i would never lie. you can definitely say you would not lie. i would absolutely not lie. i ll produce my tax returns, absolutely. still waiting for those. joining us now, tom brokaw. good morning. good to see you. good morning. your take on what we saw in alabama last night? last week i had little time with steve bannon. this is what he wanted to have happen. he wanted to send a message to the president, he said and approved to him that he has abandoned the base. the fatal error for the president the last month or so has been that meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, he said. that ran completely against the grain of the base in the state of alabama and that we re going to get moore in. so, they moved, in effect, his entire operation down there to get the campaign. about a year ago, moore showed up. he is a hugely popular figure in the right down there. it was a rock star coming into
more on the campaign trail. a fairly long time before general election there. a couple months. i have a feeling we ll be watching quite a bincht yes. thanks for having me, chuck. you got it. appreciate you coming on the show. yes, sir. we have more to come on, at some point we hope to see him. bring in tonight s panel. former chair michael steele, cnbc editor at large and latinos and maria theresa combar, before we get to doug jones specifically, i think stu rothenberg summed it up best. moore in, corker out. republican party of 2017. what do you make of all this? makes tax reform harder and it makes republican politics in general harder. just got off the phone with a republican pollster before coming on here. there s nobody in the republican party who would welcome a trade of moore for corker. bob corker is somebody who likes to govern. who is a serious person about solving problems.
possible. senate gridlock is fueling a rise of anti-republicans like moore and the pro-establishment republicans like bob koescorker. moore in. tuesday, says a lot about the direction of the gop now. for all of the gop divisions all the in-fighting and drama, what are the democrats doing? they ve yet to put a significant election victory on the board in the era of trump. can they pull off an upset against moore? i m joined now by doug jones. he is the democratic nominee for the u.s. senate who s now the man running against roy moore in alabama. mr. jones, welcome. you re a former u.s. attorney. but other than that i think a lot of people don t know about you outside of alabama. so we get a chance to get to know you. let me ask you this why do you believe you re qualified to be in the u.s. senate? well, first of all, chuck, thanks for having me on today. it s been a big victory for us over the course of the last few moss and we re looking forward
texarkana, little rock. this area of moderate risk, possibilities of tornados today, affects 9.5 million people are at risk of seeing dangerous weather today. yesterday, in 1999, it was a series of tornados. this was one huge tornado. yeah, the one that went through moore in 99 was a single tornado. this one was very similar to that but a little wider. that s why it actually affected so much larger of an . the outbreak in the southeast in 2011 that killed over 300 people, that was like dozens and dozens of twisters. bill, thank you very much. you ve been up all night doing weather reports for us. there s iconic images of these trains and i want to show you what seems to be one of them. both of the new york tabloid newspapers have this image and that is near what was plaza towers elementary school. it s one of the sites of the worst damage of the storm. at least seven children reportedly killed there. by some estimates that number
i can t even imagine what must be going through your mind to see your entire neighborhood is flattened. yeah, it s gone. where were you when it hit? i was at work. i m a nurse for a neurosurgeon. and i watched it on tv. and then soon as it passed, i left. and i came down. so the tornado was not threatening where you were working? no, it was at deaconess hospital. you said you knew it was gone. no doubt, as wide as it was and as fast as it came, it was gone. how long have you lived here? were you here for 99? i was here, i didn t live in moore in 99. actually, i did, i lived in the trailer park right behind here, i had a home back there, and we all went to the walmart. and stayed there until it passed. then once i saw everything was okay there, i worked for the american red cross and the search and rescue down there on 27th street, looking through homes and helping people that