Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190117:02:27:00
W. bush white house. six years earlier, 2000, as ballot counters in florida tried to figure out who won the presidential election, it was congressman john sweeney of new york who played a key role in dispatching republican operatives to florida to where the ballot counting was happening, and he famously ordered them to, quote, shut it down. sweeney uttered a three-word order to his troops, shut it down. he was really the orchestrator of what became known as the brooks brothers riot to shut down the ballot counting effort in favor of george w. bush. for his efforts that year, president george w...