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The people of alabama deemed roy moore unfit to serve in the u.s. senate. i hope senator-elect doug jones will do the right thing and truly represent alabama by choosing to vote with the senate republican majority. with us now is senator cory gardner's counterpart, senator chris van hollen, leading the democrat's 2018 senate campaign effort. welcome back to the show. do you plan to interface with the senator-elect any time soon? >> well, yes. we've been working with doug jones throughout this period but the big news of this election was that the people of alabama voted for dignity. they voted ...

Any two little granddaughters that stole the show last night at our victory speech that that is going to change. that is my hope for my children as well as all of the children for the state of alabama. >> neil: we're continuing to monitor, this you're listening to doug jones, the senator-elect from the state of alabama, the democrat, the first time in a quarter century here. what can we make of the implications from that? he and roy moore have not chatted. roy moore has not conceded in this race and there's an uphill battle for roy moore to try to get a recount. for more insight, karl rove is ...

>> the public knows about this bill. they don't know all the details, but they smell what's going on and that is, tax cuts for the wealthiest. no help for so many in the middle class and tax increases for a good portion of those in the middle class. >> reporter: chuck schumer called for them to delay a vote on this until they're able to seat doug jones, the new senator-elect from alabama who, of course, is a democrat. that seems very much unlikely to happen. mitch mcconnell's given no indication that would be the case. i would personally be shocked should such thing occur. instead the conversa...

Pointed fingers at bannon, accusing the conservative fire brand of leading the party into disaster. >> not so much as a political issue, almost as a moral issue. this guy does not belong on the national stage. he look like some disheveled drunk that warned on to the stage. >> reporter: bannon response, no apologies. >> that's because the democrats hustled. people have to understand if you don't turn out, they're going to turn out. hat tip to these guys at the dnc. >> reporter: the election in alabama wasn't the only source of turmoil as top aide omarosa manigault abruptly left her position, ar...

Talking about the republican party. >> that's by the way the most desolate victory platform i have ever seen in my life. looks like guys waiting for a bus that hasn't shown up. >> okay. a number of things happened here tonight that i think are important. and a lot of it has to do with how the party now begins to reorient itself tomorrow morning. whether it's out of the white house, and what the president tweets. the tweet tonight i don't think was really the president's tweet. >> it seemed sort of civilized. >> yeah, it's not really what he felt about this election, what happened. what i'm hea...