that could not vote for him. >> i cannot get over his history. >> i definitely have a problem with roy moore's just being a sexual predator but also thinking he is above the law. >> i wanted to vote for moore, but i'm not so sure anymore. >> in mississippi, we have found voters more willing to give hyde-smith a past. >> she's a conservative republican. >> do you think that hyde-smith wins on tuesday? >> i hope so. >> i will go to christina greer here first. the prospect of embarrassment is something we see coming to the floor again here in mississippi as we saw in alabama. when you look at what hyde-smith has done, democrats are trying to push this narrative that there will be people in mississippi that will be embarrassed, rightfully so, by what she's done in the past. >> and there will be people in mississippi encouraged by what she is doing. mississippi is not alabama. mike espy is not a gillum or an abrams. these are different races. hyde-smith is not a possible ped fi pedofile. this could have been a conversation. the fact that it is so close and it is mississippi and we know that mississ

so turn at the bethel church in 2017 it can never be forgotten the state that produced the judge roy moore'salso created the civil rights warriors who took down and c defeated the others now had roy in their crosshairs. [laughter] [applause] so now i'll take us to the night of the election i am skipping what the civilgh rights warriors did. really more nonetheless had a lock on the stronghold from the northern sectors of the state of the votes began to roll in his lead continued to grow. almost insurmountable as the votes continue to be counted the election showed black voters overwhelmed and outmatched with diffie at the hand of a much more powerful opponent but then the uppercut caught roy moore square on the jaw send his folks snapping back under their way to deliver that 52nd and well delivered stunning below. so fittingly the first indication he was in serious trouble came from a legendary place. selma. lord selma exclaimed bernie's king daughter of martin luther king it is no coincidence she tweeted that selma with the struggle for voting rights of black people pushed doug jones ahead

but then, a blazing uppercut cart roy moore squarely on the jaw! and sent his hopes snapping back. as black people punched above their waste and d delivered an unexpected and well delivered stunning blow. and so fittingly, the first indication that moore was in serious trouble came from a legendary place. selma, lord thelma! explained the daughter of martin luther king jr. it is no coincidence, she tweeted. that selma, pushed doug jones ahead for good. as the election results kept rolling in, the black voter turnout surprised almost everyone. the stealth of the get out the vote campaign. which made it seem so last-minute. they apparently nonchalant, with media and posters hovered asking questions and the significant barriers to the voting booth that alabama crafted, what about a kind of confidence or resignation that blacks would just not vote. indeed, if the overall voter turnout rate had been the 25 percent that merrill had predicted, perhaps moore, for whom he cast his ballot, would have won. but voters showed up with surges well beyond 50 percent in counties favorable to jones.

. >> we also know the black women made the difference in the race in alabama, between roy moore and jones. black women went out and changed the numbers. it remains to be seen what will happen with stacey abrams. >> the difference is social security kemp has a lot more republican support than roy moore did in his race because he was such a damaged candidate. >> he had problems voting today, john. that can't be a good sign for secretary kemp. >> perhaps. he will lose in the twitter battle-- >> it was caught on camera. >> he will lose in the twitter battle, but he has strengthened the republican party behind him. and he is running as a loud and proud conservative. you know, in his ads, certainly, just boasting really about how conservative he is. you have two candidates who are quite, quite different in the georgia race, really at opposite ends. >> and roy moore had president trump behind him, too, big support. >> glor: john, i can ask you quickly, the note major just made about the white house official, that projection at 4:00 this afternoon, that there would be a republican net loss in the

ministry in 2017, it can never be forgotten the state that produced the sheriff jim clark and judge roy moores also created the civil rights warriors who took down and defeated jim and have roy in their crosshairs. [laughter] [applause] >> and i am going to take us to the night of the election because what i'm skipping is civil rights warriors did. roy moore nonetheless had a lock on republican strongholds in most of the northern sectors of the state. has vote tallies rolled in his lead continue to grow. it looked almost insurmountable. as the votes continued to be counted the election seemed to mirror the classic mohammed ali with black voters overwhelmed, outmatched and headed for sure defeat at the hands of a more powerful opponent but then an uppercut caught roy more on the job, folks snapping back and black people punched and delivered an unexpected and well delivered stunning blow. so fittingly the first indication more was in serious trouble came from a legendary place. selma, lord, selma, exclaimed bernice king, daughter of martin luther king jr.. it is no coincidence that selma where

it's like roy moore leading the aclu. but then it got better. after trump appointed that guy to run the epa for the whole quarter of the country, for the whole southeastern united states, that guy now is a high-ranking federal employee eventually had to make financial disclosures. when his disclosures came out a few months ago, alabama learned for the first time among the folks who had been paying him since he left his job running the state environmental agency before he got appointed by trump to run the epa for the whole southeastern united states, among the people who put him on the payroll were the poop train folks. yeah, literally the landfill company that brought the poop train into all of those towns in alabama. they had this guy on their payroll as the former top environmental official in the state. here is john archibald again. quote, trey glenn, the trump-appointed epa director has more ties to that poop train and its dumping ground than the railroad track it ran on. quote, all the charmin in the world can't wipe it away. ain't enough b

they hope cindy hyde-smith will be roy moore.d serious allegations. >> look, this is what i'll say about my beloved party. if they hoped this was going to be alabama, they should have invested in it as it were from the jump. that's what concerns me. i think mike espy is running as great a campaign as he can. i wonder if infrastructure is there and if the investment is there. >> at the end of the day, they aren't spending like a year ago. when you look at the overall landscape, you see republicans are nervous, they need to protect this last seat. don't see it as a huge opportunity. even though it is one here. at the end of the day, mississippi was ten points closer in the 2016 election than alabama. it has a statewide democrat in the attorney general for a long time. there's some history in voting for democrats, just not in high profile races. espy is trying to do something that hasn't been done, be a black democratic senator from mississippi in a long time. >> put on the screen, maybe we don't have it full screen, some issues tha

now in mississippi, roy moore did lose.an extraordinary set of circumstances with roy moore. how do you feel with a comparison with the hot water she's gotten to and roy moore. >> i would compare it to the group to gubernatorial elections in florida where two black candidates came extremely close amid racism and voter suppression. there's also a lot of voter suppression in mississippi. i think espy has been trying to turn out white voters. he need an extraordinary turnout of african-american voters and a quarter of the white voters. he's been making an appeal to the white voters who might feel embarrassed about the state. this is deeply embarrassing in the south. i know a lot of white people who would be extremely offended. it's extremely possible he turns out that quarter of people. >> and barack obama provides a new defense of nancy pelosi. does she have the numbers to be the next speaker? you're watching "hardball." stay with us. you're watching "h. stay with us your insurance rates skyrocket after a scratch so small you

roy moore, same story. >> roy's a little different.ions against them about molestation, it wasn't racism. >> roy moore had a long history. i've gone at it with him more than once about things. and i'm saying i'm wondering if you can explain why does donald trump who keeps saying don't call me a bigot, i'm the least racist person i'll ever meet in your life, why would he ever support a corey stewart, a roy moore or a cindy hyde smith? >> i don't know that i would put her into the that category. i know what she said was sloppy, it was stupid, and quite frankly it is an insult to white m mississippians who have come a long way and have turned the page on that kind of talk many, many years ago. so i don't want to -- what she said was wrong. it was offensive, and she should have apologized, and she did. i don't know that i would label her and put her into that category. >> what about sending her daughter -- what about the fact that she attended a segregationist high school and then voluntarily elected to send her daughter to a segregationis

roy moore, same story. >> roy is a little different. roy's problem was the allegations against him about molestation. it wasn't racism. >> yes, that he was a pedophile. >> roy moore had a long history. i've gone at it more than once about things, and i'm saying that i'm wondering if you can explain. why does a donald trump who keeps saying, don't call me a bigot. i'm the least racist person you'll ever meet in your life -- why would he ever support a corey stewart, a roy moore, or a cindy hyde-smith? would you? >> i don't know cindy hyde-smith. >> you know what she said. >> i don't know that i would put her into that category. i know what she said was sloppy. it was stupid. and quite frankly, it is -- it is an insult to white mississippians who have come a long way. i know many of them who have come a long way and have turned the page on that kind of talk many, many, many years ago. but having said that, you know, so i don't want to -- what she said was wrong. it was offensive, and she should have apologized, and she did. i don't know t

she makes roy moore look like john kenneth galbraith. and here she is trying to run out the clock.y been told, don't say another word because if you put your foot in your mouth one more time, you might actually blow this thing. >> it's remarkable to watch the debate performance where she had notes she basically read off she read off of, in the aftermath refused to go out and send someone in her place. the clock expires and please, god, let's hold onto this lead. >> a normal republican president would not get on air force one and dignify a candidate like this with the sort of stature of the office of the presidency, but donald trump is eager to go. >> after roy moore, we shouldn't be very surprised any more. but it also indicates that the white house is potentially worried that hyde-smith may not win. >> should be a 20 point race or more. >> or more. >> she's 7 to 10 percentage points at the moment. >> do you think they might have some numbers that actually have them getting wobbly this close to the end? >> tom perez, talked about the path to victory for dems in the senate and he me

that is obviously not quite comparable because roy moore was facing allegations of pedophilia which are not an issue in this race. espee is anfor mike overwhelming african-american turnout. he will get 98 200% of that vote. -- 98 to 100% of that vote. there were not -- in eastern pro substantially to have a shot. -- he needs to improve substantially to have a shot. host: the metrics are traditionally red in the days before election. jolt to the a campaign. it has given democrats hope and a way that they otherwise would not have. beyond that, it is hard to know that has necessarily helped him in his closing stretch. host: other things vying for national attention, former fbi director james comey will testify on capitol hill, will he and what format? it seems like the lesser of the republican majority. comey and lynch have gotten subpoenaed. james comey has said that he does not want to testify in a setting because he does not trust that republicans will operate in good faith. he believes they will distort what was said in there. he has said that he will testify in an open hearing. that i

she is not roy moore on a million levels. that makes a difference.didates matter. >> yet the republicans are so nervous about her weakness as a candidate. mostly because of racially charged comments and photos. she is not a great communicator and she is from the tea party state. they worry about that. in "the washington post," mississippi republican party sent out a mailer urging supporters to get to the polls, but it has trump's image and never once mentioned hyde-smith's name. not a message of strength. >> she called her bust the maga wagon. it's a picture of her and the president on the side. this is definitely our last referendum on the president for a while. we have a couple gubernatorial races in it wasn't 19, but this is really people looking at how well she does to extrapolate messages. 25% of white voters may not seem like a lot, but this is the most pollerized in the country. for mike espy to get 25% is hard. i learned my lesson about politic politics, but this is a tough one. >> in a special election after a holiday, they debated when the

quit and moved back to alabama as a write-in. >> roy moore would have listened to that, that would bet. >> he can do that in 2020, jones is up already. kennedy: it's true, he was only finishing the term, and jeff can be like, it's like dallas and everyone is still alive including bobby. all right, kat? >> well, i'm just concerned now that he's gone, who's going to prevent all of us from dying of weed? kennedy: weed is as bad as every other drug in the world. >> terrible, people are dying all over the place. we should be concerned. in all seriousness, he's a civil liberties nightmare. he wanted to not just continue the drug war, ramp it up, increase efforts to incarcerate people. kennedy: creating more refugees and asylees from honduras and el salvador. >> also, he wanted to also limit and reduce legal immigration, not just illegal immigration but legal immigration. kennedy: sure. >> so i just say girl, bye, don't let the door hit you on the way out. kennedy: don't let the door hit you where the lord split you. chris christie will be the next attorney general -- >> no, no. kennedy: gre

the see roy moore, the republican.unger voters turned out and african-americans turned out and voted for the democratic candidate. that's why you see the stars is of the party going in to help. mike espy saying thank you, but let me be clear, i know folks are more conservative here than in california. >> i don't know that mississippi was an example because it was a bad candidate in that race, but doug jones still won by a margin smaller than the number of write in votes. even with someone being accused of molesting teenagers, that was a sensitive race. we are seeing similar circumstances here. obviously not accusations of what roy moore was facing, but she did make the comments and it's a sensitive race and time in america to make a comment like that. he could be the first black senator for the state since the civil war. that's a big deal. so many things are at stake here. those remarks are really getting such backlash that they wouldn't always in mississippi. her campaign is trying to turn it around and trying to take

roy moore was someone heading into that race who won his last race by only four points.he was handicapped by this, she had a lot more room to give. >> let's look at the house side. on the senate side, democrats lost two seats, but they were defending more seats. on the house side, now we are moving up towards really what can only be described as a blue wave. at the higher end of the predictions prior to this election as to what the democrats pick up. >> remember, of course, the democrats gain the senate, but they were depending 26 seats. and they were in all sorts of areas. so, you know, democrats are able to take advantage of a very blue national environment and a net gain of 40 seats is the most since watergate. >> i would note you lost in all of this in the mississippi run-off. >> 24 and the other ever in arizona elected. the first ever in tennessee and the first ever in mississippi elected. >> we're getting there. it is not equal yet, but we're getting there. >> you can see right there. >> progress. >> thank you very much, as always. >>> president trump wants $5 mill

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we feel like we do have a roy moore. >> what happened last night at the debate dween mike espy and hyde-smithas a bit of a thi?.. i heard it was a bit of a thing. >> a source told me with the debate hyde-smith demanded there be no live studio audience there and the no outside press be allowed in and she also -- the candidates were supposed to have note pads. she actually had demanded she had notes thundershowers before. if you saw the debate, you would see her repeatedly looking down at this big, i think it was a binder of notes. the debate last night, she was reading from that binder when asked about the public hanging comment. it sounded like she was going to apologize and she kind of did apologize but then she threw the blame over to mike espy. >> interesting. is that a saying that's commonly used down here. i like you so much that i'd attend a public hanging with you? >> i've talked to probably hundreds of people now and i've not heard a single person here who has ever heard that phrase used, ever. there was a report in the new york times, they talked to a southern linguist who said that

doug jones is a good colleague and i think eminently a better senator than roy moore would have been. and i think, frankly, i did republicans a favor there, as well. so i -- there are a number of good candidates on both sides of the aisle out there. >> who are you cheering for on the democratic side this time? >> well, one in iowa. i mean, we have a candidate on our side of the aisle that isn't exactly i think making things easy for republicans moving forward. it's not the best face of the party. >> you're talking about representative steve king? >> i am. i am. some of the statements he's made over the years with regard to migrants coming across the southern border and more recent comments in this regard have just not been good for the country, certainly not good for the party. >> yeah. he said some pretty disgusting things recently. not just recently, for a while. any other democrats you're cheering for? >> i'll keep it to that right now. >> okay. senator jeff flake, thanks so much for joining us. we'll continue this conversation down the road. >> thanks. >>> up next, the president's

because of roy moore. >> because of the character that roy moore was, which was highly distasteful andat black voters did go out and support doug jones. but doug jones had a lot of voter support. >> yes, absolutely. >> we're talking frankly today, you and me. can mike espy get enough of the white vote in mississippi or is mississippi not geared up to vote for a black senate candidate? is white mississippi not geared up? >> first of all, mike espy can. is it going to be hard? yes. which is why and what he has been doing. what he has been doing and going across the state, he has been hammering hyde-smith on health care because of how mississippians are impacted by that. 1.5 million poor people in mississippi. you have poor children, poor white women, poor white men. so, what espy has been talking about is economics is health care. and, so, he is trying to reach them through their pocketbook. the difference here. as howard dean said in 2004. here's a piece. you can vote on god, gays and gun if you're poor and broke in mississippi but, you know what, when you don't have a rural tell me how

by the way -- and with roy moore, same issue -- it's a candidate-by candidate thing. even before the allegations against roy moore, he had been removed from his court seat twice for define court orders. he was a terrible candidate to begin with. republicans need to wake up. >> harris: really quickly, jessica -- if this happens tonight, and it looks statistically that she's never lost her lead by , hyde-smith. it looks like it will happen for republicans. that broadens out. it's a bigger issue for democrats than focusing in on florida or mississippi or alabama or any of those states where vote counts were close and some of the arguments have gone outside of the voting polls. >> jessica: absolutely. every seat counts, and we know that -- especially when there are a few moderate republicans who always seem to be on the fence about whatever the big vote of the day is. this wasn't a seat the democrats came into the 2018 midterms expecting that we were going to pick up. people were hopeful about it. >> kennedy: doug jones is still walking around going "really?" [laughter] >

he's hoping for a doug jones situation against roy moore in alabama where moderate whites are turned off by the racialized comments that cindy hyde smith has made. mississippi is both the last state in the country to still use the confederate flag on their state flag and has the largest portion of african-americans. about 37%. he'll need a good portion of white to push to his way too. >> hyde smith said this about -- >> when i hear that. she had her head down and she was reading it. my mother told me when you apologize to someone you look them in the eye and you tell them that you're sorry and that you offended them and you try to make reparations if you can. so i can't judge her sincerity. >> kate, is there a sense that espy is worried about alienating rural white voters. does he need their support to win? >> that's not who he's speaking to as alex said, maybe moderate independent, more highly educ e educated urban voters in the state. >> we know that president trump as you mentioned, he's having two rallies there tomorrow in support of hyde smith. just yesterday she spoke about her

in alabama, roy moore was only this morning declared jefferson b high's first class president. congratulations. the real drama is as always in florida. the florida of states. both the senate and governor's races are too close to call and the republicans there aren't handling the stress well. >> republicans from the president on doin' are united in their attempt to stop counting votes. in florida's senate and gubernatorial election before the final tally. >> i will not sit idly by while unethical liberals try steal this election. >> donald trump echoing the base cleses claims of florida governor and senator rick scott who accused of the voting reg stare in broward county a fraud. >> trevor: if trump is saying this about an election he is not a part of, imagine if he loses in 2020. he will be holed up in the oval office like star face, sitting behind the desk with oozies. kellyanne conway will be manning the machine guns. don, jr. with an unpinned grenade. i took this out, i'm so strong! ( laughter ) nobody is stealing the election but that doesn't mean nah doesn't have big issue

. >> trevor: like you saw with the roy moore election.ave been focused and progressively minded. and so what you're saying then is white women need to take a cue from brack women. how do you begin that conversation? and is there a disconnect between white women saying, "we're the angry ones. we're taking this." and black women saying, "no, we've been angry. we got this." >> yes. ( applause ) yes, there is a disconnect. there's anger. and i believe that anger between potential allies needs to be expressed. and i'm not the first to believe this. this is what audrey lourde was writing about in the 1980s. the anger about racism in the women's movement must be expressed if we're to move forward and be product and generative in terms of where we want to go and form more solid coalitions. but it is absolutely true that black women who have seen no incentive from white-- they don't get patriarchy, and they don't get white supremacy. and that has, to some degree, permitted them to be the groundbreaking thinkers, organizers, leaders of so many prog

. >> you are talking about roy moore for those of you are o who need assistance on that.always good to see you. >> thank you. >> on the break of brexit, britain is on the verge of divorcing the european union. what it could mean for the u.s. e cob me. >>> welcome back. the road is paved for one of the biggest and most contentious divorces in history. brexit is short happened for britain exiting the european union. european leaders signed off on the split and now british prime minister teresa may has to sell the deal at home. it is facing heavy criticism. a vote is expected in the second week of december and if prime minister may cannot get the votes at home, britain could still lead the eu march 29th without a formal plan. either way the deal could cost $50 billion in brexit divorce payments. president trump is not a fan of the deal, saying it kills the chance of a separate trade deal between the u.s. and the uk. bianca joins me from london. what happens if the british parliament votes it down. >> it's completely uncharted territory. there is not one analyst that i spoke

. >> and in alabama, this is the doug jones roy moore senate battle, special election, alabama had deployedvery method of voter suppression against the black population particularly in the black belt and when the state of alabama refused to move on it you had civil society stand up and do heavy lifting of democracy. figuring out how to get people the birth certificate they needed and getting them to get the id they needed, setting up a private card system because so many polls had been closed in alabama. the people could get to and from the polls, doing a whole lot of that work. we also have states, how do we open up our voting system to american citizens. you have oregon that instituted automatic voter registration and they have one of the highest voter turnout rates in the nation but they weren't satisfied so automatic voter registration, their registration, their voter turnout went up by 4 percentage points and their electorate became increasingly diverse. california did automatic voter registration and said that is not enough. we will also preregister 16 and 17-year-olds so when they tu

cindy hyde-smith is not roy moore. be safe, we hold this seat.t's a net gain of two republicans in this cycle. and these two net gain votes in the senate will be a huge boost for him in reshaping the judiciary and the lower courts as well and putting on federal society judges that will be on for 20-40 years. trish: when you look at what the democrats were able to do in the house versus the senate, we'll see how this turns out in mississippi. but you get the sense people were thinking differently when they were marking the box for six years as opposed to two. >> there are different things at stake with united states senators versus members of congress. not only do they serve for longer terms. but they have the role of advise and consent. it's not just limited to the jew dish air yea. all of that has to go through the senate. so the stakes are different given the dynamics and the responsibilities that the united states hoped. mississippi has not elected a democrat in this seat since 1982. so it will be a heavy lift. trish: let me turn to the border

. >> let's remind yoourselves, ev though roy moore lost, this man had been accused multiple times ofwith a reprehensible lynch joke will have the same power as a pedophile, i don't think so. >> donny put his finger on the pulse. you're sitting up a straw dog argument. one was about sexual predatory behavior of a candidate. the other is about views of a candidate that some, some may deem to be racist while significant portion of folks may not. i think the question is how has mississippi geographically. yes there's this push in the south generally to move quote into the future and to sort of erase that racist past but we're not there yet. to the point that was made earlier to the number of voters that espy need of white voters, that's the hurdle he'll not be able to overcome i think in the end. >> a professor was on the seat last week making a plea to african-american voters in mississippi. he wants them to get out and vote for mike espy. is that enough to put him over the top or enough of those white voters in the state of mississippi who will overlook, be willing to overlook some of

. >> roy moore in alabama was a troubled candidate and accusations he behaved in sexual ways with young girls. it's still really, really hard. >> democrats sat out of this race so far. >> to that point, good for steve stifers, number one. putting principal, pride over power. >> in suburban districts. >> if they invited me to a public hanging. anyone who said that is a negative connotation is ridiculous. a heavy work load and plenty of a heavy work load and plenty of drama. so, let's talk about conference calls. there's always a certain amount of fumbling. a lot of times it doesn't work. we have problems. comcast business goes beyond fast. by letting you make and receive calls from any device using your business line. and conference calls you can join without any dial-ins or pins. (phone) there are currently 3 members in this conference. i like that. i like that too. i would use that in a heartbeat. get started with innovative voice solutions for a low price when you get fast, reliable internet. comcast business. beyond fast. >>> congress is back and it's a mix of post election meet and

roy moore was candidate in alabama, the president never did a rally for him. rest folks in d.c. kept him at arms lengths. the gop sent a full calvary here to mississippi. two trump rallies in the day and other senator was here and lindsey graham was here. they had a full show of force to help cindy hyde-smith. >> laura: funny thing, when they all unite together and fight for something, they win. peter, thank you so much. we'll take you to the hyde-smith speak if if happens within the hour. which i imagine it will. the first can van -- caravan is one of the issue taking our country. it is this next story that's shocking. right now, 2324 american teens are being held at just one facility in texas. more than 1300 of those teens have arrived just since the end of october alone. what's the cost to the american taxpayer? well, $1200 per child per day. the plans to close this facility, of course, are being scuttled. this facility could remain in operation into 2020. this one facility can cost you as taxpayer more than $430 million. for a frame of reference, there are at least 100 of th

republicans and some of these i don't think ought to count the alabama senate race was a referendum on roy moore in the new jersey governor's race last year chris christie's numbers drop to the point where i'm not sure his lieutenant governor had a chance. and then to be that point spread in virginia a good purple state on governor or lieutenant governorr or attorney general with the democratic congressional candidates and those by eight percentage points and democrats only picked up one of them but if they were really republican districts to go into trump's cabinet but the eight-point increase with 44 republican seats only six seats were republican and finally, who voted in all the 50 state primaries? one.2 million more republicans voted in the primaries in 2014 this time it was two.9 million more democrats. the number of republicans voting in 2018 went up by 27 percent. that's pretty healthy. democrats 91 percent increase. remember the tv show lost in space and that robot? so now let's talk about the wall. things that help protect the republicanie majority. in the house specifically democrats

over and elect a democratic senator, which is what happened in alabama with doug jones defeat of roy mooree political consultant for moore -- for doug jones is running the race in mississippi, but alabama is not as retroas mississippi, and that gets to the key demographics of this race. mississippi is probably the most retroof the deep south states. it's much more rural than alabama and it was the urban voters, suburban voters, the republican voters in places like birmingham, tuscaloosa who produced the jones victory. as my friend curtis wilke, the veteran "boston globe" reporter who now teaches at the university of mississippi says, there's no history in mississippi of white republicans crossing over to vote for a democratic candidate much less a black democrat. so it's -- it's going to be a very close-run thing, i think. most people believe that senator hyde-smith will pull it out, however, if she doesn't, it will be a real humiliation for truchbl. >> yeah. >> there's not a more trumpian state in the universe, and that's why he's going to tupalo tomorrow and that's why he's going to bilo

again, he is replaying, in some ways, the arguments we heard in alabama when roy moore was working. and so i don't really know how this is going to play out. again, it's stacked in favor of a republican victory but espy is trying to make inroads on both fronts, african-american and voters who are not, but who are sick of this image of mississippi and want to make a statement that they are not about comments about public hangings in mississippi. >> we should point out this is the last unresolved senate race of the 2018 midterms. what is at stake as far as politically in washington? >> very important. what we have seen the first two years of the trump presidency and the narrow majority of the senate is every vote matters. mcconnell is hanging on to each vote with controversial legislation. so, again, democrats are not going to win a majority of the senate, but if they can cut down that vote by one, that can matter on crucial legislation, including health care, for example. >> julian zeleny, always good to talk to you. thanks very much. >> thanks for having me. >> today on "state of th

a lot of people want to make it the next alabama by saying this is a doug jones, roy moore kind of racehe demographics are a bit similar. most white people in mississippi are republicans. most black people are democrats. there's a lot more white voters in mississippi than black voters. when looking at what needs to happen here in other words for mike espy to pull something off, what does he need to do and what is cindy hyde-smith need to do in order to keep a hold on that senate seat? >> let's be clear, cindy hyde-smith is very much the favorite. for mike espy, his calculation is i need a record african-american and black turn out in places like jackson to come out and walk over coals to vote against hyde-smith. there was a really contentious primary between hooiyde-smith. some-his reporters are fully behind her. espy needs to hope that tension still exists. you combine that with a big black turn out that can get him over the top. hyde-smith is still very much the favorite because trump is the key there. >> there's been reporting coming out covering images of her with the confederate ha

earlier this year, when there were a lot of white and african-american evangelicals who turned against roy moorethe -- after the charges of sexual harassment and so forth. so it will be interesting to see how evangelicals -- once we get some solid numbers, it will be interesting to see how evangelicals came out. of course, much like the general public, evangelicals do not vote as often as -- in midterms as they would in national elections. but they're also very fired up. and trump won some very important victories for them especially with the supreme court. we will see if they will reward him for that by electing some of the candidates that the president endorses. >> so john, you mentioned texas. and there is a christian author there with a huge following, beth moore. and in march, march 12th, this is what she put out on twitter. she said, for many of us about whom people say i liked them better before they goat political, we liked us better, too. who wanted to be where a mountain of manure was hitting the fan? this manure came to us in the church. we didn't go for it. for a lot of us, it's a fi

. >> i think they want to see this as another alabama with doug jones versus roy moore.rote an interesting article about cindy hyde-smith and her history and saying these rational comments are not the first time she's done this. she's got a long history supporting the confederate flag, supporting jefferson davis who was the president of the con fed confederate. >> she sponsored legislation to rename a portion of the highway after jefferson davis. she's gone to the jefferson davis museum and posed for t photos there. she does have a long history for supporting the confedaracy. this comes down to a test of the hold sou old south. the confederate emblem is still on the mississippi state flag. that's kind of what this election is about. >> in 2014 when she was wearing that confederate hat and talking about telling votes to visit the homestead for jefferson davis. she said mississippi history at its best. you might have a deep respect for your history but to say mississippi history at its best when talk about the confederacy and talking about keeping the old order in place an

he also defended roy moore in alabama let's not forget, the senate candidate accused of sexual abusey nine women, some of whom were underage at the time. and now in one of his most impactful decisions to date as president in terms of its lasting effect on our history and jurisprudence, the president chose not to question the story of his nominee for the supreme court. after now justice kavanaugh was accused of sexually assaulting a woman back in the early 1980s. here's a reminder of that hearing likely to go down as one of the most remarkable in our history. >> i am here today not because i want to be. i am terrified. i am here because i believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while brett kavanaugh and i were in high school. >> what is the strongest memory you have, the strongest memory of the incident, something that you cannot forget? take whatever time you need. >> indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two, and their having fun at my expense. >> this whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated politic

the other sitting senator wasn't voting for roy moore. the republican strategy is. the disparity will carry hyde-smith over the finish line. >> it's not that everybody wants the same thing. wanting it for my kids but not yours. maintaining a divisive area of society is not good for us. until we overcome what is spewed from the mouth of this pet tore, we will not be able to inside the golf. about all of us together. >> thank you, what a great conversation. >> she had a last point. >> we have close off with you. >> this has been an unfortunate episode but being a misssippian. we have a lot of work to do. we can and must do better on issues of race. >> we appreciate you being in this. the author of "tears, we cannot stop. i'm going to come back with how they warned months ago that tariffs could hurt jobs. a company that has been working around tariffs for years. he says the tariffs will not bring jobs back to america. jardiance asked- and now you know. jardiance is the first type 2 diabetes pill proven to both reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults who have

how close the alabama special election was even with all the drama and the controversy surrounding roy mooresissippi is a similarly heavy lift for democrats. >> garrett haake on the hill. good to have you. thank you. >> thanks, craig. >> kansas's grover is calling on one of his state's county officials to resign following racially charged comments. when addressing a black woman, a commissioner who is white described himself as part of the master race when asked later, he implied his comments were made as a joke. the as kansas governor is calli for his resignation. he caused controversy in the past for calling general e lee as a wonderful part of history. >>> republicans claim victories in florida, andrew gillum and bill nelson both conceding. and brenda snipes quit. broward county missed a recount deadline by a couple of minutes. florida's reporting ochbt resignation that it ends a 15-year tenure full of botched elections, legal disputes and criticism. jonathan allen was in florida for all of the political action. good to see you, my friend. you wrote for our website that republicans had a s

what republicans ultimately went through back in 2017, that special election versus doug jones and roy moore from talking to folks on the ground here hallie, as well as making phone calls to a lot of particular republican voters that i met over the course of the year here covering this race in mississippi, i don't think at this point we are seeing that ground swell of republicans that are leaving the campaign of cindy hyde-smith behind. the question is over the next seven days as more companies like walmart pull out, there's 85 stores here across the state, and we are talking to voters. the attention is on those old video clips here of hide smith from those last few weeks that are controversial, and when we've been talking to particular those republican voters, a lot of them are telling us it was offputting. it has not put the state in the right light. at the same time they still plan to vote. the other question is about one-third of the electorate are black voters. i want to introduce you to julia ward who i met in hattiesburg yesterday. at what rate will black voters turn out, and will the