mark richie told me whoever the supreme court justice voted, he voted, because he was keeping track of the votes. he said whatever he says is fine with me. so they agreed 96% of the time, these five people who are very different, appointed by different people, or elected and in some ways, i think these -- one of the big are surprises for minnesotans, these people did the straight and narrow. let me tell you about another surprise that i'm sure wasn't written about before the book and that is the role of the obama campaign in the franken campaign and the role was, they didn't have any and one reason why people think, you know, franken lost. that first time around or franken didn't get the margin that he should have. he certainly lost from the amount of votes that barack obama did by 12 percentage points. obama wins the state by 54% and franken by 42% and that is a huge, huge gap. maybe it was franken's baggage that he brought in and maybe it was obama's understanding that he was going to win the state. people who know say that if obama would have spent an hour at the twin cities airport

mark? absolutely. right. and richie supa is putting out an album now with dozens of recovering musicians from different groups we've all heard of since the 70s and they're producing it now and they're all written about recovery and all the success stories that go with it. so essentially, we've got the internet. and in the internet, we didn't even begin to touch on the whole issue of pharmacies, online pharmacies, and how they contribute. right, mark? the internet is incredibly valuable in terms of the information that provides access to unlimited resources and with free trade, commerce and opinion and speech, there are people who will take advantage of opportunities and perpetuate some of the less fortunate sides of our society and our approach again is to reward when people do things in an accurate way, make sure that the portrayal is being recognized, so that ultimately somebody would never think of portraying someone in recovery sitting, you know, under a bridge and/or someone who has an addiction because that would

i've also both personally met and talked on the telephone to mark richie, the secretary of state in minnesota about what they learned from their process and what advice he could give me so that our recount, if one becomes necessary, is as transparent, as open, and creates as much confidence in the system as possible. >> mr. secretary, you adwere -- to make it as open and transparent as possible to make sure the citizens see what has been done and to make sure our procedures were well defined, which they are, and that we can move through it as quickly as possible. >> you're not giving the election lawyers a lot of opportunity to make their millions of dollars here like they did in minnesota. >> well, let's hope not. you know, i'm certain that if particularly our u.s. senate race ends up in a recount, that we'll have plenty of attorneys in colorado all over the state. you know, the focus, if there is a recount, is on a couple of fairly narrow areas. one is that the machines have been calibrated properly, and the first thing we do is retest the machines to see that they were reading the ballots

i've also both personally met and talked on the telephone to mark richie, the secretary of state in minnesotabout what they learned from their process and what advice he could give me so that our recount, if one becomes necessary, is as transparent, as open, and creates as much confidence in the system as possible. >> mr. secretary, you adwere -- to make it as open and transparent as possible to make sure the citizens see what has been done and to make sure our procedures were well defined, which they are, and that we can move through it as quickly as possible. >> you're not giving the election lawyers a lot of opportunity to make their millions of dollars here like they did in minnesota. >> well, let's hope not. you know, i'm certain that if particularly our u.s. senate race ends up in a recount, that we'll have plenty of attorneys in colorado all over the state. you know, the focus, if there is a recount, is on a couple of fairly narrow areas. one is that the machines have been calibrated properly, and the first thing we do is retest the machines to see that they were reading the ballots co