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Absentee ballots since 9:00 this morning. this is about one of 20 counties across the state of georgia that have yet to certify their totals. this is also, to be honest, one of the three most heavily democratic counties that the abrams team is relying on to help her push through and cross that 20,000 vote threshold she would need in order to trigger that recount. while all this is going on, there's also the legal drama. this morning the judge ruling the state cannot actually tally those and certify those votes statewide until friday. then within the next 30 minutes, we expect to see a hearing ...

Th this. they have eliminated the cloture vote on supreme court nominees, that's how gorsuch got confirmed. it's hard to see as a practical matter, put aside appealing to the country and making the moral case, but when you get down to parliamentary tactics, it's hard to see what cards the democrats hold? >> we'll use every tool available in terms of parliamentary rules but this republican leadership demonstrated nothing but contempt for the normal rules. they made the rules for neil gorsuch eliminating the 60 vote threshold and they may change the other rules that require judiciary committee a...

You think and when republicans were back in the majority, they lowered the vote threshold to 51 votes for supreme court justices as well. let's bring in phil manningly. do you know if mcconnell is even considering listening to schumer to wait until after the election. >> i appreciate your chuckle. the short answer is no. he made that statement on the senate floor a short while ago saying there will be a vote in the fall and they expect to have hearings after a selection is made and it is worth noting, the senate majority leader is high on the 25 individuals that are on president trump's list t...

Will actually be certified no earlier than the 26th of december and no later than the 3rd of january so we've got to make sure that that occurs the way the code prescribes it to occur. >> reporter: so at this point, do you believe there is a chance of a recount? >> well, there's always a chance of a recount because any candidate can ask for a recount, and if they pay for it, they can receive a recount. now, there's an automatic recount provision where .5% of the vote threshold would automatically require that to occur. if that happens, at that point, we would follow the established procedures ...

In fact, arguably they may still be here because you have some things going on within your own party. >> we watch the health care debate fail under president clinton, we watched it revive under president obama. i think now that you've watched the president get rid of the cautionary subsidies, i think republicans are going to own health care now. for a eight years they seem to have a plan. she is more in line with most americans than i would say donald trump is. >> harris: how surprised are you that republicans -- obviously the vote threshold has changed now. how surprised are you that the pres...