being recounted all across the state, all have to be tallied up by thursday. but the president is saying a recount is a waste of time in his opinion tweeting an honest vote count is no longer possible, ballots massively infected. worth noting here, state officials have said there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. kerry sanders is in broward county for us. >> reporter: you're looking over high should my shoulder here at the machines that will be counting the votes. they brought in two more because they have 700,000 plus votes to run through the machines. i have to go into a whisper here because the canvassing board is getting ready to reis assume what they are going to do. but critical as they make sure that the machines will count accurately. the governor scott campaign for u.s. senate has now filed a lawsuit and among the things that are stated in the lawsuit, and this will be in court in about 30 minutes, he says in the lawsuit as long as the supervisor of elections here in broward county has unspro viupe skrised and unfettered access to the ballot boxes, she will be able to destroy any evidence of any errors, accidents or unlawful conduct making it nearnea nearly impossible to prosecute claims or discover later what had actually occurred in the process. the bottom line of this hearing that will begin in about 30 minutes across town in ft. lauderdale is the allegation this the scott campaign about that even though the florida department of law enforcement says there is no evidence of any criminal activity, they are treating it as if even the errors that are being potentially made here will result in a criminal prosecution later and ultimately they want to preservelots to the countings to make sure that this can all be added up correctly. because you because this is a heavily democratic community and it is this community where the votes could change the difference between rick scott who won the first count and now the automatic state mandated recount where those numbers could shift. >> nbc's kerry sanders with the gu golf whis. tha -- w4is phisper. thank you. and so barry, got to tell you, this is like take two, it must feel like 2000 for you. >> it does in many ways. >> what happens next from here? you heard kerry layout what exactly goes down moving forward. there is a deadline that officials don't think that they will hit on florida. what happens after that? >> what happens after that is that the candidates who are involved have to decide where to go. i know mayor gillum is reluctant to become involved in litigation, but we are seeing evidence that florida he's statute to make it more efficient has been done at the sacrifice of the fundamental right to vote. so he is reviewing his options with me now. >> so are you saying that lawsuit is on the table for andrew gillum? >> well, it has always been on the table in the sense that he has always had the apgs to do that. and up until now, we have not been actively preparing to file one. but as of this morning, we had a discussion in which he wants to receive advice as to what options he has. what mayor gillum is concerned about at this point is whether or not it ultimately would affect his race that he feels an obligation to ensure votes are counted and not to sit back when we are learning that they are not being counted for a number of reasons. not fwraud, braud, but just the operation of the statutes. >> and your client is down in votes. if he were to sue, would he sue because he thinks he's the winner or would he sue because he is concerned about what is happening in florida as it relates to this recount? >> well, that is exactly the point. it is an excellent question. i don't think that he is being motivated right now by whether or not he will turn the election around. i mean obviously that is important if he should be the winner, he wants to make sure if the voters want him, he wants to make sure that he is. but what he is now talking to me about is his concern that whether or not it would make a difference in the race that he has an obligation do anything he can to correct the situation which is disfranchising voters. >> governor rick scott was talking about that this morning. i want to play you a bit of what the governor had to say. >> my focus right now is getting the florida department of law enforcement in there to review, to make sure that we end up with a free and fair election. >> so taking voting machines, having law enforcement come into look at the ballots, in your view is that necessary step or no? >> i really can't speak to that. i haven't seen anything at this point that would justify that. i would think bringing in fdle officers is only justified when there is evidence of some kind of fraud or criminal activity. and i don't think anybody has suggested -- or people may have suggested it obviously, but i don't think there is any evidence of it. so it doesn't seem to me that that is a necessary step. >> barry richard, andrew gillum's attorney, thank you for coming on the show. and as of this morning, your client is seriously considering the potential for a loot due aw. for more on the other races we're watch, i'm joined by steve kornacki, jonathan allen, and steve, how is it possible that the monday after the election we are still with you at the big board? florida, georgia, arizona, put it in perspective for it. let's start with florida. >> it really is 2000 all over again. ballot design potentially being an issue. the governor's race, more than 30,000 votes separate them. on a scale of 30,000, you need something more systemic almost if you are gillum. where gets more interesting is the senate rates. the m -- race. is this this is a 12 krk,562 votes nels trails scott by right now. and they will run them through we'll see if that number gets adjusted. but ballot design may come in right here in broward county. massive heavily democratic broward county, this is how they have voted more than 2:1 for bill nelson. this is a huge democratic vote producing county and yet when you look results from broward county, the total number of votes cast in this senate race is about 26,000 less than the total number of votes cast in the race for governor. same ballot, 26,000 fewer votes in this race. you don't see an anomaly like that in any other county in florida. so something happened. they call that an undervote. something happened to cause the undervote. the nelson campaign is insisting this is a machine error. i can put this up on the screen for you. the ballot. the nelson campaign is insisting is this a machine error and that when you have this manual recount, it will be caught. but i want to point out what the broward ballot looks like and where they place the senate race. look at this, this is the senate race. is th this is a lengthy column of instructions and this is the race for congress, a bunch of different congressional districts in broward. and there a pais a part of brow county where they ran unopposed and that doesn't even appear on the ballot because of staof sta. so the possibility here that ballot design led 20,000 plus potentially people to not vote in a senate race in a heavily democratic count iiy looms over this thing. >> so a lot of attention is on florida, but there are by the way two other states where there are recounts for these statewide elections. >> are yeah, take a look at georgia right here. i dropped my paper. but let's see if i can get over there. therewe go. the governor's race -- it is not high day. i'll tell you basically it is about a 60,000 vote gap separating stacy ey abrams from kemp. will she have enough to bring kemp under 50% and force the runoff. probably not by themselves. what the abrams campaign is trying to do through lawsuits is expand the number of ballots that are considered. absentee ballots that they think were disqualified for reasons that they should not have been. if their campaign can expand the pool that way, maybe -- it is a tough path for her, but maybe then there is a way to get kemp in there under 50% and go to that runoff. >> arizona real quick. >> and in arizona, look at this, to worked. kyrsten sinema has opened up a lead over 30,000. there are still quite a few votes to come out, but basically the story has been when you look at the votes that have been coming in, they have been breaking for sinema at a much greater clip i think than an its pay theed. this is a very significant pad she has built up. there are so many outstanding votes, but unless that turns out in an aun expecteunexpected waye oig g -- sinema is in a good position here. >> and so let's bring in my panel. pick up where steve kornacki left off. thorn looking better for democrats when it comes to the senate than it did tuesday night obviously if they can pull out arizona. >> yeah, and again nbc is not calling it, but it would have to be like some existential flip there where they got rafts of votes for the republicans. sinema will win that without that. >> and president trump seems to are are -- by the way, we got a lid from the white house which means no movements expected from the president today. so he is down for the day, but he is tweeting about florida. and he is alleging this voter fraud. worth noting that again secretary of state says there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. >> there is one reason that the president is so exerciorcised a these races is that is 2020. the white house wants ron desantis who could be seen as the matt whitaker of florida to be the top official in that state in the lead up to 2020. weird stuff happens in florida elections. this is sort of a truism of american politics and you want your guy calling those technical shots if 2020 and the president's reelect comes down it that state. >> and we're seeing why right now where scott is the governor overseeing what is going on in his own senate race. >> 567hang tight, we want to tu to something else, what is happening out west. ari 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still at risk this morning. a quarter million of them forced to evacuate. there is the camp fire in the north, it is only 25% contained right now. and in the south, you have the hill and woolsey fires. these fires have torched an area bigger than the size of new york city. kathy park is in west lake village. i imagine there is a lot of frustration for people there who want to get back in and see if their homes made it or not. >> reporter: that is exactly right. i mean this is going to be their new realty if they get a chance to come back to what is left. we're in the community of west lake village and you can see it is reduced to rubble. and over there, the canyon is also burned out as well. i have some staggering numbers. 85,000 acres charred so far, only 15% containment, nearly 200 structures destroyed. we have thousands of firefighters on the ground right now actively fighting the woolsey fire. and the biggest challenge today are those santa ana winds which could gust up at any moment and we saw that yesterday, we were in bell canyon and we saw the winds whipping around. and it could potentially push these embers, these embers will land on vegetation and the homes and small fires could get even bigger. so this is an ongoing situation here in southern california and we are not out of the woods just yet. >> kathy park, thank you. i want to bring in now broin br. thank you for being where us. let me play for you nurse nicole jolly, she's the one who talked about her harrowing escape. watch. >> there is fire all around me. >> the cars were bubbling, the paint was melting off. the lights in front of me, they were melting. i called my husband and i'm crying saying nick, i'm going to die. and i can't get out of my car, its on fire. i'm going to die. and he says don't die, run. get out of your car and run. two firemen came out of this truck, picked me up and put me into the truck. and put a fire blanket over me. and said you're okay, you're okay, we'll take care of you. >> so brian , those firefighter were heros for her, yet 39 plus have lost their own homes dealing with these flames that are burning up california. talk about the stresses and how they deal with that. >> in the camp fire, the firefighters are getting to a point where they get rest periods, this thing and the description that you just heard, it should really put us on alert to what went on up there. the firefighters are running on their training, they are running onned a dren lin a ed a dreadre calories. the weather at least saturday to sunday night was somewhat cooperative. you know, their posturing now is going more offensive whereas when it started, the firefighters were focused on saving lives. >> and our hearts go out to them as they deal with all of this. there is also a piece of it that comes in to play here in washington. you saw i know president trump's tweet over the weekend related to the fires in which he blamed what he calls gross mismanagement essentially. you fired back, you said those comments are were ill informed, ill timed, demeaning. what would you say to him now? >> having a little bit of retrospect, i definitely would stay right with my comments that i wrote, the anger has it is a . that fire generated in what is called a federally responsible area, but it is under the state direct protection. so what that means is the federal government is responsible for the land management there and they detailed the obligation of fire protection to the state of california. and the statement that the president made, it was, it was ill timed. the loss of life, i'm very concerned in paradise, you know, there is over 220 people missing. i think that they have confirmed right now 28 dead. i've heard the number at 31 today. they have forensic teams at least ten of them in the area looking at -- i've been in the town of paradise, it is a ghost town. and forest management is a very complicated issue. it affects watershed, water storage. and you can't just make a blanket statement. and the other part of it is that no matter how much community protection is done, and there is a lot of defensible spaces in and around the community of paradise, the one thing that none of us can control and that i think we're learning we don't have control of, it is the weather. and when you see winds in that 70 to 80-mile-an-hour range, you have humidities down. i'll say the fire in paradise, they could have had 200 fire engines on the front line facing off that fire on thursday, they would not have stopped it. it was weather-driven and it is a complicated issue. and right now, what is needed is really support. >> i appreciate you coming on the show. thank you. still ahead, back here in washington subpoenas are coming. democrats reportedly getting ready to fire off dozens of them to try to hold the white house accountable and that could set up afternon epic battle all theo supreme court. and plus michelle obama gets really real about her time in the white house and even what happened long before that. and the word she's using to describe president trump. >> i wanted a family and barack wanted a family too and now here i was alone in the bathroom of our apartment trying in the name of all of that want to screw up the courage to plunge a syringe into my thigh. to my thigh. oh milk. am i willing to pay the price for loving you? to my thigh. you'll make my morning, but ruin my day. complicated relationship with milk? pour on the lactaid, 100% real milk, just without that annoying lactose. mmm, that's good. so we've been talking about election drama this hour with another g another new twist in mississippi. a video from hyde-smith when she said this. watch. and if you couldn't hear it, she said if he invited knee a public hanging, i'd be in the front row. her opponent is mike espy who is black. hyde-smith's defense, basically it was a joke and any attempt to turn it into negative connotation is ridiculous. espy says it showed why she is unfit to represent the state. >> this is 2018. we're going here to mississippi into the third decade of the 21st century and we should not have this. we need leaders that will try to unite us and not divide us. >> mike espy there. so that is what is going down in that senate race. back here in washington when it comes to the house, democrats as you know are getting ready to go after president trump with one source telling axios they are preparing a subpoena metaphorical obviously. let me bring in kasie hunt and also andy carr. so subpoena cannon, it is happening, i guess. how does nancy pelosi do all this? >> i actually think that there is a concern about managing all of it because there is certainly as you snyou showed in that gra there is a lot there to investigate and the purchases ha have -- helps are let it slide. >> in the obama era, there were investigations on hillary clinton's clintons, et cetera. >> and one thing that they did is allow themselves to give these subpoenas without consulting the minority power. yet another lesson in how what goes around comes around here in washington. so if you make a change that you don't want to have to deal with later on, perhaps consider not doing it. but i do think that there is a concern about too much all at once. the potential for overreach is very high and the way that you have heard nancy pelosi talk about this has been pretty careful. she is saying we'll think it through and pick our targets. >> and she has steered clear of the talk of impeachment. do you see that changing? >> no, i don't. sure it happdepends on what hap with the robert mueller report. but she has b been pretty clear that it would have to be bipartisan. >> and white house has to manage this with the new incoming white house counsel that according to the "washington post" is half-staffed from where they usually need to be. how does the new white house counsel deal with this? >> first of all, the white house 14 should get ready to do work. they have to staff up and it will have to be a different staff than they had before because congress has changed. the second thing is they have to worry about a lame duck session. there are some things that have to happen during the lame duck session because there is some provisions of law that expire at the end of the calendar year. we need a farm bill, we need to get disaster assistance approved, we radio thave violen against women act that expires. so during the lame duck session before new members come in, in addition to that, you have to work on your 2019 agenda. so a lot of work to be done at the white house and i don't think that they should be distracted with all of this debate. i hope that there wouldn't be just irresponsible subpoenas issued by congress. but the white house staff shouldn't worry about that too much. just staff up, get ready to do the job and tell congress that they have to do their job. they have to do their job during the lame duck session and there will be a lot of this things that have to be done in 2019 and the president should be reaching a hand out to say i want to help you do your job. >> he spent like two hours threatening democrats that they shouldn't be investigating him. he also likes a fight. so do you think that it actually ends up being something that he is able to use to his political advantage potentially with his base? >> well, i'm sure that he thinks that is the case. i really think america is more like i'm going to say dan crenshaw. i like the way that he is talking. he is saying let's forgive and let's never forget and let's work together and get things done. i was very impressed with his commentary and i think that he wants to do a good job. i hope the president does too. and let's learn something from some of these younger people coming into congress. they understand that the public is frustrated and wants to see something work. >> andy, it is like you're reading our rundown. we'll be playing that dan crenshaw sound in a second. 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young couples who struggle and i want them to know that michelle and barack obama who have a phenomenal marriage and who love each other, we work on our marriage. and we get help with our marriage when we need it. >> the former first lady also referencing the current one, and how when they melt after the 2016 election, obama told melania trump she is just a phone call away. >> has she reached out to you and asked for any help? >> no, she hasn't. >> foas for melania trump's husband, obama blasts president trump for pushing the birther conspiracy theory questioning barack obama's citizenship before he ran for office. >> donald trump with his loud and reckless innuendos was putting my family's safety at risk. and for this, i'd never forgive him. >> president trump responding. >> she got paid a lot of money to write a book and they always insist that you come up with controversial. well, i'll give you a little controversy back. i'll never forgive him for what he did to our united states military. >> joining me now is allison samuels, author of another book about michelle obama. thanks for coming on the show. and let me start there where we ended up with president trump responding to michelle obama's book saying she has to sell books, she has to have controversy. mrs. obama will probably be asked about president trump's response. how do you think that she will react to that? >> i think that she will be up front, she will say that pd used t - -- president trump use the birther issue to propel him to the white house. he used that to raise his base. he got his base pumped up to sort of get votes. and he sold that lie. he sold that lie all the way into washington. and she had to hold that close. she couldn't talk about that until she was out of the white house. but that hurt her, that hurt her and her husband and her entire family. and i think that to be able to finally excel and sort of talk about that, to sort of write about that, to get that out there, was such a relief to put it on the page and to be able to finally get out and say this hurt my family, this put my family at risk for him to put that lie out there for eight years and to actually win an election because of it. >> it wasn't just the political stuff that she put out there for the first time, right? she is also in these very intensely personal passages talking about her struggle with infertility, making a conscious decision to address all of this. listen. >> i wanted a family and barack wanted a family too. and now here i was alone in the bathroom of our apartment trying in the name of all of that want to screw up the courage to plunge a syringe into my thigh. it was maybe then that i felt the first flicker of resentment involving politics and about a are being's unshakeable commit. -- commitment to the work or maybe i was feeling the acute burden of being female. >> this is something that she obviously never talked about publicly. >> no, she kept that close to her vest. i interviewed her friends and a bunch muof her girlfriends, nev heard that story. so that was something i was very surprised about. but she was so focused on sort of getting through law school, getting through college, getting her life in the public eye out that she never had time to talk about what it was like to sort of be a woman, to get her marriage together and the trials of being married and just sort of what it was like to deal with that privately and not being able to share that, being so public and being the first black woman in the white house. and again, that is the beauty of this book. now she can share what it was like publicly so people know what that pain was like as the things she was going through. because all the times i interviewed her, you always knew that there was more there, but she wasn't able to talk about it. and now we have a chance and that is the beauty of it, hearing now everything that she wanted to talk about that she just couldn't. >> allison, thank you so much. michelle 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heart." ambassador, let me start with you, let me play what the french president had to say, a speech that seemed to be directed at one man right there in the audience, watch. >> translator: because patriotism is nationalism. nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. >> was president macron trying to send a message to president trump? are finding a way forward all over europe. and i think macron was trying to take on the mantle of leadership in europe. and the world to some extent we saw president trump over this weekend really isolated as and you know, hallie, i started life as a social worker, and clinically, i'd say the president of the united states is more than i'depressed. he is incredibly anxious, because of everything that'sin going on here, and he really didn't take the world stage in the way that we would expect an american leader to doe so. and in particular, to honor all of the people who lost their lives in world war i, which is what this weekend was about. >> why do you think he seems so withdrawn, ambassador? >> i think he's withdrawn because he's under siege at home. and he knows he's lost his really center. and we've seen in a tweet this morning where he's trying to grab back that sense that he is in charge, that he is dictating to the world what they need to do toey take care of america. he's in a very ironic place as gardner harris wrote in "the new york times" this weekend. the president is all about sanctions, all about sticks. very little about carrots. and sticks alone never get the job done in diplomacy. so, i think the president is out of time, and out of ideas. and, quite idfrankly, moving to being out of power. >> we shouldn't miss the additional central historical parallels here.ca remember, the reason trump went to pair race was to commemorate the anniversary of world war i. if anything, the key to that war is theo fragility of international alliance and the peril for which political leaders take for granted. additionally, one of the most significant things we learned from world war i is that the nature of war between great powers can changegr differently. these are issues that the white house isis taking very seriousl but trump himself seems fairly oblivious to. >> well said, betsy. >> i'd say it's remarkable we've got a french president talking about the differences between nationalism ande patriotism, between world war i and world war ii, that sort of peace there and world war ii. you've got the french president talking about t he knows somethg about nationals and authoritari authoritarianism. so does the other person, angela merkel. saying that's bad, that's something that we take stock in. also interesting that macron is cutting taxing and regulations in france. something that -- >> yeah, sound familiar. right, right. >> those things don't necessarily need to be hi connected. the france first policy on those sort of things don't need to be connected to the international policy. >> ambassador, i want to ask you about the new reporting on north korea. "the new york times" now saying it's moving ahead with its ballistic missile program at 16 hidden bases. and then the president saying h hey, and how do you square this? >> youu can't square this. the president is fooling himself, telling us he's in love with kim jong-un. as kim jong-un is spurning him right and left. we don't want the same things. i give all of my best to secretary pompeo as they try to pursue a course. the president doesn't have a clue, really, what's going on. >> ambassador, appreciate you being on the show. betsy and jonathan stick around. i'll be back with today's "big picture." blood sugar for 24 hours for powerful a1c reduction. tresiba® is a long-acting insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. don't use tresiba® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar, or if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. don't share needles or insulin pens. don't reuse needles. the most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause dizziness, sweating, confusion, and headache. check your blood sugar. low blood sugar can be serious and may be life-threatening. injection site reactions may occur. tell your prescriber about all medicines you take and all your medical conditions. taking tzds with insulins like tresiba® may cause serious side effects like heart failure. your insulin dose shouldn't be changed without asking your prescriber. get medical help right away if you have trouble breathing, fast heartbeat, extreme drowsiness, swelling of your face, tongue or throat, dizziness or confusion. i found my tresiba® reason. find yours. ask your diabetes care specialist about tresiba®. we are back now with our sources say segment. betsy and jonathan are here. bets, what are your sources telling you about any story you've been working on? >> publicly matt witt whitaker rod rosenstein have been cordials. but there is fairly obvious friction between these two men. they're kind of in the same social circles. whitaker is political and rosenstein is seen as a by the book geek. and there's having those two different personalities and two very different types of people running the justice department could lead to, to put it lightly friction. >> to put it lightly, indeed. jonathan, what are your sources telling you? >> my sources on capitol hill are telling me that house democratic leader nancy pelosi is very likely to be the next speak. the odds of somebody talking her off are very little after this next election. there isn't anyone to challenge on caucus, and if someone arises, the folks who want to be speaker are not amassing the votes to take her out. >> thank you. it is fitting where the big picture takes us to arlington, virginia. an amazing photo of the vietnam war memorial. it honors the men and women who have given their lives to our country. today and every day, don't forget to stop a veteran and thank them. the photographer here, david ake, newly promoted to the director's global photography. i'll see you on nbc nightly news for the day job at the white house. over to my friend craig. >> good to see you, my friend. craig melvin here at msnbc headquarters. and election under way, in three key states including, of course, battleground, florida. this, as president trump makes some unvalid claims to try and help republicans pick up some "w"s. also, democrats in control. they're taking over the house. but can they keep their caucus under control when it comes to targeting president trump? and becoming his foil. also, fire and fury. out of control and deadly fires raging in california right now. they are obliterating neighborhoods as people literally run for their lives. in fact, we're going to talk to one woman who barely got out before fire destroyed her home. we'll get to that in just a moment. but we start in florida and georgia, where