gore refers to al gore who was the vice president. the vice president some of these nations had a commission to look at a variety of issues. >> that is correct. a very high-level commission. every six months we met in the united states or south africa. i was able to get a commission to authorize an independent investigation of the poisoning. when i tried to implement the decree of commission, every obstacle was placed in my way. investigation never took place. when i continue to push and refuse to stop talking about what i heard, i was removed from the commission. i was booted out of the office into another program i could not get the story at of my mind. in terms of the stories i had heard about what was happening to the community. i was able to get a couple girlfriends were medical doctors to travel with me on our own resources to travel to south africana and conduct our own investigation. tavis: fair to say at the time of your being removed that alcor -- al gore, the white house had been apprised of your concerns? >> no question ab

but i'd like to say that when we first called florida for al gore, i got a call instantly from the bushte house down in texas and from karl rove who went on the air and said, that's not what we're hearing down there and i have a high regard for karl rove's ability to count votes and lay the ground on aelects day going into that night and i turned to tim russert, my late and beloved colleague and said, we have a problem here, i think, and they began to do the double-check, i think, and we were into a long, difficult process that winds up in the u.s. supreme court and i had never been through anything like that before and i hope never to go through it again and, by the way, to be perfectly walkish for a moment, i think it cries out for election reform in this country. and it's uneven rules from state to state to state and if nothing else we should have faith in the integrity of our election system. >> i completely agree. let's turn to barack obama. how good of a president do you think he has been so far? do you think he could get better, do you think? has he been more on balance as a succ

i was the first witness after al gore. he was for it.st it. >> our wolf blitzer with, of course, newt gingrich. just a few minutes ago, shannon travis talked with a representative of michele bachmann and you'll hear some of that interview in our next hour. right now, though, a quick break. yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can come from any faucet anywhere. the brita bottle with the filter inside. nyqui tylenol: me, too. and cougnasal congestion.ers?r can come from any faucet anywhere. nyquil:what? tissue box (whispering): he said nasal congestion... nyquil: i heard him. anncr vo: tylenol cold multi-symptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion... nyquil cold & flu doesn't. this was the gulf's best tourism season in years. all because so many people wanted to visit us... in louisiana. they came to see us in florida... nice try, they came to hang out with us in alabama... once folks heard mississippi had the welcome sign out, they couldn't wait to get here. this yea

nancy pelosi ad, he has been playing footsy with al gore and doing deals with bill clinton.unning around with al sharpton. that comes from bachmann, santorum, some will say he is romney. >> sean: let it fly. on the other hand, for example, i don't want to hear about romneycare anymore. i got his answer, i understand it. he gets the nomation, i will strongly support him. i don't want to hear about the flip-flops. i asked him about them 15 times and i'm sick of the question. the question here is who is going to decide this. does the establishment think they can influence tea party mbers and is there not a subtle campaign -- i think there is -- i know every candidate strength and weaknesss. you know them. we can cite them verse and chapter. it's not going to be anybody but the voters that decide. they are making mistake. getting people angry. >> i think that is news. right now, if you look at the poll and the professionals talk about it on the republican side, they say this attack, not reliable, problems with the personal life newt. that is starting to bring gingrich number bac

the climate change ad with al gore, sitting side-by-side with nancy pelosi. >> do you still believe in the inconvenient truth as outlined by global climate change advocates? >> well, i never believed in al gore's fantasies and, in fact, if you look at the record, the day that al gore testified at the energy and commerce committee in favor of cap and trade, i was the next witness, and i testified against cap and trade and in the senate worked for solutions to help beat the cap and trade. cap and trade was an effort by alaska to use the environment as an excuse to get total control over the american economy. >> join us at 5:00 p.m. eastern when newt gingrich sits down with wolf blitzer, what he needs to do to maintain momentum with the caucuses and primaries just around the corner. just at few months ago, carol, he was criticized by his own campaign staff for beingiterran he's leading in iowa. >> i was reading eric erickson's glo blob and he doesn't wholeheartedly support newt gingrich. later down in his post, he's supporting jon huntsman maybe, sort of, kind of. we're going to talk to e

no one thought al gore was human. >> i think it probably did help to a large degree.h female voters. spouses usually a good thing. at the same time, when clinton was running, hillary clinton didn't go out as much as people thought shes was going to go because in arkansas she wasn't that popular. today the most popular politician in the country. >> the other glaring elephant in the room. could newt gingrich use callista? >> does he need to -- >> the story of them getting together is a not a positive and warm and fuzzy story. she represents herself in the way rudy giuliani's wife had a problem with him. >> you just present it. it's like you have to say this is us, you can't say, and then my wife or whatever. >> he certainly does it. every sentence belongs with callista and i -- i want to play a little sound from earlier debates when the subject of infidelity came up and rick perry and ron paul's response. >> i've always been of the opinion that if you cheat on your wife, you'll cheat on your business partner. >> what about our oath of office? that gets to me, where you'

anyone know al gore? ok, all right.gore was there at the real conference, and is really about -- rio global control. it is essentially a one-world government view, where there's one political body and the united states would have to subsume our sovereignty into a global body. more than that, we would have to give away our wealth. the wealth of the u.s. would have to be redistributed to other countries. that is what the durban conference was about in south africa this weekend, also about redistribution of american money. i want you to know very clearly where i stand on this issue. i oppose agenda 21. i oppose putting united states in an international political body where we you lose u.s. sovereignty. i do not agree with that. i do not agree with a lot of the goals of the u.n., and i do not agree with taking money away from you and redistributing it across the world. because i believe in america and american sovereignty. thank you for asking that question. [applause] >> i will work to get us out of these bad treaties we h

bush/al gore debates. in that case i think they just made the decision that the big commission made early on and left it at that. there was some negotiation, but less so than before. but it is, basically, a process of elimination, not of exultation, okay? [laughter] >> host: how would you prepare? >> guest: well, the basic rule, it took me a while to learn this, the basic rule of preparing for a debate is the same as preparing for a good interview or a discussion you would do on television or even in print, is you've got to have enough information in your head so you can be relaxed enough to react to the answers, to listen to the answers. if you can't, then you're -- if all you can do is just write questions and, again, ask them one right after another, you get caught up in things going right by your head. i use the example in the book, in fact, of a made-up example. i'm interviewing a senator, and i say, senator, should we sell more grain to cuba? yeah, i think we should sell more grain to cuba, but befor

for al gore's alliance for climate protection. gingrich calls the spot one of his dumbest mistakes. gingrich is riding high in the polls with four weeks to go until the iowa caucuses. the question is whether some of his past positions on key conservative issues will catch up with him in time to slow him down. jim acosta, cnn, washington. >>> president obama taking his push to extend a payroll tax cut on the road. it was in kansas stressing how vial a deal is to your paycheck. >> this is a make or break moment for the middle class and all those fighting to get into the middle class. because what's at stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, secure their retirement. >> the white house has even placed a countdown clock on its website to pressure congress. republicans and democrats cannot agree on how to pay for the tax break. the democratic plan on the table right now calls for a 1.9% surtax on millionaires to get the cash. republicans say many

>> if you remember al gore tried the same thing running in 2000. making jokes about himself and being stiff and rigid it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. and reinforces how people view you. he struggling trying to figure out do i take my tie off. look more relaxed. i do change my garb? talk more differently? he is trying different things for good reason to find where that sort of intersection is between who he is and the emotional connection that he needs to make with the american voter. it's not a simple process. not every candidate does. dukakis failed at it i think john kerry failed at it i think al gore failed at it. it's not easy. >> i also think when you have dealt with a great deal of pain in your life and who knew that better in recent history than john mccain it's very large to drenel that up and use that as a campaign tool in this case he didn't. i wonder he had done it more not the people didn't know all the hell he went through but had they been more familiar with that side of him. they just saw this tough in your face campaigner una

>> chris, do you remember al gore, not to knock on al gore, but when he ran for president in 2004, he to describe their experiences in life, because he didn't have one. he went to the convention, listing these four or five -- they were all mixed, some hispanic, some african-american and some of this. it was like, i really don't know american livvie so let me give you some examples. what is this? it's like -- i don't know what it is, but it's not representative of democracy, is it? >> well, certainly, this idea that candidates don't relate, it's the supermarket checkout moment. and i think that is a problem for candidates. but you throw it back to the big city machines. i mean, did they really relate? was that better for democracy? and when you look at the top 25 richest members of congress, these aren't necessarily your big power brokers. certainly, pelosi, some of those folks were there. >> claiborne pell, the elite claiborne pell borrowed some galoshes from a young guy and brought it back and said, where'd you get these from? he said, i got them from tom mckenna, and he said, would

i was the first witness after al gore. he was for it.inst it. >> our wolf blitzer with, of course, newt gingrich. just a few minutes ago, shannon travis talked with a representative of michele bachmann and you'll hear some of that interview in our next hour. right now, though, a quick break. yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can come from any faucet anywhere. the brita bottle with the filter inside. nyqui tylenol: me, too. and cougnasal congestion.ers?r can come from any faucet anywhere. nyquil:what? tissue box (whispering): he said nasal congestion... nyquil: i heard him. anncr vo: tylenol cold multi-symptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion... nyquil cold & flu doesn't. this was the gulf's best tourism season in years. all because so many people wanted to visit us... in louisiana. they came to see us in florida... nice try, they came to hang out with us in alabama... once folks heard mississippi had the welcome sign out, they couldn't wait to get here. this y

bush and al gore. gore won the popular vote! the votes cast by the american people. but mr. bush won the ege votes, question, will president have to consider a strategy of winning the presidency through the electoral college vote versus the popular vote? rich? >> perhaps eventually. but the big picture here, john, he's flat lined at 43% and gallop over the last three or four weeks. he's cratered among the working class and independents. he's lukewarm among hispanics and young voters. with that sort of configuration, he is not going to win in any shape or form. what he needs is tedly improving economic numbers, or some game changing event overseas, or a third-party candidate from the center who will enable him to win without 50%. >> eleanor? >> i think demography is destiny. if you look at the electorates in 2012, there will be some 16 million more young people who tend to vote democratic, and the white working class which obama does not do well with, they're declining in numbers. and i think that map that you're looking at is expanded. you could probably throw in a state lik

bush in 2000 seemed to label al gore a rat. now, that's subliminal.ven if george bush wouldn't admit it. >> i didn't see rats when i saw it, no. >> reporter: or couldn't pronounce it. >> you thought you did. you talk about subliminal. >> reporter: and there was little about the ads jon corzine ran against chris christie in 2009 that showcased his girth, which promised christie to famously respond to don imus -- >> man up and say i'm fat. >> reporter: in our latest poll, 79% of iowans say newt's marital past is not a major factor. rick per rip's ad on faith has registered hundreds of thousands of dislikes on youtube. >> something wrong in this country when gaves can serve openly in the military, but our kids can't openly celebrate christmas or pray in school. >> reporter: and the big-boned chris christie was elected governor, while jon corzine wasch thing to a congressional investigation today. maybe subliminal is not sublime.

welcome back to spotlight i'm al gore norman just a reminder that my guest today is pascal like me the w.h.o. director general and he is joining us right now from his office in geneva. me can you tell us if and. when will the relative weight of. economies well when will it be changing within the w t l framework. well. on such a question is that it's already been changing a lot. let's say for the last ten years the world trade organization today he's very different from what it was ten or fifteen years ago just look at the map of world trade or even the map of world growth. in two thousand and eleven hall full of the growth of the world output will be in imagining and developing countries this proportion was you know twenty twenty five percent ten years ago so it's already totally changed and this has had consequences on the way that w.q. works. ten or fifteen years ago those are the sort of big club of big elephants who are leading the negotiation where u.s. you can add up japan in the last year of its being in u.s. you china india resid japan is to their kind of that is still there bu

>> let's not forget that a weak third-party candidate in 2000 hurt al gore. i think any third-party candidate would hurt president obama. >> i think joe's right that if ron paul runs, it won't hurt obama but there could be 2/3-party candidates and you could imagine someone from americas elect which is a more centralist candidate. mike bloomberg is still out there. >> they have access in 50 states and someone will be handed that next june. i think that person will be more of a problem for barack obama. >> what a great roundtable. joe klein, gillian tett, helene cooper and john heilemann. chris is on a book tour this weekend for his kennedy biography. he'll be back

is some rhetoric going on from very diverse quarters, from people like bill gates, pope benedict, al gore. >> sounds like the beginning of a joke. >> exactly. >> but, i mean, definitely again, something very sort of a populous idea that sort of plays on the outrage that we've been hearing from the financial sector all along. >> so what jerry brown said this week is that he's going to go out and collect signatures but at the same time, we've got probably on the ballot a tax on gas and oil production, tobacco tax, income tax. >> there's actually two other groups talking about income tax initiatives. there was another proposal this week by the california federation of teachers and progressive groups to do a no sales tax increase and the committee plan rolled out last month that the language of which is still sort of in flux a little bit. but nicholas pargruin who sort of bank rolled this bipartisan committee to get this rolling is advancing that taxation plan on next year's ballot. so we're facing a situation where it could easily get voter fatigue from all of the competing initiatives. >> b

al gore won more popular votes than george w. bush, but bush gained moelectoral votes and became president. >> we'll be right back with more "teen kids news." >> so don't go away. revlon just bitten. it's a two-in-one lipstain and balm. the lipstain gives me a light flush of color while the moisturizing balm softens my lips. have you ever been bitten? revlon just bitten lipstain and balm. >> when disaster hits, there's always one sure sign of hope -- the american red cross. but as monika reports, the red cross helps people in many ways. >> the story of the american red cross starts here, in washington d.c. during the civil war, the sanitary commission was started to help sick and injured union soldiers. a woman named clara barton joined that effort. she became known as "the angel of the battlefield." >> during the americanlefield." civil war, it wasn't too common for women to be near the battlefield. clara barton changed all that by providing aid to soldiers, and so that's why they called her the angel of the battlefield. >> afte

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for us, because keith gave news watch so much material with which to work and now he's working for al gore on some channel we can't even find. and also out at msnbc, this guy named chen wiegar, and we wonder if he'll be next. and eliot spitzer shamed new york governor involved in a prostitution ring turned tv anchor and axed by that cable network, due to audience interest meaning nobody was watching. and speaking of low ratings and under the what were they thinking category, katie couric leaving the anchor desk and supposed to be hosting a talk show and much richer. oprah winfrey said goodbye to her duly show, moving on to start the oprah winfrey network, is anyone watching that and glenn beck started gbtv and also heard on his radio show every and every day. so, some of the big media stories of the year and there was the phone hacking scandal in principle, a bigger story overseas than it was here and you said you were watching it. >> some of the hearings were fascinating. nobody will forget watching it live. the wife of rupert murdoch, the chairman of newscorp, got up and defended her hus

al gore won more popular votes than george w. bush, but bush gained moelectoral votes and became president. >> we'll be right back with more "teen kids news." >> so don't go away. >> 10 years ago, the first american died in combat during the afghan war. mike spann was killed while interrogating taliban and al-qaeda prisoners who managed to seize weapons and battled u.s.-allied northern alliance forces. spann was not a soldier but rather a c.i.a. officer. >> i've always thought of our officers, particularly since 9/11, many of our officers i would describe as soldiers without uniforms. >> spann inspired the c.i.a. officers memorial foundation. the money raised helps pay for the education of children and in some cases the widows of fallen intelligence ops. officers are now asking the public to donate. spann was in afghanistan just 16 days after the 9/11 attacks. he was returned to the u.s. and buried in arlington national cemetery, leaving behind a wife and three children. >> not everybody is skilled or has the desire to go to fara

>> let's not forget that a weak third-party candidate in 2000 hurt al gore. think any third-party candidate would hurt president obama. >> i think joe's right that if ron paul runs, it won't hurt obama but there could be 2/3-party candidates and you could imagine someone from americas elect which is a more centralist candidate. mike bloomberg is still out there. >> they have access in 50 states and someone will be handed that next june. i think that person will be more of a problem for barack obama. >> what a great roundtable. joe klein, gillian tett, helene cooper and john heilemann. chris is on a book tour this weekend for his kennedy biography. he'll be back next week. biography. he'll be back next week. thanks for j♪ ning us today. [ female announcer ] we never forget the nearly 12 million cancer survivors in america today... and the countless lives lost. we owe it to them to protect funding for cancer research, prevention and access to care. congress, make cancer a priority and give millions of americans what they need most. [ coughing continues ] [ fema

welcome back to spotlight i'm al gore not been just a reminder that my guest on the show today is jack matlock the last american ambassador to the soviet union well technically bob strauss came to moscow as an ambassador who placed mr matlock in all this not anyone just after the coup. but he but he turned out to be the first and bastard in russia technically actually what was the last one to the soviet union the man who said goodbye to to to to to to to the u.s.s.r. well we were talking about the end of the cold war. speaking about saying goodbye to two. when did you start understanding and i know you did that yeltsin will be the next guy the next man in charge in moscow well actually we had we had hoped that gorbachev and you also could cooperate and it was very clear that anyone that if they didn't there was no way to hold the country together and we wish the soviet union to survive as the voluntary federation that gorbachev was trying to negotiate so we did what we could to support that idea but. and i hope right up we even after the coup i hope that well the shock will bring them