Werent Returned News Today

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. You need a recount. If that is correct and get what it is, the other thing we know is they have apparently under state law until august 24th to certify this election. Were sitting here on august 7th, weve got 17 days, more than two weeks until this has to be certified. If you have that tenday waiting period and then it comes under 0. 5, you know, youre short of that certification. So the law isnt putting a...

>> but finchem is undeterred. he is now running to become arizonas top election official, the secretary of state. some voters are all for it. >> the term "conspiracy theory" is used to ridicule some good ideas. >> others dead set against it. some somebody like mark finchem being in charge of elections, holding a seat like secretary of state is one of the most dangerous things that could happen to democracy. >> we wanted to give finchum a chance on to explain his beliefs but our calls and emails ...

She was like, of course. this isnt supposed to happen in the united states of america. >> and a young republican joining. >> we have a tunnel of people who need help. need laws passed and he is out there focusing on conspiracy theories which is honestly disgusting. >> but finchem is undeterred. he is running to be the top state official, secretary of state. >> the term conspiracy theory is used to ridicule some good ideas. >> others dead set against it. some somebody like mark finchem being in c...

Conspiracy theories. its just hon festly disgusting >> reporter: hes now running to become arizonas top election official, the secretary of some voters are all for it. >> the term conspiracy theory is used to ridicule some good ideas. >> others are dead set against it. >> somebody like representative mark finchem holding a seat like secretary of state is one of the most dangerous things that could happen to democracy. >> reporter: we wanted to give finchem a chance to explain his remarks. but ou...

Constituents. they were also shocked by the tweet he sent while outside the capitol. unlike others, he said he never entered the building. finchem is undeterred. >> the term "conspiracy theory" is used to ridicule some good ideas. >> reporter: others dead set against it. >> somebody like mark finchem being in charge of elections, holding a seat s one of the most dangerous things that could happen to democracy. >> reporter: we wanted to give him a chance to explain, but our calls and emails weren...

If that did mean this early vote, absentee ballots that were cast early, we certainly saw oconnor do better, much better than balderson in the early vote. theyre from all around, from each county thats in here. again, even going by how we saw the early vote break, would that be enough to ghetto conner over balderson. hard to see. would it be enough to get it under .5, thats a different story. no confirmation, no word. were trying to track it down. anybody who is curious and wants to look is goin...

The secretary of state is saying there are also 5,048 what they are terming uncounted absentee ballots. the question becomes what is an uncounted absentee ballot? we believe that a small, small sliver of this 5,048, were talking in the low hundreds, probably, would be military ballots. so the military ballots, you know, lets say 250, ballpark figure here, we expect those to break more republican than democratic, a small number. what about the rest? what are those? what we think, but we dont know...

Request for an interview, because the matter is now being investigated by the state attorney general. that came after governor chris christie wrote the ag saying public reports about the investigation of moore raised, quote, troubling questions concerning the facts and circumstances surrounding the investigation, the manner in which the investigation was conducted. moores attorney specializes in second amendment rights issues, and hasnt ruled out a lawsuit. >> this was such an overreaction, and ...

Helps run summer chase. our calls werent returned. >> either remove it or pay the fees. >> hanson says hes not paying those fees and is willing to take his flag pole fight to court. >> mr. hanson is taking his story to cyberspace, hes posted a video on youtube to try to drum up support and funds for that legal fight. in the newsroom, kaitlin pratt, fox five news. rick: thank you to kaitlin for that report. martha: rnc michael steele is under fire from his own party over comments about afghanista...