about this. right now, hopefully, new york getting back to normal. the investigation into exactly what was going on and what was the motive is ongoing now. the first time we did hear some comments from new york was from the mayor, michael bloomberg, who had been attending that white house correspondence dinner. you are about to see him in his tux. a quick turn around to respond to the situation that was unfolding around 6:30 p.m. eastern last night. he was joined then by the police commissioner, nypd police commissioner, ray kelly. they officially briefed the public as to what exactly had happened. some of their concerns were unfolding after smoke started emanating from this car. i want to play their press conference so you can get a better sense of what was happening hours ago. good morning. i m joined by governor paterson and city council speaker, christine quinn, police commissioner kelly, fire
dealing with these d.r.e.a.m.ers and you have the trump campaign for whatever reason in the middle of a shutdown unveiling a willie horton style campaign ad. when there really isn t an election in sight. it is kind of astounding to see the way they re approaching this. it s as if they don t really mind that the government is shut down and is likely to be shut down come monday. don? jim, stick around. a lot to get to tonight. i want to get to cnn s phil mattingly on capitol hill. he s been camped out there. i think he has a permanent office now over there now. phil, we were on the air into the wee hours of the morning, until 2:00 a.m. eastern last night. we re back again. we re still at an impasse here. is congress waiting for some direction from the president to get this done? are they acting on theron? reporter: there is no question, a, he s not the crucial player. jim made the point, he had phone calls with republican leaders, but he hasn t had any conversations i m told with sen
here. how does this final version meet with that original vision? the president wanted to have a middle-class tax cut, this clearly is a middle-class tax cut. he wanted to set the stage for economic growth. lastly, we got rid of the individual mandate. the heart and soul of obamacare, that is also gone. harris: we ve heard about senator marco rubio perhaps being in the undecided category and we know the text of the bill was closed at about 10:45 eastern last night. the big question is did you get time under the wire to meet his needs before you closed it? speak of the text would not have been closed had he potentially have not signed off on it. his point was that we are lowering taxes for some of these folks but there are folks who used to pay income tax who no longer will. it shows you the effectiveness of the middle-class tax cut. but they are still paying
heavens had to shift and we had to get other worldly signs to brace ourselves that something unreal was about to happen. we know in fact that what happened was not technically miraculous. it was the rational product of a lot of flesh and blood work by a lot of real human beings. but it did feel miraculous last night, and it has felt miraculous all day, even as the defeated republican candidate is now going on 24 hours and trying to claim that last night never really happened. as i mentioned, the ap called the race at around 10:30 eastern time last night. everybody else had called it within a half an hour. doug jones then soon came out and gave his victory speech in birmingham. and soon thereafter we got word that despite the fact that everybody had called the race for doug jones and it seemed like a clear win, despite the fact that doug jones had declared victory, despite the fact that president trump had even congratulated doug jones on his victory, despite all of that, word came down
birmingham. and soon thereafter we got word that despite the fact that everybody had called the race for doug jones and it seemed like a clear win, despite the fact that doug jones had cla declared victory, despite the fact that president trump had even congratulated doug jones on his victory, despite all of that, word came down that roy moore was not planning on conceding. now, at around 11:30 eastern last night, roy moore came out to address the people who remained at his very quiet headquarters, but he only came out to tell them that he was under the impression that this race was not over. realize when the vote is this close, that it s not over. and we still got to go by the rules, about this recount provision, and the secretary of state has explained it to us, and we re expecting that the press will go up there and talk to them to find out what the situation is. but we also know that god is always in control. god may always be in control,