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We are going to let this process play out. >> that's a very important reality check, jessica dean. thank you so much. it's a monumental task rekoupding 8.5 million votes. the initial recount triggered by florida law is being done by machine. that could lead to a manual hand count of votes. i want to get more on how this arduous process is playing out. we have cnn analyst mark preston to tell us about that. officials are scrambling to get this done. tell us about what's happening right now and when is the deadline for finishing this? >> you are absolutely right. looking at more than eight milli...

Suddenly you have to have a winner by 5:00 a.m. wednesday. you know, problems occur and we're supposed to let a process play out. what we're seeing is principle coming up against the fact in florida and georgia, you do have republicans in charge of a process that they are also deeply invested in the outcome of, in the case of georgia, former secretary of state, overseeing his own election. there's the principle issue. the practical politics, and what you're getting at, in florida at least, the margin in the governor's race between desantis and gillum, you know, is pretty -- is relatively large...

They're listening to the attorneys talk. they're watching this process play out as well. a lot of them recording it on their phones. so it's just fair to say there's so many eyes on this. and so much passion and so many very strong emotions that are being played out right in front of us today. >> still so much at stake. talking about the governor's race. talking about the u.s. senate seat. and folks want it to be done properly. so mark, as you look at these images here, today's image of this kind of, you know, attention being played on florida once again, two very important races here, you kno...

Republicans. for men it's 50% for republicans. why do females, why are women not coming back to the republican party? >> i think there could be many reasons for that. and that's one of the things we have to identify, not only in this campaign cycle, but moving forward as a party. but one of the things i would -- that i think is that as we so e solve -- saw this process play itself out, outside of the very active on both ends of the spectrum of the political activists, when you look at those people in the middle, the moderates, maybe the suburban college-educated men and women, when they saw wh...

Send him to some cocktail parties around the unga, that that might be more helpful to mcconnell's effort which is really a dance at this point with those on-the-fence senators? >> there's actually a resignation that the tensions between the white house and the senate gop leaders can't really be solved. they're just trying to move forward together. ashley had some terrific reporting on this about how the president called senate majority leader mcconnell over the weekend and really railed against the process and said it needs to be moving more quickly. he would like to see a more assertive take ...