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disbelief. >> and president trump's selective silence, why he's staying quiet on roy moore as the embattled senate candidate says he's staying put. >> this is an effort by mitch mcconnell to steal this election from the people of alabama and they will not stand for it. >> and a house victory for the gop tax plan. >> we've got a long road ahead of us. this is a very big milestone in that long road. >> the hurdles senate republicans face and why obamacare is in the mix again. >> "inside politics" now. >> welcome to inside politics. john king has the day off. to our viewers nationwide and around the world, thanks for spending your sunday with us. sexual assault allegations hit congress as one of their own a current sitting senator is accused. the incident involving democratic senator al franken reverberating at the white house

as past allegations of president trump resurface. the franken claims date back to 2006. a radio broadcaster who was on a tour with franken two years before he was elected. she says he forcibly kissed her during a skit rehearsal and also groped her. >> he just mashes his mouth to my -- to my lips and you know, it was like wet and he puts his tongue in my mouth and you know, my reaction, it was just sort of a, you know, i push his chest away with my hands. >> she also released a photo from that tour of franken with his hands over her breasts while she was sleeping. she describes her reaction when she first saw that reaction. >> it's just that mentality that he thought he could get away with it and that it's funny and that it's funny you can grab someone's breasts when you're sleeping. when i opened that photo when i got home, i felt belittled.

i was ashamed. >> the senate majority and minority leaders are both calling for an ethics investigation. she says she isn't asking for him to resign. his fate will be up to the people of minnesota, she says, but she did ask for an apology. in his second statement franken did in fact apologize saying, i'm sorry. i respect women. i don't respect men who don't and the fact that my own actions have given people a good reason to doubt that makes me feel ashamed. while i don't remember the rehearsal for the skit as leanne does, i understand why we need to listen to and believe women's experiences. i'm asking that an ethics investigation be undertaken and i will gladly cooperate. roughly 12 hours after he went public this from president trump. it speaks a thousand words. where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 while she sleeps and to think just last week he was lecturing anyone who would listen about

sexual harassment and respect for women. here to share the reporting and their insights, politico's johnson of the washington post, michael sheer of the new york times and politico's rachel. we're going to talk about donald trump later in this segment but first i want to focus on franken. some people pointing out that he in fact didn't really apologize. he hasn't necessarily admitted to some of the claims that she is making in terms of his behavior during that skit rehearsal. what happened on the hill this week? what was the mood like? what were people feeling and saying in the hallways of congress once this thing landed? >> it's definitely rocked capitol hill which i think is at a cross roads about how they're going to handle sexual harassment going forward. iffer a long time capitol hill has been known as the boys' club. there's a lot of young female staffers, and there's sort of this shroud of secrecy where

people don't come out and talk about these things. congress is not like a company. there's no hr department. until recently there was no sexual harassment training. no office that investigates complaints. and so this was really not talked about. people just moved from job to job if they felt like they were threatened and these people were never exposed. so now some folks are hoping that you know, this is the dawn of a new day, majority leader mitch mcconnell and speaker paul ryan are mandating sexual harassment training. it's sort of seen as toothless right now and now of course a senator is being named specifically, but a lot of people are still afraid to come forward. i've talked to many women who have stories about various lawmakers and they don't want to name them. >> and representative debbie, they said this is a watershed moment, you talk about changing on the hill, representative says no. she doesn't necessarily see a watershed moment on this. a lot of democrats i talked to

in terms of the franken charges are wondering, is there more? what's next for him. what are you hearing from your sources on the hill? >> i think it's the watershed part of it was the realization this week that this is not one party's problem or the other one. democrats have been focusing on roy moore and other republicans and had to look in the mirror this week and say one of our own too. so that's been kind of the realization watershed, but yes, in terms of this being a watershed moment where all of a sudden everybody is going to embrace every woman that comes forward, no, you have the fear that somebody's going to try to take advantage of this, to try to throw a political bomb shell that's not true and make it more difficult for women who have suffered actual harassment and assault to be believed but that's coming at some point but then you have this thing that no one is really talking about themselves yet. whether it's media, whether it's politics, people are reporting on what's happening other

places. i think the one exception is npr this week because they've had that very high profile r resignation and they've been reporting on who else in the organization has been a problem as well, but most places you do not see congress saying hey, we are going to disclose this because we feel like it. most of the organizations, same deal. so it's not like a sea change. >> it's not a systemic societal change. >> but this has a sanitizing effect in that i think both parties are being forced to confront the hypocrisy in their ranks with republicans, you see christian conservatives who claim to be sort of moral segment of society being forced to confront the fact that many of them are standing by roy moore when there are a series of young women who have come out against him. at the same time we see democrats who have for decades claimed to be the champions of women, of women's rights, abortion rights, access to birth

control reckoning with their history of standing by president bill clinton. we've seen a lot of that and i do think it's good for both party to have to reckon with their history of -- on these issues. >> and a lot of people, donald trump obviously weighed in on this t. we remember this, a very disturbing tape released last year from access hollywood. here it is. >> you know, i'm automatically attracted to beautiful -- i just start kissing them. it's like a magnet. and when you're a star they let you do it. you can do anything. >> whatever you want. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. do anything. >> now, donald trump leaned in to this. he went after franken. some people surprised that he did this, but this is a president who likes to go on the attack even if in some ways it puts his own record up for examination. >> right. i think it -- the thing that surprised washington about that franken tweet that you showed before was the fact that you

know, most political consultants would tell their, you know, their client, you know, the last thing you want to do is give cnn reason to run that tape again. i mean, you know, and you know, i think the president -- there's a lot of people out in the country who are not fans of the president who think that he, you know, got -- you know, was elected despite all of the charges. it wasn't just that tape. it was a series of women that came forward during the campaign to accuse him of a lot of the same kinds of things that other people are being accused of now and there is a sense that he never fully, you know, had to confront those charges and the fact that he -- now, maybe it was inevitable that in this period in washington that you know, those questions were going to be raised again about him and his accusers but the fact that he sort of invited it and said, come on, you know, bring it on was pretty striking and surprising even for him. >> and senator huck by sanders

at a briefing, she essentially said that senator franken has admitted wrong doing and the president hasn't and she thinks there's a very clear distinction. that was her reaction, the comparison between franken and the president. you talked about the reckoning. right? president trump reckoning and of course hillary clinton or bill clinton reckoning and democrats having to come to terms with that. here was a senator from new york weighing in on bill clinton. >> your view that the president clinton should have stepped down given the allegations? >> yes. i think that is the appropriate response, but i think things have changed today and i think under those circumstances there should be a very different reaction and i think in later this conversation we should have a very different conversation about president trump and a very different conversation about allegations against him. >> your take on that, rachel? >> i think, you know, clearly

some soul searching is going on and definitely merited at this point in time. i think that democrats are having to look back at bill clinton not only just what they thought about him, whether he should step down, but also, you know, how monica was treated, the victims were treated. but exactly. but juxtapose that with the president and how he's treating moore right now. it's not only awkward because he has his own past but it's attacking al franken and saying nothing about roy moore when of course all these women are coming out. we hear more and more stories every day and it looks like he has made this calculation that the base is still with roy moore. he could be coming to washington and he doesn't want to alienate him. >> and we'll talk about that up next. roy moore's messaging. the controversial candidate comes forward with character witnesses. how the allegations are playing out in alabama. but first, politicians say the

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establishment republicans. he's not going anywhere. moore is facing allegations from eight different women. he's accused of sexual misconduct, pursuing relationships with teens and allegedly assaulting some young women in the past. he denies any wrong doing. his campaign says the claims have boosted his campaign coughers and energized the grass roots. his camp also says the allegations are a highly political attack mounted by d.c. establishment types who are out to get the former judge who's a fire brand culture warrior. >> this is an effort by mitch mcconnell and his cronies to steal this election from the people of alabama and i will not stand for it. i want to tell you who needs to step down. that's mitch mcconnell. >> moore's wife doubled down on that saying attacks from washington won't impact alabama. >> to the people of alabama,

thank you for being smarter than think think you are. i have been married to my husband judge roy moore for over 32 years. he was a graduate of west pointe. he served our country in vietnam and he has always been an officer and a gentleman. after all the attacks against me, against my family, against the foundation and now against my husband, he will not step down. >> now, we've gotten the editorial board has weighed in on this and here's what they had to say. do not let this conversation be muddled. this election has become a referendum on whether we will accept this kind of behavior from our leaders. do not make your voting decision based on who it will affect on a national stage. vote based on who it will affect in your own hometown. there is only one candidate left in this race who has proven worthy of the task of

representing alabama. he is doug jones. you've been covering this. mitch mcconnell seems to be running out of options here. the sessions write-in candidacy, no help from the governor there either. what next from republicans who don't want roy moore in the senate? >> i think that editorial gets to the heart of it in that the narrative that's overlaid on the accusations, this race has become much more than roy moore versus his accusers. it's really become the establishment versus roy moore and that's been very damaging because people in alabama, conservatives in alabama side with roy moore and mitch mcconnell is running out of options here. he and his team are preparing a memo for white house chief of staff john kelly which range from potential expulsion from the senate but that looks unlikely. he's down eight points in the latest fox news poll and what we're seeing is that the white house really feels that all of

the options laid out by mcconnell which they're hoping to get the president to publicly back are fanciful and they want to keep the president out of this so it really does look like mitch mcconnell has a series of lose, lose, lose options. >> and i mean, seeing why this is so hard, your paper has broken this story. there was word from a new accuser this past week. here's what she had to say. she was summoned to the principal's office over the intercom in her classroom. she had a phone call. i said, hello, richardson recalls and the male on the other line said, gina, this is roy moore. i was like what? he said what are you doing? i said, i'm in trig class. that is why these details from your paper, the reporters there, so damning for his candidacy. >> it's not just cruising the mall for teenagers which is suspect in the first place, but when you're going to their high school or calling them at their high school to pick them up maybe that should be setting off a pause button in your house.

even if it's they're going to have arguments about legal ages of consent and houma chur is a 14-year-old, there's something about going to a high school to try to ask somebody out and then there was that -- that same woman, you know, is one of the people that is alleged he forced himself on her in a way she didn't want to happen in the car. if the allegations keep coming, we are getting into a stalemate situation that doesn't seem like it's going to shift that much for the next few weeks except for in the poll numbers. he's pulling these character witnesses who are also starting the side conversation how anti lbgt and they're backing him up and roy moore has established himself as this central figure. >> very popular with evan gel cals. >> but is he going to die before he gets to the end of that story or is he going to see it

through? >> this is way it's landing. >> one would hope that one's wife would stai stand by him. >> and this is the way it's landing on alabama voter here weighing in on this race. >> i don't know for sure if i will vote or not, but i probably, if i vote i'm going to vote for the republican party. i don't see no reason why that these women should be lying about anything or, you know, i just don't -- i just don't trust him. people with power. >> why will you vote for roy moore if you think these women are telling the truth? >> well, because i want the republican party to, you know, our agenda and everything about getting it changed and everything. >> and the polling that we've seen so far, it looks like jones is up -- jones is the democratic candidate there. 50% to 42%. it was tied a few months ago. a lot of people skeptical about that poll.

your face showing that skeptism. >> i don't think in the kind of environment we're in i'm not sure i trust what people tell pollsters so i would wonder about that. mitch mcconnell's best hope may be that some of these people stay home, that they don't come out to actively vote for democrats but they are discouraged enough to stay home and somehow that keeps roy moore out of the senate if that's what he hopes for. i think the really striking thing goes back to to go back to the first segment, was this is a time when you're dealing with a scandal like this that you in past administrations the president would be taking the lead. right? the president would be setting the agenda. the president would be talking about strategy and what needs to be done and he is, you know, frozen essentially both politically because there's problems for him politically that we've discussed but his base and his background and the women and everything else sort of freezes him out of this so

you have you have a situation in washington where there's a real vacuum of political leadership. >> i also think this is a situation where the white house is rightly assessed the involvement by washington politicians has a gavlvanizing effect and that the white house may be right, that staying out of this is the best thing to do and mcconnell may have miscalculat miscalculated. >> tdemocrats want to stay out f it. up next, the shouting match over the gop tax plan. how the exchange went from policy to personal. >> i get kind of sick and tired of it. it's a nice political play. >> well, mr. chairman, with all due respect i get sick and tired of the richest getting richer. >> regular order. >> we do a tax -- >> regular order. >> wait a minute. >> regular order.

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republicans in the house have a win in their column. they just passed their tax plan and here is speaker of the house paul ryan taking his deserved victory lap. >> this is about giving hardworking taxpayers bigger paychecks, more take home pay. this is all given those families who are struggling peace of mind. it's about getting this economy to grow faster so we get bigger wages, more jobs and we put

americans in the driver's seat again. >> they hope this can be their big legislative win after failing to repeal and replace the affordable care act and president trump says republicans want tax cuts as a big and beautiful christmas present for americans but several republicans are voicing doubts about their very different senate plan which includes dissolving the obamacare individual mandate and bipartisan tempers flared. of course they did as the finance committee debated the bill on thursday night. >> it would be nice just tonight before we go home to just acknowledge, this tax cut is not for the middle class. it's for the rich. and that whole thing about higher wages it's a good selling point but we know companies don't give away higher wages. >> i've been here working my whole stinking career for people who don't have a chance and i recent anybody saying that i'm just doing this for the rich. give me a break. >> well, mr. chairman -- >> it's not true. >> i get sick and tired of the

richest getting richer. >> regular order. >> we do a tax -- >> regular order. >> wait a minute. >> regular order. >> and over and over again. how many times do we do this before we learn this? >> listen, i've honored you by allowing to spout off here and what you said was not right. that's all i'm saying. i come from the lower middle class originally. we didn't have anything. so don't spew that stuff on me. i get a little tired of that crap. >> that is congressional beef. i want to ask you, i mean, this is essentially going to be the argument about this tax plan for the next coming days and into the next year or so if it in fact passes. who's got the better side of the argument where democrats and where are republicans in this fight? >> so just to comment on that clip, it's particularly interesting because senator hatch is considered one of the

sweetest and kindest senators. he rarely raises his voice. he writes poetry. he has this reputation of being mellow and here he is getting angry but it highlights how toxic this accusation from the democrats that the tax bill is going to only benefit the rich for republicans. the problem here is that the tax cuts for individuals expire in 2025, so if you score them basically they're not going to get as big of a benefit as say corporations are going to see, which are seeing their taxes reduced permanently. adding the individual mandate to -- a repeal of the individual mandate to this bill also arouss the far left ire because they obviously are going to rally to try to protect obamacare so this makes it even more toxic for them. it's going to be brutal. >> speaking of the far left here is what chuck schumer said about trying to strip out that obamacare mandate. >> republicans decided to throw

the mother of all monkey wrenches into the bill. repealing the individual mandate. the nonpartisan congressional budget office said it would lead to 13 million fewer americans with health insurance. so we're kicking 13 million people off health insurance to give tax cuts to the wealthy. >> there's schumer with his take on it and you hear this from other democrats. this isn't exactly the populous plan that the president trump in some ways promised on the campaign trail. >> no, but this is exactly -- when you're looking at the latest twist of repealing the individual mandate it's a perfect example of what they're trying to cater to because it gives them more money to put towards the tax bill is supposed to blend the deficit. you bring the government's costs down somewhat so that appeases the people in the gop who are more concerned about raising the deficit than anything, but it alienates the democrats and

potentially moderate republicans even more than they might have been before because you've basically, you know, instituted something that is going to kick up overall costs for the middle class even if it's not necessarily pure taxes and like you said, those are only short term as well. but even if you can make the argument on taxes, the bottom line is you are paying more out of your pocket because you have to cover more health insurance costs, that's your bottom line right there. >> and there are two plans of course. one out of the senate and one out of the house and here are the differences. the one in the senate eliminate -- it eliminates medical, in the house it keeps it. student loans, the senate keeps it and there's also -- and there's also concerns from republicans about the elimination of the deductions state and local tax deductions and you saw some problems out of the house with that with 13 moderate folks from blue states

voting no out of the house. >> right. this -- i mean, this is what happens in every tax fight. it is incredibly complicated. there are -- for everything that you do that makes one group of people a winner, it makes another group of people a loser. part of the reason that you had that fight i rupt or that you can have that find of fight erupt is because everybody has ammunition. there are ways that you can -- that the republicans can just -- the point to, you know, parts of the bill that do certain things for members of the middle class. there's ways that brown can point to things that are solely for the rich. and what's striking is that the president has and republicans long called for the simplificati simplification, you're going to be able to see everything on an index card and file your taxes that way and yet there was an article i read this morning that talked about how like the thing that all of these, you know, kind of lawyers and doctors and insurance executives and people who have these, they're all running to their tax advisors to like, you know, design

complicated new plans to figure out how to deal with all this because it is going to be more complicated. >> and individually at least the senate gop tax plan, it will mean cuts as you were talking about before, rachel, in 2019 all incomes will get a tax cut. 2021 some groups will get a tax hike between 10 and 30,000. 2027, a tax hike if you're between 10 and 75,000. we saw the president engaged in this in a way that he hadn't been before, so certainly not with health care. >> that's true, but i have to say that if you're a smart republican, you want to be talking about the aspects of this plan that offer tax relief to the middle class. one of those is the child tax credit. it is $2,000. >> ivanka trump. >> that's big and i think that the administration generally has done an abysmal job selling its legislative initiatives. it did a terrible job on health

care. the house also -- or congress did an abysmal job on obamacare. i think that's one major reason that i failed. nobody was owning that bill. nobody was out selling it. nobody -- no surrogates on television while democrats were pummelling it. we've seen gary cone go out and call it -- say it has trickle down benefits. i haven't seen -- >> and the ceos are particularly happy with it. >> right. and when the president goes out and says this is going to be a big christmas gift, i don't think that's enough in terms of specificity although it's not as bad as the health care thing but we need to see republicans in congress sell this in terms of middle class tax relief and offer specifics. >> and republicans need this for 2018. next congressional investigators dig into team trump. their questions on one member's memory and another's security clearance.

before i get started here, any russians? anybody been to russia? got a cousin in russia or something? >> that was attorney general jeff sessions addressing the elephant in the room and pretty humorously on friday. his joke comes just days after a house panel pressed him on whether he misled congress on the trump campaign's russia contacts. and over on the senate side investigators now have more questions for jared kushner. the judiciary committee says what kushner has provided so far is incomplete. they want more information on wikileaks conflicts and dinner invite, plus they want materials related to his security clearance. kushner's lawyers have said that no documents are missing and they responded with this on friday. i would have assumed that if there were any questions about our productions or exchanges,

that would have been communicated to me directly before you made this media event. sessions, those jokes seem to be written by snl. they were pretty good there. pretty funny. good timing. what happened this week? why -- why is it significant? is what happened this week significant in the larger investigation into russia? >> yeah, i mean, it is. there are multiple episodes othis week. on monday we had the revelation that don jr. had been in contact over his direct messages over twitter with wikileaks and sessions just seemed to have a memory lapse about many different things pertaining to russia. then the senate judiciary committee. and we were writing about democrats and republicans not working together. you have some saying kushner, we have not produced the documents we asked for. we know through other witnesses that will are at least three fairly significant contacts that you should have disclosed if you're disclosing contacts with russia. of course kushner's team says

there's nothing there, but the point is how transparent are they being and the fact that you have republicans and democrats working together to raise this inquiry. coming in the post mueller charges era, anything that is a contact with russia or russian cutout or somebody that we know was working with moscow to some degree is a question of does this niche the coordination or collusion. so to have three different episodes this week that were fairly significant and high profile involving trump's inner circle, not that good. getzing into the later stages of the probes. >> and coming up, mueller is going to interview hicks, we're told that's going to happen by the end of the year and we also got this this morning, the music publicist rob gold stone and he says this. i didn't understand anything about that, nothing at all. this meeting happened months

before russia became the hot topic. if this had happened later sure, i would have been aware because it's all people we're talking about, russia and russian interference. hindsight is great, but it just wasn't being talked about at that time. he too at some point will talk to mueller. what do you make of what mueller is after in conversations and what he'll have with hicks, with mcgan at some point and gold stone as well? >> look, i think, you know, what the -- both the indictments of paul manifort and the surprise announcement of a guilty plea of papadopoulos, that should remind us that despite the fact that three significant things happened this last week that what we're not seeing is probably way more significant than what we are seeing. and that you know, it is -- it is both a political problem that the administration has to deal with because each week is no matter what their message is on taxes or anything else, it's dominated to some extent by this

broad topic of the russia investigation, but it's also a legal problem and the legal stuff that we don't know is probably way more threatening for the president than the stuff that we do know. >> and one of the reasons, i mean it feels like 2016 will never go away is because of this russia investigation and here was hillary clinton weighing in on trump and the legitimacy of his presidency. >> i think that there are lots of questions about its legitimacy and we don't have a method for contesting that in our system. that's why i've long advocated for an independent commission to get to the bottom of what happened. >> and trump basically came out and said, clinton you're a big loser, move on with your life. he's tweeted about her i think 61 times. >> oh, yeah. he loves the fight. >> he loves the fight and also she's poking at him in terms of what he thinks bothers him so much about this.

right? the whole idea of legitimacy. >> oh, yeah and she can't stop talking about the election herself. so if this makes her feel better to go out there and say this is not a legitimate election, i think most democrats want to move on from that although they want to focus on the russia investigation. but to go back to mueller and what's going on there, we saw the fbi subpoenas to officials who were cooperating and that also signifies that they are worried about the selective amnesia that we're seeing. >> up next, our reporters give you a glimpse of tomorrow's headlines today including president trump's impending return to his most notorious tweets. will there be more? queen mattress set for the best price ever. or save up to $500 on select adjustable sets. ♪ find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic.com.

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politics table to see what our reporters are hearing from their sources and what stories could end up making news. we'll start with you. >> you know, there is a myopic focus on tax reform right now and for good reason but i'm really struck by the extent to which there is no agreement between the white house and congress on what the next agenda item is. you hear things from welfare reform to infrastructure, to a daca fix but this is the first time in decades that there is no sense on what comes next on

capitol hill. >> i'm sure republicans are asking the same questions around the country too. >> we keep talking about the russia investigation for good reason. but the president's push back to a lot of this focus on his team has been there was too much surveillance, people were looking at all these people in untoward ways and that has created a strange culture of how we're going to reauthorize one of the most key surveillance programs basically that lets the united states government collect intelligence for agents on u.s. soil and there's a ticking clock as soon as we get back to congress because they have until the end of the year to reauthorize it but if they're going to do it they have to do it in the budget so we're talking about a matter of days to reauthorize what's the most important surveillance program and you don't have a glame plan now. this could be a major problem if this goes off the books and right now the culture that we're in has so many questions about

what they're looking at because of this whole russia claim. so it's going to be complicated to get something done. >> more deadlines and more agenda items. >> so this coming week, mas yet another phase of this presidency. the season starts. the president will be going down for the thanksgiving break and will continue to do that for the remainder of the winter. people would be -- could be excused for thinking this could be a quiet time in washington and there's certainly a lot of people who are hoping for that, but if you talk to white house aides they will tell you they worry when the president goes down to mara lago and he tends to tweet and rant about things. you'll remember the tweet about president obama came while he was down there so we can all cross our fingers for a good quiet thanksgiving. >> maybe he'll be too busy with turkey and cranberry sauce. >> i'm going to complicate the

holidays a little more. so i'm hearing that the big floor in congress, the democratic leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are equietly negotiating. they are running out of time and they're terribly far apart right now with democrats still pushing for a daca fix and a solution for d.r.e.a.m.ers. republicans are worried that if they increase spending without offsets and do a daca fix, republicans are going to go off the rails. i am concerned we might be here on christmas as well. >> santa is not going to allow that. that's my prediction. it's a question asked every election cycle. will it be the year of the woman? the phrase captures what happened in 1992 when the number of new women elected to congress set a record. at least a part of that influx was because of the clarence thomas hearings and the spotlight on sexual harassment in the work place. those hearings had an energizing effect on voters and on kand

dates. a similar conversation is going on right now. so what about 2018? i reached out to the center for american women in politics and got an early look at their data and their analysis. here is what the scholars there have an eye on so far. as with 2017 there could be a number of firsts in 2018. arizona and tennessee could get their first woman senator. there could be a record number of women veterans running for office particularly in house races where the number of women candidates is almost double what it was at this point in 2015. their full report will be online in the coming days and it's definitely working out for a forecast of how it's shaping up so far. thanks for being with us this sunday. you'll be able to catch an exclusive interview with bernie sanders next on "state of the union" with jake tapper. you nervous? ♪ ♪

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selective outrage. president trump criticizes al franken after sexual misconduct allegations. now the white house says believe franken's accuser but not the president's many accusers. >> senator franken has admitted wrong doing and the president hasn't. >> all of this while the president says mum on whether he believes the charges a