Watch Video | Listen to the AudioWILLIAM BRANGHAM: And it’s the beginning of the week, and so we are joined now by our regular Politics Monday duo, Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Welcome to you both.

AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report: Thank you.

TAMARA KEITH, NPR: Thank you.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Before we get to Alabama and policy and all that stuff, let’s talk about Sean Spicer and his little cameo last night on the Emmys.

For those who didn’t see it, he comes out, and it seems like he’s trying to poke fun at his first day of the job, President Trump’s inauguration. He comes out and, all evidence notwithstanding, he says that president had the biggest audience ever in the entire history of the universe. And then that was his declaration. And he pointed his finger at the journalists and told them, report this.

Last night, during the Emmys, Stephen Colbert is wondering about the size of his audience. And out comes Sean Spicer.

Let’s take a look at that.

(LAUGHTER)

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

SEAN SPICER, Former White House Press Secretary: This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period, both in person and around the world.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: What do you make of that?

AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report: You know, this is life imitating art. Right?

He was actually channeling Melissa McCarthy, who you see there, who was making fun of him in her “Saturday Night Live” skit.

Look, this, to me, is a sign about where we are more broadly as a culture, which is, there is no such thing as having bad publicity or notoriety. You can always cash in on it. And it’s very short-lived.

So, the name Sean Spicer is one that most people know today. It’s hard to know that it’s going to be the same a year from now. So, take it while you can get it. Take it to the bank. A lot of other Trump supporters, his former campaign manager, for example, got fired, and then ended up as a CNN commentator, is a lobbyist now.

So, people trying to use their cache while they can here in Washington.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Tam, what do you think about this?

Is this us not being able to take a joke? Or is this us, as many people have argued, that we’re being encouraged to chuckle at the idea that it’s just fine for the press secretary to lie to the American people?

TAMARA KEITH: Well, this is Sean Spicer’s rehabilitation tour, his image rehabilitation tour. He also went on the Jimmy Kimmel show, and then today, in an interview with The New York Times, said that he regretted that press conference where he came out and told reporters, report the facts that were not the facts. They were alternate facts.

And that was sort of the original sin of his entire time as press secretary. He came out and said something that was unverifiably untrue. And it led to further questions about whether what he said was true, whether what was said from the podium in the White House press Briefing Room, which has typically had some connection to reality, whether that could be trusted from this administration.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Some connection to reality. I love that.

OK, let’s talk about the runoff next Tuesday in Alabama, very big Senate runoff race.

AMY WALTER: Right.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Roy Moore and Luther Strange.

What is at stake in that particular race?

AMY WALTER: Well, these are two Republicans that are challenging each other.

And what’s interesting here is, it is the choice between which Alabamans are going to like more. Or their choice is between loving Trump more or whether they dislike Mitch McConnell more.

That is what they get a choice between. Roy Moore is the outsider. He is a former state Supreme Court judge. He has been kicked off the bench twice now, but he’s running as the anti-establishment, anti-Washington firebrand.

Luther Strange is in a Strange position, which is, he’s been endorsed both by Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is coming down on Saturday to campaign for him. But he also has the supp