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Florida still dont know who the next senator and governor will be. >> hang in there and do the math. dont listen to the spin. we will be in touch. with me in studio to share the reporting and the insights. lets start with the president. the state law says recount. the state law says recount. the president of the united states says forget the law. great. >> hes off base with that obviously. elections are not held the way they used to be held. its not all election night anymore. that would be real...

Cast should be counted. lets look at the senate race, still divided by more than 12,000 votes. the nonpartisan group air vote showed that in statewide elections like this, really, youre not likely to overturn a margin of any more than 282 votes, right? so the math appears to be against not only the senate candidate there, but even wider for governor. from a practical standpoint, what do the democrats have to gain here? >> well, what americans have to gain, what floridans have to gain is making s...

A barrage of rockets into israel. the response from have asked has come stick and fast the billowing black smoke a telltale sign of another mortar attack the israeli military says more than two hundred rockets have been fired into its territory today one morsel reportedly struck a bus injuring a nineteen year old man. this is what prompted the attacks according to israel sundays operation was supposed to be covert but the remains of a car apparently used by israeli special forces point to a miss...

Operation on sunday reported to have left seven palestinians and israeli officers dead this was followed by israeli airstrikes im gazas ruling hamas fired rockets into israel. the response from ham asses comes thick and fast the billowing black smoke a telltale sign of another mortar attack the israeli military says more than eighty rockets have been fired into its territory today one morsel reportedly struck a bus injuring a nineteen year old man. this is whats prompted the attacks according to...

The machines. youve done some of the math there. is that enough to tilt the election? >> oh, no. in fact, if you were to take all the undervotes in the senate race, essentially used as a denominator -- sorry to be so mathematical so early in the morning. apply the votes of nelson and scott to that total votes cast, rick scott still leads. it would go from a little more 12,000 to a little under 3,000. thats just if you applied every vote that way. the likelihood that everyone who undervoted there...

Steve kornacki, on friday you and i were talking about butterfly ballots and talking about 2000 but also about these ballots right now and why they seem to potentially funky. >> this manual recount starts, thats probably the biggest outstanding piece of real estate in terms of this senate race and the math involved here. well see where that stands after the machine recount. assuming its under the thresholds, it could be a lot simpler than this question of trying to discern voter intent. there wi...

News. >> lets talk about alibaba. they racked in i think -- racking up about $31 billion in sales in just a 24-hour period alone in their shopping event. what helped to fuel the record-setting day? do the math. its almost more than a billion dollar an hours. >> exactly. that eclipses last years record of $25 billion. just to give you a stat, in the first 1:25, $1 billion worth of sales went through. a lot of that was in back of the consumer goods as you imagine. the best-selling mobile phone was...

Necessary. that is exactly what republican president richard nixon expected of his attorney general, and that is exactly what he got, which is why richard nixons attorney general, john mitchell, went to prison. and when richard nixons attorney general, john mitchell, took office, no one -- no one in the fbi, no one in the justice department suspected that he was capable of committing a crime. he was a respected new york lawyer. on matthew whitakers first day in that office, everyone in the fbi a...

Democrats advances tweeting nine times about the three states that are still in contention. for the very latest im joined by steve kornacki, nbc national political correspondent. i cant believe were still on election night, but here we are election night friday. >> and chris, ill tell you, it really does feel like an election night. as you were giving us that introduction, we just got a giant batch of new votes i can tell you about in that arizona senate race. about 80,000 just came in, and you ...

Black and brown population is 42%. is that a coincidence to anybody? because it is not to me. math is math. when you find elected politicians who use terms like monkey or low down dog or lie iq and then they go into a state and say, hey, dont count those black and brown votes, that is not a coincidence, folks. that is pure tribalism politics and it is disgusting. >> as a former florida republican yourself, i wonder, do people extrapolate how do i then govern this state? florida is anbly diverse ...