how could it be pinging from tuscaloosa? that's miles and miles away. >> right. there's no way she could have made the call and been back to the location where she was murdered at. >> courtesy of the cell towers, you were able to show that teresa could not have made that call. it had to be somebody else using her phone and what do you know? her phone is missing from the crime scene. >> correct. >> so the person who very likely killed teresa mayfield must have used teresa's cell phone to call her husband scott. what could that mean? did the killer know scott? and did scott know something he wasn't sharing? >>> coming up -- >> we were dealing with a person that was leading a double life. >> secrets and lies. >> this was betrayal. >> very good word. >> when "dateline" continues. dry mouth has been a problem for me. i just drank tons of water all the time, it was never enough. my dentist suggested biotene. my mouth felt more lubricated. i use the biotene rinse and then i use the spray. biotene did make a difference. [heartbeat] nice man cave! nacho? [ train whistle b

tuscaloosa county, trump plus 20 just a year ago. now, yesterday, tuscaloosa county went for doug jones by 16 points, a 36-point swing. if you go east, southeast plus 23 for donald trump lee went for plus 17 doug jones yesterday. that's a 40-point swing. in a conservative area. you look at those numbers and then combine those, steve schmidt, with the numbers of black voters that turn ed out fr barack obama in 2008. in historic proportions. nobody believed. none of us believed that that would ever be matched again. certainly not in an off-year election, in a special election where turnout -- what do we always say? turnout is always older, wider and more conservative in these types of races. not yesterday. what a stunning rebuke to donald trump. >> sure is. >> by the way, i must say this. a stunning rebuke by the very people who has spit on for the past two years, post charlottesville, with these white supremacy videos out of britain, his antequated views that are so deeply offensive to young people. they have spoken back. women speaki

she was mentioning tuscaloosa specifically. the overall numbers for the state, i want to make sure i mention this again. it's pretty shocking, the primary turnout was 18%, jonathan. 18%. the runoff between roy moore and luther strange was 15%. that's horrific, not many people are voting, when are we going to see something totally different tomorrow? >> well, that's the challenge for doug jones, is that he's got to juice turnout up above 25% overall to have a chance. there are a lot of voters in this state, who have no use for roy moore. the challenge for jones, a lot of them are not enthused enough to show up for an election on december 12th. a state that mark knows very well, which is kind of the precise opposite of alabama, which is his home state of massachusetts, there was a special election there, where the republican won, and you had similarly unique circumstances, a weakens democratic candidate running, and a republican that caught fire at a time of great energy. i think there are some similarities here, i would say the

for instance, tuscaloosa, a conservative town where roy moore lost by five points but on the other side mitt romney won that county by 15 points. but i'm also looking towards wednesday. in the conversation that will take place, if in fact, roy moore wins this, it's a conversation of what do the democrats in the deep south look like. the louisiana governor is the only democrat representing the deep south on a statewide significant level and some of the interesting conversations we've had with folks on the ground here, kasie, are those that are rigid in running for a republican and believing that their party's candidate, regardless of the allegations against him, are. i want to play sound bites that we've had these conversations where i've asked people because roy moore has called this a conspiracy. just this morning he called it a scheme behind the allegations that have come forward. he's played himself to be a victim in this scenario and not unlike what we heard from president trump in his own race and it's been kind of roy moore of his career.

tuscaloosa went by 19 points to donald trump a year ago. this time, 15 points a margin for doug jones. huntsville, a 36-point swing in favor of doug jones because they put themselves out there. they addressed the questions from the media. i think people need to give credit to the fact that doug jones was taking on really the role of actually running an operation, compared to roy moore who believes that they had just the republican name next to them, they were going to be able to take this through, brian. >> vaughn, was it a suburban myth or did roy moore spend the weekend in philadelphia at the army/navy game? >> reporter: he was gone this weekend for 2 1/2 days including that time at the army/navy game, brian. >> all right, vaughn hillyard outside the roy moore headquarters. let's go to the doug jones headquarters, the crowd exploded there a half hour or so ago, catie beck our correspondent there. >> reporter: hi, brian, the atmosphere is electric. democrats who came here tonight were cautiously optimistic, hopeful that maybe what they nev

nbc's vaughn hilliard is joining the candidates on the campaign trail in tuscaloosa, alabama. i mentioned that poll. how with people reacting to that polling data from the "post"? >> reporter: david, after being here for three weeks on the ground now, it's really come down to the fact that i, frankly, don't trust really any polling in this race at this point, just because when you're talking to particularly republican voters here, the ones, the crossover voters that doug jones, the democrat needs in this race, there's a big gap between the number that are saying, hey, maybe we'd be willing to vote for doug jones. then there's those that are saying maybe we'll write in or not vote at all and then there are those saying we're sticking by roy moore. but when you look at this campaign on the ground, if not for alabama, you'd have to think doug jones was far ahead in this race purely on infrastructure. i was just down the road in tuscaloosa at a campaign field office that doug jones has set up, one of many in the state. they have canvassers going around. i just met them. compare th

to the front page of the tuscaloosa news. their front page story, robocalls, bogus news, as race nears, is the headline they went with. the front page of the decatur daily. absnltee voting increases is the headline. circuit clerks across the state said they issued more absentee ballots than expected, indicating a high voter turnout in today's special u.s. senate race. this is, of course, the race to fill the seat of the attorney general after he was appointed to that position. luther strange was appointed to the role, and this is the special election to fill that seat, and we're hearing from alabama voters this morning. lines for democrats, republicans, and independents as usual. george is in ohio, line for democrats. george, good morning. george, are you with us? we'll go to that line for alabama voters. richard is waiting. richard is a republican. go ahead. >> caller: yes, sir. i will not vote for judge roy moore. you know, where there's smoke, there's fire. there's something else i want to say about trump and congress. rec

he's in tuscaloosa tonight covering this race. and, robert, what do you make of the number, the percentage of voters who are on the move, the vote that is migrating perhaps back and forth between these candidates, or do you think as steve seems to indicate, this is getting a little bit baked into the cake now? >> it's a significant move, brian. i spent the whole day here in tuscaloosa and in birmingham talking to voters. when they're talking about a senate race as much as they are talking about the crimson tide football team, you know this is a hot race in the state of alabama. what i've found, brian, in the course of my reporting is that many voters are very skittish of roy moore. they're unhappy and wary of these allegations against him. at the same time, they're deeply conservative when it comes to their own political views. so, the question for doug jones, the democrat is in this last week, this final chapter, can he actually bring them across that finish line? because of the moral question, not because of politics. >> tell us

one of the questions we're going to watch, we're up to 61% in tuscaloosa county. healthy margin, but it's 5,000 votes there. when you go through these smaller counties, and you have a couple thousand here, 6,000 there, you start going through these smaller counties r there enough votes to overcome it? you look down here in montgomery county, only at 22%, a healthy doug jones margin. you're saying our base hasn't come in yet. if you're sitting in the roy moore campaign, take a look at this map. the roy moore strength across here and down here. you see all the blue filling in like that here. this is 2017. roy moore right around 15%, getting in on 52% of the vote. let's go back in time to 2012 trrks last time roy moore won for chief justice. roy moore up here and down here. this map is filling in, almost identical i'm not to the 2012 that roy moore whereon quite narrowly. the question in 2017, that was a presidential year, this is not, so the turnout is down. we're at 40% in jefferson county. that's a great margin for doug jones. the question is the raw numbers and t

one placing an absentee ballot in tuscaloosa county. there are six times as many absentee ballots as seen during the primary and runoff, which suggests it's a pretty high turnout on tuesday. that could be good news for the democrat. in his 2012 race for state chief justice, roy moore lost the county to democrat bob vance even though mitt romney beat president obama there for a 17-point margin. it could be a good sign for roy moore. joining me now is john merrill. sir, thank you for joining us this evening. really appreciate it. i want to ask you -- >> thank you for allowing many he to be your guest. >> thank you. and i want to ask you about your own vote. you say you cast an absentee ballot for roy moore. do you find the accusations against him to not be credible? >> no. my vote has nothing to do with the allegations made by these ladies. and i think it's very important to know, kasie, this election is not about me. it's about judge moore, about doug jones and, more importantly, it's all about the people of the great state of alabama. a

tuscaloosa, university of alabama. roy moore, when he ran and almost lost five years ago, 58% in this county. only coming in with 41% tonight. well still have some vote left. but it looks like he is going to be south of what he got in that near miss five years ago. he is underperforming there. those are the kinds of counties jones is looking for. but the second kind of underperforming. rural areas with largely white populations. rural areas down here. you go into the individual counties and moore's percentage is huge. you say great night for roy moore. problem for roy moore is the turnout here not nearly as impressive as the turnout we're seeing in this part of the state, the heavily black counties, heavily democratic counties. so, again, that's another kind of underperforming. if your base doesn't have the kind of energy that your opponent's base has. so there are two sorts of underperforming, i think, if you're looking at this. i'm just killing time to see if we've got an update. we do. jones has pulled within 3,000

mercedes benz coming to tuscaloosa. the people doing such a great job with mercedes that mercedes actually said it was one of the most productive profitable plants in the world and i think they're now at their second or third class of mercedes cars that they make in tuscaloosa, alabama because alabama does such a good job. his problem is he thinks it's 1962 in alabama and you know why because that's because he's a yankee that worked in goldman sachs and hollywood. he doesn't know the culture there any more than the guy from wall street would know the culture -- you know, some where else. in north dakota. >> so does he think it's 1962 or does he think it's the primary where it appeared to have worked? a lot of these tactics worked -- >> he thinks its donald trump's america, that's what he thinks. >> well -- >> what is donald trump's america? >> very sad place. >> donald trump's america is actually an america where two out of three americans disapprove of the president, donald trump's america is an america where we have a

i just got off the phone as well with the county clerk in tuscaloosa. this is a place where back in 2012, mitt romney won tuscaloosa county by 20%. roy moore won it by just 5%. why is this significant? democrat doug jones is going to need high voter turnout among democrats. these are the first indications that we're seeing there is at least interest and these applications are going out there. when you're looking -- there's clearly some alabamans that have made their way here to pensacola, andrea. >> good job, john. just ignore it all, all that's going on around you. >> things made sense for a moment. >> i love the reporting, the detail. that's exactly what political reporting is all about, as ann gearen knows. you've been on the road for months. will people turn out? will the african-american vote be encouraged by an appearance we are expecting from, in fact, john lewis and others from the congressional black caucus? and what is the effect on women? how will women react? ann? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, i think the question of both republican women and d

seated in tuscaloosa. you can't go across tuscaloosa or look at that campus or even look at the county. look what they've done with mercedes-benz without understanding that richard shelby has had a big, big impact on it. that's why, again, it's not just some yacker going on tv. he has the deepest of roots in central alabama and that is something. >> candidate doug jones campaigning alongside senator cory booker of new jersey and former massachusetts governor duvall patrick to help push african-american voters to the polls. this, as roy moore kept a low profile. the republican held no campaign events and even skipped sunday church services. buzz feed reporting that. however, moore received help from a valuable ally, president trump, a robo call for the candidate and campaigned for him miles outside of mobile in pensacola, florida. first the robo call. >> hi. this is president donald trump and i need alabama to go vote for roy moore. roy moore is the guy we need to pass our make america great again agenda. r

and i want to take you to a couple conservative counties, tuscaloosa and madison where tuscaloosa and huntsville are. these are republican territories. become but back in 2012, roy moore won by just three percentage points against the democrat. in those two counties i'm talking about, mitt romney won by a significant margin, almost 20%. yet roy moore lost. so there is the potential for republican crossover voters. doug jones needs those very voters. and what the absentee ballots are showing us at this point is that there is increased interest by six fold in some of these counties for voters to come out. whether that is also going to be seen in rural counties and whether it is that same 2k3 assignme excitement for roy moore, i think we need to pay attention to come monday. but there is interest in this race. the secretary of state john merrill told me on friday that he expects at least a 25% voter turnout, which is not insignificant here for the state of alabama. >> okay. buck kem up, le up, be 48 hours. jeff benefit is following the president in west palm beach, florida. good sunday t

just skipping through those to make the point what we're waiting on, tuscaloosa, 180%, this is the biggest pool. we're up to 66%. 66% of the vote is in. but this is the biggest pool of votes. just look at that. this is the absolute key to doug jones. keeping close to that margin as the rest comes in. i'm just going to check this to see if it changed. got up to 32%. 10,000 votes. the question is as you go from 32 to 64 to 90-something, not only does the margin stay like this, and the math comes in like this, if you're looking at the places on this map particularly right here where there are still a lot of votes out, you've got a chance here. one other question is roy moore is now coming back down. this is the democratic dream scenario is get doug jones up to 98%, and hope that number climbs to around 2. still got some votes to count. >> but a lot of those conservative counties 100% of the vote is already in. and some of the other bigger counties, there's still plenty of votes outstanding. >> here's one. up in franklin county, it's not a ton of votes. but to be fair to judge moore, there are

tuscaloosa county, it was the same way. >> as you know, some republicans, including the senior senator from alabama, richard shelby, they are encouraging people to write in a candidate other than to actually vote for roy moore. can you tell us yet how many write-ins you're seeing, let's say, percentage wise? >> well, wolf, it's difficult to say right now, because we won't actually get those results until all of those are finalized and they're turned in at the central location there at each county see throughout alabama later on tonight. >> what about the absentee ballots? have you started counting those yet? and what are you seeing there? >> yes, sir. wolf, a lot of those absentee ballots have already been counted and they've already been recorded, but they will not be posted until 7:00 p.m. and those will be the first returns that come in in each one of the 67 counties. so if people are viewing at home and checking out our website at alabamavotes.gov, they'll able to see those results first as people enter those results. >> is the absentee vote ihigher than usual based on what you've

i heard the secretary of state saying turnout in tuscaloosa was very high. that's a good thing for doug jones. >> very popular democratic mayor there. >> and he was also saying outside huntsville, outside mobile, outside birmingham. these are the more college educated white upscale areas. that's the electorate that can shift here. and that, i believe, is the key to this election. we got to have high turnout in each party's base. but if jones is getting 50% of the vote or even in the high 30s in some of these areas, he's going to win. it's hard to tell in these exit polls, at least at this point. >> we don't have specific turnout data from any of these places, but this is what we have, 45 minutes coming in. these final moments. >> breaking news out of the white house on what president trump is doing tonight as he watches the returns come in. as well as a new clash with his secretary of state over north kor korea. that's a big development this hour. we'll be back in a moment. serve. let's go to sumatra. the coffee here is amazing. because the volcanic soil is

one more i want to get to is tuscaloosa, 23% to 75%. if it ends up that way at the end of the night, doug jones is in play. that's 4%. be careful. if you're in the democratic headquarters, you're saying the places,we need to run up the very early results are quite encouraging. i want to go back in time, again, look at the 2012 presidential race, mitt romney gets 61% in alabama. roy moore is running for chief justice of the supreme court on the same ballot, on the same day, he's a known figure statewide, he gets only 52%. he has a history of underperforming, even republicans, other republicans on the ballot in his own state. so remember this race. let's look at it right now. this is where it is interesting early on. i won't say significant because we've got a lot more votes to count, but this is interesting. for example, let's take a look. the democratic candidate in the 2012 race got 63% in jefferson county. it was a close race, right? 52-48, roy moore wins, bob vance losings but gets 63% in jefferson county. tonight in the early result

i was talking to an accountant in tuscaloosa and he said there was two factors in play. he said, yes, there was frustration with president trump and roy moore. the comments last week that were made public about the family's ties were stronger back in slavery. but doug jones made a play for black voters on radio, he went into churches, he talked about issues that were important to them on social media. he made an effort unlike they saw a year ago with hillary clinton to actually gallon vannize ava -- gallon vannigalvanize and give a reason to come out. >> when we talk about the tax package, is that enough for the republican party? can't they describe it any way they want, especially the president, in speeches and social media? >> they will describe it all kinds of ways. you're absolutely right, the full impact of that or even just the beginning impact of it won't be felt until you get into 2019, for example. so they're going to make the noise about the tax package and it's not going to be -- i think to mark's point, it's not going to be an offset for the underlying rot, i

i curse of schip of parker towing company headquartered in tuscaloosa alabama and operate 26 towboat and 326 barges. an chairman of the board of directors of the waterways council. which is a national public policy organization advocates for modern well-maintained system inland waterways and ports. the transportation system is made up of 12000 miles of the inland waterways with the intracoastal waterways nearly 11000 miles to pay the fuel tax with the waterway trust fund. to be successfully advocate by raising taxes by 45% to the current level of 29 cents per gallon. this tax currently pays half of the cost of new construction of major rehabilitation of inland waterways like the locks and dams but also channel deepening. after only having one order enacted it is encouraging to see this committee put it back on a two-year cycle with 2014 and 2016. with those policy changes contained with the locks and dams. go from 50% waterway trust fund to 15% in the general fund. leading to excess -- significant timeline. and at the board meeting a few weeks ago the olmsted project will be operatio

the package slice sits in 28 walgreen's in birmingham and tuscaloosa areas. we are in grocery stores. we are on amazon and restaurants. >> mind if we give it a try? >> please. please. we have our original round. lemon blueberry loaf. >> i'm going to butt in while they're driving. i know that selling food products. it's all about packaging and so much. but on the taste, which is the one part i can judge, amazing. >> thank you. >> it's so good. i'm going to give you a minute to talk. i tried blueberry. it is so, so good. all right. this is your world, steven. what does she need to think about in the pitch? >> i think it's very good. it's moist. i love it. it's heavy. it tastes like the pound cake that i grew up with. >> any questions for her? >> where did these recipes come from? what inspired you? >> all right. so the original was my husband's big mama's recipe. my husband had been making her product since he was a teenager. we had been married 17 years. we got the opportunity to send one child to china and the other to europe. we prayed how to come up with th

producing over 25,000 slices and this product, the product slices in 24 stores in the birmingham and tuscaloosa areas. we're in grocery stores, we're on amazon and restaurants. >> do you mind if we give it a try? >> please, please. we have our original round, we have the lemon blueberry loaf. >> i'm going to butt in here while they're trying. so i know that selling food products, you know this best, right, this is what you do, it's all about packaging and so much, but on the taste, which is the one part i can judge, amazing. it's so good. i'm going to give you guys a minute to talk. i tried the blueberry one, it's so, so good. >> yes. >> all right, this is your world, steven. what does she need to think about in that pitch? >> i think it's very good. it's moist, it's heavy. it tastes like the pound cake i grew up with. >> do you have any questions for her? >> where do these recipes come from? what inspired you? >> so the original was my husband's big mama's recipe. my husband had been making her product ever since he was about a teenager and we had been married 17 years when we get the opportun

then i'll be watching three cities, mobile, tuscaloosa and huntsville. he won by 4 percentage points. and he did so by keeping the vote close in those three counties. if he runs badly in madison county, the home of huntsville or tuscaloosa or mobile county, then it will be a long night for the republicans. neil: this is a state donald trump won by 26 points. the allegations against roy moore, whether he was dating under aged girls decades ago changed that upside down. i'm wondering whetherral bamiyans who feel they have been lectured to by the establishment or by those saying they should vote a certain way. they turn out in numbers for more. on the other side for doug jones, a rabbit base that's coming out for him, and getting galvanized. a lot of the obama phone calls, joe biden. that vote, they have to be marched into the polls to feel that, right? karl each side made a bet. the moore side is counting on the fact 50% of moore voters are self-identified white evangelical voters. if they get 25% black turnout, virtually all of that will go for jones. eac

one, it was the one in tuscaloosa. i don't think this guy knows his audience. >> they call him a political genius. >> do they? >> you can see why. from that performance last night. >> all right. >> it's a perfect window into the faux fake populism and he went to goldman sachs. >> a har 1r5r boy, pocking people that go to southern state schools him at least, listen. if are you that smart, steve, if you want us to know how smart you are, know what state you are in. >> if you are insult people, know where you are. it goes to the fake papulism out there and to the fact, i'm trying to figure out how bannon became the ronald reagan of the party where all these people, it's like, oh, yeah, this is the leader of the party t. fact of the matter is, he's not t. ramity of it is, the party is going to suffer the consequence of all this crazy after today. and i think it's important for people to understand and give a context regardless -- you should be smart enough to figure that out. >> these polls have so close. you have no idea

and if we go across the state, the arch rival, the alabama crimson tide, tuscaloosa, donald trump was winning easily. tonight roy moore barely cracking 40%. we saw huge movement in the college counties. you add it all together and that's a 20,000 vote win for a democrat. the last democrat to win a senate race in alabama, he didn't even stay a democrat for his full term. it didn't take. this one i think probably will, though. >> that was richard shelby who switched parties a couple years in after that reelection and is now the senior senator from alabama, republican, and he said publicly, he would not, did not vote for roy moore. and it sounds like voters in alabama, if they were listening to anyone, they listened more to senator shelby than they did to donald trump. >> it's interesting when we talk about that turnout difference, that's what i was thinking of when we were seeing those meager republican turnout figures, i'm thinking of richard shell by. you didn't have republicans in these counties going out and switching parties and voting democrat. you just didn't have them coming out

and if we go across the state, the arch rival, the alabama crimson tide, tuscaloosa, donald trump was winning easily. tonight roy moore barely cracking 40%. we saw huge movement in the college counties. you add it all together and that's a 20,000 vote win for a democrat. the last democrat to win a senate race in alabama, he didn't even stay a democrat for his full term. it didn't take. this one i think probably will, though. >> that was richard shelby who switched parties a couple years in after that reelection and is now the senior senator from alabama, republican, and he said publicly, he would not, did not vote for roy moore. and it sounds like voters in alabama, if they were listening to anyone, they listened more to senator shelby than they did to donald trump. >> it's interesting when we talk about that turnout difference, that's what i was thinking of when we were seeing those meager republican turnout figures, i'm thinking of richard shell business, t by. you didn't have republicans in these counties going out and switching parties and voting democrat. you just didn't have the

reporter: jones is spending today hosting the fishbein tuscaloosa. doug jones said he's not worried about the upcoming rallies. >> president trump doesn't vote here. we are running our campaign. we are going to burn the state with the same message. he can have his message that we are not going to worry about that. we are not going to worry about somebody campaigning in our state. we will campaign in alabama 24/7 between now and december 12. >> a brand-new "washington post" calls the race to mackinac. jones had a slight lead 50-47. this is close and within the margin of error for point by point. jones had an eight-point lead in a fox news poll just two weeks ago. the poll also shows alabama voters are divided over whether or not they believe the sexual abuse allegations against more. 35% believe the allegations, more people, 37% say they are unsure have no opinion about 20% say they do not believe the allegations by the special election on december 12. >> answer that. leland: leader corridor brings in politics for the media group joining us now from b

let's go right to alabama's senior republican senator richard shelby joining me from tuscaloosa. senator, thank you for joining me. you said you already cast your ballot in the special election and chose to write-in a candidate instead of voting for the republican roy moore. the polls are neck and neck. the democrat leading by a hair, perhaps. when it comes down on tuesday, who would you rather see win? >> i would rather see the republican win, but i would hope that republican would be a write-in. i couldn't vote for roy moore. i didn't vote for roy moore. but i wrote in a distinguished republican name. and i think a lot of people could that. will they do that? i'm not sure. i don't know what is going to happen. as a republican, i had to vote republican and wanted to vote republican. i understand where the president's coming from. i understand we would like to retain that seat in the u.s. senate. but i tell you what, there's a time, we call it a tipping point, and i think so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip, drip, drip, when it got to the 14-year-old story, story, tha

the fall line hills start in tuscaloosa and to the south of us, we start getting into the coastal plain. so as these fizz graphic regions change, there are a lot of different resources that occur in each of these zones. so by sort of straddling the two zones, they had access both north and south to these different resources. additionally, moundville is built atop one of the highest bluffs along the black warrior river and a very sharp bend. it would have been built atop for defensive purposes because you could see people coming in all directions up and down the river and it's also high enough to be above the hundred year flood mark. moundville was involved in what we call full scale corn agriculture u. thousands and thousands of acre of corn were grown down on the first terraces and river bottoms along the black warrior river. there were probably 3 to 5 ,000 people that occupied the site while it was being built, but probably another 50,000 people that lived up and down the black river valley. a portion of the corn they grew would come to the site as taxes or what our anthropologists ca

meanwhile jones was and so my yesterday and today fish fry in tuscaloosa today. he is there now.he says he is not worried about the rally. earlier today mitch mcconnell, who has urged roy moore to drop out of the waste, seemed to accept that roy moore will not be doing so. >> i think we let the people of alabama decide one week from tuesday who they want to send to the senate and it will be just the matter appropriately. the ethics committee will have to come to matters that have been litigated in the campaign should that particular candidate win. >> obviously mitch mcconnell not a fan of roy moore. he says that he believes the woman accusing him of wrongdoing. >> thank you brian. >> and from hollywood hills the halls of congress to sexual harassment allegations have been hitting the rich and powerful. meanwhile media movie personalities were probably fired after accusations of lewd behavior. as we know, not so with these guys, the accused politicians in washington. top democrats still calling on this man, michigan congressman, john conyers, to step down over mou

win in selma and tuscaloosa and win big in birmingham. especially african americans and run up big margins where you have an african-american base. not just percentages, but numbers. the turn out like we saw in virginia and new jersey. even that won't be enough. what else do you look for? look outside of huntsville. do republican voters and moderate voters go away. what do they do here? the suburbs and do moderate voters stay home or vote for doug jones. that's another thing to look for? it's not secret where y the president did a rally in pensacola, florida. he was talking to the mobile area. we count the votes and is there any blue in this part of the state? if that's the case, doug jones will be in play. here's something else. how many republicans will write in a candidate? roy moore just cracked 50% in 2012. a lot of democrats think doug jones think he can't crack 50%, but maybe can get to 48%. can they bring roy moore down and lower the line of victory? we will count the votes starting in eight hours. roy moore knows what voters are

the media market here. 12k3w4r50i6r7b8g9sds tuscaloosa county. he lost to the democrat in that county. we are seeing requests for those absentout sesentee ballots. i think in the next few days we have been looking at a little polling that has been all over the place and it is really tough to determine where we are. >> so i guess a question that a lot of people are asking is can the president sway the race. >> a lot of what we heard already on twitter, online when he has been talking about this, and i want to pull up a couple tweets, just ahead as he looks to going to look at some of the tweets, i will note that the president will be departing. he play stop and answer questions from reporters that gather on the white house. again, the president reemphasized again today, and is almost tern to do so begun tonight. as you see the president talking about here, there are officials that say this is a make america great again rally, that said again that may be a distinction. the president will be asked about and i think he will be asked about the opening

the reverse in tuscaloosa county was huge. again, these are not only young voters. these aren't your normal college towns. they're not liberal left of center towns. these are very, very conservative areas. not only were they conservative, they were trump counties, heidi, you look at again virginia, you look at alabama. you look at the numbers, you look at the generic ballot test, where republicans are getting destroyed like 51 to 36%. that's one of the biggest gaps when you ask people, do you want a democrat or a republican to go for your district to congress. this is the pushback of what donald trump considers the other for hispanics, for blacks, for women, for people that wouldn't have been able get into perhaps his father's 1950s country club or 1950s country clubs across the south and across the country. that's his view of the world and it is plainly obvious when you just look at the people that he nominates. he nominates over 90% of the u.s. attorneys are men and boy women have more of a reason to get out and vote today as do blacks, hispanics and others than e

on sunday for instance he visited nine different churches in the tuscaloosa area. he has been on the campaign trail 11 days in a row, compare that to republican roy moore who has been practically not on the campaign at all. it's note worthy. >> so in speaking of how doug jones, vaughan, had deeper pockets than roy moore shall we say, the rnc now reinstateing it support for moore. this is kind of something he leads in the last week leading up to the election. >> it's a shot in the arm. they had 11 operatives when theyance elled that with roy moore. they lost out three weeks on gathering data, voter data they can target in the get out the vote period here. it's a question of what roy moore needs, their organic grass roots report. you recall, it's going to be a big hill for doug jones to get over if roy moore can just get a couple elements in here and convince just enough voters to come out to the polls on tuesday. it should be good enough. >> less than a week to go, thank you. >> president trump traveled to utah yesterday to form ally announce a rollback in the desig

the population area around tuscaloosa and montgomery alabama and we are live in the headquarters in montgomery alabama. what you are looking at right now though the headquarters in the room to listen for just a moment. >> [inaudible conversations] thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [applause] [cheering] it will still be a little while you will watch the numbers as decline. with live coverage on c-span2 we will have the speeches when they come to the podium. 52 republicans and 48 democrats. the republicans are losing one seat and again our live camera in montgomery alabama and the headquarters and birmingham alabama. want to go to "the new york times" website to get a better sense of the votes remaining. according to "the new york times" they estimate 775,000 votes yet to be counted and you can see the heavy blue areas of population areas above worming him and montgomery and mobile alabama in the southern part of the state those are both yet to be counted. right now roy moore is ahead. all of it live. phone lines will be open as well. the results in alabama. up next from today that

so let's look at three other cities, huntsville in the north, tus tuscaloosa and mobile on the gulf coast. these are areas where roy moore has prevailed in the past by losing slightly and won statewide races losing those cities by a little bit. if doug jones can run up a bigger margin in those places, they if he can run up a big margin it may be tough for moore to overcome that. that's not an easy task. >> because i am the ref i can use the word turnout. the secretary of state expects modest turnout, 20, 25%. with that in mind, a do you think it all -- what do you think it comes down to? the name of the candidate or letter after the name? >> i think it's always going to be the letter after the name, but i would like to add to what was said earlier, i think you have to look at shelby and baldwin county, which are republican bastions and figure what the overall african-american turnout is versus the women turnout and there's your dynamic. jones has to get about 150,000 crossover votes or whatever that percentage is, you know, that you're talking about that's the difference. and i mean that'

of june, 1963, the governor of that state, george corally wallace, stood in the school house door in tuscaloosa, had pledged to fight integration, had stood on the place in january of 1963 where jefferson dhafs been sworn in as president of the confederationsy. what wallace looked up from that stot, if he looked to his left about five or 600 yards he would see the baptist church, the pull pist martin luther king. a lot of history interjecting rig -- intersecting right now. and you now have that speech led to the stanton school house door, the federal government under the kennedy administration forced the integration of the university of alabama. and that night president kennedy went on television and announced the civil rights struggle, he'd been slow to come to it, that the civil rights strug struggle was as clear as scripture and certain as the american constitution, proposed a civil rights act that the linden johnson in the wake of dallas did everything he could to pass. the next night, the next night, june 12th, 1963 in what some people have called the fis political assassination of the 196

in selma, an important site of the civil rights movement and this afternoon he hosted a fish fry in tuscaloosa and jones continues to call out moore for avoiding reporters and large campaign events instead opting for smaller enthusiastic audiences at evan gel it call churches. >> he's been an embarrassment ever since he's been elected. good grief he's been removed from office twice and kicked out of office and now we see all of the accusations that have come out from brave women finally getting their voice to be able to stand up and speak out and those are credible voices and those voices are far more credible than the denials that roy moore had and people need to take that into account and see what kind of alabama, what we are teaching our children. >> meantime moore attended the guiding light church outside of birmingham today and of african american church with a pastor that made it clear he's pro-life and anti-gay marriage and moore spoke for a few minutes but he continues to concentrate on churches and most rule parts of alabama to rally his base. alabama by the way is receiving robocalls

this afternoon joan hosted a fish fry in tuscaloosa, alabama and continues to call out moore for avoiding reporters and large campaign events earlier jones did not mince any words. >> he's been an embarrassment ever since he's been elected and been removed from office twice and kicked out of office and now we see all of the accusations that have come out from brave women who are finally getting their voice to be able to stand up and speak out and those are credible voices and those voices are far more credible than the denials that roy moore had and people need to take that into account and see what kind of alabama, what we are teaching our children. >> meantime roy moore continues to rally his base at churches today he attended the guiding light church outside birmingham an african american church with a pastor that made it clear he's pro life and anti gay marriage and moore spoke for a few minutes but nothing campaign- related and avoided reporters friday and moore said he's frustrated the d.c. establishment has kept president trump from outwardly supporting him more like he's wanted an

whether in montgomery, tuscaloosa, up here in huntsville, that was the huge margin. selma, relatively small county. came in at just the right time, tow. 75 to 25. in dallas county where selma is, that put doug jones in the game. and look at this. i want to show you something. this is shelby county. these are the suburbs just outside. birmingham. roy moore won with 55%, 56% of the vote. let's go back in time when he last ran for chief justice. 63% of the vote here. so his support is down. obviously some crossed over to vote for doug jones. as we go for a recount here, the margin here, 21,300 write-in ballots. there's no question some will be disqualified. but there's absolutely no question republicans that couldn't do this and instead do this helped doug jones to history tonight. >> great work all evening. i appreciate it. i want to bring in joshua green, april ryan, matt lewis, ed martin, and ana navarro. good evening or good morning depending on where you are. how did -- how did he pull it off? african-american voter turnout, was that the key? >> absolutely. it's a

dario melton standing by, he's the future of the alabama democratic party, as is walt maddox up in tuscaloosa. these men right here, they can convince alabamans to vote for a democrat. i'm not sure mr. jones can. >> bill brooke, thank you, sir, editor and chief there of one of the major political reporting organizations in alabama. thank you. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> coming up, we'll shift our focus back to the alabama senate race with just two days to go. president trump recording a robo-call in support of roy moore yesterday. then on the other side, doug jones trying to galvanize support, as was mentioned n the african-american community. how that balances out, next. i never thought i'd say this, but i found bladder leak underwear that's actually pretty. always discreet boutique. hidden inside is a super absorbent core that quickly turns liquid to gel. so i feel protected... ...and pretty. new always discreet boutique. >>> there is some irony in the fact that i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the oval office and a man who re

at a christmas parade in selma and yesterday in the town of tuscaloosa, he held another fish fry. >> vaughn, i mean, interesting that it doesn't look like much of a campaign. not phone banking, not canvassing but making some random appearances and having some conversations. vaughn, thanks very much. vaughn hilliard in birmingham, alabama. >>> former "access hollywood" anchor billy bush is reaffirming once again it was donald trump's voice on the infamous 2005 tape he brags about crude behavior against women. of course he said it. we laughed along, hypothetical hot air. we know better. president trump is delving in revisionist history. this op-ed comes after a report last week the president told at least one u.s. senator and others he doubted the voice on the tape was his, even though he apologized for the remarks last year. a former campaign aide also confirmed its authenticity. >> the president made a, a tape where he acknowledged having the locker room talk, and i think that that's where it ends with him. it was all about the talk. i think this is behind the president and we really

there are two ready options, lee busy, a republican and retired marine colonel for tuscaloosa has entered a write in bid. and the most important man in the state, the university of alabama football coach, nick saban, which is personally my favorite part of this crazy story. having said that, do you agree that this could be truly one of, if not the closest race we have ever seen in alabama, number one, and if so, could something as seemingly minor as write-in votes make the difference? >> look, i agree that it would be a momentous upset if jones is able to pull this out. this is a state that trump won with 63% of the vote in 2016. so you need 13%, almost one-sixth of donald trump's vote to walk away from the republican here. and the way it would happen is suburban women turning against roy moore, people who are sort of establishment business republicans in the state, who very much are the people that shelby represents. he's done an enormous amount of brilliant economic development to that state. they're broadly concerned. and i have heard of people writing in jeff sessions, they're just tu

madison county and tuscaloosa county. why are they significant and why is the increased interest significant? these counties, yes, they have republican voters, but they were willing to vote against roy moore in his 2012 chief justice race pree all of these allegations. republicans in the state have shown the willingness to vote for a democrat in the past. whether willing to do that again may be a different story. we should note, obviously, much more come tuesday. >> vaughn hillyard, thank you so much from birmingham. >> let's go to geoff bennett, following the president from west palm beach florida. with a good sunday to you, we have new reaction this morning, certainly, from the ranking member of the house intel committee on this ongoing effort to try to discredit the mueller investigation. what all did adam schiff say? >> well, that's right. congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee says he's troubled by an apparent effort to undercut special counsel robert mueller's russia investigat