Gabby Kaufman

On Thursday, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will overtake the streets of New York City for the 91st time — and viewers at home will be able to watch it via a 360-degree video.

In addition to the traditional televised broadcast, Verizon is sponsoring a live stream of the parade that will allow viewers, with the help of five cameras installed along the route and one mounted on a float, to control the perspective from which they view the procession of musical performances and, of course, those giant balloons. The parade kicks off 9 a.m. ET.

Olivia Culpo and BuzzFeed’s Keith Habersberger are set to host the Verizon live stream, which will air without commercials. Verizon is the parent company of Yahoo.

President Trump suggested on Tuesday that voters in Alabama should support the embattled Republican Senate candidate, Roy Moore, as the alternative on the ballot is a Democrat.

Moore has seen his campaign derailed in recent days after nine women accused him of behavior ranging from uncomfortable and unwanted overtures to sexual assault. Most of accusers said the misconduct occurred when they were teenagers and Moore was in his thirties.

Trump told reporters at the White House that “we don’t need a liberal person in there,” a reference to Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate. Asked if having an alleged molester in the Senate was preferable to seating a Democrat, Trump pointed to Moore’s denials.

“Well, he denies it,” Trump said. “Look, he denies it.”

“He says it didn’t happen, and you know, you have to listen to him also,” he added.

Trump also did not rule out campaigning on for Moore ahead of the special election on Dec. 12.

In an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Monday, Kellyanne Conway, a top Trump adviser, similarly seemed to suggest that voters dismiss the claims against Moore and vote for the Republican.

“Doug Jones in Alabama — folks, don’t be fooled,” Conway said. “He’ll be a vote against tax cuts. He’s weak on crime, weak on borders. He’s strong on raising your taxes. He’s terrible for property owners.”

“So vote Roy Moore?” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked.

“I’m telling you we want the votes in the Senate to get this tax bill through,” she replied.

Meanwhile, at a press conference in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday afternoon, Dean Young, Moore’s chief strategist, said Conway’s comments show how important the Alabama Senate race is to the Trump presidency.

“That’s why you saw Kellyanne come out yesterday and say we’ve got to have somebody like Judge Moore,” Young said, adding: “You know, Kellyanne does talk for the White House.”

Trump was also asked Tuesday about the current political climate, which has seen numerous powerful men in Hollywood, media and politics accused of various shades of sexual misconduct.

“Women are very special,” Trump responded. “I think it’s a very special time because a lot of things are coming out and I think that’s good for our society. And I think it’s very, very good for women. And I’m very happy a lot of these things are coming out and I’m very happy, I’m very happy it’s being exposed.”

Trump himself has faced more than a dozen allegations of various forms of misconduct, with most of the women coming forward during last year’s campaign. The October 2016 release of the “Access Hollywood” tape revealed that Trump bragged in in 2005 that he could grope and forcibly kiss women. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders has said the administration’s position is that all of Trump’s accusers are lying.

“CBS This Morning” hosts Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King opened the show Tuesday by addressing allegations of sexual misconduct against their colleague Charlie Rose.

The veteran news anchor was suspended by the network after the Washington Post published a report detailing the accusations, which came from eight women.

Neither O’Donnell nor King shied away from blunt criticism of their absent co-host, who’s been a fixture on the show.

“This is a moment that demands a frank and honest assessment about where we stand and more generally, the safety of women,” O’Donnell said. “Let me be very clear: There is no excuse for this alleged behavior. It is systematic and pervasive, and I’ve been doing a lot of listening and I’m going to continue to do that.”

“This I know is true: Women cannot achieve equality in the workplace or in society until there is a reckoning and a taking of responsibility,” she continued. “This will be investigated. This has to end. This behavior is wrong. Period.”

King seemed grappled with her affection for Rose and disgust at the allegations against him

“I really am still reeling,” she said.

“I’ve enjoyed a friendship and a partnership with Charlie for the past five years. I have held him in such high regard. And I am really struggling. Because how do you — what do you say when someone that you deeply care about has done something that is so horrible. How do you wrap your brain around that?”

The Post report, published Monday, detailed allegations from eight women who said Rose engaged in behavior that included explicit phone calls, groping, or exposing himself to them. In a statement, Rose challenged the accuracy of some of the accusations and said he thought he “was pursuing shared feelings,” but apologized and reiterated a “profound new respect for women and their lives.”

PBS has also announced that it would suspend distribution Rose’s daily interview show.

Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, has seen his campaign derailed over the past week as nine women have accused him of behavior ranging from uncomfortable and unwanted overtures to sexual assault.

Of the women who have described their experiences with Moore, most of them were teenagers who said they encountered him at the mall in Gadsden, Ala., where multiple outlets reported his habit of approaching younger women was well-known and may have caused him to be banned from the mall.

Moore has denied knowing most of the women and denounced the claims, characterizing them as politically motivated. He has insisted he will continue to campaign despite prominent Republicans calling on him to drop out of the race.

Leigh Corfman
Corfman told the Washington Post she met Moore in 1979 in a courthouse in Etowah County, Ala., where he was an assistant district attorney at the time. Corfman was 14 when Moore, then 32, offered to watch her while her mother went to a child custody hearing, she recalled. Once alone, Corfman claims Moore asked her for her phone number. Soon after, he picked her up, drove her to his house, “told her how pretty she was and kissed her,” she told the Post.

She said he escalated his behavior on a second visit to his house, where he allegedly undressed both her and himself so that both were wearing only their undergarments. Moore, Corfman said, then touched Corfman over her bra and underwear and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear. Corfman told the Post she then asked him to take her home, which he did.

Wendy Miller
Miller was 14 and working as a Santa’s helper at the mall in Gadsden, Ala., where Moore first approached her and complimented her looks, she told the Post. When she was 16, in 1979, Moore approached her at the mall again and “began asking her out on dates in the presence of her mother,” who was employed there, according to her account. Miller said she turned Moore, then 32, down because she had a boyfriend, but her mother was firmer.

“I’d say, ‘You’re too old for her…let’s not rob the cradle,’” Miller’s mother recalled to the Post.

Debbie Wesson Gibson
Gibson told the Post she first met Moore in 1979, when she was 17 and he spoke to her high school civics class. She and Moore, then 32, dated for two to three months, Gibson said, but did not progress physically beyond kissing.

Gloria Thacker Deason
Deason said she encountered Moore when she was 18 and working at a jewelry counter in a department store in the Gadsden Mall. Throughout “several months” of off and on dating, Deason told the Post, Moore would order alcohol for her at restaurants before she was of age. Deason said she and Moore did not go beyond kissing.

Beverly Young Nelson
Nelson, another Gadsden resident, said she knew Moore from working as a waitress after school when she was 15 and 16. Moore ate at the restaurant frequently, Nelson said at a press conference, and would flirt with her, complimenting her on her looks and tugging her long hair. One day, she brought her yearbook to work with her, which she said Moore spotted on the counter and asked to sign. Nelson showed the yearbook, with what she said was his message inscribed, at the press conference.

“To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say Merry Christmas. Christmas 1977. Love, Roy More, D.A.”

Soon after, Nelson said, he offered her a ride home after work one night. Instead of driving her home, Nelson said Moore, then 30, pulled into the dark parking lot behind the restaurant, where he groped her and tried to force her head into his crotch, squeezing her neck so hard she had bruises. Nelson said she thought he was going to rape her, and when she tried to get out of the car, Moore pulled the door shut. Eventually, Moore gave up, and told Nelson, “You’re just a child. I am the district attorney of Etowah County and if you tell anyone about this, no one will ever believe you,” according to her account. Nelson said she either fell out of the car or Moore pushed her out before he drove away.

Tina Johnson
Johnson said she encountered Moore in 1991 when he was an attorney. Johnson, then 28 and in the middle of a divorce, was signing paperwork granting custody of her son to her mother, who had hired Moore, then 44. Johnson told AL.com that Moore sat uncomfortably close to her during the meeting, and asked about her young daughters, such as what color eyes they had and if they were as pretty as her. When she was leaving the meeting, she claimed, he grabbed her buttocks.

“He didn’t pinch it; he grabbed it,” Johnson said. Moore was married at the time.

Kelly Harrison Thorp
Thorp was a hostess at the Gadsden, Ala., Red Lobster, where she met Moore in 1982, when she was 17 and he was 35, she told AL.com. He asked her on a date, and Thorp said she responded by asking him, “Do you know how old I am?”

“And he said, ‘Yeah. I go out with girls your age all the time,’” Thorp recalled.

Gena Richardson
Richardson worked in the men’s department of Sears in the Gadsden Mall, and met Moore there either right before or right after she turned 18 in 1977, she told the Post. The then-30-year-old Moore asked for her phone number, and she said she declined. He then asked where she went to school, and a few days later, she said she was called out of class to answer a phone call in the principal’s office.

“I said ‘Hello?’” Richardson told the Post. “And the male on the other line said, ‘Gena, this is Roy Moore.’ I was like, ‘What?!’ He said, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘I’m in trig class.’”

When Moore came to Sears and asked her out yet again, Richardson said she relented, and the two met for a movie in the mall. Afterwards, she said Moore drove her to her car, but before she got out, he kissed her.

“It was a man kiss — like really deep tongue. Like very forceful tongue. It was a surprise. I’d never been kissed like that,” she recalled to the Post. “And the minute that happened, I got scared then. I really did. Something came over me that scared me. And so I said, ‘I’ve got to go, because my curfew is now.’”

After that, Richardson claimed that a coworker would warn her when Moore came in so she could hide.

Becky Gray
Gray said also encountered Moore in the Gadsden mall, where she worked in the men’s section of a department store. In 1977, when Gray was 22 and Moore was 30, “he started coming up to me,” Gray told the Post.

She said he asked her out persistently, and even after she told him she had a boyfriend, Moore continued hanging around in her section or by the bathrooms, and she said was alarmed enough to complain to her manager.

Gray told ABC News it was this complaint that triggered Moore’s ban from the mall.

Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, on Friday rejected the claims made by women who told the Washington Post that he pursued them sexually when they were teens and he was in his 30s.

The Post report, published the day before, upended the previously under-the-radar special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ former seat. Moore initially dismissed the entire report as “fake news” but had not previously addressed the specific allegations.

On Friday, Moore denied even knowing Leigh Corfman, the woman who made the most explosive claim. She told the Post that when she was 14 and Moore was 32, he undressed her and himself, touched her over her undergarments and guided her hand to touch him. The age of consent in Alabama was then and continues to be 16.

“I don’t know Ms. Corfman from anybody,” Moore said in a radio interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

Moore, now 70, similarly denied knowing a woman who said he asked her on dates when she was 16. Moore said he did recall two women who said they dated him when they were 17- and 18-years-old, but he otherwise disputed their accounts of their encounters with him. One woman said they met when he spoke to her high school civics class, which Moore said he didn’t recall. Another claimed he provided her with alcohol when she was underage, which he unequivocally denied.

Asked how he knew the women if he did not date them, Moore said he may have known their parents. He noted that one woman said her mother encouraged her to date him.

When Hannity asked Moore if it would have been normal for him to date teenagers when he was in his 30s, Moore waffled, answering that he dated “a lot of young ladies.” When Hannity asked Moore the same question later in the interview, Moore answered more firmly that it did not align with his “customary behavior.”

Moore claimed that his campaign was conducting an investigation that would prove his innocence.

Meanwhile, a growing number of Republicans, including Mitt Romney and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, are calling for him to exit the race. Others have simply said the outspoken former judge should drop out of the race “if” the allegations are true.

The special election is on Dec. 12.

When Donald Trump became the president-elect one year ago, his elated supporters and his crestfallen detractors had two very different ideas of the president he would become.

Those aboard the Trump Train had elected a president who declared, “I alone can fix it,” and they took him at his word.

He would provide “great health care at a fraction of the cost.” He would be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” by bringing back dying industries like coal mining and manufacturing. He would “rebuild” the U.S. military and “take care” of veterans. His “big, beautiful” wall along the border would halt illegal immigration, and Syrian refugees would no longer be allowed to enter the country.

Those who had opposed Trump the candidate were horrified at the prospect of him taking office. To them, Trump had campaigned on a dystopian vision of America, and his promises — to crack down on immigration, reverse Obama-era policies and pursue an isolated “America First” agenda — were more like threats. They predicted the possibility of nuclear war, a prospect Trump has done little to ward off by provoking the volatile leader of North Korea.

Of the two opposing visions of Trump’s presidency, neither has been fully borne out by events. It was probably unrealistic to expect him to repeal and replace Obamacare on “Day One” of his administration, but we’re now up to Day 291 and counting. His promise to push for a constitutional amendment setting term limits for members of Congress seems to have fallen through the cracks, along with getting rid of gun-free zones near schools. Tax cuts and infrastructure spending, signature initiatives during the campaign, are, respectively, a work in progress and a can in the process of being kicked down the road.

Nevertheless, Trump has been busy in the White House, when he’s not golfing. Here’s a partial list of his accomplishments and disappointments:

Judicial appointments
One of the Trump administration’s earliest concrete victories, and one the White House still cites as proof of his effectiveness, was the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. When Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, Senate Republicans refused to even hold a hearing for President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland. During the campaign, Trump released a list of potential nominees, promising conservatives he would replace Scalia with someone from the pool. Within weeks of his inauguration, he picked Gorsuch, who was confirmed in April.

In addition to the Supreme Court, Trump has stacked the federal benches with his picks. Last week, after four confirmations, Trump thanked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for helping to confirm federal judges “at a record clip,” which he said amounted to the courts “rapidly changing for the better!”

Failure to repeal and replace Obamacare
One of Trump’s signature campaign promises was quality health care for every citizen at a reduced cost. This, he claimed repeatedly, would be accomplished by repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, Obama’s signature healthcare legislation. Although Trump and many congressional Republicans campaigned at least in part on a repeal-and-replace platform, the effort has been shelved after a series of defeats.

A House bill was pulled by Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., in March because it lacked support. In May, the House passed a bill, and Trump hosted a premature celebration in the White House Rose Garden. However, the Senate rejected it and opted to write their own version instead. In July, Republican Sens. Susan Collins, John McCain, and Lisa Murkowski sank the latest effort, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was “time to move on” to other parts of the GOP agenda. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy, sensing one last opportunity, introduced their repeal bill in September, but a vote was never held after it failed to garner the necessary support.

Comey’s firing and Mueller’s appointment
In May, Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey, who had become a bogeyman for the Democrats for his public updates on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

Trump originally cited a Justice Department memo criticizing Comey’s handling of the investigation as the reason for his dismissal, but he later admitted he had already decided to fire Comey and hinted in an interview with NBC News “this Russia thing with Trump and Russia” influenced his decision.

Meanwhile, Comey had been keeping notes of his interactions with the president, including one conversation where Trump allegedly said, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.” More damningly, Comey contended Trump asked him to ease off former national security adviser Mike Flynn. After his dismissal, Comey testified he gave the memos to a friend to leak to reporters, in hope that it would trigger the appointment of a special counsel. Shortly after Comey was fired and the New York Times published the contents of the memos, Robert Mueller was tapped to lead the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election.

Mueller has brought federal charges against Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman, and Rick Gates, Manafort’s deputy and business partner. A former campaign foreign policy aide, George Papadopoulos, has already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.

Continued pressure on ISIS and bombing of Syria
Trump vowed to “bomb the s*** out of” ISIS during the campaign, and he has made gains in taking down the terrorist organization. In October, U.S.-backed forces declared the end of “major military operations” in the retaking of Raqqa, Syria, the putative capital of the “Islamic state” declared by ISIS.

Trump said capturing Raqqa meant “the end of the ISIS caliphate is in sight,” and claimed credit for the victory. However, former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter denied the Trump administration had radically changed the U.S. military’s tactics in fighting ISIS. He said the capture of Raqqa was the result of a plan that “was laid out two years ago, and has been executed pretty much in the manner and the schedule that was foreseen then.”

In a departure from Obama-era policy, however, Trump authorized a missile strike on a Syrian airbase, in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that killed at least 80 and produced horrifying footage of civilians struggling to breathe and move and foaming at the mouth. The action against the air base from where the attack was launched constituted an escalation of American involvement, as no direct military action had been taken against the Syrian government until then.

West Wing and Cabinet exits
The team around Trump in the White House today is markedly different than the one with which he began his term in January. National Security Adviser Mike Flynn resigned after just three weeks, following reports that he had discussed U.S. sanctions with the Russian ambassador and lied about those interactions to the vice president. Other high-profile White House exits included the departures of deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh, communications director Mike Dubke, press secretary Sean Spicer, assistant press secretary Michael Short, chief of staff Reince Priebus, communications director Anthony Scaramucci, chief strategist Steve Bannon, and deputy assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka. Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price resigned under fire after reporting by Politico revealed he had spent over $1 million in taxpayer money on chartered planes.

EPA turmoil
Trump appointees have dramatically overhauled and shrunk several Cabinet agencies. Scott Pruitt, in his former job as attorney general of Oklahoma, had sued the Environmental Protection Agency 13 times before he was tapped to lead it. He has attempted to transform the EPA by scaling back its regulatory footprint and shutting out environmental groups from policy-making in favor of industry executives and lobbyists. A report on his daily schedule by the New York Times found Pruitt “has held back-to-back meetings, briefing sessions and speaking engagements almost daily with top corporate executives and lobbyists from all the major economic sectors that he regulates — and almost no meetings with environmental groups or consumer or public health advocates.”

Pulling out of Paris climate agreement and Trans-Pacific Partnership
As a candidate, Trump denounced the previous administration’s approach to international affairs as weak and promised to make better “deals” for the country. He put his money where his mouth is on two: the Paris climate accord and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Days after inauguration, Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from TPP, a trade deal negotiated under Obama. Technically, though, the agreement hadn’t yet taken effect and still had to be approved by congress.

Trump also pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, a 2015 deal that established voluntarily goals for countries to curb harmful emissions. When Trump announced the U.S.’s withdrawal, Nicaragua and Syria were the only countries in the world not part of the agreement. Both have since signed on, leaving the United States the only non-member.

Tangles with courts
The Trump agenda has been largely stalled in Congress, with no health care, infrastructure, or tax reform bills passed, and he has turned to executive action to realize some of his other priorities.

Most notably, Trump has attempted to implement three versions of his travel ban, which barred Syrian refugees and citizens from several majority Muslim countries from entering the U.S. After a court ruling struck down the first iteration, Trump signed what he called a “watered down, politically correct version” that would last 90 days. After that second version expired, another guidance was set to take its place that would have banned travelers from Syria, Libya, Iran, Yemen, Chad, Somalia, North Korea and Venezuela. A federal district court judge in Hawaii largely stayed the order, leaving in place the restrictions on travel from North Korea and Venezuela.

Trump announced on Twitter that the U.S. military would not accommodate transgender soldiers, but a federal judge ruled the current policy should stand. The Trump administration position, the judge said, signaled the “disapproval of transgender people generally,” adding that banning and discharging transgender troops would be have more of a negative effect on the military than allowing them to serve.

Stock market rally and falling unemployment
Trump ran in part on his business acumen and his understanding of the financial world, and indeed the stock market has risen and the unemployment rate has fallen since he took office.

The 20 percent rally in the S&P 500 and the 30 percent rise in the Dow have sent markets to record highs, and the president plainly said recently “the reason [the U.S.] stock market has been so successful is because of me.”

Similarly, unemployment is down to 4.1 percent, although Trump previously preached skepticism of jobs numbers — before they could be credited to him.

Escalation in tensions with North Korea
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have repeatedly provoked each other, with the latter ordering numerous missile tests, including some that have flown over Japan. They’ve traded verbal insults too: Trump branded Kim “Little Rocket Man,” and Kim lobbed back with the archaic slur “dotard.” Moreover, Trump has undermined Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s diplomatic efforts toward North Korea, tweeting that Tillerson is “wasting his time trying to negotiate” with Kim. One day before the anniversary of his election, Trump was in South Korea, warning Pyongyang that aggression toward the South would be a “fatal miscalculation,” while putting in a plug for the golf course at his New Jersey resort.

After a mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, left 26 people dead Sunday, state Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested that institutions have to decide to either allow firearms or hire private security to defend against future carnage.

“In Texas, you have to actually to actually post, if you’re a church, telling people not to carry guns — otherwise you could carry a gun,” Paxton said on “Fox & Friends” Monday.

He continued: “I think we need to look at that, because I think we need to have churches, schools, businesses start thinking about their policies — because obviously we can’t have first responders at every location — and so they need to think about whether they want private security or whether they want to make sure that some of their own people are armed to prevent this from happening again.”

Texas penal code allows property owners to post signs banning either concealed or openly carried weapons on site. It was not immediately clear if First Baptist Church, where the massacre took place, discouraged or banned congregants from bringing weapons on the property.

Although two armed men did pursue the gunman, 26-year-old Devin Kelly, during his rampage, neither were attending the church at the time. It was not clear whether he was killed by them or by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Paxton suggested even more explicitly on Sunday that churchgoers arm themselves. When asked by Fox News how to “stop this insanity,” Paxton responded, “As far as what we can do in the future, I mean, the only thing I know, because you can’t necessarily keep guns out of the hands of people who are going to violate the law.”

“If somebody’s willing to kill someone, they’re also going to be willing to violate a gun law,” he continued. “And all I can say is that in Texas at least we have the opportunity to have concealed carry. And so if it’s a place where somebody has the ability to carry, there’s always the opportunity that the gunman will be taken out before he has the opportunity to kill very many people.”

The Sutherland Springs shooting is believed to be the deadliest shooting at a house of worship in U.S. history, and is the deadliest shooting in Texas history, the state’s Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday. Police said the victims ranged from 18 months to 77 years old.

When Pastor Frank Pomeroy took the pulpit at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas last Sunday, he brought with him an unusual prop: his green and white Harley Davidson motorcycle, which was parked at the front of the nave.

In his sermon, Pomeroy spoke about the physics of riding his motorcycle, specifically the uneasy feeling of leaning into a curve as the bike balances precariously on two “credit card”-sized patches of tire. He also revealed the inspiration for his message that week: Annabelle, or “Belle,” his 14-year-old daughter, clinging to him on one of their rides, had squeezed her knees into him during a curve – which he called an “incredibly normal” impulse.

An experienced motorcyclist going through a curve, though, will look ahead, not down, letting the unseen forces around him “take care and take control” to ensure he stays on the bike, Pomeroy said.

“The way we live our life is just a lot like how you take a curve in a motorcycle,” he added. “If we look too close to the road that’s whizzing by us right now, if we pay too much attention on what the situation is that’s around us right now, we tend to lose our bearings. We tend to start making decisions based on our emotions. We tend to start making choices based on the momentary, rather than the goal that’s put out before us.”

In other words: look beyond the curve, to the straightaway. Annabelle had ridden to church with Pomeroy on his motorcycle that morning. She wore “house shoes” instead of boots and complained she couldn’t feel her feet by the time they arrived.

One week later, Pomeroy confirmed Annabelle was one of 26 people killed at his church after a gunman opened fire on the congregation with a semiautomatic rifle. Pomeroy and his wife, Sherri, were both out of town Sunday.

Pomeroy’s motorcycle sermon, titled “You Don’t Need Training Wheels, You Need Christ!” is available online – one of 168 videos of services uploaded and archived on the First Baptist Church YouTube page, which launched in October 2014. This log offers a glimpse into the church sanctuary and its fellowship before tragedy struck the congregation.

The services often featured live music and regularly included not a customary church organ, but electric guitars and a television screen that showed song lyrics to help attendees sing along. The church was a place for families and young children are visible in much of this footage.

Sermon titles like “Don’t Allow Jezebel to Steal Your Soul!” are offset with more nurturing offerings such as “Cuddling with God.”

The YouTube page shows an unusually robust social media presence for a congregation of approximately 50 parishioners, in a town of less than a thousand people. Its Facebook page [LINK] is equally active with recent uploaded photos showing the church Fall Festival Halloween celebration held Tuesday. Pomeroy had asked parishioners to pray for the safety of the attendees at the event that he said would show the world “that it’s OK to have fun in God’s house.”

Given the extent of the church’s online outreach, it seems likely, or at least possible, that this week’s service was being recorded as the gunman charged in and opened fire, and could prove useful to investigators who have not yet shared any details on a possible motive.

The shooting, which claimed victims ranging in age from 5 to 72, is believed to be the deadliest shooting at a house of worship in U.S. history, and is the deadliest shooting in Texas history, the state’s Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday night. In addition to the 26 dead, at least 20 more were injured.

President Trump repeatedly complained Friday that his own Justice Department wasn’t going after Democrats, days after three former Trump campaign officials were charged in the investigation being led by special counsel Robert Mueller.

In an extended tweetstorm, he renewed his attacks on “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, the election foe he vanquished nearly a year ago, and touted a statement from “Pochahontas,” his pejorative for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

“Everybody is asking why the Justice Department (and FBI) isn’t looking into all of the dishonesty going on with Crooked Hillary & the Dems,” Trump said.

He continued: “People are angry. At some point the Justice Department, and the FBI, must do what is right and proper. The American public deserves it! Pocahontas just stated that the Democrats, lead by the legendary Crooked Hillary Clinton, rigged the Primaries! Lets go FBI & Justice Dept.”

Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman, and Rick Gates, Manafort’s deputy and business partner, were charged Monday with 12 federal crimes. Court documents released Monday also revealed that that George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia during the campaign.

Trump has long complained about investigations — by both the FBI and multiple Republican-led congressional committees — focusing on his campaign and Russia’s efforts to influence the lection instead of Clinton.

In a Thursday radio interview, Trump lamented he was not able to exert more influence over the Justice Department and FBI, admitting he was “frustrated” by the dynamic.

“The saddest thing is that because I’m the president of the United States, I am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department,” Trump said on the “The Larry O’Connor Show.”

He added: “I’m not supposed to be involved with the FBI. I’m not supposed to be doing the kind of things that I would love to be doing. And I’m very frustrated by it.”

Trump was animated Friday morning by former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile’s book, which contends that the Clinton campaign exerted considerable influence over the DNC in exchange for fundraising help, including during the contentious primary campaign between Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. An excerpt of the book was published Thursday in Politico.

“New Donna B book says she paid for and stole the Dem Primary. What about the deleted E-mails, Uranium, Podesta, the Server, plus, plus [sic],” Trump tweeted. “The real story on Collusion is in Donna B’s new book. Crooked Hillary bought the DNC & then stole the Democratic Primary from Crazy Bernie!” he exclaimed.

President Trump on Thursday backed off the possibility of sending the New York City terror suspect to the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

But the commander in chief reiterated his call for the 29-year-old suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, to be executed.

“Would love to send the NYC terrorist to Guantanamo but statistically that process takes much longer than going through the Federal system… …There is also something appropriate about keeping him in the home of the horrible crime he committed,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “Should move fast. DEATH PENALTY!”

Trump made a similar denouncement late Wednesday night, tweeting that Saipov
“SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!”

Saipov is accused of driving a truck into a bike path in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, killing eight and injuring a dozen more. After fleeing the vehicle while brandishing what
police said were fake weapons, he was shot and apprehended by the NYPD. Authorities said Saipov was inspired by the so-called Islamic State, and he was charged with providing support to a terrorist organization as well as violence and destruction of a motor vehicle.

Trump on Wednesday publicly mulled the idea of sending Saipov to Guantánamo, a move backed by Republican foreign policy hawks like Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who wanted to treat Saipov as an enemy combatant. No terror suspect detained in the U.S. has been sent to the military prison since 9/11.

The president’s tweets could also complicate the federal case against Saipov.

As the New York Times reported Thursday: “Presidents are typically advised never to weigh in on pending criminal cases because such comments can be used by defense lawyers to argue that their clients cannot get a fair trial — especially when the head of the executive branch that will prosecute the charges advocates the ultimate punishment before a judge has heard a single shred of evidence at trial.”