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Faith may be strongly moved by our faith principles. when you get sworn in as a senator or judge, you put your hand on the bible and you swear allegiance to the constitution, not the other way around. >> he understands, senator. he just doesn't accept it. there is this notion that roy moore may not be seated. i don't see how he could keep him from being seated. >> that's right, chris. the supreme court precedent suggests that as long as a candidate meets the constitutional requirements to be seated he must be seated. it is more likely there will then be vigorous debate whether he should remain...

It would be hard to stand up to this pressure. can you make the argument that maybe he should. >> before the ethics committee comes to a conclusion. just like roy moore, if he wins, this idea, well, they will never seat him. yeah, they will. they will go through an expulsion process which has almost never been successful. can they get rid of people this way? >> there is a playbook for that. that is roy moore. the tension is between that and making the argument that he could make versus, well, what's for the good of the party? this is a power play on the part of democrats so that they can say, ...

Show they might not. the idea, essentially, was to keep them in the fold and keep them fired up and get them into the polls on tuesday. >> if roy moore wins, what does mitch mcconnell do, and what do the republicans that tried to thread the needle do? >> they have no idea, candidly. mitch mcconnell acknowledged, look, i tried to get rid of roy moore and it didn't work. i think the idea that he would be expelled and that republicans would lead the expulsion process, and it's like me walking out of your studio and dunking a basketball, and at 6'2", probably could but it's not going to happen. le...

Sense, but at the end of the day, no matter how rep rehen s henceable roy moore is, he hasn't been convicted of a crime. >> article one, section five of the constitution vests with the body to expel a member. they were going to expel bob pacwood and mitch mcconnell led that back in the day. he's very unforgiving about this. there will be a process. the senate can't deny him his seat. they can only expel him once he's taken it. but i don't expect him to get a committee assignment if he were to win. i don't see that happening, stephanie. but i would not be at all surprised if it is the quickest ...

Thinking about if he does make it to washington. that defiance that you saw on the screen with him as a candidate and being supported by his wife saying similar things. we are not stepping down. these are lies and the liberal media and this is the washington establishment. senate republicans are going to have quite a time here with him if he makes it to the senate. they are trying to get tax reform pass and they will have to do say spending deal in a couple of weeks. daca has to be fixed by march. in the middle of this, they will be talking about potentially expelling him that will suck up all...