named brandon green his wife was having an affair with, and he found out about it and he gave this brandon green a knockout drug in the communion wafer. the poor kid, he woke up naked, tied up, gagged in the hotel room in oklahoma and he tortured the kid. and he dropped him off in texas and they left him for dead. skinner is brought to justice in 2003. and convicted of kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. he s now serving life plus 90 in oklahoma. nbc news is now taking florida out of vice president gore s column and putting it back in the too close to call. it had to be the political equivalent of an earthquake. all of the networks were pretty trusting of this whole business of polling to have to flip it.
president al gore. nbc news projects that he wins the 25 electoral votes in the state of florida. that is a very, very, very important state for al gore, and now the pressure is on george w. bush. florida is called for vice president al gore and gore s march to the white house picks up momentum. that sent a little bit of a shock wave of panic through the headquarters. karl rove to his credit recognized that there was something wrong with the results. and i d also suggest that florida has been prematurely called. first of all, i thought it was a little bit irresponsible of the networks to call it before the polls closed in the western part of florida. as the day progressed on november 7th, you got nothing but good news. florida, pennsylvania, and michigan in his column. we had set up a speech prep room for al gore to practice his victory speech.
in a country of more than 275 million people, the presidency may be settled by a few hundred votes and no one is just sure when. these voters want a new election. election day headlines of voter fraud, hanging chads, and dubious results will continue to dominate the news for weeks to come. we knew there were issues in florida. i don t think at the time we had any idea the u.s. supreme court would determine who the president was going to be. i, george walker bush, do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. what happened to al gore is a once in a million kind of thing. thank you, thank you, thank you, and god bless you all. thank you and good night. hillary s success in 2000 was clearly to many, many, many
concede, the florida numbers are wrong. apparently, al gore is still planning to be here and give this speech which we certainly expect to be a concession speech. so i called carter in the motorcade and said we can t concede. we are waiting for governor bush, but obviously he s going to speak after vice president gore. and he said to me, by the way, where are you? i said i m in the hotel, i missed the motorcade. he said you have to get here. my assistant drove me there, and i kept pointing at my secret service badge and jumping over the barriers, and the vice president wasn t answering his phone. i have just been given a two-minute warning for the appearance of al gore. he is this ourn?
for. we did one that said yes. and then we stopped and had a white to eat and he said are you ready to do the next one? and i said, no, i think we ll just go with the first one. in any other election, if you didn t have bush v gore, then hillary clinton would have been first by a long shot. if he wins, his wife will actually be appointed to that job. it felt like the third most important story. i have been told it s an ongoing federal investigation, and they have asked for our cooperation by not commenting. even farther from the media glare in tiny womigo, kansas a fugitive suspect in a massive dea drug bust is on the run. dea summoned local law enforcement to assist in the man hunt. chief of police came across the police scanner, all police officers and all reserve officers meet up in front of the city hospital.