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We are going to get the announcement probably this hour of how those votes went. saccone is 579 behind. can he cut really severely into this lead here? he's hoping so. he's up against two things. it's a red county, but tonight rick saccone is not winning it by a huge margin. he's only winning by seven. the other thing is what we've seen in allegheny and westmoreland, the absentee vote there has been more favorable to lamb than the election day vote. so, if that continues, that 53 could come down even further for saccone. and you're sitting there looking at that bank of 1200 votes. how many is ...

That doesn't mean we can't have greater border security. and we certainly want to address this issue by the first week in march, which is the six-month deadline. and i would prefer to address it sooner rather than later, including perhaps by january 19th. >> we'd like to do it by january 19th as well. >> and i want to work in a bipartisan capacity, and i think that that is possible. >> you hail from a blue county. let's be honest. are your republican colleagues who hail from deep red counties, ones who voted for donald trump because they wanted the wall, because they were into immigration and ...

As the drama in alabama unfolded here earlier tonight at msnbc we all looked to steve kornacki and his magical map. >> it's sketchy, it's early as you can see here. about a quarter of the vote in. this is a narrow race. it's a question, is it going to be just enough or just short for democrats. jones has taken the lead. where else could moore get votes? he's now behind. every single red county has 100% of the precincts, i'm trying to give you a moore scenario, i can't find one. >> and msnbc is calling jones the apparent winner in this special election in alabama. >> i was wondering when that w...

Educated commuter class, that sort of thing. this tells the story, right outside birmingham, shelby county, this is the county with the highest concentration of college degrees in the state. donald trump won 72% of the vote here. roy here five years ago when he nearly lost a race for chief justice got 63. tonight, 56. look, he still wins this county, you're looking at this saying this is a red county. if a republican is getting 56% of the vote in shelby county, that's a catastrophe for a republican in alabama. the margin sits at 9,000. the margin in an election like this should be 30,000 for a...

Trump. and the last figure i heard was that he -- moore was only getting in the low 80s there. which that's a small amount. but that slippage is what is killing him right now. >> steve kornacki, you've gotten the best review you could possibly get. howell raines says you're calling this just right on an alabama election. what's the latest? >> yeah, i mean, let's take the statewide. so again, we're sitting at about 11,500. if we have to get really granular, because i think we do. there just isn't much left. basically, every red county you see on the map right now except for one is 100% in. so t...