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To which the president's words are ringing out across tallahassee and across the state of florida. yes there is the rhetoric but also what he promised to send more lawyers down there. it changed the equation a little bit. how hard is it going to be to tune that out what the president is saying and what we are saying as all of this unfolds? >> i don't think we are going to see a repeat of 2000. in 2000 within days of the election we had 47 lawsuits filed by everybody. we are not going to see that. as i said, this is going to play itself out. he is within the half percentage point that triggered...

Votes are still being counted. right now, scott is ahead of senator bill nelson by just 15,000 votes. here to explain exactly what is going on in florida, democratic strategist and florida elections expert steve shale and mitchell berger, a former senior adviser. steve, let me start with you, where are we right now? there's a deadline tomorrow, right, for all the counties to report their totals, is that right? >> so 62 counties in florida have reported their totals -- 60 counties. seven to go. they got till noon tomorrow. the state will certify preliminary results that will not include the ove...

Quarter percent then there's a state wind hand recount in the scott nelson case, the margin was within a quarter percent. they automatically get the hand recount unless the machine recount changes that which is not unlikely. we are going to follow those patterns. it is possible that after that happens that there will be again lawsuits but there's not going to be any where close to 47 lawsuits. i think it will end. we are fortunate we have this process because the alternative which a lot of countries have is for people to take to the streets. we shouldn't be criticizing it. we shob applauding t...

Republican pickup there. arizona is also a nail-biter. kyrsten sinema's lead over martha mcsally has grown to 30,000 with roughly 300,000 votes to be counted. that could end up being a democratic pickup. governor's races we're headed for another florida recount. ron desantis has a narrow lead over andrew gillum. yesterday andrew gillum rescinded his concession. it's going to a machine recount. we'll see if it falls into the threshold for hand recount. and in georgia, republican brian kemp has a narrow lead over stacey abrams. that could go to a recount to see if it needs to go to a runoff. in ...

Secretary of state's office. according to those final readouts, it looks as though the republican nominee for governor has a lead of about .41% over gillum, the democratic nominee. that would be enough to trigger the automatic recount. in the race for u.s. senate, that's even tighter. the current governor rick scott has a lead over bill nelson of only .14%. that too would be enough to trigger that automatic machine recount. if that does happen, and we're expecting it any minute from the secretary of state, we have a process of up until next thursday when that machine recount has to take place....