Mark Halperin

So that's the predicate of why he meant so much to me.

And again, I could tell you a million stories about

working with them and just how extraordinary it was.

I'll just say the night of the 2000 election, we were in Times Square broadcasting and everybody was saying that Gore won and then that Bush won.

And then when Bush got Florida, everybody was saying it's over, Bush won.

And Peter

really trusted me to say no don't say it yeah everybody else is going to say it don't say it and uh sadly i haven't been able to find the full coverage that we did on youtube or anywhere else i should probably go to some archive and get it but i and i didn't i wasn't watching the competitors but i know from from some of the accounts i've been given we really were

more willing to stand up to our decision desk and the polling and sort of the conventional wisdom and say it's not fair to say that Bush won.

Mark Halperin, we haven't talked about it for many hours.

The possibility of tampering with the vote, of fraudulent voting, is very alive in the party's minds.

A slight flaw in the great democratic experiment.

Thank you very much.

We'll be back to continue our coverage of Election 2000 in just a moment.

That night really bonded us quite a bit because...

I had pushed him to not do what the others were doing, and he had trusted me.

And we had been somewhat rewarded for it, although we should have been more rewarded.

In any event, then 9-11 happened.

And on the day of 9-11, I woke up in New York City and I had meetings in Washington.

So I took the 6 a.m.

flight from New York to D.C.