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Successful black films, black directors, black stars, the best man in 1999. weve seen "moonlight, barry jenkins. i want to see more of these before we make a judgment as to whether or not things are going to change. i think that theres been a lot of flash points of success, but hollywood needs to get its act zblogt together. >> is this movie -- obviously it was written and shot before anybody knew who would be the next president. do you think its poignant for it to be happening with trump in the...

>> the obama administration weaponized the shutdown in 2013. they could have made the shutdown much less impactful but they chose to make it worse. the only conclusion can i draw is they did so for political purposes. >> now there have been more than a dozen shutdowns since the 1970s, some very short, some much longer. one thing, though, has stayed constant in all of those shutdowns, that is the people who occupy this building, who cannot figure out how to come up with a budget, who cannot come ...

He was all about alabama and what he was going to do for them. democrats, take heed. >> can i make a parochial political point? insert my thing? . in 2009, at the end of 2009, there was a runoff -- there was a special election in massachusetts for the united states senate. and scott brown, a republican, stunned the world by taking a seat that was held by ted kennedy, an icon of the democratic party, and that election was really a harbinger of what was going to happen the next fall. you know, wel...

Here is what does the relationship do between the president and steve bannon? i am told that bannon assured president trump that moore would win. that obviously did not happen, jake. >> all right, jeff zeleny, thank you so much. joining me right now is former nba star charles barkley, supporter of doug jones. i first met him at a wendys on cityline avenue outside philadelphia in 1985. mr. barkley, good to see you as always. you said -- you expressed concern that the people of alabama, if they di...

Republicans to write in a candidate. >> flatly, he flatly said it to you. >> yeah, because thats what he did, he could not bring himself to vote for roy moore because of the charges against him or against -- or for doug jones because doug joen jones is a democrat. sorry to interrupt, jeff, go ahead. >> interesting, jake, we presume the president is tweeting that from the residence of the white house here and goes to show how hes operating in sort of a different vacuum, if you will. officials jus...

Short time ago. he described this as a wake-up call to the president. specifically talking about steve bannon. they believe that the president followed steve bannon, his chief strategists, lead on this and decided to gradually increase his support for roy moore over the last three weeks or so. the president was advised by so many republicans in this town, on capitol hill, at the rnc, to stay out of it. he followed steve bannons lead and got into it. several other republicans are also speaking ou...

Hanging on the white house. it was thought that the affordable care act would never pass and there was a lot of gloom there. the president of the united states, barack obama, gathered everybody around and said, okay, all right, and heres how were going to move forward. and he was calm and he was focused and everybody got up and started doing their work again because the leader sent the right signal. >> right. >> and he also made some changes in his approach as a result of that. so, you know, tha...

Extraordinary night in politics. gloria, final thoughts from you? >> well, i think the republicans are going to be doing a lot of soul-searchingmi soul-searching. im not sure the president will be but the republicans will be. >> i think in the history of this administration, in this epic in our history this is going to go down as a really significant night. were going to look back on this and say that was a very significant night. and im wondering if that jewish lawyer handles recounting. >> and...

Specifically. >> i dont think its going to be one analogous to what happened in 2010, right? this is a horrible candidate with a calamity of circumstances which put him in a a position to lose a state we should never lose. so this was not a loss of policy. this was a loss on character. >> were out of time for our panel. i want to thank you. >> you guys are having way too much fun over there. what does this mean in the short-term for president trump? >> short-term i think theres going to be a lot...

When i mentioned earlier that the last time a democrat was elected to the senate to represent alabama two years later he became a republican, thats because he was a very conservative democrat to begin with. richard shelby. doug jones is not a conservative democrat. hes a liberal democrat. hes got three years to fill out the remainder of this term. >> right, he fills out jeff sessions term which ends in 2020. >> hes got three years then hes going to probably have a tough election then. >> yes. >>...