made all of the allegations against trump when he s a candidate telling the truth. this is a little different. the 14-year-old for me, it s all bad, but a 14-year-old girl. no one is contesting the truth to that. he s contesting the gloria a allred, but the actual reporting in the post she then spoke very credibly. totally. no one has challenged a thing on that. charlie sikes, i see you trying to get in. i want to bring in nbc s von hilliard who has been living down in alabama for us and joins me from huntsville. what is the latest from the ground in alabama? we re seeing reports that the communications director for moore s campaign has resigned. what can you tell us? reporter: john rogers who has been working for the communications director for the last month and a half is no longer with the campaign. he is no longer a part of this apparatus. the campaign is down to just six individuals.
maybe they re lying. maybe she s wrong. like, we ve hire add handwriting expert, but we can t use this handwriting expert on the internet. yeah. minor correction. the lawyer that spoke with ali velshi, it was not the same lawyer. they happen to really look alike, for what it s worth on that. go down to alabama now. colleague von hilliard is there in montgomery, there the last week or so. okay, vaughn, can you clarify anything? does the moore campaign claim they filed a suit? they keep referring to a case? and yet there doesn t seem to be one here. this was obviously, alleging a pushback against one accuser but not the other four? reporter: yeah. it s official, right before that press conference started, no such word of an actual case or a legal filing. threatening two different publications. aol.com as well as the
my colleague von hilliard is reporting on this story from alabama. von, i want to start with you. you ve been talking to voters out there in alabama trying to get a sense where they stand. a local told us that this is a republican town, man. moore could have killed obama, and we wouldn t care. is that generally the sentiment down there? that roy moore can get away with anything, because she a republican and not a democrat? reporter: a conversation i had with a gentleman at the convenience store in gallant, the small town. you remember, a lot of parts of alabama including where roy moore is from there in that town, it s rural, sprawling republican, staunch republican. but i want to say, though, we re in birmingham. where we are right now. this is where he s going to have to target doug jones. talking about the democrat in this race. target to ultimately pull this off. he s going to target the millennials. women, targeting the more well educated, because donald trump had just one year
breas breasts-. i tried to open my car door to leave but he reached over and locked it so i could not get out. i tried fighting him off, while yelling at him to stop. but instead of stopping he began squeezing my neck, attempting to force my head on to his crotch. i continued to struggle. i was determined that i was not going to allow him to force me to have sex with him. i was terrified. he was also trying to pull my shirt off. i thought that he was going to rape me. i was twisting and i was strugglingance and i was begging him to stop. all right. we ve reached out to roy moore s campaign about this. we have not received a comment. as i mentioned, the chairman of the campaign had put out a statement in response to this. i want to go to nbc s von
very quiet. nbc and msnbc we have requetsed interviews with him and he is trying to keep his distance. doug jones is in a tough situation in this race in terms of fund-raising. whereas you look at the special congressional elections where democrats were running, they were running against donald trump, the white house. doug jones doesn t really have that opportunity. this is a man who is u.s. attorney, who prosecuted two klansmen in the 1963 bombing over at 16th street baptist church and yet, at the same time, it s tricky running as a democrat. but roy moore could be that one that he beats. moore back in 2012 after being removed from being chief of the chief justice of the alabama court, he only won by three points against the democrat in the 2012 race. so jones could over the next couple of months put up a potential fight. lots to follow. nbc s von hilliard, thank you very much. let s bring in katie bow williams from the hill and eugene scott, political reporter for the washington