>> welcome to inside politics. thank you for sharing your day with us. moments away from a bill signing at the trump white house after morning tweets in which the president lashed out at women who accused him of groping and other sexual harassment and also lashing out at the democratic senator calling for his resignation and he said she would do anything for campaign contributions. >> that was an ugly suggestive tweet. we all know what he was trying to say there. it's beneath the office of the

presidency for him to conduct himself that way. >> it is election day in alabama. can roy moore overcome allegations he pursued teenage girls when he was a 30 something prosecute orror will doug jones be the first democrat to win a senate seat in 25 years? >> there is a lot of money in this race. everybody in this state, most of the people in this nation are watching this election. why? why is it? because it's the first senatorial election after the election of president trump. >> we feel so good about what we have done and what we have said to the people of alabama and people of the united states. i don't think that roy moore is going to win this election. >> we will get you live to alabama in a few minutes, but we begin at the trump white house. due in the roosevelt room to sign the national defense authorization act of 2018, an

important spending blueprint. we will hear from the president live and interesting to see if he takes questions after a rather eventful morning. he forcefully dismissed sexual conduct allegations against him calling them fabricated stories. we will look at the tweets in a minute. as he denied reprehensible behavior in the past, he provided critics with new evidence of how he thinks about hem. offensive language attacking democratic senator kirstin gillibrand. she said he should resign and the president tweeted this. lightweight senator kirstin gillibrand, a flunky for chuck schumer and someone who begged for contributions not so long ago and would do anything for them is now in the ring fighting against trump. very disloyal to bill and crooked. used. >> you cannot silence me or the

millions of women who got off the side lines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the oval office. as we wait for the president to share the reporting and insights. bloomberg business week and cnn's mj lee. let's go straight to the white house and listen to the president. >> hello, folks. how are you? thank you very much. mr. vice president, secretary mattis and senior military leaders and distinguished guests. thank you all for being here. as we prepare snag is extremely important, the national defense authorization act signing it into law. this historic legislation demonstrates our unwavering commitment to our men and women in uniform. the greatest fighting force in the history of the world and we

are making it a lot better than even that. before we begin, i want to address the terrorist attack that took place yesterday in new york city. to praise the first responders, local police, and federal law enforcement for their quick action. they did an incredible job. there have been two terrorist attacks carry out by foreign nationals. here on grown green cards. the first attacker came through the visa lottery and the second through chain migration. we will end both of them. the lottery system and chain migration. we will end them fast. congress must get involved immediately and they are involved immediately and i can tell you we have tremendous support. they will be ended. these attacks underscore the dangers we face from around the globe and the national defense authorization act could not come

at a more opportune or important time. this legislation represents a momentous step towards rebuilding our military and securing the future for our children. i applaud the work of the members of both parties who came together to pass the national defense authorization act. it passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, something that sounds very nice to my ears. i especially want to thank chairman thorn berg who is here for his tireless efforts. in recent years, our military has under gone deep budget cuts that have impacked our readiness and shrunk our capabilities and placed substantial burdens on our war fighters and great war fighters they are. history teaches us that when you weaken your defenses, you invite aggression. the best way to prevent conflict

of any kind is to be prepared and really be prepared. only when the good are strong will peace prevail. today with the signing of this defense bill, we accelerate the process of fully restoring america's military might. i also want to thank senator john mccain for the work he has done on this bill. he has fought very, very hard to make it just the way he wants it and that we all want it. this legislation will enhance our readiness and expand our modernize and modernize our forces and provide our service members with the tools they need to fight and to win. we will fight and win, but hopefully with this we won't have to fight because people will not be wanting to fight with us. it authorizes funding for our

continued campaign to obliterate i isis as you know. we won in syria and won in iraq, bt they spread to other areas and we are getting them as fast as they spread. we had more success with isis in the last eight months than the entire previous administration had during its entire term. it approves missile defense capabilities as we continue our campaign to create maximum pressure on the vile dictatorship in north korea. we are working very diligently on that. building up forces. we will see how it all turns out. it's a very bad situation. a situation that should have been handled long ago by other administrations. it upgrades the combat vehicles and allows for the purchase of new joint strike fighter aircraft and paves the way for

beautiful new virginia class submarines, the minest in the world. finally the defense bill authorizes major investments in the greatest weapon of all. it's warriors. the ndaa increases the size of the american armed forces for the first time in years and provides our military service members with the largest pay increase in eight years. now congress must finish the job by eliminating the defense sequester and passing a clean appropriations bill. it has to be perfecto. at this time of grave global threat, i urged democrats in congress to drop their shut down threats and descend clean funding and a clean funding bill

to my dheask fuesk that fully f great military. protecting our country should be a bipartisan issue like today's legislation. we must work across party lines to give our heroic troops the equipment, resources and support they have earned 1,000 times over. together we will send a clear message to allies and a firm warning to our enemies and adversaries. america is strong, proud, determined and ready and i might add when we are complete and it won't be that long, we will be stronger than ever before. by a lot. so thank you to all of our friends in congress and we do appreciate the bipartisan support. we appreciate your hard work on this historic defense authorization. and thank you most of all to our brave warriors for standing watch over our country. our families and our freedom.

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. >> what did you mean when you said kirstin gillibrand would do anything for a campaign contribution. >> leaving the roosevelt room after signing the act. the chairman is behind him as well as the secretary of defense and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. he ended remarks and making a play for immigration policy in the wake of yesterday's attempted terrorist attack and ignoring a question from cnn's jim acosta and asked about what did he mean by this tweet? the tweet on a day when we could be talking about a legislation that keeps one of his campaign promises to get new equipment and supplies and a pay raise. we are asking him about this tweet. lightweight senator kirstin gillibra gillibrand, would do anything for them is now in the ring

fighting against trump. mary katherine is a federalist and mj lee and sarah murray. the president of the united states decides what he wants to talk about when he sets the tone of the day with his morning tweets. the senator calls it sexist and boorish and reprehensible. she did call per him to resign. this is the counter punch. >> i don't think the president feels like there is going to be ramifications when he does something like this. he has good reason to believe this. he was elected president of the united states when more than a dozen women came out and said he sexually harassed and abused them and he won anyway. i think he sort of feels unleashed to be able to do this kind of thing at least on twitter and then turn around and turn to his legislative agenda for the day. they have to say no, no, no.

what he tweets is not the agenda for the day. you can't ignore things like that. you can't ignore it in the way the president has in the past. >> you don't know what he meant when he said that. there are some words that might be in a gray area. you are talking about contributions and you say that, the president gets no pass on that one. >> the read his twitter feed. the implication is he was charging senator gillibrand with trading sex for campaign donations. there is no other way to read the tweet and it's appalling. >> he has chosen to be the time that he is lashing out in a personal way against senator gillibrand. there are a number of senators who are calling on him to resign because of the sexual misconduct allegations and we are also seeing members feeling more free to say there should be a congressional investigation. he is feeling the heat and his

default mode is to lash out using twitter. >> senators have called for the president to resign because of the allegations lodged against him. the american people vote and it should be left there is their answer. members of the media under scrutiny and corporate america under scrutiny. a lot of the women during interviews, the president's tweet said never knew them, never met them. he appeared on television with them and that's false. senator elizabeth warren will bring them in two minutes much they had a press conference who said the president's smear was sexist and said she won't be silenced. are you trying to bully and intimidate and slut shame senator gillibrand. do you know who you are picking a fight with?

nervous she p nevertheless she persisted. the president deciding to say what he said and the democrats see an opening and an opportunity here. the last thing we will do is be silenced by this president. >> it will do her tons of favors to get in a back and forth of this nature. he could have decently clean political hit by saying you came to me for donations and he gave her donations. it goes both ways. perhaps more than the content of the tweet, i hate this thing where they pretend the implication is not there like with megyn kelly when he said blood coming out of her wherever. we are adults. we get it. want to play, own up to it.u - when it am ccomes to the resignn calls, people resign through a combination of shame or necessity or lack of political hurt. none of those things are at play. the hurt comes from on the rest

of the republican party about which there are challenges. >> it's another opportunity for democrats to claim this moral high ground to claim this victory. look at how we treated al franken versus how you are treating roy moore. versus us calling him out on behavior that is lewd and completely beneath the office of the presidency. like you said, that creates more problems for the republicans who are serving in congress than it does for the president. >> it's worth pointing out, senator gillibrand provoked the fight and she was the first to come out and call on al franken to resign. this is her issue. i don't think it's an accident that she chose to target donald trump knowing she would probably get a response like this. it would valgalvanize democrats. with al franken, there is a democrat who can replace him.

if that were differently, you would have a different response. >> none of this is happening in a vacuum. there is skepticism about whether this moment would come to washington and capitol hill. we saw a lot of powerful figures being fired in hollywood and a lot of people feel hesitant to call on members of congress and leading to resignations of members of congress. that's why we are seeing this moment. a lot of people raising the question if members of congress are being held accountable, what about the president of the united states? >> the house oversight allows these em women who came forward and made their case and they feel they were not given enough media attention. the american people voted as they voted. the democrats want a house oversight to read this. the ougdds of that are zero or

less. >> so far we have not seen republicans getting this idea of a congressional investigation. i am told that at least democratic men are beginning to sign on to this letter. that could give it some weight as well. >> i think it mostly depends on in the future, post 2018 if democrats took the house and it must be said that the last time a party went after a sitting president for a combination of sexual misconduct and lying, it didn't go so well for the party. we will see how it turns out this time. >> it didn't go so well. he never throws the first punch. this has reprehensible language in it. to counter punch is to this. i am looking just in from the number two democrat in the house on the nevada democratic rep. he is accused of sexual harassment against campaign workers. they have this trying to get out ahead of these things and move

the investigations to keep the high ground in the hpolitics. they can show the american people we are acting quickly holding members accountable and point down 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> it's a good lpolitical move and will likely work. that's with suburban and better educated women republican voter who is maybe didn't go for trump, but that will happen again in 2018. it's not a bad bet. >> that i are trying to figure out the on which leadership should be called on to resign. why somebody else who has been accused of sexual misconduct like trent franks. that was a doozy and it was clear he had to go, but they are out there and leader should be is trying to figure it out. >> they said it would be uniform. you have seen a different response than we have in the republican party. some republicans, paul ryan and

the house speaker have been aggressive in pushing out trent franks, but it seems to me the democrats are moving quicker probably for political reasons to fix this problem on their side than republicans are on their own. >> if we can stop having them pay for their settlement, that would be a victory for everyone. >> a down payment and the conversation will continue. they have some of these questions being liticated. can they win despite allegation that is when he was a prosecutor, he pursued teenage girls. hey julie, i know today's critical, but i really need...

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speak. voters making up their mind minds for republicans. this morning turn out at the polls reported to be fairly steady. roy moore sticking to his superstition and riding horseback to the ballot box. when the polls close, can a candidate accused of assaulting teen girls when he was a 30 something district attorney win a seat in the senate. in the national consciousness, this race is viewed as much more. pretty much a referendum. for those who disbelieve the women, it is a conservative call to arms against the media. if the republican wins, his own party will launch an ethics investigation. maybe even try to deny him senate committee seats. if the democrat wins, it shrinks to 51 and talk about anti-trump 2018 wave the explode. let's give you a preview.

this is the map. doug jones versus roy moore. let's go back in time. alabama is a ruby red republican state. just shy of that for president trump. 61% for mitt romney over then president barack obama seeking a second term. this is reliably red country. can doug jones win? yes, he can. the last time he was on the ballot running for the state supreme court. roy moore almost always under performs. for doug jones to win, he has to emulate what they did in the race against roy moore. win in selma and tuscaloosa and win big in birmingham. especially african americans and run up big margins where you have an african-american base. not just percentages, but numbers. the turn out like we saw in

virginia and new jersey. even that won't be enough. what else do you look for? look outside of huntsville. do republican voters and moderate voters go away. what do they do here? the suburbs and do moderate voters stay home or vote for doug jones. that's another thing to look for? it's not secret where y the president did a rally in pensacola, florida. he was talking to the mobile area. we count the votes and is there any blue in this part of the state? if that's the case, doug jones will be in play. here's something else. how many republicans will write in a candidate? roy moore just cracked 50% in 2012. a lot of democrats think doug jones think he can't crack 50%, but maybe can get to 48%. can they bring roy moore down and lower the line of victory?

we will count the votes starting in eight hours. roy moore knows what voters are thinking about. he frames it this way. >> one thing i don't like that the media say that a lot of people who are republicans claim they will vote for me and ignore what they believe. i am going to tell you, if you don't believe in my character, don't vote for me. >> roy moore last night. let's go around the table and set the stakes. number one, what about for president trump? he was late to the endorsement, but came all in. if doug jones wins this state in ruby red alabama, it's not only a rebuke of roy moore, but the president of the united states who went all in and did robo calls and the rally in pensacola. >> it is a rebuke of the president of the united states and a political defeat. before he was for roy moore, he

was for luther strange who lost. the president was infuriated for a while about backing luther strange and finding himself on the wrong end of that primary. this is ultimately a guy who likes to win and he will be irritated if he chose the wrong horse and we will all be on television talking about it as a rebuke to the president's moral authority as well as his political power. >> the democrats say they win anyway even if they lose the senate seat. roy moore comes to washington as a tainted senator and the party has to go through the anguish over do we see them or try to expel him and give him committee assignments and do we go near this guy? >> the democrats would rather have the seat. if moore were to get elected, it would highlight the problems republicans are having with women and issues of sexual harassment and keep trump in his own issues on the forefront.

i don't think it would be bad from a political standpoint. any democrat who said they are finding their way. >> the fact that it would cause problems for republicans here is a feature and not a bug for voters in al bam a. that's part of the reason to vote for roy moore and not something they do in spite of. >> one of the understated reasons why he won the presidency. he makes both parties nervous and the media nervous? send him. >> it's possible to overstate how roy moore's entry into the senate will consume wash. we are running out of words. nightmare, headache, pick your new word of the day. democrats will continue to use roy moore's election if he is elected as a symbol of the party's character and of president trump's character and continue to call the party the party that elected a man who was accused of molesting a child.

moore once he gets to the senate will threaten republicans. he is not just going to be any r that falls behind the other rs. mitch mcconnell and leadership knows that and he is not just an easy yes vote for the things he is trying to accomplish. >> it wasn't going to be anyway. where the establishment has run from him and said they shouldn't seat him. you are right. if he comes to washington, he will be loaded to pick fights with everybody. here is roy moore after voting. he was asked what are you going to do if you get to washington and your party launch an ethics investigation. >> we will take those problems up when we get to the senate when we win. >> it's often forgotten, this is the attorney general jeff sessions's old seat. he has legal residence in alabama. how did you vote? >> i voted absentee, yes.

i value the sanctity of the ballot and i would say the people of alabama are good and decent and wonderful people. i have been proud to serve for 20 years in the senate. they will make the right decision, i'm sure. >> i believe we call that a punt. he is hardly the first and won't be the last to use that. i'm not telling you how i vote. that's private. it would be nice to know. >> there is a republican running in there and you think he would support them, but a lot of people know moore will be a problem. one of the striking things for me is i was at one of the few rallies that roy moore had and moore got a bigger applause attacking mitch mcconnell. i don't think he has illusions about the fact that attacks mitch mcconnell helps him with his base. no reason to think he discontinues that.

>> can i say something about jeff sessions? he has to be thinking about what happens to me if doug jones wins? one thing the president loves to do is find someone to blame even though he appointed jeff sessions as his attorney general vacating that seat. i can easily imagine that the president is looking at a doug jones win and saying why is he, a democrat, in the senate seat? i blame jeff sessions. >> the president has been venting that the reason me is in another mess is because jeff sessions agreed to become his attorney general only to accuse himself from the russia investigation. if he was going to do all that, he should have just stayed in the senate. degrees.ext installment of 6 >> there was this odd moment at a rally where steve bannon is like the bart of the working class and many of these trump voters are at the rally in order to make fun of joe scarborough,

he makes fun of where he went to college. joe scarborough went to the university of alabama. that's a little elitist. >> steve bannon outside i believe he is from california technically or from virginia? virginia or california. one of the two. not from alabama. you should listen to the outsiders to tell you how to vote. >> this last night raised a lot of eyebrows. >> critics who tried to paint her husband as bigoted. >> fake news would tell you we don't care for jews. i tell you all this because i have seen it so i want to set the record straight while they are here. one of our attorneys is a jew.

we had very close friends that are jewish and rabbis and we also fellowship with them. >> mazel tov. >> stick with the fellowship part. >> leave the fellowship part? >> part of the reason that people are concerned that roy moore is bigoted is because he said things that are bigoted in the past. i don't necessarily think that his wife going out and saying we are nice to some jews and we employ a jewish attorney is going to set people's minds at ease if that is their children. she got a laugh line in that room with people who are fans of roy moore, but we have been focused on the allegations against roy moore for pursuing the younger women. he said a number of things that should have been troubling to any sitting member of congress

before these things came out and every member of congress was basically dodging questions about the previous things roy moore said saying i haven't heard of that or we need republican. the moral high ground is squishy. >> people are voting as we speak. i want to remind you the senate race kicks off at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. we'll be right back with more on the race including we will go straight down live to alabama. usaa to me means peace of mind. we had a power outage for five days total. we lost a lot of food. we actually filed a claim with usaa to replace that spoiled food. and we really appreciated that. we're the webber family and we are usaa members for life. ♪i'm gonna get ya', get ya', get ya', get ya'♪ ♪one day maybe next week, ♪i'm gonna meet ya' ♪i'm gonna meet ya', i'll meet ya'♪ booking a flight doesn't have to be expensive.

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are turning. what's not is al bammians said they had enough of outsiders telling them how to decide the senate race. two who think they are an exception is the president and steve bannon. >> it's the silent majority. you are there to do your duty. what you don't want is some elitists question the honor and integrity of one of your own. >> bannon made it his personal mission to make sure roy moore ends up in the united states senate. one man with actual alabama roots said electing moore would make his home state a national joke. >> at some point we got to stop looking like idiots to the nation. at some point, i mean, listen. i love alabama, but at some point we have to draw a line in the sand. we are not a bunch of damn idiots. >> and people are looking at us

thinking they are actually thinking about voting for this guy. >> that was auburn before the nba for those of you who are trying to trace his heritage. he is in birmingham and kaylie, let me start with you. what are you seeing on the ground this morning in terms of turn out? what are people telling you? >> just as you heard richard she bee saying he values the sanctity of the ballot, democrats who those who are voting for doug jones are quicker and much more open in sharing their decision to cast the vote for him. man walked by me a couple of minutes ago and said we have something here we never had before. i said what's that? he said a line in this polling place he has been visiting all of his adult life. about a five-minute line. a steady line means good turn out. we know what the election could

hold as we have been talking about how crucial turn out is for both candidates. one thing people are encountering inside the polling place, there is a bit of confusion with the way the single issue ballot is laid out. there is the option to vote a straight party ticket so you can fill in your bubble for republican or democrat, but there is the option to vote for your candidate. doug jones or roy moore. if there is a scenario, i'm told, where someone voted for a straight republican party ticket, but then also bubble in doug jones's name as the candidate, that vote for the candidate would win if the two votes are conflicting. if you vote a republican straight party ticket and also bubble in roy moore, it only counts as one vote and that vote is valid as well. it's not clear that you only need to do one or the other. >> if it's not clear and if it's close, we will be talking about the attorneys tomorrow.

we will count the votes and see how it goes. i want to read you something written by a colleague of yours. he was the executive editor and he wrote this. roy moore has been hurt seriously in the affluent white suburbs among is called the soccer mom constituency. they are prosperous family who is have young children and the lawns are coated with doug jones signs. you have written similar dynamics if you have been down there. you know the math. yes, where kaylie is, if the democrats are turning out, that's a great sign. he needs to win republican women. are you seeing evidence? >> i am so far and i'm standing in mountain brook that is ground zero for the most affluent slice of al bammians. this is the chevy chase of alabama. i have been talking to folks for

the last 10 minutes and i can can tell you overwhelmingly, some are independent or democrats, but plenty of folks who vote for republicans and certainly did what george w. bush was in office. i talked to a late a few minutes ago and said what do do you for a living and she said i play all day. i thought that was a telling answer and i asked her view of president trump and she said he can't keep his mouth shot. they are flooding to the polls to stand here for the last few minutes. there is a steady stream midday. >> i want to you jump in. when you talk to voters, is this an alabama senate race between doug jones and roy moore and they are trying to nationalize it or are they processing whether it's the 52-52 senate majority and whether it's roy moore with mitch mcconnell or the potential implication? how do voters process this? >> i think it depends where you

have that conversation with those voters. if you were to be in midland city at roy moore's drain the swamp rally, you would hear people talking about how this is a fight against the gop establishment like senator mitch mcconnell and how the calls from steve bannon and others on the stage there about how people are trying to take their voice away and ensure that the people of this country recognize that the people in alabama believe in god. that's one version of the conversation you have with voters here. more often than not, the conversations i had have been from the al bammans want to make their state proud. it's not more complicated than that. >> on that very question. >> i was going to say there is an embarrassment factor in the more upscale parts of the state. they hear the jokes and they don't want to be the butt of the jokes any longer and recognize

that mr. moore would propel those jokes to perpetuate the stereotype. the math is so hard for democrats. do you have to drive up the margins in the cities, but there is a lot of rural voter who is are deeply evangelical. it's tough for a democrat in the best of circumstances to win. >> an excellent point and the best reason you make that point is about the math. we will let people vote and count the votes and tomorrow we will be having a different conversation. we appreciate your on the ground reporting and great ratings guaranteed for the next segment. sean spicer is back to set the record straight. ♪when you've got...♪ ♪...nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ ♪nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ here's pepto bismol! ah. ♪nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪

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>> welcome back. it's time to set the record straight said the man who was in charge of doing exactly that for the trump white house for six months. the secretary said he is writing a book about his time working in the trump white house and on the 2016 campaign before that. >> to the stories being told, they are not accurately representing what president trump went through to transition to the white house and then his first six months in office. i decided that it is incumbent upon me to set the record straight and give a real understanding of what happened in each of those points in our history. >> i can't wait. what did setting the record straight part look like when spicer was at the white house? >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period! >> sean spirs our press

secretary gave alternative facts to that. >> wait a minute. alternative facts? >> someone as despicable as hitler didn't sink to using chemical weapons. >> i used an insensitive comment to the holocaust. >> does he believe it's a hoax? >> does president trump believe that the russian government interfered in the 2016 elections? >> i think i have not sat down and talked to him about that specifically. >> so what are our expectations? he was around in fascinating times. through the transition into the first six months of the administration. there were great dramas and will we get new truths or more spin? >> if you were inclined to write a tell all, but one signifier that perhaps we may not that is being published is very conservative right wing publisher in the audience seems

to be trump true believers. my expectation would be that we have more of the same we got from the podium unless the tell all that would -- >> you can write a pro president book and some of that will be interesting or you can go full sell out as scott did after the bush administration. the book that tells all gets a big hit at first and then that person doesn't get a bunch of job after that. he is looking to find his space with the pro trump audience. >> you do wonder what spicer thinks when he tunes into the daily sarah sanders briefing. to know that he is not the person behind the podium when the russia investigation is ratching up and the issues are back in the spotlight. and he is credible in telling

the truth. >> what are you looking for? >> oh, boy. yes. we live through a lot of it. shawn had rough and tumble moments among the bushes. and i think part of this will be his effort to kind of rehab his reputation. his credibility came into question whether he could or would tell the truth from the podium came into question. i'm sure we might get a better sense of what that dynamic was like. i have to agree this doesn't look like a book that is going to sell the president down the river and give you the dirt that is happening behind the scenes. sean was there for a lot of it, but not all of and he was not necessarily in all of the meetings. >> the president is a fascinating story, like him or not. the six months of his presidency disrupted the politics and the

staff. candid truth telling would be nice. we shall see. thanks for joining us. see you back here this time tomorrow. waiting if are a press conference where female lawmakers are calling for an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against president trump. wolf blitzer is up next.

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>> i'm wolf blitzer and it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. wherever you are watching, thanks very much for joining us. right now pressure on president donald trump over allegations of sexual assault as nearly 60 female members of congress call for a formal investigation into the allegations. we expect to hear from some of them any moment now. stand by for that. the president is hitting right back against those sexual assault claims. his accusers and the democrats tweeting in part the democrats have been unable to show collusion with russia and they are