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Deeply and fortunately, certainly the case. i also think, though, that its quite clear, and clinton people have begun to acknowledge this. that they underplayed their appeal to rural areas. and what you look at in states like wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, frankly, a lot of other states, is that the democrats simply underperformed. sometimes dramatically underperformed in rural counties that had once been quite friendly to them. >> youre not the first person to make that point. different sta...

Donald trump can break the blue wall, right? we didnt break it, we shattered that sucker. the full donald trump on display last night in cincinnati. recounting in great detail exactly how he won the election and how many people were wrong about it along the way. lets bring back our panel alex burns, dana bash. dana, this was fascinating to see. as alex was saying before the break, what president-elect trump would look like on the stump and he looked like, frankly, candidate trump. a lot of peo...

Country, and it certainly doesnt look good for us. thats not whether youre a democrat or a republican, thats just the office itself. >> the state of wisconsin today announced that it would begin recounting votes next week. green party county jill stein, as we said, has raised millions of dollars from donors to mount the challenge in wisconsin. you have to pay for it yourself, shes also going to pay for it apparently in michigan and pennsylvania. over the weekend, the clinton campaigns lawyer, ma...

The vote count was right. i was some what shocked and rarely i am shocked by anything that donald trump does these days. at his tirade last night on twitter. recounting is part of democracy and you want to get this right. it is reasonable and we have a big recount in 2000s and ended up intervening of that. this is part of democracy and this is how it goes and everybody wants a fair vote. it is going to make donald trump a stronger president if he prevails. >> hughes, do you agree quickly? i got ...

22,000 votes. >> steins campaign says, you dont know if there is voters hacking of this machine until they are looking at it. >> it should be fine and well move forward. >> theyre talking about a recounr recounting in pennsylvania and michigan and what do we know about those two states? >> thats right, her campaign did file a petition in pennsylvania today so thats moving forward and she will have 48 hours to do so in michigan. the election just today was certified by the secretary of state for ...

We are at least 13 cycles away from ecounting but who is counting? from our washington, d.c. bureau, good to see you. >> youre counting the days. why? >> because im exhaust. it has been a long, long campaign cycle. i think everyone is counting down days at this point. >> so we had a discussion earlier today. we were talking it over. he is in d.c. where you are. a couple different interpretations. one is that he was there to tout his business prowess. which is more accurate? >> well, who knows?

My supporters think its rigged and ill hire a lawyer that will do my bidding, what do you do? >> first of all, those moments were among the most of importance to our country in power and what our institutions have to do. but if youre a candidate who doesnt like it, each state has a procedure where you go through the canvassing of the vote and recounting of the vote potentially the actual contesting of the vote. so each state has its own procedures for what to do. >> if youre litigation minded, p...

But if youre a candidate who doesnt like it, each state has a procedure where you go through the canvassing of the vote and recounting of the vote potentially the actual contesting of the vote. so each state has its own procedures for what to do. >> if youre litigation minded, presumably you could string a bunch of stuff out even if the numbers arent in your favor or even if theyre overwhelmingly not in your favor -- >> one of the impacts of bush versus gore and the fact that that did stretch on...

>> reporter: the major reason the relationship between gore and clinton had deteriorated, president clintons relationship with monica lewinsky. gore was upset by bill clintons judgment and felt the impeached the presidents actions could hurt his campaign. >> we shouldnt have had to go through it, because i felt what the president did was terribly wrong, as a parent, i thought it was inexcusable. but by the grace of the american people, we did get through it. >> president clinton had apologized f...

All, could have been the difference. following weeks of recounting and court action, gore lost the state of florida by 537 votes, which, of course, gave george w. bush the white house. gary tuchman, cnn, new york. >> and back now with paul begala. you were there in the clinton white house during this time. what did you think seeing al gore out there on the trail today? because he -- and they havent always had the closest of relationships. >> thats right. it was very close -- first off, before cl...