presidential one. what s your take? he ought to have proof for what he says. it seems to be something that has been thrown out the window. there is criminal behavior or unethical belahavior he doesn t have proof of that. every vote ought to count. that s what matters. getting the truth, whether it s vote recounts, whatever it is, just getting to the truth matters. we talked a little bit ago. i am a former investigative journalist. what always guided us, i believe they are essential but we should count every vote and have every attempt to do that. and we should know election officials, broward county should be transparent with the process and open up these rooms to the journalists down there. florida has excellent local journalists. that s a big thing.
investigative journalist and what always guided us in journalism, and i don t believe journalists are the enemy of the people. i believe they re essential to our democracy, but getting to the truth is what matters. we ought to count every vote and have every attempt to do that. broward county and palm beach county officials should be transparent to the process and open up these rooms to the journalists down there. that s part of this process as well. that s a big thing. look, we have we know that they violated the law. the court came down and said palm county violated the law. in terms of that s important. but it s not fraudulent. where does fraud happen? when people aren t watching and there is no transparency and people aren t following procedures. procedures are in place to stop fraud. they are not following procedures. therefore and they re keeping it there s no transparency. that raises a big concern that
senate showed that we really won. nothing could be further from the truth. first, if you would have told us a couple of years ago we would be as close as we are people would say we are crazy. we had ten states where donald trump won the election in 2016. our senators won in six of those with one still in contest. and in the three states that carried trump to victory, pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan not only did democratic senators win by double digits in two of them but republicans said he couldn t even set foot in those states because he was so unpopular. this is a great victory. for donald trump to claim because he won a senate race states he won by 19, 19 and 36%,
with, what special prosecutor, special counsel s office comes up with. and then we ll have to make judgments. i certainly hope that we will not find necessity for impeachment but can t rule that out. a conservative writer heard you on the train from new york to d.c. wednesday. you were on your phone. according to her, you were detailing a plan to impeach recently confirmed supreme court justice kavanaugh for alleged perjury. she was not telling the truth. i m not going to comment on a private conversation with a friend. it s not true? no. you have no intentions of trying to or discussing potentially impeaching justice kavanaugh for perjury? no. the only thing that i think we do have to no, no. what i do think we have to do is one of the things that the committee has to do is investigate the question of the fbi not doing a proper investigation so that because of white house interference so that we can do whatever is
joining me now senator minority leader schumer. minority leader schumer i want to start with tuesday night s election. big democratic gains in the house and some warning signs for republicans in the suburbs. republicans in the senate look poised to grow their majority, flipping three blue seats in missouri, north dakota and indiana, as well as potentially in florida. why didn t the democratic message resonate in those states? let me say this, jake. the election was a great victory for democrats, taking back the house with up to 35 seats is huge. seven governorships, lots of legislative races, lower state legislative races that we picked up seats. trump and the republicans are trying to say, well, but the senate showed that we really won. nothing could be further from the truth. first, if you would have told us a couple of years ago that we would be as close as we are, people would say we re crazy. they were saying we would lose