including myself and many republican senators. reporter: to include senators, you heard tim scott to include richard shelby, the senior republican senator from alabama who said that he could not vote for roy moore and also said that the people of alabama deserve better. richard? geoff bennett there very close to the president this weekend. thank you, appreciate that. now we ll bring in our guest who is a congressional reporter for the daily beast. sharon is here and daniel lipman who is co-author of to politico s playbook. the robocall, what will this mean? what do you make of the timing of it? what do you make of now the president and the white house not equivocating any more about their support for moore? well, it s a striking step because only a few weeks ago we thought that all republicans
geoff? reporter: that s right. this robocall is just the latest step from this president in his unequivocal support for roy moore. richard, this is a pure clinical calculation. i m told the white house reviewed polling data with roy moore with a small but steady lead, that is critical. even though roy moore is a household name in alabama, he has long been a polarizing figure. so the president wants to be on the winning side, especially after having backed the losing candidate. luther strange in the runoff race. and the other the president is endorsing roy moore, the president has been fairly transparent about. he wants and needs his vote in the u.s. senate. now all this has put the president at odds with members of his own party to include the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. but also tim scott, the republican senator from south carolina who spoke with our own chuck todd this morning on meet the press. take a look. are you comfortable that the leader of your party is all i
intelligence committee, accusing the gop of trying to discredit special counsel robert mueller s russian investigation into the trump campaign. take a listen to this. this is an effort to tear at the very idea that there is an objective truth. and i think this president in astonishing speed has remade the republican party in his own deeply flawed image. and that will be ruinous to the republican party. the discrediting of our institutions, the justice system, the judiciary, the press, is enormously destructive. the let s bring in michael conway who served as counsel to the house judiciary committee during president richard nixon s impeachment. and the former white house chief ethics lawyer under george w. bush. let s start with you, my friend, richard paynor. you have been on the air discussing this very topic, what do you make of where we are in terms of the accusations against robber muert mueller? well, there s no basis for
obstruction of justice. yeah, exactly. michael conway, thank you, richard paynor, wish we had more time together. thank you for being here on a sunday. appreciate it. coming up, more on roy moore s interview just days before the voters head to the polls. we ll talk to the reporter who sat down with the embattled candidate, that s next. i just got my cashback match,
the republican party to have this type of waste of taxpayer money. we pay the taxes, we re tired of high taxes, and we re not paying taxes to spo e es to support th family. that s not appropriate. with me now is the richard painter. richard, the report that lawyers are working on personal businesses stems from that original decision that you have been all over, by this president, to operate his businesses. your view of these developments? well, it s a terrible situation for the american taxpayer. and we just saw a bill pass the house today that s just going to stiff the middle class. we re giving enormous amounts to the billionaires, including the president. and the problem here, with respect to his businesses is that his business are doing deals with foreign governments and the companies controlled by foreign governments. that s a violation of the constitution. the founders did not want foreign governments buying off american office holders. and and he persists in doing this, desp