how is this roy moore stand-off going to end? with alabama s special election for senator jeff sessions former seat less than a month away what are the ogss for the republican party? and what s the view from the ground? joining me, two perfect people to provide insights, alabama s secretary of state john merrill and former alabama gop chair john conners. i want to game it out, election day is 12-12, people are already voting by absentee. so there s no chance roy moore s name comes off that ballot in any scenario. right? no, sir. michael, our state law would have indicated that after the names had been confirmed by the state party on october the 11th, that when the ballots were printed, and were begun distribution on october 18th,
on one hand, you have the solicitation aspect. trump jr. s view may be, listen, i received these direct messages, i wasn t soliciting them. there s no direct solicitation. part two is the knowingly requirement of the statute. it must be a knowing acceptance of something of value from a foreign national. so to prove a violence is to prove that trump jr. either actually knew that these came from a foreign national or that he was willingfully blind to the fact that it was probably coming from russia or some other country that would violate the election law. so trump jr. definitely has some defenses to these allegations. and as we continue to have this discussion, we continue to monitor that hearing that is underway in the house judiciary committee. the opening remarks continue. that is ranking member john
conners, for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. and welcome again mr. attorney general. i would like to begin by putting a few statements by the president up on the screen. the first from july 24, 2017. so why aren t the committees and investigators and of course our beleaguered attorney general looking into cook crooked hillary crimes and russian relations? the second from november the 3rd, everyone is asking why the justice department and the fbi isn t looking at all of the dishonesty going on with the crooked hillary and the dems, end quotation. the third, also from november
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because you go, wait a minute, that s what i hear from supposition if people. today, he was the first one out with the news. seeps to have it. and so does rudy giuliani. so it s convince dental. that part, i know, but i know there are a lot f people who thought he tweeted it out before the letter went to the hill and that s not true. a former congressman, two days ahead. i ll tell you guys. and you have elijah cummings and john conners calling for the inspector general, department of justice to look into this and into what comey did. because when you talk to the former ethics lawyer for the bush white house, what he says, it s not just democrats are say ing that comey s job is to resist ta kind of pressure. you re afraid of leaks, that s fine, but his job is not to sper seen. what would you have said if it had leaked?