out. bill wolff you know what time cues are all about. i've got to go. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. have a great 4th of july weekend pl. that is always one of the best holidays of the year. more politics ahead with cenk uygur. >> big banks, big money. republicans aren't even pretending to root for the little guy any more. tonight, the gop is brazen in their efforts to protect the rich. now long can this party go on before it implodes? minnesota democratic governor shows how you fight back against republicans. do we have a new progressive hero? plus the dominique strauss-kahn trial falls apart. does fox news start in the nix yop white house? we have the amazing report straight from the nixon library. welcome to the show, everybody.

i'm roo i'm cenk uygur. we have an awesome show tonight. all right, we are the party of the rich. guys came out and said you are for corporate jets, oil subsidies were for the rich. they basically came out and said yes. look at them defending all those programs right here. >> the president is singling out expensive airplanes is not the folk usts issue we are debating here. >> you see the most ugly devicive press conference i think i have ever seen from a president. offered no solutions. other than let's tax rich people. >> the idea we raise taxes as the president said on millionaires and billionaires. raise taxes on oil companies. raise taxes on owners of private jets. that somehow will make a difference in america's debt. that is not only misleading. i think quite frankly it is disappointing. class warfare. >> i love the way these guys cry about class warfare. when president obama goes out, why are you hitting us? no, you're not supposed to do that. listen, you guys have been doing

warfare all these years. so when somebody says, hey, can the rich just pay a little bit of their fair share? they go, oh, my god, class warfare. look at democratic demands. they are so simple. can we just tax corporate jets in the same way we do other planes? isn't that fair? how about oil subsidy? we can get $40 billion year from taking away oil subsidies from the most profitable companies in the year. where are they getting special privileges. taxes at 15%, that's lower than almost all of you. why are these guys not paying their real taxes which should be 35%? then deducks for the rich, let me tell but that one. it is for people making above $500,000. their deductions go from 35 to 28%. that's miniscule. it is not asking for much. they say oh, how can you hit the rich like this? that is warfare. americans agree with democrats. there are 19 polls this year

alone saying, you know what? the rich need to pay their fair share, let's tax the rich. in fact, i will give you the specifics. nbc wall street journal popping with 81% saying, tax people making over a million dollars. new york times cbs news, tax people above $250,000. washington post, abc, same thing, 72%. four other polls in the same exact area. the last poll is the gallup poll saying 59% of americans say rich are not paying their fair share. and they are absolutely right. the banks get bailed out. all of the biggest companies in the world get special subsidies. they hide their money in off-shore havens. enough is enough. why? why do the republicans go along with there? because tle get paid by those guys. even the corporate jet people, that's such a tiny, tiny industry. they spent $22 million in lobbying since 2004. that money is getting funneled to politicians.

how about the oil and gas lobby? you want to see a real lobby? $993 million since 2000 they have spent on lobbying. so that's why the republicans sell out to them. i get it. what i don't get is why anybody votes for them. look, you've got a corporate jet, god bless your heart, vote republicans. that's logical. you're an oil executive, biggest favor in the world. vote for them, i get it. but if you're an average american, why would you continue to support this party and how long can this party go on when they put their flag in the ground and say yes, we represent the richest of the rich and that's it. let's talk about that. join meg is pat buchanan and bill press. pat, look at this, you defended the yacht makers the other day on the show. how do you run a party like this where you say we're for the big fat cat executives. that's the winning strategy? >> the winning strategy in this

whole debt ceiling battle. the president can land el the republicans. you're in the pocket of the rich and wall street and all the rest of it. what will in july is this -- the republican nets house will say, we need a debt ceiling. that's responsible. we need to raise it. they will raise that, they will tape of to it all of the biden cuts from the senate. that have been agreed to. you're not going to have a single tax increase in there. they are going to send it over to the united states senate. and barack obama is going to sign it. what we saw yesterday on barack obama's part, all that frustration, you know, malia and sasha, they don't do all-nighters, the rest of it, that suggests to me that barack obama knows he is over a barrel right now. >> i don't see that at all. look, if what you say is true, pat, it is an absolute unmitigated disaster for the democrats. if they get absolutely nothing out of this. if the president agrees to that, i would be -- that would be unbelievable. >> hold it. >> let me follow up quickly.

>> no, come on, pat. >> no, if the president didn't sign it and he puts the country into default -- >> no, no, no, the republicans put the country in default. you can't get away with that. if you say i will compromise nothing, i will make no negotiations and then it is the president's fault for going into default, you're crazy. i want to give you one fact as we talk about this. you know if we go into default and our interest rates go up 1%, it adds $1.3 trillion to the deficit. it makes our deficit to much worse. now if the republicans cared about the deficit, wouldn't they say, under no circumstances are we going to default? >> it just depends. this care about the deficit the democrats are in it. the republican me massachusetts jor lt az you know, you pointed out, no strings attached when bush was in the white house, so they are playing politics. i want to get facts on the table. everybody agrees we got this huge budget problem.

everybody agrees we are going to now because republicans have demanded it, we are going to cut $2 trillion as the price for getting a debt ceiling raised. democrats have agreed to 1.6 billion in program cuts, right? they are looking for 400 billion. not in new taxes. getting rid of tax subsidies like the one to the corporate jets that we no longer need and can no longer afford and republicans are standing up and defending those. notice one thing, they don't defend the corporate debt taxes. they just attack obama for suggesting that's not fair. >> why isn't it fair, pat, is what i want to know. >> one question. >> pat, i -- >> i have a specific question for you. you can respond to all of us. >> do you love ronald reagan? >> ronald reagan is a terrific fellow. ways there when i went into the white house and he told me what a mistake he made when he raised

taxes in 1982. >> forget 1982. do you know ronald reagan raised taxes 11 times? >> hold on, pat. not just that. when he did deficit reduction deals, which he did, he put $190 billion worth of revenue increases into those deals. >> yes. >> so shouldn't you do just like reagan and put revenue increase niece the deficit reduction deals? >> have to. >> no, here is what we should do. >> i say no. >> here is what bill is talking about. he is correct that $1.6 trillion in cuts to which the democrats agreed. now, if the republicans, boehner says, we're passing the debt ceiling for one full year for the president, we are going to avoid and default and we are attaching the $1.6 trillion in cuts, that biden and dem krts agreed to and we agreed to and they send it down to the president. he will veto it and put the united states of america into default? come on! >> what i heard from pat -- hold on --

>> i want to clarify this. pat buchanan just said he disagrees with reagan and would do the opposite of ronald reagan. i want to establish that. now, bill, let's talk about the politics of it, right? their chief of staffs are literally straight from king street. marco rubio and ron johnson hired guys from navigators global there. lobbyists. the guy mike pompeo, we as koch industries lawyer. shouldn't democrats be blowing these guys out of the water? sitting there defending oil subsidies? >> i think the reason you heard so much whining yesterday -- i love it, right? the republicans say we are not like sasha and malia. and to prove it, they went out and threw a temper tantrum. obama called them out. he exposed who they really are.

that's why they are screaming bloody murder today. he showed -- i mean, to force them, he forced them to defend the corporate jets, oil companies, hedge fund manager. and millionaires and billion airs in addition to try and kill medicaid. >> let's agree -- >> let's agree that president obama just did a magnificent performance yesterday, okay? but that still does not get back to the fundamental point that the republicans have the whip hand here. and when they take those -- >> nonsense. >> no, they don't. >> hold on. then look, if they are the ones that passed the bill with the debt ceiling on there, and raise that and 1.6 trillion, why aren't they going for higher taxes? they would not do it? they don't believe in that? and bill clinton says don't do it. >> they aren't going for higher taxes. lincoln said, can you call a pig a goat. that doesn't make it a goat.

they are not higher taxes. these are tax give aways. >> you're not going to get them. >> they are oil companies to corporate jets to hedge fund managers. >> call it what you want, you won't get them. >> pat, look, you say the republicans have the advantage. i'm not sure what you call it. they are obviously give aways to the corporates. you say republicans have the advantage. what if we don't raise the debt ceiling but don't go into default. money comes into the treasury all the time. we use it to pay our debt so there is no default. the president says okay i have the biggest line veto in the history of mankind. i will only fund programs you are in favor of. you republicans get nothing from now on. then who's got the advantage? >> you're tell meg that president of the united states -- look, if the president of the united states -- you're right. the president of the united states would have to start chopping spending and programs like that. what are the big ones? medicare, medicaid? social secure snit.

>> every single republican program is gone. >> and two wars. two wars. >> we know -- we know pat -- pat, we know. the president's got the last word. the president has the advantage. he showed it yesterday. he is not going to accept a deal that doesn't include some revenue expense -- >> bill, we have to leave it there. >> he doesn't have the cajones and you know it. >> he will shut down the republicans if necessary. republicans will get blamed for it just like newt gingrich got blamed for it. >> all right, let me summarize. pat buchanan challenging the president. pat buchanan saying ronald reagan was so wrong, what an interesting segment we had. >> he made mistakes. >> pat buchanan and bill press. you guys are great. thank you. all right, when we come back, we've got a fight in minnesota.

of course the republicans are scoring the rich as usual. but this time we have a democrat fighting back. we have a new progressive hero. i'm looking for a hero -- oh, my god, no more singing. and bill clinton has a message for obama. fight. his strong words. we will show you them in a minute. plus, was fox news born in the nixon white house? an amazing story of how roger hatched the idea of republican tv propaganda outfit right when he worked for nixon. all this, coming up. thought they were dead. [ laughter ] [ grunting ] huh? [ male announcer ] should've used roundup. america's number one weed killer. it kills weeds to the root, so they don't come back. guaranteed. weeds won't play dead, they'll stay dead. roundup. no root. no weed. no problem.

>> we have another budget showdown in minnesota. this time, the democratic governor fought back and he took a stand. by the way, you want to know whose to blame for the whole less in the first place? tim pawlenty. it's a great story. come back, we'll talk about it.

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>> today we add government shut down in minnesota. another budget battle that went down the wire but this time, the democratic governor, said end of this. i'm not putting up with your nonsense any more. i know you want tax breaks for the rich but i'm not going to have it. let's hear from the man himself, here he is. >> that's not why the people of palestinian soeta elected my their governor so millionaires could continue to avoid paying their fair share of taxes for the benefit of hefrn else in our state. some of them are my friends too. however, unlike the republican legislator, i believe in putting the people of minnesota first. >> boya! now we are having a

conversation. you know the rich they are protecting, republicans in minnesota, their .03% of the population. that's who this would effect. 7,700 people out of 5.3 million people. but the republicans who are willing to go to the mat for them anyway. because that's their job to protect the rich. by the way, one other part of this, of course they wanted additional elements to this that had nothing to do with the budget. for example, well they wanted long-term, 15% cut in the number of state employees because they've always got to hit the employees. they've got to cause bigger unemployment. then they add requirement that voters show photo identification when voting. why? because they want to limit the number of votes because tle don't want people voting, they are afraid they will vote democrat. and of course, abortion restrictions. what does that have to do with the government? so, dayton said, no, we're not going to do it. and it worked because the people of minnesota are behind him. we will see how it works in the

end. look at will polls for now. when asked if we should go do a mix of tax hikes and spending predictions which is what daton wants, 63% say yes. only 27% say it should be only through spending cuts. they are totally wrong to republicans 07b this one. by the way, lou is it working out for dayton? turns out, if you fight it is fantastic. he barely won. just by .4. now if the election was held again, we would win 48-36. guess what? fighting back works. so we'll see how of course, the budget works out in minnesota. but i love that we've got a real fighter in the democratic governor there. all right, now, let's bring in from st. paul, minnesota, ken martin. great to have you here tonight. first of all, give me a context of how the negotiations went before it got to this point. >> well, thanks so much for having me on.

happy 4th of july weekend to you and all of your viewers. i wish i could say the same to folks here in minnesota. but the fact is, here in minnesota our parks are closed and vital services are shut over the course of the weekend and coming week and months unfortunately thanks to republicans and incessant desire to protect the richest minnesotans. we are having a debate under this state. the fact is, as governor dayton proposed we do did in fair balanced and responsible way, that way would be making reasonable cuts. cuts in government that are responsible. while at the same time, increasing revenue in this state. in fact, the last eight years, the reckless policies of tim pawlenty are what got us in this mess and there is no doubt we need revenues in this state. what the governor said, we don't want to raise taxes willie nilly. we understand it a tough time. the economy is not so great. we need to be mindful of the fact that people are hurt

tlougt. sew asked for the richest minnesotans. millionaires. people making a over a million a year to pay a little more, keep the lights on and make this state work again. republicans refused. they decided they wanted to protect .03% of minnesotans at the expense of the rest of the 99.7% of minnesotans and that's wrong. >> i want to talk about what the next step is. this is consequences. we have furloughs for 23,000 state employees. that's hurt a lot. have you state par closed. we have the busy 4th of july coming around. it stops child carees aance for the poor, et cetera. people will look around and go, whose fault in s this? governor dayton says, have your meetings, go to your town halls, see what you get. which is a strong move. how do you think it resolves itself as we take it to the people of minnesota? >> i think the governor and other democrats know, minnesotans are standing with

the governor. they believe, a vast majority of minnesotans, believe his proposal is the best, it is the responsible way out of mess and by asking the richest minnesotans to did a little bit more, we can resolve the mess we are in. in coming days and weeks just like the last six months, the only one showing a willingness to compromise, reach across the aisle and month of off 6 of their original position is the governor. he moved a mile. the republicans haven't moved an inch in this debate. all to protect the richest minnesotans. that's unfortunate because the rest of us, the rest of the 99.7% of minnesotans have to go through this miserable experience thanks to the republicans choices. >> at some point you've got to draw the line. that's what he did. referencing his poll number says 51-38 in his favor. that was back in may. i suspect it'll get even higher. if the rest of the polls are right that we have shown you, right? but one thing about who caused this mess. you mentioned tim pawlenty. he had the nerve to come back in here and talk about taxes et

cetera. let's go to the first clip. >> both in '05 and now you have democrats demanding that we raise taxes and raise spending. and that's not what people in this country need. it is not what our government finances need. we have to get government spending under control. >> get a load of the nerve of this guy. previous governor of minnesota, he is the one that left the $5 billion mess in the first place. >> it is just the height of hypocrisy. it is like a guy yelling through a theater yelling fire, fire. in fact he is the one who set the place on fire to begin with. he borrowed money from the future school payments that were supposed to be made here in minnesota. he raided every pot he could. he used every gimmick in his tool box to be sure to balance the budget. what he did was kick the tough decisions down the road to this governor, governor dayton and future legislative leaders. that's just wrong. here he goes around the state and country trying to reinvent himself and make it appear he

has great fiscal advice and budget advice that he can offer up to this country. the fact is, the last person we should be taking budget advice from is pawlenty. he created the largest deficit in our state's history and now we have to deal with the mess he created. >> all right. fb coming on strong tonight, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> all right, when we come back. hammering president obama for fund-raising. want to guess what he is doing this week? that's our con job. these guys are unbelievable. dominique strauss-kahn a free man. there may have been a great injustice here, but we will talk about it. ♪ that's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh ♪

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>> the republicans efforts to criticize president obama for fund-raising while they do nonstop fund-raising of their own is our con job of the day john cornyn says he is more focused on raising cash for 2012 than fight offer the debt limit. >> i respect the office 69 of the president of the united states but i think the president diminished that office and himself by giving the kind of campaign speeches he gave yesterday. i wonder if i will meet with senator mcconnell and baner to try to work on this threat. >> world's largest hypocrite as we are about to show you. first of all, look, you republicans are the ones that

walked out on the budget negotiations in the first place. why don't you get your ass back in the meetings then you can say something about where the president is spending his time? you walked out, not him. second, you want to get ges what cor fl yn was doing all week? he must be working nonstop on an agreement for the debt issue, right? of course not. he took a break wednesday night to host a republican senate council fund-raiser. i thought he said fund-raising at this critical juncture was a terrible thing to do? by the way, he was there in his role as chair of the national senate republican committee. the official group that raises cash for gop senators. besides that fund-raiser, cornyn must have been working overtime on the budget, right? well, not last night either. cornyn was holding a fund-raiser for dean heller. this must be an atypical week for him, meaning real busy with fund-raising this week, but not last week, right?

maybe not. he also cohosted a fund-raiser last wednesday for ron johnson. all cornyn does is raise money. he was the one that called out obama for doing just that for his side. these guys aren't just hypocritical, they pretend to be outraged if democrats do not always do unilateral disarmament. they say, how dare you raise money? yeah, we're on the other side, that's what we are supposed to do. that's what the democrats should tell them, forcefully. if you ask me, of course politicians on both sides fund raise all the time. i wish tle didn't. i wish we add different system but for cornyn to call out obama for raising money when his own calendar is filled with fund-raisers is easily our con job of the day. when we come back, fox news was hatched in a secret plan inside the nixon white house. the amazing details of that. and bill clinton las advice for the white house. stai stand up.

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i said yes prosecutors, not the defense. here is a list of things they are concerned about.

she apparently lydon an application. changed the story about the day of incident and lydon tax forms. and misrepresented income to maintain housing. that is a long list. bob, is it possible by we did a great injustice to this guy? >> first of all, you've got to know that the writers of law and order svu are already working on a script. it's got that show written all over it. perhaps they did. and there is always the large problem that many people discuss, oftentimes prosecutorial zeal where they feel they are going after the bad guy and some protections are such a tradition are overridden. but the other half of the equation is, is that for too long women have been victimized in this country and in other countries of course, and so you have units that specialize in trying to protect women who charge that they have been sexually invaded. so you have a competing interest here and you can sometimes have

a tragic situation like we have right now. >> right. by the way, we shouldn't have reached conclusions in the first time. at the time the story broke, i said that. we also should not reach conclusions now. she still could have been sexually assaulted be right? >> yes. this is one of the casualties that happens in this media age where cases are unfolding. it doesn't allow for us to be contemplative. what a legal system does here and anywhere else in the world is you need contemplation. what bob was referring to earlier is that we are also in the u.s. in a very particular racial context where we can be very sensitive because in the past, because of our racial legacies, minority women, many times taken advantage of by white men, so we are hypersensitive to this. we saw this with the duke la crosse case, guilty until proven innocent. let's not for get, this is also

coming in the context of weiner and arnold schwarzenegger. so the public is very hypersensitive to this topic. >> i think what what a lost french have an issue with, and we have this based on the polls, is you shouldn't have perp walked the guy. showing him in handcuffs et cetera when there wasn't even a trial yet. is that fair to say? >> i think it is. in some kay ways, the defendant is from central casting for you know, the obnoxious overbearing powerful white male who will take advantage of a woman. and it kind of lent itself to that. unfortunately the prosecutors fell victim to that temptation. so what you said earlier i think is what makes the most sense. is that all of this could be true. he could have done everything she alleged. she could have lied and done all the things previously which doesn't make it much different that he did what he did. this is the case where the woman's reputation and her whole life is drawn, pulled through the mud. anything she ever did will be

brought out and tried to create a sense of doubt on the part after potential jury. these are horrible cases to either try or defend for that very reason and sensitivities are probably greater here than with standing any other kind of litigation. >> it is a very tough situation. look, his defense lawyers are going to go after her a hundred percent. and that doesn't mean that she lied about this instance at all. so we have to see how it goes. but if he is vindicated, he might run for president in france and it might give him a leg up. he could say, see how the u.s. persecuted me. now to the next topic. he was talking to political capital with al mp this th is what he said. >> they think they have the president and democrats eefr a barrel because they say we won't raise the debt ceiling unless you do exactly what we want. >> they do, don't they? >> depends on what whether or not we stand up to them.

>> to bob that seems pretty right, right? bill clinton stood up to them and got a major victory. >> let's paint a more complete picture. bill clinton was often time ostracized by his own party. well for reform being a case in point. he wsh as much as anybody, knows that this can be very difficult sometimes if you are going to be a lead aerz opposed to a campaigner. now however, you have barack obama who is also known as somebody accused too many times by his own constituency of being too timid. his news conference the other day was an effort to try and counter that and to say to rips no more mr. nice guy. it is time to get out there and mix it up a little bit. >> michael, politically speaking, the democrats have to gain from exhibiting some sort of spine, don't they? shouldn't they fight the republicans? >> each party is playing to its base right now. and that's the kind of thing that creates an, excuse the expression, a mexican standoff in a way. a lot of democrats want a clean

debt ceiling with no spending cuts whatsoever. >> but that's really innistic. michael, we got to keep it real. they agreed to $1.6 trillion in spending cuts. it's not like democrats are playing their base. they are almost spitting in the base's eye and even that is not good enough for republicans. >> some people in the back room may have agreed to that. but go to the rank and file and democrats are saying they don't want to be voting for anything with any major spending cuts. they just want a clean debt ceiling increase. over a hundred house democrats signed that letter over a month ago. a lot of republicans don't want to increase the debt ceiling at all. you do have that dynamic where each side leader may come out of back room with a deal that they think they can sustain and find out that troops aren't going to follow their lead. >> but right now all the democrats have done and republicans haven't given an inch at all. by the way, speaking to your point, victoria, isn't he right that when bush was president we had seven clean debt ceiling

raises. no political issue. no spending cuts. nothing. seven easy votes all the republicans voted for. >> you know, and now obama is feeling the brunt of it. so you know, in picking up on this mexican standoff, we sought earlier this year where there could have been a shut down. and you saw the republicans backed away right away. said oh, no, we won't do this. we are engage fled this dance where republicans are not going to seed anything. and obama keeps getting framed as not doing enough. you know, i think this is going to be something that going into the campaign season, obama's going to have to step it up. not necessarily get mean or get tough but he is going to have to keep the pressure on. >> yeah, well, are you kidding me? i would take tough in a second. i wish he would get there. let me give you one more quote from clinton i think it is interest. i think it's crazy for us to be talking about doing this right now.

i don't think it's healthy to be talking about taxes increases or big spending cuts right few pi have to put america back to work. he says this is not the right time to be doing spending cuts at all. we should be waiting a couple years. is that fair point? >> well, it is probably a strong argument. it is the one that president obama is making. let us not forget that bill clinton benefitted from the technology bubble which contributed massive amounts it a budget and that ultimately that bubble burst which led to the troubles we are in right now. that plus bad decisions by the business community and nonregulators. but what i'm really looking forward to, as a reporter only, i'm not saying this is good for the country. but as a reporter i would love to see the 14th amendment option, which is the president using the 14th amendment to the constitution which says the validity of the public debt of the united states authorized by law, dot, dot, dot, shall not be questioned.

he just cannot come to a deal with the republicans and uses the constitution as his argument for just unilaterally raising the debt ceiling. wouldn't than a great story. >> real quick, are you against the united states constitution? look what he just read to you. >> on clinton, on list watching with the economy grew in the second portion of his eight years. a lot had to do with the deal he struck in 1997, signed about june of '97 that cut a lot of taxes as well as spending. he did that in a bipartisan way, got a lost heat for it. it was after that that the tech boom and other things took off and people started realizing cap gains and revenues went up. >> i will give you the last one. i will go to the last question. romney, liar, liar, pants on fire? romney said i never said that this guy made the economy worse, referring to president obama. we have that clip and what he actually said. let's watch. >> i didn't say that things are

worse. what i said was, that the economy hasn't turned around. >> the economy with a was in recession. he made it worse. >> he didn't create the recession, but he made it worse. >> he did not cause this recession, but he made it worse. >> victoria, that seems pretty damning, isn't it. >> we will see his primary cocoa hoerts, pile that on romney then we've got obama-care that was preceded by romneycare. stuff like this keeps damaging and saying these things is like he is leapfrogging and he says i have the lead ai don't need to worry about my fellow republicans. i'm talking to the general public here. i don't want to bash obama too much. but you can't compete in the general if you don't get out of the primary. >> good point. bob, last word on this. >> the idea that mitt romney is back tracking.

it is the casablanca reaction. i'm shocked, shocked. >> a great last word. great panel, everybody. thank you so much for joining us. have a great 4th of july weekend. when we come back, roger ails apparently add plan for basically fox news, papped out all the way back to the nixon administration. amazing details of that story coming straight out of nixon library. we will have that for you when we come back.

>> lups are always crying when obama hits them. and that just happens. why is he criticizing us? wait until they get a load of what i do to them. that's coming up too.

>> did you know in 1978, he worked 1970 -- he worked as needa strategist for richard nixon? well, gawker did know that so they went to the nix yn library and uncovered a 300 page document for a blueprint for building a republican tv network called, quote, a plan for putting the gop on tv news. it had rogers ales handwriting literally all over it as you see there. that's his handwriting. he was eventually put in charge of this project. one of the things he said in this memo is that it is a good idea to do a television station like this because quote, the reason poem are lazy with television you just sit, watch, listen. and the thinking is done for you. and he didn't get a clans to

really get that off the ground in 1970s. but a quarter century later, all of a sudden, in 1996, here is the first day of fox news channel. >> bob dole finally scare squared off in the first presidential debate and bob dole proved he has a better vision for the future of america. he will give you back more of your money. >> shocking fox news started that way. in 2000, the most critical thing of all, they selected john ellis, cousin of george w. bush to be the head of their quote unquote, during election. low and behold, we look at what fox news declared first among the networks. watch. >> fox news predicts george w. bush, winner in florida and thus appears the winner of the president sift united states. >> they were the first network to call it. bush's cousin called the election. then all other networks came afterwards. even though it was a statistical tie, all of a sudden, george w.

bush became the president of the united states even though he didn't win the popular vote and in recounting florida he didn't win the electoral vote either. ever since they have been doing same kind of stuff, watch. >> end of capitalism. >> socialism. >> obama is a socialist. >> many believe barack obama is a socialist. >> barack obama a socialist. >> sounds like a markist or socialist. >> with me john cook, he uncovered the amazing nixon era files. great job in finding this, john. you must have been excited when you found this. oh, my god, they had the plan all along. tell me what the original plan was? it was to do what with the media? >> what they wanted to do, they saw the network, the national networks as the enemy and they wanted to get the gop viewpoint around them. so they realized that a huge -- you know i think 57% of americans at the time got their news from local news. local stations across the

country. they said, why don't we create news content, interviews with republican lawmakers, and governors, set et cetera, then send that directly to local stations. we will never get our point of view, according to them, across over the networks. but we can just take it directly to the local stations. >> the idea was to circumvent the network and give them propaganda. >> exactly. >> they did a station with nothing but republican propaganda. you talk about the dirty tricks in there. this is interesting. tell me how they wanted to use democrats to get across their ideas? tlz is a memo in the files that, from one of ails's underlings saying they would pull the plug on a program he was producing that would feature two pro war

senators. senator stennis and mcclellan, two democratic senators. the reason they pulled the plug is they said, roger, they don't know they are being duped thp they don't realize that this is a white house-run operation. and the damage that could be done if they find out is too much for us to bear. so they tried to recruit the dem krts under a false cover. >> that's awesome. that's awesome. that's fox news 101. they dupe democrats that could be on there when they don't realize it is republican tv. they are like, what? i didn't know that. right? so i mean he has an -- you got to give him credit. not just in, coming up with strategy which is in a lot of ways brilliant. but let me give one thing from your own report which is amazing. you talk about how carefully they manipulated the media pl ails writes a memo about, hey, let's pick up this kid during tree lighting. hole him up and push the button

together so you have equal credit. it is amazing. we found the old tape of nixon doing that. let's show you. >> so you put your hand right on here and i will, and we'll do it together. ready? here we go. go. so there you are. and now, if we will all -- if you are still not completely drown, we would like to sing joy -- >> man, exactly how karl rove drew it up for him. this is what they wrote, this simple gesture will do much to humanize him with all parents. it sems like roger ails has been pulling strings for the last how many years? last word, real quick. >> one of the amazing things is that it is like a coach taking

his play book from one team to the other. when he is working for nixon, or for bush, he advised, look, don't play too much golf because the media will go after you. now he is going after barack obama for playing too much golf. >> exactly. john cook, we got to go. we'll see you.

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>> this week president obama da press conference where he got tough with the republicans and said, look, you're looking out for the rich. which is true. what happenes with the republican afterwards? all they did is cry about it, watch. >> maybe if you just take a valium and come on down and talk to us, it might be helpful. >> the best way to get an appointment with the president is to set up a tee time. >> absolutely disgraceful. he should be ashamed. >> he doesn't think it is worth his time to come and talk to us. >> oh, please, you guys walked out of the meetings. and the golf, that is john boehner's idea. these guys are unbelievable. finally democrats are getting tough with him. here is bill daly, chief of

staff, standing up to them a little bit. >> this is not the time to kind of just, fool around any more but try to get to conclusion on a serious problem for the nation. this is not a time to worry about feelings. this is a time to get results. >> not bad be not bad. if we add truly progressive aggressive white house. here is how they would handle the negotiations. >> i said, throw down, boy. you going to do something or just stand there and bleed? >> how awesome would that be? of course, that was tombstone. of course, you do that in a political sense, not in a physical sense. but god, at some point we have to draw the line and say, you know what, if you're going cry all day and say oh, you attacked me. that's because you walked out of the meetings. because you only represent the rich. if you think that's tough, wa