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made up of county and local officials.

- All final tallies must be submitted...

- Yeah, what is it, Joe?

Are you watching? Daley's on Channel 6.

Mr. Daley, what makes you think

the results of the recount

will be any different than they are now?

Well, at this point

nobody really knows, Matt,

whether it will be different or not.

His daddy stole it for J.F.K.,

and now he's gonna steal it for Gore.

I've asked Warren Christopher,

the former Secretary of State,

to come in and oversee

the recount for us...

Okay, they got Warren Christopher...

Secretary of State Warren Christopher

will lead a Gore legal team...

Who were we thinking?

It's gonna be a litigation nightmare.

Every lawyer from New York to Havana

is gonna be waving their briefcases

up and down on the streets of Florida.

I'm tellin' ya,

they're gonna be fallin' out of the sky.

Can you get back to the airport?

I can be there in an hour.

Hundreds of voters are lined up

in Palm Beach County today

to sign affidavits stating that

they were confused by the ballot.

A petition is being circulated

demanding a revote.

These voters believed they mistakenly

voted for Pat Buchanan...

I want my vote to count.

We're gonna do everything we can

to make sure your votes get counted.

That's why we're here.

I feel like I'm stuck in

"The night of the Living Bubbies."

Just stay calm. And whatever you do,

don't yell "Bingo!"

Yeah, I promise.

Hey, Buchanan's on TV.

I'll call you back.

...I think and believe.

And it is my belief that some

of those votes that were cast for me

probably were cast for me

mistakenly in the belief

that people were casting

their ballots for Al Gore.

Glen, new talking point...

Buchanan just went on television.

Even he says he thinks people voted for

him thinking they were voting for Gore.

Write it up. Get it to me as an email.

Reverend Jesse Jackson

led a march of democrats

and unhappy voters

through West Palm Beach.

At this point we do not know

who won the election

because our votes have not been counted.

Right.

It's insane.

Now all eyes on Florida watching this

recount. A team of as many as 70 people

expected in the state

within the next 24 hours,

we should note,

many of them raising questions

as to whether the Gore campaign

will try to sway...

The undervotes and the overvotes

on a precinct level and...

Good afternoon, Mr. Secretary.

This is everyone...

five lawyers and Joe Allbaugh?

Tell Austin I want operatives, P.R.

- and volunteers down here immediately.

- Got it.

They have Jesse Jackson

down there in Palm Beach

holding hands with those old jewish

folks screaming, "Count all the votes!"

Who the hell is gonna argue with that?

I'm guessing that Mr. Jackson is going

to keep his "hymietown" comments

down to a minimum this time around.

I want our protestors down there

in Palm Beach, Tallahassee and Miami...

Call Roger Stone...

Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa.

Karl wants protestors

outside of Gore's home.

There you go.

Now listen, people,

this is a street fight

for the presidency of the United States.

I'm told they have a well-oiled

operation just waitin' to clobber us.

It ain't gonna get

more political than this.

We want to proceed as if this

is a proper legal process,

not a political street fight.

Gore wants to pull Jesse Jackson

out of Florida as quickly as possible.

When I spoke to the Vice President

he said he wanted to fight this

with every possible...

There is concern

that protestors might diminish

what should be an orderly process.

If a fight broke out and,

let's say, the police overreacted...

Even worse, a riot...

No one wants that.

Chaos will not help our cause.

Okay, I'll ask Donna

to talk to Jesse Jackson.

Our attorneys at Holland & Knight...

I thought we had negotiated their fee.

We had, but they suddenly discovered

a conflict of interest. Mitch?

It's pretty simple. Jeb Bush doles out

a lot of business in this state.

His chief counsel has made clear

the consequences

of taking us on as a client.

So there is not one major law firm

in Florida that will represent Al Gore.

This is already a mess.

Our first step should be exploring

this butterfly ballot situation.

The ballot was designed by a democrat

and approved by the democrats

in Palm Beach before election day.

They don't have a leg to stand on.

I went through a ballot configuration

dispute on the Connie Mack recount...

There are no legal remedies.

The constitution says

presidential elections

must be held on a single day

throughout the nation.

There isn't a court in the state

that would be crazy enough

to grant them a revote.

Looks like Chris won't be able

to negotiate his way out of this one.

I'm sure Jim will want to negotiate

a fair method to settle this affair.

Some Palm Beach groups

have already filed lawsuits.

- I think we should join them.

- No, we don't want to go to court.

But if we're pursuing this as a legal

process and not a political fight,

as Chris said,

then we're gonna have to file lawsuits.

Gore doesn't want to send the message

that he's suing to be

President of the United States.

Absolutely no lawsuits.

I want to file a lawsuit in

Federal Court as quickly as possible.

It'd get thrown out immediately.

You bet,

but I want us on track

for the U.S. Supreme Court.

I don't think they'd even hear it.

And we'd get crucified by our own people

for pushing a state issue

into Federal Court.

Well, that's right,

but as some of you may know,

I love to cull turkeys in the spring,

as did Lawton Chiles, the former

governor of the great state of Florida,

though I contend I was the better shot.

Now there's no love lost

between Chiles and the Bush family

ever since that dirty campaign

he fought against Jebbie in '94,

but I always liked Lawton

and every year before he passed on

we would have ourselves a pleasant time

culling turkeys in the Spring.

- Could I have another soda, please?

- Right away, sir.

Now as two-time governor,

Chiles appointed six of the 7 justices

on the Florida Supreme Court.

And I can tell you positively

they are the most flaming liberals

in the entire goddamn state.

If we end up in the Florida

Supreme Court, we're dead.

Now the U.S. Supreme Court

may be a long shot,

but Florida is a no shot.

Now we can sit here drinking tea

and discussing the virtues of federalism

or we can start throwing punches.

And yes, we'll take a hit in the op-eds,

but until this is over

I don't want to see

a copy of "The New York Times"

unless it's to wrap garbage.

Johnny Apple says that

we have a week to resolve this

before the American people

will lose their patience.

I think we need to heed his advice.

I think we need

to discuss hand recounts.

If we're trailing at the end

of the machine recount,

we're gonna have to request

a full statewide hand recount.

You guys are dreaming.

It's not gonna happen,

- not in Florida.

- Why not?

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