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It sick and going on to stay, quoting to envision this brutal and degenerate type of frame during a time when black people and jewish people and immigrant are still being targeted by while nationalists is hateful and hurtful. when hyde-smith's component was first asked about the comment on cnn he deflected saying we need leaders to bring us together but later his campaign called hyde-smith's comments reprehensible saying there's no place in our political discourse. in mississippi and our country we need leaders not dividers and her words shows she lacks the information and judgment to represen...

Supporter. the phrase, public hanging on the front row is especially loaded in the state of mississippi. the naacp said there were more than 700 lynchings in the united states between 1882 and 1968 and more happened in mississippi than in any other state, about 1-8 in a state where the current population is nearly 40% black. senator hyde-smith issued a statement that she didn't mean anything negative and an exaggerated expression of regard and added she will not speak of the incident again and has not. trace gallagher reports on the state of the race. >> reporter: shepard, records show african...

To washington this week after midterm elections. republicans added to the majority in the senate but the current congress is still in power until the new one take over but not until next year. our chief congressional correspondent reports. >> reporter: republicans are expected to vote on their leadership and expected to continue with mitch mcconnell as the majority leader. senator john thune is expected to step up on the whip and they'll have a new senator of the republican congress and they'll have a new chairman of the republican policy committee. then iowa's joni earnst will

They'll make sure to make the count. >> shepard: no election has every been overturned with a margin this large by more than 17,000 votes. now there's a senate run-off. the republican center cindy hyde smith running for a full term under scrutiny for a comment she made putting the state's troubled history of race and politics back in the spotlight. her opponent is the democrat mike espy and served as agriculture secretary for president bill clinton and trying to become the state's first black senator since reconstruction. here's the comment causing the controversy. it's from the second of the ...

Statement and that's all i'm going to say about it. >> is that phrasing in your everyday lingo, in your vocabulary? >> i put out a statement yesterday and we stand by the statement. >> governor, we're going to continue to ask these questions unless you, with all due respect, address the statement. have you ever been to a public hanging? what in the public hanging -- >> we did address it yesterday. thank you very much. >> i mean, it's not this that hard to say i'm deeply sorry if anyone was hurt by what i said. i wish i hadn't done it. it was over the top. i re-grgret it. >> she doesn't want to...