while m nardini told us: and paul summers wondered: well, to discuss this now i am joined by andrew roy is world editorfor bbc news, thank you for coming on newswatch. most of the viewers who complained said the bbc had been too favourable to the pro independence side, how do you respond? we haven't been, we have been physically in both locations, in madrid and barcelona, so we can put both points of view, our correspondents have been careful to get pro and anti clips from protesters and politicians into their pieces. we have been trying throughout to be absolutely rigorous, in being impartial and objective, and putting both sides of the argument. i think the concern is that the headline coverage, which is how most viewers encounter the stories they feel has given the stories, they feel has given the impression that was a violent state crackdown on a popular independence movement and that is not fair. i think that is incorrect as well. there was violence at the very beginning round the illegal referendum, we reported that the referendum was illegal, we showed what was happening in the p

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television stations, there's the elephant in the room of roy moore and will he mentioned roy moore. judge andrewapolitano is with us. imagine the phone call from donald trump to roy moore. if donald trump says you have to get out. roy moore says i'm not one of your guys anyway. he didn't support him. have to wonder how that would go. >> it's a standoff. and roy moore seems firm and unbending, he's not going to leave the race voluntarily and there's no legal means to do so under federal or alabama law. >> shepard: so what we have is and we just discussed this on fox news channel, there's a new poll out from politico that was released at the top of the hour and shows roy moore, the republican, is trailing the democrat in this race, jones, by 12 points. this is a dramatic change from before. maybe the president will mention it. here he is. president donald trump. >> thank you very much. last night i returned from a historic 12-day trip to asia. this journey took us to five nations, to meet with dozens of foreign leaders, participate in three formal state visits and attend three key regional summits

roy moore? that alabama senate candidate is refusing to leave the race after accusations of sexual misconduct with teenagers. today fresh defiance from judge moore in the face of criticism from leading lawmakers. judge andrewoore is a constitutional legal and political problem for the gop. plus, the president speaking as senate republicans aim for changes on their tax plan ending

first of all, i want to ask you -- let's talk about roy moore. andrewote that there is a moment here that no party is immune from evil, no tribe has a monopoly of good. if these bipartisan sex abuse revelations can begin to undermine the tribalism that so poisons our public life to reveal that beneath the tribes we are all flawed and human, they may not only be a long overdue turning point for women, they may be a watershed for all of us. amy walter, what do you think? >> we have been here before. i thought it was important that you raised the anita hill/clarence thomas moment where it felt like the world had changed, sort of spun on its axis. we elected more women to congress in 1992, a year after those hearings, and yet it's now 2017 and it feels like we haven't gone very far. i feel like where we are right now is the dam has broken, and yet we don't know what to do with all the water, right? so we say, yes, it's there, but now what do we do with the situation that we're in? and i don't think it's going to be solved in one election cycle with one cand

roy moore, just yet, john. >> kaitlan collins in alabama, thank you very much. >>> the president honors native americans in front of a portrait of andrew jackson, the president who forced thousands of native americans from their homes. when you have a cold,

andrew napolitano. kennedy: what kind of a case does roy moore have? judge napolitano: i think a frivolous one. the standard for someone suing who is a public person, the defamation, the allegation against him was printed with knowledge of falsity by the publishers or with reckless disregard whether it was true or false. if they have four women and they are each make similar complaints, and the complaints are rational and credible, they have the right to print this. he cannot bring a successful case for defamation unless he can overcome what's called actual malice. kennedy: it seems like you would have to prove intent. judge napolitano: why should he sue? he should sue for political reasons because it puts "the washington post"'s back to the wall. butted the lawsuit ultimately will be frivolous. kennedy: they only have four weeks until election. let's say moore is elected to the senate. people say we'll just kick him out of office as soon as he gets here. judge napolitano: the short answer is no. can the senate refuse to seat him? the answer no. if they prefuels to seat him -- if they refuse to

andrew breitbart who actually exposed and came on the map. he exposed anthony weiner's horrid sext to minors and other women but now he's defending roy moore. the worm has turned and andrew breitbart's legacy has been betrade. >> so the mentality of us against them which has been used a lot when assessing and analyzing the trump administration in general, considering the fact that it was sort of an east coast/"washington post" paper revealing this stuff about roy moore. do you think that's what's playing into this whole thing? >> i think that's definitely playing into this. remember, "the washington post" is the outlet that exposed the "access hollywood" video with president trump, then candidate trump, about a month before the election. so there's real feeling from sort of the trump voter that they're out to get us and i've heard that when i'm talking to some of my sources. you know, they say while this source does seem solid -- or the story seems solid, the reporting seems fair, there is a real question of why now and this just happens to be the same paper that did this to president trump. so it's the idea of the swamp, you know, fake news

. >> andrew, if you listen to shawn hannity discussion with roy moore yesterday, he was, shall we say, more tranquil, maybe on his heels a bit. we saw today as he came forward this morning his tone was very much i'm challenging this. i'm standing up against these accusations. >> yeah, i mean if there is one thing we know about roy moore from his career in public life, he's always defiant and not going to bow to any sort of pressure. and i thought it was interesting that this morning his speech in alabama he in the same sentence went from saying these allegations are completely false and untrue to pivoting to something that happened 40 years ago, decrying the fact that it comes out now four weeks before the election. so he has a lot of answers. this goes beyond one senate race. this could have dire predictions for the president. they are trying to pass the tax bill. if it all of a sudden goes to 51-49 that's even slimmer majority and makes it harder to pass tax bill and harder to repeal and replace obamacare next year. >> i want to go back to what you brought up and build on what andre

and then you had jeanine pirro, very much on the side of roy moore, and steve bannon. i'm quoting the late andrewreitbart's new guy running his operations. steve bannon. this was steve bannon on breitbart radio just this past weekend. this is not long ago. and he was coming out and talking about the accusations against roy moore. here he is. >> this is about destroying roy moore. you know why they want to destroy roy moore? they want to destroy anybody that will step up and speak if your behalf. you know what our response is? bring it. bring it. you have not seen anything yet. you think we're going to back down one inch? you are dead wrong, folks. paul singer, write this down. and you and these republican scumbag, and that's what you, are you operatives. and here is the good news, folks. we know your names. and more importantly, folks, we know your clients. >> yeah, we're not going the back down one inch. and elise, you know what happened today? somebody close to steve bannon leaked to the daily beast he is having a change of heart maybe about roy moore and leaked out an equally tough guy stateme

andrew jackson. the man who signed the indian removal act. >> roy moore is on the attack as defiant as ever at his first public appearance in 11 days. >> i'm going to take off some gloves and show the truth in this campaign. >> i've been accused of being a spoiler. it's not. i think i will draw from both roy moore supporters and doug jones supporters. >> the post reported this with one of the reporters and the woman they say tried to dupe them into thinking she conceived a child. >> a lot to cover. right now the senate is rushing to finalize its tax bill with just a few short weeks remaining to reconcile it with the white house version. then a sprint to pass the measure by christmas. >> all right. the bill faces the senate budget committee. but ron johnson and bob corker are threatening to grind the process to a halt by voting no. corker talked with cnbc about his concerns and what he would like to do with parts of the bill. >> i know it's important not just to me but numbers of members who want to make sure that for some reason these projections are off that we're not passing on increased debt to futur

andrew, mike, my thanks to both of you. thanks very much. >>> still ahead, all eyes on alabama. will the scandal surrounding gop candidate royoore affect how voters cast their ballot? we'll look at the latest poll numbers after the break. >>> sarah huckabee sanders fields questions from reporters every day. one of those is about her baking skills. she tweeted this picture of a chocolate pecan pie she says she baked for thanksgiving. the problem many people are not buying it, accusing her of finding a stock photo of a pie online and passing it off as her own. how is that for fake news? yes. this is the j.d. power award for dependability. now i want you to give it to the friend that you think is most dependable. ohhhh. ughh. wow. that's just not fair. does she have to? she doesn't have to! oh, i don't? no, but it's a tough choice, isn't it? yes. well luckily, chevy makes it a little easier. cause it's the only brand to earn j.d. power dependability awards for cars, trucks and suvs - two years in a row. that's amazing. chevy's a name you can trust! there's nothing more important than your health. so if you're on medicare or wil

andrew. i have loved your past work. napoleon. storm of war. >> please stop there. -- don't stop there. [laughter] >> my question is this. given the body of work out there on churchill, and in the wake of roy jenkins' fabulous one-volume biography, why are you tackling churchill now? in fact, is there a different slant you might have? >> yes, very good question. there are 1009 biographies of churchill, and say, why on earth impose 1010? i hope i'm not going to be the first person in over 100 years to write a biography of winston churchill that does not do well. it's a terrible thing to have to admit. roy's book was very good, as you say. it was published in 2001. since 2001, there have been no fewer than 52 sets of papers lodged at the churchill archives in cambridge, including really important ones by -- well, randolph churchill's papers, winston churchill's son randolph, and also sarah churchill's papers are there now. there have been all sorts of fascinating series of documents and diaries and letters that were not available either to martin or to roy. i am also the first person to be able to, through the generosity of her majesty the queen, to read the king's diary for the second world

roy moore, just yet, john. >> kaitlan collins in alabama, thank you very much. >>> the president honors native americans in front of a portrait of andrewkson, the president who forced thousands of native americans from their homes. when you have a cold, pain from chest congestion can make this... ...feel like this. all-in-one cold symptom relief from tylenol®, the #1 doctor recommended pain relief brand. tylenol®. which egg has better taste only eggland's best. and is the only egg i'll serve my family? eggland's best. better taste, better nutrition, better eggs. >>> president trump facing new criticism this morning, it wasn't just that he used the name pocahontas to ridcle someone in front of native american veterans some call attention to the backdrop in the room, a portrait of andrew jackson who removed thousands of native americans from their home. joining us the national director of the congress of american indians. press secretary sarah sanders said when the president called elizabeth warren pocahontas and keeps calling her that it's not racist. what's your view? >> i think he uses a term that is a name of a real person, a person

andrew breitbart. breitbart of course was the founder of breitbart. the web site, the conservative news web site. it is now led by former white house chief strategist steve bannon. steve bannon was a staunch roy moore supporter. any connection here? >> breitbart said had nothing to do with this thing. i have no information to the contrary. i think it's important that we stick to the facts. this is what james o'keefe does. sometimes he gets journalists saying embarrassing things and has a criminal record in one instance when he went over the line. i don't think the post was so much trying to enjoy this as to tell the story, it's an incredible story about a woman who made up this elaborate scheme to try to entrap the paper into making false charges against roy moore in this overheated environment. had that happen, the newspaper would have been discredited. it's an interesting journalistic lesson about be careful, check it out, ask for documents, don't just put it up on the web site because somebody tells you. >> julie: everybody's running with these sexual harassment story so i wouldn't put it past a certain media organization not to do the fact-checking that the watch and posted because this i