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it. >> he's not mincing words. he tweeted an unsubstantiated election trying to steal two elections in florida. >> president trump is wrapping up his substitute weekend in paris. it is sunday, november the 11th. veterans day is tomorrow and the country is coming together. >> i'll just say pete, never forget. >> never forget. and that is for both of us. >> with me daniel goldman with the brennan center for justice, tiffany cross, the co-founder and managing editor "the beat d.c." rina shaw managing director of redford strategies and barrett is an actor, author and comedian. i want to begin with the recounts in florida, the first time there are statewide recounts in the sunshine state

and doing three of them at the same time. the closeness of the governor's race triggered an automatic machine recount and so did the senate race which was closer than the governor's race. the results of the machine recounts are due on thursday of this week and depending on how that goes, we could see more recounts after that. president trump is watching all of this unfold from overseas, trying to steal two big elections in florida. he tweeted "we are watching closely." obviously a lot of us are thinking about what happened 18 years ago now and a lot of this has to do with new rules put into place after that recount. i want to go to tallahassee, florida. ally vitaly has been fog thillo this. what are you hearing about perspective? >> reporter: i think the one per spective you want to keep an eye on is andrew gillin s.

"i'm replacing my words of concession with an unapologetic call that we count every single vote." that's important, because it is shades of gray, but he didn't go so far as to unconcede but came up to that line and continued to say what he's been saying every single vote should be counted. there are three statewide recounts but on the governor's side, they hit that point 4%, around the margin they're operating at, so yes, they triggered that automatic machine recount, places like broward county recalibrated their machines last night, supposed to have started recounting around 7:00 a.m. i'm told so that is already under way. andrew gillum's race is not expected to hit the next threshold, if it hits 0.25% or less we go to a hand recount.

that's what's going to happen for rick scott and bill nelson with razor thin margins, more so than ron desantis and andrew gillum's. he's making an appearance in broward county today but no reason to believe he has fully unconceded yet. >> ali, thank you very much, ali i have valley in tallahassee. tiffany, you were in florida last week, and in georgia. what are you watching for, as all of this unfolds? we're looking at the process. there's been a lot of criticism of the process, the way all of this unfolded thus far. what are you watching? >> what would have thought there would be a recount in florida? when i first started my career i was at another 24-hour news network and we were covering the florida recount. lot of us had a chance to connect with gillums supporters and talked with folks on the

campaign stuff. on tuesday night we were baffled, shocked. we knew it would be a close race. i'm excited that he has come out and again to his point, his credit, he hasn't said it would change his fate but he as a patriot is saying every vote should be counted. it's ridiculous when you hear the president weigh in because he's concerned about the integrity process of our elections. this is somebody who has embraced vladimir putin on the national stage, who is actively supporting brian kemp, a person who has been suppressing the vote for decades. i. the narrow margin will close. broward county demographics, a lot of the people are likely democratic gillum and nelson supporters. i don't know why florida can't seem to get this right. that's the most frustrating part for this country, particularly

after we had this 18 years ago. >> dan goldman, looming large over me is this history from 2000. as i mentioned there, things have changed since. that was a brutal process, a bruising process and laws were changed, the process was changed after the recounts happening automatic, not at the discretion of the secretary of state in florida. is this a moment to deshea view or something different? >> what's interesting is that for a long time that was the lowest point for the supreme court of the united states, what appeared to be a political decision, bush v. gore and a few weeks after the kavanaugh hearings and that the whole situation, you could argue is now the lowest point, but i think, yes, there are new procedures put in place, but at the end of the day, it's human beings who are operating this, and i think that you have to put your faith in the people who are

elected or appointed to monitor and adhere to the election process, and really it should be an uncontroversial position to have every vote counted, and when you are within a particular margin, and you have a lot of increased early voting, increased absentee voting, mail-in voting, and you know, in various different states, it becomes actually a little bit more complicated than if you just walk into the ballot on the day of and vote, because then it's a little bit easier to recount. you're pulling balance lots from all over the place, but you got to let the process play out. >> we bring in steve shale, the florida state director for the obama campaign based in florida, thanks so much for being with us. pick up on what dan goldman was saying a moment ago. we look at 2000 as a mark in which we're comparing what's

happening today. how much similarity do you see? >> the difference this time is there is a real process. the law prescribes clearly what happens at this point. remember in 2000, folks are going to court in different counties. recounting in four counties total, this time all 67, there's a clear thing we deal with undervotes and overvotes. the process will be seedious the next few days. a substantial number of ballots expected. 150,000 different with the most votes and least votes recounted. all of those inspected by hand. it's going to be slow but again, i think this process is a lot better, a lot clearer than it was in 2000. >> rita shaw, how do you process what the president has been tweeting? he's overseas in france for the commemoration of armistice day. how do you process his message, every vote should count? >> well, about florida, i wish

he'd be quiet. it's pure nonsense. he should keep his nose out of it. the narrative of the whole fake news stuff we hear from tucker carlsson on fox news about ballots appearing out of thin air. they can't wait to see this was a liberal ploy and these people meaning the republicans in florida should be scared. the numbers are insanely close and that's a credit to what the democrats were able to do in florida. it shouldn't be controversial. there are nonpartisans who make this process such a democratically safe process and republicans in florida pushed back saying gillum is corrupt, been a terrible mayor of tallahass tallahassee. desantis had his kid building a wall in ads, that's not a

message for the state, not a message for the country. republicans are running scared in florida and the president should keep his nose out of it. he's tarnishing the party even more than it is down there, but i will say broward county, all the republicans i know from down there, they are waiting this out, really interested as to why the president is doing and saying this, because they really believe in the process. so he's just making republicans look bad again. >> keep returning to this question, why florida. tiffany brought this up, talking about florida once again. your answer to that? we're focused on georgia because of the cloetness nescloseness d other parts of the country but in florida a recount is under way. >> quickly on the president's tweet, if you read it closely, which is always a dangerous thing to do, textural analysis,

he leaves it own to sbermpen to interpretation. so what i see in florida that's different is you have the dream defenders on the ground who worked to help pass amendment 4, which is going to restore voting rights that never should have been stripped in the first place of people who have served their time as felons. previously they go through the humiliating kangaroo court tribunal process to appeal to rick scott and others to restore their american constitutional rights one at a tomb, a few hundred a year. >> 1.5 million. >> that should help this maybe not happen again. it shouldn't be controversial, totally agree. i'll give the voters in florida credit for supporting democracy which we should all be for. >> rick scott in 2016 there wasiwas

illegal voting -- >> in 5:38 we were clicking and reclicking on election night, out of 4,687 statewide elections between 2000 and 2015, 27 were followed by recounts compiled by fair vote, you look at the history of this, steve, you have recounts and as that quote indicates, few of them result in a change in the vote. what are you watching thursday and beyond that? >> well, i think the odds in the governor's race are slim if they get under a quarter point. history is pretty clear, these things change a little bit but not a lot. the big question, does nelson win the court case on disputed absentry ballots. if the ballots at the miami post office are real. gillum will probably have an

uphill climb. the senate race is different, 40,000 undervotes, people who did not record a vote in the governor's race, there's question about ballot design in broward, maybe the machines didn't read the votes. we're not going to know what that looks like until we get a hand recount. this could get tight. >> we were talking about intimidation, police are there, many people flocked here, including lawyers. the president tweeting saying he's sending better lawyers to help with the recount. the iconic photograph of somebody looking at the ballots wearing his black latex gloves and a lawyer across from him in a suit. how much is that intimidation of the process, having it flooded with lawyers from both sides? >> we saw this in 2000, the lawyers were driving everything. there was no process and you're dealing with the hanging chads

and all that. we won't have the same degree of uncertainty. there is a law that is meant as steve said to govern how this will work and it's become specific so the lawyers are really doing two things, one, making sure that the laws are followed, and two, making sure that there is some monitoring of the recounting that's going on, and you know, there may be some complicated election law issues that come in, as steve mentioned in terms of undervotes, overvotes, whether ballots were properly submitted in time, which is an issue in broward, there will be issues that will come, but hopefully and we don't know yet because hopefully at the end of the day, the law and the system is prepared for this in a much better way than nerp

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so much for the bromance. president trump's weekend in paris has not gone exactly to plan. originally he thought he would spend veterans day stateside watching a military parade in the u.s. capital. he was impressed by and wanted to emulate the bastille day parade he attended last year in paris, but the cost of doing it here in the u.s. were prohibitive. parade in washington was estimated to cost $92 million or more, nearly three times what the white house had estimated it would cost. so fast forward to today, president trump had a front row seat to a somber remembrance of the great war alongside other world leaders, including russia's president vladimir putin as ma crohn took a shot at president trump's recent rhetoric. >> translator: patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism by saying our

interests interests first, who cares about the others. >> i don't know who has played whom, the president landing in france a couple of days ago, firing off this tweet about comments the french president made in a radio interview several days before the president of the united states saying the french president just said he wants to create a european army, he was upset about that. now this happening after he decided not to go to the commemoration yesterday. your read on what's happening here, i guess what i'm curious about is why is this trip happening? >> he needed to i think, the president has to live into the tradition of honoring some of these massive wars we have survived and history is bringing us to this moment to remind us what's at stake. we've had wars because of nationalism, because of isolationism and because of a disregard for human life and there is no guarantee it won't happen again. the further we get away from the global calamities, the harder it

is to remember why we avoid them in the first place. macron is better at this game than trump. he will say it to the man's face. trump likes to subtweet people and talk smack media. macron will put you in the front row and tell you to your face you're a nationalist and egoist. >> while you're distracted by the soldiers and the pomp and circumstance. rita, do you agree? >> the president doesn't get anything. if he were self-aware, he would have showed up yesterday and i think the reality is, he doesn't want to do the job. he likes the title but lazy and does what he wants. he hasn't had to work for anything in his life so why show up and do the job that americans want him to do. republicans think they elected a strong man. on the world stage he acts petulant, making faces when macron is speaking and macron, who cares about the others, we

do, americans do. american presidents don't stand up and say i'm a nationalist. i think every day that trump goes on the national stage, we see how un-american he is at his core, and i have a hard time believing that our position in the world will remain the same when he's out of office. he will have lowered our status so much. >> we had this happen when the new nato headquarters, remember when, and jacket pop he often says when he thinks is a killer statement. let's get back to the line the french president had about nationalism and patriotism. how do you process the nuances? >> this is reminiscent of his time at the u.n. to be a leader, you need followers. on the world stage he gets less of those. listen, i think it's ridiculous to bait this nationalism -- we

know what you're saying. i think you don't have to spit in my face and tell me it's raining. you've been clear how you feel about people of color in this country. i think we have to be bold enough to call that what it is, it's racism. his trail to 1600 pennsylvania avenue is paved by racism. i'd rather highlight the point this president who purports to be this pro-military president who had bone stupurs, why he couldn't go to vietnam, slowly eroded protections for the military, the consumer protection bureau he made it easier for the military to be victims of predatory lending. when you talk to people, when i spent time on the campaign trail in florida and georgia with msnbc talking to people,

republicans supporters of desantis have no idea, all they know he's a tough guy who tweets out these ridiculous things. with emmanuel macron, he was this barack obama-type candidate, he took obama's materials and was like this hope and change candidate. >> yes. >> so it is sad when you see america is no longer the light of the world, not the leaders on the world stage. it's like this eye roll we see on the world stage so donald trump's point, he correctly predicted the entire world is laughing at us and they are. >> you bring up the military. there's an incredible piece in the "new york times" that i keep going back to. helene cooper looks at the troops dispatched at the border, the article showing what they're doing, how they're trying to fill time. dan goldman, your reaction to what we've seen unfold this

weekend? >> i think what we're seeing on the world stage is the hypocrisy of donald trump. i think it gets lost to a lot of his supporters. when you look at him sending the military to the border before the election because of this so-called invasion that's a thousand miles away, when he responds to michelle obama's book by attacking barack obama's funding of the military as if that's the number one thing that he's done, and then he goes to europe and he can't go pay honor to the troops that have come before us, you see that it's all bluster. it's all just talk, and we can sit around this taubl able and recognize it and see it, but i think what is frustrating to those of us who see it in plain view and this weekend is a perfect example of that, this is the hundredth anniversary of the end of world war i. i was in london this week, and every single person you walk

around has a red poppy on them. they are truly respecting the troops that have come before them. it's very important and for him to not show up because of the rain sends a really, really bad message on veterans day today. >> what i hear from conservatives, this was part of dozens of events and who really cares because he funds our military, keeps us safe. look at our economy, it's better than it was under obama and that is what they push back. we refuse to accept the facts there is hypocrisy there. he puts our principles enshrined in the constitution at danger. >> what did you think when you saw the photograph of john kelly, chief of staff, going instead ef the president alongside general dunford as well? i was thinking jeff sessions being fired, it's not a you're fired moment, it was a classic example of the president declining to say anything at a press conference, firing off two

tweets and earlier in the day, john kelly handled the dirty work. >> my reaction was disappointment. he's the white house chief of staff. where is our president but secondly it signals there is more chaos to come. the president is scared of the aftermath of the mid terms. he's trying to in his own head whatever he thinks there is, i got to do something. when he does that, things get chaotic in the white house. we see exits and firings that are ridiculous. sessions, come on, the day after, buddy? to me, it's more chaos is coming. that's what i sense from the events of the past day or so. >> i wondered what is it going to take? you're a conservative and bold enough to call this out. you can't penetrate the layer of woeful ignorance from people who follow them. marco rubio at one time was a sensible republican. the people who are bold enough to call him out lost their races. they think trump's language works, his positions work. what is it going to take for

conservatives who were once sensible thinking lawmakers to change the course of where they're going? >> tuesday i woke up tuesday, these are not the people i expected to go. i knew it was tough but to make sense to the party that has gone full-on trump and he's remade inis image. trump remade the republican party in his image as we no so it's going to take a long time bit by bit get to the women and men and make them understand this is no good for the long run. awe line yourself with a man that -- is nationalist. >> and every day he shows us the underbelly. this is un-american. >> it will take power to check his power and we will start to see that with a new democratic house of representatives, we'll start to sea that and the consequences of the losses when people start to lose, they change the story and they will i think attach themselves to a

winning story. this is temporary and i think we'll be able to recover. >> i worry about the democrats. >> you look at the way the democrats ran this campaign, they were extremely disciplined. >> i'll give you that much. >> let's come back and talk about that later in the show. we'll talk about the subpoenas. up next, they've become the most famous political odd couple, one is the president's biggest defender, the other one of his greater detractors. the issue it's becoming for president trump next.

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who? you mean mr. kellyanne conway? >> a divided congress and a divided house and i'm talking here about cokellyanne conway's husband criticized the president. this isn't the first time george conway criticized the president. here is a tweet from august "what everyone should want and the country needs is a president capable of comprehending what it means to take care that the laws

be faithfully executed." i want to start with folks based in d.c. how much of this is a d.c. thing, having a marriage like this? i'll start with you, tiffany, off he got somebody who is what seems like on a radically different pole than the other. >> it is inside the beltway. if you talk to the people on the streets of birmingham, alabama, chicago, california, people don't know what kellyanne conway does. if they do, they're super into politics. nobody cares about the state of her marriage, but i will say this about kellyanne. we actually have evidence of her disparaging this president. she's said it out loud before. she was with ted cruz and there are people here at this very network who talked about how she would do the gag sign when she got off the air and had to defend him, they talked about this on air here before and people who i know conservatives who know her who have been with her in private settings, as

close as two years ago and had her kids tell stories how awful trump is. the fact they're talking about her marriage, she's a known liar. i don't ever need to hear from her again. every time she comes on television you know it's a battle. it's becoming new reality tv, a battle with her and whoever is interviewing her. i don't think most people care. people are more concerned which they should be talking about the actual special counsel and the investigation, not the state of her marriage. >> i'll push back. there are women outside of the belt way that know her full well who are republican. trump loves to take her on the road, her and sarah sanders, and she has been sort of pushed up as this sort of look at this female campaign manager that secured the win. there was a marked difference in trump's campaign when she came on and she should receive some credit. >> credit for what? >> turning that campaign around. >> burning it alive. >> i don't aknow with what happened there but i think she

did steer the boat and realize she's on a winning team and she's going to milk it for all it is worth. i saw her at meridian ball and she looked lovely and so well rested. she's comfortable. she's now very comfortable. >> the country is in the state of unrest. the fact she looks rested is a problem. >> she's comfortable and made her mark there, she stayed. >> she should be in a state of comfort. her president is embattled by scandal. >> kelly and i met in 2012 and the one i knew of is not the kellyanne i know recently and there are legions of republican women who think she is special. >> you can't penetrate that layer of woeful ignorance from this known liar. >> they take what they will. >> i want to ask you about the op-ed designed to be meddlesome

in some way. i think there's a perception on george conway's part this is perceived as meddlesome as we saw in the clip from president trump at the top. this is the second op-ed they've written together. george conways asubtweeting, now moving to the op-ed pages. what about the effectiveness? >> it's very effective as a message. there's a lot of attention paid to that op-ed. as a legal matter, there are sort of two issues here. there's the constitutional issue, which is what they wrote about and also the statutory issue, and that other legal analysts have addressed. putting aside the merits of their argument, and i think there are some issues with it, but putting aside the merits of it, any time you get two really accomplished lawyers from on sid sides together to have a similar point of view, that's far more

effective than someone railing from the right or someone railing from the left, and so i think it's an interesting partnership that neil and george have put together. it's a very persuasive message at a minimum. >> we'll come back in a moment. coming up with matt whitaker in charge of the justice department, there are questions what will happen with robert mueller's investigation. we'll dive into the 18-month saga that's been the mueller probe, what could happen next. first robert mueller bids farewell to jeff sessions "saturday night live" style. >> like they say, you can't arrest me, i quit, sir. >> relax, jeff, i just came to say thanks for all your help with the investigation. >> thanks? what did i do? >> more than you'll ever know. sure to aim it. i'm aiming it. ohhhhhhh!

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as we wait for the next shoe to drop in robert mueller's investigation, house democrats are racing to protect the special counsel. just want to take stock of where we are 18 months into this investigation. the president sworn in january 2017, as we learn russia tried to interfere in the election. few months later, jeff sessions recuses himself after claiming he didn't meet with russia's ambassador. turns out he did. in may 2017, president trump fires fbi director james comey after asking him for loyalty. the president admits to lester holt the firing was prompted by the "russia thing." in july of 2017 that infamous trump tower meeting comes to light, thanks to the "new york times." the president and his son deny it took place, admit it did take place. in october two indictments are handed up and michael flynn

pleads and robert mueller indicts 12 intelligence officers and these are just the cliff notes. in all, 100 criminal charges against 32 individuals. dan goldman, i want to start with you. you wrote this piece before the election, talking about the attorney general a moment ago. i'll quote from a little of it, trump could still thwart the investigation and avoid significant backlash by stopping just short of firing mueller. instead he could install a new acting attorney general charged with overseeing the investigation either by replacing sessions or rosen ste rosenstein, or both, a loyalist or undershuddering the investigation." we're talking about clarevoyance at the top of the show. what is happening on capitol hill, the concern about protecting it? >> you raised two important points. >> you did, to be fair. >> the first question is whether

matt whitaker, who has gone on record as stating that there was no collusion, even though he, of course, had no idea what the evidence, whether someone who has affirmatively pre-judged the investigation should recuse himself from overseeing that investigation. that's the one question. the other question you raise and i think this is really the critical aspect of this, is that republicans have been very quiet about matt whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general, and at the end of the day, the fact that he is so clearly a trump acolite, a loyalest placed in his position to undercut the investigation, whether the republicans in the house and most importantly in the senate are going to rise up and use their own morality, their own understanding of democracy and the rule of law in

particular, and say this is not okay. this is what strong men do when they are under pressure. they go and they try to take over an investigation into them. that is not how this country works. no one is above the law, and it is really incumbent upon the politicians, because those are the only people who can actually influence the president. >> i'm disappointed, daniel, that you gave trump so many good ideas right before the election. >> read "the daily beast" before the election. >> so shame on you. i'm heartened by the protests that we saw this week. tens of thousands of americans in most states in this union chanting not lock her up but rule of law, like the most boring chant is often the most honest and true and powerful. there are many people who can see through this. whitaker has criminal exposure himself in the business operations he was involved in,

intimidating customers of this sham company is he on the hook for legally. he should recuse himself from this job but from the whole department of justice. he's the subject of investigations himself, that's just an extreme place to put someone. >> the thing i think we need to focus on is, i think there's a lot of attention on, and in congress as well about passing a lieu to protect mueller. that's not the issue. he's not going to fire mueller. whitaker is not going to fire mueller and donald trump is not go of mueller fired. that's too obvious. >> you're a lot more confident than i am. >> let's hear him. >> because what whitaker has said himself, the best way to limit this investigation is by putting someone like whitaker in, to cut funding, to reject subpoenas, to reject indictments. if you fire robert mueller, someone else will replace him. this investigation is way too

far down the line to have that be an effective way to undercut it. and it's way too obvious and i think there would be a bashlash if that were to happen. >> i can ask? >> quickly. >> say he does get fired. what is the repercussion? the only thing i can see is the house could subpoena mueller and find out what the report says. is there any other path that leads to the truth? >> some of it depends on when, if that happens, when, right? the house is not in democratic control until january, but if he's fired, the real question is, what happens to all the people working for him. what happens to all of the evidence, the grand jury that exists, the cases. those things don't just vanish, and somewhat similar to what happened in watergate, when the special prosecutor was fired, a new one was placed in there 11 days later. th th that's likely what would happen. coming up, it washed across the country in state houses and legislatures. how big was that hyped up blue

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democrats flipped 7. the s7 governor seats. dig deeper and there's more blue from picking up about 300 seats in state legislature. the party won both houses and governor's race. of course women picked up a lot of seats. republicans were handed their largest losses since water gate. we were talking about the election a few weeks back. your sense of how slow rolling it is. how big is it? >> i think two numbers to keep in mind. you showed the two seats but compared it to the 900 democrats lost. some of that is backlash loss on how well they did under george w. bush but it's been good. i also ask on twitter, what have you been seeing in your states and your communities. a texan saying people giving beta a lot of grief.

we have two seats that weren't there before. beto came very close and brought folks with him. that's leadership. >> what are the places we are not talking more about where you're going into 2020. >> the place is -- i really think let's look at michigan and let's hope for places like wisconsin in the future. it's certainly in the heartland. i can't sit here and not be grinning ear to ear. obviously the numbers are crazy in favor of the democrats. it is such a discrepancy. i would certainly wish for a little more red in that pink wave but it's great. i don't know all of these women were -- of course the dem corral women are. they don't like this president.

i don't know they were energized just by that. we are complex. we come to the table with ideas and different thoughts and compromise. i think these women saw it and said i can do it too. our numbers went up of women. that's a good thing of american women in general. >> a lot of these candidates weren't siting the president specifically. a lot of these successful candidates weren't calling out the president in particular. >> i don't know about that. >> how long did he talk about president trump? >> no. he did talk about issues the president brought up. he was a counter voice. what we heard coming out of the white house. this blue wave was huge. this is the one thing i'll give republicans, they are brilliant. you know, the democrats control the house. we saw a huge amount of diverse

candidates come into the folks. i tl were people who emotional connected to beto. so when you have your emotions tied into it it can be disappoints. when you look at the macro dem contracts kicked you know what on tuesday. don't worry control room. but they did a really good job. i think this job is where they are going as a country. they said not only do i want more women but i want more people of color, more people that look like me. i don't understand how we are just having the first native american women in congress. >> all right. thanks to all of you. dan, we'll be here in new york. coming up the clock is ticking to recount. we'll go to paris where the

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visiting the u.s. military in about an hour's time. as the president shook hands with putin he drew sharp contrast with the rhetoric of president trump. >> it only looks after his own interest because patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. nationalism is a betrayal by saying who cares about the others. we erase what a nation holds dearest, what making it grace and what is essential. it is moral values. author of the book choke hold is here and koe host of trump cast. ellie is editor of above the low and win s