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Republican say a southern baptist republican, faithful evangelical going to church every week with concerns about roy moore? can you explain to our audience across the country why they would hold their nose and vote for roy moore? >> let me first say the beliefs you went down the list of roy moore, that's not alabama. and that is not what the majority of us feel in this state. a lot of folks have never voted democrat here before. i think president trump coming in and saying i need this vote i think has given some people cover. this feeling that somehow this helps president trump's agenda. if t...

Lawyers on the obstruction question. the one lawyer ty cobb saying, we are not arguing the president obstructed justice. john dowd is making an argument. what do you think of that? >> it is a political and public relations disaster to make this argument. now that the president cannot obstruct justice. one, you're making an argument that the president is like a king above the law. that doesn't sound great for the white house. but more importantly, you only make that argue when you're seeding the fact that based on the president's behavior he did obstruct justice. yes, his actions may seem like ...

Can be supportive of that. but the president hasn't evoked executive privilege. it's a circular logic i think is constructed to evade. >> can you tell us whether bob mueller's headed down that path? for possible impeachment? or the other path of collusion? >> we don't know what mueller's going to do with what he finds in regards to the president or anything. we know he's going to charge some people. he is looking hard at the obstruction question. he's talking to white house officials. he's gotten all these documents from the white house. he's got don mcgann he's questioning. talking to all dif...

Against muslims? does he understand he's elevated a fringe political group that many people outside of britain didn't even know about? >> i think what he's done is elevate the conversation to talk about a real issue and a real threat, that's extreme violence and extreme terrorism, something that we know to be very real and something the president feels strongly about talking about and bringing up and making sure is an issue every single day that we're looking at the best ways to protect americans. >> i guess we go back to ashley again. i think that -- what do you make of that question? this fu...

Obstruction or has ever been given orders to an obstruct this investigation? i guess the second question is the more pertinent one. >> i think it suggests that, in all likelihood, he was asked to do something and he declined to answer that question. he was, as he has been in many other settings, conveniently amnesia-hit by much of what's been asked of him. and often would just respond by saying "i do not recall, i do not recall." when he was asked the question by congressman schiff, he just declined to answer it altogether. >> what valid justification could he have for not answering that quest...