anti-trust issues. big news for your 401(k). general electric may reduce dividends for the second is time since the great depression. g.e. is the biggest dow loser. one-third of its market value van is issued this year alone. the new ceo is under pressure to spark a turnaround. he will discuss dividend cuts and layoffs today during a meeting. "new day" starts right now. there are investigations going on. there will be revelation back seat this article. >> roy moore threaten to go the sue the "washington post" over allegations of sexual miscond t misconduct. >> he has to do more to explain. having said that, he has not been proven guilty. >> i just think he shouldn't be.

>> it is like nobody was ever received. >> human rights briefly came up as a spokesman for duterte asking otherwise. >> strange things happen in life, but it is certainly a possibility. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is your "new day". it is monday, november 13th. 6:00 here in new york. alisyn is off. the one and only poppy harlow by my side. >> good to be here. >> once again, you bring news. here's our starting line. a defiant roy moore now threaten to go sue the "washington post". that's the paper that reported that the alabama senate candidate had an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl and pursued three other teens when he was in his 30s.

now, more has always denied the accusations. some are trying to discredit his accusers. several members of president trump's team now calling on moore to step aside if the allegations are true. that is a very vexing situation. there will probably be no trial. i don't understand what more proof will there be. so we're watching this. the president, as you know, is in the philippines. he said asian countries have rolled out the red carpet for him like never before. the president said he will make a major announcement wednesday on trade and north korea. but this morning, there are c conflicting reports about whether he and due tear toe talked about human rights. the white house said they d. a philippino spokesman said they did not. >> all of this as the president raises eyebrows over the weekend apparently siding, you heard it,

of vladimir putin's denials of election meddling. he said the comments put our national security at risk. the tax reform battle is front and center once again. republican leadership admitting most but not all americans will get a tax cut. let's begin with kyung lah in alabama on the moore campaign controversy. now a threat coming from roy moore to the reporters who broke all of this. >> reporter: an indication that moore is digging his heels even deeper. as a criticism is growing. he remains buoyed by some support here in his home state. >> these attacks that i was involved with are completely false and untrue and for which they will be sued. >> reporter: alabama republican senate candidate roy moore

defiant, threatening to sue the "washington post" for publishing allegations that he pursued romantic relationships with teenage girls when he was in his 30s. including a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old. the controversial judge suggesting he is investigating his accusers. >> there are investigations going on in the next few days, there will be revelations about the motivations and the content of this article. >> reporter: led by former trump adviser steve bannon, breitbart news also attempting to discredit moore's accusers, publishing an article claiming the mother of corfman said reporters from the post pursued her daughter, convincing her to speak out against moore. the "washington post" acknowledging they approached the women who chose to give interviews after the reporter heard about the allegations while reporting on moore supporters.

more blasting the allegations as a political conspiracy. many senate republicans abandoning the alabama republican, refusing to raise money for his campaign, and revoking their endorsements. >> i think the accusations have more credibility than the denial. i think it would be best if roy would just step aside. >> we have to find a way to restore confidence in our elected officials and confidence, and this goes the other way. >> reporter: back home in alabama, many of moore supporters rallying around the candidate. >> the thing that bothers me about those charges is that he's been in public life running for many offices and as many times as it's happened no one has ever said anything until now. >> white house officials cautioning against judging moore

before he's being proven guilty while condemning the behavior. >> nothing is more serious than child pedophilia but having said that, he has not been found guilty. >> we are not always prosecutorsing people through the press. >> reporter: the president was asked about moore on air force one this weekend is. he told reporters, "i don't know much about it." and then he added, "despite all the evidence to the contrary that he doesn't watch much television. >> that is probably the easiest statement to vet this morning. we know the president watches this show we have john avlon and michael smerconish. the first thing to deal with here, john avlon, in the state

of play is the fact that this is going to be unsatisfying. this is going to be he said, she said. there will remain that. there is not going to be a trial. there is not going to be prosecution. the calls for more proof, where can that lead? >> look at the report, the number of accusations, the sourcing, and roy moore simply attacking the press because it's in his self interest to do so. this is a tactic that donald trump institutionalized. if there is information, go after the press in germ to create enough confusion so your base rallies around you. >> you're saying it's not wrong to vet the accusations. >> that is entirely appropriate. but there is also a dishonorable time-honored tradition of going after women who have the courage to speak up. there's a difference between vetting accusations and

demonizing people who speak out. >> ultimately it will be the people of alabama to decide if he should hold the seat in the senate. what has been revealing is the number of reports out of alabama from local reporters on the ground, to our reporters on the ground, of so many folks in alabama, even some democrats who didn't vote for roy moore but who do not believe this one bit because it comes from the mainstream media, from the "washington post". one moore supporter said this. this is a republican town, man. moore could have killed obama, and we wouldn't care. how do you see it? >> and so, poppy, to that end, he is threatening legal action. but i think it's really largely a political defense. i don't believe that roy moore will file a defamation suit. i say that as an attorney who has litigated defamation actions. if he does file the suit, i

don't think ever follow through with it. it is one where you are asserting the rights to your good reputation have been foregone. and that puts everything in play, in particular a case like this where he would be subject to a deposition, subject to interrogatories and requests for admissions on the most invasive subjects imaginable. it might be a tactic designed to forestall any more women coming forward. they, too then would have the knowledge that they would have to tell their story not to a "washington post" reporter but an attorney and someone taking a deposition transcript. >> let's be clear about the context. michael, let's stay with you in terms of what this is about. the idea that we have to wait. it's too early. >> wait for what. >> this is all it's going to be on. there is standard of proof in a trial. this is not a trial. this is about elections. mitt romney said i already know

enough for political purposes. obviously that is a good situation to play with depending on who you want to advantage in this situation. but the big stick that moore's supporters have, michael, is timing. this guy has been vetted time and again. he has run for office time and again over decades. none of this ever came out until now. is that enough for people to say, yeah, you know what, it would have come out sooner if it were true? >> i think that's a legitimate question. it is is valid to say here's a guy who has been on the public landscape 40ish years and never before have you heard these charges. what is incredible when steve bannon says it's the "washington post" and they gave us the revelations about the "access hollywood" tape. well, the "access hollywood" tape really happened. i look at this story, three-person byline story. i don't suit up as a republican wanting to defend roy moore or

as a democrat wanting to agree with the post. there is a tremendous amount of detail in this story from all the women the "washington post" claims as its sources. i don't think any fair reader of this story can so easily discount it and say sit bunk because of the source. >> john avlon, breitbart, steve bannon's publication, going down there. reporters should always work to find the truth and to verify things. however, it's bizarre some of the headlines coming out of breitbart saying, to chris's point articlier, we don't believe these women but we believe the mother of the 14-year-old victim in all of this who said she didn't have a phone in her room and therefore this all doesn't hold water. >> it's not a surprise that breitbart's headlines would run counter to basic facts. they have a hyperpartisan agenda

they're pursuing. and they will do anything to pursue it. >> but at the cost of children? >> well, they believe they are in the midst of a massive k culture war and in war anything is legitimate. they have approached media and politics as an extension of the same war from the beginning. sit an incredibly dangerous thing they have done. they do not hold themselves to a standard of accuracy or fair stkpwhrpbs it's interesting they are down there digging and the best they have come up with -- >> is that. >> -- that the reporters came to them and convinced them to go on. that's probably exactly true. and it makes their accounts, in my stupestimation, compelling. poppy is one of the best in the business. when you want to get somebody to come on and they don't want to do it, you talk about the value

of the story and why it is so important. that plays against their narrative of it would have come out before now. now we are seeing proof of why accusers are so reluctant. >> you have mainstream outlets and hyper partisan online outlets actively functionings part of a hyper partisan agenda rooted in the white house. that is trowelling. former senior adviser of the united states is running a media outlet trying to pursue that agenda. >> and also, look, this is being played -- one, one thing is very clear. and i have seen this since the story came out. people didn't read the "washington post" story. they heard what the accusations are in general. you're not really into this about the facts. this has been politicized as political. how does this end in your

estimation. i don't see how the truth of this gets advance said by any kind of process. >> i want to make two points. number one, relative to breitbart, what i expected to see when i saw the headline, we're talking about the mother of the then 14-year-old. i expected to he see based on the headline that mom would say this didn't happen. that is not what the story said. >> right. >> as you just pointed out, all the story says is that the "washington post" reporters were aggressive in pursuit of the story. how does it end? i think the next 48 hours are going to be critical. krut cal in so far as do any other women come forward and tell a similar story. and if they don't, then people will continue to believe what they already believe about moore, that he is a good guy or a bad guy and it won't move the needle all that much >> do more republican senators who endorsed him back away from

endorsement. they have the cover of saying if these allegations are true and if the process goes forward. that's enough. >> you shouldn't double down on things you think are unacceptable because you might get a win anyway and have to live with it. the president in manila, the last day of his 12-day trip to asia. a new controversy. the white house insists that the president raised the issue of human rights with philippines president duterte. but a spokesman claims that never came up. let's go to jeff zeleny traveling with the president. in the middle are serious human rights abuses and a leader who compared himself to hitler. >> reporter: good morning, poppy. i mean, that is a question that is still hanging over this. in fact, the question greeted president trump when he arrived here for his final stop on this week and a half long swing. would he press rodrigo duterte

on human rights. after seeing several times throughout the day, that question still hangs in the air. >> rodrigo. >> reporter: president trump meeting with president rodrigo due tear toe but not dwelling auto his bloody human rights record. sarah sanders saying human rights briefly came up in the philippines fight against illegal drugs. a spokesman for duterte saying otherwise. >> no. that issue was not raised. however, the president explained in length his war against drugs. >> reporter: duterte's aides stood and blocked cameras. he made clear he wanted to meet behind closed doors, channeling trump by calling out the media, referring to them as spies. >> i would like to reference media to leave us alone. you may leave the room. >> reporter: white house aides

were anxious about visiting the philippines, but president trump came to amplify his message on trade and north korea. he stood alongside duterte grimacing during a ritual photograph. he travels through five asian capitals. >> i've been received like nobody has ever been received. that is a sign of respect for me a little bit but our country. and i'm really proud of that. >> reporter: outside the economic summit, a reality check. protesters filled the streets. water cannons deployed to keep demonstrators from the u.s. embassy. and the president's head burning on a swastika. the violent scenes were the most turbulent yet on trump's 13-day trip to asia. after carefully measuring his

words for days, he engaged in a weekend fight with the north korean leader saying in a tweet, why would kim jong-un call me old when i would never call him short and fat. after telling reporters on air force one he believed putin's denial of meddling in the u.s. election, mr. trump backtracked. >> i believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, i'm with our agencies as currently constituted with their leadership. >> reporter: so that question of russia meddling in the election still hangs over the president as he finishes up here and heads back to washington. chris, the president announced he would be delivering a message. he called it a big announcement on trade in the white house on wednesday to talk about his trip here and to talk about something that came out of it. i can tell you after spending all of this time with him the last week and a half no doubt he

built relationships with leaders here. but the outcome will not be known by wednesday. it will take months, perhaps even years, to see how successful this trip actually was. chris. >> we understand why they are teague this up, jeff, timing aside. getting out of tpp created opportunities for bilateral trade agreements for the united states and its asian partners. now we are seeing the deals start off. where is the united states's position? this is going to matter right now. jeff zeleny, thank you for reporting from the trip. this trip to asia very long early or on in this presidency. and we have seen a new type of diplomacy. what should we make of this latest meeting with putin and this overseas tweet storm next? ♪ (vo) do not go gentle into that good night,

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war on drugs, killing 6,000 people, who says when he was 16 he murdered someone. and compared himself to hitler saying he would like to slaughter the 3 million drug users in his cup. what do you make of the white house saying one thing and his team on says another. but clearly it wasn't the focal point of their meeting. >> right. it's a he said, he said. and the subject of human rights didn't come up at all. and i think sarah huckabee sanders were briefly discussed. the only thing we want for sure, poppy is unlike other american presidents on an issue like this, it was not a main stay of the conversation. hey, i'm looking at this trip. the trip has gone well until the latter stages. i'd be shocked if the president on his watch had this long of a visit further in his administration. sit is too long a trip for a 71-year-old guy.

>> look, we haven't seen his energy be a factor here. you have to distinguish between style points and substantive points. that's why the vladimir putin situation is so relative. what this wound up being about is the president seemed to support putin's suggestion that he didn't meddle in the election, which would be upsetting to people back here. he said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. he did not do what they are saying he did. every time he sees me he says i didn't do that. and i believe, i really believe when he telgs me that he means it. this was of course quickly criticized because the intelligence committee has never waivered on overwhelming proof that what they are doing right now which is seeking to interfere in our democracy. so then there was a clarification from the white house that went like this.

>> i believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, i'm with our agencies. >> what does this even mean, john avlon? either the united states believes what the intelligence agency says and anything that contradicts that he should disbelieve. or this russia stuff is bad for me and i should tamper it down. >> he is trying to clean up a mess he made for himself by putting forward a clarification. . that's why you have this sort of dangerous unprecedented moral equivocation. first of all, this occurs on veterans day when that initial statement occurred. as john mccain said there is nothing america first by taking the word of a kbg colonel over

the word of american services. >> so he slams our intelligence community and so many who served, including former cia chief, former director of national intelligence james clapper calling them and their peers political hacks. >> putin is committed to undermining our system, our democracy and our whole process. and to try to paint it in any other way is i think astounding and in fact, poses peril to this country. >> i think he is giving putin a pass. it demonstrates to mr. putin that donald trump can be played by foreign leaders who are going to appeal to his ego and to try to play upon his in securities. >> michael, all of that plays

into the national security risk here, and that's at the core of this. >> how about the fact that the sanctions bill passed the senate i think by a 98-2 vote and president trump signed it. although it hasn't been implement implemented. doesn't his signature itself belie that which he said on saturday in the gaggle with reporters. the problem i have with the statement sedz i really believe when he tells me that, he putin, he believes it. is the president asserting that it's possible that vladimir putin believes the russians didn't meddle but they did meddle? because nobody would be accepting of the fact that there was a meddle without his knowledge and approval. >> i mean, look, this just seems like more of the same, to be honest. it mattered more because he had an opportunity to deal with it. and that's what people were anticipating. we said teague up the trip last week or a week and a half ago now. boy, this is a great opportunity for the president of the united states to stand strong, put america first and say don't do

this again, not on my watch. he could have flexed and said i'm not obama. if you do this here, bad things, man. bad things. >> this is a guy who talks tough but he didn't talk tough when it came to putin or speaking in front of the chinese on trade despite rhetoric in the past. so you start to see a pattern. what is most troubling is this. this president seems to have a weakness for strong men, for authoritarian leaders in different positions when he especially is face-to-face. duterte criticized obama in critical terms. if that is only a sideline because they seem to click, that is a larger problem about american leadership and the moral leadership of the presidency. that's what we're really talking about here. >> who will you stand next to. >> that's right. >> they canceled the meeting

they were supposed to have. gentlemen, thank you very much. a deadly earthquake devastating iran and iraq. the death toll is climbing as we speak. the latest on that disaster next.

over 300 confirmed dead after a 7.3 earthquake rocked the border region between iraq and iran. epicenter 217 miles north of baghdad. we are showing you on the screen. tremors so powerful they could be feld in lebanon, pakistan, kuwait and turkey.

that was a long or vast field of feeling what happened there in iran and iraq on that border. that is a real stretch to go all the way where you are. >> reporter: absolutely. and it was felt across the region, as you mentioned there, chris. this powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck that region along the iran/iraq border late in the evening on sunday. so nighttime was making it difficult to assess the extent of the damage and the devastation. but with daylight, search and rescue operations have been under way for several hours. it would seem right now the hardest hit area is in western iran, the province of care man shaw. as we hear through authorities there, as you mentioned, 336 people at least confirmed killed. nearly 4,000 others injured in iran. now, when it comes to iraq, while most of the country felt

the impact of this earthquake, it mostly impacted the kyrgyzstan region, according to figures receiving from iraqi authorities. seven people were killed and more than 500 others injured. a lot of concern about a dam in that area. reports of cracks in the dam. no leaks. but they're urging people in the surrounding area to evacuate immediately, poppy. >> thank you for the reporting. please keep us posted. we appreciate it. ahead for us, president trump taking to twitter to insult north korean leader kim jong-un. wait until you see what the president wrote. we are the only u.s. network there. a live report from pyongyang next.

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mixed message on his asia trip. the president insulting kim jong-un's physical appearance and then suggesting the two could maybe become friends. our will ripley is the only american television journalist reporting from inside north korea and joins is us live from pyongyang. what has the response been by officials to what the president wrote. >> reporter: i wouldn't hold your breath on the friendship happening any time soon. it has been an all-out assault on president trump. this is pictures of the anticipate-trump protesters in south korea with no mention that the larger crowds were in support of president trump. then this commentary at kcna reading the reckless remarks by a dotard, which is an old senile person, like trump can never put an end. and president trump saying why would kim jong-un insult me by

calling me old wheuln i would never call him short and fat. it was surreal to see those insults and then talking about the possibility of a friendship. when i showed the tweet and the transcript of his remarks in vietnam, they said they don't believe anything the president says. they said his words don't matter to him but the action of the united states and they refer to the military drills happening over the weekend. these large scale military exercises involving three u.s. aircraft carrier strike groups in the pacific. and the north koreans say that is justification for them to continue developing their nuclear program. they threatened nuclear tests and missile launches. they are watching and listening closely for the president's possible decision before the end of this trip, which would mean a couple hours from now, whether to add them back to the state sponsors of terrorism. >> any way you look at it, it has been an eventful 12 days nor the president in asia. the question, has the trip been

a success? what is your general answer to that question? >> my general answer is while we've got some important commercial agreements, although the details are lacking and a serious effort on the president perhaps tactically to try to use flattery to get himself pushed along the line and some promises of future revelations on trade, most of what we see now is pretty devoid of what one would call important takeaways or important achievements. the president needs a little time here and nobody should crowd him. but at the same time there seems to be kind of more of this confusion. this on the one hand rock the man. on the other hand, maybe we'll meet some day. my own sense is increasing the pressure on pyongyang is important. but at the same time, secretary

tillerson was right when he said we need to open lines of contact. we need to see how and what way we can exploit the pressure and drive this particular question to the an answer that we can live with. >> so what was the biggest plus and what was the biggest minus? >> i guess the biggest pluses at this point were a relaxation on the trade fight with china momentarily. some important announcements about some commercial steps. but some of those may be old. some of those may be future. and i think the big minuses were the controversies over how and in what way the announcements or statements to him that somehow president putin was totally convinced that the russians didn't do it. it was interesting. it was the eye word there, plausible denial i didn't do that. was that a narrow and careful parsing of the syntax or did he really mean as president trump seemed to assume that i meant

both putin and russia. we don't know. we will spend a lot of time can examining those issues. i'm afraid those are not going to produce an answer. we should look for robert mueller. we should i think put our faith and trust in clapper and berman and the intelligence communities judgments as we go along. they are, i think, careful and very analytical on these particular questions. it's an important issue. does this provide us a hand hold on president putin for the future? hard to know. he's a character who in many ways as avoided that vulnerablity and will continue to do so. >> the president of the united states is never looking to double down on the interference. that probably shaped a lot of his reckoning of what vladimir putin said. >> the really interesting question is that an investment in avoiding past liabilities of what the russians call compreme

or is that transactional for the future. if i get along with putin and flatter putin, maybe we can get some kind of deal here. >> doesn't it work for him on any of those fronts? he does not like the russia investigation. he calls it a witch-hunt. so any chance he has to tamp down its significance, he takes. why the explanation? >> is that a liability or nearly a kind of political gesture at this stage? we have on to wait and see. but the really interesting question is that it plays very badly, as you know and i know and why we're talking about it, in american domestic politics where the 98-2 vote in the senate is on the next stage of sanctions is a real reflection of national attitude. i think overexaggerated in my view. i think we have to get along with russia. i don't see the president course of action takes us there. >> the president is accepting

him at his word or human rights not being front and center and the focal point in his meeting with the philippine president? >> they both bother me. they're both in different spheres but they're both very important. and something the president at least pretends he supports but from time to time slips off the wagon. >> give us a grade for the trip. >> i would say maybe a c-minus. >> i thought you would be more in the b, b-plus range. thomas pickering, thank you very much. >> no curve on that grade. >> i thought maybe a straight b. he went straight to the c zone. >> there you have it, someone with a lot of experience. microsoft bill gates spending tens of millions of his personal fortune to find a cure for a disease that impacts people around the world.

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the most common form, alzheimer's. 5 million americans are living with the disease right now. that comes to a cost of more than $250 billion a year in terms of care. by 2050, that number is expected to explode to as many as 16 million americans with alzheimer's. and care, that's expected to reach a trillion dollars. >> we don't really have anything that stops alzheimer's. so the growing burden is pretty unbelievable. >> reporter: well-known his fillfil philanthropy in infectious disease, he is investing $50 million of his money money for the thdementia discovery fund. should the word cure be used with alzheimer's? >> it's probably setting a high bar. at first we probably should say

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seeing that up there how many more people it affects than breast cancer, for example. it almost seems the discussion is you can't cure it, you can't cure it, you cannot cure it. he will not give it to that. why is it so duff to find any treatments? >> the disease in the brain starts far earlier than when people develop symptoms. 10, 15, maybe 20 years earlier there's already changes in the brain. a person probably has no idea. by the time we can detect that the person has symptoms, it's already gotten so far along. the only diagnosis after someone has died, we need to be able to detect it earlier. that's probably one of the big keys. and really investing in other avenues of research. there's been all this research on one particular strategy that hasn't worked. >> it's a fascinating, important piece. people can see a lot more of the interview on cnn.com. sanjay, thank you. >> yeah. thank you.

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