That does it for the beat tonight. You can always find us on facebook at the the beat with ari. Hardball has promised is up next. Finding more, lets play hardball. Good evening, im chris mat use. San francisco, roy moore republican colleagues, a new powerful voice that has weighed in. United states Attorney General and former senior senator from alabama, Jeff Sessions joined a number of his former colleagues in saying he has no reason to doubt the women who have accused u. S. Senate candidate roy moore of Sexual Misconduct allegations moore denies. Heres the Attorney General. I took the liberty of reviewing federal crimes against children, particularly those dealing with sexual or physical abuse. As you well know, lee coughman, wendy miller, debby watson gibson and Beverly Young nelson, these young women have accused this individual, judge moore, who is running for a federal office, the United States senate, of child sexual activity. Do you believe these young women . I am have no reas
we re back with a hardball round table. sabrina, tell me something i don t know. when roy moore was on alabama s supreme court, he challenged a law that was designed to protect rape victims on more than one occasion. argued that alleged sex offenders should be allowed to use the personal lives of their accusers against them in an attempt to discredit them. wonderful. jonathan. chris, our departed late friend, gwen ifill, who died a year ago today, her alma mater in boston, simmons college, will name one of their schools after her. it s going to be the gwen ifill college of media arts and humanities. i lost loved simmons and her paul. the series of sexual harassment complaints at the eeoc trending down parts over the past ten years or so, likely to trend back up with the harvey weinstein in the news.
alabama senate nominee roy moore s former predilection for high school girls back when he was a local deputy district attorney in his 30s. former deputy district attorney teresa jones told cnn over the weekend, quote, it was common knowledge roy dated high schoolgirls. even we knew thought it was weird. we wondered why he would hang out at high school football games and the mall but you really wouldn t want to say anything like that. add to the list his ruling on at appeal for a then 17-year-old convicted of raping a 4-year-old. moore was the only justice on an eight-judge panel to rule a sodomy charge should be overturned. i have not been guilty of sexual misconduct with anything. reporter: as alabama republican judge roy moore denies sexual contact with girl who s were then under agent of consent, some of his past court rulings are being looked at in a new light. as a justice on alabama s supreme court in 2013, moore and