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Victory or not is a question to be seen. but only one candidate is listening to their potential constituents. >> it is extraordinary, these guys in terms of spending money, doug jones ten times the money roy moore has spent. its as if roy moore is letting the national media do the campaigning for him by just getting his word out there with regard to predictions, are election officials making them yet with turnout? >> reporter: exactly. the recent polling, we have not been confident in any of the...

Seeing requests for absentee ballots six fold. compared to what they were just in the run-off earlier this year. if you look at some counties, i want to take you back to 2012, right? when roy moore last run state-wide, he ran against the democrat for chief justice by just three percentage points. theres a couple counties where roy moore lost in 2012 but mitt romney won. some of those places, huntsville, in the birmingham area, too. were seeing the requests for those early ballots exceedingly hig...

Significant for alabama. democrats, particularly black voters, havent had much of a reason in terms of competitiveness to come out to the polls in past elections. what were looking at is the absentee ballot request. this is an indication we can go off of. county officials were telling me on friday they have received six fold, up to nine fold the number of requests compared to a typical election just because of the interest. i think we should note, two counties in particular. these are conservati...

Some counties for those that have been requesting ballots. and i want to take you to a couple conservative counties, tuscaloosa and madison where tuscaloosa and huntsville are. these are republican territories. become but back in 2012, roy moore won by just three percentage points against the democrat. in those two counties im talking about, mitt romney won by a significant margin, almost 20%. yet roy moore lost. so there is the potential for republican crossover voters. doug jones needs those v...

Still have the same deficit concerns about this bill yet no changes were made about the deficit concerns to appease him. yet he still came out and is, indeed, supporting this bill. marco rubio, very clear hes happy with the changes made to the child tax credit. republican leaders throwing more money at that overnight, bringing him into the fold as well. tonight, though, there are still three tbds, senator mike lee, senator flake and senator susan collins, they are still reading the bill, potenti...

Of made sense since they were going to own him anyway. in the long term, you know, it is -- while it may not be a great thing to have a democrat in that seat, what does this do for the republican party when theyre seen as not only the party of donald trump but now officially the party of roy moore? >> for a lot of folks, this is probably reminiscent of the access hollywood tape with republicans coming back in the fold after initially expressing some outrage over a candidate who would treat women...

Years. we have watched you talk about it for that long. you ran on it with mitt romney. what do you think was different now in this environment and why were you able to make this happen now? >> we made a promise to the american people that we would do this if they gave us this opportunity. we made a promise that if elected this is what we would do. we are keeping our promise i as speaker of the house, all the senate republicans. all the house republicans and president-elect donald trump, preside...

Who had his difficulty with the press, weve never had any president who so continuously, so relentlessly and so unconscionably attacked presidential institutions by name, individual reporters by name. including mocking reporters. you recall when he mocked the reporter for "the new york times" with physical disabilities. this has been unrelenting. what hes counting on is he can intimidate the press. and by the way, not so much individual reporters. he wants to intimidate the corporate leaders of ...

Turn. ed: so far i agree unlikely to change democrats have had very little of a message. thats why the tax code victory could be significant. two fold, the economy is really come back strong. thats very clear. this tax cut that democrats have been talking down may make the economy roar in 2018. thats going to make republicans a lot more formidable. but also the tax cut victory makes it like democrats, what have you got, you know, so i agree with you on that point. lisa: also important to point o...

Heavens and once again imagine the possibilities waiting in those big, beautiful stars. if we dare to dream big, and that is what our country is doing again we are dreaming big. this is a giant step towards the aspiring future, and reclaiming americas proud destiny in space. space has so much to do with 70 other applications, including a military application. we are the leader and we will stay the leader, and we will increase it in many fold. i want to invite vice president pence to say a few wo...