president is not going to down there to stump for roy moore? i mean i don t get it. so it lets the president hit alabama voters without hitting alabama. one in six alabamians are hit by that media market. it s a way to campaign for roy moore but have the plausible deniability. why do you need plausibility deniability if you tweet out vote roy moore. joe made a good point he has an eye on 2018 and his own re-election whether he thinks roy moore will lose or yet again have it both ways that s what he s balancing right now. brian, i mean, what do you want to hear from donald trump tonight? i mean, you know, you never know what s going to happen when don junior gedonald trump gets on t stage for a big rally like this but if he doesn t talk about roy moore what does that say? listen, he is all-in for roy moore. he s put out his endorsement. no plausibility deniability in this stuff. he is a all-in. he planned this ahead of time
erickson. in case you had any doubt where the president stood on the alabama senate race he made it crystal clear. in a tweet, of course, attacking democrat doug jones. trump signed off the tweet vote roy moore and tonight the president will be holding a rally 25 miles from the alabama border in pensacola, florida. bring in cnn s joe johns at the white house. joe, just yesterday, the white house said the allegations against moore said once again were extremely troubling, so what s going on now? well, going down to pensacola, notably not going to alabama, but it s still the mobile media market is 25 miles from alabama and the assumption is that the president is at least showing his face there, just a few days before voters go to the polls. and he certainly is a big
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and it s hanging over the race in alabama. doug jones and his campaign are doing everything they can to try to keep the allegations against roy moore as part of the conversation going into the election next week. but on this split in the republican party what is so fascinating is that it really is a split as, you know, you ve seen so many times with this president and the republican party, between donald trump and the rest of the party. because really on the senate side you re still seeing senator john thune, member of leadership came out on cbs news and said he would like to sew an ethics committee investigation, still opposes roy moore as a candidate. mitch mcconnell has mentioned still that he hopes to see an ethics committee investigation. you still have cory gardner in the national republican senatorial committee opposing roy moore. so really, i mean the rnc followed the president s lead no doubt about it but most republicans still very uncomfortable with this candidacy. i think
the fires in the state is burning is cnn s stephanie elam watching all of this play out. what are you seeing where you are? it s devastation once you get into these communities, kate, and see what the fires have done, basically racing down the streets and taking out homes along the way. here at this fire, the largest fire burning in the state, the thomas fire, right now i can tell you we got new numbers, 132,000 acres have been burned by this fire and the containment is up but only to 10% on this fire. that s why we are seeing the requests from the governor for federal assistance from president trump to help out with these fires here because this is one of six that is still burning here in southern california. we saw that fire yesterday in san diego, 4,000 acres there, as well, and also losing homes just as they are doing that here as well. the fires are continuing to grow and that is the concern as the winds will pick up later in the day. that s part of the issue.