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Now, a little bit more of doug jones before we go to david from. doug jones' acceptance speech tonight, victory speech we should call with it. >> this entire race has been about dignity and respect. [cheers and applause] this campaign, this campaign has been about the rule of law. [cheers and applause] this campaign has been about common courtesy and decency, and making sure everyone in this state, regardless of which zip code you live in, is going to get a fair shake in life. [cheers and applause] >> and we are now joined by david from, senior editor, and

Take this opportunity in light of this election and go ahead and fund that ship program before i get up there. [cheering and applauding] >> that's senator elect doug jones already trying to affect the senate's legislative agenda. tonight the president in an uncharacteristic tweet tweeted this about the election. 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 people of alabama are great, and the republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. it never ends, exclamation point. and we ...

They've been pursuing, hardball legislation. i think the jones victory ask a rebuke of that and they're going to take note of that. >> david, we see republicans now seeing problems in their tax bill that they didn't, for example, house republicans, darryl issa now working hard to change something that he voted for in the house bill that hurts california taxpayers significantly on the deductibility of state and local taxes, property taxes, income taxes and also another provision that eliminates tax deductibility of losses in wildfires, which has suddenly to darryl issa's and other republican me...

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 t...

From and ron kevin kline. first of all, david from, it seems impossible that the president could have written that tweet, both the sentiment and the correct punctuation, spelling, sentence structure. those are all uncharacteristic 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 ...