let it lay around, you know, even though i m a law enforcement officer, i mean, obviously had a right to have a gun and was part of my equipment but i was careful with that gun. now i have a grandchild. same thing. i keep it locked up. there s no excuse for it. none. zero. charles ramsey and jean casarez, thanks to you both. looking at the dangerous intersection of politics and violence, a failed gop candidate in new mexico is in custody accused in a string of shootings at the homes of democratic political leaders. authorities in albuquerque say solomon pena claimed election fraud after he lost the state house race and they say he conspired with four men to shoot at the homes of two state legislators and two county commissioners and then just moments ago cnn actually got access to the ring doorbell camera footage of pena looking for one of the officials. take a look. [ knocking on door ]
there s an old axiom in crisis communication, lanny davis who used to work for the clinton administration, mentioned it again today. tell it early, often, tell it yourself. doing the opposite of that. ken dilanian, the white house fiercely pushing back on that news. ken, thank you very much. kelly, great to see you. more to come as they say and more here with some nbc news exclusive reporting. the suspected master mind behind a series of shootings targeting democratic lawmakers near albuquerque, new mexico, turns out we learned he visited the homes of some of those officials weeks before the attacks according to authorities and some of those targeted officials themselves. we re talking about a supporter of former president trump now in police custody. he lost his state house race in november. a defeat he says was the result of election fraud. we have just heard from the new mexico secretary of state who says there was no fraud in that state s election. that these claims are false.
turns out, the florida recount deadline of thursday at 12:00, may not be so firm of a deadline after all. this afternoon, democratic senator bill nelson, who trails governor scott by 12,000 votes, found a new lawsuit hoping to avoid the deadline for any of the 67 counties in the state, which cannot and failed to complete their machine recounts by thursday afternoon, saying every legal vote cast must be counted. it deadline or not. looking live it tonight inside the broward county recount operation, significant news and progress today, all 300,000 early votes have now been recounted. workers are now getting to the mail in ballots in the election day votes. officials say broward is now ahead of schedule and likely to make the deadline. one of the races being recounted in palm beach county is the state house race, they their candidate leads the democrat by 37 votes, that is in recounted
we lived on the same block on capitol hill. we shared a couple glasses and wine. i got a chance to talk to her. we aired our differences and i respect her very much. she s right. we re going to have close races in florida. therefore we should have policies that allow us to count every legal lawful ballot in the state of florida. dan, let s get right into what will happen tomorrow. are they going to meet the deadline and will there be a manual recount? that depends what county you re talk about. broward county said it will have everything done by 6:00 in the morning. that s what the supervisor of l elections says. all the republican and democratic lawyers that have been watching this at the scene down there, the over under for them is around 11:30. palm beach county say they may not be able to meet the deadline on all of its races. they have a state house race. they also had counting machine