christmas vacation in hawaii. air force one took off just before the top of the hour. and in alaska today, joe miller lost again. the state supreme court ruled against every point of his challenge to senator murkowski's write-in victory. the court declared there are no remaining issues to prevent murkowski's re-election from being certified. a long fight over at last. >> a lot of republicans had been urging him to give it up, give it up. on that note, senator murkowski will be with us tomorrow night to talk about her votes in the lame duck session of congress. it's been very interesting. senator murkowski, republican of alaska. when we come back, harry reid of nevada. he just won a tough battle. he's with us exclusively in just a minute.