itit was a leaked mo from a republican pollster named frank luntz. and he was advising his clients, essentially fossil fuel interests, that back in 2002, there was this closing window. the public was now becoming cononvinced by thehe scientific community that human caused climate change is real. anand if they were toecomome convinced about this, they would demand policy actions be implemented, actction be taken. but whatat luntz said wawas that there's still a window of opportunity left, according to his polling, according to the focus groups that he had done, to confuse the public, to cloud their understanding of the issue, to try to make it seem as if the science i is stil fiercely contested. and what he said was as long as the public thinks that scientists don't agree, that there isn't a scientific consensus, they can be convinced that it might be too costly to take action. and so that's exactly what the forces of climate change denial have chosen to do ever since. theyey've doubled down, if you will, in this campaign of disinformatation. >> i wan

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>> conservative alabama voters speaking to pollster frank luntz seemed unconvinced by allegations. >> in alabama, there are a lot of mama and daddies thrilled that their 14-year-old was getting hit on by a former district attorney. >> battling the fifth biggest wildfire in california history. strong winds are pushing the thomas fire from ventura to santa barbara county. more than 230,000 acres have burned. 790 homes and structures are destroyed. about 5,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. jamie yuccas is in the area. >> reporter: this fire burned so many homes like this one has been burning for a week. now the fifth largest fire in california state history. this fire is only 10% contained. the cost of the fire fighting effort is now $34 million and 18,000 structures are still threatened. the thomas fire continue d to burn from ventura into santa barbara. 360 square miles burned. an area bigger than new york city. sheriff bill brown. >> this fire has acted in an unpredictable manner, been rapidly moving, and going to be a multiday event. >> even with less extreme winds sunday, th

this is a panel that frank luntz d did. take a listen. >> roy moore is not a miserable man. he has more integrity than you can find in the entire congress. don't fall for the george soros assassination plan. the truth will come out. these women will all be proven, just like the 16 that went against president trump. >> people are not embarrassed about supporting roy moore, and they don't believe his accusers and think he has integrity. >> roy moore came out and said they are the ones doing this, the establishment. the woman who are accusing roy moore, they voted for president donald trump, and now if that doesn't give people pause i don't know what will. >> yeah. >> it's very distressing. >> let me come and open this up to jason and corina as well. this is a clip i saw for the first time last night, actually. this is roy moore talking not just about his views on lgbt americans, which i don't think will be surprising to people, but revealing something else, his pro putin view. >> to say what ronald reagan would think, i just simply couldn't begin. >> he said the russia was the

having lunch with frank luntz. >> i think if we see a field like we did for the republicans in 2016, probably be on that list of maybe a dozen or so democrats considering a run for the white house. >> 100%. >> thank you very much. representative tim ryan will be on morning joe later today. hear from him directly. he's coming up in just a little bit. >>> senate republicans set a new record confirming president trump's 12th circuit court judge. vote gives trump the record for most circuit court judges confirmed in office. outpacing john f. kennedy and nixon who previously shared the record. chuck grassley celebrated the vote proud to say the judiciary and senate made history confirming the 12th circuit judge this year. the most in the first year of any president in the 228 year history of our country. now, trump however has a long road ahead with 144 judicial vacancies left to be filled. >>> let's turn to business. rolled back net neutrality rules on a party line vote. dismantling regulations to treat all site traffic and speeds equally. cnbc joins us live from london. what does this m

i don't know if you saw, over the weekend, a segment that frank luntz did for vice.oup of republican voters who support roy moore and it appeared to(Ñp that there is absolutely nothing that roy moore could do that a certain portion of the electorate will find so unconscious panel they would either stay home or vote for his point. so the big question tonight oó be, what are women voters going to do and african-american voters going to do? >> te'o jump in with more a"swl% breaking news. a report here on calendaring. the senate republicans making it clear before the polls close, they will meet at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. ready to discuss next step that's the roy moore wins. the meeting scheduled for 10:00 al in the capital. what if anything does that mean? >> well, republicans are trying to protect themselves from the stink of roy moore if he wins the race. they want the vote, they want the seat. president trump wants the seat for the agenda, for the tax bill, although that may be done before the new senators. that may do it in a way that prevents other republicans from suf

. >> that was republican pollster frank luntz with a focus group of republicans in birmingham for vicetonight on hbo. and we're going to go back now to birmingham, alabama. check back in with matt murphy and andrea lindenberg. the hosts of alabama's most listened to political radio program. matt and ani. it's syndicated throughout the state. matt, you heard those comments. are those the kinds of things you're hearing throughout the state? >> no, martha. i mean, since these allegations came out, i do believe that it caused alabama voters concern. they did question some of the sourcing. of some of the initial allegations. they wanted to find out, as close to the truth as we could get. unfortunately, none of us are going to know what truly happened 38 years ago. we have to waive that against the political consequences of sending someone to washington, d.c., that does not represent the alabama values that voted for donald trump by a 2-1 margin. >> andrea, this race received an enormous amount of national attention. what affect has that had on it? you're talking about president trump. you s

i'm referring to the frank luntz poll that he had taken, the focus group, where he talked to people who oh, well, you know, my grandmother 40 years ago people were getting married at 13 and that was the normal thing to do. think about, 40 years ago is 1977. it wasn't that long ago. i mean, we can do a poll now and go back to see how many people were married at the age of 13 in 1977, i don't think many. >> can i just add one thing? >> the jerry lee lewis vote might be up for grabs. >> a senator very, very clearly, do we want to be the party of child molesters are not. >> everybody stand by. new alarm right now about kim jong-un and his quest to develop biological as well as nuclear weapons. tens of thousands of u.s. troops in south korea could be in the line of fire. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investmen

>> frank luntz appeared to -- openly challenging his focus group in a way you don't usually -- >> yeah. let's agree. he was like, are you serious? >> in a way that made it even more compelling, pushing his focus group. >> he did a good job there and got people, by doing that, got to some truths about what some of the people in that community really, genuinely feel. you could see a couple of different sides to it, things that had to do with generational change in, again, certain parts of that state. people remembering things from their past that the guy who spoke about the incident -- family history, the notion that his grandfather or grandmother had married at that age. whatever you think of that, it is -- he's going back to a personal experience in his family and a piece of history that's real for him that gives him permission to be for roy moore. i have no idea how pervasive that is. you could sense things in that room, that people that touched on visceral things for them. that is part of what's going on here. >> carol, you know, what's so fascinating, everybody finds in that room ju

>> frank luntz's pollsters are not convinced. >> while jones has held more than a half dozen campaign events in the past week, moore has not appeared on the campaign trail since last tuesday. he's scheduled to have a rally this past evening where he'll be joined by the president's former chief strategist steve bannon. norah? >> all right. manuel. thank you. our chief white house correspondent major garrett is here with us in studio 57. good morning. >> what's behind the president's calculus here? >> he needs to win. those negotiations have gotten suddenly wobbly. also he wants to keep the trump mystique alive. however you value american politics, he's taking a risk of roy moore. he's got a hunch he's going to win. he lost in the primaries. he doesn't want to lose in a big state like alabama and he wants to defy his daughter and others. >> defy his daughter? >> she gave comments that could be interpreted as hostile to roy moore. >> she said there's a special circle in hell. >> yes. not directly mentioning roy moore, but it's in that atmosphere. >> the senate leader has a different posi