bush and al gore, that's the last year that the gun issue played a critical role in american politics. >> narrator: now it was time to settle a score with the man who had broken that tie vote in the senate-- al gore. >> i want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, mr. gore. (laughter) from my cold dead hands! (cheers and applause) >> narrator: they would spend $20 million on the 2000 election, the most aggressive political campaign they had ever undertaken. >> al gore wants government testing, licensing and registration for all firearms owners. he cast the vote that would have shut down every gun show. this year, vote freedom first because if al gore wins, you lose. >> to all of you in west virginia, it's halloween and al gore doesn't need a mask to scare gun owners and hunters. >> the nra wins because it's patient and because long after america's dismay about these gun massacres has faded, the nra and its membership are still thinking about guns. >> good evening, everybody, and welcome to our election covera

al gore lost to republican george w.ush in the general election in one of the most highly contested in u.s. history. this is just under an hour.

the ag should start with al gore for that historical movie "an inconvenient truth waets and it's provenbe completely wrong filled with junk science. lits start with gore. >> stuff that was supposed to happen like the melting of the ice caps and it didn't. >> i think there are other evidence that climate change is getting worse and i'm wondering if these guys don't have anything better to do. because if you're suing over exaggerations you might prove down the road to look foolish and these are the same guys that brought the suits to try to stop obama care once, twice, three times. it didn't work. >> john, this is one example. abc had a little piece back in 2008 of what life would be like in 2015. half of manhattan would be gone because of flooding. again, all the icebergs would be melted. the hurricanes would be worse. they have been much more mild than exsected. it is all wrong. >> yeah, scientists have been predicting climate catastrophe for years and years and particularly in coastal cities. as evidence by all the expense of houses and rich businesses that populate those areas, market

in the 2000 election, al gore picked joe lieberman. that election was so close.emember gore/lieberman won the popular vote. joe lieberman was really, really, really almost vice president to president al gore. but instead they didn't win. and what joe lieberman ended up becoming very quickly was a neo conservative radical for the duration of the presidency of george w. bush. during the presidency that would have been his time in office, he ended up actually leaving the democratic party and endorsing republican john mccain for president against barack obama. joe lieberman was a hair's breadth away from being a democratic vice president shortly before he became not just a democratic pariah but fell off the right-wing ragged edge of some of the most important issues on earth. george w. bush picked a vice president by asking dick cheney to find the right person to be vice president for him. dick cheney looked around and decided the right person was dick cheney. he then proceeded after choosing himself to make himself the most powerful vice president and the most radic

gore: you know -- [chanting] > go, al, go! go, al, go! mr. gore: are you with me? nting] >> go, al, go! go, al, go! [applause] mr. gore: you know, education may be a local responsibility. but i believe it also has to be our number-one national priority. we cannot stop until every school in america is a good place to get a good education. [applause] mr. gore: and i will never forget a little boy named ian malone who suffered from a medical mistake during childbirth and needs full-time nursing care for several years. i met him and his parents in seattle, near everett, washington, their home. their hmo had told the malones that it would no longer pay for the nurse they needed, and then, actually told them they should consider giving ian up for adoption. that is when his mom and dad got really mad. they told their story in public, and the hmo was embarrassed. because they fought for their baby, today, ian has the care he needs to stay alive. but no family in america should have to go on national television to save their child's life. [applause] mr. gore: dylan, dylan an

in the 2000 election, al gore picked joe lieberman. that election was so close.rman won the popular vote. joe lieberman was really, really, really almost vice president to president al gore. but instead they didn't win. and what joe lieberman ended up becoming very quickly was a neo conservative radical for the duration of the presidency of george w. bush. during the presidency that would have been his time in office, he ended up actually leaving the democratic party and endorsing republican john mccain for president against barack obama. joe lieberman was a hair's breadth away from being a democratic vice president shortly before he became not just a democratic pariah but fell off the right-wing ragged edge of some of the most important issues on earth. george w. bush picked a vice president by asking dick cheney to find the right person to be vice president for him. dick cheney looked around and decided the right person was dick cheney. he then proceeded after choosing himself to make himself the most powerful vice president and the most radical vice president

i am so proud of al gore. [applause] he said he came here tonight because he always wanted to do the warm-up for elvis. [laughter] well, i ran for president this year for one reason and one reason only. i wanted to come back to this convention and finish that speech i started four years ago. [applause] last night, mario cuomo taught us how a real nominating speech should be given. [cheers] he also made it clear why we have to steer our ship of state on a new course. tonight i want to talk with you about my hope for the future, my faith in the american people, and my vision of the kind of country we can build, together. i salute the good men who were my companions on the campaign trail -- tom harkin, [applause] bob kerrey, [applause] doug wilder, [applause] jerry brown, [applause] and paul tsongas. [cheers] one sentence in the platform we built says it all. "the most important family policy, urban policy, labor policy, minority policy and foreign policy america can have is an expanding, entrepreneurial economy

al gore. >> what party?rty. >> him and michael moore. >> that's a good book. >> label them. michael moore, al gore, which one is the bigger bore? >> al would get back in the game. gutfeld, your choice is? >> i would go by the buddy cop formula, taking two people that complement each other with benefit in shortcomings and i thought immediately o'reilly gutfeld or gutfeld o'reilly and it would be the tall and short of it. we would kill. we would be like crocket and tubs. we would be like starsky and hutch. the male cab any and lacy in 2016. >> the only problem with that is in the posters what you show for whatever party. i will ask what the name of the party would be for the o'reilly gutfeld run. they would only show my bellybutton down. want to get your head in. >> i saw where that was going five minutes ago. what's the name of the party we are running for? >> i would call it the heard party. >> after oliver hardy or the hardy boys? >> lawler and hardy. >> i think i know who you are. >> gutfeld and mcguirk, t

. >> anybody hear that phone ringing because it is nancy pelosi's and her colleague al gore telling herbe quiet. and he's an apple board member. so ludicrous. the government's been responsible for some very extraordinary innovations but the apple iphone is not one of them and i don't know what she's thinking. except for as i said she's try stog substantiate her -- in some way it is not clear. >> al gore, i took the initiative in creating the internet. >> very kind of him. and we all appreciate it greatly. we also appreciate the funding that went into the building and which was she was talking about. i think it was a dumb thing to say. these are not good things for democrats to be saying please stop. but she's not completely insane. >> >> i get what she's talking about. she's saying and we just talked about the government has put together in many cases some platforms that if you bind them together you come up with a product. i get the point i think she was talking about. but that is not on invention. an invention includes not only time and components together but the marketing. the sales

david: so many of these predictions were untrue, but al gore because of some of the consulting work,tera, he made some money out of these predictions. so, in misleading people about what was going to happen, he got rich, a lot of other people are getting poor like taxpayers. >> absolutely. don't forget higher energy prices who gets hurt the most? those who can least afford to pay for it. on fixed incomes and black americans who have lowest average income. what gore was not doing was not illegal it is certainly immoral. david: bottom line if you can't sue exxon i suppose for understating global warming, you can't sue al gore for overstating the problems of global warming. >> right. david: won't all these lawsuits cancel themselves out? >> oh certainly, but you have to look at companies like solarcity which is renewable energy solar stock. they're based on, whole theory is based on energy prices going up because of renewable energy. that is what they need to replace with coal. epa regulations that could be bounced would be bad for them. david: tom, great to see you. thank you very much

al gore lost to republican george w. bush in the general election in one of the most highly contested in u.s. history. this is just under an hour. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my husband, our next president of the united states, al gore. [applause] ♪ [applause] [chanting] mr. gore: thank you. thank you very much. you very much. [applause] mr. gore: thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. i speak tonight of gratitude, achievement, and high hopes for our country. tonight, i think first of those who helped me get here, starting with the people of tennessee. then those who braved the first snows of iowa and new hampshire, and all of you here from all over this country who have come with me to the warm sunlight of this great city. while i can't thank each of you individually in words, i do so in my heart. and i know you won't mind if i single out someone who has just spoken so eloquently, someone i've loved with my whole heart since the night of my high school senior prom, my wife, tipper. we have been lucky enoug

bush went on to win the general election over democrat and vice president al gore in one of the most highly contested in u.s. history. this is just under an hour. [applause] bush: mr. chairman -- mr. chairman -- [applause] bush: thank you, all. [applause] george w. bush: mr. chairman, delegates, and my fellow citizens. i proudly accept your nomination. [applause] george w. bush: thank you for this honor. together, we will renew america's purpose. [applause] george w. bush our founders : first defined that purpose here in philadelphia. ben franklin was here. thomas jefferson. and, of course, george washington -- or, as his friends called him, "george w." [laughter] [applause] george w. bush: i am proud to by my side.eney [applause] george w. bush: he is a man of integrity and sound judgment, who has proven that public service can be noble service. america will be proud to have a leader of such character to succeed al gore as vice president of the united states. [applause] bush: i'm grateful for senator john mccain. i appreciate very much i his speech tonight's ago, i appreciate his fr

were president, and you cannot say that al gore and george w.ush is the same person, and the same lunatic fringe is accusing hillary clinton and the republican party as the same creature, and sewer shoo, you can say that you can compare hillary clinton and ben bernanke and not the same as trump, and i wish they would shut the hell continue, because that is the race we have trump or clinton and may the best woman win. which ever one of them is a woman, i don't know. which ever one is a woman, i want that person to win. >> all right. ath least you are honest about it. >> i am. >> and thank you, michael. another look at the markets and hitting 18k for the first time since april today, and first, rick santelli, what are you watching? >> well, carl, i'm watching the equities market and paying close attention to the nasdaq and the run for 5000 and considering that we closed above that last year, we have all three indices in the black for first time. what does that mean for the fixed income market, and the fed? we will talk about that after the break.

with bill clinton and al gore and of course their spouses. and there was something that was, you know, that was the boomer magic. that was a generation nol ship. and you got a little taste of that today. >> i fwrougt up for a reason as well, al gore was not a conventional choice for bill clinton. he was generationally the same, geographically the same, and id logically the same, but it did work because there was a sense of this page being turned in the country's politics. you look at elizabeth warren and hillary clinton up there today, and you also had a sense of a page being turned where women cannot only run for president, win their party's nomination, but an elizabeth warren can go on tv and yes, i am qualified. i have to say, i take issue with tim kaine's full response when he says nobody ever says they're kwufled. when you run for president, you are saying to the american people that you are qualified for that job. and i think it's 2016 and women can say yes, i'm qualified to be vice president. yes, i'm qualified to be president. and tha

. >> al gore. >> al gore invented the internet. >> they also like bush. >> i will get the best scientific technological advice from leaders in your field. >> silicon valley helps obama. obama helped silicon valley. executives from google visited the obama administration 128 times. >> facebook is opening a new office in washington, d.c. is hiring david plays. >> clinton has always had a hard ouffe.- david pl hardinton has always had a time. >> among your friends in silicon valley, how many of them are trump supporters? >> none of them overtly. >> elon musk said he wanted to send humans to mars by 2025. huge moment, because for the first time since silicon valley mattered in politics, they don't have a candidate. john: it's certainly true. valley, the politics there -- there are some libertarian elements. there are some left of center, some right of center. there are not a lot of far left and not a lot of conventional far right. donald trump's approach to global economics is not going to fly with a lot of the business community, particularly with x or it -- export oriented companies and tec

al gore said to him, you know, howard, it's not about you, it is about the country, it is about the party. i think that the sense is you go the to make sure that bernie sanders feels respected, because down the line, you don't want him to act out -- to act as if he was ln disrespected or that his followers were say, you know what, its that he status quo establishment and democratic party that we don't like that we thought was unfair to us during the campaign. >> ed, why then schedule a meeting with president obama if you're not ready to have that party unity? he could have gone up -- >> he is going to meet with schumer and vice president biden. >> howard dean only won vermont when he was running and was not a factor. this guy's won 22 states and done well. so my sense is he wants to milk it as long as he can. i think the key thing is how he gets his supporters to come over on the other side. i am reminded when carter and kennedy had their knock-down primary battle in 1980, 27%, 28% of the kennedy supporters voted for reagan. i think there is still a real faction out there they have

1992, bill clinton picks al gore, another young son of the new south. in picking sherrod brown, i think hillary clinton would say this is a serious ticket aimed at governing. this is someone who has spent time in the house, in the senate, who has these relationships. it would also be a little sop to the left. because sherrod brown is someone that the left really admires. it is just a really complicated calculus in terms of what they are pricing today in terms of what they will prize in the day they make the pick. that makes it hard to predict who they wind up picking, but also totally fascinating. host: ohio has been called the swingiest of the swing states. it is a pivotal state for both democrats and republicans. it is where the republican convention will be in july. governor kasich is a republican, and the senate republican leader harry reid has made it clear that he does not want to see somebody selected from a state that would result in the senate losing a democratic seat. mr. cilizza: you just outlined the strongest argument against picking sherro

the decision of choosing al gore of a fellow white male, baby boomer southerner for the ticket. the whole question was compatibility and experience is a heartbeat away. he was an experienced for congressman current senator and compatibility is so important to her. >> indeed, from hillary clinton's point of view of the compatibility question is a bigger issue than the heartbeat question. elizabeth warren has been the senator of the united states. we had a lot of discussions of governors being the potential candidate, we don't question them having foreign experience. hillary clinton knows better than anybody else how you want to have a vice president that you can feel comfortable as can be on your team. somebody that's not going to be and staffs are not whispering behind your back. those are questions of compatibility and loyalty and on the same wavelength that's greater questions for hillary clinton than the question about ability and foreign affairs. >> it is interesting that we are not talking about choosing someone of the same gender. the former attorney general and the senato

1992, bill clinton picks al gore, another young son of the new south. in picking sherrod brown, i think hillary clinton would say this is a serious ticket aimed at governing. this is someone who has spent time in the house, in the senate, who has these relationships. it would also be a little sop to the left. because sherrod brown is someone that the left really admires. it is just a really complicated calculus in terms of what they are pricing today in terms of what they will prize in the day they make the pick. that makes it hard to predict who they wind up picking, but also totally fascinating. host: ohio has been called the swingiest of the swing states. it is a pivotal state for both democrats and republicans. it is where the republican convention will be in july. governor kasich is a republican, and the senate republic

goer, the karenna daughter of al gore arrested with protesters including many members of clergy who liedown in a pipeline trench. mr. dechristopher: it commits us to burning fossil fuel for decades. we know every new fossil fuel infrastructure will lead to another masquerade somewhere in the world. amy: but first we go to turkey where the death toll has risen to 42 from tuesday''s triple -- from the multiple suicide bombing at istanbul's international airport. all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the u.s. senate has passed the so-calleled promesa bill, which will establish a federally appointed control board with sweeping powers to run puerto ririco's economy. the bill is intended to help the island cope with its crippling debt crisis, but it has also been widely criticized as a means of removing democratic control from the citizens of puerto rico. the senate's 68 to 30 vote to pass the bill comes only two days before puerto rico is expected to default on more than $2 billion debt payment. new jersey senator

1992 for example, bill clinton picks al gore, another young son of the new south. in picking brown, i think hillary clinton would say this is a serious ticket aimed at sort of governing. this is someone who has spent time in the house, in the senate, who has these relationships. it would also be a little sop to the left. brown is thatd someone that is admired. it is a very complicated calculus, what they are uprising today in terms of what they will prize in the day they make the pick. that makes it hard to predict who they wind up picking, but also totally fascinating. >> ohio has been called the swing-y-est of the swing states. it is a pivotal state for both the democrats and the republicans. governor kasich is a republican and harry reid has made it clear that he does not want to see somebody selected from a state that would result in the senate losing a democratic seat. >> you just outlined the strongest argument against sherrod brown. kasich would be able to pick a republican to fill that term until another scheduled election. that wasn't the obviously -- thea

. >> i read something where once al gore had to call howard dean and howard dean was ranting about, i don't want to get out and al gore said hey, it's not about you, howard dean, it's about the country. but in bernie's case, he's looking to maximize leverage headed toward philadelphia. >> interestingly, howard dean is also on this morning or yesterday morning saying bernie should get out and he should start a super pac to elect liberals. >> he's hillary you know surrogate so he wants, he's like bye-bye, bernie. >> we love people running against the odds, that's what rockie, it's like we don't want people to drop out. i think everyone is dropping out too soon. >> it's over, it's over. she has the majority of pledged delegates, not superdelegates. i was up untilhe morning watching this. because he was waitsing forever to make it happen. i find it unprofessional. he's going to stay in this long enough to become the villain. in the crowd we've seen hundreds and hundreds of stump speeches by candidates, that crowd was angry, they were intense. i could feel it through the screen. >> angry v

i was around in 2000, huge mistake for al gore not to use bill clinton. hillary will not make that mistake. >> okay. and rebecca, i want to talk to you about mitt romney's criticisms of donald trump. he really came out and doubled down on donald trump, saying he is unfit for office, that he's going to hurt america's values and america will never be the same if he's president. let's listen to sound from donald trump. >> when i heard he was going to run again and i was thinking about running, i let him know. i said, the guy is a stone cold loser. he choked and when you're a choker, you can never give a choker a second chance. it's too important. >> your reaction, rebecca? >> of course this rivalry, pamela, is nothing new. mitt romney is one of the most forceful rebukes during the republican primary of donald trump when he gave his speech, calling donald trump politics unbiased bigotry. he's been an outspoken critic for a long time now of donald trump. what makes mitt romney stand out from other republicans is that he has maintained his strong criticism of d

since al gore and 2000, democratic presidential candidates have tended to soft pedal gun control becausends, if anything, just to mobilize the pro-gun forces. question, will hillary clinton campaign aggressively on tougher gun control this fall? >> well, she's spoken out very clearly on this issue during the entire campaign. and she will obviously continue to do so. look, this is very simple. we need to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals, out of the hands of terrorists. and republicans, including donald trump, are trying to block this at every step. this is something that the american people support overwhelmingly. and for the sake of the safety of families across this country, we need to get something done. that's what hillary is proposing that we do. >> then there is ethics and trump hit clinton hard on that this week. >> she ran the state department like her own personal hedge fund doing favors for oppressive regimes and many others and really many, many others in exchange for cash. >> and according to a recent poll, 33% say she's honest and trustworthy, 62% say no. rob

. >> you go back to the 2000 election, al gore might tell you guns was a decisive issue in his loss ofelection, some people believe he didn't lose it, but yes. i think the politics has changed. you look at polling in this country, you see majority of the american public wants some form of gun control. you look at the polls on assault weapons, et cetera, et cetera. it is a risk. it is a risk. but there are less southern state democrats than their used to be. it is not as much risk as it once was. >> john, you're a new york republican, an interesting breed, 30 seconds left. do you think there's room for compromise here? >> this is all part of the democrat strategy to spin this terrorism. they want to call it gun control. that's what they're doing. that's what this is all about. measures fail, they're not even together on it. you say the republican party isn't unified. what failed in the senate. is it senator tester, how did he vote, he is not even with his own party. this is democrat party spin to stop people talking about terrorism. it is failed democrat policies of foreign affairs and

lot of us remember 2000, there were some of the same reservations will al gore you hear about hillarynton too moderate, too much of an establishment candidate and 80,000 of the people voted for ralph nader in florida. al gore lost by 527 votes and history was much different after that point because of what happened there. bernie sanders knows that history and he has a responsibility to impart the history of his supporters. >> i feel like a marriage clint. >>> they point to the good things that secretary clinton has done but i think sometimes they're talking past each other. the things that are important to the sanders movement is not this platform thing or this thing -- >> i think reforms in the party are going to be important aren't they. >> they have to figure out what rule changes they want. parties should be able to pick their own people. if they're bad he wants them open. then you can't defend caucuses. caucuses exclude the disabled and elderly, people with young kids. i think tonight as important as california and new jersey are i think what he says matters more than what happen

similarly, you look back to the 2000 presidential election where al gore was distancing himself fromore in the popular vote but ended up losing the white house so the unity factor does matter. >> lastly, we know the money on the ground matters, the messaging matters. hillary clinton, $17 million in battleground states at a time where donald trump has chosen not to focus on key battleground states. >> yeah. tamron, we're getting word from our ad tracking sources it actually could be even higher than $17 million. more orders keep coming in. also do note that the clinton super pac is on the air in those same battleground states as well. it turns out hillary clinton is owning the air waves. there are no republicans or really very little that's going on from donald trump or his super pac and it remains to be seen how long she'll own those air waves all to herself. >> all right, mark, thank you very much. great pleasure having you on this morning for the first read. >>> coming up, the new alert from the cdc on the zika virus, as officials say three more babies have been born in this countr

, al gore, at their side, you're helping hillary clinton. >> and i love the story of how you go downe recount, that horrendous time, to florida and take on the issue. >> it was just one thing after another, but probably the best one was when you were running against carly fee arena. at this. at this time i'm in the senate. i know you. i see what you're doing and what you're up against to take on climate change and you're running and i thought, now that we've seen carly fee arena and another light running for president, you kind of put her away in that race. >> well one would of thought, but the moment she got caught on air talking about your hair and your. >> reporter: reaction, we are kinda back to the beginning of your run because people are dealing with these issues that men wouldn't have to deal with. >> glad you brought it up simply because it's another amazing lesson to people watching that no matter what field they're in, i don't care if there raising a family or what, things happen. i was running in 2010. she was considered a top-tier. she she was a top-tier candidate. she ha

that is music to the ears of sanders' backers but if you're old enough to remember this it's what al gore might call fuzzy math. if you tossed out the super delegates clinton has a majority of the pledged delegates and will have a majority of the pledged delegates when the voting is over unless sanders somehow wins 70% of those remaining. molly ball the question is, what does he want and does he understand, a lot of democrats are clinton supporters, let's be clear about that. lot of democrats think when he should be dialing it back to get his supporters ready for what they think is likely to happen he has his foot on the accelerator. >> i could see sort of two aspects of this. i was out in california, went to a bunch of bernie sanders' events last week. there's an aspect of his rhetoric overlooked. what he says is if we win california and all the other states that are voting on tuesday, then we will have momentum, then we will start to put the super delegates and then go into convention with a head of steam. he's leaving himself an out not only if he doesn't win california but literally a

john mccain didn't embrace bush and al gore kept bill clinton on the sidelines in states. of key gwen: it didn't work for them. >> for neither one of them. worked for himad in the administration, which is a difference. the difference, both of them had baggage the nominees didn't with.o be associated in this case, hillary clinton needs and wants president obama to get out there particularly to energize core constituencies in her party she might not energize. left, africanders americans, latinos -- people who have to come out in large help make sure she has an opportunity to beat donald trump. withke the situation ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. karen: what's different is the mood of the country. the legacy argument is tricky to make at a moment when people on the left and the right are so have suchashington, little respect for washington. the other reason it's going to be a difficult argument to make that we have two nominees who have, between them, the highest any two nominees we have seen since polling started youhe playbook tells you are to make the race about your o

i think al gore played a significant role if you go back and look. there was a very good chemistry , which,gore and clinton unfortunately, for gore, it did not come through, where i think clinton could have won the race. and i do not have quite a sense he does seem, but to be an intimate of the present. president defined vice president, not vice versa. if you have a president who want a colleague and want somebody to do real things, then they can do that, and there is a great new book out about nixon and eisenhower which ethnic is called "the statesman and the apprentice." very flattering about the interactions with next and. nixon is the first modern vice president. host: if you were to have a conversation with donald trump, what would you ask him? what does he have in mind, and what role would you define? mr. gingrich: modernizing american government. we are 20 or 30 years behind our capabilities. it is going to require a very since tangible amount of effort to get us back on track. host: would it be a fun job for you? every job has been a fun job.

the nra would run all night long, they would run infomercials, hour-long infomercials about why al gore was going to take away guns and was bd for the second amendment. after that election, democrats decided they were no longer going to take on this fight. we may have now gotten to a point where democrats are willing to do it. >> there are a couple bills, as a representative of the other side of this argument, there are now four bills that are going to be voted on on monday. one of them is the no fly, no buy bill, mean if you are on the no fly list, you can't just go buy a gun. the attorney general will be able to delay purchases for people on the watch list. there's a background check bill and improved background check bill. what could be the possible objection to any of those bills? >> i don't know yet. when i talk to members of the congress and senate that i know and have worked for, you start the entire argument from a long time ago. there's 270 million guns in america in a population of 320 million americans. the cat's out of the bag on guns. the question is, who's going to buy the

al gore senior and al gore junior.nother name a lot of people, speaker of the house, president roosevelt's time, many debates before congress in the ryman. when joe burns died his funeral was in nashville and fdr came to that, the legacy of the ryman is tied with the legacy of the opry. today the opry is heard on the internet and the grand all opry is the oldest radio show in the world and we are fortunate although the opry has a new home it comes back here in the winter for a few months and you can see the grand all opry where it was famous in the auditorium. ♪ ♪ >> you are watching tv on c-span2. this weekend we are in nashville. next, tennessee and columnist kiel hunt tell us about the abrupt removal of ray branton in 1979. >> we hear the people's wisdom. i ask for the prayers, took the oath of office. >> place your left hand on the bible. raise the right hand. i, lamar alexander. >> the title of the book is the coup, the day the democrats out to their governor and it is about the early swearing-in of governor lamar

we have had famous politicians even in the 20th century, al gore or sr. and al gore jr., another name that a lot of people may not know is joe burns who was speaker of the house during president roosevelt's time. he had many debates for congress here in the ryman. and when joe burns died, his funeral was in nashville, and fdr came to that. so the legacy of the ryman is tied with the legacy of the opry. today the opry is heard worldwide because of the internet and still because of wsn. the grand ole opry is the oldest radio show in the world, is and we're fortunate that although the opry has a new home, it comes back here in the winter for a few months, and you can still see the grand ole opry where it was famous, in the ryman auditorium. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. this weekend we're in nashville with the help of our local cable partner, comcast. next, tennessean columnist gil hunt will tell us about the abrupt removal of governor ray blanton in 1979. >> seek the people's wisdom and we hear the people's wisdom. our days

tickets, 1984, 1988, where the democrats could lose the white house but pick up senate seat's, where al goreould win while al -- those days are behind us right now. what we've seen in the last several elections is that the congressional and senate performance tends to follow the presidential performance more than it used to. the states where those republican incumbents are cutting across the midwest are very problematic, even though those are stronger incumbents than the ones who had to defend in 1986. al: then you think the republicans will keep the house and it is 50-50 in the senate, you think the democrats will win the senate and have a shot at the house? anita: we will certainly gain ground. al: final question, is this one of those seminal elections that will change the nature of american politics, or is this just one of those quirks that happens and you get over it? vin: this is a unique election. the discrediting of the two parties, which precedes the campaign almost, he's a very big deal. that brings into question the whole two-party system. within the republican party, beyond the of

bush to wind up defeating al gore and in 1992, independent ross perot caused havoc. a victory for bill clinton. there, you have that. >> these are fascinating times we're going through. can one or both of these smatter parties spoil the outcome for the major parties. >> they can and we don't know whether there will be enough disaffected voters to go their way. if they do, watch out. it will be chaos for all. >> you'll have a new book to write about this topic. there is still time to vote tonight. go to our website before you go out to the polls. nbcbayarea.com for our voters edge election guide. we posted it. you can also look up your polling place. >> so was vigilante justice the motive for murder? they show an attack on a 66-year-old homeless man. investigative reporter jackson van der beckon tells us that the victim was beaten, stomped, and dumped after a group of transients convicted him of being a sex offender. >> they found the battered body of a 66-year-old homeless man. authorities now suspect his death came at the hands of a park vigilante. he was a transien

bush went on to win the general election over democrat and vice president al gore in one of the most highly contested in u.s. history. this is just under an hour. [applause]

. >> al gore invented the internet. >> they also like bush. >> i will have the best technological adviceers in your field. >> 2008, silicon valley helps obama, obama helps silicon valley. >> new reports show a top lobbyist from google visited with the obama administration 128 times since the president took office. >> the valley comes to the swamp. >> palo alto-based facebook is opening a new office. in washington, d.c. >> uber is hiring david left. >> 2016, pumped about the finals, not about the race. >> clinton has had a hard time selling to that crowd. she has not known them as well. >> how many do know who are trump supporters? >> none of them come overly. >> except for this guy. >> peter thiel is now backing donald trump. >> others give up on earth entirely. >> elon musk said he wanted to send humans to mars by 2025. john: it's a huge moment, -- mark: it's a huge moment, because for the first time since silicon valley mattered in national politics, they don't have a candidate. they don't like much about trump or clinton, and neither of them has a fingertip feel for the issues that ma

ralph nader destroyed al gore. all these people say don't blame me, i voted for john anderson. give republicans on the anti-trump bandwagon. somebody to vote for. >> it's the least democratic way to pick a president. >> whether it works or not, it would be helpful to have someone that somebody knows. >> yes. >> start with that. >> you know david french. >> i know who he is. i'm almost certain that rank and file republicans around the country have no clue who this brother is. we wanted to talk about it. >> people are saying this would be an honorable mission that they need somebody with courage and heft. >> libertarians are saying that too. they wrote mr. johnson isn't likely to win a state, but he can still play a useful role by reminding the major party candidates that they aren't the only choices. mr. trump seems to think he can say whatever he wants because millions of voters are repealed by mr. clinton. >> 50% of the population he's talking about hispanics, mexicans in this way when the opposite is true. it's racist. >> are you ready for donald trump once you're in this thi

john: al gore's wife of the time trying to ban record lyrics, rap lyrics. >> talking about the filthy5 songs. hillary clinton was working with tipper gore hand and hand but hillary clinton has much more power. gone against not only pop music, the internet, violent video games, all kinds of ways it's been a consistent theme of her career stretching back more than 25 years. in her book it takes a village, she praised bill bennett. not many are praising drug czar bill bennett. she praised him, he helped divest time warner from interscope records in the day, interscope records did a lot of gangsta rap, she talked about in quotation marks because it is filthy and wrong and we can't have. that she combines the worst of our dominant political tendencies when she talks about the media. john: she supported the telecommunications act which would have jailed people for pornography. >> yes, two years, if you are a parent of a kid and the kid happens to access pornography, you could go to the jail, that was struck down by the supreme court. john: it astonishes me that we had big campaigns against