not known made by the men and the women of the military who defended our country and protected our freedoms for generations. veterans, we honor you. to those who ve made the ultimate sacrifice, we remember you, thank qulu fyou for your s. we are forever grateful. never forget. the news continues. i want to hand it over to chris for cuomo primetime. chris? beautifully said, anderson, thank you for that. i am chris cuomo. welcome to primetime , everybody. another key race was just called. not good news for republicans. meanwhile, the florida recount is getting ugly, may get worse. what is true? what is trite? we don t need more opinions from pundits about what might be going on. we need the players and have them on both sides making their cases directly to you. what are their issues? what proof do they have of the sa same? then you decide. the president has weighed in. is he really proposing breaking the law in two different states? facts first. straight ahead. and this story, thi
requires is totally different than saying that there s corruption, that votes are being stolen, that there is fraud. that, to me, is beyond the pale. this president is cutting the legs out from under our election system overall by casting doubt on this, and, hey, isn t that why we re doing a recount to begin with? the recount has a republican and a democrat looking at every vote. you got to take anything to a judge. it is all transparent. it s being watched. that s why we should let every vote be counted and then accept the results. like the judge said today, relax, ken. you guys, enough with the fraud talk. tone it down. let s see what happens. yeah, look, let s talk about this in terms of justice. as we do the court system. there are two elements to it. there s being right and the and everyone else on the outside having confidence that the conclusion is right. of course, we want the right
because you know those are all raw estimates and people don t even have their ballots in hand. that s the president. you don t have to answer for him tonight. in florida, you continue to count the ballots you announce on election night and the days following. that s exactly right and it s like that in most states. you d think the president would know that, but, again, he s not on your tab tonight. the president is he speaks for himself. the governor is going to have to decide whether or not he certifies this because if he has the position you re outlining right now, if they tell him, hey, they won their lawsuit, we have to review these signatures, it turns back we contacted the people and they verified that these are their ballots, we re going to count them. if he were to lose and he thought it was unfair, would he still certify the results? chris, the governor is going to be the senator. he is focused right now on what he needs to do for the people of florida in washington.
more secure. he s requested three more sheriff s deputies be assigned to the ballots when they re not being used in the recount which was really the remedy we were seeking. and so i you were asking to impound the machines. you also asked for more security. the judge said you go come up with a plan, you said we want more deputies. you already had people watching them. in fact, you had people there in advance of the voting in broward county. the democrat side, rick scott and senator nelson s side, agreed to this remedy. fair points? that s fair point, but chris, you know, the real problem in broward county here is that the county election supervisor, brenda snipes, has not complied with the law. we have these laws in place to prevent fraud. when you don t comply with the law, we can t be certain there is no fraud. she wasn t complying then the judge told her she had to. she missed the initial deadline to do so last friday at 7:00 but then comply. you looked at it, it actually
for a long time in florida that are the responsibility interestingly enough only because we examine it. more of local officials in florida than, say, where i live in virginia. i bet you if we looked at virginia that s right because they re continually at the point of the fol folkram, chris. right. constitution does give primary responsibility for elections to states. no question. florida keeps falling down on the job here. i think it s also they get examined because they re so important. i m not arguing against a recount. i ve had them myself. they may have two. look, in virginia, if tim kaine hadn t been running against a bigot, and the race has been really close, we started looking at virginia s tally down there, i bet you would have seen it as well. i think it s a function of examination, not of anything endemic to florida. look, all of us are voting in arcane systems. technology rules our laws everywhere yes. except when it comes to