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Beach recount operation, ballots counted again. worker had to redo a full days of recounting that was lost because of machine malfunction. >> we never expected them to run four recount. we prepared to use them to the recount. expectation wasnt this. >> palm beach county does not believe they will finish in time. miami-dade election was prepared early and did not wait until sunday to start as did brow wards. last night miami-dade vote counters recalled the last ballot. 15 legal challenges have be...

County of engaging in, quote, rampant fraud. rick scott said he will not let, quote, unethical liberals steal this election. he then announced that he filed lawsuits against broward county and palm beach county, and he announced that he had asked the florida department of law enforcement to investigate the vote count in his own election. once youve got the states governor threatening to sick law enforcement on vote counters in his own race, it is probably time to send some folks down there to se...

Which is well within the margin to trigger a hand recount of all the votes in the state. as he saw his lead slipping away last night, rick scott kind of freaked out. he is the sitting governor of florida, and last night he gathered reporters at the governors mansion to accuse the election supervisor in broward county of engaging in, quote, rampant fraud. rick scott said he will not let, quote, unethical liberals steal this election. he then announced that he filed lawsuits against broward county...

As he saw his lead slipping away last night, rick scott kind of freaked out. he is the sitting governor of florida, and last night he gathered reporters at the governors mansion to accuse the election supervisor in broward county of engaging in, quote, rampant fraud. rick scott said he will not let, quote, unethical liberals steal this election. he then announced that he filed lawsuits against broward county and palm beach county, and he announced that he had asked the florida department of law ...

There publicly fighting like this proof that even she understands shes got a problem? >> yeah, even her harshest critics would tell you nancy pelosi is one of the best vote counters in recent history. shes keenly aware of where numbers stand here. i think thats why youve seen her take the current position. look, if you want to get to the genesis of where the kind of is nancy pelosi in trouble as leader of house democrats comes from, its really twofold. first and foremost, you obviously see the m...

Best vote counters in d.c., thats jeff denham from california. and being able to pull this together and get this done. i also in your earlier point, chris, people say -- people wanting to say the base disagrees with this. people want to use the phrase "the base" when they dont disagree with something. this is an issue that 75% of republicans say should be solved, and that is having a permanent solution to daca recipients. most people, whether youre republican or democrat, say you should secure t...

If you lose dick durbin, you lose one of your big salesmen taking this back to his democratic members. correct? >> well, there are two groups in the senate. one, is actually senate and house. the top vote counters, the whips, for republicans and democrats in the senate and the house. that group was just formed after that extraordinary meeting in the cabinet room on tuesday. theyre nowhere. this other group, which is the one that met with the president, or at least members of it, lindsay graham a...

Like the obama debate, under this bill, if it became law, we would have it in 50 states for who knows how long. to the point about getting to 52, rand paul is a no. i sort of sense the same quick sand weve seen in past repeal efforts. the president tweeting this morning, rand paul is a friend of mine but hes such a negative force when it comes to fixing health care. graham/cassidy bill is great. ends o care but rand paul just last hour tweeting back, this new gang bill is another graham necessit...

>> rebecca, will there be a vote this week? >> there could be, wolf. it is not over yet. they dont have 21 people, 22 people against the bill among republicans. and these counts tend to be a very fluid situation. so you have the house whip team. these are the vote counters among republicans, going out and trying to convince people to either change their minds or come on board. weve seen accounts change. that still could happen and they could still cobble together a coalition but i agree with glo...

Increased most dramatically also happens to be in the part of the state where rand pauls vote is most intensely concentrated. there are districts, counties where rand paul got over 80% of the vote, where one-fifth of the people are covered now by the medicaid expansion. just the medicaid expansion. i think they are also at real risk of losing senator lee from utah and senator cruz from texas, for different reasons. we have talked a lot about repeal and replace. but there is emerging some -- the ...