Should be coming out any moment now, where he will be honoring seven people with the nations highest civilian honor, the medal of freedom, including one of the longestserving senators in American History, republican orrin hatch. A posthumous honor will also be granted to Elvis Presley, babe ruth, and the Late Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. We will bring it to you live as soon as it happens. A fox news alert, floridas results are still up in the air as the senate race moves to a hand count. Hundreds of thousands of votes counted by hand. Welcome to outnumbered overtime, and julie banderas, in for harris faulkner. The manual recount is on after the revised machine total showed it rick scott up by less than a quarter of a percent over democratic incumbent bill nelson. This as a scotts team is accusing the Broward County election supervisor of intentionally missing yesterdays deadline by 2 minutes because nelson lost votes in that recount. It also appears the floridas governor race is over with ron desantis eking out a win over democrat Andrew Gillum and peter doocy is watching it all for us, he joins us live at the Broward County board of elections with the very latest, what a mess. You could say that, julie. The ballots they are counting right now by hand are the ones that Voting Machines could not figure out. Have a look at this one, there are a lot of ballots that were marked for both senate candidates, some drew an extra bubble and fill that one in. The Nelson Campaign has suited to prevent people from also adding socalled magic words that clarify on the ballot what some of that it extra incorporated may have been but mark walker shut them down in federal court, he wrote this the issue in this case is whether the use of these reasonable and neutral rules is constitutional, it is. The hand recount here follows a machine recount that didnt count because Broward County submitted results 2 minutes late. Elections supervisor brenda snipes believes everythings been going great on her watch. I believe we were able to accomplish, what we did accomplish in the period of time we were given. The official excuse is that an Elections Official didnt know how to use the web site to send them to the state, that means the prerecount total stands which is better in broward for the democrat nelson and worse for rick scott Whose Campaign is crying foul. The dog never ate your homework, the same staff that successfully uploaded Broward Countys results to the state web site on saturday somehow forgot how to upload to the web site by thursday, i am just not buying it. An overwhelming majority of the votes that need to still be counted are socalled under votes where there is no marketing for the Senate Contest at all. Its impossible to tell who somebody may have been thinking they wanted to vote for. The rest of them, the ones that generally do engage in whether somebody meant nelson or scott are over votes and out of all the 31,000 votes theyve gone through there are only about 500 of those left. Julie that actually is nothing compared to what theyve had to count. Lets bring in paul renner, republican in line to be speaker of the house in florida, thank you very much for talking to us. What do you make of whats going on in your state . After over a week of counts and recount sand lawyers and litigation, we are right where we left off on election day, ron desantis will be the next governor of the state of florida and rick scott appears to be our next u. S. Senator. Julie what will they be looking for in the hand recount . And under vote is a blank ballot, or a blank vote for that race. So people oftentimes will get to they are not familiar with or just choose not to vote for either of those candidates so they will leave it blank. The vast marty of those will be a no vote. And over vote is the situation, someone perhaps voted for both rick scott and bill nelson, we cant discern the a desire or intent of the voter, most of those will be kicked out but some of them, if we can determine the intent of the voter, it will be counted. Julie it seems like there is something wrong with the Voting System if somebody can vote for two candidates. Rick scotts campaign is accusing brenda snipes of submitting results late to invalidate them. Could she have intentionally missed that deadline . 2 minutes makes it almost impossible to believe that was an accident. I think its something we have to look at once all the results are certified. The nicest thing you can say about a supervisor of elections in Broward Countys gross incompetence and it certainly prevailed, judges ruled that she violated the law insert from certain stances after the election, it is certainly a problem there and it has been a problem in the past and we will have to deal with that once results are certified. Julie heres Broward County officials explanation, they announced that the recount results were rejected because they were submitted 2 minutes late, officials blamed the late submission on an official who apparently didnt know how to use the web site to send them to the state, so browards results kicked back to the unofficial recount retotal. What is the Attorney Generals Office what is happening with all these lawsuits, who is going to take accountability . There must be an investigation, this just sounds so fishy and i am no p. I. You can be sure we will look at it as a legislature, i know the attorney general is looking at it in terms of investigating what exactly happened in Broward County and Palm Beach County as well. Julie whats going to happen from to prevent this from happening in the future . We have 67 counties and all the individual counties responsible for doing this count, 65 had no problems whatsoever, we didnt hear any of the stories weve heard out of Broward County and Palm Beach County there, by both democrat and republican supervisors. They had no difficulty doing this, its isolated to these counties. Julie right. Ive got to just bring up, there is an interesting article in the miami herald talking about how close the races were for governor, but the u. S. Senate commissioner of agriculture and consumer services, very close even for florida and now it appears, the governor races over, but heres the question. Are these races so close that a recount is likely to change the results . Heres your answer. History says almost certainly not, in 26 recounts in major races around the nation since 2000, you might be surprised to know, florida, i hope youre listening, only three outcomes have actually changed in 18 years. How is florida going to be any different . Its not, my first election, on Election Night i was behind by two votes and for all the recounts and counts i was behind by two votes. At that point, to decide, do they want to do whats right for the state of florida and in a show of unity, our next governor, rick scott, whats the best for the people of florida we all represent . Julie what happens for the remaining lawsuits, theres a lot of them, filed by democrats in an attempt to litigate votes into existence. You can be sure you cant create votes out of thin air. None of these litigation lawsuits will be able to change the results, so the numbers youre looking at are not going to shift the results and change the ultimate outcome, in the case of Broward County, rick scott got more votes. I can tell you with great confidence that once all the accounting is done, once all the litigation is over, we are going to wind up in the place we are at now and that is rick scott as our next senator and ron desantis being our next governor. Julie does brenda snipes get fired after all of this . There is no doubt she should have been fired before but with this point, with a series of incompetence, its time for her to go if she doesnt resign. Julie thank you very much for talking to us, its a confusing state when it comes to elections, lets hope they fix it. We will, thank you. Another fox news alert for you, the death toll in northern californias camp fire climbing to at least 63, more than 600 people remain unaccounted for. Missing, that is the scary number. Meanwhile, in the southern part of the stage, progress is being made on the woolsey fire, containment stands at 65 as of now, President Trump will be traveling to the golden state to meet with fire victims. Jeff paul jeff paul joins us live in malibu, hey, jeff. We are in the preliminary stage of the rebuilding process here in southern california, you can see some of the cruise down here are trying to patch up the roads, get some of those downed power lines back up and clear the roads for some of those evacuated residents once they return home. But unfortunately, some of the people once they get back home will find a scene like this. Take a look at this house over here, every single wall of this home burned to the ground, if we walk a little more over here, some of these things are a little more recognizable than others, the patio over here, furniture melted right down to the ground, over here melted pretty good, a lot of ashy and unfortunately we are seeing more and more homes like this in the malibu area. Thats part of the reason why firefighters are keeping the evacuated residents away from here, its far too dangerous for some of these people to come back while they are trying to get through to the streets. We ran into one firefighting crew, and asked them about what they had to say. Take a look. All of our firefighters understand the frustration, we know theyre not going to be able to see their homes and when they do, its not going to be, for a lot of people its going to be a very sad site. Further north, the camp fire which has burned a lot of land, about 80 miles north of the sacramento area, it is just devastating up there, that number, 613 people considered unaccounted for and granted, they are using that number, and that terminology, unaccounted for because sometimes communications are down and they just cant find certain family members cant find people but with the death toll sitting at 63 authorities believe that number could only rise with so many people being unaccounted for. Theres a lot of people displaced, we are hearing close to 50,000 people out of their homes, 10,000 structures destroyed, a lot of devastation down there as well. Julie and now the grim task of having to find over 500 people, 600 people missing in this devastation. Thank you very much, great reporting. Rudy giuliani revealing President Trumps legal team could submit their written responses to questions from special Counsel Robert Mueller as early as today. 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This is Rudy Giuliani tells the Washington Post some of the two dozen questions could pose legal issues for the president and reiterated his concern that there could be possible traps. Hi, rich. Good afternoon, julie. The president addressing the special counsels investigation, the president says he imagines and suspects and has been hearing that the investigation will be ending soon and he says it should have never happened in the first place. My lawyers arent working on them, i am working on them. The lawyers dont write the answers, i write the answers. I was asked a series of questions, ive answered them very easily. I havent submitted them, i just finish them. As you know ive been a little bit busy. Special Counsel Robert Muellers team has indicted dozens, some have pled guilty and agreed to cooperate. The president is also attacking mueller, saying he and his gang of democrat thugs have destroyed people and are to disgrace to the nation. Overseeing the Mueller Investigation is acting attorney general Matt Whitaker. He was critical of it before taking the acting attorney general job. Senator Lindsey Graham says whitaker has promised he will not fire the special counsel. Several republicans are pushing the white house to soon nominate an attorney general to get a Senate Replacement for jeff sessions. Republicans say they are looking to resolve questions about the special counsels future. Earlier this week the senate failed to advance legislation designed to protect the special counsel, this as Robert MuellerRobert Mueller is awaiting these answers from President Trump with no other indication as to when this investigation may conclude. Julie thank you very much, thats the white house. Lets bring in republican congressman Chris Stewart from utah and democratic congressman from connecticut, both sit on the House Intelligence Committee. Thank you, gentlemen. Jim, let me ask you first, what do you make of Rudy Giulianis comments . He has a multiple month track record of being bombastic about this and you know, what really intrigued me was the notion that we keep hearing about, that the president shouldnt answer questions because there could be perjury traps. A perjury trap sounds a complicated thing but most americans understand that whatever a trap may be, if you go anywhere and answer questions honestly, which is what you should do when you are being interviewed by the fbi, there is no possibility of a perjury trap. Just as you were me or congressman stewart would be required to answer questions honestly, hopefully this president will do what every other american citizen is obligated to do, go in front of them investigator and answer questions honestly. Julie the president says he has no concern about perjuring himself and he said he doesnt need his lawyers advice, he did it on his own, he just spoke moments ago saying they were easy, he doesnt need anybody else or his lawyers to answer these questions for him. Do you believe theres any reason for his lawyers to be concerned . I think theyve been discussing this, i think this is an indication of a couple things. The original intention of the Mueller Investigation, which ive always supported, was to discover if there was a conclusion between the Trump Campaign in russia. I dont know that anyone makes those claims and believes that any longer. This is another indicator that the investigation is probably winding down, hes moved several of these key pieces of his investigation are some of the prosecution and i think the fact that he provides the president with questions, that they were able to answer in just a few days indicates that they werent deeply involved, they werent complicated. I think, and i hope, this is an indication that he is completing his investigation. In fairness to these people whove been accused of very serious crimes, people have been accused of treason, to have this be taken from them into fairness to the American People that we understand and conclude what happened there. Julie the president also mentioned, not only was his investigation unnecessary but it cost taxpayers millions upon millions of dollars. Could this mean we are nearing the end finally of the russia probe . Sure, it could mean that, we dont really know. And of course its cost money, just the way the multiyear clinton investigation or the multiyears benghazi investigation cost money but generally speaking, if there are allegations which are very serious, i may take exception with one thing congressman stewart said. Nobody knows whether there was collusion, we wont know the answer to that until the final report is issued but one thing that is certain is that t