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Folks and people of color. so it's in spite of that that people were able to come out. it's also interesting to know here that the sort of underlying dog whistle and roy moore's last gasp here is that supposed to be voter fraud committed by african-americans in alabama, so it's sort of consistent with the entire messaging around the politician he's been, consistent with some of the challenges we see across the nation with access to polls. we should not take alabama as some kind of indication we still don't have a lot of challenges around disenfranchisement in the african-american community. >>...

Stood really strongly behind in the house is an effort to reform the sexual harassment policy and they are talking about rolling out a bill in the house as early as mid-january. and there is a companion bill in the senate that has strong bipartisan support and support from really high-profile members from both parties. so we're expecting to see some action on that fairly soon. >> julie: we are looking at washington and the republicans have a majority in the senate and house but that majority lead for the republicans obviously is getting smaller. it is a more narrow margin. once democrat senate...

Behind the scenes to address those concerns, will they give the senator everything? no. but something. something that republican leaders think will be enough to get him in line. as one republican senator told me do you really think senator rubio wants to sink this once in a generation opportunity, at least from the republican expensive. democrats still unified in the opposition complaining about the process and saying in the wiek of alabama senate upset everybody should wait until senator elect doug jones is seated. that's not going to happen. should republican leaders finalize as they expect ...

Individual side they try and mitigate, try and double the child tax credit. they work to cut rates across the board, on average, people get a tax cut, but if you look at all of the analysis you've seen up to this point, it is clear, people will get a tax increase, the real question is how many and what the political fallout will be if that occurs, jim. >> fill matingly, thanks on the hill. joining me now is chris van hollen of maryland. he's calling on republicans to delay their tax vote until alabama senator democrat doug jones is seated. that obviously reduce their majority. any chance of...

It before democrat doug jones is seated. the plan will low eer the corporate tax rate dramatically to 21% from 35%. it also lowers the top rate for individuals so 37% from 39.6%. translation, big break for the wealthy. still, president trump today insisted the plan will give the average american family a massive tax break. fulfilling a major campaign promise. >> we're just days away, i hope, i hope, you know what that means, right? from keeping that promise and delivering a truly aasia amazing victory for american families. we want to give you a giant tax cut for christmas. and when i say gian...