{"id":3879,"date":"2020-10-11T10:32:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T14:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.nbcnews.com\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2020-10-11T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T14:32:23","slug":"meet-the-press-debuts-all-new-podcast-series-re-examining-the-2000-florida-recount-and-bush-v-gore-florida-florida-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2020\/10\/11\/meet-the-press-debuts-all-new-podcast-series-re-examining-the-2000-florida-recount-and-bush-v-gore-florida-florida-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"MEET THE PRESS DEBUTS ALL-NEW PODCAST SERIES RE-EXAMINING THE 2000 FLORIDA RECOUNT AND BUSH V. GORE — \u201cFLORIDA FLORIDA FLORIDA\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THE FIVE-PART SERIES EXPLORES THE LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE RECOUNT 20 YEARS LATER, LESS THAN ONE MONTH AHEAD OF THE 2020 ELECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FIRST EPISODE AVAILABLE NOW AS PART OF <\/strong>THE CHUCK TODDCAST<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oct. 11, 2020<\/strong> – Meet the Press<\/em> and Chuck Todd are debuting a five-part podcast series re-examining the historic and infamous 2000 presidential recount and the impacts it has on elections 20 years later: Florida Florida Florida<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first episode is available now from The Chuck ToddCast<\/em><\/strong><\/a> on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast platforms, with subsequent episodes being released daily this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With election security, voting irregularities, and mail-in voting all at issue this election season, this special The Chuck ToddCast<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>series explores the lessons learned from Bush v. Gore and the Florida recount and its political relevance even two decades later. Over the course of the series, Florida Florida Florida<\/em> explores the ten enduring political lessons from the 2000 recount that will play a role in the 2020 election, from the birth of conservative acts of civil disobedience, to the fight for the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwenty years ago, the presidential election ended in an unprecedented legal, political and public relations fight centered on the state of Florida. \u2026 It wasn\u2019t exactly a moment of high confidence in the electoral process,\u201d Chuck Todd says at the top of the first episode. \u201cI\u2019m going to take you back to the 2000 presidential recount because it was probably, hopefully, the wildest election we\u2019ll ever witness.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featuring original NBC News archival footage from Meet the Press<\/em>, TODAY<\/em>, and NBC Nightly News<\/em>, this series looks at the 2000 election through the unique reporting of NBC News correspondents then and now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the series, Meet the Press <\/em>moderator Chuck Todd is joined by two dozen key players involved in the recount and election coverage to discuss the historic battle, including Joe Lieberman<\/strong>, 2000 Democratic nominee for vice president; Sen. Ted Cruz<\/strong>, then a lawyer to George W. Bush’s recount effort; Amb. John Bolton<\/strong>, lawyer for Bush during the 2000 presidential recount; Laurence Tribe<\/strong>, an expert in constitutional law at Harvard Law School, who represented Al Gore in front of the U.S. Supreme Court during the recount; former Bush campaign staffer and current president of the American Conservative Union, Matt Schlapp<\/strong>; and more, along with NBC News\u2019 Tom Brokaw, Lester Holt, <\/strong>and Pete Williams. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Election Night in 2000 made for unforgettable television moments with then Meet the Press <\/em>moderator Tim Russert famously holding up his white board with the words \u201cFlorida Florida Florida\u201d written on it, telling Brokaw, \u201cTom, actually, all Al Gore needs is Florida. All George Bush needs is Florida.\u201d And as news networks retracted their initial call that Gore had won the state, then their call that Bush had won, NBC Nightly News<\/em> anchor Tom Brokaw famously said, \u201cWe don’t just have egg in our face, we have got omelette all over our suits.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full list of those joining the podcast series include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n