were prepared for a good fight. part of a national strategy of recruiting solid candidates regardless of their chances of winning. doug jones was just born to demonstrate how well an alabama democrat could do even though most people expected that he was going to fall short. given the allegations against roy moore, that does inject some uncertainty into the race and it certainly made this race much more competitive. responding to the president s portrayal of him as being a liberal, doug jones said that he s going to let his record speak for itself and he s not going to let anyone, be including the president, try to label him. melissa. melissa: jonathan, thank you for that. let s bring it out to the couch. guy benson. this is a wild race. it is, and doug jones can say he doesn t want other people to characterize his record. i m happy to do so. he s a liberal, and he s way off to the left for a state like alabama. he supports abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. he s wea
had a great call, discussing north korea, fighting terrorism and the syrian civil war. the call cames after the president and putin ment meton the sidelines in a conference in vietnam. mr. trump said during that trip that it s very important to get along with nations like russia. listen. i feel that having russia in a friendly posture as opposed to always fighting with them is an asset to the world and an asset to our country, not a liability. what i believe is that we have to get to work to solve syria, to solve north korea, to solve ukraine, to solve terrorism. lisa: guy, i want to go to you first on this. there are issues we need to work with russia on or have communication with russia on. we ve seen every president from george w. bush to president obama trying to reset relations. where do you think president trump is right now in this relationship? guy: he seems pretty sanguine about the american people s ability to forgive the russians for what they attempted to do in our el
a search-and-rescue mission under way. three people still missing after a u.s. navy aircraft crashed into the philippine sea south of japan. eight others have been rescued. u.s. navy officials say they re in good condition. the transport plane was heading towards the carrier u.s.s. ronald reagan but went down about 90 miles away. the white house says president trump has been briefed on the situation. reports of another accuser as the house ethics committee launches an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against congressman john conyers. the michigan democrat is the longest serving member in the house and says he will cooperate. he also denies wrongdoing. according a report in buzz feed representative conyers is accused of retaliating against a staffer who rejected his sexual advances. now buzz feed is also reporting that another staffer has come forward and accused him of sexual harassment. guy, i want to go to you first.
the trump stuff doesn t bother me. you should release your tv schedule. it s a really interesting question. you can catch me on america s newsroom monday morning at 9:40 and that s the end of it. gillian: i was thinking when i was responding to you it s kind of like the family doctor and everyone s like i have this pain in my knee. they come to you with the politics. lisa: you re not going to want to miss this because there is more outnumbered in just a moment. patrick woke up with back pain. but he has work to do. so he took aleve. if he d taken tylenol, he d be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong.
the phenomenon has dissipated considerably and i would also point out i think the teams should be on the field standing for the anthem respectfully. the idea of them staying in the lock arer room is some sort of shocking locker room is some sort of a shocking affront, stand, the hand on the heart, i don t think kneeling should be a fireable offense and i think this problem is overblown especially now, six guys out of hundreds of players, i think we can all jessica: it shot up to 200 on the weekend that president trump got involved when he went after stephen curry. before that it was three to four. melissa: it feels like that s very much intentional. jessica: he doesn t want to talk about roy moore. melissa: mileage out of this so this is an issue that does well for him. gillian: just ahead of thanksgiving a new poll that says that turkey day is about a lot more than mashed potatoes and stuffing. i don t know what those things are but apparently they re something people ca