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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 governor's 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 enforcemen...

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 this morning. can you just tell us about the character of the protest and how it changed throughout th...

This evening. >> yes. >> as we've gotten into later hours. julia, can you tell me if it seemed liked the people who were there were trying to be intimidating to the people who were trying to do the counting. was this actually an effort to try to push the elections workers to do one thing or another, or was this just people expressing themselves? >> i think it definitely -- the air that i felt from people i was talking to, the reason why they were here, and many whom don't even live in broward county, many just heard this was happening and have come from all over the state that. they wanted to ...

Talk to them, but they were not allowed in. i spoke to rigaetz attorneys. 45 minutes after the deadline they came to this compromise which nobody saw coming. at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, rick scott's attorneys will be allowed into the room and they'll be able to lay eyes on the ballots. 10:00 a.m. tomorrow behind our shoulders, they're going to be looking at the ballots. and in palm beach, you're going to have this hearing about the other rick scott case about duplicate ballots. so buckle up. tomorrow is a big day. >> lisa ferry, julia nutter, my buddies. it has been great to have the two of you on...

Battle today. i know you were in the courtroom and now at the broward election center. from what you have seen, including today's court hearings, how should we expect this fight to play out now? julia is talking about the kind of interplay between the protests on the street and what's happening in the courtrooms. given what you saw today, what should we expect? >> well, that ruling from the judge today set up a really dramatic couple of hours. the judge ruled two things had to happen. one, data about the volume of votes had to be handed over from county officials to rick scott's lawyers, depen...