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and forced the republican national committee to do the same thing reluctantly, but the campaign committee is not on board. no, they are not. cory gardner is holding a line on that and the rnc has gotten back in the ring to back moore. people are saying moore, while the voters will decide sort ofs answers to the questions and the very stern statements of he has noplace in the senate. jeff flake is the only person who is still very, very much saying i don t think there is any role he should be playing and writing checks to his opponent. mitch mcconnell criticized his candidacy and this is up to the people and they are bracing for what they think may actually be the next step. if roy moore does win, they committed to putting him before the ethics committee. they are going to neutral
sexual misconduct allegations against alabama senate candidate roy moore to target republican candidates in some key senate races next year. pushing them on whether they support the rnc s decision to back moore. and one senate democrat who called on frank ton resign also says president trump and roy moore should do the same. i have said publicly that president trump has admitted to being a sexual predator and as for roy moore, the credible allegations of him being a child molester, basically, should cause both of them to look at themselves and step down. i would love it. where are the republican voices? where is their outrage? sandra: moore continues to deny the allegations against him calling them a political witch-hunt. i want to go to you first, buck, because you are saying this is part of a bigger strategy for democrats. absolutely. this is the al franken resignation. this is where democrats will have claimed to have hit the reset button because they
determine that process. that s for the people of alabama to determine what those things come down on. he does want people that support his agenda. he s not going to obviously support a democrat. in an unusual way she s quite good at this game. i don t like the game. meanwhile senator jeff flake who has previously urged republicans not to support roy moore took it step further. he wrote, country over party. jeff flake also said today the president s wrong to back moore. but, elise, another guy on his way out the door has a lot of freedoms. he s walking out the door with a lot of guts, i guess. but it s not the same as staying and fight frg what you say. it isn t the same. and he sat alongside president trump. he was photographed with donald trump. he was at a lunch where roy moore was top off the conversation. i wish he had vocally said his
senator that replaced jeff sessions, now the attorney general. there were some on trump s team that were upset about the decision to get behind senator strange and had been kind of urging him to reconsider that and to back moore who looked like he was going to prevail. indeed he did. so right from that special election, you ve got this kind of tense point where some in the white house and some close to trump feel one way and some feel another. now you got an even deeper mess with roy moore, a person that the white house wasn t originally behind but when he won, you remember when the president deleted all of his tweets supporting luther strange seemed to try to wipe him out of his memory in an effort to portray himself as all in for roy moore. shepard: excuse me, julie. they re going to play that tape for us now. the delay i cannot explain.