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Alabama senate race that he lost and roy moore wants to delay the certification naming doug jones the winner officially, and we have reached the secretary of state and he joins us by phone. thank you for being with us, secretary of state. >> thank you for having me as your guest once again. >> you are the source that can put this to bed. do roy moores claims of election fraud have any merit? mr. merrill? >> hello? >> hi, i lost you for a second. can you hear me? mr. merrill? >> hey, alisyn, im s...

Adjustments. they are letting people in because its single digits. >> you can tell me when you get back how cold it was. thank you. >> you bet. lets talk about the tax confusion with andrew cuomo, and he signed an executive order last week allowing presidents in his state to prepay the property taxes before the end of the year. good morning, governor. >> good morning, and good to be with you, alisyn. >> why are you allowing new yorkers to pay their 2018 tax bill early? >> look, as you said in ...

Anything, and the answer to that, doug jones will be certified at 2:00 p.m. central time, and steve marshal and i will meet in the offices of the secretary of state, in the executive office, and we will sign the documents certifying him as the senator for the state of alabama. he will be sworn in by vice president pence on the 3rd of january when the senate returns. >> mr. merrill, thank you very much for that breaking news. thank you for clarifying that for our viewers that roy moore, you belie...

Legitimate grounds. now that they own the courts it might be harder. theres democracy. you have thousands of people lining up on a holiday weekend to prepay their taxes. do you think they are going to forget? do you think they dont understand what has happened here? they know exactly what has happened, and they are going to remember because you are hurting them right in their pocket book. democracy ultimately works. maybe it worked for the senate because they dont have any democratic senators in...

It, and for 2018 for the midterms, when people see an extra thousand dollars in their wallet -- >> yeah, if you are getting the wage increase you will feel better about what you have in your pocket and what you can spend on your family, and that should bode well for the party in power. the question is, is that enough, those companies and employees, is that widespread enough where people feel good enough and does it, indeed, counteract the tradeoffs, increase in the deficits or other priorities a...

Do with president trump, anything at all. its not just fine. the american people understand when your wife runs for office and she gets most of her donations from a political class that is a highly partisan, its something that needs to be looked at. >> so if a woman -- if the wife has political aspirations that renders her husband incapable of doing his job? >> listen, all of us out there are working couples, wife and husband, we understand our careers impact each other. this was about as partis...

Beforehand and they are timing it just in time. >> yeah, they were sitting on profits. >> slight of hand and twist of fate. >> when you are talking about what matters to people around the dining table, its pocket book issues, and if they connect the bonuses with the tax reform, thats a win. >> how many people are going to see that kind of bonus? trickle down economics has not proven in the past to work. this is for the moment. not only that, alisyn, we have to remember that corporations are goin...

Including massive alaska drilling and the highly unpopular individual mandate -- by the way, obamacare signups had historic level sign ups, and dont let the fake news, meaning news he doesnt like, convince you otherwise and our insider polls are strong. april, do you have any sense of what he means by their insider polls, if he is seeing something for real inside the white house than what people are seeing out here with a 35% approval rating? >> well, first of all, alisyn, happy holidays and mer...

It? >> medicare, medicaid and the poor will pay. >> entitlements are next. >> the richer will get richer and the poorer will get poorer. thats what flake is speaking to, you have scared cold white men holding on to their cash, and thats not going to change until you have real leadership in an opposition party and at least some people in the gop that acknowledge there are other people in the country rather than aging old rich white guys that like rock n roll. >> it will take a chorus of white men...

Incapable of being impartial? >> i think mccabe needs to be challenged on his impartiality and i think the president is doing that and i appreciate those tweets and i consider them an insurance policy for america. >> always interesting to get your perspective. thank you. >> thanks, alisyn. and warning colleagues of looming signs the gop could be in deep trouble. will becoming the party of trump cost them in the primaries? thats a debate you do not want to miss, coming up. (drumsticks click)