age of trump that airs tonight at 9:00 eastern only on cnn. we'll all be watching for that. i'm jim acosta. thank you very much for watching tonight. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next the president picks a side, he won't take roy moore to get out of the race and the aids make it clear he wants an ally in congress. is trump willing to back a man who allegedly misconduct a 14-year-old over a republican. let's go "outfront." i'm erin burnett "outfront" tonight. anyone but a democrat. the white house making it clear today that it's better to cast a vote for an alleged pedophile

than vote for a democrat, yes, you heard me, because the president, of course, has personally remained silent. two women in his administration are now speaking for him. first the press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders today. >> obviously the president wants people both in the house and the senate that support his agenda. >> that means roy moore, the republican, accused by eight women with corroborated accounts of harassment assaults is better for the united states than the democrat doug jones. and kellyanne conway, earlier in the day, making the same point loud and clear. >> doug jones in alabama, folks, don't be fooled. he'll be a vote against tax cuts. he's weak on crime, weak on borders. he's strong on raising your taxes. he's terrible for property owners and doug jones is a liberal which why he's not saying anything and why the media are trying to boost him. >> so vote roy moore? >> i'm telling you we want the

votes in the senate to get this tax -- this tax bill through. >> that was a loud and clear endorsement of roy moore and it comes from a woman who had a very different take on this whole situation just five days ago. >> the principle, the incontrovertible principle is that there's no senate seat that's worth more than a child. >> except for this one presumably now five days later. the president himself letting kellyanne conway and sarah sanders do the talking for him today marking the sixth day of his silence on this issue. remember on air force one the president promised further comment, quote, down the road when he returned to the country. in those six days, he's opinion very willing to talk out on this broader issue. he's called out senator al franken or al frankenstein in two tweets and he hasn't been afraid to call out other like democrat anthony weiner in the past.

trump tweeted in 2012, quote, pervert alert, rem weiner back on alert. all girls under 18 block him immediately. certainly weiner and franken deserved to be called out so does roy moore, though, and the white house not only not doing that but backing him. ryan nobles is out front in the white house and the white house taking a side tonight. >> reporter: it seems that way and perhaps gives us some indication as to why they've been so coy about the issue of roy moore and his role in this alabama senate race in the days after the president returned back from his trip in asia. it's not as if the president hasn't had an opportunity to respond to these questions about roy moore. this morning he had a meeting of his cabinet. reporters were invited in there for a brief period of time and he was specifically asked about where he stands about roy moore and he did not answer the question. it's important to keep in mind that shortly after the candidate that the president backed in alabama luther strange lost that

race to -- the president embraced roy moore and while he was campaigning for luther strange, said he would be an alabama campaigning like hell for whoever won that primary. he's yet to officially rescind that endorsement and white house making it somewhat clear to the people of alabama who they hope gets elected on december 12th. >> they were pretty clear about that. thank you. now let's go to tom bates, member of al.com, which this weekend wrote our view, alabama voters must reject roy moore. we endorse doug jones for the u.s. senate. april ryan also with us. white house correspondent for american urban radio networks and mark pressman. mark, let me start with you. certainly here, there are some pretty incredible high pock contrasy from kellyanne conway and the president.

>> i think you're being kind by calling it hypocritical. we heard what she said a few days ago and look where she is now. we saw the white house budget director say that the president isn't sure who with to believe. we saw mark sure say that he'd been down, he being donald trump would be down campaigning if he didn't believe there was some credibility to these allegations and yet we're at this point right now where we haven't heard directly from president trump. i think that's very important. we have heard from the press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. we have not heard it uttered from donald trump's mouth and the reason being, let's remember, the president himself has been accused by more than a dozen women of engage approximating in the same behavior, erin. >> which is pretty obvious what the issue here is and the hypocrisy. april you were in the briefing room, the administration taking a side here, it is better to support roy moore a man accused of being a pedophile than it is to support the democrat.

>> yeah. it's interesting just watching this all play out. it's simply desperation for a legislative win, you know. kellyanne conway and you played the piece five days ago said something totally different and then you have people on the hill, you have the house and senate leaders, you know, paul ryan talking about if there is credible evidence against roy moore, you've got -- you've got mitch mcconnell talking about kicking him out if he wins and then you have a president who's talking about getting the tax cut through, using this -- this is an ally when some of his republican -- republicans are defecting. this is desperation for a win. >> and tom, if your op ed, you wrote, a vote for roy moore sends the worse kind of message to bammions struggling with abuse. if you ever do tell your story, alabama won't believe you or worse will believe you but we

just won't care. the fox news poll showed the democrat doug jones pulling ahead significantly. are people telling pollsters how they really feel or is the white house going to give them cover to vote moore and moore wins here? >> well, erin it's always difficult to judge the results of polls in alabama. also this is a special election so it's hard to know what the turnout will be, but all that's happening is exactly why we wrote the editorial. our view is that the senate race must transcend party politics and that in alabama it's a referendum on what we need to expect from our leaders and frankly, i don't know how we can look at young people and not step forward or they're not going to trust their institutions. >> that's the big question here, mark. the last time the president publicly addressed roy moore himself was during that gaggle on air force one more than a week ago on his way home in

which he said, i'll have further comment as we go down the road. i have to get back into the country to see what's happening. now if you're an alabama voter and you care what the president is doing and saying, you care about his view here as leadership, he's been back in the country six days. he slammed the nfl on attendance and ratings way down, he said. the media called it fake, loser, failing "the new york times." attacked the father of one of the ucla basketball players, very ungrateful, they should go back to jail. hillary clinton calling her crooked and the biggest loser of all time. he has plenty of time to talk about all of these things. on this issue he will remain silent. >> silence sends a message no question about that. he's sending a message down in alabama that he needs that vote and wants that vote and for him he needs a very big legislatively victory because it's been a very disappointing first term in office. donald trump wants a win. it's not only him. governor ivy herself has said

that she will vote for roy moore on december 12th. think about the message that she's sending to young republicans as we're talking right now in that state. >> and she is staying not only that she'll vote for roy moore but she finds his accusers believable. she is making it clear, i believe them, i believe he did assault, harassment, pedophilia and i'm going to vote for him any way. >> i would say that the senate republicans in the state have made it clear that this is a party vote for them and they have stood by him. i find it somewhat encouraging that the young republicans in alabama, that organization, actually has withdrawn its support. so i do think there may be some things along age lines that show that not everybody on the republican side will go straight party vote, but certainly governor ivy and others have been standing by. >> and april, tom wrote about the three options that

alabamians have in his op ed, stay home, don't vote at all because you don't want to deal with this. write in a candidate or vote for doug jones and jeff sessions or luther strange could wage a write-in campaign. strange could resign. these are very serious questions. when you cover washington, april, the odds of one of these options, luther strange or jeff sessions given a republican write-in option, is that at this point a real option? >> well, you never know what people may do. you can write in who you want. i think back to the tumultus couple months that jeff sessions had with president trump and even in the worse of times jeff sessions said i'm not going anywhere. i stand by this president. he did not resign. he made it clear. the president allowed him to stay. that as republicans were saying,

don't mess with our guy. so the republicans had jeff sessions' back, but jeff sessions has been there and done that. he's been a senator and he said he's standing clear and firm that he wants to stay as ag, the u.s. attorney general of the united states. so we'll see how this all plays out. who knows, alabama could write him back in? who knows? you can't script this at all. this is just something we've never seen and this is history in the making and this is changing everything. it's pushing the goalpost in different places and places that we may not really want them to go. >> right. which is true and of course raising a big question, when it comes to your own life or pocket book, are you willing to put morlz ahead of what you think is best for your own well-being which is the choice that many republicans in alabama have and it's a tough one. thank you all very much. and next roy moore staying afloat thanks to the support of evangelicals. some 14-year-olds could pass for

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tonight the woman who says roy moore sexually abused her when she was just 14-year-old is speaking out on camera for the first time. lee compman is her name and she was answering charges that she was politically motivated. she's a long time republican voter and for why she didn't speak out sooner, she said she wanted to confront moore nearly two decades ago. she was worried about the impact it would've had on her children. >> i actually sat down with my children who were then junior high and elementary school and told them, you know, an overview and gave them the ability to make the decision. they were afraid that with all of their social connections that they would be cast out in their groups. >> you had to tell your kids something about what had happened. >> right, and we decided together that we wouldn't do it at that time. so when "the washington post" sought me out, i didn't go looking for this.

this fell in my lap. it literally fell in my lap and i had to make a decision and i told them that at that time the reporter who were all just wonderful to me, that if they found additional people that i would tell my story and they found those people. >> two faith leaders with very different opinions on roy moore. she's the president of faith to action and eva, she's the pastor of the firm foundation church. i appreciate both of you taking the time tonight. janet, let me start with you if i can. i want to play some of what moore's accusers, you just heard a little bit, but here she talks about what he did to her, what she says he did to her when she was 14-year-old that's below the age of correction. >> thank you for making that correction. most of them are saying this is

what he did as if he really did it and i thank you for making the correction. most anchors are not doing that these days. >> i will just note even among the four four accusers, there are more than 30 people who have corroborated their accounts according to the time in which it occurred. let me play for both of you what she said happened. >> at 14 i was not dating. at 14 i was not able to make those kind of choices. he basically laid out some blankets on the floor of his living room and proceeded to seduce me i guess you would say and during the course of that, he removed my clothing, he left the room and came back in wearing his white underwear and he touched me over my clothing, what was left of it and he tried to get me to touch him as well. i was a 14-year-old child trying

to play in an adult's world and he was 32 years old. so janet, just to understand, i know you don't believe her, just to be clear, you don't believe her but if that happened, would that be okay in any scenario to you? >> no, i think anybody who's guilty of sexual assault should step down and that's why i call for al franken to leave the senate. interestingly, the establishment is not calling for the guilty man, the man whose admitted gilt, they're calling for him to step down but what they're not -- what they're doing instead is they're calling for the innocent man to step out of the race and that's just not right. we are innocent until proven guilty. >> eva? >> he should step down. sexual assault, child abuse, sexual abuse, abuse of power, in our faith, we don't stand for that but we are supposed to speak up for those who are in a lesser position than those who are marginalized by society and even by the church.

so he should definitely step down and if he did this and outside of that, he's not handling these allegations very seriously. >> janet, how have you gotten your head around the point that i made earlier which is not just that it is eight women who have accused roy moore, who do not know each other, but that there are tens of people, 30 for the first four you're looking at up to 50 or 60 of people they told these accounts to over the years. do you believe that all of those people are lying? >> well, when you look at the facts and one of the things that lee korfman said that "the washington post" quote sought me out. these are washington times driven allegations and that's something that's pretty much common with every single one. none of them have any evidence. there is one shred of evidence which doesn't prove gilt and that's that signature in the yearbook. it's not just that i am

questioning the validity but not only the accuser of beverly nelson for example, her own stepson said she's lying, and her own attorney doesn't blefl her. listen to this if i may this was on msnbc and it proves the point, kate snow asked the attorney for one of the accusers if analysis -- beverly nelson, if independent analysis shows that this is not a signature, does that disprove your client's allegations and her answer was, no it doesn't. in other words, even if my client is lying, even if the evidence is forgery, i'm still going to pursue the campaign to defeat roy moore because it's not about the facts or about the women or the evidence. this is about a campaign to elect a democrat in the state of alabama. plain and simple. >> so "the washington post," not the washington times, but i will say -- >> i'm sorry. my mistake. >> that's okay. that's okay. i'm just pointing that out. that's a job of a journalist, right, so s to find these

stories and seek them out, you're criticizing them for doing their job, right? that would reek -- but a reporter going out and doing hard nosed reporting and finding someone that's what you should want a reporter to do. >> what they're doing is they are the opposition research for roy moore's opponent. they're going out -- by the way, you noel "the washington post" endorsed his opponent. >> that's the editorial page. >> that's clear. yeah. and that's their news page too if you read it. one of the other things we discovered and the msnbc interview, the same bun, gloria alred admitted this is political. what kind of jurisdiction do they have? she's holding the yearbook hostage. guess who's on that? a guy by the name of al franken. this is the guy that's admitted guilt to sexual assault who's

supposed to oversee the innocent man. i call on gloria to release the book. >> so eva, when you hear that this is a campaign for the democrat, which janet didn't mention mitch mcconnell have said it's a campaign between democrats, the establishment republicans and the media, what do you say? >> i don't care who sought her out or who they think is helping bring these stories to light, these are still stories of women who were teenagers at the time and we cannot make lightly of those allegations. we can go around and say this is about republican and democrats, but we as the church, we as society, need to take these types of stories very seriously and open the door for women to tell their stories and for children to tell their stories and that's part of the problem, that we are just wanting to say,

you have more stories being told, more facts being told, more circumstances that are being told and so on the other side you're just getting didn't happen but then you're getting things that not generally, i did date underage woman at the time. so we have to take these allegations seriously and until roy moore does it, i don't believe a word he's saying. >> that's actually untrue. i'll just say he's on record. he's made it very clear, judge roy moore did not date underaged women nor did he conduct -- >> he actually admitted to dating one of these women. he did admit. >> he did admit to. >> he didn't date any one who was underage. i can releaad the press release right here. >> he said she was above the age in alabama. she was a teenager but she was above the age of consent. so he was 30 or 32 and she was 16. >> there's one thing i agree

with -- you know what? what my opinions are -- i have a whole book on dating. i'm here to talk about the allegations against judge moore and how -- >> and whether it's okay -- whether it's okay to vote for him giving that so if that happened, are you okay with it? you're defending it? >> what i'm talking about is the baseless allegations that are aimed at an innocent man who is proven his trustworthiness, his character, his impeccable values. this is a guy that's pro-life who's been a champion for life where his opponent is in favor of tax funded abortion until birth, until the moment of birth. >> does it matter if he engaged in act of pedophilia? >> you know what? here's the thing, if someone engaged in any kind of illicit acts i would ask them to step down. what we're talking about is one word i agree with the young lady that just spoke. if we're going to convict people by what the media has to say,

there would be some lacrosse players from duke who would be in jail right now. remember what they did to clarence thomas? this is the same movie we saw with gloria alred in -- where she had accusers against her main cain. if you can't weigh the evidence, if you can't cross examine, if she's going to continue to withhold the evidence, she should frankly be disbarred. >> on sexual assault, you almost never can get exact evidence. >> if someone's admitted to it like al franken has -- >> and i will appreciate both of you making it clear where you stand on that. thank you. next, republican selling trickle down economics in their tax cut proposals. can trump make a reagan era plan work in the 21st century. and al franken apologizing again. there is a new accusation so will he be stepping aside?

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today president trump praised congressional republicans for their work on taxes, saying he wants america to have a tax cut for christmas specifically highlighting the crucial cut, the core of the entire republican plan which is a slash in corporate tax rates. >> corporate rates will be reduced from 35% all the way down to 20%, which will make us competitive again and companies won't be leaving our country. finally, our tax plan will return trillions of dollars in wealth to our shores so companies can invest in america again. >> out front now jordan nor press and robert rice. grover, let me start with you. if you lower the corporate tax rate from 35 to 20, it is a

massive cut. where's the guarantee the companies are actually going to bring that money home, not just bring it home, but actually use it to invest in their workers and give people raises? >> there are two things, one is taking the rate from 35 to 20 means that when a company earns $100, the government used to take 65 -- you got 35, the government would take $35 out of the 100 now it would only take 20 so it leaves the company with more -- >> just a quick interjection that we're so many loopholes that a lot of them were not paying the 35 which we all know. >> on the margins it's 35. average -- averages are interesting. all decisions are made on the margin and that's one of the problems we have because we had a worldwide tax system which means our companies were taxed more heavily overseas, not just here but overseas as well. china's at 25, we're at 35. that's the kind of -- socialist

china is a 25% tax on its business, the united states is 35. we're going to go to 20. taxes are a cost of doing business. it's like any other cost you have if you reduce the cost, you have more opportunity to hire more people, invest for, you increase the aftertax cash flow of every company in the united states and then burger king wouldn't have been bought by the canadians, they're at about 15% tax, we're at 35. that's why we're losing companies overseas. that stops with this tax cut. >> what about the wage increase? >> the question is if a company has more money, they've got -- and they have a better rate of return because after tax their ralt of return goes up, they will make more investments in different things. you hire more people. you invest in plant and equipment. what do you expect them to do? eat the money? that's what companies do. >> last time around when they had that holiday and i noknow t

whole point was a holiday, they spent it on share buybacks and other, do you buy grover's point, if its permanent, that there will be some of these investments? >> well, if history's any guide, erin, no, there won't be. what companies do when they have spare cash and american companies are flush with cash, what they do with spare cash they pump up executive pay and they repurchase, they buyback their shares of stocks in order to have share prices go up. this is what they did in 2004 with the tax holiday. this is what companies are doing even today. i don't understand why do we even entertain the possibleability of a $1.5 trillion addition to our national debt for the sake of giving corporations more money to just pump up executive pay and also buyback shares of stock. it makes absolutely no sense. >> grover, why not put rules in there to force them to not do certain things with it?

would you be open to that? >> we don't want -- this is not east germany in 1952. we don't have the government tell people what to do with their money. when a company buys back stock it is investing in its own firm. that money goes to investors and they invest. it doesn't disappear. this is not difficult to understand. when the money came back to the united states, we had significant growth during the same reasons that trump is. they can't but ignoring that obama promised people he was going to do that, said he was going to work at it. he was there for eight years never got around to it. he always made it clear that this is one of the problems

united states faces competitively. we can't go around the world with this handicap, with our government damaging people in the united states. >> so robert, would you agree, that there should be a cut to the corporate tax rate of some magnitude but the fundamental point? >> not at all. the effective rate is competitive already that's why american companies have so much money and that's why they are buying back their shares of stock. also i disagree with grover. the ultimate goal here is not just growth, the ultimate goal here is to give people a raise and what we have had is trickle down economics and it's been a failure and nothing's trickled down. most american if you adjust for inflation were right back to where therm years ago and they have not had a raise. the only people that had a raise are the people at the very top or the people who own most shares of stock and those are also people at the develop top. >> thank you both very much. this is to be continued. i appreciate it. next, senator al franken facing a new accusation tonight.

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tonight a second woman accusing al franken of touching her inappropriately. the senator groped her as they posed for a photo in august 2010 at the minnesota state fair. at the time he was the sitting senator when this allegedly happened. franken apologized for the incident saying i quote, i take thousands of photos surrounded by hundreds of people. i certainly don't remember taking this picture. i feel badly that ms. men's came away from our interaction feeling disrespected. congresswoman, thank you very much. i know this is an issue that you have now taken on personally. let me get straight to it. last week there was a woman accusing senator franken of kissing her unwanted, assault, there was that picture also of him and you said at the time it's appropriate for the ethics committee to investigate now

there's a second accusation of him grabbing the behind of a woman in pakt at the minnesota state fair. what should happen now? franken resign or are you still okay with an ethics investigation? >> i think an ethics investigation is appropriate. for sexual harassment in the workplace it either has to be severe or persistent and i think that this is not a workplace phenomenon necessarily but it could very well be unwanted touching that would be in the sexual assault. i think that we've got to treat these cases seriously. i think that we have to recognize that we're going to be in the uncomfortable position of sometimes, you know, calling out persons that we admire and that we've worked with and that we have great respect for but if we're going to address this issue, we're going to have to address it for everybody and everyone's going to have to be treated the same. >> so on this front, liberal group indeadviceable says franken should resign.

we believe the women. franken should resign. sally cohen came out today and said time for al franken to go and wrong is wrong and the democrats need to show they strongly and consistently stand for womens' rights. you're not willing to go that far. you are not calling for his resignation tonight. >> i may be calling for his resignation at some point but i think -- >> just not yet is what i'm saying? you're not there yet? >> yes. i'm not there yet. often times when there's one incident there's many incidents. so far there's two. is two pervasive. that's a question to be assessed. again, not in a workplace sitting but i do believe that the conduct of elected officials needs to be above reproach. >> now, you said a moment ago in your first answer you talked about when it was severe and i will wanted to ask you something, a question posed today by a columnist in the

conservative national review, all right, you're well aware of it. our viewers know it's a very conservative publication. they wrote about the dangers of lumping all of these cases together. okay? it's a tough argument to make. it's a tough line to walk but they write, we live in an era when already a knee touch can cause resignations. are we sure that must unwanted advances must always be deemed a resigning matter? do they have a point? are some acts different or worse than others? >> that's why each of these cases has to be looked at on the facts and the courts have held that one incident does not suffice for sexual harassment. one unwanted touching sufficient, probably not. if it's -- if it's grabbing someone's buttocks in the office setting, that could be considered severe. again, it's dependent on the

actual facts -- >> you keep saying in the office setting. do you mean while he's in office or you mean it's not as bad if he does it to a constituent to the state fair if he does it in the halls of the senate? >> sexual harassment focuses on the workplace, so it is more specifically focused there. she could be asked for a sexual assault charge to be imposed because separate and distinct from that, unwanted touching can be a sexual assault, so i'm just trying to draw a distinction between many of these cases have been in the office and it is sexual harassment, it's a hostile work environment. >> i understand. >> and separate from that. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your time congresswoman speier, good to talk to you. >> you to. next breaking news. at&t not backing down in its pursuit of time warner and cnn addressing quote, the elephant in the room and we'll address that. and on a lighter note, bad

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content involved but simply because of cnn, and the fact that president trump makes it clear again and again on twitter that he thinks cnn's coverage of him is unfair. >> i do want to address the elephant in the room here. there's been a lot of reporting and speculation whether this is all about cnn and frankly, i don't know. but nobody should be surprised that the question keeps coming up because we've witnessed such an abrupt change in the application of antitrust law here but the bottom line is, that we cannot and we will not be party to any agreement that would even give the perception of compromising the first amendment protection of the press. so any agreement that results in us forfeiting control of cnn whether directly or indirectly is a nonstarter. we believe quite strongly that any deves tour of at&t assets or time warner assets is not required by the law.

and we have no intention of backing down from the government's lawsuit. the lead trial council for at&t and time warner. the ceo of at&t just said he doesn't know if this has anything to do cnn. do you think it does. >> we have no idea. i mean whatever the motive >> if it turns out there was some influence of the sort that's been wildly speculated, i suggest that that will come out and i suggest it won't go well for the government. >> do you have any knowledge that the president of the united states himself has reached out

to the doj on this, to the new head of anti-trust enforcement who have just come in recently to take over the review of this? >> we have no knowledge of that. and no idea if any such thing happened. all i'm saying is that it's been such wild speculation about this that i think mr. stephenson wanted to make clear, that under no circumstances is he going to sell cnn app or the turner networks app. turner's of course the parent company of cnn and we're going to fight this merger all the way. >> the former ceo, michael cox today -- i remember talking to david stephenson on the day the merger was first announced. at the time the widespread view was that hillary clinton was going to win the election and her doj will shut this down

because so many democrats made it clear. but then trump won and his election made this so much clearer. whether you put it together do you think they do have an argument considering it is coming from both sides of the political spectrum? >> no. there's no credible proof in this case that this merger would harm competition. by way of context i've been involved in this for the better part of the year and have sat through the entire investigation tat doj conducted and i can tell you that they turned this thing upside down. there's no credible proof that consumers are going to get charged money on their t.v. bill or the content is going to be restricted, it doesn't make any sense. you wouldn't be working for this network if it turned out this show was only going to be

distributed to directv s subscribers rather than fully distributed across the country. the atlantalent is the life blod the cardinal rule you extend to the maximum extent possible. >> before we go, here's the president as he was running for office. >> at&t is buying time warner and thus cnn, a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of two few. >> couple that with all his tweets, calling us fake news and losers and everything else in that network, is that all that you're going to put in front of the court? >> well the government is going to have to prove that there is

competition on behalf of at&t and time warner, and given the landscape in which both companies operate rkt they'll be unable to prove that. >> all right thank you so much. appreciate your time. a big story tonight, the president's influence on the department of justice. there was a perfect view of a massive building implosion which is a sight to see until the bus pulled up. >> [ bleep ] get out of the way bus!

a perfect shot, all eyes on a building about to implode just imagine that, you have it, you got it. and then something goes terribly wrong. jeanie moss is out front. >> when the georgia dome imploded monday, cameras caught it from lots of cool angels except for this angle. where the camera operators were the ones to implode. >> bus. [ bleep ] get out of the way bus? >> whether channel video producer jason ross was behind this camera. >> we're all kind of whispering in anger.

>> what the [ bleep ]![ bleep ]! >> an epic photo bomb. critics wasn't so kind. amateur their spouting should have been on the other side of the road. everyone keep saying, how come this idiot set up at a bus stop. jason explained he and half a dozen other crews were on a media platform, the road was supposed to be closed. and the bus driver -- >> she wanted to stop and catch the show herself. >> sincere tweeted. we sincerely apologized for your footage of the dome implosion. are you mood at the bus driver? >> i'm not mad at her because if i was driving by i'd want to stop and see it myself. >> and did you happen to notice the sign on the side of the bus?

>> [ bleep ] get out of the way bus. >> jeanie moss cnn. [ bleep ]. new york. >> thank so much for joaning us. -- joining us. see you back here tomorrow. ac 360 begins right now. the headlines says it all. eight women soy charley rose sexual sexually harassed them with nudity, groping and calls. john berman here for anderson. when it comes to choosing the next u.s. senate from alabama, the white house would prefer a alleged why would molester to a democrat. kelly anne