not only did he take some sloppy steps recently. but also when he opened the shell company, he signed his own name on it. so there are steps that leave this long trail of evidence. circumstantial evidence at a minimum tie it back to trump. and opportunity ralphing of that is making this pop back into the news. and i want to read to you what michael cohen said. neither the trump organization nor the trump campaign was a party to the trans wax ms. clifford and neither reimbursed me for the payment. dlikt or indirectly. the payment was lawful and not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone. asfrid the morality issue, or maybe even the ethical issue. as lawyer whether that s okay to do it without telling your client. isn t this another potential conflict of interest? of course it is. so the use of the trump e-mail
trump s influence with moore, which is that this is a culture war going on. and this is about changing the values that matter so much to alabama voters. what is your sense on the ground down there, as to what the plus/minus is on the morality issue for roy moore? he s getting dinged on these accusations, and rightly so. but on the flip side, he s seen as such a big christian wrarrio down there . so on morality, does that net him to neutral? it s an urban/rural divide here. the fact is alabama is much like the rest of the country if you talk to people in the cities here, huntsville, birmingham, mobile, you know, they have little regard for roy moore and very much believe his accusers. you go more into rural areas and you find more support for moore. so that doesn t really change. i will say that the jones folks privately have said that trump full i embracing moore here in the last few days has been
there is a lot of criticism about how the health care obamacare repeal was handled, but, you know, in tax reform, they re actually getting another shot at it. so, it s just, again, another short-sighted approach to just constantly focus criticism on leader mcconnell. it s interesting, because, jackie, white house press secretary, sarah sanders, was asked about the morality of this in an exchange with our jim acosta. let s listen. oh, we don t have that. but essentially, she was asked by jim acosta how would the president you know, the morality issue here for the president in backing roy moore versus the agenda issue. and the white house came back, sarah sanders, and says, the allegations are concerning, if true, and he should step aside, but we don t have a validate that, that s up to the people of alabama. any political risk for the president? because it seems like his calculation has been this week, no, no political risk in backing more? so, again, that remains to be
roy moore allegations and he did so in way that surprised a lot of people which was to more or less stand with roy moore in the face of these allegations saying they are 40 years old. it s suspicious the timing and we don t need a democrat until the seat. that s not quite endorsing roy moore because that would be a pretty self-destructive move but he got as close to the line as he could get. we saw very directed shift from the white house from kelly ann conway on fox news trying to turn the conversation to issues away from the morality issue with roy moore and talk about the fact you need to vote republican for this and for that for tax reform. doug jones in his state of alabama is trying to make it about morality. i want to play a part of his ad and then we ll talk. gina richardson, wendy miller, kelly harrison clark and the list is growing. they were girls when roy moore
april, the president is saying you have to listen to moore. one person, against up to skith people who either accuse or corroborate the accusers. who are both male and female. he is saying this is because moore denies the accusations. here s the president. he totally denies it. he says it didn t happen. and you know, you have to listen to him also. all right, loud and clear. one man s word over dozens of men and women. just like he did, april, with his own accusers, of course. yeah. well, you know, i m also struck by what the president said as well when he said, you know, roy moore has run several races, and this has never come up. but now is the time for women to speak. and their voices are very loud. the noise is actually deafening, and it s not necessarily noise, but this is now a morality thing. a morality issue. alice hit the nail squarely. it s about what s right over wrong. this makes me think of what