neck to alligators. >> think you can eelectric roy moore without getting the baggage. >> they're trying to give judge roy moore a high-tech. it's time that we put our decency before political party. >> i asked that congress investigate mr. trump's history of sexual miscon dungt. >> i thought we litigated that. didn't the american people already vote on that. >> this has all been asked and answered but it really hasn't been. >> this was an attempted terrorist attack. >> the suspect had pledged allegiance to isis. >> we're not going to allow them to disrupt us. that's exactly what they want. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alice son cam rat ta. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day," tuesday. here's our starting line. bitter alabama senate race is now in the hands of voters. two hours from now polls open in that state.

will they elect accused child molester or doug jones who hopes to become the first alabama democrat elected to the u.s. senate in 25 years? the final pitch from steve bannon taking an apparent shot at the president's daughter, ivanka, saying, quote, there's a special place in hell for republicans who do not support other republicans, end quote. while roy moore's wife defended her husband against claims of being anti-semitic with a head slapping explanation. >> what she said may not have been that helpful. and sexual allegations aren't only dogging roy moore. the president has 50-plus lawmakers in the house asking for an investigation into the claims against him. the white house says they have eyewitnesses who can prove president trump did not sexually harass or assault anyone before he was elected. the white house again insisting

the women accusing him are all making false claims that are all politically motivated. all this, as another democratic senator says president trump should resign over the same allegations of assault. we have it all covered. let's begin with cnn's alex marqhardt in alabama where doug jones will be casting his vote, we believe, some time about 8:30 on our watch. thanks for being there. >> that's right, chris, in a couple of hours. roy moore has always known that his core passionate base of support would be turn iing out this chilly day in december. doug jones has had to work hard to get people to the polls. a very uncertain race, always been a competitive race. all the more so, extremely tight after these allegations came to light against roy moore. of course, allegations that he denies. secretary of state for alabama predicts turnout will be between 20 and 25%. that's higher than earlier

predicted because of all this extra interest in this race. now, we will see the big name of the game, the big question today is turnout. that is what we'll be watching. that is the most important factor, as voters go to the polls today. republican roy moore and democrat doug jones making their final pitches to voters ahead of one of the most unpredictable elections in alabama's history. >> it is time that we put our decency, our state before political party. >> i'm going to tell you, if you don't believe in my character, don't vote for me. >> moore, bringing in a number of out-of-state conservatives, including the president's former chief strategist, steve bannon, who riled up the crowd attacking republicans who have been critical of the accused child molester, even appearing taking a shot at the president's daughter, telling the ap last

month there's a special police in hell for people who prey on children. >> there's a special place in hell for republicans who should know better. >> bannon also naming names, calling out the state's most prominent republican, senator richard shelby, who told cnn sunday he could not vote for roy moore. and native alabamaian condoleezza rice, who urged voters to, quote, reject bigotry, sexism and intolerance. >> fake news would tell you we don't care for jews. one of our attorneys is a jew. >> while doug jones, who has been working to shore up much-needed support for african-american voters teamed up on election eve with basketball hall of famer charles barkley, who had this message

for his home state. >> at some point we have to draw a line in the sand. we're not a bunch of idiots. >> also getting support from vice president joe biden and president obama. >> go vote for roy moore. >> moore letting the president do much of his talking for him the past few days, alongside very few select interviews, shunning the media. and instead interviewed by a 12-year-old girl. >> what do you think are the characteristics of a really good senator? >> following the constitution, adhering to principle. >> reporter: defending his near total absence from the campaign trail in the final week of this heated race, saying he was visiting west point, his alma mater with his wife. >> i'm surrounded by this gaggle of media, which i've come to love and enjoy, while roy moore was not even in the state of alabama over this weekend.

>> reporter: doug jones will be voting right here in just around three hours time. he is then expected to make a number of stops, five different stops, in fact, at polling station to say hello to voters. we know that roy moore will be voting, as he always does, in his hometown of gallant. as always, he will be riding his horse whose name, alisyn and chris, is sassy. >> i like it. >> it's a male, which is weird. >> thank you very much, alex. let's bring in our discussion, cnn political analyst john and senior political analyst ron brownstein. we keep hearing that alabamians don't want to be told how to

vote. is the obama robo call a liability? by the way, why isn't steve bannon an outsider? he's a multimillionaire from a big city. because he doesn't comb his hair they think he's an insider? >> just because you're a multimillionaire who lives in beverly hills doesn't mean you can't go down to alabama and tell people how to vote. >> in a safari jacket, field coat as if you're going into the bush. >> the president of the united states is being framed as an outsider, someone who is in a death struggle with the federal government bureaucracy. of course alabamians don't like being told how to vote. that's why doug jones' campaign is focused on a message that's a bit lost. you have to vote the person, not the party. roy moore, if you know him, doesn't represent the best of alabama, which is the point charles barkley was making more eloquently than me.

so i think there's a danger where some democrats try to nationalize races and some candidates get a little afraid of their shadow. what if barack obama is seen as endorsing me? people know he's a democrat and trump has already made robo calls. >> steve bannon put the finishing touches on his message to that effect. >> little bobby corker, all that establishment up there, all that establishment up there every day that doesn't have trump's back. you know they don't have his back at all. what they want him for is that corporate tax cut. that's what they want him for. you watch what happens as soon as they get that tax cut. there's a special place in hell for republicans who should know better. >> okay. so, professor, for all of the hype, this is going to come down to numbers in a very unique way. i did my best to try to figure it out. we have shelby as an outlier,

switched after the contract with america, newt gingrich's genius in 1994. they haven't looked at a democrat twice since down there. and the numbers suggest it. what do you see in the race with moore versus vance in 2012, when moore ran against bob vance, what does doug jones have to do to win this race in alabama? >> well, the first thing he has to do is reverse or overturn the dominant trend in modern senate elections, which is to reverse what john said. they are increasingly about party, not person. alabama is one of 13 states that have voted republican in every presidential election since 1992. right now, democrats have one of the 26 senate seats in those 13 states. 15 states have voted democratic in every presidential election since 1992. republicans now have one of those 30. we're talking about an

overwhelming trend to align presidential and senate results. voters are essentially voting on which party they want to see in control and less on the individuals. and this will test how far that has gone. i think the model really is virginia 2017 where you saw a surprisingly strong turnout among millennials and minorities and big margins for democrats. the movement you saw among voters were in the white college educate educated women. you didn't see any erosion among republicans in blue collar and rural whites. that will be a big sign for republicans in 2018. given the underlying demgraphy of alabama that might not be enough for jones to win. he needs especially a big black turnout and significant movement in those white suburbs. >> go ahead, john. >> virginia has been trending purple for some time, right? barack obama first democrat to

win it since lyndon johnson and mark warner kicking off a string of democratic governors with one exception over the last decade. alabama deep red. clearly, this is tribal politic s, partisanship really masked in tribal politics. if doug jones can pull this off it really is a revolution in terms of locality. it will be rooted in the idea that roy moore is just too extreme and doug jones, they're voting for the person, not the party. >> you have demographic numbers. rarely do i push ron brownstein for numbers but there are numbers for people to watch today in this race. tell me if they're wrong. let's look at it through the scope of jones. frankly, al due respect, the challenge is for him. roy moore should win this race based on how the state breaks down. 40% was the bar that vance couldn't get past in the north and north central regions, heavily republican, heavily manufacturing. and the number for african-american turnout they're

putting out are 28. 40 to 28. do they matter and why? >> african-american turnout is probably -- given -- there's two pieces for doug jones moving. one is places like mountain brook, white collar suburbs where you have voters who have been voting republican for a generation but have resisted moore even before these allegations came out in his earlier races. he needs to move the women in those places. he probably needs some of the men to stay home since they'll be a tougher audience for a democrat. and certainly the kind of foundation for any democrat in the state is a bigger african-american turnout. now in the past, that turnout has been suppressed or depressed by a sense of fatalism, by the unlikelihood of a democrat winning. now you have the question of whether the possibility of winning is enough to change that dynamic because the turnout mechanisms are pretty rusty for democrats in alabama. there isn't much of a state party. he has built an organization on the fly. it's really going to have to be,

i think, something more organic than something that is built by a campaign. >> i really want to move on to what roy moore's wife said last night in terms of defending him against claims of anti-semitism. let's play this again. >> fake news will tell you that we don't care for jews. i tell you all this because i have seen it and want to set record straight while they're here. one of our attorneys is a jew. we have very close friends who are jewish and rabbis and we also fellowship with them. >> "saturday night live" just sent them a bouquet of flowers. if that were written in the writers' room they were be like, too over the top. >> a little too on the nose.

some of our best lawyers are jewish defense. this was not the greatest moment of american oratory. it does speak, i think, culturally, alabama that that seems to be a noteoreity. this is about a fundamental discomfort with diversity we see over and over again. too often in characterizing roy moore's positions, put aside the allegations. we're framing them as being controversial. if he says drive-by shootings are being caused by evolution, if he talks about how slavery -- >> it's not if. he did say those things. >> that's not controversial. if you're casting a vote for roy moore those are things you're proactively endorsing. >> can i add real quick, that's why if roy moore wins this

election, it is just going to deepen the misunderstanding and incomprehension in blue america. you see the breadth, the credibility of the charges and, as john says, the history of intolerant remarks in positions that roy moore has held. this is something that will just further widen the divisions in the country. it basically says that voters in alabama are -- feel such antagonism toward kind of cosmopolitan america that they are willing to send this person and another point in our country that is hurdling toward greater and greater division. >> maybe it's just because the voters are pro life. we haven't talked about that this morning. we've talked to people in alabama, they might just be single issue voters. maybe that's what they're

hanging their hat on here. >> i guess that's just insufficient. >> i understand. >> we're not single issue people. but you're right for a lot of folks that will be sufficient. no one knows how to poll this race accurately. it's game day. go out and vote. lindsey graham says if roy moore wins it will be the gift that keeps giving for democrats. it will be interesting to see what happens. gentlemen, growing calls for congress to investigate sexual misconduct allegations against president trump. the white house is fighting back, saying they have witnesses. in america's most awarded network. uh, blanche, it happened again. (announcer) a gift is only as good as the network it's on.

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against president trump. insisting in a letter to the house oversight committee that the president's accusers cannot be ignored and referencing mr. trump's own words. >> when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. >> anything you want. >> grab them by the pussy. >> reporter: 13 women have come forward, accusing the president of sexual assault, something the president has denied. >> the events never happened, never. all these liars will be sued after the election. >> reporter: three of those women calling for congressional investigation into the president's behavior. >> this was serial misconduct and perversion on the part of donald trump. >> reporter: white house press secretary sarah sanders dismissing the allegations. >> this took place long before he was elected to be president and the people of this country had a decisive election, supported president trump.

>> reporter: sanders also claiming eyewitnesses have backed up the president's accounts. >> the president has denied any of these allegations, as have eyewitnesses. >> reporter: a white house official, pointing to two reports when asked by cnn to provide specifics of the eyewitnesses' accounts. the first, a "new york post" article, citing anthony gilberthorpe, political activist put forth by the trump campaign to refute jessica claim that he groped her on a flight. the second, a "new york daily news" article citing miss teen usa 2006 katie blair who reportedly told tmz she never saw mr. trump backstage during a beauty contest but blair was not president at the 1997 miss teen usa pageant where trump was accused of walking into dressing rooms while contestants changed,

something trump later bragged about to howard stern. >> i'll go backstage before a show and everyone is getting dressed, ready, and no men are anywhere. and i'm allowed to go in because i'm the owner of the pageant. >> joining cory booker and others, calling for president trump to step down. >> president trump should resign. these allegations are credible. they are numerous. i've heard these women's testimony and many of them are heartbreaking. >> intense questioning of sarah sanders in the briefing room as the white house continues to try to come to grips with how to deal with this new line of questioning, the white house choosing so far to attack journalists for their coverage of the issue. today we expect to see the president as he signs the national defense authorization act. the big thing at the white house, of course, will be watching to see what happens in the alabama senate race. chris and alisyn? >> joe, appreciate it. thank you very much. let's bring back john avlon and

cnn political analyst karoun demarjin. let's start with karoun on this. the allegations are numerous. these women are lying and we can prove it. we have eyewitnesses. >> to what never happened. >> eyewitnesses are not necessarily people that were in both cases, it seems like, eyewitnesses to the events that were happening. the administration that the white house has been pushing back against this has been saying there's no there there. there's nothing to see here. you've got reports that the president has actually been suggesting that everything is made up, even though he was on television, apologizing for this before the election. that's pretty well established that that's the pattern of what's happening. clearly the discussion around the roy moore canned dancy coming up today has reinvigorated this. and every time the president gets pushed on this, which more

and more people are doing when the question of what about the president comes up, the more they push back. the president does not respond to criticism by taking t he responds to criticism by pushing back and so do his subordinates. >> it's the harvey weinstein me too moment, john. that's what sarah sanders in the press briefing room seems to have overlooked. let me play for you why she says this conversation should be off the table, case closed. listen to this. >> the president has addressed these accusations directly and denied all these allegations and this took place long before he was elected to be president and the people of this country, at a decisive election, supported president trump. we feel like these allegations have been answered through that process. >> times have changed. something is different now.

>> the fundamental position seems to be that the american people knew about the "access hollywood" tape when they voted. they voted him in as president. case closed. >> they knew about the allegations. they heard from women. >> i'm not sure that most americans would say i knew there were 16 women. >> definitely not the detail but the "access hollywood" tape. >> the issue is, what do you do about it? there has been a very hasty sense of well, we're going to do something. a private corporation can fire whoever they want, karoun. but when it comes to government we don't have a mechanism like that. you have an election. people knew about the allegat n allegations. they voted. he won. now you have the democrats saying we're going to look into it. karoun, how do they look into it in the house? what's the mechanism that would allow the house committees, all run by republicans, to look into

the allegations that the president denies? >> making noise is the biggest one. there are some resolutions that could get things to the floor. this is not something that can be automatically triggered and sent to the ethics committee because they look at sitting members of congress. you would have to launch a special separate investigation either by forming a new committee or getting oversight and government reform to do it. republicans are not going to crash the president on this one. what the president apologized for is just the "access hollywood" tape. there's always been blankets of denials to these other allegations. you won't find that the gop will step out in front of that and litigate it by stepping on the side of the democrats, who view this as a political football to play. even if they believe the women. we've not been talking about that in the president's case than roy moore's case specifically.

it's such a step to get the gop to say yes we're going to investigate a president for these allegations when they're going along with the russian investigation. that's a very high bar to clear. >> congress, let alone republican or democrat, you know, they're not going to go investigate the president for these sorts of allegations unless there's a criminal matter and there's one case going forward, maybe several. but the point is this does not fall under any statute of removing a president. this is a political fantasy to indulge in that. what's fascinating, too, is the reversal of the script in the bill clinton era when, yes, the trouble they had was he lied under oath. that was the argument. but really it was about moral outrage in the white house. clearly, all those considerations have been put aside for political purposes in our country. so, yes, democrats are trying to lift the franken standard up to the president. >> although this point that they have witnesses may have been a misstep. we'll certainly do it on this

show. everybody will be saying where are they? prove it. make the case. forget about the lodgic that its very hard to prove the nonexistence of a fact. if you have witnesses, bring them out. i want to meet them, interview them on this show with alisyn where they say i was there, it never happened. this never happened, this never happened. >> i think they've only suggested two names, one of whom wasn't there. >> that's their proper. they should have to make good on it if they say this settles it. >> meanwhile, there was a very feisty exchange during the press briefing yesterday with sarah sanders and the press because they are claiming -- you know, they use the term fake news for anything, anything that they don't like, any mistake, heaven forbid, that the press ever makes. so that's not the definition, actually, of fake news. but here is this moment in the press room. >> i would just say, sarah, that journalists make honest mistakes and that doesn't make them fake news. >> when journalists make honest mistakes, they should own up to

them. >> we do. >> sometimes and a lot of times you don't. there's a difference -- there's a very big -- i'm sorry. i'm not finished. there's a very big difference between making honest mistakes and purposefully misleading the american people. something that happens regularly. you can't say -- i'm not done. you cannot say -- >> something that was completely fake, sarah. and he admitted it. >> you cannot say it's an honest mistake when you're purposely putting out information that you know to be false or when you're taking information that hasn't been validated, that hasn't been offered any credibility and has been continually denied by a number of people, including people with direct knowledge of an instance. this is something that -- >> are you speaking about the president? >> number of reports that have taken place the past couple of weeks. there should be a certain level of responsibility in that process. >> of course, karoun, there is responsibility. there are rules to journalism. when a mistake is made you do immediately disclose it and apologize for it.

that has happened. but they're resetting the rules, actually. certainly the rules of engagement in the press briefing room. >> hold on a second. let's not let it go that quick. the hypocrisy, the irony that sarah sanders is going to look at people and say there's this stream of misinformation that's calculated to deceive. yeah, coming from you. coming from the podium. coming from the president. by definition. they put out things they know are not true or used to conceal what they don't want you to know and they do it routinely. when it gets exposed they blame the media, which is fair play. it has always happened that way in politics. you can cargue the degree and whether it's right but it's certainly the state of play. to put that on the media, i don't see where they think this will get them except with their one concentrated base. karoun? >> in some ways it does play -- the fake news mantra has picked

up and gone global in a way. you're right, this is the same podium from which we've heard things about crowd size misrepresentation from the beginning of the presidency on through various other topics they've tried to present alternative facts. they also came out in this administration we're well used to this right now. the press definitely admits to errors. i don't know a single journalist that doesn't have some correction in some form. you fear a really big one. you apologize for it, too. that's not been the standard to which this administration has necessarily held itself. >> john? >> not even a little bit. this is the hypocrisy that chris pointed to. there are honest mistakes. we're all human. you try to admit the mistake forthrightly and move on. fake news is fundamentally false news. it overwhelmingly exists on the extremes of the media and political spectrum, too often enabled and empowered by this

administration which also, unfortunately, is led by a president who, for all the fact challenged statements in the past, for all the lies used to push agendas, this is something different we're dealing with in terms of the sheer tonnage of lies. everyone who works there, including sarah huckabee sanders, everyone knows trying to clean up those lies. that's the fact we're dealing with. we need to insist on a fact-based debate. >> john avlon, karoun demajirin, thank you very much. child molester roy moore resurfaces in an interview with a 12-year-old girl. some call this bad optics. we discuss next. but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr. a once daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling

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birmingham, matt murphy and andrea lindenberg. thank you so much for being back to talk to us. we really have relied on your having a finger on the pulse of the people of alabama. we're going to do a lightning round. i know i need to get you to your radio show this morning. so after a few days of being somewhat absent or very absent on the campaign trail, roy moore decided to grant an interview and sit down with a 12-year-old girl. andrea, any peculiarity about this choice? some people say bad optics, for what he's accused of. >> right. i would, as an adult, have liked to have interviewed roy moore. that was an interesting choice. and i guess, again, these shows he has been going on -- he went on two programs, almost what you would call cable access programs and now an interview with a 12-year-old girl. i don't understand why he won't talk to the adults in the room, alisyn. >> okay. you make a great point.

here is another curious choice. a friend of his, former soldier, fellow soldier from their time in vietnam, roy moore served in vietnam -- came forward yesterday to, i guess, be a character witness and say that he knows that roy moore is a real stand-up guy because back in the '60s in vietnam, they had an opportunity -- they went to a brothel, without knowing it was a brothel and there were young vietnamese girls there and roy moore did the right thing. let me play for you this sound. >> he took us to this place, which turned out to be a brothel. it was clear to us what kind of place it was and roy turned to me in less time than it took for someone to come up to us and there were, certainly, pretty girls. and they were girls. they were young. some were probably very young. i don't know. i don't remember. i wasn't there long enough.

roy said to me, we shouldn't be here. i'm leaving. >> matt, is this the best character witness? >> alisyn, i can imagine if you're a roy moore supporter and you're listening to that sound bite you're asking him to just stop talking. it seems -- i'm reminded of the macbeth quote, the lady doth protest too much. we don't need to hear these sorts of defenses. there's no shortage of roy moore supporters willing to come on camera, support him and speak to his character. we get that. what we would like to hear is from roy moore himself and to talk about some of these past allegations. we've not been able to do that. he has chosen to go to more friendly locations, if you will, to get his message out. and we'll find out today whether or not that technique works. >> andrea, is this just the craziest senate race that you all have had to cover? what are your listeners calling in and saying about these past

weeks? >> yes, to answer your question, it is the craziest senate race i've ever covered and i was born and raised here. the listeners feel the same way. we are exhausted with this election. no matter who your candidate is we, as voters, are worn out. this started with our governor. our governor was kicked out of office, has a mug shot to prove it, for having an affair. and the trickle down effect of this is where we are now in this senate race. i've never seen anything like it here in the state of alabama. >> meanwhile, there was this really sort of heartwrenching moment. this man, nathan mathis showed up at roy moore's final campaign stop, holding a sign. it was telling the story of his own daughter who, at 23 years old, took her life -- maybe we have a picture of the sign we can put up. he says she took her life because she was gay and she wasn't accepted. and he didn't accept her at the time. he has since felt so much regret for thinking -- suggesting that

it was somehow abhorrent. and he basically said that roy moore has suggested that his daughter was a pervert and not normal. it's just the saddest thing. this 74-year-old man has so much regret and that's why he wants people not to vote for roy moore. matt, what about that? how do alabamians feel about roy moore's extreme positions about things like homosexuality? >> i think it depends on what your faith sis. it depends on where you are in terms of your belief structure in these faith-based issues. one of my frustrations with roy moore's candidacy is that he tends to lean on religious themes and lean on faith-based issues that are very, very emotional. this gentleman was very emotional about the death of his daughter. and we're not talking about some of the issues that might more directly affect me and

alabamians and americans, issues like immigration, tax reform. issues that you guys talk about every morning. we're not talking about those things. instead we're talking about things that i would prefer to keep on sunday mornings. >> matt murphy, andrea lindberg, thank you so much. we'll talk to you again tomorrow when we know what happens in alabama. thank you so much. >> thanks, alisyn. >> thank you. >> chris? attempted suicide bombing in new york city yesterday really rattled a lot of cages. there's a lot of investigating going on. we have new information about who this man was, why he picked that site, where he got his inspiration and no-how from. we have the latest next.

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>> we do have breaking news for you right now because the san francisco mayor ed lee die this had morning at a san francisco hospital at the age of 65. circumstances behind his death have not yet been revealed. the board of supervisors president is now the acting mayor. so we will have much more information on this breaking news as soon as cnn gets it. as we learn more on that, by the way, we should say right now, our thoughts go to his family and if there's anything they want us to know, bring it in and we'll shape it in our reporting. >> there are also new details emerging about the man who police say detonated a pipe bomb in an underground tunnel at the port authority, a huge transportation hub here in new york city. cnn's brynn gingras is live at the terminal. a very different morning there than yesterday. what do we know now? >> reporter: sure is, chris. it used to be boarded up where

this investigation was going on. that's now gone. somewhat of a normal commute for workers as they get back to work. we're learning more about the travels that the 27-year-old took before detonating this bomb. he took two separate subways, spending nearly an hour on the train underground, possibly with that bomb on him. we're trying to get clarification on how long he possibly had that bomb with him before detonating it here at port authority. we're learning more about his possible motivations. according to investigators, who have had conversations with him, he did pledge allegiance to isis and the action in gaza is part of his inspiration. these are things that investigators will look into, check his social media accounts, talk with family members, who he may have been associated with and see if he did have any sort of inspiration. that's the investigation. that continues today. alisyn, i want to tell you that

we have a picture of the four port authority police officers that are credited with taking him down within minutes of this detonation. we have their pictures for you. true heroes to bringing this to an end very quickly. >> god bless those guys. so glad you showed us their picture, brynn. thank you very much. so the attempted suicide attack or whatever it was happened at the height of the morning rush hour, one of the busiest hubs in the country. so, what did experts learn to prevent a next attack? our experts are here next. [vo] quickbooks introduces jeanette

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let's start with the facts and we'll go to the policy, james. the first suicide bomber attempt in new york city since, of course, 9/11. >> we know that there have been three of these attacks, chris, in the last couple of months. you and i have been at the location where these happened, one down at the west side highway and in 2016 in september there was an attempted bombing as well in chelsea. what does this tell us? new york city is a city of 8.4 million people. on an average commuting day you could have 600,000 to 1 million extra net folks inside the city, and 6 million people take the subway every day. this was the perfect soft target. what it tells me tactically is the huge mistake was made here or the device was prematurely detonateded. >> they have a great picture of the guy after it went off. people say don't call it great. i don't have a whole lot of sympathy for this guy getting hurt by his own bomb. there you see him with burn marks on him. >> it was a five-inch metal pipe bomb that he fashioned at an electronics plant he worked at.

it was stuffed with match heads. the igniter was a christmas tree light, powered by nine-volt battery. had this device been put together by a middle eastern signature bombmaker it could have potentially collapsed ear drums, squashed organs, the carnage would have been much worse. the fact that three people were injured and the worst was headaches and ringing in the ear, we dodged a bullet. >> we hear from the white house, philip, this is chain migration. this has to stop. is that what your analysis suggests, how this man came to this country and what kind of threat it posed? >> the white house comments don't suggest anything to me. look at a couple of facts here, chris. he has been here since 2011. you want to stop chain migration from countries that might be the origin for people with terrorist sympathies, let's go across the globe from philippines to bangladesh, to india, pakistan, sawed a arabia. i could go on and on. then you have to go into belgium, france, uk, where we

have a great deal of extremism, far more than we have in this country. if you want to go down that path we have to start talking about europe as well. the question we have to deal with here is did the family know something and is there a see something, say something issue here? and finally, is there an internet stuff out there that we have to work with internet companies, including searches on how to build an explosive device? >> it sounds like a no brainer. you start talking about what people can and can't see on the internet you get into a big liberty argument here. but this does suggest a pattern. these home-grown types that are not in any way officially doctrinated by any official terrorist organization, but get -- we use the word inspired but i would use the word influenced, manifestation of some kind of discontent. that seems to be the new m.o. >> i would say validated. people who whatever they have a grievance about look at isis and

say i'm validated, i'm angry at my school teacher, gaza. i'm going to go blow something up. you're right about the free speech issue on the internet. we're already seeing that pendulum swing. youtube is taking off extremist videos that would have been out there as soon as -- as recently as a year ago. i think we'll head into a stage where there's a conversation about google searches, can you search how to make a bomb at home and is that search going to be allowed on the internet? good free speech question but we're just starting it now. >> what about the white house case, james? look, you're letting in people, you're not vetting them properly. maybe they're here years and years leading a normal life but you never know. they're sleepers. we have to stop them all. >> to phil's point, 2 st century society, globalization. people can get radicalized at home or abroad. terrorism statistics bear that out, about half the folks who have tried to conduct these attacks since 9/11 were born here and half were foreign

nationals. to phil's point about where you can find these things through google searches, get an old beat up copy of the anarchist cookbook, and those things are there. >> if i don't speak to both of you again, merry christmas to it you both. >> thank you. >> alisyn? alabama voters are heading to the polls in about an hour. how are they feeling on election day? we take you there live next.

>> whether you're a democrat, liberal, or conservative, roy moore does not need to represent the state of alabama. >> there's a special place in hell for all the establishment that doesn't have trump's back. >> roy moore will be the gift that keeps on giving for democrats. >> this is about a republican party that's been torn apart. >> it is time that we take a road that's going to get us on the path to progress. >> president trump should resign. these allegations are credible. they are numerous. >> if they were willing to investigate senator franken, i think it's only fair that they do the same for trump. >> the president has addressed these accusations and denied all of these allegations. >> they only believe women who accuse men when those men happen to be democrats. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. the long and bitter alabama special race for senate is now in the hands of the voters. in less than an hour,