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Where's the f-god dam kid? i did step forward a little bit aggressive like mad and she says if you take one more step, i'm going to shoot. >> if there was anybody, it shouldn't have been me to get elian into my arms but everyone's running to shelter because they're hearing the same thing, get down or we'll shoot and we're thinking they're going to kill us. >> i see in the closet donado and elian. the boy says to me -- i said nothing's happening. baby but everything's going to be all right. >> the door busted open and there's a federal armed agent with an assault weapon and he's got that thing ...

Welfare. if it comes to taking elian by force, u.s. law enforcement officials have a plan. >> the s.w.a.t. special operations group is available and the florida highway patrol has placed units on alert. the final go or no go order will come only from attorney general, janet reno. >> for weeks the government had had been assembling a shock force of federal agents to seize elian if necessary. but janet reno had misgivings that went beyond her loyalty to cuban exiles. just after taking office as attorney general, reno had ordered federal agents to raid the religious compound of waco, texas. 75 pe...

>> stand by, stand by. cnn right now is moving florida back to the too close to call columnal. >> the elian gonzales issue may have driven a lot of cuban americans back to the republican party. >> an election in tur moil, a nation waits. who will emerge a winner in the historic florida recount? >> there were 10s of thousands cuban americans that became republicans post elian. had the elian event been handled better, we might not have had the iraq war. >> president bush became the president of the united states in 2000 because of elian gonzales. there is no doubt in my mind and i think that num...

[ speaking foreign language] castro was in fact dedicated to getting that little boy home and it became a matter of his heart. was not now just a government victory. and elian became virtually like a child of his. ♪ >> as elian grew up, fidel

Ballots. ralph nadir getting 100,000 votes in florida. and i doubt it had anything to do with al gore not carrying tennessee, his home state. ♪ >> they would not see elian again. in late june, almost seven months after his rescue at sea, the supreme court finally lifted the order keeping him in the united states.