commissioner, that part is true, finally get tough and smart? this issue is killing your league! the tweets come hours after president trump broke his weeklong silence on roy moore, all but endorsing the embattled senate nominee despite sexual abuse allegations against moore. joe johns is live with the president is vacationing with more. hi, joe. reporter: hi, alisyn. the real message the white house and the president are sending right now is that on roy moore, it s all about the president s political agenda before flying south here to florida for the thanksgiving hole day, the president did throw his support behind roy moore despite the fact that the president s communication s team had been saying what happens in the alabama election is all about the alabama voters.
point, this may help competition with the giants you were just talking about. steven, we go back to the original question which is how do you see it as anything different than the president having a personal vendetta against the news on cnn and isn t that dangerous? no. for one thing, his own justice department is taking a different finish from him. he s clearly not weighed in. but the justice department is the one filing the suit. is what? filing the suit against this merger. no, look. my point is the justice department is taking an aggressive position. but this was the position of the obama administration, frankly. they were very skeptical of this too. you can t say they have somehow changed the position. this is what the head of the antitrust division at the department of justice said a year ago about this. he said this is more of what we
every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. reporter: mr. trump leaving the door open to possibly campaigning for moore ahead of the december 12th special election in alabama. i ll be letting you know next week. reporter: breaking with his party s leadership and a number of gop senators who called on moore to step down. he s obviously not fit to be in the united states senate and we ve looked at all the options to try to prevent that from happening. reporter: moore s democratic challenger doug jones is speaking out about the accusations against moore for the first time. the women. i believe their stories, their credibility, and i believe them. reporter: and releasing an ad credit sizing moore. ivanka trump says there s a special place in hell for people who prey on children. jeff sessions i have no reason to doubt these young women. conservative voices. putting children and women over party. reporter: and this morning the moore camp moved quickly to
that i think is how he is most comfortable. which i say based on watching him perfect as a president and candidate. but i think the political part of it, and errol is right in that he has a keen sense for what drives many voters on the right, particularly trump voters. but what this does in a way is saying whether it s lavar ball, whether it s the nfl, they re not really it s not that they are against the national anthem or the flag. they re against you. because the flag represents you. you stand fort national anthem. you would never dream of kneeling during the national anthem. so what these players are really doing and what lavar is doing, who is a goof in and of himself and that s a separate issue, is standing against you. in doing that, trump is able to drive a cultural tension that worked for him in 2016. it actually helped him become the republican nominee and win the presidency.
past tax reform and margin of the majority that the senate has right now as far as republican members is so small. if you lose that seat in alabama, makes it that much more difficult to pass tax reform. is it fair to say that he s thinking of taxes over having a possible i m not sure the president would be apoisopposed to anothe republican running in that seat. block tax reform that he has been working so hard to pass. you didn t vote for the tax plan, why not? because i think it s harmful to the people i represent. there s been a deduction since 1913 in the tax code that allowed new yorkers to deduct their state and local taxes. called salt. the state and local tax deduction. includes your mortgage interest that you can deduct. and we also are ablie to deduct and all that is eliminated when