roy moore right now really is the thing for the black community. the black community showed up yesterday in birmingham, alabama, and in huntsville and that is why doug jones is the senator from alabama now. we have to remember that. we keep saying it was the sexual misconduct allegations. roy moore was already a very far right fringe candidate from the get-go. eli, take us inside the white house. president trump trying to spin it and distance himself this morning. he can t. i mean he was in pensacola less than a week ago ringing the bell for roy moore. i mean this is steve bannon s guy. we re even hearing from the steve bannon camp, oh, he was never bannon s first choice. come on now, they backed roy moore in a very big way. right. i got a text just a few minutes ago saying this is disappointing, but moore would have been a drag on us in 2018 so it s a win for us that way. they got problems in 2018 with or without roy moore because of
on al franken and not on roy moore. you heard her say she reiterated something we ve heard which is while the president was overseas traveling in asia, he did weigh in to some extent on roy moore as it was breaking saying if the allegations are true, he should step down. but he also indicated he d have more to say about it once he arrived back in the states. sarah sanders got a number of questions about the president s own past. the fact that more than a dozen women came forward and accused then-candidate trump of sexual miscop du misconduct. you heard sarah sanders insist the president says those allegations are not true. standing by what we heard from then candidate trump during a tumultuous time in his campaign that some thought could ultimately seek his campaign. he wound up surviving it. she tried to turn the page on all of that today. i pressed her on what we ve been hearing from within the steve bannon camp. those close to him saying he is
this someone that the president thinks he can influence, thinks is that his intent, to get someone who is malleable enough to do what the president presumably wants done with this investigation? and it s going to be all the more important that the person selected and nominated and presumably taking over for the in the director position has this firm steely independence and the facts and this is a proven track record, right? we re not talking about somebody who says they will. i want to see somebody who has shown they will. and i think it s more important to have that independence than ever. what happens to jared kushner? if all we know is that he s under fbi scrutiny, does he go back to work at the white house tomorrow like hunky-dory, no problem? we had learned from the new york times there was obviously a rift between jared kushner and steve bannon, sort of that steve bannon camp had put out there that jared could be a big
lutheran church in missouri, and they wanted to get money to resurface playgrounds with state money. they qualified except for one big problem, the missouri state constitution bans giving money to churches and the church is suing saying that is religious discrimination. if you have a program available to everybody, but churches cannot participate, that violates their religious freedom and the constitution. so that will be an important case and he will be able to participate in that one, andrea. pete williams at the kour. and ashley parker, all of this, the successful confirmation of a supreme court justice for the white house but at the same time a lot happening internally in the white house, you have the syrian air strikes, the first military test for this administration. let s talk about what you are hearing. which is the internal warfare between the steve bannon camp