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Partisans are involved in certifying election results november 30th, thats the last day to file a challenge to the results. so we may be reuniting to discuss this outcome in weeks. >> a few weeks. >> yeah. >> and you have a question for ally to ask? >> yes. if we remember the 2000, shall we say mishagauss, an official, kathleen harris, republican elected official, many states saw this having elected official in charge of the recount but they essentially scrapped that position. who is "the" perso...

I dont know -- feel otherwise. >> right. >> a lot of talk about the integrity of the voting process in broward county, a predominantly democratic party. rather than fraud, one might argue theres a lack of, like, top-level competence in the way the votes are gathered. >> staffing. >> staffing. a history of issues, but thats not fraud. it may not be the voting system you would engineer or we might be ale to do a better job, but it is not fraudulent to make sure every vote is counted. >> ally, two ...

And you said, talked about the scope, exactly the question hell really have to siddecide. what direction mueller can go and already given an opinion mueller has gone too far and shouldnt investigate trumps financesof that crosses a red line. hes deeply conflicteds there is no record in the administration to seek recusal. sir, we think its best you step aside. appearance of impartialarity. he doesnt have to listen to that. >> and consultation with what the justice department advises what does tha...

Seems "post" reporting is right. whats the punishment for such a violation? >> there can be criminal charges, fines. depends on the severity, and it then raises a question prosecuting a sitting president, leads us to a return to some of the mueller questions about can you indict a president? whos a sitting president, justice department general and -- so that all said, to your point, this is a southern district of new york investigation. its separate from mueller. mueller farmed it out. no matter...

What stood out? >> not a man who fits the profile are somebody you would expect to be appointed the attorney general of the united states, even in an acting capacity, bu hes essentially a politician. he was a right-wing political commentator. dabbled in fringe theories about ben gauzy and about the clintons, and -- look, to the central question, he has made public conclusions about every question that is under investigation in this mueller investigation he is now having to supervise. he said tha...

Unpopular with the republicans. >> he didnt -- >> but im saying it was wildly unpopular. >> but david, he never followed through with it. this is actually a perfect example of this. a perfect example of the failure of this president to follow through on compromise. he sat down with chuck and nancy at the white house and he cut a deal on daca. and then he got innumerable phone calls from people in his own party saying this is a bad deal for us. and instead of following through on that deal he sai...

More like a chess move. at least hes getting advice from someone whos telling him how to move the pieces here in a way that best defends his presidency. and whats significant here is the resignation and not necessarily the firing. under that, the vacancies reform act is an open question on whether or not someone who is fired, whether it invokes the vra, vacancies reform act. but if somebody resigns, that allows trump to name a successor, a temporary successor. otherwise theres a strong argument ...

Something president trump gladly pointed out on the 2016 campaign trail. in 2011 cruz was opposed to any change. >> ive looked at the legal arguments against it, and i will tell you as a supreme court litigator, those arguments are not very good. >> fast forward to the 2015 and the presidential race. candidate ted cruz flipped. >> tell us where you are on birthright citizenship now? >> i think we need to end birthright citizenship. as a policy matter, it doesnt make any sense. >> in 2011, 2015, ...

Murphysboro, illinois. that is where our colleague geoff bennett is standing by in anticipation of the president at that rally. notably the president said hes making comments tonight and spoke about he would change his tone for tonight but he did not change his tone from what is typically trump, that you have coined his twitter trump. the trump that is not on the teleprompter. he goes and blames at media for the tone in this country. >> and i think when he attacks the media, alex, what hes doing...

One thing id add, dana, one package that i have seen a lot of online, which is the one addressed to john brenan at cnn. at least from the pictures, it doesnt look like theres post marks on the stamps. that would suggest theres an actual walk-in here. thats a different story. >> dana: as bryan llenas reported, there was a courier possibly a courier at cnn. there was also this idea, well, one thankfully the devices did not go off. there was a powder that turned out to be harmless. what do you glea...