we continue to watch the president's trip through asia. we're the most watched, most trusted, most grateful that you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. a g hannity is next. >> sean: welcome to hannity and this friday night this is a fox news alert. we are waiting president trump's arrival in the apex summit with the world leaders in vietnam. we'll bring it to you live. alabama candidate roy moore is denying the allegations of sexual misconduct that are levied at him. first, the allegations are coming from the washington post report that said the most serious claim is made by a woman who accused judge moore of sexual misconduct when he was 32 and she was 14 years old.

three other women told the washington post that moore pursued relationships with them when they were 16, 17, 18 years of age. republicans are exploring options to remove judge moore's name off of the december 12th election ballot and including changing the contest to next year. and republican senators mike lee withdrew the endorsement of moore. president trump believes that if the allegations are proven to be true, the senate candidate should step aside. these are very serious accusations and if they are true, moore should leave that senate race. if. everyone grease a 32-year-old man pursuing a 14-year-old girl is despicable and beyond disgusting and as i said on radio and tv, it is understandable because of trauma, some women would wait for years before they came

forward. that is understandable. this is 38 years later. and just because it happened years ago doesn't mean it is true or not true. no one knows the truth but the people involved. it is important for the media and politicians don't rush to judgment. as we have seen time and time again they get it so wrong. on this program. our interest is the truth. we believe that judge moore has a right to tell his story and i invited him on my radio program earlier today. judge, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> sean: first, you are now reading it and put out a number of statements, i think we should address it head-on. what do you make of the allegations? >> well, sean, first let me say

this. they are false and misleading and more than that it hurts me personally. i am a father and have a daughter and five grand daughters and i have a special concern for protection of young ladies. this is really hard to get on radio and explain this. and these allegations are completely false. >> sean: what do you make that you struck up's conversation with a young woman who was friendship, and her mother said you offered to watch the girl while the mother went inside for a custody hearing which confirmed that happened at that time. do you know miss corfman? >> i don't know her and i never talked to her or had contact with her and allegations of sexual misconduct are false and politically motivated and brought only to stop a successful campaign and that's

what they are doing. i have never known this woman or anything. with regard to the other girls, you understand this is 40 years ago and after my return from the military i dated a lot of young leepeds. i do recognize debbie weiss man and gloria thwacker which is their maiden names. ndebbie wessin gibeson said she was 17 years old when you spoke to a high school civics class and you asked her on dates. >> i don't remember speaking to a civic's class. i seem to remember knowing her parents. that they were friends. i can't recall specific dates because it has been 40 years, i

remember her as a good dpirl and neither of them ever stated any inappropriate behavior. she didn't say anything. >> sean: do you remember going on a date with her? she said you ask the her on the first of several date and nothing progressed beyond kissing? >> i don't remember specific and i do not. and i don't remember that time or later that i don't remember that. >> sean: you never dated her ever? >> i know her and i don't remember going out on dates. if we went out on dates we did. but i do not remember that. >> sean: what about gloria. she was an 18-year-old cheerleader and you took her on dates that included wine and she's 18 at the time and the alabama drinking age is 19.

did have happen? >> no, because in this county it is it a dry county and we would not have liquor and i would never. and i believe this, she believed she was under age. ad i recall she was 19 or older. that just never happened. i never provided alcohol or beer or intoxicating beer to a minor and that is against the law and i seem to remember her as a good girl. i seem to remember i had knowledge of her parents or parent in particular. >> sean: at that time in your life, would it be unusual for you as 32 to date a young woman at 17? that would be 15 or 18 year difference. do you remember dating young

girls? >> no not ynlly no. i am not disputing anything and i don't remember that. >> sean: you don't remember having a girlfriend in the late teens? >> i don't remember dating any girl without the permission of her mother. and she said her mother to encourage her to go out with me. >> sean: a 14-year-old said you approached her when she was 16 and her mother forbade here. let me go back to corlman. this is the issue. she gives specific instances where you met her in the courthouse and you got her phone number and you talked to her on the phone and you drove her 30 minutes from her house to the woods and where you lived and you kissed her and you second

visit removed her clothes and you guided her hand to touch over your underwear. and obviously it is a month away from the election campaign. >> yeah. >> sean: is it your position none of that ever happened. >> it never happened and i don't like hearing it and they are doing it four weeks away after 40 years in public service. i have run five successful campaigns and statewide campaigns three in the county, and this is it never been brought up and never mentioned and all of the sudden four weeks out they are bringing it up because it is it political and direct attack on the campaign and involves a 14-year-old girl which i would never had any contact with and nothing with

her murth mother or courthouse would i have done that. her allegations conradict that two of the young ladies witness themselves. >> sean: you would not go out with any young girl when you were 32 at that time. would you always ask permission of a girl before you take a girl out. >> in their statements that they made, two young girls said their mothers encouraged them to be friends with me. that's what they said and i was not privy to their conversation. we never had any sexual activity or anything like that. and the behavior altogether appropriate according to them.

>> sean: you have been convicted in the court of public opinion. there are republican senators like john mccain is out there and vocal and out there is aing -- saying those allegations are disqualifying and he is immediately step aside. and mitt romney and said you are innocent until proven get and is only criminal convictions and not elections and because of the allegation you should step aside; how do you step aside? >> would you step aside for any allegation you might as well not run. first, i would tell these individuals that wouldn't make good judges or good people in the judicial system because you are innocent until proven

guilty. in this case, this woman waited over 40 years to bring a complaint four weeks out of the election. it is obvious to the casual observer that something is up. we are doing an investigation and we have evidence of collusion and we are not ready to put it to the public just yet. >> sean: you are trying to prove your innocence in other words? >> just like you said, they are doing it to defeat the senate campaign and bringing in something and trying to mix it up from germs that never said anything about sexual impriority and they are labelling it on a 14-year-old. and i had nothing to do with this. this is a manufactured story, meant to defrock this campaign. and they are losing. they are 11 points behind and they don't like my

acknowledgment that there is a god and we refused to dpe bait them because of their liberal stance on transgenderism and the they are desperate sean. >> sean: let me ask a general question and take you out of this for a second. if any senate candidate who was 32 at the time had done it to a 14-year-old girl, to me it is disgusting and that is a predator. would you agree with me no such person who did that should be in the united states senate. >> of course, no one who abuses a 14-year-old age 32 or 17. if you abuse a 14-year-old you shouldn't be a senate candidate but i did not do that. >> sean: one more question. if you are 32, you do date,

again, there is a difference 17 or 18-year-old. that is a gap for a young girl; is that something you did when you were dating? i am not talking about the 14-year-old and that specific allegation, is that normal behavior for you to date a girl 17 or 18? >> no, not normam. >> sean: my daughter is 16 years old and if she is 17 or 18, i wouldn't want her to date a 32-year-old. >> i wouldn't either. >> sean: you didn't date anybody like that at 32? >> that would not be my behavior. i said no. >> sean: you think that is inappropriate, too. >> inappropriate, yes. >> sean: let me ask you about your general feelings. this is not my first rodeo,

judge and i covered a lot of the big topics over the years and a lot of people rush to judgment and in my life i try not to do that and this is such a serious allegation and a significant point in this race. my only goal is to get to truth. you know, richard jewel, i was in atlanta and then the article. he fits the profile because he lives with his mother. duke lacrosse case three dids falsely accused and we saw the whole nation and president was strong on ferguson and hands up and don't shoot never happen. george zimmerman found not guilty and darren wilson exonerated by the grand jury because of eyewitness who saw the incident and then the incident of freddie great they were not guilty and so there are instances when things.

clarence thomas and herman cane as a case. what do you want to tell people about how they should few the washington post and these people making charge and your denial. how should people see it? >> i think they should see it as it really is. 40 years, i have been in the public eye and served as a deputy prosecutor, and a judge and chief justice twice and run a foundation for moral law and now after 40 years, four weeks out of an allegation not even mentioned in the primary they bring charge and try to back them up with other things that sound bad and then they allege things that are untrue. i never knew this woman and never met this woman and these charges are politically motivated and they are there to do what they are doing. the democrat is 11 points behind and they are very liberal and

they don't want to talk about his record or inexperience. they want to defuse this just like they did president trump's agenda by bringing up the russian deal. and they are bringing up stuff to detract the campaign and they got me obviousy on radio hearing things about a sexual encounter that never happened. i would put you in the same position. you would feel like me. you would be angry, you would be very angry and that's the position i am in. this never happened and they know it never happened and obviously, you don't wait 40 years to bring up something like this. there will come out facts to show in this situation that this was a democrat and maybe even the established republican effort to undermine the effort because they don't want to hear the truth in washington and they

don't want to hear about the truth about god and the constitution. >> sean: you think the establishment republicans are partly involved in this? >> if they are not involved in the implementation. they are sure backing away quickly. >> sean: what about those who don't give the preassumption of innocence. ? snrngs that's what i am talking about. they are saying i should resign because the washington post who brought charges against the president and allegations about the russian involvement, that washington post is attacked my foundation and my wife and now they are attacking me personaly on a sexual matter. i don't know what is coming next. i am sure they will come out with another article and they have an agenda and fulfilling their agenda as we speak. >> sean: joining us with

reaction. greg jarret and the ger articledo richer & rosewoodland. i think that you look at all. cases in our industry especially geraldo have been run and rush to judgment. i went through the lesson in atlanta richard jewel and so many wrong. and ferguson, and trayvon martin and baltimore and freddie gray. and no one in the president thought the president would win. we have to balance serious allegations here with also the preassumption of the innocence. how do you do that? >> with all due respect, you are burying the lead. the lead was that was a smart tough, deeply revealing interview. what are we talking about. he said, she said. and so the credibility of the parties is the most relevant

thing you can think of. i picture judge roy moore sitting in the witness chair and you asking him those question and hearing his denial and his nondenial denials and his -- >> sean: i asked you a specific question. >> when you asked him did he date the young women or girls. >> sean: i requested a general question. >> generally not. no generally not. that means there are exceptions to your general rule. you ended roy moore and you did not intend this. i am speaking as i think fair arbiter. and everybody listen had you ended his candidacy and i urge republicans to postpone. >> that is it vladimar putin arrives in the apec summit.

>> i will continue the thoughts. the credibility of the women who came forward. he claims it is "fake news". if it is "fake news", look at the women. we have four women who don't know each other and never met each other and one of them admitting to be a long-standing republican. where would they come up with the story and pushed to come up with a story a month before the election? >> sean: i am only, playing devil's advocate. i watched herman cane's character get assassinated. thomas. he was on a lynching to be a supreme court justice. do the last-minute allegations, don't they have to be suspect? i only want the truth.

and i don't know the truth tonight. >> i agree, except for the fact that they didn't come forward. the washington post reporter found them. >> sean: i am not a fan. >> a nitta hill had come forward and clarence noms was confirmed today. he would not be on the high court. these are much different timeless. >> he was his own best witness and gave a powerful defense. let me bring in greg in. greg? >> cross examination is the engine of truth. and your interview today was a fine cross examination of roy moore. i think you missed your calling and you should have been a lawyer. >> his answers were immrausible and his story to be unbelievable which means he's lying. he's not telling the truth and

on that basis he is step aside. look you caught anymore a dmraering contradiction. you ask him as a 32-year-old man did you date 17 ear 18 years old. he said if i did. i will not dispute. he said if i did i doerment remember. and a third time he said absolutely not. na is at best an inconsistency and at worse a contradiction and jurors are told a standard jury instruction. if you find a witnesses lying in one part of the story, you may conclude the witnesses lying about everything. and that's how i felt about judge roy moore. i was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because of the source of the washington post that endorsed his opponent and the age.

>> sean: what as i was anding him. it was not as hard i went through the facts of the case. >> you were fair. >> sean: i want to be fair. what if in fact he was inarticulate and not true. >> what was not true? 38 years ago, he was not a predator. this is a serious charge. >> uh-huh. >> sean: no one can say here definitively and i am watching the court of public opinion they did it before this interview took place. >> i agree they are allegations and four women who don't know each other and a 14-year-old girl. they are going to destroy their lives then? >> sean: we'll have a break and we'll have more on the exclusive interview with judge roy moore.

president trump is arrive nothing the apec world summit. busy night tonight on hannity.

>> sean: moments ago, president trump arrive nothing the apec summit in vietnam. also we showed you my exclusive

interview with judge roy moore who is accused of sexual misconduct. the media is quick to convict judge moore before hearing his side of the story or this interview. we continue and we'll go to greg jarret and comberaldo and rebecca is with us. i want to go back again. i think we all have an obligation to get things right when there are serious charges. and again, that is it the president at the apec summit. when i was in atlanta, richard jewel fit the program of the lone bomber because he lived with his mother. and in a took out advertisements in the newspaper and ferguson who believed the lie don't shoot. and trayvon. look at the president. i could have been trayvon and

that being have been my son. and the evidence was presented for the eyewitness. and grounding and pounding his head. and i am giving you examples and the freddie gray case. they were convinced the policemen would go to jail. and the media who showed contempt with trump. donald trump is running and they were wrong there and a lot of people wouldn't bet obama. they were wrong there. and for my what i learned from the experiences, the rush to judgment is it very, very dangerous. and that's why, i sincerely urge caution among everybody. you got a bigger piece of the puzzle and this is the only interview. does that give you pause? should we all pause and wait for more information? >> i think we can pause and wait for more information.

>> sean: but you made up your mind. >> because i heard the interview. why doesn't he come on. >> sean: he was on today. he was on your radio show. and something doesn't seem genuine to me. and when i look at four women, it is very hard for me to believe that four independent women. >> sean: greg by the way has a photographic memory and i don't. and greg, geraldo went back and this is how he answered the question. does that convict you? >> to me, i go back. and i know you don't like to and me. we come from different parts of the sprekt rum. you believe bill clinton developmenty and i believed him innocent. you believed donald trump

innocent and many people believed him guilty after the access hollywood tapes. we have a tendency to want to believe the people like we do and disbelieve our political opponents. what was brilliant about the interview you and roy moore largely agree on the great philosophical. he's more to the right of you and generally speaking you for the same melou. and yet you asked him in expolitit detail about this charge and this charge and this charge and then you said, as a parent of a daughter i find this conduct disgusting just like everybody finds that conduct disgusting. that was so riveting and so powerful in the impact that it had on judge roy moore that i believe that today you ended his

effective political career. >> sean:ine he was asked if anyone at 32 had done this and was a predator of a 14-year-old girl. would that disqualify them to be a senator. he said yes. he did. and there were other reasons he is disqualify himself. i followed roy moore's career closely for year and i have long said this is it a man who has a record of lawlessness. he pretends to respect the law but has nothing but contempt for it? he repeatedly defied federal court orders and rulings on u.s. stulgzal matters and he rejected the supreme court decision on same- sex marriage and sought to undermine it with his own orders. he is not above the nine justices sitting on the u.s. supreme court though he seems to think so, and on that basis, i

have said before the primary, it would be trouble to nominate this man because he is toxic and he will be so in the u.s. senate. >> sean: we'll take a break and when we come back, we'll show you the media's rush to judgment before this interview and is that a problem. and then we have john bolton, the president is in vietnam with the apec summit and we'll cover that

>> sean: this is a fox news alert. president trump is in vietnam at this hour at the apec summit and also tonight more reaction much my interview with judge roy moore. we have a problem in this country so many to attack and convict and rush to judgment

before the interview with judge moore. >> some of the right wing media defenders, i don't know if they can sleep at night and i wonder if they will look back and regret. the steve bannon and sean hannity. they rather talk about the media than the alleged molestation and everybody sees through it. >> on fox news he had a lot of the defenders. this will show the depth and depravity who defemds roy moore who is a pedophile. >> 32-year-old slime bag attorney and calling up to her and play that move out in your head. >> a woman said roy moore initiated a sexual encounter with her when he was friendship and he was 32. for those keeping track. it was an age of it doesn't

matter she was 14. >> sean: we'll continue with geraldo and rebecca and greg. there have been so many instances that the media is wrong. i asked those people in the media and i can play tapes of them on duke lacrosse. and hands up and don't shoot and convicting george zimmerman before we had a trial and my question is how do you sleep at night if you recklessly go out there and don't know the truth and haven't heard every side and you turn out to be wrong? ten commandments, greg. the other nine we know that are broken on a daily basis by human beings. the one with false witnesses broken a lot. i am not saying in this case. but i am saying we have to be careful. >> the media narrative is that

president trump is the villain and hillary clinton the victim and robert mueller is it a hero and they stick to that narrative each and every day. i was watching another network and competing network and the anchor was saying, isn't this meeting with russia collusion, as if it was illegal? these anchor and reporters never bother to lock up the law and there is no such thing as a collusion except in anti- trust law. but they imply that having a conversation with a russian is a crime. it is not. paying a russian for information and a dossier that would be a crime in the campaign. >> sean: geraldo, you were one much bill clintons, and probably the strongest voice at the time defending him in impreachment.

>> and that's why you hated me. > sean: i did not. >> you had a bullee eye. >> sean: we are competing at the same time. >> it was a bull's eye. >> sean: i spent time and i interviewed paula jones and kooth lean willie and i had a interview with juanita brod rick. and look at this double standard. you know, they excused all of that behavior. they talked about dragging dollars through trailer parks about these women and they started a smear campaign against monica lewinsky and then hillary clinton took money from countries that abuse women and kills gay and lesbian and persecute christian and jews. democrats can be all outraged and believe what they want to

believe. but this is it not out of principle. this is it out of politic and their home that the republicans implode and they can steal the alabama senate seat. the democratic party is it a wreckoning and he went with a 22-year-old girl and he's the president of the united states. >> in the oval office. >> sean: in the oval office. >> what is good for the goose for the gander. i have heard all day long on ours and other networks suggesting that the senators who are saying that this man can not be a viable candidate if these charges are true. they put the tail. if these charges are true. he can't if these charges are true. so how do you know if they are true? >> sean: that's why i said you

have to have stand arounds. the charge should be reasonable contemporanous. not a rigid statute of limitation. but a decade or two. and the reason there is a statute of limitation. people's memories fade. and up need a corrobbation. and in this, it exist. what is the contemperanous. this 14-year-old girl purp portedly told two girlfriends what happened in real time. >> sean: you think bill clinton was a predator. >> that is it a tough question. and i still have affection for him. >> sean: let me help you out. you suspect he might be. >> i think many. charges are true. i think he was a phil an derer.

predation has to do with how the victim. >> sean: we have to go, rebec a. >> sean, i have been on your show and we were right on duke. >> sean: we were right on duke. >> i was on every night. my instinct is these girls. i don't think they are lying. >> sean: does he deserve the preassumption of innocence. >> i think he. >> sean: you wait 38 years and i understand they are embarrassed and traumatized or horrible. >> how embarrassing at her for 14. i don't know if she would be so comfortable coming out. >> sean:in want've've -- on i will see what comes out.

>> you think the election is postponed. >> sean: i don't know how they are doing it yet. to the fairness of people of alabama until we get to the facts of the truth it would be. >> the alternative is that the democrat would win. >> sean: thank you. the president a riefred in vietnam at the apec summit. we'll have full coverage when yo, check it out dawg. that was just a'ight for me. i mean, you got the walk. you got the stance.. but i wasn't really feeling it. you know what, i'm not buying this. you gotta come a little harder dawg. you gotta figure it out. eh, i don't know. shaky on the walk, carriage was off. randy jackson judging a dog show. i don't know dawg. surprising. what's not surprising? how much money lisa saved by switching to geico. wow! performance of the night. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more.

>> sean: welcome back on hannity. this is it a fox news alert. president president arriving just moments ago at the apec summit in vietnam. it is an important part of the asian trip and so little coverage on the trip. joining us is john bolton and i had you both before he gave the speech in south korea which was 30 miles from the dmz. sebastian, i thought it was one of his finest and re-established america as a world pour in that arena. like he did in the middle east. and almost his finalest moment

and so little coverage. this is an important moment for him and an important trip so far. >> absolutely, sean. we have seen it before. every trip he's had knocked it out of the ballpark with that incredible speech about the judo- christian value and western civilization and america was built on and in the heart of the islamic word in rya d and talked tough love to the arab leaders on how they have to take care of the terrorist. and talking about the evil that is the north korean regime. every trip is incredible and not interesting to the main stream media just as the domestic achievementes are not of interest either. whether it is it the unemployment that is low.

and increase in the stock market and then the main media or "fake news" industrial complex will not pay attention to. >> sean: the entirity of the trip and ambassador, it is so key in dealing with the north korea crisis. it is a crisis. >> it is not over obviously. and the media the ping and the discussions they and in particular in north korea. we don't know how that went. there was very little comment on it and generaliations of what was covered and we don't know whether ping resisted the tough line that the president took saying i will not do that or if there is movement in our direction that neither the xhin chin nor the white house think is appropriate to discuss publicly which would not be

surprising. for now, you would have to say that that remains a big question mark. and i think the visit in japan was a plus and the speech was tough and clear. but we still need to see what happens with the chinese and it will be interesting to see just what kind much meeting he has with vladimar putin and i think he has a lot to talk to him about. i wouldn't miss the opportunity. >> sean: they are covering there is the president and russia, russia. and year of allegations and last year diane feinstein said no echdz. smoke but no fire again. and that is the refrain for the last year. >> yes, it is stunning that the democrats and the media didn't have a problem and kennedy chet with kruschef and any president

meets with the russian. if the left didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all. russia is a nuclear power and one of the five permanent members of the u.n. security council and it is it right that the president talk to putin as tough as he talked to ping behind closed doors. that is politics. you meet whether they are good or not. >> sean: good comment, ambassador. >> we'll see what happens with the puttin meeting. >> sean: i have a little more time. dr. gorga. what are your thoughts of judge moore in light of my interview tonight. >> it was an important interview. i will say one thing having met judge moore. he's not a slick rhino political

you know, dyed in the wool operator and i think his media appearances have to be judged in the light of his background that he's not somebody who lived in the swamp for 30 years and in the end of the day, the truth has to come out and if anything inappropriate happen it should be investigated. but again preassumption much savenlts>> sean: we'll pursue the truth here.

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