire campaign. But i think to imply that somehow he tweeted about this
before the plane crash that somehow he Wasnt Prioritizing when he was briefed at 8 00 and tweeted about that plane crash at 8 30, thats a little bit unfair. The president s tweet, too bad, lavar is just a poor mans version of don king without the hair. There have been many who asked with this debate specifically, is there race at play . How do you see it . Yes, there is race at play. Its clearly a part of a pattern the president has been engaged for quite some time when he started in his campaign attacking mexicans, attacking musli muslims. He started his political white house if you will with this whole sort of attack on barack obama for five and a half years, questioning his birth certificate, not the white house but his involvement in politics i should say. This is part of what hes doing right now with the haitians. Hes going after the haitians,
after lavar ball, marshawn lynch, fredricka wilson. Hes repeatedly attacking prominent africanamerican figures in order to distract attention from the other things he should be working on. Hes not focused on as you mentioned before, he woke up at 5 30 in the morning, he wasnt talking about the u. S. Navy aircraft in the pacific. He wasnt talking about sergeant la David Johnsons remains which were discovered. He wasnt talking about sergeant la David Johnsons remains. He was not talking about the 50 of Puerto Ricans who dont have electricity. Hes not talking about north korea and nuclear missiles. Hes not talking about the fact that he just endorsed a Child Molester essentially for the United States senate. What he wants to talk about is racially divisive issues and thats troubling from the president of the United States. Lets just say i accept the premise for a moment that this is racially motivated. If the president s tweet was somehow racially motivated, then
explain to me, keith, why the president would use Political Capital while meeting on very serious issues with the president of china to then have influence on that leader to get three africanamerican Basketball Players out of prison from probably what would have been five to ten years . You cant say that the guy is being racist at one moment when he actually was sitting down with a president of a foreign country and getting three africanamerican Basketball Players if youre claiming its about race, out of a country and keeping them out of jail. Thats not racism, sir, as much as you want it to be about race. Fair point, keith . Yes, it is a fair point. I was one of the first people to congratulate or compliment the president when he announced that the three Basketball Players were coming home and he had done something to help them. Im not completely sure that he did for the same reason dont say its racism. Let me finish. Im not sure that he actually did contribute to this at all but he says he did and the same way he says he had the largest
inauguration in history which we know isnt true. Hes always claiming credit for things. No one has discounted the president the president was clear wait, wait, no. Keith, keith, you cant make up facts here. I do know im not making up facts. I dont know why you are. I do know that the president has a history of racism. I do know hes willing to believe Vladimir Putin the race card gets old. Hes willing to believe guys, were tight on time. Ben, final response to that. The race card gets old when you play it all the time while the president and its been confirmed did get involved, did talk to the president of that country. The fact is he helped three africanamerican Basketball Players keep out of prison for what would have been five to ten years. If thats what racism looks like, you can call me or anybody else a racist every day of the
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