raised. the people of alabama deserve to have a voice and a vote from a senator they elected. not from a gubernatorial appointed one. and that s why we have called on mitch mcconnell to delay the tax vote. and to enable doug jones the also push for the children s health insurance program. a major issue in that campaign of concern for people of alabama. and he should be given the opportunity to vote. that s something we ll keep track of. it is the big economic debate in town. thanks for making time for us. now as promised, i turn the conversation to a form he senior policy adviser to the hillary clinton campaign and max booth, former adviser, and writes a new piece saying the gop has made it clear, it is committed not to the rule of law but to the rule of trump. he is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations.
as a possible tax vote in the senate. i read it, my friend tonight said i read it as if donald trump s lawyer got hold of his twitter account and tweeted on his behalf. i don t believe that s donald trump and i m anxious to see what the morning donald trump tweet looks like on this. but, look, i think if donald trump is kidding himself, republicans are kidding themselves if they think the only reason they lost in alabama is because roy moore was a flawed candidate. he obviously was, a horribly flawed candidate. but trump and his policies were also on the ballot in alabama and they also lost tonight. and i think every republican senator has to be looking at that tax bill. it s an amazing accomplishment that you could cut people s taxes and bill one of the most unpopular legislations in history, look at that and ask themselves do we really want to go forward? are we going to take the heat on this? and they have to see in tonight s results a lot of questions about the very partisan way
qualities in a trump tweet. what do you make of it? the absence of rage as well. what i make of it is that republicans are persuaded themselves that somehow they can use the fact that doug jones only has a two-year term to discipline him. that s the hint at the end of that message. and doug jones knows that as well as anybody. i don t think he will be the liberal dream boat senator that many people are expecting tonight. he will be a senator for alabama. he will be ambitious. but donald trump if donald trump is thinking that he s got impeachment insurance from doug jones, that may be a big mistake. ron, i read it as donald trump s lobbying of doug jones as a possible tax vote in the senate. i read it, my friend tonight said i read it as if donald trump s lawyer got hold of his twitter account and tweeted on his behalf. i don t believe that s donald trump and i m anxious to see what the morning donald trump tweet looks like on this.
right. but going forward, it just gets much slimmer. right. absolutely. on the tax vote, what we ve seen one of the clearest things, as we have said, in all of these races is a big white collar movement away from the republicans. you have in northern virginia, suburbs of philadelphia, orange county, new york, and new jersey, a lot of republicans being asked to vote for a bill that because the way it would raise taxes on many of the same voters who are pulling away from president trump on cultural and personal grounds. that is a big ask worth noting. 87% in virginia. 82% in new jersey. 85% in alabama. the president is a lot less popular than he was in alabama f. you re one of those republicans, you have to hear footfalls even as you re being asked to vote for this bill. ron brownstein, gregory,
women accuse franken of inappropriate behavior. then on the day that the seventh and eighth women come out, the dam breaks. you needed al frank on the tax vote which was razor thin and then the special election in alabama. this isn t about ethic, it s politics. of course it is. politics is about politics. i know it s hard to believe that it s a wonderful life isn t a true story and these kinds of things. politics is a dirty game. the timing here is completely opportunistic. it wasn t a spontaneous demonstration yesterday. it was coordinated in advance. republicans have been spending every time roy moore went up into the polls. and democrats were reading this and reading this, make daylight in between the two parties and how they treat these kinds of scandals. even if it is political to a degree, that still means