that's how charlie crist got purged from the republican party. is was how his demise was explained. the hug that doomed crist's senate bid. charlie crist, you embraced the democrat. get out of the party, you are done. that's how the story has been told. maybe there's something else about charlie crist that's important to his legacy but has been forgotten. now that governor crist is no longer just that guy who got run out of the republican party, now that charlie crist is the speaking on behalf of president obama at the democratic convention, now that charlie crist is being mentioned as a top contender to replace the deeply-unpopular governor rick scott, get his old job back. maybe even as a democrat. now that all that is going on in charlie crist's afterlife, another story is percolating in the florida press which attention should be paid. for this election, florida republicans cut the days for early voting almost by half. you have seen these pictures of what happened in the election. when the lines stretched from dawn until dawn, florida democrat

charlie crist joins us by phone. great to have you with us. you've been in the thick of this in your respective states. nina, you first. are you feeling confident that everyone will be able to cast their votes tomorrow? is there going to be enough time available to do what you got to do? >> i am confident and despite the efforts of republicans. they understand this is all or nothing. we're going blue. that momentum that the ream campaign thinks they are filling, it's nothing but the force of the door closing behind them because they are going to lose ohio. he ought not even come to ohio tomorrow because we're going to be with the president. >> do you think people in ohio are mentally prepared for what they went through in 2004? is the resolve for people to stand in line for hours? >> i saw it yesterday, ed. it was there. absolutely. people coming from church, white brothers and sisters, black brothers and sisters standing in line side by side. they understand the only race that matters is the human race. who has the best interest in the human

that was the beginning of the end of charlie crist's tenure in the republican party. the beginning of the rupture with his party, because republicans in the state blamed crist for barack obama winning the state. so when i spoke with the former head of the republican party of florida, a guy named jim greer who is in his own trouble over charges about some illegal money thing that he was doing, but when he was running the party he told me that republican consultants came to him and said, we want to craft a bill that would get rid of early voting if we could, or severely cut it, because in the words of these consultants, according to jim greer, all it does is bring every african-american out from under a rock, that's a quote, and get them to vote for democrats. they don't vote for us, it doesn't help us. so the republican legislature which in 2010 became more tea party, more conservative, there's no margin in it for them to increase access to in-person early voting. what they did is passed a law that didn't touch absentee voting, which republicans tend to dominate in, bu

now, former florida governor charlie crist was on my dshow days before the election.aying these long lines were voter suppression. >> it's hard to interpret it any other way, reverend al. i think it is voter suppression. it's ridiculous. my heart bleeds for the people of florida. they ought to have the right to have this cherished, precious right to vote. a lot of people fought very hard for people to have that right. some died for it. we ought to respect it. >> rick scott won't even answer the question, but former governor charlie crist was right. some died for it. some of us are not going to let people get away with it. jim greer, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, al. it was a pleasure to be here. >> we'll be right back. it's ame people are when you tell them they could save a lot of money on their car insurance by switching to geico...they may even make you their best man. may i have the rings please? ah, helzberg diamonds. nice choice, mate. ...and now in the presence of these guests we join this loving couple. oh dear... geico. 15 minutes could save

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. >> both jeb bush and charlie crist extended voting hours when they were governor, but rick scott refusesthe republican mayor of miami and top republicans in tallahassee say these voters don't need an extension. you believe that? they say they don't need an extension. if there's one thing we can't do in the country, it's vote properly. this is america. you mean to tell me with all the internet technology and communications skills and resources at our fingertips, this is what america looks like? in a very important election. and you're going to tell me we can't do better than this? washington ought to fix this no matter who wins. maybe they're hoping the democrats just will go home. they don't want to wait in line anymore. joining me tonight, mitch sezer. he's also on the executive board of the democratic committee as a representative of the 14 southern states. i mean, it's great to have you with us tonight. but it just infuriates me when i see video tape like that. i mean, we vote like a third world country. >> well, welcome to ground zero. homeland of rick scott. i will expand the bid an

charlie crist is saying the same thing.r of florida, he says "the only thing that makes any sense as to why this is happening referring to ending early voting or admitting it -- and being done is voter suppression." charlly kris -- charlie crist throws the republican party in the middle of the ring and there he goes. drops another elbow. jim greer says two other things that are really interesting. he said they never came in to see me and tell me we had a voter fraud issue. he says it is all a marketing ploy. and then finally he says yes they are targeting blacks. "the sad thing about that is yes, there is prejudice and racism in the party but the real prevailing thought is they don't think minorities will ever vote republican." so one more time, throw him in there. throw the elbow in

a lot were chosen by john cornyn, goading candidates, or charlie crist out of a safe governor's chair because he wanted what he thought were the strongest candidates possible. some electorates were raging against the machine. it didn't matter where they stood on an ideological spectrum. looking for candidates who are younger, younger generation coming to the fore on their own. i think republicans will be more successful if they do that. >> can i say -- >> is he defending the crazier people like mourdock and akin and those people? is he defending the ones who are the most absurd? is he or is he not? >> he did not defend akin or christine o'donnell. he was saying he wants to stay away from candidates like that. but the reason some of those candidates like christine o'donnell won in 2010 and todd akin this time, is because these electorates didn't want some other candidate put in front of them. they were raging against the establishment here. >> but -- >> i'm not sure -- do you have a formula, robert? is there a best way to pick candidates? by a couple of guys at the downtown club, the s

that's why marco rubio is in the senate because charlie crist embraced president obama and wasn't pureugh for the purist who basically control the republican nominating process. so before people get too carried away with governor christie now and, again, i think definitely riding a good wave now, let's kind of, "a," see what he stands for re-election and, "b," see how tolerant republican primary voters are to somebody they think in part was responsible for the president's re-election. >> richard, for the dems, one word, hillary. will she run? >> gosh, you know, last year the people closest to her, and i was very much an advocate, a surrogate for her in '08. people last year said, no way, no how. this year they're saying never say never. i don't think anybody knows including herself but i know there are a lot of people pulling for her. what can i say? >> chip, the whole situation in the middle east, did that show how effective hillary clinton can be? >> yeah, you have to give her good marks for how she handled it. she will go out with very high marks for a the lot of different reasons,

pit bull introduced the president and charlie crist. 25,000 people attended the rally.resident is less than a point behind romney in florida right now. mitt romney campaigned with his wife in cleveland, ohio, today. he's trailing the president. romney also stopped in des moines, iowa, today. he's trailing the president there by at least two points. president made an earlier stop in new hampshire, stoke at rally in concord. the president is leading by two points there but asking voters to help out over the next 48 hours. >> if you're willing to turn out for me, we'll win new hampshire, we'll win this election. we'll finish what we started. >> oh, it's been a long campaign trail. listen to the voices. let's bring in howard fineman, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of "the huffington post" media group. howard, great to have you with us tonight. there are real different things happening down the stretch here in this campaign. what are they? >> tomorrow there's going to be a battle of the bands literally in columbus, ohio, where the obama campaign and romney

what i have seen is in florida bay have charlie crist on the stump -- they have charlie crist on the stump. president clinton has come down to florida. if you look at the polls in 2010, at the candidates clinton endorsed did not do very good at all. 2012 is the economy and issues that are important to floridians. i think it was a mistake for the obama campaign. we will see tuesday what is going to happen. >> this charlie crist's opinions way you much? you are a republican. caller: he's a nice guy but he has lost a lot of integrity. people really cannot trust him anymore. he plans to run for governor. i think tuesday will say whether he will run for governor or not in 2014 against gov. rick scott. he has lost a lot of credibility. he has not been a man of his word. he has been a huge flop lopper. evolver.s call it an evil ov host: were you watching our carriage of the debate between congressman alan west n. murphy? yes.er: alan was talking about moving america truly forward. mr. murphy was talking about negativity, as these campaigns have been doing respectively. host: he is calling u

who better to discuss that than former governor charlie crist.e endorsed president obama, campaigned for him and spoke at the dnc. after playing such a significant role in recent years, the presidential contest was decided this year without florida. everybody certainly plays and campaigns to get the electoral votes from your state. how surprised are you by that? >> well, i was very pleased by the result. i was just sorry that it took so long. but to get those 29 electoral votes from florida in president obama's column was a big deal. it was wonderful to have it happen. it felt like that was going to happen toward the end of the campaign. i went to rallies with him in hollywood and orlando and other parts of the state, in tampa, st. petersburg with president clinton. you could feel the passion and the energy on the ground. so the fact that he won it was wonderful. it was a little icing on the cake, like i say, very proud for our president and our florida. >> let's show everybody. the final vote count in florida shows president obama eking out this

"among those, that person, the former governor, republican government charlie crist who left the party turned independent. and jim greer, former chairman. republican party of florida. we should give you full disclosure here. mr. greer is under indictment currently, accused of stealing $200,000 from the republican party through a bogus campaign fundraising operation. he denies that allegation, and he in turn is suing the party for $5 million saying that the leader knew what he was doing and that it was a strategic effort to actually get paid. they voiced no objection to it. those are the claims and counter-claims, and mr. greer is kind enough to join me live now. so the first question, mr. greer, is this -- are you making these claims to the "palm beach post" which are serious, suggesting that this is all about voter suppression, what i saw when i was in florida, those long, long lines and the dmflt voti difficulty in voting and difficulty in voting early, are you saying this because you're accused of stealing money from the state republican party? >> no. i've always had a difference of

he wrote today, quote, if you're a republican who yearns for the days of arlen specter and charlie cristou might welcome a return to gop insiders meddling in primaries but if you prefer republican party of toomey, rubio and cruz, you should be leery of the folks in washington deciding which republicans are the most electable. you have this guy pushing back and saying that people the grassroots, the tea party people, they should be picking the candidates. don't try to get them away from picking the people like they did mourdock, akin, and some of the real crazies. >> well, look, that's true. a lot of the republicans who lost, chris -- >> which part is group? oh, i see. go ahead. >> george allen was a retread. denny rehberg has been around a long time. a lot of the candidates were chosen by john cornyn, who was goading candidates either out of retirement or back in 2010, charlie crist out of a safe governor's chair, because he wanted what they thought were the strongest candidates possible. some electorates were raging against the machine. it didn't matter where they stood on an ideologica

everybody's angry with him and i'm sure that if charlie crist runs for governor again i think charlieshoo-in and i'm a registered republican. how does that grab you? >> how does that grab ya? >> bill: i gotta tell you i like charlie crist. chris christie, charlie crist getting confused here. if charlie crist would have been in charge, it would have run like clockwork. it is embarrassing not only what went through in 2000 but maybe florida would have finally got the vote right if the supreme court had let them do their jobs. the supreme court interfered. even this time with no supreme court interference, florida, it looks like a banana republic. >> we threw that question out on twitter. what the hell is going on in florida. >> rick scott screwed everything up so bad while trying to cheat. lynn says a dreadful tea party governor implementing vote suppression and austerity measures. florida needs to recall rick scott and bill says florida makes somalia's voting processes look pretty good. >> bill: it does. these international teams they have coming in to make sure the banana republics kn

the wife florida's governor, charlie crist, received one of those calls. after realizing the error, new calls went out today clarifying that today is in fact election day. >>>onight we're hearing from the man who says he was attacked by a candidate for d.c.'s advisory neighborhood commission. police arrested grace daughtridge. police say she attacked a man after he appeared to be tampering with one of her signs. he said he knows her. he said he was trying on bring her a sign that had fallen over. >> i used to play football. she did a textbook open field tackle on me. she knock me to the ground and then started with the homophobic slurs. >> she thought you were tampering with her signs but you just picked it up to take it to her? >> yeah. i knew she and her husband would be here at the polling area. >> reporter: a precinct captain called police. she was arrested today by first district police officers. >>> coming up tonight, determined voters heading to the polls after surviving hurricane sandy. >> we may not get hit hard by the next coastal storm but new y

to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us former republican governor charlie crist said that while he was in office between two thousand and seven and two thousand and eleven he was approached by republican officials to cut down on early voting too as the palm beach post reports kris said a telephone interview this month that he did not recall conversations about early voting specifically targeting black voters but he said it looked to me like that was what was being suggested and i didn't want them to go there at all and stay tuned expect these efforts to continue heading into the next election. crazy the word grave you're in germany it think there are to be books laws on the books in germany making peace geology a crime but there's no law makers in germany are just now introducing a law that would make you having sex with animals illegal so what prompted them to make this decision well there's been a huge rise into the rotting in germany is worth people going to visit to abuse animals ranging from llamas to go for the daily telegraph each year thousands of germans

six eighteen thousand votes disappeared on the touch screen voting system at which time governor charlie crist outlawed those touch screen systems across the state of florida for all but used for excessive. voting so they have mostly paper ballots the problem is they're still counting them by computers and verifying those ballots for accuracy by no one no one is doing that and remember the db old. machines that are used in this one county and st lucie county the ones that you know don't count the same ballots the same way twice are also used in thirty four other states in the country tom so should already have as our entire as you well know brad i'm very troubled but i'm guessing that most americans frankly are really troubled by it it's it's really quite remarkable my recollection and i may be wrong on this but my recollection is that when al gore in the two thousand election asked for went to the states courts and asked for a recount in three counties look at the three counties where he thought that a recount might you know flip the election his way it turned out that had had a statewide rec

ago ok and shout outs there to charlie trying again he did a lot of good ones chuck raines again charlie crist jacqueline route and mean ben said so thanks so much you guys for weighing in and i'm just gonna have to rotate my usage of these terms because i promised you i do that there were just. so many good ones i have to give a shout out to my dad too who was texting me when we announced on the show and he like to carmageddon with with a k. i thought that was clever and i'm going to have to add one to the list too which is fiscal cliff hanger because maybe we won't know exactly what's going on with lawmakers work on the deal because of changes to access at least that's how it seems from what christine is telling me so christine what is going on with with access at a crucial time when everybody wants to know exactly what's going on with the fiscal cliff negotiations well a couple things i mean just in terms of basically what's happened today there's a vote scheduled this afternoon this evening for six thirty pm eastern all day today one of the main press stakeout location statuary hall totall

the former governor, charlie crist, has criticized him for that. in ohio you have the same kind of problem with lack of early voting. they decrossed the number of weekends for early voting in ohio from five weekends down to one weekend. so what do you think happens mike? all of these people try to show up on the last couple of days, so you have got six, eight, nine hour lines going on. people are trying to vote and they haven't been able to vote and that is not good. >> now you can add new york into the equation. they are going to have to have portable polling stations because there is no power. >> and you have the e-mail faction situation for new jersey with governor christie has authorized that. that is going to be, that is very high-risk, by the way. you know, you don't have the security of a person showing up at the polling place. it is going to be interesting to see what happens. >>> a lot of work for you. a lot of work for journalists. where do we go from here? can we change this for the better? > >> that is a great point. i have been a baseb

charlie crist told the palm beach post that there was a coordinated effort by governor rick scott and others to suppress the democratic vote. former florida republican party chairman jim gear said: >> at said: >> even as it becomes clear the voter discrimination is still a very real problem in parts of this country. the supreme court will hear arguments about getting rid of section five of the voting lights act of 1965. the act signed by president johnson said areas with a history of discrimination must get approval for any new voting laws. nine southern states plus counties in new york, and michigan fall under its jurisdiction. in the case, shelby county v. holder, one alabama county is challenging the law saying it unfairly targets their state. six other signed on. joining me now to discuss is julian bond, the former chairman of the naacp and instrumental in helping get that law passed. it is my absolutely pleasure to welcome you inside the war room. >> my great pleasure to be here. thank you. >> it has to be surreal to you just sitting here listening to a conversation almost 50 yea

she and natly rubbed shoulders with marco rubio and former governor charlie crist. them in >> no. >> jill stayed in touch with general alen after leaving tampa to assume forces. ngeneral alen has to explain 20,000 pages of e-mails what the complea mrs. kelley. some were sexual in nature while the exact nature much her relationship with general alen and petraeus is in dispute, the emerge scandal froze gym alen as supreme allied commander. nis it a celebrity status that makes them susceptible to the inappropriate behavior. >> you have been to deployed areas abroad. people disengage from home here in the united states, and go to deployed, it is it a parallel reality and everything switches off. >> a lot of them are men who are of a certain age and that may be in the early 50s to early 60s, and they are vulnerable and suspept able like all men. npest pet and allen. are the latest to get snag in a scandal. one other case is jeffrey sin clar. >> air born commander and having untoward sexual relations with junior officers. you know, putting them under tremendous pressure t

. >> charlie crist?d the future that lies ahead. [ cheering ] >> stephanie: yea! kermit flail. okay. >> karl rove is saying shove it. >> stephanie: all right. >> moving your hands back and forth isn't a kermit flail. >> stephanie: he did just call me ms. miller. i said thank you for finally giving me the respect i'm entitled for being solely responsible for the president's re-election. >> i think john yarmouth had something to do with it, too. >> stephanie: from the great state of kentucky. good morning congressman. >> good morning, stephanie. >> stephanie: it is a good morning, is it not sir? >> oh, yeah. it is a fantastic morning. i've been watching you this morning -- actually watching is not a -- the accurate term because my eyes haven't focused yet. there was a lot of bourbon last night. >> stephanie: i'm guessing kentucky bourbon. yeah, me too. you and me both. so where do we even start? as you know, i've been railing against all of these media story lines that they've been feeding us for. the enth

rubbed at least shoulders with other top brass and politicians like marco robeo and former governor charlie crist>> do you know the kelley family? >> notou well. >> have you dated natalie? >> no. >> jill notoriously stayed in touch with general allen after he left tampa to assume canned d of all our forces in afghanistan. general allen now has to explain nearly 20,000 pages of e-mails with tshe comely mrs. kelley, some describe as explicitly sexual in nature. while the exact nature of her relationship with general allen and petraeus is in dispute, the emerging scandal has frozen general allen's nomination as supreme allied commander in europe. >> how does something like this happen? is it the celebrity status that these generals enjoy that makes them susceptible to inappropriate behavior? >> you and rallo have been to -- geraldo have been to these areas abroad. when people disengage from home life in the u.s. and go to deployed areas, it's a parallel reality. everything switches off. let's not forget that a lot of them are men who are of a certain age that are maybe in their early 50s to early 60