networks call florida for gore.emember saying, "how is bush possibly gonna," you know-- "what's the path he could possibly take?" because he's lost michigan, he's gonna lose pennsylvania. if anybody wins all three, it's over. - you can bet that governor bush will be madder than a rained-on rooster that his brother, the governor, wasn't able to carry the state for him. - mr. bush says he is not yet ready to concede florida. so that only complicates the evening just a little bit. - the networks called this thing awfully early, but the people who are actually counting the votes are coming up with a little different perspective. - george bush was a very confident man. i don't think bush ever doubted that he would manage somehow to get elected. - some new returns came in, and suddenly the gore lead that was necessary to make this prediction evaporated. - what the networks give us, the network taketh away. nbc news is now taking florida out of vice president gore's column. - as the night went on it stayed close until, at

gore concurrence problem.ustice gorsuch: then you have a separate prohen a state court does not even try to interpret the law and just annuls t outright, and that's this case. mr. thompson: i actually think erently. justice gorsuch: or am i wrong out that? mr. thompson: respectfully, your even though we actually thinke that's an accurate description of what happened here, that's not our positionis court. our court is assuming the north carolina supreme court was entirely rigut what they did and that it was a matter of state law,uthen it is still impermissible because imposing a substalimitation on the state legislature. justice gorsuch: via this melange of state constitutional provisions. thompson: yes, your honor. justice gorsuch: okay, all right. i understand it now, thank you. chief justice roberts: justice kavanaugh? justice kavanaugh: in interpreting state statutes, can a state court rely on canons of interpretation that say interpret in of state constitutional provisions? mr. thps: your honor, so what ch

the supreme court made a ruling in '08 with bush beating gore, but gore conceded within a week, maybewhat he's saying then? >> because you saw the president's remarks after the indictment yesterday. he's angry . you're still going to win the primary. and he's going to want to give himself a pardon. he's all in. guns are all blazing. i'm sure that in his remarks to kevin, better stick up for me. and kevin is certainly playing that role and showed that anger last night. >> i mentioned earlier that you were one of ten republicans in the house who voted to impeach donald trump over his actions in and around january 6th. i want you to ponder this publicly, if you will. imagine a world in which the senate vote d to convict him. and what that would mean for our body politic today. >> a couple things. they actually did vote, but they didn't have the two-thirds vote to get a majority of the senate. >> what they needed to convict. >> they needed 67. i wonder -- i remember mitch mcconnell's speech on the floor. i know a bunch of senators came from the house, many came from the committee i chaire

so working for gore was my first job. i was kind of kid, speechwriter, and election night 2000, nashville al gore has three speeches prepared a victory speech, a concession speech, and then a modification where we explain that has won the electoral college, even though he has lost the popular vote. now america since learned that an electoral college win still a win. but at the time, we felt like that demanded some explanation and that. you know, florida goes to gore. we think he's won because it's too close to call. we don't know goes to bush. we think, well, where are you. so i'm in memorial plaza, veterans memorial plaza in downtown nashville. it is a sort of mr. rainy night. so as rain of starts up, people retreat to bars, restaurants around and and i was sort out of the action right like election nights are weird like once all the calls have been made, the doors have been knocked. there's really not much left to do except trade and traffic and rumors. what are you hearing? you know, and interestingly, i have a friend

justice kavanaugh would have said it looks something more like bush versus gore. i don't know if there are five votes for that. if the litigation continues, i don't know whether there would be agreement or consensus about that that's what he said just is that we look to that opinion in 2000 as a roadmap going forward preferred getting out -- for figuring out which way state courts go. host: republican line, good morning. caller: you talk about irrigating, democrats did that. they did everything they could to manipulate the last election and make sure biden one. you know it and i know it. they talked about what was going on in georgia and they recounted the votes. they recounted the same phony votes three times instead of finding out if there was any phony ones. host: we are focusing on the moore v harper decision and they also took up a case regarding the election map in alabama. what was the outcome of that? guest: in allen versus milligan, there is a question about the voting rights act and whether or not alabama had an appropriate congressional map. you think a

as for words, here is what hillary clinton and al gore said at the end of their campaigns.a bruising but peacefully conducted court battle and she just hours after the election. >> last night i congratulated donald trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. i hope that he will be a successful president for all americans. this is not the outcome we wanted or we worked so hard for, and i'm sorry that we did not win this election for the values we share and the vision we hold for our country. our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power. and we don't just respect that, we cherish it. >> now the u.s. supreme court has spoken. let there be no doubt while i strongly disagree with the court's decision, i accept it. i accept the finality of this outcome, which quill will be ratified next monday in the electoral college. tonight for the sake of our people and strength of our democracy, i offer my concession. >> their words in defeat, and now here's just one sample of the many things donald trump said after he lost, after being told he lost

>> reporter: except there was no insurrection after al gore and hillary clinton lost. both did something trump never did. they conceded. while trump seems as strong as ever among republicans, a new abc/ipsos poll shows 65% of all adults say the charges against trump are serious. a majority say he should have been charged with a crime. nearly half say the charges are politically motivated, but just as many say trump should suspend his campaign. he won't, of course, but the campaign calendar is now on a collision course with the legal calendar. the first hearing in the january 6th case scheduled for just five days after the first republican debate. the new york trial and the hush money case scheduled for the middle of the republican primaries. the classified documents trial scheduled for just weeks before the republican convention with more court dates and likely even more charges still to come. >> george: thanks, jonathan karl, for that. we're joined now by donald trump's attorney, john lauro. mr. lauro, thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning. >> george:

clinton and gore both conceded their races. before a joint session of congress in the house chamber. donald trump of course did the opposite, has not conceded the race, organized the rally on january 6th, and is also facing allegations in the jack smith indictment of taking actions and conspireing to try to subvert the will of the voters. but nevertheless, the speaker is trying to make the argument that if donald trump is being prosecuted, those democrats should have been as well. >> i can say the same thing that hillary clinton says about her election that she lost. i can say the same thing about the dnc who said it about the 2016 race. i can say the same thing about those in the democratic party from the leadership on down about george bush not winning, that al gore did. but were any of them prosecuted? were any of them put in jail? when hillary clinton said it, nothing happened to her. when they said it in georgia's election, nothing happened to them either. you know what? when the dnc said it, nothing happened to them eithe

we have election of 2000, al gore, and george w. came down to florida, a couple hundred red votes, al gore brings first lawsuit it is then litigation hell, different districts in the state, and trying to find judges that would up hold this part of law the that part of the law, the radical left wing democrat control florida supreme court steps and changes the law, to try to get gore over the finish line, u.s. supreme court says that is enough. that is enough. the voting has to stop. the supreme court of florida can't keep changing the rules, they are destroying one person, one vote. the entire concept. and so george w. bush is the winner. and he wins the electoral college by 5 votes. he lost the popular vote by over half a million votes. that was a very consensus election we -- 1 con den contentious election we know it and this january 6 was said to be an insurgents. we have a commission -- insurrection, we had a set up by nancy pelosi. she rejected republicans that leader mccart he chosen, that was never done before, they do one sid

is there an apples to apples comparative to al gore and hillary clinton. >> no, of course, not.re what resulted in this indictment. you can say anything you want, but it's when you take actions that cross the line and puts you into legal jeopardy. that's what this case is about. it's not because donald trump kept saying at rallies he thinks he won the election or thinks the election was stolen. he can say that every day. the indictment makes that clear in the first paragraph. what he cannot do is sick his lawyers on a bunch of state officials and start intimidating them and challenging facts that he already knows are not true. and to the extent that he did all of those things, that's why he got arrested. >> this is what we were going back and forth with one of john eastman's lawyers. they keep saying it's okay he changed his mind and he was being a good lawyer. there's a line. you can lawyer what you can't do is pursue things in a crime. that's the difference. but i don't think it's being distinguished for a lot of folks. i don't think many people are being fairly served by thes

gore: muy feliz.mento los niÑos se desconcentran y se ponen a jugar. fue mi oportunidad. el papÁ de marcelo me felicita, pero los niÑos, muy enojados me chocan y me sacan de la pista. ya no los puedo alcanzar. >> les pase por el costado. despuÉs me chocan por atrÁs. sambuccetti: perder me enoja. ahora entiendo a marcelo. al mismo tiempo me doy cuenta que sentÍ mucho miedo de que mi kart volcara, los accidentes a 100 kilÓmetros de velocidad pueden ser riesgosos. garza: estÁbamos en estados unidos y Él agarra una curva sin frenar y desde ahÍ, con la velocidad, empieza a dar vueltas de 360 y fue su primera volcadura. y obviamente todos corrimos y nada mÁs ahÍ se escuchaba los gritos con el casco puesto. sambuccetti: marcelo ha chocado 4 veces en unas 35 carreras. marcelo: 4 veces no significa que solo choquÉ, que me volteÉ y llorÉ mucho. sambuccetti: oh, me imagino. ¿y te lastimaste? marcelo: me ha salido sangre aquÍ y aquÍ en la mano. sambuccetti: la mamÁ de marcelo se vio en un punto en donde tuvo que

al gore did not do nothing illegal by challenging the election.y abrams didn't do anything illegal, and donald trump didn't do anything illegal by challenging an election. they all thought they won and he thinks he won. but yet, he gets prosecuted and that's what strong -- what wrong, the reason the justice the sump is being weaponize. host: all right, what one of the other big topics that happened this week was the first republican presidential debate as several republicans came together and talk about what they would do if they became president and talked about why they were the best person to become president. politico has a story this morning about it, and i want to bring -- read a couple of paragraphs to you from the political story. fox news drew 12.8 one million viewers during the first republican presidential debate the network announce. the viewership number from wednesday night reflex interest in gop candidates other than the current front-runner, former president donald trump but do not outpace the first gop debate in august 2015 during

one of the things, though, is that his lawyers right now are comparing this to al gore and al gore's chief of staff back in 2000. they're saying that as chief of staff, mark meadows can take all of these political actions and they're within the realm of what is acceptable for a white house chief of staff. do you think that that's a reasonable argument to make? >> they're confusing two separate things. the president has authorities and the president has also first amendment rights to campaign. what al gore did was as a candidate for president do what was permissible under florida law. the argument here is that trump, meadows and others went beyond what was permissible under stay law, but none of that -- nothing that al gore did in 2000 had anything to do with his vice presidential responsibilities and nothing that trump and meadows did here had anything to do with their presidential responsibilities. it's like if trump would have robbed a bank while he was president, that's not part of his presidential responsibilities. that's what meadows' papers confuse here, i think. >> do you thin

but i remember when al gore -- when they were in that court battle in florida and al gore was told, i think, by david boyce, we got a shot, let's appeal it. al gore said no, america has been through enough. it's over. you know, where does the country come first? it breaks my heart, again, i'll say it, if 330 million americans, is this the best we can do? is this the best? what is wrong with us. what is wrong with our political system that good decent people, capable people want no part of it? i mean, i look at two people that i admire. general john kelly and rex tillerson. they were accomplished people in their chosen fields all of their lives. the way they were treated by trump on the way out was disgraceful. you know, i thought to myself last night when i saw the picture of him, i said, you know, maybe this is god getting even with him but god doesn't get even. maybe god was getting even with him for the way he treated these two distinguished gentlemen. you know, jack walsh, a dear friend, he had a great knack. more than one person got fired by jack told me that when he left his off

the florida election that al gore contested was 537 votes.what sort of proper behavior is, that an election that you can contest and recount. donald trump went ahead and contested and asked for recounts and brought out litigation and he lost every one of those 63 cases and the bargain in that actuation is that you can take the cases to court, but in going to court you also have to abide by the decisions of the court. donald trump failed to do that. al gore conceded the election rightly and properly and donald trump who continue to basically tear down the institution of american elections with unfounded charges. >> advisers do not believe trump will take part in the gop presidential debate. what do the other gop candidates need to do to stand out and make themselves a viable alternative to trump? >> well, i would say respectfully they need to stop kissing up to donald trump. that is clearly not working for them. and the base they are trying to appeal to, they like people who are tough, clearly. look who they are going for and donald trump, but

, things like al gore's terrifying mov know,3 inc polariient truth, things like al gore's terrifyingnow,3 inc polar beartruth, things like al gore's terrifying mov know,3 inc polar bear numbers you know, the polar bear numbers have been increasing from 5 to 10,000in to 26,000 how. >> now. >> patrick is they're exaggeration in the media about everything , including climate everything, including climate change. yes, there is. but the people you should blame for that are the editors who print those documents. >> but this hysteria then leads to government policy, which then hits taxpayers in the pocket and it is ruining people. and people need to be more honest and coming out and saying, hang on a minute. when you are confronted with this, instead of with facts like this, instead of telling me, oh, well, you haven't really this haven't really read this document, when actually, shockingly, clearly shockingly, for you, i clearly have really got have and you haven't really got answers it. people going answers for it. people are going skint because this kind of. skint because of this kind of

i think that what gore did was a mistake. it was wrong on his part.every recount of that election has shown that bush won, but what gore did was to follow the lawful procedures in florida to commence a recount, and to engage in litigation in the florida courts. he was ultimately defeated across the board, and he ultimately did concede, but the whole process showed although i did not like it, it was done, and on the alternative elector set was a strategy that morphed into a strategy to subvert the election. so no doubt when you are given unlawful set of elections to overthrow, but when it is that you are going to violate the procedures to overturn the election it is not acceptable, and that is what donald trump did. >> so you are saying that if allegations by mike pence were not there, maybe if he were florida he could do it? >> i have the sweatshirt to prove it. >> and what about being here for donald trump's lawyers and the people defending him, he was acting on the advice of counsel, and he had lawyers telling him that these were strategies, and how

, the gore, people said, send a letter, send a letter, explain what this is all about. the bush people said send directions. how do we get there? and that it really indicates the difference between how the democrats and the republicans have approach talk radio does it was it that by the murder 90 democrats, succeeded out that most of the 2 radio industry was hostile to the kind of politics time. then to find that the broadcasting from an underground bunker, 3500 feet below. dick cheney is bunker air america. radio is on the air. it's not as it hasn't trying to radio liberals realizing that they were missing out port in some serious muscle. so trying to level out the playing fields view, and i know that the radical right wing of the republican party has taken over not just the white house, the congress, but even and perhaps most insidiously. the airways, air america with large cameron new york is 2004. for the experiment. the investments in progressive to radio didn't exactly power well, part of it has to do with the style and delivery of deliverables. they're not funny

i live on gore oat out bound north side of the street. and i will specific low talk about the impacts to resident in this corridor. because we heard about mall businesses and impacts there are a lot of store front there is i support them i have been 18 year residence dment this corridor. there are a let of apartment space boost businesses and on the block at 22nd avenue where the removal from the east side the upon current stop on the east side and plan to move it to the west side. my bedroom is feet from where the new bus stop be. i live in a 4 unit building all of us that will be faith the new stop have bedrooms on gear boulevard as does the next 4 that face geary. noise will impact us. where the current stop is there are in the geary facing bathroom bedrooms a spoergz parking garage and a couple units but don't have bedrooms that face geary they are not slope with a 24/7, 365 day a year bus stop in front of their bedroom. my comment is basically, make an exception to that removal. there has been some this you made an exception to i'm a

alan dershowitz at prominent democrat, al gore a prominent democrat as well.ging on election illegal because donald trump wanted to do it? >> that is a great question, where is your first amendment rights, do we have the right to question the results of this election here in the state, yes president trump have that right and the 18 other people who have been indicted. they had the right to question it. i would submit to you. if this was as the secretary of state maintain the purest election the most safest election that we've ever had why did the georgia state legislature make a substantial and subsidence changes to the election laws after this happened. tell me that. cheryl: i want to ask you what happened yesterday. a lot of head scratching going on. the courts website, the charges came out in the noon hour yesterday. then they came out last night when they dropped on the indictment and said those charges were false. what was going on they were still having testimony from witnesses at that exact moment in the courthouse where the website put the charges out.

al gore would have been charged with conspiracy to defraud government.al gore believes he won thatd th election. . >> his opponent's brother was the governor of florida. in an election this close. you're saying al gore working the phones before certification was illegal? >> it's preposterous. ion there were alternate electos sent in 1876. oney were alternate sent in 1960 on advice of counsel. >> trump asked pence to kick it back to the states for recertification, where state legislatures are constitutionally empowered t to determine elections. that's called politics. but apparently trump's politics are such a threat to washington that his politicaltrump' speecht could be grounds to throw him in prison before trial. >> if this gag order is allowed to the, deep state is destroying our nation. >> but the table destrs must tuw and we will quickly destroy the deep statell. >> we know where the bodies are buried. jonathan turley is a george washington law professor and a fox news contributor. so, professor, how is it legal to prohibit a major presidential cand

at the end of al gore's speed, she reprise something at the democratic convention for clinton and gorehis ramp at the end, a chance. it's time for them to go! it's time for them to go! so finally, at the end of al courts speak, she brought that back up in another way. he said, it's time for me to go. he said that peacefully and he wished that don stewardship pushes elections. so, where are these people now? >> it is such -- >> the chant, it's time for him to go! >> boris, i couldn't agree more. i think that should be mandatory viewing, to just sit and watch that clip. i was thinking, joe manchin george h. w. bush, bush 41. how devastating that loss was for a man who was so proud that he was going to be a one term president, he couldn't believe he had lost to bill clinton. and yet, famously, but no t left in the oval office for bill counted on january 20th, 1993, on the day of president clinton's inauguration. he gets into the oval office and finds a note. incredibly gracious note. part of it is, you will be our president when you read the snow. i wish you. well i wish your family well.

al gore conceded, in fact allegory was the sitting vice president who counted george w.editorial college votes and didn't do what trump falsely says mike pence was about to do. hillary clinton -- house senate democrats voted to object to some states votes counts in january 21 and january 2017, but not as part of a plot to overturn the election, not with the aid of fake electors, and not at all gore and hillary clinton's direction. republicans are gaslighting you when they say democrats did the same. of course they didn't. what donald trump did in terms of trying to overrule the votes in georgia or trying to get the doj to make false claims of voter fraud and trying to get mike pence to throw out votes and trying to submit fake electors, no president, no party has ever done before. what trump did is what he is being prosecuted, for not for what he said. and that they keep coming up with one ludicrous dishonest, demonstrably false argument after another is evidence that they know that this time, finally, he is in serious legal trouble. joining me now to discuss is and more

gore in his role as vice president then presided over the certification of that election on january 6th, 2001. >>> still ahead here on "way too early" fulton county district attorney fani willis weighs in on the status of her years long investigation into election interference in the state of georgia. what she's saying about any possible impacts from special counsel jack smith's probe. plus what we're learning about the arrest of two u.s. navy sailors on charges relating to national security. those stories, more on trump's historic arraignment, and a check on sports and weather when we come right back. r when we come right back businesses need 5g solutions today. that's why they choose t-mobile for business. mlb partners with t-mobile to not only enhance the fan experience, but to advance how the game is played. aaa relies on t-mobile's network to stay connected nationwide, so they can help get their members back on the road. and we're helping pano ai innovate, to stop the spread of wildfires. now's the time to see what america's largest 5g network can do for your business. having tripl

i also can't take gore. >> jimmy: yeah, as long as there's no gore, i'm okay. >> yeah, there's -- they pg so that kids can go and get scared out of their minds. [ laughter ] to trick children into coming, yes. >> jimmy: forgive me for not knowing how it goes, the doll, that little kid, is that a real robot they built? >> yeah, so they had a few. they had a fake doll. and then we also had a genius prodigy 11-year-old new zealand girl, amy donald, who played the physical motions of the doll. >> jimmy: i see. >> that's all her moving on all fours, the dance, everything. that's this movement genius 11-year-old girl. i remember first day on set, my first scene was with the doll. they put the fake doll there. i'm turning around with the doll in that red hallway. the doll's going to be, you know, ten meters away, which is whatever in feet. [ laughter ] whatever. like that far. [ laughter ] and then they put the fake doll there, and i'm like, this doll is fake. i'm slapping it in the film, okay, this is fake. i turn around to get ready. when the scene starts i turn back around to get in the zo

the courts were done, al gore said i still don't agree with it but the courts are done. i'm backing off. donald trump has been much different and i said this to the president in december of 2020 the last time he and i spoke. you availed yourself of the courts there is nothing left. you need to concede the election and he said i will never, ever, ever admit it. well, look, if you are going to continue to use the power of the presidency, which he was doing, to put pressure on people, you are going to put yourself in a dangerous circumstance and let's take it aside for a second from the criminal. we can't normalize this conduct. this has never happened before in this country ever. where you had a candidate for president of the united states conduct himself in this way to disrespect the election process in this way, to refuse to accept the verdict of the voters. and what does it say about his judgment, guys? what does it say whether or not he is fit to sit behind that desk? is this really -- and by the way, here we are this morning and i understand why we're doing it and hap

al gore believes he won that election. opponents's brother was the governor in an election this close. there were alternate electors in 1960. on advice of counsel trump asked pence to kick it back to the states for recertification where state legislatures are empowered to determine elections. that's politics. but trump's politics are such a threat to washington it's ground to throw him in prison before trial if this gag order is allowed. >> the deep state is destroying our nation. the tables must turn and we will destroy the deep state. we know where the bodies are buried. >> jesse: jonathan turley is a fox contribute horr. -- professor. how is it legal to prohibit a presidential candidate from speaking about an unfair trail? >> that's the problem with how the department of justice is approaching this case. there is a simple olution. hold the trial after the election. -- there is more leeway in terms of gagging individuals. if you are going to hold the leading presidential candidate to a trial date in the middle of the pre

this divide, al gore and george w bush down the middle. the florida recount, hillary clinton won the popular vote but trump came president. we have not been able to get out of that feud. i think the republicans are winning in the sense that they were able to get recent supreme court justices in. that has fueled an unraveling of the programs, roe v. wade, clean air and clean water act. we are now in an aero where americans think less government is more. libertarianism is going on right now. on the other hand, if biden wins, we may be living in the age of biden. trump is eating all of the media up, but trump -- but biden might be a two timer. >> what does that mean? does this 50-50 have to break? >> it is not inevitable, but because we have been so defined as red and blue states, we know which will be red and blue in the next election. it is the same handful, arizona, georgia, virginia. there are others. there will be five or six states that will determine things. the electoral college as it is now structured helps of the republican party. d

gore, he was your research assistant.worked with you on a number of cases including the 2000 bush v. gore supreme court case. you talk about him now as turning to the dark side or machiavellian. what were your impressions of him then and over the decades you've known him? >> at first he seemed like a very smart kid, maybe a little ocd, maybe a little weird, but very smart and very fast. but the more he worked with me, the more reluctant i became to give him anything to do that would require judgment. and he certainly didn't indicate that he had any deep convictions or, you know, much of a moral compass. and it became clear, and that's why i stopped working with him a few years ago. it became clear that he was more or less for sale to whichever person or group would listen to him and trust him. so i think he's really the worst of the legal profession, smart but without a conscience. no moral compass, no sense of right and wrong. and it's clear that he took these things. the reason he cited me, he made a point of saying tha

when they said it in georgia's election, nothing happened to them either. >> al gore and hillary clintonhis? >> because he wan tots stay relevant in politics. you saw the, quote, supposed elevated emotion that he just showed. pure theater. that's an absurd argument. at the end of the day, to your point, they both conceded those elections. and to compare that somehow with folks storming the capitol, breaking into a building where i worked for 12 years of my life is an absurd comparison, but it shows the danger of donald trump in my mind because what it says is somebody as highly elected as kevin mccarthy will twist himself in knots to stay relevant with the trump base, and to me that's frightening for the way that it undermines the very tenets of open and free elections. >> former governor mark sanford, good to see you. thanks for coming in tonight. >> yes, sir. >>> new reporting on supreme court justice thomas. his luxurious lifestyle and who was funding it. what propublica says it uncovered. that's ahead. ♪ (please don't g go) ♪ ♪ (please don't go) ♪ ♪ (please don't go) ♪ ♪ (please don'