tuesday night, doug jones becoming the first democrat to win a senator seat in alabama in a quarter century. doug jones in a ruby red state makes republicans wonder if president trump has a chance in 2018. joining us in key west where he is celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary, the newly elected senator from alabama, senator doug jones, congratulations on both the senate victory and, of course, the 25th wedding anniversary. thank you, jake. i appreciate that. glad to be with you here today. thanks very much. let me start by asking you about this letter sent to congress by president trump s lawyers accusing robert mueller of obtaining unauthorized access to tens of thousands of e-mails in the trump transition. do you think the investigation may be tainted? i don t know about that particular letter.
welcome back to state of the union. i m jake tapper. it was a historic and frankly shocking victory tuesday night. doug jones defeating roy moore to become the first democrat to win a u.s. democrat in alabama in a quarter century. his surprise win in a ruby red state has democrats wondering if the house and senate might be in play in 2018. president trump is congratulating jones and calling on roy moore who has yet to concede the race to do so. joining us now from key west where he is celebrating his 25th wedding sfrirks the newly elected senator from alabama, an democrat doug jones. senator elect jones, congratulations on both the senate victory and, of course, the 25th wedding anniversary. thanks, jake. i appreciate it. glad to be here with you today. thanks so much. so let me start by asking you about this letter sent to members of congress from president trump s lawyers accusing special counsel robert mueller of obtaining unauthorized access of mails
in order to get that right to vote. so it s important that i think and i would like to see there be some effort to get more people registered, to make it easier to vote in this state. we have a period other than absentee ballots here in this state which are fairly cumbersome to do. i d like to make it easier for people to exercise their right to vote and i think we can do that over the course of time. but it s going to take in order to do that, it s going to take people putting aside how is this vote going to affect this political party or that political party? we need to be thinking about the right to vote for everyone and not just how it will enrich one party or another to give because that is so fundamental to everyone in this country. back to you. culminating on your 25th wedding anniversary, did you get to celebrate at all? i m going to take the fifth on that one i think.
doug, you have been giving us updates throughout the day. the folks felt confident even when numbers initially were not in their favor. they knew what they were looking for, and they felt pretty confident today, it sounds like. yeah, i think that is definitely the case, shannon. doug jones is still on the stage as we speak, waving to people, friends and volunteers here, just thoroughly, thoroughly enjoying the moment. this has been a quest of his since he was a young man that first got involved in politics. not only as a victory night for doug jones, it s also his 25th wedding anniversary, as you might have heard during his victory speech tonight. he and his wife louise are celebrating their 25th anniversary. he paid how much do a really key guy who happens to be a familiar face to a lot of fox news viewers, joe trippi, the mastermind behind his campaign. congratulations. thanks, we had a great team, wonderful night. what make this work? look, i think the country really is look
when numbers initially were not in their favor. they knew what they were looking for, and they felt pretty confident today, it sounds like. yeah, i think that is definitely the case, shannon. doug jones is still on the stage as we speak, waving to people, friends and volunteers here, just thoroughly, thoroughly enjoying the moment. this has been a quest of his since he was a young man that first got involved in politics. not only is it victory night for doug jones, it s also his 25th wedding anniversary, as you might have heard during his victory speech tonight. he and his wife louise are celebrating their 25th anniversary. he paid to a really key he paid homage to a really key guy who happens to be a familiar face to a lot of fox news viewers, joe trippi, the mastermind behind his campaign. congratulations. thanks, we had a great team,i wonderful night. what made this work? look, i think the country really is looking for people to bring the country together and stop the divisi