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Senate race, republican rick scott leads incumbent democratic senator bill nelson by just under 15,000 votes. scotts lead is narrowing as more votes are being counted right now. both sides now expecting a recount after the actual counting of votes is completed. joining me now to discuss this, david boies, lead counsel for al gore during the florida recount battle in the 2000 presidential election. oh, my gosh. good to see you, by the way. im having flashbacks now. >> good to see you. >> and i th...

Counts hes essentially accusing democrats of trying to steal the election there, so right now it is worth noting that his lead is narrowing over senator bill nelson and as i mentioned, right this second we are still under the threshold for a mandatory recount in florida, but look at the governors race. this is not quite so clear. this could be going to an automatic recount, so the ap, as we know, did in fact call the race, for republican desantis, but his lead as well narrowing over the tennesse...

This is florida, this is crazy, why does this keep happening? the side thats winning says this is democracy, this is the way it happens, its a noisy process but works out in the end. the side thats losing of course doesnt see it that way. so the bottom line is that the vote count seems to keep narrowing in favor of the democratic candidates and that stands to reason because most of those votes are coming from urban areas. and they say, the democrats, it just takes time to do this, no ones steali...

Potential conflict of interest given the fact he is the chief executive of the state and while he appoints the commissioner of the agency, now democrat bill nelson fighting back saying that all of this is politically motivated as those margins narrow and the margins are narrowing. if you look at the governors race, the margin is .44% or 36 thundershower votes. the senate race is .18%, and the magic number for an automatic recount is .5%, and john, you listen to those margins and they are razor t...

And palm beach. florida voted for rick scott. the minutia here is important because the margins are narrowing. the first unofficial results are due tomorrow at noon. according to florida law, if the margin is .5 or less, that triggers an automatic machine recount. when you look at the margin for the governors race, 36,000 votes. after that, the second unofficial results are due on thursday at 3:00 p.m. the magic number there is a margin of .25% which triggers an automatic hand recount. the senat...

Senate race. the sitting governor and sitting senator, less than a quarter percent between the two, 17,000 votes and that number keeps narrowing which triggers a manual recount. now we look to broward county, floridas second largest where there are a number of votes even ahead of elections and said she doesnt know how many uncounted votes. right now nelson won broward by a little bit better than 38%. if he keeps up that margin of victory in those boats are declared legal and able to be counted, ...

The sitting governor, less than a 12:45%, 17,000 votes in the number keeps narrowing which triggers emmanuel recount. we look to broward county, floridas second largest where there are a number of votes. the head of elections says she doesnt know how many uncounted votes. right now wilson -- nelson won broward by 38%. if nelson keeps that margin of victory and those further declared legal and able to be counted he could be well on his way to those 17,000. and the broward county election supervis...

Florida being sued by governor rick scott accused of trying to steal his election to the senate. jillian: that is not the only race hitting a snag, griff jenkins live from washington dc with a contest around the country still yet to be called. >> reporter: here we go again, the recount capital, florida, the race for rick scotts lead over bill nelson narrowing. out of 8 million votes gottlieb by this than 18,000 votes or 0.22% as nelson prepares for potential recount, governor scott is suing the ...

Disappointing. since then, the gap has been narrowing. votes are still being counted all over the state, all 67 counties. theyre provisional ballots and late-arriving ballots. at 4:00 here at the miami-dade department of elections, the canvassing person will arrive to go over all the numbers. dana? >> within the past hour, the governors race is also within out recount territory. >> yes, tallahassee mayor democrat andrew gillum has earned enough votes over the past 1 1/2 days that hes under that ...

Investigation, has talked about a reduction in the budget for the mueller investigation, has talked about a narrowing of the scope of the mueller investigation. all of which are things that are on the record that he said when he was on cnn and else where. and so you have a concern that there might be an undo restricting of that investigation, and that its not going to be allowed to complete its course. the other thing you have to be concerned about, given what president trump has said over and o...