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FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting November 9, 2017

Post, judge roy moore facing Sexual Assault allegations from three women when they were teens. Now the Alabama Senate candidate is facing growing opposition and responding as our republican leaders. Were waiting to hear from the head of the air force against the gunman in the texas church massacre. The military admitting they didnt tell the feds against the killers conviction for attacking his wife and breaking her babys skull. That could have kept him from buying guns that murdered 25. Well have the briefing live. President trump in beijing giving great credit to china. The country he once accused of raping the United States. The president now says he blames americans, not the chinese. And theres word airport screeners failed to find more than 70 of guns, knives and explosives in an undercover operation. The weapons were fake, luckily. So what are they doing to try to catch the real ones . News is breaking news. Lets get to it. Wow what a day. We begin with a bomb shell report involving a republican nominee for Alabama Senates seat. Accusations today that roy moore initiated a sexual encounter with a then 14yearold girl and relationships with three other teenagers. Now the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says if the allegations with true, roy moore should take himself out of the race for the senate. According to the reporting of the Washington Post newspaper in the last hour, this all happened while roy moore was in his 30s. The incident with the 14yearold in 1979. The woman tells the Washington Post that moore struck out a conversation, offered to watch the girl while her mom went in for a custody hearing. When they were alone, she reports that moore asked her for her phone number. Days later, she said he picked her up near her house and drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods, told her how pretty she was and kissed her. Then on a second visit, she says he took off her shirt and pants and removed his own clothing. The report goes on, he touched her over her bra and her underpants, she says and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear. The report says i wanted it over with, she thought. Please get it over with it. Just get it over, she said. The woman said she asked roy moore to take her home and he did. The post also reports three other women have now come forward in recent weeks to say that roy moore pursued them. Each says moore was in his 30s and the women between 16 and 18 years old. Roy Moores Campaign Officials Says the allegations are not true. Theyre accusing the Washington Post of playing politics. In a statement, judge roy moore has endured the most outlandish attacks as any modern candidate. Todays story alleging sexual impropriety takes the cake. National liberal organizations know that doug jones is in a death spiral and this is their last ditch hail mary. The Washington Post is already endorsed the judges opponent and for months the post has been engaged in a Systematic Campaign to distort the truth about the judges record, career around derail his campaign. As i reported, the Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell now says that roy moore should quit the senate race if the accusations are true. John mccain wants moore gone now. Quoting allegations against roy moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying. He should immediately step aside and allow the people of alabama to elect a candidate they can be proud of. News is breaking now and peter doocy has more. The accuser is named Leigh Korfman. She said that moore undressed her and started to inappropriately touch her. She accused him of kissing her but said there was no sexual intercourse. The Moore Campaign which is calling this story from the late 70s false and they suggest its only coming out now to help the democrat in this race, doug jones. Part of the statement says this. This garbage is the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation. We have called a few phone numbers. We have not been able to get in touch with Leigh Korfman yet. Shepard what else are we hearing this afternoon . Nobody is defending roy moore in the republican party. We have brand new sound a few minutes old from alabamas other senator, Richard Shelby as well as jeff flake. Theyre saying that he should stop running if any part of this is true. I dont know. Its a devastating nasty story. If the revelations if its true, i dont believe that there would be a place for him in the u. S. Senate. No, if theres any shed of truth, he ought to step aside immediately. Theres more than a dozen republican senators that say that moore should step aside if the allegations are true. Seems like the list is getting longer by the minute. Mitch mcconnell is among them. But remember, moore ran his race in the primary and won on antimcconnell platform. Moore still is likely going to be on the ballot even if he was to step aside because state law says no new ballots in 76 days of the election. If they were printed, Luther Stranges name cant go open it. He could be written in. Its early to tell if that will happen, shep. Shepard just beginning, peter doocy. Thank you. Breaking news now on fox news channel. Five women have told the New York Times newspaper that the Comedian Louis cecay crossed the line in sexual misconduct. The New York Times reports the encounters happened a decade ago. When asked for comment, cks publicist said theres no quote. Louis ck also cancelled an appearance on the late show with Stephen Colbert on cbs. That news breaking now. More detail as they come. Also breaking, the leader of the United States air force speaking from the pentagon now. Theyre talking about the suspect in the texas church shooting. He was able to buy guns because the air force failed to report his violent history. The military convicted the suspect of assaulting his wife and cracking his stepsons skull. He spent a year in prison and got a bad conduct discharge. Under pentagon rules, the air force should have told the fbi so he would be disallowed to buy a gun. It would have prevented the suspect from legally purchasing guns and ammunition before he murder 25 including a pregnant woman. Officials say they planned his state of the air force News Conference before that shooting in southerland springs, texas. Lets listen in. A few of the things that we intended to share with you when we planned this press availability. After we to that, well open it up to any questions you may have. With respect to the priorities for the air force, our biggest need right now is for a higher and stable budget to provide security and solvency for the nation. The fiscal year 18 continuing resolution is actually delaying our efforts to increase the readiness of the force and risk accumulates over time. You just dont know exactly when things will break. We are stretching shepard they moved on to another topic. In just a moment our producers say they will take questions about the suspect in this case. Jennifer griffin has been following this for us. Shes live at the pentagon. Jennifer . Shepard, the pentagon has known that they had a problem two decades with not reporting military crimes to the fbi. There was a department of defense Inspector General report going all the way back to 1997 that dealt with this very issue and found that military crimes were not being reported by the various military services to the fbis National Criminal background check database. As recently as two years ago, the fingerprints of hundreds of convicted offenders had not been submitted by the various services. The fbi database had one entry from the pentagon for a Domestic Violence conviction as of december 31 according to u. S. Officials and had none from other federal agencies. Secretary of defense jim mattis has ordered the Inspector General to define what the problem is, but i think they did so in 1997. Now congress is getting involved and senator john cornyn of texas is crafting legislation to require the pentagon to swiftly report criminal history to the fbi database. The shooter had seven incidents of Domestic Violence in texas between 2011 and 2012. Five were withdrawn as part of a plea agreement with the air force, shep. Shepard jennifer, you have more info about high widespread this problem is throughout the military . In fact, that 1997 pentagon Inspector General report found widespread lapses among all of the military services. We now know in more than 80 of criminal cases involving the army and navy, Fingerprint Cards were not submitted to the data bait. The navy failed to report their criminal cases 94 of the time to the fbi. The army 79 of the time and the air force 50 of the time putting it ahead of the other services. The lack of reporting to the fbi files prevent civilian Law Enforcement agencies from having significant information on military offenders that is from 20 years ago from the i. G. Report. Expect hard questions of the air force chief general David Goldstein and Heather Wilson moments from now. That press conference has just started. Shepard jennifer, thank you. When we go to do question and answer period, well go there live. The feds might have lost valuable time trying to get information from the texas shooters phone. Simply because they havent been able to unlock the thing. Apple executives told fox news this morning that the fbi has not reached out to the company for assistance in unlocking an iphone belonging to the killer. In fact, the authorities havent even confirmed publicly that it is an iphone. Matt finn is in texas. What are you hearing about this phone . Shepard, apple tells fox news that they reached out to the fbi to see if the dead shooters phone was an iphone. That the fbi tells apple that it is an iphone. Apple goes on to say that the fbi did not ask apple for help in unlocking it and that theres a critical 48hour window in which apple says they can assist authorities to unlock a dead persons iphone. Now the 48hour window has passed. One way to do that is holding a dead persons finger to the phone to unlock it. That window has passed. In an unrelated event, an fbi director said this is a growing problem with authorities trying to unlock dead peoples cell phones. This is what the director had to say. Whether its gangs, homici s homicides, car accidents, civil disputes, were unable to accept many devices. Theres a challenge explaining that because the bureau looks like hey, we want access to everything. Its obviously not what were arguing. The Southern Baptist convention tells fox news that pastor pomeroy expressed to the president and leaders of the Southern Baptist convention that he would like the church to be demolished saying its a very painful setting. The Southern Baptist convention says the pastor and the church will have the final decision if the church behind me will be demolished. Shep . Shepard matt finn on scene. Thank you. Coming up, breaking new details on the assault on senator rand paul. Fox news has learned that the senator has been told to expect further charges against the man accused of attacking him. Breaking six ribs and leaving him with cuts on his face and water on his lungs. Was the attack politically motivated . The breaking news is first on fox and next on the fox news deck. Alright, off you go. Casual fridays at Buckingham Palace . Surprising. Whats not surprising . How much money nathan saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. 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Ask your rheumatologist about humira. Whats your body of proof . [ click ] [ keyboard clacking ] [ clacking continues ] good questions lead to good answers. Our advisors can help you find both. Talk to one today and see why were bullish on the future. Yours. Shepard theres breaking news now on fox news channel. Senator rand paul has been told to expect federal charges to be filed against the man accused of attacking him while he was mowing his front lawn. Thats what multiple sources inside senator pauls office tell fox news senior judicial analyst judge Andrew Napolitano. He says that indicates that prosecutors believe that politics motivated the attack. Thats what would make it federal. A Senior Adviser to the kentucky senator says he had not talked to the suspect in years before the man vigorously assaulted him. He also disputed reports that the senator was in a longstanding dispute with the neighbor saying the first conversation with the attacker came after senator pauls ribs were broken. This was not a fight. It was a blindside. Violent attack by a disturbed person. The suspect is rene boucher. He pleaded not guilty in court today. Prosecutors there say that they may charge may change the misdemeanor charges because of how severe rand pauls injuries are. So far, no charges. The senator says he had six broken records and water on the lungs. Its been back and forth between the two parties today. The suspects lawyer says this was about lawn maintenance. His neighbors, many neighbors, say that is ridiculous. Rand paul has been out with some interesting tweets today suggesting that was not the case at all. Now word from his office that they should expect federal charges against the accused attacker. Trace gallagher with the rest of the story live for us. Trace . We know dr. Rene boucher is a retired anesthesiologist that has lived next to rand paul for years. The arrest warrant said that boucher admitted to going on to pauls property and tackling him. At the time that rand paul was doing yard work and wearing ear plugs. The New York Times reported the dispute was over lawn clippings being blown on to bouchers property. Senator rand paul has not issued any comment though he did tweet two articles, one from breitbart and said that the landscaping news is fake news. The Washington Examiner spoke with several neighbors and said that the stories that a landscaping dispute or a dispute of any sort between rand paul and rene boucher are erroneous. The attack is known only to him. Several other neighbors back that up. On the flip side, the developer of the neighborhood says boucher says he has been a perfect neighbor. Rand paul is a different story. Shepard sounds like theres a different story popping up. Yeah, even though bouchers Attorney Says theres a political agenda, turns out that boucher is a democrat and was antitrump and antigop on his social media. Even calling for the impeachment of trump and urger Robert Mueller to fry trumps private parts. The doctor was a fan of the never trump movement. Neighbors say this should not be called an altercation considering that rand paul was ambushed by his neighbor. He said there could be federal charges for attacking a politician. Shepard ive gone back and looked. It appears the only one making this lawn narrative, this landscaping narrative alive was the lawyer for the suspect. We havent officially heard that from anyone in rand pauls team, never. Nobody. The developer brought that up. The neighbors are saying that is not the case at all. We have not heard that from rand pauls team or anybody else except for the lawyer for boucher. Shepard we have reached out from rand paul and have not had calls. Theres breaking news in the air force secretary and chief of staff are answering questions from reporters regarding the gunman and the texas church shooting. Lets listen in. Theres no final vote. But we havent gone through the whole bill. I think its like 1,500 pages total. So im i think were hoping that we dont get it before the threeday weekend entirely. Well have a lot of people spending their weekend reading. Everyone agrees that space needs to be integrated, normalized as part of a joint warfighting effort. This years budget increases the fy18 budget proposal, increase whats the air force is proposing to spend on space by 20 . Were shifting to a spaces fighting demain. In six months that ive been on the job, i went to colorado after i was confirmed and i was there last week and advances are significant. Secretary mattis has been very clear in his guidance to all of the services. We are to go look at how do we increase lethality and readiness. When i opened with saying, talking about owning the out my high ground, the nation expects its air force to own the high ground, the

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