by the way, mike huckabee up next, in for sean. he'll be interviewing the white house press secretary, whom he knows well. it'll be a great show. have a great weekend. ♪ >> welcome to this special edition of "hannity: beyond the midterms". hello, i'm mike huckabee in tonight for sean. stick around, sarah sanders, i kind of know her a little bit. she happens to be my daughter. but first, this is a fox news alert. we are ten days removed from the midterms, but election chaos rages on in southern florida. phil, give us an update.

>> the sometimes struggling and sometimes notorious florida election workers made significant progress today in dealing with the remaining outstanding ballots that are so questionable, the hand count, that is called down here, they are completely done, if not very, very close to it. inside the warehouse here in palm beach county, where all the counting has been going on. it's all locked up, all for the night. now, across the state this morning and afternoon, canvassers went through ballots which had been kicked out by the machine. and broward, the vast majority, were undervote ballots where the senate race had been left blank. democrats are blaming that on ballot design.

the numbers are pretty much the same. scott leading nelson by almost 13,000 votes. and today on fox, florida's attorney general faulted the nelson campaign, suggesting nelson just needs to concede and end it all. >> we have to have deadlines. the way to prevent fraud is to have signature verification as we do in florida. what if we didn't? we could go to the polls and somebody could sign mickey mouse and that would count as a vote. that's a joke on the integrity of our system. and that's the way they would have our system works, and it just doesn't. >> almost no public statements at all from senator bill nelson, his campaign, or his recount attorney mark elias, a long-time democratic operative. the future here is that sunday at noon up at tallahassee, every

county must have their updated numbers turned in. the secretary will forward that onto the state canvasing board to certify florida's still going on 2018 election. governor. >> phil, thanks a bunch. stay safe down there in florida. we're going to have more reaction to the ongoing recount in florida later in the show. but first let's turn to major new developments out of the mueller probe. could this seemingly endless investigation finally be coming to an end? doug. >> good to see you. further evidence that the mueller probe is about to be wrapped up is the president's comment today that he has finished answering written questions supplied by the special counsel's office. >> i haven't submitted them yet. i've just finished them. i've been busy. it didn't take long to do them. and they were my answers. i don't need lawyers to do that. you need lawyers for submittal,

to go over some of the answers, but they're not very difficult questions. >> the president's comment that he hasn't submitted the answers yet is potentially significant. trump's attorney said the president would not answer any questions for mueller on possible obstruction of justice. the remarks also come after president trump's twitter storm yesterday in which he tore into mueller's probe. there are a disgrace to our nation and don't care how many lives they ruin. the only collusion is that of democrats with russia and many others. why didn't the fbi take the server from the dnc? they still don't have it. check out how biased facebook and twitter are. both of whom have stated they think they will be indicted.

he's asking to stay his two-week sentence. he's to report to prison on november 26th. and separately, house republicans who are about to bid fair well to their majority and all their investigations of mueller are making a last-ditch effort to connect on a lame-duck session hail mary. he has said he will subpoena comey on november 29th and loretta lynch on december 5th. in the new congress, look for things to flip with democrats wrapping up all kinds of investigations with trump. schiff wants to examine whether mr. trump laundered money for russia when he was a businessman. >> the author of "the russia

hoax," one of my favorite books, by the way. along with fox news contributors tammy bruce and sara carter. good to have all of you hear. sarah, let me begin with you. the mueller investigation just keeps rolling and rolling and rolling. the president says he's got all those answers done and it was not hard at all. >> and the president also made it very clear, and according to sources, has made it clear for quite a long time there is nothing there. they can investigate all they want, but there is absolutely no collusion with russia. i'm willing to talk about this openly. and he has. and now he's answered these questions. and as far as obstruction and any kind of charges of obstruction, we know that's now been pushed aside by mueller. you can't charge the president for obstructing justice for firing comey. under article 2 of the constitution, the president can fire anybody he wants. so at that point in time, i think this is what we're looking

at is mueller's going to wrap up this probe. we're going to see this wrap up. we're going to see some people possibly come over indictment. and then we can all move on and we're probably going to move on to the democrats now spending the next two years investigating more -- more investigations that will lead to nowhere. >> greg, you have talked extensively about what you call the russia hoax. somehow the fact that he is in charge of the investigation means that it's suspect. where does that go? >> oh, it probably goes nowhere. look, the office of legal counsel issue a 20-page opinion. he is perfectly entitled to have been appointed to the position. commenting about a case is not grounds for recusal. whitaker is not going to interfere with mueller. trump's not going to fire

mueller, especially now since it appears to be reaching the very end. there's no reason to believe there was ever any evidence of collusion. and how do we know that? because the top fbi lawyer lisa page in her deposition confessed. the entire time the fbi had the case, they never found any evidence of collusion. and that's significant because you have to have evidence in order to -- of a crime in order to appoint a special counsel. so that means the appointment of robert mueller was illegitimate. they never had any evidence. >> well, one of the things though that this brings up, you've got senator jeff flake. he says he's not going to even allow judicial nominations to get to the floor and go through unless they let him have his little bill that would require a protection of the mueller probe. there's no indication that anybody's pulling the plug on

it. congressman, let me ask you to weigh in on that. why do we need to pass a bill to protect something that doesn't need to be protected by all indications? >> fundamentally, we don't. i think it's highly unconstitutional. you cannot tie the hands of a president who is empowered by the constitution. you can't say, mr. president, you can't fire this particular person. so, a, it's unconstitutional. b, there's no evidence that president trump is going to fire or dismiss this person. he's been open, transparent, he's been answering their questions. he's about to submit those questions. and i see no need for it. to hold up judicial appointments, unconstitutional and not necessary. >> and, tammy, if nothing is found by mueller, how in the world does congress go anywhere with this? what is it they're going to

investigate? if mueller comes up in a dry hole no matter how deep he's drilled, what do they investigate and why? >> this entire investigation was a fraud. one of the leftist tactics is to accuse your opposition of what it is you're doing. so i can imagine that they'll come up with something. and of course, it'll be another fraud. all of this is posturing. everything we've been discussing, including the jeff flake action, is really so they can say, well, he was never fired because we stopped trump. all of these things are about emotions. it's a fixation on the president. and it's also to give the impression that the democrats are doing something because otherwise they might have to try to govern and come up with some ideas that would actually be good for the country and move us forward, but they can't do it. so this is, i think, what is important here. also, the fact that the president has even had to write

answers to questions that generated, as greg noted, from an investigation that was illegitimate from the start, that was meant to be exclusively political. and that report, governor, will go to congress, to the house, which then they will say or at least try to say that this is the basis for impeachment because they'll read into it whatever they want to. this is where the president's communication team is key. i'm sad that your daughter is going to be leaving the administration at the end of the year, but they need -- >> i don't know if she is. i'll have to ask her about that. she's not told me. >> well, the information earlier this year that she was. i hope that that's incorrect. but the bottom line is they're going to have a big job to do, to push back aggressively, which is not usually the republican skill of standing up for themselves. but going further and in fact pushing back on this entire fraud that has been perpetrated on the american people to the tune of millions of dollars and to the distraction of a man

who's trying to save this country. >> i want to go back to congressman because one of the reports is that we've had occasion that adam schiff, one of your former colleagues in the congress, has briefed some of the high-dollar donors in the democrat party about the investigations. is that ethical? is it appropriate? and if so, what would he have told them? >> no, it's not. look, you can do fundraisers. you can go and talk to interest groups. but if you're billed as i'm going to provide you information that nobody else can because i'm the incoming chairman of the intelligence committee, that is really highly suspicious and i think there needs to be more questions. one of the fundamental things different here is the democrats have signalled 86 different investigations, but they don't have the evidence first. they're presupposing the outcome

instead of following the evidence. >> we have a couple of people here on the panel that i want to get back to, both sarah and greg. sarah, let me come back to you because this investigation, as you and greg have both pointed out, has essential been a fire without fuel. how long must americans tolerate this? and do you see this ending before the end of the year? >> i think americans are extraordinarily frustrated. i think they're angry about this. that's what i'm hearing every day in emails. i've got to tell you this. where there was fuel, it exposed what happened with the fbi and with the doj. deep malfeasance within the fbi and doj, which needs to be investigated. and let's not forget that inspector general horowitz is still working on his report. it should be issued sometime next year. it's focusing solely on how the fbi handled this russia investigation. and every day we have more and more information about malfeasance. and if senator graham gets the

chairmanship, he promises he'll continue these investigations. but i think it's going to go much further than this. i think we're going to see some indictments. i think things will come to the surface within the doj. we still don't know what john has been investigating. i think it's going to end for the president, but i think after that it's not going to end for hillary clinton and the rest of them at the fbi. >> the takeaway from your book that i remember is that there was collusion but it wasn't from president trump, it was with hillary clinton and their organization. >> it's amazingly ironic. hillary clinton paid for russian information that was then fed to the fbi to damage her political opponent. and that was the pretext for the trump russia investigation. and they took it a step further. they used that phony dossier they knew was fabricated from an unreliable lying source and they deceived the faii fisa court ju

concealing evidence and perpetrating a fraud on the court. that needs to be investigated. >> hopefully it will be. thanks to all of you. coming up on this special edition of hannity, we're going to have the very latest from the crisis at our southern border. william is going to join us from the border at tijuana. so stay with us. today... back pain can't win. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain. only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve back & muscle. all day strong. all day long. to spellbinders, pathfinders, to grand plan designers.

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>> welcome back to this special edition of "hannity: beyond the midterms". joining me from tijuana with the latest on the status of the migrant caravan, william. >> well, as long as the risk outweighs the reward, the administration believes this

caravan will be followed by many more. that's why they're drawing a line in the sand here in tijuana. 2,000 people slept behind me. what are thes options? people could go home. they could ask for asylum here in mexico. that's been offered. they could cross illegally or they could claim asylum in the united states. problem is you can't do it anymore between the borders. so right now the existing line is 1,040 people we're told. basically, the message of these people is, hey, get in line, take a number, it could take five weeks or several months. >> i want to just get my number. they let you -- they let me get -- give it to me.

i don't know how long i'm going to wait for. >> so for many people, the reality is settling in. this could be a long haul. now, when they left honduras -- they're also seeing for the first time the fencing, the border security, the barbed wire on top of the fence, giving some maybe a second thought. >> we've been preparing for a couple of weeks now. the department of defense has been helping us hard in the border. what that really means is building obstacles and making it harder to cross. >> because the shelter space here in tijuana is stressed, they stopped several buses about 60 to 80 miles east of where i'm at right now because they can't handle the capacity. i was also told informally that there may be a sit-in along the 28 lanes of traffic that go from tijuana into the united states.

that of course will bring traffic and commerce to a standstill. nothing's official here. just something i heard from one of the guys. they're waiting until the rest of the caravan arrives to determine what to do next. >> thank you very much. democratic california senator harris considered the top contender for the 2020 nomination for president. she suggested i.c.e. was seen in a similar way to the ku klux klan. watch her interaction with trump's nominee to the i.c.e. next director. >> we could call it today a domestic terrorist group. >> why? >> because they tried to use fear and force to change political environment. >> and what was the motivation for the use of fear and force. >> it was based on race and ethnicity. >> right. are you aware of the perception

of many about how the power and the discretion at i.c.e. is being used to enforce the law? and do you see any parallels? >> i do not see any parallels between -- >> i'm talking about perception. >> i do not see a parallel. >> all about perception. perception. not the facts, perception. well, on this network today, former acting i.c.e. director had a few choice words for senator harris in response to her appalling comments. take a look. >> for her to vilify the men and women, the 20,000 men and women that strap a gun to their hip every day to enforce a law that congress enacted. she's a member of congress. if she don't like what i.c.e. does, change the law. or strap a gun on your hip and go arrest somebody that doesn't want to be an arrested that's a significant criminal alien that you let out of your sanctuary jail in california. look, the men and women of i.c.e. aren't making this up. they're doing their job.

they're enforcing the law that congress enacted. and to vilify and call them names is just ridiculous. >> joining me now is morgan orteg ortegas, lawrence jones, and from the center for immigration studi studies, jessica vaughan. are you offended by senator harris's comments and her comparing i.c.e. law enforcement officials, paid to the united states government to enforce a law, comparing them with the kkk? >> yeah, i don't think it's insulting to me but many of the people that fought during the civil rights movement, many people that fought so black people could get rights of other americans. it's offensive. this is the code we've been seeing on the college campuses. they are disbanning their relationship with i.c.e., where

students can get internship credit all because of all the negative rhetoric that's been going on in these college campuses. these are people trying to keep us safe, but they don't care about any of that. they want to these political and emotional statements. but there's historical context to support what they're saying. >> jessica, let me ask you if you think this is a little dangerous to try to tell people that a law enforcement agency is akin to a racist organization that lynched people and murdered them and denied people american citizens, their constitutional rights. is that a dangerous thing to implant in the minds of impressionable college students? >> most definitely it is a dangerous thing because that undermines i.c.e.'s ability to do its job. it empowers sanctuary policies to put the public at risk because they result in the release of criminal aliens back to the streets to keep preying on the community.

and it makes it difficult for i.c.e. to do their job. it almost gives a license to challenge them when they're going about doing a job that's very important to americans that americans want to see done. immigration laws are not some outdated obsolete laws that don't deserve to be enforced anymore. they keep americans safe and protect taxpayers and they protect our legal immigration system. so this is very wrong to undermine this important agency and its work and the people who do it. >> morgan, one of the things that we learned from william was that there is a mass of people assembling up at tijuana. and some people say, this isn't going to get here for weeks if not months. well, they're here. so that was an outright law for some of the newscasters to say it had nothing to do with anything of current events. well, it's here. what should be the response of

the president, homeland security, and for that matter, american citizens? >> so i think that we have to take a comprehensive all of government approach to this. and a lot of o people are talking about the troops being on the border, but that is just one element of the national security strategy that the president is trying to pursue. and i should say it's important to note that this is a national security strategy. going down just last week to the border, i think he gave a lot of credibility and relevance to this. so in one bucket you have our troops at the border meant there for a deterrence effect to say, don't come here, don't invade. you have to go through the proper channels. one of the biggest things is the fact that we have so many failed states in central america and on our borders. and we have to look at radical new ideas for foreign aid because the foreign aid that we have sent billions of dollars worth over decades, we haven't

looked at central america closely pretty much since the reagan administration. we have to look at what is our money going there. is there a new way to deal with them. can we take lessons from what our military and civilian services have done in iraq and afghanistan? and you have the military aspect of having that deterrence on the border. >> and my heart is touched when i see children and i see desperate people who are immensed in the depths of poverty that it's hard for us to even gets our arms around. but a lot of these people are not children and mothers. these are young men capable of doing jobs and they're threatening they're going to come whether the law lets them or not. >> there has to be a legal process. and with respect to those young men on the border, a lot of them have been fighting, journalists on the ground, but these are the

same men that won't fight for their own country. i can only put myself in their position as an american. if my country was under siege and there was oppressive government going on, what would i do? i would fight for my country and my family. for some reason, they can't do that. jessica, do you think that there is any hope that there will be a bipartisan solution offered up that will pass this divided congress we're about to see? >> well, it's not going to be easy, but it has to happen because we cannot continue to have this influx over our southern border. it is hard to imagine what life is like for some of these people that must have made them decide to come here, but really the problem is our policy is enticing people to take this long trek, to put themselves in danger, to put their children in danger, to pay criminal smuggling organizations because they think they are going to be allowed in and they're going to be able to get away with living here for the next few years.

but it's not fair to them. it's not fair to the american communities that have to absorb these new populations. congress needs to get something done here. it can no longer allow the courts to impose these restrictions on the executive branch on how they handle an influx of families. congress has got to get it done. there's only so much president trump can do on his own. >> morgan, optimistic or pessimistic as to whether congress will actually do something? you've lived in this town a long time. you've been in the government. you know it well. >> well, luckily i live in new york city. i will say i think your friend senator lindsey graham has proposed an interesting deal, which is trading daca for the border law. i think it will be difficult for the president to go into 2020

without building the wall. it could be a win-win for the president. >> let's hope it can be. up next, sarah sanders is going to join us for a live one-on-one interview with me. that ought to be fun. this special edition of hannity continues in a moment. ♪ the greatest wish of all... is one that brings us together. the lincoln wish list event is here. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with $0 down, $0 due at signing, and a complimentary first month's payment. only at your lincoln dealer.

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[ child babbling ] -aah! -oh! -act your age. get your own insurance. ♪ >> a federal judge who you appointed has just ruled that you must give cnn reporter john acosta his press pass back. your reaction to the ruling? >> it's fine. it's not a big deal. what they said though is that we have to create rules and regulations for conduct, et cetera. we're doing that. we're going to write it up right now. it is not a big deal. if he misbehaves, we'll throw him out or stop the news conference. if i think somebody's acting out of sorts, i will leave. i'll say thank you very much, everybody. i appreciate you coming. and i'll leave.

and those reporters will not be too friendly to whoever it is that's acting up. >> that was president trump during an interview that will air in full on fox news sunday with chris wallace. cnn reporter acosta has regained access to the white house, but the administration is expected to address reporter conduct with new regulations. joining us now is sarah sanders. so one of the statements that came out of the white house today was a statement from you that indicated that there were rules being developed and a protocol being developed. when will we expect to see what that looks like? >> well, i think the biggest thing to take away is -- and the place that we focused on is exactly what the president said. we support a free press, but freedom of the press doesn't mean freedom to be disruptive, rude, intercept, and impede the ability of the colleagues from

actually being able to do their jobs, as well as white house staff being able to do theirs. we've laid out in a letter to cnn and their team what we think were some of the missteps that their reporter made at the press conference on november 7th in a letter that we sent them tonight. and we expect to see a response from that. the judge i think was actually very clear that the white house has the ability to say, you can't come in. you don't have -- freedom of the press doesn't mean freedom into the white house. and he said there has to be due process. that's what we're doing and we'll see what happens from there. >> it was a fifth amendment ruling. he never said that cnn had been denied their first amendment rights because obviously they can say whatever they want. the government, including the white house has never said, here's what you can't say. >> they also have 50-plus

additional people that are hard pass olders at cnn. they actually are one of the individual outlets that has the most hard passes of any news outlet in the country is cnn. they're one of the top three. so the idea that they aren't able to get information they need from the white house is franedly laughable. >> how many seats are in that tress press room? >> 49 seats. >> who gets to decide whose rear ends occupy 49 seats and how come they get them and thousands of others never do? >> we work with the white house correspondents association. they are the primary people who help determine who those seats belong to. >> do they get to pick them or can you say, okay, on this next thursday we're going to have journalists from anywhere in the country except washington. >> the association determines who sits in that room.

>> that's tradition. it's not law. ? true. >> and so if there was a desire to give other journalists an opportunity to do it, because i think some people see these same folks in there every day and they say, how come they get to do it? i'm sure there's broadcasters who would love to ask the president questions. >> i think that's certainly an option to explore and maybe we will in this white house. i know the president is one of the most accessible presidents probably ever but certainly in modern history. he's taken in the last six weeks leading up to the midterms he took 300 times the number of questions from reporters than either of his predecessors. that's outrageous to pretend he doesn't support the press. he's somebody who loves to engage with the press. >> we've noticed that.

we have. >> and that's because he loves to be able to speak directly to the american people. we never want to prohibit that from taking place, but at the same time, those individuals can't be disruptive. they can't impede the ability of any individual to do their jobs. >> so when might we see the rules or the requirements, the protocol? you've said you sent the letter to cnn tonight. is that going to be in a few days, few weeks? >> we'll work with our team on that and certainly moving into thanksgiving holiday we'll see how long that process takes, but i think there are some just standard practices. look, i think the very basic minimum is that if certain reporters like jim acosta can't be adults, then cnn needs to send somebody in there who can be. >> if he asked three questions when he was only supposed to ask one, does that make the reporters ticked off? >> i'll leave that to them. but certainly privately a number

of them have expressed their displeasure with the fact of his grandstanding and the position that he often puts a lot of them in. and it's certainly not something they want to celebrate nor defend. >> let's move to tomorrow. you'll be looking at horrific scenes, worst fires in the history of the country. 63 known dead, 600 unaccounted for. what will the president hope to say tomorrow? >> i think the simplest message is that we're here. we're there for you. we will do any and everything we can to provide federal assistance and federal resources. he conveyed that i know in a call to governor brown earlier this week. he'll be joining us when we get to california tomorrow. i think this will actually probably be one of the harder days that we've had in the two years of this administration, not only visiting with the horrific and seeing the scenes of the horrific wildfires that

have ravaged california, but also talking with some of the people and the families that were impacted by the shooting there not too long ago. it's going to be a very difficult and emotional day, and i think the biggest takeaway will be the president saying, we're here. and thanfully the president's got big shoulders and i think he's going to go there to offer them up to people that need them. >> we've only got a minute and a half left, but i want to cover this because i didn't see a lot in the mainstream media. you had people that really ranged the full spectrum. i was involved in this. one of the committees to help trap some of the policy based on my own experiences. this was huge. this was major. give me a synopsis of what this legislation does that the president pushed this week.

>> well, i think one of the biggest things is it brings the country together. it's a bipartisan, and area where republicans, democrats, everyone can come together and agree that this is a good thing to show a little grace and a little mercy in our justice system. something that hasn't been done in a long time. we've had decades' worth of bad decisions that have been improperly placed people and really i think longer sentences than they deserved, not allowed people to have a life after prison. and this is something that is very important to the president, very important to jared kushner, who's done a tremendous job in helping develop and really work this. this isn't something that happened overnight. i think you saw a little bit of the culmination of that. >> he should get the credit for that and i hope he will. 30 seconds and that's all we've got. earlier tammy bruce said sarah sanders is going to be leaving

the white house. is there something you need to tell your dad? >> i hope not, not that i'm aware of, no. >> and i told her, i said, well, gee, maybe you know something i don't know. >> i think it is one of the greatest privileges and certainly one of the greatest opportunities of my life to serve in this administration, to work with president trump and the successes that he's had in the first two years. i think he's going to have a lot more over the next six. >> will there be other people though that will transition out? >> every administration has turnover particularly after the midterms. most people don't have the stamina the president does. i often say, i don't know how he's not tired because the rest of us certainly are. and that's not new for any administration that you'll have some people that will change over. but at the same time, the president's got an incredibly dedicated team that wants to continue to see the country move forward and we want to see you the under president trump. >> if you are going to do it, would you let me know and don't

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♪ >> welcome back to this special edition of "hannity: beyond the midterms". i'm mike huckabee in for sean. we now know kemp will be the next governor of georgia. abrams end her campaign but said she wasn't conceding.

this is just bizarre. we saw unbelievable news out of the florida recount and recount and recount. broward county snipes actually missed the recount deadline by two minutes. two minutes. tuesday election totals will stand until the hand count recount numbers come in on sunday, but governor rick scott seems to be in a good spot. gillum has picked up only one vote in all the aftermath. to talk about the fallout after the midterm elections, matt gates, emily, and palm beach county republican party chairman michael barnett. congressman gates, you have been right in the middle of all of this down in florida. so let me start with you. are we going to bring a resolution to this? >> well, we will for governor scott and ron desantis.

the joke in florida is you can't spell gillum without two l's. unfortunately he hasn't conceded so that so we can move on. i'm proud of desantis for having provided to meet with gillum and hear his thoughts. i think it's appropriate to have them come together and chat and move together in the direction best for those we hope to serve. so we continue to see these problems in florida. we're going to have to have some systemic reform. my hope is this isn't the new incarnation of the resist movement. now they're actually trying to resist the will of the voters. that's not a good thing for anybody. >> let me ask you, did democrats have a fundamental problem in accepting election results, whether it's 2016 presidential election, whether this elections that came out of georgia. the republicans didn't throw a fit in arizona.

they didn't like the results there, but they sucked it up. what is it with democrats that they cannot let that happen? >> you're right. and, yes, certainly mcsally had a great defeat and message. i don't know the answer to that, but i will say this, that there's certainly a pattern of such. and in the case of broward county, there was an actual legal pattern and legal history of that county election supervisor being in court multiple times and ruled against, including injunctions. destroying ballots early, opening them prematurely. and what was the remedy? we saw a machine over sight. this time around the argument to being two minutes late was the website created a separate issue and i'm pleased with what i did with the amount of time i had. since when is that incompetence

accepted and defended? she's still remaining in that seat, still defending in those losses and reducing it to a singular issue of race. certainly as well in georgia, the history there, the supreme court ruled in 2013 that they didn't have to oversee that internally the instate voter election laws. the issues here was those arguing that kemp stole the election, quote/unquote. the issues had to do with implementation and execution, not the constitutionality of the laws themselves. it's such a hyperbole to put it on these candidates. >> i think what a lot of americans look at is that it seems like the rest of florida can handle an election, even parts of florida that have had a hurricane, for heaven's sake. but there are two counties in

the southern part of the state that can't get it right. what's going on down there? >> your best guess is as good as ours. they've been the center of political chaos and incompetence for years. one thing to note about the broward county supervisor who submitted their second unofficial count to the state that was two minutes late, rick scott was ahead in broward county. that would have cushioned his statewide lead by several hundred votes. it makes you wonder if that mistake was really a mistake. in palm beach county, we see a different story. we've seen a much more orderly and cordial and friendly atmosphere. but if bill nelson is looking for a miracle out of south florida, he can forgot it. the final numbers submitted by palm beach county only added

about 118 votes to nelson. it's time to concede. his tenure in congress and in the senate has to come to an end. he needs to do what stacey abrams did. follow suit and bow out gracefully. this is over. >> let's hope it is because it seems like it's just going and going. we're ready for the elections to be over. i wish we had more time. unfortunately, the nature of television is we don't. and i hope all of you have a wonderful thanksgiving. thank you for staying with us on this special edition of "hannity: beyond the midterms". we're going to be right back with some closing thoughts. stay with us.

>> thanks for joining me tonight on in special edition of "hannity." and before we go, my book came out just this week. it's available at bookstores and online book sellers just in time for christmas. and i hope you'll catch my weekend show on tbn saturday and

sunday night. unfortunately, that's all the time we've got this evening. so have a great weekend, because the "the ingraham angle" is next and you do not want to miss a second of it. good night. ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is the "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. a big friday show for you of course. in moments, we're going to speak with former speaker newt gingrich about a stunning nonconcession in that georgia gubernatorial election. and a promised federal lawsuit by the democrat stacey abrams. this after she slowly comes to the conclusion she's not going to be the next governor of georgia. we're going to bring you a report about what's really happening to women and children inside of one of those caravans