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Right now moore is in competitive race. >> still early, roy moore the republican ahead of doug jones, the democrat. anderson, over to you. doug jones just got a bunch of votes that were tablated. he's behind roy moore. amanda carpeter made the point earlier, roy moore followed the donald trump play book. >> totally, deny deny, deny, deny. it's hike the "access hollywood" play book which the president has since denied that the tape is real, but it's a play book of deny, deny, deny. he knew what his base was. he knew that he had to keep them. as long as the president climbed on board, i think ...

>> what -- >> congressman john conyers, dean of the house, longest serving member of the house, a long-time democrat, just announced he is retiring today. john conyers has retired from the u.s. house of representatives. this after a series of sexual harassment allegations against him by various women who have worked in his office. john conyers, gone. joining me now to discuss patrick healey, cnn political analyst and cnn political commentators amanda carpeter and patty solis doyle. nancy pelosi ultimately did call for him to step down, the speaker of the house paul ryan did call for john conye...

I am quite angry at this interview. >> he admitted to nothing, amanda carpeter, but he did retire as of today. i'm not sure there's a distinction between retiring and resigning. he is leaving office as of today, which is not something that al franken has done from the senate, democrat there, you know, he's not dropping out of a race. roy moore hasn't dropped out of the race in alabama. john conyers is out. >> yeah. it is kind of funny he says he's retiring because of health reasons and not resigning because of sexual assault allegations. that said, politically speaking the democrats will be ab...

You know, there were all these machinations by republicans to get him off, get him off the ballot, couldn't do that, get a special election, another special election, having strange step down, that couldn't happen, you know, having jeff sessions as a write-in, jeff sessions was like thanks, but no thanks, and now because of politics we're one week out, the election is happening and looks like roy moore can actually pull this off. their a throwing money at him because you know what, they need the vote. they're going to hold their nose on a child molester, on a child molester. >> patrick healey,...

Knew nothing about wealthy kids that i went to high school or lived with that were able to game the system and get out of it. was that out there? it was out there. it's always been out there. as you know it's a big issue, 1992, when bill xhnts was running for president. i think to resurrect it without all the facts is inaccurate. i knew of nothing that wealthy kids were getting out of it and the -- what i did know is that vietnam war got everybody studying harder so that you can get your student deferment and that to me would have been the biggest difference between an "a" student or "c" and "...