fm headlines, i do a daily commentary there as well. [♪] arthel: the alabama senate race is near the finish line with most of republican leaders saying they will vote for roy moore tuesday despite multiple sexual misconduct charges against him. eric: moore's campaign said it's rolling out a robo call to alabama voters today that features president trump voicing his support of judge moore. this the most of direct involvement yet in backing the republican candidate.

arthel: we have team coverage on the ground. peter doocy is following moore's campaign. what is moore up to in the final days of the campaign? reporter: roy moore is going to rally with steve bannon monday. this will be the third time he has joined roy moore on the campaign trail. he's largely avoided questions from journalists, instead granting interviews to friendly commentators. this is in stark contrasts to his democratic opponent who holds interviews almost daily. >> i know you are the old media and you get offended when we don't talk to you. but we have twitter and facebook. he's talking to people on the radio as are all of his

campaign. we are getting the word out. the people of alabama know roy moore. reporter: the moore campaign is rallying the conservative base with tv ads such as guns and abortion. arthel: not all republicans are backing him, tell us about that. reporter: president trump record that robo call. but senator richard. shelbyshelby --shell -- richarde voted for a write-in republican. he appeared on cnn earlier today. he says he understands the president's desire to keep alabama's on the per senate seat in gop control, but he simply cannot support roy moore. >> i didn't vote for the democrat or advocate for the

democrat, but i couldn't vote for roy moore. the state of alabama deserves better. reporter: he added he has no reason to doubt moore's accusers. eric: democrat doug jones is making a push to african-american voters this weekend with cory booker and duval patrick. so, peter how is jones trying to exploit what we just heard, moorps absence from the campaign trail and he's ducking questions from the campaign reporters. reporter: jones is arguing he thinks this is a one-man race. >> if i didn't know better, i wouldn't think there was anybody running against me because you don't see roy moore out anywhere. reporter: doug jones is

maintaining a busy schedule with only a day and a half left until people head to the polls. tonight jones heads to huntsville for an event at a baptist church. these are democratic parts of the state. there is less of an effort to introduce jones to republicans saying they don't want to vote for moore, and more of an effort to get democrats in alabama to vote on tuesday. eric: how are they promoting jones. reporter: they are trying to make the case that rye moore --y moore would only represent roy moore you verters. and doug jones would be different. >> this is about the boring

unglamorous every day work fighting every day for folks, taking constituent calls. if they are black, white, gay or straight. it's about representing all of the people. reporter: that's a line many nationally known democrats are pushing. doug jones has been running on a much more moderate platform. cory booker is a supporter of gun control legislation. doug jones has ads reassuring voters he's for the second amendment and owns a lot of guns. but they are trying to cast doug jones with someone who is friendly with d.c. insiders in contrast to moore who is hostile

to washington, d.c. types. arthel: heather kiegel is here, a congressional report are for "politico." heather, is the moore campaign pitch simply we cannot give up the senate seat to a democrat and i am the lucky guy who has the support of the president who is very popular here. more this home stretch, is moore doing a hard sell on issues to the benefit of alabama residents? local issues? >> no one exactly knows what the moore pitch is. as the reporters just note. he has been mostly absent from the campaign trail. but i think when moore is out there, what he's saying is i am the republican candidate, president trump backs me, and i will fight everyone else in washington, including the gop establishment and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell

and anybody else on down. arthel: all politics is local, so what is it you are going to do for me in my backyard. but let's keep going. the last time alabama voters sent a democrat to the senate was in 1992. 25 years ago. that was senator richard shelby we just heard from. but senator shelby certainly one of the most of conservative members of the senate, does not support roy moore. he supported someone. here we go. if moore wins. what's the potential political loss for the gop. >> i think republicans on the hill are looking at moore and they are worried about what can happen in november 2018. they think roy moore will be a distraction because he will be under an ethics investigation.

he's known for saying pretty controversial things before these latest allegations. and they are worried roy moore will trail all of their republican incumbents and the republicans they are putting out to take down vulnerable democrats. and could cost them control of the senate? in november. arthel: real clear politics has roy moore up 3.8% over democratic candidate dug jones. cory booker and duval patrick in alabama this week stumping for jones. what issue is jones promoting to galvanize his supporters? >> he's trying not to alienate voters. he says i may be a democrat, but independent republicans, if you are uncomfortable with roy moore, you can switch sides and vote for me and i will protect your interests, too.

like the commentator said, earlier, doug jones believes in the second amendment. he's reiterating things that appeal to conservative voters. but the real push in the final days for doug jones is to get out democratic voters, particularly african-american voters who could help win this race for him. arthel: there has to be a specific message to those voters. president trump is all in for roy moore. the political up side for the president is he helps the senate keep that seat red. what is the plausible political backlash the president might thank for his full-throated support for roy moore? >> i think this sets up a conflict with him and republican leaders on capitol hill. the republican establishment is campaigning against roy moore.

so if roy moore wins it will be interesting to see what dynamic. how does president trump weigh in on this if roy moore wins? those are dynamic no one knows the answer to. i talked to a lot of my family and friends back home. they say this moore dynamic, the allegation, trump endorsing him. those things are overshadowing a lot of conversations they wish would take place but they feel like they are not. arthel: i want to pull up an excerpt from "the washington post." supporters of jones say with concern that a win tuesday by the fire brand moore would derail the state's efforts to escape its painful history and rebrand as a forward-thinking

place welcoming to fortune 500 comeys and a highly educated workforce. supporters of moore see his candidacy as a conduit to the political elites. what do you think the residual effect will be after this race in alabama? >> a lot of people are worried about that. if roy moore wins and he has a history of saying incendiary things about gaze and muslims. they are worried how people will continue to look at this state. alabama voters on both sides of the aisle are sensitive to the national media coming in and talking to them. they automatically put their guard up because of the state's painful history. it's maybe not the forefront of everybody's mind but it's always

in the back of everyonements mind. they are sensitive to this national media that descended upon the state, particularly right now. arthel: good luck to all of your family there in alabama. and thank you for joining us as a journalist. eric rrp from the south to out west. new evacuations have been ordered overnight for the so-called thomas wildfire still burning in southern california. there are several fires out of control in the southern part of the state. governor jerry broirns calling the smoke, the haze, and the dry conditions the quote new normal. the fire has already destroyed over 700 buildings. watching it burn for five hours, there is no way to get back in. so i californiaed out in my

vehicle. eric: will carr is in carpenter arcar -- ina penneria. >> we are in carpenteria. you can see flames all pock this ridge line. fire crews have been working to contain this. but it's bone dry brush. right not you winds are very low. but we are in a red flag warning up until tonight. the next couple hours are critical in this fight for firefighters. some of the homes on this ridge line, we have been watching the past couple hours, the fire crews are doing structure

containment to make sure if those flames race down this hillside, they could try to protect those homes. the winds staying calm. but this fire is currently threatening 15,000 homes and businesses. we are in the critical hours to see if the fire crews can continue to up their containment. if the winds pick up and push it into this community. you are talking about a whole new battle. eric: you are just outside of l.a. what's going on south of you in san diego county? reporter: there is good news with the lilac fire. containment numbers jumping overnight. it also hit a horse training center. we learned nearly 50 horses died in that fire, showing just how

dangerous this is. those flames hit so quickly that so many residents and the employees at that horse training facility barely had time to get out. the winds have been calm in san diego county. but they are in a red flag warning for tonight. >> it's horrifying for those horses. arthel: president trump is spnldsing time in florida before he heads back to washington. ways on his agenda for the week. u.n. members talk with north korea. >> if north korea even attempts to threaten the united states or one of our allies, they will be destroyed. you need to buy a car

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anti-jewish slogans and waving palestinian flags. jewish groups are condemning the acts and demanding the authorities take action. >> china can do more. the last time they completely cut off the oil, north korea came to the table. we told china they have got to do more. if they don't do more, we'll take it into our own hands. eric: that's nikki haley one of the s. ambassador to the u.n. the united nations under secretary-general for political affairs just spent four days in north korea. he met with top officials of kim jong-un's regime. he will be back in the u.n. head quart force brief diplomats. he served in democratic and republican admin straightss. the u.n. said he and the foreign

minister agreed the dangers on the korean peninsula are the most of dangerous facing the world today. and feltman agreed with the regime that sanctions are hurting human tearian aid. did his efforts help or hurt the u.s. efforts to rein in north korea. ambassador john bolton, isn't talking better than not talking? >> not in the case of north korea. they have used 25 years of international diplomacy to get to a point where they very nearly achieved their objective of having deliverable nuclear weapons to hit any target in if the united states. what jeff feltman accomplished in this mission we don't really know.

but in the near term, the more we talk with north korea, the more that gets extended, the greater the likelihood they will accomplish their objective and get deliverable nuclear weapons. eric: what do you think he could say at the security council. >> if he wants vigorous enforcement of sanctions i would be surprised. the problem is the resolution did not produce the sanctions we wanted. the regime continues to make progress and show no signs of letting up. unlike fat and happy societies that finds consumer choice restricted, that doesn't affect kim jong-un.

he couldn't care less what happen to the his population who are living in a 25 million person prison camp. eric: does feldman's visit open a new line of communication or competing ones with washington? >> it must reflect some view of secretary-general gutierrez that he wants to try his own diplomacy. you don't need to travel to pyongyang and spend four days there as jeff had to do. to the extent that he says to the north koreans if you around the negotiating table we will try and relief economic pressure, that's a bad signal. at some point it does become in north korea's advantage, not the u.s. advantage. north korea's advantage to start talking. >> they try to play the u.n. off

of us? >> it wouldn't be the first time a rogue state tried to do that. it depends on who is in the white house. if jimmy carter or bill clinton were in the white house i would say it would probably succeed. i don't think it will work with trump. but this argument that somehow our sanctions are causing humanitarian distress does sound similar to what saddam and the u.n. said in both conflicts. eric: the north korean news agency goes further. they say if the united nations expressed concern over the heightened tensions on the korean peninsula. and says the u.s. policy of hostility towards north korea and its nuclear blackmail are to blame for the current tense situations. they are blaming us. why don't they look in the

mirror in terms of their nuclear program and continued missile development. >> the north korean news agency never ceases in its ability to turn things against the united states. they believe the united states now is serious about the potential use of military force. i don't know whether that will happen or not. but if there is any chance to convince to take dramatic action or encore * to see the light, a miniscule chance, it will only come when they believe the united states is prepared to and maybe on the verge of using preemptive force. >> we'll be reporting under secretary feldman's trip and what he tells the diplomats and get your reaction to that, too. thank you. arthel: russian operatives

reportedly tried to contact hope hicks, after the election. a major turning point in the battle against isis where a victory has just been declared against the terror army. . .

arthel: president trump spending afternoon at mar-a-lago estate in florida before he hops on the plane to start another busy week in washington. president already had a packed weekend, speaking and drawing protests tat opening of civil rights movement in mississippi and campaigning for roy moore, embattled republican running for the alabama senate seat. bill keating is in west palm beach, florida. phil, 60-degrees is not too cold for a few rounds of golf after all? >> no. it actually it's in the 50's

right now but south florida woke up to a fridged temperature and president trump is down the street golfing with republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina aside from hitting the ball down the fairway, tax reform legislation as well as fully funding all of the president's priorities and then they'll go back, at least the president will to mar-a-lago, winter white house for a few more rounds and for the usual morning the president is hitting twitter page tweeting this, things are going really well for our economy, fake news spend as little time as possible discussing. stock market hit another record high, unemployment is now to 17-year low and companies have coming back to the usa. really good news and much more to come followed by this tweet, getting closer and closer on the

tax cut bill, shaping up even better than projected. house and senate working very hard and smart and results will be not only important but special. saturday president trump flew to jackson mississippi for the eaching ceremony of the state's new civil rights museum, toured the exhibits which highlight slavery and segregated past and violence for quality. president trump only made race relations worst than elected. friday night in pensacola, florida, a packed house for a make america great again. very enthusiastic, not just trump but also the crowd, many of whom drove over from nearby alabama and, again, the president urged them to vote for republican and accused sex predator ray moore, not democratic jones in that state special senate elections, president trump and the staff can enjoy the sunshine here in the blue skies of florida for a

few more hours in the weather this afternoon. air force one on tarmac in west palm beach airport wheels up president back to washington and white house this evening. arthel: phil keating, thank you. eric: russia investigation of the election reveal more efforts of kremlin operatives to reach trump campaign and administration official. "the new york times" reporting that investigators robert mueller questioned hope hicks over moscow's attempts to contact her during the transition after the election. these new revelations come after mounting claims of republicans and other critics of supposedly political bias in the mueller investigation. >> the intent is discrediting mueller and the discrediting the fbi, then discrediting the

judiciary, should the judiciary convict so many people that mueller has charged and a charge in the future. >> this investigation has been going for 18 months, 18 months and not one evidence of russian collusion or cooperation with our campaign. and i was there, i never saw it, i never heard about it, there's just no evidence. >> for more on this, judy miller, pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter, author and fox news contributor, judy, here is the deal, the fbi goes to her at the white house, the russian operatives contacted her but you aren't different names, she apparently do anything wrong, she reported the meeting to white house council but does show russian efforts to reach out but after the election. how significance is this if at

all? >> well, it is significant, eric, in that it show it is breath and the depth of russian efforts to make contact with people in the transition and this was as you point out in the transition, there's no indication of yet that they were trying to reach for hicks before the election. but it still shows their determination and trying to make contacts. now, donald trump defenders say these emails suggest that the russians had not succeeded in making serious contact because why would they send such emails unsolicited to hope hicks, however, you could also argue the opposite which is we know for a fact that mike flynn, the transition national security adviser was in contact with sergey kislyak and other russian officials, he has pleaded guilty

to those charges but you could interpret this as persistent consistence effort even after donald trump's selection to make even more contact, so basically it doesn't tell us much more than we already suspected, what it does show that robert mueller and the fbi were cob substantiately monitoring contacts between russian officials and transition party officials which we kind of sort of knew. eric: what's wrong with that? what's wrong with the russians trying to reach out unless it's nefarious? >> right, well right now we do know that these emails were solicited, they were received, excuse me, six months after the fbi opened its investigation into possible collusion or interference in this campaign. you're right, as yet we have no hard evidence that president trump or anyone immediately around him other than mr. flynn

was in constant contact, we do have the meeting between donald trump, jr., we have talked about at great lengths but basically given how long this investigation has been going on, this is kind of front page news but doesn't advance the story very much. eric: what's fascinating, i think, and really interesting, i'm sure you've had experience in this with vast middle east diplomacy reporting, the reason the fbi came to hope is that the names that were in the emails that were sent to her and there's no evidence that she really interacted with them at all, not the people that they claimed to be, so basically intelligence operatives masking themselves as other people and judy, give us insight from your experience? i've had that too, when you're dealing with somebody who you think it's academic, think tank person and --

>> exactly. that's why it's very important for reporters and transition officials to always try to figure out who is telling you something and why they're telling it to you and i think the meetings that the fbi had, intelligence agency were trying to warn her, these individuals were not who they claim to be and that therefore she had to exercise caution. there's no indication so far in this story that broke over the weekend that hope hicks did anything wrong or that the russians succeeding in recruiting her in anyway. i think we have to say that and i'm not sure that the story is clear enough about that. we do know that she met -- we do know that she met with the fbi but with mueller investigation on thursday and friday. we don't know whether or not these e-mails were the subject of that conversation. >> seems like the fbi was at least trying to warn her. >> right. eric: offering lots of money and

i have a feeling they are not really who they say they are so maybe fbi come knocking on my door. judy miller, good to see you as always. >> good to see you. arthel: all right, eric and judy. now stories overseas, israeli forces announcing they destroyed a key cross border led by hamas militant group that stretched from gaza strip into israeli territory. it is the second cross-border tunnel the israeli detected and destroyed in six weeks. major developments against war against isis. iraq is declaring over islamic state over years of combat. >> we have achieved great victories against daesh today. i would like today to announce the good news to all iraqis, during the last hours the forces have deliberation, are in full

control. >> u.s.-backed iraqi forces fought more than three years to regain control over one-third of the country that happened under isis control. >> and coming up we are going to have a very special story, a congressman, and a young cancer survivor, well, they are coming together to pass life-saving laws in capitol hill, how they did it and who she is straight ahead?

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arthel: congressman and a 10-year-old cancer survivor joined forces to save lives, katie keller and congressman getting congress to help fight against pediatric cancer. i'm so happy to have you both here, thank you for being here.

i've already fallen in love with katie. no disrespect. sadie, you are now, you're 10 year's old. i want to start off and talk about your toy drive since we are just a few days, weeks from christmas. you have a toy drive, sadie slay operated through the sadie- sadie-keller foundation. >> i was talking to my doctor and she said, yes, but i can never imagine being in the hospital on christmas so i really wanted to do something for all the child and cancer fighters in the hospital on christmas, i was like how about we do a toy drive and the first year my goal was to collect 300 toys and i ended up 1300 toys for my hospital, children's medical center in dallas and it was so amazing and in 2016 my goal was to collect 2600 toys

and i ended up collecting 5,000 toys. arthel: i like the way you work. what's your goal this year? >> this year my goal is really big but i'm so excited about it, it is to get 10,000 toys for four hospitals, children's medical center in dallas and plano, cook children's in fort worth and medical city. arthel: guess what, we are going to help you make that happen. you are the most amazing young lady, teenager, not even teenager yet, 10-year-old. if they want to help you reach your goal sadiekellerfoundation.org. sadie you are here too because you are a survivor yourself. you were identified with acute lieu -- leukemia and you're ten year's old, how has being a

cancer survivor changed your outlook on life? >> well, i feel like -- like knowing about childhood cancer makes you like a better person and like because i just want to like point out that kids get cancer too and i'm a big advocate for child with cancers and they only get 4% of funding from the government and kids shouldn't have it. it's been very, very sad and, like, made me a better person too because i've been through that and it's just like -- i like helping others. arthel: congressman mccaul this is a story that's close to you, personal story to you as well, tell me is it that you came to be partners with sadie? >> my best friend in grade school died from leukemia, i

founded child care caucuses, they don't have lobbyists and special interest groups and so through that caucus i was introduced to sadie. i met a lot of children who have been afflicted with the terrible disease, some have survivorred and -- survived and some have not, this is a special girl in my life and so many others, she's so positive, taking a bad experience and turning into the positive it's a life-lesson for all of us and she is so inspiring, has touched me personally, you know, in my heard and -- she is really the best lobbyist that we have, so when i had the race for children act, the one that boost pediatric clinical studies, we brought sadie to the hill and what better advocate to the cause to defeat childhood cancer than little sadie. we all see her now and we see that what she does.

>> i met you just under an hour ago in the green room, immediately attracted to your light, to your positivity, the head band, i'm going to have to negotiate to get that from you maybe after the segment but i'm so happy that you are here. we really need you -- we thank you, we thank you congressman as well. we need this type of advocacy, we need this type of togetherness and type of harmony in our world today. >> it's a good news story coming out of washington and we are not hearing a lot of good news. >> okay, i thank you both sadiekellerfoundation.org. thank you both, we will be right back. >> thanks you. and you have the determination to keep going. humira has a proven track record of being prescribed for nearly ten years. it's the number one prescribed biologic by dermatologists. more than 250,000 patients have chosen humira to fight their psoriasis. and they're not backing down.

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>> law make nester congress react to the wave of sexual harassment allegations against some other colleagues. this is arizona congressman trent franks has become the latest to abruptly design, caroline live with the very latest on what's becoming a growing list. caroline, so far who has hit and i guess there's a sense that they won't be the last to go. >> there certainly is up here on capitol hill, two democrats and one republican. franks quit after wife hospitalized, offered a female

staffer $5 million if she would conceive a child with him as he and child were struggling with infertility, the second question, would he be the last, chris wallace asked that today on fox news sunday. >> i've heard report that is as many as 30 or 40 members of the house and senate may face allegations of sexual harassment. >> i'm hearing the same rumors. we have to make sure that women who do have the courage to come forward aren't hurt. >> the house and senate has refused antiharassment training for members and staffer, eric. eric: meanwhile it seems like a lot of members of congress secretly paid with taxpayer dollars, millions of dollars from the office of compliance, so is there efforts to make that change? >> there sure are. congresswoman she wants to range to find out what members have had a payout, a few deals have been revealed and the media, report 2-d 20-dollar payout to accuser of hastings and alleged $84,000 payment in the case of

blake farenthold. >> i think we should be naming past people and that should be fully disclosed. i think we may need to have maybe outside council come no to totally review cases to make sure that we get that all out there. >> there is a bill currently in the house with more than 100 cosponsors that would prohibit nondisclosure agreements as complaint from here on forward. eric: arthel. >> plane crashed in san diego killing two people saturday, bursting into flames when it skid intoed the back of the house on the north side of the city, the pilot was reportedly trying to land at a nearby field after the engine failed. there were four people on board at the time, the two survivors are in the hospital being treated for burns, no one was at home when the plane hit but the dog was killed, the faa is

investigating. >> huge week on capitol hill on tax reform. they will be going to congress and unify tax bills and have deadline coming up for christmas, straight ahead, key differences that they're working on and some road block that is they may face.

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sadiekeller foundation.org. eric: we will be back at 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. eastern later today. have a good one. leland: president trump slams what he calls the fake news media, new tweet saying there are too little coverage of record market. live with the white house in palm beach. >> the final hours to have alabama senate campaign are bringing out the heavy hitters from both parties, african american political leaders like cory booker are showing up on the trail on behalf of democrat doug jones. president trump records a get out the vote robo call for republican roy moore, we will get the very latest on the ground from both campaigns. leland: live pictures right now of major wild