groupthink. we hope to see you there. by the way, mike huckabee up next and for sean. he'll be interviewing the white house press secretary, who he knows well well. a great show. have a great weekend. ♪ ♪ >> mike: welcome to the special edition of "hannity": be on the midterms. hello, i'm mike huckabee, and tonight for sean. stick around because later in the show, white house press secretary sarah sanders -- i kind of know her a little bit -- she happens to be my daughter, and she'll be here for an exclusive interview on all the big issues that the white house is facing. but first, to... ♪ ew this is a fox news alert. we are ten days removed from the midterms but election chaos rages on in southern california. joining us now with the very latest from palm beach county in florida is phil keating.

phil keating? give us an update. >> governor, the sometimes struggling and sometimes notorious florida election workers actually made significant and really almost complete prospect on my progress to date in dealing with the remaining t outstanding ballots that were so questionable. the hand count, as it is cold out here, but here in palm beach county, and most of e state, they are completely donet completely close to it. inside the warehouse in palm beach county, for all the county has been goingg on, no oe inside, it is locked up for the night. now across the state this morning and afternoon, they went through ballots, which had been kicked out by the machines, determining voter intent, if at all possible. in broward, the vast majority were under bold ballots, where the senate race had been left blank. democrats are blaming that on ballot design. as for the senate race itself, the original vote count and recount numbers are pretty much

close to the same. republican governor rick scott leading democrat bill nelson by almost 13,000 votes.. florida'sox, attorney general faulted the nelson campaign for its lawsuit, 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? you could go to theor 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 wouldd have our system work, 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 in tallahassee, of the secretary of state's office, every county must have their

updated numbers turned in. the secretary will forward that onto the state canvasing board which is planning on meeting first thing tuesday morning to certify florida's still going on 2018 election. governor? >> mike: 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? here with us for a full report, doug mckelway. doug mckelway? >> governor, 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. as you know, 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 from mueller on possible obstruction of justice. the remarks also come after mr. trump's twitter storm yesterday in which he tore into mueller's probe. "they are screaming and shouting at people, threatening them to come up with the answers they want. there are a disgrace to our nation and don't care how many lives they ruin." in another tweet, "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. google, and twitter are. in favor of the democrats. there is the real collusion." roger stern and jerome corsi have both stated that they think

they will be indicted. that and george papadopoulos, a former low-level foreign policy advisor, is asking a judge to stay his two week sentence before the appeals court rules whether the mueller probe is on unconstitutional. report toos is 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 sessionefn hail mary. judiciary committee chairman bob goodlatte that he will sipping a former fbi director james comey for a closed-door deposition on november 29th and former attorney general loretta lynch on december 5th. the new congress looking for things to flood with the immigrants wrapping up investigations of trump. adam schiff wants to examine whether mr. trump laundered money for russia when he was a businessman. governor, back to you. >> mike: thank you, doug. joining us now with more, the author of "the deep stayed close, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. the author of "the russia

hoax," one of my favorite books, by the way.ho that is authored by fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett,nd along with fox news contributora tammy bruce and sara carter. good to have all of you here. sara, let me begin with you. the mueller investigation just keeps rolling and rolling and rolling. the president saysys he's got al 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.t 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 with obstructing justice for firing comey. one, because rod rosenstein himself offered the memo to have them fired, and two, under article 2 of the constitution, the president can fire anybody 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. atswe're going to see some peope possibly come under indictment. may be jerome corsi, may be rogerinan stone. 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. >> mike: gregg, you have talked extensivelyou about what you call a russia hoax. whitaker now seems to be the new whipping boy because somehow the fact that he is in charge of the investigation means that itt suspect. where does that go? >> oh, it probablyly goes nowhe. look, the office of legal counsel issued a 20-page opinion.co they are very independent. they said, he's perfectly entitled to have been appointed to the position. under their recusal regulations, commenting about a case, it is not grounds for recusal. i think this continues -- 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.le there's no reason to believe there was ever any evidence of collusion.li 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 to have evidence in order to -- of a crime in order to appoint a specialn counsel. so that means the appointment of robert mueller was illegitimate. they never had any evidence. >> mike: 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? >> we don't. 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 donald trump is going to firens 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 were something that is not going to happen anyway, unconstitutional and not necessary. >> mike: and, tammy, if nothing is found by mueller, how in the world does congress go anywhere with this? what is it they're going g 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. it was developed out of their own minds, perhaps from their own actions, of course. you always say, one of the leftist tactics is to accuse or opposition of what it is you ars 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, heng was never fired because we stopped trump. all of these things are about emotions.se 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 gregg noted, from an investigation that was illegitimate from the start, i 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'ss 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 -- >> mike: i don't know if she is. i'll have to ask her about that. she'sd not told me. >> well, the intimation 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 perpetratedd on the american people to theat tune of millions of dollars and to the distraction of a man who's trying to save this country.

>> mike: i want to go back to congressman chaffetz because one of the reports is that we've had occasion that adam schiff, one of, your former colleagues n the congress, has briefed some of the high-dollar donors in the democrat party about the investigations. is that ethical? is itt appropriate? and if so, what would he have told them? i >> no, it's not. look, you can do fundraisers. you can go and talk to interest groups.an 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 that's different here is the democrats have signaled 86 different investigations, but they don't have the evidence first. they're presupposing the

outcome, instead of following the evidence. >> mike: we have a couple of people here on the panel that i want to get back to, both sara and gregg. sara, let me come back to you because this investigation, as you and gregg have both pointed out,in e has essential been a fe without fuel. how long must americans tolerate this? and do you see this ending before the end of the year? >> i think americans are ryextraordinarily 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 waser fuel, it expod 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 inspectord 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 huber has been investigating. i don't think it's going to end here. i think is going to and for the president and the fact that he's going to be exonerated but i think it's not going to and for the hillary clinton and the rest of them at the fbi. >> mike: the take away from your book that i remember, is that there was collusion, rsn bt wasn't from president trump. it was hillary clinton and their organization. >> it's amazingly ironic. hillary clinton paid for russian information that was then fed tr 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 fisa court judges, concealing evidence and

essentially perpetrating a fraud on the court. that needs to be investigated. >> mike: hopefully it will be. i want to say thanks to all of you for being here and sharing perspectives. coming up on this special edition of "hannity," we're going to have the very latest from the crisis at our southern border. william la jeunesse is going to join us from the border at tijuana, so stay with us. ♪ (male speaker) remember when christmas was magical? when the mailman delivered to the north pole?

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more. that's why they're drawing a line in the sand here in tijuana. 2,000 people slept behind me. more are expected here tomorrow, potentially up to 5,000 people from caravan a. more caravans are already expected behind that. now what are the options? people could go home. i haven't heard anybody say that. they could stay here in mexico, raise money, hire a coyote, several said they would do that. they could apply for asylum in mexico. they could cross illegally, several told them they could do that, 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. today the united states took 30 asylum's claims to be heard by an asylum officer. 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 setting in. this could be a long haul. now when they left the hunter is, the administration policy was catch and release. that changed when they reached mexico city. they're also seeing for the first time the fencing, the border security, the horses, the hot helicopters, the barbed wire on top of the fence, that's were amendable, giving some may be second thought. >> we preparing for a couple of weeks now. we've searched and resources. the department of defense has been helping us harden the what that really means is building obstacles and making it harder to cross between the ports of entry. >> 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. back to you, governor . >> mike: william la jeunesse, thank you very much. democratic california senator kamala harris considered the top contender for the 2020 democratic nomination for president. made an utterly reckless statement yesterday. she suggested i.c.e. was seen in a similar way to the ku klux klan. watch her interaction with trump's nominee to be i.c.e.'s next director. >> the klan was what we could call today a domestic terrorist group. >> why? why would we call them at domestic terrorist group? >> 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. >> mike: all about perception. perception. not the facts, perception. well, on this network today, former acting i.c.e. director thomas homan 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 put a kevlar vest on and go arrest somebody that doesn't want to be arrested, that's a significant criminal alien that you let out of your sanctuary jail in california that you support with this actuary policies. look, the men and women of i.c.e. aren't making this up. they're doing their job.

they are protecting their homeland. they're enforcing the law that congress enacted. and to vilify and call them names is just ridiculous. >> mike: joining me now is morgan ortegas, lawrence jones, and from the center for immigration studies, jessica vaughan. lawrence, i'm going to jump in here with you. 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 to get three constitutional amendments so that black people to get the rights of other americans. it's offensive but again, this is the tone we've been seeing on the college campuses. just as seattle university, we just reported on campus reform, they are disbanding their relationship with eyes, where

students could get internship credits, all because of all the negative rhetoric that's been going on on these college campuses. these are people that are trying to keep us safe but the leftists of today, they don't care about any of that. they want to these political and emotional statements. but there's no historical context to support what they're saying. >> mike: 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 protect job opportunities for americans. 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. >> mike: 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 lie 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. by mattis going down just last week to the border, i think he gave a lot of credibility and relevance to this. he said publicly, we don't do stones. 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 to there. is there a new comprehensive ways to deal with the failed states? 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. >> mike: and my heart is touched when i see children and i see desperate people who are immersed 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 that they're going to come whether the law lets them or not. how do you separate that? what is the right response? >> a lot of us want comprehensive immigration laws. but 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 fight my family. for some reason, they can't do that. >> mike: jessica, i'll bring you back in. do you think there is any hope that there will be a bipartisan solution that will be offered up, that will pass this divided congress that we are 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. >> mike: 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'm not sure that's any better. 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. he does have some funding for

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♪ >> 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 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.. nobody believes in the first amendment more than i do. 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. >> mike: that was president trump during an interview that will air in full on "fox news sunday" with chris wallace. cnn reporter jim acosta has regained access to the white house, but the administration is expected to address reporter conduct with new regulations. joining us now as white house press secretary sarah sanders, who i used all of my powers of persuasion to get her into the studio tonight. 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 willl 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, interrupt, and impede the ability of the colleagues from

actually being able to do their jobs, as well as white house staff from being able to do theirs. t 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 themco tonight. and we expect to see a s respone 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 te press doesn't mean freedom to 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. >> mike: the judge's ruling was not a first amendment ruling, it was a fifth amendment ruling. he neverer said that cnn had ben denied their first amendment rights, because obviously they can say whatever they want. the government, including f the white house, has never said, here's what you can't say. >> they also have a 50-plus additional people that are t had

pass holders at cnn. they actually are one of the individual outlets that has the most hard passes of any news outlet n 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 franklylaughable. >> mike: let me ask you some process questions. how many seats are in the press room? >> 49 seats. >> mike: 49 seats. there are thousands of journalists across america. who gets to decide whose rear ends occupy 49 seats and howet come they get them and thousandd of others never, ever get to darken the door of that place? >> we work with the white house correspondents association. they are the primary people who help determine who those seats belong to. >> mike: do they get to pick them or can you say, okay, on this next thursday we're going to have journalists from country except washington? >> that tradition has been in

the past that the white house correspondents association determines who sits in the room. >> mike: that's tradition, it's not law. >> true. >> mike: if there was a desire to give other journalists an opportunity to do it, because i think some people see the same folks in there and say, how come they get to do it? i'm sure there's broadcasters and print reporters all across the country who would love t to ask the president questions and probably wouldn't talk at him and ask him to t stop. >> 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. doesn't support. above the president hasn't given unprecedented access to those reporters. he's somebody who loves to engage with the press. >> mike: we've noticed that.

we have. >> and that's because he loves to be ablet' to speak directly o 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. >> mike: 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 thereng 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. >> mike: if he asked threeee questions when he was only supposed to ask one, does that make the other reporters ticked off? he got more of the candy out with the bold and they were able

tota get. >> i want to speak for the other reporters, i'll leave that to them. but certainlyhe privately a numr 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. >> mike: i don't want to belabor it. 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 actuallyk 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 thankfully the president's got big shoulders and i think he's going toan go there to offr them up to people that need them. p >> mike: the president had a big moment this week on prison sentencing reform. we've only got a minute and a>> half left, but i want to cover lfthis because i didn't see a lt in the mainstream media. >> it was a good story. >> mike: it was a great story. bipartisan. you had people that really ranged the full spectrum. from the far left for the far right, everyone in between, on a personal level. 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 thehe

biggest things is it brings the country together. it's a bipartisan, an 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.t 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 importantnt to jared kushn, who's done a tremendous job in helping develop and really work this. this isn't something that happened overnight. it's been a year and a half long process. i think you saw a little bit of the culmination ofof that. >>e mike: 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.

>> i didn't know it, either. [laughs] >> mike: is there something you need to tell your dad? >> i hope not, not that i'm aware of, no. >> mike: and i told her, i said, well, gee, maybe you know something i don't know. i'm just a dad, how would i know these things? >> i think it is one of the greatest privileges and certainly one ofni 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 thinkk he's going to have a lt more over the next six. >> mike: will there be other people, though, that will transition out? will there be a huge amount of people? >> every administration has turnover particularly after the midterms. hest 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. >> mike: if you are going to do

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♪ ♪ >> mike: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity: beyond the midterms." i'm mike huckabee in for sean. we now know brian kemp will be the next governor of georgia. democrat stacey abrams ended hen tonight but also said she wasn't

conceding. this is just bizarre. we saw unbelievable news out of the florida recount and recount and recount. broward county's so-called election supervisor brenda snipes actually missed the recount deadline by 2 minutes. two minutes. tuesday election totals will stand until the hand countd recount numbers come in on sunday, but governor rick scott seems to be in a good spot. despite the recount drama, ron desantis is all but certain to enact the florida's governor's race, since andrew gillum has picked only one vote in all the aftermath. joining us to talk about the fallout from the midterm elections, florida congressman matt gaetz, former federal attorney emily compagno, and palm beach county republican party chairman michael barnett. congressman gaetz, you have been right in the middle of all of this down inte florida. so m let me start with you. are we going to bring a resolution to this? will we end up with the same results that we had an election night, tuesday, november the sixth? >> well, we will for

governor scott and ron desantis. the joke in florida is you can't spell gillum without two ls. he lost an election night and he lost in the recount as well. unfortunately he hasn't conceded so that so we can move on. i'm proud of desantis for having invited to meet with gillum and hear his thoughts. i think it's appropriate to have two folks that have had a tough competition to comepp together d ogchat and move together in the direction that is best for those that so we continue to see these we hope to serve. problems in florida. we're going to have to have some systemic reform. my hope is this isn't the newoi incarnation of the resist movement. first they resisted republican policies, now they are actually trying to resist the will of the voters. that's not a good thing for anybody. >> mike: emily, let me ask you, the democrats have a fundamental problem and is accepting election results? whether it'sn 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.

okay, kyrsten sinema is the new cemetery. what is it with democrats that let that happen? >> you're right. and, yes, certainly mcsally had a graceful 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.v destroying ballots early, she was ruled to have violated state and federal law as well as destroying ballots early, opening them for terminally, and changing entire amendments. 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 against 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 r that internally the instateov voter election laws. the issues here were those arguing that kemp stole the seelection, quote/unquote. the issues had to do with implementation and execution, not the constitutionality of the in-state laws themselves. it's bogus all the way around in such a hyperbole to put that on these candidates when clearly the voters have spoken. >> mike: michael, you are right in the middle of palm beach county, you've seen a lot of these election issues. 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.ow paul meade county and broward county have been the center of political chaos and incompetence for years, going back to the 2000 election. 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 wass 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 and different story. republicans or democrats, the supervisors, they are working together. they are monitoring the race. 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 forget it. the final numbers submitted by palm beach county only added about 118 votes to nelson.fl 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 race is over. >> mike: let's hope it is because it seems like it's just going and going. and the rest of america is gone. 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. ♪ thoughts.

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