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Out and vote on a day when they knew that there write-in probably wouldn't matter, that seems like quite a statement from the folks of alabama. >> it really is, shannon. it's very important to note that all of those write-in votes will be documented and recorded and printed. so it will be understood exactly who received those votes and what that will mean in the final difference. we actually sent instructions to the probate judge is a couple of times. we'll send them again tonight to make sure they know those votes are supposed to be counted, documented, and recorded. and we will have those in...

Is sick and tired of having the voters on the beltway trying to have input. we need to come together, we need to do it quick. we need to learn the lessons of virginia and the lessons of alabama, which is our voters are not going to show up if we don't give them a proper choice and we did not do that. we need to make lemons out of this -- lemonades out of these lemons, shannon. we have a lot of lemons tonight. >> shannon: we are waiting roy moore, who appears to have been defeated, they g.o.p. nominee in alabama for the u.s. senate. we will keep an eye on that and go there live to hear from his...

Issues of the family, slavery, back in that time, that is a problem. and as a black man here in birmingham, alabama, there's no way i can vote for a guy who says those type of things to the american people. he doesn't fit my values or my community values. that's why i did a write-in. >> so doug jones got 96% of the black vote. hillary clinton only got 88% of the black vote in 2016 when voters went out to cast ballots for the presidential election last area. why do you think black voters were so much more motivated last night than they were in 2016? >> because right now, in birmingham, alabama,...

The gracious tweet from president trump. i think we may have woken up to something else. >> yeah, plenty of wednesday morning quarterbacking as you'd imagine here at the white house. the president trying to frame this the best possible way after a humiliating defeat after picking the wrong horse in alabama now twice. this morning he wrote the following. he wrote the reason i originally endorsed luther strange, and his numbers went up mightily, he notes, is that i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. i was right. roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him. the ...

Let me finish. take this election, take this election where the people of alabama said we want to get something done. we want you to find common ground. we want you to take. take this opportunity in light of this election and go ahead and fund that ship program before i get up there. [cheering and applauding] >> that's senator elect doug jones already trying to affect the senate's legislative agenda. tonight the president in an uncharacteristic tweet tweeted this about the election. congratulations to doug jones on a hard fought victory. the write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win i...