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George W. Bush Expected to Cast Ballot Soon
Aired November 05, 2002 - 08:05 ET
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We want to get back to our election day coverage here in Florida now. In the next couple of hours we're going to visit several key battleground states. Right now Kelly Wallace with the president in Crawford, Texas, expected to cast his ballot in a moment there in Crawford. Kathleen Koch is watching things in Maryland and Gary Tuchman is at a polling station in Dunwoody, Georgia, just north of Atlanta.
We start with you, Gary -- good morning.
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bill, good morning to you.
And Georgia is the first state in the United States to have touch screen voting in every one of its precincts, 159 counties here in Georgia. There are 22,000 touch screen machines. You can see this is a very busy polling place. And we want to give you an exact idea how it works.
This is a sample machine right here. You get a voter access card. You put the voter access card in the slot like this and once you put it in there, the machine loads up. And we should tell you, this is a sample machine. This won't have the actual candidates. It will have candidates you're familiar with, though. These are the instructions. You don't need to know those because I'm going to tell you the instructions. But here you go.
Famous leaders. I'm going to vote for George Washington for famous leader. Just press it. Famous Georgians, I'm going to vote for Gladys Knight without her Pips. Famous athletes, definitely Hank Aaron. Then you go to next. You press the next button. Here's a constitutional amendment, should presidential election day be a national holiday? I'll say yes. Are you going to take a two week vacation this year? Yes, sure. And should bonds be issued for local parks? Yes.
Then you press next. Now it goes to the last page. I voted on every issue here on the touch screen ballot. Am I satisfied? No, I'm not. So I press the famous leaders. I want to change my famous leader ballot. You can't over vote. If I press Jimmy Carter or John Adams or Martin Luther King, nothing happens. But if I press George Washington again, that vote disappears and I can vote for John Adams because I really enjoyed the book. Then I press next, I'm satisfied with my referendums, press next again. It loads up. It's ready to go. And then it tells me to cast the ballot. I press the cast the ballot button my votes are cast.
I get the voter access card back. My vote is not on this card. This goes to another voter. My votes are in the machine. It's just like an ATM, but you don't get any money back -- Bill, back to you.
HEMMER: Gary, quickly, are there any punch card ballots now in the State of Georgia now?
TUCHMAN: There are no punch card ballots in the State of Georgia. As a matter of fact, Bill, you can write in a candidate with this machine. You press the write-in button and then you get a little typewriter on the screen you can type on the screen to type your write-in vote. No punch card ballots any more.
HEMMER: Yes, well, Georgia learned their lesson watching Florida. Florida learned its lesson, as well. No punch card ballots anymore. No more hanging chad in the State of Florida.
Thank you, Gary.
Another close race in Maryland, the governorship there. Kathleen Koch is outside a polling station live in Bethesda -- Kathleen, how goes it?
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Bill, you know, I'm here in Montgomery County, where two weeks ago the question was not who would win, but who would vote. With the sniper suspects still on the loose, both parties were encouraging people to vote absentee. There was talk of calling out the National Guard to protect polling places.
Well, now, people are turning out with the sniper suspects in custody. They feel a lot more relaxed. Very hotly contested race for governorship, as you said, one of the most hotly contested in the country. Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is vying to become not only Maryland's first female governor, but the first Kennedy elected to the a governorship. And she's in a very, very tough race with opponent, very popular Republican Congressman Robert Ehrlich. Now, he is hoping to become the first Republican governor of this heavily Democratic state since Spiro Agnew back in 1934.
Another very tough race, the Eighth District race, Congresswoman Connie Morella in the fight of her political life for the job she's held for 16 years. She's taking on a state senator, Chris Van Hollen, age 43. Heavy spending in both these races, Bill, and they say that turnout will be the key -- back to you.
HEMMER: Kathleen, thanks to you.
The president has been crisscrossing the country, working some serious overtime hours in a final push, again, back in Crawford now.
Here's Kelly Wallace with the president -- Kelly, good morning.
KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Bill.
Well, just about an hour from now, President Bush heads to the Crawford fire house to vote. There are two very important, very tight races in this state, the race for Senate and the gubernatorial race, and I don't think we have to speculate on who the president will be voting for in those races. You're looking now at a live picture of the Crawford firehouse. This town of about 700 getting used to all this attention with the president now calling Crawford home.
Now, White House aides feeling somewhat optimistic going into this election. They believe that the president's marathon campaigning will mean that Republicans will not lose congressional seats today. And that will be a departure from what normally happens, because traditionally the president's party loses ground in the midterm elections.
No surprise, Democrats are seeing things differently. They believe having the president out to 40 states this year will help get Democrats to the polls. They believe Democrats will pick up seats in the House and in the Senate, and, Bill, they say this will really be a referendum on the president and his policies, especially when it comes to the economy -- Bill.
HEMMER: Hopefully we will all know at this time tomorrow. But no guarantee on that.
WALLACE: Hopefully.
HEMMER: Thank you, Kelly.
You've got it.
Our prime time coverage here on CNN begins a bit later tonight. I want to let you know about that right now. 6:00 Eastern, 3:00 on the West Coast. We'll go live well into Wednesday morning, Aaron Brown, Judy Woodruff, Jeff Greenfield, Bill Schneider and Paula Zahn will help lead the coverage a bit later today. We'll see Paula then.
In the meantime, though, let's get back to Atlanta and once again here's Carol -- Carol.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: OK, thanks, Bill.
We've got to talk about the Louisiana race because it's very strange. Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu is running against three Republican challengers. She is well ahead in the polls, but in Louisiana, with its unique election rules, she may not have enough to win. She needs more than 50 percent. Otherwise, she might be forced into a runoff next month against the top Republican vote getter. And, of course, that will be held on December 7, and that could hold up the whole ball of wax.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Sure. We might not find out who controls the Senate till Pearl Harbor Day.
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We want to get back to our election day coverage here in Florida now. In the next couple of hours we're going to visit several key battleground states. Right now Kelly Wallace with the president in Crawford, Texas, expected to cast his ballot in a moment there in Crawford. Kathleen Koch is watching things in Maryland and Gary Tuchman is at a polling station in Dunwoody, Georgia, just north of Atlanta.
We start with you, Gary -- good morning.
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bill, good morning to you.
And Georgia is the first state in the United States to have touch screen voting in every one of its precincts, 159 counties here in Georgia. There are 22,000 touch screen machines. You can see this is a very busy polling place. And we want to give you an exact idea how it works.
This is a sample machine right here. You get a voter access card. You put the voter access card in the slot like this and once you put it in there, the machine loads up. And we should tell you, this is a sample machine. This won't have the actual candidates. It will have candidates you're familiar with, though. These are the instructions. You don't need to know those because I'm going to tell you the instructions. But here you go.
Famous leaders. I'm going to vote for George Washington for famous leader. Just press it. Famous Georgians, I'm going to vote for Gladys Knight without her Pips. Famous athletes, definitely Hank Aaron. Then you go to next. You press the next button. Here's a constitutional amendment, should presidential election day be a national holiday? I'll say yes. Are you going to take a two week vacation this year? Yes, sure. And should bonds be issued for local parks? Yes.
Then you press next. Now it goes to the last page. I voted on every issue here on the touch screen ballot. Am I satisfied? No, I'm not. So I press the famous leaders. I want to change my famous leader ballot. You can't over vote. If I press Jimmy Carter or John Adams or Martin Luther King, nothing happens. But if I press George Washington again, that vote disappears and I can vote for John Adams because I really enjoyed the book. Then I press next, I'm satisfied with my referendums, press next again. It loads up. It's ready to go. And then it tells me to cast the ballot. I press the cast the ballot button my votes are cast.
I get the voter access card back. My vote is not on this card. This goes to another voter. My votes are in the machine. It's just like an ATM, but you don't get any money back -- Bill, back to you.
HEMMER: Gary, quickly, are there any punch card ballots now in the State of Georgia now?
TUCHMAN: There are no punch card ballots in the State of Georgia. As a matter of fact, Bill, you can write in a candidate with this machine. You press the write-in button and then you get a little typewriter on the screen you can type on the screen to type your write-in vote. No punch card ballots any more.
HEMMER: Yes, well, Georgia learned their lesson watching Florida. Florida learned its lesson, as well. No punch card ballots anymore. No more hanging chad in the State of Florida.
Thank you, Gary.
Another close race in Maryland, the governorship there. Kathleen Koch is outside a polling station live in Bethesda -- Kathleen, how goes it?
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Bill, you know, I'm here in Montgomery County, where two weeks ago the question was not who would win, but who would vote. With the sniper suspects still on the loose, both parties were encouraging people to vote absentee. There was talk of calling out the National Guard to protect polling places.
Well, now, people are turning out with the sniper suspects in custody. They feel a lot more relaxed. Very hotly contested race for governorship, as you said, one of the most hotly contested in the country. Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is vying to become not only Maryland's first female governor, but the first Kennedy elected to the a governorship. And she's in a very, very tough race with opponent, very popular Republican Congressman Robert Ehrlich. Now, he is hoping to become the first Republican governor of this heavily Democratic state since Spiro Agnew back in 1934.
Another very tough race, the Eighth District race, Congresswoman Connie Morella in the fight of her political life for the job she's held for 16 years. She's taking on a state senator, Chris Van Hollen, age 43. Heavy spending in both these races, Bill, and they say that turnout will be the key -- back to you.
HEMMER: Kathleen, thanks to you.
The president has been crisscrossing the country, working some serious overtime hours in a final push, again, back in Crawford now.
Here's Kelly Wallace with the president -- Kelly, good morning.
KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Bill.
Well, just about an hour from now, President Bush heads to the Crawford fire house to vote. There are two very important, very tight races in this state, the race for Senate and the gubernatorial race, and I don't think we have to speculate on who the president will be voting for in those races. You're looking now at a live picture of the Crawford firehouse. This town of about 700 getting used to all this attention with the president now calling Crawford home.
Now, White House aides feeling somewhat optimistic going into this election. They believe that the president's marathon campaigning will mean that Republicans will not lose congressional seats today. And that will be a departure from what normally happens, because traditionally the president's party loses ground in the midterm elections.
No surprise, Democrats are seeing things differently. They believe having the president out to 40 states this year will help get Democrats to the polls. They believe Democrats will pick up seats in the House and in the Senate, and, Bill, they say this will really be a referendum on the president and his policies, especially when it comes to the economy -- Bill.
HEMMER: Hopefully we will all know at this time tomorrow. But no guarantee on that.
WALLACE: Hopefully.
HEMMER: Thank you, Kelly.
You've got it.
Our prime time coverage here on CNN begins a bit later tonight. I want to let you know about that right now. 6:00 Eastern, 3:00 on the West Coast. We'll go live well into Wednesday morning, Aaron Brown, Judy Woodruff, Jeff Greenfield, Bill Schneider and Paula Zahn will help lead the coverage a bit later today. We'll see Paula then.
In the meantime, though, let's get back to Atlanta and once again here's Carol -- Carol.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: OK, thanks, Bill.
We've got to talk about the Louisiana race because it's very strange. Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu is running against three Republican challengers. She is well ahead in the polls, but in Louisiana, with its unique election rules, she may not have enough to win. She needs more than 50 percent. Otherwise, she might be forced into a runoff next month against the top Republican vote getter. And, of course, that will be held on December 7, and that could hold up the whole ball of wax.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Sure. We might not find out who controls the Senate till Pearl Harbor Day.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Aired November 5, 2002 - 08:05 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We want to get back to our election day coverage here in Florida now. In the next couple of hours we're going to visit several key battleground states. Right now Kelly Wallace with the president in Crawford, Texas, expected to cast his ballot in a moment there in Crawford. Kathleen Koch is watching things in Maryland and Gary Tuchman is at a polling station in Dunwoody, Georgia, just north of Atlanta.
We start with you, Gary -- good morning.
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bill, good morning to you.
And Georgia is the first state in the United States to have touch screen voting in every one of its precincts, 159 counties here in Georgia. There are 22,000 touch screen machines. You can see this is a very busy polling place. And we want to give you an exact idea how it works.
This is a sample machine right here. You get a voter access card. You put the voter access card in the slot like this and once you put it in there, the machine loads up. And we should tell you, this is a sample machine. This won't have the actual candidates. It will have candidates you're familiar with, though. These are the instructions. You don't need to know those because I'm going to tell you the instructions. But here you go.
Famous leaders. I'm going to vote for George Washington for famous leader. Just press it. Famous Georgians, I'm going to vote for Gladys Knight without her Pips. Famous athletes, definitely Hank Aaron. Then you go to next. You press the next button. Here's a constitutional amendment, should presidential election day be a national holiday? I'll say yes. Are you going to take a two week vacation this year? Yes, sure. And should bonds be issued for local parks? Yes.
Then you press next. Now it goes to the last page. I voted on every issue here on the touch screen ballot. Am I satisfied? No, I'm not. So I press the famous leaders. I want to change my famous leader ballot. You can't over vote. If I press Jimmy Carter or John Adams or Martin Luther King, nothing happens. But if I press George Washington again, that vote disappears and I can vote for John Adams because I really enjoyed the book. Then I press next, I'm satisfied with my referendums, press next again. It loads up. It's ready to go. And then it tells me to cast the ballot. I press the cast the ballot button my votes are cast.
I get the voter access card back. My vote is not on this card. This goes to another voter. My votes are in the machine. It's just like an ATM, but you don't get any money back -- Bill, back to you.
HEMMER: Gary, quickly, are there any punch card ballots now in the State of Georgia now?
TUCHMAN: There are no punch card ballots in the State of Georgia. As a matter of fact, Bill, you can write in a candidate with this machine. You press the write-in button and then you get a little typewriter on the screen you can type on the screen to type your write-in vote. No punch card ballots any more.
HEMMER: Yes, well, Georgia learned their lesson watching Florida. Florida learned its lesson, as well. No punch card ballots anymore. No more hanging chad in the State of Florida.
Thank you, Gary.
Another close race in Maryland, the governorship there. Kathleen Koch is outside a polling station live in Bethesda -- Kathleen, how goes it?
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Bill, you know, I'm here in Montgomery County, where two weeks ago the question was not who would win, but who would vote. With the sniper suspects still on the loose, both parties were encouraging people to vote absentee. There was talk of calling out the National Guard to protect polling places.
Well, now, people are turning out with the sniper suspects in custody. They feel a lot more relaxed. Very hotly contested race for governorship, as you said, one of the most hotly contested in the country. Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is vying to become not only Maryland's first female governor, but the first Kennedy elected to the a governorship. And she's in a very, very tough race with opponent, very popular Republican Congressman Robert Ehrlich. Now, he is hoping to become the first Republican governor of this heavily Democratic state since Spiro Agnew back in 1934.
Another very tough race, the Eighth District race, Congresswoman Connie Morella in the fight of her political life for the job she's held for 16 years. She's taking on a state senator, Chris Van Hollen, age 43. Heavy spending in both these races, Bill, and they say that turnout will be the key -- back to you.
HEMMER: Kathleen, thanks to you.
The president has been crisscrossing the country, working some serious overtime hours in a final push, again, back in Crawford now.
Here's Kelly Wallace with the president -- Kelly, good morning.
KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Bill.
Well, just about an hour from now, President Bush heads to the Crawford fire house to vote. There are two very important, very tight races in this state, the race for Senate and the gubernatorial race, and I don't think we have to speculate on who the president will be voting for in those races. You're looking now at a live picture of the Crawford firehouse. This town of about 700 getting used to all this attention with the president now calling Crawford home.
Now, White House aides feeling somewhat optimistic going into this election. They believe that the president's marathon campaigning will mean that Republicans will not lose congressional seats today. And that will be a departure from what normally happens, because traditionally the president's party loses ground in the midterm elections.
No surprise, Democrats are seeing things differently. They believe having the president out to 40 states this year will help get Democrats to the polls. They believe Democrats will pick up seats in the House and in the Senate, and, Bill, they say this will really be a referendum on the president and his policies, especially when it comes to the economy -- Bill.
HEMMER: Hopefully we will all know at this time tomorrow. But no guarantee on that.
WALLACE: Hopefully.
HEMMER: Thank you, Kelly.
You've got it.
Our prime time coverage here on CNN begins a bit later tonight. I want to let you know about that right now. 6:00 Eastern, 3:00 on the West Coast. We'll go live well into Wednesday morning, Aaron Brown, Judy Woodruff, Jeff Greenfield, Bill Schneider and Paula Zahn will help lead the coverage a bit later today. We'll see Paula then.
In the meantime, though, let's get back to Atlanta and once again here's Carol -- Carol.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: OK, thanks, Bill.
We've got to talk about the Louisiana race because it's very strange. Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu is running against three Republican challengers. She is well ahead in the polls, but in Louisiana, with its unique election rules, she may not have enough to win. She needs more than 50 percent. Otherwise, she might be forced into a runoff next month against the top Republican vote getter. And, of course, that will be held on December 7, and that could hold up the whole ball of wax.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Sure. We might not find out who controls the Senate till Pearl Harbor Day.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We want to get back to our election day coverage here in Florida now. In the next couple of hours we're going to visit several key battleground states. Right now Kelly Wallace with the president in Crawford, Texas, expected to cast his ballot in a moment there in Crawford. Kathleen Koch is watching things in Maryland and Gary Tuchman is at a polling station in Dunwoody, Georgia, just north of Atlanta.
We start with you, Gary -- good morning.
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bill, good morning to you.
And Georgia is the first state in the United States to have touch screen voting in every one of its precincts, 159 counties here in Georgia. There are 22,000 touch screen machines. You can see this is a very busy polling place. And we want to give you an exact idea how it works.
This is a sample machine right here. You get a voter access card. You put the voter access card in the slot like this and once you put it in there, the machine loads up. And we should tell you, this is a sample machine. This won't have the actual candidates. It will have candidates you're familiar with, though. These are the instructions. You don't need to know those because I'm going to tell you the instructions. But here you go.
Famous leaders. I'm going to vote for George Washington for famous leader. Just press it. Famous Georgians, I'm going to vote for Gladys Knight without her Pips. Famous athletes, definitely Hank Aaron. Then you go to next. You press the next button. Here's a constitutional amendment, should presidential election day be a national holiday? I'll say yes. Are you going to take a two week vacation this year? Yes, sure. And should bonds be issued for local parks? Yes.
Then you press next. Now it goes to the last page. I voted on every issue here on the touch screen ballot. Am I satisfied? No, I'm not. So I press the famous leaders. I want to change my famous leader ballot. You can't over vote. If I press Jimmy Carter or John Adams or Martin Luther King, nothing happens. But if I press George Washington again, that vote disappears and I can vote for John Adams because I really enjoyed the book. Then I press next, I'm satisfied with my referendums, press next again. It loads up. It's ready to go. And then it tells me to cast the ballot. I press the cast the ballot button my votes are cast.
I get the voter access card back. My vote is not on this card. This goes to another voter. My votes are in the machine. It's just like an ATM, but you don't get any money back -- Bill, back to you.
HEMMER: Gary, quickly, are there any punch card ballots now in the State of Georgia now?
TUCHMAN: There are no punch card ballots in the State of Georgia. As a matter of fact, Bill, you can write in a candidate with this machine. You press the write-in button and then you get a little typewriter on the screen you can type on the screen to type your write-in vote. No punch card ballots any more.
HEMMER: Yes, well, Georgia learned their lesson watching Florida. Florida learned its lesson, as well. No punch card ballots anymore. No more hanging chad in the State of Florida.
Thank you, Gary.
Another close race in Maryland, the governorship there. Kathleen Koch is outside a polling station live in Bethesda -- Kathleen, how goes it?
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Bill, you know, I'm here in Montgomery County, where two weeks ago the question was not who would win, but who would vote. With the sniper suspects still on the loose, both parties were encouraging people to vote absentee. There was talk of calling out the National Guard to protect polling places.
Well, now, people are turning out with the sniper suspects in custody. They feel a lot more relaxed. Very hotly contested race for governorship, as you said, one of the most hotly contested in the country. Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is vying to become not only Maryland's first female governor, but the first Kennedy elected to the a governorship. And she's in a very, very tough race with opponent, very popular Republican Congressman Robert Ehrlich. Now, he is hoping to become the first Republican governor of this heavily Democratic state since Spiro Agnew back in 1934.
Another very tough race, the Eighth District race, Congresswoman Connie Morella in the fight of her political life for the job she's held for 16 years. She's taking on a state senator, Chris Van Hollen, age 43. Heavy spending in both these races, Bill, and they say that turnout will be the key -- back to you.
HEMMER: Kathleen, thanks to you.
The president has been crisscrossing the country, working some serious overtime hours in a final push, again, back in Crawford now.
Here's Kelly Wallace with the president -- Kelly, good morning.
KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Bill.
Well, just about an hour from now, President Bush heads to the Crawford fire house to vote. There are two very important, very tight races in this state, the race for Senate and the gubernatorial race, and I don't think we have to speculate on who the president will be voting for in those races. You're looking now at a live picture of the Crawford firehouse. This town of about 700 getting used to all this attention with the president now calling Crawford home.
Now, White House aides feeling somewhat optimistic going into this election. They believe that the president's marathon campaigning will mean that Republicans will not lose congressional seats today. And that will be a departure from what normally happens, because traditionally the president's party loses ground in the midterm elections.
No surprise, Democrats are seeing things differently. They believe having the president out to 40 states this year will help get Democrats to the polls. They believe Democrats will pick up seats in the House and in the Senate, and, Bill, they say this will really be a referendum on the president and his policies, especially when it comes to the economy -- Bill.
HEMMER: Hopefully we will all know at this time tomorrow. But no guarantee on that.
WALLACE: Hopefully.
HEMMER: Thank you, Kelly.
You've got it.
Our prime time coverage here on CNN begins a bit later tonight. I want to let you know about that right now. 6:00 Eastern, 3:00 on the West Coast. We'll go live well into Wednesday morning, Aaron Brown, Judy Woodruff, Jeff Greenfield, Bill Schneider and Paula Zahn will help lead the coverage a bit later today. We'll see Paula then.
In the meantime, though, let's get back to Atlanta and once again here's Carol -- Carol.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: OK, thanks, Bill.
We've got to talk about the Louisiana race because it's very strange. Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu is running against three Republican challengers. She is well ahead in the polls, but in Louisiana, with its unique election rules, she may not have enough to win. She needs more than 50 percent. Otherwise, she might be forced into a runoff next month against the top Republican vote getter. And, of course, that will be held on December 7, and that could hold up the whole ball of wax.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Sure. We might not find out who controls the Senate till Pearl Harbor Day.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
