the liberals try to steal this the election from the great people of florida. >> unanswered questions one day after 12 people were gunned down inside of a crowded bar in california. the family members of the victims are searching for answers and calling for change. >> i don't want prayers. i don't want thoughts. i want gun control, and i hope to god nobody else sends me anymore prayers. i want gun control. no more guns. >> plus the new man in charge, and president trump is downplaying the ties to the new acting attorney general after red flags are raised and what does it mean for the russian investigation? >> the russian investigation is a hoax, and phony hoax. >> i think that the days are number and this is a blatant appointment, and whisker is a blatant attempt by the president to make mueller go away in the form of either removing him or greatly constraining his m mandate.

good day. i'm chris jansing in for andrea mitchell with new details on the midterm election that is going into overtime across the country. critical races from arizona to florida, and still undecided. recounts in runoffs are around the corner as candidates from both parties are preparing for the next phase of political warfare. we break it down by the numbes.s three senate races, and 11 house races and the georgia governor races have not been called at this hour, and the florida race where ron desantis is the apparent win er with a 36,000 vote advantage over andrew gillum may be far from finished as well. the president weighed in on what is happening in the sunshine state from the south lawn this morning. >> what is going onn florida is a disgrace. go down to see what happened over the last period of time, ten years, and take a look at broward county.

and take a look at the total dishonesty of what happened with respect to broward county. broward county slash election and there is a lot of dishonesty dishonesty. >> and now, let's bring in our panel. jen pal mmerie, and susan page d jim. and this fight is public an contentious, and rick, i want to listen to a little bit more of what the president had to say about what is happening in florida. let's play that. >> all of the sudden, they are finding votes out of nowhere, and rick scott who won by, you know, it is close, but he won by a comfortable margin and every couple of hours it is going down a little bit. i say this, he easily won, but every hour it seems to be going down, and i think that people have to look at it very, very

cautiously. >> is that what you see, are rick tyler, they are finding votes out of nowhere? >> no, they are not finding the votes out of nowhere, but this is president trump again undermining another institution that people don't have faith n. and there is no question that broward and palm beach have problems there, and some incompetence going on there, and that is clearly has not been fixed since 20000, but people have to understand that when there is a close race, they don't generally count the absentee votes unless the election is close and they is have to bring them out, but it can make a difference if there is enough of them, and now more and more people are voting by absentee, and that is going to be case going forward and they have to fix the problem so they are all counted at the same time. >> i have spent a lot of time and months leading to the midterm election and particularly going into the suburban district where is women would make a difference and in many of them, they did and many

of them involved in campaigns for the first time and so i have been checking in with them since the midterms and this is the kind of thing that absolutely drives themle crazy. i went back to southern california to orange county where there are still some races that we are waiting to see how they came out, and mostly first-time people getting involved, and here is what they told me about their plans going forward and let me give you a hint, they are not going to stop their political activism. listen. >> i think that we are more organized than before. and i ra really believe that we know what the ground rules are no, and we understand what the factors are r and we also understand what our own rules can be and what we are good at, and so that is coming 2020, we will be better than we have been. >> and a lot of us are former pta or the team the moms and lends itself to organizing and you can keep a lot of balls in the air, and we can get people together and get people to work, and we bring a lot of food, and so that is good. >> and wine.

>> and my son said, mom, when are you going to start doing mom stuff again. >> and what was the great comeback? >> i said i am doing the mom stuff. i am saving democracy for you. >> and i'm saving democracy for you. and susan page, i wonder if these women who we know have been underestimate and now they woke, and what they tell me is that they are not going back to sleep. do you believe that they look at things like what we are seeing today and people trying to fight each other about whether or not votes should be counted,ed a it works against those who are arguing against it. >> well, absolute ly. one of the lessons from the campaign is going to be the activism, the energy, the involvement by record numbers of women. it is not a one-off, but it is a training ground. one of the things that we see in politics is that if you are running once, and say not just work for candidates, but run for office, you are more like ly to the run again, and two of the people who lost the first races

in politics would be barack obama and george w. bush. that may be the kind of the phenomena that we see in women. many of them won the elections and system of them didn't, but thes a s assumption is that the not going to go away. >> and i was surprised by how many women were following a lot of the races of women candidates closely, and jen, again, one of the things that fires these women up, because i spent a lot of time with them over the course of the last several months is how the president talks about women. and like what he said this morning about april ryan a veteran white house correspondent, and i will play that. >> and the same thing with april ryan. i watched her get up, and i mean, you talk about somebody who is a loser. she doesn't know what the hell she is doing, and she gets publicity and the she gets a pay raise or contract with, i think cnn, but she is very nasty. >> and how does this play in the 2020, jen?

>> well, it is talking about talk about april like that and people to who he normally speaks out for that kind of the abuse and women and they are usually black women. and it is really -- >> and one of the things -- >> and it turns me -- >> and yes. and repeatedly, yeah, but he won. >> right. >> and so what is your bigger takeaway about -- >> yeah, i mean. i mean my bigger takeaway is to count on the women to continue to show up. you saw it in the women's march in '17 and saw it in '18 and the number of candidates running, and then you saw it on election day on tuesday. and so women won in big numbers and voted in huge numbers and voted for democrats, and that is something that is not going away, and i think that it is simple. it is donald trump who is president of the united states and if that man is going to be president of the united states, i can do anything, and women are engaged in politics like never before and also, if that man is president of the united states,

i have the do something. and this is why you will see the group of women who had not been involved in politics before staying engage and not going away and being a force in 2020 as well. >> and in the meantime, while thigh are all, and they are geared up already for 2020, and they are fired up whether they are a congressperson who won or not, and we have outstanding races. steve kornacki, go over them with us, and what are you watching and what is on the line here? >> yes, a couple of them and start with the arizona race, because there are hundreds of thousands of races outstanding there, and last night some additional votes were coming in. >> and this is one of the places where the president said vote s are showing up. >> yes, this is a heavy mail-in voting state and people mailed in the ballots well in advance of the election day, and they are counting the ballots right now, and what happened in maricopa kocounty which is more than half of the state and phoenix area, and big batch of the early votes were counted last night, and bolted krysten

sinema into the lead, and it seem s that there is a split here of the votes on election day and counted now seem to the favor sinema and we an tis a pate that the lead is going to increase, and the later votes brought in on election dand counted at the end of the process is probably more fav favorable to mcsallily and the question is four or five days from now, can she catch up, but sinema has taken the lead. and the other the big outstanding story is in florida, that has tightened to 15,000 votes there. >> and are we having two recounts? >> in florida, you can see the margin is 0.2, and if it is under 0.25, it is not just a recount, but manual recount, because they are not running the ballots through the machine, but they take them out and are re-examine them, and so this is a granular thing, and if you are looking closely at the results in florida, there is an issue in

broward county and big democratic area where far fewer votes cast in the governor and the senator race. and the nelson campaign lawyer is suggesting a machine readi readinger error, areading er r er rro error, and i am saying that there is a lengthy list of instructions and the senate vase underneath it and separated from the rest of the ballot and did 3 3/4 of the folks nisz senate race, and that is possible and this is a big democratic county and one thing that the democrats will talk about when this is ov over. >> i went to look at lot of the ballots leading up to the election, and some of them were very confusing, and so, susan, what is going to happen in florida. >> why florida? why can't they design a ballot that is easy for the voters to use, and florida perhaps the nation'ses nu number one swing .

>> are we having the swinging chads? >> well, undoubtedly at least one or two recounts, and it is importan important, because the state is oimportant. >> and rick, what do you think? weeks and weeks down there? >> i just can't believe that we will do 2000 all over again. and let me say that quickly, chris, about, i think that there is a real line going on. when you the white educated affluent women joining the minorities, that is a winning coalition. and you can win elections based on anger, and you can't sustain it. it is going to work for one, but it does not work on a continuing basis, and is so this is a generational realignment that is not good for republicans. >> and one woman said that she has not changed her party affiliation, and still a republican, but she has a next door neighbor who is a are republican that she going to turn into a progressive and i ta thought that was interesting. now i want to talk about this new book with michelle obama and

talked about being buzzed with fury after the hollywood access tapes and stalking hillary clinton on the political stage. >> and i read it and i thought, wow, you are an idiot if you take on michelle obama. >> and he not only dismissed her, but he said that barack obama had weakened the military and went on with that. >> and michelle obama does not enter a fight without a lot of forethought. sheis ex troord their thoughtful about what she does and she is an a-student and hits all of the marks. she is, i imagine that she thought long and hard about how she wanted to describe what happened to her family when trump led this effort to say that he was not born in the united states and the kind of threat that it puts her family under. and you know, if he is going to be coming after her, she is someone who has few figures in

america today who have more moral authority than michelle obama, and so good luck with that. >> and one person actually said to me, i would love to see michelle obama debate the president, and wouldn't we all? you >> you would never see that, because she will not run for office, but a virtual sense of it in the next week. >> and so, thank you all. coming up, searching for answers. tributes are pouring in for the 12 victims of the victims of the mass shooting in california. their families are asking what can be done to the stop the next one. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. smile dad.

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today, we are learning more heartbreaking details about the thousand oaks' mass shooting at the borderline bar & grill and why the suspect ian long living with his mother in nearby area cut 12 people's lives short. their community is the late toast be devastated by a senseless act of gun violence. >> my first born son -- only him and i know how much i loved and

miss him. oh, god, this is so -- oh, son, i love you so much. >> oh, the agony of these families, ron motte, and who is there in thousand oaks. and if you can start there with the investigation. we learned yesterday that law enforcement, and local law enfor enforcement had interactions with ian long earlier in the year. the feds are now investigating this as well. what are they doing, and what are we learning? >> well, about that incident back in the spring, chris, they were called to his home and we don't know who made the call and maybe the parents and they have out here in california a 5051 hold for someone who is displaying such behavior to the pose a problem for themselves

and others, and someone at the scene that night said that he did not qualify to be held on the 5150 to be ache taen into the custody for that. and then we learned that he was purchasing this glock model 21 which is a .45 caliber handgun, and the purchase of the weapon was legal, but what is not legal is the extended clip that the police found on the gun. here in california, you can only have a magazine that will hold no more than ten rounds and the magazine attached to the weapon had more than that, and that is a separate investigation that the investigators trying to get an answer to the, as to a april en kou encounter he should have been held for further evaluation. and the president before he took off to the paris today made ref are rens to t-- reference to th shooter's mental health, but we have not received any confirmation here from officials

on the ground or from the veterans after-- affairs had a mental condition, but the question for the investigators is why. and that is what many of the people in this county want to know. >> and we still don't know for xexam ple from the las vegas shooting where some of the victims had survived and now they did not make it through the thousand oaks' shooting. there are families now who are planning funerals this weekend. there because a vigil last night, and tell us more about the people whose lives were senselessly taken, and many of them teenagers. >> a few teenagers, chris. a couple of 18-year-olds, and most of the victims were in the early to mid-20s and some still in college, and some recent graduates with their whole lives in front of them, and looking forward to enjoying their lives, and this is what they were doing wednesday night when this alleged shooter came into the

building and in some of the survivor descriptions of what happened, because it happened so suddenly, the young man who was outside of the bar serving as a bouncer was the first victim. we have learned some of the survivors then that the shooter went into the building and made a right turn and then shot at an employee and there, the young lady working behind the cash j register, and forgive the winds here, but turned the attention to the rest of the patrons inside of the bar. it is a large space. that is why that is going to be a crime scene for quite some time, but we don't have enough time here to go through the 12 victims and the story, but the digital team has done a wonderful job getting to know some of the people. i would encourage everybody who is watching and listening to go to nbc news.com to the read through some of the vignettes of some of the people who lost their lives here and now you will have a better understanding. these are not names in a newspaper or on television, because these are real live

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i don't know matt whisker and he work-- whitaker and he rd for jeff session, but i did not know matt whitaker and he worked for attorney general sessions. he was very, very highly thought of. >> so that is president trump this morning. and you heard him clearly saying that he is deny ing thing that s the new attorney general matt whitaker now overseeing the

special counsel's investigation into the election. but a month ago the president told fox news, i can the tell you that matt whitaker is a great guy. i know matt whittaker. he has been a vocal critic of the investigation, and listen to what he said about it in a radio show in june of 2017. >> the truth is that there was no collusion with the russians and the trump campaign, and there was interference by the russians into the campaign, and there is no collusion into the campaign and that is where the left is combining the two issue, and the last thing they want right now is the truth to come out. >> today, the washington post is reporting that the matt whitaker has no intention of removing himself from the russian probe. and so join g ing us is julia, this is confusing here. does the president not know matt whitaker or at the very least,

does he not know what his public position on the russian probe has been. >> it is clear that he knows matt whitaker and looking back at what he told fox a month ago and i have some of the transcript here that the pro s producers printed out and this is after the washington post was eye whitaker for the job, and he said, i don't want to get into the conversations that i have had and this is not somebody that he picked overnight, and a conscious decision not the pick the deputy attorney general which is where he would have gone if he followed the doj line of succession, but he went to the number three chief of staff there. and so you would think someone like the head of the criminal division or the associate general division, but instead he picked matt whitaker and it is clear that he knew him for a number of reasons, and the reasons that made him favor fobl the people in the white house, and the people who i have spoken to, and my colleague kim delaney and i have spoken to since the name was given on wednesday is that he is seen as the eyes and the ears of the white house

inside of the justice department and seen as somebody who they can trust and people inside of the justice department say it is clear where the loyal the tis lie and it is not with the justice department but more with the white house, and somebody they have known and cultivating for a long time and he did not pop up on the president's radar just this week. >> and be clear that as session's former chief of staff, it is unusual that he would become acting ag when he does not have a senate confirmation? >> itt is unusual if you look at the line of succession, and it is not necessarily unconstitutional that he is choenz, because you don't have to be senate-confirmed, but you have to be at a certain level within the federal government kind of bureaucratic network of being at a certain level at your job in order to be appointed for something like this, but that is if you follow the federal vacancies reform act. there is a different line that we have talk about, and in the justice department line of secession that it is lying

outside of. and so perhaps there is a lawsuit that he should not have been chosen, but it is not clear that it should stand, because the office of legal counsel inside of the justice department have put out opinions in the past to say it is okay to refer to the federal vacancies reform act rather than the line of secessio secession, and won ki and dull way to say it is hard to unseat him from this position based on that the. however, a lot of the things that he has said in the past could be used against him. >> that is going to bring me to any next guest julia ansley, and chris murphy from connecticut, good afternoon, senator. >> good afternoon. >> and let me talk to you about acting attorney matt whitaker and should he recuse himself because he has been so outspoken? >> he has been pub uk -- publicly saying that he has come

to the conclusion without the investigation being done and we cannot expect that matt whitaker can fairly oversee the investigation when he does not think it is necessary. of course, he should recuse himself. he is a politician. he was selected for the role, because he is a partisan figure, and long and deep connections within the republican infrastructure and loyal to president trump and put there to, i think, to try the slow down or stop the mueller investigation and recuse himself, but he is not going to, because he has been given specific instructions by the president not to do that >> and so he has the former attorney general jeff sessions who did this exit interview with "the wall street journal",," an he says that he is confident that the mueller probe is going to be handled appropriately and with justification. no one is above supervision. he did not expect it to be lasting so long and calls the duration unhealthy, but he says that the country is commit nod the course and on the same theme

that mitch mcconnell said yesterday, and do you have confidence that robert mueller will be able to continue and finish his investigation unobstructed? >> i don't have confidence. i don't have confidence, because i am not sure that we have eys s on all of the ways of the acting attorney general can slow down and frustrate this investigation. >> what worries you the most, senator? >> well, remember, many of the actions that mueller needs to take for instance indictments or wiretaps have to be approved by the attorney general, and his funding has to be approved by the attorney general, and all of those things can be slowed down or frustrated behind closed doors, and we may not see all of it. so i am very worried that moo mueller's work is going to be hampered. >> and some of your colleagues are proposing that there needs to be legislation to protect robert mueller, and jeff flake is going to try to force a vote on this. is it necessary? >> it is absolutely necessary. i didn't know why my republican colleagues would be afraid of

passing the simple legislation that says that if mooueller is fired a panel of judges can reinstate him if the firing is without cause. they have said all along, my republican colleagues that the they want the mueller investigation to continue so put the vote where the mouth is, and make sure that he is there for the long haul. i agree that mueller should probably present congress with at least some preliminary findings soon, but remember, some of the people close toast donald trump have just begun cooperating within the last few months, and so it is ridiculous to shut down an investigation when he has some tof the most important leads that have just been handed to him. >> and i want to ask you about some of the things in the news, and you have been in a twitter battle with marco rubio who sees a threat to the democracy with is some of the recounts that are going to be happening in florida, i think, and last night a republican governor rick scott who of course ran against senator bill nelson filed suit, and he asked for the investigation into the ballot

count calling it a partisan attempt by unethical liberals to steal the state's senate election, and what do you say to these guys? >> well, count the votes. that is what i say to them. count the votes. that is all we are asking for every single vote to be counted. it seems that my friend marco rubio was up all night last night scouring the internet for any pictures that he could find to create a conspiracy theory about fraud in broward kocountyn particular. there is zero evidence, and no evidence of any illegal activity, and no evidence that the democratic lawyers are trying to steal the election, and all we want is for the votes to be counted. now, remember, we had a fight in 2000 about a recount, and we are not no the recount yet, and right now, marco rubio and rick scott are trying to prevent people's votes from being counted. as you know, with there are lots of votes that have not been

count and former congress mman patrick murphy is notified that his ballot was not counted, and so we have work to do here, and rick scott as governor of the state is going to be using the political power to shutdown this count. if you don't count the votes, then democracy dies, and so this is important for everyone's vote to be counted in florida. >> we are almost out of time, and i want to ask you quickly, because you are so much a part of the gun discussion. thousand oaks makes 307 mass shootings in 311 days, and this is almost everyday this year, and given the number of republicans elect nod the senate, is anything going to happen in the next year, two years do you think on the gun control front? >> i think it s. i think that we will pass a bill through the house of representatives that at least provides for the universal background checks in the country, and maybe after the high capacity magazines used in florida, excuse me, california and also used in florida, and then coming to the senate. and then maybe we can put together the vote s s in the

senate, because republicans now realize that if you rare on the wrong side of the public on the issue of guns, you will lose your election. that is what happened with a lot of the house seats flipping because you had the nra had an a-plus rated candidate and they were defeated. my colleagues are waking up that the politics on this the issue are changing quickly. >> senator chris murphy, thank you for your time and have a good weekend. >> even as the investigateors were on the scene of that shooting, fast moving wildfires were laying siege across cities in california. firefighters battling three separate california fires in this hour alone. the camp fire which is north of sacramento is scorching 70,000 achers and forcing tens of thou sapd s of residents to evacuate and thousands more without

power. officials are claiming loss of life in the major northern california fire, but the number of deaths unknown. in l.a. area, the authorities are struggling to contain the woolsey area. and for more we bring in gadi schwartz, and what is happening right now? how are the firefighters doing against these outof contr of co blazes? >> well, it is very difficult, because we got up here and there is fire burning on all sides which is the situation in westlake village and oak park, and thousand oaks where the mass shooting happened. this is what the people are si seeing. fires on the ridgelines above them here. and you can see the smoke there, and the plume that is starting there, and then in town, in a lot of the communities, i don't

know if you can see it, but it is a white plume starting up, and starting from the basically the ember traveling into town, and burning smingsi ining somet and that is where the structure protection comes from, and that is where the firefighters are out here making sure they are roving this area to make sure they can find the hot spots as they flair up. that is this side. i want to show you this side over here. this is a humongous plume of smoke billowing into the sky. this is on the way to malibu, and that is where we are headed next. but the entire city of malibu is under evacuation. unfortunately as bad as it seems, it is much, much worse up north in paradise, california, where it is 70% to 80% of the entire town has been lost. we have heard that there is loss of life at this point. authorities are saying that it is too dangerous to go in to see how many people may have died, but at this point, they believe that there were fatalities. yesterday, we saw so many harrowing rescues with people

trying to get out, but the fire came in so quickly, many of them were overtaken by the flames sitting in the cars trying to escape and stuck in gridlock. some people able to make it out on foot, and able to make it to where the firefighters had set up protection, and then the firefighters had to come in to move the cars disabled on the road and plowing the cars aside. that is some of the situations that the firefighters here in los angeles is trying the prevent, and that is why we are seeing the precautionary mass evacuation of malibu, and yeah, we have 70,000 to 100,000 structures in southern california right now in harm's w way. chris. >> nbc's gadi schwartz, and please be careful out there in westlake village. stay safe. and crossing the line. the president's latest immigration order to effectively ban the migrants from crossing the border illegally.

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president trump has signed a new immigration order to go into effect shortly after midnight tonight. under the new rule all migrants are prohibited from claiming asylum if they are caught crossing the u.s. border illegally, but immigration and advocates warn that the president's new policy violates international law. joining me is maria teresa

kumar, and john sandwike is head of the i.c.e. department under the obama administration. and so, john, i want to get your view on using national security and the migrant ban as a means to enforce it. >> it is not a military crisis, but a social crisis. the president is saying i don't care about the treaties, but i alone can change the laws that i don't like. it is raising serious constitutional questions as a result. >> maria, how does this impact the global immigration laws if this is enforced and how would it impact everyday what the migrants face coming into the country? >> well, they have technically trying to add the muslim ban to the people seeking asylum at the

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joining me is is nation nag security and nbc national political reporter, both have written about this in the past few days. now that the democrats have subpoena power what can and could they use it for? >> that's right. come january democrats will have the ability to force witnesses

to come testify before their committees that will help them get to the truth. >> who are the big names most likely on that list? >> i have been focusing on what this means for the house intelligence committee. there are two. one is that if whitaker up to the hill to testify under oath. sit clear they will reopen their own russia investigation which close and exonerated. they want to release the exists transcripts to mueller. he also wants to call some witnesses the house didn't get a chance to call.

>> it will go along to track. they can expose it to the american public. >> and you're writing they are looking far beyond into the rush that investigatio-- russia inve. >> they tell nbc news they will use as a guy over 100 letters they have issued over the past two years. it falls into three different buckets, conflicts of interest could really effect agencies as well as the president's own family. i did run across one letter that was sent well over a year ago to the trump brantd inquiring about her contacts before and after she took her position as a presidential adviser.

>> so what i want to ask you, one of the things people are hopeful things might get done. if there will be a friction between the new majority and old majority what are the chances anything gets done on capitol hill? >> if you notice when pelosi held her first news conference she made very clear the first

couple of words out of her mouth were health care, health care, healthcare. >> it is emphasizing on issues like protecting preexisting conditions, bringing down prescription drug costs, insfraukture and you'll see very aggressive committee chairs that say they have been disrecorded. during the benghazi investigation the chairman of the oversite committee issued 14 subpoenas. do you know how many have been issued in the entire two year sns. >> one. >> there will be democrats that want to follow up on a lot of those issues. they will keep it focused on those issues and things that effect the american people. >> both of the stories are online. we'll have more ahead. e ahead.f,

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