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Happened in alabama and how might it play out in the midterms, theres a lot of interesting things to consider. one example would be that, you know, alabama elected donald trump after the "access hollywood" tapes by the way, by like 27 points. so its not just decency, right? >> when you say that, i think even since then, i think the culture has moved. >> yeah, thats one of the things i was going to say. i think youre totally right. but i also think theres the fact that alabama this time was on th...

Ones that reaffirm their beliefs, read newspapers, only the ones that reaffirm their believes. the guy that jake had on today, well, you cant be a muslim because youve got to put your hand on the bible and -- its not true. and he doesnt know that. you dont know what you dont know. so then, ed, what do you say to that -- especially last night, with mrs. moore saying, well, one of my -- you know, one of our attorneys is a jew. she didnt even understand what a blunder that was. >> right. well, when...

People, i think even in alabama, who just dont put up with attitudes like the one that roy moore espouses when it comes -- >> it was the -- [ overlapping voices ] >> we have to remember the history of alabama. we have to remember the painful history. im talking a race point right now. think about this. we had the tuskegee syphilis study in alabama. we had the montgomery bus boycott in alabama. we had selma, bloody sunday, in alabama. the bombing of the church with the four little girls in alabam...

Excruciating situation. at the end of the day, not enough of them turned out to vote for roy moore. thats the big story here. the vacuum created by the fact that so many evangelicals did not turn out as expected and as the pattern would indicate. thats why he lost. thats a stunning story. its stunning that not one major evangelical leader or pastor in the state of alabama stood with roy moore and supported roy moore publicly once those accusations were made. but even before the accusations were ...

In the white house. and the "usa today" -- >> one of the lessons from what happened in alabama is, you know, the high road was taken by doug jones, and he, i think, exuded exuded decency. and this is a choice that democrats are going to have to make. we even saw kirsten use p profanity -- >> weve got to go. what the president did there was no excuse for it. >> 51% -- >> thats it for us tonight. see you tomorrow. our live coverage continues after this with john vause and isha sesay in los angeles...

Back now with my political dream team. i want to read from "usa today" putting out a scathing editorial against the president. im going to read part of it. it says, with his latest tweet, implying a united states senator would trade sexual favors for campaign cash, president trump has shown hes not fit for the white house. words used about men and women are different. a president, who would all but call senator kirsten jillen brand a whore, is not fit to clean the toilets in the barack obama pre...

Said from the democratic side about how were not necessarily all on the same page. clearly we have to get our house in order. but we are way more organized than the folks should -- they just should have their act together and they dont. i think thats indicative of the issues were going to see going forward in the next couple of months. >> kirsten, one of the reasons the president felt that he had to support roy moore is probably because of his own allegations, and maybe that would have given him...