in other countries there s arrangement through parents for what we would for ali s from canada. ali s from canada. i understand. and ali s also spent time other countries. so have i. it s not a bad thing. i don t know where you re going with this. ooh boy. that was something else. let s bring in phil rucker, white house bureau chief for the washington post and msnbc political analyst, ben thrush, white house correspondent for the new york times, also an nbc political analyst and josh moon, investigative reporter and columnist for the alabama political reporter. well, guys, that was something else. i m not quite sure how to describe that. but let s talk about the president s position in all of this. glen, does he need to come out and say roy moore should not be a senator for alabama and that he does need to step aside? look, i don t know what he needs to say. i do know that his relationship with mitch mcconnell; the
my colleagues who broke this roy moore story last week went about their reporting diligently, methodically and completely ethically and spent several weeks in alabama doing interviews with these women, in some cases several interviews in a row to make sure they re understanding the details of their story and then did research into their own back grounds and fully documented it fall the piece that went online late last week. it s so ludicrous it makes you want to laugh but it s serious. someone trying to impersonate a reporter and discredit real journalism is atrocious and appalling. phil rucker, thank you for your real journalism and all your hard work. glen thrush, thank you for your real journalism and your hard work and josh moon, thank you for your real journalism and all your hard work. we appreciate you gentlemen. thank you for being here today. if you re a republican on the hill these days all you probably want for christmas is a tax reform bill on the
20,000 people showed up for that rally and that was the turning point where people started to realize maybe this night not be a fad. glen, that was six months before any primary or caucus. josh. there s a lot of stuff out there about roy moore s background, the controversial things he s said in the past, what s been happening in that town that he used to live in, the rumors about him but let s look at the record of what he s done when it comes to his work as a lawyer in alabama. he challenged alabama sorry, a judge. he challenged alabama law that protects rape victims documents revealed, this is according to the guardian. as chief justice of alabama s supreme court moore twice argued the state s rape shield law should not prevent alleged sex offenders from using certain evidence about their underage accusers personal lives to discredit them. he sided with the offender over
fighting for equality and also about choice and life. the old shot in there. i thought it was a general cultural attack line against all of the enemies of trump. i m not sure women were treated so fantastically well in some previous golden era. we ll leave that. here s what we can probably agree on. don t put me in this box. this fragile deer thing isn t what people want to hear today. that s exactly right. maybe we can agree that the issue of gold star families, can t we get it out of a political debate? we have a partisan debate about every single thing in this world and maybe this is an area where both sides, the congresswoman and the president could take a step back. pull back. thank you. well said. i m glad you said that. you always say the right thing. or almost always. thank you susan page, jason johnson and glen thrush. coming up, the real fake news. senior members of the trump
happen. i think the thing that was remarkable about that article my washington post white house colleagues put together is it is accusing the president acting like a child. the try to talk with a certain buddy and becomes in the pressure cooker situation and gets them to the really big unhelpful fights. you cannot manage someone for all of the time. the corker transcript posted on the new york times you heard glen thrush. the piece in the washington post and then the forbes piece about donald trump today with the cover story about how he operates what kind of president