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>> a dollar. $1? yeah, $1. >> you said a dollar. you said a dollar. that's not your question. you said a dollar and i'm answering your question. the fact is a wall is an immorality. it's not who we are as a nation. >> of course, it doesn't matter what the house passed tonight if it's dead on arrival. in the new look republican senate where the gop now has a 53/47 majority, mitch mcconnell controls what is brought to that floor. he says this spending package will not be brought to the floor because the president does not support it. there's no wall money in it. but then there was this tonight. ...

House. attorney general barr, possibly. i think he will be confirmed. won't he be confirmed? >> he will be roughed up. >> with a 53/47 senate, you have to wait to see what's come out in somebody else's background. >> he has been through it before. >> equally as important to live as we did when we had a republican majority in the '80s in the senate. it was always 47 democrats that byrd held and five or six of our republicans, northeast, that went south. i don't know what the new mix is, where romney is going to be, where scott is going to be. it doesn't take much to change the dynamics very qui...

Moment. but first, republican senator cindy hyde-smith is the projected win he ner of mississippi's runoff. hyde-smith won yesterday's election with 54% of the vote to become the first woman elected to congress from mississippi. she will serve out the remaining two years of thad cochran's turn with the seat returning to the ballot in 2020. hyde-smith was appointed to replace cochran earlier this year after he resigned. republicans now will hold a 53/47 majority in the senate in january. that is a net gain for republicans of two seats. so let's go right to the big board where we find steve korn...

Picked up some 9 million more votes than the republicans. >> it's an astonishing gap between the two republicans. nearly 9 million raw votes, advantage for the democrats over republicans in the national house race. as you said, if you total them all up, that is a record-breaking gap between two parties in house votes in american history. and so not only did we see some record turnout for midterm election season, wolf, but we now are seeing this record win for democrats and this 40-seat gain. as you said, this is really a blue wave that's been extending now for three weeks. >> but in the senate...

Morning. i think we can throw up a live picture of broward county where they are still counting votes. still ongoing. 24/7. i don't know this is washington. there we go. >> compelling television. >> does this matter? this fight we have going down here in florida? the president's insistence over something mischievous happening. >> it is hard to believe that this is happening after bush v. gore. this is a much bigger margin. the odds favor the republicans running both of the races. probably within a week or two, we will have a senate 53/47 republican. >> it sis a mess down there. jeb bush callin...