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Is under way in florida for two cases including the razor-thin senate battle between rick scott and bill nelson. we have the latest. they are doing it by hand now. >> reporter: thats right, john. good morning to you. its a hand recount here in florida. we are outside the palm beach supervisor of elections. what is a hand recount and how does it work? they are going to be looking at what are known as over ballots and under ballots, and an over ballot is where the machine is reading more than one ...

The current senator nelson. the democrat. today floridas governor gained votes through the machine recount. not enough to put it out of hand counting territory. this as a slew of lawsuits are flying back and forth across the sunshine state. lets get to brad todd. senior adviser to the scott campaign. good to have you back on the show. >> good to be back, chris, thanks for having me. >> help me understand the two minute thing. the optics of it play badly for you. just two minutes, come on. in the...

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Charging broward county election official brenda snipes with intentionally missing todays deadline because the results shows he had more votes. the latest updates in moments. my angle is going to tackle the latest with the aforementioned michael avenatti, not just the latest felony assault charges he faces but the complicity the left and the media share. what could possibly be controversial about president trump posthumously awarded elvis presley the medal of freedom. well the "washington post" ...

Tonight and were going to close top floor because of overcrowding. >> because the train didnt wait there. >> go to marriott. theres my daughter right there. [laughter] shes in there somewhere. anyway hope you enjoyed telecast sit back relax in your nice warm cozy house because we have all of the news. >> fires in california with the update with voter recount down in florida. >> ron desantis is next florida governor after andrew gillum pick up one vote in machine recount but the first ever statew...

Machine recount to be voided. republican rick scott leading democratic incumbent bill nelson. more on this with florida attorney general pam bondi. >> jon: first lets bring in americas a-team. shelby holliday is video reporter for the "wall street journal." david asman co-anchor of bulls and bears on the fox business network and doug shown. democratic pollster and fox news contributor as well. >> sandra: is this your first time on the a-team? >> it is. im pleased to be here. >> sandra: happy fri...

Constitutional, it is. the hand recount here follows a machine recount that didnt count because broward county submitted results 2 minutes late. elections supervisor brenda snipes believes everythings been going great on her watch. >> i believe we were able to accomplish, what we did accomplish in the period of time we were given. >> the official excuse is that an elections official didnt know how to use the web site to send them to the state, that means the prerecount total stands which is bett...

So the originals will be made official and the words tonight of a not so happy staffer, "i worked my off or nothing. the supervisor of elections blames the machines. >> i will explain it to say that i believe strongly it wasnt not a human effort, it was mechanical. so we are required to present a report to the secretary of state and thats exactly what im going to report. and speak out because of that breakdown in the machines, senator nelson is suing for a hand recount of all ballots in palm bea...

That triggered these counts are tiny. you look at half a percentage point will trigger a machine recount, a quarter percentage point will trigger a hand recount. in a state as big as florida, these are huge numbers of votes. ron desantis has 33,000 votes more than andrew gillum for the governors race and as peter was just saying, there are 12,600 votes more for governor scott than there are for his democratic opponent bill nelson. now, that 779 votes would have extended rick scotts lead by just ...

Says "we have sued palm beach on the florida secretary of state to require a hand count of all ballots in that county due to systematic machine failure during the machine recount. what does that mean? is it not just the over and under? they want every ballot counted by hand? >> thats correct. as you know, im not secretary of state now and i really dont know all the details but it seems as though thats what they are requesting. >> shannon: i cant imagine how long that would actually take and is i...