elise jordan. i mean we are entering a time, we are in a time, we are living through a time when the lee corps corfmans of our time -- the rest of the republicans in the senate who have spoken out believe lee korfman. so we now have donald trump and roy moore and every other republican who's in the senate, believes he korfman. >> and also every senator in alabama believes lee korfman. i think it's doing a disservice to the people of alabama who i believe, i have face in how they will vote when december rolls around. but i think that these accusations, the human stories that are behind, the force that is behind, the moral force that is behind these women and as week after week after week, the story continues as their integrity holds up in the court of public opinion, as more and more stories come out about the mall, about roy moore preying on his wife as a dance recital, when she was 15 or 16. but how roy moore is a known predator. i do think that it does a disservice for people who dismiss pedophil

elise jordan has a question for you. >> so you oppose this tax bill.derful. if you're all the rest of us mortals, it's unbelievable. >> what do you think of the corporate tax form, and do you think that there needs to be some corporate tax reform? what about this plan? >> this is a complete giveaway to the richest people in this country at the expense of everybody else. it's pure and simple. they want to cut the taxes on the people who own the companies. that's why the stock market has already gone up in anticipation of that. but for everyone else, whether you've a homeowner, whether you pay property tax, whether you pay state and local income tax, whether you have student loans or whether you'll just be one of us average people who ends up paying off the interest on the $1.5 trillion or more of debt that they are taking to give to the richest people in the country. we all lose. so this is, as he said, brady said it's time. but you know what it's time for? it's time for payback to the republican donors, to the koch brothers. the koch brothers are these

joining us now is elise jordan. she is a republican strategist and a contributor to time.com.he is also an msnbc political analyst. and also joining us is cornell belcher, president of research and strategies and also an msnbc political analyst. elise, i'm going to start with you first. now the bail. it's taken republicans over a week to figure out how they felt about roy moore after five women accused him of sexual misconduct. suddenly several seem to be catching on this might not be such a good thing. what has caused this belated change of heart? >> it's amazing how we always want to give these men accused of grave sexual misconduct the benefit of the doubt. it's funny how the women who are brave enough to come forward, breitbart might send people to alabama to harass the women who told their stories. people immediately want to say what is wrong with their story. but we always come up with a reason to give the men a little bit more time to explain. >> yeah. you've had sean hannity who came out swinging and really in defense of roy moore and then came out swinging again when

i want to bring in michael lupica and elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst and columnist for "time" magazine. a former advisor to senator rand paul. elise, i really like talking to you on this topic because you're from the south, you're from mississippi. this morning i saw that the head of the young republicans from the state of alabama, jackie curtis, she came out and said politics aside, you have to put decency first. i cannot vote for roy moore. what's the president doing? >> well, i'm proud of the younger generation for showing leadership, and that's something that i've seen consistently in millenial focus groups that i have conducted with lord ashcroft polls in the united states is that younger voters are not as tolerant of the tribalism that says we're supposed to disregard our conscience. donald trump is speaking without any strategy. i see him going out and speaking on behalf of nothing but himself. he's thinking of himself at the end of the day and his defense of roy moore i'm interpreting is a defense of donald trump when donald trump was himself accused of sexual miscond

elise jordan is an msnbc political analyst and "time" columnist who previously served as advisor to senator rand paul and michael lupica. elise, i want to start with you. yesterday i watched you on "deadline white house" talk about what a good guy ed gillespie is. now he's lost. what happens to his reputation going forward? he's tainted with the trump brand at this point. he ran a trump-like campaign. can he go back to, but remember, i was a george bush flavor good guy. >> it was disappointing to watch how ed gillespie tried to close in the final week his campaign. it was disappointing to watch out his tone shifted from kind of staying away from trump to deciding, well, i have to cozy up and i have to dig in on some of these immigration and confederate statue issues and saying that my competitor isn't tough enough on convicting pedophiles. i have to dig in on those issues. and it wasn't the kind of campaign that i saw as ed gillespie's brand and i think it came off as inauthentic and now the question is how does he recover from that. he's shown that he was willing to go there and failed in

elise jordan, "time" columnist and former adviser to senator rand paul. jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com, professor at morgan state university. bob, i want to start with you. your reaction to the way president trump has handled both of these situations. i can't say it's a surprise but he's putting himself in some dangerous territory. >> president trump has chosen to respond to the controversy around senator franken not to judge moore. that's telling that he does want to wade into this national debate about sexual assault and sexual harassment. at the same time, when it comes to the alabama race, there are political sensitivities down there. this is a state that's the beating heart of his base and he is relungtant after being burned in the primary runoff to wade in once again and maybe try to push roy moore out of this race. >> but then why weigh in on al franken, elise, think about this. position president trump is putting himself in. remember, there are over 10 women who have accused president trump. he went on the campaign trail, denied it

let me start with elise jordan. i've seen you on "today." i've been out traveling here. tell me what your sense is of the republican party's reaction. it looks to me mitch mcconnell may be the lead bird on this. he is signaling he wants this guy out of the race. that dispositive? is that going to cue everyone else? i just heard ted cruz has just gotten off moore. he is against him taking the nomination here. >> well, as of now, it sounds like pretty much every republican has been calling on roy moore to step out of the race. but the question remains whether roy moore will actually do that. and i seriously doubt that roy moore would ever drop out of the race on his own volition. i really do not think that certainly senator mcconnell telling him to drop out would make him force his hand. >> what do you make of his stonewalling, denial that he knows any of the women, saying the whole thing is put up by the left wing media, that it was all a concoction worthy of suing by "the washington post." in other words, you to believe him against all the witnesses, all the people makin

joining me is msnbc political analyst, elise jordan and a columnist for "time" magazine. and also peter anderson, a "huffington post" contributor. welcome you to both. happy to see you on this holiday weekend. peter, your reactions to those comments from congressman quickly. is it wishful thinking to be envisioning 30, 40 more interviews, including a repeat testimony from jared kushner? >> i think quite the contrary. we're going to see a parade in and out of house and senate intel committees swells mueller investigating and interviewing more and more people. the flynn thing is interesting, obviously, because we've all been waiting for that to happen, that meaning he would find a way to cut a deal, if that's, in fact, what he's done. at the end of the day he's a minnow compared to the sharks they're after, compared to jared kushner and donald trump jr. so i think we're in for quite a roller coaster ride. >> elise, the white house is saying it's not concerned by the dominates in michael flynn's legal strategy. but what do you think the internal reaction is to this news? >>

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let's dig right in to tonight with tonight's panel, elise jordan, contributor to "time" magazine.ther is with us and nicholas, reporter for the "new york times" and msnbc contributor. guys, welcome. i want to talk a bit about moore and what i just spoke -- nimy conversation with sam nunberg and the contortion with which allies the president has too go through to get roy moore elected. >> party line if true -- >> yes. >> probably true, but we are so hell-bent on frankly repaying our political donors with a bill that is enormously unpopular. historically unpopular, that we'd be willing to seat a pedophile. it's an astonishing moment in our politics. where first of all, a bill, i mean they keep talking about tax reform as if its something that will help them politically. you've seen the numbers. 30% approval rating. >> not clear if elected and did vote in line with republicans they would still, with the president, they would still be able to get any agenda done. it's not generally a one-senator margin for a lot of this stuff. it's one, two, three, maybe more sometimes and issues in t

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to do that we bring in peter emerson, also msnbc political analyst elise jordan, former senior advisor to senator rand paul and columnist for "time" magazine. okay, guys, good to see you both. elise, we'll start with you first. as you know, the white house has downplaying the role of george papadopoulos who has pled guilty to lying about his contacts with russia. nbc has new reporting finding that papadopoulos repeatedly represented the trump campaign. you were an advisor to rand paul and that campaign. how much can they deny him, after he's made so many appearances representing candidate trump? >> the whole tact that they have chosen to take communicating about this debacle is really perplexing to me simply because, you know, on campaigns plenty of crazy ideas are tossed around from people who aren't necessarily empowered on the campaign. and so the mention of the meeting with vladimir putin, you look at the confusion surrounding what actually happened and jeff sessions reportedly dismissed it and said, no, that's not a good idea and let's not speak of it again. and that's what's comi

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 were worried that they were facing another post-trump election day disappointment. by friday, democrats were not only declared slight favorites to take the house next year but they saw a plausible path in the senate too. democrats swept races across the country in a clear at least suburban repudiation of president trump, giving democrats real hope that 2018 could give them control of the house. then came the roy moore story. on thursday "the washington post" reported that the candidate arrested a 14-year-old girl and makes sexual advances on three other teenagers when he was in his 30s. staggered republicans were left wondering could the democrat win in alabama and threaten the republ senate? should they support a write-in candidate? can they f

. >> steve schmidt, ed gillespie is a good person and elise jordan put this nicely yesterday. his campaign didn't reflect the decency of the person that was our former colleague in the bush white house. ed gillespie's story seems like the perfect story. he came from working class family. worked his way up to the highest levels of power in washington and he didn't lose because of the reasons that steve bannon is smearing him with today saying he was part of the swamp. he didn't lose because of the reasons donald trump suggested on twitter. he lost because he sold his soul to the ugliest and darkest parts of trumpism. >> he got wrapped up in the republican politics and the donald trump era. he lost because of donald trump and when they are citing these four house races, tom price, his last three elections, he had about a 66% average. the republican wins with about 49.5% of the vote. not for nothing because of tom price's corruption. he had to resign, of course. but not before the republicans invested $50 million into a republican seat. if you look at just the congressional races

"new york times" political reporter jeremy peters, elise jordan from the george w. bush white house and former adviser to rand paul and brets stevens, "new york times" op-ed columnist. we talked in the break about a couple of the stops in this asia trip. it looked to me watching this like he sought to import some of the features and benefits of state-run media back to the u.s. >> the problem with the president is that he mistakes flattery with respect. and i think there was clearly a kind of strong man envy at work here that people like duterte in the philippines, of course xi in china could command that level of flattery from their media that he never has access to back here at home. >> and katy, you covered this man longer than all of us here combined. there is always a degree of projection. and it seemed to me by announcing, i guess after lunch today, that he was going to make a statement, there was a lot of speculation he might seek to stop the bleeding over the roy moore scandal that's rip apart the party nationally by weighing in or trying to lead the party ou

i want to bring in my panel, claire atkin, claire desoto, and former prosecutor, elise jordan, a lot of titles there, ladies. i appreciate that. thaengs for joining me this afternoon. let's start with al franken. i want to take a little bit more of a listen to his npr interview and then we'll talk. >> well, first of all, i just want to say that this whole thing has been, you know, embarrassing and, you know -- and it's been difficult. but part of that is that i want to respect a woman's experience. very often, there are these kinds of things and allegations and -- that i believe that women should be respected and listened to. this is what i'm doing. i'm taking responsibility. i've apologized. >> elise, i'm going to start with you since you're not at the desk. you get your first shot at this. do you buy it? >> i personally find this pattern with al franken to be incredibly disturbing, just that a simple apology is supposed to absolve everything and we should be just moving on after the basic apology. it's a really sad depiction and, you know, very telling of our times that most men do

"washington post" columnist david ignatius and msnbc political analyst elise jordan. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. one week ago today the momentum seemed to be with the republicans in virginia and democrats were getting worried that they were facing yet another post trump election day disappointment. by friday they were not only declared favorites, but they saw a plausible path in the sna. -- in the senate. tuesday democratic candidates won governorships and swept races in a clear at least suburban repudiation of president trump. these victories gave democrats real hope that 2018 could see a wave election that gives them control of the house and then the roy moore story. on thursday "the washington post" reported that alabama's republican senate candidate molested a 14-year-old girl and made sexual advances on three other teenagers when he was in his 30s. staggered republicans were left wondering could the repu

. >>> joining me now, elise jordan, republican adviser and msnbc political analyst. and michael steele, spokesman for house speaker john baynor. and an investigative reporter for al.com who broke the story of two more accusers last night. carol, to you. there's been backlash from the lawyers, the party, the so-called big, bad "washington post." you went out as an alabama reporter. what have you found and what about the credibility of the women with whom you've spoken? >> i found a lot of stories that are very similar to what was first reported in "the post." i found the women that i spoke with very credible. it was my job to be skeptical of stories that i hear, but ivet d i vetted them to the best of my ability and i found them to be very believable. one woman i spoke with said roy moore grabbed her butt when he was a private attorney in 1991. she was there with her mother on some custody issues, that he had flir flirted with her and made her feel very uncomfortable, then grabbed her toward the end of their visit. >> another woman you spoke to, kelly harrison thorpe.

us we have a political writer for the new york times, nick con if i sorry, harold ford junior, elise jordann with the massacre on american soil. 26 people ranging in age from five to 72 gunned down during sunday morning worship at their small town church in sutherland springs, texas. a 26-year-old man dressed in all black armed with an ar assault style rifle would lie in wait at a nearby gas station. we're told he then drove across the street, got out of the vehicle and at around 11:20 in the morning began firing in the church. he then entered the church and continued firing as the suspect tried to make a get away, a local resident grabbed a rifle and fired and caused the man to drop the weapon and flee the scene. >> a short time later as law enforcement responded, the suspect right at the wilson guadeloupe county line ran off the roadway and was found deceased in his vehicle. at this time we don't know if it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound or if he was shot by the local resident who engaged him in gunfire. >> officials found multiple weapons in the vehicle. much of what's known about hi