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For congressional recounts. it took eight months to decide the 2008 minnesota race. here we go. >> and im not good at math which is why i went to law school. >> its a lot better to spend the next couple of months in florida covering this recount than montana. >> shannon: were going to take the show on the road, thank you so much. florida is living up to its reputation as a battleground state once again readying for massive recounts. lets bring in senator tom tillis of north carolina, the vice ch...

Case for congressional recount. a two who eight monster decided to thousand 8 minnesota race so here we go. >> im not good at math which is why i went to law school. >> better to spend the next couple months in florida covering this recount than montana. shannon: thank you so much. florida living up to its reputation as a battleground state, once again readying for massive recounts. lets bring in senator tom tellis, vice chair of the national republican senate committee. nice to have you with us...

When trump is on the ballot, trump running in 2020, everything changes because we havent even seen the show thats gonna get put on. >> dana: how has the after math been in indiana when the republican beat senator donnelly? >> biggest thing to take out of the indiana race, mike braun now the senator-elect, is that there was not a single bit of polling that was correct. the closest was the indy politics poll, but in the end, no one got a double digit win for mike braun correct. >> dana: not even t...

Midterms. that will give us something to work with in the party going into 2020. trump won the tv show of election night. a double reality. the tv show is what we now do. cover it like sports. the florida prize in the mega election, bang, turns read. the psychology is that trump rallies equal wins. in reality you take the x-ray, do the math, it was a disaster. we got destroyed in the suburbs, lost a bunch of state legislatures, lost a lot of bunches. all them midwestern states that made him pres...

I mean people live there, but spall, small numbers of people live there. each congressional district is the same exact number of votes. roughly 775,000 each. if there was a way to do the math where we actually built the map and showed by population how large this area of the country is or this area is by population you would see the bluest of blue -- youd need sunglasses, there would be so much blue on the screen on the map. if we actually showed the map by the size of its population, not the si...

That is the america that we live in. and where it gets really i think confusing for some people when we put up the map and we show the big red swaths of red across the country, it has a weird and wrong impact on people because it makes it look like the countrys so red. but people dont live in those large desert and mountain and prairie areas. i mean people live there, but spall, small numbers of people live there. each congressional district is the same exact number of votes. roughly 775,000 eac...

Supervisors of elections. miami-dade which has a lot more voters than broward and palm beach. they got all of their votes count and tallied on election night. here we are two days after the election and they are trying to count their votes. this is amazing that the people in broward and people beach not only accept incompetence on behalf of their supervisors, they keep on voting them into office. >> the governors race is also close. gillum conceded, but put out a statement saying he wants to mak...

Will be looking into. >> they will be. the sheriff said he used a glock hand gun designed to hold 10 rounds, but he had an extended magazine. are you surprised he was able to kill 12 and wound several more with that type of firearm or would that be expected? >> wolf, the extended magazine which is in military and law enforcement circles. it wouldnt be surprising with this person because he was in the military. we are learning details that he was involved in firearms as a hobby. i think as i do t...

President obamas first term, the democrats lost 63 seats after 9/11. republicans gained eight under george w. bush. under bill clinton in 1994 lost 54 seats. the races that were lost by the republicans, democratic pickups could be key. there were 12. they said they wouldnt vote for nancy pelosi as speaker. connor lamb, one of them in pennsylvania. jason crow out of colorado. lets take a look at the race here in virginia. this was a trump abbey district as we look here in the southeas southeast. ...

Point. the math is important because while democrats have a majority now in the house the entire houseboats on speaker. nancy pelosi can only afford to lose a handful of defections but of all people today donald trump offered to help nancy pelosi get the votes. >> it was meant with good intentions. i think he deserves it. she has fought long and hard, shes a capable person. >> last night i had a conversation with donald trump about how we could work together, one of the issues that came up was t...