we do not know who robert mueller is zeroing in on. we have no idea how many people robert mueller is targeting and who they are. the big news yesterday that robert mueller had indicted paul manafort and his associate rick gates was expected. but the news that mueller had already arrested and got a guilty plea from george papadopoulos was the big surprise. the message there to donald trump and the rest of us from robert mueller was you have no idea who's next. idea whose next. you have no idea who is next to be arrested. you have into no idea who's next to be kited. you have no idea who is next to plead guilt you have no idea who is next to be charged with conspiracy against the united states, which is what paul manafort is charged with. donald trump's new nightmare tonight is this guy. that is failed iowa politician and former radio talk show host sam clovis who is the completely unqualified trump nominee to be the department of agriculture's undersecretary for research, education, and economics. that job is commonly referred to as ch

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robert mueller's probe into russian meddling. why he is important to that case is he is a turkish-iranian businessman in incarceration in the u.s. for skirting iranian sanctions and someone that the turkish government is worried about and pressured fir his release because they're afraid he will cooperate and the information the turkish government doesn't want is influenced former national security adviser michael flynn. we have reported last week, of course, senior turkish officials who may have met with michael flynn and robert mueller is looking into that to see if they tried to bribe him to drop the case and force the removal of a rival. the person speaking to federal prosecutors could lead to robert mueller's case and give him more information. prosecutors in the southern district of new york are talking to him now. but we can be sure that those prosecutors would pass that information along to special council robert mueller. >> joyce, this guy whose picture we were showing on tv, you know, julia's correct. i didn't know much

and a closer look at robert mueller. what you may not know about the man running the investigation that looms over this presidency. "the 11th hour" on a back-to-work monday night begins now. >> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 312 of the trump administration and the president back at the white house with a lot to get done before the year ends and for that matter before the end of the week. he hopes to sign a tax bill and avoid a government shutdown, but hanging over all of it is robert mueller's russia investigation and the latest pressure point mueller seems to be trying to exploit. nbc news confirmed over the holiday weekend former national security adviser mike flynn's legal team has cut ties with trumps, widely considered by experts as the first sign that flynn may be cooperating with mueller's prosecutors. now abc does not cite its sources and nbc news has not independent by verified the story. they report this, however, "the lawyer for president donald trump's former nati

. >> and i think robert mueller is taking notes on everything this person is saying. the president is saying that he wants to interfere with investigations, the president is saying he wants to go after political opponents and disappointing the justice department isn't doing so and disappointed with mueller's own investigation. and those things should come back to bite him should an investigation proceed. >> and charlie there is talk about pressure from democrats and republicans to pass legislation in the house and in the senate protecting robert mueller from being fired or calling for his ouster. what is your take on that? >> well legislation would very to been signed by trump or two-thirds of the chambers would have to over come his veto because any president would veto something restricting his authority like that. it seems i'm not sure to put that in the category of something that might happen in the real world or a mostly cloudy -- a mechanism for a bill that will never be passed. >> and i want to talk about the president on his way to tokyo as we speak and kather

. >> up next special counsel robert mueller starts with two indictments one guilt plea we ask our sunday panel who is next. >> meet grant. his family. his steinway, which met a burst pipe. so grant met his insurance: you are caller number 12. which didn't quite cover the steinway. but what if he'd met pure insurance? owned by members. he'd have met: lisa, your member advocate. who'd introduce him to gustav, a temporary address, and help him get tickets to the mozart festival. excuse me, grant likes beethoven! uh, the beethoven festival. pure. love your insurance. . >> i am not supposed to be involved with the justice department or the fbi or doing the kinds of things i would love to be doing it by a very frustrated by that. >> present trump makes it clear he is not satisfied the way the prosecutors and investigators are doing their jobs. we're back with a panel. i was thinking back to the bush 43 white house got in trouble for making a completely legal loof to dismiss seven and u.s. attorneys around the country so what you make of those comments this week, in effect challenging the justi

it was brutal to robert mueller. andrew weismann has the single worst record when you look at merrill lynch, enron, arthur anderson, tens of thousands of people lost their job. a 9-0 supreme court reversal of what he did and fifth circuit of appeals. same thing reversal. people went to jail because he wouldn't allow bail and they ended up again being exonerated also withholding exculpatory evidence in a case. what would mueller ever pick somebody with such an atrocious track record if he didn't have an agenda to be kind here overly aggressive and abuse the power of that office? you are putting it very politely, sean. andrew wisman is the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct. he was the driving force behind the indictment of arthur anderson which as you mentioned after a week being unsoiled eradicated a company and 85,000 jobs worldwide with the stroke of the pen on the indictment itself anderson was giving the death penalty only to be reversed 9-0 by the supreme court three years later. >> sean: that never happene

whether he can deliver that, with this robert mueller investigation hanging over him... if more allegations came out during that trip, he would be weakened, the leverage that he would have in any negotiations in asia—pacific would be decreased. he has been obsessed with europe, came to france for the 14th ofjuly, uk, "brexit", russia, there has been a change. the future of the us is in asia, barack obama said, but donald trump is not seeing that, so it'll be interesting to see what this trip is going to be like. in terms of practical effects of this, a lot of talk about what he might say about north korea while he is touring around the region, even if he does not say to the cameras, how he may try to reassure japan and south korea. this is the problem, how unpredictable he is, how inconveniently may become. so far the world has been safe because the state department has more less controlled diplomacy and has come back every time donald trump makes a controversial claim about north korea. but let's see for how long the secretary of state will be able to be in charge of

his special counsel robert mueller closing in on flynn. >>> moscow money man. cnn tracks down a russian billionaire with ties to vladimir putin and to indicted former campaign chairman paul manafort. wait until you hear how he responded to our questions. >>> and snapshot. president trump is all smiles and handshakes with vladimir putin as they pose for a summit photo in matching shirts. so why aren't they able to get together and sit down for formal talks? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're "in the sitroom." "/* "you're in the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight, republican senate candidate roy moore bombing sexual misconduct allegations calling them completely false. moore savaging his campaign in alabama a month before the special election. "the washington post" points to an illegal sexual encounter with a girl when she was 14 years old and she was 32. tonight the campaign says it's ending a campaign to raise money for moore. the white house and republicans

there's no overt indication at this point that robert mueller is necessarily involved. just based on what we've seen in the court paperwork. >> and the other people he was going to go on trial, they're still going on trial? >> they are still going on trial. as a matter of fact, there was a significant hearing held today in that matter and reza zarrab was not in court. that's another signal to these people that something's afoot. >> hundreds of millions of dollars, potential terrorist involvement, iran sanctions being a very serious thing i itself. obviously, this is a serious case. this is the kind of case -- this is not a piddling item. i don't know how these things work. i suppose there has to be some sort of formal agreement, something that's argued and agreed to to get someone taken out of jail and taken out of this trial? who negotiates that? who signs off on that? >> that's something between the department of justice and his attorneys. he's got 17 of them, including noted criminal defense attorney here in new york, ben brothman. so he's got a huge legal staff. and

robert mueller would see that as inappropriate as a potential witness. is there anybody else he would go to or take it to rosenstein himself? >> i imagine the document request was sent to the liaison. one thing i'm not sure about is if it's a subpoena or demand that doesn't have the force of law but to the extent the deputy attorney general is a witness in this case and right to say that this aspect of the case suggests he might be, then the natural order of things oversight would fall to the associate attorney general, rachel brand who would be responsible for managing the department's response to mr. muller's request at least in the formal way. >> do we have -- as the public, do we have right to information about this process? nbc news has not confirmed this report that we're basing this discussion on and i know a little bit about what parts of the government are subject to foyer requests and we've seen in the manafort and gates a gag order from the court barring people involved from talking to the press or anybody outside the court. when it comes to m

number one, if you lie, robert mueller shows he'll indict you. now we have if you sort of shuck and jive about what happened in the campaign, there was somebody sitting beside who's going to say director mueller that guy is not telling the truth. this is interesting, the timing, because now the people know they're in trouble. >> they say don't read too much into it, you're on capitol hill quite a bit but people are reading into this. >> right. jay sekulow saying there's no conclusions to be reached but this is one step closer to president trump. this is someone that as you guys have been arguing, was trusted and loyal during the campaign but was in the white house, sitting next to president trump when decisions were being made. he knows potentially a lot to tell and that inches closer to president trump. the circle is tightening around him. >> i remember, rebecca when the indictments came down, the george papadopoulos was one that surprised us. but they were trying to say manafort and gates were part of the campaign, papadopoulos was the coffee b

and if robert mueller is on to that with regard to flynn, if robert mueller is investigating that possibility with regard to mike flynn, that he took or tried to take official acts to benefit a foreign government in exchange for money, if that's what he's after mike flynn for, if that's what he nails mike flynn for, then anybody who tried to obstruct or slow down or divert or pressure the fbi investigation into that matter, they'd be on the hook not just for some technical process violation but for a disastrous national security compromise. if that's what mueller is going after flynn for, that's a very serious deal and anybody who tried to stop that flynn investigation, anybody at all, would be on the hook in a very serious way. as i said, a lot is going on right now but there's a lot going on right now that's really important. no time to tune out. stay with us. whoooo. you're searching for something. like the perfect deal... ...on the perfect hotel. so wouldn't it be perfect if... ....there was a single site... ...where you could find the... ...right hotel for you at the best price? there is

than robert mueller. one thing frank was just describing is whether the president obstructed justice. that may go more quickly because it involves a limited scope of time and a limited number of people. the whole question of collusion is a much more sprawling investigation and it is just inconceivable to me that that could be wrapped up in one way or another before the end of the year, as ty cobb and other reporters have been saying. if you need the testimony, if you're robert mueller, of the testimony of paul manafort or mike flynn, he may have to go to trial. >> do you think the president or anybody else could be questioned by robert mueller? >> i actually think it's a likely scenario. i think the team would be remiss if they didn't approach the president for an interview. that's going to happen. >> then there's jared kushner, who's being accused by the senate panel of not providing key documents alleging -- a series of attempts by russiaens in 2016, to make inroads to the campaign. and an email from do

so why did robert mueller stop that horrible deal? now some are questioning the motives behind who mueller chose to staff the russia investigation. later tonight, you will meet a woman named sidney powell, she worked at the doj for a decade. she believes that one of mueller's top investigators, andrew weismann, has a documented history of using strong arm tactics to seek convictions, unethical behavior. our own colleague gregg jarrett will also join us tonight. he did digging into wiseman's past. he came to the same conclusion. remember back during the enron accounting scandal, weissman, as a hard charging prosecutor on the task force that brought a controversial obstruction of justice case against the accounting firm, arthur anderson. that eventually put that company out of business. it cost tens of thousands of people their jobs. it was all for nothing because in 2005, the u.s. supreme court overturned the obstruction of justice conviction in a 9-0 unanimous ruling. but that's not the only example of his aggressive tactics resulting

. >> and what robert mueller will find in the president's taxes. >> i have no deals with russia. >> when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. one month ago tonight, a white american man with more than 20 guns shot almost 600 people at a concert in las vegas, killing 58 of them and then himself. it was the worst mass shooting in modern american history and the single deadliest attack on american soil since 9/11. at the time, the white house scolded anyone suggesting maybe something could be done about guns in this country, the weapons he used to carry that out, accusing them of politicizing a tragedy and getting ahead of the facts. it just wasn't the time for that. needless to say, a month later the president still has yet to offer a single policy solution. today, though, just about 18 hours after a terrorist attack here in new york city in which an uzbek national in a pickup truck mowed down cyclists and pedestrians in a bike path leaving eight dead, the president was blaming the u.s. senator from new york. he also tweeted about isis and his so-call

for weeks now, the president and his allies have been insisting that special counsel robert mueller doesn't have far to go and it's only a matter of time before mueller clears the president and his inner circle of wrongdoing. in the wake of the first guilty plea and criminal indictments in the russia probe last month, it's clear the president still faces potential legal jeopardy on multiple fronts. there are his international bngs entangments, thanks -- the special counsel has already signalled he's not afraid of follow the money indicting paul manafort and manafort's deputy rick gates on fraud and money laundering charges. there was, of course, the president's decision to fire fbi director james comey in the midst of the russia probe. a move that he explicitly told our own nbc's lester holt was connected to the ongoing investigation and is now under scrutiny as possible obstruction of justice. then there is the central question of collusion. did the president or his campaign cooperate with russian operatives who were engaged in a systematic effort to disrupt the american elections? i mida

robert mueller's investigators have reportedly interviewed that gentlemen about that, so we know that that op-ed, that work flynn was doing for the government of turkey in exchange for money during the campaign, we know, at least based on that reporting, that that's of interest to robert mueller and his investigation. so, there's the op-ed from election day. then, the next bizarre revelation we got on this subject was in march, when former cia director, james woolsey, told "the wall street journal" that, well, six months earlier, during the campaign, in september 2016, he says he went to a meeting in new york with a bunch of turkish government officials and mike flynn. and he says one of the things that was discussed at that meeting, much to his chagrin, was a plan to kidnap that same guy in pennsylvania, who flynn had written that over the top op-ed about on election day. quote, woolsey said the idea was a covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy away. so, that was -- that was really weird, when that news broke in march, right? i mean, for one thing, why did james woolsey w

rod rosenstein and andrew mccabe and andrew weisman, robert mueller. there is no sign that they want to recuse themselves or to resign. >> sessions has recused himself out of a job. he should step down but not been a pointing a special counsel to investigation hillary clinton and comey and lynch not just for uranium one but to reexamine the e-mail scandal because it appears as though there is some evidence that james comey and loretta lynch were protecting hillary clinton and deliberately perhaps -- she did engaged in intentional acts which violated the law. in engaging gross negligence in the mishandling of classified documents? >> how do you get to it. >> by special counsel. >> so we have a situation where we have a second special counsel investigating the first special counsel. >> to some extent that robert mueller covered it up. it sounds crazy. >> it's such a farce now. but it is also clear because of the conflicts that exist in the a pointment this first special counsel if we may refer to rob mueller the first special counsel. the justice departm

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but it remains to be seen what robert mueller's inquiry and the congressional investigations are going to do with this continually evolving not good information about kushner and how honest he's being and what kinds of contacts he had with russia while russia was attacking the election to try to benefit trump. so eyes on jared kushner now. we're also right now waiting for the white house communications director hope hicks to have her scheduled interview with robert mueller's investigators. we're told the hope hicks interview may happen as soon as this week. crucial question, it's also not clear whether hicks will be called to testify to the grand jury. in addition to speaking with mueller's prosecutors in an interview setting. so again, we don't know exactly when the hope hicks interview and/or testimony is going to be but we expect it should be any day now if it hasn't happened already. so like i said, busy day. all of that is going on in the news right now. that's the kind of news cycle we're in right now. and on top of that charles manson died. news at which the world does not weep.

let robert mueller do his job. and stop tweeting about this stuff all the time. >> john, give us a hierarchy of issues here. the president for a long time including the campaign talked about hillary clinton going to jail of the it used to be because of benghazi and e-mails. now it's because of these uranium one and i encourtroom our viewers to go to whatever fact checking site you want and read up. it's a complicated issue. then he wants robert mueller out of the way and possibly investigated, possibly in connection to this uranium one, but all sorts of other reasons are going on now and spr i theory sites. and finally, as richard suggests in some way making jeff sessions the fall guy. he didn't seem to have it in him to fire jeff sessions, though it looked to everybody like he was going to some months ago and it turns out that jeff sessions did at some point offer his resignation and the president didn't accept it. in this hierarchy of getting people out of the way whom you don't like or creating a distraction by

it's not just flynn on robert mueller's radar. key members of the president's inner circle will have to speak with investigators? >> among those expected to sit down with the investigators soon, the white house communications director, a long time aide to president trump and don mcgann, the white house counsel. as for michael flynn, his lawyers made it clear when they said he has a story to tell and he very much wants to tell it. >> cecilia, thank you. next, new developments in the sexual harassment scandals on capitol hill. senator al franken admitting he crossed a line with some women. accusers have come forward with claims of inappropriate behavior against him. >> reporter: four women are now accusing minnesota senator al franken of improper touching. tonight, a new response. "i am a warm person. i hug people. some women have found my greetings or embraces for hug or photo inappropriate. i feel terribly that i've made some women feel badly and for that i am so sorry." the allegations against franken range from taking this photo

he's going to be subpoenaed by robert mueller shortly. he told trump, we can't use this as a reason. at that point they sent it to the justice department and rosenstein and sessions wrote their memos about why they wanted him gone. >> i want to remind people how incriminating the comey testimony is. this is him talking about trump asking him if he could basically ask mike flynn off the hook. take a listen. >> i took it as a direction. it's the president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this. i took it as, this is what he wants me to do. i didn't obey that. but that's the way i took it. >> he pursues the russia investigation of michael flynn and he's fired and here's comey reflecting on why he was fired. >> it's my judgment that i was fired because of russia investigation. i was fire in the some way to change or the endeavor was to change the way the russia investigation was being conducted. that was the big deal. >> if final checkers move there is the president said he fired him because of the russia investigation on live

yet, here we are, robert mueller was hard at work today and will remain there. "the 11th hour" is back after this. >>> the president has made it abundantly clear that he thinks the russia investigation is a hoax. but in the last week, robert mueller's investigation passed the six-month mark quietly. and this week, it passes a milestone trump's own legal team set. about three months ago, trump special counsel ty cobb spoke to reuters. in the interview he said, quote, i'd be embarrassed if this is still haunting the white house by thanksgiving and worse if it's haunting him by year end. but now, of course, three days from thanksgiving, a report from "the washington post" landed with a thud. it looks inside the white house amid this investigation. it says, among other things, "one republican operative in frequent contact with the white house described mueller's team working through the staff like pac-man and adds witness s questioned by mueller's team warn that investigators are asking about other foreign contacts and meetings that have not yet become public and to

in the probe of special counsel robert mueller. also tonight, president trump always first to give himself an a plus on his handling of the nation's business, but what grade do americans give him one year after his stunning upset victory in the election? we have the results on of cnn's eye opening poll on how americans feel about the state of the economy. the president's honestty, if he be zevlgs re-election and if they're proud he's president. i want to begin with breaking news on the russia investigation and cnn's chief national security correspondent. jim, what are you learning? >> don, i'm told by multiple sources familiar with the matter that flynn has expressed concern about the potential legal egs poeb of his son who like his father is currently under scrutiny by special counsel robert mueller. flynn's concern could be a factor in decisions about how to respond to mueller's ongoing investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 campaign as well as the business dealings of key trump campaign advisers. i'm told as well, don,

. >> robert mueller makes his move. >> did you collude with the russians? >> two indictments. a secret witness. with the white house surprised by new revelations on the trump campaign's ties to russia, the president tries to turn the table. >> they should be looking at the democrats. a lot of people are disappointed in the justice department, including me. >> what do mueller's first arrests say about the strength of his case? and his strategy? has president trump crossed the line by calling for the doj to investigate his political opponents? we'll tackle those questions with whitewater independent counsel ken starr and the u.s. attorney fired by president trump preet bharara. >>> and democrats rocked by the explosive charges from former dnc chair donna brazile in her new book. the president pounces. >> you take a look at hillary clinton. she basically bought the dnc, and she stole the election from bernie. >> donna brazile responds here live in our exclusive interview. >>> plus, trump pushes his tax plan. >> people are loving it. >> but our brand-new poll shows weak support. b

of the things we know for sure besides that robert mueller runs a tight ship and robert mueller will take as much time as he needs, a lot of people lawyering up in washington, d.c. you wonder how many people are made nervous by the possibility or suggestion that if he's no longer cooperating with president trump's legal team that he would be cooperating with robert mueller. what's the biggest thing you think here that flynn brings to the table? >> i think it can't be lost and we must remember that for a while even though a short while that flynn was secretary, national secretary. >> national security secretary. >> right, exactly. so he was close to trump. so this idea that trump and even pence who put together this team didn't know what was going on or what have you, we're going to find out because he was close to both of them. now, the idea that he has separated, his attorneys have separated from others is a big deal because a lot of times when you have different attorneys speaking, what they start to do is they start to share information. what i think makes this significant as well

from robert mueller. you cover the white house. you cover washington every the white house was braced for the manafort indictments. they didn'see this papadopoulos thing coming. >> and for as much attention at manafort and gates got, e think we need to focus more on papadopoulos. one, because it was a total surprise to the white house. that this was someone who would face charges. two, if you talk about mueller sending message, the real message is through papadopoulos. he's going to go from the bottom on of the campaign to the top and he'll take lying to his prosecutors as a criminal offense. multiple people in the trump administration, who left in the first couple of months and who are currently there. who are now having their own interviews with mueller. >> one of them sam clovis. iowa political operative who was working in the white house. if you go through the indictments and the plea agreements. he's the campaign staffer who said it was okay in an e-mail for papadopoulos to go to russia. the day after this comes out, he pulls

after all, the only reason why robert mueller's office exists is because comey was fired. if you remember, james comey, the fbi director. so we expect that elbe. so far sessions has not been asked and just in reaction to what he was laughing about federalist society if you'll remember hillary clinton was joking about with a rag, wiping away of the server, things like that and people didn't find that funny either and certainly the fbi didn't. so i think that's the context that i think even people who are looking at the russia investigation right now are looking at that joke. >> jeff sessions is laughing today at least. we'll see how long that lasts. guys, appreciate it. thank you one and all. the president has no problem weighing in on al frank's sexual misconduct. so why is it radio silence on the allegations against roy moore, not to mention the allegations against donald trump. keeping them honest, next. i'm craving something we're missing. the ceramides in cerave. they help restore my natural barrier, so i can lock in moisture and keep us protected. we've got to have ea

that we know robert mueller is interested in, including the circumstances surrounding the firing of james comey and a meeting in march 2016, a national security meeting where george papadopoulos talked about setting up a meeting between trump and putin. so he is someone that we would expect to be interviewed in this probe. >> what are else are you learning about why the investigators specifically wanted to question him? >> we have learned that one of the lines of inquiry surrounded his role in the firing of james comey during a weekend and explaining why trump wanted to fire james comey, the former fbi director. we also learned, interestingly enough, my colleague gloria borger and evan perez were told that the memo mimicked the memo that rod rosenstein used that was stated as the reason for firing james comey. and so stephen miller really has a front row seat to trump's mentality, his mind, his thinking through the firing of james comey and that's part of the obstruction of justice probe. anyone in that march meeting where the idea was brought up to set up a meeting between trump an

. >> and if that has happened and if robert mueller has gained that kind of information, how is that useable? can that be admitted in court ultimately because it was done without the knowledge or consent of people who would have been on the other end of those conversations, or is it just part of research? >> no, those -- if those recordings were made, they can be used in court, played in court as substantive evidence. the classic case is perhaps with a mobster or drug dealer where you talk to someone either in realtime as they're conspiring to commit a crime or to cover up evidence or you say remember when we communicated with those russians. wasn't that great. and you get the person to admit something that they have done in the past. so those statements could come in as substantive evidence for a jury to hear in court. >> as you know, attorney general jeff sessions under fire for his failures to recall the conversations between the trump campaign and russian officials after all of these new revelations that have come surrounding papadopoulos and carter page. how far can sessions tak

flynn, he is also subject to robert mueller's investigation. quote, the inquiry into the younger flynn is focused at least in part on his work with his father's lobbying firm, flynn intel group. both traveled to russia in december 2015 when general flynn gave a paid speech to the propaganda network and had din we are vladimir putin. three sources familiar with the investigation tell nbc news mueller's applying renewed pressure on flynn following his indictment of trump campaign chairman paul manafort in june. former fbi director james comey testified under oath that president trump directed him to drop what was then the fbi's investigation into michael flynn. >> i hope this is the president speaking, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this goe to letting flynn go. he's a good guy. i hope you can let this go. now, those are his exact words. is that correct? >> correct. this is a president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this. i took it as this is what he wants me to do. >> nbc news reports if the elder flynn is willing

we have much to cover from roy moore to robert mueller and michael flynn and michael flynn's son. but today, a new witness emerged in the case against roy moore. and that witness was almost as damning as the women who told their stories to "the washington post." the new witness decided to tell his story to sean hannity. >> roy moore is reported by "the washington post" to have engaged in a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl when he was in his 30s. >> this guy who's constantly posturing about how devout he is and how sinful everyone else is -- >> crime, corruption, immorality, abortion, sodomy, sexual perversion, sweep our land. >> roy moore insisted he is not guilty and everyone in the republican party of alabama is being excuses for his behifr. >> some gop leaders in alabama say they backed moore even if the worst was true. >> unless he can prove his innocence, the burden is now on him within the next day or so i believe he has to step down. >> john mccain and mitt romney calling moore unfit for office. >> this to me is the bannon-ization, the hannity pull of the party into

at the very least as a witness to discuss the other aspects of the investigation with robert mueller's team. back to you. >>> pamela brown there in d.c. there is condemnation around the world for president trump retweeting anti-violent videos. but not a hint of criticism coming from inside the administration. ts president often warns about europe and the u.s. being threatened by immigration from muslim majority nations but he has seldomed shared anything nearly as offensive or explosive as this. >> one video purports to show a young muslim migrant attacking a boy on crushes. something they say is not true. those are two dutch even ateenan there. white house press secretary sarah sanders defending the retweets. saying the president is only trying to start a conversation about border security. she disregarded questions about the authenticity of these videos. >> whether it's a real video, the threat is real. that's is what the president is talking about. that's what the president is focussed on is dealing with those real threats. those are real no matter how you look at it. >> so much for