So were just one day away now from an election that could have a profound effect on the u. S. Senate. On tuesday voters in the u. S. State of alabama will choose between roy moore and doug jones. Roy is a prominent figure in politics, but he is facing Sexual Misconduct and assault allegations from decades ago, all of which he denies. Now those allegations have kept moores opponent competitive in this deeply republican state. Have i been all over the state. I cant remember the number of place others the last two months. Weve been some 250, some 60 events over the last couple of months. Roy moore has done two in the last three weeks. Maybe two in the last month. Hes not even in the state of alabama this weekend. He went to the armynavy game. At least thats the report. Folks, he is in hiding. Now moore received a full throated endorsement from president donald trump. Alex marquardt has a look at whats been happening just days before the vote. Well, these two candidates are taking very different tacts in the final week of campaigning before the election held on tuesday. Judge roy moore has not been heard from or seen all weekend. He did not hold any event, and he is likely letting the president do his talking for him. The president has recorded a robocall for the judge in which he repeats his endorsement and says that moore is needed in the senate to help him advance his conservative agenda. Take a listen. Hi. This is president donald trump, and i need alabama to go vote for roy moore. If alabama elects liberal Democrat Doug Jones, al of our progress will be stopped cold. Reporter now, on the other hand, the Doug Jones Campaign is firing on all cylinder, pulling out all the stops. The name of the game is get out the vote. On sunday alone jones visited seven different churches. He also enlisted democratic heavy hitters including Deval Patrick and cory booker who can help in particular with the African American electorate, who will be absolutely crucial in this election. Now this was already a tight race, but these allegations against roy moore have made it even more competitive. So doug jones in these final hours and days is targeting undecideds, moderate republicans, women and the undecided African Americans. To give you a sense of what an uphill battle this will be for doug jones, if he stands a chance of winning he needs a black turnout almost as high as Barack Obamas in the president ial race. This is an off year, a special election that is being held in middecember. We did get a bit of a glimpse into the confidence that doug jones may be feeling. He said today if he had been asked the odds of how he would be doing in this election when he first got into it, he said it would be the same odds as seeing 5 inches of snow in birmingham, which we have seen over the past few days. Alex marquardt reporting there from birmingham, alabama. So the Democrat Doug Jones likes his odds in this race. Lets see what our panel thinks. Ben ferguson is with us. So is ellis henican. The only thing we know for sure about this race is that it is close. Some posts predict a jones victory. Others go the other way. Several are within the margin of error. So its close. Ben, as a conservative, when all is said and done, after weeks of scandal, how do you feel about roy moores candidacy . Well, i think he shouldnt be in the senate, to be honest with you. Ive said for a long time that i think we can do better than this. I think that the accusations against them at least some of them are credible, and i personally dont believe that he should be in the u. S. Senate. But many people in alabama have put it to me this way. They say, look, im not voting for him because he represents my values. Im going to vote for him because he represent miss interests in washington and what i care about in washington. And i cant give up that interest to a democrat that does not support the values or the, quote, interests of the state. And so there is a lot of voters i think are very torn on what theyre going to have to do on tuesday. Big, the same voters that tell you about values that. Dont feel that roy moore is running afoul of those same values because of those credible accusations against him . Sure. Thats why they described it the way i said it a moment ago. They say look, he doesnt necessarily represent my values but he represents my interests. Were a conservative state. They have a lot of problems with the democratic candidate, especially on other issues like abortion. As one caller said to me tonight on my radio show. He said look, edidnt vote even for roy moore during the primary. I think he is a bad candidate, the weakest candidate. But i hope he gets this job, and maybe even as one caller said that. Unseat him and get someone appointed by the state so at least my interests are still being represented in washington, d. C. Look. The majority of the callers i talked to said theyre going to vote for him. Theyre not big supporters of him. But i think he is probably going win this election. Interest versus values. That probably sums up this race. El lets, youre usually on the liberal side of this conversation can. Are you rubbing your hands thinking this can only be good for the left . Whats happening . Boy, i think the politics are right. But there is a moral abomination at the core of this thing that really, i think goes beyond whatever the narrow political calculations are. You can make a case, cyril, that either way the dems win here. Either they get a seat they didnt expect to get in alabama, or they get a Wonderful Campaign issue for the mid terms, and they can, you know, turn roy moore into the poster boy of the Republican Party. We can all understand the political benefits of that. But i got to tell you, i think when we reach the point of having otherwise decent people sending a child molester to the United States senate and coming up with all these excuses, and ben just laid out a couple of them. Oh, maybe theyll replace him later, or ive got this economic interest, they cross the line. Should they seat film nim he schlechted . We cross some line beyond that i think its highly likely that they will. The mechanics of not doing it are very difficult. The principle of allowing people to decide who they want to represent them is the strong and better off of american politics. Ive got to say if you vote to this guy, youre sending him to the senate. Get used to that, alabamans. Listen to what the senior senator from alabama had to say on sunday. There is a time, we call it a tipping point. And i think so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip, drip, drip when it got to the 14yearolds story, that was enough for me. I said i cant vote for roy moore. The state of alabama deserves better. I think weve got a lot of great republicans that could have won and carried the state beautifully and served in the senate honorably. Ben, i think i heard you say the act words. Alabama deserves better a little while ago. Are you concerned that this will hurt republicans and the Republican Party writ large, including the president . I do. I think it certainly can hurt because you lose the moral high ground on an issue like this. Look, we had a week last week where you had three people that resigned in congress. Right now is not the time to i think compromise on your values. What i know is this. My personal moral beliefs outweigh politics every single time. I could not walk in with a good conscience and hit a button for roy moore. This would be an example of an election that i probably just would not vote in. Because i also with a clear conscience could not support the democratic candidate. And there is going to be i think a significant number of people that do that. But ultimately, special elections usually have smaller voter turnout. Here is the one caveat. Everybody is well informed in alabama on these accusations on the women they do believe and some of them they have question marks about what theyve had to say about roy moore. They know everything. And i think theyre the ones that are going to get to decide this on tuesday if theyre going vote their values or theyre going to vote their interests. I think a lot of them are going to vote their interests more than theyre going to vote their values. Ellis, do you think the Democratic Party which has taken the opposite stance, by cleaning shop, kick out all those who have been accused of Sexual Misconduct, do you think that is one of the interest versus values . Ive been scratching my head than one. Like the moral purity of it. But you kind of feel like a sucker at sop point, dont you . When your guys all quit in shame and the other side just says i deny anything and i wont face any evidence, frankly right up to the white house. I dont care what any of these people say. So forget about it. I aint going nowhere. At some point you sort of feel like youre kind of on the sucker side of that bet. With all due respect, lets be clear about something. Both parties here have not led on this issue very well. Youve had nancy pelosi that is backing up john conyers just a couple of days before he was forced to resign that. Has changed. Hold on one second. You even had, and that is the part where i think we should take politics out of it and be clear about the lack of leadership here. You had this Senate Minority leader send out an email press release saying that he thought that al franken should step down after the news had already broken that al franken was stepping down. Thats not leadership. Where is the moral outrage been on the republican side . Weve got a guy who may well win in alabama. I said i wouldnt vote for it. Keep your eyes open tomorrow because i know a bunch of the women of the trump accusers are getting ready to do an 11th tomorrow that move prove interesting as well. Its time, though, isnt it, for decent republicans with good moral compass, ben, maybe you included to stand up and say you know what . Maybe some of our guys ought to go too. Like said, i would not vote for roy moore. And have i not told anyone to vote for him. 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Protests over the move have rocked the region for days now. This was the scene in turkey, including a mass demonstration in istanbul, and a scathing peach from president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Heres what he said about israel and u. S. President donald trump. Translator you dont have such an authority. Palestine has always been under occupation since 1947. Israel is a state of occupation. Israel is a terrorist state. Mr. Trump, we will not fall for your mistake. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu did not take kindly to that. Listen to his response. Im not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs kurdish villagers in his native turkey, who jails journalists, who helped iran go around International Sanctions and who helps terrorists, including in gaza kill innocent people. That is not the man who is going to lecture us. Benjamin netanyahu there. So lets get the latest now from cnns ian lee. Gul is in istanbul and ian in jerusalem. Strong words from turkeys president in response to the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital. What impact is this having on turkeys relations with israel . And whats likely to come out of mr. Erdogans upcoming meeting with russias president putin . Well, turkey is going to be looking for support and cooperation from russia. And weve been seeing russia playing a bigger and bigger role in affairs across the middle east and in the region in general. And that role used to be reserved mainly for the u. S. But we see russia stepping into that role. One of the first phone calls that Recep Tayyip Erdogan made in the aftermath of the decision on jerusalem was to mr. Putin. So, really, turkey is pivoting towards russia, looking for support and kpoocooperation the. And this is going to be important for turkey as it tries to build some international census. On wednesday Muslim Leaders will be gathering here in istanbul and coming up with a game plan. And of course russia will play into that game plan whatever it may end up being. And for the turkishisraeli relationship, that is a relationship that has been on the rocks and had just recently started being mended. And we can see now that its really starting to fall apart once again. Turkey threatening to cut diplomatic ties with israel in the aftermath of the announcement. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan saying that it could lead to diplomatic ties being cut. So a rocky relationship that had just started being restored once again taking a fumble, and well be watching to see what comes of that. Rosy . Thats critical. Thanks for that. I want to go to ian lee now in jerusalem as mentioned. Ian, what impact will this likely have on any efforts to find peace in the middle east . And what will this mean for israels relationship with turkey from its perspective . Rosemary, like gul said, that the relationship had been rocky. It was starting to thaw in june of 2016. But what were seeing right now is a crisscrossing of red lines. For turkey they said that making jerusalem the capital of israel was one for them. For israel, they only see jerusalem as their capital. The one thing thats interesting to note is after the United States declared jerusalem as the capital of israel, we didnt see any other countries follow suit, at least not yet. Weve heard rumors, but none of them have done it. We also have been watching closely what president Mahmood Abbas has been doing. He has been traveling around arab countries with close relations with the United States to try to garner support. Yesterday he was in jordan. Today he is going to be speaking with presidency cease sisi of egypt. Well be watching them closely to see how far theyll go with their condemnation. Prime minister netanyahu yesterday was also in france. He spoke with emmanuel macron. Macron didnt hide the fact that he showed his displeasure for the announcement made by the United States. He urged the israelis to have a good will measure towards the palestinians. But he said that france isnt going to follow suit. And france has been one of the most vocal countries against, this warning of this instability that this could see. And like gul pointed out as well, there is a bit of a power vacuum after this. The United States was seen as the mediator between the israelis and the palestinians. And with the palestinians saying the United States needs to take a back seat because theyre no longer seen as a neutral party that can deal with this, who is going to come in and fill that vacuum . Could it be russia . Its hard to tell. Likely not because it doesnt have that special relationship it did over the decade was the two parties. But it is going to be difficult to see how this Peace Process does move forward with the absence of the United States. All right. Many thanks to ian lee in jerusalem and gul tuysus in istanbul. Thank you. Sunday Police Use