David savage, it is the 20th andversary of bush v gore here we are in the midst of sorting through another close election. We asked you because youve been covering this Supreme Court since 1986 to come back and look back in time with us at that 2000 election. What we were going through then as comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter and Ruth Ginsburg and stephen breyer, four on the left. So it leaned conservative. But it was also an interesting you know, the court the court is never 100 predictable. I found that Justice Kennedy and Justice Oconnor were middle of the ro
28 full minutes. Terrified cnbc viewers watched slack jawed as he ranted. Here is part of his performance. Hell is coming this was a feeling like ive never had. Like theres a tsunami coming, right . A tsunami is coming. You feel it in the air. The tide starts to roll out, ok . On the beach, people are playing and having fun like theres nothing going on. Thats the feeling ive had for the last two months, ok . And my colleagues at work, ok, thought i was a lunatic we need to shut it down now america will end as we know it, ok . Im sorry to say so, ok, unless we take this option. Bill ahman was afraid, and he wanted you to be afraid. He was especially frightened for the future of Hilton Hotels. Hilton hotels ahman proclaimed, is going to zero along with every other Hotel Company in the world. Every hotel is going to be shut down in the country. Every one talk about scary but in the end, not for bill ahman. Not long after that appearance, we learned that his firm had made more than 2 billi
Terrified cnbc viewers watched slack jawed as he ranted. Here is part of his performance. Hell is coming this was a feeling like ive never had. Like theres a tsunami coming, right . A tsunamias is coming. You feel it in the air. The tide starts to roll out, ok . On the beach, people are playing and having fun like theres nothing going on. Thats the feeling ive had for the last two months, ok . And my colleagues at work, ok, thought i was a lunatic we need to shut it down now america will end as we knowth i, ok . Im sorry to say so, ok, unless we take this option. Bill ackman was afraid, and he wanted you to be afraid. He was especially frightened for the future of Hilton Hotels. Hilton hotels ackman proclaimed, is going to zero along with every other Hotel Company in the world. Every hotel is going to be shut down in the country. Every one talk aboutng scary but in the end, not for bill ackman. Not long after that appearance, we learned that his firm had made more than 2t billion from
Radical dems would no longer consider the china virus pandemic an issue once the election was behind us. Well, that election is now only six days behind us, and we learn that there is, indeed, a vaccine, a powerful vaccine, and that hope is restored. President trump has repeatedly said a successful vaccine candidate could be announced as early as october or perhaps just before the election. And he was roundly criticized, mocked by the. [laughter] wing the leftwing National Media, of course, the radical dems, specifically one joe biden saying a vaccine could be brought forth as early as the election, they just absolutely rejected his forecast. The president s estimation, is as so often the case, was absolutely correct. President trump also warned, however, that partisan politics could well delay any such announcement. Please take a listen now to what he had to say just one month ago. Listen carefully. Were going to have a great vaccine very,ing very short lu. I think we should have it b
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