institutions, in our elections? >> and that's exactly what they're doing. if you're crying fraud for an election that you're winning, as trump also did with the 2016 election which he won when he said there were millions of illegal votes, it sort of makes you wonder, you know, what the -- what do you accomplish by doing that. especially when you're going to win it. it doesn't make a lot of sense. you know, tortured sport analogies are one thing. but this is -- it's not a game. this is american democracy. imagine your vote not counting because of a technicality, because of a bunch of republican and democratic lawyers. probably more concerning, i think, than the poor folks who are watching this drag on longer than they would like. >> yeah. he's a football fan. but i think wide right on that attempt. zach wolf, thank you, my friend. good to see you. >> thanks. breaking news this morning. 50 lives already lost in the california wildfires. the threat appears to be widening this hour. 48 of those fatalities have occurred in northern california where six more victims of the