[Church:] A very warm welcome back to CNN Newsroom, I am Rosemary Church. Update to our main stories that we had been following this hour. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he wants it. Any preconditions for talks with North Korea, the White House says President Trump views on the matter have not changed, implying he does not support Tillerson take on the negotiations. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump is tweeting backlash after a tweet that slam Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gellibrand, she has said he should resign, because of allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct. Mr. Trump called her a lightweight, who would do anything for campaign contributions. Gellibrand responding saying she would not be silenced by what she called a sexist [inaudible]. A stunning upset in Alabama's hotly contested Senate race Democrat Doug Jones narrowly defeated Republican Roy Moore in Tuesday's closely watched election. Moore so far has refused to concede, but Alabama's Republican Party says the election is over and Jones is the winner. Doug Jones stunning offset victory makes him the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in a generation.
[Doug Jones,  Alabama Senate Candidate:] This entire raised has been about dignity and respect.
[Church:] Alex Marquardt has more now from Jones headquarters in Birmingham.
[Alexander Marquardt, Senior National Correspondent, Cnn:] Well the party here at the Doug Jones headquarters is winding down, it was a ruckus one following this victory, you can see here there is still a couple stragglers basking in the glow of Doug Jones win. I spoke with the campaign chairman for the Jones campaign. He said he had a glass of wine in hand. They too, are celebrating tonight. Now, as you know what happens in these situations is the victor, gives a victory speech with we heard from Doug Jones and the loser get a concession speech which is often followed by phone call to Victor congratulating him or her. Now those last few things did not happen. There has been no contact between the Moore and the Jones campaigns. The campaign chairman for the Jones campaign Perkins told me that he is disappointed that the proper thing to do what it had been for Moore to call and congratulate Doug Jones. He said that it is a clear win and he hopes that they wake up in the morning and concede this race. Now what we expect to happen in the coming weeks as the Secretary of State for Alabama will certify these votes for the end of December and in all likelihood Doug Jones will be sworn into the Senate in early January. Back to you.
[Church:] Thanks you Alex. Joining us now is Leslie Vinjamuri, Associate professor in international relations at the University of London. Thanks so much for being with us.
[Leslie Vinjamuri, Associate Professor In International Relations At The University Of London:] Thank you.
[Church:] So big a blow is this to President Trump and why do you think Democrat Doug Jones won despite Alabama being such a deeply Republican state, was it the sexual allegations against Roy Moore wasn't nothing else?
[Vinjamuri:] Well I do think it is a very big blow to President Donald Trump because remember he hesitated initially and then he decided to really come in very strongly endorsing Roy Moore and so that endorsement has been rejected by the majority of voters in the states. I was clearly blowing it below. Also for his ability to govern going forward, because he is now losing a very critical state in the Senate, but as for what drove that election. I think one of the very big stories here is voter turnout, it would be expected a much lower turnout across the board. I think the numbers anticipated were somewhere around 825,000 look like well over 1 million people turned out which is greater than exceeded and especially the African-American vote turnout was much higher. People were very worried that voter suppression would dampen that turnouts and there was the this considerable money put into making it possible to mobilizing that most of voter turnout seems to be up but undoubtedly the sexual allegations casts a very dark cloud over Roy Moore's candidacy is not a very popular figure at all in any case in the states, a deeply Republican state. So it's a very significant and I think for many people actually surprising result but Roy Moore was not a popular candidate and the sexual allegations against him in the broader context of course of the me to movement has certainly color that campaign.
[Church:] And what will Doug Jones's win mean for the balance of power in the Senate given, now 49 Democrats, 51 Republicans and that is very significant.
[Vinjamuri:] That is very significant. It looks like he is not likely to come in until the new year. So there will be a very big push right which I think right now by the Senate Republicans to get that tax reform through, because it's not clear that John has come out against that proposal. More recently, so it's not clear where he would end on that, but nonetheless it alters the balance very considerably. This is a President Trump had a very difficult time getting anything through the Congress is now going to face a much more significant uphill battle. And of course it raises a lot of questions about what will happen in the midterm elections having that one extra seat makes it more possible, more plausible, perhaps, that the Democrats could conceivably take the Senate. I after the midterm elections is a very significant election and definitely changes the politics in Washington.
[Church:] Roy Moore lost to this race, although he says it's not over yet and he's a refusing to concede, but given Mr. Trump endorsed him, what message a voter sending to the president, do you think? And could Moore proved to be an albatross around the president neck going forward.
[Vinjamuri:] Yes, I think it certainly sends the message that the voters in Alabama are not willing to support a candidate who's got the sorts of allegations that the Senate Republicans didn't come out strongly endorsing the RNC went back and forth on this and clearly many people wrote it. I think there what right now or singer over 18,000 people who wrote in a candidate so those were voters that Roy Moore would otherwise have expected to have on his side, so that he just simply couldn't carry the state in the and as you as he said the state of the Republicans have carried since the early 1990s, and in the Senate so it is a very strong message.
[Church:] And I do want to shift the conversation now to a scathing editorial in the USA Today newspaper that calls President Trump unfit for office in response to a tweet the president send out Tuesday. The editorial said this, I do want to wait it out. A president who would all but cool Senator Gellibrand or is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama presidential library or to shine the shoes of George W Bush. It goes on to say Obama and Bush both failed in many ways they broke promises and told untruths about the basic decency of each man was never in doubt, Donald Trump the man on the other hand, is uniquely awful, his sickening behavior is corrosive to the enterprise of a shared governance based on common values and consent of the government. How significant is that a new statement that rarely wide scathing editorials about anyone would use such strong language against the leader of the free world? And could this possibly signal some sort of tipping point where the countries says enough is enough when it comes to certain behavior we are saying from the President of the United States.
[Vinjamuri:] It is extraordinary. Remember that the newspaper that's very widely read and it hits the large number of middle Americans and is clearly a very strong statement by Sen. Gellibrand has really taken the lead in calling out the behavior in the number of individuals and of course against President Trump and his response. I think was interpreted by many people to be really very odd below any standard that would be expected of a President of the United States of America and so the tightest thing of the tight has absolutely turns and the good it does the title have when it comes to what some public opinion of the United States is willing to accept on his questions of inappropriate behavior. So this is not a statement that we would've anticipated our takeover that we should take lightly. It's a very significant statement.
[Church:] Leslie Vinjamuri, thank you so much for joining us with your perspective and analysis, always a pleasure to talk with you.
[Vinjamuri:] Thank you.
[Church:] All right. The new U.S. policy on Israel has created global approval protest have been happening around the world up to President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The decision was criticized by many countries and Muslim leaders are grappling with what to do next. A number of them are gathering in Istanbul Turkey right now for emergency summit of the organization of Islamic cooperation. CNN's Arwa Damon is in Istanbul. She joins us now with the very latest. So whereas these Muslim leaders gather there in Istanbul for this emergency summit, what are some of the options that they will be discussing when it comes to finding a response to Mr. Trump's announcement on Jerusalem?
[Arwa Damon, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] Well it is really going to depend on how much muscle they actually want to put behind any sort of declaration that they do. You may we have heard repeatedly from leaders in the region, including Turkey leader President Erdogan that this decision by the United States to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is null and void. It is illegal, and it will not be accepted. We heard earlier from Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu who put out a statement effectively saying that in that case other nations should recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine. What we have today is representation from some 48 country, 16 heads of state in the summit that has just begun to Turkish President still speaking once again calling Israel a terrorist state and I was saying vowing that this will not be recognized, but in terms of options and so as to ensure that this does not just end up being another declaration of condemnation within what many Palestinian leaders refer to as a library of condemnation is going to be up to the various nations gather here to try to come up with some sort of consensus as to how much force they actually want to use. How much pressure do they want to use. Will they call for those who do have ties with Israel to sever their ties, will they try to make some sort of public declaration that is accepted by the majority of those who are present, perhaps beyond that yet. East Jerusalem will then be the recognized capital of Palestine. Will they once again as we have seen in the past call for a boycott of Israeli product? There are actually a fair amount of pressure point that various different nations can use especially Israel's neighbors such as Egypt and Jordan, who do have peace accord with Israel. There are these various different pressure point and again it remains to be seen how much muscle are the nations going to put behind their declarations and what will that can lead to? Rosemary.
[Church:] And overall what are the expectations, because this is the problem is not of the options are limited, although the backdrop here is that no other country has followed suit. They come out and said that they not moving the embassies Jerusalem, they're not recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. There is strength in that presumably, but overall, what can be achieved at the summit?
[Damon:] There is a lot of strength in that Rosemary. There's also strength, Palestinians will tell you and the fact that we had seen feasible demonstrations in countries like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan where the Palestinian people feel that at the very least, governments aren't willing to put muscle behind their rhetoric the population perhaps will be able to put in turn pressure on their various different respective government. The bar is actually quite low, because the vast majority of the time. Not every single time on the backend of these types of summit. We only do end this thing declarations on paper, but you also have something that is fairly extraordinary. Given how turbulent the region is and that is the various different players you have now gathered at this one summit, countries that are normally at odds over various other issue that actually come together over this one.
[Church:] All right. Many thanks to Arwa Damon joining us there from Istanbul, Turkey. Where it is nearly 11:45 in the morning. We will take a short break here, but still come as president is moving forward with the Paris Climate Accord even though the U.S. decided to pull out of it. We will look at what was achieved at the one planet summit. We are back just in a moment.