zef zeleny, thank you. more now on exactly how the state of florida will get from where we are today right now to where they hope to be in january with the swearing in of a governor and senator not all the swearing at or swearing over we re seeing right now. i want to start by asking the same thing i asked jeff zeleny. you re in florida. so far has there been any evidence of fraud that s been claimed? reporter: no anderson, there s no direct evidence of fraud at this point. but republicans are pointing to a series of events that took place where they say that could open the door to fraud taking place. for instance, they filed a lawsuit against the election supervisors in both broward and palm beach county, and they won those lawsuits. they were declared to dee unconstitutional because they weren t necessarily transparent enough with the amount of votes that were in-house at both of those places before they file their returns on saturday. they were also pointing to the fact there we
wednesday here in tallahassee, and that s a lawsuit filed by the nelson campaign against the secretary of state that really gets into the adjudication of the these provisional and mail-in ballots. these ballots that are tossed out by canvassing boards because they have some sort of problem and they don t directly adhere to florida law. now the lead lawyer on the democratic side believesthality the florida laws violate the u.s. constitution, and so he believes that many of these ballots should be brought back into the county process, and that could be bill nelson s last hope because, anderson, we need to make it clear if we re able to overcome rick scott in this recount it would be unprecedented in american history. there s never been a vote total more than 12,000 votes successful in a recount. but if these batch of votes discussed in this court hearing, that could change the conversation quite a bit. we should point out we don t know exactly how many ballots could be at stake here.
conspiracy theories that the president particularly when it comes to elections, that the president likes to spin. anderson, think about this in the broader perspective. vladimir putin and the rugs, when they interfere in our elections, when they interfere in other elections, they do it to try to cause unrest, to try to make people uncomfortable with the democratic process. that s the result that we re seeing here because of these outrageous assertions by the president of the united states and the governor of the state of florida. former florida governor jeb bush who actually appointed the florida governor supervisor elections in 2003 tweeted today, she quote, failed to comply on multiple accounts and called her removal from office after the recount. should she be removed? do you agree with the governor? well, i think the governor, our current governor has had that opportunity. he was concerned in the spring
it could be anywhere between 20,000 and 100,000 ballots. you raise an important point. traditionally in recounts you re talking about, you know, it s a couple of hundred vote difference, which is obviously not the case here. you re talking about thousands of votes difference. so the likelihood is unless there s a massive some sort of massive mistake or massive number of ballots that haven t been properly counted, that it won t change the outcome given the margin right now. reporter: yeah, that s exactly right, anderson. and honestly when you talk to both republicans and democrats privately they re very clear-eyed about that prospect. if there still needs to be some sort of massive issue with this vote counting process that we have yet to uncover, now there is that possibility in broward county where there was a certain number of undervotes and overvotes that were not necessarily attributed to the nelson senate race that were to
not a patriot, the world is being held together by scotch tape. it was particularly it stood out to me in very stark relief given that the entire event to commemorate world war i and you saw this front of european leaders and the president of the united states, the idea is to present a united front and to remember the those who joined together to fight in world war i. and yet there are now such it just stood in stark relief to what the situation is to what the situation is right now, essentially, there wasn t a show of unity that the entire event was supposed to represent. no, there wasn t. and it seemed the person trump got along best with during their encounter at the lunch was surprise, surprise vladimir putin. you know, anderson, if i may, i