acknowledged in his acceptance, the value of bringing in a diversified group of voters to the voting booths. he acknowledged african-americans, the power of the latino vote, he acknowledged the power of the youth vote. and this is where the democratic party, if they want to continue this wave, they have to pay

the voting rights because people were disenfranchised this election. >> 600,000. >> 600,000. 200 voting boothsh carolina alone were all of a sudden eliminated this election. it was something that was real, that was impactful. jeff sessions, his own words saying i find voting rights obtrusive. and every american should really be figuring out where are they going to stand. because as we are increasingly a diverse country, when we're trying to participate, and we have an administration hostile to participation, we have to be adamant. our democracy's as strong as our participation. >> there was another announcement of the appointment to the trump administration, a supporter of hb-2. >> office of civil rights. >> the civil rights division. think about that. robert kennedy's seat in the justice department. >> right. >> a supporter. >> no, this is why i want this march to really strengthen the spines of democratic senators. because that hearing was a travesty with leaders going at the tail end -- >> at the back of the bus. >> back of the hearing, folks. it's going to be hard to stop him but they have

we battle in the voting booth. battle. e electriceded city council. city council decided to remove a statute. that frankly wasn't the federal government's business. it wasn't my business. therefore he was in all of a sudden. >> armstrong: ten seconds. >> liberals and people of color want the federal government. >> are all red states. entitlement to save their lives and save their communities. >> armstrong: when we come back, shelby and stella will return in our final segment. >> armstrong: i want to welcome shelby and stella back to the program. >> therefores a lot of emotion. past couple of generations in our education system has been cultivation of emotion over independent thought. getting back to what star and shelby were saying before we are unique individuals. when we go down that road, basically cultivates more emotion over independent thought, you go down a road, i am not saying it wasn't independently, political speech and constitution. from its very inception designed to eliminate slavery in all of its form including, especially with the firs

i don't think when a voter goes into the voting booth they think about the nationalization of what it means to president trump or what it means to president obama. i think they are voting for what they believe is their right as a voter to select their representatives for congress. >> once again please offer a national press club front of applause to our speaker sonny perdue and thank you so much for being here today at the national press club luncheon. once again the club president in 2010 coming back for the special event for their secretary of agriculture. again thanking the members of her headliner's team responsible for the event as well as the staff led by executive editor bill mccarran and once again don't forget walter isaacson the former editor of time and former "cnn" chairman discussing leonardo da vinci at the head liners defense on december 18. this is going to be one of the last luncheons of this year. they sure to check out the national press club events in the calendar for next year. once again on behalf of the national press club today's meeting of the national press c

the sort of men are also the most to say at the voting. booth and just look at can you see even despite a computer which was thinking more of the to a certain place what up. one can just make you feel just there for show them a bushel proposal from a pushout called plagiarizing immigrants and put them down was a show she also you only put on the speech because it's so so important so much for sister who is going on the cheap. and i think long while the need when you and me agree at sixty one can accumulate if you c.b.s. look into one of them to see them get a medal but ambush me out of the. never let me that witness because i don't look i thought you know very little that i don't well don't you well that of good people not so you know what the cost of theft don't do or you wouldn't legit question will you get them stuck or the point is fast it's not going to pay i don't finish. the mighty but that will invariably do yes in my unit we do it sure does when you took several developers are using your navy gets up to them we're going to watch someone

i think it's possible voters go into the voting booth and have a moment of conscience and say, i can't back a guy accused of child molestation. >> something caught my attention on al franken's resignation. you wrote, it was the democrat's strongest declaration yet that they, unlike the republicans, are willing to sacrifice their own in the interest of staking out the high ground. however, you also wrote, it will want be enough to overcome the deeper dynamics that drive the electorate and make voters even more disillusioned. how so? >> that was a quote from norm ornstein, a political and close friend of al franken. he's arguing, the state of the pil politics in this country that people's partisan loyalties are stronger than any other force. perhaps what the democrats have done with al franken, without making him go through the ethics process is just kind of amp up the disillusionment that people on both sides of the political he spectrum feel about washington in general, that basically they're all corrupt. >> can you handicap the government shutdown? >> republicans have aid nair whoa wi

person and so they won't tell the poster who they actually vote for and then they go into the voting booth in the privacy of that moment and vote for that person. i think what we need to do is understand how trump got elected, right. trump did not, to my knowledge, did not substantively increase, right, the number of voters for him. what we saw was a decrease. a lack of turnout among democrats. in particularly, among particular democrats, and young folk breaking to third party candidates. what will happen if we see 28%, 25% of black voters in the black belt turn out? and i think, just like what happened in virginia, it's going to be driven by black women, in an interesting sort of way. >> charles barkley's message was real last night. >> what's interesting too about this election is that the dnc and the democrats in washington, d.c. might not have an idea of what's happening on the ground. project south. there's an organizing. there's an organizing effort from the bottom up that's happening in alabama. >> that didn't happen in the presidential election with hillary clinton. >> but happened

more the goodness and that's it but also here in the sort of that are also the most to say at the voting. booth and just look at can you see even despite a computer which was something more than to a certain place where there. one congressman akin to sheer partial number but all proposal from a pushout called play get out of your mortgage and put them down was a shawl she also you only put on the speech and i sure did so show it what to show moms for the system who has been on the cheap. and i think you want while the need when you and me agree at six the little can accumulate if you don't you get looking did you want them to see that you know i don't gamble push me out of the. barrel at me that it was because i don't look i thought you know very proud i'm glad you're well don't you will that of group of kids in that city you know what the cost of theft is dollar question will you get them stuck or the point is to ask somebody to pay i don't finish we need the mighty what that will invariably do yes in my unit we do it sure does when you took several developers are using you on they've each got

this is something that's getting a lot of media, they're going to have to go into that voting booth and make a decision as to who is best to respect them. >> reporter: is that why the rnc decided to support roy moore again? >> this is democracy. the president has indicated he wants to keep this seat republican, and we're going to -- we're the political arm of the white house, so, we're going to make sure the president -- thank you so much. >> reporter: and once again, anderson, now ronna mcdaniel has said that the alabama voters are going to be the judge and jury of roy moore. she didn't really expand on that today. one other thing that she didn't mention today is the candidate's name. in that conversation, she referred to roy moore as the candidate. she never actually said his name, which we thought was interesting. we were able to confirm just how much funding the rnc, the national rnc has sent to roy moore and his campaign. two payments, one of $50,000, anderson, and one of $120,000, so, a total of $170,000 from the rnc, anderson. >> all right, randi kaye, thank you for that. three v

even though the press, you all love to write about that i don't think when the voter goes in the voting booth they think about that nationalization or what it means to president trump what it means to president obama or that. i think they're voting for what they believe is their right as a voter to select their representatives in congress. >> once again, please offer him a want of applause secretary of agriculture, sonny perdue. [applause] thank you so much for being here today at the national press club luncheon. once again, coming back for the special event for secretary of agriculture again, thinking the members of our headliner steam who are responsible for this event as well as the national press club staff led by our executive editor. also, once again, don't forget to miss walter isaacson former editor of time and former cnn increment discussing leonardo da vinci on december 18. more details at www. press .org. this is going to be one of the last luncheons of this year. check on the national press club events on the calendar for next year. once again on behalf of the national press club

before people even get to the voting booth. -- wehaven't talked about talked about the voting systems but haven't talked about the voter registration rolls. let's talk about that for just a moment. go ahead. >> and how safe connie's systems are -- you happen to be here so you are the example -- how safe the systems are so that when someone walks into the voting booth, their name is on the role and they are allowed to vote, that a mischief maker hasn't erased my name before i get there. >> i have no idea what's going on in indiana. is seen great and i'm sure your systems are terrific. this is definitely a point of vulnerability, particularly for nationstates interested in disruption. in many states and many jurisdictions, the poll book at the polling place is an electronic device. they are often security weaknesses, you are at best going to be casting a provisional ballot. >> how often are either of you -- how often is there a paper backup? if i walk in, even though the doesworker uses an ipad, he or she have a book under the table in case something goes haywire? >> there are 2500 diff

fighting for the poor, courthou, state house and in the voting booth.someone who lives and works in alabama he has a ringside seat to the truly extraordinary senate race in the heart of southern republican country. between roy moore and doug jones. now, europeans are reading a lot into the results, on this continent which is deeply skeptical of donald trump's agenda. media outsets from left off to right, le mond in france, britain and germany's papers, framing results of the miracle of alabama. seeing in it a sign that america has n hasn't lost its marbles. brian stevenson joined me earlier from montgomery, abama. brian, welcome to the program. so i just framed it in all of those, possibility teeies. what just happened in your state? i don't think is any way, no democrat has won an election in the state for many decades. it is significant. i do think we need to remember roy moore was a compromised political candidate. some one thrown off the alabama -- there were a lot of republicans in the state who do not like him. and i don't think we should read too

there are lot of republicans that don't like roy moore but they're sitting there, going into the voting booth today, do i really want to give chuck schumer another vote? that's what it comes down to do i really want to vote for a guy that is about as far left on abortion as you can be. think what this comes down to at the end, whether conservatives, whether republicans can hold their nose and elect doug jones despite all their concerns about roy moore? >> it's certainly case given the structure of the politics in this state the deck is stacked against any democrat that runs for state wide office here so it's hard for roy jones to run against anyone. >> how much did donald trump win here? >> 28, in the 2008 and 2012 when barack obama had record tournout. he got 39% in 2008. so it's tough here, even if you are getting historic african-american turnout, if you are doug jones and you accomplish that, you know, off year election like this one is, you are still going to get a bunch of suburban white republicans basically to stay home or to switch over. >> you said something interesting yesterday, e

even though the press, you all love to write about that, i don't think when the voter goes in the voting booth they think about that nationalization or what it means to president trump of what it means to president obama for that. i think they are voting for what they believe is their right as a voter to select their representatives for congress. >> once again, please offer national press club round of applause to our speaker, secretary of agriculture, sonny perdue. [applause] >> and thank you so much for being here today at the national press club luncheon once again i am -- i was a club president in 2010 coming back with a special event with our secretary of agriculture. again thanking the members of her headlines to the responsible as was the national press club staff, and also want to give don't forget to ms. walter isakson former editor of time and former chairman discussing leonardo da vinci. more details at www.press.org. this is going to be alaskan one of the last legend of the shooter sure to check on the events that you get once again a bit of the national press club, today's meeting

in other words, before people even get to the voting booth. >> this is actually -- we haven't talked about -- we talked about the voting systems. we haven't talked about the voter registration roles. so let's talk than for a moment. go ahead. and how safe how safe connie's systems are -- i'm sorry you. happen to be here. so you're the example. so how safe connie's systems are so that when someone walks into the voting booth, their nameston role, and they're allowed to vote, ooh that a mischief maker hasn't erased my name before i get there? >> i have no idea what's going on in indiana. you seem great, and i'm sure your systems are terrific. >> pick colorado. >> but, you know, this is definitely a point of vulnerability, particularly for a nation state interested in disruption. in many states and many jurisdictions, the pole book at the polling places and the electronic device, those devices are often -- often have security weaknesses in them. if your name isn't there, you're at best going to be casting a provisional ballot. >> how often are -- for either of you guy, how often is there

we spoke to delegates coming out of the voting booth that it is happening and going province by provinceified, because it could easily pause again, but we expect there should be a result, we should know who the next president of the african national congress, the oldest movement in africa, we should know it at 10 o'clock, perhaps 11 o'clock, tomorrow. it is a big deal politically, notjust for the african national congress, but for south africa. this country has been badly hit by the allegations of corruption and misrule swirling around the government ofjacob zuma. people around the country are looking for something new. we will find out tomorrow if it is the man who said he would sweep away corruption or the wife of president jacob zuma, ex—wife, i should say. let's return now to the rohingya crisis and the un's human rights chief has said he personally warned myanmar‘s leader aung san suu kyi about appalling atrocities against the rohingya people, but that her government questioned the methodology used by the un. zeid ra'ad al hussein told the bbc‘s justin rowlatt how evidence began to

in other words before people even get to the voting booths -- >> we have not talked about we talked about the voter registration rolls so let's talk about that for a moment. go ahead. >> how safe are the systems that you happen to be here and how safe are the systems so that when someone walks into the voting booth their name is on the role and they are actually allowed to vote that a mischief maker has any race my name before i get there. >> i have no idea what's going on in indiana and you seem great and i'm sure your systems are terrific but this is definitely a point of vulnerability particularly for our nationstate interested in disruption. in many states and many jurisdictions the pull book is the polling place in the electronic device and those devices are often have on security weaknesses in your name is in there and at best going to be casting a provisional ballot. >> how often are either of you is there a paper backup. if i walk in even though the poll workers in the uses the ipad to check my name is he or she have a book under the table in case everything goes haywire is that l

house says the accusations were vetted during the 2016 campaign and americans responded in the voting booth by electing mr. trump. >>> as for the impact of the me too movement on social immediate y., today facebook said more than 30 million people had posted about it since mid october and those me too stories had generated more than 100 million posts, reactions or comments. >>> exclusive new details tonight about a crash that took the life of a young woman with plans to become a pol years old. she was leaving work around 2:00 a.m. last wednesday when a pickup truck hit her car from behind, forcing it into another car and killing her along route 6 outside la plata. news 4's jackie bensen has new details on what happened just before that crash. >> reporter: co-workers describe taylor halbleib as a lovely young woman who'd caught the eye of many in the short time she worked at zito liquor. the 21-year-old la plata high school graduate, a former varsity soccer player, was working there part-time while taking college courses in criminology. she wanted to become a police officer. but on her way h

russia gate hoax will save us or or one of their various magical thinking that if we go to the voting booth and will elect somebody and somehow that person is going to fight for on our behalf rather than the corporations we have. zero zero yeah so in other words there is no there there there's no help coming there's still cavalry there's no plane like hall there's only ruby slippers that you can click three times and take you over the rainbow to fairly magic land of the sticks and leprechauns where only cryptocurrency is grow yes of course you can take to the afterlife and to your friend to see were when he called big coin a fantasy currency but those are not my hell mines i'm going to look i'm going to. answer the question of why people aren't taking to the streets and i'm going to talk about these fantasy headlines and the first headline here might be one reason why people are not taking to the streets robots are being used to deter homeless people from setting up camp in san francisco and san francisco autonomous crime fighting robots that are used to patrol parking lots sports arenas an

we spoke to delegates coming out of the voting booth that it is happening and going province by provinceied, because it could easily pause again, but we expect there should be a result, the next president of the african congress, the oldest movement in africa, we should know it at 10 o'clock, perhaps 11 o'clock, tomorrow. it is a big deal politically, not just tomorrow. it is a big deal politically, notjust for the african national congress, but south africa. the country has been badly hit by the allegations of corruption and misrule swirling around the government ofjacob and misrule swirling around the government of jacob zuma and misrule swirling around the government ofjacob zuma is a bit people around the country are looking for something new. —— zuma. we will find out tomorrow if it is the man who says he will sweep away corruption or the wife of president jacob zuma, ex—wife, i should say. thank you. live from johannesburg. a suicide bomb attack on a packed methodist church in south—western pakistan, has killed at least nine people and wounded more than 50 others. cctv images caugh

they can't beat us at the voting booths. so they are trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you want. they are trying to cheat you out of the leadership you want with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us and most importantly, demeaning to our country and demeaning to our constitution. [applause] i just hope the final determination is a truly honest one. which is what the millions of people who gave us our big win in november deserved. and what all americans who want a better futurement and deserve. [applause] [music] >> the media can attack me but where i draw the line is when they attack you, which is what they do when they attack the sdeour supporters. you are honest, hard working, taxpayering and you are over taxed we will get your taxes down. [applause]. you are tax paying americans ho love our nations, obey our laws and care for our people. it is time to exexpose the crook ed media deceptions and to challenge the media for their role for divisions and yes, by the way they are trying to take awa

a lot of republican voters who are tapped on the way into our comments on the way to the voting boothsd the allegations against roy moore as fake news, if you like, something the candidate himself has taken up from donald trump's and playbook, if you like, but of course, there are those who say this is very disturbing stuff at a time of, just after basically three members of congress were forced to resign over sexual misconduct allegations. we will take viewers back to alabama when we have anything that looks like a result. for the moment, thank you. liberia's electoral commission has announced the second round of the elections will take place on the 26th of december, following a court challenge. former soccer star george weah faces vice—presidentjoseph boakai in the poll that was held up for several weeks. the successful candidate will replace ellenjohnson sirleaf as president. firefighters in los angeles say a wildfire which swept through bel—air, one of the city's most exclusive neighbourhoods, started in a homeless encampment. the fire is one of several that has destroyed hundreds

sexual misconduct accusations that repelled many moderate republicans and kept them away from the voting booth. of all the states in which the democratic fight should take shape alabama was an unlikely starting point the party has not won a senate seat here and a quarter of a century. we have three have just around the state of alabama though we have shown the country the way i was. the celebrations here on much to the control vis a surrounding his opponent. airlie or in the day the republican crusader roy had hoped his horse named sassy would carry him to victory. it was the final bet to cast him as a thought of bread conservative in a campaign marred by multiple allegations from women claiming he had molested them decades ago when they were teenagers even for high ranking republicans members actions and policies well beyond the pale he believes homosexuality should be illegal and that new zealand shouldn't seven congress. for donald trump the only thing that mattered was moore's loyalty to his vision the president has congratulated doug jones on a hard fought victory but said votes cast for

make sure that that presidential election was transparent i remember that being the webcams in voting booths among other measures that were taken what would it take to convince other countries that it will be a fair election do you think what will they expect from nato nation media will almost you know animists lee condemn the russian election next year it will condemn the idea that you're putin is contesting this election little and winning it and at the same time it will allege the vladimir putin is behind everything from every other affection next year because it's difficult to overstate coming to you from london here the way they see their putin's leadership of russia. capable of meaning the britain breaks apart from the european union with catalonia breaks apart from spain this is all under the power of the thumb of law to be uprooted. it's very difficult to see any fair reporting of russia just as there would be any fair reporting of china or any of these other emerging superpowers of the twenty first century ok we're sure we'll get more reaction in your next edition of going undergrou

registration, so those that are independent may choose to be a democrat when they go into the voting booths to vote in a primary or the general election. but that's not the case. and we have a lot of republicans. jorge i'm speaking to you since you brought this up. we have a lot of republicans in states that are specifically blocking same day voter registration, they know that an increase especially on the democratic side. it's why some states choose to do caucuses. because as a state party, we can then say we welcome independents, yes, become a democrat the day of the caucus. when you said earlier an independent should just switch parties on the day of the primary, that's not possible. it's not possible in states like nebraska, we have in the state of nebraska allowed independents to vote in our presidential primary, because we believe those voters are critical to the make-up of our party and in order to get our democrats over the finish line. so the reason this amendment was put forward is because we have republicans who are disenfranchising voters left and right, especially in red states

russia gate hoax will save us or or one of their various magical thinking is that if we go to the voting booth and will elect somebody and somehow that person is going to fight for on our behalf rather than the corporations we have. zero zero yeah so in other words there is no there there there's no help coming there's still cavalry there's no plane like hole there's only ruby slippers that you can click three times and take you over the rainbow to fairly magic land of the sticks and leprechauns where only cryptocurrency is grow yes of course you can take to the afterlife and to your friend to sea world when you call big coin a fantasy currency well those are not my hell mines i'm going to look i'm going to . answer the question of why people aren't taking to the streets and i'm going to talk about these fantasy headlines and the first headline here might be one reason why people are not taking to the streets ruled bots are being used to deter homeless people from setting up camp in san francisco and san francisco autonomous crime fighting robots that are used to patrol parking lots sports are

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 found the allegations against roy moore to be offensive. in particular, he also needs african-americans to turn out in large numbers, so doug jones needs all the votes he can get because he knows roy moore has a core base of support that will really turn out no matter what and have stuck with him through thick and thin. the turn out is predicted to be 20% to 25%, and that's low for anybody that follows elections, and that's the name of the game tonight, turnout. >> let's go to kaitlan collins and get a sense of the closing arguments. >> reporter: it has been an interesting last few days of the election, with roy moore all but disappearing from the campaign trail and then we saw national leaders and celebrities flock to the state in the last-minute effort to win over support for their candidate, and steve bannon, the former white house chief strategist w

as we watched the time click, as you watched, you held those who stood by the voting booth who wanted to vote yes, but could not. had we not gotten enough votes to keep government open, which your side of the aisle applauded, what your side of the aisle thought they won. there were 90 members on this side of the aisle that didn't vote for a c.r., but you, like myself, understand a c.r. is usually the responsibility of both, because it's bipartisan. no one is getting anything and no one wants an end to that position. we don't want to be in a c.r. that's why we came so many times to you in the past when it comes to chip. i understand sometimes people can use it for politics and maybe push it to the end and get an advantage on something else. we wanted an agreement and that's why staff of the four leaders have been meeting. what do they do next? let's go to the white house because the white house has been in those meetings at the same time because the president has to sign the bill, the senate, the house and leaders on both sides. but when that meeting came just a few short weeks ago, wo

voter registration so those that are independent may choose to be a democrat when they go into the voting booth to vote in a primary. that's not the case. we have a lot of republicans in states that are blocking same-day voter registration because they know it increases participation especially in the democratic side. it's why some states choose to do caucuses. because then we can then say we welcome independence and become a democrat the day of the caucus. when he said earlier they should just switch parties the day the primary, that's not possible in states like nebraska. we have allowed independence to vote our primary because we believe there critical to the makeup of our party. and in order to get our democrats over the finish line. the reason the amendment was put forward is because we have republicans for disenfranchising voters especially in red states. i want all independents to be democrats. it's why ran for a chair, i believe our party but we have to build a bridge to get the folks there. >> just a closing comment, were pushing this as far as possible. tomorrow you'll hear about cauc

acknowledged in his acceptance, the value of bringing in a diversified group of voters to the voting booths. he acknowledged african-americans, the power of the latino vote, he acknowledged the power of the youth vote. and this is where the democratic party, if they want to continue this wave, they have to pay attention. the only way they are going to be able to bring in these voters is bringing in candidates such as doug jones and investing in the leadership of these communities to prepare for 2018 and 2020. lawrence, we are expecting 12 million young voters to reach voting age by 2020. two-thirds are voters of color that doug jones talked about tonight. >> and mitch mcconnell had his big "i told you so" moment tonight. and he did not wait for nbc news to actually call this election before it was officially called by us, it had been called by one or two other new the organizations. mitch mcconnell's leadership pacs were putting out statements, the republican senate campaign committee, and mitch mcconnell's pac putting out statements condemning roy moore as an unfit candidate for senate, pr

government itself is not taking the kind of aggressive actions you would expect from a government whose voting boothsave been -- or whose voting processes have been manipulated by the russians. under ordinary circumstances, the president would order a crackdown, let's figure out what happened, hold the russians accountable. none of that. in effect. the elections coming up are much more vulnerable than they would be otherwise. a president whose insecurities are putting a threat -- putting a danger over our own election process going-forward. >> this is something which the intire intelligence community has said is concerned about. general michael hayden says it's the political equivalent of 9/11. >> yes. >> that was an interesting quote i thought. if that's the conclusion of someone who's really seeing the intelligence, i think we have to take it seriously. again it says -- it does not say it tossed the election to hillary, it says the meddling itself, constituted the direct threat to american democracy, and we're not cracking down on it as we should. >> for a president who's so obsessed with winning.

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montgomery earlier on and one woman would not tell me who she voted for but when she went into the voting booth it would be a game of any, meanie, my name oh -- they do not want to tell us with her choosing or they didn't want to say. a lot of folks have some choice words on who they will be casting their ballot for. >> we should be getting numbers in a half hour. >> let's talk more about this race. with an election in alabama the republicans would be the heavy ferret here and that is not all the kids this year? our -- >> that's right is because of the charges against roy moore. i do not know that he has done a good job of refuting the things that have been said except to say it was a smear campaign and it doesn't have any bearing on the race which of course it does. >> i heard in alabama voter today say that this has been in fact a smear campaign and he ran before and none of these women came forward and here it is, a very important senate race in these allegations are being brought up. >> there is a number of republican base to voters there that think that this is fake news. they want to dest

so those that are independent may choose to be a democrat when they go into the voting booth to vote in a primary or the general election. but that's not the case. we have a lot of republicans, jorge, i'm speaking specifically to you since you brought this up. so we have a lot of republicans in states that are specifically blocking same-day voter registration because they know that it increases participation, especially on the democratic side. it's why some states choose to caucuses because as a state party we can then say we are welcoming independence, yes, become a democrat the day of the caucus. so when you said earlier an independent should just switch parties on the day of the primary, that's not possible. it's not possible in states like nebraska. so we have in the state of nebraska allowed independents to vote in our presidential primary because we believe those voters are critical to the makeup of our party and in order to get our democrats over the finish line. so the reason this amendment was put forward is because we have republicans who are disenfranchising voters left an

good that the conversation is front and terror, at the end of the day, when people go into that voting boothe on are things that affect them personally. we just saw historic tax reform pass and if president trump does what he says he is going to do. he is the one person who's campaigned on these things, if he continues to do and that talk about the american workers and the american people and what he's going to do for them, i think in february when they start seeing more money in their paychecks and the economy is jump-started, i think that is what is going to drive people in the polls when they make their decision at the ballot box. i think ultimately, that is what matters. >> all right. i want to listen to this sound from president trump in talking about the women who have stepped forward against him. let's listen to that. >> every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. total fabrication. never happened. never. all of these lies will be sued after the election. >> the stories are total fiction. they're 100% made up. they never happened. >> how do you think comments like tha

what, did people get in the voting booth and say, "yes, i could just hit this button, but i'd ratherctice my calligraphy." ( laughter ) but roy moore has one more way he thinks he could still win this senate seat. >> we also know that god is always in control. and that's what we got to do, is wait on god and let this process play out. >> stephen: so, i can't help but wonder, is god really going to save roy moore's candidacy? >> no way, jose! >> stephen: hey, it's god, everybody! >> stephen: hey, people! yeah. happy hannukah, everybody. and happy toyotathon. ( laughter ) >> stephen: so, lord, do you think roy moore is going to get a recount? >> i got two words for you, stephen: not a chance. >> stephen: that's actually three words. >> oh, yeah, i'm not so good with numbers. i still don't get that holy trinity thing. i'm me, my son, and a ghost? who wrote this, m. night shyamalan? >> stephen: so just to be clear, lord, you weren't guiding roy moore's campaign from heaven? >> i don't have time for that. besides, roy moore doesn't need me. he can perform his own miracles-- losing to a de

really hard for theing the voting booth and situation we have now, it's like we should take a competency test before we let people vote. the intricate things that mr. , it is so describing interesting and voters don't have any idea of this for themselves. it's good to have a program like your's it shows us these things. we are in the situation because we are not experts at this. host: thank you for calling. mr. whipple? guest: i think it's not that complicated or intricate really. ist it really boils down to our presidents effective or not? if you look at recent history president,d to the -- nixon to the president, patterns come through. the first year of trumps presidency is a perfect example of how you cannot govern the way you run a manhattan real estate firm. you cannot govern with people coming and going and nobody empowered to get things done it. nobody is empowered to tell you what you don't want to hear. that role is all the more important when you have the president with no idea how to govern. we see the results of that. voters say.what host: this is more from john kelly from oc

the good of the bigger agenda, that argument -- there is a line and people have to go into that voting booth with themselves and their choice and in this race they couldn't do it for 22,000 votes. whether it was on the roy moore side of the doug jones aside. >> harris: you saw the senior senator from alabama encouraging the right and as well. where does this put things, democrats have to be careful not to overreach here. >> absolutely and i think there are important lessons to be learned here. one is, yes, roy moore was a bad candidate but it was also the state of alabama where donald trump won by 28 points. he was all in for roy moore, doing robocalls, he did a rally in one of the media markets for alabama, the fact that he was not able to pull him over the line even though roy moore was a bad candidate should be a warning side for republicans. i also think in terms of democrats -- >> harris: why is that a warning side? this candidate had a whole lot of trouble with sexual misconduct allegations for weeks from the election. that's what i mean by overreaching, if there were ever a situation

significant [inaudible] pretty bret says he was not in to the cameras but in to riding him into the voting boothinviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report" fair, balanced and unafraid. we have complete coverage tonight. the story hosted by my colleague, martha maccallum starts right now. i will see martha at the end of her show. >> martha: thank you, bret. we will see you in a little bit. breaking tonight 59 minutes and counting now before the polls close in alabama. then we have a story to tell, folks. we are about to get the first results so what message are alabama voters about to send to washington? and to the country tonight? about what they care about most. good evening, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. conservative fire brand roy moore you saw him ride off on his horse sassy there showing up to vote as he always does on horseback. he defied president trump earlier in this race and got a boost from steve bannon. he won the primary. and then the bombshell allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls dropped last month. will conservative voters stick with h