try to push the elections workers to do one thing or another, or was this just people expressing themselves? i think it definitely the air that i felt from people i was talking to, the reason why they were here, and many whom don t even live in broward county, many just heard this was happening and have come from all over the state that. they wanted to make it clear that they were watching, and that someone was watching the people doing the counting. and that was really why they were here. that s why they were crowding the door. that s why they were here trying to get among journalists, because they wanted to be a part of watching that go down. and so, yeah, it was absolutely here to be intimidating, and i felt that walking in, that that was the feeling. that was what they were trying to convey. lisa ferry, i know that you have been following the legal battle today. i know you were in the courtroom and now at the broward election center. from what you have seen, including today s
allowed into the room and they ll be able to lay eyes on the ballots. and that means tomorrow is a really big split-screen day. 10:00 a.m. tomorrow behind our shoulders, they re going to be looking at the ballots. and in palm beach, you re going to have this hearing about the other rick scott case about duplicate ballots. so buckle up. tomorrow is a big day. lisa ferry, julia nutter, my buddies. it has been great to have the two of you on the ground there for us gathering the news, talking to people, trying to get our arms around this story. i owe you both a couple of days off. i am very grateful that you guys are there today. thank you so much, my friends. thank you, rachel. we are going to be sticking on this story. actually, one of the people who julia and lisa found for us to talk to us today who has absolutely the most perfect experience for this fight is going to be joining us live next when we come back. stay with us. i just got my cashback match,
i need to figure out what s going on. after you figure that out, are we going to be able to go in and inspect? once i figure that out, i ll have an answer to that question. when you saw congressman gaetz haranguing that election official there. what she was trying to do was talk with rick scott s lawyers on the left. this story is also playing out in the courts. earlier today, rick scott s campaign won a ruling in his lawsuit to try to force the broward elections supervisor to try to turn over information about their vote tallies. broward county was ordered to turn over that information by 7:00 tonight. scott s lawyers were there at the election office to receive that court-ordered information, but it doesn t appear they got the data they came for. there are have been fast-moving developments on this front in the last hour or two. fortunately we have our crack sleepless team to fill us in. joining us outside the vote tabulation center are two of my colleagues, two producers fro
which is well within the margin to trigger a hand recount of all the votes in the state. as he saw his lead slipping away last night, rick scott kind of freaked out. he is the sitting governor of florida, and last night he gathered reporters at the governor s mansion to accuse the election supervisor in broward county of engaging in, quote, rampant fraud. rick scott said he will not let, quote, unethical liberals steal this election. he then announced that he filed lawsuits against broward county and palm beach county, and he announced that he had asked the florida department of law enforcement to investigate the vote count in his own election. once you ve got the state s governor threatening to sick law enforcement on vote counters in his own race, it is probably time to send some folks down there to see what the heck is going on. so we sent two of our own intrepid producers, julia nutter and lisa ferry down to florida this morning zero notice. we decided last night during the show so
the data they came for. there are have been fast-moving developments on this front in the last hour or two. fortunately we have our crack sleepless team to fill us in. joining us outside the vote tabulation center are two of my colleagues, two producers from the rachel maddow show, julia nutter and lisa ferry. you guys, thank you for being there. we appreciate it. any time. happy to do it. julia, let me start with you. you have been in the middle of the broward county protest since this morning. can you just tell us about the character of the protest and how it changed throughout the day. yeah, i mean, when i first got here, i just came because i wanted to see what it looked like to tabulate votes in broward county, particularly in a fraught time as this. i didn t expect there to be much of a protest at all. and it turns out when i arrived there were about 150 to 200 protesters here loudly chanting. i heard them across the parking lot when i arrived. it was a little it was