assessment was, this guy is so unpopular and controversial, i can t even use him. if he could channel and bring bill clinton back to 1998 and make us remember that, and bring us all the episodes and lawsuits that followed and the accusations that were there, then i think donald trump has done something not only for himself but the entire republican field. a lot of people think, and i think this as well, and al gourmet even think it today that that was a mistake. it wasn t just that he felt he was problematic because of what happened, it was that al gore had a lot of animosity toward him because of what happened, and i think that got in the way of bill clinton campaigning for him. absolutely, but the fact there was even a thought in his mind as opposed to ronald reagan when he left, he was at 44, 45% then, and he brought with him a lot of baggage, a bad marriage o or a marriage that didn t seem
accomplished and we re so focused on those years. when you think about al gore, you can t help but ask, what if it had been the other. the entire history of the world would have been radically different. i can t imagine a greater divergence about what happened and what could have happened, had al gore been elected. i had a conversation with mike bloomberg when he was running for re-election in 09. we had a bad moment at one point and he looked at me and said, if i lose, my plan b is better than most people s plan a. and it turns out that al gore s plan b worked out pretty well for him. he may have wallowed a little bit. he had a depression, he gained some weight. he grew a beard, which i think is totally fine. al, keep the beard. but he s done extraordinarily well and he s made a lot of money and a tremendous difference in the world. he s helped change the world. he s right, he would have changed the world more had he been president, but he still applied himself in the way th
he always had throughout his life to public service in a different venue. steve, you talk about the contradictions of his life post election. he has this mansion, well 10,000 square feet, if we re talking romney rich, what is the square footage of a true mansion. uses 20 times the electricity of the average u.s. household. he wants to talk about environmentalism in an an inconvenient truth and he sold current tv to al jazeera funded by qatari oil money. a series of seeming contradictions and the ultimate one, do his actions befit a nobel prize win centre someone who used to be vice president, someone who would have been president? he constantly has to sort of grapple with all of that. there s a couple standards against which we judge al. the interesting thing here, too, is he s become and still is a political kind of lightning rod. obviously the right wing hates him and uses every chance it can get to pounce on him. it s kind of interesting how
attack. that is reportedly according to documents the administration just released. we are being told administration press officers were responsible for removing al qaeda references in the talking pointsdz points. it is being called a blap tant attack. pushing a bill to require anger management classes for any one buying ammunition. it would mandate a 3 day waiting period for any gun or ammo sale to someone who has not taken the classes. gun rights advocates say it s unconstitutional. let s go to stories you can bank on this morning. al gourmet be headed to court for selling current tv, that was his tv network to al-jazeera. we are talking about a major lawsuit because there s a guy who says he helped facilitate the sale to al-jazeera and al
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