the biggest box office opening in movie history. i will not see it on the opening day, but i will see it. i mean, i think it's getting great reviews. >> 93% on rotten tomatoes. >> all right. so long. thanks for joining us pt i'm christine roman. >> i'm dave briggs. "new day" has you we have come so far, and the people of alabama have spoken. >> the reckoning has continued. a republican should have won the seat by double digits. >> it's not over and it's going to take some time. >> translator: african-american turnout made the difference. >> donald trump tried to rescue a campaign that was doomed. >> the united states senate is in play in 2018. >> i see it as a sexist smear. it's not going to silence me.

>> your mind is in the gutter. >> this guy is like a 7th grader. you see that in his words and tweets. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is your "new day". it is wednesday, december 13th, 6:00 in new york. the alabama special election was a huge shocker. alabama voters told roy moore and the horse he rode in on to take a hike. he is refusing to secede. but doug jones is the winner. alabama voters have now rejected two consecutive candidates backed by president trump. so the question becomes, was the president's naked play for a senate seat over the growing accusations of sexual abuse and

child molestation a mistake that will have legs? >> the national implications cannot be overstated. it is now down to one seat, which could snarl president trump's legislative agenda. democrats feel more optimistic about seizing control of will both chambers of congress next year. they say reporters's minds are in the gutter thinking that was sexually demeaning. gillibrand is firing back that she cannot be silenced. and there is a bruising new editorial that says the president is not fit for office. we have all of this for you. kaylee hartung is live in alabama. >> reporter: we saw president trump throw the full weight of his presidency behind accused child molester roy moore in the

final stretch of this campaign. in the end it wasn't enough. a stinging defeat for trump, who broke with much of his party's leadership to back the controversial candidate. >> i think that i have been waiting all my life and now i just don't know what the hell to say. >> reporter: democrat doug jones becoming the first democrat in decades to win a senate seat in alabama. stunning the country by defeating embattled republican roy moore in the deep red state. >> as doctor king liked to quote the moral arc of the universe is long but bends towards justice. >> it is not over. what we have to do is wait on on god and let this process play out. >> reporter: doug jones's campaign saying moore did not call jones to congratulate him. but the alabama republican party declaring the race over. >> do you expect anything other than mr. jones being the

stphebgs senator from the state of alabama? >> i would find that highly unlikely. >> reporter: awe source close to the white house describing it as an earthquake. saying the results are devastating for president trump who gave a full throeated endorsement in the final stretch of the campaign. >> get out and vote is for roy moore. >> reporter: the president sending a subdued tweet after the race was called but before moore refused to concede. congratulating jones on a hard-fought victory. the write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. the people of alabama are great, and the republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. >> if they can destroy roy

moore, they can destroy you. >> reporter: the super pac refused to back moore blaming bannon for the loss saying in a statement not only did he cost us a critical senate seat in one of the most republican states in the country but dragged the president of the united states into his fiasco. and a source close to the white house still on stepian to he resign despite the fact that he urged the president not to back moore. the president siding with bannon who a source says a moore loss could embolden democrats to go after mr. trump over sexual allegations he's facing, allegations he vehemently has denied. alabama secretary of state john merrill said it will take a couple of weeks to certify. it won't happen until after christmas. so it is is likely that doug jones won't be scorn in until

the new year. chris, alyson, there is no word on when we'll hear from roy moore next. >> kaylee, appreciate it. let's bring in gregory and professor ron brownstein. gregory, you heard people saying this is nationalized. it's all about alabama. keep it local. it wasn't. both parties ran down to have an outcome. now we have an outcome. what are the implications? >> we are living in an age where politics are so unpredictable. this is a stunning example of that. alabama has just sent a democrat to the united states senate. and, you know, the "star wars" movie is coming out of the weekend. i think we can say the empire strikes back. a rejection of a style of politics that is defined by steve bannon and donald trump.

their own voters don't come out in the same numbers that they did for donald trump for roy moore. incredibly flawed, morally repugnant candidate in roy %-p politics. disturb an voters disapproving of trump, of moore. african-americans coming out in huge numbers as well. and the establishment of the republican party saying, no, this is the wrong direction. and ultimately that prevails. rchard shell but, senior statesmen coming out so decisively at the end of this suke el. democrats emboldened. now alabama. they are saying we can turn things armed after a 2016 loss. >> the voter turn out was high. it wasn't 20% as predicted.

it was 40%. does that mean the democratic turnout machine was better than thought or people were motivated? >> people were motivated. we saw a high turnout in virginia as well. roy moore, to say the obvious, was a candidate with unique vulnerablities and liabilities. but how much this result had in common with what we saw in virginia, new jersey and for that matter about who approves and disapproves of president trump to begin with. as we talked about yesterday, alisyn, three components all clicked together. it was huge african-american turnout and margins. they were a bigger turnout yesterday than in the 2012 race. >> they turned out more for doug jones than for barack obama. >> you see this historic republican trouble with donald

trump with younger voters. he won 60% of millennials but everybody under 45 in alabama. that is after 70% in new jersey and virginia. the disapproval with trump is about 70%. the third piece that came together was a significant movement towards the democrats, again as in virginia and new jersey, among college educated suburban white voters. that was double what obama did. >> and women. >> college educated white women. we talked about this before. the gap between the college and noncollege educated was enormous. at one point jones got to 40% among college whites. he ran 20 points better than hillary clinton in heavily white collar counties like madison, shelby and with the university of alabama and auburn.

among college educated whites who are not aoe sraevangelicals jones won two 30s of those nonevangelical college whites. that is ominous. >> one of the reasons it was helpful to watch last night, that state moved from the north and central regions of manufacturing, the ruby red republican, evangelical and down. you got to see the staggered returns in real-time. there is a mystery that the evangelical vote has to figure out. how can they be so in on someone with so many checks on his morality? boy, there seems to be such a disconnect between what is in the good book and what they are backing in candidates. 80 plus to 18 were the numbers

last night. and the bigger question of why, why doug jones won. i stated in the introduction it seemed to be a call to decency that was responded to. do you think that's true, or is it being too optimistic? >> i think there was a call to decency and just a rejection of roy moore as someone who has embarrassed the state deeply within political circles. from the outside we were looking at alabama. it is easy to caricature the state and its voters on roy moore. will alabama set that record straight. yeah, there may be a core base for roy moore and what he stands for but it was not enough to prevail in the state. that's very important. it shows something that trump is something of a singular figure and don't necessarily transfer to other candidates. that is something he will have to take stock of. he has this divided, very uneasy coalition as he moves into being head of the party in 2018 and then of course in 2020.

the evangelical piece bears i think deeper examination and more time. i think the high points of that are a deep strain of pragmatism that runs that in that community that is not about morality as such as who can, a, win and, b, who will validate who evangelicals are. it goes back to the 19th century where they didn't want to look like fools in the battles over evolution in the scope trials. a legitimacy. i think evangelicals as a political block are not voting on the whole picture. they're being organized and are intense around issues like, you know, generally the role of god in life and kind of the millennial understanding of the end of days for some. and issues like the core like abortion and so forth. >> real quick, recognizing roy moore has problems, what you see is the continuation of a big

trend under donald trump and the way he is defining the party, republicans are training improved performance among older, blue collar evangelical and rural whites for awe significant erosion of minority voters, urban voters, white collar -- >> exactly what you saw last night. the flip between urban and rural was huge. the flip between straight evangelical versus noneach van gel cal college educated was huge. >> and the groups that are growing. in a suburbanizing, urbanizing that is more diverse where millennials will exceed the baby boom, those are what the trump era gop is trading away for very strong hands. those voters matter. democrats have to win more to control the house and the snate. in the cosmic scheme of things

you see in alabama, as you did in virginia and new jersey, the trump definition of the party is driving away a very consistent coalition. >> can i just say, too, look at the brand of democrat that's been winning. it is not the bernie sanders win of the party. i think there is something to take away from that. i think it is specific to being in alabama and specific to being in virginia as well. but i think there is something to take away from that. in these races you do have one opponent against another. and i think that the vulnerabilities of hillary clinton led to certain demographic trends we saw in that race that are being up ended here that was about her as a candidate and trump running an inside straight in that election. that's something to keep watching as we try to make this into a pattern. that's what ron's expertise is by looking at the numbers. we have to see if this continues to be borne out. >> is very quickly, ron, in terms of the numbers going forward, the balance of power doesn't shift. the tax vote is safe.

>> right. >> but going forward, it just gets much slimmer. >> right. absolutely. on the tax vote, what we've seen -- one of the clearest things, as we have said, in all of these races is a big white collar movement away from the republicans. you have in northern virginia, suburbs of philadelphia, orange county, new york, and new jersey, a lot of republicans being asked to vote for a bill that because the way it would raise taxes on many of the same voters who are pulling away from president trump on cultural and personal grounds. that is a big ask worth noting. 87% in virginia. 82% in new jersey. 85% in alabama. the president is a lot less popular than he was in alabama f. you're one of those republicans, you have to hear footfalls even as you're being asked to vote for this bill. >> ron brownstein, gregory,

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president trump is under fire once again for a provocative twitter attack against a woman. this time senator kirsten gillibrand who called what he said about her a sexist smear. the white house is pushing back saying it wasn't sexist at all, in fact, blaming anyone who thinks that for having a mind in the gutter. joe johns is live at the white house with more. joe, what's the story? >> reporter: well, chris, the controversy over the president's tweet that got the most attention was an insult that was contained in the things he wrote there indicating that senator kirsten gillibrand, one of the most prominent female officeholders in washington, d.c. would come begging to his

office for contributions and would do anything for them. that was construed by the president's critics as containing sexual innuendo, especially given the fact that the president had used that kind of language before. the position from the white house press secretary was pretty simple, that people were reading things into the president's tweet that simply were not there. listen. >> i think all of your mind is in the gutter if you have read it that way. it is obviously talking about political partisan games that people often play and the broken system that he has talked about repeatedly. this isn't new. this isn't awe new sentiment. this isn't new terminology. he has used it several times before. >> reporter: but this controversy was certainly not going to end there because senator gillibrand herself was not about to give the president the benefit of the doubt. >> it was a sexist smear attempting to silence my voice.

and i will not be silenced on this issue. neither will the women who stood up to the president yesterday. >> reporter: this latest controversy coming in the midst of the me too movement where a number of democrats, including senator gillibrand, are calling on the president to resign. others of course asking for an investigation into the president's treatment of women. chris and alisyn, back to you. >> he joe, thank you very much. let's bring back gregory and editor at large chris cillizza. let's start with the tweet from yesterday. it came out on our watch. >> he yeah. >> so we had to react in real-time. there was no getting around that parenthetical suggestion of what kirsten gillibrand suggested she would do for campaign contributions. we had to stop just to each other. wait. is that what that a is saying? >> as usual, alisyn assumed i

was making it up. >> it couldn't believe it was that explicit. they say our minds are either in the gutter. that means they're tone deaf or they're fudging this again. >> yeah. look, i think the reality of sarah huckabee sanders's job is donald trump does stuff and she finds way to normalize what he does. she signed on for it. this is not an excuse. but that's what she does. if it doesn't have sexual innuendo to it, then what does it mean? i expect more time than i would like to admit trying to figure that. is he just unaware of how words mean things so the begging reference before would seem to suggest or is she was willing to promise political or policy

favors? if you give me this money i will do something on a bill for you. but that's not at all what it's implying. you can say well, it's twitter. sit 280 characters. you could say legislation, policy. there are ways to mitigate that and drive home the point here. everyone would hear it differently. reasonable minds, in my opinion reasonable minds when you look a lot that would think this certainly -- >> three bad things came out of it. absolutely no matter how you look at it, three bad things came out. one, there was this poll from news max who said this is why people should really go over his tweets. no. because if this is what he thinks, this is what i want to read. i don't want it sanitized and for you to help a guy. two, sarah sanders said he's talking about this terribly rigged system. he was a donor of gillibrands. he was a in the swamp, a big old

gator. you can't talk about him as a change agent. he benefited from it. either he meant this and it's ugly and sexist or it goes to a tone deafness and where his head is when he talks about women. april ryan had a brilliant take on this. if he hadn't said what he said about megyn kelly, rosie o'donnell, all these other women, maybe we wouldn't take it that way. >> look, this is a man who is now president of the united states who referenced the size of his penis during the presidential debate. do we need to know anymore? he's crude and crass. and actually, chris, i disagree, i wish someone would review his tweets and remind him that he holds the same office that abraham lincoln did and perhaps he shouldn't accepted that out to tens of millions of people. and at the white house the

people who speak for the president are not serious people. it should be taken seriously and gravely. we should not spend a lot of time listening to the things that they say because they shouldn't be taken seriously. the same people who are threatening jim acosta with not being invited to a pool event. this is the peoples house and these people, all administrations, are just passing through. this is not a kingdom. so i think this is what it is. the president is crude and crass. he will be judged for this. he's a gut player who thinks that kind of street talk has gotten him to where he is. we'll see how it goes from here. >> "usa today" has an editorial today that could not be more stark. here's what it leads with. a president who would all but call senator kirsten gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the barack obama presidential library or to shine the shoes of george w. bush.

>> i wrote about it last night. that line is the most catching. there's a line in there that says -- it comes right after that. it says george w. bush and barack obama made his takes as president. they did things wrong. we didn't agree with them all the time. but they were fundamentally committed to sort of moral leadership in the country. they were trying to do what they viewed to be what is right and decent. and he has not. i've read about this. david and i have talked about this. we have all talked about this. donald trump does not believe that there is a moral leadership component to being president of the united states. we saw it in charlottesville. we see it over and over again. when confronted in things in which it is not about partisanship, it is about leadership, he simply vacates that part of the job, which is awe critically -- i should say has been from zero presidents to

44 presidents a critically important piece of the job. >> and i would submit there's a reason for that. for all the heat i take because my last name is cuomo, i grew up close to this process. you have to, he or she, surrender themselves to the weak at some point. at some point they have to do that. this president, i said it to him during the campaign directly. people around him know this. he struggles to do that. the proof, the tweet that he just sent this morning. this is a moment for him to surrender himself to what just happened, but he won't. the reason i originally endorsed luther strange, and his numbers went up mightily, i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. i was right! roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him! the president learned nothing last night. >> right. this is what he does and what he's going to continue to do,

street brawl it out and try to make himself look better. and i don't think anybody around him will talk him back from that. he looks bad. he's looked bad in the alabama race from the very start. he assumes everything is about him. this is a striking point to your last point about your family's tradition and the concept of we, office, over individual. jst as you say, oh, this guy is not my president. i say, yes, he is. he is america's president. because the presidency is bigger than donald trump. that's what his predecessors understand. plenty of moral failures along the way, by the way, among even the greatest of our leaders in history. but a sense that this is about the presidency, not just him, that's what matters for our country and the world. >> david, chris, thank you very much. >> all right. another big story for you to follow this morning. a diplomatic overture from the u.s. to north korea.

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they have too much invested in it. and t >> those are two different analogies. let's discuss all the different facets with james clapper, former director of national intelligence. good to have you on the show, sir. >> thanks, chris. >> first, good idea direct talks with north korea, the idea of no preconditions? is that a doable thing as well? >> first, it is absolutely the right idea, maybe the only idea that i think is viable with any diplomacy or negotiations. when i engaged with the north koreans three years ago it became abundantly clear after five minutes of dialogue, including translation time, there is no way they will denuclearize for further dialogue. the north koreans are stuck on their narrative and have been for a long time. as have we.

the united states is by far the bigger partner. so we're going to change this dance. only the united states can do that. so i am a strong supporter of what the secretary said in a very direct way for them. and i'm sure the north koreans are mulling this over. >> that's good news because of your perspective. however, there's a troubling counter to your own opinion, which is ironically coming from the white house. let's put up their statement about this. this is sarah sanders. the mouthpiece for the president. the president's views on north korea have is not changed. north korea is acting in an unsafe way not only toward japan, china, and south korea but the entire world. north korea's actions are not good for anyone and certainly not good for north korea. now, that is being taken as somewhat of a negation of where rex tillerson is on his position. do you agree with that and what does it mean to you, if so? >> i'm not exactly sure what she

meant by the president's position has not changed. the message i would prefer to listen to here is the secretary of state. hopefully that's the message that will prevail. and i think he did a great thing by stating this in a very public forum. i also think, by the way -- that's the carrot. we also need to maintain the stick, meaning squeezing the north koreans with sanctions. so when we do talk we have some leverage to exert. but i just hope that the secretary's credibility has not been undermined and won't further be by a direct countervention of what he said. i think this is the only path ahead, the only viable path to help resolve this crisis.

and i also think this actually his statement will come as a relief in the region, specifically seoul and tokyo. this will gain points with the chinese who have long implored us to dialogue with the north koreans. >> look, this has been very controversial. we actually had democrats on the show pleading for this in the throes of the president saying we may have to go after this guy and all the bombastic talk he was using. now it raises the question whether or not the white house will back up these efforts. we can't answer that today. we'll have to see. let me ask you about something else while i have you here. >> all right. >> there is another layer on the headline that members of mueller's team, fbi investigators, seem to have been showing an anti-trump bias. first, you had the man the fbi investigator struck. he was removed from the team. now you have more information

about another investigator that he was speaking with, a member of the fbi, lisa page, texts where they were apparently calling trump an idiot, saying he and bernie sanders maybe cancel each other out. first of all, how uncommon is it for fbi investigators to hold political opinions? two, is there an overarching concern about the legitimacy of the mueller probe? >> even people that work in the national security arena are entitled to their own political views. and i know for a fact that throughout the intelligence community there are very strong on the hill views about president trump. the issue is if that affects their work. this is one special agent who was on the team. special counsel mueller did exactly the right thing last july when he was made aware of

the texts. in an abundance of caution to remove the special agent from the team. i question how much one person can have an overall impact on this investigation. i just think this needs to be -- to play out. as far as special counsel mueller's character and integrity and does this cast doubt on the manner in which he conducted this investigation, in my mind, absolutely not. i don't know of anyone better suited from the standpoint of his character to conduct this very delicate and very important in the history of our country investigation than bob mueller. >> mr. clapper, as always, thank you very much for joining us. if i don't speak to you before then, merry christmas. >> thanks, chris. and the same to you and your family. >> yes, sir. taunting president trump on facebook before he detonated a

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okay. so how is doug jones's huge upset victory playing in the white house this morning? the "new york times" reports that president trump's aides are bracing for the fallout. this morning the president is already tweeting that he knew roy moore would not win the election. let's bring in cnn political analyst maggie haberman. what is happening in the white house this morning? >> they're waiting to see what the president's phaotd is looking like. we have seen so far the tweet that he posted is he is making himself i predicted moore wouldn't win. one of the things we have seen from the president when you are on all sides of app issue you can claim you have been right at different points. that's what's happening here. there are a couple of likely targets. his relationship with mitch mcconnell is not good. mcconnell had been the person

who wanted him to endorse luther strange. the president refused to budge. the president has a paralytic fear of losing his base heard steve bannon in his ear and publicly saying your movement is marching on without you. a lot of white house aides are hoping he will blame bannon. and he might blame bannon for a time. i think he fears bannon to some extent. fingers are being pointed at the white house. he does have some allies in the west wing. john kelly has been complaining about that for a while. there's plenty of blame to go around. there are a million factors that led to this. >> if we look at his most recent tweet, i endorse luther strange. luther strange got whooped by roy moore. there's the first mistake. i said roy moore would not be

able to win the general election. most people thought he should win because alabama has not elected a democrat in 25 years. >> when did the president say he wasn't going to win? >> never. it he doesn't have the facts straight. but that's not unusual. the problem for his people, he is looking to distance himself from what happened last night. >> correct. >> in order to do that, that means somebody else will have to take the fall. is it bannon? >> i think bannon will be one of the people. some blame will be pointed toward mitch mcconnell. i think this is not going to help his relationship with jeff sessions whose seat this was. and the president has had a very difficult relationship with his attorney general this year because of the reaccusal in the rush is that-related probes. i think it is too soon to say where it's going to go. people in the white house will urge him to stop listening to steve bannon. he remained very influential

figure in the west wing. >> he took a shot at trump's daughter. >> he shared that view for having gone out and said the special place in hell line. she is seen for speaking for him and having his proxy in ways aides are not. however, there is some sense that bannon had two rallies for moore himself. the one on monday night became about even else. incident was mitt romney, ivanka trump. it was all over the place. it was less focus what the issues were at hand for vote issers in alabama. that gives people a hook. but, again, the president doesn't like closing the door on a lot of people permanently. i think bannon will remain in that category. bannon has an instinctive field for trump's base. that he does not always have while he is inside the white house. >> there are people outside the white house calling for bannon to be ousted. i guess that's the wrong word.

i guess ostracized. >> they are hoping for him not to be listened to. i doubt it will be true forever. >> after alabama disaster gop must do the right thing and dump steve bannon. his act is tired, in aeupb and morally vacuous. if we are to make america great again for all americans, bannon must go. and go now. and the alabama result shows that mr. bannon is less about conservative policy victory than does personal king-making. gop voters, take note. mr. bannon is for losers. ouch! >> rupert murdoch, the president has on speed dial and does listen to. >> the gillibrand tweet, we had it during the show.

it was hard not to look at it as having something to do with a feminine aspect to it because of what he said about megyn kelly, what he said on "access hollywood", what he says about women so many different times. >> they said their minds were in the gutter about megyn kelly too. he walks up to a line and sticks his head over the line, looks around, everyone can see it. then he falls back and says look at all of you saying this. how can you say this? talk news overreacts. if you keep overreacting, this is the problem here. this is all on you, media. there have definitely been criticisms of kirsten gillibrand for being politically flexible, certainly when she got the senate seat. she changed a lot of positions. >> she was a republican. then they became a democrat. >> and she was representing a conservative district when she was in congress.

and she has tried to reposition herself to be a liberal. >> very pro-clinton. now she is calling out the allegations against him. >> she has become very anti-wall street. you can understand what he is pointing to. again, it is the language that he uses that is extremely p provocative and will be taken by most people -- >> if it were a man, would he have said it the same way? >> i think there is no other way to hear it. she was willing to do anything. >> what most people do in a situation like that where it sounds like a double entendre, they don't say it. the president says it's all on you. one thing difficult for the press, for critics, really for everybody, is because he does not follow any rules, everybody else is forced to play a more perfect game. this is an example of that. >> really if you just put begging in parentheses and would

say he would do anything for it it would be a better double entrendre. >> at a certain pointed, you just have to move on. >> all right. let's do that. maggie, stick around. we have more questions for you momentarily. >> not me. i stay on the tweets. >> i do. >> maggie, thank you very much. alabama voters, doing something they haven't done in 25 years. they put a democrat in the senate. but roy moore not conceding. he's leaving it up to god, he says. we're going to discuss the national implications of this race next.

we have shown the country that we can be unified. >> the president looks like a loser. >> we have been painted in an unfavorable