been proven guilty. >> just really a matter as to whether he ought to be the standa standard of the republican party. i just think he shouldn't be. >> red carpet like probably nobody ever received. human rights briefly came up and a spokesman for dutrute saying otherwise. >> saying it would be nice if they were friend. >> strange things happen in life, but it's certainly a possibility. this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. good morning. welcome to your new day, it's monday, november 13th. alisyn is off, poppy harlow by my side. thank you for helping us start out the week. defiant roy moore. he is threatening to sue "the washington post." that is, of course, the paper that reported that the he had inappropriate contact with a 14-year-old girl and pursued

three other teens when he was in his 30s. several members of president trump's team are calling on moore to step aside, but a huge caveat. they say if the allegations are true, but we're not going to see any law enforcement investigation here. where will the proof come from? the president promising an announcement on wednesday on trade and north korea as he wraps up this 12-day asia trip. but the united states notably left out of the framework of asian nations and this morning conflicting accounts whether the president and philippine president spoke about human rights and the war on drugs. the government spokesman said we did not. let's begin in alabama. >> roy moore certainly indicating that he is going to be fighting back. this morning we are seeing that defiant and seeing more dig in his heels even deeper.

may be growing criticism in d.c. and here in his home state of alabama being by some support. >> completely false and untrue. >> reporter: roy moore defiant. threatening to sue "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 former judge says 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 and moore supporter steve bannon breitbart news and

claiming the mother said reporters from "the post" pursued her daughter convincing her to speak out against moore. "the washington post" acknowledging they approach the women who then chose to give interviews after the reporter heard about the allegations while reporting on moore supporters. >> reporter: a political conspiracy as backlash grows on capitol hill. many senate republicans abandoning and 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 step aside. >> we have to restore trust and confidence in our elected officials in our government and this goes in the wrong direction. >> reporter: some signaling support for senator luther strange who moore defeated in the primary as a possible write-in candidate, but back home in alabama, many of moore

supporters rallying around the candidate. >> i thing that bothers me about those charges is that he's been in public life running for many offices and as many times as this happened, no one has ever said anything until now. >> reporter: white house officials cautioning against judging moore before he's been proven guilty while condemning the alleged behavior. >> there's no sense even more important than childpe pedophil. >> everyone should know that conduct is disqualifying and i want to make sure that we as a nation are not always prosecuting people through the press. >> so, while that support for moore, yes, there are glimmers of that here in his home state. we want to be very clear that is not uniform. we have also spoken to at least one republican women who voted for moore in the primary, chris, but now she says she will no longer support him.

chris? >> well, it is hard to judge what the political impact will be. roy moore has been controversial for a long time and he's been rewarded for positions that seemed controversial at a minimum multiple times before in alabama. so, we'll see. we'll see. thank you very much. there's another controversy erupting on the final stop of president trump's 12-day asia trip. the white house claiming mr. trump did briefly raise the issue of human rights during a meeting with philippine's president durtuterte. let's go live to jeff zeleny traveling with the president in manila. it is probably also not the biggest headline. it seems the president has learned something about the trade dynamic in asia that he may not have understood when he was bashing during the campaign.

>> chris, good morning. you're absolutely right. when the president was arriving one question was hanging over him. would he confront the philippine president about human rights? we know that donald trump wants to build relationships on these trips. that's what this is all about. the idea of him confronting him is never going to happen directly. but now the question is tonight here, did they talk about this at all? >> rodrigo. >> reporter: president trump meeting with rodrigo durterte. sarah sanders telling reporters that 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 his war against drug. >> reporter: as reporters questioned mr. trump, duterte's

aides stand and blocked view of cameras. he made it clear he wanted to meet behind closed doors even channeling trump by calling out the media. referring to them as spies. >> i would like the media to leave us alone. you may leave the room. >> reporter: white house aides were initially anxious about visiting the philippines, but mr. trump came to amplify his message on trade and north korea. he stood alongside duterte, grimacing while trying to grasp the hands of leaders during a ritual photograph. the president basking in the glow of his travels through five capitals. >> red carpet like i think nobody has probably ever received. that is a sign of respect, perhaps for me a little bit, but for our country. i'm very proud of that. >> reporter: yet outside the economic summit, a reality check. protesters filled the streets. water canons deployed to keep

demonstrators from the u.s. embassy and else where the president's head, some embracing -- the violent scenes were the most visible turbulence yet on the 13-day trip to asia. the president also engaged in a weekend fight with the north korean leader saying in a tweet, why would kim jong-un insult me by calling me old when i would never call him short and fat. yet it was russia and vladimir putin hanging over the trip. he believed putin's denial of meddling in the 2016 u.s. election. mr. trump backtracked. >> i believe he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. i'm with our agencies, especially as currently constituted with their leadership. >> now, the president has a final round of meetings here tomorrow before flying back to

washington. he did say today he intends to make an announcement wednesday back at the white house about trade. talking about everything that his conversations here over the last week and a half in asia. but there's also something else that has changed dramatically. is threatening to leave america behind in many trade packs. on saturday, the 11 countries that had been part of the transpacific partnership agreement, the tpp and the obama administration, decided to go alone without the u.s. in this because president trump wanted to pull out. so, the question here is of trade going forward. can the u.s. actually have bilateral one-on-one agreements with countries or with other countries simply move beyond the u.s. here. it certainly gives a rise to china and raises many questions about the trade practices here. this trip will not be able to be judged a success or not from a trade perspective. but keep an eye on what happens once the president leaves here. these countries are still

working together, just without the u.s. chris? >> it's a big deal, jeff, no question about it. >> huge deal. >> does mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, both of whom are very pro-tpp take this opportunity to stand up now and make arguments that go against the president's position. they have been very shy on doing that to this point. let's bring in cnn political analyst john avalon and carl. trade matters. it mattered during the campaign. the president had a very simple position then. clear and effective. tpp stinks, i'll make better deals. he goes to asia and he sees that deals aren't being made but in the absence of the united states. what is the concern now? >> the concern is if one of the main goals of donald trump was to try to contain china's rise, particularly for the nationalist wing of the white house. pulling out of the tpp actually has the opposite effect. because it doesn't counterbalance china with a broader trade regime in asia.

instead that regime is going forward without any benefit to the united states and may sound good on paper, but are they getting done? it sounds like a lose/lose. >> you have to think part of this walking away from tpp is also because, guess who is behind tpp. president obama. and president trump has done all he can, nearly everything that president obama can do that he can do on his own. two gifts to china on this. which john just explained. this gives him huge leverage in the area. now they get to be part of this and the second thing here is this comes on the heels of president trump saying at the end of last week y don't blame china for anything they've done to this country on trade. how do you see it? >> right, that does hand a little bit of the mantle over to china to be able to basically work without the criticism of the president that is coming down as fiercely as it could have.

you in the intro raised the question will other republicans who did think these trade ideas were a good idea even when trump was campaign against them, it would take such a shift for that to happen eether for the president alone or for the republicans in congress to decide that they're going to cross him on these matters now because of this trip when they have to work on tax reform and other things that this just kind of seems like putting things in relief. a little bit of the reality shining on what the negative consequences are of some of these decisions. i don't think that necessarily means we'll see a dramatic change in policy because everyone realized, oh, wait a second, we might have handed more over to china than we meant to. also, remember, china does not exist in a vacuum when it comes to trade issues. we are reliant on them when it comes to and get too far into china's face on many things right now because they don't want to jeopardize that. >> you have the entrenched

policy dynamic going on through here and you had a much more immediate political dynamic which is how the president of the united states would regard authoritarian types abroad. we saw that he was using twitter to go at it with kim jong-un. putin, he came away from that meeting, once again, with putin seemingly to believe on some level the russia's president denial and human rights weren't a focal point with the philippine strong man duterte. >> one of the many unfortunate things about the president's sort of ill-advised mean girl tweet about kim jong-un is it undercut a lot of progress made on this trip with diplomacy to contain north korea. because all of a sudden it makes it look like the president is with a rogue regime. in general one of the troubling things about this president is a

certain affinity for strong men. duterte and when he goes up on a veterans day and sort of takes president putin's word at no meddling over our own intelligence agencies and then tries to clean it up a day later, that doesn't send a clear america first signal in the best sense. too often this president seems to enjoy at the gravitational drift of company with soft authoritarian leaders. >> karoun, let's talk about the latest development in the face of four accusers who did not seek out the press and reluctantly shared their stories of sexual misconduct that they allege against roy moore with the press now the response from the alabama senate candidate is sue "the washington post" and that is directly out of the president's playbook and handbook. we said it about "washington post" "new york times" ap you name it. you have a lot of skeptical voters that local reporters on the ground talk to in alabama that don't believe a lick of

this because they don't believe the sourcing being "the post." now what? >> this is the irony of this whole thing. roy moore did allow "post" reporters to go around with him earlier this year. not like this has been a long seeded and he hasn't demonstrated that. calling into question 30 sources and a very, very well researched and reported article where it showed the breitbart clip that they pursued the subject and that means it was a reported story and not some sort of opposition plant. and then the question, basically, of moore is pushing back at this with everything's he's got. he's threatening the lawsuit and threatening to go after the people who came forward and his supporters are questioning why they didn't come forward before. this is proof why people don't usually step out with these stories when they have them if the person is saying i'm going

to -- you're seeing so many different chapters of this story what it means to go through these experiences for women in 2017 play out in this particularly acute senate race right now and moore's throwing everything he's got, which is not as much as was in this article it seems like. >> there are vulnerabilities here, let's be very clear. this has taken a long time for the stories to come out. he has been in public for a long time. yes, there are dynamics where women don't want to come forward and they're afraid and we're seeing part of the reason why they come forward why they're being vetted. call it nicely. look, here's the real problem for me, john, and then taw yoyo it any way you want to take it. that is a proper position when there is going to be a trial. let's wait and see what is going to happen. that is not going to happen here. you have to make a determination on whether or not this is

important for you and you have to go with the facts as they develop to this point. you are not going to get any moore proof. >> and that may happen, although it's probably just a flanking move for political purposes. look, you've seen some senators like pat toomey say all things being equal, he should probably step aside. conservatives who supported him but backed away. but moore was a deeply flawed candidate for many folks even before this range of allegations and to those folks who say it took a long time to come forward the same thing is true in harvey weinstein's case. someone who was powerful and public and people who remain quiet for personal fear and embarrassment and will they be believed? what is most troubling for me is this playbook. you can't fight the facts you have the free press. not a long-term winner for democracy. >> he is looking at the leader of the free world doing that on a daily basis.

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in the days since the "washington post" reported on roy moore and allegations of sexual misconduct, you've seen members of the gop come out with real questions about him. but what can they really do about these allegations that he pursued teenage girls in his 30s?

he's now threatening to sue "washington post" for reporting it and he says it's all untrue. if he stays in the race, what is the party going to do? here to discuss ana navarro and alice stewart. ali alice, let's start with you. what should the party do about roy moore and these allegations? >> look, i think clearly the establishment wing of the gop has been against roy moore from the very beginning. but even more so now understandably. look, i think for him to continue this attack on the media and continue to attack on his opponents and certainly the women victims here, i think is wrong. i think it would be important. it would be the right thing for the republican party to continue to call for him to step out of the race. i gave him the benefit of the doubt at the beginning. but his inability now to categorically deny the most serious charges here is very telling. i think i agree with pattu toom

from here that his accusations have more credibility than his denials. not good to have a republican running for office in such an important race and it's important for a party to call for him to step down. >> ana, why are we hearing so many members say if the allegations are true, he should step down. not going to be any legal investigation or prosecution. how will you get to the level of satisfaction with whether or not they're true? >> you won't. the bottom line is, you won't. they're giving themselves a little wiggle room with notable exceptions like john mccain who has been unequivocal about it and brave as usual about it. that being said, look, the ultimate trial here is going to be up to the people of alabama. regardless of what the people of alabama decide to do, i think the republican party has got to continue calling this guy out. this should not be about establishment versus base. that is the picture that steve bannon is trying to paint. because this is steve bannon versus mitch mcconnell.

he wants to defeat mitch mcconnell. he wants to defeat washington and he wants to score for him, he wants the victory for him. even if it means supporting a guy who is a sexual predator. even if it means supporting a guy who is accused of pedophilia. this is how ridiculous it has got. how personal for steve bannon who wants to remake the party. i was shocked today to read that 40% of evangelicals are still thinking of supporting him in alabama despite these accusations. folks, this isn't -- >> they don't believe the accusations. they say they should have come out before now. you know, where were these people with all these different elections and opportunities they had to come out before now. that's what they're betting on. they believe roy moore. >> listen, they were afraid. 2017 has been a watershed moment and year for women everywhere. i think that they have seen much more to gain and there is much more strength and speaking and keeping silent.

women have lost the fear. and this idea of attacking these women it's, you know, it's frankly victim shaming and it's shameful for the republican party in alabama for leaders there to be engaging in this. to be doing things like bringing up the bible in order to excuse what roy moore has done. i mean, it really is baffling. >> that was a state official, by the way. the alabama state auditor said, you know, mary and joseph had a big age gap, also. we should look at it in this context. not that big of a deal what roy moore was doing. >> the only thing i can say to that is oh, jesus. >> chris, i think, i think your point is, you know, a lot of the people that are supporting moore say where have these women been for the last four decades and why didn't the stories come out earlier? the women were exactly where these women are now. they were afraid to come forward because they were afraid they were going to be attacked and their character impugned. that exactly is what is about to

happen. >> done them a favor because if they're down there digging and all they came up with is that the "washington post" reporters had to push on these women to come forward, not only called reporting, but it showed their reluctance to come forward. the big discovery so far hasn't unveiled itself to it. but, alice, here's a political reality. not that you should mix these two but where we are in the state of play. if roy moore does step aside, how do the republicans have any chance to win that seat? with such a thin majority number, do you think that's influencing how strongly they're calling for him to step away? >> well, alabama is a very red state. and if we get another solid conservative in that spot, they will win. >> but moore stays on the ballot under the state law. even if he steps away, his name stays on. he is going to split your own ticket. >> this happened within the window where his name will stay on the ballot.

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joe biden is talking about the presidency, again. he says he doesn't know if he could have beaten president trump, but the former vice president is not closing the door on running against him in 2020. here's a little bit of his interview. >> do you think you could have beaten donald trump? >> the polling data at the time said yes since then. but i wasn't in the race. you have to be in the race. it's a tough game. >> are you in the race for 2020? >> i can tell you honestly, if the lord almighty came down and said, joe, the nomination is yours and you have to take it now, i would say no. >> you're not closing the door. >> no, i'm not closing the door.

>> let's get the bottom line. >> professor ron brownstein and senator editor for "the atlantic." what did you hear there? what is your take on joe? >> i think this is something that is out there as a possibility and he's probably going to go back and forth a lot. in many ways, he is a former vice president biden is a good matchup against donald trump because he has some of that irrelevance and doesn't seem like a typical politician and projects more confidence. on the other hand, chris, each time you know he ran for president on his own both in 1988 and 2008, he struggled. so, i think it's going to be something that is going to be hanging over the democratic race for a while. but there is certainly a lot of democrats who believe that he is one of, if not their best matchup against donald trump with the one big exception that he would be 78 years old by the time he took office. >> some talked about the first time in 2016 would he run saying i am only going to run for one term, et cetera, et cetera. when i was in michigan all day

friday, to a person and these are republicans i was speaking to who supported president trump, none of them care that he has not gotten any big legislation through. none of them care. he excites them, he speaks to them and it's the same thing he heard from them a year ago before the legislative accomplishments. does joe biden have that excitement factor, as well, and does that matter? >> i don't think it matters that much because i think what you are seeing is the part of the donald trump base and the donald trump coalition that is the least likely. in fact, the unlikely to breakaway at any point. i have always felt that donald trump is more of a cultural than an economic funaphenomenon. that he mobilized the restoration with the voters most uneasy and the economic changes under way in the society and the fact that he speaks their grievances against institutions that they feel slight or looked down on them is pretty much all that he has to do. but that isn't all of his

coaliti coalition. as you saw in virginia, if you lose the more upscale independent end of that what is left is not enough to win. ed gillespie ran every bit as well among white collar and rural whites and annihilated in the suburbs. and the state ledge legislad le election. that it puts them right in the ballpark. >> he has the base. you have to give it to him for connecting to a group of people that really on paper -- >> that biden could connect with given his base, maybe. >> he had to grow. and we haven't seen that growth of anything we've seen a little bit of a compression of his numbers. so, that takes us to -- >> an erosion. >> numbers could change, we know that.

when you look from an endemic perspective with the gop, the axios guys come out with a piece saying they have a gender problem within their party. is that true? do you see the proof in that piece or outside of it? >> it's too simple to say that. the principle reason donald trump is president is because so many white women without a college education, working class white women voted for me. 61% of noncollege white women and he won them in big numbers in the western state that tipped the elections. now, some decline in his approval rating among them, around health care, in particular. they really did not like the idea of repealing health care. but did not translate to votes where he is eroding, chris, college-educated white women and republicans were crushed by them in virginia and that, i think, along with the men, is the big threat in 2018. the white collar suburbanites. >> ron brownstein with the bottom line.

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five women accused louis c.k. of sexual misconduct. the comedian admits to all those stories saying they are true. one of those five women an actress and comedian. rebecca, thank you for being here. you have experienced something no one should have to experience. you have lived through this. you have lived through years and years after it. you call louis c.k. a sexual predator and you say i don't think people truly get it. they don't really understand. what do you mean? >> well, i mean, i don't know what you're referring to in terms of people don't understand. i guess that they don't understand how it could be an open secret in hollywood for so long. but it was.

and it's really, really unfortunate because it's had a really negative effect on a lot of people. >> you don't want to be sitting here having to be one of the people to come forward, to talk about this. i can't put myself in your shoes. how are you doing? >> i'm, to be honest, it's like this is not, this was not on my vision board for life. you know. sitting here after 26 years of working in this industry and talking about a middle-aged man who masturbates everywhere. that is not, that is not what -- that's a horrible position to be in and he put us all in that and it's gross. and it's not what any of us asked for or wanted. but the right thing to do was to

speak out because it's intolerable. >> it is intolerable. part of his statement and he refers to you directly by name in this statement apology, call it what you will. being remorseful for his actions trying to learn from them and run from them. nothing about this that i forgive myself for. i have to reconcile it with who i am, which is nothing compared to the task that i left them. meaning you and the other four women with. what do you make of that? >> i mean, that's -- i mean at least, you know, at least he admitted what he did. i just think that what's really, really important is that the people who do come forward and the people like us who did that they're just, they're just supported in doing so.

and not just labeled as victims. i mean, we're people who, you know, with stories that do other things. we're not just louis c.k. victims or accusers. we're stories and i think in order to encourage others to come forward and feel safe doing so, i think it's important to keep that in mind instead of just further labeling us. that's the part that is really annoying for us. you know, when you google our names, we're going to be forever linked to this person. i don't even want to be in the same sentence as him, yet alone be linked to him forever. so, that's an important thing to keep in mind. >> look, this does not define you and it is so important that you're speaking up and what you're saying for our daughters, for our sons, for all of the children growing up who will hopefully never have to experience something like this.

this happened in 2005. fast forward a decade, 2015. he e-mails you and then he calls you. what happened? >> yeah, he -- i was contacted by another well-known comedian friend of his and he had told me that louis wanted to talk to me and, you know, it's 10:30 at night and i had no idea. you can't be prepared for that. and i was genuinely concerned and, so, i e-mailed him right away and what did you want to talk about? he offered to e-mail it to me. but then offered to, you know, we could talk or e-mail so i suggested to talk and when he called me he just told me that he owed me a very, very late apology for shoving me into the bathroom and i said you didn't shove me into the bathroom. you offered to masturbate in front of me in front of my dressing room on the set of our pilot and he then remembered and

said that he was sorry and, you know, we talked awkwardly a little bit longer and that was it. i just wanted it to be over. i invited him to do an event of mine for my nonprofit, and just said come and do it and i want to focus on other things. i just didn't want to be a part of his narrative. i didn't want to be on cahis ca sheet any more and i just wanted it to be over. i never saw or talked to him, again. then a series of things happened over the following two years and then most recently about two months ago i had a horrible interaction with someone who is very close with him and i was mistreated horribly at this event and after that i just was like, you know what, saying nothing is not doing anything

and i am still having to be, you know, having to deal with being somehow a louis c.k. person. i don't know. it feels terrible and i just decided i'm talking. >> thank you. >> if i'm going to continue to keep dealing with it by saying nothing, then i'm going to tell the truth. >> yeah. thank you for talking. thank you for speaking. doing what is right in the face of so much wrong. we appreciate it, rebecca cory, thank you. good stuff. the good stuff. we need some this morning. psoriasis does that. it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to last. so i kept on fighting. i found something that worked. and keeps on working. now? they see me. see me. see if cosentyx could make a difference for you- cosentyx is proven to help people with moderate

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