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>> and the jones campaign headquarters, supporters celebrating the first democrat to represent alabama in the senate in more than two decades. >> alabama, we have been at the cross roads in the past. and unfortunately, we have usually taken the wrong fork. tonight, ladies and gentlemen, you have come back over. >> last month, multiple women came forward accusing roy moore of inappropriate sexual behavior decades ago. just days ago came the presidential endorsement from donald trump, and the polls began to close as of this hour. moore is yet to concede. his only promise is a recount.

>> votes are still coming in, and we're looking at that. may god bless you. and thank you for coming tonight, it's not over. but it's going to take some time. >> let's be clear, alabama's republican party says the race is over. >> we begin with alex at jones campaign headquarters where they are waiting for roy moore to concede. alex? >> reporter: the party here at the doug jones campaign head quarters is winding down. it was a raucous one following this victory. as you can see here, there's still a couple of straglers basking in the glow of doug jones' win. i spoke with the chairman. he said he had a glass of wine in hand. they too are celebrating tonight. what normally happens in these situations is the victor gives a victory speech, which we heard from doug jones. then the loser gives a concession speech, followed by a phone call. the last two things did not

happen. there's been no contact between the moore and jones campaigns. the campaign chairman for jones said he is disappointed, the proper thing would be for moore to call and congratulate doug jones. he said it's a clear win, and he hopes that they wake up in the morning and concede this race. what we expect to happen in the coming weeks is the secretary of state for alabama will certify these votes toward the end of december. and in all likelihood, doug jones will be sworn into the senate in early january. back to you. >> our thanks to alex marquardt at doug jones headquarters. >> to our panel now. okay. caroline, first to you. a great big night for the democrats. sorry to burst your bubble.

democrats can now win senate race where is the republican candidate has been expelled from the state supreme court twice for misconduct and faces credible accusations of sexually abusing teenage girls. you won't get a lot of races like that moving forward. >> no doubt about it. but it had to do with the surge we seen, we saw it in virginia, we saw higher than expected turnout in new jersey. we saw far higher than expected turnout in alabama. so during the primary, it was about 15%. almost 40% for this race. and the secretary of state was predicting a republican, mind you, predicting 25%. so it's not just the candidate, it's also the surge on the left. >> going to bring in john phillips here. i've been waiting all night to hear your read on this, what the democrats saw that republicans didn't see. give us your read on this win. >> could the democrats beat an accused pedophile? i'll give them credit for that. >> everyone saw that. >> oh, boy, did the republicans dodge a bullet tonight.

after seeing that concession speech, can you imagine what damage this man would do to the brand if we had musings from the last surviving confederate general over and over again? it was really -- it's addition by subtraction. they won by losing tonight. i know they didn't want to give up that seat with health care and tax reform coming up. but you don't want to win with that. >> okay. we have heard have from pump who tweet -- >> it never ends. boy, is he right about that. let's take a look at the numbers here. if you look at the write-ins, they made up over 1.5% of the final tally. that could have been the difference here.

that was actually jeff sessions from -- when he won the seat, which is why they're having this election in the first place. if the writings had all gone towards roy moore, you know, austin, i think you look at the result sessions had, 97%, maybe the write-ins were that big a deal. >> i think the writing was on the wall when i spoke to my father, a poster child for republicans in alabama. he said i can't support an alleged pedophile, obviously a man who rides a horse named sassy to vote. but i can't vote for someone knowing that they're going to go there and vote for an agenda i don't support. so he and a lot of people sat out. i think he's a one-term senator. he'll get some easy wins for those that supported him, but he'll have to ultimately play ball.

>> he's waiting for god to tell him what to do, god wrote in nick saban on his ballot. >> mo, you heard what he said there, that he's going to be a one-term senator. the white house echoing that. we're hearing from someone in the white house saying the president's claiming they supported roy moore because they didn't want to see a split between the bannon side of the base and the president's side of the base, but they were ambivalent about him winning. do you buy that? >> no. this is about revisionist history. they wanted roy moore to win. and the stink of roy moore is still on the republican party. the rnc went all-in on roy moore. we're talking about a pro slavery edcandidate, someone kicked off the state supreme

court twice. they have to own this. >> caroline, we now have a situation where the president went all-in for roy moore. he has the consequences of campaigning for an accused child molester, and he didn't win the seat. this is probably a really awful outcome for the white house and for donald trump and for his authority as the president. who is going to take him seriously? what are his threats from this point on? what is his leverage? >> americans are not taking him seriously. he has the lowest approval ratings for any president in modern history, and one out of three americans think he's doing a decent job. his endorsement doesn't matter. it didn't matter with luther strange in the primary. it didn't matter when, yes, the republicans went all-in, $170,000 in the last week that was transferred to roy moore's campaign. at the end of the day, donald trump is the problem with the

republican brand. and you're right, he didn't need competition. it's enough to have one race baiter in the white house, having another in the senate -- >> it was a very close race, and roy moore is kind of -- his concession was a nonconcession speech. he thinks there's going to be a recount. i think that's probably a bigger problem. again, all of the jokes aside, it was a very close race. i think the bigger point is probably if you look at ed gillespie, who was a great candidate. there's a problem getting out the suburban vote, and i think republicans are going to have to do some soul searching for that. >> john phillips, the president threw his weight behind him and we saw a limitation to that. >> i voted for donald trump in the primary, i voted for donald trump in the general election. i'm a trump supporter today. if i lived in the state of alabama, i would not have voted for roy moore. i couldn't morally do it. i would have written someone's name in or voted for the

democrat. we used to live in a world where we had strong parties. we had tammany hall and they picked the candidates. now we have a lot of partisanship but very weak parties. at the end of the day, the quality of the candidate matters. in this particular case, the candidate disqualified himself. >> okay. the reality now is that the democrats hold 49 seats in the senate. the republicans have 51. so mo, mitch mcconnell and the republican senate leader, he said that he will not be seating jones until the tax bill is passed. that should happen till around christmas. they'll rush this bill through. that in itself is not a good look, but it will probably pass. but what about 2018 and the agenda? they couldn't get anything done with 52 senators. i'm guessing it's going to be hard we are 35er with 51. >> it will be very difficult for

this president to get anything done. the longer this tax bill twists in the wind, the less people like it, and the less likely it will pass. mitch mcconnell may have dodged a bullet in terms of roy moore being elected, but he still has to deal with having to deal with the math going forward after 2018, after doug jones is installed. >> you're the trump whisperer here. [ laughter ] very quickly, we saw this rather measured tweet from him after the vote. your thoughts about what we will see from him the day after? >> steve bannon gets blamed. >> don't think so. i think susan collins' wish list -- >> we've seen this administration struggle time and time again to get anything done in congress. this is now a president who is, you know, koukd syou could say feared or respected.

and it's really hard to get anything done. and this result now just makes it so much harder. forget the numbers in the senate. the president's moral authority to push stuff through congress just took a big hit. >> i think you have a big quagmire coming. i think susan collins, she's giddy as a lark now. like i said, their christmas list is checked off. >> another thought here about the president and as you talk about his limitations now going forward after this defeat. one of the central narratives of this race had been fake news and liberal media putting forth a narrative that was untrue about roy moore. was that not repudiated in alabama? does this affect the president going forward? >> the exit polls were reflective of pro trump voters. high 90s that people who voted for moore -- >> and they didn't believe the allegations.

>> it played into the narrative, absolutely. >> for the african-american voters who came out in the droves, again, showing that they will not be swayed by that kind of narrative -- >> he was a bad candidate. at the end of the day -- >> beyond that, it's beyond that. there is something happening with liberals. there is something happening with the left. you had people staying home, but we had people showing up. this was a imiracle. what happened tonight was not supposed to happen. you saw women and black women pulling alabama into the 21st century. it was amazing. >> jones did not talk about donald trump in his victory speech or roy moore. he did not talk about steve bannon. >> this entire race has been about dignity and respect. this campaign has been about the rule of law.

this campaign -- [ applause ] this campaign has been about common courtesy and decency. >> it was also about a whole lot more than that for the democrats. the dnc poured about $1 million into alabama. progressive groups were also there. mo, this puts the democrats on the offensive for the midterm elections. it changes the map. >> it does in the short term. but i want to give a little pause to this. it's a stunning victory, but it saddens me that the second coming of george wallace and bull connor was in such a close election. we're only talking about 1.5%. this was not a run away election. most people thought that roy moore was still going to win. i don't think that this changes the election map. i think it changes the trajectory of where things are going in the short term.

>> does it change the type of candidate fielded by the democrats, caroline? >> i think it does. it embodens the democrats who put up people with a clear message. i don't think doug jones had much of a clear message. i think adding to how extraordinary this was, people were voting for him because they didn't want roy moore. they didn't want a race baiter, someone who is homophobic, somebody who has nostalgia for a time when slavery is legal, or somebody that has accusations of preying upon young girls. it was much more about that than it was about doug jones. they will put up candidates who were much more forceful with a democratic agenda because it's obviously selling. >> john, are we now seeing the electric turn against the president? new jersey, virginia, huge blowback for the president, now this as well, a repudiation of the president, is this the momentum starting to build? >> i don't see this as being a repudiation of the president at

all. this is a bad candidate who had huge problems -- >> embraced by the president. >> but still, it wasn't his choice in the primary. to the point that was made earlier about the democrat yth , in this case, it will be interesting to see what chuck schumer will do with him. he's the blank slate. when he gets in the senate, are they going to let him vote like a red state democrat, voting with the republicans all the time, or hold him in line because the margins are so thin? if they make him vote with the other democrats frequently, he's toast. >> everyone, we'll take a short break. when we come back on "newsroom l.a.," who will take the fall for this stunning loss in alabama. we know the finger pointing at the white house has already begun. >> donald trump is facing new accusations of sexism as he spars with a female senator. the details are just ahead. us lives here. where we can find common ground...

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hello, everybody. you're watching cnn's breaking news coverage of the upset results of the alabama senate race. >> our panel is back with more on this. a lot of questions about the

future of steve bannon. he went down to alabama and campaigned for roy moore. >> three times. >> three times? not once, not twice, but three times. our reporting from the white house sources are selling cnn the president has egg on his face because of bannon. he told if moore lost, the democrats would feel emboldened to go after the president. that's why the president did this. we're told the president is unlikely to blame bannon, but austin, whether or not bannon gets some of the blame, all of the blame, how damaging is this for him, because he was hoping he had a whole host of new republican candidates. >> given the margins in congress, i think there's a lot of internal talk about what seats and what races do we want to play in, because the repercussion and the damage could be long-term.

i would be curious to hear again what the trump whisperer has to say on it. my thought is that alabama basically said listen, we don't want the establishment to pick our candidate. turned out to be a kook. so i think you've got a really big problem that is brewing. >> so the civil war, to his point, where is the civil war now between the bannon side and the rest? >> any other republican would have won this race by double digits. it was steve bannon that got behind roy moore. steve bannon that convinced the president to get behind roy moore, and steve bannon caused them to lose this race. now, if you're a republican donor, if you're someone that gives lots of money to groups that go out and run as candidates for office, are you more or less likely to give steve bannon money after he

produced this result tonight? my guess is, the money dries up. >> you mean the guy who lost a republican race in alabama doesn't get any more money? >> he's picked a lot of losers. >> but he was part of trump's coalition. so i think you've got this world of trump closing in, and you've got this world of the establishment republicans on very thin ice. there isn't a resolution. >> and for those establishment republicans, do they breathe a sigh of relief right now at this moment with steve bannon at least down for these few hours, the fact that his candidate did not win? >> i think they have exchanged one problem for another. yes, they might have dodged a bullet of roy moore, but they have to effectively legislate and push through this agenda and make sure that there is a republican party that is there remaining come 2020. if there is a washout in 2018, they could conceivably lose the house and the senate. and the momentum at this point,

whether you believe it or not, is still trending towards the democrats. after virginia and new jersey, and now alabama, the reddest of all states, alabama, you have to assume at the minimum, this helps the democratic fund-raising arm. >> caroline, how enthused are democrats now because of this, because of new jersey, virginia, the governor races, does this now mean that states which normally would be out of reach, they kind of will be looked at now? >> that's the evidence we see now. the fact that this happened means that everything should be in play for democrats. and we know that the dnc is running around the country looking for races that both on the house and senate side that might be vulnerable when it comes to the 2018 election. doug jones' victory puts the senate in play. >> and just to that point, we have heard from the former democrat presidential nominee hillary clinton. she's on a book tour and had a few words for the crowd. listen to this. >> but boy, i have a lot more

hope tonight than i had last night. you heard it exactly at the same time we did, and i could hear the cheers coming from all of you. >> hillary clinton there. i also want to add what she tweeted earlier. she said alabama elected a senator who will make them proud. and if democrats can win in alabama we can and must compete everywhere. onward. but can they? >> should she just go away? [ laughter ] >> i thought she had. >> i don't mean to be rude. >> but why? >> as long as she's the loudest voice in the democratic party -- >> she got 3 million more votes than the silting president. >> she does nothing for the democrats. >> at this point, i'm just wondering if she does more harm than good by coming out. >> i agree. >> the women's march, the metoo movement, what is happening is

very much inspired by her and people like roy moore and donald trump, sexual predators in the husband. >> and her husband. >> i would absolutely agree with that. but she eat chas cattalized a movement. >> at the end of the day, there was a legitimacy to her -- >> you know, the clintons have dominated the democratic party for such a long time that perhaps it would be good for the party if a new breed of leadership came through. so the average age of the party wasn't approaching 80. let's move on to the blame and the finger pointing. we're hearing from the white house. the finger pointing has begun. one source close to the white house on tuesday night called for the president to replace his political director, bill stepien. sources say he advised against

supporting roy moore, but he has little to no influence. does this come down to the president needs to look at what he's doing? >> i think he got burned in the primary and the general. he took mitch mcconnell's advice in the primary, got behind luther strange, instead of mo brooks, who was probably the strongest candidate. and steve bannon gave him the advice to get behind him in the general election, and that didn't work out either. so look, trump follows -- when trump follows his own instincts, i think he's better off. when he's taking advice from the bannon wing, sometimes they lead him down the wrong path. >> but this is a president who says only his opinion matters. he has the instincts, he knows what he's doing and doesn't listen to other people. >> i think he's likely to double down on that after tonight. >> this is a president who does

not accept responsibility, but he's at his best when he's selling himself. he's at a loss selling other candidates and to speak on behalf of the party and other candidates. as long as donald trump can stay out of the way of the party, they'll be okay. but they've had a problem trying to control him or direct him. >> that is the understatement. >> can we also just note that president obama also weighed in on this race and had robocalls and he helped galvanize the african-american vote. we'll come back in the next hour and see what part that played in all of this. >> thank you for being with us. a call for donald trump to step down escalates with a female senator. why he is being called sexist, next on "newsroom l.a." erve cars to find my next vacation. chile, what's going on? i'm at the el tatio geysers. geezer. geyser. geezer. geyser. enough. geezer. whoaa, wooooo. dude, be careful. i think you should come camping. why would i camp in the atacama desert?

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welcome back, everybody. it's 32 minutes past the hour. welcome to our viewers around the united states. i'm john vause. >> and i'm isha sesay coming to you from los angeles. >> a remarkable upset in the red state of alabama. doug jones has repeated republican roy moore in the state's contentious senate race. >> jones is the first democrat to be elected senator in alabama in more than 20 years. but so far, roy moore has refused to concede, even though the state's republican party says this election is over. >> donald trump spent this election day in a public spat with democratic senator kirsten gillibrand after she demanded his resignation over multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. >> the president lashed out saying she's a lightweight, that would do anything for campaign

contributions. >> it was a sexist smear attempting to silence my voice. i will not be silent on this issue. neither will the women who have been marching since the women's march to stand up against policies they do not agree with. >> joining us now, jessica leavenson, professor at loyola law school. what was truly remarkable what the president did, it was on the same day the special election was being held in alabama. when you look at the exit polls, women went for doug jones by 15 points over moore. so jessica, this attack on kirsten gillibrand seems to be just another issue for a president and a senate candidate in alabama, both of whom have lots of issues when it comes to women. >> yes. i mean, it's somewhat surprising/absolutely astounding that president trump would

decide to highlight on today of all days the fact that he has been the subject of sexual harassment and let's call it for what it was. he was essentially calling a senator a prostitute. he was saying she'll do anything for campaign contributions. he was calling her a lightweight. i think this was in every way discriminatory and plain stupid. on the other hand, at least we're talking about something other than roy moore, who he supported. but he is keeping this issue in the news. you know, this metoo movement is not going away, and he is just throwing logs on the fire. >> areva, this is what elizabeth warren said. let's put it up for our viewers. she said, are you really trying to bully, intimidate and slut shame senator gillibrand? i mean, it does -- she says good luck with that. it is incredible, back to the general point, that the president would go down such a

road, considering his try and everything he's in the mix of. >> he's completely tone deaf on these issues. i think he's been on another planet, as this whole metoo movement has taken so much prominence in the national news, wall-to-wall coverage for the last two months. the list of men who have been fired or who have lost their positions because of allegations of sexual abuse. and the senator called on him to do the very thing that democratic senators called on al franken to do and john conyers. so it wasn't as if she asked him to do something extraordinary or something that wasn't asked of other elected officials, and he being at the highest level of government should be held to the highest standard. and so i think his response to her is what we've seen from him, which is deflect, lie, and attack women. >> very quickly, i want to bring the white house's response into play.

the white house press secretary said your mind would have to be in the gutter to suggest it was sexist. >> yeah, that's where her boss' mind is all the time. that's where his actions are all the time. i feel a little empathy for huckabee-sanders because he has to go out there every day and defield thed defend these policies and statements when there's no clear defense for them. so she's sitting there stumbling, and she even talks about this issue when there's so much evidence to support the allegations against him. and there's no reason to discredit the women who came forward against moore and then somehow believe that the women against donald trump are lying. just no evidence to support that. >> okay. so donald trump is well known for not pulling his punches. everyone, except for vladamir putin, is fair game, it seems. there was the one comment he

made about fox news anchor megyn kelly. >> she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. >> earlier this year, during an ongoing feud with mika brzezinski, he called her crazy, saying she came to his resort ple bleeding badly from a face list. trump said about carly fiorina, look at that face, can you imagine voting for that? donald trump insults a lot of people. but when he insults women, it seems to be especially personal, especially nasty. >> it seems to be personal and i want to pick up on sarah huckabee sanders saying your mind would have to be in the gutter. this is something that happens with president trump and members of his administration. all of the statements you

outlined, we all know what he means. he's talking about -- when it comes to women, how women look, how heavy they are. it's all about appearance. and he -- it's a much different attack than it is on men. and one of his surrogates will say, i can't believe you thought that. we saw that when it was candidate trump. we've seen this throughout the administration. and then it's our fault for taking the statement exactly as it was intended to be taken. so yes, i think it's important that we continue to say there's something deeply troubling about what he says about women. but let's think about the actions. let's talk about the diversity of his administration, which is at historic lows. let's talk about who he is appointing to the judiciary, where he is appointing record numbers of white men. let's talk about who he is appointing in the -- i mean, in his own administration, and so it's also important to look at not just what he says, but the fact that it links very carefully to what he does.

>> stay with us, because we'll take a short break. >> thank you both. when we come back, african-american voters turned out in record numbers, turning alabama from ruby red to blue. more on that in just a moment. ♪ this holiday, the real gift isn't what's inside the box. it's what's inside the person who opens it. ♪ give ancestrydna, the only dna test that can trace your origins to over 150 ethnic regions- and open up a world of possibilities. ♪ save 30% for the holidays at ancestrydna.com

alabama has its first democratic senator in decades after a win by doug jones. the vote exposed deep divisions in the state. >> exit polls had well over 9 in 10 black voters going with doug jones. roy moore held a big advantage with white voters. that was expected. nearly 7 in 10 voted with him. areva, to you. going into this race, there was this narrative that african-american voters were not mobilizing. we kept hearing that over and over again. they're not excited or coming out. but then come the day, the result, they flipped it on their

head. african-americans make up 26% of the electorate there, of the population there in alabama. he got 30% of african-americans out for this vote, which was incredible. i want to put up on the screen how they broke for these candidates. as you see there, black men and black women, over 90%, well over breaking for doug jones. 92% of black men, 97% of black women. and i wonder, areva, whether that had something to do with comments made like this by roy moore. take a listen. >> i think we were great when we were united, even though we had slavery, we cared for one another. >> roy moore there reminiscing about the time of slavery, when families were united. was that a galvanizing factor? >> i think that was. but the reality is,

african-americans are a reliable democratic voting bloc, and we are so often dismissed and our vote is disrespected, and the narrative around our vote is typically negative, and we're cast as being apathetic and not voting. what we saw today in alabama is what you typically see in african-american voters. we are fiercely loyal. and when we are motivated, we come out and we can be the difference in an election. our vote matters. our vote counts. barack obama galvanized the alabama vote, the african-american vote. we saw charles barkley, we saw spike lee, we saw cory booker, in the state, boots on the ground, encouraging black voters to come out and vote, helping the black voters understand how important this race was. they heard the call and they responded. >> but that's the point, it's when they're engaged, when people come out, they come out and speak to them. >> all voters have to have a

reason to vote. >> you can't just assume they're coming out. >> you can't take the vote for grant it. and there was a clear choice. there was a clear difference between these candidates. and the kind of statement about there being a happy time in america during slavery is the kind of statement that gave black voters a reason to go to the polls. >> charles barkley of the nba went down and campaigned for doug jones. he made that point that the democrats have to stop making african-american voters for granted. >> this is a wakeup call for democrats. democrats, and i told mr. jones this, and i love doug. they've taken the black vote and the poor vote for granted for a long time. it's time for them to get off their ass and start making life better for black folks and people who are poor. >> and jessica, if they don't deliver, african-american voters will stay home like they did in 2016. >> they will. and one of the things we need to

look at is this incredible divide between the white voters and the african-american voters. so yes, african-american voters will stay home. and it looks like they came out more than they did in the 2008 and 2012 elections, which is the last time we had good exit polling. i think we need to have a discussion among our communities, among ourselves as to why a man who makes these openly racist comments, who talks about the fact that we shouldn't have the end of the constitution, which was in many ways designed to protect african-americans, why he still did so well with white voters. i think people are seeing this is a victory for african-americans. but i think in a way it's an indictment of many white voters who don't see this as problematic with everybody. >> moore did better with white women than trump did. >> the white women continues to frustrate, particularly african-american women and voters, because there's this sense that there's a coalition

of african-americans and particularly suburban white women, and we saw with respect to donald trump, those white women didn't break in favor of clinton, they broke in favor of donald trump. and we saw tonight the same way. white women broke in favor of moore in high numbers. and some suggest uneducated white women draw their power from white men. so they are going to be aligned with the white male vote more so than any coalition that may exist with minority voters. so white women, particularly if we look at the socioeconomic and the education level of those voters, we'll probably see a huge percentage of uneducated white women voting with roy moore because their husbands, the men in their lives voted for roy moore. so we've got to talk about how do we really build coalitions with white women and african-american, latino and other people of color if we're going to be successful in 2018 and 2020. >> i know you seem like you want

to say something. >> i think that's right. it's key to look at that. but what's striking to me is that these numbers, in terms of who turned out and the racial background of who turned out and how they voted, was actually fairly predictable, except for what we're talking about, which is the overwhelming number of african-americans who voted for roy moore. so most things actually in the alabama race, after all of our talk about the fact that -- >> you mean the african-americans that voted for doug jones? >> excuse me, for doug jones. so all of our discussion about how people thought, well, all of these accusations are going to be a factor, the exit polls show the majority of people that said accusations of sexual harassment and pedophilia weren't a factor. >> okay. >> i think it tells us race, race, and race. >> yeah. jessica and areva, thank you both. a quick break here. next on "newsroom l.a.," we'll

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the past 24 hours defeated candidate roy moore riding his horse to cast his ballot. >> yes, indeed. >> sassy. back to our panel for what was a stand out moment, a take away from what you remember about this election result. >> as much as this was a one off election, it was a special election. you had pedophilia allegations. it's not going oo be re-created. i also think anyone woo works on campaigns now has to add to the list of vetting questions do you intend on riding a horse. >> caroline. >> i think donald trump needs to be as worried about sexual allegations as russia. this matters to a the electorate. it's a salient issue, and this is a man that has an allegation

from a 12-year-old, 13-year-old, and other victims. >> the democrats need not overplay their position and think this is going to ride them off into the sunset for 2018. >> the horse metaphors. >> my take away is that candidates matter. republicans need to field a bunch of people who need to run for office next summer who have been vetted. no more dinner donald trumps. there was the original and it works for him. there's a lot of copy cats where it's like -- >> original sexual predators, not the copy cats. >> and when i said hillary clinton go away, i meant to say is she doing more harm than good popping up and being so visible having lost the election and

having been so divisive in many parts of politics in this country. >> yes. >> donald trump is one really good tweet away from shifting this momentum on the election. >> trump whisperer. >> i say bannon. it may not be in the coming hours, but i think in the long-term bannon takes the blame. >> i i think he also makes a jab at establishment republicans. >> caroline. >> i think it's going to be bannon. he should probably stick to propaganda and breitbart. >> he's just going to have after democrats. >> bannon was taking the blame. shorthandedly was blaming mcconnell. so that's a toss up. >> mcconnell was blamed for the

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i have been waiting all my life and now i just don't know what the hell to say. >> a seismic shift in the u.s. senate, doug jones the first democrat to win in alabama in a quarter century. the vote already leading to calls for a shake-up inside the white house. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. it was a shocker. were you s