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[applause] judge moore: this is a time for victory.t is time to remember the struggles we have gone through. it is also time to rededicate our lives to god and to the constitution and to our country. to our families. let's go again and make america great. thank you and may god bless you. thank you. ♪ announcer: c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. him and up wednesday morning, the latest on house tax reform efforts with republican congressman from virginia. house foreign affairs committee democratic congressman from virginia talks about the standoff with north korea over its nuclear program. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> president trump posted spanish prime minister at the white house. after a working lunch and meeting in the oval office, the two took questions from reporters at a press conference in the rose garden. here is a look.

alabama, your next united states senator, judge roy moore. [cheers and applause] ♪ judge moore: thank you. thank you. you all are a good-looking crowd. i am going to tell you that. thank you very much. this is a wonderful evening. i am glad to get this passed us. we got four more days. then tuesday, i hope everybody is going to vote. tuesday -- we haven't won. but thank you very much for coming out tonight. i'm humbled by the following -- -- i amuch, sarah palin not the speaker that they are. i'm not near as pretty as she is. but thank you all for coming. remember, you know, this is a very important election. i don't know if other people realize that, but everybody in washington, as i said tonight, is watching this election. i don't have their vision of how it is going to affect america, but they are watching for the 2018 senatorial elections coming up. and they see that this could bring a change in our direction of the country. so this is a very important election, and i appreciate you all being here tonight very much. you know, when we star

i never met judge moore. i look forward to meeting him and hope we can work together to address these serious challenges. >> yesterday was not a good day. his candidate lost. he had to abandon the vote on your health care plan known as the graham/cassidy bill. do you still have faith that mcconnell is the best leader? >> i think we have proven the concept. we simply ran out of time. the process was rushed. people were concerned about that. they had legitimate concerns. we were up against this artificial clock. but we can do it again. and so it's a an excellent press release. but turning the money over to the states. i would say it would be true for 50 states as well. >> but senator, that doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement of mitch mcconnell. >> listen, i said leader mcconnell has to herd cats. there's nothing easy about it. i don't envy his task. what we need to do is concentrate on the shared goals and purposes. first of all, of the american public. growing our economy. that's tax reform. repealing and

former chief justice roy moore decisively winning. beating his rival luther strange backed but the president and mcmcconnell. it could spell trouble in the midterm elections. also, president trump defending his response to the hurricane in puerto rico and brushing off claims that he was distracted by his feud with the nfl. the president now says that he will travel to the hard-hit island negatives week. >>> after another staying defeat on obamacare, president trump is hoping to deliver on awe different campaign promise, tax reform. the president traveling to indiana to lay out his tax plan. we will ask lawmakers if the plan is truly reform of the tax system or just a tax cut. >>> the irs now sharing information with special counsel bob mueller about key trump campaign officials as he investigates possible tax and financial crimes. this as we learn mueller's team could start interviewing white house staff this week. we have all the news covered. live in montgomery, alabama. what a big hit down there. >> it really was. moore won with a

prevent a senator roy moore? >> it's the lack of morality in our country that has led to these things. >> then -- >> when i first heard the president's comments, i was so enraged -- >> no concern over the trump response in puerto rico. >> a lot of people that work in the shipping industry that don't want the jones act lifted. >> and new details of tom price's private jet travel emerge -- >> i'm not happy about it. >> the president's bizarre claim a day after graham cassidy failed. >> i feel we have the votes. >> we have the votes. i'm almost certain we have the votes. >> when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. president trump tried to erase history last night. the president deleting three tweets he had written in support of appointed alabama senator luther strange just hours after strange was resoundingly defeated in a special gop election for jeff sessions old senate seat. the election result was a massive embarrassment. he had traveled in alabama to campaign for strange

judge roy moore has been judge roy moore for 20, 30 years. he's been the same guy maybe that's why he won so well last night. he did so well last fight despite some of his -- >> how about john meacham, the climate change analogy, metaphor, you can call eight bulkannization, republicans are certainly seeing it now. in some ways you can point to being an outsider. he ran a lot like trump ran, he was the outsider. trump was an outsider running against the traditional orthodoxy of the party. roy moore did that and grabbed some of the things in the early 2000s with democrats. it will be interesting to see. you are pushing both parties, it comes to a place where it's very difficult to govern. i would ask john the question. you talked about this being an interesting moment. what parallels do we have in recent or that matter distant times where you find the country at a place where it looks as if the establishments in both parties, the republicans are dealing with it in a more pronounced way after this race and it looks as if some others are probably

instead roy moore won the race. moore who was removed as alabama chief justice twice is an anti-gay birther who says muslims shouldn't allowed to serve in congress and that the september 11th attacks may have been america's punishment. moore's win is just the beginning. >> you're going to say in state after state, the people that follow the model of judge moore that do not need to raise money from te leehe elites, new york silicon valley. >> in the wake of moore's victory, trent lot told the "the new york times," quote, every republican senator had better get prepared for a challenge from the far right. target number one will be the gop establishment, frequently mitch mcconnell. times reporting that senior gp strategists concludeds that the conservative base loathes its leaders in washington the way it detested president obama. bob corker yesterday announced his retirement. ambitious politicians are plotting primary challenges that will likely turn very very ugly. as for roy moore, current republican senators are al

moore represents the populist wing of the republican party. he gained notoriety in 2003 when he had a ten commandments monument installed in the state supreme court building and then refused a federal court order to remove it. that ultimately cost him his job as chief justice but he won the support of these religious conservatives who have followed him ever since, voting for him in race after race and this one now appears too be the charm. now, roy moore missed out on some key endorsements and yet came up with workaround solutions. for example the nra endorsed his opponent luther strange but at a recent rally roy moore pulled out a revolver and explainedlu where he stood on the second amendment. this crowd went wild. also moore did not receive the endorsement of president trump. however, several trump loyalists including sarah palin and steve bannon supported moore. now a lot of people have been portraying this election as a referendum on president trump's influence but in speaking with moore supporters, they tell us many of them tell us they

what does roy moore's win in alabama mean? for mitch mcconnell, majority leader, what does it mean for donald trump, what does it mean for the country? we have all our best political analysts with us to break it down and then we have bill weir and our producer on the ground in puerto rico. they're going to some of jennifer's old childhood areas, neighborhoods, schools to just see the devastation in port ree c -- puerto rico and whether or not people will be able to rebill. and then i have one of our signature trump voter panels for you where they weigh in on the president's response to puerto rico as well as so many other things. so make sure you tune in at the top of the hour for all of that. we'll see you then. >> your voter panel yesterday was gripping. i've got to tell you about the nfl response. it was gripping. i really enjoyed that. >> i appreciate it because they always say unexpected things. you can never predict what they're going to say and today is no different. >> all right. thanks. >>> twitter testing a new chara

he said he had already called moore and congratulated him. the big headline is that strange thanked president trump and acknowledged that the president stuck his neck out by picking one republican over another, which is something that could enrage or at least upset half the party, which it does not necessarily seem to have yet in this case. he thanked the president and said that any political problems that the president has as a result of strange's loss, he wants to take credit for. it's all on him but that he really appreciates the president and his loyalty as a friend. he thinks that they formed a bond as newcomers in d.c. the president got there in january, strange got there in february. there are these flyers all around here that show strange and the president. that was the main part of his pitch that he was the president's endorsed pick. but it did not go strange's way. did not go the president's way. the president said if strange lost he would come back to the state to campaign for the other guy. now we wait to see exactly what that loo

moore is a flame thrower.f he wins by double digits mitch mcconnell's as the ultimate political survivor may be tested bike never before. rank and file republican members aren't happy with mcmonthly because they think he runs the senate in a two partisan way. ironry, grassroots think he is not using the party's majority as a sledgehammer enough. he is caught between two forces here he may not be able to satisfy. let's go to nbc's vaughn hillyard. he's our man on the ground tonight in montgomery alabama. what would you seeing on the ground? is it high turn out? is it low turnout. we know that strange is trying to get the voters to turn out big. >> reporter: exactly. that's where strange was last night was in birmingham in shelby county. today he is only 15 minutes away from where he was last night? everyson county. they are focusing on the birmingham area, a populated area to got out the votes. i just got off the phone with the party of roy moore. they said they are feeling good with what they have. the polls h

roy moore was $3.5 million from the mcconnell aligned super pac just went in against roy moore alone. >> i want to be play you a little sound byte here because it's twofold. you're going to hear any beginning i ask him about mitch mcconnell and whether he'd be able to work with him in the senate. and the second about his controversial remarks he's made in the past. >> who do you think you'd be able to work with mitch mcconnell at this point. >> i can work with somebody that wants to do something right. as long as they want to do something right in the conservative way, i'll work with them. when he violates the constitution, i don't care who he works for. >> there's a lot of concern over your past controversial remarks and that the democrats are going to try to -- >> well, people always concerned about remarks when they're taken out of context and when they're associated with other people that i didn't say. so we'll take each issue as they come up. i'm prepared to go at it with the democrats and we will because we have plenty of -- and we'll tack to the election. but i'm not going into

toge roy moore to rhinos,, to fight the to take america back. remember, these three things matter the most. can i treat you all as my personal friends? just 600 of my closest buddies? can i ask you to do me a favor? days, will youur go out, talk to people. don't get preachy. don't get on a soapbox. but tell people what the stakes are. tell them it is the november -- tell them it is november the eighth again. they can choose corruption or they can choose america! thing.one make sure it is not just you and your loved ones or your family that goes to the polls. family --one of your for everyone of your family that goes to the polls, take three more people. people that aren't well, that don't have a car. the car broke down, it's too far away, that can't be bothered, get them to the polls, because you know the other side well. i will leave you with one thought. the choice is a very simple one. on the one hand, you have a man who has proven through his life, his dedication to this nation, and to the values upon which this republic was founded, you hav

we will see how he feels if he gets into it where he needs roy moore and roy moore stands up and decides he's more important than the constitution again, which he did as a supreme court justice of the supreme court, and that says the culture in alabama. last time i checked, it's wednesday, okay? bannon gave trump a beatdown in alabama, and he can say whatever he wants about how he's not out to hurt the president, and health care got away from the president again, and the moderates in that party not putting together, and that's why he tried to help luther strange win their their favor, and the nfl player situation seems to have created a broader divide in this country, and he was not talking about puerto rico and is called out about it and now he's trying to double down, and now mueller is looking at his taxes. it's wednesday, and that has all happened this week. that is some plate of negative villles. >> mcconnell has to deal with moore as a problem. yeah, one of the things that i think is fascinating about trump, and i think we have to keep on this, and he said this yesterday and he doe

senator, judge roy moore, rode to victory tuesday. stetson hat straight out of central casting. >> i believe in the second amendment. >> reporter: the righteous cowboy. ready for a day of reckoning. >> we've got to go back to god. we've got to go back to a moral base. >> reporter: some of president trump's most ardent supporters see moore as their type of guy. >> a vote for judge roy moore is a vote for donald j. trump. >> reporter: donald trump himself, not so much. he endorsed the other guy. >> on tuesday, we're going to send a real fighter and a real good guy from alabama to the united states senate. >> reporter: moore first made national headlines back in the early 2000s when he installed this giant statue of the ten commandments in the rotunda of the alabama state supreme courthouse. >> i have acknowledged god as the moral foundation of our law. it's my duty. >> reporter: a decision that ran afoul of a series of federal courts. >> we've allowed the acknowledgement of god to be taken from us because three lawyers walked in this bu

moore later was re-elected to the state supreme court.fied the federal courts again on the issue of same-sex marriage. he'd use hoview homosexuality a sinful. >> it is immoral, defined by the law as detestable, against the law in most states before the supreme court in texas said it wasn't -- >> reporter: a c-span2 all places. that led to this spirited debate. >> where in the constitution do you find any support for your position that you can outlaw certain kinds of which you don't approve of. >> i find no support in the constitution to authorize sodomy in our law. >> roy moore operates on the fringes of american politics. even in the trump era he is out there with views far more conservative than most of his potential colleagues in the senate, far to the right of even people in alabama. >> reporter: moore's opponent, luther strange, a former washington lobbyist seen by some of the president's own supporters as a creature from the swamp trump promised to drain. i spoke with abc news political director rick kline. why did he back luther st

so now it's a runoff with judge roy moore.anna, is this result going to rattle and already rattled a republican party, many who are at odds with the republican president? >> it's beyond rattling. this is a prime example of a very divided republican party, and one that you just saw steve bannon speaking live there -- one that he is articulating in a very public way now, that he wants to continue to push, push this breach in the republican party. it was a little bit scrambled in alabama for the reason that katelyn was just talking about because the president endorsed the quote, unquote establishment candidate. and president trump's supporters and people who work for him and consider themselves outsiders, wanted the guy who won, moore. so it is scrambled, but i think that this is also something we need to keep in mind going forward. whether or not this is a telltale sign or a warning sign for other incumbent republicans. you already saw bob corker of tennessee say today he was not going to seek re-election. he had said when he ra

and moore won by double-digits. 63 of 67 counties and president trump empbraced moore and complimented him for winning a great race and saying he is sure to the election. >> we have a man who can be a great senator. and i never met him or smoke to him and i am very happy with him and legislator came a long way from the time, and ran a great race and roy ran a great race. moore's victory is a blow with mitch mcconnell. aside from backing the losing candidate mcconnell was forced to call off the repeal of obamacare and the third failed attempt to muster 50 votes in the senate and bob corker of tennessee announced he would not seek reelection of 2015. and that is another senate that anti- conservative will attempt to get with gusto. the midterm elections are already under way and popullism and economic nationalism proved to be powerful targets. it is very likely to overturn the republican leadership of both the senate and the house. president trump unveiling the road map ahead for tax reform, hailing the plan as a revolutionary change for the middle-class. >> this is a once in a generatio

moore campaigned on a platform of placing christianity at the center of public life. >> moore spoke with president trump who congratulated him on the victory. he said nothing about the race as he returned to the white house but he was active on twitter deleting three recent posts he had posted supporting luther strange. o. >> reporter: good morning. well, of course, this was a republican primary election on the surface, but really it was about so much more than that. it was the latest in the battle for the soul of the republican party. tonight's election dealt a huge blow to the republican establishment in washington and a significant blow to the president who of course endorsed the opponent of judge roy moore who is the victor. >> we can support the president. don't let anybody in the press think that because he supported my opponent that i do not support him. and support his agenda. >> this was a race about the insiders versus the outsiders, the grass roots versus the establishment and of course the president against so many in his base. instead, many of the president's top supporters

said this, judge moore said that. do you agree with him on this. >> it's in the other states that are swing states. for trump, it's a completely different issue which is what's his hammer? if he's backing candidates who don't win primaries, does anyone need to be afraid of him? or does he end up gravitating right back to bannon. we have seen him experimenting with cutting deals with democrats where it makes sense for him and scaring republicans into kind of submission that way. does that end? did that andy last night? if not, how does he juggle those two. >> another thing we saw last night, no criticism of the trump campaign. however he rode this wave. he may have built the wave but he didn't create this anti-washington, anti-establishment wave. we saw in alabama last night, it still exists. president trump gives a big speech on his tax plan later today. will it go over any better than his health care plans? revitalift triple power from l'oreal. i have more confidence. my coworkers were like, your skin looks great! tr

moore won binaril by nearly 10 . moore's win, more impressive when you consider that mitch mcconnell, and republican establishment pumped $30 million into propping up strange. paying nearly $150 per vote, that strange won. moore won by double digits, he won 63 of 67 counties. president trump today quickly embraced moore, complimenting him for running a great race, and saying he is sure to win december's general election. >> we have a man who will be a great senator, and i am very happy with that. i spoke to him last night, i never met him, i am happy with him. and i have to say, luther came a long way from the time i endorsed him, he ran a good race, but roy ran a really great race. lou: moore's victory is a big blow to mitch mcconnell, having won of the worst weeks of his 32 years in u.s. senate. aside from backing the losing candidate, mcconnell yesterday was forced on call off a vote on the repeal of obamacare, his third failed attempt to muster 50 votes in the senate. hours later, one ofs had allies senator bob c

but with the emergence of roy moore, donald j. test pt version of himself, a fire and brimstone preacher to match his reality tv number. that's hardball. thanks for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on all in -- >> our rights don't come from the government. they come from all mighty god. >> insurrection in alabama as the president deletes tweets and gets bhiends roy moore. >> i'm very happy with him. >> can democrats prevend a senator roy moore? >> it's the lack of morality in our country that has led to these things. >> then -- >> when i first heard the president's comments, i was so enraged -- >> no concern over the trump response in puerto rico. >> a lot of people that work in the shipping industry that don't want the jones act lifted. >> and new

the facts on the ground are judge roy moore. >> sandra: what did you make of moore who you have known for quite some time, actually using those words, together we can make america great? >> judge napalitano: i thought it was a brilliant political for him to make. i think he's going to be more rand paul, ted cruz, mike lee, more on the small government republican side. i want tax cuts, but on spending cuts as well. for more there than he's going to be. >> sandra: fair enough, just a couple of hours from now, republican set to unveil their tax reform plan. highly anticipated. this ahead of the speech by president trump. yesterday he announced tremendous tax cuts for the middle-class peered whether the g.o.p. can get it done and if democrats will help. plus, the battle with the nfl over the national protest could help the g.o.p. next year's midterms. whether mr. trump sees this as a winning issue and whether candidates can capitalize. >> harris: this is breaking. republican leaders announced that two officially unveil their tax reform plan this afternoon. earlier today, house g.o.p. lawm

and even trump came out against roy moore.s well. >> alabama is one of the reddest states. is it a waste of resources for democrats to go in that state and try to play? >> look, we know alabama's tough. i'm not suggesting there's an easy path. what i'm saying is there is a potential path especially the good candidate we have. nobody is suggesting this is a cake walk. it would be a hard fought fight. we do believe when the people of alabama look at this race, they're going to be looking primarily for a senator who has character and integrity and we know roy moore is not that candidate. >> senator, before i let you go, nbc news -- i got to ask you about this. at the university of chicago polled a bunch of millennials asking about their opinions of the political parties here. just 26% of millennials see the republican party favorably. 58% unfavorably. but the numbers for democrats, i know you can't see it, but they're not great either. 43% favorable. 42% unfavorable. this is exactly the demographic that democrats have been going

they went with roy moore. i think there might have been a sense there in alabama in the grassroots, the conservative grassroots that trump's heart wasn't really in it with luther strange when he was down there at that rally last friday. at one point he mused maybe i made a mistake here about endorsing luther strange, those words made it into an ad for moore at the very end. a lot of supporters i think liked donald trump, maybe thought trump was trying to wink at them a little bit. but he couldn't sell the establishment candidate to the antiestablishment base. that's interesting. looking forward, though, this is a race now, remember there's a democrat, there's a general election, it's going to be in december. and this is a race that democrats i think are going at least look at because, as we say, roy moore, he's a lightning rod candidate. he can be a little inflammatory with his statements, he can be a lot inflammatory with his statements. there was one poll that came out yesterday that tested both of these rep

roy moore is a very controversial candidate. he could be politically difficult for president trump as this heads into the general election race. this is someone who's referred to islam as a fake religion, who's maligned homosexuals as well as people of color. so the politics get very tricky for the president, steph, moving forward. >> tricky is a very nice way to put it. i want to bring my panel in. heidi przybyla, kate kelly who covers wall street for "the new york times" and jason johnson, politics editor at theroot.com and an msnbc political contributor. as always, we're here to help at msnbc, so if you don't know roy moore well, in addition to some of that information kristen just shared, i want to share that roy moore has said that 9/11, september 11th, was god punishing perverseness. that's right, that's what roy moore thinks. so jason, let's start with you. let's say this guy wins in december. not what does this say about roy moore, what does this say about what's happening to the united states of america? >> stephanie, t

that is judge moore, lou.ore is really more than an anti-establishment candidate, he is committed to president trump, his policies and anti-establishment, right? >> absolutely. that is why you heard that very important sentence in president's speech two nights ago. a peculiar endorsement of strange, half way through so-called endorsement. president said, you know, what i may have chosen the wrong guy. if judge moore wins, i'll support him. i think you know mitch mcconnell favored candidate, they spent over 10 million on luther strange, you know. the judge is a mega-candidate of make in great again, whether 6 amendment -- second amendment, rule of law, the judge is the man. lou: the attacks have been many. in this race but the attack that has been most i think problematic in terms of responses, can he beat the democrat as readily as many have suggested, including the president, luther strange could? >> i think if you look at how many votes that percentage of votes that president won last november in alabama. it

first of all, roy moore has constituency.ollowing than some in washington realize. and you can't underestimate the impact of the scandal with the former governor on, bentley, and

turn out rates follow moore, whose followers show up for him no matter what the situation may be. host: so walk us through the events after today once this contest is settled. guest: once we have a nominee, we will advance to a general election on december 12th. the democrats nominated doug jones, who is probably most famous for helping prosecute and convict two of the people who bombed the 16th street baptist church in 1963, which killed four little girls. this is -- whoever wins republican nomination will be the favorite going into the general election, but the democrats here are pretty enthat's enthat's -- enthusiastic. both candidates have flaws, the g.o.p. is the favorite in this race, but if democrats -- i don't think this is a race republicans can afford to be compla complacent about. host: brian, lyman, thanks for your time. guest: thank you. have a good day. host: back to calls on open phone. connecticut, marsha, democrat's line thank you for waiting, go ahead. caller: thank you, juan. comment on the gentleman who represented manhattan institute yesterday regarding health

so is the answer to elect more roy moores to the senate?no, the wakeup call for republicans is they need to work together as a team to get these passed. if not, they'll have to work with democrats and that's going to make some republicans happy. >> woodruff: roy moore coming in, as someone who likes to go his own way. >> i think roy moore will part of the team on issues like tax reform. i don't see him being the problem on those issues. but the senate is like a herd of cats and they just added another cat to the bag to herd, but i think roy moore will be supportive of the president on most of these issues. >> i agree with you, judy. i want to answer your question is the fact is alabama is a conservative state. both luther strange and roy moore match up with the philosophy of republican voters in the state and that's what the republican party will be made up of. some more, some less conservative. but on the central issues are taxes too high and is government playing too big a role in your life, we should be able to unify on the questions. fo

and moore won by double-digits. 63 of 67 counties and president trump empbraced moore and complimented him for winning a great race and saying he is sure to the election. >> we have a man who can be a great senator. and i never met him or smoke to him and i am very happy with him and legislator came a long way from the time, and ran a great race and roy ran a great race. moore's victory is a blow with mitch mcconnell. aside from backing the losing candidate mcconnell was forced to call off the repeal of obamacare and the third failed attempt to muster 50 votes in the senate and bob corker of tennessee announced he would not seek reelection of 2015. and that is another senate that anti- conservative will attempt to get with gusto. the midterm elections are already under way and popullism and economic nationalism proved to be powerful targets. it is very likely to overturn the republican leadership of both the senate and the house. president trump unveiling the road map ahead for tax reform, hailing the plan as a revolutionary change for the middle-class. >> this is a once in a generatio

makes sense that trump is now enthusiastically backing moore, because moore is very much cut from thee cloth as donald trump. he relies just as much on open bigotry as trump and seems to care just as little about actual policy as trump. take the issue of daca, otherwise known as the dreamers program, which allows children brought here as undocumented immigrants to stay in the country. you'd think moore might want to have a position on that, but when he was asked about it recently on an alabama radio show he had no idea what it was. >> would you support an end to the dreamer program that president trump has still continued to push? >> pardon? the dreamer program? >> yes, sir. the daca, dapa, you're not aware of what dreamers are? >> no. [ light laughter ] >> dreamers this is a big issue -- >> no. >> in the immigration debate, dreamers are -- >> why don't you tell me what it is, dale, and quit beating around, and tell me what it is. >> i'm kind of shocked that you don't know what this is. what do you think about that? >> well, if trump's done it, well, that's what trump's done. >> do yo

he said roy moore is a great guy.ring political views, but to put this in perspective, i want to share things that moore has done in the past. he believes homosexual conduct should be illegal. that september 11 was got punishing perverseness. and he said president obama was not born in the united states. and muslims should not sit in congress. so people can believe whatever they want to believe, but let's just point out things this individual has said and president trump just characterized him as a great guy. joining me now vaughn hilliard just down the road from the victory celebration last night. and steve kornacki. vaughn i want to start with you because i believe you were at that victory speech. what to do out to me when he spoke, it seemed like his central theme was making the point we should not separate church from state. that's a wow. >> reporter: exactly, stephanie and ali. i think that's what we're looking at here. the ascension of roy moore is twofold for the republican party. really two challenges to the g

he said i'll come back and support moore. he also said he may have made a mistake. >> jon: if you are mitch mcconnell and your political organization has dumped $9 million into the race supporting luther strange and all that money is gone now, that's not a good sign. >> it's not an particularly heading into 2018. we'll have incumbents facing this same type of challenge in the primaries. in 2014, mitch mcconnell and his team were at large and have been so very successful at beating back what we call tea party challengers. it's the first time that an incumbent has lost that he's gone all in on. we're going to have replays of this, the steve bannon and antiestablishment crowd campaigning against mitch mcconnell and leadership in washington. >> jon: the favorite ended up losing its primary, democrats are probably reacting with glee, but if there is this antiestablishment fervor out there in the country, it could bite the democrats as well. >> it could come of the democrat are dealing with it as well. you saw that in the primaries

they're defiant saying the president is going to support roy moore. he is going to come to washington. he will back the president's agenda. but to what extent does this call into question president trump's ability to have influence over these elections? we know he can get people to the polls himself, but what about these down ballot races? >> if you are running for senate next year, roy moore's claim on the nomination in alabama has been unsettling. they now believe, whether fair or not, they will have to respond to judge moore's comments which are at times incendiary and they think he could be a political burden for them next year, and as republicans confront this environment with roy moore type candidates emerging in the country, senators like bob corker may choose to step aside and avoid the anger on the left and the right. >> robert, just to follow up on that point, i know you're watching a couple races, in particular arizona, nevada, mississippi where is these anti-establishment picks could be gaining traction and could get a fresh look today. >>

and so roy moore may soon have senator in front of his name. and that this is the way the republican party should march forward. those are just two totally different approaches and we are going to see them play out time and again, unless, you know -- and folks like bob corker, the republican from tennessee, look at that and say, i want no part of this battle. >> we might be seeing the todd akinization of the election already. >> except todd akin may win -- >> where todd akin, may not fail this time. >> but that's the narrative of the political consultantsy class who thinks, there's 40% on the republicans, let's moderate and see who's gets in the middle. there's an intensity to these new and low-propensity voters who have come into our party for the first time in 2016. they have no idea, because he worked against them the entire last cycle. they have no idea what motivates these voters to come out and turn out. and our responsibility as the republican party is to make sure -- >> but here's the thing. about -- what you're saying is pushing the tr

roy moore in this race.'s candidate already finished behind roy moore in the preliminary by six points. the third candidate eely na lel threw support behind moore. you have palin rallying around roy moore. he's popular with the conservative grassroots in alabama. and you have luther strange, in a lot of ways, the face of the establishment. you mentioned mitch mcconnell in washington backing him. now the former republican governor, robert bentley, who left the office under shady circumstances, he appointed luther strange. so this is who donald trump is trying to push across the finish line. big rally today. keep this in mind, though, we talk all the time about donald trump's approval rate nationally. 37% in the latest gallop poll. that is not to write home about. you look in alabama, he's more popular in alabama, over 50%. that's not that bad. but here it is. this is an alabama republican runoff next tuesday. among alabama republicans, almost 90% of them like donald trump. so we will see. this is one of the c

. >> moore had a constellation of anti-establishment conservative stars behind him. including sara palin, chuck norris and the president's former chief strategist steve bannon. >> you can go on huckabee, sebastian gork. >> niejel ferage dr. ben carson, a member of president trump's cabinet offering his support of moore. >> i'm here as a private citizen knowed today, not as c.e.o. of the campaign. i haven't worn this jacket since we were on the campaign. i came to you unshaven, unkempt, in this old bomber jacket, exactly as i was on the campaign. >> trevor: unshafen and unkempt? i love that, bannon treats one campaign rally as an excuse to totally let himself go. i'm here to campaign which is why my thighs are covered in untreated bed sores, yai, yeah. by the way steve bannon is the only person who looks like he is wearing a leather jacket even when he isn't. he just has that look. this is a crazy twist. president trump endorsed one candidate. and then the human hagis steve bannon and deplorables endorsed the other. and last night alabama republicans chose which endor