u.s. senator, republicans don't want to lose a u.s. senator. i say what the hell is wrong with us that we even justify enmen's actions. they shouldn't be in the senate, period. >> and i want to remind everybody that president trump and 12 i'm saying if we're going to hold everyone to the same standard, we cannot ignore the fact that and justice sitting as a supreme court and donald trump is sitting in the white house. >> see, this is the politics crap. you haven't even -- you're going after a supreme court justice for something that was clearly debunked because you care more about democrats. >> no, it was not debunked. >> if al franken did this to you or one of your family members, would you be defending him? >> i have noted time and time again on this program that al franken should step down. i've noted we should have the same consequences and we had to address it across the board. in saying that, that absolutely means other individuals who currently sit in positions of power. talking about clarence thomas, that's embarrassing, and she was debu

the more controversy unfolded as the u.s. senate passed a measure requiring sexual harassment training for senators, staff and interns. the decision was unanimous. >> president trump is now on the fourth leg of his 12-day trip to asia. landing in vietnam earlier this morning, this time without the first lady who will head back to the u.s. from china. the president attended a summit of the asia-pacific economic leade leaders or apec delivered a speech strongly echoing the familiar themes of creating fair and reciprocal agreements. >> from this day forward, we will compete on a fair and equal basis. we are not going to let the united states be taken advantage of any more. i am always going to put america first, the same way that i expect all of you in this room to put your countries first. >> and nbc white house correspondent kelly o'donnell is in the city of dan ang this morning with more. kelly, what is the president's focus there in vietnam? >> reporter: good morning, philip. president trump is talking about trade and addressed a g

u.s. senator richard franklin pettigrew who served in the u.s. senate from 1889 until 1901. he lived in the home from 1911 until his death in 1926. in 1889, this is one of the most modern homes you would have found. it had radiators, indoor plumbing, gas and electric lights, even telephones, which is really interesting because just a few miles away from here, out on the farm in the county, people were living without windows and doors. so, this home was top-notch for sioux falls and the dakota territory at the time. richard pettigrew was born in ludlow, vermont in 1848. his parents moved to south wisconsin in 1852. he eventually attends lloyd college and reed's law at the university of wisconsin and at a law firm in madison. law at theds university of wisconsin. in 1869, he finds himself looking for a summer job and he comes west as part of a government surveying party. when he passes through the city in may 1869, it is actually an army called for dakota and it was garrisoned by a single company of the 22nd u.s. infantry. he spent the summer working as a surveyor, learning th

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u.s. senators and the staff, it passed yesterday and passed unanimously. ining us now is senator amy klobuchar. >> thank you. >> i think every reasonable person in the country is thinking it coming to this. but roy moore may have first training session in the united states senate. >> that's possible. although we note we have a wonderful candidate in doug jones who is well-respected. the polls have gotten closer. former prosecutor running on trust and how he wants to help the economy down there in alabama and better health care. so i think that's what i'm focused on right now is him and his possibility of winning. but i'll say that the u.s. senate should be an example for the rest of the country. and i worked on this bill. i vet it with senate grassley, senator from iowa, republican and we had support from every single senator on the rules committee. because it is really important to tell the rest of the country that no workplace is immune. that this happens at all levels. and it happens when you don't even know it's happening sometimes. and that is why we w

>> so before the u.s. senate, he said he was unaware of any trump surrogate having communications with the russians. today he admitted under oath that george papadopoulos, who, by the way, worked under him for the national security team under the trump campaign, had communications with the russians, and, in fact, he shot down a proposal that george wanted for trump and putin to meet. that is very different than what he told the u.s. senate. >> well, let me give his version, right? the version that the attorney general has entered into evidence is, that he didn't remember that when asked by the senate that when he read the press reports, he did remember the one detail that he was the one that pushed back against the idea. >> you know, if this was the only time that happened, maybe it might be somewhat believable. but it's not. we have seen this pattern happen before. so before the u.s. senate earlier this year, he said he had no communications with the russians. just a flat out statement. that was wrong. because a

u.s. senators calling for moore to withdraw. in many of these senators, including republican senators, republican male senators say they believe -- these are all republicans. they mooef the accusers. i'm just saying that they believe what the accusers are saying, including this woman who says when she was 14 she was sexually molested. there's that. i also want to can you ask you, ed, the question you say the president answered isn't necessarily the biggest question. do you think roy moore should be senator from alabama? do you want roy moore to be the next senator from alabama is this. >> are you asking me or the president. >> but i think you saying -- he hasn't answered or commented on this. shgs came out and she delivered an answer. the an was the people will decide. and by the way, i think that's fair. i'm not saying alfranken -- the woman that's accused him, i don't think she should be believed over al franken either until we see what happens. and if roy moore won't go into court and sue the "washington post" like he said he

either you're lying to u.s. senate or u.s.presentatives. >> well, my answer to i did not meet with the russians was explicitly responding to the shocking suggestion that i, as a surrogate, was meeting on a continuing basis with russian officials and the implication was to impact the campaign in some sort of nefarious way. >> the attorney general is also challenged about reports the department of justice is considering appointment of a special council to investigate the clinton foundation. the possible probe stems from the sale of the uranium company to russia while hillary clinton was secretary of state. sessions assuring lawmakers his decision will be made without regard to politics, ideology or bias. >> the department of justice can never be used to retaliate politically against opponents, and that would be wrong. >> critics claim sessions ordered his prosecutors to consider a special counsel after president trump expressed frustration that he could not order the fbi to take action against the clintons. that has long been th

u.s. senator franklin pettigrew, who served in the u.s. senate from 1989 to 1901. he lived in the home from 1911 until his death in 1926. in 1889, this was one of the most modern homes you have found. it has radiators. it had indoor plumbing. even had telephone. a few miles away from here, i was on the farm. it was the top-notch for sioux falls. he was born in vermont in 1848. is parents moved west to southwest wisconsin. innsville, south of madison 1852. it is where he grows up. attends college in wisconsin and read law, both with university of wisconsin and a law form -- and a law firm. himself he finds looking for a summer job. as part to the dakotas of a government surveying party. when he passed it through the city in may of 1869, it is an army post on the side. it was garrisoned by a single company. he spends the summer working as surveyorr with a learning the business. in september, they pass back through what will be sioux falls. it has beenr abandoned by the army. they take the opportunity to claim a quarter section of land of what was the preemption act.

u.s. senator. >> i can't even. all right, i got to bring in nbc's von hilliard who has made his way to the city of gadsen, alabama. exactly what garrett was leading us into. when you talk to republicans in washington, they've said a lot of quick things distancing themselves from roy moore but they're in alabama. it almost seems like his fellow republicans are doubling down. >> exactly, stephanie. it's been more than 25 year since a democrat has actually won a senate seat here in alabama. and just having conversations, i just got off the phone with trump's former alabama campaign chairman perry hooper who actually endorsed, he's one of these individuals, endorsed strange for the senate. i had the conversation with him this morning and i said what now, where does this go from here, do you believe the women, and this is what he said. >> i do not believe the women. i don't know exactly -- because i saw the same thing, same accusations made when president trump was running. i don't like to see it. i think it's false. bu

i only do president and u.s. senate. well, look, we have to field candidates for governor, good men and women up and down the ballot for state senate and state rep because the truth is we were wiped out.

moore's trying to retain a crucial republican seat in the u.s. senate. last night in arizona, republican senator jeff flake was caught on annie open mic saying, "if we become the party of roy moore and donald trump, we are toast." more now from dean reynolds in birmingham. >> reporter: at the tabernacle baptist church in birmingham, evangelicals gathered to reject the idea that roy moore is their kind of christian. to them, his alleged unmented advances or assaults against women onlyald to his unfitness. >> even before these allegations made national headlines, it was clear that moore's policy agenda endangered the children of alabama. >> reporter: the reverend william barber: >>oore imagines the struggle for equality in america as a story of loss. >> reporter: those on stage pointed to a phrase moore used tuesday night at a revival meeting in jackson, alabama. >> they started create of to create new rights in 1965. today we've got a problem. >> reporter: the 1965 voting rights act was designed to lift barriers erected by states and localities to block m

and the republican nominee for the u.s. senatea roy moore says the latest accusation against him of sexual misconduct is absolutely false. beverly young nelson claims that moore sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager decades ago. she's the fifth woman to accuse him of sexual misconduct. moore says he doesn't know her and calls the charges a political maneuver. >>> the united states and south korea wrap up joint military drills today off south korea. the show of strength is aimed at north korea. >> reporter: these fighter jets from the uss ronald reagan could strike targets in north korea in a matter of minutes. three u.s. aircraft carrier strike groups the reagan, the theodore roosevelt and the nimitz. they're involved in these massive military exercises just off the korean peninsula. it's the largest display of strength in a decade. >> they could launch a fighter jet off this carrier once every 20 seconds but of course then they have to get all those fighter jets back on board. this is how they do it. >> all of this toget

we will update when it is done. >> the u.s. senate back at 1:45 eastern and until then we are stationed with former news anchor dan rather and who talked about his new book on patriotism. >> joining us from philadelphia, dan rather, president and ceo and the author of what unites us , reflections on patriotism, good morning. >> good morning, thank you very much for having me. >> what compels you to write a book and why did you think it was needed? >> what compelled me to write the book was the realization that we become so divided and so in concrete and very partisan political and extreme ideological positions , that the country is in peril. i'm not thshouting about the decline and disintegrate but there are troubling signs in the country that number one, we are becoming so divided that we could slide into a version of authoritarianism would lead to extreme nationalism, economic nationalism, racial nationalism which could lead further to decline into tribalism so i fear about the country and i began to ask myself the question, what is

it wasn't a boring thursday night in the u.s. senate. eugene, there's a lot to mention coming out of that. first of all, orrin hatch. as we said, senior man, president pro tem of the senate. it's been rumored he may not run again. mitt romney has been keeping his powder dry back in utah. but when ted kennedy was in the senate, ted kennedy had no closer friend in the u.s. senate. so when he talks about an era of cooperation, he did live that in a prior time. >> right. and so what you just saw was a man from that much earlier era, it seems like hundreds of years ago now, it was only a few years ago, trying to deal with today, with the way the senate is today. the senate used to be a body where people did reach across the aisle, they had friendships across the aisle, they had interests across the aisle, there would be military experts on the democratic side and the republican side and they would work together on defense bills. that's not what it is now. it's a smaller, less efficient version of the house, basically, where it splits along par

chamber, u.s. senate if roy moore is seated. >> any chance, rebecca, that the attorney general jeff sessions will eventually accept the recommendation of mitch mcconnell and others and leave the justice department and accept this notion of being a write-in candidate? >> well, as they like to say, wolf, there is always a chance. nothing's impossible. but right now a lot of this push is coming from mitch mcconnell's side. coming from the side of people who really care about the senate seat, really care about the strategy here, really care about keepi keeping their narrow majority as wide as possible in the senate right now. jeff sessions has a good job. he has the job he's always wanted. i think the wild card in this is going to be president trump. if he decides this is something that jeff sessions needs to do, what can jeff sessions say to his boss, the president, except say yes, sir, it's my job to serve. can mcconnell knowledge and chief white house staff convince the president that this is the right mov

just a month away, the u.s. senate special election in alabama has been thrown into turmoil tonight by an explosive report. republican candidate roy moore accused of fondling an underaged girl. the former alabama supreme court justice is best known nationally for defying a court order to remove a ten commandments monument from a public building. tonight many of moore's fellow republicans are calling for him to step aside if the claim against him revealed that a "washington post" story is true, that he had a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old when he was 32. tonight moore is firing back. our anne thompson has details. >> i believe in the second amendment. >> reporter: roy moore, the combative gop senate candidate and conservative target of sexual misconduct allegations. the former judge accused of inappropriate sexual conduct with a 14-year-old girl almost 40 years ago and dating other teenagers 18 and younger when he was in his 30s. the age of consent in alabama was and is 16. though moore says the allegations are com

u.s. senator from nebraska. during the vietnam war he served in combat and earned two purple hearts, the combat infantry man badge and the vietnamese cross of gallantry. after graduating from the university of nebraska at omaha he worked as a congressional staff assistant, cofounded vanguard cellular, and begin the president and chief executive officer of the uso. he is the author of "america, our next chapter." tom hagel was born and raised in nebraska as well. in combat he earned three purple hearts, the bronze star with a v for valor in the combat infantryman branch -- badge. the universityom of nebraska omaha and the university of nebraska school of law. after working as a public defender he taught law at temple university and joined the

o again, either you're lying to the u.s. senate or lying to the u.s. house of representatives. >> i hope the congressman knows, and i hope all of you know that my answer to that question i did not meet with the russians was explicitly responding to the shocking suggestion that i as a surrogate was meeting on a continuing basis with russian officials and the implication was to impact the campaign in some sort of nefarious way. and all i did was meet in my office with the ambassador, which we didn't discuss anything like that. >> now, erin, he did frustrate some republicans as well, including republican jim jordan, who was trying to get an answer about whether or not the fbi paid that british agent christopher steele to put together the trump russia dossier. sessions would not say. frustrating some other members on the other side of the aisle, but democrats in particular were frustrated they couldn't get their answers to their questions, erin. >> manu, thank you very much. "outfront" now, the man you heard questioning the attorney general today, democrat

. >> the challenge for republicans is they have a similarity slimn the u.s. senate. while moore would not be a reliable republican, doug jones would reduce the g.o.p.'s majority that just one senator. election laws says that -- would be very difficult. secretary of state john merrill said alabama law allows the governor to suspend or reschedule an election. but for now, moore's supporters are sticking with him. though their support is not guaranteed. >> if they have the proof and they want him to step down, if it is true, in fact, i do agree, i think he should step down. >> according to filings with the federal election commission, the nrsc, the republican party senate campaign arm, has ended its fund-raising agreement with moore. bret? >> bret: jonathan, thank you. president trump's trip to asia rose on tonight. he's in vietnam where he starting to sound a little bit more like he did on the campaign trail. pushing an american first trade agenda and hammering home the need to prevent a nuclear north korea. correspondent john roberts is traveling with the press corps.

u.s. senator when this took place. he is a u.s. senator now.shows something about his character and leads to questions. my worry is here we are trying to distract, republicans don't want to focus on roy moore. they don't want to focus on president trump. they would rather go back and relitigate something that happened years ago. everybody on the republican side is such a rush to distract from what is current news. they brought bill clinton back to life like a zombie. >> shannon: i am sorry. let me play a little bit. we got a little bit of the interview that hillary clinton did with rita crosby. >> the kind of accountability i am talking about. i don't hear that from roy moore and donald trump. al franken send responsibility and apologized. roy moore and donald trump have done neither. >> this was a reaction from senator gillibrand. they are trying to deflect by dragging in the president and talking about roy moore. i understand roy moore because that's been in the news. many of us republicans don't agree with the alleged behavior. if it's true

u.s. senators dressed down the titans of silicon valley for failing to connect the dots american political ads and russian money rubles. how could you not connect those two dots in hindsight we should have had a broader lens the truth of the matter is you have five million advertisers that change every month every minute probably every second. you don't have the ability to know. every one of those advertisers. of course the answer is no. we begin the day with a new york terror attack with the same rundown as recent attacks here in berlin london and barcelona and for us president that is part of the problem eight people on the manhattan bike and pedestrian path died yesterday when a man plowed through them with a van today president trump insinuated that europe's string of similar attacks are a result of immigration without proper vetting and he blamed the democrats for importing a politically correct thinking that he claims has made u.s. borders the newest targets for terrorist trump today called for ripping up what is known as the green card lottery and he wants to introduce a merit based

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u.s. senator. there's no question about it. >> if roy moore refuses to drop out of the race, actually goes on to win on december 12th, what response would you hope to see from senate republicans? >> i think senate republicans would probably expel him from the senate, and that's what they should do. >> right away. >> yes. >> all right. let's get to another sensitive issue. yesterday we heard a sickening story of a u.s. congressman who had a female staff come to his house where he exposed himself. he's one of two members of congress, one republican, one democrat who are still serving despite harassment allegations. you've made some of these charges. why didn't you name these two alleged hairsers in your hearing yesterday? >> the reason, wolf, is because we are trying to change the system so it's there to protect the victims. the victims in this case do not want the individuals named. one of them is actually under a do not disclose and as a result she would not be in a position to talk about it in any

u.s. senator. the u.s. senate is not going to hold hearings about a campaign iesh. if roy moore is elected, perhaps the senate ethics committee would take a look into his past history, but only until he's a u.s. senator would ever happen. she i think is clearly asking for something that will not happen so she can perhaps throw a fit about. i don't know because her request is so unreasonable and i think makes her client look bad. >> david, i mean, the take away from the roy moore campaign had to be he's not backing and down and he's not dropping out. >> what a mis. this is a nightmare for the republican party. i for the life of me cannot understand in steve bannon hasn't seen that he ought to protect his old boss and friend and get roy moore out of the race. it seems to me steve bannon is the one that bears responsibility for roy moore. i would think to protect his friend he would ask had i am to get out of the house and settled once and for all. this looks bad forth the republican party, the president, it doesn't look good for gloria allred. i think most people are

u.s. senator.most people would say as i christian i can forgive him, but this precludes him from becoming a senator and perhaps he should become an inmate. do you understand what i'm saying? >> well, i'm agreeing with you. i'm saying biblical christianity would affirm the consequences of sin even if we understand the forgiveness of sinning with christ. we're not talking about cheap grace here. the bible talks about confession and repettance. and at this point we're talking about allegations judge moore has denied. but he's using words we're not really understanding like not customary behavior. and i think those who have immediately defended moore and in the immediate aftermath, i think similar minded christians are not only thinking clearly about this but having not only second but third thoughts. not only in 2016, there was a real division amongst evangelicals. i think there's a lot more unimty, consensus in this case and i'm thankful for that. it is a big deal. >> i really enjoy this conversation

u.s. senators dressed down the titans of silicon valley for failing to connect the dots american political ads and russian money rubles. how could you not connect those two dots in hindsight we should have had a broader lens the truth of the matter is you have five million advertisers that change every month every minute probably every second you don't have the ability. to know. every one of those advertisers. of course the answer is no. we begin the day with a new york terror attack with the same rundown as reason attacks here in berlin london and barcelona and for u.s. president that is part of the problem eight people on the manhattan bike and pedestrian path died yesterday when a man plowed through them with a van today president trump insinuated that europe's string of similar attacks are a result of immigration without proper vetting and he blamed the democrats for importing a politically correct thinking that he claims has made u.s. borders the newest targets for terrorist trump today called for ripping up what is known as the green card lottery and he wants to introduce a merit bas

it was early 1979 and moore now the republican nominee in alabama for u.s. senate seat was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. he struck up a conversation corfman and her mother said and offered to watch the girl while her mother went inside far child custody hearing. he said, oh, you don't want her to go in there and hear all that. i'll stay out here with her. nancy wells, 71. i thought, how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl. alone with corfman moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number. days later she says he picked her up under the corner from her house and drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods. hold her how pretty she was and kissed her on a second visit she says he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. he touched her over her bra and underpants and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear. i wanted it over with. i wanted out she remembers thinking. please, just get this over with. whatever this is, just get this over. she says she asked moore to take her home and he did. there is much mor

u.s. senator rand paul last friday tackling him. in court and the senator recovering from six broken ribs and fluid around his lungs. for 17 years, these two men have been neighbors, sharing this property line in a gated community just outside bowling green, kentucky. an investigation is continuing and the fourth degree misdemeanor assault charges could become much more serious due to senator paul's injury. >> the nonfinancial bond conditions include 1,000 foot stay away, 200 feet stayaway if he is at his home. >> reporter: he is a retired anesthesiologist and democrat who has posted anti-trump messages on his now shutdown facebook account. rand paul is an ophthalmologist and staunch conservative republican. that is enough to fuel right wing speculation senator paul was attacked for political reasons. the senator even piling on by retweeting two articles that raised politics as a motive. the attorney again >> this has absolutely nothing to do with any politics, any liberal versus conservative or republican versus democrat. it's just

you are either lying to the u.s. senatepresentatives. >> that's congressman lieu and is a member of the judiciary committee. it was an explosive hearing yesterday, hours and hours of it. you say sessions was lying to the senate or lying to you on the house side. why does it seem possible that he did not remember then and then remembered yesterday? >> we are seeing a pattern. keep in mind, this is not the first false statement he made. the first false statement was made earlier this year when he said he had no communications with the russians, and the free press reported he had multiple communications with the russians and he changed his story. he said a few weeks ago he was not aware of any trump adviser communicating with the russians, and then yes he said something different that he was aware papadopoulos, a trump campaign adviser was communicating with the russians. it's a pattern that leads me to conclude he's lying. >> let's just play his explanation of how he forgot and then remembered the papadopoulos meeting. >> i d

what she says. >> that hypothetical would be disqualifying for anyone in public office. >> the u.s. senate passed a requirement of sexual harassment training for senators and aides and the decision was unanimous. >> joining us tonight, robert costa; julie pace, and former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. good evening and welcome to you all. robert, lead us off, if you will, on what your colleagues found here, how it is they found it and whether or not you can tell us there's any more. >> these women, brian, went on the record. this took week of reporting. they were met particular laws in their reporting, trying to encourage on-the-record facts to come to the fore. these women did not know each other. this was a reporting story, a solid story and it's havingwide spred repercussions tonight, in particular in the but republicans, amid this huge push on taxes now face this political burden, perhaps moral burden, down in the south. >> julie, i know all of us have been rushing to get the equivalent of a masters degree in alabama election law but what's your standing

been relatively quiet on roy moore who is running to fill a vacant u.s. senate now bring in john thomas joining us from los angeles. john, always a pleasure to have you here on the show. we've heard from the white house press secretary this statement that senator al franken admitted to wrongdoing, president trump did not. is this the white house side stepping the issue using franken to do so? >> the president certainly lives in a glass house on this issue, month doubt about it. but i do think there are a few dinnerses between donald trump's allegations and what we're seeing with franken. and the main one is that voters had an opportunity to make a decision on whether they wanted donald trump to be in office or not. and though full well knew about the "access hollywood" tape. we lived with it pore weeks. in franken's case, voters were privy to the information when they elected him. there is no doubt the president is trying to score a political shot here, but i think the circumstances are different because the voters had the opportunity in one case and not in the

that is something that he said exactly the opposite two the u.s. senate just a few weeks ago. so i think the special counsel is very aware of this. all he has to do is watch tv. and i hope the special counsel will investigate and then if it's appropriate, bring charges of perjury. >> congress has the ability to do that. will you push for that, representative, in he proceedings there in congress? >> it's hard to do it when republicans control, but i do know that in less than a year, the voters get to vote on whether they want to change the makeup of congress. and if democrats took control next november, not only would we be able to pass good legislation, actually helps americans and give americans a better deal, but we have subpoena power. so we can actually subpoena documents, make witnesses come and testify under oath. it would be a big sea change next november if we could take back the house. >> and another development which we're watching related to the russian connection question is rob goldstone the individual, one of the eight folks that did sit down in trump tower, comi

so, again, you're lying to the u.s. senate or you're lying to the house of representatives. >> well, i hope the congressman knows and i hope all of you know my answer to that question i did not meet with the russians was explicitly responding to the shocking suggestion that i as a surrogate was meeting on a continuing basis with russian officials, and the implication was to impact the campaign in some sort of nefarious way. and all i did was meet in my office with the ambassador, which we didn't discuss anything like that. so i just want to say i appreciate the congressman's right, i guess he can say his free speech, he can't be sued here, so i just -- my response. i'm sorry that -- that's my response. >> reporter: but when pressed to more details, the attorney general frequently said he couldn't recall, something he repeated more than 20 times. >> i don't recall it. i don't recall it. >> i don't recall it. >> reporter: sessions also took aim at wikileaks and its role in the election. even though trump praised the group during

the u.s. senate. >> elections. roy moore and the growing awareness of sexual harassment my guests this morning, republican senator pat toomey, democratic senator amy klobuchar, and white house legislative affairs director marc short. >>> and president trump agrees with vladimir putin about russian hacking, then says he's with our agencies. >> i believe that president putin really feels, and he feels strongly that he did not meddle in our election. what he believes is what he believes. >> but what does the president believe? joining me for insight and analysis are charlie cook, editor and publisher of the cook political report. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker. "washington post: columnist david ignatius. and elise jordan. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington. the longest running show in television history. this is "meet thess >>> good sunday morning. one week ago today, the momentum seemed to be with republicans in virginia. democrats wer

u.s. senator. and i think that's one of the x factors. ve talked to a lot of voters in alabama who have said they're not voting for roy moore. they're voting on keeping their senate seat conservative. many of those voters don't believe he would ever even be able to take this seat in the senate, because they would block him in some capacity. that's what a lot of voters believe in alabama. but they also believe this seat is bigger than roy moore. many of them said, look, i can't stand what roy moore has done, but i'm not going to give away my voice in congress for six years in a capacity in a u.s. senate seat where we're not going to be represented by the party that clearly represents us as a people in alabama. and, look, i just don't know how i could walk into a voting booth, and this is what goes back to what anna said a moment ago. i don't know how you could walk in there with a clear conscience push a button for roy moore. roy moore messed over the voters, clearly in alabama. messed over conservatives in the primary. that's on him. but t

u.s. senator harris making good on a wager over the dodgers world series loss to the houston astros. she visited senator ted cruz wearing astros gear. the astros won the world series four games to three. if you didn't know, harris, the one-time san francisco district attorney is on the record as a giants fan. just in case you were not clear about that. >> not a bad deal. >>> coming up next on "today in the bay," we are talking about the chilly temperatures starting out the temperatures. vianey arana is in for kari. >> it is pretty cold. this is a reason, we have no clouds out there. look at san francisco. the skyline looking nice and clear. yes, we are on tap for comfortable weather, but we have a couple changes and a beach hazard i'm working on. we're tracking that. i'll have all the details in a bit. >> a clear view like this, the san mateo bridge across the bay. i'm watching that in the treasure island area. the crash continues to be on the chp report toward oakland. >>> the "today" show comes up in two hours after this newscast. when it starts, matt lauer won't be there. he was te

to fill the u.s. senate seat once held by jeff sessions. these claims are obviously rocking capitol hill. republican with their narrow four seat majority and unsure political terrain for the 2018 midterms do not want to lose that one safe senate seat to looking into the allegations ourselves, cnn is covering this from multiple angles. we're going to start with one of the reporters who broke this story. we are joined now, beth, the most serious allegation is from lee corkman who's now 53, she's the one who said moore pursued a sexual relationship with her. how did she say they met? >> she says they met when she was 14, she was at the courthouse with her mother for a child custody hearing. and they were sitting on a bench outside the courtroom. and roy moore came up and introduced himself and offered to her mother to look after her while the mom went into the courtroom for the hearing. the mom said thank you very much for looking after my little girl. and left them alone. during that time, he got her phone number, and they chatted. he called.

u.s. senateries. to vote on the tax plan. senaten talks to make three significant changes to that plan. one, expand the pass-through deduction that allows small businesses to deduct state and local taxes from their federal tax bills. another would limit the ability of corporations to deduct state and local deductions and a third would allow for property tax deductions. president trump will meet with the policy committee on tuesday for its weekly luncheon where he's likely to make his own push for tax reform. and while the promised gop reform would bring big, fat, beautiful tax reforms to americans, those living in some states would pay more. for example, north carolina would pay $669 million more in federal taxes by 2027 and it would also favor tax cuts for the wealthy and hikes for the bottom 60%. top 1% of households would see their share increase from 30% in year one to 43% by 2027. the average tax cut for that group more than $55,000. the average tax cut would fall from $770 to $660 and the poorest 20% would see theirs cut in ha