[national anthem] ♪ >> razor thin margins in florida's midterm races as the state braces for recounts. >> if you look at broward county, they have had a horrible history. they are finding votes out of nowhere. and rick scott who won by, you know, it was close, but he won by a comfortable margin, every couple of hours it goes down a little bit. >> this is widespread incompetence. we still don't know on friday, after a tuesday election, how many votes were even cast. >> we have to assume they are noare doing it for fraud to try to steal the election. >> president trump arrived

in frank's ahead of a weekend full of ceremonies to celebrate 100 years since the end of world war i. >> we have much in common in many ways. more ways than people would understand. >> devastating wildfires ripping across california with nine confirmed deaths. >> turned out to protest in support of mueller investigation and against the firing of their new idol jeff sessions. >> mueller was not senate-confirmed so he is doing a report. he wasn't senate-confirmed. whitaker was senate confirmed. >> this is a surprise, huh? ♪ ♪ let's go ♪ katie: good morning. ed: i thought last weekend we were here. tuesday is the big election. and that's when everyone is going to count the votes. that's when it is all going down on tuesday. katie: still happening, ed.

ed: here it is sawght. remember "the washington post." fresh verdict to be rendered on the president. they said president's agenda center of fight. as the verdict came in he did pretty well. pete: he did. shame on us thinking election night is election night. we have seen plenty of times before. especially in florida. ed: they are having issues in florida. pete: they are still finding ballots from 2,000, ed. ed: it's a show down in the sunshine state as we approach the deadline to turn in the final vote tally in florida. pete: this as new questions surface about top broward county officials what they are doing with provisional ballots. katie: doug mckelway in broward county with the latest. doug? >> good morning katie. good morning to you all. let's get started and bring you up to date on what the latest vote tallies are. turning to the florida senate rate rice thought, rick scott has 50.1% of the vote to democrat bill

nelson's 49.9%. only 2% difference separates them right now. ron desantis has 46.6% to ron gillum 4.2% there important note has been a small victory for rick scott right now, judges in palm beach county have sided with florida governor rick scott, ordering them to turn over all duplicate and undercounted and overcounted ballots by 10:00 a.m. today. meantime, scott and nelson, as you can well understand, are going at it tooth and nail, both of them desperately, under standably, want to win this election. >> clearly rick scott is trying to stop all the votes from being counted and he is impeding the democratic process. we believe when every legal ballot is counted, we will win this election. >> i'm so disappointed in bill nelson, a career politician has been there forever and all is he doing now is he has hired hillary

clinton's lawyer to say and his lawyer said it, i'm here to win this election. not a fair election. not make sure all the ballots are cast. i'm here to win this election. >> and now to another central figure in this drama aside from the candidates themselves. we are talking about brenda snipes, the supervisor of elections here in broward county. she has a history of what many people believe is incompetence. just a few examples of that. in 2001, she falsely accused the u.s. mail of losing 58,000 parking lots. turns out only 6,000 of them were missing. the saturday before the election she turned over 2400 ballots to the u.s. postal service but it was after all the mail carriers had gone home from work. then in 2016, when opponents of debbie wasserman schultz asked for an examination of all the ballots, it turns out that brenda snipes had destroyed all of them, keeping only computerized records but not the originals themselves.

that was a violation of state law. broward county voters don't really seem to care about that. they have reelected brenda snipes to office in 2008 to four year term, 2012 to another 4 your term and 2016 to another four year term. we saw protesters out here yesterday. we expect them to return as we expect several deadlines we have more on that as this day progresses. ed: doug mckelway, thanks for that live report. pete: it feels like no one knows what's going none broward county. have you seen multiple legal challenges. why so late? which ones? are they legitimate or not. tens of thousands of votes. have you seen rick scott's campaign win a couple quick stays to get clarity on what's happening in the process. almost utter confusion and the lawyers are descending and trying to find votes. katie: marco rubio from florida is sounding the alarm on this. he is not someone who goes over the top on the issue. he must be very serious about what's going on. he talked about yesterday

there is this idea there is this video showing ballots being transported in private vehicles, wondering if people are going to ask where those ballots were distributed or where -- what the chain of commands was in the custody of those ballots. you know, brenda snipes has been accused of a number of things throughout the years, including destroying ballots. she was convicted of doing that a couple of years ago there are a lot of questions not just about incompetency about what the intent here is as well. steve. ed: let's count them, tuesday, wednesday. ed: there were still ryder trucks pulling up in election office in broward county coming and going. people were filming this and posting on social media. what shasmght are ballots appearing and disappearing? that's why the president before he left for france, he was at the white house answered told reporters this is getting ridiculous, watch. >> what's going on in

florida is a disgrace. go down and see what happened over the last period of time take a look the a broward county. take a look what happened with respect to broward county. broward county/election, there is a lot of dishonesty. ed: there are a lot. the county supervisor of elections in broward county, we will be talking about her all morning. pete: she admitted non-citizens vote in brournd county. they have had problems with destruction of ballots. thousands of votes not counted found a week later in 2012. gets reelected in broward county. how could it not lead to you a suspicion or a sense she is totally incompetent? other big counties in florida they can deliver the vote. tons of provisional ballots, mail-in ballots, early ballots.

in this county they can't. wife? that's what raises eyebrows. ed: the other point i want to make is on the democratic side of, this you heard senator rick scott who is obviously the republican nominee for senate, he believes he has won this race, he is waiting for all this to be certified. he said hillary clinton's lawyer has descended. marc elias represented hillary clinton in the dnc in the 2016 campaign. what did he do amongst other things? he helped purchase the dossier. he gave the money to fusion gps on behalf of the dnc and clinton campaign. he does that in 2016. that's under the microscope still today. what else he doing now? he runs down to florida to try to win this for bill nelson. katie: another senator had concerns what's going on in florida. senator lindsey graham was on hannity last night. take a listen what he has to say. >> when it comes to counting votes and confirming judges there is nothing democrats won't do to win. they have tried to destroy brett kavanaugh. it didn't work. they are trying to steal this elections.

it's not going to work. i can't wait to get back to work and make sure we put men and women on the judiciary who actually will follow the law. the law means nothing to liberal democrats. it's all about outcome. and they are not going to win. they didn't destroy kavanaugh and they are not going to screw rick scott. the 2018 cycle is going to be remembered for liberal democrats doing whatever it takes when it comes to judges and votes to win. the law be damned. ed: think about the governor of wisconsin a republican obviously scott walker. he lost by a very small margin on election night. he concede as did andrew gillum in florida and, yet, he never backed off. even though it's a very small marginal and he is the governor of state. scott walker could say let's check in. he said you know what? i lost. katie: i talked to an election official who used to work in doj about this story. she was telling me that the senate actually has a serious interest here because of obviously a u.s. senate seat and may see a lawsuit coming out of one of

these committees against these local jurisdictions to ensure things are being done properly. pete: a report looking at all the recounts since 2000; 27 recounts all democratic wins just saying. and the guy like marc elias. he stole the election for al franken and that senate seat alleged. ed: we will stay on that in florida all morning long. over to france, the president just woke up today, he just had this bilateral meeting with president macron of france. the president, when he landed in france, was quite upset about this proposal for macron to set up a european military. katie: macron said we have to protect ourselves with respect to china, russia, the united states and as you watched president trump sitting down with the president of france this morning. you could see visibly not content with the current situation.

pete: peter is going over there for the 100th anniversary of armistice day. burial sites there honoring the dead from the war. he floats the idea of a european military because of america's reluctance to just go along with nato in every way it's been done before. the president lands and has this to say to emmanuel macron when he arrives in europe. listen. ed: this is a tweet. pete: president macron of france has just suggested that europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the u.s., china and russia. very insulting, but perhaps europe should first pay its fair share of nato, which the u.s. subsidizes greatly. katie: when president trump dared to ask nato as a partner to pay more of their fair share against -- to fight against adversaries like russia and china, everybody freaked out like this was the end of the world. and, yet, have you emmanuel macron, an ally suggesting that they need a military against the u.s. not in partnership with you

about against. and, yet, the outrage is not at the same level. ed: president trump actually sat down with president macron, very interesting to read the body language. it was tense at first. president trump was very diplomatic from what i saw and macron was saying he makes a fair point about nato. we need to pay more of our fair share. the french and others in europe are getting the message from president trump whether the media wants to admit or not. pete: i'm laughing european army i'm sure it will be a real tough one. ed: okay. you just upset a lot of people. pete: i don't care. katie: turning to your headlines, a fox news alert. nine people are dead and three massive wildfires burn out of control across northern california. the northern camp fire worst wildfire in a century. malfunctioning power line caused the inferno. forcing over 95,000 people to evacuate. the president threatening overnight to cut off federal aid if the state doesn't

find a solution. the gunman accused of opening fire at a bar that killed 12 people was posting social media before and during the horrific attack. writing in one post, yeah, i'm insane but the only people do you after these shootings is hopes and prayers. police have been called to the marine veteran's home in the past for domestic disputes. those are your headlines. ed: terrible tragedy. pete: yes, it is. ice says he should have been deported a year ago. this illegal immigrant wanted for triple murder. ed: florida is facing election chaos in recounts. next guest says the legal firms leading the charge to take back the election has long ties to democrats. marc elias. coming up.

ed: first lady melania trump arriving at the palace obviously in france. she was greeted by the first

lady. mrs. that crop this is part of the president's visit, of course, celebrating the 100th anniversary of arm tis the end of world war 1. we are going back there live throughout the morning as this all plays out, katie. >> now over to the sunshine state showdown where the governor and senate races both facing a possible recount. it turns out that in the senate race the man leading the recount charge to help keep democrat bill nelson in office is a clinton lawyer tied to the anti-trump dossier. ed: here with details luke rosiak he is here from the daily caller. good morning, luke. >> good morning. ed: i find this fascinating because the democrats say we want to count all the votes and send this lawyer. didn't mention this past controversy. >> yeah. i mean, this is really the whole gang of infamous election rigger from 2016. debbie wasserman schultz, marc elias and brenda snipes. marc elias is the common denominator with every 2016

election scandal that we saw. people don't really talk about this. but he was the general counsel for both the clinton campaign and the dnc before clinton was the nominee. and that really gets to the heart of what they did to bernie sanders. is they were supposed to be running a neutral primary and they were operating as adjunct of clinton's campaign in brooklyn. and marc elias was basically the guy who brought them together. is he actually has laundered money for them essentially. when they were doing something super sketchy that they wanted to hide from the federal election commission they would pay his law firm it wasn't for legal work. he turned around and hired g.p.s. and paid the family. ed: dnc was supposed to be neutral in the primary. >> right. so these people are election riggers. they screw over democrats as well as republicans. that's how bad it is. and they did it to bernie sanders and, you know, down in broward county they did it to was sermo was was schultz.

they are really macvelian operators it comes down to him, he has howard crowd strike with the dnc hack. they did fusion gps and started the russia thing. it all comes down to him. he is going to do whatever can he get away with nowhere in the country he can get away with more than broward county. katie: president trump spaying close attention to this. as soon as democrats sent their best election-stealing lawyer marc ethrice broward county. think miraculously started finding broward county votes. don't worry, florida, i'm sending much better lawyers to expose the fraud. what kind of lawyers is he talking about and is the scott campaign prepared for this fight? >> i don't think it comes down to the lawyers so much as can you trust the election supervisor. and broward county really is the most corrupt place in the u.s. you've got -- their elected. debbie wasserman schultz her own party hates her for

stealing. al-haz this is a deeply corrupt place. at the end of the day do you have to take the word of brenda snipes? this is a woman who 12 times has been caught being wildly corrupt or completely negligent. finally we have. ed: luke, real quick. i hate to interrupt. my understanding is she was appointed by a republican jeb bush and governor scott has been governor now for two terms and could have tried to push her out or reform it in fairness, have the republicans been asleep at the switch in florida and not done anything about this? >> well, yes and no. she was -- she is in an elected position. she runs as a democrat and she is elected. but, you know, the judges have repeatedly found her violating the law. rick scott and pam bondi could have and should have

criminally prosecuted her before. these are serial riggers. they got away with it before and they are going to go on to rig again. ed: thanks, luke, appreciate it. ed: come up, election still not settled days after election day. georgia and arizona hang in the balance. we will talk about them next. katie: huge number of evangelical women who supported president trump in the midterms. we will talk about it come up ♪ got to have faith ♪ i gotta have have faith ♪ baby ♪ the fact is, there are over ninety-six

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race. abrams is fighting with brian kemp over thousands of votes yet to be counted. kemp's team calling out abrams' failure to concede as a ploy to steal the election. kyrsten sinema leading republican martha mcsally why some 20,000 votes but there are more than 350,000 votes still to be counted statewide. katie? katie: democrats in the media are celebrating suburban women for turning on president trump. >> many local districts across the country rejected your midterm message, particularly suburban women. >> fantastic -- >> women saw what happened in 2016 and they stepped up. [talking at the same time] >> women, bravo to the women. >> republicans lost women. that should worry every republican candidate in 2020.

pete: where is all the coverage of evangelical women. exit polling revealing 74% are or strongly supporting the president. katie: here to react is host of cbn faith nation jenna browder. thanks for being here. >> good morning. thanks for having me. katie: tell us why evangelical women are voting for president trump in these elections and why is it they are being ignored by the media. >> these polls really come as no surprise. evangelical women i talk to, they support president trump for a lot of reasons. and policy is chief among them. you know, the supreme court, it's israel. it's his stance on life. and the other thing is that many evangelicals, women will tell you that they believe that god chose president trump to be in office and they believe that he uses imperfect people for his perfect will. and we were just with president trump about a week before the midterms flying with him on air force one and got to interview him. i can tell you this runs both ways. he has a deep understanding, a deep appreciation for

evangelicals in return. pete: jenna, why does the so-called mainstream why do they treat women as a monolith men all vote one way and women all vote one way. why don't they understand women think independently and different political views and so do men? will they ever get used to that or it just a chunk. >> women are dynamic voters and vote on multiple issues. when it comes to media you really see a lack of diversity in a lot of numerous across the country and you got non-evangelicals and people who don't understand evangelicals covering evangelical women. and there's a huge disconnect there and a huge lack of understanding. katie: not just evangelical women who have supporting president trump's agenda and the candidate he supported. 77% of evangelicals voted for 77 g.o.p. just 17% voted for democrats. as you mentioned, jenna, there a number of things that evangelicals have happy --

are happy about. going into 2020, how do you see this playing out on the issues for evangelical voters? >> you know, i think the white house has to really be concerned about those women who are kind of on the fence for president trump. look, they voted for him in 2016 because they didn't probably like the alternative, hillary clinton. but 2020 could be a totally different story, katie, if the democrats put out a stronger candidate. and they have to worry about these women because they got 81% of the white evangelical vote in 2016. if that dips below that in 2020 to say even 79%, it could cost president trump the white house. pete: jenna, briefly you mentioned that the liberal media doesn't understanding the evangelical voter. a little bit more, what don't they understand? >> i think it's a difference of world view, pete. and it's the difference of just not understanding a lot of the things that are really important them. i will say this is maybe a bit controversial and not

politically correct to say in today's me too era. a lot of evangelical women, they like president trump and the strength that he projects. we are not talking about strength in a bullying kind of way at all but strength when it comes to leadership. they like that he is standing up to this p.c. culture. they like that he is questioning some of the conventional wisdom of the day and there is a lack of that among some men and just a lot of male shaming that is out there, quite frankly. this is refreshing to see president trump for them to stand up to all of this. katie: jenna, thank you very much. appreciate your perspective. pete: appreciate it. >> thank you both. pete: we move on to a fox news alert. images coming out of california where wildfires have torched tens of thousands of acres. this morning we may know the cause behind one of the most destructive fires. katie: former fbi director james comey slammed hillary clinton for sharing sensitive information with using a private email server but it turns out he may have done the exact same thing. pete: insensitive to

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burn out of control in california. the camp fire scorching over 95,000 acres in northern california. ed: really remarkable. in southern california two raging wildfires forcing over 250,000 evacuations. actor martin sheen was among those in malibu forced to leave. here is what he said. >> this is the worst one i have seen. we have been here since 1970 in malibu. we have been through a couple of them but i have never seen one like this with this intensity for this long. ed: our meteorologist rick reichmuth joins us now. rick, will they see any relief soon. >> not at all unfortunately. city of malibu putting out a tweeted saying the entire city evacuated. when you think about it that's just to the west of the l.a. area. two big fire complexes going on one in northern california and one the one down around the malibu area. one in northern california fire danger going on today. that fire went from zero to 90,000 acres in about 36 hours. the growth of that is really incredible.

and as of yesterday night, 6300 structures had been burned already. no fire at all to 6300 structures burned right away. take a look at video that's coming out of noaa. satellite image freezing rain red heat. can you see that fire across northern california is causing incredible breathing and air conditions across northern california including san francisco. see that plume of smoke there just to the left of l.a. that is the woolsly fire. both fires burning right now. wind conditions throughout the day today are going to be bad again and this afternoon they pick back up. we will see some winds over 60 miles per hour northern and southern california. southern california today may be a little bit of a break. tonight it increases. today during the day northern california bad. tonight it decreases a little bit. flip flop. remaining number of days bad and drought continues across the west. that's the overlying problem

we have there guys? pete: thanks a lot, rick. katie: president tweeted there is no reason for these massive deadly wildfires in california except forest manage isn't so poor. billions of dollars are given each year with so many lives lost all because of gross mismanagement of the forests, remedy now and no more fed payments. ed: how critical it is to deal with something the president has been on. we also should note over the last 24 hours the president signed a federal disaster declaration to make sure california gets the funds and resourcesources it needs frm the federal government. that's important as well. pete: that's right. katie: lots of people being evacuated and firefighters doing their best to get people out. ed: turning to other he had lines illegal immigrant now charged with triple murder.

louise peshz charged with shooting three people in missouri. ice made a request to detain and deport him to mexico. officials in middlesex county, new jersey claim paris did not fit the requirements for them to turn over to ice. aim zon echo could be key to cracking a double homicide case. judge in new hampshire is ordering amazon to produce recordings that may have captured the moments leading up to the stabbing deaths of two women. a spokesperson for amazon says it will not release customer information without quote, unquote legal demand properly served to them the suspect timothy veril has pleaded not guilty to the murders in 2017. fired fbi director james comey, remember him? he reportedly used his private email account we are now learning for sensitive government business. the "new york post" reporting comey used his g mail account hundreds of times and at least seven of those messages were deemed so sensitive that the justice department would not release them. comey has claimed he only

used his private account for quote, unquote, incidental purposes and never sent anything classified. interesting since he was overseeing the clinton matter. and an american hero makes a veterans day celebration extra special for his younger siblings. >> tanner is my hero because he is in the marines. tanner! >> well, marine tanner dutton surprising her at a school event honoring veterans day in colorado a wonderful moment indeed and a chance for us to talk about the marines, pete. ed: that's right, ed. thanks a lot. the u.s. marine corps have served with honor to protect the america's rights and our freedom. katie: and today it is our honor to celebrate them as the u.s. marine corps turns 243 years old. pete: here to help us do the honors commanding officer of the first marine corps actually colonel. then we have sergeant major

wolkn and kiera rodriguez. i recognize the rank. colonel, talk to us about this 243rd marine corps. >> every year we pause for a moment and think about what it means to us to be marines. it's an opportunity where we think about our founding, pause, recommit ourselves to honor courage and commitment. it's a great time just to step back from the grind of daily life and remember why we do what we do. pete: absolutely. i see a purple hear here. i know you have been in many theaters as of you. what does it make you think about? >> it makes me reflect back on all of those who have died for this country. we take time to pause like the colonel said to reflect back on that. >> we are very grateful for everything that you have done for the country. and we know that there is a tradition of the oldest and youngest marine to cut the cake. we will allow to you continue with that tradition today as we get started here. >> the oldest goes first.

he will take a bite and he will pass it to the youngest which is rodriguez. 1975. katie: who ever said you can't have cake for breakfast? >> that's right. pete: i think last year colonel i made the mistake of cutting the cake myself. maybe that was different. >> no. i cut it. pete: you did? >> we all started eating. >> what does it mean to be a marine to you. >> for myself it means not only just standing for the individuals who have been in the marines before me but challenging myself on a daily basis, becoming better than i was yesterday as well as helping everyone around me becoming better than their yesterday. pete: very cool. what are you supposed to do next? you haven't done anything yet. >> we will pass the next piece and he will pass it to the youngest marine as a symbol of passing democrat additions of the marine corps from the oldest to the youngest.

pete: very cool. what kind of cake is this? >> looks like cherry. looks like a giant doughnut cake. katie: kids watching today. what would be your message to them if they want to join the marine corps or inspired by your message? >> if you want to have a purpose in life and be useful, figure out a way to do and the united states marine corps is a great way to know you are going to live a life of purpose and have use. katie: happy birthday. pete: 243 years, happy birthday to the u.s. marine corps. colonel sergeant, major, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you very much. pete: the left up in arms after president trump names matt whitaker acting attorney general to replace jeff sessions, next guest, former doj official says any outrage is overblown. is he going to explain it next. katie: dan bongino, kale lee mcenany and alan dershowitz all coming up. ♪

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♪ katie: welcome back. time for some of your quick headlines, the fda is planning to shake up the tobacco agency. the agency is planning to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes across the united states. it would take several years for the band to take effect. coca cola launching own line of energy drinks. company planning on releasing coca cola energy and no sugar of the beverage. no word when the new drink will hit shelves, not in stores yet. president trump's appointment of new acting attorney general sparking fierce backlash from the left. >> the president put in place someone who is already said publicly that he doesn't believe in the mueller investigation, called it a witch-hunt. you know, he is a lackey of the president. he has been chosen because is he a political pawn.

and so he shouldn't be in this role. he should have advice and consent of the senate. pete: thank you, katie. president trump ver saying matthew whitaker is very highly respected former u.s. attorney from iowa. he was chosen by jeff sessions -- >> senior legal fellow from the heritage foundation and fellow at the justice department. good morning, john. >> good to be with you. ed: where do you come down on this i know judge nap has said here maybe the move is unconstitutional. other legal scholars saying this is fine. the president has, i believe, a 90-day window to have someone in an acting capacity. >> he actually keep somebody in longer than that under the vacancy reform act. constitutional question about whether this application of the vacancy reform act applies to the appointment clause i realize that's wonky stuff. i doubt anybody is going to have much standing to

actually challenge this in court. but that can certainly make some political hay over this appointment of matt whitaker. i know people who know matt whitaker. i met him the very first time. they think highly of him. a u.s. attorney from the southern district of ohio. jeff sessions chief of staff for over year just because he made some comments when he was a member of the public as a political commentator expressing skepticism about the mueller investigation, there is really no reason to believe that he is going to do anything to try to interfere with that investigation or obstruct it any talk of that kind is certainly, in my opinion, overblown at the very least very premature. pete: other thing commenced about matt whitaker recuse himself from oversight on the mueller probably. where what your understanding be the acting attorney general and oversee that probe. >> i see no reason why he needs to recuse himself. he wasn't involved in the campaign. he has no deep knowledge, personal knowledge of what was going on in terms of the

mueller. pete: where does that come from then? why are they calling for recusal? >> well, because when he was a political commentator, before he rejoined the justice department, he said that he was skeptical of the mueller probe. he said there was no publicly available evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. so far as i know there is no publicly available information about that. he said if he thought mueller looked into trump's personal finances that that would be going too far. those are perfectly fine comments. they are reasonable positions to take. and there is no reason to believe that overseeing the investigation he will interfere. >> that would mean you are not qualified anymore for a position because you are commenting. ed: you can't be a citizen and can't -- so nobody is going to be able to serve in government anymore. >> yeah, look. i don't know what bob mueller knows. i am a member of the public. you are right. i am making these comments. if all of the sudden i rejoined the justice department and became privy to what mueller noses, that would put me in a very

different position. the fact i'm making comments now doesn't mean i couldn't be objective in terms of assessing the evidence once i knew it and allow that investigation to proceed without interference. ed: seemed like the president didn't help his case yesterday though when talking to reporters about matthew whitaker, he said i don't even know him basically when the president was on "fox & friends" a few weeks ago saying i know him, he's a great guy. he has a lot of integrity because at the time, of course, he was chief of staff as you say to attorney aty general sessions. talk about that but also in fairness to the president, i believe the president told reporters as well: this proves that no matter who he tries to put in the justice department democrats are going to scream bloody murder no matter what. >> i certainly this that is the case. they were screaming about that brett kavanaugh shouldn't even be nominated because the president is under investigation. you know, with respect to his knowledge about matt whitaker or familiarity with him, i don't really know, as jeff sessions is chief of staff, i'm sure that he has seen matt whitaker in cabinet meetings and perhaps

on other occasions. perhaps matt whitaker has spoken or briefed the president during the course of those meetings. i'm sure they do not have an intimate relationship of any kind. but, you know, matt whitaker is known around town. he has been the chief of staff, he is a former, you know, u.s. attorney. so people know him. and everyone i know who knows him thinks very highly of him. ed: appreciate you coming in. pete: thank you. appreciate it the battle between the media and the president intensifying each more. >> [inaudible] robert mueller. >> what a stupid question that is. what a stupid question. pete: tell me how you really feel. the left pointing fingers at the president. does the media hold any responsibility. we will ask that question.

♪ >> do you want to him to reign in robert mueller. >> what a stupid question that is. what a stupid question. but i ask you a lot. you ask a lot of stupid questions. katie: it's been a busy week for president trump. in the face of relentless press. >> that's enough. that's enough. >> mr. president, ask. >> that's enough. you are a rude, terrible person, you shouldn't be working for cnn. excuse me, i'm not

responding to you. i'm talking to this gentleman. will you please sit down? >> the left says it's the president who is hostile and out of line with some of those comments. we asked does the media bear any responsibility here? let's ask the daily signal kelsey harkness. good morning, keit kelsey. >> good morning. ed: if you look at news conference there was out of control moments on the media's side. the president calling people stupid and whatnot might not be his finest moment. what happened at that news conference was eyebrow raising. >> look, the american people elected president trump into office. knowing the tonal he takes. knowing that he takes a tough stance against the media. that does not give the media a free pass to be outwardly hostile and aggressive towards the president. i mean, i think when any member of the press gets into a physical altercation with a young white house intern is not a good week for the media.

katie: kelsey on that note we have heard about tone and civility. if you look at that video and member of the press, don't you think it's unfair for the media to say everybody is on the side of maybe the statement the white house press association put out or on the side of jim acosta because, some people frustrated with certain members of the media have handled themselves because of embarrassing to the rest of reporters trying to do their job. >> look, these journalist that have the honor and the privilege of reporting on the president from the white house, they have no excuse for engaging in debate with the president. it's very fundamental. they are there to ask questions. not make statements and engage in debate. so, i think the fact that any reporter gets into any sort of physical altercation with an intern it's right for them to get a time-out and say no matter who is to blame in this situation that

shouldn't be happening. ed: you have used that phrase twice physical altercation. i think jim acosta said he never publicly touched that intern when clearly the video suggests he did. physical altercation sounds over the top it doesn't sound like an altercation to me looking at the video. >> the two of them certainly touched each other and, look, there are basic decorum rules and standards that the media is supposed to follow and when you know, this intern was doing her job, the president was asking to move on. he was out there speaking for an hour and a half. there was no need for reporters to be holding the mic and treating interns like this. ed: he had multiple questions, multiple cracks at it. kelsey harkness, appreciate it. katie: more information coming up. -- more "fox & friends" coming up. with liberty mutual new car replacement, we'll replace the full value of your car.

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ed: final vote tally in florida. >> if you look at broward county they have had a horrible history. rick scott won by a comfortable margin. every couple of hours it goes down a little bit. >> you have to assume they are doing this just for fraud to try to steal the election. >> the president when he landed in france was quite upset about this proposal for macron to set up a european military. >> we want to help europe but it has to be fair. right now the burden sharing has been largely on the united states as the president will say he understands it. >> all europeans defend.

he knows that's a [inaudible] >> three wildfires burn out of control in california. >> protesters turn out in support of mueller investigation and against the firing of their new idol jeff sessions. >> mueller was not senate-confirmed, so he is doing a report. he wasn't senate-confirmed. whitaker was senate-confirmed. >> american hero makes a veterans day celebration very special for younger siblings. >> tanner is my hero because is he in the marines. >> tanner! ♪ beautiful day ♪ a beautiful day. ed: it is a beautiful day we have katie pavlich back here on the couch. katie: the capitol building looks nice. pete: it is nice. we will see if they ever get anything done. 243 years old the u.s. marine corps. ed: thank you to all the marines to have served semper fi.

pete: i guarantee you the marine corps ♪ worried about the european army macron wants. katie: led by the french. pete: they're going to be just ferocious. ed: pete likes to say congresswoman elect alexandria ocasio-cortez is my favorite socialist. pete: yeah. ed: she is mad at me. pete: did you say mean things about her. ed: she think i did. she is taking on nancy pelosi. a fight brewing there amongst some of the women in the house. katie: dozens of women want to take on nancy pelosi. pete: she can be your favorite socialist you are not her favorite anchor. ed: not anymore. pete: we have heard it before. florida, florida, florida. there is a monumental battle going on. deadline looms to final vote tally in california. there have been reporters for days now pressing

officials there, election officials. they are supposed to be able to tell them not just where the votes are but how many ballots do you have? how many ballots do you have? pete: give us a total. katie: they won't do it. ed: supposed to give that you transparency and they won't. that's raising questions about what's happened. katie: election supervisor in broward county brenda snipes has a long, long history of corruption in that county when it comes to these elections in 2016. she was convicted of illegally destroying ballots. she also has admitted during other lawsuits that illegal aliens are voting. that felons were illegally voting and even though she knew these things she did not refer them to law enforcement. pete: that's why there is so much concern amongst republicans. certainly the rick scott campaign. we have seen the margin in that race drop 50.1 for scott to 49.9 for nelson. ed: u.s. senate seat up for grabs as well as potentially the governor's seat. that's why there is so much at stake. pete: we heard yesterday from both rick scott and bill nelson, both making

their case about what should happen in broward county. listen. >> you can only assume that this is just, you know, you have to assume that they are doing this just for fraud, to try to steal the election. we are winning in the court. that's going to help us get to the bottom of this. but, look, i won or the citizens of this state won this election fair and square. i am the next -- i am the senator elect in this state. we will be certified. >> clearly rick scott is trying to stop all the votes from being counted and he is impeding the democratic process. the governor has decided to abandon he fears that he will lose the election if all the votes are counted. pete: the lawyers have dissended on that state challenging from both sides but ultimately, ed, a lot of it comes down to brenda snipes, a broward county supervisor of elections. ed: had you rick scott there, the governor, who is the republican nominee for senate, obviously. trying to switch jobs who has been pointing at

democratic lawyers who have been descending, marc elias, descending on florida. remember, he helped purchase the dossier. gave the money to fusion gps when he was representing the clinton campaign and the dnc in 2016. now, is he back and then katie, brenda snipes is another character to watch in this very close race. katie: brenda snipes was asked by a series of reporters outside the room where they keep finding these ballots. she was asked a number of questions. ed: keeps showing up. >> can you update us where things are on the count right now? just in general? >> could i please get a moment to go into the room and find out? >> sure. >> okay. when i come back out i will let you know. >> it is now thursday, we are still counting ballots in broward county. >> five pages or six pages for each of the people who voted. >> other counties have been able to do it. >> but other counties didn't have 600,000 votes out there. >> miami-dade did? >> well, have you been --

never mind. let me go check. i will check. ed: called her out. no one else has this many ballots. miami-dade did. that's right. miami-dade was able to do it. katie: all the other counties including the counties impacted by hurricane michael which came through right before election day, they were able to get all their votes in on time and in compliance with florida law. but broward county at this point is avoiding compliance with florida law and they still can't just answer the basic question of how many votes have been cast. pete: that's why it creates so much concerns especially amongst republicans. same brenda snipes that admitted that non-citizens vote in broward county. went purge the voter roles of people dead for decades. trouble with destroying ballots in the past. chain of custody of ballots going from voting places to where they're being counted. j. christian adams who we have on this program quite a bit is going to be on the program. he said the worst election official ever he has ever seen in the united states. so, the problem is we just don't know what's happening. the lawsuit coming from the

rick scott campaign are merely asking show us the ballots. show us the count and some of the ballots that have been seen, we found out this morning, there is bad ballots mixed in with good ballots yet they are going to count all the ballots which is problematic when it's so close. ed: your point about how we don't know what's happening is so important to underline because the most shocking part of that sound bite we played a moment ago when the election cycle when snipes doesn't know what's happening that was thursday when you saw the plug. today it's saturday. the election was tuesday. so, she didn't know what was going on on thursday, two days after the election. here we are 48 hours more and we're still waiting for answers. katie: me shae know more than she is letting on as well. the media, of course, is covering this but not from the angle that you think in terms of covering the fraud. yahoo news saying with this headline trump without evidence claims there is a lot of crooked stuff going on as republicans' lead shinks ishrinks in florida.

as florida races narrow, trump and scott spread claims of fraud without evidence: governor of elections as the races inch closer to recounts. as we just went over the all the evidence. there has been plenty of history in broward county of fraud and of breaking florida election law. ed: where are the results, folks? let's get to the bottom of it whether rick scott is going to win or lose. on the left they keep saying count the votes. let's count the votes. they don't seem to be counted. pete: senator marco rubio summed it up well in a tweeted in expressing the way a lot of folks feel. many in the same people in media and commentary class always warning about, quote threats to our democracy are accusing or deflecting attention to the blatant lawlessness in broward and palm beach county undermining the credibility of our public confidence four election he is. if red county did what broad county and palm beach county are doing.

that would march in the streets and confront republicans about it in restaurants. but because it's happening in blue county they create increasingly novel and justify it. ed: you have to see the amount of bias in terms what they choose to -- ed: you mentioned palm beach county we haven't gotten to it. katie: kicking reporters out of the meeting they usually watch to film ballots being counted and election officials kicked them out for the first time. he had they had is remarkable story. we will stay on it all morning long. live reports, guest analysis as well there are other big news the president waking up today. a fox news alert. he is in paris to commemorate the end of world war i. katie: president trump was greeted by french leader emmanuel macron at the palace this morning from a bilateral meeting. pete: our own greg palkot is live in paris with the latest. greg, good morning. >> hi, folks. on a dampest saturday as we speak the president and the first lady wrapping up lunch

with french president macron and his wife. they arrived late last night aboard air force one for what will be a solemn weekend marking 100 years since the end of world war i. in a tweet upon arrival, the president accentuated the positive. i am in paris getting ready to celebrate the end of world war i. is there anything better to celebrate than the end of a war and particular that one, which was one of the bloodiest and wors worst of all time. however, it was another tweet that has caused a bit of a stir here in paris today. he called insulting a suggestion from french president macron that europe needed its own army to defend against other countries. includingth u.s. here is what the president had to say a short while ago in a meeting with macron. >> we are getting along from the standpoint of fairness and i want it to be fair. we want to help europe but it has to be fair. right now the burden-sharing has been largely on the

united states as the president will say and he understands that and he understands that the united states can only do so much. >> now, the main event tomorrow on armistice day, our own veterans day is at the palace. president trump joining president macron and 60 world leaders including russian president vladimir putin. the two of them might have a chat on the sidelines at some point this weekend. the president also going to be visiting along with the first lady at least one american cemetery here in france. 116,000 americans die fighting in the war. world war i all tolled, 16 million died. still remembered. back to you. katie: thanks, greg. pete: supposed to be the war to end all wars it wasn't. a lot of americans sacrificing. katie: nine people dead as three massive wildfires burn out of control in northern

camp fire. the northern camp fire scorching over 90,000 acres becoming the most destructive wildfire in century. feared malfunctioning power line caused the inferno. this as two wildfires rage in southern california. forcing 250,000 people to evacuate. over to florida now. police in florida are looking into the case of a 19-year-old cheerleader's mysterious death. a freshman at tallahassee community college was found unspawnive at her apartment after -- hours after complaining about flu like symptoms. the college student reportedly told her mother she had a headache and a sore throat. the next morning she was found unconscious and later died. foul play is not suspected. and actor no the new lawsuit claims the move undermines the rule of law. the doj responding in part this is a lawful order to protect the american people,

more members of the migrant caravan are preparing to leave mexico city today for the u.s. border patrol just announced that more than 50,000 illegal also were apprehended in october alone. and it's something only see in new york city. a woman throws her 26th birthday party on the subway. she invited her closest friends to hop on a train car bringing decorations, a piñata and even a full blown lobster dinner with wine. riders on board reportedly had no issues with the celebration. got to get in on that. those your headlines. ed: by understanding is they had a problem. they had a restaurant reservation and blew up. that's why they took it to the subway. pete: you can see literally anything on the subway. ed: usually not that good. usually much worse than that. katie: i don't know if they will be so happy about it now throwing parties on the subway. ed: open table. pete: a lot of brown bags. you just saw the florida senate raves could trigger a recount at any minute. should it? our next guest is a democrat

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ed: the fight for florida as we have withi been reporting all morning is still on. could trigger a recount at any moment thanks to broward county's beleaguered electoral system. next guest warned governor scott about broward's swamp. this after he. here to explain writer of op-ed. former democrat congressional candidate who challenged congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz back in 2016 tim canova, i understand you are now an independent? >> good morning.

i am. ed: because of what happened in 2016. tell us what happened in broward that frustrated you so much. >> sure. i ran as a democrat in a primary against debbie wasserman schultz in 2016. and after we lost by 13 percentage points we were very concerned that the outcome was not accurate at all. we had enormous field operation. our numbers actually showed us winning. i nut a public records request to inspect the ballots. brenda snipes, the supervisor of elections stonewalled us for half a year. i filed a lawsuit. and while the lawsuit was pending, brenda snipes destroyed all of the ballots in violation of state federal and criminal law. she admitted to it in videotaped deposition and the florida circuit granted a summary judgment. i at that time. ed: i want to give you more time. that's the kind of thing that a guest comes on and says you say hold on, time out. she is on tape, brenda snipes admitting that they destroyed ballots? how does this woman -- our viewers watch this and say how in the world does this woman still have a job and how in the world is she now

in charge of this senate race and this governor's race? >> it's a great question. she shouldn't be in charge is the short answer. i called on governor rick scott to fire her at the time, to replace her. he has the constitutional power under florida law to have done. so i was call for a criminal investigation. i called on the florida attorney general department of law enforcement and the u.s. attorney. these are felonies she committed. and, again, she admitted to to in videotape deposition in a florida circuit in granting me summary judgment found that she violated all of these statutes. so, it's really outrageous that somebody like that would still be in her position making $177,000 a year. and i warned governor scott and everyone that if she stayed in that position, she was only going to be rigging again. the excuse for her is always incompetence always she is just making mistakes. ed: she is incompetent so she should stay in her jobs and oversee electiones.

maybe the results will be tainted. this is the kind of thing that infewer united states people. what else did you see on this videotape that you were saying. >> the videotape was taken by a volunteer of mine this election evening. it shows ballots being offloaded. ed: 2018 or 2016. >> 2018 recently this past week. ed: video now shows what? >> it shows people driving up in private vehicles and offloading ballots that have been presumably secured in these big blue satchels. there is no chain of custody. there is no sheriff's deputy signing to receive these ballots. the ballots are being basically thrown on the ground and then presumably loaded up on to a truck it seems like a rented truck. i have spoken with election lawyers who all agree that there is no chain of custody here. so you wonder where are these ballots going? ed: how is this happening in america is my question? i want to directly ask you, is that election fraud, yes or no? >> well it, certainly

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marijuana worth. ohio state troopers seizing 510 pounds of pot from inside a california woman's trunk. could have been more creative. finally 14, that's how many write-in votes got new jersey on election day. the philadelphia fliers hockey mascot earning support to join congress in camden county sheriff. ed: could be elected in florida. for all the seriousness for all the talk leading up to the midterm about blue wave the republicans actually increased their majority in the senate. katie: states like missouri and indiana plepg flip those senate seats red. pete: j.d. vance. ed: treat to have you on. pete: increasing seats missouri, north dakota, indiana. you famously wrote a book about some of those places that have been forgotten. what is it about the message

of republicans that have motivated red states? >> i think one of the things that republicans are doing especially well is attracting rural voters and also making it pretty clear that they want to be the party of forgotten men and women across the country. in ohio which was traditionally thought of as a swing state mike dewine did very well. in missouri and north dakota folks picked up senate seats. certainly the case that republicans are doing well in some of these rural working and middle class areas. one of the really interesting statistics that came out of election to me, at least, is that after the 2016 election, republicans controlled 45 of the wealthiest 100 congressional districts. about evenly split. after the 2018 election, the election we just h democrats control 73 of the wealthiest 100 congressional districts. so i think one of the interesting stories maybe the congressional republican is going the way of the dough dougof the doedoe.

paul krugman at the "new york times" had something to say after the election. he made the argument that middle americans, that real america america, is he arguing that rural americans don't deserve two senate seats because there are more people now living on the coast. what is your response to that? >> i think it's a really stupid argument for a couple of reasons. first, if you look at the data, democrats actually won a majority of the contested senate seats, so the idea that rural america has overweight position that makes it impossible for democrats to win in the senate is just ridiculous. they just didn't win enough seats this time around and i think they should stop complaining about that fact. more importantly, on the substance, there is this weird impulse on the left that i have never understood that aims to basically insult all the people who aren't voting for you. so, imagine if somebody comes to you, wants you to vote for a democrat. they can either persuade you on the one hand or insult

you and tell you are stupid for not voting for democrats on the other. i think it's pretty obvious of which those strategies actually has possibility. it's unfortunate and bad for our politics and certainly bad for the democratic party that they keep on obsessing about what's wrong with middle america instead of persuading middle america. ed: j.d. what about when you say republicans are doing well in rural america. the media narrative is they are doing poorly in the suburbs. talk about that. maybe you want to challenge that narrative. i do think when you look at the data, there are problems, there are challenges for republicans at the very least in suburbs across america. how do you square that? so on one hand you are saying they are becoming the working class party but then there is a lot of working people in suburbs in america, who seem to be turned off by the republicans. >> yeah. well, i think obviously different suburbs are different. if you really drill into the evidence, i think that democrats are doing especially well in you were cross suburbs and republicans are doing

especially well in middle class suburbs. sorts of places frankly that i grew up. i don't think republicans should run from that fact it is definitely the case that i think the future of the democratic party is it's going to become more and more upscale. i think republicans should own that fact. we should try to become the middle class party. i think there is a lot of electoral success in that strategy. i also think it's just morally the right thing to do. the reason that president trump won in 2016 is because he recognized some really big problems that a lot of elites from both the left and the right had ignored. he realized that manufacturing jobs had really gone overseas and hammered a lot of important communities. he realized that wages for the average worker had been declining or stagnant for a very long time. i think republican us have got to own the solutions to those problems and we shouldn't run from the fact that yeah, some people will be turned off by our focus. some people may be turned off by the fact that we're pointing out for the first time that the chinese have been taking us for a ride for a generation. but, that's okay. you are not going to win

every vote. i do think there is enough of a core coalition there to become a successful party. pete: not to mention the drug crisis which you have written a great deal about and the president has focused on. j.d. vance, great insight this morning. i appreciate it. >> thank you, guys. pete: moving on to a fox news alert. crazy images coming out of the state of california where wildfires have torched tens of thousands of acres. so will weather conditions help or hurt the crews battling the flames. we will take a look. katie: nancy pelosi likes her chances at speaker of the house. the rest of her party are not so sure. ed: stick around for that getting into the holiday spirit a little early this year. todd piro is live at bass pro shops and cabella's. santa's wonderland. that he was coming up. pete: first thanksgiving, people.

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things. katie: definitely a political operative for sure. ed: democrat after democrat candidates and incumbents i am not going to support her if she goes up for speaker. katie: democratic voters are saying we want a replacement. a new poll is finding more than half of democrats don't want nancy pelosi as speaker. 56% of them say that you should replace nancy pelosi with only 39% saying that she should be kept. but the big question is who would replace her? pete: that's not all voters. that's democratic voters. so when almost 60% of your own voters want you gone, that's why she floated that she will be a transitional speaker. ed: appears even alexandria ocasio-cortez, of course, just elected socialist from here in new york city she is hedging on whether she will support pelosi. watch. >> in terms of her leadership in context we need to see what our options are no matter who it is, we

need to make sure that we are electing party leadership with strong commitments to putting medicare for all, tuition-free college and more at the top of the agenda. things like a living wage. and that's what i'm going to be looking for in terms of where we want to select our next speaker. ed: congresswoman elect by the way was mad that i was on "america's newsroom" and i was talking about the fact that she is now saying she can't afford an apartment in washington, d.c. and she thought i was mocking her. look, i get it. i live in washington. it's very expensive. you know this, katie. members of congress make $174,000 a year. that's a lot more than people around the country, many people. and there are 435 democrats and republicans in the house who have to maintain two homes. some have four or five kids in florida and california. it's not easy to do it they somehow do it. i'm not mocking it and i do believe we have a housing crisis in america. come on the show. let's talk about that issue. you are a congresswoman now and you are going to be very soon.

pete: we can mock socialism. one of my favorite things to do. she loves it moving on now to a fox news alert. massive wildfires turning deadly in california. katie: at least nine people killed as three blazes burn out of control across the state. evidence he had our meteorologist rick reichmuth is live in studio right now with more on these terrible infernos. good morning,. rick: rick good morning. in northern california the camp fire is scorching over 90,000 acres. nearly 7,000 homes have been burned. and that is just the first fire. buildings are completely destroyed. strong winds are fanning the flames along major highways racing down the mountains towards the coast. smoke is billowing so high you can see it from space. meanwhile, in southern california, two raging wildfires are forcing over 250,000 evacuations. most of those evacuations right around the malibu area. that's from the would seely fire. woulwoosleyfire. drought obviously across all of california are starting to get towards what should be a rainy season.

we haven't had any of that rain yet. this is kind of the dryest point of the year every year you can see everywhere across the state we have fire danger today. southern california stretching across the colorado river valley over towards vegas all of the cities along the colorado river valley get let ready for fire threat today and tomorrow. overall southern california situation is a little bit better today. worse tomorrow and monday. tuesday it begins to improve. northern california is worse today and tomorrow and then monday into tuesday it begins to improve. by the time we get to wednesday overall this event is pretty much going to be gone. and we will wait for the next one. we have a few really rough days ahead of us. pete: thanks, rick. the man accused of sending suspicious packages to democrats could spend the rest of his life in prison. hitting cesar sayoc, using weapons of mass destruction. using over a dozen devices

look like pipe bombs to target president obama, hillary clinton and cnn. and jeff sessions is reportedly weighing in on a possible bid for his old senate seat in alabama source close to the former attorney general tells fox news that sessions is, quote: considering it but his mind isn't made up if sessions were to run he would face democratic senator doug jones who is up for re-election in 2020. and it appears retiring senator jeff flake is thinking more seriously about a 2020 white house run. flake telling politico that somebody needs to challenge president trump for the g.o.p. nomination hes is he worries about the future of the republican party. according to him other good candidates be ohio governor john kasich or ben sasse. >> he sure can pick them. ed: he had doesn't sound like pete's candidates. pete is not in it yet we are taking a trip and celebrate and taking a trip to bass pro shops and cabella's.

santa's wonderland. pete: our own todd piro is there right now with santa and lucky kids. christmas is coming, todd. >> it is here pete hegseth. started out on the campaign trail. enough to i'm at san tapping wonderland. this is awesome. big day at bass pro shops. i'm bringing in bass pro ambassadors edwin tuesday not saturday. tell us what's going on at bass pro shops. >> it's back for the tenth season. santa's wonderland. all the cabella's stores. great time to come in and get a free photo with santa. tonight at 5:00, guys are going crazy out here with these cars, there is all kinds of stuff to do at all the bass pro and cabella locations across the country. one of them is important as my wife would know. >> get your picture with santa. three step process. easy, 1, 2, 3. walk in the door pick up bass pass, come on in and visit san data's wonderland

and play the games do. a craft. there is a craft every week. so much funnel. >> speaking of kids. it's time to talk to them. come on, here we go. hi, guys, what do you want for christmas this year? >> money. >> all about the benjamin. >> dirt bike. >> not padilla bad pretty someone. >> dance forever. >> you want a dance forever? >> kevin bacon and foot loose what do you want. >> pokemon cars. >> what about pound puppies. >> what is a pound puppy? >> old man river here with the kid. how about you? >> [inaudible] >> so technologically savvy. where did you come from, you are new. what do you want? >> barbie dream house. santa, thanks so much for being here, it's going to be a big next couple of weeks for you. are you excited? >> i'm really excited. i'm ready, i'm set. >> my lap. good shop. can i play now? >> so cool. todd: i'm playing. can i play? >> guys, can i play?

what are we doing here? i got to go making me go back to new york. can i knock this over? >> yeah. >> okay. katie: all that work, todd? >> bass pro shop.com/santa. ed: tv'sed to piro. pete: i love it. ed: ballot battle brewing in florida. some of the key players emerging include a hillary clinton lawyer. and an election official who is no stranger to controversy. our next guest has a little insight on both of them you don't want to miss it. pete: a lot on the program dan bongino is here. gregg jarrett and alan dershowitz will have a lot to say about legal challenges and the current acting attorney general as well as the secretary of veterans affairs one day before veterans day we have robert wilkie here for a live, exclusive interview coming up. ♪ ♪ when we were dating, we used to get excited about things

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katie: explosive ballot counting. clinton lawyer tied to the anti-trump dossier. broward county supervisor of elections brenda snipes back in the spotlight not first voting controversy. what's really going on? next guest has dealt with he will i can't say and snipes before. public interest legal foundation j. christian adams joins us now. thank you for being here. >> hey, katie. katie: have you deposed ms. snipes in a trial in a lawsuit you brought against broward county. till utell us about that. >> the public interest foundation has been fighting snipes for years over her lousy administration of the voter roles there more people on the roles than people alive. weave represented a case called acru vs. brenda snipes still ongoing by the

way. it's a total clown show, katie. they lose things. they have more people on the roles than people alive. they continually foul things up. i mean, there was a ballot that she had to print in creole on a referendum question, yes, no. she actually reversed the words in creole between yes and no. they send mail to voters at the wrong addresses. they have dead people on the roles who are like 125 years old. and they don't do anything about it it's one of the worst run election offices that i have ever seen in all the litigation public interest legal foundation does around the country. katie: tell us about how democrats are now sending in the best of the best attorneys. have you worked against some of the attorneys that are being sent in to deal with this recount. what are their goals here? are they to really count votes? do they have other plans in mind and how do people like snipes tie into the attorney that they are sending in. >> well, marc elias, his goal is to win the election

for democrats. katie: who is marc elias. >> is he a partner are in perkins couey. he is the best elections attorney in the country. i have dealt with him. the legal foundation has been tangling with his efforts arranged the country. you know, it's the truth that george soros actually funded him a huge amount of money to attack election integrity law us around the country. marc elias views election process as a 365 day a year fight. not something you worry about in november for a few days. that's why the public interest legal foundation is involved in like 20 cases around the country fighting for election issues all year around and that's what elias does. because he knows the interface between election law and political realities on the ground and how it helps democrats get power. he is very, very effective. katie: on the soros point we haven't independently verified that i trust your

sources christian and soros has dumped money into far left causes. where do you see this recount going based on your experience at duong and your foundation now. >> right. what will happen the chaos of broward will be exploited by elias. broward is -- it's like f troop exit administration. the woman should have been removed from office years ago. governor desantis needs to do it in january. elias will exploit this chaos to find the votes to do the best he can to make sure that rick scott is not the next senator from florida. katie: j. christian adams thank you for your expertise on this issue. the aclu is suing on the president's new crosswalk down on illegal immigration. this morning the doj is responding. what is the v.a. doing to help our heros? v.a. secretary robert wilkie is here with an update live next. ♪ ♪ ♪ a moment of joy. a source of inspiration.

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♪ pete: one of president trump's biggest campaign promises was to help our veterans by fixing the v.a. just in time for veterans day we are getting an update on how the administration is helping our heroes. here to tell us exclusively here on "fox & friends" secretary of veterans affairs robert willful can i. mr. secretary, thank you very much. >> thank you for having me, pete. pete: just give us an update. there has been some criticism of the previous v.a. secretary shulkin that he wasn't faithful to the president's agenda at the v.a. give us update on how you are trying to change that. >> the update is we finally have a leadership team in place at all levels who are fully committed to the president's reform agenda. and when i say reform agenda, opening the appear

aperture on the choice that americans have on healthcare. they are they center center of the healthcare not the institutions and prerogatives who work at v.a. it's up to the veteran to tell us what he or she needs to be healthy. pete: part was passing the mission act and next is implementing it. >> that's right. pete: the battle still continues to make sure that bureaucracy delivers true choice. >> having the team in place is the first step. we will be having a war room that has a regular battle rhythm to get mission act on schedule, on time so that we can report to congress and more importantly veterans as to how we are going to change v.a. and make it a 21st century healthcare administration. pete: two topics previously, accountability. also how are you delivering it and second one is union time. official time. you have ended the practice of physicians using v.a.

time to union dues facing criticism on that. >> let me go to the the second part first. union time. the directive came out the day before yesterday, what we said was our doctors and our nurses, our lpns, they have to serve veterans. we are getting criticized for not having enough doctors, yet, there are 430 medical professionals who don't touch a record, don't see a patient. they are on the federal payroll. and, yet, they are not performing their duties as surgeons or nurses. union time. so they are going to have to do it. pete: biggest surprise you face so far are challenges v.a. secretary. >> biggest challenge is actually a positive one. and that is when veterans get into v.a. nine times out of 10 they are happy with the service. we do have hundreds of thousands of dedicated people who care about veterans. the challenge there is telling the nation's story. but the other part of this

is telling america what it means to be a veteran. it's amazing to me that in 2018 we still have to get that message across. so whaivelg saying, v.a. has to work for veterans because veterans exist to remind their fellow citizens why they sleep soundly at night. that's a message i will convey at arlington cemetery tomorrow. pete: absolutely with veterans day coming tomorrow. i will just say i know veterans across the country are hopeful that the president's agenda will be followed through on. there is still a lot of swamp at v.a. you are cognizant of that and fighting for. >> it the beauty of that, pete, we have never had a president campaign with veterans as the central issue of his effort. and i am -- i have been amazed at how much time he has spent on this issue and how much time he has spent with me. pete: mr. v.a. secretary. thanks for your time. >> thanks for everything you do too. pete: moving on a fox news alert. president trump in paris

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>> deadline to turn in the final vote tally in florida. >> what's going on in florida is a disgrace. take a look at the total dishonesty with what is happening with broward county. >> you have to assume they are doing this for fraud to try to steal the election. >> the president when he landed in france was quite upset about this proposal from macron to set up a european military. >> we want to help europe but it's unfair. the burden of the military has been on the united states as your president understands. >> >> at least nine people are

dead as nine wildfires burn out of control in california. >> mueller investigation and against the firing of new idol jeff sessions. >> mueller was not senate-confirmed so he is doing a report. he wasn't senate confirmed. whitaker was senate confirmed. >> hero makes a veterans day celebration extra special for his younger siblings. >> tanner is high hero because he is in the marines. >> peter! ed: we go straight to fox news alert. we see the president in paris he has been meeting with president macron. they this a bilateral meeting to kick things off. here he is. okay. he said nothing more than thank you very much. but he spoke earlier to reporters. and i'm here with katie pavlich and pete hegseth. when he landed in paris several hours ago, he made clear with a tweet that he was not happy with the fact that while he was headed to paris president macron decided to double down on this idea of creating a separate european army and

lumped in the u.s. with china and russia saying we need to protect against these big super powers. the president not liking that when he has been pressing france and others in europe to pay their fair share to nato. and what's interesting to me the president with macron in bilateral meeting agree you had with the president and backed down a bit and said yes we do need to pay our fair share. katie: we weren't expecting to see the president of france to sit down and have a conversation. we do get video. president trump did not look very happy about the things that had been said and reiterated that look we want to help europe and be fair to europe. europe has to be fair and pay their way into nato and work as a team and partnership against our adversaries. pete: not a great way to start out a meeting. typical of the way the meetings have gone a couple of times. emmanuel macron tries to talk tough at home to the media and they meet and then he off and ons over the presiden -- fawns andconcedes.

ed: you know from covering the white house at the beginning of this administration right up until recent days the mainstream media has been saying the president is on this sort of hopeless cause of trying to get european nations and getting china, getting can't and mexico to back down and renegotiate trade deals. europeans are doing it the canadians have done it the mexicans have done it and chinese are at the table. katie: there has been pressure on europe in terms of the iran deal whether european countries are going to continue doing business with iran as the united states takes a step back from that deal and europe peeps try to stay. in lots to talk about at the discussion table. he had. pete: great point, katie. a fox news alert for you as well. a show down in the sunshine state as we approach the deadline to turn in the final vote tally in florida. katie: this as new questions surface about what top election officials in the state are doing with provisional ballots. ed: our man in the sunshine state is doug mckelway live in broward county with the latest. good morning again, doug. >> good morning, ed. right off the bat here. let's take a look at the latest poll numbers.

it's truly, truly remarkable how tight these two races are. first the florida senate race, governor rick scott now at 50.1% of the vote to democrat bill nelson 4.%. only .2 percentage points celebratseparate those two men. ron desantis 49.6 to andrew gillum mayor of tallahassee 49.2%. only .4 percentage points separate those two. that's that as canvassing board members face a big deadline today. a 12 noon deadline to submit the first unofficial results. but, still there are many uncounted ballots. ballots not counted including 2100 mail-in ballots. a handful of early voting ballots as well as military and overseas ballots. the governor's race so close that it has triggered a machine recount in the senate race closer still, meaning that it has triggered a hand recount. a more rigorous hand recount which will take some time.

that's not expected to be completed until november 18th at least that is the deadline. meantime bill nelson and rick scott going at it tooth and nail and a real sound bite war. >> clearly rick scott is trying to impede the ballots from being counted. we believe when every legal ballot is counted we will win this election. >> i won, the citizens of this state won this election fair and square. i am the senator elect in this state. we will be certified tomorrow. and we are going to fight every one of these lawsuits and we are going to win. >> meanwhile supervisor of elections in broward county coming under more fire for voting irregularities. some of them occurringvel eventually even last night that as we expect more protests today. protests out from gillum and nelson supporters calling for every vote to be counted. inside there was a small protest people chanting lock her up. obviously conservative and republican supporters who

are criticizing the role of brenda snipes and all. this i know you guys are going to have a lot more about that in moments to come. ed: doug mckelway breaking it it all down there. is a lot the stake here. senate race as he made clear. governor's race as well. both essentially up for grabs. republicans believe they had won both of them fair and square. now democrats, you know, heading down to florida trying to maybe upend all of this indicate they said they are there to win the lawyers who went down said they are going to win. pete: going to win for their client and probably not focused on all the voters. ed: are you doing it honestly and fairly. pete: doug mckelway said november 18th. it's november 10th. we have 8 more days to go. ed: the president was at the white house and expressed to reporters deep frustration. watch. >> what's going on in florida is a disgrace. go down and see what happened over the last period of time 10 years,

take a look at broward county and the total dishonesty of what happened with respect to broward county. broward county, this press, broward county slash election there is a lot of dishonesty. ed: president tried to tee it up. go to google check out broward county. totally predictable. one mainstream media outlet after another went out with headlines saying president charges election fraud without any evidence even though there is frankly a mountain of evidence of at least problems if not fraud. pete: her name is breaking new dr. snipes broward county official. she has a long history of dropping the ball in poorly managed elections that have led to questionable outcomes. a small list of the types of things brenda snipes and that county has been involved in. in 2008, unlawful ballot. ed: 2018. pete: unlawful ballot disruption in the quults race. 20bg 2018 absentee ballots opened in private.

2016 early voting rules posted online before the polls closed. accused of having more voters on the roles than eligible citizens. she committed non-citizens vote in broward county. they won't purge the voter roles those folks dead for years. election official in that spot since 2003. we elected four times in a heavily democratic and corrupt broward county. and yet she is still deciding elections. katie: important to point out too this isn't just about her making mistakes. this is about her role in the things that she has done as pete just laid out being in violation of florida election law and in violation of federal election law. also admitted during trial after being sued by a private organization that illegal aliens and non-citizens voted. weren't referred by her as the election supervisor to federal law enforcement. she has voters on her roles that are older than 114 years old. they are no longer around to vote and yet, they are still there. all these things being admitted under oath at

trial. plenty of evidence to show there is fraud. ed: people saying this is something fox news is talking about. others are not. only rick scott is talking about it and only the president. no, there is a democrat tim canova so frustrated what has happened with broward county. he intrid him las interviewed ht hour. he is now an independent. he said there has been a mountain of problem with snipes. here he. >> she shouldn't be in charge is the short answer. i was calling for a criminal investigation. i called on the florida attorney general department of law enforcement and the u.s. attorney these are felonies she mitted and again she admitted to it in videotape deposition and florida circuit in granting me summary judgment found that she violated all of these statutes. and i warned governor scott and everyone that if she stayed in that position she was only going to be rigging again. the excuse for her is always incompetence and always she is just making mistakes.

i believe it's much more nefarious than that. ed: tim canova i mentioned he was a democrat and turned independent because he ran in a primary debbie wasserman schultz. she was charged with rigging primaries against bernie sanders for hillary clinton and all that says he it is incompetence or maybe more. why hasn't anything been done? pete: he wanted to seat ballots reviewed in his own election. he ordered them to be reviewed and she destroyed them before they were supposed to be destroyed before they could be reviewed. katie: on the other side of this, governor rick scott, during his time as governor, there are big questions about why he didn't remove her based on the violations of florida law and the incompetence she has been engaged. in he can't do it now he had the opportunity to do it and they probably missed their opportunity on that. turning now to your headlines, we begin with a fox news alert at least nine people are dead as massive wildfires burn out of control. the northern camp fire the

most destructive wildfire in a century. now feared a malfunctioning power line caused the inferno. this as two wildfires rage in southern california forcing over 250,000 people to evacuate. and over t arizona, democratic candidate for senate care citizenship sinema maintain a tight lead. leading martha mcsally by some 20,000 votes with 350,000 votes still to be counted statewide. arizona republicans and democrats reached an agreement to give counties until wednesday to fix problems with mail-in ballots. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is out of the hospital and doing well after infrastructuring three ribs. she suffered a fall in her office this week. >> i wish her well. i hope she gets better and i hope she serves as a supreme court for many, many years. katie: high court spokesperson says ginsburg is working from home.

those are your headlines. i hope she feels better. pete: as we mentioned the florida senate race could go down to a recount. a former senate who also faced a recount in minnesota and lost to al franken and franken's lead lawyer. the same man leading the charge for democrats in florida. that former minnesota senator here to weigh in next. ed: jeff flake 2020? why he is hinting he may challenge president trump in the republican primary. that's coming up. ♪ (honking) when your craving strikes, you need your wing nut. ( ♪ ) no one can totally satisfy a craving, quite like your wing nut. that skills like teamwork, attention to detail,

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and all he is doing now is he has hired hillary clinton's lawyer to say, i mean, and his lawyer said it "i'm here to win this election" not a fair election, not make sure all the ballots are cast. i'm here to win this election. ed: governor rick scott slamming his competitor senator bill nelson as the florida senate race appears headed toward a recount marc elias back in the spotlight. pete: next guest faced a recount losing hundred society senate race after the same lawyer took charge representing former senate al franken. katie: here to weigh in norm comey. thanks for being here. >> good morning. you are missing a balmy minnesota morning 10 degrees on the way here. pete: i will be there in a couple days so it's waiting for me. katie: tell us what rick scott and the republican party is up against in florida. >> they are up against count until they win that's what they do. on my race november 18th, when all the machines were

recounted i was ahead by 2005 votes. votes counted on election night recounted in terms of members. this is the total. and then for eight months we get into a process of counting votes that weren't counted, that county officials said should have been counted. well, in the minneapolis, by the way, a heavily democrat area we had 19 precincts with more votes than voters. we had a different standard applied in county conservative area which they threw out 180 votes because the person who wars the witness registered ballot wasn't a registered voter the law requires that. should have had 2,000 ballots like that. not a single ballot was thrown out, not a single ballot was rejected because the witness to the absentee ballot wasn't a registered voter. they are going to get in there and this is marc elias as you said hillary clinton's lawyer, the guy who hired fusion gps did my race before my race a few years before they did dean know rossy running for office in washington state and again ahead on election

night and then machine totals but lost. pete: how do they get away with it. how in the world lawyers do lawyers get away with that kind of rigging? >> i think you can get outlawyered in this in the beginning we figured we will get our local folks here. they know the judges. we will do th the minnesota way, pete. the right way. we didn't even challenge raise issues of fraud. we figured we didn't have. to say the votes were. in the machines were checked. we figured everything was going to be okay. but, in the end you can get outlawyered in this and folks again figure out a way to keep counting until they get the result they want. rick scott has got to be careful that they are not going to be applying different standards in broward county than they apply in other areas of the state. he has to check there aren't more votes than voters. 19 precincts in the city minneapolis that had more votes than voters. we weren't able to prove that, in fact, who did that, what was the problem and so those precinct totals went in and an election 8 months after the elections itself decided by 312 votes in

franken's favor. ed: senator, on a personal note i remember whe you were first elect to the senate i was a much younger report let's say we got to know each other a bit in washington. i know you worked on and working i believe for the republican jewish coalition and other folks. but, recently, you have been battling lung cancer and i wanted to ask how you are doing. >> thank you. this is my john malkovich. i actually escaped male pattern baldness 69 years until second week of chemo. i'm five weeks of radiation. five days a week at the mayo clinic. i'm going to do fine. i really believe in the power of prayer. i actually had a clean pet scan a week ago but my docs say we still have to do the radiation microscopic in there i'm a very blessed guy. i figure i have a few more years to kick around. i'm very, very confident. migrate team at the mayo clinic is going to do what needs to be done to get me through. this. ed: next dinner is on me. katie: wish you well and.

pete: thank you very much. what a great personal perspective on what's going on in florida. can get outlawyered and can go on for eight months. katie: and to the supreme court. who could decide. ed: absolutely. holiday picture paying homage to the classic film a christmas story. indicate indicated look at that. ed: now the photographer is being forced to defend it what is going on? katie: some on the left slamming women who didn't vote for democrats. is that fair? we're going to debate. >> the women who still like him say that he is a protector. they don't know the difference between a predator and protector. a once-in-five hundred year storm should happen every five hundred years, right? fact is, there have been twenty-six in the last decade. allstate is adapting. with drones to assess home damage sooner. and if a flying object damages your car,

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explosion. the 30-year-old from somalia lit his car on fire. packed with gas canisters before going on a stabbing spree. killing one and injuring two others. he was shot dead by police. isis now claiming responsibility. and across the pond, stabbings are rising to epidemic levels. london police reporting over 39,000 knife attacks in just the first six months of 2018. that number marks a 12% increase over the last year alone. katie? katie: thanks, ed. women who choose not to vote for democrats under attack from the left "the view's" joy behar saying this about trump supporting women. >> the women who still like him say that he is a protector. >> a hero. >> that he protects. >> their way of life and their values. >> they don't know the difference between a predator and protector. >> how is it fair to attack women for who they choose to vote for. here to respond is kayleigh

mcenany, and -- >> thank you. katie: what is your response to that. >> this incredible. because of my gender i'm expected to vote a certain way, think a certain way and act a certain way. it's appalling. i would point out this is not just relegated to the set of "the view" with joy behar. others have made these comments. michelle obama said if you voted for trump you are voting against your own voice. hillary clinton said my husband must have told me to do. so any trump-supporting woman was told to do so by their husbands or by their father. and then, of course, have you chelsey handler making similar comments this week. this is apulling, narrow-minded and foolish and exposing themselves when they make comments like this. katie: you mentioned chelsea handler's tweet i will get your response. 50% of white women voted for ted cruz. i don't know what it's going to take for us to be sisters to other women but we have to do better than. this we need to vote for the best interest of others and

stop thinking of others not only ourselves. do feminists believe that all women should vote the same based on their gender or do they really think women should make individual choices for themselves and their family. >> i think women can make individual choices the mood is people want to go with the strongest. what this is a distraction. this discussion is really a distraction because women did win. and women voted in blocks particularly on the left. more women in the house than ever before. women are back on top. we kant get distracted by what did or did not happen. we certainly want women to make their choices but want to make them for things that are right and for people that are right. katie: attacks on republican women for from women on your side of the political aisle for not voting the way people said they should based on gender. >> certainly i sat with many women on the right and the left and a lot of women on the right say they go with what their husbands or what the others tell them to do. and so i think certainly we find more women who are much more independent and who are going tore the strongest men

who respect and protect women. katie: cailee, do you vote on what your husband tells you to do or do you vote for yourself. >> i certainly don't vote the way my husband or father tells me to. i vote because i have independent thoughts as a female and intelligently support president trump because of my own opinions, not those of the men around me. i have not heard any woman on my side of the aisle ever say to me i am casting this ballot because my husband told me to. i think that's an appalling assertion and i would also note the double standard here. you stuarted with joy behar's comments about not knowing the difference between predator and protector. how ironic are those comments coming from joy behar who literally called the sexual assault accusers of bill clinton tramps and forced to apologize who stood up for al franken. those are really ironic comments coming from someone who has stood up for sexual predators. katie: susan, as someone who works for president clinton what is your response. >> sat with women said their

husbands shared with them how to vote. i answered the question according to who i sat with i worked for both president clinton and president obama. we are talking about right now what's happening. there is a lot of -- what is happening. women certainly don't want predators. we do want protectors. i think women on the left are voting for those who are strong and who show us protection. so i think that's. >> was bill clinton a protector predator or protector. >> right now we are talking about the current administration and bill clinton was a very good president. we're talking about two presidents later. >> and he was a predator in the oval office with monica lewenski. >> talking about the current president. katie: bring it back to the midterms. according to fox voter analysis. all 40% voted republican and 55% voted democrat. all white women voters, 49% voted republican and 46% democrat. so, the numbers are split and it's certainly clear that women have different views and don't vote as a monolithic block. >> not at all, certainly.

>> thank you for having me. women have won. thank you for having us. katie: president trump bringing his america first policies in paris. the french president wants to create a european military and president trump has a message for him. plus, what that means for our foreign policy. and jeff flake 2020, senator now hinting at a challenge to president trump in the 2020 presidential primary. dan bongino reacts live next. ♪ you're unbelievable ♪ yet it's very gentle on the denture itself. polident consists of 4 powerful ingredients that work together to deep clean your denture in hard to reach places. that work together (burke) so we know how to cover almost anything. even a huge drag.

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♪ i to th i got my game on ♪ better hang on tight. ed: was the game not on dan bongino who comes in here. normally we get to visit your home and see satellite. >> i know. ed: now you are on the couch. katie: a local florida man on the couch. ed: what's happening in your state. >> listen, it's just those two counties. florida is 67 counties. i live in martin county. smooth as silk. no problems, you vote. everything is tabulated. florida we have a new thing in florida called late voting. early voting we have late. election goes on forever. did you see these articles about new ballots. like, guys, there is election day. you vote on election day. katie: new ballots or nulled votes. ed: arrive in ryder trucks or were they actually brought in on election day? we joke about it but this is serious stuff.

how is this happening in america? >> you know, i don't know. but brenly dbrenda snipes this n a debacle. a couple things i want to point out here. number one, she had one job. memes out there you had one job. one job as the election supervisor. just count the votes. she doesn't even know how many total votes are outstanding. katie: i think she knows i think she is just not staying. >> not telling us. does that mean 100,000 votes? secondly, just basic things. she had to have 30 minutes after the polls close the mail-in absentee ballots tabulated 67 counties had no problem with that except for brenda snipes. counties in the big bend area and panhandle some wiped out in the hurricane. no problem at all. they had those 30 minutes after the polls closed. you couldn't figure it out in broward? come on. pete: how do you hold her accountable? she is an elected official, clearly not up to the job for multiple cycles, why hasn't anything been done

about it? >> the state board of elections has to oversee this election from this point on. the secretary of state has to come in and take a look at this. and when governor desantis is sworn in, she has to be removed from office. she has clearly screwed this up. the evidence is everywhere. by the way, guys, this is not a partisan attack. tim canova who was on before is not a republican. he is the one who filmed that video of ballots being moved into the trucks. i can't verify. i don't know what it is. i'm just saying this is not strictly a republican thing. broward is a democrat county and democrats running there have complained about broward. katie: we talked about all morning on the couch that this isn't just about politics or political moves being made or incompetence. this is about brenda snipes repeatedly, her history, breaking florida election law and that is what is important here. she is not complying with the law, which means she is not doing the best for the voters in the county. >> katie, it's a simple google like you said. brenda snipes history with problems just gool it the was sermon schultz election debbie wasserman schultz

congressional district where canova ran against her. they had a problem there with destroying ballots. with screwing up the yes or the no answer. how do you screw up a yes or no answer on a ballot question. that's a problem. it's either yes or no. when you get them backwards, you have created an issue. you had one job, to count the votes, you screwed it up. you have got to go. pete: speaking of screwing it up and got to go. jeff flake did not run for re-election. >> thank god. pete: he is back in a politico article. here is what he had to say. he said somebody needs to run on the republican side just to remind republican what is it means to be conservative and what it means to be decent. we have got to bring that back. so, jeff flake thinks he or somebody else may be the answer to running again. >> he mentioned kasich and ben sasse. guys, is there a bigger narcissist or self-included individual in d.c. other than jeff flake. maybe jim across attachment i don't know. maybe between press. i don't get it jeff flake, this guy could not beat harm duke in a rac march.

i see a lot after jeff flake appearances what's your beef with flake. it's real. it's not a tv stich. i ran in 2012. we had damn good people on the ballot. rick berg being one of them. money siphoned all over the country into arizona to get jeff flake elect on a conservative platform the minute he got elected turned on us. i'm not blaming flake for berg's loss. he pretended to be one of us on the tea party revolution and turned around and what does he do? he thinks the big problem is donald trump? would very a problem with the tax cuts? regulatory reform? give me a break. he needs intervention. jeff, it's not about you. get away from the mirror. we know your nice hair and look and probably sitting there looking at yourself how wonderful you are. hard pass on you for 2020. stop wasting our time. ed: james comey is back in

the news. i'm getting grief for people on social media for tweeting it out because they think i'm not being fair to him. turns out "new york post" report he used email for sensitive material. overseeing hillary clinton and basically let her off the hook is it because he was g mailing sensitive stuff? >> this is a huge deal. explains largely why hillary clinton was given a pass. now, i have a decent source on this that i used in my book repeatedly who has told me that it's not just jim comey. and that the problem walls a lot of people after hours were too lazy to work over their classified devices so would do things and text things. ed: others very fbi. >> others there where this is going to be a problem. not just classified information. but sensitive stuff. may not have been classified but was totally inappropriate to be conducted on personal devices or nonclassified devices. indicate all government for the sake of trans (self should be seen on a government site >> so it's transparent.

ed: great having you on the couch today. >> it's fantastic. pete: appreciate it. katie: turning to your headlines, richard russell eventually crashed aircraft into an island. fbi officials say the horizon air employee acted alone. medical examiners ruled his death a suicide. a 10-year-old outsmarts a man trying to take her from a park. he said her brothers were injured and she needed to get in quickly. when he couldn't give her the family's code word, she ran away. we came up with a code word. and this time, this one time it saved my daughter's life. and she told me that some guy tried to take her. katie: arizona police are investigating the incident and searching for that suspect. well, remember this holiday classic? >> you will shoot your eye

out, kid. katie: such a good one. a photographer is now defending her photo shoot inspired by the movie christmas story re7ly can a b b gun wearing a pink bunny suit. the gun is made of wood to ensure that he did not shoot his eye out. people on social media are slamming the picture for being distasteful. pete: because people on social media are dumb. what in the world. ed: leg lamp was behind. pete: glasses are there for ralphy. keep defending yourself because there is nothing to defend. right, rick? nothing to apologize for. rick: i never saw the movie. pete: what? rick: i know, sorry. rick: all i was thinking there should be some beer cans shooting the b b gun at the beer can never stein. pete: runs for like three straight days. i know, i have never seen it sorry. there is some weird like

cultural deficiencies that i have. just seems like holes that are out of there. i don't know how i missed it. pete: this is your year, rick. >> we will do that. a lot going on 11 degrees right now in minneapolis. 15 in kansas city. here is your wind chill throughout the day. feels already below zero across parts of north dakota. all weekend long you get the idea it stays really cold. stay cold the next three to four days. so cold that we have snow falling across parts of the great lakes. first lake-effect snow we are seeing so far this year. you get the idea some of that could accumulate across. so roads. be very careful. get out across parts of the west of the everything dry. high pressure controlling. this that's why we have these fires. take a look at video coming out of malibu, california. this is the fire that started yesterday. i think we have some video coming here. do we have it? do we have it? all right. i don't think we have it it's really good. actually, the fires across california are incredibly

dangerous and have grown so quickly. the fire to the north is called the camp fire. and that one has burned will almost 7,000 buildings, already the most destructive fire they have ever had in california. five of the most destructive fires that they have ever had in california. five of the 10 have happened in the last year. get you an idea just how dry it is and how dangerous. pete: is there a website that's kept track of how much land mass has actually been burned. it has to be a remarkable percentage of the state. rick: so there is a active large wildfire website where can you go get all that information. i don't know if there is a cumulative total on that website. ed: president trump defending his america first policy while meeting with french president macron this morning. how is this message playing out on the world stage we'll discuss it next. pete: hero at home. the wife of this wife army sergeant amputee now teaching kids about our wounded warriors. he joining us live coming up

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♪ ed: fox news alert, president trump defending his america first policies in paris despite differences over military funding with the french president emmanuel macron. >> we're getting along from the standpoint of fairness and i want it to be fair. we want to help europe but it has to be fair. right now the burden-sharing has been largely on the united states as the president will say and he understands that. katie: how has his message influenced the world two years into his presidency? ed: here to weigh in is morgan or takin ortagus. >> good morning. ed: president landed in paris late yesterday and frustrated while he was in the air president macron was talking about this european

army, the president saw it as an affront. and you have a lot of critics say why is he tweeting? why is he doing that? fast forward to this morning, and macron seemed to be back pedaling on the nato issue. it seemed like the president got his attention. >> right, so i think what happened is the french president macron was giving an interview in which he talked about needing to build up a more -- a smaller european force, maybe something more like a special forces. and in that interview, he said that the europeans needed to protect themselves from china, russia, and the united states. so i think that that was the point, not necessarily that they needed to build an army. certainly we are all for the europeans protecting themselves and taking their own security matters into their own hands, paying their fair share in nato. i think what really got to the president and what frankly got to many people is that the u.s. lumped in with china and russia that. in that discussion when we have. i was just in france a couple years ago at the graves seeing our young men who were in graves across

europe. especially in france because they fought and died to keep france free. katie: morgan the response to french president's comments have been interesting. when president trump wanted more funding for nato from these european countries in the partnership with the united states to fight russia and china together everyone outraged saying turning backs on europe. the french president suggests they need a military army, special forces as have you said to fight or protect against the united states. it seems pretty offensive, it seems pretty offensive statement to make. >> yeah. i think so. i think that's clearly why he back pedaled. listen, we would like the europeans to be aggressive and take our position as it reality to great power competition between the u.s., china, and russia. i think there is something to keep in mind. is that the -- there is always this sort of disconnect and a little bit of competition between the european globalism view of the world and american independence. and it didn't just start with this president. i mean, you could go back to

reagan. you can go back to george w. bush. there is always, especially with republican presidents, they tend to see america's role in the world differently than europe sees their role in the world. there is a healthy sort of competition of ideas there. but, what i would say is what this president has done and i know we are going to talk about this. i beat the drum on this all of the time. because over the past two years, and for the next two years, the single most important thing is he doing from a foreign policy perspective is to take on china and to move the united states foreign policy and political establishment into that direction and to move the europeans to take this more seriously. ed: to take on china why the president was suspect set that macron was lumping the u.s. in with china potential adversary. good points thank you for coming. >> in thanks, guys. ed: cross the border illegally lose your chance for asylum. that's the immigration policy announced by the president. will it be enough. katie: here at home this

army sergeant amputee teaching kids about wounded warriors. your special veterans day message is up next.

pete: we are honoring our heroes at home. in 2010 sergeant fighting in 82nd airborne when an ied jury him. take over 100 surgeries and years of therapy. now his wife and caregiver is publishing a children's book to teach kids about our wounded warriors with all proceeds going back to vets. joining us now is author of hero at home and ceo of the

independence fund sarah verardo. thank you for joining us this morning for your service to this country which continues to this day and certainly theselves of your husband. if you would, tell us a little bit about your story and your support for him. >> good morning, pete, happy veterans day and thank you four your service, of course. >> thank you. >> the michael served with the best of the best. wearing the nation's uniform was the highest he could think of. taking it off of course is something that pains him to this day. he was catastrophically wounded in afghanistan and the fight home has been a long one. we know that for our nation's wounded it continues. right now is he recovering from his 119th century that he just had in august at walter reed national military medical center. which is why the independence fund is on the ground in the fight to support families every day because we know the fight is life-long and battlefield medicine is incredible. and we believe that what happens at home needs to

move in can item with that so it's been a very long road home. but we feel very blessed that he is here when so many of his dear friends did not make it home. >> amen, sarah. this book was inspired by something your daughter said, something she said about her father. would you share that? >> grace came home from preschool and she was very upset because someone had told her that her dad was weird and gross because he was missing a leg. and i realized that my girls didn't have the tools to explain what we are so proud of as a family, which is mike's military service. and i wanted to give them really tangible tools to explain why some moms and dads may have robot legs or have special wheelchairs and so i wrote hero at home truly from my heart to explain military service and wounded heroes in our communities should be celebrated. and it's something to celebrate not just on veterans day weekend but they need the support of a grateful nation every day of the year all year long. pete: absolutely. those daughters, i'm sure you have read that book to

them many times already and folks across the country. the core theme is you see it, you don't understand it right away. >> here is why it is so important. >> absolutely. it's really important to look at a veteran and instead of saying to your children don't stare or, you know, don't look. let's teach children to say hello and allow a veteran to share their service but also to explain that you know, injuries may make someone look different but they still have the same heart. they may have robot legs or special wheelchairs, and we want children to feel empowered and safe by the heros that are now living at home in their community. pete: amen. >> we have been at war 17 years. there are thousands of catastrophic veterans we know them because we support them. pete: you will be at arlington national cemetery tomorrow at the request of the white house as a special guest part of a wreath laying ceremony part of a special honor. thank you for what you do for vets and honor of their military service. >great

stuff. >> thank you. pete: show down midterm state ballots in just a few heavily democratic counties. what happens next? we are live in florida with the details. we are going to ask some of those details and bring them up with gregg jarrett and alan dershowitz both here live coming up ♪ ♪ then you might have a common condition called dry mouth... which can be brought on by many things, like medication and medical conditions. ... immediate and long lasting dry mouth symptom relief.

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ed: it's a showdown in the sunshine state as we approach the deadline to turn in the final vote tally in florida. >> katie: an election supervisor in broward county has a long long history of corruption. president trump: what's going on in florida is a disgrace. take a look at the total dishonest it of what happened. >> you had one job as the election supervisor. pete: president trump in paris this morning. ed: when he landed in france was quite upset about this proposal from macron to setup a european military. >> katie: at least nine people are dead as three massive

wildfires burn out of control across california. and jay bay hard saying this about trump supporting women. >> the women who used to like him say they is a protector. they don't know the difference between a predator and protector this is incredible so because of my gender i'm expected to vote a certain way? ed: an american hero makes a veterans day celebration extra special for his younger sibling. >> he is my hero because he's in the marines. >> ♪ ♪ ed: and coming home just in time for veterans day weekend, today honoring the marines because of their birth day, semper fi. >> katie: don't judge us. pete: this marine corps cake 243 years as ed mentioned the president is in france right now he's very close to where the battle of bella wood occurred in june of 1918 big part of marine

corps is that battle so, salute to the marines of every single generation. ed: and morgan ortega just mentioned last hour how many american women and men are buried in european cemeteries fighting for freedom, we're now celebrating the anniversary. pete: america is unique in a country willing to send their men to foreign soil to defend their freedom and bring those troops home it's a special special thing. ed: remarkable that's happening as we talk about protecting freedoms right here at home and whether or not our democracy is being undermined. >> katie: we begin with a fox news alert a show down in the sunshine state as we approach the deadline to turn in the final vote tally in florida. ed: as now questions surface about what top election official s in the state are doing with provisional ballots. pete: we are live in broward county with the latest. doug good morning. reporter: good morning, pete and on the subject of open and transparent government we have just learned the reporters will be allowed into the supervisor

of election headquarters directly behind me this is the back end where they pull the trucks into deliver and take out ballots. we'll be loud to witness the can advancing of these provisional ballots of course that have not passed, perhaps it's the wrong address with the wrong name, and not able to be read or perhaps the voter cast the ballot in the wrong precinct. they're all cast aside or put aside until they are determined to be legitimate or not, but in the meantime let's take a look at the latest number s right now. in the florida senate race, governor rick scott is at 50.1%, bill nelson the sitting senator democrat 49.9%, only .2 percentage points separate the two in the governors race republican ron desantis at 49.6% , andrew gillum the democrat at 49.2%. that as the canvassing board members face a noon deadline today to provide those provisional ballots, but we understand that there are ballots that still have not been counted, including 2,100 mail-in

ballots, a handful of early ballots as well as military and overseas ballots. the governors race is so close that if it is within .50 percentage points of one another it triggers an automatic machine recount. if it's .25 of a percentage point difference between the two , it triggers a hand recount which will take a considerable amount of time, and we understand the deadline for completing that is november 18, so we're going to be stuck in for the foreseeable future for another eight days at the very least. meanwhile, supervisor of elections here, brenda snipes is coming more fire for more irregularities which occurred last night i'll let you get into that because she has a long long history but nevertheless the voters of broward county continued to reelect her year after year for four-year terms beginning in 2008, 2012, and 2016 and she still sits in office and is under tremendous

fire today back to you. >> katie: get used to it. will be down there for a while. ed: think about scott walker on election night he's obviously the governor of wisconsin he loses by about 30,000 votes. he obviously could have said i want more, i want a recount, i'm the governor, i'm going to maneuver them. no, he said look, i lost fair and square and it's quite different than what we're seeing in florida where there seems to be all of this maneuvering, ballots being found, this video we showed an hour or so ago of truckloads of ballots showing up , where were these ballots on tuesday? >> katie: ballots transported in private vehicles to these trucks putting into question the chain of custody which is a very serious problem and there are very specific rules about the way ballots are handle handled big question but one person not answering many questions is brenda snipes. listen to this. >> can you just update us where things are on the count, right now? just in general? >> could i please get a moment

to go into the room and find out >> sure. >> okay, when i come back i'll let you know. >> it's now thursday, we're still counting ballots in broward county. >> five pages or six pages for each of the people who voted. >> but other counties have been able to do it. >> but other counties didn't have 600,000 votes out there. >> well miami-dade did. >> well, have you been inside my, never mind. let me go check. i'll check. pete: excuses excuses. ed: have you been inside my office and realize wait that would be inviting the reporters to actually investigate what's going on. pete: she stopped herself and the reason she's defensive is she has a lot to be defensive about. here is just a small list of the many that we could put on the screen of different things she has faced or she has done, while being in charge of broward county and elections. may 2018 unlawful ballot destruction in the debbie wasserman schultz primary race, and also in august of 2018, absentee ballot, opened in private which you're not supposed to do, 2016 early

voting results posted online before polls were closed, and 2016 accused of having more voters on the roles than were eligible and 2012, 1,000 un counted ballots found a week after the election, 2004, 58,000 mail-in ballots not delivered. she's asking for patience, people are saying you've had this job for 15 years. ed: in one previous election her website posted the results before the polls had closed? >> katie: correct. ed: now they've resaying count all of the votes. they just said oh, we won. >> katie: they just said this is the count. pete: she's admitted that non- citizens vote in the county. more votes than voters. you told me there's folks that have been dead for 100 years. >> katie: 114 years, she's been sued for not cleaning those up but someone who lives in florida, dan bongino was on the show with us a little bit earlier and hushes snipes should be removed from office by the incoming governor. >> she had one job. one job as the election

supervisor. just count the votes. she doesn't even know how many total votes are outstanding. the state board of elections has to oversee this election from this point on. the secretary of state has to come in and take a look at this and when governor ron desantis is sworn in she has to be removed from office. she's screwed it up, you got to go. pete: well said as you know we have a brain room at fox that finds us neat facts from time to time. well on november, in november of 2016 fair vote a non-partisan group that looks at elections they looked at all 27 recounts of statewide elections that happened since 2000. all have been wins for democrats three have been reversed so three of the 23 changed an outcome one of which we had the program earlier we had senator norm coleman who lost to al franken in 2008 and he just said the lawyers descended he thought he could play minnesota nice, and they started applying different standards in minneapolis and democratic state places than they did in republican places, and if you're not smart, if the lawyers don't get there and get aggressive to abide by the law, they've found

ways to change it. ed: the problem is they can't count all of the votes. it should be count all of the legitimate votes. the legal ones not the ones that appear days later. >> katie: or maybe not ones that appear in trucks. pete: or they got the wrong signature. >> katie: that need to be validated but speaking of elections, big issues on the ballot this week, president trump won 2016 by focusing on the middle class and now republicans are, there are many people arguing that republicans should try to become the middle class. earlier, he had this to say about that. >> democrats are doing especially well in upper class suburbs and republicans are doing especially well in middle class suburbs the sorts of places that i grew up and i don't think republicans should run from the fact. it's definitely the case that i think the feature of the democratic party is it's going to become more and more upscale. i think republicans should own that fact. we should try to become the middle class party. the reason that president trump

won in 2016 is because he recognized some really big problems that a lot of elites from both the left and the right had ignored. he realized that manufacturing jobs had really gone overseas and hammered a lot of important communities. he realized that wages for the average worker had been declining or stagnant for a very long time. i think republicans got to own the solutions to those problems. ed: i look forward to the washington post follow-up last weekend we were on the couch holding up the post of the new york times that had the same word "verdict." they were previewing the mid-terms by saying voters set to render fresh verdict on trump , so guess what the verdict is in. i look forward to the stories about the verdict is that yes the president and his party lost the house but by far less seats than predicted in terms of a blue wave. katie: and half of obama. ed: half that obama lost in his first mid-term and president didn't hold on to the senate he increased his majority, we'll see how much based on arizona and florida but increased his majority which is a big big deal

bucking the historical trend so if the president, there was a verdict about to be issued on the president. >> katie: are you holding your breath? ed: i'm not sure they will come. pete: but jd's words are really wise. middle america, the majority of america it's a divorce cross- section middle american whites and hispanics, middle america values the majority of this country if the left wants to be the party of the elites and the super rich which they say to not like they are in serious electoral trouble. >> katie: president trump campaigned for these candidates on the economy and it effects everyone no matter what the your gender, skin color or job is. but turning now to your headlines we begin with a fox news alert, at least nine people are dead in three massive wildfires burn out of control across california. the northern campfire is scorching over 90,000-acres becoming states most destructive wildfire in a century. nearly 7,000 homes and buildings completely destroyed. it's now feared a malfunctioning power line caused the inferno. this as two wildfires a raging

in southern california forcing over 250,000 people to evacuate. and the gunman accused of opening fire at a california bar that killed 12 people was post ing to social media before and during the horrific attack. ian long writing in a post yeah, i'm insane but the only thing you people do after these shootings is hopes and prayers. police have been called to the marine veterans home in the past for domestic disputes. and democrat state it abrams is buying tv ads, hoping to get a run off election for the georgia >> governor: your race. she is fighting with republican brian kemp over thousands of votes that the have yet to be counted. kemp's team calling out abrams refusal to concede as a " desperate ploy to steal the election." and those are your headlines. georgia and florida. ed: keep an eye on arizona as well. cross the border illegally, lose your chance at asylum. that's the new immigration policy just announced by the president but will it be enough to crackdown on illegal

immigration? we'll discuss, next. pete: and former fbi director james comey slammed hillary clinton for sharing sensitive info, using a private e-mail server. turns out, mr. comey may have done the same thing. ed: wait, what ex >> ♪ ♪

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>> katie: first of all i want to get your reaction to dhs secretary kristen kirstjen nielsen talking about how overwhelmed the asylum system. pete: she says our system is overwhelmed but too many merit less asylum claims who prevent us from being able to grant asylum to those who truly deserve it, so how much of this rule is saying if you want to come in you've got to come in through a port of entry so we can process you in a rapid fashion? >> that's exactly the point of both the presidential proclamation and the interim final rule that was introduced by ms. nielsen and by the attorney general yesterday. the whole point of it is that we want to have people enter the united states in an orderly and safe fashion for ports of entry. we don't want them coming across-the-boarder illegally because that pulls border patrol agents off the line and makes it more difficult for us to one, process them in an orderly

fashion and two, keep them safe as they enter because of course they have to pay the cartels to cross that border. >> katie: andrew i want to be clear about what's happening here so they're trying to funnel asylum claims but what if you're a central american family or an unaccompanied minor who does enter the country illegally by crossing the border are you then immediately deported or do you then get detained and then released into the interior until your immigration hearing? >> well it's very important to note that unaccompanied aliens are accepted from the president 's order, so they're not effected at all. with respect to families, they will actually be allowed to apply for withholding of removal which is like asylum only it's a much higher standard and for protection under the convention against torture, so they actually will be protected under both of the order and the presidential proclamation but they will have a higher burden they have to carry. it's much better for them. pete: so andrew, but also set aside kids and families let's say an individual 20-year-old

male is caught attempting cross the border illegally and claims asylum. are they held and immediately deported or is there still a process there? >> there still will be a process. they will be interviewed by the asylum officer and have the opportunity to make what's called a reasonable claim basically it's the same standard we apply to yaccases in immigration court. i was an immigration judge for eight years it's a very easy standard to apply, so they will be protected. we will comply with all of our international protocol. pete: how is that different than going through a port of entry then? >> katie: how does this change anything? >> if you go through a port of entry you'll be able to apply for asylum. if you don't go through a port of entry the only relief that's available to you will be withholding removal and protection under article 3 of the convention against torture. pete: a much higher bar. >> absolutely. >> katie: andrew thank you very much we appreciate it. thank you for having me. pete: you got it. katie: a legal show down is building in florida as the senate and governor races both

head to a possible recount. harvard law professor alan dershowitz points to a specific problem causing this mess, up next. pete: plus, jeff sessions out at the doj, so whose on the short list to replace him, as attorney general? greg jarret here to break down the possible candidates he's got a list, i think, coming up next.

pete: welcome back a couple quick headlines for you the u.s. will stop refueling saudi war planes in the yemen war. the government has faced criticism as the kingdom has been blamed for deaths of thousands of civilians during the three-year conflict. the news comes amid international outrage over the murder of a saudi columnist. and, the u.s. times is canceling

luxury trips to iran as political tensions rise. a spokeswoman for the newspaper says they are ending its journalist gash guided tours after having trouble getting visas for their experts. the last one set to leave today is still going ahead as planned. ed? over to you. ed: thanks, pete. well following months of speculation attorney general jeff sessions tendered his resignation this week basically pushed out came at the president 's request so who are a few of the candidates under consideration? to take this place who should we pay attention to it he will bring insight to let us know the man who knows greg jarret will break it down fox news legal analyst and of course author of the russia hoax you can get it everywhere i'm surprised there's a couple copies left. let's go through this first i want to start with matthew whitaker he's the acting attorney general before we go through quickly all of the names out there is it legitimate he's, there's some people saying -- >> he is. under the vacancies reform act a president can pick a senior official who hasn't been confirm ed, as long as he's been

there 90 days so he is legitimate. ed: but it seems like in the long term, given what he has said about robert mueller, it's in likely he'll get the job? >> he's already taking major grenades. he'll be on the list but i don't think seriously considered. ed: got it let's go to the next one, janice rogers brown is interesting, out in california. former d.c. district judge confirmed by the senate before. >> incredible back story. the daughter of an alabama share cropper she puts herself through law school and college. she was on the california supreme court, the d.c. circuit court, she's brilliant. what i like about her is that barack obama voted against her when he was a senator, and the naacp doesn't like her which tells me she's fantastic. she'd be a got ag. ed: interesting pick for the president potentially. john ratcliffe congressman whose been all over the fbi story you like his chances? >> he is my favorite because he is well acquainted with suspected corruption at the

department of justice and the fbi. he would end all of the cover- ups still going on. he's clean up the department and the fbi and hold accountable those who engaged in wrongdoing. ed: and jeff sessions did not do that frustrated the president. yes. pam bondi, familiar face, attorney general down in florida >> terrific attorney general, served two terms, she would also hold accountable those who have engaged in wrongdoing. i think she would reopen the hillary clinton e-mail case and she would certainly present evidence to a grand jury about comey, mccabe and the whole gang of individuals. her problem is her closeness to trump and accusations of favortism toward her, so a bit problematic but she'd be great. ed: that could hurt someone lik. >> and chris christie has bridgegate still going on so there are a bunch of others but look he was an outstanding u.s. attorney but bridgegate

still haunts him it would be a problem during his confirmation. ed: it seems to be the president is not in a rush to name a permanent replacement because come january he's going to have more seats a bigger majority in the senate right? >> that is true and i think he's satisfied with what whitaker is going to do at the department of justice. whitaker, well acquainted having been chief overgave to jeff sessions and i think whitaker is inclined to encourage the president to declassify the documents that would demonstrate corruption by the fbi and the doj. ed: where are we with the mueller probe? let's end on that because there was an expectation after the mid-terms sessions would be out but also we finally see the mueller report. do you think we're closer? >> i do think some time before congress convenes in january, mueller will probably submit his report. guiliani has a counterreport that will be issued i imagine simultaneously. we'll have to wait and see. i don't think there's any

collusion or obstruction of justice but mueller is probably inclined to give a little red meat to democrats and the media within his report. ed: a little surprised. nobody breaks it down better we appreciate you coming in. >> thank you. ed: meanwhile nancy pelosi likes her chances at speaker of the house. watch this. >> what is your level of confidence you'll be the speaker of the house? >> total. >> 100%? >> 100% i feel very con confident about where i am. ed: the rest of the party not so sure about that plus we're getting into the holiday spirit a little early this year. pete is a little mad about that he wants to celebrate thanksgiving before christmas but todd piro is live at bass pro shops and santa's wonderland in pennsylvania. good morning, todd. todd: good morning, ed we're having so much fun the kids are so excited for santa but they are also excited for somebody else jumping around here all morning long whose that? >> crazy uncle today. todd: plus santa, plus a lot of kids.

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shove. ed: that's also why it's funny a couple days ago when the president sort of said by tweet, i believe i can deliver the votes i'll get some republicans to support you and you deserve to be speaker. he wants her to be speaker maybe he wants to, would with her on some stuff, but he also wants to have her, as the head of the democratic party and you have to wonder why the president is so eager because she's sort of republicans favorite democrat. >> katie: she's setting her up for her problem but alexandria cortez just elected as a congresswoman says democrats should keep their options open when choosing a speaker of the house. >> in terms of her leadership in context we need to see what our options are, no matter who it is, we need to make sure that we are electing party leadership with strong commitments to putting medicare for all tuition free college and more at the top of the agenda, things like a living wage and that's what i'm going to be looking for in terms

of where we want to select our next speaker. ed: based on whose going to give out free stuff. pete: well do you know what do you know why nancy pelosi would probably be the speaker is because -- >> katie: fancy. pete: she raises a ton of money for candidates and that speaks volumes in d.c. ed: you're right and that's why she will probably get it and you've been weighing in, we'll read them throughout the show. patrick on facebook if they had any notion of doing anything at all positive they would choose a different speaker which is why i anticipate they will vote her in again. >> katie: on facebook, nancy gets what nancy wants, those against her will be forced to vote for her or be abandoned by the democratic party. pete: or committee chairmanships and things they like to use. kenneth on facebook said as usual i don't think the facebook s have a choice. she holds the purse strings, i agree. ed: friends@fox news.com. pete: the thing is theres no

clear viable alternative. ed: which is why i think it's similar to 2020. you can't beat somebody with nobody. the democrats don't have anybody to take on president trump. >> katie: you heard nancy she's 100% certain. turning now to your headlines, i.c.e. is slamming a sanctuary county for releasing an illegal immigrant now charged with triple murder. lewis perez is accused of shooting three people in missouri, as reportedly made a request to detain and deport him to mexico. officials in new jersey claimed perez did not fit the requirements for them to turn him over to i.c.e. and fired fbi director james comey reportedly used his private e-mail account for sensitive government business. the new york post reporting that comey used his gmail account hundreds of types and at least seven of the messages were deemed so sensitive that the doj wouldn't release them. comey has claimed he only used his private account for incidental purposes, and never sent anything classified.

all right well get this. actress alecia silverstone claims her son has never been sick because he's a vegan. she has raised her seven-year-old son as a vegan since he was a baby told us " he's never had to take medicine in his life, two times in his life he's been like mommy i don't feel good and it was only for a few hours and he was back and running around." ed: i want pete to weigh in. >> katie: pete will some comments about that. and president trump is honoring seven people with the nations highest civilian honor, on friday he's presenting the presidential medal of freedom and the honorees include senator orrin hatch, elvis presley, babe ruth, justice scalia. ed: former quarterback. >> katie: the award recognizes americans who have made a significant contribution or impact to the united states. good list. ed: and also served in the navy as i recall as well served this nation. rick, out to you.

rick: so pete i just walked out and this woman from boston said she can beat you in your sock game. you know you've got a sock game right pete? pete: what's she got? rick: what's your name? >> pam from boston. rick: let's see it. let's see it. see my nice socks? pete: those are beautiful trump socks. with the hair. >> there's a comeover on it. >> [laughter] pete: well done. well done. rick: nicely done, all right i think she beat you, pete. she wins. let's take a look at the weather map and show you what's going on a lot going on it is very very chilly first big cold snap of the year. 12 degrees as you're waking up in minneapolis, 35 in dallas, and we have some snow, one batch of snow moving across parts of the great lakes this isn't going to accumulate into much, but lake effect snow going on and out across parts of the far northern rockies we have this snow over the next couple of days i'll put up this snowfall

accumulation and take a look at this, panhandle of texas and oklahoma and arkansas, missouri you'll see a little bit of snow sunday night into monday a little bit might stick on the roads causing problems be very careful. obviously the fire danger we continue to watch the campfire in northern california, where 90,000-acres almost 7,000 structures have burned most destructive fire ever, started just 36 hours ago guys and incredible growth of that fire unfortunately. conditions bad today, tomorrow gets better on tuesday. >> katie: rick thank you. well it's santa's wonderland at bass pro shops through december 24. ed: and tv's todd piro has been there all morning getting in the holiday spirit a little bit early. good morning, todd. todd: good morning, guys the adults majority it be playing with ballots in florida and arizona but the kids are playing with fun toys here in pennsylvania. guys thanks for being here these are the ambassadors for bass pro guys tell us about what's going on here? >> this is a time where you can be a kid again at bass pro santa

wonderland, it all kicks off tonight at 5:00 all across the country local store, local time come get your free photo with santa, free different crafts every week. crayola blocks as you can see here and no bigger kid than you right now. todd: i'm pretty much a child. >> find your location at bass pro.com/santa. todd: very cool we appreciate it i'm not talking to the adults i'm talking to the kids. find out what these kids want for christmas and when i talked to them earlier about what they wanted none of the boys wanted to speak so the kids version we'll begin with you. what do you want for christmas? >> a walkie talkie. todd: both practical and fun. how about you? >> a puppy. todd: because there's really only one type of animal. >> of course. todd: how about you young lady what do you want? >> a playhouse. todd: that's what ed henry also wants what do you want? >> a animal doll house. todd: that's what pete hegseth told me he wanted and how about you? what do you want? >> a t-rex. todd: short arms or big arms?

>> big arms. todd: do you know what i want? guys, i heard santa here is he here? >> yes. todd: what santa is here? santa, i know him! i want my picture, santa. on the titanium knee. yeah, i'm putting, you that's not going to work so santa, are you excited for the kids? >> i'm really excited. todd: to have me on your arm here? not as much okay? >> we've got to look at this naughty and nice list. todd: we have a naughty and nice list. i've got to see which one you're on. todd: i'm on the bad one. >> you've been the last couple nights. todd: can we say merry christmas guys? >> merry christmas! ed: all right todd we know you've been very naughty and we want to thank bass pro shops. pete: must see tv. ed: a little legal show down building in florida as the senate and gubernatorial races go to a possible show down. alan dershowitz points to a specific problem that causes

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pete: welcome back with the explosive ballot counting battle in florida continues as new questions surface about what top broward county election official s are doing with provisional ballots. >> katie: so is this election shaping up to be similar to the infamous 2000 recount between george w. bush and al gore. ed: here to weigh in a man with a little bit of perspective alan dershowitz author of the case against impeaching trump but we should note, you're also the author of a book about the 2000 recount and divided election down in florida. have we learned anything since then? >> no it seems to me we've regressed. when you have a choice between corruption and in competence, always start with incompetence, you can usually count on that. broward county of course has a reputation for both, and if you look at the ballot itself, the

ballot itself is problematic. it has the governor right at the top, you decide to vote for governor and then if you want to vote for the senator you have to search for it under the instructions. you'd think that the senator's particularly the democratic candidate, would say to himself, this is broward county. i have more votes here than my opponent. why don't we put my name at the top of the ballot. why didn't they object. pete: because they couldn't find the other. >> there was many under votes for the senate race a much higher percentage and it's like the butterfly ballot but both candidates have a responsibility to look at the ballot before the election, then you can't complain after the election, but this is it all over again. pete: in broward, to answer your own question, is it incompetence or is it corruption or both? >> we know it's in competence. the ballot was totally in competent. in broward county i think you have to start with a presumption

there might also be a corruption because it has such a terrible reputation for corruption but i don't think you get there until you look at all of the other explanations, and in order to charge corruption, you really have to have proof and right now i think there's much more proof. >> katie: there's a lot of people going down to look for proof. hillary clinton's one of her main top lawyers have down in florida, he was involved in the minnesota race with al franken. when do you see this going legal ly is this a problem for rick scott and is he ready for it? >> well i think both sides are ready for it but you don't get to court on in competence. incompetence is just part of being american. we have a lot of incompetent public officials. you have to prove willful and deliberate fraud to get into court and the question is will the courts allow depositions and evidence taking to make this a case? right now, i think we're just

going to see a recount. there's going to be a recount, and i hope, unlike 2000, every vote is recounted, every single vote. let's see what that turns out first. >> katie: the follow-up for that though is what about the lawsuit rick scott filed against broward county where do you think that's going to go? will it help his case, expose any kind of corruption? >> he's hoping it will help his case in the meantime, he's gotten disclosure of certain information, now the information has to be looked at. look, lawsuits take a long long time and elections are supposed to be decided instantaneously so we have a conflict. whenever the legal system gets involved in elections, there's a conflict. i think the lessons to be learned and you'd hoped maybe they learned it from 2,000 is straighten it up. get your act together before the election. make sure every ballot is properly framed. make sure that we have in place ways of counting every ballot. bring your lawyers down before

the vote rather than after the vote. i think that's the lesson we have to learn. ed: unbelievable because the election official in palm beach county apparently was threatening reporters with jail for trying to get in and get transparency. >> we have too many people in america threatening reporters with jail. you have to stay away from that. reporters have to have a right to report on everything. nobody should be afraid of the truth. pete: i'd love it if they sought the truth a little bit more anyway your book from 2000 is called supreme injustice how the high court i hijacked the election. thank you so much. ed: thanks for coming in. pete: still ahead we're introducing you to a marine veteran turned ceo. how he found success off the battlefield with merica bourbon. coming up next. >> ♪ only in america hello mom. amanda's mom's appointment just got rescheduled - for today. amanda needs right at home.

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pete: this morning we kicked off the show with the marine corps 243rd birth day, with the cake cutting of course. ed: now in honor of veterans day coming up tomorrow u.s. marine derrick sisson, ceo of merica bourbon is here to show us his business. what better way to wash down cake with some whiskey. based in houston. we are. that's how we say merica, in texas. it's always the a that's silent. >> katie: we like that. that's how we came up with that name and marines love saying mer ica. >> katie: how did you decide to start this company. what about bourbon did you want to get involved with? >> bourbon is the only true american spirit certified by the u.s. congress in the 60s, so going hand in hand with being a veteran and former marine, still a marine i guess you'd say, we

wanted to do a spirit that represented america itself. pete: on the marine corps birth day tell us a little bit about your service in the marine. served in the second forestry company in the marine corps and special operations. ed: well that's cool. >> katie: that you're working for these t-shirts also i believe a veteran-owned company. it is. >> katie: tell us about how you work with other organizations and businesses and i believe that your proceeds go to taps as well? >> yes we're working with several different organizations. we're working with taps wheelchair for warriors and the sniper foundation, so quite a few actually, not just one. ed: what lessons have you learned transitioning from the battlefield to business, because as you know a lot of your friends come home and deal with homelessness problems, folks still dealing with post traumatic stress. absolutely. ed: there's a horrible epidemic epidemic epidemic with suicide. >> i think there's a lot of folks within whatever field you want to go that are more than

happy to mentor some of these young guys. one of the things i wish i would have done transitioning out is would have sought out some of that mentor ship that's out there. there's a lot of older veterans like myself, not that old but older, you know, i'm not in my 20s any more. seasoned i guess you'd say, but yeah, i think definitely seeking those guys out, the community now is so much different than when i transitioned, now with social media and cell phones whatever that looks like, so much easier to communicate. ed: speaking of which where can folks find you on social media? >> they can find us on merica bourbon.com. no a. that's right. we're now in 21 states and we're here in new york with southern glaciers, and four states just came on board and we just picked up walmart nationwide. >> katie: congratulations.

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ed: we're going to have a special veterans day tomorrow and we've got a big specialment pete: first of all mericabourbon .com. it's great not that i tried any but tomorrow is veterans day we've got a huge panel of

american warriors, shawn parnell , rob o'neill, and medal of honor recipient dakota meyer himself on this marine corps birth day we'll ask them all big questions about this country, veterans day. ed: we'll see you tomorrow. pete: stick with us. >> katie: head to fox & friends.com. pete: and the after the after the show-show we'll have some bourbon. ed: maybe. pete: that's real news. neil: the rumble over the recount is on, and that great 2000 show is playing again 18 years after counting in florida. guess what they're doing it all over again in florida. now the lawsuits are not gone and not just in florida. we'll speak to rnc chair ronna mcdaniel on the potentially shrinking landscape for republicans and our market pros on the potentially shrink ing impact for your money, how much longer and what is french for can't we all just get along? president trump and french