] "MSNBC TV has uncovered footage from October 2000 in
] which Sen. Trent Lott is heard saying Strom Thurmond
] %u201Cshould have been president,%u201D a reference to
] Thurmond%u2019s 1948 presidential candidacy. It was
] Lott%u2019s praise two weeks ago for Thurmond%u2019s
] presidential bid that caused a storm of criticism and
] claims that Lott was endorsing racial segregation. Senate
] Republicans will meet Jan. 6 to weigh Lott%u2019s fate.
] Right now, Lott doesn%u2019t have the 26 Senate
] Republican votes needed to keep his job as majority
] leader, sources told NBC%u2019s Tim Russert."
] THE 2000 VIDEO footage comes from a formal signing ceremony for a
]defense spending bill.
] As Thurmond, who was the Senate president pro tempore at
] the time, puts his signature on the bill, Lott is heard in the
] background saying, “now this is a famous signature right here.”
] A woman’s voice then praises Thurmond’s pro-military
] record, to which Lott replies that Thurmond “should have been
] president in 1947, I think it was.”

There is always the smoking gun video. ;)

New Lott video adds fuel to furor