computer and he's like i don't know what they are seeing, i don't know what numbers they are seeing, i still think it's too close. >> were you guys kind of surprised that jeb was surprised when vice president for called to concede. >> jeb bush was the governor of florida at the time, trying to deliver the state for his big brother. he wasn't the only one scratching his head at gore's concession. >> our numbers were going back and forth. >> at headquarters michael whouley, gore's own numbers wizard, kept doing the math with no idea that gore's motorcade was already on the way for his concession speech. how is it that you guys in the boiler room were not told they were going to concede? >> i don't know. i think they believed the network news. when tom brokaw and dan rather said that george bush had won, they thought it was game over. there was a furious scramble to find somebody in the motorcade. >> maybe a minute after we left the hotel, my white house pager went off.