his new article on karl rove was just published today called, "karl rove: he's back, big time." his latest book is, "glock: the rise of america's gun." welcome to "democracy now!" tell us about karl rove and his organizations. >> he left the white house in 2007, seemingly a defeated man, inches away from having been indicted in scandal. he began plotting his return almost immediately. after watching the republicans beaten soundly in the polls and fundraising races in 2008, he and some colleagues began planning those two organizations to mention, the crossroads group. these are the republicans answers to some of the liberal outside fundraising groups that began to be active in 2004. but the republicans seem to have found a formula that have allowed them to leap for had of what the democrats are doing this time around, and expected it will raise in total $1 billion in addition to everything that mitt romney's campaign is raising and in addition to everything republican national committee is raising. it is thought to be twice with the democrats will be able to raise with their outs

some people are saying that karl rove is ten million dollar anonymous donation came from iran mahmoud ahmadinejad a strongly as shia muslim who's president of one of the few shia run states in the middle east some people are saying that ahmadinejad's a huge admirer of karl rove and a big supporter of the republican party after all george w. bush decided to bomb sunni iraq not shia iran giving shia ahmadinejad a heck of a lot more influence in the middle east and taking out sunni saddam hussein iran's biggest enemy against whom they fought a multi year war that cost them both billions of dollars and killed over a million people so some people are saying that the ten million dollar gift to rove is payback from shia iran for all the great things rove and bush did for them against the sunni muslims in addition some people are saying that the ten million dollar donation to karl rove has some strings attached that if romney wins or the republicans take the senate then all those sanctions president obama put on shia iran would immediately be lifted and we might even go after another sunni ru

council all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want karl let me go to you first where do we go from here damascus says it has chemical weapons and the u.s. and its regional allies have no interest in diplomacy anymore where do we go. i think. let's clarify one thing that all this talk about tipping point and game i think is very exaggerated it all started with the explosion last week that killed several of like a former and current defense minister and security leaders and now is basically a very high quality or peroration though is really a dramatic operation but in terms of the real dynamics on the ground in syria they're not going to shift very much and in fact what we have seen this is sort of given an impetus to the syrian regime to try to retreat take damascus so i predict that this violence of kind of burn floor of this syrian uprising will continue there is no substantive kind of qualitative or quantitative change in the balance of power but it seems that there's sort of this imagined momentum and the area wakened interest of the we

karl your thoughts. >> attacks started on may 15th with an ad. gall up poll had 45-45. it should be 45-45. >> that is all right. it is 45 and 45. midjuly race is 46-46. so that is nationally. isn't it the case karl, in the swing states the president is ahead in virginia and florida in some. >> has it had an affect. the movement since april 11th in the battle ground is toward mitt romney. virginia has tightened up. florida went from obama with a lead outside of the margin of error to dead even. and national poll it is show the race is dead even. i do think that this is not something to be dismissed. there is not big movement available to either candidate. >> why is that? >> voters are up for grabs in the election. independent voters are spinding less time paying attention to politics and a lot more time paying to their lives. later on in the fall, it would be the information that is part of thealcultion >> what is shocking to me is how unready the romney people seem to be for this attack. they had to know that these documents existed and he was the ceo and chairman and s

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out of the karl rove campaign back. romney has been placed on the defensive. i don't quite understand what his campaign is trying to do. he talked about the economy, i think the overwhelming issue in the campaign, but he has been placed on the defensive. i think of the three you mentioned, the refusal to open up his taxes may prove to be the most hurtful for him. however, as you pointed out, not only is this singlely not dented his popularity overaurblings but in the key states, you and i agree, the key eight states in particular with independent and swing voters, not only has it not hurt him, in some ways, it has done a little bit better. >> this is where there seems to be a disagreement on the campaign. we're saying that, the observers. the obama campaign will say this is about trying to set a baseline on romney so he doesn't get to tell his own story. >> right, they're trying to disqualify him. they're saying the american public, ok, you may -- some of you may decide you don't want to rehire barack obama. ok, that's

karl rove left attack dog super pac fronting as non-profit.e. >>> and later i can finally ask this in relations to politics, what is up with branjolina. i've been dying to say that. we'll be right back. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> jennifer: now for some good news. a wall street journal report released today shows that the housing market is actually recovering. you see this little dip up right there? somewhat good news. home prices are inching up after seven months of decline. but here is the not so good news, which is that one in four homes is still underwater, meaning of course the owners owe more on them than what they're actually worth. how do we prevent another housing bubble? according to mitt romney by doing absolutely nothing. first he criticized the administration for not doing enough saying if this administration continues to stick it's head in the sand sand wait for the housing crisis to run it's course, i'm afraid the president could end up losing his current residence in 2012. then less than a week later he completely reversed position

karl marlantes and his book will help immeasurably.arl marlantes, welcome. >> it's nice to be here, thank you. >> i haven't been sure about how to start this interview. i've never been to war. i've never looked a man in the eye, who was trying to kill me, and kill him before he could. i'm not even sure that i can ask a question that doesn't strike you as banal, against your experience. i guess what i'm saying is that there's this divide between the warrior and the rest of us. and that divide can't really be crossed, can it? >> no. but i think that what has to change is this inhibition that we all feel about asking. you know, you come back and there is this code of silence, you know? and both, i call it the civilian and the veteran have it. and it gets in the way. and it's all done out of trying to be kind. but you know, it's like, "well, i don't want to say something that upsets him. or i don't want to --" and the fact of the matter is if someone would genuinely ask, "well, you know, can you talk about it?" i think most guys would be d

wyoming. >>> thanks to jon karl. >>> men in a women's world.l-male synchronized swim team fighting for the chance to compete. [ female announcer ] over the last ten years, your mouth has giggled, snuggled, bubbled ...and yellowed. because if you're not whitening, you're yellowing. crest whitestrips remove over ten years of stains and whiten 25 times better than a leading whitening toothpaste. crest 3d white whitestrips. >>> earlier tonight, 17-year-old american swimmer missy franklin took home olympic gold in the 100-meter backstroke. and teammate matt grevers also won the gold in the same men's race. this brings the total medal count to 17 for the americans, tied for the first place with china. not every athlete who dreams of olympic glory gets their chance. next we meet one team with an unusual problem. they can't even compete because -- they're guys. we welcome to "nightline" julie sodi, correspondent for espn. julie is a two-time olympic medalist in soccer. she brings "faster, higher, weirder." >> reporter: at this pool in the heart of lond

karl, what changed since we last saw you?ad v had a rash of polls in the last two weeks since we last looked at the map. seven states moved toward president obama and seven states moved toward governor romney. three tossup statutes -- colorado, michigan, ohio -- representing 43 electoral college votes moved in to lean obama. three states moved to romney. one change from a t tossup state to solid romney state, missouri. two states, minnesota and new mexico moved from obama to lean obama. now the net shift was about 58 more electoral college votes in to the lean obama category. ten more in the solid romney camp. the rest of the changes in the other states didn't affect the status. >> bret: joe, of those, what is the most significant in your mind? >> the move in the the midwest. wisconsin got better for obam obama. with michigan and ohio moving from tossup to lean obama. we start adding that up, obama is now up over 280 electoral votes, if you take obama strong states and obama lean states. that means romney now is in a position

against them this election cycle what if they do yesterday and could have force romney backers like karl rove to disclose donor information before the election in november and right now the american economy is struggling as millions of americans find themselves unemployed but could having americans work fewer hours help the economy and send the unemployed back to work i'll tell you all about it and it's really to. like the energizer bunny ron paul keeps going and going and going despite suspending his official campaign in may run paul still has his sights set on the republican national convention in tampa florida next month after winning a plurality of republican delegates from iowa maine minnesota louisiana ron paul needs to win a plurality of nebraska's delegates on sunday in order to secure a fifteen minute speech at the republican convention a speech he would use to influence the platform of the republican party but taking a barrage of his delegates may not be that easy mitt romney's camp is flooding in nebraska with advertisements and phone calls in an attempt to avoid what could be

karl is hitting me with stuff before. >> hey now. >> jennifer: karl, you've given documents before towho knows. [ whistle ] >> that's exactly the reaction. of course. >> the keyword from a political operative is there are no fingerprints on this. >> they have the binders. >> they're held with gloves. >> can we be clear about why it happens -- one of the reasons that it happens now to the degree at which it does and joe can testify to this. when joe started off in his field, the newsrooms were full of research assistants and people digging through stuff for their coworkers. that just isn't the case anymore. you've got a little crop industry here in washington that fills that void. and tries to get the information out. the reporter still checks it out. >> jennifer: quick question before i let you guys go. on the report today, there was a prediction that condoleezza rice is actually going to be mitt romney's vice presidential choice. joe? >> no way! >> jennifer: tell me why. >> two words -- three words george w. bush. two words and an initial. that's all people would talk about. she's ne

but take a look at this ad aired by one of these five hundred one c four is run by karl rove and you be the judge on whether it's a political ad or not. why isn't the economy stronger in the seconds it takes to watch this our national debt will increase one point four million in two thousand and eight barack obama said we can't mortgage our children's future on a mountain of debt now he's getting four billion in debt every day borrowing from china for his spending every second growing our debt faster than our economy to stop the spending support the new majority agenda new majority agenda dork. seems awfully political to me and it seems awfully political to democratic congressman chris van hollen who are the i.r.s. to reexamine the tax exempt status of these groups as van hollen told reuters quote the i.r.s. has a responsibility to make sure that these groups are not defrauding taxpayers that they are not abusing the charitable organizations status pursuing political purposes and quote now here's the kicker ninety one percent of all the political ads coming from outside groups this e

next, karl rove and his social welfare organization targeting a takeover at the senate. no wonder this man is smiling. >> do you believe you will be the majority leader next year? >> 50-50. i think it's going to be a very close, competitive election. there are a number of places where we have opportunities for pick-ups. >>> social welfare is not a phrase one would normally associate with the republican party. after all, republicans have been railing against the concept ever since reagan raised the specter of free loading welfare queens during his campaign for the white house, but oh, how times have changed and instead of attacking welfare, today's republicans are taking it up as shield to protect some of their most secretive operations. >> it's time to play who's the biggest supporter of the obama agenda in ohio. it's sherrod brown. brown backed obama's agenda a whopping 95% of the time. >> that is an attack ad against senator sherrod brown, democratic, that came out today from karl rove's quote social welfare group. it's part of a multi-million dollar ad buy in other sw

. >>> next, karl rove wastes no time hitting the president on jobs. new $25 million ad buy to spread some cheer. stay with us. ople have doubts about taking aspirin for pain. but they haven't experienced extra strength bayer advanced aspirin. in fact, in a recent survey, 95% of people who tried it agreed that it relieved their headache fast. visit fastreliefchallenge.com today for a special trial offer. >>> today's tepid job numbers seem to have been welcomed by republicans who strongly believe they'll do well in november if the country does badly. so it was no surprise to see karl rove's crossroads xwrks prk gps release a new ad this morning. >> head winds coming from europe. an earthquake in japan. an arab spring. >> but obama never blames washington's spending and skyrockets debt. >> but the president appeared to be expecting this latest. >> you've got the super pacs, billionaires writing $10 million checks. just pouring, raining down on my head. no, this is all right because i'm -- >> julianna glover is a republican strategist, julian epstein is a

karl, what has changed since the last time we talked?we haven't had a lot of polling because we had the fourth of july holiday intervene and pollsters don't like to poll. we are likely to see more in the weeks ahead. only two states changed, michigan and new hampshire. both went from lean obama, based on recent polls to tossup states. there were changes in a variety of other states but none of them changed the status of them. two states representing 20 electoral college votes. michigan with 16. new hampshire with four went in the tossup category. >> bret: other changes happened. a number of categories of states changed. >> yeah. three tossup states moved toward obama. by one point. three romney states got stronger for romney by anywhere between three points and ten points. three states that were obama states got better for romney. again, didn't change the status. three obama states got better for obama. >> bret: six and six. >> the bigger changes happened in the states that were safe for romney. the second largest set of shifts occurred

to seven hundred twenty six billion by april of last year joining me now from niceville florida is karl denninger proprietor of the market sector hey there carl every country of course is guilty here in the u.s. so let's talk about the enormous wealth being made by the u.s. business people and then trickling down but out what do you make of this i think there's a little bit of a misnomer there goes with the sore after all this is after tax income so taxes have already been collected on this money but there is an argument to be made that we have a system where we have incentivized people to be unproductive and bill clinton factor do quite a bit to change this and was rather successful in doing so now a lot of people will look at that and say well you know you have to be president when there was a huge internet boom and that had a lot to do with it really didn't have much to do with productivity improvement in the in the common man but the fact of the matter is is that he did sign welfare reform legislation that cut the well for dramatically and people went to work so if you look at pover

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i'm shocked that karl is shocked.archover, mitt romney use ad clip of barack obama saying that he didn't know anything about the economy. when he got caught that was actually a comment where barack obama was quoting john mccain, do you know what mitt romney said about that ad, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. so number one, give me a break with this self-righteous outrage about distorted negative ads. romney made it an art form, to destroy who was it, destroy newt gingrich, rick perry with some of the worse, nasty, awful barrage of negative ads i have ever seen. he is not in a great position to complain. martha: we'll see what rich thinks about it. he zeroed in on the issue of stephanie cutter saying there could be a felony that was committed by governor romney if indeed these sec records were not accurate. >> look, by any standard that is it way out of bounds. i got to think lanny, if you gave him truth serum would admit high official in the president's re-election campaign accusing mitt romney of

the obama campaign has dented rom northeast' strength, karl rove couldn't have done a better job. perhaps it was because the romney camp was so eager to change that subject that they let slip to drudge that condoleeza rice emerged as a top vp pick. there are lots of reasons to believe this is nothing more than a shiny bright object to take our attention off of bain. but she would probably help romney plug a number of holes. plus, president obama says his biggest mistake is putting policy over storytelling. i talked about that two nights ago here. why doesn't the president do a better job of telling people what he's accomplished. and what happens to penn state in the wake of the sandusky report? will it g biven the ncaa's death

tonight, in a candid encounter, he tells it all to jonathan karl in a "nightline" interview. >> reportere we were walk requesting dick cheney in wyoming, we ran into a 12-year-old boy who was able to one up the vice president. >> how are you? >> he two heart transplants. >> i had just one. you are ahead of me. miracle stuff. >> reporter: the man talked to us about facing his own death two years ago as his heart, after six heart attacks, starte >> two years ago at this time, i was a respirator, heavily sedated. just had a pump installed on my heart. you know, it was the end. >> reporter: it was dick cheney like i had never seen him before. reflecting on his own mortality. personal. >> i was sefly sedated in the intensive care unit for weeks. i had pneumonia recovering from surgery. be by the time i looked in the mirror, what i saw was my dad shortly before he died. >> reporter: back then, he looked like a shadow of his own self. tonight, he has transformed. thanks to an organ donor. >> do you know anything about the organ donor? >> i don't. i can't think of a better gift. >> reporter: don