elizabeth: let's welcome former white house press secretary ari fleischer. s great to have you on the show. we love your insights and perspective. media, forecasts were wrong. democrats are shell-shocked. they lost they would win 10 to 15 seats. they lost eight seats. they didn't win the senate. they have the smallest majority of the house for democrats in a generation. what was your reaction when you saw this? will this lead a shake-up in the house to remove democrat nancy pelosi? we're seeing more democrats come on the record about that. >> i was shocked, liz. the polls were wrong. it suppresses people's enthusiasm. we can't win, should we bother to show up. it was a devastating series of polls. give you figures nationally. right now donald trump is losing the popular vote by 2.9 percentage votes. when california, west coast call it 3.5. that is what he will lose by the popular vote by. the "real clear politics" average had biden up 7.2. the economist had biden up by 10. quinnipiac biden up 11. couple states. nevada -- elizabeth: okay. we were talking about

here with more fox news contributors dan bongino and ari fleischer. pollsters they got it right. the trafalgar group. they saw the same thing. african-americans and hispanic. >> after 2012 when mitt romney lost to barack obama. i said to grow the party republicans need to do better with hispanics and blacks. that's what donald trump just did. win, lose or draw, donald trump should be known for this. look at the numbers. this is john mccain's vote. 8% to donald trump when he ran for the first time. 12%. he trimmed john mccain's numbers and doubled mitt romney's. hispan hispanics. 32% last night hispanic vote for donald trump. this is how you make in roads. i could add the jewish vote. 30.5% for donald trump. way up from his numbers. donald trump expanded the party in numerous ways. to say racist, they are wrong. >> sean: if you take covid out of this. record low unemployment for every demographic. it could be so much higher and would have been so much higher. something is emerging, dan, i see the democratic party as the rich coastal elet's party. -- el

here with more fox news contributors dan bongino and ari fleischer. our pollsters they got it right. the trafalgar group. they saw the same thing. african-americans and hispanic. >> after 2012 when mitt romney lost to barack obama. i said to grow the party republicans need to do better with hispanics and blacks. that's what donald trump just did. win, lose or draw, donald trump should be known for this. look at the numbers. this is john mccain's vote. 8% to donald trump when he ran for the first time. 12%. he trimmed john mccain's numbers and doubled mitt romney's. hispanics. 32% last night hispanic vote for donald trump. this is how you make in roads. i could add the jewish vote. 30.5% for donald trump. way up from his numbers. donald trump expanded the party in numerous ways. to say racist, they are wrong. >> sean: if you take covid out of this. record low unemployment for every demographic. it could be so much higher and would have been so much higher. something is emerging, dan, i see the democratic party as the rich coastal elite party and donald

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we are back with our paneled, adding ari fleischer this time. your thoughts on this? way. we are glad the switch worked. what about this set up to the georgia reese's? >> well, all the marbles rest now in georgia. don't they? that's where everything is on the line there, senate control. as for joe manchin and what he said, the problem with that is even if you take him at his word, it means republicans are always just one vacancy away from losing control. it's not just joe manchin, a republican senator dies and all of a sudden the democrats don't need joe manchin, they can run everything with the filibuster. it's too close to take and that's why these two seats are absolutely vital if you want to have a check and balance on joe biden getting overwhelmed by liberal democrat packed the senate, pack the supreme court agenda. >> bret: obviously joe manchi joe manchin, amy, would vote for chuck schumer as the senate majority leader, which he wouldn't do these other things he talked about. but as you look at georgia now with this different balance that we saw in his presiden

next former vice-president al gore has something to say and ari fleischer will respond. & do♪ you know these years it's the ones that got away that haunt me the most. [ squawks ] 'cause you're not like everybody else. that's why liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. what? oh, i said... uh, this is my floor. nooo! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> ♪ >> dana: nevada on the list of battleground still count votes. officials say more than 50,000 could be done today as joe biden's lead continues to grow. jonathan hunt is live in north las vegas with more. >> dana, we got those numbers a couple of hours ago. the updated ones for today. former vice president biden has essentally close to the double the lead of yesterday. 11,000 lead over president trump at this time yesterday. he increased that to a little over 20,000. the vast majority votes left to come in are coming from here in clark county that leans democratic. the biden campaign is optimistic they are on track to pull off a victory in nevada and get 6 electo

ari fleischer. the president in rome, and an op set. hop-ed. he will tell us why he is voting for president this time, we check in with more, breaking news to share with you, kathy -- ahead. 00 people have left blood thinners behind with watchman. it's a one-time, minimally invasive procedure that reduces stroke risk-- and bleeding worry--for life. watchman. it's one time. for a lifetime. sean: two days away from post important election i think in our lifetime. how is it different from 2016, former white house press secretary ari fleischer laid out some major distinctions in an op-ed he penned last week, after not voting for either candidate 4 years ago, he decided to president trump. citing promises he made, he kept as president. >> rea -- i have seen this move coming for a while. i knew i would win you over, took he a little bit longer than i thought. but, that something that i think president does not get enough credit for. >for. he did keep his promises. >> to me like me it is important, there are a group of establishment republicans who di

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ari fleischer, sean duffy will be here with more.will be right back. ♪ >> trey: out joe biden tonight continues to signal a return to the bad old days reaching into the recycling then of the obama/clinton era fixtures to fill out his administration. it is already drawing some irony from the far left especially asf biden socialist doors like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren likely won't be joining the cabinet. take a look. >> what about formal rifles from your own party, elizabeth warren? have you talked to them about cabinet positions? >> i said, we already have significant representation on progressives and our administration, but there is nothing off the table. one thing is critical, taking someone out of the senate,e, taking someone out of the house and particularly a preferred person of consequence is really a difficult decision that has to be t made. >> now biden's cabinet picks so far suggest return to failed policy of the obama administration. that include leaping piles of -- leaving pallets cash on the tour of iranian nucl

. >> bret: let's go to ari fleischer, former white house press secretary, we've been listening to all of this. are your thoughts on where we are, where were going? >> you asked about a white board to some of the legal situation, i have been to have one. this is how you sum up a legal situation. i've never seen such a thing, you're going to have mayhem for different reasons in different states. let me give one suggestion from a communications point to the republicans. it is far stronger to let the evidence do the speaking instead of the accusation. in other words, it's way better. don't go around saying this judge is a hack, we know their staff, we know there's fraud. in philadelphia's second ward, we know that john smith, who died on september 1st 1999 cast their ballot, we know and walk through the specifics of what was wrong. in nevada where you have the woman come to the microphone and say she tried to vote but they wouldn't let her vote because they said she already voted, demand the board of elections release the signature that accompanied that vote and match it to hers. this is

let's go to our guests, ari fleischer, how much of the coverage in these final days do you think is coloredy journalists either believing that president trump will lose or rooting for that outcome? >> all a of it. it's always been that way, howard. the press just follows the stock market and the stock market in politics is polls. if they think someone is going to win, the coverage reflects that. the only caveat, there is a sense that the 2016 hangover, where people are just saying are we missing something, could we be wrong. at least they're you allowing that escape -- they're allowing that escape pocket. howie: chris steyer well, jason miller of the trump campaign said that they expect that president trump will be ahead in the count on election night and the democrats will try to steal it back through mail ballots. what do you think of the phrase phraseology, steal it back and given that 91 million people have already voted, what's the challenge to forecast any states on tuesday night? >> this isn't new. we knew four years ago, about 40% of people voted early or by mail, this year will be

joining me now, ari fleischer. only eight super spreader. ari, the hypocrisy is so obvious that it's almost boring. but it does beg the question, how much political capital will biden really have to try to enforce lockdowns early part of the year given the fact that his task force members, number of them, have been very open to reinstituting. >> first, i want to go back a second. you shouldn't have me on the show, you should have another doctor but, because clearly covid knows the cause. if you are liberal, pro-biden, covid bounces off of you. if you are a conservative, covid gets you. that's what we know from the screen grabs. as for the mandate -- look, joe biden i do think has a legitimate mandate to do two things. one is to wear a mask. he ran on that. and he's right, we should all wear masks. two, it is between glass. that is the extent of his mandate. if there was a mandate on any ideological grounds, the democrats would have gained seats in the house, one governor shift in state houses, none of that happened. >> laura: all say, ari, i

joining me now is ari fleischer, former white house press secretary. ari, let's start with you. your thoughts on the angle. >> laura: i think you are right onto it, laura. one of the things we have to figure out going forward is what went wrong. it's not going to change the margins here in 2020, they are too big. but there are irregularities particularly with the mail in balloting and the government says to dig into it. how much of the signatures were actually really matched. we should know those answers so we all have confidence in our elections. >> laura: victor, your reaction to the angle then we will get into blinking and company. >> very quickly, i agree. you are right on. i think the election was tragically lost in june or july when they overwrote state legislator, the covid crisis, mail-in voting, early voting. we weren't prepared for it. so there were structural problems that made is almost impossible to adjudicate and audit the election. we have to be prepared next time. and we will be. he needs to get the vote out. he can win those two senate seats. he can be an andrew

is the recount continues, white house press secretary ari fleischer says the unaccounted ballots need to be explored. >> the people in charge of that county have some explaining to do, tried to sweep it under the flight 800 vote as a result of which can he pick up more? are there other similarities? that is why is important, the margin is a high-margin but it is important to pursue. >> ballot counting continues in other states, joe biden remained ahead with 50% of the vote. philadelphia wraps up county military, county officials expect to begin certifying the results today. in nevada, 50.one% of the vote. clark county officials calling for a recount over discrepancies, the county commissioner's race, donald trump calling a major victory. in wisconsin biden maintains a slim lead with 49.6 person. the president has until tomorrow to decide whether to formally request a recount. the process would begin thursday. a new wave of coronavirus restrictions sweep the country as covid-19 cases surge higher than ever before. from iowa's mask many to philadelphia's ban on dining with friends, jack

and ari fleischer on prospects of a recount in georgia and a substantial win in pennsylvania and "foxs hegseth, jedediah and will kane will join us and geraldo will be here and as we head into winter we will spend more time indoors possibly alone. we will talk about upgrading your home by adding a spa. it seems easy. now it is time to do my final preparations for the show and i might change outfits. >> donald trump promising a recount will show he did when the state of georgia. the state representative vernon jones, thanks for being here. let's talk about what is going in georgia. we know there will be a recount, we will follow that. as georgia has been historically read. 10 days to absorb what happened on election day. what do you make of how close georgia has been this year? >> there was no wave. there may have been a water gun at most, a squirt but if you look at the house and senate they remained basically the same. that makes us even more curious about the ballot. what we see, harvesting the ballots, mail in ballots there is something strange and we are doing an investigation and

fox news contributor ari fleischer saying allegations of fraud are bigger than the 2020 election. >>ne thing to keep in mind about this is it is not like this is the last election we are going to have. we will have election 2022 and 2024. we might have a significant role for mail in ballots then. it is incumbent on all these officials involved to approach this with seriousness because we need both parties to feel the issues were adjudicated in a responsible way, that they had a transparent approach at the end of the day and could be confident in it. >> what we all have to look at is what can happen going forward. we have an election in nevada that is going to get redone this cycle because the vote was so close, a 10 vote difference, they don't have confidence in the election. i went through that in florida in 2000, when it was a 500 vote difference. every election is learning to do it better for the next election. no one should have questions. jillian: the president's team hasn't of 5:00 pm to file for recounted wisconsin which they plan to do. congress giving mixed response to donal

. >> harris: ari fleischer joins me now. always great to have you on the program ari.st of all your top line thoughts about the action that needs to be taken? you heard from senator hawley there. what do you envision? >>> well i think the actions got to be taken by these tech giants. i'm leery of government action. i don't know that the government knows how to get it right. these are private sector companies. here in the nutshell is a problem. america is essentially a centrist country. most people think their voice somehow does get heard. when people in power start to question of someone's voice as is increasingly happening to conservatives it pushes people into radicalism. if you think your voice will be heard you think we're a send wrist country. if you think there's no where for your voice go to that people in power will and he of you it pushes you to extremes left and right. the more they do this to conservatives they're pushing people into a radical direction >> harris: they do a lot of talking and you heard one of the senators saying yesterday you've got to start

ari fleischer noted the difference tweeting is biden supporters were attacked the only question to trumpe about violence demanding that he condemn it. a new wave of coronavirus restrictions sweep the countries covid-19 cases surge higher than ever before. from iowa's new mask mandate to philadelphia's ban on dining with friends, jackie ibanez joins us as state and city leaders been down the edges. >> governors are pulling the emergency brakes is covid-19 cases surge. 22 states of titan their guidelines this month alone. and iowa governor kim reynolds is reversing her stance on masks signing a proclamation to require them in all public spaces. indoor gatherings in the state are limited to 15 people or less and restaurants and bars close at 10:00 pm. california rolling back its reopening as daily cases double there. governor gavin newsom morning more restrictions could come. >> we also are considering full disclosure, the previous notion of a curfew. >> in virginia masks are not required in all indoor public spaces for residents 5 or older, public gatherings are limited to 25 people or les

here with more reaction ari fleischer and former arkansas governor and fox news contributor mike huckabeeu are very clear, this is healthy. something biden said in his first debate that he would do, he's not waiting, is he? >> as usual, president obama is exactly wrong. this doesn't delegitimize our elections, it legitimizes them. this is the exact type of review you do after to give people faith that the system is proper, if we find nothing has been done wrong, that's good. if they find things just like when kayleigh mcenany is talking about seven counties in pennsylvania where democrats get the cure their ballots in advance contrary to the law and republicans don't, that's exactly what the democrats did to the bush campaign in florida in 2,000. they sought a recount in the three most democratic states run by democratic officials. we've seen this game plan before, it doesn't mean they are going to get the president over the top, i think the margin is too high for them to climb. it's what you do after an election, especially a close one. >> sean: if you don't have integrity, look at how g

joining now, fox news contributor ari fleischer and house minority leader steve scalise. lot of people show up. we have thin margins. and about four weeks to make sure. all the ballots showed up and magically two weeks later -- how did 2600 ballots show up magically two weeks later? does that instill confidence in the american people? >> no, of course it doesn't instill confidence. georgia has some explaining andd the people in charge have some explaining to do. i'm glad they announced and did not tryee to sweep it under the rug. it looks like the president might pick up 800 votes as a result of this. can they pick up more? other similarities and counties? the margins a high margin but it's important to pursue it. >> sean: i agree. steve, you look at the efforts going on here, you've been there for the last four years. democrats the ones that were pushing the phony russia hoax or the impeachment hoax, did they ever accept donald trump election win in 2016? i don't recall they do it or remember they did. >> no, sean, and in fact if he saw the first few months they denied t

let's bring in our panel, former white house press secretary ari fleischer, amy walter, editor for polk political report and been -- oby have every right to fight these battles but so far they haven't been successful, is there a path you have heard or seen where they may be? >> i don't know about a path if the definition of success is reelecting president trump and sending him back to the white house for another term, i think there are a lot of interesting and significant questions that have been raised across the board about our elections in a number of different areas in accordance with a responsible approach to this, it should be adjudicated in the courts. it's not like this is the last election we are going to have, we are going to have an election in 2022 and in 2024, we might have a significant role for mail in ballots them and it's incumbent upon all of these officials involved to approach this with seriousness because we need both parties to feel like the issue here were adjudicated in responsible ways, they had a transparent approach at the end of the day and can be confident a

with is governor scott walker, 10 star, ari fleischer, ford o'connell, tom homan and congressman gregnes. trump's path runs through pennsylvania, arizona, georgia. pennsylvania says majority of 550,000 remaining votes could be tallied by tonight. arizona says it will have a good idea what the final result is tomorrow. we also have breaking news coming in right now to t

with is governor scott walker, 10 star, ari fleischer, ford o'connell, tom homan and congressman greg trump's path runs through pennsylvania, arizona, georgia. pennsylvania says majority of 550,000 remaining votes could be tallied by tonight. arizona says it will have a good idea what the final result is tomorrow. we also have breaking news coming in right now to the st

moreover reaction ari fleischer, fox news contributor mike huckabee. you are very clear.s is healthy. by the way, something biden said in the first debate to that he would do, wait till certified. not waiting, is he? >> as usual , president trump is exactly wrong. this doesn't delegitimize our ielection but legitimizes it again. this is the exact type of review do you do after to give people faith the system is proper. if it's proper and nothing was done wrong, that's good we should all know what. but if they find things like when kayleigh mcenany was talking about the seven counties in pennsylvania were democrats get to cure their ballots in advance and republicans don't, that's exactly what the democrats did to the bush campaigngn in 2,000. they saw a recount in the three most democratic states run by democratic officials. weth have seen the game plan before. it doesn't mean that they're going to be able to get the president over the top. the margins too high for him to climb. but in good government, it's what you do after in an election especially a close one. >> sean:

let's go to our guests, ari fleischer, how much of the coverage in these final days do you think is coloredther believing that president trump will lose or rooting for that outcome? >> all a of it. it's always been that way, howard. the press just follows the stock market and the stock market in politics is polls. if they think someone is going to win, the coverage reflects that. the only caveat, there is a sense that the 2016 hangover,

i want to show you a tweet this morning from ari fleischer, the former spokesperson for george w.sist, overturn, boycott, surveil, leak, impeach and now they tell us it's time to heal? where were they for the last four years? i'd be curious to hear your response to that skepticism. >> first of all, president-elect biden has always -- he's got a track record of working across the aisle and bringing people together. so i think, number one, you will see that in this administration. you know, secondly, he has been very clear that while he ran as a democrat, he will be a president for all americans and that he will work just as hard for those who didn't vote for him as those who did, and because this is the substance of who he is, and because he has a track record, i think that also was why people voted for him overwhelmingly. what i would suggest is that those who feel that way, they need to come together. this is the time. we have a pandemic. people are hurting. we need to come together. >> representative lisa blunt rochester, thank you very much. appreciate it. we'll be right back.

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ainsley: ari fleischer, katie pavlich and deroy murdock, they're here to discuss this next. ♪ nobody's pain says you can't. advil says you can. ♪ ♪ >> i suspect that we'll find out in 48 hours how successful suppression tactics have been. that is the one concern that i have. the only way, in my opinion, for joe biden not to be successful on tuesday is for voter suppression to be successful. brian: here to react to that warning is our political panel, ari fleischer, katie pavlich, deroy murdock. your reaction, voter suppression, the only way trump wins is voter suppression? >> morning, bruin. that's an -- brian. that's an amazing comment from congressman clyburn. the gop suppression effort's not working very well. in south carolina they've had, i believe since october 5, 28 days. there's a responsibility on the part of voters, if you want to get your ballot in, you've got 28 days to do so. you get your kids, your neighbors, your best friend, people from the union hall to get it together the, drive you down to the polls and cast your ballot. and if you can't do that, i don't think that's

as we went through the evening we were waiting, remember, ari fleischer and everybody on fox broadcaste panhandle went solidly red for president trump. we were watching for -- the pennsylvania governor is speaking now crucial battleground state and we're waiting on. >> we'll similarly meet this moment and i will everything within my power to insure the results are fair and that every vote is counted. pennsylvania will have a fair election. that election will be free of outside influences. i will vigorously, we all will defend against any attempt to attack that vote in pennsylvania. every person can have confidence in the outcome of this election due to the due diligence of election officials and the department of state. thank you again to all people in pennsylvania who voted. rest assured your vote will be counted if it hasn't already been counted. your vote will make a difference in this election. this is the way we elect our officials and the way we hire the people who are our public servants. a promise we give to all people in pennsylvania, all americans that their vote counts and i

. >> trace: ari fleischer says the following.ily press briefings and why isn't the biden press corps demanding them? the game of softball is sfm is playing with biden is ridiculous. what do you say? >> i think brad brings up a good point. the president-elect is still that, the president-elect. we actually do have a president of the united states whose name is donald trump and the president should hold daily press briefings and should answer questions from the press about the coronavirus and spiking in all 50 states and the fact there are 70,000 americans currently being hospitalized because of it. and here is what's real. the vice president -- former vice president, president-elect enjoys a honey mood period. i guarantee journalists will ask him about his plans to revive the economy and ask him what he plans to get done in the first 100 days legislatively and we have to wait to see that. at this point in time the more pressing question is why isn't the white house holding press briefings? >> i want to move on if i can. this whole

here to talk about it is fox news contributor and former white house press secretary ari fleischer.id. what did it mean? >> i didn't know it was funded. look, i think it's a perfect sign of the deep splits inside the democratic party and how this notion of defund the police, which is ardently felt by many not just as a slogan but what they want to do. they've been successful in cutting police budgets across the united states how it splits them from the mainstream and most americans. we'll watch it play out as a split. when aoc really advocates for it and pushes it she puts her colleagues in a very bad spot. >> sandra: what do you think we're seeing as far as this divide within the democratic party, this push of joe biden to the left, what we may see happen in the senate, all that has a big impact on how this plays out? how far left do you think that this younger generation is going to try to push the incoming president? >> we'll really find out who joe biden is. he may have been in politics for 47 years but he is about to face his biggest test as the new president. the test is going

. >> sandra: for more on this let's bring in former white house press secretary ari fleischer and donnaat happened in california. obviously it continues to get headlines as so many face tough restrictions across the country. they want to hold politicians preaching it but not living by it accountable. ari, i bring this up to you as well. san francisco mental health officials are warning about teen suicide, anxiety, depression. it is on the rise. kids have hit a wall says a san francisco psychologist quoted in an abc article this morning. direct impact of covid and related shutdowns and kids not being in school. this is serious and to have that sort of hypocrisy at the highest level it's tough to swallow. >> not just governor newsom. governor phil murphy in new jersey violated his own guidelines last spring. chris cuomo did something similar. the fact of the matter is we have a society that needs to do two things. a tragic balancing act. we have got to live our lives and be sensible about covid. we cannot shut down america. if you shut down america we'll make everything worse. so people i