LELAND: ALL RIGHT.
BACK TO DOUG, AS NEWS WARRANTS.
HERE WITH MORE INSIGHT, FORMER
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT
GEORGE W. BUSH, BRAD BLAKEMAN.
BEFORE HE WAS AT THE WHITE HOUSE
HE WAS DOWN IN FLORIDA.
THIS HAS GOT TO FEEL LIKE DEJA
VU ALL OVER AGAIN.
>> I'VE GOT THE SHAKES JUST
WATCHING WHAT'S GOING ON THERE.
IT WAS TYPICAL WHAT HAPPENED
WHEN WE WERE DOWN THERE.
WE HAD PEOPLE PROTESTING
OUTSIDE.
IT'S A THREE-PRONGED EFFORT.
ONE IS THE RECOUNT ITSELF IF
THERE IS ONE, I'M SURE THERE
WILL BE A MECHANICAL.
THE OTHER IS FIGHTING IN THE
COURTS IF NECESSARY.
AND WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THAT AND
THE OTHER IS PR.
AUM THOUGH VOTING HAS ENDED, THE
CAMPAIGN HAS NOT.
NOT UNTIL THERE'S A WINNER.
LELAND: INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH,
THESE GUYS, NOW ON BOTH SIDES,
THE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IN
FLORIDA ARE STEALING SOME OF THE
TACTICS YOU USED BACK IN 2000.
THIS A SIGN FROM 2000.
>> ALTHOUGH JOE LIEBERMAN IS A
FRIEND, WE'D BECOME FRIENDS
AFTER THIS.
WE WANTED TO TAKE THE RECOUNT,
BECAUSE WE NEEDED TO SHOW THIS
WAS A RIGGED DEAL IN 2000 AND
THEY WERE ACTUALLY TRYING TO
STEAL THE ELECTION AND WE WERE
RUNNING INTO THE SAME PROBLEMS
NOW AS THEN.
LELAND: DOES IT FEEL THE SAME?
>> LACK OF TRANSPARENCY NOT
LETTING PEOPLE TO COME IN TO
WITNESS.
ALL OF A SUDDEN BALLOTS APPEAR
FROM NOWHERE, AND NOT HAVING
ACCURATE COUNTS.
LELAND: AND BALLOTS MIXED IN.
AND THESE ARE LIVE PICTURES AS
THE PROTESTS CONTINUE.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS
INTERESTING, WE'VE SEEN RICK
SCOTT BEING VOCAL, ALA GEORGE
BUSH.
RON DESANTIS, HAS GONE TO
GROUND.
HE LOVED BEING ON EVERY POSSIBLE
TELEVISION SHOW HE COULD AND NOW
YOU CAN'T GET A HOLD OF HIM.
>> I THINK HE'S LETTING SCOTT BE
THE FACE OF THIS.
FOR THE REASONS YOU STATED.
SCOTT HAS MORE TO LOSE THAN
DESANTIS LOOKS LIKES AND THEN
NELSON WHO CAN'T BE FOUND EITHER
AND HE'S NEVER BEEN SHY TO THE
MEDIA AND HE'S PULLING A GORE.
LETTING THEM FIGHT HIS BATTLE.
IF YOU WANT TO WIN, YOU TO HAVE
OBJECT ON TOP OF IT NOT LETTING
OTHERS SPEAK FOR YOU.
LELAND: ANDREW GILLUM HIGH
SCHOOL A PRESS CONFERENCE AND
COVERAGE OF THAT FROM OUR
REPORTERS ON THE GROUND.
OUR REPORTER THERE WAS TALKING
ABOUT THE CROWDS GETTING PRETTY
ROWDY IN A WAY THAT REALLY
DIDN'T HAPPEN IN 2000.
THERE WERE PROTESTS, BUT YOU
GUYS WENT TO JOE STONE CRAB
AFTERWARD.
>> IT WAS MORE THEATER THAN
ANYTHING ELSE.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, DEMOCRATS
DIDN'T SHOW UP.
REPUBLICANS DID THINGS, WE TOOK
THINGS OUT OF THEIR PLAY BOOK.
WE ASSUMED ASSUMED THEY WOULD
SHOW UP EN MASSE AND THEY NEVER
DID.
AND THE REPUBLICANS DID CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCE WE WERE NOT KNOWN
FOR, BUT EFFECTIVE.
LELAND: PREDICTION?
>> PREDICTION, THE NUMBERS
AREN'T THERE HISTORICALLY FOR A
RECOUNT OF THIS MAGNITUDE.
I'M TALKING ABOUT IN VOTES, TO
HAVE AN OVERTURNING OF THE
ELECTION.
REMEMBER, BUSH WAS ONLY AHEAD BY
537 VOTES AND THEY COULDN'T
MANAGE TO OVERTURN THAT.
LELAND: THERE IS THIS FEELING
AMONG REPUBLICANS THAT SOMEHOW,
IN BROWARD COUNTY, OR PALM
BEACH, THEY ARE GOING TO BACK UP
SEMIS OF NEWLY FOUND BALLOTS AND
SUDDENLY IT'S GOING TO TIP THE
SCALES OF THE ELECTION.
IS THAT MORE STOKING THE FIRE OF
THESE CROWDS THAN REALISTIC?
>> IT'S NOT REALISTIC BECAUSE
YOU KNOW, THE NET THEY HAVE TO
HAVE MEANS THEY HAVE TO HAVE 50
OR 60,000 VOTES MATERIALIZE IN
THE MACRO.
IT'S NOT--
IT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN.
IF IT DOES HAPPEN THEN THERE'S
SOMETHING TERRIBLY TERRIBLY
WRONG.
LELAND: IF IT DOES HAPPEN
THEY'LL CALL YOU DOWN.
>> I'M READY.
LELAND: AS WE SAID EARLIER IT'S
NICER TO HAVE THIS HAPPENING IN
FLORIDA THAN IN MONTANA.
>> NO QUESTION.
HAWAII WOULD BE NICE.
LELAND: HAWAII WOULD BE NICE.
THEY SEEM TO HAVE THIS PROBLEM
THOUGH IN FLORIDA.
IS THERE SOMETHING ABOUT
FLORIDA?
WE HEARD IN 2000, NEVER AGAIN.
ALLEGEDLY THEY LEARNED THE
LESSON.
>> IT'S INCOMPETENCE, I'LL TELL
YOU OUT OF 67 COUNTIES IN
FLORIDA WHY DOES IT ALWAYS COME
DOWN TO BROWARD AND PALM BEACH
COUNTY?
WHY CAN'T IT BE ON REPUBLICAN
VOTES THEY SCREW UP?
IT SEEMS ALWAYS THE SAME PROBLEM
IN THE SAME JURISDICTIONS.
LELAND: THAT GOES BACK TO 1960
WHEN OLD MAN KENNEDY WAS QUOTED
AS SAYING I'M NOT GOING TO PAY
FOR A LANDSLIDE, DON'T BUY MORE
VOTES THAN YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED?
AND WHILE WE'RE WATCHING THE
PICTURES, ONE OF THE QUESTION
MARKS HAS BEEN THE INTERMIXING
OF BALLOTS AND THESE REPORTS
THAT BALLOTS THAT WERE DEEMED
VALID AND VOTES THAT WERE
PROVISIONAL AND QUESTIONED HAD
BEEN INTERMIXED.
ONCE THEY'D BEEN INTERMIXED, YOU
CAN'T UNMIX THEM.
>> NO, AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
YOU HAVE EITHER FRAUD OR
INCOMPETENCE.
LELAND: OR WILLFUL INCOMPETENCE
THAT TURNS INTO FRAUD.
>> THE ELECTED COMMISSIONER HAS
BEEN REBUKED FOR DESTROYING
BALLOTS, MISPRINTING BALLOTS AND
WE KNOW IN THIS ELECTION CYCLE
SHE'S FAILED IN REPORTING.
THERE'S SOMETHING TEA
THERE'S SOMETHING TERRIBLY WRONG
AND UP TO THE GOVERNOR, WHOEVER
THAT TURNS OUT TO BE, AND THE
U.S. SENATOR TO GET IT RIGHT.
LELAND: TO THE POINT ABOUT THE
ELECTION SUPERVISOR DOWN THERE,
SHE HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE IN
WHICH ANSWERS WERE VERY