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Voters on the beltway trying to have input. we need to come together, we need to do it quick. we need to learn the lessons of virginia and the lessons of alabama, which is our voters are not going to show up if we dont give them a proper choice and we did not do that. we need to make lemons out of this -- lemonades out of these lemons, shannon. we have a lot of lemons tonight. >> shannon: we are waiting roy moore, who appears to have been defeated, they g.o.p. nominee in alabama for the u.s. sen...

Out and vote on a day when they knew that there write-in probably wouldnt matter, that seems like quite a statement from the folks of alabama. >> it really is, shannon. its very important to note that all of those write-in votes will be documented and recorded and printed. so it will be understood exactly who received those votes and what that will mean in the final difference. we actually sent instructions to the probate judge is a couple of times. well send them again tonight to make sure they...

Only a third in mobile is in. weve still got 15% to come out of huntsville, madison, that area there is still a lot of democratic vote out there. i might add montgomery county. look at this. weve got a lot left there. look, that enough for the republican out of that big republican county? it looks like its pretty much off the board now. >> steve, its never been more exciting watching one of your boards. and rachel and steve, stay in the discussion with us here. rachel, your reaction to what your...

Serious and make blacks come to the gop, you have to listen to what we are saying. stop trying to pimp the black community. if you want to work with the black people, youve got to work with us. if you dont work with us, you see what will happen. the gop has a problem. >> and joe, you voted for doug jones. do you think doug jones is going to work with you? >> i did not vote for doug jones. >> im sorry, i thought you did. >> i did a write-in. what was the question? >> do you think doug jones will ...

The three big losers of the night were roy moore, who refused to concede defeat, pretending there was some chance of changing the outcome of this election, and steve bannon who had cheered on the roy moore candidacy, and president trump. those are the big three losers of the night. heres how president trump reacted to being one of the big losers of the night. he tweeted, congratulations to doug jones on a hard fought victory. the write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. the p...

Out and vote on a day when they knew that there write-in probably wouldnt matter, that seems like quite a statement from the folks of alabama. >> it really is, shannon. its very important to note that all of those write-in votes will be documented and recorded and printed. so it will be understood exactly who received those votes and what that will mean in the final difference. we actually sent instructions to the probate judge is a couple of times. well send them again tonight to make sure they...

Is sick and tired of having the voters on the beltway trying to have input. we need to come together, we need to do it quick. we need to learn the lessons of virginia and the lessons of alabama, which is our voters are not going to show up if we dont give them a proper choice and we did not do that. we need to make lemons out of this -- lemonades out of these lemons, shannon. we have a lot of lemons tonight. >> shannon: we are waiting roy moore, who appears to have been defeated, they g.o.p. nom...

Issues of the family, slavery, back in that time, that is a problem. and as a black man here in birmingham, alabama, theres no way i can vote for a guy who says those type of things to the american people. he doesnt fit my values or my community values. thats why i did a write-in. >> so doug jones got 96% of the black vote. hillary clinton only got 88% of the black vote in 2016 when voters went out to cast ballots for the presidential election last area. why do you think black voters were so muc...

The gracious tweet from president trump. i think we may have woken up to something else. >> yeah, plenty of wednesday morning quarterbacking as youd imagine here at the white house. the president trying to frame this the best possible way after a humiliating defeat after picking the wrong horse in alabama now twice. this morning he wrote the following. he wrote the reason i originally endorsed luther strange, and his numbers went up mightily, he notes, is that i said roy moore will not be able t...

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...