coming up roy mower cut off, losing financial support from the rnc. members of congress de tail rampant sexual harassment on the hill. jeff sessions goes back before congress to talk about the ties to russia. president trump gives details on his trip to asia. with less than a month before alabama's special election there are more lawmakers calling for roy moore to dropout and now

republican national committee is cutting mower off financially. they're like they're his parents . the rnc pulling out of a joint fundraising agreement it had with moore and cancelling a program that was set to pay canvass working for more. there aren't a lot of politicians left in his corner. moore continues to deny it. gop leader high pressure talking about what to do next. the president called me from vietnam on friday. we hood a chance to discussion this issue. i talked to general kel biit on saturday. i talked to the vice-president about it yesterday. and there's no question that there's a deep concern here. roy moore should stop asigh. the women who have come forward are entirely credible. he's obviously not fit to be in the united states senate april we've looked at all the options to try to prevent that from happening. now

trying to discredit his accusers which led to a fake robo call going out in alabama. he shared a call from a man who claimed to be a washington post reporter named bernie bernstein who is willing to pay women to make damn damaging remarks about elementary school with. the call bears no relationship to reality. it shows you the dirty tricks that work in elections like this. any distress to the media if there is a place it might work, alabama is where it is. the issue of sexual harassment was front and center on the hill today. a hearing on sexual harassment in the workplace and a congress woman spoke up about allegations against their male colleagues. these are stunning. a young tafer had been asked to go to a member's residence to bring some documents and was greeted with a member in a towel who then brought her in and exposed himself and she left. and she

has moved on. the testimony detailed rampant sexual harassment and it also showed how the system makes things stuff tornado watch pursues to go out and pursue sexual harassment claims. if you're a member of congress that has been accused you get a house lawyer to represent you for free, which means if you're the congressman we're paying for it. hours after the hearing today, house speaker paul ryan will introduce anti sexual harassment training stunning testimony today. you shaw barbara comstock, the congress woman from the tenth visit of virginia. let's talk about the russia investigation which is what most the questions were focused on as attorney general jeff sessions went before the house judiciary today . misled contacts with campaign officials. in awful my testimony i can only do my best to answer your questions as i understand them and to the best

accept and reject accusation you youizations that i have you ever lied. that is a lie. now, some of of the questions for sessions focused on george pop done lose remember this guy? of course you do. he is the trump campaign foreign advisor that pled guilty for lying about his contacts with russians during the campaign. the trump administration has tried to distance itself from pop done lose calling him a low-level volunteer but trump was asked about a march meeting at the trump hotel that pop done lose attended. he he recalls the meeting but not the detail of what pop done lose said. sessions pushed back by what he said was an improper. he was canned about leading the department of justice and what cases they decide to pursue. how do you restore people's trust, republicans and democrats confidence

justice when it seems like different rules apply depending on who is in power in we will not be infected by politics or bias. we will make only decisions we believe are right and just. and we're not going to use the department to unlawfully advance a political agenda. now, in addition to all of that president trump has called for a special counsel investigation into hillary clinton. still some republican members of congress one of the guys is jim jordan on ohio. he has making the rounds on cable news. doesn't seem to be fond of the suit jacket. he release a timeline of clinton's e-mail server and the related actions of james comey. jordan questioned sessions about why he hasn't named a special counsel in the case. what's it going to take, not to mention the does air information what's it going to take to

. a factual basis that meets the standards of the ap pointment of special council. is that analysis going on right now in it's in the manual of the department of justice about what's required. we've only had two. the first one was the wake oh, janet reno senator dan forth who took over that information as specials counsel and mr. mueller. now in a letter to the committee quled sessions said he authorized justice department prosecutors to look into whether the sale of a uranium company during clinton's time as secretary of state warranted a special counsel investigation. meanwhile the president's 12-day five country tour of asia has come to anen. we are hearing positive reviews about the trip from none other than the p. we've had a tremendous situate successful was done on trade, not only on the deals that we have at least $300 million worth of deals, but that will be i

that number a fairly short period of type. i think when made a lot of progress just in terms of relationship. we actually sold $300 million worth of equipment and other things and i think that number is going to be quadrupled very quickly so that's over a trillion dollars worth of stuff. i think we have done a really fantastic job. it's been a great trip. the president didn't want to delay his flight home. he skipped a session at the ace and summit he was planning to attend because it was running behind. he told reporters he delivered remarks at a luncheon and resm tillerson attended in his place. the president says he helped to avoid an international incident you ma i have heard this story going around. this is kind of significant. three u ucla basketball players were arrested , ball. president trump personally went to chinese president she shinning ping to help avoid

any jail time for the athletes. i had a great queshessation with president she. what they did was unfortunate. you you know you're talking about very long prison sentences. they do not play games. he was terrific and they're working on it right now hopefully everything is going to work out. i know they're very greatful because they were told exactly what happened. don't expect the president to lay low upon his state side. he teased writing i will be making a major statement from the white house upon my return to d.c. time and date to be set. we don't know when. but we do know that there's a speculation about what the major announcement will be about since it's coming on the heels of his big trip. it could be about trade, about north korea, but we don't know yet. so just like you we're going to have to take you and watch and stay tuned. meanwhile we can expect the president to keep talking about tax reform. i

i comes to tax reform. house gop leaders are trying to figure out if they have the votes for their version of the bill to pass. the good news for tax re form we spend a lot of time talking about the numbers of tax reform and the ralph it those numbers translate into real people's lives who will benefit from the process of tax reform and as we start discussing ways to use some of the revenues perhaps from the individual mandate to lower taxes for the middle class, this is a classic example of a powerful mechanism for us to address those folks in the middle class, the hard work ing americans living paycheck to paycheck. that guy, by the way, is south carolina senator tim scott. he did mention the individual mandate much the senate gop is adding a provision to its tax bill that will repeal the affordable care acts mandate. it's something president trump wants. it's also a major change. until today they

could put the whole votes in jeopardy. repealing the mandate would free up to more than 300 billion-dollar in government funning over the next decade but it would cost 13 million fewer people to be injured. democrats are saying the gop has to put tax reform on hold to focus on budget negotiations. i would say we ought to be focusing on getting this done now. this is an immediate problem, december 8 we run out of monday. our republican colleagues are focused on tax reform and they're losing the ability to focus on what needs to be done right now. it is just unbelievable what they are doing . their tax bill is such a mess in terms of not helping the middle class enough, in terms of the deficit that they're gesta ing themselves in a knot and it's sort of like yoga bear all over again. the house is expected to vote on its tax re form bill on

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alabama, but i'm so fast \fate\faithed by the fact that we have companies that are getting caught in the cross fire here and i know we've been talk ing about cure rig and their advertising. what's been your take away from whole this i guess mess at this point in well , if you are a brand manager and you run a company today you almost need a political consultant to be inside because almost everything in this hyper partisan environment is potentially involve necial at some point to being construed to be political and with that can come overnight rath. so you can be advertising like we've seen and suddenly get decimated from one side or the other based upon your position or in some cases just the fact that you want to just remove yourself from a position and that's very dangerous for brands. so for people who are watching because we're watching the vitd ohio here of these machines. apparently keurig was

media matters started telling keurig by advertising on sean hand ticketed event's show they're. i feel like that's a massive jump to conclusions when when you say because your spend your money here, you implicitly endorse that. that's the argument that brands are trying to make and certainly many people that would suggest that your position is more reasonable are making, but there's a whole other side and there are groups that are organizing to make a political point in certain cases that will ensure that you as a brand get decimated if you take certain positions and then there's just the public outrage now, in this case you've got a very, you know, emotionally charged topic when you're talk ing about abuse to a

heinous things that you could ever think of and certainly to the extent that it's true any kind of child abuse is going to have people up in arms in heavy levels and a brand can get gambia aged and certainly in this case, though, when you're talking about what happened, it was the other side. it was con serves who were supportive of hand ticketed event hanity who went after the brand. the lines es got crossed. it's so easy to start what they were calling a boy cot by social media. it's not a boy cot if you've already spent money on the product in the first place. this is the power of social media. so again, a brand that is chugging along thinking they're doing just fine and perhaps does nothing because perhaps they don't pull out, become a lightning rod and

thousands of people that are against you. you can be lamb pass it on social media, you can be shunned. you can be made an example and so ceos and brand managers, product managers, they're freaking out because they're not sure how to play this. they really don't understand it and what they have to understand is wherever they may be advertising they've got to consider what could be the range of political options. they need to have a political plan, especially today when like we said it's hyper partisan. we have about 30 seconds left. i want to get your take as we move forward looking at keurig and we should point out that keurig ceo all poll yiesed their employees for putting them in the spot. sean hand ticketed event said stop mash smabbing your machines . do they have long term damage to their reputation i think that many a

rush to judgment and a disrespect to someone they follow and hanity and i don't think it's going to be as significant as what has happened to the nfl and the boy cots because of the flag. but i think you're he going to have a lot of people for sometime that will hold it against them and that's the challenge in today's environment. it's dangerous to be a brand. i think so, too. eric shiver, reputation management consultants. good to see you. good to see you. and we're back after this on the final five.

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>> well can back to joe biden for a moment. he's on a media honey monday. when he role it a lot of the media saw it as a chance as young l joe, just say

there's reports that he may make a run for 2020. we'll call him sound to sleep. he's reliable when it comes to matters considering the 45th president which we're seeing on steven could he bear and other subjects . until he rules out a run he could really skate through a lot. maybe not for the right reasons, but joe biden sound asleep tonight. meanwhile the name ron a ronnie mack daniel she's the rnc chair man. she's facing some major issues with the roy moore mess. tonight as we mentioned the r rn c pulled out of its fundraising agreement with the moore campaign. what this does is put more on a political island, but the what ifs are many. what if he wins. what if they forcely remove him from the

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