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Columnist for the birmingham news. halle, let's start with you. the president wants the voters of alabama to go out and vote for him. getting into it with kirsten gillibrand. i hate to ask, but is there a strategy here? >> we know there is a strategy unfolding the last eight to ten hours here, senator gillibrand calling on president trump to resign, after the allegations coming up before and after he was elected, coming up again. that is what happened. she was not the only one who called on the president to do this. you had three or four other male senators calling on donald trump to step down...

Participating in the sunday shows today who were asked about this and yet it was not really their desire to comment further. so they're in that kind of rock and a hard place, where they may want to speak more freely but they also don't want to say more than the president has publicly, trying to thread a needle of conveying support for the women who have come forward to sort of assign credibility to them without going as far as saying because of that roy moore should step aside or be out of the race. it is one of those things that has placed a very obvious awkwardness we have seen from the pres...

Obsessed with my speaking out. between tweeting and golfing, how does he get anything done? ♪ >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> thanks for being with us. the russia investigation at a critical point. president trump's communication director hope hicks expected to be interviewed before the end of the month. >> she was present during key moments of president trump's campaign and presidency and mueller wants to know what she knows. a top u.s. nuclear commander said he would push back against a nuclear strike order from the president if it was...

So, the rant ended, and everyone was quiet. le. >> he says he is frustrated that people still support moore but he believes that they are not aware of all the facts. nbc's maya rodriguez joins us now from birmingham, alabama. and maya, good morning. how much of the alabama electorate is standing behind roy moore? >> well, dara, it really pends on which poll you're looking at. right? so fox news had a poll earlier this week, had doug jones, democrat in his race, up by about eight points, 50% to 42% over roy moore. but then you take a look at the average polls, from realclear politics, and basic...

Do not believe these women. same thing with the voters and with the establishment here. i mean, you have national republicans who have basically denounced moore but then you have state and local republicans that say they're continuing to back moore. we've also been talking to some of the religious leaders here. they're also divided. you had faith leaders that have come out in support of moore, those who have not. you mentioned earlier about vinton, he was the coworker of leigh corfman. they worked together more than a decade ago here in alabama. they worked in the sales department and, you kno...