there. >> i think the president sees some parallels, perhaps, with his ownisation. he was accused of sexual misconduct. he won the election any way. >> trump's played his card. what does the republicans do? >> this will be a big test for voters in alabama of the personal versus the political. >> for men in the media, for men in hollywood, they are gone. the accusers are believed. for men in politics, there is always a hold on. who's side of the aisle? which side of the aisle is this? >> welcome back. i'm yasmin vossoughian. another week of accusations leveled against powerful men. taking advantage of women. where do we draw the line and when it comes to politics, does it even matter to voters as they head to the poll. joining me now dana mel back, jane newton small, and sabrina sadicky. welcome. i want to start with al franken speaking out to us after eight

days of silence. let's take a listen to that. >> but hasn't your credibility been undermined? >> i would say yes and i am a long way back. i'm a long way back to win back the trust of the people of minnesota. i've let the people down. i've let the people of minnesota down. i've let my friends and staff and supporters down, my family down. i've especially let down the people who have seen me as a champion for women. a lot of the work i've done in the senate has been being a champion for women, one of the first pieces of legislation i did was to make sure that women who work for military contractors can go to court if they've been sexually assaulted. i was very proud of that piece of legislation. i'm going back to work tomorrow

and i will -- i will see what it's like. i'm know i'm going to work very hard on net neutrality. this has been an issue that i have been a leader on. there are other issues that i've been a leader on on mental health in schools. >> so senator al franken saying his credibility has been undermined. he has a long way back, he's let people down and women down and that pivoting to other issues he wants to focus on which is net neutrality, trying to drive the conversation away from some of the accusers that have been coming out over the last couple weeks against the senator. jan, i'm going to start with you. your reaction so far to what the senator has been saying. >> it's very striking how different al franken's reaction is to these allegations versus some of the reactions on the republican side for example, roy moore or even donald trump. al franken has absolutely admitted it, he's apologized for it, has called for an investigation, wants to be investigated and said he has

work to do to make up the difference in this versus on the other side, roy moore has said, not only denied the claims for the most part, he has pastors out there, saying, some 14-year-old girls look like they might be 20. he has people saying maybe he sought out these girls because he wanted to be pure because he was a religious man. they looked more to excuse the behavior and to find reasons to make it okay, and so there's a striking difference between these two kinds of reactions one is obfuscation and the other is admitting it. >> there's a difference in the reactions but there's also i think there's a danger here that people are creating some sort of a false parallel between the roy moore situation and al franken or john conyers. there has always been sort of a specialty category in politics and everywhere else for allegations that involved children. so that's not to excuse anything that al franken's done or john conyers has done or bill clinton

did, but think about back to the den denny -- when it involves children there's been a reaction that goes beyond party line. that really seems to have broken down here in quite an alarming way. >> sabrina, down is not the first one making in a comparison, saying the roy moore situation does involve miners. >> oh, absolutely. >> it's a much different situation with roy moore and al franken. >> if there's no question if you're pressing charges, you'd be looking at an entirely different case. compared with the allegations against senator al franken who has apologized and is accepted responsibility. i don't think that that necessarily means that he should be absolved. i think the issue here is for democrats, how do they want to grapple with allegations against their own. they really position themselves as the party that lifts women,

that elevates them. they've had this case about so-called republican war on women. i don't think they want to be seen as hypocritical, there are varying degrees of misconduct and what they'll have to decide more broadly is what should the consequences be. is it -- that there's a zero tolerance policy and anyone accused of misconduct have to resign? is someone going to lose their seniority and i think this is really precedent setting. there will be many more allegations to come. reports have said the cultural of sexual assault is rampant on capitol hill. >> jay, i'll start with you on this one. is that enough? >> i don't know that it will be enough and i think we'll have to wait and see how much money taxpayer money he used to pay out, what the investigations

yield and really how far this goes. there are more women coming forward it seems like all the time against conyers. so far, the leaders, nancy pelosi's been incredibly forgiving of him saying this weekend that he's an icon, that he's had this enormous body of work but on the on the other hand saying no matter the good stuff you've done this does not excuse sexual harassment. i think that he's got a very understanding leader in nancy pelosi, a very close friend but that can only be taken so far and we'll see how much these allegations bear out in investigations. >> dana, let's go with that nancy pelosi point. obviously appearing on "meet the press" earlier today. a lot of people criticizing her for what she had to say about conyers. what are the optics like for the democratic party here after hearing that nancy pelosi interview? i got to say, on my twitter, i had people responding to me and saying to me, look, it's got to be across the board here.

you can't have nancy pelosi say it's okay for conyers but not for someone on the other side of the aisle? >> i think that's right and that's a fair criticism and i was talking a moment earlier about bill clinton, and okay, it's a fair criticism to say why weren't people speaking up back then. you could say that was a different time but now that we're in this period, you know what the reaction is going to be. yes, john conyers is an icon in many ways. that does absolutely nothing to excuse the behavior. so i think that's probably a mistake politically for the democrats to make. again, this to me goes beyond politics and you can say there's right and there's wrong here regardless of politics. you can say john conyers has achieved great things in his life but that doesn't excuse what he's done any more that it excuses george h.w. bush for

what he's done even though he's an american. >> in fact, we've seen many leaders of industry being accused of these very things and as part of being leaders that people have talked about these people, these men in the position of power that sort of make them do these things or allow them to feel like they can do these things. go ahead. >> if it's going to come down to misbehavior and we sort of look at anybody that's made a comment that offended somebody, well, look there's probably 535 members of congress who are going to be in some trouble and virtually everybody who's a chief of industry, so there has to be some sort of a sense of an agreement on what is tolerable and what is not tolerable but it certainly seems that john conyers is on the wrong side of that line. >> sabrina, let's talk roy moore here. trump hitting doug jones on twitter today reinforcing the fact that he supports roy moore for senate. the senate republicans on the

sunday shows today urging president trump to pressure roy moore to drop out. let's take a listen to that. >> don't nominate somebody like roy moore who could actually lose the seat that any other republican could win and from a party perspective, we got to look long-term not short-term and what i would tell president trump, if you think winning with roy moore is going to be easy for the republican party, you're mistaken. >> is trump looking at the big picture here or is he just focusing on the base and making it very personal? >> i think that the president has clearly made up his mind and he is focusing on the base. he has chosen to side with his close ally steve bannon who has been steadfast in his support of roy moore and when you look at trump himself, you can't ignore that he has been accused of sexual assault by as many as 16 women, everyone of course heard

the "access hollywood" tapes and his opinions with respect to women are well-known and well documented. so i think that it also is revealing in terms of what he really thinks and what he is willing to support. the biggest question now for republicans will be, if roy moore wins, what will you do about it? and they have talked about potentially moving to expel him from the senate. if he wins, are they actually going to stay true to that commitment or has the president now put them in this position where he is clearly thrown his support behind this candidate and will they end up finding themselves in a potential war with the president? that remains to be seen but the real question will be if republicans change their tune if and when roy moore is elected to the senate. >> jay, sabrina brings up the "access hollywood" tape. the "the new york times" reporting that he suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic and repeated that claim to an

adviser more recently. trump admitted, as we remember, specifically that it was him on that tape and when it surfaced he also issued an apology after that tape. what does he get out of this by floating the idea that it was -- that it was wrong. that it wasn't authentic? >> i think he's trying to muddy the waters again. this is sort of classic trump and his shifting sense of reality. that wasn't maybe me, maybe that was -- maybe this was just -- i'm a victim here and that's one of his very common modus operate dye. he plays the victim and says i've been victimized. i'm not really at fault here and somebody else is at fault and that's really why he's insiders say why he feels such an affiliation with roy moore is because he says well i've been through the same thing, people falsely accused me. it's been 40 years since these

incidents and why are people accusing roy moore now, it must be political. at the same time you have to take the atmosphere of me too and this is a time when women are feeling emboldened enough to do that and it's important to foster that feeling. >> all right. december 12th, everybody. everybody looking toward that election in alabama. thank you all for skroing me. the fbi responding to report claiming it failed to alert several u.s. officials they were being targeted by russians. how you can give back to the children who lost their parents to acts of terror? that story coming up next.

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>> don't underestimate the russians and which they did. i can tell that story because they corrupted our data, they corrupted our files, they were in our files until october 21st and they were mean. they took stuff -- they took more than our e-mails. they wiped out our files. former dnc chair donna brazile signing off about the hacks last year. now the new report said the fbi didn't warn scores of targets that russia was hacking them. they knew that for at least a year. joining me now is jill winebacks and frank fagulsi and jonathan la meer, and white house reporter for the associated

president. jonathan, i'll start with you since you were part of this reporting from the fbi. talk to me more about this. >> it's terrific reporting. ap have found that the fbi was extremely slow to notify u.s. officials who were targeted by a russian based hacking organization known as fancy bear and of the 80 odd officials that we reached out to, only two or three of them had been contacted by the u.s. saying, we believe your e-mail accounts have been compromised by these hackers which seems like an extraordinary small number and a very dangerous situation. we know the role the russian hackers played influencing last year's elections. this seems to again underline the idea that the u.s. was slow to respond to this. these are criticisms unlevied against the obama white house and the national security team there that they didn't do enough to stop or politicize these hacks of u.s. officials. now some of these were retired american government workers who really played no role day-to-day

any more but some were people -- >> they could have intelligence from other government officials and especially if they're retired, that means they're using their primary e-mail like gmail as opposed to other more secure things to have interaction. >> that's right. others very much active classified clearance operations so this is something -- the fbi has raised a lot of questions -- the fbi has not commented publicly in terms of an excuse for what happened or an explanation but we've talked to people there who are unofficially saying they were simply overwhelmed by the sheer number of hacks and couldn't keep up. >> frank, did they drop the ball here? >> this isn't so much a failure as it is a real wakeup call for the american public and the entire u.s. intel community and it's really three things to think about here. first, is the absolute pervasiveness of hacking even state sponsored hacking in our society. we're talking about not an isolated incident, we're talking about something that happens almost every minute of every day so it does become a resource

problem. secondly, it's important for the public to understand that the bureaus methodology on this is usually to triage who they think is being targeted. former retired officials take a backseat to current active government officials and they usually tell the bureau the service provider that you've got a russian attributed hack occurring on your -- on you as a carrier. you have a duty to notify your customers of that and don't forget, lastly, that the bureau can see, we're talking about this because the bureau can see the russian targeting occurring on the russian side which means they can often see whether the russians have egressed data and compromised and breached that customer and when they do, they make that an immediate priority. we're talking about attempts here not necessarily actual breaches and compromises. >> could the fbi see any ramifications from all of this? i'm sure there's a lot of officials out there that are not happy about this information. >> i am sure that any one who is

hacked would want to know and the fbi has a real obligation to tell people if someone was being stalked physically, the fbi would certainly notify them whether they were a current or a former employee of the government and this was an electronic surveillance, which is not any different than a physical stalking. i think the danger to our democracy and to the election that happened is something that the fbi is partly responsible for not telling people so that they could take proper precautions. i think it's outrageous. >> is that a distinction that the fbi could have made that this was a physical fear that they had, they weren't being physically compromised so in fact they didn't need to tell the people that were being targeted there? >> go ahead, frank. >> i'm just going to say, come tomorrow morning there's going to be some larger policy discussions about the duty to warn. the fbi's duty to warn in physical threat cases is well-known.

terrorism warnings, physical threat, murder for hire, we've got all of that down. the bureau understands that, right? but now we're moving into the cyber world so the mere fact that some hacker maybe stat sponsored has tried to target you, is that something that should merit a knock on your door, is that what america wants and what resources are necessary to staff the fbi in order to do that? >> so we think hacking, we think russia, we think putin, so let's now talk about trump and putin's phone call that happened last tuesday i believe after having met on the sidelines of the apex summon. jonathan, to you. they're discussion syria, discussing north korea, afghanistan, the ukraine, a lot of things on the docket. putin had just met with assad, had met with the turkey and the leader of iran as well. are conversations like this one putting putin in a position like this sort of elevating his position in the world and side lining the u.s.? >> certainly the russians hope

so. president trump has made no secret of the idea that he feels that russia could be a valuable ally. he said that night after night on the campaign trail. he is saying it now that he believes we need to work with them. they can apply pressure in syria, they can apply pressure in north korea, they can be -- they can be a useful partner for the u.s. that sets off alarm bells around many places in the world including here at home. the white house oddly noted that conversation this last week was over an hour. they almost wanted to brag that it was a long conversation to stress that relationship and considering -- >> i would love to hear every single thing that was spoken about in that hour, it would be a wonderful thing to read, i have to tell you. sorry. i digress. >> believe me, i would too. >> as would everybody. >> the president of course has been -- has drawn criticism for oddly differential to vladimir putin throughout which has led some to question his motives as to why and of course let's

remember, this conversation here happens just a few weeks after their meeting in vietnam. i was part of the press pool. i was part of that trip. we didn't have any access to that. we were shut out of that conversation or even catch any glimpse of it. the president came back afterwards, told the reporters on air force one that vladimir putin, of course speaking of hacking, denied that he had anything to do with last year's election hack and the president said he believed he was sincere and only the next day suggested well, classified and said, i still believe u.s. intelligence officials over the russian president. >> of course. >> this is something where we see the russians, we see putin coming into an election, we see the russian economy starting to pick up, we see him in a position of strength. >> it only makes him look better. >> at the end of the day, beyond some sanctions, nothing really of consequence happened to him in terms of from the fallout of last year's hacking. >> frank, you got 30 seconds or so. how can one trust putin?

how can the president sit down with vladimir putin and trust that what he says needs to be done in syria is to the best interest of the united states and its allies? >> i can answer that in under 30 seconds. you can't trust vladimir putin. >> there you go. >> he's not our friend and it's not naivety. >> there you go. thank you all for joining me. president trump using the deadly attack in egypt to promote his travel ban and border wall. it's not the first time he seized on a terror incident jump on a political agenda. hello, aloe.

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time now for the global checkup. a look at the stories that are making headlines around the world. we begin with major news out of germany. angela merkel may be at the end of her teenure. if the conservative leader can't put together a coalition government with rivals from other political factions, germany may face a new election or a minority government. antiestablishment movement wants monters for national elections next year and the leader of the five star movement party says he wants to protect the voters from fake news. in fake the military has been called in to control antiblasphemy protests.

islamic activists blocked the road to show solidarity. those clashes ended up with six people dead and a few hundred injures. this week a trial that begins in new york is causing tension between the u.s. and turkey. turkey's prime minister suggests that there's a plea deal with the united states for a turkish, iranian gold trader excuse of evading sanctions. the traitor has not been seen in the last two months. the country's film and television industry, this comes after they were protests against the film which protects and depicts a relationship between a legendary 14th century queen and muslim ruler. a volcano erupted for the second time in a week. sending ash 13,000 feet into the air. >> the aftermath of the horrific egyptian mosque attack that killed more than 300 people,

president trump took to twitter to offer his condolences. he used the tragedy to push his controversy immigration agenda with this. we have to get tougher and smarter than ever before and we will. need the wall. need the ban. it didn't take long for the backlash. texas congressman slamming trump for suggesting a border wall would effectively stop muslim extremist from entering the country, what an idiot. does donald trump foolishly think a border wall would have prevented 9/11, san bernardino and las vegas? the worse in the arab countries modern history, although egyptian officials say the perpetrators were carrying isis flags. joining me "the washington post" dana mel bank, welcome to you both. dina i'm going to start with you. i want to get your reaction to trump's tweet. do you think there's any correlation here between the egypt attack and calling for the ban? >> there's a clear correlation

between an attack in egypt and a wall on the united states border. of course it's absurd but we've seen this before and the president when he talks about the opioid problem talks about the need for a border wall even though that's not the source of the problem. they're seemingly no problem that we have that cannot be cured by the border wall in his telling, so but it shows a certain willingness to exploit whatever is occurring around the world to further this domestic agenda. clearly, the democrats as you were pointing out aren't buying it, even people in his own party have basically said that this border wall is not a solution to anything. >> mark, egypt has been fighting an insurgency in the sinai for more than three years or so. does this latest attack signal that cc is taking the wrong

track and that he's trying to acquire more missiles and that sort of thing versus actually concentrating on the ground intelligence, he's neglecting intelligence gathering in the area. >> i just came back from two weeks in the middle east and indeed you're correct. the assessment from those of us who are following the events in the region particularly against isis suggest that as isis is indeed pounded out of syria as well as iraq, it is beginning to focus more and more on soft targets and, by the way, there's a resurgence of al qaeda. remember them? they are now once again also planning attacks particularly in egypt where in the sinai the egyptian government has really not adopted an effective strategy against this insurgency of this isis cell but it's symptomatic of the broader problem in the region that the administration also seems to enjoy dropping bombs rather than engage in what essentially is a better and more effective strategy to interdict isis

operatives that have escaped from syria and iraq. >> in essence you're saying the trump administration has the exact same strategy when it comes to defeating isis that el-sisi does and none of them are working? >> we have a system that is completely awol as well as the fact the trump administration has done nothing to convince silicon valley to stop providing a platform for isis and al qaeda to be able to place recruitment videos as well as tactical videos on the construction of bombs particularly in the arab media which we monitor through the counterextreechl project daily. >> now trump has pledged support of sissi, what does that look like and does that mean we have two administrations aren't doing what they need to get done? >> this president has rarely met a strong man around the world that he doesn't like so i think

that's probably just more rhetorical. he likes that style of leadership that we've seen. i think the trump administration gets credit in the sense that it has been very successful at denying islamic state territory and it comes at the cost of more freedom to drop bombs, more civilian casualties. that one goal of reducing islamic states territory has bled into once again into something else when islamic state ma stat ta sizes and we see a whole host of new threats that we're not doing anything about. >> mark, i want to quickly touch on why it is that this mosque was the intended target of this attack in that region. can you talk to us about that? >> sufi islam is a mythical

secretasect of islam and they consider any sufi muslim to be subject to death because they consider them infee delz. >> are they getting as much protection they're getting from sissi's administration especially considering therl the intended targets of these attacks. >> clearly the egyptians had focused a great deal of their security apparatus on christian churches inside egypt proper but the sinai has not been adequately protected and indeed this attack is really shows it. it just bears how badly the egyptians have been doing in trying to foster greater security around those elements of the sufi islamic sect that are based in the sinai and have suffered greatly as a result of this insurgency. >> thank you for joining me this afternoon. lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct the house expected to vote on antiharassment training but would that be enough to stop

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new developments today as senator al franken breaks his silence saying he is embarrassed and ashamed. let's take a listen to some more. >> i think this will take some time, but i think that with a -- i'm taking responsibility. i've apologized to the women who have felt disrespected and to

everyone i've let down. i'm cooperating fully with the ethics committee and i am trying to handle this in a way and -- uh -- to -- that adds to an important conversation and to be a better public servant and a better man. >> and in a separate interview, franken announced he will return to work tomorrow. joining me now hugh huet. >> i want to take a bit more listen to franken then we'll talk. >> if you had said to me two weeks ago that a woman was going to say that i had made her uncomfortable and disrespected her in one of these ways, i would have said no. this has been a shock to me.

>> so you have franken acknowledging and recognizing the actions he was doing, the things he was saying and doing were making women feel this way. i think some people obviously would be critical of that but hugh i'll start with you on this. he's apologized. he has expressed remorse. is that enough? >> i don't think he has apologized. in fact, if you go back to the original allegation by the radio host, it was not just of the picture, it was of a pertd of two weeks on a tour where al franken first assaulted her and belittled her for two weeks, made her life a living hell and he has not apologized for that. he says we have different recollections about it. and so i think he's getting a pass because he's al franken and liberals like al franken, but that original charge, the other three women, i don't know enough about the details that original charge was specific detailed and prolonged and the senator has said nothing about it and i was disappointed that the star tribune did not press him on the

details of those two weeks because i think that is very germane here. >> is he getting a pass here, christina? should there be a political line? i think people right now are siding with their republicans or their siding with their democrats and the people that they like and the people that they support but this is not about politics? >> these are not parties and issues but i think there is a difference between a pedophile and someone who is sexual assaulting and groping and or harassing women, alleged. with al franken, though, what really aggravates me about my apology. he's using passive language. if she felt that i pobably disrespected her. you did disrespect her. we have pictures that you disrespected her. you have to go and if you are going to have a mea culpe, you need to have -- if you're being genuine about it, say what you did and take the consequences, whether it's the ethics

committee, whether you have to walk through and think about your behavior from the past ten, 15, 20 years. i really do not want this to become a partisan issue where the democrats say, well, you know, he's loveable and afterable and he's been a great guy and he votes the way we need him toll vote so these allegations should go by the wayside. these are serious allegations. we also cannot conflate, i think pedophilia and sexual harassment when we think about certain republicans -- >> we have to make sure. roy moore denying all the allegations but isn't that exactly what's happening here, hugh, becoming so much more politicized when you think about nancy pelosi's interview with chuck todd earlier to the on "meet the press." >> i was on the set watching the former speaker try and weave her way through 30 years of statements. it's very difficult when you don't have one standard. i want to previous face this by noting that in our audience there are far more people who have be harassed or assaulted

than there are have been falsely accused but we know that false accusations happen. a man in chicago was falsely accused, the university of virginia that was slander and defamed by rolling stone in 2014, but overwhelmingly the number of people who have been assaulted and harassed out weighs those who have been falsely accused and we have one standard, one burden of proof, one set of probative value standards. in the case of roy moore, i concluded after reading "the washington post" story that it was true and i would not vote for him. i agree with mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. the senate should expel him if he's elected because it's got to protect its own reputation. one standard for every allegation, everyone gets due process. nancy pelosi said that today and i agree with her, but one standard and it usually is, would a civil jury convict the

individual charged or alleged in a jury trial of simple assault and battery. that's my standard and i think it's been met with roy moore. i think it's been proven and admitted by al franken and john conyers. >> do you agree with that, there needs to be one standard? everybody deserves due process and everybody goes through that, would they be convicted? >> i don't think there should be one carte blanche standard. as we wait to see about al franken and conyers. >> we know about al franken. he's admitted to it. >> when he comes to -- he mentioned the civil court. if his accuser doesn't press charges, she was satisfied with his apology at the time, i don't think that the carte blanche standard. i do do think we have to remember you don't need white people to uphold white supremacy and you don't always need men to uphold pat tri archy.

you have women upholding -- we can think about the governor of alabama, i believe these women and tease charges are serious and i believe them, but i will also vote for him on december 12th which is problematic. >> hugh, we got 30 seconds left. how could these guys at this point be effective lawmakers when you have al franken and john conyers still there, you have a possible roy moore who could win this election on december 12th and then be a member of the senate. how could you be an effective lawmaker when you have all of this hanging over your head? it seems to me like it would be a complete distraction. >> different cases, i can't see roy moore ever making a contribution. al franken say different case because he's been in the body for eight years and he has friendships. i don't know if he can repair that. he ought to quit and let the governor of minnesota send a strong liberal senator to be a strong voice.

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welcome back. we are 2 1/2 weeks away from a state senate election that could feasibly result in the win of an accused child predator. still unbelievable and it seems even more so in the state of

alabama. though moore strongly denies it will agations against him. last week, three major papers called on the voters to vote for doug jones. today, there was a satire piece titled alabama has a story nobody will believe. a book proposal, in it he continues to win elections and moves ahead in life. he's kicked off the state supreme court twice. says freedom of religion was meant only for christians and stabbed himself twice while demonstrating how a crime is committed. nine women accused him of preying him. this is a story of roy moore and it seems unbelievable but it's true. go to my twitter to see the story in full. join me back here next sunday at 4:00 p.m. to break down the major stories of the week. also be sure to join david gura

at 7:00. but first, it's "meet the press," everybody. this sunday, sexual harassment, a national turning point or is it? after refusing to back alabama's roy moore. >> the president said if the allegations are true then roy moore should step aside. >> president trump decides to stand by his man. >> i can tell you one thing for sure. we don't need a liberal person in there. a democrat. >> while democrats face their own crisis. do they force out a popular senator who admits to inappropriate behavior as well as their longest serving house member. and what message are they sending to women if they don't. my guest this morning is house minority leader, nancy pelosi and anita hill, whose treatment nearly three decades ago is bere-examined. plus do republicans really want to go into the 2018 mid terms having raised taxes on parts of the middle class