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Mainstream, have broad support in the country. there is broad support for relief for the dreamers. there is broad support forefunding childrens health care and the extremeness of the republican party is moving off the cliff on some of these issues. doug jones is a reminder of that. i think the most amazing thing weve seen in 2017, a senate veteran, you worked up there. the democrats in the senate have been united. its the republicans who are fraying on a lot of these close votes. even mansion, e...

Let me finish. take this election, take this election where the people of alabama said we want to get something done. we want you to find common ground. we want you to take. take this opportunity in light of this election and go ahead and fund that ship program before i get up there. [cheering and applauding] >> thats senator elect doug jones already trying to affect the senates legislative agenda. tonight the president in an uncharacteristic tweet tweeted this about the election. congratulation...

Weve seen in 2017, a senate veteran, you worked up there. the democrats in the senate have been united. its the republicans who are fraying on a lot of these close votes. even mansion, even joe donly, even claire mccaskill in missouri have stood together against trumps agenda because trump is so incompetent and so extreme, its not a hard vote for them. and if thats what trump keeps doing, i think thats where doug jones will lineup, too. >> ron, david, thank you both very much for staying with us...

I want to take a look right now, a little bit more of doug jones before we go to david from. doug jones acceptance speech tonight, victory speech we should call it. >> this entire race has been about dignity and respect. [cheers and applause] this campaign, this campaign has been about the rule of law. [cheers and applause] this campaign has been about common courtesy and decency, and making sure everyone in this state, regardless of which zip code you live in, is going to get a fair shake in li...

Much trouble hes in. >> and david, there are reports indicating that michael flynn might have felt betrayed when the trump decided not to pay michael flynns lawyers fees. some people in the white house are getting help on their lawyers fees, but not michael flynn. >> weve all seen the president both with his comments from public platforms, twitter, signaling, were friends, i like you, you did nothing wrong. hes giving michael flynn more compliments than anybody in his administration, more than h...

Pieces of evidence here that the trump team was essentially negotiating before it took office. with the russians on foreign policy. and what that looks like according to one person i talked to today, is a conspiracy to violate the logan act. a 1799 law that says youre not supposed to do that. thats never been prosecuted and no documents have mentioned it but an interesting idea and we know as a matter of tradition, we have one administration at a time and not considered proper for the incoming a...

>> joining us now, david from, ken dilanian. and msnbc legal contributor. ken, i want to go to you first about the information youve delved about jared kushners role in the legal filings that the special prosecutor filed today. >> thats right, lawrence. nbc news is reporting that jared kushner is the very senior transition official who tasked mike flynn with going about this united nations security counsel resolution condemning, that the obama administration would let pass and ultimately did pas...

Phrase of suicide mission. foreign minister said at the u.n. on saturday, none other than trump, himself, is on a suicide mission. so theyve -- theyre now using trumps language which sounds like north korean language. >> well, the axis of evil speech was delivered in 2002, four years before north korea became a nuclear power and marker of the united states unsuccessful attempt to prevent north korea from becoming a nuclear power. once theyre a nuclear weapon state, different things are in order....

Order. the later part of the bush administration had to deal diplomatically with north korea because they were a nuclear weapon state. the obama administration followed a policy of sanctions and isolation that is more or less the same policy that donald trump is carrying out now, but hes doing it -- this -- the obama policy, but with his new provocative rhetoric that leads people to think theres something there. its strong talk, but its the same action. >> and david, the most recent lock her up ...

"atlantic." and david, for the president of the united states in a confrontation, crisis, whatever we want to call this with north korea, to stay we have no choice. >> yeah. >> is just the most inconceivable choice of presidential language prior to now, of course. >> i was involved with president bushs axis of evil speech a long time ago now. one of the things, people say a lot of things about the speech. one of the things, i i vit people to go back and read it, no threats. the idea of provocati...