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This information is being kept by people. and information abhors a vacuum, especially when it comes to voting and voters systems. numerous lawmakers and election supervisors are criticizing the fbi saying theyre basically useful idiots for the russians. because what the russians did they came in, they hacked, they caused chaos, they ran a disinformation campaign on social media and the like. what the fbi is doing unwittingly -- well, wittingly going along with this idea and not allowing people t...

Fbi saying theyre basically useful idiots for the russians. because what the russians did they came in, they hacked, they caused chaos, they ran a disinformation campaign on social media and the like. what the fbi is doing unwittingly -- well, wittingly going along with this idea and not allowing people to have more information and as a result more speculation is flooding in. now people are doubting whether vote tabulation systems and vote tallies were changed. now theyre doubting whether the el...

>> i need to figure out whats going on. >> after you figure that out, are we going to be able to go in and inspect? >> once i figure that out, ill have an answer to that question. >> when you saw congressman gaetz haranguing that election official there. what she was trying to do was talk with rick scotts lawyers on the left. this story is also playing out in the courts. earlier today, rick scotts campaign won a ruling in his lawsuit to try to force the broward elections supervisor to try to tur...

The data they came for. there are have been fast-moving developments on this front in the last hour or two. fortunately we have our crack sleepless team to fill us in. joining us outside the vote tabulation center are two of my colleagues, two producers from "the rachel maddow show," julia nutter and lisa ferry. you guys, thank you for being there. we appreciate it. >> any time. >> happy to do it. >> julia, let me start with you. you have been in the middle of the broward county protest since th...

The data they came for there are have been fast-moving developments on this front in the last hour or two. fortunately we have our crack sleepless team to fill us in. joining us outside the vote tabulation center are two of my colleagues, two producers from "the rachel maddow show," julia nutter and rachel. you guys, thank you for being there. we appreciate it. >> any time. >> happy to do it. >> julia, let me start with you. you have been in the middle of the broward county protest since this mo...

Hanging chad and butterfly ballots. lets go to the state capitol in tallahassee. we have a lawsuit filed to make sure all accounts are counted, especially in south florida. whats the news? >> reporter: yeah, thats right, jake. a pair of lawsuits filed by rick scott against the supervisors of elections in palm beach county and broward county were ruled on earlier today. scott did win both of those cases. the judge ruling that the supervisors of elections down there did violate the public records ...

>> we want freedom of speech, russia, they have people that can switch to that right now, that is what the russian speaking with their own voice, admitting that it is russia. but when they pose as americans on facebook, it is up to facebook to get them off. but more importantly, we saw a cyber attack on the dnc. when we saw the theft of files from the democratic national committee by russia, and russia has yet to be sanctioned for that. that is a problem. we have not drawn a line in the sand, bu...

>> well, russia is interfering and they are continuing to interfere. we cannot minimize it. i think that my colleague at first analogize these pages to "the new york times," they are not "the new york times." they are putin. and we have not sanctioned russia for its interference in our 2016 election. we have sanctions on them for their own abuses of human rights, but we have not done anything to stop them to make it plain and draw the line in the sand that they better not interfere in the 2018 e...

>> i am most concerned in preventing future meddling. russia has sputnik radio, bbc broadcast in one category, if they want to editorialize openly thats one thing but if they are going to be tampering with vote tabulation, stealing files, which was the very crime committed in watergate and again in 2016, we have to cut russia off from our banking system. we have to draw a line in the sand. if they start using criminal activity to interfere with our vote tabulation or steel files, weve got to imp...

Latest. ron, the report did not say that. what else did we learn from the report though? >> well, that is the main point that donald trump wants to make. that the intelligence investigation did not find that the russians hacked the voting process, the vote counts or the way people cast their ballots. theres agreement about that. no one is disputing that donald trump won the election and no one is disputing the fact that the russians did not directly affect the vote tabulation. but today here fro...