further trump texas on the press. tweets by the president against abc news, cnn, the washington post, a tweet insulting the intelligence of an individual journalist by name. and then today, the white house press secretary suggested that the mistakes that have been made in the press were made on purpose. take a listen. i would just say, sarah, that journalists make honest mistakes and that doesn t make them fake news. but when journalists make honest mistakes, they should own up to them. they do. sometimes. and a lot of types you don t. there is a i m sorry i m not finished. there is a very big difference between making honest mistakes and purposefully misleading the american people. something that happens regularly. you can t say i m not done. you cannot say. you cannot say that it s an honest mistake when your purposefully putting out information that you know to be false or when you re taking information that hasn t been validated that hasn t been offered any credibil
they d be crazy not to take it. something else from the white house briefing i want to talk to you about. you might find it hard to believe, but the trump white house today said it is wrong when people put out information they know to be incorrect in an attempt to mislead the republic. that s right, the white house run by the president who came to political prominence by promoting the lie that the first african-american president was born in africa is finding time to take issue with those who mislead people. the white house run by the president who said with no evidence that crowds of american muslims were seen on tv celebrating in new jersey after 9/11. the man repeated the the ludicrous claim that ted cruz s father had something to do with the kennedy assassination and the man who said with no evidence there were 3 to 5 million fraudulent votes for hillary clinton. that same president is taking issue with people boston being misled. there is an occasion and a there have been a nu
support they re receiving from the biggest names in their respective parties. with only hours until the polls open in alabama, a pair of presidents are adding their voices to the race. hi, this is president donald trump, and i need alabama to go vote for roy moore. this automated call from president trump, his latest effort to support his party s nominee, matched by a message from former president barack obama, backing the democrat doug jones. calling this a race you can t sit out. alabama s feeling the strain of a divided gop. i d rather see the republican win, and i hope that republican would be a write-in. i couldn t vote for roy moore. i didn t vote for roy moore. reporter: just two days before the election, alabama s most prominent republican, senator richard shelby, denounced moore, an accused child molester on cnn s state of the union with jake tapper. so many cuts. so many drip, drip, drip. when it got to the 14-year-old
violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up. reporter: allegations surrounding the president s behavior are getting a fresh look in the wake of the alabama senate race, and the searing national conversation on sexual misconduct. only days after senator al franken said he would resign amid reports of touching women inappropriately, several democratic senators sought to seize the high ground and called for the president s resignation. just hours ago, senator kirsten gillibrand telling cnn s christiane amanpour that congress should investigate the president s behavior and hold him accountable. president trump should resign. these allegations are credible. they are numerous. i ve heard these women s testimony and many of them are heartbreaking. reporter: so at that daily press briefing today, jake, white house press secretary sarah sanders talked about eyewitnesss. now this is the first time we ve heard that from the white house podium. she said there we
these allegations are credible. they are numerous. i ve heard these women s testimony, and many of them are heartbreaking. and president trump should resign his position. gillibrand joined two other democratic senators in calling for president trump to resign over these claims. one of them being cory booker of new jersey, who also may run in 2020. a fourth senator, who may also run, independent bernie sanders of vermont, has said that president trump may want to think about resigning. this as three women who have come forward with accusations against the president in the past today publicly called for a congressional investigation. at least 12 women have accused the president on the record of actions ranging from sexual harassment or misconduct to sexual assault. the dates ranging all the way back to the 1980s. cnn s jeff zeleny is at the white house for us. and, jeff, many, many questions today for white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders about these accusations. reporte