[tina and ike turner proud mary playing] [proud mary by ike and tina turner playing] good evening. Crowd. An amazing thank you for being so diligent in and staying with us tonight. The evening is not over yet. A lot of the votes are in, but they are not all litton yet and you know, there is a lot of in alabama that requires a recount if the vote is within one half and that includes all of the candidates on the ballot and any rightends that are qualified to be a candidate. At this point, we do not have a final decision on the outcome tonight. And we know that god is still in control and we are going to give him credit felt this turns out and he has been with us every step of the way and we continue to honor him for being with us and we honor you for being with us here tonight and showing your support for judge moore. I have a message for the media. To the secretary of state, john merrill, he invite you to come to his Office Tonight at 11 00 p. M. If youre visit with the secretary of sta
Preparing to be sworn in next month as the new senator from alabama. After debating republican roy moore in the special election to fill the seat vacated by jeff sessions. This was the first time a democrat was elected as a senator from alabama in 25 years. First from senator elect doug jones, followed by his opponent roy moore. [hip hop music playing] hold those signs up. Let them see those signs [cheers and applause] ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to senatorelect doug jones [cheers and applause] [applause] [cheers and applause] [cheers] mr. Jones thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, thank you. Oh my. I have got to tell you, i think that i have been waiting all my life and now i dont know just what the hell to say. [applause] mr. Jones let me if you will indulge me just a moment. [laughter] mr. Jones lets get sworn in first before [applause] mr. Jones folks, i am overwhelmed. Let me first make a couple of brief comments. I have said throughout this campaign tha
stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. please be seated. as i was preparing for the arrival of our special guest today, not that it had anything to do with them, but i ran into some depressing statistics. don t worry, while this introduction will start on a low i promise it will end on a high. the stats that i ran into were all about who was reading books these days and how often. some of the numbers concern me. now, don t hold me to them exactly as my source was the internet, but they are revealing and they are tough to swallow. what did they say? one third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. 42% of college graduates never read another book after college, and 80% of u.s. families did not buy or read a book last year. now, i have to presume that s to the extent these people read, their reading habits are confined to 140 character tweets, blogs, weblogs, chats and e-mails and an occasio