after all the key players, everyone spoke to me except senator coleman and ben ginsburg. so lawyers on both sides did, campaign managers on both sides did, commit of political operatives on both sides did, so i feel that i tried my best to be fair and balanced, and by the way, between november 2008 and july 2009, i was probably at just about every news conference, i missed two or three days of the canvassing board which is this administrative board they had and i missed one day of the trial, so i should get some battle pay of some sort, so let's start with the preparation and the motivation. it's back in the summer of 2008 and franken's campaign really going sideways a little bit for allegations of he didn't pay his taxes, which wasn't really totally true, the digging up of old drug and former drug use and senator coleman's drug use and the general kind of disarray it felt around his campaign and he had not won the endorsement yet from the dfl, the democratic party here. stephanie was brought in to be his campaign manager and right the ship and she is not a secret person,

had his own downfall of lawyers who were minnesota based except for the well-known election law ben ginsburg who spoke as the spokesman and had been george bush's meen spokesperson during the 2000 florida recount. the was a victory for 2008 was not. but i think to broadly attribute the franken victory to the mere lawyering ann gates factors and his women. one was early in overall preparing for it. number two was the collection and analysis of the data that he collected. number three was fund raising and number four was rapid response to the defense that occurred. the new yorker i got lucky last week had a brief review of my book and they wrote, he wrote, she wrote the one that decided it more one and that is the similarity between the florida every count but i also think there were other forces out there. one was the side that wanted more had lost 80 years earlier in florida and was trying to get back at that and also the memory of paul wellstone was around this weekend as all. senator coleman had beaten wellstone and specific's political inspiration was paul wellstone is what was it just la

. >> shep, you may remember that first gentleman ben ginsburg he, of course, was the lead attorney fororge bush in tallahassee in that contested election in 2000. we expect this contest to go on through the weekend and perhaps all the way through next week as they continue going through all the ballots to get all the different write-in candidates but, again it, looks very good for lisa murkowski no matter how you spell her name, shep? >> shepard: it does. juneau, alaska, dan, thanks. by the way bill o'reilly has sat down with the former president george w. bush. you will hear it in a bit. how about a review. >> bill: the present administration dump on you because the previous administration did xy and z. i know you don't care about that. >> i really don't. it's a tactic. >> bill: the president hated you, a lot of them. why? >> i don't know. you have to ask them. i'm not a hater. and so sometimes it's hard for me to understand why somebody hates somebody. and could have been because of my policies. maybe they didn't like my religion. the thing i love you is you are quite provocative but