Roy moore stands with supporters. I will stop standing when they lay me in a box and put me in the ground. Reporter al franken apologizes and welcomes an ethics probe after a california woman who accompanied him on a uso tour before he was in politics claims he tried kissing her in 2006. And a policy review on the senator. I remember that differently, but whats important is the impact it had on you and for that i apologize. I have tremendous work for you at the uso and im ashamed my actions ruined that experience for you. I am so sorry. Sincerely, al franken. And calling out the clintons. Hillarys new york protege shocks the world after announcing that bill clinton should have resigned after the lewinsky scandal. Yes, i think that is the appropriate response, but i think things have changed today, and i think under those circumstances there should be different reaction. Well have a lot of reaction to state senators comments. Stay tuned. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Women supporters of roy moore are speaking out today for the embattled senator candidate amid growing allegations of sexual misconduct, ranging from improper flirting to assault. I assure you, we could have filled these steps with hundreds, if not thousands, of women who can attest to roy moores professionalism, respectful behavior and good character. Judge moore has always been consistent in his personality and character. I have found his character to be only one thing, and that is godly. A defiant moore is refusing to drop out of the race. Hes clinging to dwindling republican support around the state while still slamming his accusers. The scandal showing signs it may be taking a toll on the race. A new fox news poll now shows moore trailing his democratic opponent by eight points. Gabe gutierrez is in montgomery, alabama with the very latest. Do we expect the candidate himself will show up at this rally today . Reporter hi there, andrea, good afternoon. Right now roy moore is not here at this event, but his wife kayla is, and we expect her to speak in just a few minutes at this News Conference from the women supporters of roy moore has been ongoing for about a half hour or more. Andrea, one of his steadfast supporters has been his wife. Shes been very active on social media and their Facebook Page saying these actions are menial. She says she is standing by her husband she has known for more than 30 years and has never lifted a finger to her, she says. Here in alabama, a new fox news poll has Democrat Doug Jones ahead by eight points, but more supporters showed up at another event in support of liberal kef conservatives, and they say he will stay in this race and not give in to what they call a witch hunt. The election will go on december 12 despite some calls to delay it. Here at this News Conference right now, you see female supporters of roy moore who say they just dont believe the allegations, they dont think theyre credible. But at this point, andrea, you know we have heard from nine separate women who are accusing roy moore of unwanted advances ranging from inappropriate flirting to Sexual Assault. Andrea . And gabe, lets hear from some of the women who you have interviewed skpoand our colleag down there. Tina johnson. She was 28 years old. She was groped, she said, by roy moore in his law Office Following a child custody suit, and heres what she had to say. My mother went first, and when i got up and went out, he grabbed my behind. Hard. He had power over me. He had me in a position where i couldnt do nothing. I didnt want it. You know, i was vulnerable and he took advantage of that. And he knew it. And gabe, as well, becky gray. You know full well she was a teenager. She was working in the mall at the gasden when roy moore was a local attorney, and she said he persistently asked her out. Heres her story. We all talked about how creepy he was and what a pervert he was and that sort of thing. Its not been a secret. Taking up the 10 commandments, okay, and all of that to me was only an act, you know. I never, ever considered him to be of, you know, having any morals, i guess, is what the only way that i know how to put it. You know, he just lacked a moral compass. So youve got those perspectives and yet the women who are coming out and supporting him today, how do you reconcile those two views of roy moore . Reporter well, andrea, and thats a very good question. Very different views. The women you see speaking behind me right now say this is not the man they know. They remember the judge here that stood up for the Ten Commandments. They say he has stood up for religious liberty, and they just do not believe the accusers you just heard from there. Tina johnson, the first woman you heard from, as you said, she was 28 years old. That accusation is different from the others because, according to her, it happened in 1991, several years after the other allegations, and that accusation also significant because that was after roy moore had married his wife kayla. Now, tina johnson says he was leaving the law office, and whats significant about her testimonial is he had this power over her and thats what weve heard from several other women as well. The other account you heard, that is something weve heard more often, that roy moore, from several people in his hometown of gasden, alabama, in the late 70s, early 80s, he would hang out at the gasden mall and make young women uncomfortable. We must say that roy moore denies any accusations of inappropriate conduct. He simply would not answer the last round of accusations, andrea. And this woman backed donald trump for president. Rick tyler is with me also, political analyst here, and ron mcclain, senior white house aide to president s clinton and obama. If you could help us understand roy moore and your own view of roy moore here today, having listened to both sides. Roy moore is very popular with a certain segment of republican voters. Theyve been with him for decades, through his rise to power, to the Supreme Court, to the senate race. Theyre very devoted, very loyal to him. Its like a religious leader type, is the way they look at him. Theyre solid behind him and they witnessed him in the public light for a long time and they feel strongly. On the other hand, he doesnt always have the, i guess people dont always view him as someone who has taken office seriously because he has been suspended from the Supreme Court of alabama twice. Hes been elected and suspended. And some people view that as a waste of the office. And he says that he believes that religious things come first, like the Ten Commandments and some of the other views hes taken. And some people disagree with that. They say there is a separation of church and state, and they dont feel like they think hes above the law, is their description of him. You got one group saying hes godly, and you got another one saying hes above the law. So you got two factions here that are seeing him in different ways. That certainly really is driven home by the way they speak out about him. You personally, and im sure this is very conflicting, do you find the women accusers to be credible . I do. I find most of them to be credible. You know, they are allegations, so we do have to keep that in mind, and to be fair, its kind of like if you look at bill clinton. He had a lot of people that stood behind him and said the rumors and things werent true this is premonica l lewinsky. And you had these accusers saying, this is what he did to me. Its similar to that. Youve got a very popular elected official. So youve got the public side, and youve got the private side that only the women know about that hes been inappropriate with. 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 youve got the president ducking all questions about it. The president has no more authority to comment on this, because if roy moore isnt fit as u. S. Senator, as many say he isnt, and i would agree with that, then as a set of accusers, the president has a set of accusers. So he doesnt want to go down this road, and obviously the white house doesnt 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. President clinton ultimately acknowledged that he had done wrong, asked forgiveness and admitted the error of his ways. Indeed, even proposed that he be censured by the United States senate which was blocked at the time. Whats happening with judge moore is very, very different. Were talking about many acts involving minors and things like that. This is a whole different kettle of fish. Caleb moore, who has not spoken up very often publicly kayla lets listen a little to what she has to say. Thank you for your prayers, your messages, your phone calls. Im sorry i cant get to them all. Weve just been inundated with so much positive response from the people of alabama. For the record, its about 90 positive, and most of the negative is from out of state. The people of alabama understand whats going on here. My husband, judge roy moore, is fighting for the people of alabama and has been fighting for over 30 years. The people of alabama know him. They have seen what he has done, fighting for fighting for life. Fighting against abortion, fighting for the acknowledgment of god, fighting for traditional marriage and fighting to protect the second amendment. And fighting for our rights given by god, protected by our constitution. So the liberal press, Washington Post, who endorsed Hillary Clinton who also endorsed our opponent gets involved in this race along with the human rights campaign, the dnc and the washington establishment, all of the very same people who were attacking President Trump are also attacking us. I personally think he owes us a thank you. Have you noticed youre not hearing too much about russia . To the president , i would say now is a good time to get some things done in congress. While they are down here trying to distract the attention of our opponent, who is an ultraliberal, who was an obama delegate, who is for fullterm abortions, who is for more gun restrictions, who is for transgender bathrooms, who is for transgender in the military, is against everything we and alabama believe and stand for. [ applause ] the Washington Post has called everybody that ive ever known for the last 40 years. They have called everybody my husband has ever known for the last 40 years. They print whatever anyone says without checking to even see if it is correct. They have staked out ottawa county, basically camped out to the end of this election. So thank you, people of alabama, for being smarter than they think you are. They will call you names. They will say all manner of evil against you, and i would say consider the source. I have been married to my husband judge roy moore for over 32 years. He was a graduate of west point, he served our country in vietnam and he has always been an officer and a gentleman. [ applause ] he is a loving father and grandfather. Most important, he is a christian. So let me set the record straight. Even after all the attacks against me, against my family, against the foundation and now against my husband, he will not step down. He will not stop fighting for the people of alabama. In his words, and i quote, i will not stop until they lay me in that box in the ground. Thank you for being here, and god bless the United States of america. As you just heard kayla moore, roy moores wife, strongly supporting her husband. What is the pain, do you suspect, on the voters in alabama from hearing her at this rally today . Well, i think a lot of the voters in alabama are tired of d. C. Insiders trying to come in alabama and control our campaign. Because it is for the voters of alabama. We saw it with Mitch Mcconnell intervening on Luther Stranges behalf, when i was helping out mel brooks for that campaign, they got really ugly and really attacked his character, his positions and took a lot of his quotes out of context. He got taken out in the first goround, and then their plan, from what i understand, was to take out roy moore the second part, but it didnt work. And roy moore beat luther strange. But there is a lot of animosity there for d. C. And Mitch Mcconnell, especially, is probably one of the least liked politicians for alabama voters, if you did a poll. Also the fake news, the mainstream media, thats not real popular in alabama, either. So you got those 40s aligning with the roy moore supporters, and that just it just fuels the fire. When Mitch Mcconnell was talking about possibly looking into a writing campaign, the fact Mitch Mcconnell was looking into it really fires people up in a big way, and that really helps the roy moore campaign. Have you decided how youre going to vote . I have not decided, though i feel like its going to be very difficult for me to vote for roy moore because of the allegations of the women. I believe most of these women. I feel like they have been attacked unfairly. It takes a lot of courage and a lot of strength to come out all these years and actually Say Something about someone who has risen to power. Hes very popular among a certain segment of people and theres a lot of backlash that comes with that. Thats a tough thing to do. Do you think you could vote for a democrat . I dont know. I really dont want to, but maybe ill write in another candidate thats republican. I just dont know right now. We still have several weeks before the election. A lot can change, as you know. A lot has changed in the last week. So well see what happens, but i just dont know that i can vote for him. Thank you so much, laura payne. Thanks for coming on today. I want to get back to ron mcclain. On the subject of bill clinton, we had a pretty startling declaration from senator kristen g gillebrand, was questioned about the seat for the senate, and when she was asked, do you think you would be in a different position if president clinton had resigned . She said, i dont know, i think this has been a problem weve had in society certainly my entire life, but weve ner had a conversation this important and it couldnt come too soon. Under those circumstances, i think there should be a very different reaction and a different conversation also about President Trump. Are you surprised by senator gillibrand . Im not surprised that these questions are coming back and people have to deal with them in a different context. People are struggling with the fact that president clinton did something so wrong. He said at the time it was wrong, took responsibility and urged censurism. But i think its a hard thing, and its a hard thing to deal with those allegations and discussions today. You heard kayla moore deal with past tense and present tense and how they should be viewed today. Hillary clintons longtime aide and adviser wrote last night, ken starr spent 70 million on a consensual blank. Senate voted to keep potus w jc. But not enough for you, senator gillibrand . Over 20 years you took the clintons endorsements, money and seat. Hypocrite. Interesting strategy for 2020 primaries. Best of luck. Fiphilippe is known for his sharp barbs. I understand why people very close to the clintons are upset about that, i do, but i dont think that kind of dialogue is that helpful. Rick tyler, is there a moral equivalency between roy moore, the accusations about trying to date and becoming sexually involved in one or two cases with underage young women, troll trolling the mall for teenage girls, and what we saw during the clinton years . I get asked a lot, why dont you bring up the clintons, why dont you bring up the clintons . The reason why i havent, its like what about this, right . Its not about clinton and the establishment, its about roy moore and his behavior. Im sure a lot of those women believe roy moore because a lot of them wear a mask. He wears one mask to the public and he takes off that mask when he behaves in a very different way. In fact, hypocrite comes from the word actor and actors used to wear a mask. Thats where we get the word hypocrite. Roy moore is acting like a hypocrite. Maybe roy moore, i dont know, maybe he acted that way 30 years ago, and now theres an accusation in 1991, and maybe he does act differently. But why not say that . Why not say, i was a different person then. Hes taking the donald trump approach and just saying deny, deny, deny and well get through this. Obfiscate and delay and get through the election. Well see what works. Right now hes down on the fox news poll. Ultimately alabama voters are going to have to decide. This is all in a political context. 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And to think that just last week he was lecturing anyone who would listen about sexual harrassment and respect for women. Lesley stahl tape . Here are my guests, one who just constructed a poll tape and well get to that in a second. This is the picture. He is clowning around on a c17 cargo plane. Theyre on the way back from that uso trip in 2006. Leeann tweeden is still wearing a kevlar vest, shes got her helmet on. Shes exhausted after three weeks of this trip. Shes fallen asleep. And she evidently viewed this not just as a groping attack but as bullying, as mocking her for having pushed back against his kiss and the other aspects of his sexual admitted Sexual Assault during a rehearsal. So there we are, ann gearen, and he has now apologized and she read on the air a personal letter of apology. What does that mean as the Ethics Committee is being asked by al franken and the public to open up an ethics investigation . I would say when you have to apologize three times, its not a good look. But i think he is getting considerable good marks for delivering what really reads like a heartfelt apology directly to her. I thought it was one of the most telling things that she said yesterday, one of the most affecting things she said goes to your point from a moment ago, though, that she knew that he knew that she wasnt going to see that photo until much later, and that it was intended, in her mind, to put her in her place, to say, hey, you know, i got the last word or the last laugh here. And that goes right to the larger question that were grappling with in so many areas of American Life right now, which is who has the power and how is that power used and what can women do about it . Jeremy, youve been writing about the divided Republican Party. Does this incident with al franken take that kind of power away, that political power away from those in the Democratic Party who wanted to see the republicans twisting in the wind on this issue . What i think is so interesting about this, andrea, is what it shows about the political styles that are dominant in both parties right now. The democrats, by and large, have stuck together on this. They have not called for his resignation, they have not called for they have not, you know, widely, viciously denounced him the way republicans did with roy moore. They stuck together. And with roy moore, the exact opposite was true. Republicans are always much quicker to eat their own. Theyve called for him to step aside, they even called for him to be expelled from the senate should he win that race, and roy moore is not apologizing. Al franken is apologizing. So there is this no apology style in politics in the Republican Party right now, especially among these deeply conservative candidates where if you back down, its viewed as showing a sign of weakness. And thats really whats going on with roy moore, i think. We saw that with trump, too. No apology style politics with trump. Its very different from the Democratic Party. Although with Kristen Gillibrand criticizing bill clinton, thats a real sign of a fissure, peter clark, on the democratic side as well. I think one thing could be that the difference is so far with al franken and roy moore, you had so many women come forward with roy moore, and with al franken, this is the only incident to date where we have seen this kind of behavior. Obviously things can change on the democratic side as well. Party hart, you were just with this focus group. It was fascinating. I wanted to play some of that tape because you went back to a mixture of trump and clint ont voters, and lets play their responses to the president of the United States a year in. Thinking about President Trumps first year, what three words would you use to describe the first year . Chaotic, embarrassing and antagonistic. Whirlwind, vak acant, chaoti. Chaotic, indifferent, bombastic. Chaotic, indifferent, disruptive. Failure, embarrassing and dangerous. Chaotic, stressful and an uphill battle. Mayhem, night mary, interrupting. Child, reality television. Corruptive divisive. His tweets. Since hes been in there, hes embarrassed me by his behavior. When hes away, hes great being a president. Hes the showman. But at home, hes kind of like i cant imagine how they let him build a country club, let alone let him be in one. He comes out with these gr d grandiose ideas and theres no followthrough. Its a lot of talk. I just had such hopes that maybe some things would be repaired. You know, the whole country would be better off with him as president , but he hasnt acted president ial at all. Im still optimistic. He still has a lot of time to prove something. Its still better than having a career politician in there. So fascinating, yet peter, how would they vote if they could vote again . First of all, this was done for Emery University as part of their program, and whats so important that comes out of this is how much it all goes back to behavior that we were talking about. These voters are so upset with the way in which he behaves. He was his own best spokesperson in 2016. Hes his own worst enemy in 2017. And what it comes back around to is, while theyre unhappy with his performance now, they havent totally given up on him. But these are the people who elected him. They voted against Hillary Clinton, not for donald trump. But some of his behaviors at those rallies, if you watched the long rallies, some of those behaviors were as outrageous as the tweets since the election. No doubt about it, and i think that all feeds in. Its the sense of why is he doing this . Doesnt he understand the majesty and the grandeur of the presidency . Hes debasing the presidency and in that way debasing the United States. What would it take to lose those who still would support him again . Well, there are two things that are involved. Number one, if he becomes part of the swamp instead of out of the swamp. Thats important. And number two, if he doesnt learn from his first 300 days, he shows no capacity to change, no capacity to learn. And, ann gearen, you cover the white house every day, you see him on foreign trips as well. It seems as though hes so caught up in, as he reported back, the red carpet, the welcome, the treatment about the presidency, but what were seeing in the last couple of days, already on both north korea and on syria, his view of russia and of china is undercut by what these officials are saying. Yeah. I mean, one thing you can say for sure about a very long asia trip, 12 days, five countries, is that there were no big disasters. There were also no big successes or takeaways. And i think in the reconsideration of now hes been back for several days, what really happened, what did he get, what did the leaders he met with say after he left, youre seeing exactly to your point that there are either more than one way to see those meetings, or he didnt get as much as meets the eye. Were going to have to looea it there. Peter hart, thank you for that focal group. Fallout over the decision to allow elephant trophies into the u. S. Stay with us. Afi sure had a lot on my mind. My 30year marriage. 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Trump and his son are big game hunters. They have been seen holding up trophies, including don jr. Holding up an elephants tail. Joining us, wayne pacelli. Wayne, good to see you again. The pushback from some, even some conservationists, is that this will permit an ordered import and will bring money back to these countries to work on antipoaching and conservation of the tribes. Its hard to talk about order in zimbabwe at this point. This is a country that has been notoriously corrupt for and thats the coup thats happening day to day. With 200 countries in the world, its hard to think of a country less stable and less predictable than zimbabwe. That aside, many people have gone to africa. Whether we go there with a camera or eyesight, were happy to leave the animals intact. That is a big driver for the economy and so many nations in africa than killing the animals. Its billions of dollars. When you kill one of these endangered animals, you remove him or her from the population and you reduce the prospect of people seeing these animals. Thats why botswana, who has the most elephants in all of africa, forbids all elephant poaching. And they have wonderful tourists. And the pool of tourists is so much larger than those who want to kill. What kind of person actually wants to kill the largest land mammal in the world, a creature weve been campaigning. The fact that 96 elephants are being killed every single day, its one of the great ecological clamties of the modern era, and now were sending a message from the United States that were going to sanction the killing of Wild Elephants for men who want to travel 8,000 miles to kill an elephant for its tusk . Were telling black africans, leave the elephants alone, dont kill them for their ivory, but its okay for the guys from minnesota and wisconsin to do it. In 1979, we had 1. 3 million. In 2007, 472,000 to 690,000, and in 2016, only 352,271. The source of that is the national geographic. You know, we talk those numbers and theyre jarring. When you think of the individual animals, these herds, they have the grandmothers and the mothers and the adolescents, they grieve for the loss of their young. You kill one of the family members and the others are emotionally terrorized. Many of these elephants actually have ptsd as a consequence of seeing these animals killed. Again, were very flippant when we talk about this Wildlife Management talk. These are individual animals. These are some of the smartest animals on the planet. The United States should be leading. Now were in the back of the pack. The chinese dont allow this. The french stopped trophy imports, and in 2014 we stopped it. We shouldnt rbe we treatinretr Something Like this. Thank you for being here. There was some violence in the Senate Committee. 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Signs from the ally saudi king to be replaced by his 32yearold young son, mohammed bin salman, known for wooing President Trump and Jared Kushner last spring and for his aggressive Foreign Policy for iran throughout the region, including an embargo against his neighbor, qatar, endorsed by the president himself. The nation of qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level. I decided, along with secretary of state rex tillerson, our great generals and military people, the time had come to call on qatar to end its funding. They have to end that funding. And its extremist ideology in terms of funding. That was President Trump last june, accusing qatar, a major ally in the fight against isis of the u. S. , of financing terror. Joining me now is the qatari minister of foreign affairs. Thank you very much, mr. Minister, your excellency, thank you for being with us. We wanted to talk to you to give you a chance to respond for your country against what President Trump alleged. Andrea, first of all, this is the danger of propaganda. Mainly, the entire campaign started accusing qatar of supporting terrorism without any facts. It was a baseless campaign. Qatar has been a Strong Partner with the United States, a strong ally in the fight against terror. We are hosting the center of command for coalition. Qatar is the frontrunner in fighting terrorism ideology, when we are building schools, providing education for those in vulnerable societies. Just in the eastern asia in east asia and central asia area, we are providing education for more than 7 million children there, in countries which are vulnerable. And how many u. S. Troops do we have at the base in qatar now . Ive heard the range from 10,000 to 12,000 troops at that air base, from which we fly our missions against isis in syria. We are hosting around 11,000 to 12,000 u. S. Troops. Have you heard any push from the u. S. Side to close that base down the road . Well, they always express their appreciation for this relationship, which we have in exchange with them. We highly appreciate the partnership with the United States. There was never any indication that this base will be closed. In fact, we are developing this cooperation further as well. The secretaries of state and defense tried after the announcement of the saudi kuwaitty embargo, uae embargo also against qatar, they tried to get this rolled back. Then the president came out in that june 9th session and endorsed the saudi position. And theres been a lot of talk that its because of Jared Kushner, his soninlaw, because of the president , the way they were hosted in riyadh. Do you feel you can break this connection between the trump family and the saudis and try to have your voice heard here in washington . Well, regarding the support, which we are getting from United States in order to put an end for this, we are getting it across the board from the front from the president and the delegated people, the secretary of state or the secretary of defense. The embargo continues. The embargo is continuing, yes, because of the behavior of the saudis and the uae in blockading qatar and taking illegal actions against qatar by blocking only land border by separating families and by also undermining and creating propaganda campaign. Now, qatar has remained committed to a solution because we believe we have a bigger threat in the region. What is that threat . Terrorism. Because iran is sponsoring terrorism, no question about that, through hezbollah and other groups. Regarding our relation with iran, our relation with iran is really unique. Qatar is sandwiched between two big countries, which is iran and saudi. We are sharing borders with them. There are concerns from iran influence in the region, and those concerns should be addressed peacefully. This is what qatar has been encouraging all the gulf state to do. In fact, this was the decision of the gcc summit the gulf cooperative summit of all of the regions. Yes. In 2016 the decision of the leaders in december was to engage in dialogue based on principles between the gcs could you see the young saudi prince as a threat to your future . We see there is a diversion in the policy of saudi from and saudi and uae from the agreement which was the engagement. We see a sense of unpredictability in the policy of saudi and uae together in the region. There are a lot of chaos created in the region, a lot of crisis. Qatar was just part of a bigger game plan, which were seeing happen in lebanon as well. Thank you, your excellency. We have, of course, asked the saudis to come on and speak as well. 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