For. Heres where you go pro test. Thats not going to end well. Laura no. I have to say i think the press behavior, they are whipping everything up. I think that gives some impetus. All of the brave kids and the mass. That doesnt mean it doesnt work. They are told to create crowds, get in peoples faces, follow them, kick them, dont be civil with them. You know what . Im telling every conservative, you see somebody you dont like . Stay away. Laura absolutely. Theres some great press people out there doing good jobs. Everybody has to take the temperature down. It it has to calm down. We need to have a spirit ed conversation. Cnn got a threat today. If anybody goes after acosta, i will fight to defend him. Laura i would love to see that. I dont want anybody fight the hannity. Isnt that bad . Im going to be more peaceful and calm. I loved your coverage. Thank you for doing that all right. Im Laura Ingraham and this is the ingraham angle from washington. If you thought the midterm drama was over, you are wrong. The florida is in a re count drama. Governor rick scott just filed a lawsuit against brouward and palm beach counties. And trump just responded and well speak to the attorneys on the ground in just moments. Plus Bernie Sanders saying thatw gillman struggled to win vote because vote voters were scared of them. Horace cooper is here later on to respond. And why President Trump s attorney bothers so many of the resistance folks. Well also speak to a good friend of hero, sergeant ron hillard, tragically killed in california. Refusing to accept the agony of defeat. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Public declared victory. He says he will begin his transition. Dont forget his opponent hasnt conced ing yet. Gilham has conceding they brought in a lawyer from washington, d. C. To oversee the re count. Laura in close races, democrats more so than republicans seem to have a problem conceding defeat. It cant be that the other guy won fair and square. It has to be the election system broke down or the entire process might be tainted then theres the other way to explain a tough loss, well, the voters must be racist. Donald trumps instincts were value validated in big section s of the country. The incitement and racial demagoguery work ed. Trumps party is increasing increasingly older, whiter, and rural the other thing that could be happening in florida is the obradley effect. It affected the election day vote totals of black candidates. Former mayor kept run ning and polls would show he would win and somehow on election day he would lose. Even after democrats flipped the house and many minority candidates won from coast to coast, whats the result on the floridas governor race and in georgia rolled in ad dam titled it america s problem isnt tribalism, it is racism. If republicans ran on their policy agenda alone, they would be at a disadvantage. They turned to destruct ive politics. Yeah, adam. Thats what the policies are all about. Soaking racial and sectarian ethnic fears. It is obscure. The most dispick despicable use of hate came from the trump haters and democrats. Im not calling this as a defense. Im simply saying the racist believe hes a racist. Sign me up in the category that thinks hes racist. Hes said so many racist thing. When you dont want to talk policy, you call him a racist. Taking overtly bigot ed racist statement attacking brown people and black people. When the bizarre and suspicious racial calls were in florida, Rick Santorum immediately denounced them. As they should. Back in 2016, the media tried to paint trump as he wasnt going to be accepting any of the results of the election. Are you saying you are not what im saying is that ill tell you at the time, ill keep you in suspend. Laura hillary responded like this. Thats horrifying. Every time donald thinks things are not going this his direction, he claims whatever it is is rigged against him. Thats not the way our democracy works. Hes talking down our democracy. Laura talking down our democracy. The media echoed hillary outraged that trump would challenge the legitimacy of an election won fair and square. All of the moral outrage was exposed when trump won in 2016. Suddenly the represent ative democracy wasnt so representative after all. I wanted to eliminate the Electoral College and ensure the candidate that wins the most votes will be elected president. Heck of the way the framers set it up. Whats the suspension that we lost. Republicans, even the president , they had their own hang ups about legitimacy and obamas birth certificate. Many of the die hards, after all, they are are called the resistance, do not accept the result s. I believe in trying to wok with people. It is going to be hard and difficult. I dont think the president elect as a legitimate president. My personal view is it was not a legitimate election. It is your president. Not mine. I think there are lot s of questions about its legitimacy. We dont have a method for contesting that. No wonder people are losing faith. 51 of americans said they had faith in the countrys democracy. More than a third say theyve lost faith in it my friends, this is really distressing for americas future. If the people decide the system is rotten, they are really saying the country is rotten. And soon they are going to be saying it isnt worth protecting anymore at all. Lets hope we can turn the dynamic around. They need to focus on the issues. Some recounts are mandated. Republicans should en sure that any recount is done fairly. No creating ballots. Now ive got to say it was hardly reassuring to learn today in florida the most pop populous county is a democrat there. Brenda was found guilty of violating state and federal law for destroy ing ballots in the 2016 congressional race when the ballots were at time subject to a lawsuit and breaking within the last couple of hours and we had a lawsuit filed by governor rick scott against broward and palm beach counties. Hes going on the offensive against the entire shoty practice. Republican lawyers, you better make sure the democrats dont start torching absentee ballot s or finding other ballots other places. Lets all just remember while losing is never fun and we remember our losses, believe me. We remember 92, 96, 2006 during the bush midterms , 2008, 2012 it is never fun. I tell you losing our democratic process would be catastrophic. And thats the angle. Joining us now, three men that know the florida issue better than everyone in the country. Barry richard is current ly Andrew Gillum s attorney and he represented george w. Bush in the recount. And we have the attorney for Catherine Harris representing her against all of the legal challenges. I want to start with you do you think it is wise for Governor Scott to move on the offensive in broward and palm beech beach counties, or is that premature . No. I dont think it is pre mature. You have to stay ahead of the flow. Of whats going on. I was not aware of the lawsuit until i drove over here tonight. Theres additional super vision. Things dont happen that ought not happen. I want to go to you. You are representing Andrew Gillum. Thats not contract. He thought at the moment warranted a concession. Your client and you say you are watching things very closely with the vote count. Last i checked it was about 40,000 or so votes separating gillum and ron desantis. Theres a vast difference between 2000 and now. The recount was reciprocated by the candidates which got to select the counties they were in. The legislature has a result of 2000 has significantly changed florida statutes. The candidates have nothing to do with it now. If the margin between the candidates is less than one half county with the ballots that are sent to the machines again. If it is less than a quarter, then theres an automatic manual recount as far as mr. Gillum is concerned, hes waiting for the system to play itself out. This is part of the process and hell accept the results. Laura i want to go you to miguel, i think a lot of people watching across the country find it odd the whole process of the vote count extending so many day s. Explain to the viewers why that is with pro visional ballots and movinging into ab absentee military count. Provisional is one issue. What we cant understand is why is it male mail in ballots and early votes are still being counted. According to our laws those are supposed to be reported half an hour before election. Were at a loss to understand whats happening in palm beach and broward. And it is the same two counties that cant seem to get it right out of the 67 counties in the state of florida. Laura what about the concern . Im going to go back to you, joseph, about Brenda Snyder in broward and the concern that marco rubio was on another network no, our Network Earlier tonight. He was basically laying waste to what happens in broward county. Well put it up on the screen, and ill go back to you, joseph. This is what the president said tonight. Law enforcement is look ing into another big Corruption Scandal. Florida voted for rick scott. Your comment tonight . Barry said our Legislature Said they addressed some of the problems to avoid this thing from happening it is embarrassing to the state that we have to have this kind of thing go on. My home county we dont have this kind of thing happening here. Because miss snipes has the cloud over her head. If theres ballots show ing up, they shouldnt be. The only ballots are the military ballots which i understand have until november 16th. So i think, you know, we need to make sure we take whatever steps are necessary with the judiciary to protect the integrity of the system so we dont have the problems. One of the reasons we still have this is we dont have statewide controls over balloting. It is done on a county by county basis. Thats why you could have the outliers. Laura got it it. I didnt practice in law i remember being down in miamidade during the re count. I think i remember see ing you guys down there at the time. This is what rick said. I will not sit by while illegals try to steal the election from the great people of florida. Hillary clintons lawyer s from dc and the first thing they did is say they are here to win the election. Hes here to try to steal the election and thwart the will of the votes of florida. Laura your reaction . Hes not going to sit back and watch an election stolen from him well, i have no reaction. Im not involved in that race. And in the second place, it is not my purpose to become involved in the political debate. Im just a lawyer representing a client legally. Those things are beyond my sphere of representation. The whole Brandan Sullivan thing. I dont talk about that. Thats not what i do. Im representing a client. Got it. I didnt say otherwise. I appreciate it. We want to protect the integrity of the vote. I agree with stacey abrams, every vote should count. If you are eligible to vote, your vote should count. I think people watch this and they are like how is this in the United States of america that this kind of stuff seems to drag on. People are talking about this tracking on another few weeks in florida. Thats what kind of eats away at people both democrats, republicans, and people in the middle laura, i cant agree more. I lost my first election to the Florida House of representatives by one vote in 1988. So im very keen on the fact that every vote needs to be counted and an election needs to be tabulated fairly. What concerns me at this point is the irregularities that are occurring. When we cant view the ballot being, for example, the ballots that are damaged being duplicated, which is required by law in the presence of witnesses and was denied access to that process. When we start hearing in Palm Beach County there are situations where they are actually taking steps that are outside of the Public Domain that they are divining voter intent when thats the exclusive providence of the canvassing board and putting those as recorded votes instead of bringing them to the canvassing board for their determination of the public process which should all be very concerning. Laura right. They have to be verified by the proper channels. Gillums Campaign Says put out a tweet, the Gillum Campaign is looking for s to help cure leftover ballots. What does that mean, bary . Were almost out of time you wont talk about your client. What does that mean . To cure leftover ballots . Yeah. Thats what your campaign sent out. Laura you represent them, but you dont know. Okay. Im not trying to be difficult for you. When i was asked to come on the show, it was to address the differences between the 2000 campaign and laura we get it. Thats the point that you made earlier. I understand. You are asking me questions that are beyond my knowledge. Laura im sorry. I didnt know you were so sensitive that you cant talk about what the campaign you are representing almost. Im not a political spokesman. Im a lawyer who represents clients. You want to ask me about that, im happy to respond. Laura well, this is your client i imagine talking about you asked me what is statement meant when it said cure ballots. Thats not a legal term. Laura all right. All right. We appreciate it. Gentleman, thank you very much for joining us next after already send ing liberal opponent s into a tizzy, what acting attorney Matt Whitaker has topped that has left even the unhinged more unhinged. Stay there. Are we ap are we approaching a constitutional crisis . I think were on the verge of that. I think it is a big mis take. The person has been so vocal against the investigation of whats going on. Now putting in charge a day after the election. I think that sheds bad light on it. His contention is shared among the left and media. Mainly that jeff session s his fourth resignation and Matt Whitaker to the acting role in the post poses a great threat to the country and impairs muellers investigation. Former u. S. Assistant attorney david katz. There are some suggestions, james, that among conservative legal minds this was an illegal appointment in the acting capacity of mr. Whitaker. Look. This is all new territory. We cant pretend anybody has an vivid example to make their quays. There are scholars and maybe there are politically oriented scholars saying the fact it is a nonSenate Confirmed person but there are some people reporting. Laura david, this is what it in new york times. It says anything mr. Whitaker tries to do is invalid. Whitaker is a nobody. His job didnt require senate confirmation. For the president to in stall whitaker has the chief Law Enforcement officer is to betray the entire truckture of the document. Nice to be on with you again. And the person that i would quote on this is Justice Thomas. Theres great risk of corruption and abuse. In this situation that refers to President Trump. They had great experience with kings and other people who at the time didnt have any check on their power. Im with Justice Thomas on this one. Im worried about this issue. I think everyone should be worried about this issue of the president appointing a principle officer. He would appoint whisker and nominate him and the senate, which is republican, including in the lame duck session there are 51 republican senates, they just approved kafka gnaw kavanagh, let him ap point and nominate whitaker. If he thinks hes really the person for the job. Not in this matter. Hes got to put the rosenstein or hes got the put the solicitor general in there. Laura nice try on Justice Thomas. You are making a massive leap for that case and a general statement about the government to a specific case involving a specific acting attorney general. We dont have time to debate that. James, lets talk about whats really going on high. Adams shift notice we didnt talk about mueller at all during the midterms. Now it is over so it is back to russia, russia, russia. This is what they worr ied about. They are worried about whitaker who said things that seemed to be hoes still about mueller. If he doesnt recuse himself, nite significance he makes in the Mueller Investigation is going to have a taint about it was he forced to make a commitment to the president to ignore the advice of ethics lawyers at the Justice Department and not seek out their advice. Was that part of his get ting the job . This president is guided by one thing alone. Whats good for donald trump . The country doesnt matter that much. Laura thats typical adam schif f. Hes making the conway point. Anything he does is in valid. Today they announced a new rules or what they want to be the new rules on the migrants, specifically a change to an asylum law. Jeff sessions was on board. You had to present yourself at a port of entry. Not just coming across the border and saying i want asylum. Is that what they are setting up anything whitaker is a part of that can do. Again unchartered territory. They are certainly set ting up a situation where they are inviteing litigation. Really the key is roast rosenstein. Hes a Senate Confirmed superior officer. Theres no issue there in terms of the appointments clause. If they clean out and they believe, then you have a viable issue about whether mueller loses officer status and becomes somebody subject to all sorts of motions to discuss or motions to squash theson. It is inviting lit gay. Nobody can act like the capitol is on fire and were about to lose the democracy. Laura real quick a friend of mine mentioned wouldnt it have been a neat move to name Rod Rosenstein as acting attorney general. Hes already overseeing the Mueller Investigation. They seem to be talking and getting along. He would have done that; right . He is the choice. Seems like a good candidate and would be a proper person. I think that you are you know, i think they should litigate the issue. I think they will. I do think that Justice Thomas would be with the people who would say that in accordance with the National LaborRelations Board case which was the recent decision that President Trump cannot do this. I think he should pull back and put rosenstein many there. He would be a good choice. Why not if they are get ting along. Laura thanks. Appreciate it. Breaking new development s in the mass shooting in california. And inside a bar filled with College Students for country night, a dozen dead including a sheriffs deputy. Tonight hes being call ed a hero and one of his former friends and coworkers joins me next our friends went to the window to get out. Thats how we were able to get out. They broke the window. Laura police are still trying to determine the motive of the gunman that opened fire inside a california bar, killing a dozen people including a sheriffs deputy. It is a terrifying ordeal caught on camera. He was one of the first officers to enter the borderline bar and grill he was killed for stop ping the shooter. He is being hailed as a hero. Sergeant hillis was on the force for 29 year s. He was looking to retire he died a hero because he went in to save lives and to save other people joining me now is a man who knows all of this well, Deputy Anderson who woked worked with officer hill is. I feel like we do this too often. Were sorry for your loss. What an amazing man. You were such a good friend. Tell us about him as a person tonight. Well, he was a great man. I worked with him when i graduated the police academy. He was a great sergeant. He was always there to lead us and guide us and hes a great man. Laura how is his family doing tonight . Any word . I know their heartbreak, but any word . They are still deal ing with it. As tough as you can imagine it is. Laura tell us about what happens in the bar. A former marine combat officer goes in there. Really fun College Night great hang out for some of the pepperdime students and others. It just turned into a blood bath. We know that the sergeant we received phone calls at about 11 19 last night. The sergeant responded. When he got to the borderline, there were two officers rendering aid to one of the victim s. They as were rendering aid, he heard shots fir ed. He grabbed one of the officers and they entered the borderline. When he entered, he was struck multiple times. They grabbed him and pulled him out. Later he was transported to the medical center. There he succumbed to his injuries. Laura another act of senseless senseless violence. Tough time for all here. Laura senseless violence. A man dealing with ptsd, mental issues, and had fairly minor brushes with the law. Anything else on the radar about the gunman that killed himself tonight . Anything more than we know . Well, weve responded in april of this year. That was the only other contact we had with this suspect to his house for a family disturbance. The deputies contact the Crisis Intervention Team they responded and evaluated the suspect and didnt seem that he was a danger to himself or others. Thats the only other contact we had. Laura did he have a gun permit . Im not aware. Laura thank you. The investigation yeah. Laura the investigation is on going. I know well learn a lot more. Yeah. Laura deputy, thank you. We grieve with all of you. Well continue to play for you and your whole community and all of the survivors and the victim s. Our hearts break for you thank you so much for being here. Okay. Thank you. Mark fuhr furman, former l. A. Contributor. Another soft target exploited last night and gunfire and 12 dead. Whats the first step to maybe can we better protect places like this Going Forward or this is just what were going to impossible. Hes known to secure. Secure is not armed. Security was not armed. He was taken out by the suspect. He went outside and took out more security to do what he wanted inside the bar. It is pretty tough to create a target walking in and out of the bar. I kind of wonder his motive. This is where a lot of survivors from the los angeles shooting congregated and were celebrating life. Im sure it was well known who they were. They were there that night of the shooting. I kind of wonder if this was not possibility something to do with the motive for the suspect. Laura this is being reported now. Obviously las vegas and the person who succumbed to injured. He was the first one to go in with another police officer. He went in there. Thats what you do. He went in immediately. He was almost immediate ly apparently hit multiple times. When you walk in, tell us why you do and what you are trained to do. You dont want to walk into fire. We can imagine the bar has a rare exit and a front entrance. Thats where the direction of the fire was coming from. Unfortunately because of all of the school shoot ings, the only tactic that you can use if you are a First Responder is you have to go to the shooting to stop the mass murder. If you have to wait for s. W. A. T. , the suspect is killing people. This is where the tactic comes up. So the sergeant and the officer had to go to the only low occasion where they could gain entry. Im sure they tried to enter. Once they did, he was fatally shot. That creates a tactical nightmare when you have only one way in and you have to go many in. Thats when you talk about bravery, knowing that you are going in to a hot scene with an act ive shooter and theres only one place that you can go in and only one place the suspect has to focus on that concentrating the fire in one location where you are going in. Laura yeah. You just walk right in to it. Which it sounds like he did. What an incredible man. Mark furman, you always give us great perspective. Thank you. President trump call ed him out by name. Tonight the establish ment is fight ing back. Sean spicer and others are here with a message. Mike coffman. Too bad, mike. Mia love. Mia love gave me no love laura that was from President Trump. It didnt fit well a few of the house going members. Heres Ryan Costello. Those folks gave their all in a tough political environment that was created. Not only did he not acknowledge that, but he somehow suggested if they would have attached themselves closer, i would make the argument they would have done worse. What did the former staffers think of this . Former Trump Campaign manager and coauthor of trumps enemies. I wonder this Ryan Costello on cnn today. I just started howling. The guy jumped out of the sandbox because it was too difficult to play. He retired after two terms. And then hes like the president is being mean. Hes the one that drag ged the whole party down if it wasnt it for President Trump, he would have to be dealing with hillary in the midterm. You are exactly right people have a very short memory. Donald trump carries so many members across the finish line two years ago. I can think of four members of the u. S. Senate and dozens of members of congress who wouldnt have be re elected. Look at the races where the candidates embrace donald trump in missouri , North Carolina , and south dakota and both of the major cases in florida and so many other races in kentuckys sixth distribute. Those people are coming back to washington. Those that dont embrace it are going home. Laura there are some tougher districts. In south florida they said this is a tweet he sent out. Yesterday donald trump stated had i been more aligned with him, i may have won. Lets check i lost florida 4951. My colleague who is closely aligned with the president lost 4653. I dont know what hes talking about. I guess hes saying it is a small difference. It is not a big difference. So the idea that trump somehow his distance from trump on some issues caused the loss. He is representing a pretty big filter. Thats right. I think this election in particular was a base election. This was about energizing our side or the Nancy Pelosi Chuck schumer side. Especially in the battleground states in the final through days. He was going to run through and energize and kavanaghs stuff got people going. He was talking about what was at stake. When you come into the election like this, getting that base fired up and getting the Enthusiasm Gap closed. It was a month and a half that the democrats enjoyed up to the 12 point Enthusiasm Gap. It was because of the president if the gap closed. Laura romney tweeted out something kind of interesting after the midterm. He said the following, i want to thank Jeff Sessions for his service to our country as attorney general under acting attorney general whitaker, it is imperative that the important work of the doj continues and the Mueller Investigation proceeds to its conclusion unimpeded. What did you make of that . This is mitt romney already injecting himself into the washington scene. I think hes going to be ultimately a thorn in the side of the president for a long time. Mitt is the one who made the speech that the president then candidate trump wasnt qualified he changed his tune when he was running for the u. S. Senate. Now hes coming to washington, d. C. I heard he was shopping for an apartment today in washington. Look we this president has been very clear. Bob mueller is going to finish his investigation. You cant have an investigation that goes on. Bring this to a close. Let the American People see exactly what i already know. There was no collusion or cooperation or any way, shape, or form. Lets end this investigation. We can get on with the peoples business. Can i ask you real quick one of the things is the president the underlying premise of why the president fired sessions is because sessions mislead him frankly sessions took a job knowing he would have to recuse himself. He was going to be the faithful stewart and leader. Shortly after taking the job, he e refused himself and wasnt able to do the true leader. Everyone is jumping to conclusions about what this means from mueller. The bottom line is weve seen through the president s words, actions, and tweets through the past year and a half that frankly this stemmed from a level of disappointment. Laura the sessions people are saying sessions didnt know the campaign was being investigated until after, of course, that reassure from the president. Until he gets in doj. He couldve said once that was going to be part of the investigation. Thats what im being told. Mitt romney, bless you. Are you setting up a 2020 challenge to President Trump . Coming up, racial politics has been an issue thats been animating the left. Wait until you hear from Bernie Sanders said about white voters in florida and georgia. That debate next. Laura heres what Bernie Sanders thinks. There are a lot of people who arent racist who thought about whether or not they wanted to vote for an africanamerican. Joining me is horace cooper, project 21 chair. If everything is racist, nothing is racism. People who voted for President Trump want to vote democrat. Thats how they make choices. Laura everything seems to be hit with the r word now. Whether it is a challenger or incumbent. At some point, race will be involved. These are southern states. Theres a reason he had preclearance. Of course some people show up. I ran for office. It exists in our country. I think it is getting better. Things are changing. It exists. S the dichotomy of america. Bernie sanders should recognize if you come up with an extreme agenda, it doesnt matter your color. People are going to reject you. Laura they had marijuana stuff and but they lost in texas for the same reason. You cant be an extremist and win. Thats the real issue. Laura when you call someone a racist, the debate is over. I dont think he said he was racist. Laura he came close. Racism is not exist. The elections that are happening in the United States of america, we just watched a nationwide. It is not it is not a factor. Laura you guys were going to do a whole show on the topic. You guys have to be on it. Wement want you and three other people. Right back with some news that just broke. Stay right there. Laura all right. The florida recount is going to be big news for the foreseeable future. We told you the florida recounts will be big news, we told you about Donald Trumps reaction, Law Enforcement looking into another big Corruption Scandal having to do with Election Fraud in broward and palm beach, florida voted for rick scott. Chuck schumer has responded and he put out a tweet and the said Law Enforcement is looking into another big Corruption Scandal. And democracy no one, not even the president , can prevent unlawful counting of votes. We will not allow him or anyone else to steal this election. I was reading the wrong tweet. One more point. Tonight a Montana Federal District Court judge, an obama appointee, put a temporary hold on the Keystone Pipeline saying justification for it was incomplete. Brian morris, look for the Justice Department to appeal that, that will go to the ninth circuit, got to have more judges on the ninth circuit. Shannon bream and the fox news at night team will never read the wrong tweet. Shannon we are never at a loss to imagine what will happen in the ninth circuit. You are so great and cant wait for you to unpack it. Great job as always