second problem with leigh korfman's story. third, at one of the lynchpins of her story, judge moore talked to her on her phone in her bedroom. within days of this story coming out, her own mother told breitbart news that there was no phone in her bedroom. that is a falsehood as well. fourthly, korfman claims that moore picked her up around the corner from her house. korfman alleges that she would meet moore and the corner of her house and he would take her according to her. however, according to public records that the media has not bothered to look at, korfman's supposed pick-up police was almost a mile away from her mother's house and would have been across a major thoroughfare. this is another improbable fact in leigh korfman's own story that the media has not investigated. i would point out, korfman's father did not live in rainbow city at the time of, this he lived in lower alabama as is borne out by the court documents. john adams once said, facts are stubborn things. whatever may be our wishes, inclinations or the dicta

he says he does not know korfman.e questioned why she waited 40 years and until an election was four weeks away, before coming forward. he said he never knew, never met her and it never happened. that's what he said. no jury will ever hear these claims. so how is the public to decide what happened? famed criminal defense attorney mark geragos is here to offer his legal expertise. and his street smarts. mark, how are we to make sense of this? he's offered a blanket denial. she seems to have a sufficient level of detail to bring credibility to her claim. >> the idea that he's been such a polarizing and kind of lightning rod figure in alabama politics, i mean remember this is somebody who was the chief justice and then he was basically defrocked as the chief justice. he's been through several campaign, he's been somebody who's been known to the public. his point in his interview is look, why are they waiting until four weeks out of the election after 40 years to bring these kinds of complaints? the counterbalance to that

. >> 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 pedophilia and child molestati molestation. >> let's make this distinction, these aren't democrats coming after roy moore and i think the president said something -- >> to your point, mr. president, this is not a right-left question. and i wonder, don, you were shaking your head. you think that roy moore wins? >> i think he has a good chance of winning, there is some belief, cert

"the post" talked to two of korfman's childhood friends who both said she told them at the time that she was seeing an older man, one even saying she had identified the man as roy moore. her mother says she was told about the encounter over a decade after it happened. and aside from korfman, three other women interviewed by the "post" on the record say moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s. he allegedly approached two of them at a local mall, the third after speaking to her high school civics class about his job as assistant district attorney. the "post" spoke to over 30 sources who said they knew moore during that same time period. in a statement moore unequivocally denied all the allegations. the question is whether more women will come forward as they have in the wake of other reports about abuse by powerful men. one alabama political columnist claims he's heard rumors of such conduct by moore for years. "the the post" dropped its blockbuster less than two days after the republican party suffered a rout on election night sendin

. >> the accuser is named leigh korfman. she said that moore undressed her and started to inappropriately touch her. she accused him of kissing her but said there was no sexual intercourse. the moore campaign which is calling this story from the late 70s false and they suggest it's only coming out now to help the democrat in this race, doug jones. part of the statement says this. this garbage is the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation. we have called a few phone numbers. we have not been able to get in touch with leigh korfman yet. >> shepard: what else are we hearing this afternoon? >> nobody is defending roy moore in the republican party. we have brand new sound a few minutes old from alabama's other senator, richard shelby as well as jeff flake. they're saying that he should stop running if any part of this is true. >> i don't know. it's a devastating nasty story. if the revelations -- if it's true, i don't believe that there would be a place for him in the u.s. senate. >> no, if there's any shed of tr

"washington post" asked for proof of claims that -- proof of moore's claims that leigh korfman wasn't telling the truth. the statement that moore's campaign sent to "the post" says, quote, it is "washington post" is a worthless piece of crap that has gone out of its way to railroad roy moore. there's no need for anyone at the "washington post" to ever reach out to the roy moore campaign again because we will not respond now or in the future. happy thanksgiving. are we living in a world now where, you know, there is nobody who is in this conservative world who is willing to believe what the mainstream press prints because of the atmosphere that the president has created? where are we in this? >> we've seen fairly conservative republican leaders come out and say they do find these stories credible. they've asked roy moore to drop out. now, they haven't been successful in getting him to drop out. certainly there is a war on the media. there is -- the other comment from the roy moore campaign, the forces of evil in washington -- >> presumably is mitch mcconnell. >> and also maybe "the was

reporter: good afternoon to you, lee korfman, one of the accusers spoke at length on nbc's "today show about allegation that roy moore molested her when she was in her early teens. listen. >> he, tried to get me to tough him as well. and at that point, i pulled back and, that said i was not comfortable and i got dressed. he took me home. but i was a 14-year-old child trying to play in an adults world, and he 32 years old. reporter: moore denied the allegations against him and painting his opponent as liberal. in response to the death after border agent in texas, jones equals no wall and, no wall means more senseless bloodshed. we must build the wall to protect americans now. campaigning at a frishe fry, "dow jones newswires" disputed liberal label. >> if you look at positions i have got on health care, look at positions i have on jobs, look at support i have from the business community, i think i'm pretty mainstream. i want to reach across the aisle to talk to all people. i don't really care what he says about me. reporter: although roy moore is losing support from many national republ

lee korfman said she was preyed upon when she was just 14 years old and how that changed the rest of her life. >> i felt guilty. and i felt like i was the one that was to blame. >>> president trump still mum on the alabama race, instead, talking about everything but the controversy, pick fights with jeff flake, susan collins and now the dad of one of the ucla basketball players going back and forth. >>> and a story only set to see here, california is going to legalize weed, but that doesn't mean the black market will suddenly go up in smoke. jacob soberoff has more on that. but first, we are going to gadsden, alabama. isn't that where roy moore isn't allowed to go? gabe, there's a lot of talk this morning. here's what lee said to our colleague, savannah guthrie, this morning. >> on the second occasion i went with him, he basically laid out blankets on the living room floor and proceeded to seduce me. i guess you would say. and during the course of that, he removed my clothing. he came back in wearing his white underwear. and he touched me over my clothing, what was left of it. and he

here many the "washington post" account from a woman named leigh korfman. took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. he touched her over her bra and underpants, she said, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear. she said i wanted it over with. i wanted out. she remembers thinking, please, just get this over with, whatever it is, just get it over. she asked moore to take her home and moore did. the "washington post" goes on to note this -- aside from corkman, three other women interviewed by the "washington post"'s in recent weeks say moore pursued them between the ages of 16 and 18, and he was in his early 30s. none of the women say moore forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact. folks, it's no secret a lot of senate republicans did not want to see roy moore win the gop primary in part of because of his radical views on a host of social issues. but the sheer speed and volume of republicans pressuring him to leave the race right now shows you perhaps how much they fear him and how eager they are to be rid of him even

>> well, when you look at the facts and one of the things that lee korfman said that "the washington quote sought me out. these are washington times driven allegations and that's something that's pretty much common with every single one. none of them have any evidence. there is one shred of evidence which doesn't prove gilt and that's that signature in the yearbook. it's not just that i am questioning the validity but not only the accuser of beverly nelson for example, her own stepson said she's lying, and her own attorney doesn't blefl her. listen to this if i may this was on msnbc and it proves the point, kate snow asked the attorney for one of the accusers if analysis -- beverly nelson, if independent analysis shows that this is not a signature, does that disprove your client's allegations and her answer was, no it doesn't. in other words, even if my client is lying, even if the evidence is forgery, i'm still going to pursue the campaign to defeat roy moore because it's not about the facts or about the women or the evidence. this is about a campaign to elect a democrat in the stat