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He believes him. nbc's chris jansing is in hanoi, vietnam, with more on that discussion. chris, what more do you know about that conversation and how did the topic of election meddling come up in the first place? >> reporter: well, it lasted less than five minutes according to sarah sanders, the entire conversation. and he said that once again vladimir putin repeatedly denied meddling and in fact he said you can only ask a guy so many times, implying that he did ask him many times. you can only ask him so many times and then you have to move on to other things, like north korea and ukraine. an...

Republicans many coming out and defending him. they say this is 40 years ago. one person saying we should prosecute the folks who made these allegations. you've got a number of pastors lining up behind him. is this simply so long as you're of my party you can do no wrong or is there something in washington we don't understand about alabama? >> certainly these allegations are treated differently in alabama and republicans down there are circling the wagons. they don't like being told by the media or washington republicans who they can elect or who, if their candidate should be dropping out of t...

And disqualifying and he should exit the race. what we saw this morning here in alabama at the local gop event was a much different response. cheering, standing ovation. this is what a few of the voters had to tell us. >> i still support him because at this point there is no proof. the timing is just so suspicious right before and he's had 40 years when all of this could have come to light and it's just a few days before the special election. >> it's just mind blowing to me. he should not be a candidate. he should not be in public office of any sort. >> reporter: alex, this is a man who's been...

Give our military a lot more money? >> i think we are. i'm not sure if there was much disagreement even over the sequester and caps on spending. there's a large segment of republicans and democrats in the house and senate who believe that the military is overstressed. the military needs more money and that there's a lot of bills coming to replace aging equipment. i think there is agreement. leland: pretty stunning when you had one of the more senior senators, somebody who has enormous amount of security knowledge and experience not even know the places that american troops were in harm's way. ...

Race on tuesday. big day for democrats with the victories in new jersey, virginia as well. i have an exit poll graphic here with the breakdown of the voters. in virginia it's broken down by gender and race. 91% black women going for ralph northam. are democrats going to see that as a sign of rekindled enthusiasm? >> yeah, there's -- it can't be exaggerated how important tuesday night was for democrats and how important it was for republicans. a messages rarely get clearer than this on these off-year elections away from presidential campaigns. that was a national wave election from maine to vir...