President Donald Trump Reportedly Blaming Steve Bannon For Roy Moore's Loss | The 11th Hour

WELL, GOOD EVENING ONCE AGAIN FROM OUR NBC NEWS HEADQUARTERS
HERE IN NEW YORK. DAY 328 OF THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION, A DAY WHEN THE PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICAN PARTY
LEADERS ARE GRAPPLING WITH THE NEW POLITICAL REALITY THAT A
DEMOCRAT COULD RUN FOR AND WIN A SENATE SEAT IN DEEP RED ALABAMA.
DOUG JONES'S'S VICTORY OVER REPUBLICAN ROY MOORE CAME OVER A
SWEEPING AND COALITION. NOTHING SORT OF IT.
JONES SPOKE ABOUT THAT AND REACHING ACROSS THE POLITICAL
DIVIDE EARLIER TODAY. >> I HAVE RECEIVED CALLS FROM SO
MANY WELL WISHERS OF FRIENDS AND FAMILY BUT ALSO FUTURE
COLLEAGUES IN WASHINGTON ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE.
I HAVE RECEIVED CALLS FROM DEMOCRATIC SENATORS.
I'VE RECEIVED CALLS FROM MY LONG-TIME FRIEND SENATOR SHELBY,
LEADER McCONNELL, LEADER SCHUMER AND CALLS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENT TRUMP.
THIS ELECTION SHOWS THAT PEOPLE ACROSS THIS COUNTRY, I MEAN,
WANT TO SEE PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER.
>> ALABAMA'S SENIOR SENATOR RICHARD SHELBY THE REPUBLICAN
WHO REFUSED TO VOTE FOR ROY MOORE TODAY REACTED TO DOUG
JONES' VICTORY. >> WELL, IF PEOPLE OF ALABAMA
SPOKE, I TOLD HIM THAT I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH HIM FOR
THE GREAT INTEREST OF THE NATION AND THE PEOPLE OF ALABAMA.
>> DO YOU TAKE ANY CREDIT FOR THE IDEA THAT DOUG JONES WAS
ELECTED AND ROY MOORE LOST? >> NO, NO.
I'M A REPUBLICAN. I WROTE IN A REPUBLICAN.
I DIDN'T VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT. WOULDN'T.
>> THIS ELECTION, LET'S NOT FORGET, WAS SOMETHING OF A
RECKONING FOR DONALD TRUMP WHO HEARTILY ENDORSED AND CAMPAIGNED
FOR ROY MOORE. >> GET OUT AND VOTE FOR ROY
MOORE. HI, THIS IS PRESIDENT DONALD
TRUMP AND I NEED ALABAMA TO GO VOTE FOR ROY MOORE.
>> BUT TODAY THE PRESIDENT ACTUALLY FOUND A WAY TO SAY I
TOLD YOU SO. HE PUT THIS ON TWITTER.
QUOTE, THE REASON I ORIGINALLY ENDORSED LUTHER STRANGE AND HIS
NUMBERS WENT UP MIGHTILY WAS 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. AND THIS IS HOW THE PRESIDENT
REACTED TO LOSS BEFORE CAMERAS EARLIER TODAY.
>> I WOULD HAVE -- AS THE LEADER OF THE PARTY I WOULD HAVE LIKED
TO HAVE HAD THE SEAT. >> HOW COULD THAT LOSS AFFECT
YOUR AGENDA? >> I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO
AFFECT IT. >> ASHLEY PARKER REPORTS ON THE
MOOD IN THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY. SHE WRITES, QUOTE, BY WEDNESDAY
MORNING AS TRUMP WATCHED THE UNFLATTERING PORTRAIT OF THE
LOSS UNFOLD ON TELEVISION THE PRESIDENT GREW PIQUED AT THE
NOTION HE WAS SOMEHOW RESPONSIBLE.
QUOTE, I WON ALABAMA AND I WOULD HAVE WON ALABAMA AGAIN TRUMP
SAID ACCORDING TO A SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL.
THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF SPREAD THE BLAME.
HE FAULTED HIS FORMER CHIEF STRATEGIST STEVEN K. BANNON FOR
SELLING HIM WHAT ONE OUTSIDE ADVISOR DESCRIBED AS A BILL OF
GOODIES. AND HE FAULTED MOORE HIMSELF FOR
BEING AN ABYSMAL CANDIDATE. HE HAD CAMPAIGNED WITH MOORE IN
ALABAMA AS PART OF HIS OWN EFFORT TO TAKE DOWN THE
REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT, BANNON HAD.
TODAY BANNON WAS ALSO UNDER FIRE FROM SOME IN THE SAME
ESTABLISHMENT FOR BACKING SOMEONE IN THAT SENATE SEAT.
>> I DON'T THINK STEVE BANNON IS ANYTHING POSITIVE AT ALL TO THE
DIALOGUE IN THE COUNTRY. TO SEE HIM ON THE STAGE WITH THE
AMERICAN FLAG BEHIND HIM, HE LOOKED LIKE SOME DISHEVELED
DRUNK WHO HAD WANDERED OFF THE STREET, I THINK IT'S WRONG.
I THINK WE SHOULD SHUN HIM. >> DON'T FORGET BANNON HAS
THREATENED HIM BY SAYING WE'RE COMING FOR YOU.
HERE IS WHAT McCONNELL AIDE JOSH HOLMES TOLD POLITICO ABOUT
BANNON IN THIS ALABAMA ELECTION. QUOTE, HE'S PROVEN BEYOND A
SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT HE HAS NO CAPACITY TO RUN A U.S. SENATE
RACE. IF HE'S CAPABLE OF LOSING THE
REDDEST STATE IN THE NATION, HE'S CAPABLE OF LOSING ANYWHERE.
OTHER REPUBLICAN SENATORS EXPRESSED THEIR FEELINGS TODAY
ABOUT MOORE'S LOSS. AND THERE WAS ALMOST FROM SOME A
SENSE OF RELIEF. >> STRANGE TO SAY I GUESS FROM
MY SIDE OF THE AISLE, BUT I THOUGHT WAS A GREAT NIGHT FOR
AMERICA. SO I COULDN'T BE MORE HAPPY.
THE PEOPLE OF ALABAMA RESPONDED, I THOUGHT, IN A VERY APPROPRIATE
WAY. >> ALABAMIANS DIDN'T WANT
SOMEBODY WHO DATED 14-YEAR-OLD GIRLS.
YOU NEED GOOD CANDIDATES TO WIN SENATE RACES, YEAH.
>> I HOPE IT SENDS A MESSAGE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN DO
BETTER. THAT REPUBLICANS CAN DO BETTER.
>> THREE INTERESTING REPUBLICAN REACTIONS THERE.
AND FROM THE GREAT STATE OF NEW JERSEY, A NEW POLL SEEMS TO
HIGHLIGHT SENATOR FLAKE'S COMMENTS THERE, THAT REPUBLICANS
CAN DO BETTER. THE PRESIDENT'S JOB APPROVAL
RATINGS STANDS AT 32%. WAY UNDER WATER.
LOOKING AHEAD TO 2018, 51% OF PEOPLE SAID THEY WOULD VOTE FOR
THE GENERIC DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN THEIR DISTRICT IF ELECTIONS
WERE HELD TODAY. 36% REPUBLICAN, ALL OF IT BRINGS
US TO LEAD OUR LEAD OFF PANEL ON A POST-ELECTION WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
JEREMY PETERS, THE AFOREMENTIONED ASHLEY PARKER,
WHITE HOUSE REPORTER FOR "THE WASHINGTON POST" AND AN MSNBC
POLITICAL ANALYST. AND DAVID JOLLY IS BACK WITH US
A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN FROM FLORIDA.
SO, JEREMY, THIS HAS GONE BETTER THAN EXPECTED INSIDE THE WHITE
HOUSE. YOUR PAPER IS OUT WITH SIMILAR
REPORTING TONIGHT, THOUGH, THERE'S NO SHORTAGE, I GUESS, OF
BLAME TO GO AROUND. >> NO, THERE'S NOT.
AND THAT'S BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ACROSS THE SPECTRUM DON'T
RECOGNIZE THEIR PARTY. YOU HEARD THAT IN THE VOICES OF
JEFF FLAKE AND BOB CORKER WHO EXPRESSED JUST UTTER DISGUST AT
THE FACT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY COULD EVEN NOMINATE SOMEONE LIKE
ROY MOORE. AND YOU HAVE PEOPLE ON THE OTHER
SIDE CALL IT THIS STEVE BANNON TRUMPISM SPECTRUM OF THE PARTY
THAT DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY LEADERS IN THEIR OWN PARTY WOULD
OPENLY ADVOCATE FOR THE ELECTION OF A DEMOCRAT.
SO THIS ELECTION WHILE IT RESOLVES ONE MESSY DISPUTE FOR
THE MOMENT, I THINK, BRIAN, HAS ONLY OPENED FURTHER THE DEEP
WOUNDS WITHIN THE BROKEN PARTY RIGHT NOW.
>> ASHLEY, ANOTHER GREAT NIGHT OF REPORTING FOR YOU.
WERE YOU SURPRISED THAT THERE WASN'T MORE OF AN INTERNAL WEST
WING RAGE GOING ON? AND WHERE DO YOU PUT THE STATUS
OF THE BLAME GAME? >> I WOULD SAY NOT ONLY WAS I
SURPRISED BUT A NUMBER OF TRUMP'S OWN AIDES WERE
SURPRISED. WHEN I TALKED TO THEM LAST NIGHT
RIGHT AFTER THE RESULTS THEY WERE ALL BRACING WHAT HAS BECOME
A PATTERN OF WATCHING TV, GETTING ENRAGED, FUMING AND THE
ENSUING CHAOS. BUT IN FACT THE PRESIDENT --
SAYING HE HANDLED IT WITH A NOTE OF GRACE MAY BE AN
OVERSTATEMENT. BUT HE WAS RELATIVELY CALM AND
HE SEEMED SORT OF AT PEACE WITH THE DECISION OF THE ALABAMA
VOTERS. AND WHAT WE SAW HIM SAYING
PUBLICLY WAS WHAT WE SAW HIM SAYING PRIVATELY, WE SHOULD MOVE
ON AND LOOK AHEAD. THE THREE PEOPLE THAT I HEARD
THAT THE PRESIDENT IS MOST ACUTELY BLAMING IS MITCH
McCONNELL BECAUSE HE'S FRUSTRATED THAT HE GOT IN AND
TOO AGGRESSIVELY TRIED TO PUSH OUT MOORE.
HE'S FRUSTRATED WITH STEVE BANNON AS I WROTE BECAUSE HE
THINKS HE SOLD HIM THIS BILL OF GOODIES, AND IN PART BECAUSE OF
BANNON'S PROMISES THAT MOORE COULD WIN.
AND HE'S CERTAINLY NOT INCORRECT IN SAYING MOORE WAS QUITE AN
AWFUL CANDIDATE. >> LIKES TO SAY OF SENATOR
CORKER, HE HAS HAD THE TRUTH SERUM OF KNOWING HE'S NOT
RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION. IT IS STILL BRACING TO HEAR HIM
SAY THAT LAST NIGHT WAS A GREAT NIGHT FOR AMERICA.
I'LL PUT THE SAME QUESTION TO YOU.
FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY YOU KNOW AND LOVE, DO YOU THINK LAST
NIGHT WAS GOOD FOR THAT REPUBLICAN PARTY?
>> OH, OF COURSE. IT WAS GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY BUT
ALSO GOOD FOR THE PARTY BECAUSE ROY MOORE WOULD HAVE BECOME THE
SECOND MOST POPULAR FACE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY GOING INTO 2018
IF HE HAD WON. LISTEN, THE REASON TRUMP AND A
LOT OF REPUBLICANS I THINK ARE BREATHING A SIGH OF RELIEF
TONIGHT AND NOT AS WORRIED AS I THINK THEY SHOULD BE, IS THEY
THEY DON'T SEE ROY MOORE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THEY WANT 2018.
THE HOUSE IS INSULATED SOME. THEY'RE VULNERABLE MEMBERS
THROUGH JERRY MANDERING. IN THE THE SENATE DEMOCRATS HAV
DEFEND 29 SEATS. WHAT REPUBLICAN INSIDERS ARE
OVERLOOKING ARE TWO VERY IMPORTANT THINGS.
WE WILL SEE MORE BAD CANDIDATES COME FORWARD.
STEVE BANNON HAS ALREADY MET WITH MICHAEL GRIM IN NEW YORK
WHO LEFT OFFICE TO SERVE TIME IN FEDERAL PRIZ SQUN NOW WANTS TO
RUN FOR CONGRESS AGAIN. WE'RE SEEING A SENATE CANDIDATE
IN ARIZONA WHO IS SPEAKING WITH LITTLE ELOQUENCE, IF WE'RE BEING
GENEROUS. BUT HERE'S THE OTHER THING WE'RE
OVERLOOKING AND THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE SAW LAST
NIGHT. THE ENERGY ON THE LEFT IS
INCREDIBLE RIGHT NOW. WE SAW IT IN VIRGINIA.
WE SAW IT IN NEW JERSEY. THE ENERGY ON THE LEFT TO GET
OUT AND VOTE, LISTEN, YOU CAN'T MAKE VOTERS GET OUT AND TURN OUT
TO VOTE IF THEY DON'T WANT TO. THE LEFT IS LOOKING TO VOTE
RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE EAGER TO GET TO 2018
AND VOTE.
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