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They're very clear public incidents of, you know, groups protesting blackface, of blackface -- they blow up and there's a cultural conversation around blackface. we have multiple incidents of blackface that have come up in the past couple of months alone, the past couple of days alone and this is in addition to other incidents that have come up in october. even if we move it out of the realm of hard politics, you can look at gu chi we just had a blackface incident this week, prada which had one a couple of months ago and see that, you know, claiming cultural ignorance is no longer an option an...

This, our nbc reporters, ali vitali in tallahassee, florida. we'll get to vaughn hillyard in just a moment, just returning from arizona: also with us leah wright rigor assistant professor at harvard's kin lee school of government. and dana milbank. we'll start with you in the sunshine state. it seems to have escalated fairly quickly there in florida. tell us about rick scott's lawsuit and tell us why american elections yet again circling around broward county and palm beach county. >> reporter: yeah, this is moving really quickly, craig. we're actually still on the phone. the nelson legal team...

There are so many ways to make an impact. politics is just not my thing. >> reporter: mrs. obama's memoir is powerful, and it is personal. according to the post she shares intimate details revealing that she and her husband had trouble getting pregnant, that she suffered a miscarriage and that both daughters sasha and malia, were conceived through in vitro fertilization. >> peter alexander there at the white house. back with me, leah wright rigor, assistant professor of public policy at the harvard kennedy school of government. she is also the author of the the loneliness of the black republic...

To disappear. >> we're going to have to leave it there. dana, thank you so much. leah, thank you, vaughn hillyard here in the flesh now, ali vitali. we've got to get to breaking news out of washington at this hour. we have an update on supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. she was hospitalized yesterday. our justice correspondent pete williams has been following this very closely. what's the word? what do we know? >> she's out of the hospital, craig. the supreme court says she's doing well and that she plans to work from home. she's actually spent a night in the hospital. you may recall...

Possibility of a federal law enforcement investigating. i think the larger and more likely federal role that will actually affect the outcome here is the court system, which, as we know, has been from the supreme court on down has been pretty well packed at this point by the republicans. that's probably the biggest danger here. it's no mystery what's happening here. democrats live in big urban counties where there are a lot of votes to count as opposed to the rural republican county where is it's rather easy to count the votes. so that's what's going on with the provisional ballots, the absent...