he actually told aides with a wistfulness, we may see a federal occupation because that gave him a noble struggle in which he would lose, and as you know southern heros tend to lose. there s a romance in defeat. here s the difference. roy moore and donald trump aren t interested in defeat. they aren t interested in the romance of a lost cause. they want to win. and they want to carry this cause forward. and that s what s at stake tomorrow. so, nick, you pointed out it s brave of shelby to do what he did given the fact that roy moore or you think probably will win. why? i thought for senator shelby to come out on the eve of the election when the candidate he s attacking is basically ahead and more likely to win than lose and why is he more likely to win? it s alabama. look, what moore is doing is banking that the essential political character of the state will assert itself.
to be able to keep his post as the top democrat on the judiciary committee? i think there will be calls for him to at least step aside while the investigation proceeds. think the biggest question that will be facing lawmakers on capitol hill is what will be the line, is there going to be a zero tolerance policy? because what johniers has been accused of is different from what senator franken s been accused of, doesn t compare to what moore has been accused of. what they ll have to do is determine what will be the line because there are varying degrees and is it career ending, does it mean that someone has to resign if they ve been accused or do they have to lose certain seniority? it remains to be seen. and a lot of different pressures, plit dal pressures, on nancy pelosi around that.
just won t care. the fox news poll showed the democrat doug jones pulling ahead significantly. are people telling pollsters how they really feel or is the white house going to give them cover to vote moore and moore wins here? well, erin it s always difficult to judge the results of polls in alabama. also this is a special election so it s hard to know what the turnout will be, but all that s happening is exactly why we wrote the editorial. our view is that the senate race must transcend party politics and that in alabama it s a referendum on what we need to expect from our leaders and frankly, i don t know how we can look at young people and not step forward or they re not going to trust their institutions. that s the big question here, mark. the last time the president publicly addressed roy moore himself was during that gaggle on air force one more than a week ago on his way home in
this fell in my lap. it literally fell in my lap and i had to make a decision and i told them that at that time the reporter who were all just wonderful to me, that if they found additional people that i would tell my story and they found those people. two faith leaders with very different opinions on roy moore. she s the president of faith to action and eva, she s the pastor of the firm foundation church. i appreciate both of you taking the time tonight. janet, let me start with you if i can. i want to play some of what moore s accusers, you just heard a little bit, but here she talks about what he did to her, what she says he did to her when she was 14-year-old that s below the age of correction. thank you for making that correction. most of them are saying this is
i think that that s just preposterous. i think they are capable of making that decision, and on december 12th, they will decide who they want to be their next senator in the united states senate. so the head of the state, the governor of alabama, kaye ivy, says she has no reason to disbelieve the accusers. that said, she s still going to vote for moore for political reasons. so where, amy, do you draw the line on morality versus political consideration? and is this then, if you lean in the political consideration, is it a tacit approval of what moore is at least accused of doing? well, it s not what i think. i m not a voter in alabama. i don t get to have a decision. but, i mean, you know, who do you believe? he is denying it. and you have these women that are saying these things happened. it s a broad spectrum of things that are happening. i don t know. i wasn t there. none of us were there that we re talking about. you weren t there, i wasn t there. so the people of alabama have