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Sort of an extraordinary thing to hear. >> yeah, well, first of all, there are few people in the public sphere who have suffered so publicly and whose personal tragedies have been played out in public, you know, he lost his wife and child as a senator-elect and there was some question as to whether he would even go to the senate after that. and -- but, look, one of the great strengths of joe biden is that he is all raw nerve endings. he lets it hang out there. and you can see his emotions. and you can see his passion. and people identify with that. and he speaks in an idium that people underst...

Against this, then they are also voting against pentagon funding and also an extension for six years for the children's health insurance program. >> the newest member of this body, junior senator from alabama, campaigned on this very issue. as senator-elect, he insisted that his future colleagues should, quote, stop playing political football with the healthcare of our children. >> reporter: now conservatives in the house freedom caucus are threatening to stop this stop gap measure because they are concerned that if it gets pushed to next month, they'd have to deal with the budget all at once....

This is something we watched unfold a year ago, but the question is, what exactly does the moore campaign plan on doing from this point on because a week from now the jones campaign, or i should say senator jones-elect is already staffing up. they are preparing to go to washington, d.c. this is going to be your next u.s. senator unless roy moore figures out something to do in terms of contesting this beyond that. katy? >> we've got a statement just now from doug jones, the sern e senator-elect. i'm looking forward to going to work for the people of alabama. it marks a new chapter for our state...

This just in, the associated press reports an alabama judge has just denied roy moore's attempt to delay a final official vote count there in alabama. moore made that 11th hour attempt last night. he cited irregularities in the vote. that means that democrat doug jones is expected to become the senator-elect from alabama next hour. as we say farewell to 2017, a year that saw a mooch in the white house, alternative facts become part of our vernacular and an investigation into whether another country interfered with our election. nbc's peter alexen de ander wit look now at the top ten politica...

It. i think the people of alabama voted for me to put me up there to try to talk about health care and the issues. that doesn't mean that the women are not important. they are. >> a little clean up from the senator-elect. roy moore still has not conceded. president trump aboard air force 1 headed to to florida, mar a lago. today will be the 106th day the president spent at a trump property. across his resorts in florida, new jersey and virginia. the russian president vladimir putin describing the newly laid out national skruecurity with o word. aggressive. >> the surksusa has presented t