the women who have accused donald trump of sexual harassment and assault are not going away. after three of them appeared on megyn kelly today this morning followed bay press conference senator gillibrand said this. president trump should resign. these allegations are credible. they re are numerous. i ve heard these women s testimony. and many of them are heart breaking. and president trump should resign his position whether he will ever hold himself accountable is something, you know, you really can t hold your breath for and so congress should have hearings. they should do their investigation. they should have appropriate investigations of his behavior and hold him accountable. senator gillibrand became the fourth senator called for the president s resignation. each of those senators have also called for al frankness s resignation last week for less than donald trump accused of. donald trump has said all of the allegations are lies.
[ audience booing ] and condi rice and all that, all that little bobby corker, all the establishment up there, all that establishment up there every day that doesn t have the doesn t have trump s back. they don t have his back. at all. what they want him for is a corporate tax cut. you watch what happens. there s a special place in hell [ cheers and applause ] for republicans who should know better! of course, president trump has said that the reason to elect roy moore is to deliver on that corporate tax break that steve bannon now seems to think is nothing but a trick being played on those voters by the
and this is a season of crazy assumptions of republicans not just trying to pass the biggest tax cut but most economists see as the worst tax legislation in history. the joint tax committee, official scorer of tax legislation, said it will increase the deficit and debt by a trillion and a half dollars but changing the assumptions to what they consider very optimistic forecasting for economic growth they then estimate that the tax cuts will increase the deficit and debt by only a trillion dollars. just a trillion. that leaves republicans voting for a bill that adds at least trillion dollars to the national debt. what can a president who pretend to care about the deficit and dealt do about this? assume it all away. that s what the president and republicans decided to do. assume that the bill won t
members, many of whom are still inside this white house, and ask them for their account of the 18 days and see how those two line up. so they don t have to just go on flynn s word. and they can also really hold people s feet to the fire if they try to kind of skirt around what happened during this time. at the heart of this, what mueller s really trying to figure out whether or not the president directed michael flynn to lie to the fbi and whether or not he then knew he had lied to the fbi and used that when he pressured james comey to drop the flynn investigation. that would be a case for obstruction. julia, i want to wrote more from your nbc news reporting about how this could go to an obstruction case. it says if trump knew his national security adviser lied to the fbi in the early days of his administration it would raise serious questions about why flynn was not fired until february 13th and whether trump was attempting to obstruct
trump and roy moore. so, you know, yeah. it is this throwback to an uglier, darker era in our history, and, you know, from the point of view of republicans, if roy moore wins, in many ways, thes a worse outcome than he is defeated and would be an electrifying victory for the democrats but a victory by roy moore makes this what should be a local regional embarrassment into a national defining moment for the republican party in a way to regret bitterly in 2018. charlie sykes, thank you. howell raines of the new york times and proud native son of alabama, thank you very much, howell, joining us tonight. can t think of anyone i d rather hear from what s happening there. thank you. thank you, lawrence. coming up, a nbc news exclusive report on the questions that robert mueller is asking about president trump s conversations. and an exclusive interview with former treasury secretary lawrence summers.