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it s all within the margin of error. that recount needs to be orderly and transparent. protests don t help. unsubstantiated claims of fraud don t help. what would help is if the county officia officials, especially in broward county, would allow the press, particularly the wire services, to form a pool, pool reporters to go in and to be able to observe the entire process. that should also apply to the state and national parties for these recounts. and also the lawyers for all the campaigns who are involved. those are the people who should be involved. it should be a transparent process. everybody should see exactly how the recounts in each of these counties are conducted and that should solve the problem. we don t knee protesters, we don t need unsubstantiated claims of fraud. we need an orderly process. that process is going to come
gillum in florida, now that we have a recount in motion. andrew gillum saying he is replacing his word with a count for every vote. i want to bring in now steve shale, the former florida state director for barack obama s 2008 presidential campaign and also emily tisch-sussman from the center of american progress and rick tyler, an msnbc analyst. rick, your thoughts on the words that came out of andrew gillum here saying, yeah, i know i conceded the other day but now i m pulling it back. concessions don t matter. the legal vote counts. he seems to be making a very reasoned call. this issimple.
all of the protests down there. that s one of the counties under scrutiny because rick scott has really singled her out. democrats aren t all that necessarily that pleased with the job she s been doing either. in a conference call yesterday, we asked if we expected the governor would basically take her down from that position. they said that s not really the plan as of right now. certainly all of those canvasses were able to get to the secretary of state s office by today s deadline. that s a pretty good sign of moving it along on the timeline we ve been expecting. and andrew gillum going to speak to the media about this recount. talk a little bit about the process knowing what has to happen between now and that deadline on thursday for the secretary of state there in florida in getting this recount going. reporter: this is actually pretty straight forward in terms of the fact that the 67 counties are going to begin the machinery counts. that has to be done by thursday at i believe
got. i fought hard even for the votes that i didn t get, and in this process, i am fully committed to seeing every one of those votes counted, whether they voted for me or whether they voted for my opponent because that s what we do in a democrat being pric pro democratic society. i m determined in these next several days to use every opportunity within my power to ensure that there is a fair counting of every single vote. today a state-mandated machin y machine recount will comment. our team has organized a cadre of hundreds of volunteers and lawyers to spread out all across the state of california to ensure a fair and accurate count in this process. finally, i want folks to remember what this election is about. we re here because we want to