he is a partner at berger singerman. mr. samuels i appreciate you being here tonight.nk you. >> happy to be here, thank you. >> are you drawing the parallels between now and 2000, or is that just me? >> i absolutely am drawing the parallels, and the exact parallel that i'm drawing is that we continue to want all legal votes counted. that was our goal in 2000. that is our goal now, and we'll be keeping a very careful eye on all of the proceedings, and we'll be fight anything efforts to stop the counting of lawful ballots. >> the president has weighed in on this, disparaging some of the democratic lawyers who are involved in fighting on the democratic side of this. rick scott has weighed in, said he was going to use florida law enforcement to investigate the vote count, and he too casting aspersions on democratic lawyers who are involved in fighting for this. can you tell us a little bit about how the two sides are lining up on either side, what kind of firepower is being brought to bear here? >> well, all i can tell you is the democratic lawyers that i know, myself incl