. >> weekend update with collin jones and michael james. [ cheers and applause ] >> yeah, thooeat's rightthey e named co-head writers of "saturday night live." the pair are the faces of the show's weekly newscast which began back in 2014. the two are joining current head writers kent sublet and bryant tucker. jones started back in 2005 with chay joining him four years ago. congratulations to them. >> congrats both of them. when you have the ability to literally make it up, it's good. >> i feel like they have really reinvigorated weekend update. it's been sharp. >>> a professor at university sharing an old photo on twitter getting a lot of laughs. here it is. karen spencer's a mom who lives in maryland and before her son samuel could even speak she taught him american sign language. don't think she ever expected him to sign for help while meeting santa claus. >> that's funny. >> santa's a little spooky for little kids. my son, we have this iconic picture of him screaming with his mouth open. he hated every minute of it. >> well, you know, it's the beard. it's the whole experience. >> yeah.

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charles barkley weighed in for doug jones at a rally there. kaitlan collins is at the moore event. s rally. want to go to kaitlan first. steve bannon just spoke at the rally. what was his final message for moore supporters? >> reporter: well, anderson,

charles barkley weighed in for doug jones at a rally there. kaitlan collins is at the moore event. alex marquardt at the jones rally. want to go to kaitlan first. steve bannon just spoke at the rally. what was his final message for moore supporters? >> reporter: well, anderson, steve bannon has been one of roy moore's longest and most ardent supporters in this race, even sticking by him despite those allegations. he was at his last public event last week. tonight he was attempting to fire up the crowd to get out and vote tomorrow. steve bannon, who's from virginia, was telling this crowd here in alabama tonight not to let someone outside of the state attempt to sway their vote, but he got the biggest cheers of the night when he brought up the republican establishment in washington. >> to mitch mcconnell and senator shelby and -- and condi rice and all that -- all that little -- little bobby corker, all that establishment up there, all that establishment up there every day that doesn't have trump's back. you know they don't have his back at all. what they want him for is that corpora

jones. >> kaitlyn collins, thank you so much. >>> right now we bring in our panel. all right. thank. food to see both of you. >> good morning, fred. >> let me begin with you. the president in full campaign mode for roy moore. just three days until voters in blame go to the polls. so how much momentum does this give roy moore? >> i think it helps roy moore and it helps roy moore in that we're a morchlt out from the original "washington post" story where four different women accuse roy moore of trying to date them or in one case sexually assaulting them as teenagers. so, you know, it has faded a little bit from where it was. in my opinion it's too close to make a prediction on who's going to win. i think it will come down to turnout. that's why i think president trump even though he's not going in to alabama is going to pensacola and mississippi to try to draw attention to the race, to signal he's behind moore he has said as much on twitter. but he wants to have his cake and eat it, too, fred, because as kaitlyn reported he still has concerns about the allegation. if he has concerned,

the big problems for the president are mccain, collins and murkowski, not necessarily mr. jones.ember the name scott brown. another special election, he won. he could not win the real election. charles: the conventional wisdom is that jones will be in. what about this guy, 2017 scoreboard. democrat getting a u.s. senate seat. the chamber of washington senate, control of two states, new jersey, washington, they pick up 32 legislative seats versus the gop, 4. that's momentum. i don't know if in politics they call that a wave, can it become a tsunami? >> let's remember ossoff who lost big time in the georgia special election, it hasn't been one way or the other. jon ossoff is a similar situation, terrible candidate, an empty suit that the democrats put enormous amounts of money behind. it comes down to the candidate. >> it was a very competitive race in a red district. should not have been competitive. to the point about reaching younger people. the message from roy moore, saying incredibly incendiary things about muslims, gay people. charles: the democrats were brilliant, to be qui

doug jones believes that the tragic deaths of collins, cynthia wesley, carrolle robertson and deniseuntry. woke up a country that did not know that going to church in the south could get you killed if you were black. and so, those four little girls have taken their place in the civil rights museum that's now right across the street from the spot where the bomb went off at the 16th street baptist church. and when i was in birmingham a few years ago, i stood at the spot where the bomb was planted before touring the museum across the street where i learned more about what martin luther king jr. and rosa parks and med ger evers and others had done and sacrificing in this country's agonizing country's agonized awakening to a need of civil rights movement. a need so urgent at the leaders of that movement had to be willing to die to take their places at the front of those marches. ady may collins, cynthia wesley and denise did not go to church that day to die. they went to pray, to sing, wear their best dresses and their best shoes. the shoes that denise were wearing that day are now on dis

collins. starting with alex at a doug jones event.ow is is the doug jones event feeling heading into final hours before polls open? >> doug jones has taken the stage behind me. the big message he's been pounding tonight, the rallies we have seen over the past few days, is he needs everybody to get out and vote. they need as many people to vote for them as possible. this is incredibly tight race. he hammers roy moore relentlessly, not just for the controversies that have swirled around him for the last 40 years but for these allegations of sexual misconduct and child molestation. and in the past few days, we have also heard jones going after moore for being mia, for not campaigning. we haven't seen roy moore on the campaign trail since last tuesday. there have been reports that moore went to the army/navy game this weekend in philadelphia. so today, we heard jones accusing him of fleeing the state and saying that moore has no sense of duty to the people of alabama. but what really excites doug jones supporters is this is a unique oppor

he's going to need doug jones, they say, to get anything done next year especially with senator collinsa moderate, senator paul and other conservatives often wary of any legislation that's proposed, he needs jones now. the environment's changed. >> tell me what a 51-49 senate looks like as opposed to 52-48. >> reporter: it's a big difference, because now moderate republicans and democrats can shape the conversation in a way that they have not over the past year. it's such a narrow majority that when i talked to david axelrod tonight, bob shrum, veteran democrats, they say now democrats can have a say in the way things are tilted. they may not be able to change the tax debate that's moved so far, so fast, democrats are probably not going to be able to stop that before jones is sworn in. at the same time, the bigger projects of next year, infrastructure, welfare reform, things republicans have talked about, democrats either want to stall it or pull it back. because of the 51-majority in the senate for the republicans, they think they can do that. >> i want to put up the headline from the

jones. the president's former chief strategist steve bannon will be campaigning later this evening in alabama with moore. kaitlyn collins is here and what more can you tell us about former president obama now directly getting involved in supporting doug jones? >> we have seen the effort on behalf of democrats to counter the endorsement of roy moore in the race. not don't did they travel to campaign on behalf of the opponent and doug jones in the race, but we received an e-mail from former vice president joe biden touting doug jones's leadership abilities and we know that two democratic officials told my colleague that former president barack obama recorded a robo call on doug jones's behalf. this comes at a time when president trump recorded a robo call on roy moore's behalf. 24 hours before voters go to the polls tomorrow and in his call we are told that president obama says what a fighter doug jones is and he's a fighter for progress and equality and he will be there for voters saying this is too serious of an election for them to stay at home and not vote. we are also told that the targeted audience for this call is

jones gets up to washington, d .c. because of that razor thin majority. republicans aren't unified on that tax reform plan. people like senator susan collins have concerns about it, but this puts a lot of pressure on them to get this done before the jones takes office. >> kevin, give us a sense of how this effects the power dynamic between the administration and players in the senate in the republican party. it is a razor thin majority but a majority nonetheless. it is the beginning of a domino effect that could swing the outcome of the tax vote. >> we are hearing from top democrats already, including tom perez, who has praised doug jones for his victory. more seat.at has one i would note the tension -- you are right, there is tension between the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and steve bannon, the former chief strategist, it is palpable to say the least. steve bannon was the architect behind the roy moore's campaign, it is a stunning defeat in a deeply, deeply conservative state, a stunning defeat in a state that president trump carried against hillary clinton easily, by double digits. so this is a really significant blow to steve

jones. our white house reporter kaitlan collins is joining us from midland city in alabama.tlan, the battle lines clearly are drawn, but not always necessarily along party lines. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, wolf. it's certainly getting interesting here in the 11th hour of this race, and although the white house said president trump would not come to alabama to campaign for roy moore, he came about 20 miles from the state line on friday and told an arena filled with alabama residents to vote for roy moore. and he's also on the other end of the phone when alabama voters are picking up their phones this week, urging them to vote for roy moore in this race in a prerecorded message. >> roy moore is the guy we need to pass our make america great again agenda. roy is a conservative who helped me steer this country back on track after eight years of the obama disaster. get out and vote for roy moore. his vote is our republican senate and it's needed. we need roy to help us with the republican senate. we will win and we will make america great again. >> reporter: but that's cert

. >>> susan collins demanded it in exchange for her support of the tax plan. >> late last night jones republican roy moore filed a lawsuit to drop the certificati certification. moore faced accusations of sexual misconduct with under dpts a aged girls. >> a group of former pageant winners will pick new leaders and a new leadership structure. keyboard members resigned after detailing conversation about pa she want members looks and their sex lives. >>> they are digging out from more than 5 feet of snow. ron has more on the massive snowfall. >> reporter: they are hoping to finally take a break. the snow emergency has been lif lifted. now the clean up and digging out begins. they are also facing bitter cold bone chilling temperatures here. much of the country has frozen over. >> this is what fell, all of this. rfrmg >> reporter: a big chill just in time for the new year. temperatures plungining to minu 97 degrees. >> it seeps every dms every daya new record. >> i know. we have broken record after record. >> the national guard digging out thi nursing home. bra entrances and exits blocked

that would not have been yours, it is hard it hang on to that, doug jones could become a better vote for donald trump than susan collins. gregg: roy moore is so unpredict inin to many ways. >> topic three, and fake news is subject. here is donald trump tweet. we should have a contest as to which of networks, have most dishonest, corrupt and di -- political coverage of your favorite president, in your judgment winner? >> i think a hands down call for cnn. on the way here, i tried to write down a few of fake news stories. one they said donald trump jr. collaborating with wikileaks, they got it wrong. we had single source that donald trump would not con-- confront vladimir putin about. >> and a single sourcing said that scarscaramucci was under investigation, he was the not. they said comey would testify, and he never told trump he would not under investigation, false, they screwed up a fake news story from oxnard university, it had to walk that back, whole time, they started this fake news thing, complaining to obama white house, sensor merconservatives now they alike they are under attack, they win the award. gregg: chr

jones, will cast his ballot. roy moore set to arrive at his polling place on horseback. kaitlan collins are in montgomery. alex, to you first. the mood on the ground is what? >> reporter: there's excitement and a flury of activity going on here in mountain brook because we are waiting for doug jones to show up any moment now to cast his ballot. i think there's an overarching sense it's here and we finally get to vote. this has been a long and grueling and often bitter, divisive and ugly campaign. everybody from the candidates to the media to the voters themselves are ready to see this election actually happen. anybody who is going to be voting today is going to be particularly passionate. this is a special election taking place in an off year, mid december, right before christmas. doug jones is hoping that he has the wind in his sails and the energy he believes he created over the weekend with rally after rally pumping up the troops will carry over into the voting booths today. he really needs every vote he can get. he has been trying to peel off moderate republicans, particularly women, who would have fou

. >> alex in birmingham, alabama, at the doug jones democratic campaign headquarters. let's go to katelyn collins where judge moore's campaign headquarters is located. obviously a lot more quiet where you are and an mc just a minute ago said they're doing a lot of praying there in montgomery. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, jake. it might be the opposite of what we just heard from alex marquar. it's actually grown quite quiet from the last time i spoke with you. and roy moore had come through the room, shaking hands, taking pictures. and now we're seeing those numbers grow closer and closer and see jones take a lead while these precincts are still reporting, it has gotten very quiet and gloom ea in this room. campaign officials for disappeared and texts have slowly grown. but it is quiet here, jake. >> with 90% of the vote in, democrat doug jones is up by 11,000 votes. a stunning turn of events. i think there are a lot of people that were very skept skl this race was actually going to be as close as it is, much less that doug jones might potentially win this race in deep red alabama. let's go to

child sexual abuse, senator-elect doug jones' victory this week was also seen as a vindication for four black free-teen girls. carol robertson, addyi may collins, cynthia wesley, and denise magnair. they lost their lives in the brutal bombing of the 16th street baptist church in birmingham on september 16th, 1963. jones built a reputation with alabama's black voters as the federal prosecutor that sent two of the ku klux klansmen responsible for the bombing to prison for multiple life sentences. among those voters was lisa magnair, who was born one year after her sister, denise, was killed in the bombing. joining me now and it's an honor, is lisa magnair. thank you, lisa, for being with us this morning. tell us what the election of doug jones to the u.s. senate, a man who 20 years later made people that were responsible for your sister's death held accountable. what did it mean to you and your family? >> well, thank you, first of all, for having me. it meant the world. i think it was definitely exciting for us in our family, because we feel it's very well deserved. just based on doug's history in the bombing case and other cases. but also for t

the jones' camp may roll out the obama robo call. our kaitlan collinsn midland city where moore plans a campaign event this evening. the two have taken different tactics over the weekend in terms of how much they are out there trying to rally voters? >> yeah, that's certainly right. roy moore had all but disappeared from the campaign trail. we have not seen him in nearly a week. now despite that, john and poppy, we did hear from roy moore yesterday and one of the few interviews that he's done since these sexual assault allegations were first made against him in november. now in an interview with a local outlet, roy moore denied he has ever molested anyone and repeated his claim that he does not know the women who have accused him of sexual assault. >> i do not know them. i had no encounter with them. i never molested anyone. for them to say that, i don't know why they're saying it, but it's not true. >> reporter: now in the last few days we've seen a really aggressive effort on behalf of democrats to rally support for roy moore's democratic opponent in

jones. he wrote, simply, as you see, country over party. caitlin collins is out front. a big rally here.udge moore has the support of the president, the rnc is back. bannon's speech tonight described as fire breathing. i know it starts any moment where you are. you have been talking to them about what wee're going to hear. what can we expect? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. we're certainly expecting a fiery speech here tonight, erin, from steve bannon. as you know, that former white house chief strategist has not only been one of the longest backers of roy moore in this race, but also one of the most ardent. he stuck by him despite those multiple sexual assault allegations made against roy moore, much like the way he stuck by donald trump during the presidential election last year when multiple women accused him of sexual assault. tonight, we're told by people close to bannon nat we can expect him to be breathing fire in this barn behind me here in fairhope, alabama. he's not only going to go after people like roy moore's opponent, democrat doug jones, labeling his a progressive radical

not plan by any means, people like senator susan collins have concerns about it at a blitz a lot more pressure on them to get this done before doug jonesakes office. us af: kevin, can you give little bit of a view of how this plays, the razor thin majority. might this still fire up other conversation and begin a domino effect that could actually swing the outcome of the tax vote? guest: we are hearing from top democrats already including that dnc chairman tom perez who has praised doug jones for his victory. the first am in more than a generation that a democratthe fa generation that a democrat has won a senate seat. in addition to that, i would note that you are absolutely right, there is tension between senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and republican steve bannon, it isve palpable. campaign was stunningly defeated in a deeply, deeply conservative state, a state that president trump carried against hillary clinton easily come up by double digits. significant really blow to steve bannon and his political coalition. i think republicans will be scratching their heads and trying to regroup tonight especially as they had toward that

jones seated. however, there have been some questions about senator susan collins, for example, is she getting whathis bill? she seems to still be on board with it, but has also said if the negotiations don't go the way she wants them to, rerese h reresefshs the right to vote against it. it makes it a riskier proposition. democrats would argue the longest this tax bill is out in the open, the more people will be able to poke holes at it, the more the polling might matter more in the national debate. so far we just haven't seen the mobilization against this that we saw around health care. you combine that with the republican desire to get this done there a political perspective. here we are with them pushing this through to the end of the year. again, i would be -- i would be shocked if mitch mcconnell delayed this bill past the end of the year. andrea? >> thanks so much, kasie. if you can stand by, we'll bring back msnbc political analyst, former republican national chairman michael steele, msnbc political editor mark murray, washington post national political reporter robert costa, moderator of "w

collins, thank you so much. let's go to alex marquardt. he's at doug jones' headquarters, the democrat in birmingham, alabama. alex. >> reporter: hi, there, jake. doug jones has had a pretty busy day, after voting early this morning on the outskirts of birmingham, he went around to different polling stations, shaging hands with the voters. now with less than an hour before the polls close, he's doing the same. once the polls close, he will come here to this hotel which is serving as his election headquarters. the campaign has a suite for him. he will be watching the returns come in with his staff and with his family. now, as for prepared remarks, what we can expect from doug jones later tonight, i'm told they have not prepared any sort of speech yet, that once the candidate here, he'll sit down with his campaign team. they'll go over what they want to say. win or lose, according to the campaign chairman, i'm told jones will go back to a theme he has been hitting pretty hard on the campaign trail, one of unity and one of working together. and then i'm told we're expecting at some point tonight, moore and jones

or maybe republican senator susan collins, john mccain, ran paul and lisa mckowski for voting against obama care. republicans rallying around doug jones and helping him win a historic senate race in alabama. which is it, joan? what do you say was best political move of 2017? >> i think it's all the moves that democrats and the naacp and other voting groups made in alabama. they won a race that they were not expected to win. and, you know, a lot of people gave in some ways too much credit to the fact that it was roy moore and he really is, was, still around, kind of a despicable human being. but there was also a lot of learnings taken from that race in atlanta where democrats lost but came closer than they were expected from virginia. there was a lot of emphasis placed on ground game on organizing and on church to church organizing, on getting fe felons who got their voting rights back, telling them you got your voting rights back but this is what you need to vote. >> i'm glad you said that. jason, you and i were talking. a lot of the traditional organizations, naacp, our group national action network, black churches, black radio were

collins? she's a key swing vote for him on some of the key issues. you are heading into a year with doug jones where you will only have a 51-seat majority. fp >> anytime you make a promise and don't live up to it, that's a problem. it's quite interesting some of the senators went along with the tax bill. you think of bob corker saying he would not vote to raise the deficit by a penny and then votes for this. i thought it was going to be a closer vote and much more, you know, on the bubble than it ended up being. at the end of the day the republicans came through and delivered and they circled the w wagons. that's why i think it's so fast kwraeuting, because the republicans have a chance to go into the new year after scoring the victory, and now they are being casts as the grinch that stole christmas. it's horrible optics. >> they need it, amber. we have a generic poll, if you were to vote for a generic republican or democrat in the 2018 terms, who would you vote for? an 18-point lead, the largest lead we have seen for either party before a mid-term election. what are you thinking if you are a

jones is seated. michael, this has to make senator collins and other true moderate republicans ever more powerful.hael: that is true, tom. people who have something to negotiate are going to have power in the senate, particularly with republican leader mcconnell because they need every single vote. they can only lose to now instead of three-put. if you have a tie vote, the vice president can break the tie, but it will be much harder to dismantle obamacare. collins and murkowski already oppose that, plus the fact that all trump has seriously alienated jeff flake, who will be in the senate one more year. john mccain is no friend of his. ker worried about the deficit. the other thing it does is emboldened democrats. chuck schumer can recruit a lot more candidates to run in 2018 because he can say if a democrat can win any where. nejra: it's still quite a far shop for them to actually win a majority in the senate, right? michael: they are defending 24 seats and most of those are states that donald trump won handily, but does give them a plausible path to take control. they will have to win all the sea

if doug jones wins they would lose another republican vote in the senate with susan collins wavering on the tax plan, and as far as roy moore goes, nobody is quite sure where he will stand on the policy issues. it's not clear that he will go along with senate leadership and go the direction that they want. much.nk you so i want to dig deeper into tax reform now. gary is a noted economist and a bloomberg view columnist. i heard that you have grown openly when you heard the lines at the treasury department noting, this will more than pay for itself. you said something like, sell me a bridge. -- 1964 tax bill introduced by kennedy and promised by johnson -- johnson promised it would not exceed $100 billion. it was $118 billion. you go to the reagan tax cats and the idea was it would pay for itself again. but it didn't, the deficit went up. that is always the song to sell these things but it doesn't work. much the flipside, how worse will this make things? cut.is is a corporate tax three quarters of it go to corporations. we are out of line with globalization. with 35% tax rates and irel

jones to come to the senate. we will see where a couple of the senators are sitting. >> and republican senators, right? even senator collinsine who is reluctant. >> and corker. >> yeah. neil: she said don't lower the top rate. she just said in the final tax bill. they made other concessions for her. >> right. >> but the republicans are trying to get doug jones. >> corker was the only no vote. he still sounds like a no vote because he seems to be insisting these allowances have only made the debt issue a bigger issue. >> hey hasn't said he won't vote for it yet but does have the same reservations. susan collins hasn't said no. we're in the weird limbo game. neil: will they get this all resolved before christmas and make a moot point of jones when he comes to washington? >> it's in their best interest to get this done, he hasn't said whether or not he would vote for tax reform and might not have a chance, it's better not to risk it and get it done for the republicans. >> we know the republicans want to start the tax changes on january 1st. have you critics saying you need to give the population a little adjustment time, not

collins at moore campaign headquarters in montgomery, alabama. thank you so much. wolf blitzer, back to. you. >> yeah, looks like doug jones will be sworn in in early january as the next united states senator from alabama. once again, we're standing by, we're standing by to hear from the loser, roy moore. he's getting ready to speak. lots more of our special coverage on this historic night when we come back. with 5 times more ethnic regions... ancestrydna can pinpoint where your ancestors are from... and the paths they took to a new home. could their journey inspire yours? order your kit at ancestrydna.com [he has a new business teaching lessons. rodney wanted to know how his business was doing... ...so he got quickbooks. it organizes all his accounts, so he can see his bottom line. ahhh...that's a profit. know where you stand instantly. visit quickbooks-dot-com. >>> and welcome back. an extraordinary night in american politics, in alabama politics. you're looking live at the roy moore campaign headquarters where we are anticipating roy moore to come out at any moment, really, and make a speech. perhaps very different than

jones industrial average. something, by the way, that has never happened before. in washington, republican leaders inching one step closer to passing tax reform. republican senator susan collinsike lee now announcing that they will indeed support the final tax bill. and tragedy strikes in washington state. six people are killed. more than 70 people sent to the hospital in a major amtrak train derailment. at this hour, officials investigating what's going wrong. first, we begin with president

collins. he is in midland city where the president's former chief strategist steve bannon will be there struchliumping for roy mo. we saw doug jonesalking about his wife and the robocall he knows about. what about him? where is he today? >> mia is a good way to put it. he's not held any public events with steve bannon, and the first time we're seeing him in a week is here tonight in this barn behind me with steve bannon and that's quite unusual and we're in the 11th hour of this high-stakes, highly contested race and roy moore has not done public events with reporters and supporters or anything that we've seen and that's something that the doug jones campaign has been taking advantage of because they sent out an e-mail to supporters touting all of the things he's done, and traveling statewide. they say that they've done lends of events in the last two months and knocked on 80,000 doors this weekend alone and the only time we did hear from roy moore this weekend was on sunday because he taped an interview with the local outlet where he denied the allegations made against him saying that he's never molested anyone and he did not mee

jones is seated. protests took place throughout capitol hill on wednesday. members of the center for popular democracy demonstrated outside the office of republican senator susan collinsf maine until they were granted a meeting to discuss their concerns the bill would repeal the affordable care act requirement that most americans have health insurance or pay a penalty. for more, we're joined in rochester, new york, b by david cay johnston, pulitzer prize-winning investigative specializes in taxes and the economy. now he is founder and editor of dcreport.org. johnston's biography of donald trump is titled "the making of donald trump." his forthcoming book is "it's worse than you think" and will be out in january. david cay johnston, is this tax bill worse than most people think? explain what it is you understand that the house and senate have agreed on. >> this is a fantastically wonderful tax bill if you are a billionaire, hedge fund manager, or one of the 143 americans whose job last year paid over $100 million. you are going to just enjoy this bill to the hilt. on the other hand, the republicans have managed with this bill to do what i would have thought was impossi

the reality is, for tax reform, jones being seated or not doesn't really make a huge material difference to their numbers. there's a world where it could, if susan collins were to come out and say she's really unhappy with this compromise for some reason. that would be a second republican vote lost. remember, bob corker voted against this last time because of concerns about deficit spending. but the reality is that mcconnell can still lose that one vote. so right now, there's no inclination that this isn't on -- i wouldn't go so far as to call it a glide path, but this is something -- this is a truck that is driving down the road full steam ahead and shows no signs of stopping. >> hallie, we got a new poll out about the president's approval ratings, a monmouth university poll shows that he's at 32%. that's a record low for that poll. could this be seen as an effort by the white house to turn the page after last night's pretty stinging defeat with doug jones over roy moor? >> reporter: yeah, this has always been an effort by the white house to try to get a legislative victory on the board for the president, frankly. you talk about the president's approva

jones industrial average. something, by the way, that has never happened before. in washington, republican leaders inching one step closer to passing tax reform. republican senator susan collins and mike lee now announcing that they will indeed support the final tax bill. and tragedy strikes in washington state. six people are killed. more than 70 people sent to the hospital in a major amtrak train derailment. at this hour, officials investigating what's going wrong. first, we begin with president trump's national security strategy. president trump unveiling his america first strategy, which for the first time equal importance and economics security and national security. >> for the first time, american strategy recognizes that economic security is national security. economic vitality growth and prosperity at home is absolutely necessary for american power and influence abroad. any nation that trades away its prosperity for security will end up losing both. charles: here to discuss what it means for america's future. rebecca, hudson institute senior fellow and gina, a member of the donald j. trump for president advisory board. let me start with you, rebecca. this is not your

december, and then jones will be sworn into the senate in all likelihood in early january when they are back in session. >> thank you, alex. i appreciate that. i want to get to kaitlan collins nw. she's at roy moore's headquarters in montgomery, alabama. alex mentioned roy moore has not yet made a concession call. any word on when that might come? >> reporter: no, he hasn't. and there's been no word on that yet, don, from any of the moore officials who have gone silent since it was first showing doug jones in the lead. as i reported earlier, the moore campaign had been feeling incredibly confident earlier tonight. but that all changed within a very, very brief period of time. and at this point the moore campaign is hanging on for dear and though the alabama republican party has declared a doug jones victory, multiple news outlets have declared a doug jones victory, doug jones has given a victory speech, and the president, donald trump, has congratulated him on his win, roy moore is refusing to concede this election. we heard from his campaign chairman, bill ar miss stead, who was citing an alabama law that requires a recount if the margin of victory is within half of a perc

jones. alix: can you go through the details for us. marty: one of the interesting things is this suddenly makes susan collins a very important person for the republican party. she had considerable leverage. she knows how to play that leverage and now with the margin razor then, what susan collins does on taxes and what she demands for her vote will be something you really have to watch. david: let's turn to the text overall plan. we got conferees that are tried to reconcile the difference. key -- compromise is the that appeared to be emerging. we are going to have a corporate tax rate of 21% now moving up from 20%. an individual rate of 37% down from 39.5%. and it passed through compromise of 20%. marty: it seems like that is what is emerging out of the conference. these are all deals taking place behind closed doors. the cake will have been baked by then. with the gop is facing is a difficulty trying to convince the public that this is a middle-class tax cut. when you're cutting the top rate for top earners, 37%, that is going to help the most wealthiest people in america as opposed to people who are middle-class. david: this is a que

this to a vote by january 3 and doug jones is elected, that is one fewer vote they can afford to lose. we all know the undecided votes on the tax bill, like susan collinsine. >> we will be there all night monitoring the results. our chief for seeing to an correspondent in montgomery, alabama. still ahead, our exclusive interview about the supply volatility we have seen. have we seen russia contributed to output curbs, and of course rising prices. don't miss that interview. >> up next, more on the republican moves towards 21%. a former chief policy advisor to the senate majority leader joins us in just a moment. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> this is "bloomberg markets: asia." i am yvonne man in hong kong. >> i am betty liu in new york. it taxes now. on their senate work tax bill. kevin brady saying they will reach a final agreement by friday this week. with this now is the director of tax policy kathy koch, a former chief policy adviser for tax and economics in the senate to majority leader harry reid. let's talk about one area in this tax reform that means a lot to a lot of the viewers here, the corporate tax rate. it seems like some of the reports are say

collins. moore's asking for a recount. explain what's going on. >> reporter: well, don, the roy moore campaign is hanging on for dear life at this point with the candidate refusing to concede this election to doug jones despite it being called for him. and he came out on stage here on what supposed to be his victory night party and told his supporters to wait it out and let god take over. and he was following his campaign chairman bill armstead who had been on stage before him talking about recounts and citing the law that if the margin of victory is half a percentage point. doug jones is up higher than that, so it's unclear hew that would help. he told his supporters to go home and sleep on it. don. >> john, i have been watching you all evening. it was close, it was close, it was close and then all of a sudden doug jones is called. what happened? >> what happened, don, is profound significant democratic intensity and turn out and just enough republican doubts or you might say republican disgust. number one, you see all this blue right here. you said you lived in birmingham. you know how important jefferson county is. you know how long it's been since a democrat won in alabama. doug jones started by