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>> rachel bade, you are one of the best congressional reporters on planet earth. i will stand by that. you have the best words. youve been reporting on nancy pelosi and where she stands, her battle to be speaker. where is it today? >> shes in trouble right now. just look at the math, she has a real big math problem, democrats have taken 233 seats in the house and she needs 218 on the house floor to be speaker. that means she can only lose 15 democrats and last night, yesterday, we finally saw th...

Time. its ridiculous. pete: she just did. her vote count slipped against her and she conceded. i like your point about when trump they went crazy preemptively. they are not doing the same thing to democrats who have lost in this cycle. jedediah: now to florida where the manuel recount enters second day. ed: holding on to his seat. rick scott continues to secure his lead. griff jenkins is live in broward county where hand count of vote has been completed. griff: bill nelson has a serious math pro...

Protect counsel robert mueller is brought to a vote on the senate floor. something majority leader mitch mcconnell has so far refused to do. >> we dont know how the president feels about the mueller investigation but hes never said he wants to shut it down. ive never heard anybody down there say they want to shut it down. i think its a no danger and i dont think any legislature is necessary. paul: lets bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel...

Ran, thats where i would be. >> pelosi says she intends to win the speakership with democratic votes and suggests she has overwhelming support but she appears to have a math problem with at least 17 democrats saying they will not support her. pelosi and fudge met for 45 minutes today with pelosi saying, quote: we had a candid and respectful conversation. after that fudge said she was heading back to ohio to consider whether she will run. >> decide after thanksgiving. how soon should we expect to...

To win, but there is not enough rabbit. walk us through this. >> were looking at a math problem. there might be 55,000 votes total where no one voted in a race or multiple votes. and its difficult to see, unless so many of those votes are disproportionally concentra concentrated, which is certainly plausible. but it is difficult to see how those things could break so strongly towards bill nelson that he could make up the deficit. this margin is probably one of the largest margins you could get i...

This is why we have manual recounts. but, there is a math problem for nelson. most ballots in broward put on the projector today for review looked like this one. the senate race was blank. its called an under vote and it doesnt go to either candidate. making it harder for nelson to make up the more than 12,000 votes he needs to catch scott. scott spokesman said today bill nelson has served the country and the state of florida for decades. his d.c. lawyers dont care about his legacy. awful they c...

Recount. the problem for bill nelson is margin. he was down by 12,562 votes before the recount began and now hes probably down by about the same margin after the recount and what he needs to do is find more votes. because florida has various laws which disqualify ballots that if they cast in other states would be valid, they wants to expand the pool of ballots, expand the pool of potential pool of votes to see how how to expand the electorate. now he has had a measure of success today. judge wal...

The new hanging chad. people are just discovering this. i think that the republicans are way over the line in the language they are using, undermining the election. it goes to show how worried they are. they dont want to have another election get away from them in the senate. is it a huge difference? its a big difference, but the president probably needs to win. >> the president wants control in 2020. >> be as aggressive as you can be for that. for the president of the united states to allege th...

I wont vote for him again. hes become so loud that hes not hearing the message. and its become to where after hearing him in houston, he was supposed to show up to support ted cruz and it really didnt become a ted cruz rally. it just became more of a bashing contest. as a teacher, i have to listen to all sides. my support goes with beto. think with beto win, he talks about womens issues and talking about access to health care. that is a huge issue in texas right now. teacher health care is horri...

Described about that investigation tonight and overnight and into tomorrow. as i said, a lot of what has been reported from the last few days turned out to be contradicted by subsequent reporting. whats going on with that fbi investigation? we really dont know. its been very opaque. all the reporting on it is all anonymously sourced and a lot of it is self-contradictory. as far as i can tell, and sort of the way im approaching it at this point is, that well know when we know. and we should consi...