>> sean: right on. by the way, can you just imagine, nbc news, tom brokaw, person that says if she is a generalist, rachel maddow, partnering with moveon.org, oh, by the way, he is hitler, bush, michael moore, general petraeus, sad. let not your heart be troubled, we are always there and balance. laura ingraham is next. how are you tonight? >> laura: hannity, they have been playing the strike about you are hitler, you are racist, you are anti-semitic, you are stalin, -- >> sean: imagine this, move on on, general petraeus, war hero, elderly women, they have an ad, private part punched mitt romney and burn this mothe mother-f down. they are now partners, and nbc news is literally organizing and killing people, this is a break the glass moment we have all been waiting for, here is

where you go protest. that is not going to end well. >> laura: know, and shawn, i have to say, i think the press of behavior in the briefing room yesterday, they are trying to with everything up into this frenzy, not just ask tough questions, they are trying to whip everything up into a frenzy, i think that gives some impetus to the nut bags out there with the masks, all of the brave kids in the masks. >> sean: by the way, i want everybody to be safe. some what he says a network socks, that doesn't mean -- or fake -- those are words. these are real people being really organized and told it to create crowds, getting people's faces, follow them, kick them, and don't be civil with them. you know what, i'm telling every conservative, you see somebody you don't like, stay away. >> laura: absolutely, there are some great press people out there doing good jobs, but we have everyone to take the temperature down, and asked to calm down. you can have a spirited

conversation. >> sean: cnn got threaten today, i don't want him threatened. acosta, who i can't stand, anyone goes after the him, i will fight to defend him. >> laura: i would love to see that that i don't want anybody fighting hannity. >> sean: you know i train every day, you just want to see -- >> laura: is not so bad? i need to be more peaceful and calm, sean. great show, by the way, love your coverage of what they did it to tucker get all right, i am laura ingraham, and this is to be 29 from washington might. we thought the midterm drama was over, while you are in wrong. shades of 2000 in florida tonight as the state is mired once again in a recount drama. governor rick scott just filed a lawsuit in the last few hours against broward and palm beach county, where votes are seemingly appearing out of nowhere, the bottom of your garbage disposal -- kind of an exaggeration, but not all that much, not all that far off.

and trump just responded and will speak to the attorneys on the ground and just moments. plus, bernie sanders saying that andrew gillum and stacey abrams struggled to win both because white voters were scared of the them. horace cooper is here a little bit later on to respond. and why does president trump's acting attorney general matt whitaker bother so many of the resistance folks? we are going to examine it. we will also speak to a good friend, a hero, sergeant ron helus, one of the 12 senselessly killed in the thousand oaks shooting last night in california, this morning, but first, refusing to accept the agony of defeat. that is the focus of tonight's angle. >> republican brian kemp has declared victory, says he will begin his transition to the governor's office today, but don't forget, his opponent, stacey abrams, she is not conceding yet. >> desantis has declared victory, gillum has conceded,

but he has tweeted that he wants every vote to count. >> bill nelson has brought in a high-powered democratic lawyer from washington, d.c., to oversee this recount. >> laura: while, enclosed and contentious race to democrats more so than republicans seem to have a problem conceding defeat. it can't be that the other guy won fair and square, it has to be that either the election system broke down or some mystery boats are hiding somewhere or the entire process must be tainted. then there is the other way to explain a tough loss, while, the voters must be racist. >> donald trump's instincts were validated in big sections of the country. the incitement strategy, the racial demagoguery, it worked. trump's republican party is getting increasingly older, increasingly wider, increasingly rural. >> the other thing that could be happening in florida is the bradley effect, which once

affected -- lowered the election date vote totals of black voter voters. hole would show that bradley would win, and on election day, he would lose. >> laura: even after democrats flip to the house and many minority candidates won from coast-to-coast, what is the result in the florida's governor's race and georgia rolled in, adam sort of the atlantic published this piece titled "america's problem isn't tribalism, it is racism." writing, "if republicans ran on their policy agenda alone, they would be at a disadvantage. so they turn to a destructive politics of white identity, one that seeks the path of power by dividing the country among racial and sectarian lines. they portray the nation as the birthright of white,

heterosexual christians." yeah, adam, that is what those policies that led to record low unemployment for latinos and african-americans were all about, stoking ethnic fears. that is absurd. the most despicable use of racism in the midterm came from the trump haters and some democrats. >> i'm not calling mr. desantis a racist, i am subleasing the racists believe he is a racist. >> sign me up in the category of people who think he is racist. he has said so many racist things. he is a racist pig! >> making overtly bigoted, racist statements, attacking down people, attacking black people. >> laura: when bizarre and suspicious racist roll calls were reported in florida, remember republicans, including desantis and rick scott, immediately and vociferously denounce them, as they show it. back in 2016, the media tried to

paint trump as they want -- remember, he wasn't going to be accepting any of the results of the election. >> are you saying you are not prepared now -- >> i will tell you at the time, i will keep you in suspense. >> laura: hillary responded to that like this. >> that is horrifying. every time donald thinks that things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is is rigged against him. that is not the way our democracy works. he is denigrating, he is talking down our democracy. >> laura: "talking down our democracy" bear the media echoed hillary, outraged that trump would ever challenge legitimacy of an election won fair and square. but all of their full moral outrage was exposed when it when trump actually won in 2016. a suddenly come our sacrosanct representative democracy -- it wasn't so sacrosanct after all.

>> mr. president, i rise today to discuss legislation i introduced to eliminate the electoral college and ensure the candidate who wins the most votes will be elected president. >> laura: the heck with the way the framers of the set it up, let's dispense with it since we lost. of course they have their hangups around legitimacy, obama is birth certificate, which >> laura: himself focused on. but all most circle years into the trump a administration, many of the diehards -- after all, they are called the resistance -- still do not accept the results. >> i believe in trying to work with people -- it is going to be hard, it is going to be very difficult. i don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president. >> my personal view is that it was not an an a legitimate elen election. >> i think there are a lot of questions about his legitimacy,

and we don't have a message for contesting that in our system. >> laura: no wonder people are losing faith in our democratic system. listen to those people. according to an axios survey, just 51 percent of americans said they have faith in the countries democracy. a whopping 37 percent, more than a third, say they have lost faith in it. my friends, this is really distressing for america's futur future. if the people decide the system is rotten, they are really saying the country is rotten. and soon they are going to be saying it isn't worth protecting anymore at all. but let's hope that we can turn this dynamic around, there is so much craziness out there. this means that both parties need to do better at focusing on issues, the issues the american people care about, instead of just a perpetual grievance, politics, it is getting old.

look, some recounts are mandated, and they are in florida, and if the margins are close enough, republicans and democrats, they should both ensure that any recount is done fairly, no creating ballots where none existed. i have to say, it would hardly reassuring to learn today that in florida most populous county, broward, the elections of cheap there is a democrat named it brenda snipes brenda was found guilty of violating state and fg ballots in the 2016 congressional race when those ballots where, at the time, subject to a lawsuit. and breaking in the last couple of hours, we had a lawsuit filed by governor rick scott against broward and palm beach county. he is going on the offensive, rightfully, against this entire shoddy practice. republican lawyers, you better make sure that democrats do not start torching absentee ballots in dumpsters in boca, or finding

other ballots other places. let's all just remember that while losing is never fun, and we remember our losses, believe me -- remember '92, '96, 2006 during the bush midterms, 2008, 2012, it is never fun. but i will tell you, losing our democratic process would be catastrophic. and that is the angle. joining us now, three men who know this florida issue better than pretty much most everyone in the country, barry richard is currently andrew gillum's attorney, also represented george w. bush in the 2000 florida recount paired matilda grandy was also part of god bush legal team, and just a clock was the attorney for second of state catherine herridge that very same recount, representing her against all of these legal challenges. joseph, i want to start with you tonight. you think it is wise for governor scott to move on the offensive, as i do, against

broward and palm beach counties, or is that premature? >> no, i don't think it is premature. you have to sort of stay ahead of the flow, what is going on, i think all of the dash i was not aware of the lawsuit until i drove over here tonight, but what he wants to do is just make sure there is judicial supervision of what is going on, things don't happen that ought not happen. >> laura: barry, i want to go to you, you are representing andrew gillum. he did concede the other night, but as he said earlier tonight, i heard you, that is not a contract. he thought the moment warranted a concession. but your client and you say you are watching things very closely with the vote count. last i checked, i think it was about 40,000 or so votes separating gillum, of course, and ron desantis. what are you looking at tonight? >> there is a vast difference

between 2000 and now. in 2000, the recount was precipitated by the candidates who had to request them and got to select which counties they were entered the legislator as a result of 2000 has significantly changed florida statutes. the candidates really have nothing to do with it now, if the margin between the candidates is less than 0.5 percent, it is an automatic so-called machine recount, where they ballots are sent through the machines again. if it is less than 0.25 percent, then there is an automatic, statewide, manual recount. as far as it mr. gillum is concerned, he is just waiting for the system to play itself o. that is part of the electoral process, it is part of the vote counting, and he will accept the results. >> laura: miguel, i want to go to you. i think a lot of people watching across the country find it very odd, this whole process of the vote count expending so many days. explain to the viewers why that is, with provisional ballots,

what those are, and moving into absentee, military count, which i understand and florida have not been counted yet. >> provisional and absentee -- military absentees -- are one issue, but what we can't understand is why is it that mail in ballots and early votes are still being counted and have not yet been properly recorded? according to our laws, those votes are supposed to be uploaded the day before election so they can be reported half an hour after the votes close for the next day. so we understand what is happening in palm beach and broward, it is the same two counties that can't seem to get it right out of our 67 counties in the state of florida. >> laura: what about the concern -- i want to go back to you, joseph, about brenda snipes? in broward i'm in the concern that marco rubio -- he was on another network -- no, he was on our network, earlier tonight, and he basically laid waste to what happens in broward county.

the president weeded out about this also tonight, which we will put up on the screen, we put it up on these green and i will go back to you, joseph. this is what the president said tonight. he said, "law enforcement is looking into another big corruption scandal having to do with election proud in broward and palm beach, florida. florida voted for rick scott." your comment tonight, joseph. >> as it barry said, our legislator thought they addressed problems for this happening. it is embarrassing for the state that this kind of thing goes on. in my home county, we don't have this kind of thing happening here. because it missed snipes apparently has of this cloud hanging over her head, if there is indeed a ballots that now showing up, they shouldn't be. at the only policy should be waiting for at this point in time of the military ballots from which i understand have until november 16th, so i think we need to make sure that we

take whatever steps are necessary with the judiciary to protect the integrity of the system so that we don't have these problems. i think barry will agree that one of the reasons we still have this is we don't have statewide controls over balloting, it is done on a county by county basis, and that is why you can have these outliers. >> laura: got it. so barry, i didn't practice election law, but i remember being in miami beach during the recount -- i think i remember seeing you guys down there at the time. this is what rick scott said, just a short while ago, referring to marc elias in tallahassee. let's watch. >> i will not sit idly by while unethical liberals trying to steal the selection from the great people of florida. hillary clinton's lawyers from d.c., and the first thing he die is here to win the election. now he is here to trying to steal the election and to thwart leave will of the voters of

florida. >> laura: your reaction, tough words from rick scott tonight. he is certainly not going to sit back in what he believes is an election stolen for him at the hands of miss snipes. >> i have no reaction in the first place, i am not involved in that race. in the second place, it is not my purpose to become involved in the political debate, i am just the lawyer representing a client illegally, and those things are beyond my spirit sphere of representation. >> laura: the old saying, i'm not talking about it, i respect that. good for you, barry. >> now, that is not what i do. i'm a lawyer, i represent a client. republicans and democrats. i >> laura: i got it. i didn't sound or otherwise. i appreciate it. my gal come i want go to you on this. obviously, we want to protect the integrity of the boat. i agree with stacey abrams and everyone else who has had every vote should count. if you voted, eligible to vote,

your vote should count. i think what people watch this, and they -- how is this in the united states of america that this kind of stuff seems to drag on qwest my people are talking about this dragging on another few weeks in florida. and i think that is what eats away at people, both on democrats, republicans, people in the middle. >> laura, i can't agree more. i lost my first election to the florida health house of repress by one vote in 1998, so i am very keen on the fact that every vote needs to be counted and the election needs to be tabulated fairly. what concerns us on this point is the regularity that they are occurring, when we can't give the ballots -- for example, the ballots and damaged, being duplicated, which is required by law, in the presence of witnesses, and we are denied access to that process, we start hearing that in palm beach county, there are situations where they are

actually taking steps that are outside of the public domain, that they are divining voter intent, when that is the exclusive providence of the canvassing board, and putting those as recorded votes instead of bringing them to the canvassing board for their determination of public process, we should all be very concerned. >> laura: they have to be verified by the proper channels, not just a defined -- attention divine. by the way, gillum's campaign put out a tweet, the gillam campaign is looking for volunteers to help cure leftover ballots. what does that mean, barry, since you will talk about your client? procure leftover ballots, what does that mean, barry? >> procure leftover ballots? >> laura: that is what your campaign sent out, what does that mean? >> i don't know what that means. >> laura: you represent someone, you don't know what that means. okay. >> i don't know what it means because i don't know what that

reference was to come it is not something i am involved in pit are not trying be difficult for you, but what i was asked to come on the show, it was to address the differences between the 2000 campaign -- >> laura: we got it, that is the point you made earlier. >> you are asking me questions that are beyond -- >> laura: i'm sorry, i didn't know you were so sensitive about -- >> i'm not sensitive. listen, i'm not a political spokesman. i'm a lawyer who represents clients. want to ask me about that, i'm happy to respond. >> laura: this is your client, i imagine, talking about -- >> you asked me what a statement meant when he said "cure ballots," that is not a legal term -- >> laura: we appreciate it. gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us. after already sending liberal oa tizzy, we will tell you what acg attorney general matt whitaker just dropped that has left even the most unhinged more unhinged.

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>> are we approaching a constitutional crisis? >> i think we're on the verge of the bat. i think it is a big mistake to let jeff sessions go. what raises my concerns is the person who has been so vocal against the investigation that was going on, now putting in charge a day after the election. i think that sheds a bad light on it. >> laura: joe manchin is obviously feeling pretty comfortable since his reelection, but his contention is a shared among left and maybe a centering class, may be that jeff sessions of forced resignation as attorney general, and matt whitaker's ascension to this acting role, poses a constitutional threat to the

country and imperils mueller's investigation. here to separate fact from fiction, james trustee, and former u.s. assistant attorney david katz. james, i want to start with you. kelly conway's husband, george, that this was an illegal appointment in the acting capacity of mr. whitaker. >> load, this is all new territory, we can pretend that there is a vivid example to make their case, but there are scholars, and there are may be more politically oriented scholars getting out there and saying the fact that this is a nonsenate confirmed person renders him ineligible. i think there is a whole bunch of the corollary issues when it comes to the mueller probe and rod rosenstein, but some people are reporting they think this invalidates the constitution. i >> laura: this is what conway and neil could tell right in today's "new york times." "mr. trump's installation of

whitaker to the attorney general, anything he tries to do in that position is invalid paired constitutionally, whitaker is a nobody, his job as chief of staff for mr. sessions did not require confirmation. to install him as the chief law enforcement officer is to betray the entire structure of our charter documents. david. >> laura, it is great to be on with you again. the person that i would quote on this is justice thomas, justice thomas wrote a very incisive decision where he said that framers of the constitution recognized that there is a great risk of corruption and abuse. if one person could name all of the top officers in government. in this situation, that refers to president trump. of course, what justice thomas was referring to was that the framers had great experience with kings and other people, who at the time didn't have any check on their power, so i am

with justice thomas on this one, i'm worried about this issue. i think everyone should be worried about this issue of the president appointing a principal officer. he could appoint whitaker and nominate him, and the senate, which is republican, including the lame duck session, 51 republican senators they just approved cavanaugh kavanaugh, m nominate this man, whitaker, and let him have a senate confirmation hearing if he thinks he is really the person for the job. but not in this manner. in this matter, laura, rosenstein in there, or has to put the solicitor general in there. >> laura: first of all, nice to try on justice thomas, but you are making a massive leap from that case and a general statement about the government to a specific case involving a specific acting attorney general. we don't have time to debate that, that was cute, though. james, let's talk about what is really going on, adam schiff --

look, for them, it is mueller, mueller, mueller. notice we did not talk about mueller it all in the midterms, but now the midterms are over, said i was back to russia, russia, russia. they are worried about whitaker saying things on cnn before it seem more hostile to the idea of mueller. this is what adam schiff said today, let's watch. >> if he doesn't recuse himself, any decision he makes in the mueller investigation is going to have a taint about it. it did he, was he, forced somehow to make a commitment to the president to ignore the advice of lawyers at the justice department, or not to seek out their advice? was that part of his getting the job? because this president is guided by one thing alone, and that is what is good for donald trump, the country doesn't matter that much. >> laura: ignore the pejorative -- that is just typical adam schiff. he is making the conway point about, okay, anything he does is

invalid. it today, they announced a new rule for what they want to be the new rules on the migrants coming in, specifically a change to asylum law. it jeff sessions was all on board on all of this, by the way, but that you have to represent yourself at a port of entry, not just coming across te border and saying i want asylum. is that what they are setting up your? anything whitaker is a part of, no? >> they are setting up a situation where they are inviting litigation at every step of the way. for the mueller pro, the key is still rosenstein, a superior officer, if he has any voice, there is really no issue in terms of the appointments clause. but if they clean house, if rosenstein leaves, then you have a viable issue of whether he loses inferior office status and becomes subject to all sorts of motions to dismiss, or subpoenas. it is inviting litigation, but

nobody can act like this is essentially -- that the capital is on fire and we're about to lose our democracy. >> laura: david, real quick, a friend of mine mentioned it to me today, it would have been a neato move it to have trump name rod rosenstein to acting attorney general peered his already overseeing the russia investigation, they seem to be getting along, could have done that, right? >> laura, he would be the logical choice, there is no question, he was nominated and approved by the senate. likewise, the solicitor general -- a good candidate and would be a proper person. but i think, i think that they should litigate this issue, and i think that they will. and i do think that justice thomas would be with the people, in accordance with the national labor relations board at case, which is a recent decision, that president trump would not do this. and i think that he should pull back and may be put rosenstein

in there, he would be a good choice, why not if they are getting along? >> laura: on a car thanks guys come appreciate it. i'm next, breaking new development in the mass shooting in california. inside a barfield with college students for country not, a sheriff's deputy. one of his former coworkers joins me next.

>> our friends got the barstools against the windows so we could get out. so we were able to get out come out and broke the window. >> laura: tonight, police are still trying to determine the motive of that gunman that opened fired inside a california bar, killing a dozen people, including a sheriff deputy. the terrifying ordeal caught on camera, sergeant a ron helus was one of the first to enter the borderline of bar and grill and

was shot and killed. he is being hailed as a hero for saving lives last night. >> sergeant helus was on the force for 29 years, looking to retire in the next year or so, he died a hero, he went in to save lives. to save other people. >> laura: joining me now is a man who knows sergeant helus while, who worked with officer helus. the sheriff's department is grieving tonight, and we are -- i feel like we do this way too often, but we are so sorry for your loss. what an amazing man, and you are such a good friend of officer helus. or tell us about him as a person tonight. >> well, he was a great man. i worked with him when i first graduated the police academy, and he was a great sergeant, he was always there for us, they are to lead us. there to guide us.

great man. >> laura: how is his family doing tonight? i know -- at the heart ache will never go away, really. any word on his family? >> no, they are still dealing with it. as tough as you can imagine it is. >> laura: tell us what you know about what happened in this bar, a former marine combat officer or enlistee, i guess, goes in there, really fun college night, great hang out for some of the pepperdine students and others to turn into a bloodbath, what do we know? >> we receive phone calls, 911 dispatch center received phone calls last night, sergeant helus responded, when he got to the borderline, there were trico officers rendering aid it to one

of the victims. as they were rendering aid, they heard sergeant helus -- heard shop fires, so he grabbed one of the officers, and they entered the borderline, and when they entered, sergeant helus was struck multiple times. the officer grabbed a sergeant and pulled him out to a safer location, and later he was transferred to row slow brace medical center, and succumbed to his injuries. >> laura: another active -- >> a really tough time for all of us here. >> laura: senseless violence. a man reportedly dealing with some obviously ptsd, mental issues, had some fairly minor brushes with the law. anything else on your radar about the gunman who killed himself, tonight, anything more that we know? >> we responded in april of this year, that is the only other

contact we had with the suspect. we responded to his house for a family disturbance, and the deputies contacted the crisis intervention team. they responded, they evaluated the suspect, and didn't deem that he was a danger to himself or others, and he was released from the scene. that is the only other contact we had with him. he >> laura: do you know if he had gun permits, he was clearing a glock 45, i guess, did he have a permit for that. >> i'm not aware if he had a permanent or not. >> laura: deputy, thank you so much. the investigation is ongoing, i know, we will learn a lot more in the future. it deputy, thank you so much, we agree with all of you, and we will continue to pray for you, your whole community, all of the survivors, the victims, our hearts break for you. >> thank you. >> laura: mark fuhrman, former l.a. homicide detective,

fox news contributor, mark, another soft target, tragically exploited last night, gun fire, 12 dad, what is the first step to maybe, can we add or protectg forward, this is just what we are going to have to deal with? >> a soft target where the suspect is actually one of the regular customers makes it almost impossible. he is known to security -- security is not armed. security was taken out immediately by the suspect, and then he went inside and took out more security so he could actually do what he wanted inside the bar. it is pretty tough to create a harder target out of a restaurant or a bar where people can walk in and out, even with security. i kind of wonder his motive. this is where a lot of survivors from the las vegas shooting

actually congregated and actually were celebrating life, and i'm sure it was well known who they wear. if they there that night. of the shooting. and i kind of wonder if this was not possibly something to do with the motive for the suspect. >> laura: it is being reported on now, we are learning may be information about some of the victims, one in particular who survived, obviously las vegas, succumbed to injuries last night. mark, when i hear about the sergeant, he was the first one to go in with another police officer, and he went in there, because that is what you do when you hear gunshots, went in immediately, and was almost immediately apparently hit multiple times. when he go into a situation like that, you hear gunfire, you walk in -- tell us what you are trained to do and why you are trained to do it.

>> certainly you don't want to walk in directly into fire, you want to somewhat flank any entry, if you can. we can just only imagine, a bar usually has a rear exit through the kitchen or the back of the restaurant or the back of the bar, and had a front entrance. that is where the direction of the fire was coming from, and unfortunately, because of all of the school shootings, the only tactic that you can actually use if you are a first responder is you have to go to the shooting to try to stop the mass murder. if you just wait and set up a perimeter and weight, the suspet is continually killing people, and this is where the tactic comes up. so the sergeant and the chp officer had to go to the only location where they could gain entry, and i'm sure he, they tactically tried to enter, but once they did, he was fataly

shot. that creates a tactical nightmare when you have only one way in, and you have to go in. when you talk about bravery, knowing that you are going in to a hot scene with an active shooter, and there is only one place that you can go in and only one place the suspect has to focus on, that concentrates of the fire in one location, where you are going in. >> laura: you just walk right into it, which it sounds like he did, what an incredible man and a horrific story paired mark fuhrman, you always give us such great perspective. thank you so much tonight. president trump called him out by name yesterday, and tonight, the establishment is fighting back. sean spicer, cory lewandowski are here with a message for a few of the sore losers. don't go away.

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that, but he somehow falsely suggested that if they would have attached themselves closer to him, they would have done better. i would make the argument they would have done worse. >> laura: what a shame that he is retiring from pennsylvania 6, that personality. what did two of the president's former staffers think of all of this? joining me now, former press secretary sean spicer, former trump campaign advisor, cory love and i was. cory, i watch this ryan castella on the usn csn today, and i std howling. he retired after two terms, oh, the president is being mean, he is the one who dragged the whole party down. if it wasn't for president trump, we would be dealing with hillary in the midterms. >> you are exactly right, and people have a very short memory because donald trump carried so many across the finish line just a few years ago. i can think of four members of

the u.s. senate and thousands of congress, who wouldn't have been reelected if trump wasn't on the ticket. look where the candidates embraced donald trump in missouri, north dakota, south dakota, both of the major races in florida, so many other places, kentucky 6, andy barr, when they brought donald trump in, said come in and help us, mr. president, mr. vice president, and help us, we want to run with you, those people are coming back to washington because the embraced the trump-pentz agenda, those that didn't, they are going home. >> laura: there are some tougher districts, south florida, he said -- this is a tweet he sent out, "so yesterday, donald trump stated that had i been more aligned with him, i may have one back. let's check, i lost florida 26, 49-51 paired my colleague, desantis, closely allied with the president, lost 46-53." i don't know what he is talking about loss, 46-53, i think he is

saying it is a small difference -- it is not a big difference. so the idea that trump somehow -- his distance from trump and some issues caused the loss, i mean, he is representing a fairly purpleish district. >> that is right. i think this election was, in particular, a base election. energizing our side or the nancy pelosi/top, chuck schumer side. he showed in those final few days in those battleground states, he was going to energize the base. the kavanaugh stuff got people going, he was talking about what was at stake and the result he was getting. when you coming to an election like this, getting the base fired up, getting the enthusiasm gap close, a month ago that the democrats closed a 12-point enthusiasm gap, it isn't because of the president that that cap closed. >> laura: romney tweeted out something kind of interested ig

after the midterms. he said the following. i want to thank jeff sessions for his service to our country as attorney general appeared under acting attorney general whitaker, it is important that the important work the doj continue and the mueller investigation continues to its conclusion unimpeded paired what did you make of that? >> this is made romney injecting himself into the washington scene. i think is ultimately going to be a thorn in the side of the president for a long time. joe manchin, the one who made the speech -- then candidate trump was not qualified, changed his tune when running for the senate, and are to washington, d.c., i heard he was shopping for a an apartment today in washington today. the president has been cleared, bob mueller is going to finish of the investigation, but you can't have an investigation that goes on in perpetuity. let the american people see what i already know, there was no coordination with the russians

in any way, shape, or form by our campaign. let's end this investigation we can get on with the people's business. >> laura: sean, i know it -- >> i think one of the things that is forgotten, the underlying premise of why the president fired sessions was because of the sessions misled him, frankly. sessions took a job took a -- o be the faithful steward and leader of a department. shortly after taking the job, recused himself, thereby not able to be the true, full leader that he was appointing to attorney general. everyone jumping to conclusions about what this mean for mueller, but we have seen from the president's words, actions, and tweets, for the past year, the stems from a level of disappointment and how jeff sessions presented himself for the job in the first place. >> laura: a session to people telling me in the last couple of days -- he didn't know the campaign was being investigated until after, of course, that reasserts to the president,

until he gets in, dear jay. he could have said he wasn't going to recuse, but on the investigation, on the campaign, once that wasn't part of the investigation, that is -- again, that is what i am being told, and it kind of makes sense to me. nevertheless, made romney, god bless you, are you setting up a 2020 challenge to president trump is my question. great to see you as always, coming up, racial politics have been an issue that is animating the left of the entire cycle. not done yet peered wait until you you here what bernie sanders said about white voters in florida and georgia. that coming up next. for pre-black friday hot buys! like new natural reflections ladies' zip fleece jackets starting at under $15. plus bass pro outdoor and kids' watches for under $10.

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♪ >> laura: here's what bernie sanders thinks about florida and georgia voters.

"there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable about whether or not they wanted to vote for an african-american." joining us now with reaction, project 21 cochair cloris cooper. your reaction. >> if everything is racism, nothing is racism. people who voted for mack barack obama now wanted to vote for donald trump. people who voted republican, they voted democrat, that is how people make choices. calling them out as bigots are somehow uncomfortable, it sets us all back. >> laura: everything seems to be hit with the hour the are wt hits with the challenger who is a minority or an incumbent was a minority race will be involved. >> these are southern states, there's only been two black

elected governors, slavery, racism is our original sin here. there is a region that doj had clearance in these states until the voting rights act was eviscerated. i've run for office, i've had people call me the n-word at their door, i've had people invite me in. it exists in our country, you see abrams and gillam and other others, things are changing, it exists but it's a dichotomy in america. >> if you come up with an extremist progressive agenda, it doesn't matter what your color is there going to reject you. >> laura: they did medicaid expansion, marijuana. >> or work lost in texas for the same kind of reason. you can't be an extremist and win. let's have a real conversation. >> laura: the problem is when

you call someone racist that ends the conversation. you don't deserve a debate if you're a racist. >> i don't think he said they were racist. but racism exists. >> racism is not explaining the elections that are happening in the united states of america. we just watched. it is not a factor, that is ridiculous. >> laura: we are going to do a whole show on this topic and you guys have to be on. we want you and three other people for the hour and we are going to take it out of washington, thank you so much for joining us. right back with some news that just broke, stay right there. we all want more time with our dads, brothers, partners,

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this is going to be a big one, i was reading the wrong tweet. one more point, we're almost out of time. tonight, a montana federal district court judge, unobama appointee, put a temporary hold on the keystone pipeline saying the justification for it was incomplete. i didn't have to ask for the judge was and i knew it wasn't t obama appointee. it's going to go to the ninth circuit. shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team will never read that the wrong tweet. >> shannon: it might happen. we were never at a loss to imagine what's going to happen, the ninth circuit were going to watch. >> laura: you are so great, you are the best and i can't wait for you to unpack this for us and i'm going to be watching your show tonight. >> shannon: thank you.