CNN - 2006-11-08 - 10 a.m. (E) (morning after midterm elections)

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[0:02] The vote repeals a state law that

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[0:07] voters rejected a measure that would

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[0:10] before minors could get an abortion. A

[0:12] similar measure was defeated in

[0:14] California.

[0:15] >> The balance of power shifting in

[0:17] Washington. Democrats party, Republicans

[0:20] sweep up the confetti. What now? Find

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[0:25] we have here today in the newsroom.

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[3:36] >> Live in the CNN Newsroom, Heidi Collins

[3:39] and Tony Harris.

[3:41] >> The University of Miami mourning the

[3:43] death of a popular football player this

[3:45] morning. Bryan Pata, a senior defensive

[3:48] end with the Hurricanes, he was shot and

[3:50] killed in the parking lot of his

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[4:15] In Iraq, Saddam Hussein back in court

[4:17] today after being sentenced to death in

[4:19] his first trial. This time around, the

[4:21] former Iraqi leader and six

[4:23] co-defendants were accused of genocide

[4:25] against the Kurds in the late '80s.

[4:27] Meanwhile, more deadly attacks in Iraq.

[4:29] Word that a US Marine died after he was

[4:31] wounded in combat in Anbar province.

[4:34] Also this, the military says coalition

[4:36] forces killed 10 militants and rescued

[4:39] an Iraqi policeman in a raid north of

[4:41] Baghdad. Trouble escalating in the

[4:44] Mideast today. Hamas is vowing to

[4:46] retaliate after Israeli shellings of

[4:49] Gaza early this morning. Palestinian

[4:51] medical sources say 19 civilians were

[4:53] killed, seven children among them.

[4:55] Sources say

[4:56] Israeli tanks fired into the northern

[4:59] Gaza town of Beit Hanoun

[5:02] just hours after Israel announced a

[5:04] withdrawal from the area. A week-long

[5:05] offensive there was aimed at rooting out

[5:08] militants firing rockets into Israel.

[5:10] Israel says Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

[5:13] is ordering an urgent investigation into

[5:15] the incident. He has halted artillery

[5:17] fire in the area. Tennessee, one of the

[5:21] key battlegrounds for the Senate on

[5:23] election day. The latest from the

[5:25] volunteer state. That's ahead in the

[5:27] newsroom. And politics and paychecks,

[5:30] find out which states voted to give

[5:32] minimum wage workers a raise. That story

[5:35] ahead in the newsroom.

[5:40] And right now, let's go to Richmond,

[5:42] Virginia. This is Ed Gillespie, who is

[5:44] the spokesman for Senator George Allen.

[5:47] >> So far,

[5:49] a difference of 3/10 of 1%.

[5:52] This obviously has been a hard-fought

[5:54] contest, and Senator Allen thanks all of

[5:58] his staff,

[5:59] the volunteers,

[6:01] and especially the voters of Virginia

[6:03] for their participation.

[6:06] No one is more interested in the outcome

[6:07] of this race in Virginia than are we at

[6:10] the Allen campaign.

[6:13] I should begin I should also say, by the

[6:14] way, I'm Ed Gillespie, and I'm an

[6:16] adviser to the Allen campaign.

[6:19] And so, we are closely watching the

[6:21] canvassing process that has begun this

[6:23] morning.

[6:26] Under Virginia state law,

[6:28] every election in Virginia is followed

[6:31] by electoral boards meeting to confirm

[6:33] the accuracy of the election night vote

[6:35] tallies.

[6:37] These canvasses are required by law, and

[6:39] each electoral board each local board's

[6:41] canvas takes between 3 to 4 days.

[6:44] Uh some smaller jurisdictions will

[6:46] complete uh their canvasses in by the

[6:49] end of today.

[6:51] Some of the larger jurisdictions

[6:52] obviously need uh more time, and

[6:54] counties have until Tuesday, November

[6:57] 14th, to complete these canvasses.

[7:00] The vote tallies uh that are confirmed

[7:02] by each electoral board at the

[7:03] conclusion of the canvas uh will be the

[7:04] final official results. What you see now

[7:07] on the uh State Board of uh Elections

[7:10] website are unofficial results.

[7:13] These canvasses uh often and commonly

[7:16] turn up mathematical mistakes and

[7:17] tabulation errors, juxtapositions of

[7:20] numbers,

[7:21] uh

[7:22] numbers being written in the wrong

[7:23] columns, attributed to the wrong

[7:25] candidates, and the canvasses correct

[7:27] those mistakes.

[7:28] Just this morning, for example, it

[7:30] turned out that the Hartwood precinct in

[7:32] Stafford County

[7:34] reported yesterday that James Webb had

[7:36] received 1,969

[7:38] votes, uh but this morning, upon

[7:41] checking, the report was corrected and

[7:42] Mr. Webb's tally was reduced to 541

[7:45] votes.

[7:46] A gain of 1,428 votes for Senator Allen.

[7:52] Now,

[7:54] Virginians are familiar with this

[7:56] process.

[7:57] Uh we went through it last year in our

[8:00] Attorney General's race where

[8:02] Republican Bob McDonnell, the current

[8:04] Attorney General, uh was up by 3,000

[8:07] votes over his opponent on election

[8:10] night. Uh but by the next day after the

[8:12] canvass, this that number had been cut

[8:14] in half. The margin was reduced to 1,500

[8:17] and by the time the canvass was

[8:18] completed, Mr. McDonnell's margin had

[8:21] been corrected downward to a certified

[8:23] vote of 323 votes.

[8:26] A canvass also counts provisional

[8:28] ballots, votes cast by citizens who came

[8:30] to a polling place uh but did not have

[8:33] the proper

[8:34] uh identification or maybe had the wrong

[8:36] address. Those votes are set aside and

[8:38] will be uh reviewed by the uh canvassers

[8:40] as well.

[8:41] State Board of Elections will certify

[8:43] the final vote count on November 27th,

[8:47] the fourth

[8:48] uh Monday of November.

[8:51] And then when the results are official,

[8:54] they will declare a winner

[8:56] in this contest and every other contest

[8:58] in the Commonwealth of Virginia that was

[9:00] held uh yesterday.

[9:02] Senator Allen and all Virginians

[9:04] treasure our representative democracy

[9:06] and appreciate the Commonwealth's

[9:09] laws that protect the integrity of the

[9:11] electoral process and we look forward to

[9:14] its completion.

[9:15] Thank you again for being here this

[9:17] morning. I am uh joined also by Lee

[9:19] Goodman who is the General Counsel of

[9:21] the Republican Party of Virginia uh in

[9:23] case there are questions that are more

[9:25] technical in nature than uh someone

[9:28] >> Okay, you've been listening to uh Ed

[9:29] Gillespie who is an advisor

[9:32] uh to the Allen campaign. And Heidi, I

[9:34] think what we we clearly can see here is

[9:36] this is going to be

[9:39] Look, the race has been contested before

[9:42] we get into all of that, the pipeline.

[9:43] If you want to follow the rest of this

[9:45] this briefing, this update from Ed

[9:47] Gillespie, you can go to

[9:47] pipeline.cnn.com/

[9:50] pipeline. What we see here clearly is

[9:52] this is it's been a contested race

[9:54] throughout and and in even in the

[9:56] counting of the votes, this will be

[9:58] contested to the very end to your

[10:01] canvassing to begin.

[10:02] >> 27th, apparently. We heard Ed Gillespie

[10:04] saying interesting that they've already

[10:06] apparently say that one of the votes has

[10:08] been recounted and Senator George Allen

[10:10] picking up about a thousand votes or so

[10:13] and compared to what was counted

[10:15] previously there apparently according to

[10:17] Ed Gillespie was some type of mistake.

[10:19] He's got to get about 7,000 though to to

[10:21] actually pull ahead. I believe that's

[10:22] what we were just talking about with

[10:23] Jeff Toobin a while ago.

[10:25] >> And what's interesting is the the whole

[10:26] idea of canvassing because what happens

[10:28] here it is just this process of going

[10:31] from precinct to precinct and checking

[10:33] the machines and making sure that

[10:34] >> You remember it well, don't you from a

[10:35] couple years ago?

[10:36] >> Well, you can't forget it. So that's the

[10:38] process to make sure the numbers that

[10:40] were reported are the actual numbers

[10:41] that were in the machines and it's a

[10:43] process that that'll go on for probably

[10:44] the next couple of days you would

[10:45] imagine. So

[10:46] >> Yeah, I bet you're right on that.

[10:47] Meanwhile, that balance of power

[10:50] certainly shifting in Washington.

[10:52] Democrats party and Republicans are

[10:54] doing a little bit of sweeping up the

[10:55] confetti. What now? We're going to find

[10:58] out from two political strategists

[11:00] coming up right here in the newsroom.

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[14:48] >> Want to get to some new video straight

[14:50] away. You were looking at the new

[14:53] Speaker of the House. Or I should say

[14:55] Speaker of the House elect to be

[14:56] perfectly proper, Representative Nancy

[14:58] Pelosi, first female

[15:00] >> She's turned out today, huh?

[15:01] >> She looks happy. Indeed she does. She's

[15:03] actually just arriving here at Capitol

[15:06] Hill. She's going to be talking to There

[15:07] they are, seventh graders from Queens,

[15:10] uh New York. Uh they are on a tour, so

[15:13] she's

[15:14] starting early, shaking hands with the

[15:16] folks as the Speaker elect

[15:18] to the House. All right, we want to go

[15:19] ahead and listen to some sound here.

[15:20] She's uh

[15:21] >> Glad we won.

[15:23] But we are young voters today.

[15:26] >> I feel very excited and I think it's a

[15:28] good sign that coming here the first day

[15:31] that these children are here. I think

[15:33] it's just wonderful because actually the

[15:35] election is about the children. It's

[15:37] about the future.

[15:38] >> Always about the future.

[15:39] >> And it's always about

[15:40] >> Always about the future.

[15:44] >> We are the future.

[15:45] >> You are the future.

[15:47] >> I am We will become someone.

[15:50] >> Well, let me just finish. Okay, I just

[15:52] spoke to the speaker. He was very

[15:54] gracious. He congratulated me. He said

[15:56] he offered his services and that of his

[15:58] staff for any needs we may have here in

[16:01] the transition. I told him that despite

[16:04] the what the

[16:06] however you characterize our

[16:07] relationship, I considered him a friend

[16:09] and would appreciate any advice that he

[16:11] had. And

[16:13] and I said, you know, I enjoyed so much

[16:15] giving him the gavel that I was looking

[16:16] forward to him having that pleasure

[16:18] himself. Mr. President Bush.

[16:21] With President Bush, we had a nice

[16:23] conversation. He congratulated me as

[16:26] well. I told him what I said last night

[16:29] that I look forward to working in a

[16:30] bipartisan way with him. That the

[16:32] success of the president is always good

[16:35] for the country and I hope that we could

[16:37] work together for for the American

[16:39] people. He said that he thought that

[16:41] that would happen and that we would talk

[16:43] about it over lunch tomorrow.

[16:45] >> Thank you, everybody. Thanks, everybody.

[16:50] >> Well, I think that we identified with

[16:52] the

[16:52] concerns of the American people, whether

[16:54] it was for jobs, health care, education,

[16:57] energy independence, dignified

[16:59] retirement, and making our country

[17:01] safer. And nowhere is that new direction

[17:03] more needed than of course the war in

[17:05] Iraq. So, our 606 I think have captured

[17:09] the concerns of the American people and

[17:11] we certainly have a mandate for making

[17:13] this place more honest, making it

[17:16] operate in a more civil and bipartisan

[17:18] way and doing so in a way that does not

[17:20] heap mountains of debt onto future

[17:22] generations.

[17:22] >> But don't you anticipate

[17:24] >> So there you have it, Representative

[17:25] Nancy Pelosi on her way to being the

[17:27] first female Speaker of the House. I

[17:30] want to let you know that she will be

[17:31] having a news conference. That'll be

[17:32] coming our way in about 15 minutes or

[17:34] so. Our extended coverage of CNN

[17:37] newsroom will be following that for you.

[17:39] We'll bring it to you live when it

[17:40] happens. And meanwhile, changes in the

[17:42] corridors of power, the Democrats are

[17:44] celebrating big wins. So with us now to

[17:46] discuss it all, CNN political

[17:48] contributor Paul Begala in New York. Hi

[17:50] there, Paul.

[17:51] >> Hi, Heidi.

[17:51] >> And in Washington, Republican strategist

[17:53] Frank Luntz. Frank Luntz, thank you

[17:54] Frank for being here. And to the both of

[17:56] you. All right, you guys, we're going to

[17:57] do something different. The election's

[17:58] over. Some of the counts aren't all the

[18:00] way in, but the election's over. So no

[18:01] spin, okay? Let's go straight to the

[18:03] heart of the matter. Frank, you answer

[18:04] the question first. Is this a Democratic

[18:06] win or Republican failure?

[18:10] >> Well, it's always a little above. I

[18:12] guess I would just note that our I mean,

[18:16] I I would take note that our failures

[18:18] were that we didn't have the highest

[18:20] ethical standards in some with some of

[18:21] our members. And most importantly, we

[18:24] got away from our reform agenda, which

[18:26] got the Republicans the majority in

[18:28] 1994. And we were too interested about

[18:31] spending more money and not taking

[18:34] abilities to talk about our prior the

[18:36] priorities that we had back then.

[18:39] I would also say though, and it would

[18:40] just be offered in a spirit of advice

[18:42] that the Democratic agenda as was

[18:45] discussed this year was not exactly

[18:47] expansive. The minimum wage and lobby

[18:49] reform are really not, I think, number

[18:52] one on the priority of a lot of

[18:53] Americans.

[18:54] So I think what it comes down to is that

[18:56] both parties have to work together now.

[18:58] The Democrats control the House. We

[19:00] don't know who controls the Senate. The

[19:01] Republicans control the

[19:03] the executive branch. And we have to

[19:05] work together to see if we can

[19:08] do the people's business the next 2

[19:09] years.

[19:10] >> So Paul, Democratic win, Republican

[19:11] loss?

[19:12] >> Well, I think Frank's exactly right. I

[19:13] think the Republicans dropped the ball,

[19:15] but the Democrats were able to recover

[19:16] it. Now, I'll try to put the sports

[19:18] metaphors away after that, Heidi. I'm

[19:19] sorry about that.

[19:20] >> Okay, thank you.

[19:20] >> I'm a little tired. Um

[19:22] And and I think Frank's also right that

[19:24] the the winner here will be the one who

[19:25] gets to the middle first, right? The one

[19:27] who is most authentic about reaching out

[19:30] in a bipartisan fashion. Let's watch and

[19:32] see what our president does. Uh you

[19:34] know, Frank worked for President Reagan,

[19:36] and he worked wonderfully with Tip

[19:37] O'Neill, who were they were bitter

[19:38] partisan opponents, but they worked well

[19:39] together for the country. I'm working

[19:41] for