same with roy moore. >> i really appreciate that inside statement, because i want to ask rick tyler here, this is a challenge for the national republican party, certainly mitch mcconnell and the senate leaders. and you've got the president ducking all questions about it. >> the president has no more authority to comment on this, because if roy moore isn't fit as u.s. senator, as many say he isn't, and i would agree with that, then as a set of accusers, the president has a set of accusers. so he doesn't want to go down this road, and obviously the white house doesn't want him to go down this road because he has no moral authority to speak about it. >> yet he did go down the road with al franken, but that, of course, brings me to ron mcclain. your views having worked with bill clinton, having worked with barack obama, having lived with that whole impeachment process in the clinton crisis and how women in the cabinet were confused as well. many thought he had let them down and lied about it. >> certainly, i think they did. it was a very hard time, people had very hard feelings about it. pre

i have bill cohen, rick tyler, what are we going to start with? let's go -- let's start with tax reform. re re we know there's no love lost between the president and jeff flake. but why does it make sense for the president to have the battles over the weekend? >> he has a cognitive defect when it comes to being attacked and can't set that aside and look at the long goal. there's no long goal with him. it is -- jeff flake dishonored me or disrespected me and i'm going to hit him back, even if it costs him the winning vote or the vote to pass his tax cut plan. it is really extraordinary. >> what do you think of the point i'm trying to make on the throwing in at the last minute, this gutting of obamacare? i actually think this is just a big diversion. you put it in, pull it back out and suddenly susan collins says, thank you very much, i'll give you a yes vote. >> this guy who is the master of cognitive distance is the master of the head-fake. something completely irrelevant that diverts our attention from what he's really doing, which is trying to p

joining me is done yeah edwards and rick tyler, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst. welcome both. just within this hour, steny hoyer, one of the democratic leaders, saying that if these charges are proved, he should resign from congress. donna, but the big if is, how long it takes to prove anything through the ethics committee, which is a secret process. >> identify said before that i don't think the ethics committee, as it currently stands, is really appropriate to handle this. i think at a minimum they could establish a separate investigative committee that has a time limit to report these allegations back. i served on the ethics committee and they do great work. this is not their area of expertise and we don't want this to drag out over years or the course of a congress. >> there was a request to release one of the complainants against conyers from the confidentiality agreement, which she was forced to sign. >> you know, the fact is that if the congressman waived his confidentiality it would free up the victimers and accusers, if they want to, to come forward. i w

one from rick tyler and fwrun roy moore. let me say i agree 100% with what rick tyler said and not at all with what roy moore said. inno fan of the judge. i don't think he belongs within 100 miles of the senate. but i'm not also willing to concede that he's a pedophile. >>> and we don't need to. i cover a lot of cases, and we cover the denials. and last night on this program i reiterated the denials. what we're reporting on tonight, what i didn't know would be the friday night news is not his denial cls we aired at the top of the show. he is entitled to his denials and his side of the story. what we are covering at the top of the newscast, multiple officials in bam balabama sayins would be okay. >> we shouldn't have to dedicate air time to that. those people are wrong and they're perverted for several reasons and should be silenced, frankly. it's terrible. that doesn't mean that roy moore is innocent or guilty of these charges. what was shocking to me was the degree to which reasonable republican who's dared to say what fran

this is a big deal for us. >> rick tyler. >> congressman, rick tyler, good morning. >> good morning, rick. >> congressman, obviously you're a very skilled communicator and large scale tax reform is going to take public support. what do you think accounts for the lack of public support for this tax bill that we're trying to get through congress? it wouldn't be easier if the american people were much more behind it and how will you change that? >> well, i think first of all we'll change it because i think the impact of the bill, it's what we're banking on, will be obvious and will be profound and hopefully will set in fairly quickly. so, you know, that's what we think will happen. in terms of why there's not support now, look, i think we live in a highly polarized age. i think democrats are pretty skillful communicators. i think anything associated with republican or trump right now really pretty much reflects where that brand is. i don't think it's a serious look at what the tax bill actually does for individual americans or business. so, again, fair enough. people are allowed to hold

it doesn't seem to take it very seriously. >> rick tyler, how much of this is about 2016? you do have a lot of republicans were very worried about the impact this is going to have in the mid-term elections. we're not ready for that. >> i think it's only going to get worse. technology is increasing but it's -- with all the facebook and all the social media and it's very serious. if you say anything to trump about russia, he immediately defers to -- >> hillary clinton. >> it is a shame he's not taking it seriously. >> in the mid-term elections i want to change gears. we have another important story to get to. national republicans are caught in a really fundamental dilemma tonight over alabama senate nominee roy moore. do they stick with him and the baggage of child molestation allegations or do they cut bait and risk losing a safe republican senate seat? on thursday the washington post reported allegations that roy moore molested a 14-year-old girl when he was a 32-year-old prosecutor. moore said he had no contact with the girl and that the allegations are completely false.

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rick tyler is conservative strategist and msnbc analyst, ken vogel, and josh smoon a political columnist with the alabama political reporter. rick, i want to ask you a simple question. "the washington post" interviewed 30 sources for this story. republicans are saying, if true. what are they expecting to happen? there's criminal case here. how are they expecting to get more information on this before roy moore goes up for election on december 12th? >> i think the republicans came out and were following a set of talking points that perhaps weren't well thought out. as you point out, there will be no criminal case. it's well beyond the statute of limitations. you have to read the story and see if you believe the women or not. i read the story three times. you have three credible reporters who interviewed 30 witnesses and four people went on record. i think that's important. and judge moore has got to determine whether he wants to sink this republican party. and he will sink it. i think this is unrecoverable if they send a known pedophile to the next senator from alabama that is going to bl

bush, and rick tyler, former cruz campaign spokesman. with a good morning to you all. rick, i'm going to start with you here. the reaction to the president telling reporters putin denied meddling in the election. are you surprised the president even asked? it wouldn't be surprising putin would deny it. >> i think it was kind of perfuncto perfunctory. he has to look strong like he is doing something about it. he may have asked in probably the most -- not very tough way. and putin denied it. and then he believed him. okay. checked off. that's it. move on to other things. >> joe, what about the president saying that -- to reporters that russian meddling was an artificial thing, that it was all set up. it was something that -- well, that's what he's saying, it's just a big setup. >> well, i don't think that's going to do anything to stop the investigation by bob mueller, known as one of the most fair and outstanding lawyers anywhere. somebody who i think at the end of the day will get to the truth of the matter. and i think it's not going to stop people on the senate and h

bush and rick tyler, foundry strategies and former cruz campaign spokesman. hi, guys. welcome to you. good morning. how do you make sense of this? >> oh, good heavens. i think this is one of those situations where trump is, you know, he is a living legend in his mind and should be treated as such. having this conversation i could be the next "time" magazine person of the year. he can tweet about something where he thinks he should be getting credit for something again. >> what kind of benefit does the president see tweeting this kind of thing. particularly "time" magazine. he has a thing about "time" magazine and the cover he's been on or not. >> well, it's the kind of argument he likes to have. at the same time, it doesn't cost him anything. it takes some of the spotlight off all the things being thrown away and control the tempo and the news of the day. >> do you think his base is a news vacuum that they don't see "time's" tweet as well. they said that's not actually correct, mr. trump. for the most part his base is very, very loyal to them. he wins with his base whe

bush and rick tyler. cruz campaign spokesman. he is an msnbc political analyst. as always, glad to see all three of you. let's get to this report, guys. you just saw it was about the changing stories about what really happened here. who met with whom? who had contact with russia? who did not have contact? so where do you see this story taking us, joe? >> well, no place good, of course. just lends itself to the fact that there are more questions about what jeff sessions knew and when he knew it. carter page's revelation this week doesn't help him. certainly papadopoulos as well. papadopoulos is probably the biggest bombshell of all this week. i don't think anybody knew he had already pleaded guilty to misleading the fbi and that he was cooperating with the special prosecutor. those are big bombshells. certainly for jeff sessions, this has not been a good week. there are more questions. i wouldn't be surprised if he was called in before congress to testify and to clarify what he knew and when he knew it. >> i'm curious, rick, what your sense is of george papadopoul

. >> let's bring in msnbc political analyst republican strategist rick tyler. josh barrow, senior editor at business insider. rick, what's the thinking here? >> hard to say. as i understand it, haiti and honduras had their protected status rejected as well. the reporting seems that haiti is not ready to receive the 60,000-plus haitians that are there. so i don't know. i mean, that's -- you have to give temporary status but at some point it does expire but there's a dispute whether haiti is prepared to take them back. >> we're talking about the poorest country in the western hemisphere. 25% of all of the money that accounts for that country's gdp comes from haitians in this country sending money back. this is one of those instances where it's hard to for people who call themselves part of the christian right, how do you justify sending people back to a place like that? that doesn't seem to be very christian-like either. >> it's part of the broader anti-immigration push of the trump administration. their view is basically that over a period of decades republican

with us on set we have washington anchor catty kay, former president cruz's director, rick tyler and pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene analyst. >> we also have with us willie geist there always good to have. >> you i'm hosting thanksgiving. >> oh, really? >> hosting thanksgiving. >> take a little bag out of the turkey. >> that's important. >> i always forget. >> ut get a prize? >> if i were a real man. but the duck inside the turkey the chicken and the turkey in the deep fryer. >> catty that's what you are doing? >> don't forget to turn the oven on, too. >> any big plans? >> we have friends for thanksgiving. i never hosted thanksgiving, i have to admit. i host christmas lunch a lot. but i love it. it's an adopted holiday for me. >> i was going to say, it's election reminded me, kids at home. you know what they call thanksgiving in britain? thursday. >> my father is hosting, my wife and are cooking. >> are you financial to cook? >> m

still on set, msnbc contributor and nbc news political analyst rick tyler and joining the conversation, gracing us with his presence for the first time ever, politics editor at "the daily beast" sam stein. thank you all for being here tonight. i actually -- i'm going to throw my producers for a loop. sam, before we get into this broader conversation, i want to ask you about this. there is a copy of joe biden's new book in which he relates a conversation he had with barack obama and he said obama was convinced that i could not beat hillary and that he weighted it a little too heavily and the president encouraged him not to run. >> well, this is the first time hearing of this and i have to say i'm not surprised, honestly. obama -- well, think about it this way. biden has run two presidential campaigns. in each presidential campaign, they have not gone well. in the last one, he may have been within like a couple percentage points of zero in terms of the vote and there's a reason. biden is beloved by the democratic party. but his resume had all the same problems that clinton's resume had a

political analyst and republican strategist rick tyler and campaign direct dwror for the certainty for american progress emily tish sussman. and rick, when you look at what president trump has been saying on this very topic, and you see his defense coming out and you see the new reporting coming out of the new york times, and in essence what he said in that article, according to the reporting here, is i'm not sure if that original "access hollywood" tape was real but he did admit it was and then he apologized. is trump defending moore here because he wants to defend himself? because he sees that as fracturing the party. >> he's in a conundrum. because if he says -- he believes roy moore -- accusers why shouldn't we believe his accusers. i find it an astonishing statement that he thinks the tape may not be real. he either knows it is -- or he knows it is not real. and it seemed obvious it was real because nbc had it and there is no reason to believe no one has come forward to say -- question the authenticity. but trump is caught in the republican party and leaders all flat footed becaus

i reached out to rick tyler. i reached out to everybody. because i am the person that i have always been. somebody who is there, somebody who wants to get the facts, and somebody who is willing to engage more people in the process. host: where you surprise cnn cut ties with you? guest: no, i cut the ties. i am not surprised they have continued to attack me. you know why i cut ties? because i got home that night and could not find evidence that they were asking me to prove. and because i could not find that, because i could not find those emails, i told them, let it go. let it go, because i will take it -- they wanted to publish a statement, but i thought that was not the way i would handle it. i have been with cnn 14 years. i love cnn. then need -- many members of my family, some of whom were rescued, cnn allowed me to use that platform to say we need to help the people in louisiana. i watch cnn. anderson is still my boo. i may not be his boo-boo, but he is my boo. thatt to address an issue you did not give me an opportunity to address. hil

. >> joining the table now, an msnbc political contributor rick tyler. >> how was your thanksgiving? >> successful. the conversations were interesting. >> we have a lot to talk about. we've been talking about what republicans are going to be doing between now and the end of the year, what donald trump has to accomplish there is a big political event eclipsing everything between now and the end of the year. that's the election of roy moore in alabama. if that happens, what does that mean to the republican party? it's almost like they're better off if he loses in the long run. >> i think absolutely in the long run. so jeff sessions' term actually finishes up january 3rd. the election for his seat will again take place in 2020. the republicans could i'm guessing easily retake that seat with a republican candidate. and so they could put doug jones in. they'll lose him for these bills coming which is what they're worked about. they're willing to sacrifice that. i think in the long run they'd be better to have a democrat than roy moore. >> there are assumptions who looked at the allegation

rick tyler, msnbc political analyst. and republican strategist congressman is a democrat from my home state of new jersey. and our political reporter reporting from alabama. ethics, something we need to pay a lot of attention to here in the united states. think a lot about it this week ahead of thanksgiving. all right, rick, you're the republican so you have to go first. roy moore keeps saying it is the washington elites who are trying to get him out of the race but look at his hometown papers. the local alabama papers. they're leading with this guy shouldn't be in office. so how does he work this argument us versus them? >> i hate those papers too. they're all part of the media establishment from the capital cities and they'll just be able to dismiss it and they'll say if the roles were reversed and it was a democrat, they would have never run an editorial above the fold. that will be their argument. >> does that argument work? >> you know, it's really hard in any special election to poll. because in a statewide race in

and rick tyler, msnbc political analyst, republican strategist and co-founder, i'm going to say this is new for me and i really like the name of your firm, foundry strategies. jonathan, let's go to you, you wrote about what nancy pelosi has to say on "meet the press." i want to play a little more of that. >> as john reviews his case, which he know, which i don't -- >> why don't you -- how is it that you don't -- >> may i finish my sentence? that he will do the right thing. >> and is the right thing what, resign? >> he will do the right thing in terms of what he knows about his situation, that he's entitled to due process but women are entitled to due process as well. >> all right, is that just news of the day from yesterday, a fumble? or does a statement like that really hurt democrats? >> i think having spoken to a number of democrats yesterday, i think they believe that what they're seeing right now is acceding of the moral high ground on the sexual harassment interview. obviously we've got an alabama senate race going on right now with roy moore who's alleged. the president of the

with us we have washington anchor for bbc, katty kay, rick tyler, chief national correspondent for the new york times magazine, mark leeberitch, and chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of andrea mitchel reports, andrea mitchel. andrea, let me ask you quickly, what's your reaction to north korea and once again being put on the terror list? at the end of the day, is there any impact? is that going to change what north korea does one way or the other? >> it really is hard to say. i think the most important thing is still whether china and the u.s. get on the same page, and it's really interesting that the president came back claiming one thing about what china had agreed to and president xi, but the next day beijing said no, that's not what we agreed to at all. they are still not at all coordinated, and what the results of the asian trip remains to be seen. china is still telling north korea it can get out of this box by simply freezing its nuclear program in place and that the u.s. and south korea are ready to step back from their joint military exercises. that is not at all the

i reached out to rick tyler. i reached out to everybody. because i am the person that i have always been. somebody who is there, somebody who wants to get the facts, and somebody who is willing to engage more people in the process. host: where you surprise cnn cut ties with you? guest: no, i cut the ties. i am not surprised they have continued to attack me. you know why i cut ties? because i got home that night and could not find evidence that they were asking me to prove. and because i could not find that, because i could not find those emails, i told them, let it go. let it go, because i will take it -- they wanted to publish a statement, but i thought that was not the way i would handle it. i have been with cnn 14 years. i love cnn. then need -- many members of my family, some of whom were rescued, cnn allowed me to use that platform to say we need to help the people in louisiana. i watch cnn. anderson is still my boo. i may not be his boo-boo, but he is my boo. thatt to address an issue you did not give me an opportunity to address. hil

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