This date 29 years ago. And how amaiding that that was a nice that your father and some other people spend their entire life working for and fighting for that freedom, the freewaying of over 100 million people. Your parents fled poland and czechoslovakia in the 1930s. That night on this day so many people were freed. So this news keeps coming at us every day. I got a call from some people i know in florida going, this race is not over. Bill nelson is picking up votes. By night, you had a full on freak out by mark roub o. Rick scott is freaking out, too, alleging unlawful behavior when it doesnt go his way. When i was part of the republican effort back in 2000, our fight was to count all the votes. The Republican Party then, we were fighting to make sure that all the military votes got counted. If you want to see where the Republican Party is in 2018, 18 years after we were fighting to count all the votes, now its marco rubio and donald trump the and rick scott that are freaked out that actually florida citizens may have their votes counted. Also, donald trump has been about his big win not looking so good because every hour that passes by, it seems like more republicans are losing more trump republicans are losing their seats. As we watch willie and joe, the spin from trump seems to continue over what is clearly a humiliating loss. As were seeing, the democratic counts keep growing and its a wave after all. We know democrats in the house will pick up at least 31 seats. Wow. And that number could go as high at 38. As we mentioned yesterday, thats the gops worst beating in a Midterm Election since watergate. And it is a wave, a big, blue wave powered by a Record Number of Inspiring Women candidates. It seems that President Trump finally had hto pay a price for his misogyny. Senate races in air and georgia, they could still possibly go to the democrats. As the votes get counted and recounted, trumpism was on the ballot on tuesday. It was all about donald trump and trump theiism lost. The numbers are clear. The facts are clear. And you can go not only in the house races, you look across the country, over 300 losses, willie, over 300 seats lots. In legislative races. And, of course, we talked every day after the 2016 election about how devastating the losses were, the statehouse races for barack obama. Over eight years, man, hes on pace to far eclipse barack obama. If this continues, the Republican Party will be absolutely gutted. I have to say for our friends who are republicans who watch this, this conservative has been warning you for two years that this day was going to come. More than 300 statehouses at the local level. And we havent talked about arizona where sinema has pulled ahead in that state. Sheses the democrat. Martha mcsally, pushing the caravan in the final days. Now sinema has pulled ahead. And those votes theyre recounting are from her only republican district. So we have we have Susan Delpercio and eugene scott. Caddie kay is with us, as well. Lets dig a little further into those numbers of that blue away. The latest numbers show it could grow as high at 7 , more than three times Hillary Clintons margin in 2016. But donald trump did say this election is all about me. It was all about him and trumpism and it was a before you wave and the president. He did three times as worse in 2008. You could tell from him mood that perhaps he did actually know that these numbers were turning against him. As this New York Times map illustrates thats 6 million. Donald trump lost by 6 million votes. The cook report Dave Wasserman breaks it down this way. In 2006 2010, the party riding the wave won an average of 57 of tossups, 19 of opposite leans and of opposite likely races. In 2018, democrats won or are leading in 56 of tossups, 17 of lean republicans races and 3 of likely races. Quote, in the house, this was a wave. And here is one example yesterday. Karen handel conceded in the seat once held by Newt Gingrich. Handel was defeated by a former flight attendance, Breast Cancer adviser and a gun control advocate whose teenage son was shot and killed in 2012 following a dispute over music at a gas station. So, susan, were seeing the impact in the United States senate of Donald Trumps humiliating loss on tuesday. And were seeing it in the form of senators that clearly went to Mitch Mcconnell yesterday and said no, were not following donald trump over a cliff. If youre Corey Gardner they finally see it. I dont live in missouri. I live in colorado and im up in two years. If youre Susan Collins, you go i dont live in indiana. I live in maine. That garbage is not going to work. Suddenly, the emperor has no clothes. They dont fear him. And Mitch Mcconnell cam out yesterday and clearly said, no, were not going to stop the Mueller Investigation. George bush said that he took a trumping. It looks like there was a trumping. All of these democrats were trumped. And i think the other thing when it comes to the senate is when you look at the loud voices that are going to be in the house on the republican side, there will be a fight for leadership which is a frightening thought and there is a good possibly the Freedom Caucus may even grow and become stronger within the minority. Thats going to have a senate with you know, really reacting in strong opposition to going too far off that cliff. And weve seen that again in the Mueller Investigation where you have the Freedom Caucus attacking robert mueller. Chairman burr, from another swing state, will go, no, actually, russia interfered in the election. First of all, whats your take away from what were seeing evolving from tuesday night and also how much tougher is it going to be for donald trump over the next two years . Millennials, people of color showed up and theyve had a message and they say where the country is going in this direction, its not where we want it to go. And that was a message sdreked to the president and to republicans and also to the democrats. And i think they gave hem sothe hope and said you can push harder. This is something that should terrify trump. This is someone when thought he had a mandate in 2016, oddly, should now know he does not have a mandate to do. And i think what will be interestinging is seeing whether or not the republican lawmakers that are in congress stick with the base who is still with trump or if they realize they have a lot of people they have to the recognize in their respected districts that are not on the trump train. Republicans are still sitting at 51. They may lose florida. They may lose arizona. Certainly looks like theyre going to lose one of those two. If thats the case, a senate year that should have left them with 54, 55 seats should be almost gridlocked. Its all of those republicans, two to one republicans in blue states that are having to run for reelection in two years that will never win as trumpstyle candidates that may have more of an impact on how washington is run over the next two years than any president ial campaign. 48 hours after the vote, democrats have a lot more to celebrate in the house and in the senate, as well. Those republicans up in bluish states in 2020 have to be saying to themselves, this is a really tough time for republicans. Yes, donald trump seems to be a rather formidable candidate with his base. But lets take donald trump out of the equation and look at what the country looks like at the moment for republicans. It doesnt look good. If you dont have a trumplike candidate flying around the cub and rallying while, often largely male voters in conservative rerl areas of the country, then this clear looks better for democrats. Democrats are growing in the areas where the country is growing among minorities and in the suburbs. Theyve known what ive always said, kind of keep your head down and make it to the off year election because the voters are always older, whiter and more conservative. This vote happened in the off year will election. The electorate expands, more women will go out, more hispanics will go out. More black voters will go out. The Democratic Coalition only expands two years from now. And its two more years for donald trump to do what donald trump does. That can be a drag on a lot of republicans and republicans in the senate will have to make some choices about how close do they want to attach themselves to him. I have a headliner for you. Stop me if youve heard it before. Florida recount. As we mentioned in florida, the state that brought the 2000 president ial election to a crawl, the races for senate and governor both now appear to be headed for recounts. Returns coming in from Broward County pushed Andrew Gillum and senator bill nelson closer to their republican opponents. In the race for senate, just over 15,000 votes now separate rick scott and bill nelson. Difference is less than. 25 of a point. In florida law, that if the margin falls below more than a quarter of a point, a recount takes place. Rick scott predicated he would eventually win. In Broward County, more than 24,000 people voted for a g gubernatorial candidate but not another senate candidate. Governor rick scott has now filed a thought against both that Broward County supervisor of elections. Hes accusing Election Officials of rampant fraud and has ordered floridas department of Law Enforcement to investigate. Weve all seen the the incompetence in broward for years. I will not side by while unethical liberals try to steal this election from the great people of florida. He day since the election, the left wing activists in Broward County have been coming up with more and more ballots out of nowhere. We all know what is going on. Every person in florida knows exactly what is happening. Their goal is to keep mysteriously finding more votes until the election turns out the way they want. That is the governor of the state. Last night, donald trump weighed in on twitter writing Law Enforcement is looking into another big Corruption Scandal having to do with Election Fraud in broward and palm beach. Florida voted on scott. Marco rubio tweeted now democrat lawyers are descending on florida. They are been very clear they arent here to make sure every vote counts. They are here to change the election. And Rudy Giuliani pointing the blame at Hillary Clinton. Rudy wrote this. Hillarys lawyers trying to steal florida election. They are still counting or creating ballots just in democratic broward and palm beach. Can you believe where this guy has gone . Can you believe how much he has tarnished his reputation . The guy that guided this city after 9 11. He gets booed at yankees stadium. I didnt know thats how he wanted to end his life as a public figure. Susan, you actually have republicans, marco rubio, in the fevered swamp of conspiracy theories. You talk about trumpism. And rick scott and donald trump, theyre arm and arm and shoulder to shoulder saying that its a conspiracy for every vote to be counted. The bush recount, at least what we were doing in northwest florida, we were fighting like help to make sure every military vote got counted. Thats what we were trying to do. And it was the democratic lawyers back then that were trying to stop the that. I know. I was there for 38 long days. And we make sure every vote was counted. 18 years later, marco rubio actually wants the make sure that florida citizens votes arent counted. Rick scott is freaking out. He doesnt want ballots to be counted. Donald trump this is third can you be a little less obvious . This is thirdworld country stuff coming if it is Republican Party who i would think if if they wanted to be consistent with 2000 would be fighting to get every vote counted. And for 30 years, ive been working for republicans. Theyre always fighting for that recount. So this is its just grud credit that that would change it. Donald trump has been questioning the integrity of our elections. Thats what scares me is that these comments that theyre making have been brought out by the president over time. Now hes calling on Law Enforcement to make sure that this Conspiracy Theory doesnt exist when its the same Law Enforcement that he didnt believe when they said the russians were involved in our election. So he really just tries to muddle the water and its very scary. Sometimes close elections take three or four days, five days, its happening in arizona and its happening in florida and theyre just angry because the votes are coming from Maricopa County and Broward County. They are trying to stop the votes from being counted. Ill say it. Theyre trying to stop my vote from being counted. I cast an absentee ballot. Or people like me who handed in an absentee ballot at the last minute. Thats marco rubios idea of democracy . I used to cover politics in Maricopa County and spent this week talking to voters in miami and arizona. One thing a lot of people arent talking about is Voter Suppression and the efforts to keep certainly people from casting their ballot. Theehour waits in florida. Some people were turned away. Some believe their ballots were changed or werent clear. What about georgia where if the Georgia Election were held in the country of georgia instead of the state of georgia, the United States state department would be protest whag brian kemp was doing in the light of day. Before the election, we were hearing about gwinnett county, incredibly important. What do we see . Huh, the machines break down in gwinnett county. People have to wait three, four hours in gwinnett county. And kemp, he keeps himself in charge like some third world dictator. Im running my own elections. And he was doing it with the support of donald trump. This is why his Approval Ratings are so low with millennial voters and women voterses, people who would have voted against hill. He wants trust, he wants confidence. He asked on twitter why dont people trust me . Its this kind of thing. When people feel like they cant count on their government leaders to back them up, this is why you get this type of reaction. This is why the Republican Party is going xhoetly down the drain in a lot of ways. Were not expanding our base. No one wants to join us. Now we have the reputation of trying to suppress votes and scare people. This is just really bad form. One, the dipsy is suppress the vote. The doodle of the dipsy doodle is dont count the votes that get in there. Sold to you by donald trump. Thats what he does. Mika, 18 years ago, especially in northwest florida, we held a huge rally. We marched about 3,000 people into county commissioners where only about about a hundred people were supposed to fit and we all stared at the county commissioners while they decided when they were going to count the ballots of the men and women who served in the armed forces overseas who we had one single principal. Count can every vote. Thats where the Republican Party stood 18 years ago. Now marco rubio Ask Donald Trump and rick scott, where do they stand . You know what . On the side of winning, no matter what. Down the count the votes. Marco rubio is what disappointments me the most that hes concocting a Conspiracy Theory. For what . Why . Why does he want to damage his reputation for the benefit of donald trump . And his future, because he had one. Still ahead on morning joe, Brett Kavanaugh and donald trump seem to share the same views on executive power. Now the president has a loyalist in charge of the Justice Department as matthew whitker takes over. Have you heard . This guy, by the way, he got busted in a scam, right . The ftc said this the guy was involved in a scam, right . And hes still there. He went on cnn, said some outrageous things. He is a conspiracy theorist who doesnt believe the russians were involved at all in trying to hack the election. I mean, even the white house is freaking out, cwhich leads to te question, why did you appoint this clown in the first place. . Well, it would lead to a lot of questions that might be answered oh, one other thing. Yeah . Kellyanne conways husband who is a constitutional scholar in his own right, a brilliant mind, whether you agree or disagree with him saying, hey, this appointment is unconstitutional. So well talk to his coauthor, cowiriter on this isse neal who calls whitkers appointment unconstitutional. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Youre watc ll be right back. [narrator] if you want serious cleaning with a cordfree vacuum, you need a shark. Because only sharks cordfree lineup has Duoclean Technology so you can deep clean carpets and give hard floors a polished look. And with two swappable batteries at maximum suction, our shark ion f80 gives you more run time than the dyson v10 absolute. And now shark takes cordfree beyond stick vacuums by introducing a full upright model. Shark ion cordfree vacuums available in stick and upr