alarming this is disturbing this is what we've been warning about for a long time and you've got in st lucie county you're using machines made by de bold and then in the other two counties that make a florida eighteen martin county and palm beach county you've got two other brands of voting machines one made by e s n s one bad by sequoia and remember those sequoia machines in palm beach county are the same ones that just this past march announced three different races incorrectly announced the winners of two of announced losers in two of those races to be the winners these machines don't work tom and so i'm a little surprised frankly that allen west is not calling for all of the ballots to be retaliated and by hand because in florida it's actually illegal to count a ballot by hand once it has been tallied by the voting machines really when did that law go to effect. after two thousand for some odd reason this is what the republican never again will we double check the count because when they did in two thousand they discovered al gore got more votes than george w. bush that's right allison a republ

st. lucie county set up so we're going to move ahead. we wish congressman murphy-elect a very well. rought up incredible voting irregularities not just in st. lucie county but some in palm beach county. now is is not the time for people to be left in a lurch. >> back with michael hastings, tricia rose and jayar jackson has been hammering west for years. jayar, the party is over. anything you want to say? >> it has been two weeks since the election. they say you're not supposed to gloat and celebrate the demise of a politician but when you self-describe harry tubman and -- i can see your flattop in the ring. >> drop it. here it comes! jayar jackson, all over allen west. good-bye congressman. tricia rose, gotta make you happy. >> i'm really happy that jayar got to do it. it is not illegal to be a

st. luci county, west lost by a wider margin than before. onically, alan west, the man who channeled mccarthy by saying they were communists, just can't handle democracy. joining me is chairman of the broward county committee is mitch cesar. crazy things continue to happen down in florida. this patrick murphy has won this election. what is the governor up to? >> well, you're right. actually, it seems patrick murphy has won it twice, literally. i find this very surprising because the governor was the king of voter suppression. not only in florida, but across the country. he led the way towards suppressing the vote. he's up for a tough reelection. and i'm a little bit surprised because what alan west is asking the governor to do is not solve a legal problem, he's asking to solve a political problem. if republicans really are being truthful and have learned any lessons from the past election, it should be that the american public and certainly florida voters won on a level playing field and the governor has no business in this fight. >> does he

st. lucie county board of elections.oy law, the race is supposed to be finalized by noon today, that means in the next 14 minutes. the west campaign has said this, quote, all we have been fighting for since the very beginning is to ensure the citizens of this county and their votes accurate and fairly have been counted. while the florida party says, the votes have been counted, recounted and certified twice at the state. and patrick murphy has won beyond the margin of recount. it is time for west to stop wasting the taxpayer time and money and allow murphy to focus on the job he was elected to do. but we have a lawyer, jeffrey scott shapiro, he doesn't speak for the campaign, but he has been involved in the issue. he is at the office the st. lucie advisory. you are watching the vote count. >>. >> we will know if 15 minutes. >> eric: you will know in 15 minutes, if allen west won or if patrick murphy did defeat him. >> i think we will know whether or not in st. lucie county, there will be an increase in the number of vote

st. lucie county.ck scott is taking heat for what democrats are calling improper interference in west's attempt to overturn the election results. florida secretary of state ken denster, a scott appointee ordered a team of auditors from the state's election commission to oversee this county and the canvassers. it's a move that had florida's top democrats sounding the alarm. dnc chairman debbie wasserman schultz tweeted out today and put out a statement saying this, "after disfranchising florida voters by cutting down early voting days and creating extraordinary long lines at polls, governor scott is trying to overturn an election result he disagreed with. governor scott needs to remove himself from the process immediately." it was announced sunday after getting the state to recount the votes in problematic st. lucie county, west lost by even a wider margin than before. ironically, allen west, the man who channeled joe mccarthy by claiming 80 house democrats were communists just can't handle democracy. j

st. lucie county. the county recounted, put through the processing machine just three of the eight days but suddenly 799 votes disappeared. that's why west wants all early votes recounted. he says he's not a sore loser. >> we just want the truth. i don't understand why no one else wants to understand that that's what this is about. if people don't want to see me in congress that's fine. but don't do it at the expense of the voters and the expense of the american voter who are losing confidence in the electoral process. >> reporter: allen west was a favorite of the tea party an was a primary mission for the democratic party. bill: both of these gentlemen flew to d.c. for the first day on capitol hill and representative elect patrick murphy was there with nancy pelosi at a big news conference of newly elected democrats in the house and murphy is beginning the process of representing florida. >> my name is patrick murphy from florida district 18. the youngest new member of congress. and just defeated some

st. lucie county. we got to a noon deadline by law is the time secretary of state has to certify it. recount says we didn't get it finished. so there are no updated numbers and that means after intervention, patrick murphy, the democratic challenger will take the seat. allen west spokesman supporters are up in arms over allegations of fraud. i want to read a little what his campaign had to say. what was a bad swaig gotten worse. whether it was done intention anally ads to suspicion. what this is getting uglier. >> what do you bet this heads to florida supreme court. you have the intense supporters. he is a military man. they will follow him and keep pressure on. it's headed to tallahassee, don't you? event atetown. america's news headquarters. to know stirewalt is to know he loves slim gyms. happy birthday from the news headquarters. we love you. >> thank you, shannon. >> the effect of the fiscal cliff is real and could be immediate. fox news correspondent william la jeunesse explain what is will happen to some american farmers and the small businesses if washington doesn't get it to

st. lucie county, saying he did not have the authority. but it is not over, yet. the county decided to recount anyway, starting at 9:00 a.m. in the morning. we will keep you posted. now, president obama has been re-elected and obamacare is the law of the land. dr. beular is one person who is not particularly happy about it. she says she lost her job in a hospital because of her opposition to obamacare. while running for senate, she offered a very public and brutal diagnosis of the president's health care law. >> with the health care plan, we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, which purportedly coversats least 10 million people without adding a single new doctor, but providing for 16,000 new irs agents, written by a committee which the chairman says he doesn't understand, passed by a congress that didn't read it, and signed by a president who smokes and administered by a treasury team who didn't pay his taxes, for which we will be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect by a government which has bankrupted social security and medicare, all to

st. lucie county missed the deadline on the two day recount. the county had to finish processing more than 37,000 ballots under florida law previously submitted results will be certified unless the state grants an emergency exemption, those earlier results gave murphy the lead and murphy declared victory and his campaign is doing so again today. the campaign of allen west refusing to concede. republican florida senator marco rubio visiting a political hot bed. he traveled to iowa appearing at a featured speaker at terry branstead's fundraiser. he's told the crowd about 2016 and how to turn the nation's struggling economy around and emphasizing raising taxes on the wealthy won't get it done. >> we start with a simple notion, the way to turn aur economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer. that's the way you move forward. >> and the governor invited rubio because he thinks the senator will be a real leader in the of coming time. >> and a deadly pileup, six people are killed and investigators are searching

st. lucie county in the race between republican west and democrat murphy.et you know how that turns out. >>> latest from an oil platform that was on fire the search is still on for two workers missing. coast guard sending boats and helicopters to scour the area. the platform 25 miles off the coast of louisiana the fire believed to have started when work using a torch to cut an oil line. they put out the fire, the crews did, now there has been no other reports of or there have been no other reports of oil leaks from the wreckage. four workers suffered severe burns. they remain hospitalized. >>> could it happen again? the scars from the awe or , colorado massacre still -- aurora, colorado mass -- massacre still with you us. >> missouri, the mother of that would be gunman heard her son -- turned her son into police saying he was planning to shoot moviegoers at a twilight show and wal-mart store he's 20-years-old and confessed to police he bought assault rifles and more than 400 rounds of ammunition. >> arizona, details coming out about the woman driving the ca

st. lucie county, florida, incumbent republican congressman allen west is crying foul over a limited recount of early voting that shrank the total numbers for west and his victorious democratic channeler murphy. murphy remained ahead by .57% enough to escape automatic recount of the all votes cast in three county that the district encompasses. >> i have seen there are some errors made there. at least there is reason to believe there might have been. this is a democratic county in a republican part of florida. >> weekend recount action in florida did reverse results of a mayoral race in fort pierce with a new verdict so close it triggered another recount. sunshine state automatic one. >> bret: thank you. authorities in indianapolis still don't know what caused an enormous blast that killed two people and danieled 80 homes -- damaged 80 homes. the coroner's office have not identified the bodies from saturday's explosion, rather. owner of the house at the center of the house say think think it was a faulty furnace. that may be to blame. the post election honeymoon ends quickly for president oba

st. lucie county. >>> "the washington post" makes its pick for the worst candidate of 2012 and chose texasovernor rick per. their reason, he entered the race the frontrunner, but then this happened. >> i would do away with education, the -- >> commerce. >> commerce. and let's see. i can't. the third one i can't. sorry. oops. >> oops. marco rubio is a senator, not a scientist. the republican from florida would not give a direct answer about how old the planet earth is. here's what he told qg -- he went on to say i think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow. scientists have determined the earth is about 4.5 billion years old. >>> we want to wish vice president joe biden a happy birthday. the vp celebrates the big 7-0 today. the president wished him a happy birthday by tweeting that picture. they say 70 is the new 50. we'll see how it goes. that's going to wrap things up for me. see you back here in at 2:00. i'm filling in for tamron on "news nation." i will see you tomorrow, be new jersey congressman pill passcell, jack rice, talking about the defense

st. lucy county, but west is still, unbelievably, refusing to concede. we'll be right back. [ bell ringing ] ♪ in a world where ♪ there is so much to see ♪ there's still no other place ♪ that i would rather, rather ♪ rather, rather be ♪ [ male announcer ] dip into sabra hummus and discover a little taste of the world. enjoy sabra dips. adventure awaits. >>> welcome back to "hardball." there's been a lot of focus on the share of the white vote that president obama won in the election. there's an impression they abandoned mr. obama. obama got 39% of the white vote, but it's where that vote came from that tells us so much more. first a look at obama's share of the white vote in southern states. here is where the exit polls we took show a dramatic skewing of the numbers in states like mississippi and alabama. look at the numbers. president obama won only 10% in mississippi, 15% in alabama. in north carolina, a state that's growing more national, he got 31% of the white vote. in florida and virginia, which are very national states, all much closer to national

st. lucy county, saying the vote count was not conducted accurately and fairly.till somewhat of a cliff-hanger but it's very surprising because patrick murphy was outspent 4 to 1 by allen west. allen west was a tea party fund-raising machine, and if the current results hold, which for all intents and purposes we believe they will, allen west goes down, that's a trophy buck they will be putting on the wall. >> they're calling like the clubs. i have to ask you about michele bachmann. she managed to pull off a razor thin victory in minnesota, as you know. do you expect her to repeat her call for an investigation into congressional members who she feels may not be american enough? >> well, i don't know if she'll necessarily say that, but rest assured, martin, she will certainly still be a national dynamic force within the republican party. what's interesting about that specific race is i went out there and i covered it. a lot of republicans i spoke to in the district said exactly the same reason of joe walsh, she's put herself too much out in front instead of caring

st. lucie county.west refuse today concede despite a final count showing him trailing by about 2400 votes and his campaign had been fighting for a recount saying those numbers just don't add up. and let's take a look at the heart warming tribute to our veterans of the 9/11 memorial in manhattan. veterans from vietnam war to afghanistan, hung yellow ribbons on the famous survivor tree, the ground zero tree that survived the infamous tree. and later, president obama and the first lady will be part of a wreath laying ceremony here. >> mike: have you been to ground zero lately. >> alisyn: no. >> mike: the tower is beautiful. fantastic, about a year away from being completed. it's gorgeous. >> alisyn: today is a good day to go down. >> dave: the latest on the david petraeus situation as you know by now, he resigned as the head of the cia. one of the most decorated heroes. and unfortunate circumstances and you look a couple of families are potentially ruined and u.s. intelligence could be compromised and ano

st. lucie county that makes the west folks think there should be evidence of a full recount.emocrat ami bera leads lungren. scott peters leads brian bilbray by about 1,300 votes. congressman mike mcintyre leads opponent david rouzer. we'll see if more votes trickle in. fiscal cliff remains in focus. business leaders are urging them to work together for a deal. becky, do we assume that the market is going to be reacting to fiscal cliff negotiations between now and the end of the year? >> well, it's probably mostly going to be fiscal cliff. it could be the rise of europe every once in a while. if you looked back at last week, the dow and the s&p had their worst performance for the week than they have since the week of july 4th of the dow is now down for three weeks in a row and it's the first time that's happened since the dping of may. so the market is sitting up and paying attention and certainly the fiscal cliff is the driving factor. over the weekend on the talk shows the kind of things that we had heard. it sounded like people were maybe more amenable, the rift between the

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st. lucy county but west is still unbelievably refusing to concede. we'll be right back. told him, sure. can't hurt, right? then i heard this news about a multivitamin study looking at long-term health benefits for men over 50. the one they used in that study... centrum silver. that's what i take. my doctor! he knows his stuff. [ male announcer ] centrum. the most recommended. most preferred. most studied. centrum, always your most complete. >>> welcome back to "hardball." there's been a lot of focus on the share of the whot vote that president obama won in the election. obama got 39% of the white vote but it's where that vote came from that tells us so much more. first a look at obama's share of the white vote in southern states. here is where the exit polls we took show a dramatic skewing of the numbers in states like mississippi and alabama. look at the numbers. president obama won only 10% in mississippi, 15% in alabama. in north carolina, a state that's growing more national, he got 31% of the white vote. in florida and virginia, which are very national states, all m

st. lucie county yesterday calling for a recount of all the early ballots in the race.t trails patrick murphy by 0.58% and according to state law an automatic recount is needed only when a difference in votes is 0.5% or less so not at that threshold. west told nbc, quote, i think that we need to have the electoral process play out as it should, and then wherever the results lie, that's fine with me. but i want to make sure we have honor and integrity in that process. meanwhile, on the hill yesterday democrats held a press conference to introduce incoming members of congress and the house minority leader nancy pelosi addressed murphy as congressman elect. the only nonsitting member to speak. >>> meanwhile, out in arizona there are 340,000 ballots that have yet to be counted in the senate race between richard carmona and jeff flake. carmona did concede on election night when he was losing by six percentage points. as votes continued to be tallied, the carmona campaign is keeping a close eye on the count. he's been gaining in the tally and appears to have at least a distan

st. lucie county but he is still losing when it comes to keeping his congressional seat in florida's district8. in fact, democratic patrick murphy picked up some 300 more votes over the weekend bringing his total to about 2,000. west is still refusing to concede the election saying that he plans to review the result and additional data in order to decide how to move forward. murphy has claimed victory and it is very clear that west is probably all done. we're back with more steph after the break. these talking points, that the right have, about the "heavy hand of government" ... i want to have that conversation. let's talk about it. really? you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> announcer: ladies and >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, it's "the stephanie miller show." ♪ i'm wal

st. lucie county and not the only one waiting for results of the still undecided race.ies online. peter doocy has more. >> reporter: barr ab leads republican congressman lun lundgreen. another brian billbray trails his channeler as well. two races hotly contested in arizona. g.o.p. rising star vernon parker is down in the count competitor kirsten sinema a race we featured here. democratic congressman ron barber a former aide to congresswoman gabrielle giffords is down right now by less than 100 votes. north carolina has a close race between blue dog democrat congressman mike mcintyre and his channeler david ruser. freezing temperatures and light snowfall caused a southwest airlines jet to slide off a runway. the plane had just landed in denver. all the passengers were bused to the concourse. no injuries reported. luckily. if you use this hashtag you will support the troops. history network will donate a dollar for each use of the hashtag. for more info go to foxnews.com. back to you. >> shannon: thank you. well, it may not help in the short term, but perhaps some comfor

st. lucie county, 13.6% to 11.7%. democrats argue across florida and the nation, the trend line is headed in the right direction and that is a powerful case for continuing democratic policies. your response? >> i think when you look at the governors in the states where you have seen unemployment decreasing, these are republican governors. they are putting in job- creating policies. if you look at the computation, a lot of the -- underemployed and had completely dropped off the rolls, that is 14.7%. when you drive up the highway, you see too many close to storefronts. business owners are concerned about too many things. onerous tax policies, lack of access to capital. >> we have to look at where we were four years ago. we were bleeding over 800,000 jobs and month. the dow was cut in half. the housing market had just fallen. it's things are slowly coming around. people are upset in this district because we have not come out of this recession quicker. we are on the path to recovery. we have had over 31 straight months of

st. lucie county. he believes, in his words, that manager is being hidden. -- manager is being hidden. address, voterfraud@foxnews.com. rick: eric shawn in the newsroom, thanks. jenna: and now this fox news alert, it might be a sign that things are getting a little bit more back to normal in the state of new jersey. gas rationing ends in that state as of 6 a.m. tomorrow morning. there were different rules in effect for when you could get gas and, of course, we showed you those long gas lines that you're seeing on your screen. new jersey's governor, chris christie, says gas supplies are plentiful, there's no more line, so things can get back to business as usual. we'll be right back with more "happening "happening now" howe. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, now is a good time to think about your options. are you looking for a plan that really meets your needs and your budget? as you probably know, medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare in

st. lucie county. that is from the "washington post."llen west conceding to murphy. >> how does one adequately express his feelings about a special friend? when that friend is also a world of icon, a national hero of unimaginable proportions. and a legend whose name will live in history long after all here today have been for gotten. >> fate looked down kindly on us when she chose the mail to be the first to venture to another world and to have the opportunity to look back from space at the beauty of our armown. it could have been a another, but it wasn't. and it was not for a reason. no one could have accepted the responsibility of his remarkable accomplishment with more dignity and more grace than neil armstrong. he embodied all that is good and all that is great about america. >> more from the memorial service for neil armstrong, thanksgiving day on c-span at 10:00 a.m. eastern. and before 11:30 a look at life in the white house as a teenager. and just after 1:00 p.m., how scientists are using it gaming the theories to solve problems.

st. lucie county. we were watching to see how that was resolved. allen west conceding that race.hank you for all of your calls. on thursday morning, one of our first segment at 7:45 will be speaking to a professor at the university of maryland. there will give some insight into the current situation in the middle east. that is all for this segment. coming up next, we will look to the effort to rebuild and fix up the damage in the wake of hurricane sandy. the wall street journal's andrew grossman will join us for that. thomas ricks will be here to talk about that. we will be right back. ♪ >> , there are many people who might take issue with a grand setting the union during the civil war. did not lay gannett do that? he did. i will not a grant was the only person to save the union. but he was the commanding general. he was the general looks up to the surrender of the army of northern virginia under robert e. lee. if anybody won the war on the battlefield, if you could say that any one person did, and of course cannot, but one of the things that we do in history is regionalized, we