Women. Somehow this godly, honorable, principled, strong leader has been faking being such a man for 40 years. Coming up, the latest outcry from the scandal in alabama. Also new intrigue in the russia investigation. What happened between Jared Kushner and a russian banker with powerful ties to the kremlin. Making the case, the author of a new bombshell book on why its quite possible russia just might hold compromising information on President Trump. But meantime, new details this hour as calls for roy moore to step down are growing. Just a short time ago in birmingham, reverend William Barber led a contention of clergy standing against moore. But moore supporters also gathered, much like they have the last two days defending their candidate. Moore is accused of Sexual Misconduct and assault several decades ago. Lets go to Maya Rodriguez joining us from birmingham. Weve got this special election just three weeks away. Moore still has support. There are those who say theres too much at s
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One day after getting a de facto endorsement from the president , roy moore is in trouble in alabama. Polls show the Sexual Misconduct allegations against moore, which include alleged Sexual Assault and molestation of teenagers are having an impact on his bid to be alabamas next u. S. Senator. Moore now statistically tied with his democratic opponent, doug jones, in a deep red state that donald trump won by almost 30 points. Just before the allegations were first revealed, moore had been leading the same poll by 11 . A doubledigit margin effectively erased in just two weeks. Meanwhile, after largely holding their fire on allegations against moore, today the Jones Campaign released a new web video naming moores accusers. Leigh corfman, beverly nelson, Gloria Thacker deeson, gena richardson, wendy miller, Kelly Harrison thorp. And the list is growing. They were girls when row moore immorally pursued them. Now they are women, witness to us all o
Senate, yeah, there is if you need something from your government after midnight tomorrow night, start making other plans. Again, well have a full update in the course of the hour. Its been a big day in the news today. In addition to the shutdown countdown, there was a big, big story about the most powerful Interest Group in conservative politics over the past several decades. The n. R. A. , there has always been something unexplained and intriguing about the huge spike in spending the n. R. A. Had for the 2016 president ial race. They massively increased their political spending in the donald trump president ial race in 2016. It came from a very specific part of their organization. There is always a little there has always been a little intrigue around that. Mcclatchy breaks news the fbi is looking into that financial spike that benefitted the trump for president campaign, the fbi is reportedly investigating whether that may be linked to russia. The reporter who broke that story will
With scott pruitt has to do with the upper Level Staffing at epa. When fox News Reporter ed henry interviewed scott pruitt, that was the part, that staffing part was where they got into their biggest fight. Why did you go around the president and the white house to give pay raises to two staffers . I did not. My staff did. I found out about yesterday and i changed. Is somebody be fired for that . A career person or political person . I dont know. You run the agency. You dont know who did this in. I found out about this yesterday and i corrected the action. We are in the process of finding out how it took place hang on. Both of these staffers that got the large pay raises are friends of your from oklahoma, right . Theyre staffers theyre friends of yours. You didnt know they got the large pay raises . I did not know they got the pay raises until yesterday. One got a pay raise of 28,000. The other was 567,000. Do you kn 57,000. So one of your friend got a pay raise of the median they did
Worlds powerhouses, russia and china. While billions of dollars in tariffs are still just threats against china, the administration is unequivocally going after Vladimir Putin and some of his closest and wealthiest allies, including the russian president s reported former soninlaw, the one who is not in that picture, and an oligarch who has close ties with trumps former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Lets talk about what all this means with our own kara scanell. Who are these sanctions against . A number of people who are the oligarchs. You cant be an oligarch in russia unless you have the preapproval of putin. Theyre in charge of the Biggest Industries like aluminum, energy. Some of these oligarchs on this sanctions list also overlap with some of the actors in the Mueller Investigation. One of those is the head of one of the largest Aluminum Companies in the world. He invested with Paul Manafort and rick gates about two years ago in a fail ed enterprises. Manafort had reached out t