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In 2016 we faced an attack
of a new kind.
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Official YIFY movies site:
YTS.MX
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The Russians hacked democracy.
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The Russian interference
only worked
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because America was
a vulnerable target.
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In the alleged collusion...
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These allegations are just
absolutely preposterous.
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Of course Russians preferred
Trump because Trump said
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that he preferred Russians.
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- Mr. Speaker, the president
of the United States.
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- Oh, yeah!
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- My fellow Americans,
we are fortunate to be alive
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at this moment in history.
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- Whoo!
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- Never before has our nation
enjoyed so much prosperity,
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the fastest economic growth
in more than 30 years
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and over 20 million new jobs,
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the first back-to-back
surpluses in 42 years...
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- You've got mail.
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- And next month,
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America will achieve
the longest period
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of economic growth
in our entire history.
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- From the record-breaking
stock market
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to the best job market
in a generation,
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the U.S. economy
continues to defy
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even the optimist's
expectations.
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Al Gore and his advisers
are hoping
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that focusing
on the booming economy
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will put his campaign
on firm ground.
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- He's the most qualified
person in my lifetime
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to seek this job.
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- You're pitted
against Al Gore now.
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You used to be
way ahead of him,
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and now it's neck and neck.
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Does that mean that the more
people see you, Governor,
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the less they like you?
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- The stage is set
for Bill Clinton
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to hand off the baton
to Al Gore
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and lead that roaring economy
into the 21st century.
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- I know my own imperfections.
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Sometimes
people say I'm too serious,
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that I talk too much substance
and policy.
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- I was apprehended
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in Kennebunkport, Maine,
for a DUI.
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- You're now
in the final stretch
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of this race for president,
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what could be the closest
contest in 40 years.
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- Whoever wins Florida
wins the presidency.
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- Critical will be Florida's
12% Hispanic population.
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- I think wherever
the Hispanic vote goes,
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that is where the state
of Florida will go.
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- This state is going
to be crucial
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in the election of 2000.
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- Miami, which had been,
famously,
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a cultural wasteland
in the '70s and '80s,
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began to emerge
as a hot, happening place.
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South Beach began to emerge
as a place
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for beautiful models
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and people who wanted
to hang out
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with beautiful models.
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But Miami would be
a pleasant backwater
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if it were not
for the Cubans who came here.
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The Cubans provide, really,
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the heartbeat of the city.
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- There's two Cubas.
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There's the island,
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and then there's the peninsula
of South Florida.
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- The '90s was when the Cubans
really coalesced their power
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in South Florida.
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- Coming into 2000,
of its 2.3 million residents,
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Cubans were the majority
minority group
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that outnumbered Anglos
by 200,000 votes
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and even Black residents
by 220,000 votes.
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- At one point,
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every single lever of power
in Miami
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is controlled
by a Cuban American.
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- Think about that
for a minute.
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A major American city
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and the entire city council
of most cities
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were Cuban Americans.
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And every single mayor
was a Cuban American.
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That's nuts.
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- And I'll tell you,
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it's a pleasure to stand
on this stage today
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and see all of the communities
and all of the faces
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that make Miami
one of the greatest cities
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in the entire world.
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Here,
as in the Hispanic community,
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words like "familia,"
"comunidad," "educación,"
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"patria," y "Dios"
are not just palabras.
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They're values and virtues
that guide everyday life.
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And there's nobody
who understands
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the meaning of those words more
than my friend Alex Penelas.
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- Miami-Dade County mayor
Alex Penelas
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is "People" magazine's choice
for sexiest politician.
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- In his nine years
in politics,
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he has become adept
at responding
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to what voters want.
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The child of immigrants
works hard,
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plays by the rules,
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and ends up at the top
of the political ladder.
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- Alex Penelas
was the boy mayor.
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- Never lacking
for self-confidence,
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Alex Penelas has propelled
himself to the center
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of South Florida's
political stage.
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- Alex Penelas was one of
the most exciting politicians
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in the history of Miami.
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- He was hanging
with Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
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I thought he was kind of cool.
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- I'm young,
and I think that's exactly
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what the people
of this community wanted.
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- One of the incredible things
that Alex pulled off
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is, he realized how to be
a Democrat and how to live
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in the traditional
Cuban American world.
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And he could navigate
both of those simultaneously,
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and nobody had ever
done that before.
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- I, Alex Penelas...
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- At just 34, Penelas has
been elected to the new job
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of executive mayor
of Dade County.
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- Alex Penelas
was the great Cuban hope.
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This was the tipping point
at which Cuban Americans
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became the dominant
political force in Miami.
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- With 2 million
constituents,
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he is Florida's second-most
powerful politician
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after the governor
and, some say,
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the most influential Hispanic
politician in America.
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- He was more dynamic
and had more promise
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than Marco Rubio
ever could've.
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And as "People" magazine
pointed out,
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he was also
far better-looking.
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- There was a lot
of momentum behind him,
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and there started
to become this chatter.
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I could really see him
as a cabinet secretary.
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I could see him
as a U.S. senator.
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- And much like a farmer...
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- There were mentions
that Penelas was going
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to possibly be Al Gore's
running mate in 2000.
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- Alex had all the promise
in the world.
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You know,
the sky was the limit for him.
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- What can change that?
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- And from the ocean waters
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off the coast
of Florida tonight,
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a real-life Thanksgiving story
to tell you about.
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- About 6:40 this morning,
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a five-year-old child
came ashore
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on a small inner tube.
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- His mother, stepfather,
and other refugees drowned
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trying to reach the U.S.
illegally.
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- In Miami, family members
knew relatives
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were making the crossing.
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They had heard
a boat capsized,
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and they feared
all were dead.
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- When Elián González
is found Thanksgiving 1999
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bobbing offshore--
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this extraordinary image
of a five-year-old child
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found by the two fisherman.
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This child survived
this horrific tragedy.
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- Cubans are very Catholic.
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Story of Saint Lazarus,
story of the Virgin Mary,
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and the story of somebody
being lost at sea,
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la Virgen de la Caridad,
as Cubans call her,
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which is the story of the guy
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who doesn't think he's gonna
survive in the ocean,
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and he looks up and he prays
to the Virgin of Charity...
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And says,
"Please spare my life."
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And that's the story
that Cubans saw
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with Elián González.
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- Everything became
very biblical,
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very mythological.
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Nothing to do with the actual
reality of the situation.
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- Elián González
in Miami today,
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the five-year-old
at the center
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of an international
tug-of-war.
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On one side,
his father in communist Cuba
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today demanding
his son be returned home.
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- For most Americans,
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when there's one willing
parent who is competent
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of looking after the child,
it's a no-brainer.
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- Every non-Cuban person
in the United States
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thought Elián González
should be returned to Cuba.
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- On the other side,
his extended family in Miami,
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relatives
he had never met before,
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exiles who came here
in search of freedom
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saying Elián now belongs
in the United States.
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- Every Cuban in Miami
thought that he should stay
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with his relatives here
in Miami
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because that was
his mother's intent.
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And she died trying to do that,
so let's honor her intent.
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- If Elián González
was from Long Island,
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then he should be returned
to his father, but he wasn't.
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- This is strictly
a pissing contest.
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Who's gonna get
the brownie points?
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Is it gonna be Fidel,
God forbid,
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or is it gonna be
the crazy people in this town?
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It hasn't got anything to do
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with this poor
little six-year-old kid.
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He's like the wishbone
at Thanksgiving.
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We got Fidel and his
crazy people on the one side
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pulling one leg
in one direction,
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and we got the crazy people
in this town
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pulling on the other.
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- The disparity
in public opinion
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yielded some brutal satire
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on shows like
"Saturday Night Live,"
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"The Daily Show."
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all:
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announcer:
"Elián: The Cuban Boy!"
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- All I'll say about Elián is,
thank God he's Cuban.
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'Cause if he was Haitian,
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you would've never heard
about his ass.
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Mm-mm.
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If Elián González
was Elián Lemumbo from Haiti,
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they'd have pushed
that little rubber tube
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right back in the water.
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"Sorry, fella.
All full.
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Good luck."
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- Cuba demands return
of six-year-old refugee.
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Yankees refuse to let him out
of the contract.
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- A visibly angry
President Fidel Castro
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accused the United States
government
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of kidnapping
five-year-old Elián González
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and demanded his return
within 72 hours.
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- He says particularly
offensive to the Cuban people,
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Elián's trip to Disney World
and then Universal Studios.
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- Elián showed
some lingering signs
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of his Thanksgiving ordeal
and rescue at sea
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when he went on the
It's A Small World water ride.
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- He was
a little bit frightened
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at one time with the boat,
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and he asked the question,
"Is this boat going to sink?"
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- Family spokesman
Armando Gutierrez
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says Elián eventually relaxed,
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and afterwards he gave the boy
a coin to toss in the water.
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- Armando Gutierrez
showed up on the scene.
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He said,
"Oh, I saw this on the news,
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"the child in the sea,
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"and I knew right away
this was a situation
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that begged
for my intervention."
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Armando Gutierrez
is a kingmaker.
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You could think of him maybe
as part Karl Rove,
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part Lee Atwater
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with a kind of Desi Arnaz
sense of humor.
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- They don't even want
to discuss it with Elián.
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This is typical, you know,
propaganda,
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the Cuban government
diverting attention
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from a serious disaster.
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- His main job was advising
judicial candidates,
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which really meant
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that he would scare
other judicial candidates.
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- In Florida,
judges have to run for office,
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so there's this whole
electoral industry
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around judicial campaigns.
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- He played all these games
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where he would move one guy
from one seat to another seat,
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pit people against each other.
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And to him, judicial races
were a chessboard.
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And nobody else wanted
to do 'em
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because they're boring,
kind of crap races.
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But Armando made a niche
out of it,
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and he made a lot of money
off of it
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and he was very successful
at it.
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- For example,
if he had a client
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and somebody else
wanted to get into the race,
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he would go to that person
and say,
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"I happen to know you've said
or done these things,
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so I suggest that you stay out
of this race."
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And guess what.
It worked.
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- The shakedowns.
- He--
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Armando Gutierrez was a very
congenial shakedown artist.
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- When asked once
by the "Miami Herald"
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what type of shady tactics
he may or may not have used,
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Armando Gutierrez volunteered,
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"I don't extort anyone."
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- He was known to be one
of those black operatives.
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- Nobody seized
the Elián opportunity
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better than Armando Gutierrez.
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In that moment,
he became the gatekeeper.
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- Everybody ready?
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Okay, everybody ready?
- Yeah.
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- This morning, another turn
in the case of Elián González.
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A judge has ordered
the six-year-old boy
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to stay in the U.S.
until at least March.
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- The Miami family members,
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they went into family court
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and said, "We want the legal
right to have this child."
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And Judge Rodriguez
ruled in their favor.
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- In a sweeping decision,
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family court judge
Rosa Rodriguez ordered
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that the little Cuban boy
remain in his Miami home.
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- The status quo shall be
preserved until such time
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as a full hearing
on the verified petition
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for temporary custody
and other relief is held.
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- What nobody knew
was that Armando Gutierrez
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had been the campaign adviser
to Rosa Rodriguez.
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- Judge Rosa Rodriguez
of family court in Miami
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is defending herself
over questions
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about a former
campaign consultant.
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When she ran for election
as judge in 1998,
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this man was a key
paid campaign adviser:
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Armando Gutierrez.
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But now
he's acting as spokesman
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for the boy's Miami relatives.
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- And of course,
Armando Gutierrez
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was busy, you know, schmearing
the judges all over town.
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Finally, they had the first
court hearing that came up
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which turned out to be
really shady.
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He seems to have his hand
in every judge's pocket.
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- I haven't called her,
I haven't sent her a telegram,
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and I haven't sent her
any smoke signals.
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- Once again, it just
didn't pass the smell test.
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- Tonight Attorney General
Janet Reno is making it clear
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it is federal immigration case
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and laws that will decide
all of this.
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The immigration service says
he should be returned.
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- The temporary legal custody
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awarded his uncle
by a Miami judge
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will not be recognized
by the Justice Department
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because,
the attorney general says,
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"That question remains one
of federal, not state law."
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- Enter Janet Reno,
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not just a Florida native
but a Miami native.
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She spent 15 years
as the lead prosecutor
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here in Miami-Dade County,
so she wasn't gonna let
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some state elected judge
preside over this case
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when she knew how the game
was played down here.
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- What is at issue is a father
who wants his son home
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and grandparents
who want their grandson home.
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And these are bonds
that should be honored.
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- Janet Reno spoke softly,
but she carried a big stick.
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- In Washington, the only sound
was the metallic click
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of a magazine sliding
into Janet Reno's Glock
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as she slipped into
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her periwinkle blue
ass-kicking tunic.
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- America's most talked-about
six-year-old,
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the boy on the cover
of "TIME,"
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offered a wave
to photographers this morning
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as he was taken to school.
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- Elián stopped being
a five- or six-year-old boy
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very quickly and became
a symbol for American freedom
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and liberty.
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- Up to 40 news crews a day
from as far away as Italy
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recording every moment.
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- From his first thumbs-up
at the hospital...
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- Yeah.
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- To the parade
for the crowd last night...
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The adults around him
have coached and coaxed
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and never let him forget
the photographers.
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- Even more bizarre,
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the boy's bigger-than-life
celebrity status,
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complete strangers
waiting hours
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to see or touch the child
they call a miracle.
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- They stay glued
to the radio,
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absorbing every ounce
of information about Elián.
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00:17:44,875 --> 00:17:47,375
- A fascination fueled
by an aggressive campaign
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00:17:47,458 --> 00:17:50,542
led by family spokesperson
Armando Gutierrez
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helping to keep 200,000
Spanish radio listeners...
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- The fate
of Elián González...
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00:17:55,417 --> 00:17:58,834
- And an even bigger English
audience tuned in daily.
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- Cuban talk radio
in South Florida
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in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s
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00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:10,792
was the most powerful
mobilizing force
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anywhere in America.
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00:18:13,500 --> 00:18:16,041
- The radio here
gets politicians out
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onto the streets, he said.
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It mobilizes public opinion.
367
00:18:19,875 --> 00:18:23,583
- Cuban American radio was,
in Miami, very similar
368
00:18:23,667 --> 00:18:27,250
to what Fox News has been
nationally for Republicans.
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00:18:29,041 --> 00:18:32,125
- If you had a dime for each
time Cuban radio announcers
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used the words "communist"
or "Fidel Castro"
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in their newscasts,
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you'd probably be on your way
to retirement by now.
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- One of the things
that the Republican Party
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figured out in Florida
and especially in Miami
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00:18:43,834 --> 00:18:46,417
was that you could weaponize
the Cuba issue,
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00:18:46,500 --> 00:18:48,750
and the way to weaponize
that issue
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00:18:48,834 --> 00:18:52,834
was to use the C-word,
"communists."
378
00:18:52,917 --> 00:18:55,625
- Cuban radio stations
encourage violence
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against moderate exiles,
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those who want a dialogue
with Castro.
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00:18:59,333 --> 00:19:01,959
- There were Cuban Americans
who didn't want this kid
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to stay here,
who thought he should go back.
383
00:19:04,208 --> 00:19:06,750
They were too afraid
to speak out.
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00:19:06,834 --> 00:19:08,125
- In public, it was one thing.
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00:19:08,208 --> 00:19:12,291
In private,
it was totally different.
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00:19:12,375 --> 00:19:15,166
- They knew that
there would be repercussions.
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Sometimes the repercussions
could be violent.
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00:19:18,041 --> 00:19:19,125
- Frankly,
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00:19:19,208 --> 00:19:22,625
the Cuban American community
has never shown itself
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00:19:22,709 --> 00:19:26,458
to have acted violently
under any circumstances.
391
00:19:26,542 --> 00:19:29,375
- The bomb went off
at Miami International Airport
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00:19:29,458 --> 00:19:30,834
shortly before 11:30.
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00:19:30,917 --> 00:19:33,000
- The bomb exploded
shortly after midnight.
394
00:19:33,083 --> 00:19:35,333
- Between 1965
through the '90s,
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00:19:35,417 --> 00:19:38,041
there were over 150 bombings
396
00:19:38,125 --> 00:19:40,458
where some people lost
their businesses
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00:19:40,542 --> 00:19:43,208
or lost their limbs
or even their lives.
398
00:19:43,291 --> 00:19:46,000
- The FBI says Miami has had
more terrorist activity
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00:19:46,083 --> 00:19:48,834
over the past three decades
than any other U.S. city.
400
00:19:48,917 --> 00:19:51,959
- Bombings and death threats
and vandalism.
401
00:19:52,041 --> 00:19:54,500
- Some believe the blast
has done irreparable damage
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00:19:54,583 --> 00:19:58,333
to the image
of Miami's Cuban Americans.
403
00:19:58,417 --> 00:20:01,000
- Miami behaves
like a banana republic,
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00:20:01,083 --> 00:20:04,041
that the rights and the laws
are being violated
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00:20:04,125 --> 00:20:06,667
in order to support
the machinery
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00:20:06,750 --> 00:20:08,333
of extreme right-wing elements
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00:20:08,417 --> 00:20:10,625
in the Cuban American
community.
408
00:20:10,709 --> 00:20:13,750
- There were 800,000
Cuban Americans
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00:20:13,834 --> 00:20:15,834
living in Miami at the time,
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00:20:15,917 --> 00:20:20,917
but a minority of mostly
hard-liner extremists
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00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,250
very much dictated
the conversation.
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00:20:23,333 --> 00:20:26,333
- You've got this small
but vocal and hysterical
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00:20:26,417 --> 00:20:28,750
group of people fanned on,
always fanned on
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00:20:28,834 --> 00:20:31,208
by the Spanish-language
radio stations in this town
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00:20:31,291 --> 00:20:33,125
and these crazy people,
irresponsible people
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00:20:33,208 --> 00:20:34,375
that get on there
and whip them up
417
00:20:34,458 --> 00:20:35,834
and encourage them
to do these things.
418
00:20:44,458 --> 00:20:47,417
- Unfortunately,
Elián González did become
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00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:50,875
a proxy argument
for other things.
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00:20:50,959 --> 00:20:54,208
He was used
for political purposes.
421
00:20:54,291 --> 00:20:57,959
- They're following orders
either from Clinton's lawyer
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00:20:58,041 --> 00:20:59,792
or Fidel,
and they need to answer
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00:20:59,875 --> 00:21:02,333
to the community
and to the world.
424
00:21:02,417 --> 00:21:05,542
- There was this endless parade
of politicians
425
00:21:05,625 --> 00:21:08,917
who came for a photo op
with this kid.
426
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,375
- It's mostly the Republicans.
427
00:21:10,458 --> 00:21:12,792
They're the ones who are most
vehemently anti-immigration,
428
00:21:12,875 --> 00:21:14,083
and yet now
because they think
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00:21:14,166 --> 00:21:15,750
they can make some
political brownie points,
430
00:21:15,834 --> 00:21:17,917
they're grandstanding
on this bullcrap.
431
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,375
- Incredible, the way
they were using the kid.
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00:21:20,458 --> 00:21:22,208
People coming from Washington.
433
00:21:22,291 --> 00:21:25,250
That's pandering
of the worst kind.
434
00:21:25,333 --> 00:21:28,208
- But to create this hysteria
over one immigration case--
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00:21:28,291 --> 00:21:29,625
that's all this is.
436
00:21:29,709 --> 00:21:31,250
How many immigration hearings
are there
437
00:21:31,333 --> 00:21:32,250
every year in this country?
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00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:33,291
How many thousands?
439
00:21:33,375 --> 00:21:35,083
How many desperate children
come here,
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00:21:35,166 --> 00:21:37,792
including kids from China
and other comunista countries?
441
00:21:37,875 --> 00:21:40,667
Anybody protesting about that?
- No.
442
00:21:40,750 --> 00:21:42,625
- Every Republican politician
was there
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00:21:42,709 --> 00:21:44,166
sucking ass yesterday.
444
00:21:44,250 --> 00:21:45,583
They couldn't get there
fast enough
445
00:21:45,667 --> 00:21:48,834
to exploit this and jump
on the goddamn bandwagon.
446
00:21:48,917 --> 00:21:50,959
- It was sad to see, really.
447
00:21:51,041 --> 00:21:53,458
- One of the reasons
that Washington is listening
448
00:21:53,542 --> 00:21:56,291
so carefully
to South Florida today
449
00:21:56,375 --> 00:21:58,750
is because
of the solid vote bloc
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00:21:58,834 --> 00:22:00,291
that the Cuban Americans
can give.
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00:22:00,375 --> 00:22:01,500
In the last election,
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00:22:01,583 --> 00:22:04,792
President Clinton got
about 40% of the Cuban vote.
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00:22:04,875 --> 00:22:07,000
If a Democratic president
can get
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00:22:07,083 --> 00:22:09,834
over 35% of the Cuban vote
in a close race,
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00:22:09,917 --> 00:22:13,458
that will guarantee him
the state of Florida.
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00:22:13,542 --> 00:22:15,875
- At last night's Republican
presidential debate,
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00:22:15,959 --> 00:22:18,667
all the candidates demand that
Elián be allowed to stay here
458
00:22:18,750 --> 00:22:21,834
and his father allowed
to join him if he wishes.
459
00:22:21,917 --> 00:22:23,667
- The man ought to be brought
to the United States,
460
00:22:23,750 --> 00:22:25,375
given a whiff of freedom
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00:22:25,458 --> 00:22:27,583
so he can see
how wonderful our country is.
462
00:22:27,667 --> 00:22:29,000
- The election-year politics
463
00:22:29,083 --> 00:22:31,041
surrounding
the Elián González case
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00:22:31,125 --> 00:22:32,500
got a little more intense
today.
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00:22:32,583 --> 00:22:34,333
- Even the vice president
has split
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00:22:34,417 --> 00:22:37,917
with his own administration,
saying the court must decide
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00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000
and sounding very much like
the Republicans.
468
00:22:40,083 --> 00:22:43,417
- This child's mother died
469
00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:47,500
in an effort
to get her child freedom.
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00:22:47,583 --> 00:22:50,333
- That puts Gore in opposition
to President Clinton
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00:22:50,417 --> 00:22:52,542
but in line
with South Florida's big bloc
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00:22:52,625 --> 00:22:55,041
of Cuban expatriate voters.
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00:22:55,125 --> 00:22:56,458
- Vice President Al Gore
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00:22:56,542 --> 00:22:58,375
visited a pharmacy
in Connecticut yesterday,
475
00:22:58,458 --> 00:22:59,750
where he was getting
some Advil.
476
00:22:59,834 --> 00:23:00,750
Apparently,
he hurt is back
477
00:23:00,834 --> 00:23:02,417
flip-flopping
on this Elián issue.
478
00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:03,917
I don't know.
Just back and forth.
479
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,208
Aah!
480
00:23:05,291 --> 00:23:08,583
- Al Gore should use
his influence today
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00:23:08,667 --> 00:23:11,000
to give Elián a ray of hope
482
00:23:11,083 --> 00:23:14,041
by insisting
that the administration
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00:23:14,125 --> 00:23:16,041
of which he is a part
484
00:23:16,125 --> 00:23:18,875
uses its legal authority
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00:23:18,959 --> 00:23:20,375
to keep Elián
in the United States
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00:23:20,458 --> 00:23:22,542
while his best interests
are determined.
487
00:23:22,625 --> 00:23:26,041
- I did not think at the time
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00:23:26,125 --> 00:23:31,625
that this thing would become
so big that it would influence
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00:23:31,709 --> 00:23:34,542
the politics of
the United States of America.
490
00:23:34,625 --> 00:23:36,375
- President Clinton
has said repeatedly
491
00:23:36,458 --> 00:23:38,250
he wants to avoid
playing politics
492
00:23:38,333 --> 00:23:40,083
with the life
of a six-year-old boy.
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00:23:40,166 --> 00:23:42,291
- Maybe it's just because
I'm not running for anything,
494
00:23:42,375 --> 00:23:43,792
but I just somehow wish
495
00:23:43,875 --> 00:23:48,083
that whatever is best
for this child could be done.
496
00:23:48,166 --> 00:23:49,959
- But Gore is running
for something,
497
00:23:50,041 --> 00:23:52,083
and he faces an uphill fight
in Florida,
498
00:23:52,166 --> 00:23:53,792
especially
if federal authorities
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00:23:53,875 --> 00:23:56,041
forcibly return Elián to Cuba.
500
00:23:56,125 --> 00:24:01,458
- It wasn't until we started
to see that rift developing
501
00:24:01,542 --> 00:24:04,250
between Al Gore
and Bill Clinton
502
00:24:04,333 --> 00:24:07,458
that we started to say,
"Oh, shit."
503
00:24:08,667 --> 00:24:10,959
- Earlier today on
the federal courthouse steps,
504
00:24:11,041 --> 00:24:13,792
mayors from 21 cities
mounted their protest,
505
00:24:13,875 --> 00:24:15,542
the most controversial remarks
506
00:24:15,625 --> 00:24:18,750
from Miami-Dade County mayor
Alex Penelas.
507
00:24:18,834 --> 00:24:19,917
- In a press conference,
508
00:24:20,041 --> 00:24:23,667
the mayor of Miami stepped up
to his sound machine.
509
00:24:23,750 --> 00:24:27,083
- If their continued
provocation
510
00:24:27,166 --> 00:24:30,500
in the form
of unjustified threats
511
00:24:30,583 --> 00:24:32,959
to revoke the boy's parole
512
00:24:33,041 --> 00:24:37,083
leads to civil unrest
and violence,
513
00:24:37,166 --> 00:24:40,583
we are holding the federal
government responsible
514
00:24:40,667 --> 00:24:43,458
and specifically Janet Reno
515
00:24:43,542 --> 00:24:46,125
and the president
of the United States.
516
00:24:49,208 --> 00:24:50,959
- You don't want
to provoke Janet Reno.
517
00:24:53,166 --> 00:24:54,792
She'll break free
from her moorings
518
00:24:54,875 --> 00:24:57,125
and drop Elián
in Havana personally.
519
00:25:02,583 --> 00:25:05,041
- First of all,
you never incite violence.
520
00:25:05,125 --> 00:25:07,333
Even if you think you're right,
521
00:25:07,417 --> 00:25:09,667
you don't incite or you
don't talk about violence.
522
00:25:09,750 --> 00:25:14,417
- We will not lend
our respective resources,
523
00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:17,834
whether they be in the form
of police officers
524
00:25:17,917 --> 00:25:20,166
or any other resources,
525
00:25:20,250 --> 00:25:22,000
to assist
the federal government
526
00:25:22,083 --> 00:25:25,041
in any way, shape, or form.
527
00:25:25,125 --> 00:25:26,542
- Well,
528
00:25:26,625 --> 00:25:28,458
I like the mayor very much,
529
00:25:28,542 --> 00:25:30,333
but I still believe
in the rule of law here.
530
00:25:30,417 --> 00:25:32,000
We all have to.
531
00:25:32,083 --> 00:25:33,291
Whatever the law is,
532
00:25:33,375 --> 00:25:34,875
whatever the decision
is ultimately made,
533
00:25:34,959 --> 00:25:36,667
the rest of us
ought to obey it.
534
00:25:42,417 --> 00:25:44,917
- There was an explosion
in Miami.
535
00:25:47,959 --> 00:25:49,375
- The Cuban community,
536
00:25:49,458 --> 00:25:52,041
in many ways
led by Alex Penelas,
537
00:25:52,125 --> 00:25:53,709
rose up and they said,
538
00:25:53,792 --> 00:25:55,875
"No way this kid
is going back."
539
00:25:59,166 --> 00:26:01,375
There were demonstrations
in the streets.
540
00:26:01,458 --> 00:26:02,709
There were people marching.
541
00:26:02,792 --> 00:26:06,166
It was sort of like
"Les Misérables" Miami-style.
542
00:26:18,959 --> 00:26:21,542
- And this small band
of malcontents,
543
00:26:21,625 --> 00:26:25,083
of militant assholes who
insist on getting their way
544
00:26:25,166 --> 00:26:26,792
and anybody in Dade County
that dares
545
00:26:26,875 --> 00:26:29,250
to say anything opposite
is crucified, vilified,
546
00:26:29,333 --> 00:26:31,709
"comunista, maricón,
,"
547
00:26:31,792 --> 00:26:33,917
those are the people
that run all of South Florida.
548
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,500
4 million people
whose lives and fate
549
00:26:36,583 --> 00:26:38,000
and everyday life
is determined--
550
00:26:38,083 --> 00:26:39,291
and quality of their life--
551
00:26:39,375 --> 00:26:41,583
by a few thousand
selfish imbeciles
552
00:26:41,667 --> 00:26:43,792
who have no concern
for anybody else.
553
00:26:43,875 --> 00:26:45,583
Nice going, Mayor Penis
554
00:26:45,667 --> 00:26:47,917
and all you other
pandering assholes, you.
555
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,083
- There are a lot
of people here today
556
00:26:50,166 --> 00:26:52,083
who are expressing
very deep emotions.
557
00:26:52,166 --> 00:26:53,625
- You phony.
558
00:26:53,709 --> 00:26:56,792
His name should be changed
from Penis to Pinga.
559
00:26:56,875 --> 00:26:57,917
That's what I'm gonna start
calling him
560
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,583
from this day forward:
Mayor Pinga Pequeño.
561
00:27:01,667 --> 00:27:04,083
- Means "a man
with a small member."
562
00:27:05,667 --> 00:27:09,166
- People have demonstrated
appropriately.
563
00:27:13,041 --> 00:27:15,625
- Reporting from Florida
International University
564
00:27:15,709 --> 00:27:18,333
in Miami, Ted Koppel.
565
00:27:20,375 --> 00:27:23,291
- I remember Ted Koppel
comes to town.
566
00:27:23,375 --> 00:27:25,959
Everybody's gonna be watching
"Nightline"
567
00:27:26,041 --> 00:27:28,792
to see what happened
with the Elián saga,
568
00:27:28,875 --> 00:27:32,750
and there was their nemesis,
Janet Reno.
569
00:27:32,834 --> 00:27:36,417
- I want to work this out
so force is not used
570
00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:41,166
so that we do it in a way
that is fair to all concerned.
571
00:27:41,250 --> 00:27:43,792
- And then there was gonna be
Alex Penelas,
572
00:27:43,875 --> 00:27:47,333
who people wondered
which way he was gonna go.
573
00:27:47,417 --> 00:27:50,542
- And it was there that
Ted Koppel called out Penelas.
574
00:27:50,625 --> 00:27:52,709
- Do you want to say
to the attorney general
575
00:27:52,792 --> 00:27:55,667
to her face...
576
00:27:57,959 --> 00:28:01,125
What you said
when she was not present,
577
00:28:01,208 --> 00:28:03,333
namely, if there was violence,
578
00:28:03,417 --> 00:28:06,333
it would be on her head
and on the president's head?
579
00:28:06,417 --> 00:28:08,959
- And guess what.
Alex Penelas really didn't.
580
00:28:09,041 --> 00:28:12,000
- Ted, I think we are all
responsible for our actions,
581
00:28:12,083 --> 00:28:13,375
each and every one of us.
582
00:28:13,458 --> 00:28:15,041
So there's no doubt that...
583
00:28:15,125 --> 00:28:18,041
And getting back to the issue
of the polls,
584
00:28:18,125 --> 00:28:20,834
every time I see a poll
that talks about...
585
00:28:20,917 --> 00:28:23,041
To have his appellate rights
protected.
586
00:28:23,125 --> 00:28:27,000
- Mr. Mayor, I've allowed you
to go on for a long time here
587
00:28:27,083 --> 00:28:29,959
in the hope that you would
ultimately answer my question,
588
00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:31,417
but you haven't yet.
589
00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:34,667
- Ted, what I'd like
to tell the attorney general
590
00:28:34,750 --> 00:28:37,417
is that we all are responsible
for our actions.
591
00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:40,667
- What does that mean?
You're the mayor, right?
592
00:28:40,750 --> 00:28:43,750
But if federal marshals
were to come down here,
593
00:28:43,834 --> 00:28:45,333
they can count
on the local police
594
00:28:45,417 --> 00:28:46,375
to back them up
and support them.
595
00:28:46,458 --> 00:28:47,542
Is that correct?
- Absolutely.
596
00:28:47,625 --> 00:28:49,834
Public officials will be here
to maintain the order.
597
00:28:49,917 --> 00:28:51,208
Absolutely.
- Very good, sir.
598
00:28:57,667 --> 00:29:00,041
- Congratulations.
You played yourself.
599
00:29:00,125 --> 00:29:01,709
- Holy shit.
600
00:29:01,792 --> 00:29:03,542
- It's Reno time!
601
00:29:03,625 --> 00:29:05,709
both:
Damn!
602
00:29:07,458 --> 00:29:09,333
- Mayor Penelas,
you may very well regret now
603
00:29:09,417 --> 00:29:11,583
what you said last week,
but I just--I want you to know
604
00:29:11,667 --> 00:29:14,417
you left a lot of us feeling
incredibly disenfranchised
605
00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:16,834
from this community, and it's
gonna be very, very difficult
606
00:29:16,917 --> 00:29:18,500
to ever forgive you for that.
607
00:29:23,041 --> 00:29:26,750
- He was really a Shakespearean
figure in that moment.
608
00:29:26,834 --> 00:29:30,166
He was Macbeth.
609
00:29:30,250 --> 00:29:33,625
- It is a tale told
by an idiot,
610
00:29:33,709 --> 00:29:36,625
full of sound and fury,
611
00:29:36,709 --> 00:29:41,125
signifying nothing.
612
00:29:41,208 --> 00:29:42,750
- "What do I do?
613
00:29:42,834 --> 00:29:45,709
How do I get myself
out of this situation?"
614
00:29:45,792 --> 00:29:48,917
- After four months
of negotiation,
615
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,291
it has come down
to the attorney general
616
00:29:52,375 --> 00:29:56,166
flying down to Florida
in the late afternoon,
617
00:29:56,250 --> 00:29:59,625
personally negotiating
with the boy's relatives.
618
00:29:59,709 --> 00:30:01,000
But after three hours,
619
00:30:01,083 --> 00:30:05,709
the attorney general left
without a resolution.
620
00:30:07,375 --> 00:30:09,834
- A defiant Lazaro González
made it clear
621
00:30:09,917 --> 00:30:14,625
he was not going to turn over
Elián to his father.
622
00:30:14,709 --> 00:30:17,959
His great-uncle Lazaro told
Attorney General Janet Reno
623
00:30:18,041 --> 00:30:22,125
that the boy could be removed
only by force.
624
00:30:22,208 --> 00:30:27,333
- Elián González is being held
unlawfully in Miami
625
00:30:27,417 --> 00:30:30,291
against his father's wishes.
626
00:30:30,375 --> 00:30:32,625
- I want to be clear
627
00:30:32,709 --> 00:30:34,959
that if we are compelled
to enforce our order,
628
00:30:35,041 --> 00:30:39,667
we intend to do so
in a reasonable, measured way.
629
00:30:39,750 --> 00:30:42,166
- Reno has already put
into action a peaceful plan
630
00:30:42,250 --> 00:30:43,542
for the transfer of Elián
631
00:30:43,625 --> 00:30:46,417
based largely
on this trial run.
632
00:32:01,667 --> 00:32:03,583
- No one was seriously hurt,
633
00:32:03,667 --> 00:32:05,417
but outside the house
for some of those
634
00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:08,125
who had been holding vigil
day and night,
635
00:32:08,208 --> 00:32:10,834
the emotional wounds
were deep.
636
00:32:10,917 --> 00:32:12,875
- Is that democracy?
637
00:32:12,959 --> 00:32:14,458
No, that's Castro tactics!
638
00:32:14,542 --> 00:32:17,208
You have turned Miami
into Havana!
639
00:32:19,333 --> 00:32:20,750
- I would like
to take a moment
640
00:32:20,834 --> 00:32:24,417
to talk to the exiled
Cuban community in Miami
641
00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:28,750
who are so upset over the
recent government action there
642
00:32:28,834 --> 00:32:32,917
and extend this heartfelt
message to them:
643
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,750
shut the hell up.
644
00:32:48,458 --> 00:32:50,625
- It's supposed
to be nonviolent.
645
00:32:50,709 --> 00:32:52,333
I just called the police
three times.
646
00:32:54,375 --> 00:32:58,166
- I'm burning this flag
like Clinton did.
647
00:32:58,250 --> 00:32:59,792
- It was a circus.
648
00:33:04,208 --> 00:33:06,625
- I just saw you throw a rock.
649
00:33:06,709 --> 00:33:07,625
Reno is shit.
650
00:33:08,750 --> 00:33:10,125
- Reno is motherfucker.
651
00:33:11,875 --> 00:33:12,792
- All right, Miss Reno!
652
00:33:12,875 --> 00:33:14,000
So you ready?
- Ready!
653
00:33:14,083 --> 00:33:15,959
- Go, Blue!
- Go, Blue!
654
00:33:23,250 --> 00:33:24,166
- That's it!
655
00:33:24,250 --> 00:33:25,667
Let's move, move, move,
move, move!
656
00:33:25,750 --> 00:33:26,834
- Give us the kids now!
657
00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:31,500
- Hand over the children!
Happy Easter.
658
00:33:31,583 --> 00:33:32,542
Hand over the children!
659
00:33:36,959 --> 00:33:38,333
- Get your ass off the road!
660
00:33:41,417 --> 00:33:45,500
- It was a very bad situation
post-raid
661
00:33:45,583 --> 00:33:47,834
in the Cuban American
community.
662
00:33:47,917 --> 00:33:50,000
Emotions were inflamed.
663
00:33:50,083 --> 00:33:53,834
Mayor Penelas hoped
to inflame those emotions.
664
00:33:53,917 --> 00:33:56,542
- I think, you know,
despite this horrible episode,
665
00:33:56,625 --> 00:33:58,834
what's happened here
is unforgivable.
666
00:34:01,792 --> 00:34:05,709
- And to the mayor of Miami,
what's-his-name,
667
00:34:05,792 --> 00:34:10,333
you say you're ashamed of your
new home, the United States?
668
00:34:10,417 --> 00:34:12,750
I'll tell you what.
669
00:34:12,834 --> 00:34:15,583
I'll buy the raft.
670
00:34:20,125 --> 00:34:24,542
- When Elián was finally
returned to Cuba
671
00:34:24,625 --> 00:34:26,542
and to his father,
672
00:34:26,625 --> 00:34:31,000
hell was gonna freeze over
among exile hard-liners
673
00:34:31,083 --> 00:34:34,333
before they forgot
this betrayal
674
00:34:34,417 --> 00:34:37,750
by Clinton-Gore.
675
00:34:37,834 --> 00:34:38,875
- There was a lot of tension
676
00:34:38,959 --> 00:34:41,583
between Bill Clinton's
Cuba policy
677
00:34:41,667 --> 00:34:43,709
and the exile community
in Miami,
678
00:34:43,792 --> 00:34:46,333
and Al Gore, having been
the vice president,
679
00:34:46,417 --> 00:34:48,792
inherited all
of those tensions.
680
00:34:48,875 --> 00:34:51,375
- There was going to be
a price to be paid.
681
00:34:57,542 --> 00:35:01,792
The Gore-Bush election
682
00:35:01,875 --> 00:35:06,834
was an opportunity
for el voto castigo,
683
00:35:06,917 --> 00:35:09,458
the revenge vote.
684
00:35:09,542 --> 00:35:11,250
- It's a punishment vote.
685
00:35:11,333 --> 00:35:14,625
Remember to vote
and punish these people.
686
00:35:14,709 --> 00:35:16,792
- El voto castigo,
they called it,
687
00:35:16,875 --> 00:35:18,250
the punishment vote.
688
00:35:18,333 --> 00:35:20,417
Whom will Cuban American
voters punish?
689
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:22,959
Al Gore and the Democrats.
690
00:35:23,041 --> 00:35:25,417
- I will fight
for your loved ones,
691
00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:26,750
for your community,
692
00:35:26,834 --> 00:35:30,667
for the future of Florida
and the United States.
693
00:35:30,750 --> 00:35:32,917
- George Bush,
694
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,959
the luckiest politician
in the history of America,
695
00:35:37,041 --> 00:35:39,875
was handed this
696
00:35:39,959 --> 00:35:43,250
delicious plate of voters...
697
00:35:50,291 --> 00:35:53,959
- Compliments of what happened
to Elián González
698
00:35:54,041 --> 00:35:57,291
and, suddenly,
Armando Gutierrez,
699
00:35:57,375 --> 00:35:59,834
who had to choose
not only a judge,
700
00:35:59,917 --> 00:36:01,333
like he was used to doing.
701
00:36:01,417 --> 00:36:02,792
Now he was allowed to choose
702
00:36:02,875 --> 00:36:05,041
the next president
of the United States.
703
00:36:05,125 --> 00:36:09,166
This is the guy you vote
for to punish, castigo,
704
00:36:09,250 --> 00:36:12,458
el voto castigo.
705
00:36:12,542 --> 00:36:14,875
Talk about fortune.
706
00:36:15,583 --> 00:36:17,875
- It's the top political job
in South Florida,
707
00:36:17,959 --> 00:36:21,208
and Alex Penelas is determined
to hang on to it.
708
00:36:21,291 --> 00:36:25,417
- There was an effort to fund
his reelection campaign
709
00:36:25,500 --> 00:36:29,041
from Florida Democrats
and national Democrats,
710
00:36:29,125 --> 00:36:33,375
and I certainly was helping
to raise part of the money.
711
00:36:33,458 --> 00:36:36,166
- Penelas, who's collected
four times as much money
712
00:36:36,250 --> 00:36:37,500
as his main opponent,
713
00:36:37,583 --> 00:36:39,834
could spend $3/4 million
714
00:36:39,917 --> 00:36:43,166
on TV and other advertising
by the end of the campaign.
715
00:36:43,250 --> 00:36:45,834
- This was his last election
as mayor,
716
00:36:45,917 --> 00:36:47,709
and he was looking
to run for governor
717
00:36:47,792 --> 00:36:49,834
or senator afterwards.
718
00:36:49,917 --> 00:36:53,375
If he became
an incumbent mayor,
719
00:36:53,458 --> 00:36:55,375
then there was no reason
720
00:36:55,458 --> 00:36:58,083
where he couldn't spend
some political capital
721
00:36:58,166 --> 00:37:02,792
and help Gore
on the national campaign.
722
00:37:05,291 --> 00:37:07,583
- It wasn't until 1:30
in the morning
723
00:37:07,667 --> 00:37:10,000
that Alex Penelas
could claim reelection
724
00:37:10,083 --> 00:37:11,709
in the first round
of balloting.
725
00:37:11,792 --> 00:37:13,208
- I'm happy to tell you
that we've won,
726
00:37:13,291 --> 00:37:14,208
ladies and gentlemen.
727
00:37:17,959 --> 00:37:20,875
- There was now the critical
two months of election,
728
00:37:20,959 --> 00:37:25,166
from Labor Day to Election Day,
to help Vice President Gore
729
00:37:25,250 --> 00:37:28,959
gain as much
of that Cuban percentage back.
730
00:37:29,041 --> 00:37:31,375
- From Alex Penelas, you're
always gonna get leadership,
731
00:37:31,458 --> 00:37:33,458
even the most difficult
of situations.
732
00:37:33,542 --> 00:37:35,250
Whether the hurricanes
or any other crisis,
733
00:37:35,333 --> 00:37:38,750
you're always gonna get
leadership from Alex Penelas.
734
00:37:42,125 --> 00:37:43,583
- A few weeks
before the election,
735
00:37:43,667 --> 00:37:45,709
Alex Penelas was supposed
to calm down
736
00:37:45,792 --> 00:37:47,875
the declaration
of el voto castigo
737
00:37:47,959 --> 00:37:51,458
by appearing with Hialeah mayor
Raúl Martinez
738
00:37:51,542 --> 00:37:55,250
to bolster Hispanic support
for the Gore campaign.
739
00:37:55,333 --> 00:37:57,250
- They asked me
to stand with Alex
740
00:37:57,333 --> 00:37:59,208
at La Carreta in Hialeah.
741
00:37:59,291 --> 00:38:03,291
It was gonna be
some national event
742
00:38:03,375 --> 00:38:07,083
where all the Hispanic
nationally would be supportive,
743
00:38:07,166 --> 00:38:08,083
and of course, you know,
744
00:38:08,166 --> 00:38:10,417
they wanted
to get the media there.
745
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:13,750
I said, "Okay, I'll be there
at 11:00 in the morning,
746
00:38:13,834 --> 00:38:17,291
and I'll just be there
as a second banana to Alex."
747
00:38:17,375 --> 00:38:20,792
- So Gore just had
to convince Cuban Americans
748
00:38:20,875 --> 00:38:22,959
that he was truly
on their side
749
00:38:23,041 --> 00:38:25,291
on the Elián argument
750
00:38:25,375 --> 00:38:27,750
and he disagreed
with Bill Clinton,
751
00:38:27,834 --> 00:38:31,917
and the only thing he really
needed to make that happen
752
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:37,500
was to have Alex Penelas,
the mayor of Miami-Dade County,
753
00:38:37,583 --> 00:38:39,625
the most important county
for Cuban Americans
754
00:38:39,709 --> 00:38:41,125
in the country,
755
00:38:41,208 --> 00:38:44,959
to stand at his side
and back him on that.
756
00:38:45,041 --> 00:38:49,959
- Vice President Gore flew in
to hopefully collect
757
00:38:50,041 --> 00:38:54,417
on what he thought
was Mr. Penelas' word
758
00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:58,709
and accept Mayor Penelas'
endorsement.
759
00:38:58,792 --> 00:39:00,542
- Got there.
760
00:39:00,625 --> 00:39:03,667
By 10:30, 10:45,
Alex wasn't there,
761
00:39:03,750 --> 00:39:05,834
and we decided that we're gonna
do a press conference there,
762
00:39:05,917 --> 00:39:06,875
which we did.
763
00:39:06,959 --> 00:39:09,291
Alex never showed up.
764
00:39:09,375 --> 00:39:12,291
- We were told
that Mayor Penelas
765
00:39:12,375 --> 00:39:15,041
was going
to be going to Spain.
766
00:39:15,125 --> 00:39:17,875
- They probably thought he was
gonna be in the country.
767
00:39:17,959 --> 00:39:21,291
They probably expected that.
768
00:39:21,375 --> 00:39:24,000
- Hard to campaign for Al Gore
when you're in Spain.
769
00:39:28,750 --> 00:39:30,500
- I said, "Wait a minute.
770
00:39:30,583 --> 00:39:35,333
"Planes for Spain don't leave
until 6:00 at night.
771
00:39:35,417 --> 00:39:37,333
This is 11:00 in the morning."
772
00:39:43,291 --> 00:39:44,542
- Al Gore wakes up one day
and says,
773
00:39:44,625 --> 00:39:46,208
"What happened
to Alex Penelas?"
774
00:39:46,291 --> 00:39:49,583
He's gone.
He folded like a cheap suit.
775
00:39:49,667 --> 00:39:53,583
- Mr. Penelas decided
to leave Vice President Gore
776
00:39:53,667 --> 00:39:56,500
literally standing
at the altar.
777
00:39:56,583 --> 00:40:00,166
- I was annoyed and pissed,
because you don't do that.
778
00:40:00,250 --> 00:40:02,041
- I went to rallies.
779
00:40:02,125 --> 00:40:05,417
I heard other people speak
about Gore.
780
00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:09,750
But dónde está Alex Penelas?
781
00:40:09,834 --> 00:40:12,667
He was nowhere to be seen.
782
00:40:12,750 --> 00:40:15,208
- Dónde está Alex Penelas?
783
00:40:17,417 --> 00:40:22,417
- When the going gets tough,
Alex gets going.
784
00:40:39,709 --> 00:40:42,083
- No Republican has won
the presidency without Florida
785
00:40:42,166 --> 00:40:45,041
since Calvin Coolidge in 1924.
786
00:40:45,125 --> 00:40:46,041
- Florida was key.
787
00:40:46,125 --> 00:40:47,792
I mean,
if we didn't win Florida,
788
00:40:47,875 --> 00:40:49,208
we wouldn't have won
the election.
789
00:40:49,291 --> 00:40:51,625
- Thanks for coming.
790
00:40:51,709 --> 00:40:52,917
This is a huge crowd,
791
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,125
which leads me
to be able to say
792
00:40:55,208 --> 00:40:57,583
Florida is gonna be
Bush-Cheney country.
793
00:40:59,709 --> 00:41:00,709
- Didn't hurt
to have your brother
794
00:41:00,792 --> 00:41:02,792
as the governor of Florida.
795
00:41:02,875 --> 00:41:05,959
- On the stop today,
Bush rallied the crowds
796
00:41:06,041 --> 00:41:08,458
with Florida's governor,
his brother Jeb.
797
00:41:08,542 --> 00:41:09,792
The younger Bush has led
798
00:41:09,875 --> 00:41:11,834
a huge "get out the vote"
effort here,
799
00:41:11,917 --> 00:41:14,291
and advisers believe
Florida is the state
800
00:41:14,375 --> 00:41:16,333
that will propel them
to victory.
801
00:41:16,417 --> 00:41:19,125
- A person that can get things
done in Washington, D.C.,
802
00:41:19,208 --> 00:41:21,458
that will eliminate
the cynicism of the past
803
00:41:21,542 --> 00:41:23,583
and bring a new era
for this country:
804
00:41:23,667 --> 00:41:25,458
my brother George W. Bush,
805
00:41:25,542 --> 00:41:27,250
the next president
of the United States.
806
00:41:27,333 --> 00:41:29,583
- The candidate
poured it on thick,
807
00:41:29,667 --> 00:41:31,083
especially on Cuban voters,
808
00:41:31,166 --> 00:41:35,083
whose ears tune in to talk
of Elián and Fidel Castro.
809
00:41:35,166 --> 00:41:37,667
- We will keep the pressure
on Fidel Castro
810
00:41:37,750 --> 00:41:40,458
until the people are free.
811
00:41:40,542 --> 00:41:41,959
- South Florida
was so important.
812
00:41:42,041 --> 00:41:44,166
Both candidates made
multiple stops here
813
00:41:44,250 --> 00:41:46,000
the day before the election.
814
00:41:51,417 --> 00:41:55,000
Sing it!
815
00:41:55,083 --> 00:41:56,709
- South Beach center stage
816
00:41:56,792 --> 00:41:59,208
for a late-night
rock-and-roll rally
817
00:41:59,291 --> 00:42:03,417
that Al Gore hopes will ignite
last-minute Florida voters.
818
00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:06,166
- "If you want to win,
vote for Gore and Lieberman."
819
00:42:06,250 --> 00:42:09,000
That was Stevie Wonder's lyric.
820
00:42:09,083 --> 00:42:11,375
- The entire 2000 presidential
campaign for Al Gore
821
00:42:11,458 --> 00:42:13,834
culminates on the sands
of Miami Beach,
822
00:42:13,917 --> 00:42:18,000
the last rally of the campaign
putting an exclamation point
823
00:42:18,083 --> 00:42:21,000
on the importance of
Miami-Dade in this election.
824
00:42:21,083 --> 00:42:22,041
- I think this may be
825
00:42:22,125 --> 00:42:25,000
the most important election
of my generation.
826
00:42:25,083 --> 00:42:28,291
- I didn't see Alex Penelas
at that rally, by the way.
827
00:42:28,375 --> 00:42:30,709
- But will it make
a difference?
828
00:42:30,792 --> 00:42:32,208
- Florida was it.
829
00:42:32,291 --> 00:42:34,625
Everyone on both campaigns
830
00:42:34,709 --> 00:42:36,834
knew it was coming down
to Florida.
831
00:42:40,458 --> 00:42:42,500
- Good evening, and welcome
832
00:42:42,583 --> 00:42:45,625
to what promises to be
a long and exciting night.
833
00:42:45,709 --> 00:42:46,917
- This being billed,
834
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,083
as the polls close
before the election,
835
00:42:49,166 --> 00:42:52,000
as the closest election
in a generation.
836
00:42:52,083 --> 00:42:54,875
- What happens tonight will set
the nation's next agenda
837
00:42:54,959 --> 00:42:56,250
for the 21st century.
838
00:42:56,333 --> 00:42:57,542
There are many who believe
839
00:42:57,625 --> 00:43:00,583
that this election is not just
about the next four years,
840
00:43:00,667 --> 00:43:03,667
but it may well decide
the direction of our country
841
00:43:03,750 --> 00:43:05,083
for the next generation.
842
00:43:05,166 --> 00:43:07,750
- I was in charge
of election night in Austin,
843
00:43:07,834 --> 00:43:10,125
and we had a party-like
atmosphere.
844
00:43:10,208 --> 00:43:13,417
As the returns were coming in,
there was great joy.
845
00:43:13,500 --> 00:43:15,583
- Bush picks up
his first state in the South,
846
00:43:15,667 --> 00:43:18,083
Gore gets his first win
in New England,
847
00:43:18,166 --> 00:43:22,375
but no call yet in what both
campaigns say may be the key
848
00:43:22,458 --> 00:43:24,083
to this election:
Florida.
849
00:43:24,166 --> 00:43:25,417
That race,
the heat from it
850
00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:29,083
is hot enough
to peel house paint.
851
00:43:29,166 --> 00:43:31,083
- At 6:50,
852
00:43:31,166 --> 00:43:34,583
I am sitting
in the Fort Lauderdale Airport
853
00:43:34,667 --> 00:43:38,250
to get on Southwest Airlines'
flight to Nashville.
854
00:43:38,333 --> 00:43:40,875
- Our John King is with the
Gore campaign in Nashville.
855
00:43:40,959 --> 00:43:43,250
- The polls were gonna close
in ten minutes.
856
00:43:43,333 --> 00:43:44,542
- The presidential race
857
00:43:44,625 --> 00:43:47,083
is crackling
like a hickory fire here.
858
00:43:47,166 --> 00:43:49,959
- All eyes on Florida
at this hour, Tim.
859
00:43:50,041 --> 00:43:52,917
Both campaigns made
an enormous investment there.
860
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,959
- By the time we landed
in Tampa,
861
00:43:56,041 --> 00:44:00,125
they declared Florida for Gore,
and we're celebrating.
862
00:44:00,208 --> 00:44:01,583
- Let's take a look back.
863
00:44:01,667 --> 00:44:05,417
We have not heard one word
tonight about Ralph Nader.
864
00:44:05,500 --> 00:44:07,041
- Mike, excuse me one second.
865
00:44:07,125 --> 00:44:08,333
I'm so sorry to interrupt you.
866
00:44:08,417 --> 00:44:10,458
Florida goes for Al Gore.
867
00:44:10,542 --> 00:44:12,625
- Al Gore wins
the state of Florida,
868
00:44:12,709 --> 00:44:15,291
giving him the first big state
momentum of the evening.
869
00:44:15,375 --> 00:44:16,625
- You can bet
that Governor Bush
870
00:44:16,709 --> 00:44:18,291
will be madder
than a rained-on rooster
871
00:44:18,375 --> 00:44:19,667
that his brother,
the governor,
872
00:44:19,750 --> 00:44:21,625
wasn't able to carry
this state for him.
873
00:44:21,709 --> 00:44:25,291
- That is a very, very, very
important state for Al Gore,
874
00:44:25,375 --> 00:44:27,959
and now the pressure
is on George W. Bush.
875
00:44:28,041 --> 00:44:30,041
- If Gore had lost Florida,
876
00:44:30,125 --> 00:44:32,333
you might be saying sayonara
to his hopes.
877
00:44:32,417 --> 00:44:35,208
- All of a sudden,
there were reports:
878
00:44:35,291 --> 00:44:38,375
"Well, there's issues.
There are problems."
879
00:44:38,458 --> 00:44:40,333
- Passengers
are getting off flights,
880
00:44:40,417 --> 00:44:43,458
emerging from their
airborne information vacuums
881
00:44:43,542 --> 00:44:47,458
only to learn that Bush
now appears to have the edge.
882
00:44:47,542 --> 00:44:49,500
- When we landed in Nashville,
883
00:44:49,583 --> 00:44:53,417
now they're not so sure
that we won in Florida.
884
00:44:53,500 --> 00:44:57,458
- The Bush campaign
is now contesting
885
00:44:57,542 --> 00:44:59,875
the projected victory
for Al Gore
886
00:44:59,959 --> 00:45:02,333
in the state of Florida.
887
00:45:02,417 --> 00:45:04,500
- In the Austin hotel
where Governor Bush
888
00:45:04,583 --> 00:45:06,500
is watching the results
with his family,
889
00:45:06,583 --> 00:45:08,041
there is a strong sense
890
00:45:08,125 --> 00:45:11,333
that the race in Florida
is not over.
891
00:45:11,417 --> 00:45:12,375
- Florida, for example,
892
00:45:12,458 --> 00:45:14,417
I'm gonna wait till
they count all the votes.
893
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:15,542
And I think America
ought to wait
894
00:45:15,625 --> 00:45:18,500
before they count
all the votes too.
895
00:45:18,583 --> 00:45:21,750
- What the networks give us,
the networks taketh away.
896
00:45:21,834 --> 00:45:24,583
NBC News is now taking
Florida
897
00:45:24,667 --> 00:45:27,834
out of Vice President Gore's
column and putting it back
898
00:45:27,917 --> 00:45:30,500
in the "too close to call"
column.
899
00:45:30,583 --> 00:45:32,250
- Florida is back in play.
900
00:45:32,333 --> 00:45:34,709
- Florida is back
in the toss-up category.
901
00:45:34,792 --> 00:45:36,083
- Hoo, what a night.
902
00:45:36,166 --> 00:45:37,834
- It's too close to call.
903
00:45:37,917 --> 00:45:40,417
- It was either gonna be a tie
904
00:45:40,500 --> 00:45:42,917
or maybe a little advantage
to Gore.
905
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,083
Fox News changed
the argument.
906
00:45:45,166 --> 00:45:46,875
- Fox News now projects
907
00:45:46,959 --> 00:45:48,542
George W. Bush the winner
in Florida
908
00:45:48,625 --> 00:45:49,750
and thus, it appears,
909
00:45:49,834 --> 00:45:52,250
the winner of the presidency
of the United States.
910
00:45:52,333 --> 00:45:55,125
- It was actually
George Bush's cousin
911
00:45:55,208 --> 00:45:58,917
who made the call at Fox News.
912
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,375
The other stations started
to call it for Bush.
913
00:46:02,458 --> 00:46:04,250
- In a time of peace
and prosperity like this,
914
00:46:04,333 --> 00:46:05,417
it's possible
for the country...
915
00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:06,375
- Stop. Stop.
916
00:46:06,458 --> 00:46:07,375
- To have such a division
as they do--
917
00:46:07,458 --> 00:46:08,375
- Doris, Doris, Doris, Doris.
918
00:46:08,458 --> 00:46:09,959
George Bush
is the president-elect
919
00:46:10,041 --> 00:46:10,959
of the United States.
920
00:46:11,041 --> 00:46:12,583
He has won
the state of Florida.
921
00:46:12,667 --> 00:46:14,333
- ABC News is now going
to project
922
00:46:14,417 --> 00:46:16,625
that Florida goes to Mr. Bush.
923
00:46:16,709 --> 00:46:19,250
- George Bush will become
the 43rd president
924
00:46:19,333 --> 00:46:20,917
of the United States.
925
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:22,750
- Sip it, savor it, cup it,
926
00:46:22,834 --> 00:46:25,083
photostat it,
underline it in red,
927
00:46:25,166 --> 00:46:26,709
press it into a book,
put it in the album,
928
00:46:26,792 --> 00:46:28,083
hang it on the wall:
929
00:46:28,166 --> 00:46:29,417
George Bush
is the next president
930
00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:30,583
of the United States.
931
00:46:30,667 --> 00:46:33,583
- This is the scene
in Austin, Texas, tonight.
932
00:46:33,667 --> 00:46:36,417
It's been a long,
suspenseful evening.
933
00:46:36,500 --> 00:46:39,625
- Gore has, in fact,
called president-elect Bush.
934
00:46:39,709 --> 00:46:42,083
No word on what was said
in that conversation
935
00:46:42,166 --> 00:46:43,834
but that it was very direct.
936
00:46:43,917 --> 00:46:45,000
- Boom,
937
00:46:45,083 --> 00:46:48,625
he goes out and concedes
an election that he has won.
938
00:46:48,709 --> 00:46:50,792
- Gore didn't want
to hold up the nation.
939
00:46:50,875 --> 00:46:52,834
He's a Boy Scout
in that regard.
940
00:46:52,917 --> 00:46:56,583
- Al Gore appeared
to be conceding.
941
00:46:56,667 --> 00:47:00,625
- There was no documentary
evidence that he has lost.
942
00:47:00,709 --> 00:47:02,125
- Why the hell
would you concede?
943
00:47:02,208 --> 00:47:03,792
What do you have to lose?
944
00:47:03,875 --> 00:47:04,959
Just stay quiet.
945
00:47:05,041 --> 00:47:07,125
- We're told Gore
is on his way here.
946
00:47:07,208 --> 00:47:09,333
Again, we were told that
about 10, 15 minutes ago.
947
00:47:09,417 --> 00:47:10,333
We haven't seen him yet,
948
00:47:10,417 --> 00:47:12,041
but that is supposed
to be soon.
949
00:47:12,125 --> 00:47:14,250
- Vice President Gore's
motorcade
950
00:47:14,333 --> 00:47:18,333
is bound for the War Memorial,
where he plans to admit defeat
951
00:47:18,417 --> 00:47:21,667
and say a few comforting words
to his supporters.
952
00:47:21,750 --> 00:47:25,500
- I was one of the people
to call up the vice president
953
00:47:25,583 --> 00:47:28,667
and I'm screaming in the phone,
saying, "You can't concede!
954
00:47:28,750 --> 00:47:30,458
"There's still
outstanding votes
955
00:47:30,542 --> 00:47:32,333
"that we still haven't counted.
956
00:47:32,417 --> 00:47:34,667
I don't care what
the TV stations are saying."
957
00:47:34,750 --> 00:47:39,458
- The margin in Florida is now
said to be a mere 600 votes.
958
00:47:39,542 --> 00:47:41,542
- Something screwy's going on
in Florida.
959
00:47:41,625 --> 00:47:44,041
We know large amounts
of precincts
960
00:47:44,125 --> 00:47:47,458
are not showing up on the
secretary of state's website.
961
00:47:47,542 --> 00:47:49,625
- This is clearly no time
for the vice president
962
00:47:49,709 --> 00:47:52,333
to make a public
concession speech.
963
00:47:52,417 --> 00:47:54,542
- The votes hadn't
been counted yet.
964
00:47:54,625 --> 00:47:56,792
The votes hadn't
been counted yet.
965
00:47:56,875 --> 00:47:59,250
- Sir, sir, sir, it's urgent.
966
00:47:59,333 --> 00:48:00,500
- What is it, David?
967
00:48:00,583 --> 00:48:02,291
- Daley needs to speak to you.
He just needs five minutes.
968
00:48:02,375 --> 00:48:03,417
- Look, I just spoke to Bush.
969
00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:04,583
He's waiting for me
to give this speech.
970
00:48:04,667 --> 00:48:05,583
- Mr. Vice President.
971
00:48:05,667 --> 00:48:06,625
- I'm not gonna
keep him waiting.
972
00:48:06,709 --> 00:48:08,041
- Please, Mr. Vice President.
973
00:48:08,125 --> 00:48:11,083
There's a problem
with the numbers in Florida.
974
00:48:11,166 --> 00:48:15,041
- The crowd has gotten
extremely quiet
975
00:48:15,125 --> 00:48:18,333
as journalists are discussing
976
00:48:18,417 --> 00:48:20,709
why the vice president
has not come out
977
00:48:20,792 --> 00:48:22,375
and made the concession speech
978
00:48:22,458 --> 00:48:25,000
that they all expected him
to make.
979
00:48:25,083 --> 00:48:27,166
- And then he took it back.
980
00:48:27,250 --> 00:48:29,834
- The vice president
has re-called the governor
981
00:48:29,917 --> 00:48:31,875
and retracted his concession.
982
00:48:31,959 --> 00:48:34,083
- And I thought, "Oh,
this is gonna be a shit show.
983
00:48:34,166 --> 00:48:36,208
This is gonna be
a total shit show."
984
00:48:36,291 --> 00:48:39,583
- The race is not yet over.
985
00:48:39,667 --> 00:48:41,583
- "The circumstances
have changed.
986
00:48:41,667 --> 00:48:43,125
"I need
to withdraw my concession
987
00:48:43,208 --> 00:48:45,458
until the situation is clear,"
Gore says
988
00:48:45,542 --> 00:48:47,750
in what quickly becomes
a tense call.
989
00:48:47,834 --> 00:48:49,625
Bush is said to be indignant.
990
00:48:49,709 --> 00:48:51,333
- I thought it was
an interesting comment he made,
991
00:48:51,417 --> 00:48:53,417
and I felt like
I was fully prepared
992
00:48:53,500 --> 00:48:55,792
to go out and give a speech
993
00:48:55,875 --> 00:48:58,250
and--thanking my supporters.
994
00:48:58,333 --> 00:49:00,375
- Sources close
to Gore recall Bush
995
00:49:00,458 --> 00:49:03,041
saying his brother Jeb
assured him he'd won.
996
00:49:03,125 --> 00:49:04,375
Gore responds,
997
00:49:04,458 --> 00:49:06,917
"Your little brother does not
have the last word on this."
998
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,375
- The Associated Press believes
that the uncounted votes
999
00:49:10,458 --> 00:49:12,625
in Broward
and Palm Beach Counties
1000
00:49:12,709 --> 00:49:14,917
could allow a change
of the lead...
1001
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,750
- Oh, my word.
- In the Florida vote.
1002
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,125
- Hello, 911?
Cardiac arrest unit, please.
1003
00:49:23,875 --> 00:49:26,166
- Broward and Palm Beach
are the uncounted votes.
1004
00:49:26,250 --> 00:49:28,500
What if this goes
the other way?
1005
00:49:28,583 --> 00:49:32,125
- Well, it's only 3:17.
1006
00:49:32,208 --> 00:49:33,625
We're here.
- Right.
1007
00:49:33,709 --> 00:49:34,834
- Cameras are hot.
1008
00:49:34,917 --> 00:49:36,959
- Folks, it's 3:30 in
the morning here in the East,
1009
00:49:37,041 --> 00:49:40,375
but the excitement level
has just risen once again.
1010
00:49:44,667 --> 00:49:47,000
- Let's go home.
1011
00:49:47,083 --> 00:49:48,291
- We're thinking
we're gonna send you
1012
00:49:48,375 --> 00:49:49,458
some of our cold pizza.
1013
00:49:49,542 --> 00:49:51,125
Would that make you
feel better?
1014
00:49:51,208 --> 00:49:53,166
- No.
1015
00:49:53,250 --> 00:49:55,834
- Tim gets his board out.
1016
00:49:55,917 --> 00:49:57,333
Uh...
1017
00:49:59,375 --> 00:50:00,792
Good grief.
1018
00:50:00,875 --> 00:50:02,625
- For those of you
who went to bed or started--
1019
00:50:02,709 --> 00:50:04,625
went off to brush your teeth
and come back and say,
1020
00:50:04,709 --> 00:50:06,125
"Hello, what's this,
Dan Rather?"
1021
00:50:06,208 --> 00:50:07,667
Well, I gotta tell you, folks.
1022
00:50:07,750 --> 00:50:09,041
I don't know.
1023
00:50:09,125 --> 00:50:11,166
I don't know anybody
who does know.
1024
00:50:11,250 --> 00:50:13,041
- TV 3 control.
1025
00:50:13,125 --> 00:50:15,125
Okay, I want you
to pull back Florida
1026
00:50:15,208 --> 00:50:18,041
and I want you to say
it is equally probable
1027
00:50:18,125 --> 00:50:20,709
that either candidate can win
in Florida.
1028
00:50:24,083 --> 00:50:25,625
- All right,
we're officially saying
1029
00:50:25,709 --> 00:50:27,500
that Florida
is too close to call.
1030
00:50:27,583 --> 00:50:30,834
- We are going to take Florida
1031
00:50:30,917 --> 00:50:34,500
back into the
"too close to call" column.
1032
00:50:34,583 --> 00:50:38,333
- That means he is short
of the 270 electoral votes
1033
00:50:38,417 --> 00:50:40,291
that he needs to win.
1034
00:50:40,375 --> 00:50:43,333
- Florida secretary of state
says the margin in Florida--
1035
00:50:43,417 --> 00:50:46,834
get this, folks, and hold on
to the bedstead or something--
1036
00:50:46,917 --> 00:50:50,250
629 votes.
1037
00:50:50,333 --> 00:50:52,875
We could be going
to Recount City.
1038
00:50:52,959 --> 00:50:54,542
- Just an hour or so ago,
1039
00:50:54,625 --> 00:50:58,041
the TV networks called
this race for Governor Bush.
1040
00:50:58,125 --> 00:51:00,750
It now appears--
1041
00:51:00,834 --> 00:51:03,875
it now appears
that their call was premature.
1042
00:51:05,834 --> 00:51:07,709
Under Florida state law,
1043
00:51:07,792 --> 00:51:10,208
this triggers
an automatic recount.
1044
00:51:10,291 --> 00:51:12,542
Our campaign continues.
1045
00:51:16,291 --> 00:51:19,834
all: Recount! Recount! Recount!
1046
00:51:19,917 --> 00:51:24,041
Recount! Recount!
Recount! Recount!
1047
00:51:24,125 --> 00:51:27,417
Recount! Recount!
Recount!
1048
00:51:32,750 --> 00:51:35,917
- Once again,
we're talking about Florida.
1049
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,542
Controversy surrounding
the vote
1050
00:51:37,625 --> 00:51:39,750
raises a myriad of issues
about our democracy.
1051
00:51:39,834 --> 00:51:41,417
And while there is
much disagreement
1052
00:51:41,500 --> 00:51:43,250
about how to proceed
from here,
1053
00:51:43,333 --> 00:51:47,417
nearly everyone seems to agree
on one thing, and that is
1054
00:51:47,500 --> 00:51:49,750
holy [bleep] [bleep].
1055
00:51:58,166 --> 00:52:00,458
- This morning, we frankly
still don't have a winner.
1056
00:52:00,542 --> 00:52:03,417
If you are just waking up
and just tuning in,
1057
00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:06,917
you should know that after
a long night of swing votes,
1058
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:08,583
the presidential race
is frankly
1059
00:52:08,667 --> 00:52:09,959
still too close to call.
1060
00:52:10,041 --> 00:52:11,500
- What's the problem
with the election?
1061
00:52:11,583 --> 00:52:13,625
Voter fraud, Electoral College?
1062
00:52:13,709 --> 00:52:16,125
- The white man?
1063
00:52:16,208 --> 00:52:18,917
- All along, we thought
there was a possibility
1064
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,166
that George W. Bush
might win the popular vote
1065
00:52:21,250 --> 00:52:23,250
but Al Gore could win
the electoral vote.
1066
00:52:23,333 --> 00:52:26,625
As of right now, Al Gore
has won the popular vote.
1067
00:52:26,709 --> 00:52:30,125
- Out of something like
97 million votes cast,
1068
00:52:30,208 --> 00:52:34,625
we're looking at a difference
of 213,000 votes.
1069
00:52:34,709 --> 00:52:36,291
- But it is
the Electoral College
1070
00:52:36,375 --> 00:52:37,458
that matters there.
1071
00:52:37,542 --> 00:52:39,458
George W. Bush could still win.
1072
00:52:39,542 --> 00:52:43,250
- They both are still short
of the needed 270
1073
00:52:43,333 --> 00:52:46,083
because of the state
of Florida.
1074
00:52:46,166 --> 00:52:47,625
- All that matters is Florida
1075
00:52:47,709 --> 00:52:50,667
because mathematically,
it takes Florida's 25 votes
1076
00:52:50,750 --> 00:52:52,792
to put either man
into the White House.
1077
00:52:52,875 --> 00:52:53,875
- In my mind,
Gore would've won.
1078
00:52:53,959 --> 00:52:56,834
I mean,
he won the popular vote.
1079
00:52:56,917 --> 00:52:57,834
- Right, Chris.
1080
00:52:57,917 --> 00:52:59,709
By the popular vote,
the majority of the people
1081
00:52:59,792 --> 00:53:03,542
are saying, "We want Al Gore
to be our next president."
1082
00:53:03,625 --> 00:53:07,375
But the Electoral College,
which is run by the white man,
1083
00:53:07,458 --> 00:53:11,667
is saying, "We don't care
what you niggas want."
1084
00:53:11,750 --> 00:53:14,500
- Almost 6 million votes
in Florida.
1085
00:53:14,583 --> 00:53:17,375
987 separate
the two candidates.
1086
00:53:17,458 --> 00:53:19,667
- And so as a result,
the state of Florida,
1087
00:53:19,750 --> 00:53:23,625
by law, has gone
to an automatic recount.
1088
00:53:23,709 --> 00:53:26,166
- You know, Florida
has always been a troublemaker,
1089
00:53:26,250 --> 00:53:27,333
all year.
1090
00:53:27,417 --> 00:53:31,500
Hurricanes, Elián González,
Alonzo Mourning's kidney,
1091
00:53:31,583 --> 00:53:33,667
'NSYNC, booty bass--
1092
00:53:33,750 --> 00:53:35,750
all that shit's from Florida.
1093
00:53:35,834 --> 00:53:37,208
- Let's be clear, again,
1094
00:53:37,291 --> 00:53:40,041
whoever wins in Florida
wins the White House.
1095
00:53:40,125 --> 00:53:42,166
- So what do you think
the answer is?
1096
00:53:42,250 --> 00:53:45,375
- I think the answer
is fuck Florida.
1097
00:53:49,959 --> 00:53:51,333
Chris, look.
1098
00:53:51,417 --> 00:53:53,041
It's right down there
at the bottom.
1099
00:53:53,125 --> 00:53:56,500
All you gotta do,
lop it off.
1100
00:53:56,583 --> 00:53:58,333
- Why can't we just
cut this state adrift
1101
00:53:58,417 --> 00:54:00,041
and let it crash into Cuba?
1102
00:54:01,625 --> 00:54:04,667
- South America, take it away!
1103
00:54:04,750 --> 00:54:06,834
- Across Florida
and the nation,
1104
00:54:06,917 --> 00:54:08,375
this cliff-hanger vote,
to many,
1105
00:54:08,458 --> 00:54:09,709
like a sporting event.
1106
00:54:09,792 --> 00:54:13,667
At 9:00 a.m., Bush's lead
stands at 941 votes.
1107
00:54:13,750 --> 00:54:17,625
By 11:23 a.m., 799 votes.
1108
00:54:17,709 --> 00:54:20,583
Then back up to 830 votes.
1109
00:54:20,667 --> 00:54:22,250
But by 12:30 p.m.,
1110
00:54:22,333 --> 00:54:26,583
Bush's lead slips again
to 795 votes.
1111
00:54:26,667 --> 00:54:31,917
2:30 p.m., Bush's lead
down further to 787 votes.
1112
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:36,917
By 4:25 p.m.,
Bush's lead plunges to 341
1113
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,834
with only five more counties
left to report.
1114
00:54:39,917 --> 00:54:43,250
- In a state as populous
and diverse as Florida,
1115
00:54:43,333 --> 00:54:44,583
we were scratching our heads
1116
00:54:44,667 --> 00:54:46,750
to think that it could even
be that close.
1117
00:54:46,834 --> 00:54:48,792
- Now to the woman
who's in the crosshairs,
1118
00:54:48,875 --> 00:54:49,959
in the spotlight.
1119
00:54:50,041 --> 00:54:51,583
- Katherine Harris
is about to learn
1120
00:54:51,667 --> 00:54:53,792
what real pressure
is all about.
1121
00:54:53,875 --> 00:54:56,625
- She's the secretary
of state, Katherine Harris.
1122
00:54:56,709 --> 00:54:58,959
- The Gore campaign
has already compared her
1123
00:54:59,041 --> 00:55:00,792
to a Soviet commissar.
1124
00:55:00,875 --> 00:55:03,625
- Tonight the question of
who will be the next president
1125
00:55:03,709 --> 00:55:05,792
is right on her desk.
1126
00:55:05,875 --> 00:55:09,875
- Katherine Harris was
the chair of the Bush campaign
1127
00:55:09,959 --> 00:55:12,750
and she was
the secretary of state.
1128
00:55:12,834 --> 00:55:14,291
- Harris was
the state cochair
1129
00:55:14,375 --> 00:55:16,583
of George Bush's
presidential campaign.
1130
00:55:16,667 --> 00:55:19,959
Today Governor Jeb Bush said
she is doing a good job.
1131
00:55:20,041 --> 00:55:22,125
- I think she's doing
the right thing.
1132
00:55:22,208 --> 00:55:25,458
- Two Democratic legislators
told ABC News they now think
1133
00:55:25,542 --> 00:55:28,250
she is trying to hand
the election to George Bush.
1134
00:55:28,333 --> 00:55:30,000
- Is there some concern
in the Bush camp
1135
00:55:30,083 --> 00:55:32,291
that putting it in her hands,
a Republican,
1136
00:55:32,375 --> 00:55:35,166
the cochairperson of the Bush
campaign in Florida,
1137
00:55:35,250 --> 00:55:37,166
will tarnish the results?
1138
00:55:37,250 --> 00:55:40,375
- Your Governor Bush's
co-campaign chair in Florida!
1139
00:55:40,458 --> 00:55:43,417
Seems to me you can be accused
of political cronyism!
1140
00:55:43,500 --> 00:55:46,333
- Do I know who has officially
won the election?
1141
00:55:46,417 --> 00:55:47,500
Yes.
1142
00:55:47,583 --> 00:55:49,875
Am I going to announce it?
No.
1143
00:55:49,959 --> 00:55:53,500
Am I going to enjoy watching
that Tennessee robot cry
1144
00:55:53,583 --> 00:55:54,875
when he hears the results?
1145
00:55:54,959 --> 00:55:57,041
Yes.
1146
00:55:57,125 --> 00:56:00,709
Does that make me partisan?
I don't think so.
1147
00:56:00,792 --> 00:56:02,333
- So here you have the woman
1148
00:56:02,417 --> 00:56:05,667
who is responsible
for counting the ballots,
1149
00:56:05,750 --> 00:56:08,667
who's like this with Jeb Bush.
1150
00:56:08,750 --> 00:56:11,834
- It's rather third world-like.
1151
00:56:11,917 --> 00:56:13,458
- In a clear sign
1152
00:56:13,542 --> 00:56:15,834
Democrats nor Republicans
trust the other,
1153
00:56:15,917 --> 00:56:18,667
both parties are sending in
former secretaries of state
1154
00:56:18,750 --> 00:56:20,083
to oversee the recount:
1155
00:56:20,166 --> 00:56:22,041
Warren Christopher
for the Democrats,
1156
00:56:22,125 --> 00:56:24,417
James Baker
for the Republicans.
1157
00:56:24,500 --> 00:56:28,083
- Warren Christopher
sat us all down and said,
1158
00:56:28,166 --> 00:56:31,667
"This is the world's greatest
democracy.
1159
00:56:31,750 --> 00:56:36,750
"We have a dispute about who is
to be its next president.
1160
00:56:36,834 --> 00:56:41,083
"We will conduct ourselves,
on our side of the ledger,
1161
00:56:41,166 --> 00:56:44,834
as if this is the world's
greatest democracy."
1162
00:56:44,917 --> 00:56:48,250
- I don't see any threat
to our Constitution.
1163
00:56:48,333 --> 00:56:51,583
Indeed, what we're doing
is a constitutional process.
1164
00:56:51,667 --> 00:56:53,709
There's no
constitutional crisis.
1165
00:56:53,792 --> 00:56:56,750
We're proceeding in accordance
with the Constitution and laws
1166
00:56:56,834 --> 00:56:58,583
and will continue to do so.
1167
00:56:58,667 --> 00:56:59,667
- Warren Christopher,
1168
00:56:59,750 --> 00:57:02,417
who was virtually petrified
by that time,
1169
00:57:02,500 --> 00:57:04,875
came down here thinking
this was some kind of
1170
00:57:04,959 --> 00:57:08,542
high-minded
constitutional debate.
1171
00:57:08,625 --> 00:57:10,125
He didn't understand
Florida politics.
1172
00:57:10,208 --> 00:57:12,583
I'm not sure he understood
politics at all.
1173
00:57:16,834 --> 00:57:20,041
- Is politics
about uniting people?
1174
00:57:20,125 --> 00:57:22,542
- Politics is about winning.
1175
00:57:22,625 --> 00:57:26,250
- Roger Stone has always been
a shadow figure
1176
00:57:26,333 --> 00:57:28,917
in the Republican Party
nationally.
1177
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,750
He's always been known
1178
00:57:30,834 --> 00:57:34,125
to be the fellow you would
want to call if it's something
1179
00:57:34,208 --> 00:57:37,667
you didn't want anyone in
your campaign to get close to.
1180
00:57:37,750 --> 00:57:40,875
- The assistant for Jim Baker
called me and she said,
1181
00:57:40,959 --> 00:57:43,291
"Mr. Baker would like you
to go to Florida
1182
00:57:43,375 --> 00:57:44,792
"and help on the recount.
1183
00:57:44,875 --> 00:57:46,625
How soon can you leave?"
1184
00:57:46,709 --> 00:57:48,458
- Beyond the closeness
of the vote in Florida,
1185
00:57:48,542 --> 00:57:51,125
there are also questions
about irregularities
1186
00:57:51,208 --> 00:57:52,250
at polling places
1187
00:57:52,333 --> 00:57:55,125
and alleged problems
with the ballots themselves.
1188
00:57:55,208 --> 00:57:56,625
- So I packed my bags
1189
00:57:56,709 --> 00:58:00,291
and I headed first
for Palm Beach County.
1190
00:58:00,375 --> 00:58:02,792
- In West Palm Beach,
voters were protesting
1191
00:58:02,875 --> 00:58:05,750
what they say
was a confusing ballot
1192
00:58:05,834 --> 00:58:07,917
and they want to vote again.
1193
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,500
Al Gore's name appeared
on the left,
1194
00:58:10,583 --> 00:58:13,333
Pat Buchanan's slightly above
on the right.
1195
00:58:13,417 --> 00:58:15,875
Some say when they went
to select Gore,
1196
00:58:15,959 --> 00:58:18,792
they mistakenly punched
Buchanan.
1197
00:58:18,875 --> 00:58:21,291
- 19,000 ballots
were tossed out
1198
00:58:21,375 --> 00:58:24,375
because they contained
a double punch.
1199
00:58:24,458 --> 00:58:26,500
- Hundreds of voters
take to the streets,
1200
00:58:26,583 --> 00:58:28,291
where election officials
have tossed out
1201
00:58:28,375 --> 00:58:30,667
those 19,000 ballots
punched twice
1202
00:58:30,750 --> 00:58:32,500
cast by voters
like Robert Hurst.
1203
00:58:32,583 --> 00:58:36,959
- I cast a vote for Gore,
but at the same time,
1204
00:58:37,041 --> 00:58:40,041
I must've punched
the Buchanan column as well.
1205
00:58:40,125 --> 00:58:43,083
- Only an idiot would vote
for Pat Buchanan by mistake.
1206
00:58:43,166 --> 00:58:44,375
- Butterfly ballots.
- Right.
1207
00:58:44,458 --> 00:58:45,458
- And the little old ladies
1208
00:58:45,542 --> 00:58:47,709
who voted by error
for Pat Buchanan,
1209
00:58:47,792 --> 00:58:49,333
it was the worst horror
since the Holocaust,
1210
00:58:49,417 --> 00:58:50,500
and it was terrible.
1211
00:58:50,583 --> 00:58:52,542
- It's kind of caveat emptor.
1212
00:58:52,625 --> 00:58:54,834
I guess it is buyer beware.
1213
00:58:54,917 --> 00:58:57,333
- Are you suggesting
they did not intend to vote
1214
00:58:57,417 --> 00:58:59,125
for Pat Buchanan?
1215
00:58:59,208 --> 00:59:01,875
- Pat Buchanan suggested
they didn't intend to vote
1216
00:59:01,959 --> 00:59:03,333
for Pat Buchanan.
1217
00:59:03,417 --> 00:59:07,375
- If the two candidates they
pushed were Buchanan and Gore,
1218
00:59:07,458 --> 00:59:12,208
almost certainly, those are
Al Gore's votes and not mine.
1219
00:59:12,291 --> 00:59:13,917
- You know America's gone
through a wormhole
1220
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,375
when Pat Buchanan is the voice
of fairness and reason.
1221
00:59:16,458 --> 00:59:21,709
I'm sorry, it just--
we are living in a freak zone.
1222
00:59:21,792 --> 00:59:24,375
- There was more than enough
legal and political talent
1223
00:59:24,458 --> 00:59:26,625
to see Palm Beach through.
1224
00:59:26,709 --> 00:59:28,417
So I called Baker and I said,
1225
00:59:28,500 --> 00:59:31,375
"You know, everything here
seems to be under control."
1226
00:59:31,458 --> 00:59:32,709
And he said, "Good.
1227
00:59:32,792 --> 00:59:34,542
"I want you to go down
to Miami-Dade.
1228
00:59:34,625 --> 00:59:36,667
Things down there
are really screwed up."
1229
00:59:39,291 --> 00:59:41,583
- If there was gonna be
shenanigans and mischief,
1230
00:59:41,667 --> 00:59:43,375
it was likely
to be in Miami-Dade,
1231
00:59:43,458 --> 00:59:47,542
so it made sense to go
where it's likely to be stolen.
1232
00:59:47,625 --> 00:59:50,417
- He had this iconic moment,
did Tim Russert, on NBC
1233
00:59:50,500 --> 00:59:52,125
when he said it all comes down
1234
00:59:52,208 --> 00:59:56,166
to Florida, Florida, Florida.
1235
00:59:56,792 --> 00:59:59,250
He might as well have said
it all comes down
1236
00:59:59,333 --> 01:00:02,625
to Miami, Miami, Miami.
1237
01:00:04,333 --> 01:00:06,083
- All right,
here is a quick summary
1238
01:00:06,166 --> 01:00:07,750
of today's major developments.
1239
01:00:07,834 --> 01:00:11,959
George W. Bush now leading
Al Gore by just 290 votes.
1240
01:00:12,041 --> 01:00:15,750
This number will inevitably
change before it's all over.
1241
01:00:15,834 --> 01:00:17,792
Which way,
we simply do not know.
1242
01:00:17,875 --> 01:00:20,458
- A confident
and determined Al Gore
1243
01:00:20,542 --> 01:00:22,000
making extremely clear
1244
01:00:22,083 --> 01:00:24,417
he is not close
to conceding this election.
1245
01:00:24,500 --> 01:00:27,875
- When people cast votes,
1246
01:00:27,959 --> 01:00:30,917
the votes should be counted.
1247
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:35,959
And there are more than enough
uncounted votes
1248
01:00:36,041 --> 01:00:39,417
to decide the outcome
of this election.
1249
01:00:39,500 --> 01:00:41,834
There are thousands of them,
1250
01:00:41,917 --> 01:00:44,291
and the margin
is in the hundreds.
1251
01:00:44,375 --> 01:00:50,417
If you ignore the votes,
you ignore democracy itself.
1252
01:00:50,500 --> 01:00:52,417
- One of the central issues
of Al Gore's contest
1253
01:00:52,500 --> 01:00:55,333
of the Florida election
involves thousands of ballots
1254
01:00:55,417 --> 01:00:57,667
in Miami-Dade
and Palm Beach Counties
1255
01:00:57,750 --> 01:00:59,625
that showed no vote
for president
1256
01:00:59,709 --> 01:01:01,667
in either the election night
machine count
1257
01:01:01,750 --> 01:01:03,083
or the automatic recount.
1258
01:01:03,166 --> 01:01:06,667
Election professionals call
these ballots undervotes.
1259
01:01:06,750 --> 01:01:07,750
- Miami-Dade County,
1260
01:01:07,834 --> 01:01:09,959
ground zero
in the Gore campaign's search
1261
01:01:10,041 --> 01:01:11,625
for discarded votes.
1262
01:01:11,709 --> 01:01:14,500
More than 5% of the ballots
here, say Democrats,
1263
01:01:14,583 --> 01:01:15,625
are in the drawer marked
1264
01:01:15,709 --> 01:01:17,792
"No vote
for president--rejected."
1265
01:01:17,875 --> 01:01:20,208
Election officials call that
an undervote.
1266
01:01:20,291 --> 01:01:22,500
- That's what's in the parlance
called an undervote,
1267
01:01:22,583 --> 01:01:23,625
but it's a vote.
1268
01:01:23,709 --> 01:01:27,500
- At issue,
about 10,750 ballots
1269
01:01:27,583 --> 01:01:29,375
that were counted by machines
1270
01:01:29,458 --> 01:01:33,000
without votes being recorded
for either candidate.
1271
01:01:33,083 --> 01:01:35,000
- It makes absolutely no sense
1272
01:01:35,083 --> 01:01:38,667
that 10,000 people
would go to the polls
1273
01:01:38,750 --> 01:01:42,667
during a presidential election
and not vote for a president.
1274
01:01:42,750 --> 01:01:45,750
- People do not stand in line
for seven hours
1275
01:01:45,834 --> 01:01:47,959
to vote
for their city commissioner.
1276
01:01:48,041 --> 01:01:51,333
- Voters who choose not
to cast a vote for president
1277
01:01:51,417 --> 01:01:53,709
have that right,
1278
01:01:53,792 --> 01:01:57,542
and no one else has the right
to make their choice
1279
01:01:57,625 --> 01:01:59,208
for them.
1280
01:01:59,291 --> 01:02:02,542
- We found a flaw
1281
01:02:02,625 --> 01:02:05,917
in the machine design
1282
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:10,333
that cost hundreds of votes
1283
01:02:10,417 --> 01:02:11,709
to Al Gore.
1284
01:02:11,792 --> 01:02:17,333
- Dade County had an antiquated
IBM punch card voting system...
1285
01:02:22,500 --> 01:02:24,375
Which IBM will tell you
1286
01:02:24,458 --> 01:02:27,667
if you vote at the end
of the day
1287
01:02:27,750 --> 01:02:30,041
and the machines
aren't cleared out,
1288
01:02:30,125 --> 01:02:32,000
it will only show the dimple
1289
01:02:32,083 --> 01:02:35,375
because the card cannot punch
all the way through
1290
01:02:35,458 --> 01:02:38,750
because the chads,
as they're called,
1291
01:02:38,834 --> 01:02:40,500
are filling up the machine.
1292
01:02:40,583 --> 01:02:43,750
- The so-called pregnant
or dimpled ballots--
1293
01:02:43,834 --> 01:02:46,125
do they show voters' intent
to select Gore,
1294
01:02:46,208 --> 01:02:47,750
as Democrats claim,
1295
01:02:47,834 --> 01:02:51,083
or are they simply
an indentation on the ballot
1296
01:02:51,166 --> 01:02:54,750
from an indecisive voter,
as Republicans claim?
1297
01:02:54,834 --> 01:02:56,583
- And that's why
you had dimpled chads
1298
01:02:56,667 --> 01:02:58,750
and hanging chads
and pregnant chads.
1299
01:02:58,834 --> 01:03:01,750
- The tiny bits of paper
that could pick the president.
1300
01:03:01,834 --> 01:03:04,250
So much fuss over chad.
1301
01:03:04,333 --> 01:03:06,875
- Now to the land
of the hanging chad.
1302
01:03:06,959 --> 01:03:08,166
- I had to go
to the doctor today.
1303
01:03:08,250 --> 01:03:10,917
You know why?
I have a hanging chad.
1304
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:12,917
- The question of what to do
with these ballots that are--
1305
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,083
- Pregnant or dimpled.
1306
01:03:15,166 --> 01:03:16,125
- Dimpled chads.
1307
01:03:16,208 --> 01:03:17,792
- Dimples, hanging chads.
1308
01:03:17,875 --> 01:03:19,458
- Oh, yes, there's a right
to vote in this country.
1309
01:03:19,542 --> 01:03:21,083
There's not a right to indent,
1310
01:03:21,166 --> 01:03:22,709
and that's what a lot
of people did.
1311
01:03:22,792 --> 01:03:24,792
- The race comes down
to the chads.
1312
01:03:24,875 --> 01:03:26,625
- A large majority
of the undervotes
1313
01:03:26,709 --> 01:03:30,625
came from underserviced
counties.
1314
01:03:30,709 --> 01:03:33,250
They don't have the machines.
1315
01:03:33,333 --> 01:03:35,250
They don't have the personnel.
1316
01:03:35,333 --> 01:03:37,250
They don't clear out the chads.
1317
01:03:37,333 --> 01:03:40,458
Gore won these precincts.
1318
01:03:40,542 --> 01:03:43,125
Poor voters vote
on poor voting machines.
1319
01:03:43,208 --> 01:03:44,583
Rich voters vote
1320
01:03:44,667 --> 01:03:46,875
on state-of-the-art
voting machines.
1321
01:03:46,959 --> 01:03:48,792
Welcome to America.
1322
01:03:48,875 --> 01:03:51,417
- As the national debate
over the vote count goes on,
1323
01:03:51,500 --> 01:03:54,667
the late-night comedians say,
"Count us in."
1324
01:03:54,750 --> 01:03:57,792
- I wanna have an impromptu
and candid conversation
1325
01:03:57,875 --> 01:03:59,500
totally off the cuff.
1326
01:03:59,583 --> 01:04:02,625
Just give my guys a second
to set up the teleprompter.
1327
01:04:06,417 --> 01:04:08,291
- Okay, all right.
1328
01:04:08,375 --> 01:04:10,291
Everything's set,
Mr. Vice President.
1329
01:04:10,375 --> 01:04:12,709
- This has been
an extraordinary eight days
1330
01:04:12,792 --> 01:04:14,250
for the American people.
1331
01:04:14,333 --> 01:04:16,875
There is a simple reason
that Florida law
1332
01:04:16,959 --> 01:04:18,333
and the law
in many other states
1333
01:04:18,417 --> 01:04:21,542
calls for a careful check
by real people
1334
01:04:21,625 --> 01:04:24,333
of the machine results
in elections like this one.
1335
01:04:24,417 --> 01:04:25,875
- Governor Bush,
1336
01:04:25,959 --> 01:04:30,542
why have you consistently
refused to meet with me
1337
01:04:30,625 --> 01:04:34,125
so we can end
this political infighting?
1338
01:04:35,375 --> 01:04:36,625
- 'Cause.
1339
01:04:39,125 --> 01:04:40,291
- The reason?
1340
01:04:40,375 --> 01:04:42,500
Machines can sometimes misread
1341
01:04:42,583 --> 01:04:45,166
or fail to detect
the ways ballots are cast.
1342
01:04:45,250 --> 01:04:46,875
And when there are
serious doubts,
1343
01:04:46,959 --> 01:04:50,041
checking the machine count
with a careful hand count
1344
01:04:50,125 --> 01:04:53,000
is accepted far and wide
as the best way
1345
01:04:53,083 --> 01:04:55,375
to know the true intentions
of the voters.
1346
01:04:55,458 --> 01:04:58,542
- Why can't we have
all the counties in Florida
1347
01:04:58,625 --> 01:05:03,166
conduct a hand count so the
will of the people is heard?
1348
01:05:03,250 --> 01:05:04,333
- 'Cause.
1349
01:05:04,417 --> 01:05:07,083
- Oh, come on, George.
1350
01:05:07,166 --> 01:05:10,542
- Democrats wanted
to count the votes,
1351
01:05:10,625 --> 01:05:12,792
and Republicans did not.
1352
01:05:12,875 --> 01:05:15,041
We should both call
on all our supporters
1353
01:05:15,125 --> 01:05:18,917
to prepare themselves
to close ranks as Americans
1354
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,583
and unite the country
behind the winner
1355
01:05:21,667 --> 01:05:24,125
as soon as this process
is completed.
1356
01:05:24,208 --> 01:05:25,667
- As the machines
are still counting votes
1357
01:05:25,750 --> 01:05:27,083
in Florida today,
1358
01:05:27,166 --> 01:05:28,917
the Gore campaign
ups the ante,
1359
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:30,542
demanding hand counts.
1360
01:05:30,625 --> 01:05:34,250
- The issue was getting
the votes counted.
1361
01:05:34,333 --> 01:05:36,583
The initial thing
was to make sure
1362
01:05:36,667 --> 01:05:41,291
that the canvassing board
would agree to recount.
1363
01:05:41,375 --> 01:05:44,250
- The Miami-Dade
Canvassing Board was the focus
1364
01:05:44,333 --> 01:05:48,792
because they had more
than 10,000 undervotes.
1365
01:05:48,875 --> 01:05:50,083
- Miami is unique in that
1366
01:05:50,166 --> 01:05:52,250
we don't have an elected
secretary of election.
1367
01:05:52,333 --> 01:05:55,250
When something happens
in a recount situation,
1368
01:05:55,333 --> 01:05:59,250
we actually have in place
before election time
1369
01:05:59,333 --> 01:06:00,667
a three-judge panel.
1370
01:06:00,750 --> 01:06:01,959
Now, we call it
a three-judge panel,
1371
01:06:02,041 --> 01:06:03,125
but they're not all judges.
1372
01:06:03,208 --> 01:06:07,625
- Lawrence King, David Leahy,
and Myriam Lehr.
1373
01:06:07,709 --> 01:06:10,083
Leahy was the supervisor
of elections,
1374
01:06:10,166 --> 01:06:12,834
and the other two
were county judges.
1375
01:06:12,917 --> 01:06:16,166
- David Leahy reported
to Mayor Penelas,
1376
01:06:16,250 --> 01:06:18,834
and the canvassing board
was working on the 18th floor
1377
01:06:18,917 --> 01:06:22,458
of Government Center,
which Mayor Penelas controlled.
1378
01:06:22,542 --> 01:06:25,083
- And they're in charge
of setting the standards,
1379
01:06:25,166 --> 01:06:26,291
setting the rules.
1380
01:06:26,375 --> 01:06:29,250
- We don't have standards
for looking at what is a vote
1381
01:06:29,333 --> 01:06:30,792
or what is not an un--
1382
01:06:30,875 --> 01:06:32,417
or not a vote.
1383
01:06:32,500 --> 01:06:34,125
- They kind of make up the
rules as they go a little bit.
1384
01:06:34,208 --> 01:06:38,417
- Three somewhat obscure
Miami officials
1385
01:06:38,500 --> 01:06:41,083
suddenly had immense power.
1386
01:06:42,834 --> 01:06:44,417
- While Florida's
other counties
1387
01:06:44,500 --> 01:06:47,375
started their recount
almost immediately,
1388
01:06:47,458 --> 01:06:48,834
in Miami-Dade County,
1389
01:06:48,917 --> 01:06:50,667
something strange
was going on.
1390
01:06:50,750 --> 01:06:54,792
- Quite frankly, based on what
I heard, I don't feel prepared
1391
01:06:54,875 --> 01:06:58,291
to really give
an intelligent answer.
1392
01:06:58,375 --> 01:07:00,709
- The votes were not
being recounted.
1393
01:07:00,792 --> 01:07:02,458
- Somebody faxed to me
an editorial
1394
01:07:02,542 --> 01:07:06,208
that was
in the Havana newspaper
1395
01:07:06,291 --> 01:07:08,333
about the election in Florida,
1396
01:07:08,417 --> 01:07:11,500
and the headline was
"Banana Republic."
1397
01:07:12,583 --> 01:07:14,333
Now, when the Cubans
start making fun
1398
01:07:14,417 --> 01:07:16,834
of our election process...
1399
01:07:16,917 --> 01:07:20,000
- Elián went the wrong place.
- Elián went--that's right.
1400
01:07:20,083 --> 01:07:24,000
- It's day 10 trillion in
the Florida election debacle.
1401
01:07:24,083 --> 01:07:25,208
I say we give it
one more week.
1402
01:07:25,291 --> 01:07:28,166
Then we give ourselves back
to England.
1403
01:07:28,250 --> 01:07:30,333
- But now, under pressure
from the Gore campaign,
1404
01:07:30,417 --> 01:07:32,208
Miami-Dade County
has reversed course.
1405
01:07:32,291 --> 01:07:33,917
- This afternoon,
the canvassing board
1406
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:37,083
voted unanimously to go ahead
and hold this hand count.
1407
01:07:37,166 --> 01:07:41,041
- I'll vote yes in concurrence
with the recount of all ballots
1408
01:07:41,125 --> 01:07:43,166
in Dade County by hand...
1409
01:07:43,250 --> 01:07:45,375
- This is a huge victory
for the Gore campaign.
1410
01:07:45,458 --> 01:07:46,583
- In Miami-Dade County,
1411
01:07:46,667 --> 01:07:49,083
election workers are preparing
for the monumental task
1412
01:07:49,166 --> 01:07:52,208
of counting every ballot
by hand.
1413
01:07:52,291 --> 01:07:55,375
- The seals cracked on
the ballot trays in Miami-Dade
1414
01:07:55,458 --> 01:07:59,333
as, this morning, this county
joins Broward and Palm Beach
1415
01:07:59,417 --> 01:08:01,250
in this huge undertaking.
1416
01:08:01,333 --> 01:08:05,041
- Look, everybody, it's...
1417
01:08:05,125 --> 01:08:07,041
Vice President Al Gore,
everybody.
1418
01:08:07,125 --> 01:08:11,250
- I just want to say
how excited I am to be here.
1419
01:08:11,333 --> 01:08:14,208
Conan, it's like
that Gloria Gaynor song
1420
01:08:14,291 --> 01:08:16,625
"I Will Survive"
1421
01:08:16,709 --> 01:08:19,917
when she sings,
"I will survive"...
1422
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:21,917
- Yeah, okay.
Yeah, I got that. Yeah.
1423
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:25,041
- And then in that second
verse when she sings,
1424
01:08:25,125 --> 01:08:28,917
"Every vote in Dade County
must be counted."
1425
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,250
- Sir, that's not in the song.
1426
01:08:31,333 --> 01:08:33,917
- It's in the live version.
- No, it's not.
1427
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,583
- George W. Bush filed
the first lawsuit.
1428
01:08:37,667 --> 01:08:39,750
- The fate of the presidency
hangs in the balance today
1429
01:08:39,834 --> 01:08:41,417
before Florida's Supreme Court.
1430
01:08:41,500 --> 01:08:43,875
This afternoon, attorneys
for George W. Bush will argue
1431
01:08:43,959 --> 01:08:45,083
the hand recounts going on
1432
01:08:45,166 --> 01:08:48,250
in three heavily Democratic
counties should be stopped.
1433
01:08:48,333 --> 01:08:50,583
Lawyers for Al Gore will try
to persuade the justices
1434
01:08:50,667 --> 01:08:52,458
to let the hand counts continue
1435
01:08:52,542 --> 01:08:54,959
and to include them
in Florida's final tally.
1436
01:08:55,041 --> 01:08:57,291
- I just assumed
that by November 20th,
1437
01:08:57,375 --> 01:08:59,125
the election
would be over with,
1438
01:08:59,208 --> 01:09:01,625
but I guess not.
1439
01:09:01,709 --> 01:09:03,959
- With his presidential hopes
on hold,
1440
01:09:04,041 --> 01:09:07,041
George W. Bush went back
to the Texas capital today,
1441
01:09:07,125 --> 01:09:09,750
turning a day at the office
into a photo op,
1442
01:09:09,834 --> 01:09:11,750
his troops
aggressively challenging
1443
01:09:11,834 --> 01:09:14,125
Vice President Gore's
in and out of court.
1444
01:09:14,208 --> 01:09:16,750
Their main goal:
to thoroughly discredit
1445
01:09:16,834 --> 01:09:19,792
the ballot-counting process
as flawed and corrupted.
1446
01:09:19,875 --> 01:09:22,792
What they don't say is that
they also fear that a recount
1447
01:09:22,875 --> 01:09:25,834
could give the edge
to Vice President Al Gore.
1448
01:09:25,917 --> 01:09:29,083
- While Democrats are sitting
around trying to figure out
1449
01:09:29,166 --> 01:09:31,709
how to do the right thing,
1450
01:09:31,792 --> 01:09:34,834
Republicans are figuring out
how to win.
1451
01:09:34,917 --> 01:09:36,166
- It was
a three-pronged effort,
1452
01:09:36,250 --> 01:09:38,500
what I call a stool.
1453
01:09:38,583 --> 01:09:41,000
And the three legs that we saw
was the courts,
1454
01:09:41,083 --> 01:09:42,959
the recount,
and then the street.
1455
01:09:46,917 --> 01:09:49,000
- We'll bring more.
We'll bring more.
1456
01:09:49,083 --> 01:09:50,333
- Camped out in a motor home
1457
01:09:50,417 --> 01:09:52,500
in the middle
of the media staging area,
1458
01:09:52,583 --> 01:09:54,458
you would think
they would want to talk
1459
01:09:54,542 --> 01:09:55,458
about their mission.
1460
01:09:55,542 --> 01:09:56,875
- It's a Bush operation.
1461
01:09:56,959 --> 01:09:58,333
- It's a Bush operation?
- Yeah.
1462
01:09:58,417 --> 01:09:59,834
- What goes on
inside this trailer?
1463
01:09:59,917 --> 01:10:02,709
- Oh, I can't talk to you
right now.
1464
01:10:02,792 --> 01:10:06,041
- In all, an army
of 75 operatives came to Miami
1465
01:10:06,125 --> 01:10:07,917
to shape public opinion.
1466
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:10,333
- I would have a motor home
and use it as a staging area
1467
01:10:10,417 --> 01:10:13,041
and also as a place for us
to work out of.
1468
01:10:13,125 --> 01:10:16,041
- You had to show
a physical presence.
1469
01:10:16,125 --> 01:10:20,083
You had to show grassroots
support for your point of view.
1470
01:10:20,166 --> 01:10:22,166
- If you want
to sway public opinion,
1471
01:10:22,250 --> 01:10:23,875
then you have to take it
to the people.
1472
01:10:23,959 --> 01:10:25,875
We have freedom of speech
too!
1473
01:10:25,959 --> 01:10:27,333
And we're watching you!
1474
01:10:27,417 --> 01:10:30,041
You're not gonna steal
this election!
1475
01:10:30,125 --> 01:10:31,083
We were fighting for victory,
1476
01:10:31,166 --> 01:10:33,875
and we weren't going
to be outmaneuvered.
1477
01:10:33,959 --> 01:10:37,000
- This was ground zero,
and the whole election
1478
01:10:37,083 --> 01:10:40,834
would end up hinging
on what happened in Miami-Dade.
1479
01:10:40,917 --> 01:10:43,542
- We wanted to take this
to farce
1480
01:10:43,625 --> 01:10:45,667
because it was so farcical.
1481
01:10:45,750 --> 01:10:47,583
- We had T-shirts printed.
1482
01:10:47,667 --> 01:10:49,875
Every couple days,
we had different slogans:
1483
01:10:49,959 --> 01:10:53,417
"Don't be had by a chad."
"Who let the chads out?"
1484
01:10:53,500 --> 01:10:56,625
And I had one of those shirts
made with a banana on it
1485
01:10:56,709 --> 01:10:59,041
saying that Florida
is a banana republic.
1486
01:10:59,125 --> 01:11:00,375
- I didn't know who came up
1487
01:11:00,458 --> 01:11:04,875
with the Sore-Loserman logo
and sign, but it was brilliant.
1488
01:11:04,959 --> 01:11:07,083
- I came up with the slogan
of "Sore-Loserman,"
1489
01:11:07,166 --> 01:11:09,083
which is a take
on "Gore-Lieberman."
1490
01:11:09,166 --> 01:11:11,417
By doing that,
it also created enthusiasm,
1491
01:11:11,500 --> 01:11:13,750
and people were coming down
for the spectacle
1492
01:11:13,834 --> 01:11:14,917
and the theater.
1493
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:17,500
- And the Republicans
used Cuban talk radio
1494
01:11:17,583 --> 01:11:19,291
to mobilize
their foot soldiers
1495
01:11:19,375 --> 01:11:21,792
to Government Center
in downtown Miami.
1496
01:11:21,875 --> 01:11:24,291
- Spanish-language radio
in Miami-Dade
1497
01:11:24,375 --> 01:11:27,417
is enormously powerful
and very effective
1498
01:11:27,500 --> 01:11:28,583
and extremely efficient
1499
01:11:28,667 --> 01:11:31,750
at reaching precisely
the people you want to reach.
1500
01:11:31,834 --> 01:11:35,208
- There was something still
that was burning
1501
01:11:35,291 --> 01:11:40,166
inside the souls
of so many Cuban Americans.
1502
01:11:45,542 --> 01:11:47,166
- 'Cause it was
pretty powerless
1503
01:11:47,250 --> 01:11:49,709
when Elián was taken away.
1504
01:11:49,792 --> 01:11:54,500
They felt
they had been betrayed.
1505
01:11:54,583 --> 01:11:55,667
Now we can get something.
1506
01:11:55,750 --> 01:11:57,792
Now we can stomp our feet
1507
01:11:57,875 --> 01:12:01,333
and stop Al Gore
from becoming president.
1508
01:12:01,417 --> 01:12:04,667
- My wife, who is a fluent
Spanish speaker, did a tour
1509
01:12:04,750 --> 01:12:07,667
of the Spanish-language
radio stations,
1510
01:12:07,750 --> 01:12:10,417
and they were likening
the situation in Miami-Dade
1511
01:12:10,500 --> 01:12:12,333
to the situation in Havana.
1512
01:12:12,417 --> 01:12:15,625
This is a takeover
like when Fidel took over.
1513
01:12:15,709 --> 01:12:20,333
- And in the same way that
Elián González had been stolen
1514
01:12:20,417 --> 01:12:24,458
and sent back to Cuba,
the election was being stolen
1515
01:12:24,542 --> 01:12:26,625
and a call
for many Cuban Americans
1516
01:12:26,709 --> 01:12:28,458
to go to defend the ballots
1517
01:12:28,542 --> 01:12:31,959
in the way they couldn't
defend Elián González.
1518
01:12:32,041 --> 01:12:33,834
- The messaging,
first and foremost,
1519
01:12:33,917 --> 01:12:35,041
is, Bush won.
1520
01:12:35,125 --> 01:12:37,333
The messaging is that Democrats
1521
01:12:37,417 --> 01:12:40,500
are trying to overturn
a national election,
1522
01:12:40,583 --> 01:12:43,333
and one very popular message
from the Cuban community
1523
01:12:43,417 --> 01:12:45,834
was, you know,
this was a coup.
1524
01:12:45,917 --> 01:12:49,125
- It's overheated rhetoric.
It worked extremely well.
1525
01:12:49,208 --> 01:12:52,792
- Bush for president!
Bush number one!
1526
01:12:52,875 --> 01:12:56,667
- The talk in Miami at the time
was that somehow,
1527
01:12:56,750 --> 01:13:01,917
the Gore faction were going
to steal the election.
1528
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,375
- If I'm about
to steal an election,
1529
01:13:04,458 --> 01:13:07,375
the first thing I'm gonna do
is say,
1530
01:13:07,458 --> 01:13:09,750
"They are going to steal."
1531
01:13:09,834 --> 01:13:12,709
- We'd like America to know
1532
01:13:12,792 --> 01:13:17,083
how the presidential election
is being stolen
1533
01:13:17,166 --> 01:13:21,208
at this time
in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
1534
01:13:21,291 --> 01:13:22,875
- It started
to become apparent--
1535
01:13:22,959 --> 01:13:25,333
even someone like myself,
who voted for Bush
1536
01:13:25,417 --> 01:13:29,500
and wanted Bush to win
in part because of Elián--
1537
01:13:29,583 --> 01:13:31,875
something strange
was going on,
1538
01:13:31,959 --> 01:13:34,208
and it wasn't necessarily
1539
01:13:34,291 --> 01:13:36,083
the message
that we were being given
1540
01:13:36,166 --> 01:13:39,542
that somehow the Democrats
were the ones
1541
01:13:39,625 --> 01:13:41,250
who were doing the coup.
1542
01:13:41,333 --> 01:13:42,333
It was the other way around.
1543
01:13:45,125 --> 01:13:47,834
If you say Bush won,
1544
01:13:47,917 --> 01:13:49,792
then everybody's gonna say,
"Oh, Bush won,
1545
01:13:49,875 --> 01:13:51,875
and these guys are trying
to steal the election."
1546
01:13:51,959 --> 01:13:53,792
See, it's all about
what you call it.
1547
01:13:53,875 --> 01:13:56,291
And, man, Republicans
are so good at that.
1548
01:13:56,375 --> 01:14:01,458
They're just better
at manipulating the situation
1549
01:14:01,542 --> 01:14:05,542
to put themselves in a place
where they're seen
1550
01:14:05,625 --> 01:14:10,458
as the winners and the victims
at the same time.
1551
01:14:10,542 --> 01:14:14,250
- All Americans want a fair
and accurate
1552
01:14:14,333 --> 01:14:16,917
count of the votes in Florida.
1553
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:19,417
And I believe if there is
a fair and accurate count
1554
01:14:19,500 --> 01:14:21,583
of the votes in Florida,
1555
01:14:21,667 --> 01:14:23,125
we will prevail.
1556
01:14:23,208 --> 01:14:25,792
- Gore underestimated
the Bush campaign.
1557
01:14:25,875 --> 01:14:27,625
He fought in the courts
1558
01:14:27,709 --> 01:14:29,291
and he fought
in the recount center,
1559
01:14:29,375 --> 01:14:32,125
but he actually told his people
to stand down
1560
01:14:32,208 --> 01:14:33,792
and not turn out
in the streets.
1561
01:14:33,875 --> 01:14:35,709
He did it to his peril.
1562
01:14:35,792 --> 01:14:39,583
- I was advised
that Reverend Jackson said,
1563
01:14:39,667 --> 01:14:41,583
"We're gonna take
to the streets."
1564
01:14:41,667 --> 01:14:43,125
and Vice President Gore said,
1565
01:14:43,208 --> 01:14:46,959
"If you take to the streets,
there's potential for violence.
1566
01:14:47,041 --> 01:14:49,000
Please don't do that."
1567
01:14:49,083 --> 01:14:52,625
- We were sure that we were
gonna be met with street brawls
1568
01:14:52,709 --> 01:14:54,667
outside the recount centers
1569
01:14:54,750 --> 01:14:57,500
and that we were probably
gonna be overrun,
1570
01:14:57,583 --> 01:14:58,792
and it never came to that.
1571
01:14:58,875 --> 01:15:03,166
- This kind of thoughtful,
conscientious liberalism,
1572
01:15:03,250 --> 01:15:07,125
they're just completely
played up for the other side.
1573
01:15:07,208 --> 01:15:08,166
- Good to see you.
1574
01:15:08,250 --> 01:15:09,875
- It is good to see you,
my friend.
1575
01:15:15,375 --> 01:15:17,875
- They turned out
to be wusses.
1576
01:15:17,959 --> 01:15:21,291
They got their ass beaten
by the Republicans.
1577
01:15:22,625 --> 01:15:25,834
- The recount in Florida
was a street brawl
1578
01:15:25,917 --> 01:15:28,000
for the presidency
of the United States.
1579
01:15:28,083 --> 01:15:30,375
- And for more now on what's
happening today in Florida,
1580
01:15:30,458 --> 01:15:32,000
we're gonna go back
to our Bill Hemmer,
1581
01:15:32,083 --> 01:15:33,333
who's still in Tallahassee.
1582
01:15:33,417 --> 01:15:34,959
Hi, Bill.
- Hey, guys.
1583
01:15:35,041 --> 01:15:37,208
It's starting to rain.
1584
01:15:37,291 --> 01:15:38,375
Bummer.
1585
01:15:38,458 --> 01:15:40,041
- The question of what to do
with these ballots
1586
01:15:40,125 --> 01:15:42,917
that are dimpled or pregnant
will take center stage
1587
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:45,709
in the courtroom right
behind me later this morning.
1588
01:15:45,792 --> 01:15:48,875
A judge is going to be asked
by the Democratic Party
1589
01:15:48,959 --> 01:15:53,542
to order elections officials
to make those ballots count.
1590
01:15:53,625 --> 01:15:56,208
- Late into the night,
the court worked.
1591
01:15:56,291 --> 01:15:58,000
A crush grew outside--
1592
01:15:58,083 --> 01:16:00,792
tired, cold,
anticipating an answer.
1593
01:16:00,875 --> 01:16:03,208
Four hours after sundown,
it came.
1594
01:16:03,291 --> 01:16:05,709
- The court holds
that amended certifications
1595
01:16:05,792 --> 01:16:07,333
from the county
canvassing boards
1596
01:16:07,417 --> 01:16:10,709
must be accepted by the
Election Canvassing Commission
1597
01:16:10,792 --> 01:16:13,834
through 5:00 p.m.
on November 26th
1598
01:16:13,917 --> 01:16:16,375
if the secretary
of state's office is open
1599
01:16:16,458 --> 01:16:17,542
for the special purpose
1600
01:16:17,625 --> 01:16:19,709
of receiving
amended certifications.
1601
01:16:19,792 --> 01:16:21,959
- So the recounts will count.
1602
01:16:22,041 --> 01:16:24,083
It's a victory
for the Democrats.
1603
01:16:24,166 --> 01:16:26,667
- In Miami-Dade,
the biggest problem now:
1604
01:16:26,750 --> 01:16:29,041
meeting
that five-day deadline.
1605
01:16:29,125 --> 01:16:30,583
With a break for Thanksgiving,
1606
01:16:30,667 --> 01:16:33,959
they had planned on finishing
ten days from now.
1607
01:16:34,041 --> 01:16:35,959
- I think that Thanksgiving's
gonna be disrupted
1608
01:16:36,041 --> 01:16:38,208
for a lot of very dedicated
public servants,
1609
01:16:38,291 --> 01:16:40,417
but we all know
how important this is,
1610
01:16:40,500 --> 01:16:43,375
we all know the stakes,
and we all want it done right.
1611
01:16:43,458 --> 01:16:46,750
- The Bush campaign fears
it could result in a victory
1612
01:16:46,834 --> 01:16:48,709
for Democrat Al Gore.
1613
01:16:48,792 --> 01:16:49,750
- I firmly believe
1614
01:16:49,834 --> 01:16:52,083
that the will of the people
should prevail,
1615
01:16:52,166 --> 01:16:55,125
and I am gratified that the
court's decision will allow us
1616
01:16:55,208 --> 01:16:57,625
to honor that simple
constitutional principle.
1617
01:17:23,208 --> 01:17:25,000
- In Dade County,
the undercount,
1618
01:17:25,083 --> 01:17:27,458
ballots with holes not
completely punched through,
1619
01:17:27,542 --> 01:17:29,208
will be examined individually
1620
01:17:29,291 --> 01:17:30,667
by the county's
canvassing board.
1621
01:17:30,750 --> 01:17:33,959
- The rules were changing
minute by minute.
1622
01:17:34,041 --> 01:17:35,500
- You don't know
what you're doing.
1623
01:17:35,583 --> 01:17:39,834
You count his votes.
You count her votes over there.
1624
01:17:39,917 --> 01:17:42,083
Excuse me, did you count--
1625
01:17:42,166 --> 01:17:45,625
if you're not sure
if a person meant to vote
1626
01:17:45,709 --> 01:17:49,083
for what they did,
you put it in the milk.
1627
01:17:49,166 --> 01:17:51,458
- Republican fears
and Democratic hopes
1628
01:17:51,542 --> 01:17:52,792
ride on these ballots,
1629
01:17:52,875 --> 01:17:56,208
an estimated 10,700
set aside,
1630
01:17:56,291 --> 01:17:59,125
not counted because the
machines couldn't read them.
1631
01:17:59,208 --> 01:18:00,500
- This has caused
some consternation
1632
01:18:00,583 --> 01:18:01,500
among the Bush camp.
1633
01:18:05,417 --> 01:18:06,875
- We had a meeting
in the trailer,
1634
01:18:06,959 --> 01:18:09,875
and they were telling us
what was about to unfold
1635
01:18:09,959 --> 01:18:12,041
if Gore got ahead,
1636
01:18:12,125 --> 01:18:13,667
that it would change
the dynamic
1637
01:18:13,750 --> 01:18:16,959
of not only the recount
but also the PR effort.
1638
01:18:17,041 --> 01:18:18,667
- I was working
out of a trailer.
1639
01:18:18,750 --> 01:18:22,000
I was using a walkie-talkie
that worked not terribly well
1640
01:18:22,083 --> 01:18:25,709
to keep in touch
with my contacts inside.
1641
01:18:25,792 --> 01:18:30,000
All we wanted in Miami-Dade
was for the count to be over.
1642
01:18:30,083 --> 01:18:32,667
- I said, "Well, why don't we
do what Democrats would do?
1643
01:18:32,750 --> 01:18:36,208
Why don't we do
some civil disobedience?"
1644
01:18:36,291 --> 01:18:41,208
- I was on the 18th floor
working on the recount,
1645
01:18:41,291 --> 01:18:43,542
and the next thing you know,
the elevator doors open.
1646
01:18:51,625 --> 01:18:52,709
And then they started chanting.
1647
01:18:52,792 --> 01:18:54,875
- Stop the count!
Stop the fraud!
1648
01:18:54,959 --> 01:18:56,875
Stop the count!
Stop the fraud!
1649
01:18:56,959 --> 01:18:59,041
all: Stop the count!
Stop the fraud!
1650
01:18:59,125 --> 01:19:00,542
- Can I have everybody's
attention?
1651
01:19:00,625 --> 01:19:02,667
There's a full protest
out in the lobby,
1652
01:19:02,750 --> 01:19:04,375
and I think it could escalate
out of control.
1653
01:19:04,458 --> 01:19:06,542
all:
Let us in! Let us in!
1654
01:19:06,625 --> 01:19:09,166
- Republican demonstrators
stormed the hallways
1655
01:19:09,250 --> 01:19:11,875
and demanded access
to the recount room.
1656
01:19:11,959 --> 01:19:13,041
all:
Let us in!
1657
01:19:13,125 --> 01:19:15,542
- They were shouting
and yelling.
1658
01:19:15,625 --> 01:19:16,792
all:
Let us see the ballots!
1659
01:19:16,875 --> 01:19:18,083
Let us see the ballots!
1660
01:19:18,166 --> 01:19:20,417
- And then they started
pounding the glass.
1661
01:19:20,500 --> 01:19:22,959
all: The world is watching!
The world is watching!
1662
01:19:23,041 --> 01:19:24,291
The world is watching!
1663
01:19:24,375 --> 01:19:27,625
- And that's when we said,
"What the fuck is this?"
1664
01:19:27,709 --> 01:19:30,542
- This whole thing turned
into un arroz con mango,
1665
01:19:30,625 --> 01:19:32,917
which is Cuban slang
for clusterfuck.
1666
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:36,083
all: Voter fraud!
Voter fraud! Voter fraud!
1667
01:19:36,166 --> 01:19:38,709
- Who are these people,
and what are they doing?
1668
01:19:38,792 --> 01:19:41,500
all: Let us in!
Let us in! Let us in!
1669
01:19:41,583 --> 01:19:42,834
- And in the middle of this,
1670
01:19:42,917 --> 01:19:45,250
I go up to this very thick
window and I said...
1671
01:19:45,333 --> 01:19:47,709
Hi, I'm a lawyer
with the recount.
1672
01:19:47,792 --> 01:19:49,917
I need a sample ballot, please.
1673
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:51,917
- I got a report
from my contact
1674
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:56,417
that a Democratic official
and an unidentified man
1675
01:19:56,500 --> 01:19:59,458
were trying to take
a sheaf of ballots...
1676
01:19:59,542 --> 01:20:00,792
- And it's marked, by the way,
1677
01:20:00,875 --> 01:20:05,166
"Official Democratic Party
Training Ballot."
1678
01:20:05,250 --> 01:20:06,458
It's a sample ballot.
1679
01:20:06,542 --> 01:20:10,291
- Into an anteroom to the side
that had no windows
1680
01:20:10,375 --> 01:20:12,166
in which
there were no observers.
1681
01:20:12,250 --> 01:20:14,834
- And there was this one
Republican woman,
1682
01:20:14,917 --> 01:20:19,125
and she looks at me, and in
a loud voice, she says...
1683
01:20:19,208 --> 01:20:24,125
- He stole a ballot!
- "He stole a ballot!"
1684
01:20:24,208 --> 01:20:25,500
- Stealing a ballot!
1685
01:20:27,208 --> 01:20:28,625
- I'm a lawyer.
1686
01:20:28,709 --> 01:20:30,834
- You can't take that!
1687
01:20:30,917 --> 01:20:35,291
- The mob turns right on me.
1688
01:20:35,375 --> 01:20:37,417
- Republicans accuse
Joe Geller,
1689
01:20:37,500 --> 01:20:39,000
the chairman
of the Democratic Party,
1690
01:20:39,083 --> 01:20:41,667
of stealing a ballot
as a chase ensues.
1691
01:20:41,750 --> 01:20:46,625
- He's being confronted
by these kind of thuggish guys.
1692
01:20:46,709 --> 01:20:48,875
- It was pretty--pretty scary.
1693
01:20:48,959 --> 01:20:50,166
People were yelling
and screaming
1694
01:20:50,250 --> 01:20:54,375
and actually physically pushing
and jumping right into me.
1695
01:20:54,458 --> 01:20:56,917
- Where is all the Republicans?
1696
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,625
- I just thought really that
I was gonna get knocked down
1697
01:21:00,709 --> 01:21:04,041
and stomped and that maybe
that would be the end of me.
1698
01:21:04,125 --> 01:21:07,291
all:
Thief! Thief! Thief! Thief!
1699
01:21:07,375 --> 01:21:10,000
- Those were the pictures
that were being played
1700
01:21:10,083 --> 01:21:13,500
all over the nation as Miami
being a banana republic.
1701
01:21:13,583 --> 01:21:17,250
all: Let us in!
Let us in! Let us in!
1702
01:21:17,333 --> 01:21:20,041
- The people inside
were terrified.
1703
01:21:20,125 --> 01:21:21,417
all:
The world is watching!
1704
01:21:21,500 --> 01:21:24,542
The world is watching!
The world is watching!
1705
01:21:24,625 --> 01:21:26,208
- Given Miami's history,
1706
01:21:26,291 --> 01:21:28,709
where taking the wrong side
of a political issue
1707
01:21:28,792 --> 01:21:31,375
might cost you your limb
or your life,
1708
01:21:31,458 --> 01:21:34,000
they were right to be scared.
1709
01:21:34,083 --> 01:21:36,041
- I called Alex Penelas
and I said,
1710
01:21:36,125 --> 01:21:39,083
"Alex, I am on my way,
1711
01:21:39,166 --> 01:21:42,041
and you and I
have to stop this."
1712
01:21:42,125 --> 01:21:45,417
And he said, "No, don't come.
I'm not gonna get involved."
1713
01:21:46,667 --> 01:21:48,291
- Penelas certainly had
a moment
1714
01:21:48,375 --> 01:21:49,709
where he could've walked in
and said,
1715
01:21:49,792 --> 01:21:51,542
"We're doing what's right."
1716
01:21:51,625 --> 01:21:53,375
- He could've called
the police department.
1717
01:21:53,458 --> 01:21:55,000
They would've moved
those people out.
1718
01:21:55,083 --> 01:21:57,709
He just--he just melted.
1719
01:21:57,792 --> 01:22:01,583
- It's unclear what the actions
of Alex Penelas,
1720
01:22:01,667 --> 01:22:04,458
who was then the county mayor--
1721
01:22:04,542 --> 01:22:07,000
couldn't really figure out
where he was.
1722
01:22:08,208 --> 01:22:10,709
- Again, where was the mayor?
1723
01:22:10,792 --> 01:22:12,750
- The invisible Alex Penelas,
1724
01:22:12,834 --> 01:22:16,542
who just seemed
to come and then go.
1725
01:22:16,625 --> 01:22:17,542
- Around that time,
1726
01:22:17,625 --> 01:22:19,792
Alex Penelas
was in Tallahassee,
1727
01:22:19,875 --> 01:22:22,583
and according to reports,
he was caucusing.
1728
01:22:22,667 --> 01:22:25,375
He was meeting
with Republicans.
1729
01:22:25,458 --> 01:22:27,000
Republicans, mind you.
1730
01:22:27,083 --> 01:22:29,250
- Al Cardenas was the chairman
1731
01:22:29,333 --> 01:22:32,375
of the Florida
Republican Party.
1732
01:22:32,458 --> 01:22:35,792
Alex Penelas' people
were talking with him,
1733
01:22:35,875 --> 01:22:38,917
and there was speculation
that Alex was meeting
1734
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:43,125
with Mario Diaz-Balart, then
a very powerful state lawmaker
1735
01:22:43,208 --> 01:22:45,125
who in fact had a big hand
1736
01:22:45,208 --> 01:22:47,375
in drawing
congressional districts
1737
01:22:47,458 --> 01:22:50,625
and was going to be drawing
them for the 2002 election,
1738
01:22:50,709 --> 01:22:53,083
that they would carve out
a congressional district
1739
01:22:53,166 --> 01:22:55,542
for Alex Penelas, a Democrat.
1740
01:22:57,250 --> 01:22:59,041
- I...
1741
01:23:01,583 --> 01:23:03,625
I don't--I don't--
1742
01:23:08,041 --> 01:23:09,083
Very interesting.
1743
01:23:09,166 --> 01:23:11,083
I don't--
1744
01:23:11,166 --> 01:23:12,792
I don't--
1745
01:23:12,875 --> 01:23:15,959
trying to be
after-the-fact accurate here.
1746
01:23:16,041 --> 01:23:18,500
I don't--I don't remember that.
1747
01:23:18,583 --> 01:23:23,125
- If that's true, you know,
1748
01:23:23,208 --> 01:23:25,000
to say it's unfortunate
and disappointing
1749
01:23:25,083 --> 01:23:26,458
would be polite.
1750
01:23:26,542 --> 01:23:29,709
It is just so disheartening
to hear that.
1751
01:23:29,792 --> 01:23:31,375
- After he lunched
at the Governor's Club
1752
01:23:31,458 --> 01:23:33,667
in Tallahassee
with a Republican lawmaker
1753
01:23:33,750 --> 01:23:36,667
and met with others
instrumental in drawing
1754
01:23:36,750 --> 01:23:39,041
a congressional district
Penelas might win,
1755
01:23:39,125 --> 01:23:42,083
suddenly, the
Miami-Dade Canvassing Board,
1756
01:23:42,166 --> 01:23:43,875
one of whom works for Penelas,
1757
01:23:43,959 --> 01:23:46,125
voted to stop
the manual recount.
1758
01:23:46,208 --> 01:23:49,166
- This is a key moment,
and I want you to listen here.
1759
01:23:49,250 --> 01:23:50,542
What has just happened is,
1760
01:23:50,625 --> 01:23:53,333
the canvassing board
in Miami-Dade County
1761
01:23:53,417 --> 01:23:55,917
has decided
to stop the hand recount.
1762
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:59,000
- My vote
is that we not proceed
1763
01:23:59,083 --> 01:24:00,542
and that we allow
the certification
1764
01:24:00,625 --> 01:24:02,000
that we did on November 8th
1765
01:24:02,083 --> 01:24:04,291
after the second
automated recount
1766
01:24:04,375 --> 01:24:07,458
be the certification submitted
to the secretary of state.
1767
01:24:07,542 --> 01:24:08,875
- The board finally decided
1768
01:24:08,959 --> 01:24:12,041
they did not have the time
to count all of the ballots
1769
01:24:12,125 --> 01:24:13,917
before
the Florida Supreme Court's
1770
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:16,000
5:00 p.m. Sunday deadline.
1771
01:24:16,083 --> 01:24:17,709
- They had plenty of time
to count.
1772
01:24:17,792 --> 01:24:20,083
They absolutely
had plenty of time to count.
1773
01:24:20,166 --> 01:24:24,500
- I do not believe
that there is time to carry out
1774
01:24:24,583 --> 01:24:29,417
a complete,
full manual recount.
1775
01:24:29,500 --> 01:24:30,750
- The idea that they didn't
have enough time
1776
01:24:30,834 --> 01:24:35,250
to count 10,750 undervote
ballots in four days,
1777
01:24:35,333 --> 01:24:36,500
that's horseshit.
1778
01:24:36,583 --> 01:24:40,083
- And with that, they declared
their work done--again.
1779
01:24:40,166 --> 01:24:45,041
- Recount in Dade County: done.
1780
01:24:45,125 --> 01:24:46,834
- The canvassing board
has flip-flopped
1781
01:24:46,917 --> 01:24:48,875
at least three times
that I can count.
1782
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:51,250
First, they decided
not to do a recount.
1783
01:24:51,333 --> 01:24:52,875
Then they decided
that they would do
1784
01:24:52,959 --> 01:24:55,375
a full recount
of 680,000 ballots.
1785
01:24:55,458 --> 01:24:57,250
Then they were gonna
limit it to 10,000.
1786
01:24:57,333 --> 01:24:59,625
And now they've decided
to call it off completely.
1787
01:24:59,709 --> 01:25:02,250
Now Dade County looks like
a complete mess,
1788
01:25:02,333 --> 01:25:04,625
and deservedly, it is the
laughingstock of the country.
1789
01:25:04,709 --> 01:25:10,125
- The canvassing, the recount,
was stopped midstream.
1790
01:25:10,208 --> 01:25:13,750
Can you think of something
more undemocratic than that?
1791
01:25:13,834 --> 01:25:16,959
- The most clear-cut,
obvious decision,
1792
01:25:17,041 --> 01:25:21,583
which very simply
is count all the votes,
1793
01:25:21,667 --> 01:25:23,458
they reversed it.
1794
01:25:23,542 --> 01:25:25,959
- The video that I saw
on the television today,
1795
01:25:26,041 --> 01:25:27,250
I thought was pretty shocking.
1796
01:25:27,333 --> 01:25:28,583
I mean, a crowd of people
1797
01:25:28,667 --> 01:25:30,792
going in there,
storming that room,
1798
01:25:30,875 --> 01:25:32,250
trying to take it over,
1799
01:25:32,333 --> 01:25:36,500
and forcing that board
to change its rules.
1800
01:25:36,583 --> 01:25:38,750
I mean, we haven't seen
that kind of an angry crowd
1801
01:25:38,834 --> 01:25:41,583
since Elián González
was rescued from Miami.
1802
01:25:41,667 --> 01:25:44,792
Is that what passes
for democracy in Miami?
1803
01:25:44,875 --> 01:25:47,792
- A dangerous dimension to
this campaign was introduced
1804
01:25:47,875 --> 01:25:50,291
where you had really
the threat of violence
1805
01:25:50,375 --> 01:25:52,458
in a lot of ways
scaring away many of those
1806
01:25:52,542 --> 01:25:54,458
who believe that the process
should be able to work.
1807
01:25:54,542 --> 01:25:58,625
- These demonstrations were
clearly designed to intimidate
1808
01:25:58,709 --> 01:26:01,250
and to prevent a simple count
1809
01:26:01,333 --> 01:26:04,667
of votes from going forward.
1810
01:26:04,750 --> 01:26:07,000
- From their perspective,
I can understand
1811
01:26:07,083 --> 01:26:09,166
where they thought that we
might've been intimidated
1812
01:26:09,250 --> 01:26:11,667
and our vote was based
on that intimidation.
1813
01:26:11,750 --> 01:26:13,333
The fact is that it wasn't.
1814
01:26:13,417 --> 01:26:14,458
- And as for Mr. Leahy,
1815
01:26:14,542 --> 01:26:15,625
let's just get the record
straight.
1816
01:26:15,709 --> 01:26:17,792
He belongs
in the Cowards Hall of Fame.
1817
01:26:17,875 --> 01:26:19,834
- I simply made my decision
based on the fact
1818
01:26:19,917 --> 01:26:23,166
that we could not certify
in time.
1819
01:26:23,250 --> 01:26:26,500
- We got the message across,
and the recount was stopped.
1820
01:26:26,583 --> 01:26:27,667
- I think justice won.
1821
01:26:27,750 --> 01:26:30,500
I think
the American people won.
1822
01:26:30,583 --> 01:26:33,208
- At the time,
it appeared spontaneous:
1823
01:26:33,291 --> 01:26:35,291
angry residents
denied the right
1824
01:26:35,375 --> 01:26:37,166
to see their votes recounted.
1825
01:26:37,250 --> 01:26:38,542
all:
Let us see the ballots!
1826
01:26:38,625 --> 01:26:39,625
- But the reality is,
1827
01:26:39,709 --> 01:26:42,166
it was an orchestrated
Republican protest.
1828
01:26:42,250 --> 01:26:44,000
- The press is in!
The press is in!
1829
01:26:44,083 --> 01:26:45,000
- Sir.
- Let us in!
1830
01:26:45,083 --> 01:26:47,834
- Sir, you need to--
- Let us in! Let us--
1831
01:26:47,917 --> 01:26:52,875
- This was not an ad-hoc,
impromptu kind of operation.
1832
01:26:52,959 --> 01:26:54,250
- It looks like chickenshit.
1833
01:26:54,333 --> 01:26:55,583
It looks like a bunch of people
1834
01:26:55,667 --> 01:26:58,417
who dress well and, you know,
shower twice a day
1835
01:26:58,500 --> 01:26:59,875
flipped democracy.
1836
01:26:59,959 --> 01:27:01,917
- And most were not even
from here.
1837
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:04,709
- Are you local? Are you--
- You gotta ask my guide.
1838
01:27:04,792 --> 01:27:07,709
- Her guide, a Republican
public relations officer,
1839
01:27:07,792 --> 01:27:09,750
cut that conversation short.
1840
01:27:09,834 --> 01:27:11,709
- You know,
there was a suggestion made
1841
01:27:11,792 --> 01:27:13,542
by the Republicans,
by the way,
1842
01:27:13,625 --> 01:27:16,208
that those were
1843
01:27:16,291 --> 01:27:19,625
"local Cuban American
activists
1844
01:27:19,709 --> 01:27:23,083
who were upset
by the situation."
1845
01:27:23,166 --> 01:27:26,041
Nobody was in guayaberas.
1846
01:27:26,125 --> 01:27:28,333
Nobody had an accent.
1847
01:27:28,417 --> 01:27:33,041
They were dressed in tweeds,
and they all had square heads.
1848
01:27:33,125 --> 01:27:36,417
- In Miami-Dade, the majority
of people who took part,
1849
01:27:36,500 --> 01:27:39,417
yes, were seasoned
political operatives.
1850
01:27:39,500 --> 01:27:42,917
- The mob that the GOP sent
to stop that count in Miami
1851
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:45,208
was billed at the time
as a spontaneous
1852
01:27:45,291 --> 01:27:46,583
grassroots uprising,
1853
01:27:46,667 --> 01:27:47,917
one that just happened
to be made up
1854
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:49,959
of no one at all from Miami,
1855
01:27:50,041 --> 01:27:51,625
all Republican
national operatives,
1856
01:27:51,709 --> 01:27:53,417
including at least
a half dozen
1857
01:27:53,500 --> 01:27:55,500
who, according to IRS records,
1858
01:27:55,583 --> 01:27:58,458
received payment
for their services
1859
01:27:58,542 --> 01:28:01,542
from the Bush-Cheney
recount committee.
1860
01:28:01,625 --> 01:28:03,542
- We did such a great job
that the campaign in Austin
1861
01:28:03,625 --> 01:28:05,625
actually thought
we had lost our minds
1862
01:28:05,709 --> 01:28:08,000
and that we were
doing something
1863
01:28:08,083 --> 01:28:09,375
that was not well thought-out,
1864
01:28:09,458 --> 01:28:11,959
but when we told them that,
of course,
1865
01:28:12,041 --> 01:28:14,417
it was all well-thought out
and preplanned,
1866
01:28:14,500 --> 01:28:16,625
they were satisfied, obviously,
with the result.
1867
01:28:16,709 --> 01:28:20,458
- It was run with care
and with shrewdness
1868
01:28:20,542 --> 01:28:22,125
and evil intent.
1869
01:28:22,208 --> 01:28:23,667
And it worked.
1870
01:28:23,750 --> 01:28:27,291
- It became known as the famous
Brooks Brothers Riot.
1871
01:28:27,375 --> 01:28:29,959
Because Republicans are,
generally speaking,
1872
01:28:30,041 --> 01:28:31,917
better dressed than Democrats.
1873
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:33,291
- Roger Stone has claimed
1874
01:28:33,375 --> 01:28:35,667
that he was in the motor home,
the Winnebago...
1875
01:28:36,917 --> 01:28:38,166
- Telling them
to coordinate and encourage
1876
01:28:38,250 --> 01:28:39,458
the Brooks Brothers Riot.
1877
01:28:39,542 --> 01:28:41,667
Is that accurate?
1878
01:28:41,750 --> 01:28:44,083
- No, it is not.
Roger Stone is full of shit.
1879
01:28:44,166 --> 01:28:46,792
Had he shown up,
he would've been thrown out.
1880
01:28:46,875 --> 01:28:49,000
No, the Winnebago,
he was not in.
1881
01:28:49,083 --> 01:28:51,291
The Winnebago, I rented.
1882
01:28:51,375 --> 01:28:53,417
And he was not part
of the Bush effort.
1883
01:28:53,500 --> 01:28:56,458
I had not seen Roger Stone
down in the recount,
1884
01:28:56,542 --> 01:28:57,959
although I've heard
he's taking credit
1885
01:28:58,041 --> 01:29:01,500
for things that he hasn't done,
true to Roger Stone.
1886
01:29:01,583 --> 01:29:04,500
- Please give me
a fuckin' break.
1887
01:29:04,583 --> 01:29:07,000
Don't use that.
1888
01:29:07,083 --> 01:29:09,000
- The idea
that you would take pride
1889
01:29:09,083 --> 01:29:12,333
in being an operative
who stopped an election
1890
01:29:12,417 --> 01:29:15,000
reveals that
for the Republicans,
1891
01:29:15,083 --> 01:29:18,000
elections are nothing more
than a dirty trick
1892
01:29:18,083 --> 01:29:19,834
to hold on to power.
1893
01:29:19,917 --> 01:29:20,875
- One man's dirty trick
1894
01:29:20,959 --> 01:29:23,500
is another man's
civic participation.
1895
01:29:23,583 --> 01:29:28,166
- That Bush operation trailer
has moved on.
1896
01:29:28,250 --> 01:29:32,583
- The Brooks Brothers Riot
is a travesty.
1897
01:29:32,667 --> 01:29:37,834
The fact that
there was not enough police
1898
01:29:37,917 --> 01:29:41,000
to prevent that from happening
1899
01:29:41,083 --> 01:29:45,250
and that Alex Penelas
did not prevent violence
1900
01:29:45,333 --> 01:29:49,333
from ending American votes
from being counted
1901
01:29:49,417 --> 01:29:54,250
it is to this day
a searing travesty.
1902
01:29:54,333 --> 01:29:56,041
- I'm proud of what we did.
1903
01:29:56,125 --> 01:29:57,709
It was necessary
that it be done.
1904
01:29:57,792 --> 01:30:01,166
And but for perhaps
a little of what we did,
1905
01:30:01,250 --> 01:30:03,709
maybe the outcome
would've been different.
1906
01:30:03,792 --> 01:30:05,917
- Certainly heard some
Democrats whispering yesterday
1907
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:08,667
about wondering if
there were political pressure
1908
01:30:08,750 --> 01:30:11,542
brought to bear on those three
canvassing board members.
1909
01:30:11,625 --> 01:30:15,333
- We learned later
that Judge King and Judge Lehr,
1910
01:30:15,417 --> 01:30:18,041
two of the three members
of the canvassing board,
1911
01:30:18,125 --> 01:30:22,208
had been clients
of Armando Gutierrez.
1912
01:30:22,291 --> 01:30:24,959
- Judge Myriam Lehr
and Judge Lawrence King,
1913
01:30:25,041 --> 01:30:27,083
2/3 of the Dade County
canvassing board,
1914
01:30:27,166 --> 01:30:29,625
were clients
of Armando Gutierrez.
1915
01:30:33,333 --> 01:30:34,875
- I didn't know that.
1916
01:30:36,834 --> 01:30:39,250
- Wow.
That's fucked up.
1917
01:30:40,959 --> 01:30:45,583
That kind of bullshit,
local politics,
1918
01:30:45,667 --> 01:30:46,625
happens all the time,
1919
01:30:46,709 --> 01:30:48,625
but it's rare
that it has a national impact
1920
01:30:48,709 --> 01:30:50,250
and an international impact.
1921
01:30:50,333 --> 01:30:53,333
- Do you feel comfortable
saying
1922
01:30:53,417 --> 01:30:57,750
Armando would never have called
Judge Lehr and Judge King
1923
01:30:57,834 --> 01:30:58,750
and intervened?
1924
01:30:58,834 --> 01:31:00,917
- You kidding me?
Yeah, I wouldn't say that.
1925
01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:02,041
- You wouldn't say what?
1926
01:31:02,125 --> 01:31:04,458
- That Armando would not
pick up the phone and call
1927
01:31:04,542 --> 01:31:05,959
or show up at their house.
1928
01:31:06,041 --> 01:31:06,959
You kidding me?
1929
01:31:07,041 --> 01:31:08,291
- No, no, no,
he was talking to them.
1930
01:31:08,375 --> 01:31:09,291
- I'm sorry?
1931
01:31:09,375 --> 01:31:11,834
- There's no doubt
he was talking to them.
1932
01:31:11,917 --> 01:31:13,291
- Why isn't there a doubt?
1933
01:31:13,375 --> 01:31:14,792
- Because if you know
Armando Gutierrez,
1934
01:31:14,875 --> 01:31:16,000
you know he was talking
to them.
1935
01:31:16,083 --> 01:31:19,917
- It's South Florida.
Anything is possible.
1936
01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:22,709
- The judges deny
they were pressured by anyone,
1937
01:31:22,792 --> 01:31:24,166
and Armando Gutierrez
said that
1938
01:31:24,250 --> 01:31:26,834
he had not spoken to anybody
on the canvassing board
1939
01:31:26,917 --> 01:31:29,083
and that he had actually been
out of town on a trip
1940
01:31:29,166 --> 01:31:31,709
with his son, named Chad.
1941
01:31:33,959 --> 01:31:35,291
- Another fixed election
in a town
1942
01:31:35,375 --> 01:31:36,959
that's famous
for fixed elections.
1943
01:31:37,041 --> 01:31:38,041
You know, it used to be
1944
01:31:38,125 --> 01:31:39,500
Chicago was the most corrupt
city in America.
1945
01:31:39,583 --> 01:31:40,959
Then it was New York,
1946
01:31:41,041 --> 01:31:42,917
the mobsters and all the other
and Tammany Hall.
1947
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:44,750
And now
Miami's number one, baby!
1948
01:31:44,834 --> 01:31:46,041
- Oh!
1949
01:31:46,125 --> 01:31:47,291
- We may not be the best,
1950
01:31:47,375 --> 01:31:48,333
but we're
the goddamn crookedest
1951
01:31:48,417 --> 01:31:50,375
on the face of the Earth.
1952
01:31:50,458 --> 01:31:52,542
- This morning, Al Gore
was in a lighthearted mood
1953
01:31:52,625 --> 01:31:54,875
as he helped to load food
for Thanksgiving dinners
1954
01:31:54,959 --> 01:31:57,500
for needy families
in the Washington area.
1955
01:31:57,583 --> 01:31:59,542
- We don't have to count
these boxes, do we?
1956
01:31:59,625 --> 01:32:00,667
- No, no,
they're already counted.
1957
01:32:00,750 --> 01:32:02,000
They're already counted.
1958
01:32:02,083 --> 01:32:03,542
- We don't have
to recount them, do we?
1959
01:32:03,625 --> 01:32:07,041
- That was before the recount
in Miami-Dade was halted.
1960
01:32:07,125 --> 01:32:10,834
- This decision by the
Miami-Dade Canvassing Board
1961
01:32:10,917 --> 01:32:15,041
could be the last big blow
for the Gore campaign.
1962
01:32:15,125 --> 01:32:16,875
- Now, this is one
of the motherlode areas
1963
01:32:16,959 --> 01:32:19,583
for potential Gore votes
that hadn't been counted
1964
01:32:19,667 --> 01:32:21,291
the first couple times around.
1965
01:32:21,375 --> 01:32:23,041
- With just 930 votes
separating
1966
01:32:23,125 --> 01:32:24,667
the two candidates statewide,
1967
01:32:24,750 --> 01:32:28,875
the Gore camp loses 157 votes
gained here so far
1968
01:32:28,959 --> 01:32:31,000
and the potential
for hundreds more.
1969
01:32:31,083 --> 01:32:34,500
- Republicans have done
everything they can
1970
01:32:34,583 --> 01:32:37,417
to delay the hand count
to run out the clock.
1971
01:32:37,500 --> 01:32:40,875
- Democrats turn to the Third
District Court of Appeals,
1972
01:32:40,959 --> 01:32:43,583
filing an emergency petition
asking the court
1973
01:32:43,667 --> 01:32:46,542
to force the
Miami-Dade Canvassing Board
1974
01:32:46,625 --> 01:32:49,208
to hand-count its votes.
1975
01:32:49,291 --> 01:32:51,083
The Court of Appeals says no,
1976
01:32:51,166 --> 01:32:54,458
but Democrats vow to go
to the Supreme Court.
1977
01:32:56,291 --> 01:32:57,875
- After weeks of setbacks,
1978
01:32:57,959 --> 01:33:01,375
Al Gore wins a battle
in his bid for the presidency.
1979
01:33:01,458 --> 01:33:04,041
The Florida Supreme Court
justices ordered officials
1980
01:33:04,125 --> 01:33:06,375
in all of Florida's
67 counties
1981
01:33:06,458 --> 01:33:09,375
to hand-count ballots
that did not register a vote
1982
01:33:09,458 --> 01:33:10,542
for the president.
1983
01:33:10,625 --> 01:33:12,583
- In addition, the circuit
court shall enter orders
1984
01:33:12,667 --> 01:33:15,959
ensuring the inclusion of
the additional 215 legal votes
1985
01:33:16,041 --> 01:33:19,417
for Vice President Gore
in Palm Beach County
1986
01:33:19,500 --> 01:33:23,083
and the 168 additional legal
votes from Miami-Dade County.
1987
01:33:23,166 --> 01:33:25,709
- Now the margin is 154,
1988
01:33:25,792 --> 01:33:28,542
according to the
Florida State Supreme Court.
1989
01:33:28,625 --> 01:33:33,542
- Florida's supreme court
comes back and says,
1990
01:33:33,625 --> 01:33:37,709
"Everybody recounts
everywhere."
1991
01:33:49,542 --> 01:33:51,917
And then we're up there right
in the middle of doing it,
1992
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:54,959
and the Republican comes
tearing down the hall
1993
01:33:55,041 --> 01:33:58,792
and says, "The Supreme Court
just halted the recount."
1994
01:33:58,875 --> 01:34:01,834
- We have to stop?
1995
01:34:01,917 --> 01:34:04,000
Even in the middle
of the machines?
1996
01:34:04,083 --> 01:34:05,166
Okay.
1997
01:34:08,041 --> 01:34:10,625
- Granting George W. Bush's
request,
1998
01:34:10,709 --> 01:34:12,458
the United States
Supreme Court
1999
01:34:12,542 --> 01:34:14,625
jumped into the battle
for the White House today,
2000
01:34:14,709 --> 01:34:17,291
ordering an abrupt halt
to a hand recount
2001
01:34:17,375 --> 01:34:19,333
of thousands of ballots
in Florida.
2002
01:34:22,709 --> 01:34:25,125
- This is an ABC News
special report.
2003
01:34:25,208 --> 01:34:28,667
"A Nation Waits."
Now reporting, Peter Jennings.
2004
01:34:28,750 --> 01:34:29,792
- Good evening, everybody.
2005
01:34:29,875 --> 01:34:30,959
I'll make it quick and simple
to beginning.
2006
01:34:31,041 --> 01:34:32,291
The Supreme Court
of the United States
2007
01:34:32,375 --> 01:34:35,959
has reversed the decision
of the Florida Supreme Court
2008
01:34:36,041 --> 01:34:40,000
on a very narrow majority:
five justices to four.
2009
01:34:40,083 --> 01:34:43,333
- I read the Supreme Court
opinion and said,
2010
01:34:43,417 --> 01:34:44,625
"We're fucked."
2011
01:34:44,709 --> 01:34:46,083
- How many ballots
have you counted?
2012
01:34:46,166 --> 01:34:47,834
- Ion Sancho oversaw
the recount
2013
01:34:47,917 --> 01:34:49,625
of the Miami-Dade undervotes.
2014
01:34:49,709 --> 01:34:52,166
Close to halfway through
before the stay stopped them,
2015
01:34:52,250 --> 01:34:53,792
Sancho was disappointed.
2016
01:34:53,875 --> 01:34:56,792
- Because we were discovering
valid votes
2017
01:34:56,875 --> 01:34:59,000
cast in the presidential race
2018
01:34:59,083 --> 01:35:02,000
that citizens of
the United States of America,
2019
01:35:02,083 --> 01:35:03,667
who made a good faith effort
2020
01:35:03,750 --> 01:35:05,667
to go down
and case those votes,
2021
01:35:05,750 --> 01:35:08,166
expect to have
their votes counted.
2022
01:35:08,250 --> 01:35:11,041
- The Supreme Court says,
2023
01:35:11,125 --> 01:35:14,000
"We're not gonna let
the count continue."
2024
01:35:14,083 --> 01:35:15,250
And suddenly,
2025
01:35:15,333 --> 01:35:17,083
George Bush became the
president of the United States.
2026
01:35:17,166 --> 01:35:20,375
- The final margin
in the state of Florida:
2027
01:35:20,458 --> 01:35:23,250
five votes to four votes.
2028
01:35:23,333 --> 01:35:25,625
- I won fair and square.
2029
01:35:25,709 --> 01:35:26,917
That's right,
state of Florida.
2030
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:28,750
Read my mouth.
2031
01:35:28,834 --> 01:35:32,083
I am the president
of the United States.
2032
01:35:32,166 --> 01:35:33,834
- And by the way, Florida,
do us a favor.
2033
01:35:33,917 --> 01:35:35,583
Stay out of the next election,
okay?
2034
01:35:35,667 --> 01:35:37,250
Just--we don't need it.
2035
01:35:37,333 --> 01:35:39,417
- Interesting fun fact
about the election:
2036
01:35:39,500 --> 01:35:42,208
Al Gore got more votes
nationally,
2037
01:35:42,291 --> 01:35:43,417
so that's kind of funny.
2038
01:35:43,500 --> 01:35:45,208
And--
2039
01:35:45,291 --> 01:35:46,667
Kind of funny.
2040
01:35:46,750 --> 01:35:48,375
I bet Al Gore will get
a big kick out of that
2041
01:35:48,458 --> 01:35:49,875
when he hears it.
2042
01:35:49,959 --> 01:35:52,500
- The election was lost
in many different places,
2043
01:35:52,583 --> 01:35:54,375
but it was stolen in Miami.
2044
01:35:54,458 --> 01:35:56,417
- This was a game of gotcha.
2045
01:35:56,500 --> 01:35:58,125
I've been telling you
since the 8th of November
2046
01:35:58,208 --> 01:35:59,750
they stole it fair and square.
2047
01:35:59,834 --> 01:36:01,917
They stole it a half a dozen
different ways at least
2048
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:03,583
because the fix was in.
2049
01:36:05,667 --> 01:36:08,208
- The Republicans wanted
to pull off the perfect crime.
2050
01:36:08,291 --> 01:36:09,792
You needed the right people
2051
01:36:09,875 --> 01:36:12,583
to be in the right places
to do so.
2052
01:36:12,667 --> 01:36:16,083
From Armando Gutierrez
to Roger Stone
2053
01:36:16,166 --> 01:36:19,083
to Katherine Harris
to Jeb Bush
2054
01:36:19,166 --> 01:36:21,250
all the way up
to a Supreme Court justice
2055
01:36:21,333 --> 01:36:24,583
appointed
by George W. Bush's father,
2056
01:36:24,667 --> 01:36:29,041
it was a royal flush.
2057
01:36:29,125 --> 01:36:31,083
- You know, it's one thing
to bullshit people
2058
01:36:31,166 --> 01:36:32,500
because you're
a great bullshitter
2059
01:36:32,583 --> 01:36:33,959
and you've got a good message.
2060
01:36:34,041 --> 01:36:36,417
- I know the human being
and fish
2061
01:36:36,500 --> 01:36:38,709
and coexist peacefully.
2062
01:36:38,792 --> 01:36:40,166
- It's another thing
2063
01:36:40,250 --> 01:36:45,125
to literally scheme your way
into getting a result
2064
01:36:45,208 --> 01:36:48,625
that is not perhaps
the proper result.
2065
01:36:48,709 --> 01:36:52,792
And that's what happened
during that election.
2066
01:36:52,875 --> 01:36:55,458
- And tonight, for the sake
of our unity as a people
2067
01:36:55,542 --> 01:36:57,417
and the strength
of our democracy,
2068
01:36:57,500 --> 01:36:59,083
I offer my concession.
2069
01:36:59,166 --> 01:37:01,875
- After endless court battles,
2070
01:37:01,959 --> 01:37:04,291
the Florida vote
has been certified
2071
01:37:04,375 --> 01:37:07,500
by Florida secretary of state
Katherine Harris,
2072
01:37:07,583 --> 01:37:11,792
giving the state and the
presidency to George W. Bush
2073
01:37:11,875 --> 01:37:16,125
by a total of 537 votes.
2074
01:37:16,208 --> 01:37:18,792
Wow.
2075
01:37:18,875 --> 01:37:20,125
That's a landslide
2076
01:37:20,208 --> 01:37:24,667
if you're running
for student council treasurer.
2077
01:37:24,750 --> 01:37:28,166
- She certified
a 537-vote total.
2078
01:37:28,250 --> 01:37:30,333
- The margin was 537,
2079
01:37:30,417 --> 01:37:35,959
a number that for any Democrat
over the age of 35
2080
01:37:36,041 --> 01:37:37,792
is stamped into their head.
2081
01:37:39,417 --> 01:37:41,125
- 537 votes.
2082
01:37:41,208 --> 01:37:43,834
I could probably go
and talk to, personally,
2083
01:37:43,917 --> 01:37:46,166
537 people that I know.
2084
01:37:46,250 --> 01:37:49,667
- 537 votes.
That's stunning.
2085
01:37:49,750 --> 01:37:52,625
- What happened to Al Gore
is very simple.
2086
01:37:52,709 --> 01:37:57,583
He won the state of Florida,
but Miami-Dade made sure
2087
01:37:57,667 --> 01:38:00,875
that at least 10,000 ballots
2088
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:03,709
never saw the light of day.
2089
01:38:03,792 --> 01:38:08,375
- All of the dimpled chads
were never counted ever,
2090
01:38:08,458 --> 01:38:10,667
ever, to this day.
2091
01:38:10,750 --> 01:38:15,333
- And the takeaway is,
close elections can be stolen.
2092
01:38:17,417 --> 01:38:21,709
- It's now clear that the
Miami-Dade recount being ended
2093
01:38:21,792 --> 01:38:23,375
was the seminal event
2094
01:38:23,458 --> 01:38:26,166
that decided
the 2000 presidential race.
2095
01:38:26,250 --> 01:38:29,959
Had things not gone down
as they did in Miami-Dade,
2096
01:38:30,041 --> 01:38:32,375
we might have had
a different result.
2097
01:38:32,458 --> 01:38:35,542
- It was the first domino
to fall.
2098
01:38:35,625 --> 01:38:38,250
It was the beginning
of the end.
2099
01:38:43,500 --> 01:38:46,000
- We drew the short straw
and had that terrible mess
2100
01:38:46,083 --> 01:38:49,542
with the Elián González case.
2101
01:38:49,625 --> 01:38:51,750
Cost him a lot of votes
in Florida.
2102
01:38:51,834 --> 01:38:54,542
- It was humiliating
to many Cuban Americans,
2103
01:38:54,625 --> 01:38:57,250
and the 2000 election
was payback.
2104
01:38:57,333 --> 01:39:00,917
- Bill Clinton got about 35%
of the Cuban American vote
2105
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:03,375
in Florida in 1996.
2106
01:39:03,458 --> 01:39:08,792
In 2000, Al Gore's support
dropped to less than 20%.
2107
01:39:08,875 --> 01:39:11,750
What was the decisive factor
in this election?
2108
01:39:11,834 --> 01:39:14,917
The U.S. Supreme Court,
the Clinton scandals,
2109
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:20,083
the debates, or a little boy
shipwrecked in Miami?
2110
01:39:20,166 --> 01:39:21,166
- Who's to blame?
2111
01:39:21,250 --> 01:39:23,750
Democratic sources say
it's South Florida's
2112
01:39:23,834 --> 01:39:26,709
former Hispanic golden boy,
Alex Penelas.
2113
01:39:26,792 --> 01:39:29,917
- Alex Penelas may have cost
Al Gore
2114
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:32,250
the presidency
of the United States.
2115
01:39:32,333 --> 01:39:33,458
- Before they're being made
to me,
2116
01:39:33,542 --> 01:39:34,959
it's obvious nothing more
than a PR stunt.
2117
01:39:35,041 --> 01:39:37,875
- The boy mayor
finished his term
2118
01:39:37,959 --> 01:39:41,125
and Alex Penelas decided to run
for United States Senate.
2119
01:39:41,208 --> 01:39:44,250
- This Miami-Dade mayor
and U.S. Senate candidate
2120
01:39:44,333 --> 01:39:47,125
is doing damage control
to save his reputation
2121
01:39:47,208 --> 01:39:48,166
after being singled out
2122
01:39:48,250 --> 01:39:50,959
by former presidential
candidate Al Gore.
2123
01:39:51,041 --> 01:39:54,667
"One of the other candidates
in this race became in 2000
2124
01:39:54,750 --> 01:39:57,250
"the single most treacherous
and dishonest person
2125
01:39:57,333 --> 01:40:01,125
I dealt with during the
campaign anywhere in America."
2126
01:40:01,208 --> 01:40:04,959
- Alex Penelas ended
Al Gore's political career,
2127
01:40:05,041 --> 01:40:08,834
and Al Gore returned
the favor.
2128
01:40:08,917 --> 01:40:12,834
- It was a moment.
It was a Miami moment.
2129
01:40:12,917 --> 01:40:14,792
- I have something else
to ask you,
2130
01:40:14,875 --> 01:40:16,959
to ask every American.
2131
01:40:17,041 --> 01:40:20,500
I ask for you to pray
for this great nation.
2132
01:40:20,583 --> 01:40:22,333
- We're way ahead of you.
2133
01:40:24,917 --> 01:40:26,959
- This country would've been
so different
2134
01:40:27,041 --> 01:40:29,208
if Al Gore have been elected.
2135
01:40:31,917 --> 01:40:35,792
We would've addressed
climate change.
2136
01:40:35,875 --> 01:40:38,792
We would have maintained
our position
2137
01:40:38,875 --> 01:40:42,083
as the moral leaders
of the free world.
2138
01:40:43,875 --> 01:40:45,333
- Vice President Al Gore read
2139
01:40:45,417 --> 01:40:48,458
the national security
daily briefs every day
2140
01:40:48,542 --> 01:40:49,542
as vice president.
2141
01:40:49,625 --> 01:40:51,709
I can't imagine
he wouldn't have
2142
01:40:51,792 --> 01:40:55,583
read them twice a day
as president.
2143
01:40:55,667 --> 01:40:58,750
I don't think that 9/11
would've happened.
2144
01:41:02,291 --> 01:41:05,792
- We would not have gone
to war in Iraq.
2145
01:41:07,792 --> 01:41:12,041
- The United States
ended up in two wars
2146
01:41:12,125 --> 01:41:15,583
and killed 350,000
to 500,000 people.
2147
01:41:17,625 --> 01:41:19,500
- When we went
to what I thought
2148
01:41:19,583 --> 01:41:21,542
was an unjust war in Iraq,
2149
01:41:21,625 --> 01:41:25,250
I actually regretted the fact
that he had become president.
2150
01:41:27,333 --> 01:41:30,500
- We went from
a $300 billion surplus
2151
01:41:30,583 --> 01:41:35,000
to running
a $1/2 trillion deficit.
2152
01:41:35,083 --> 01:41:38,709
We put a giant hole
in the American economy.
2153
01:41:38,792 --> 01:41:40,750
We almost went insolvent.
2154
01:41:43,291 --> 01:41:45,583
- I can draw a direct link
2155
01:41:45,667 --> 01:41:49,500
to a war
we shouldn't have fought
2156
01:41:49,583 --> 01:41:53,166
to over 3,000 soldiers dying
2157
01:41:53,250 --> 01:41:55,792
to 537 votes here in Miami.
2158
01:41:57,917 --> 01:42:01,250
- What happened
in Miami-Dade County
2159
01:42:01,333 --> 01:42:03,125
changed
the political landscape
2160
01:42:03,208 --> 01:42:05,542
of this country forever.
2161
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:11,083
- America changed as a result
2162
01:42:11,166 --> 01:42:14,750
of that one year in Miami.
2163
01:42:16,834 --> 01:42:22,291
We have become one
of the most polarized nations
2164
01:42:22,375 --> 01:42:24,750
in the world.
2165
01:42:24,834 --> 01:42:27,417
What Miami was,
America became.
2166
01:42:29,875 --> 01:42:34,959
- If people do not think that
elections have consequences,
2167
01:42:35,041 --> 01:42:36,959
they do.
2168
01:42:37,041 --> 01:42:40,667
You need to take the time
to vote.
2169
01:42:43,083 --> 01:42:46,291
- Democracy is messy,
but I'm a political animal.
2170
01:42:46,375 --> 01:42:48,500
Politics is in my blood.
2171
01:42:48,583 --> 01:42:50,500
So once an election is over,
2172
01:42:50,583 --> 01:42:54,000
the best thing to do is start
focusing on the next election.
2173
01:42:58,750 --> 01:43:00,291
- Ladies and gentlemen.
2174
01:43:00,375 --> 01:43:02,041
- Who discovered America?
2175
01:43:04,291 --> 01:43:06,667
Who--who--who--
who discovered America?
2176
01:43:07,959 --> 01:43:09,500
- Ladies and gentlemen.
2177
01:43:09,583 --> 01:43:11,834
- Who discovered America?
2178
01:43:11,917 --> 01:43:16,417
Who--who--who discovered--
who discovered America?
2179
01:43:23,458 --> 01:43:25,750
- Who discovered America?
2180
01:43:32,750 --> 01:43:35,208
- Who discovered America?
2181
01:44:19,041 --> 01:44:21,208
- Who discovered America?
2182
01:44:28,166 --> 01:44:30,542
- Who discovered America?
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