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Nuggets. i cant believe that how did they get to this point? the president signed off on taking god and jerusalem out and now take a vote that looks elementary at best and now saying that the president wanted them to do the vote. it may have been a foregone conclusion. check out the teleprompter. >> steve: in the opinion of the chair two-thirds voted in the affirmative. was that cooked up on the fly we dont know. what is interesting we ran the clip dick durbin said those words dont matter. if th...

Havent. >> mitt romney will hit the campaign trail again tomorrow for the home stretch. he campaigns tomorrow and back in new hampshire. steve. >> he is our vermonter today. doug, thank you. >> gretchen: it is a miracle this pilot and passenger are alive after their plane went down and burst into flames. approved the request. affirmative. the plane crashed in a field in texas and exploded in a fire ball. both men managed to escape and are in serious condition. >> gretchen: an update to a story. ...

But that may have been overshadowed by a vote to put god and jerusalem into the dny platform. peter doocy will tell us how it turned into chaos. it was exciting, an exciting series of votes and moments. break this down. >> very interesting. when president obama heard about "god" being left out of the platform he asked the aidey did it change in the first place? the democratic party decided to send out the convention chairman, los angeles mayor, to have a voice vote and put "god" bad in the platf...

References to god and jerusalem back into its platform. >> all those delegates opposed say no. and in the opinion of the chair 2/3 voted in the affirmative. the motion adopted and the platform has been amended as shown on the screen. pack your bags, well leave tonight. uhh, its next month, actually... eddie continues singing: to tickets to... paradiiiiiise! no four. remember? whoooa whooaa whooo! you know ronny, folks who save hundreds of dollars by switching to geico sure are happy. and how hap...

>> aye! >> all those opposed say no. >> no. >> i -- i guess -- >> youve got to let them do what they are going to do. >> ill do that one more time. all those delegates in favor say aye. >> aye! >> all those delegates opposed say no. >> no. >> in the opinion of the chair two-thirds have voted in the affirmative the motion is adopted, and the platform has been amended as shown on the screen. [booing ] megyn: look what was sitting in the teleprompter when the los angeles mayor was calling for that ...

>> the convention managed to avoid potentially embarrassing roll call on third voice vote. to say it was a foregone conclusion is understatement. they were prewritten on the teleprompter. >> in the opinion of the chair, two-third voted in the affirmative. the motion is adopted. we learned more about how the jerusalem language was dropped in the first place. when the plank was drafted it was written to reflect presidents official policy that jerusalem is matter for final status negotiations. the ...

Here is the l.a. mayor with a vote that didnt go right. >> all those delegates in favor, say i. >> i. >> all those delegates opposed, say no. >> no! >> in the opinion -- let me do that again. all of those delegates in favor say i. >> i. >> all those delegates opposed say no. >> no. >> i guess ill do that one more time. all those delegates in favor, say i. >> i. >> all those delegates opposed, say no. >> no. >> in the opinion of the chair, two-thirds have voted in the affirmative, the motion is a...

Offending people. and bill clinton still believes powerfully that 6% of authentically undecided voters are really going to decide the election that you have to appeal to them. he likes to talk about cooperation. he likes to talk about where there is shared sort of common interests in getting things done for the country. you havent heard a lot of that elsewhere. >> i want to ask you something that happened a few hours perfect president clintons speech. an awkward, unexpect the moment on the floor...

To do. >> ill do that one more time. all those delegates in favor, say aye. >> aye. >> all those delegates opposed say no. >> no. >> in the opinion of the chair two-thirds have voted in the affirmative, the motion is adopted and the platform has been amended as shown on the screen. >> its a "saturday night live" skit. >> that did not happen. what? >> so very embarrassing moment again going back to the makeup of the delegates. you were talking about yesterday, somebody took "god" out of the platf...

Republicans, democrats held a last-minute vote to reinsert the word "god" into the party platform and to declare jerusalem the capital of israel. >> the matter requires a two-thirds vote in the affirmative. all those delegates in favor, say aye. all those delegates opposed say no. >> in the opinion of the -- let me do that again. all of those delegates in favor, say aye. >> aye. >> all those delegates opposed say no. >> no. >> i, um, i guess -- you got to let them do what theyre going