♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. the most controversial battles of the 2018 midterms are being fought right now in florida. a constant stream of votes has been chipping away at scott's lead. there's plenty of reason to be

suspicious o of that as well. broward county has a long history of electoral problems. two years later, primary election of the county was a disaster, with broken voting machines, uncounted ballots, no-show poll workers. 2003, more than 17,000 mail-in votes were returned as undeliverable. in 2004 county officials grossly mishandled absentee battle -- ballots. in 2016 the county was sued once again. they were caught illegally destroying ballots. the woman responsible for that is still in charge of counting broward's votes today, and that is mind-boggling. yesterday on this program marco rubio denounced the whole

process. today president trump joined in on the attack. >> if you look at broward county, they have had a horrible history. and if you look at the person, in this case, a woman, involved, she has had a horrible history. and all of a sudden they're finding votes out of nowhere. there's bad things that have gone on in broward county, really bad things. >> and the president's off in paris now. various members of the press are concerned in possible fraud. >> you actually have republicans, marco rubio, in the fevered swamp of conspiracy theories. >> can you be a little bit less obvious? >> this is third world country stuff coming from the republican party. >> listening to rick scott, his primary evidence is that his voter margin is going down, which seems to be an indication

that he's not getting as many votes as he would like. >> we see the exact opposite what he's describing. >> but it's republicans that are really showing voter suppression. craig patrick senior a political editor and investigator. he's covered politics in the area in florida for many years. it's always florida. and again we're back in broward county. what's the latest? i'm sure you spoke to the scott cam too. i just spoke to them ten minutes ago. a judge said 7:00 eastern time, i want all the ballots to the scott camp. they got them. they called it a document dump. it's not actual documents. it came to them in terabytes.

>> if you're looking at why these ballots keep trickling in the, vote count keeps coming up, this is coming from provisional ballots across the state. people showed up at the wrong precinct, maybe didn't have their id, or vote by mail. but it is absolutely southeast florida and broward county. you gave a great summary of the problems broward county has endured, but the list goes on and on. you're talking about a county that forgot to print a marijuana -- democrats concerned that maybe a goo goofy ballot may have caused people to overlooked the senate

race. then you have the scott camp, rubio and others looking at broward county's recent history of breaking the law, illegally destroying ballots, raising suspicions in their minds as well. once again, it's all about florida and it's all focused on southeast florida. >> now, so 30 minutes after the polls closed, they're supposed to submit all their ballots. they didn't. for a republican candidate to win and then to hear about uncounted ballots and see their lead dissipate knowing they broke the rules already, why is that voter suppression? you just can't have votes coming in for weeks. the kids had off from school for a reason. it was election day. >> the democratic position would be because of the blunders that

exist in broward county, that go way back in time under the leadership of snipes, they have qualms with long-running blunders that they say have affected democrats and republicans alike. and again, they point to what they think may be either a machine calibration issue or a funky design of a ballot, in which case a race like this one can be easily overlooked. this is something that's going to come out in the wash. we will find out in the course of a recount if there is something to that or not. >> and evidently at the bottom left you would know you voted. there was a lot more interested it seems in the governor's race. they're going to look for another statewide count. but we're not talking about 500

votes. we're talking about 14,000 votes and over 30,000 votes in the governor's election. unbelievable. thank so much. >> thank you. >> meanwhile, protesters in florida are denouncing snipes. people going crazy. the broward county supervisor of elections.] [chanting] >> so who is brenda snipes and why is she provoking such a strong reaction? why does she still have a job? lisa boothe. so, lisa, who is this woman? >> well, she was appointed by jeb bush in 2003, but she is a democrat and she has been

elected ever since. broward county is the second-most populous county in the state. it is also most democrat. the miami herald called broward county the most controversial in florida. in 2004 she failed to send out i think it was something like 50,000 absentee ballots. but also just look at what happened in this year alone. a judge just ruled that she was in violation of public record laws from florida for not fulfills rick scott's campaigns request. you also go back to may and a federal just found that she was in violation of state and federal law for illegally destroying ballots in regards to a 2016 primary. and mind you, the destroying of these ballots happen in the

midst of a lawsuit she was facing regarding public records requests regarding those ballots. so that's kind of sketchy. and then you go back to august and a judge ruled in favor of the florida gop that she was privately looking at absentee ballots so that they couldn't be contested and looked at by other people. a judge ruled in favor of a florida gop regarding that. >> 2016, that was actually the same primary where she got in trouble for destroying the ballots. there's been a whole thing, even dating back to 2004, that she has received criticism over, and it's not just republicans. >> not only is she doing a bad job. almost anybody else in the state could be doing a better job. i asked why isn't she fired. they said it's a lot harder to

fire somebody if they're elected. it's a little different there. bottom line is that's where the focus is. it's an extremely blue area. you cannot blame the scott camp for being wovrtd. >> worried. >> he could have removed her for incompetence. there's a precedent for that. i think it's very clear she's incompetent and there's a lot of questions. >> let's see. tomorrow, saturday at noon we're supposed to get the totals. >> thank you. have a good night. >> events in florida evoke another high-stakes race nearly two decades ago. could democrats be seeking a more successful replay of that election.

and more recently, sued broward county's election supervisor for not adhering to federal law. were they ahead of their time? it's not before the 11th circuit court of appeals. can i laugh when other networks or channels or commentators saying the republicans are trying to repress the vote? what are you talking about? the voting day is over. they're the ones who didn't hit the bar they were supposed to. they say the republicans are being aggressive trying to change a verdict. rick scott was up by 40,000. >> oh, absolutely. look, the forces on the left, the democrats and their allies are trying to push this to what i call within the margin of litigation. they are manufacturing voters and they're doing it with an

architect superintendent snipes who has a record of gross incompetence and fraud. and it's a shame that she's still in this position, given the fact that through her own admission she lacks the management skills to provide an election that has integrity and has the confidence of the voters. brian, look, at the end of the day, what's going on now is akin to a banana republic and a failed state. and that's a shame because the people of florida, the legitimate voters who came out and voted cannot have their legitimate ballots negated by corruption, fraud, and voters who are being manufactured. >> you're one of the few people

that i'm going to be speaking to tonight and for the next few weeks that knew how bad this was before the election and actually took action against it. how do we get to the point that she still had a job? that 65 other counties got their act together and this one still hangs in the balance? >> well, look, let me go to the bible on this one. in john 3, there's a saying. those who would do evil love the darkness. we have been pushing and pushing for transparency and there has been a great resistance to that transparency. and so in the shallows, we are now witnessing the manufacturing of voters. we're seeing a welcome mat to voters without borders. and as a consequence, what we have now at risk is the integrity of the election that could change the course of governance in america.

>> well, the documents did come in, as the judge demanded today. they do not know how many ba ballots. >> we still do not have the overseas and military ballots. that's typical. we don't know if we're going to have to dip into them. >> absolutely, brian. the great vince lombardi. his teams never lost a game. sometimes the clock just ran out of them. broward county is basically saying they don't lose elections because they don't let the clock run out until they manufacture the voters they need to win the election. that's just crazy. >> two quotes you gave me. john and vince lombardi. hopefully we'll get a resolve to this. meanwhile, florida is not the only election that went haywire at the last minute.

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♪ >> all right. on tuesday night it looked like republican mcsally managed to win. but just like florida, more votes have been surfacing and trending heavily democratic.

president trump weighed in today. >> now in arizona all of the sudden out of the wilderness they find a lot of votes. the other candidate is just winning by a hair. >> now we're joined by trace gallagher. i understand she's expanded her lead up to over 21,000 today, is that correct? >> it is. it's all about the mail-in ballots and where they fall. in arizona if the signature on the mail-in ballot does not appear to match the signature on the envelope, then election -- but maricopa and pima counties were allowing ballots to be cured after the election. so republicans sued to stop the process, saying calling voters after election day is a violation of state law. they argued that if some counties were allowed to cure ballots for several days after the election, then all counties

had to be allowed to do the same thing. and today a judge agreed, giving the entire state until november 14th to end the so-called curing of ballots. experts applauded the oversight but say it really should only affect a small number of votes. though it is very highly unlikely that a new election will happen in arizona. brian. >> well, we might have to wait until next wednesday, right, trace? >> exactly, next wednesday, the 14th, you should find out by 7:00 eastern time exactly what the final count should be. >> i know you're occupied with the fire raging through southern california. thank you. i appreciate it. chris hahn joins us right now. so i don't really see much of a

scandal in arizona. the more people i talk to from arizona say this is kind of the way we do things. i understand, chris, she does have to tighten her belt because the ballots are up to 470,000 uncounted. and some of them are in strong red areas. how do you expect this to go? >> i expect her to win. most of the outstanding ballots are either in her congressional district opening statement maricopa county, which is the home of the biggest city in arizona. she is going to win this election. i think most republican strategists feel the same. they're just counting the ballots out there. i know the president's trying to put a spin on it, but no, they're counting. that's what they do after an election. they have mail-ins there. the worst thing you want is a close election. we're in an instant

gratification culture and we're just going to have to be patient. >> if you're rick scott, do you blame him for being ticked off today. he's looking at broward county and he cannot believe that that county and palm county are the two ones that don't get close to doing what they're supposed to do again, that is telling how many people voted 30 minutes after the poll. the other counties, no problem. >> if i'm rick scott, i'm tha thanking broward county. i'm pretty sure that they weren't excited about agriculture commissioner. he should be thanking them, not using the power of his office to try to intimidate election workers who have until tomorrow to submit their results.

he got access to those ballots and i think we should let it play out. they're going to count all the votes. and really the margin of victory might be those 25,000 ballots. i don't like that incompetence at all. but i don't think there's a lot of dubious activity with counting the votes. but there is dubious activity when the governor of the state of florida utilizes his office to intimidate those workers and then conservatives send a mob to protest outside as they're trying to do their job. >> and by the way, chris, i don't know if you have a monitor there, but we're splitting with a live shot of fort lauderdale as they ask, how did we get into this mess again? when you look at this, if you're rick scott, i don't know what he can do from county to county, but in broward county, which is mostly blue, they have been riddled with problems. in 2000 we know what they did.

in 2016, chris, that closed and posted the election results 30 minutes before the election actually ended, while the polls were still open in the county. they have been a mess. so right now they're holding everything up. so if you look at what they're doing, they're the ones who missed their deadline. >> yeah, look, the deadline's tomorrow at noon. and they're going to -- hopefully they'll make that deadline. and remember, that's one of the biggest counties in florida. these small counties where they seem to go overwhelmingly for scott, they don't have as many people at broward. so there's a reason why this takes a little bit longer. and hopefully they get it done right. but we need a uniform system so this doesn't happen. >> let's go down to broward county and make them drill days before to get it done. there are bigger counties with more ballots and they're able to pull it off. you know who's getting rich?

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>> all right. president trump has landed in

paris. it will mark the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. and the president kind of ticked off, tweeted angerly about french president. very insulting. but perhaps europe should pay its fair share of nato, which the u.s. subsidizes greatly. we'll continue to cover the president's visit to france throughout the weekend. meanwhile with the 2018 midterms over, in coordinated rallies across the country, last night protesters turned out to protest in support of mueller investigation and against the firing of their new idol sessions. >> we now have a state of emergency within the state of

emergency. this has gotten very dangerous. >> this is a national emergency. i don't think you can overstate the gravity of this situation. this is the time to maybe take to the streets. >> this is worse than watergate. >> he has been absolutely outrages in the way he has called names, threatened, and promoting himself all the time. he wants to act like a dictator. >> get used to that voice for the next two years. so this guy's temporary. he's going to be acting. the president's going to talk to a few people, make him attorney general, try to get him confirmed. >> there is no problem with matt whitaker. when are we going to learn as

conservatives to ignore these loony tunes. they move from one outrage campaign to the next. it's an endless outrage campaign. there's nothing wrong with whitaker. the fact that whitaker made commentary on cable news about a case everybody was talking about does not disqualify him from acting impartially. i want to make sure everybody gets that on the record so now he cannot be appointed to a position in the future either. please just ignore this stuff. it's nonsense. >> so what they're saying is whittaker going to come in and say things like the president's finances -- you say, well, i'm a citizen and i'm allowed to have an opinion. whitaker's a citizen and allowed to have an opinion. in his opinion, the mueller investigation going through the president's finances is a no-go zone. now he's in charge. and people worry he's going to

collapse the mueller investigation. the president has held back on mueller for two years. so why would he stop now? >> you know what's hysterical about this? he had an opinion. so did andy wiseman, who emailed sally yates. he's investigating. and i get it. you just told us that you're not allowed to have an opinion or you're conflict ed. whitaker said something perfectly practical. the mueller investigation in the probe was designed to probe russian collusion. there's nothing in there about trump's finances and business deal. this is just another outrage campaign. ignore these people. >> who would you like to see and who do you think the president will put in that spot in pam bondi from your state.

i note the president respects her. chris christie was there yesterday. let me throw something out there. i would love to see ted cruz. you get a solid constitutional conservative who will never fall. this guy is principles. we love him. you get an open seat in texas. we'll get beto number two. they'll waste all their money and time and we win again in texas. i think it's a great plan. >> in your opinion, is the president looking back at the whitaker controversy and letting it worry him in paris today? >> i don't think so. of course he's probably paying attention to it. be you the president's gotten very good at ignoring far-left outrage campaigns. it'll blow over by next week. these rallies are ridiculous. now they love sessions. i'm getting confused about the left. >> i was amazed because 8,000 people got together in new york

to protest the firing of sessions. >> chill out with the outrage campaigns. please take the weekend off. you take the weekend off. you're in every show today. what's going on? >> and i'm so glad you didn't wear a tie. i regret wearing a tie. >> i'm sorry but i can't do it. i can't even make a tie. >> thanks, dan. thanks for your service. meanwhile, the migrant caravan is still on its way north and president trump is preparing for its rival. his executive order and the story that will handle this caravan is coming your way. watch as we take a wideshot. - at afor the financialt's time world to stop acting

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>> i just signed the >> i just signed the proclamation on asylum. very important. people can come in but they have to come in through the ports of

entry. >> it's a good thing the president stopped before he went to paris. he had a lot to say. the caravan is still snaking towards the u.s. border. now president trump is responding to its approach by tightening u.s. asylum laws. i'm very curious about this. in a proclamation signed this morning, the president says nobody caught illegally entering the u.s. will be allowed to claim asylum after the fact. they'll never be citizens. a former immigration policy judge. tell us what this proclamation says. >> the executive order actually bars the entry of individuals who are entering the united states illegally to the united states. >> so he's saying if you try to sneak in and you go and you claim asylum, if you don't go to the port of entry, you're never

going to be a citizen. so you better go to the port of entry. and then we'll hear what you have to say and see if it adds up to the level that we accept you for asylum, right? >> that's correct. and the president is attempting to channel everybody who has a credible fear claim through those ports of entry so they can enter in an orderly and legal fashion rather than sneaking across the border. it puts huge stress on the 16,000 border patrol agents who patrol the 1900 miles of the border every day and it makes the system break down. quite frankly, this is the best possible solution that we could have, to have those people go through the port of entry. it'll also give those people encouragements to apply to mexico. >> i read that in the last fiscal year, 140,000 central and

south americans have come to this country illegally. some will say this takes forever. the process is going to be so long, the word is going to get out that it's not going to be easy to get into this country anymore and it'll have a positive ripple effect. >> that's exactly the hope. right now we're seeing about 2,000 people a day apprehended. and that's even before the caravan of individuals from the northern countries. you can imagine how much worse it'll be when they do make it to the country. and the president is attempting to proactively funnel those individuals to the port entry where they can be processed in an orderly fashion. do it the wrong way and blow it. you're never going to be a citizen. there is something called spared

from deportation by qualifying for a lesser status. we'll see if this can withstand a legal challenge. what you told me in the break is very creative. this is a very well thought out provision. >> i really think that the president has had the experience of having his own executive orders and proclamations subject that many layers of judicial review. and i think they've done a very good job of crafting this one to sustain these challenges. >> and the aclu will be there to contest it. thank you so much. let's move ahead. after a disapointing midterm, the left is attacking women based on their race. that story is next. plus, tucker is back after the break. he'll breakdown the midterm results with joe lieberman. and i'll be going on my book tour. then vero beach on saturday.

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>> here we go, the florida mess continues and the confusion reigns. we have just gotten word that palm beach county will defy a court order that by 7:00 tonight may must give the scott camp all the ballots so they know how many people voted in their county. this is what's happening in palm county right now. excuse me, this is broward county. in palm beach county they're just flat out refusing to

comply. so if you're upset with palm county because they're not following the rules, like broward county broke the rules but at least they complied with the court order today. palm beach county is not. scott will have a statement shortly. tuesday's midterms didn't turn into the blue wave democrats were hoping for. on "the view" joy behar says republican women are too stupid to vote for anyone else. >> the women that like him say he is a protector, that he protects -- >> their way of life. >> they don't know the difference between a predator and a protector. >> meanwhile, in one vogue article it blasted white women.

white women voters are establishing themselves as maddeningly, confusingly on sisterly. chelsea handler tweeted this, 59% of white women voted for ted cruz. we need to vote for the best interest of others and stop thinking about ourselves. i am not deep enough to follow that. ally, make sense of this. >> we hear this a lot, not just in regards to white women, but if you're a conservative, if you're a republican, you're not just wrong but you're a bad person. and right now we're hearing that especially about white women because they tend to vote for republican candidates. and what the left, and particularly leftist feminists, cannot understand is that it's not that we're voting against the sisterhood or women's interests.

it's that we have different values that we do think are our in our best interest. we are pro life, pro second amendme amendment, pro secure borders. they're just our values. >> i don't even feel comfortable reading the intro to this segment. i don't believe comfortable saying white women, black women. we keep segments ourselves. it's all counterproductive. >> i feel completely uncomfortable writing the term "white women" in the article i wrote, but it's just using the leftist terminology. what we see increasingly is that they insist upon judging people by the color of their skin, their political affiliation, and their sex, rather than the content of their character. so rather than talking to someone like me about my values, they say, you're white, you're wrong because you're a republican, and because you're a women, you're also a traitor.

>> it's because they don't feel -- white people don't feel comfortable voting for a black person, but eventually they will. how wrong is that to say, to write, to think? >> of course there are no statistics whatsoever backing that up. again, i don't like talking about people based on the color of their skin. but i'm sure most white people would say, i'm going to vote for someone based on my values. i don't care what their religion or skin color is. but that's not true on the left. >> have a great weekend. thanks so much. >> all right. we forge ahead. after tuesday's midterms, tucker sat down with joe lieberman. here's his conversation with independent joe. >> senator, thanks a lot for joining us tonight. >> i'm delighted, tucker. good to be back with you. >> thank you. so as the results were coming in last night and it was clear that

the democrats were going to retake the house of representatives and predicted. do you think that's the mandate of this election? >> i don't. whether they go for the president's tax returns or not is up to them, but that certainly shouldn't be their priority. i want to give you my personal perspective. i'm the chairman of a group called no labels. we've been working to encourage bipartisanship in congress. and this year for the first time we actually got into campaigns of people who were part of what we call the problem solvers caucus. we raised over $15 million. 23 of them won. and the democrats who won, which i think is why the democrats now control the house, were actually

more moderate independent-minded problem solvers. so i don't think they're going to go to congress to get president trump's tax returns. i think they're going to go to try to get something done for their constituents and their country. >> and i think all of us hope that that happens. >> yes. >> but it does raise the question, who's in charge of the democratic party? so is that caucus bigger? >> i don't think there are many people who are -- exactly where she is. basically wants the government to take over a lot of the economy. but what worried me when she was elected, tucker, was that a lot of people, including some potential democratic presidential candidates, began

to run after some of the positions she was taking, including calling for the abolition now of i.c.e., the immigration and customs enforcement agency. i mean, that's ridiculous. how can you -- you may disagree with its policies, but how cuff a country where there's no group enforcing immigration and customs laws? so i think this is -- what happened yesterday is -- was good for democrats and the house, but it's also a warning. i think they regained the majority by running more moderate candidates in suburbs. and moderate democrats actually lost in the senate. and that showed, i think, some strength in president trump, who worked hard to defeat a lot of those moderate democrats. so there's good news and bad news and warnings for both parties here. and the last thing the democratic party should do if it

wants to have a chance to win the presidential election in 2020 is to follow after congresswom congresswom congresswoman ocasio-cortez. >> i don't know how many democratic strategists watch this show. i hope all of them. and i hope they write down your advice. it's good to see you tonight. >> thanks, tucker. good to be with you. >> meanwhile, more breaking news out of florida. we're going to go back to florida. don't move. ame? try citrucel. it gently relieves occasional constipation by absorbing water to make stools easier to pass, without causing excess gas or bloating. help relieve occasional constipation with citrucel. for just fifteen ninety-nine at red lobster. you get all the shrimp you want, any way you want them. and now savory parmesan shrimp scampi is back! new sesame-ginger shrimp is here, too.

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broward county and palm beach county for better access to observe the process. the judge agreed, the palm beach council is appealing. asking for a stay. we should know more tomorrow. >> stay on it. i know you will. tucker will be back on monday. it is awesome. go to tuckercarlson.com. >> welcome to this special edition of "hannity." a crisis is mounting in southern florida. after desantis and rick scott secured their race, thousands of ballots appearing out of thin air all in deep blue democratic districts only. since election night over 15,000 new votes have been unearthed in palm beach county. tens and thousands more mysteriously discovered in broward county. al