but then you have strategist stewart stevens even defending romney's claim that president obama used gifts to win the election. listen to this, karen. >> i don't think that's what he was saying. i think he was saying that there's an effort that the incumbent used, as many other incumbents have used, to reach out to constituents. that's something that we've seen in politics going back to a long time. they did it effectively and they have certain groups that they wanted to do well with and they did well. >> that's utterly nonsense. that's intelligence of the public. he was not talking about the traditional way. he was saying, as they said throughout the campaign, he was giving things away, handouts, which was an insult to the president and to those constituent groups and the fact is that people voted based on the president's record and his ideas and he got a larger margin. in fact, he will probably go to 51% of the electorate. >> i actually wrote about this for msnbc.com last week. this is part of the delusion of the republican party. this is why they have more than just a single cycle

colorado is -- denver is really sort of -- i know stewart stevens and others have said they won swingoters, butt swi but the swing part of the country is the suburb and the president won the sub about yours. >> a demographic that is indicative of the democratic coalition.yours. >> a demographic that is indicative of the democratic coalition. no coincidence that the president is going to a suburban area tomorrow to campaign outside philadelphia. those collared counties. >> suburbs are everything. >> i worked with them. i have great admiration for his creative genius. i didn't -- i didn't think we were watching the same election in many respects. and like i said, losing is hard. >> you put it well. losing is hard. let's take a quick break. trivia time. we asked if jeb bush were to be nominated for president or vice president in 2016, he and george w. bush will only be the second set of brothers to both be nominated to national office. name the first. the answer is the bryan brothers. william skrening ijennings and . the younger brother was the vice presidential nominee on the 1924 losin

and former top romney adviser, stewart stevens wrote about the victory and the quote, he was an african-american president with a billion dollars, no primary and a media that often felt more conflicted about being critical. >> did that contribute to the comments in any way, cloud a certain backdrop to this lunch? >> no, first of all, i think campaigns are a tough business. the debates are sharp. and in this case, they are very important. >> reporter: now brian, the secret service says a man was arrested after interfering with the vehicle coming into the office. and then fighting with an officer, but officials also tell me that nobody was injured in that incident. brian? >> kristen welker at the white house, thank you. >>> and while those two had lunch, the vice president went to costco, where he proudly pointed out he is a gold member. he toured the very first one in the district of columbia, filled the cart with supplies, a flat screen tv. somehow, though, he passed up the chicken. >>> and speaking of optics, this was all optics, and joe biden talked politics, and the cliffhanger, that took a f

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stewart stevens wrote this.on november 6th, romney carried the majority of every economic group except those with less than $50,000 a year in household income. that means he carried the majority of middle class voter. let's remember that any party that carries the middle class must be doing something write. this is what he writes. but he didn't stop there. he also wanted to explain the blow without that romney faces at the hands of minorities, young voters and women. president obama was a charismatic african-american president with a billion dollars. no primary and media that often felt morally conflicted about being critical. how easy is that to replicate? i mean, this is what he wrote, cynthia. they don't get it. >> well, this is the guy who lost the campaign so those who wanted to know what happened to their money, well, obama handed out gifts. this is a guy saying, well, it's just those, you know, takers, those moochers who voted for obama. for heaven's sakes, people who make most of the people who have serv

today stewart stevens, romney's campaign chief tried to defend him in an op-ed. he said over the years, one of the movie more troubling characteristics of the democratic party -- losing is losing, so is losing just losing or are these criticisms that have come from people like bobby fare? >> i think it's important any time you lose is to do a review. there was a lot of discourse on the republican side, i certainly weighed in on that and how we need to do more of talking to folks who tried to rise the economic ladder in 24 country. i think that had a real touch stone with a lot of folks. those sorts of things i think are helpful that we bring to the table and say this might be a better way to move forward and win our elections. >> you were proactive saying i think we would do this better, but others are saying mitt romney did this poorly. do you think there was something about mitt specifically that was a problem? >> well, look, mitt romney is who he is. i think everyone who's now looking back and saying oh, mitt romney was out of touch. did they not know that mit

what is stewart stevens talking about? >> well, you know, i do feel loved. so that's something.feel respected or that my needs are met or that my rights are really paid attention to. i think the republican party is having to learn the hard way, that saying -- much as boyfriends have to learn sometimes, saying you love somebody doesn't mean a lot unless you follow it up with some action. and their policies are what women paid attention to. what they said and the kind of people they put up there, maybe helped a little bit on some level. i mean, there are some really great success stories in the republican party for women. i'm not going to take away from that. but when you have a party that is so dedicated, you know, to sort of not -- to repealing some of the progress that we've made as women, you know, women see that. and they vote for the other guy. >> anna marie cox and eugene robinson, thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thanks. >>> coming up, two-time oscar winner sally fields joins me to talk about her new film, "lincoln" and her commitment to the continued advance of g

one could guess, i think, that the stewart stevens op-ed will probably not come up during the lunch. these are the not guys who had a terrific history of love and affection between each other. this is be on your best behavior and don't say anything you don't want to see in print someplace in print. >> mitt romney is not a defeated republican candidate who has a big washington job, a role in the senate, or big influence over what his party does on the fiscal cliff or almost anything else. kristin, i wanted to ask you about cabinet choices because susan rice is at u.n. in her role as u.n. ambassador leading the u.s. argument on the palestinian vote on symbolic, nonmembership in the general assembly. but there were hearings again on the hill. we'll talk to joe lieberman in a moment. what is state of play whether the president is sticking with her in he did quite the show of support during the cabinet meeting yesterday at a photo op. >> reporter: he has publicly maintained that show of support. officials say that despite the fact that susan rice continues to come under fire from a number

be better if they expanded production in the united states instead of expanding in china, said stewart stevensthe senior adviser to mr. romney. well, a gm spokesman responded to this saying, "that is absolutely bereft of any fundamental understanding of the global automotive industry. all global manufacturers, whether general motors, ford, chrysler or vw, build historically in the markets in which we sell." steve rattner, last, just to nail this down, it seems to me, the reality is, beyond all the nonsense and the ads put out by romney to get votes are that we build jeeps in this country for people to buy them in this country, as i have done, and we build jeeps in china for chinese people to buy, and that's the way it's been, it's the way it will be, according to all future plans. >> yes. and i think both you and bill and what you have just read from the gm spokesman has made that very clear. cars are being built near to where people buy them. now as it happens we do export a reasonable number of jeeps at the moment because it is such an iconic brand worldwide. and what sergio marcchione commi

russ shreffer and stewart stevens also share chris christie as a clint.ou have potential interesting fallout after the election. >> matt, i grew up in boston reading "the boston globe," so i know how excellent that paper can be. help me understand something. you've been seeing mitt romney for years and years. we've all been watching him trying to become president for six years, being governor. how is it he's been in public life for so long and still the american people feel they know so little about him as a man and understand so little about him where he stands in terms of the issues? >> part of it, i think, is romney's own -- he's grown as a candidate, but he's still -- there's a discomfort in some ways of being a politic and being out there on the campaign trail and relating to average people. he's always been a little bit guarded, even as governor, sort of democrats always point out he had velvet ropes, you know, guarding his corner office and the elevator. he had one elevator reserved for him. there's always been an element of guardedness, i think, a

if the president saw what stewart stevens wrote in the "washington post," that was total eye roll citym sure he wasn't liking it any more. the president was a charismatic african-american with a billion dollars, no primary and media that often felt morally conflicted about being critical. okay. whatever. eye roll city. but i actually was working the phones earlier today. did some reporting. >> that's weird. >> sometimes i do that. and i actually was able to find out what they're going to be serving at the meal today. >> really? >> i have the menu. the appetizer, sour grapes. the main course is crow. and cold turkey. because he's been addicted to running for president. dessert, of course, humble pie. >> that's very clever. >> i was afraid dog was going to be on that menu somewhere. i'm glad you didn't go with that. >> that's clever. what do you think -- what do you think they're going to be talking about? let's talk reality. >> that's not awkward. awkward. >> it would be awkward -- >> i love how optimistic and pollyanna you are. >> poll lpollyanna? >> you think they're going to stick to

constituents gifts weighed in on the luncheon or if the op-ed written by chief romney strategist stewart stevenssted president obama won because he's an african-american president who got middle class voters to vote for him, if any of these recent comments overshadowed or clouded this lunch. carney essentially said that they didn't have an impact. that president obama understands it was a tough campaign season and that this is the type of sort of looking back at the campaign that is going to happen in the weeks following the campaign. what carney did also confirm, thomas, is that romney was here primarily to discuss the economy, his ways for moving the economy forward. president obama, of course, said on election night that he wanted to sit down with mitt romney and do exactly that. and carney was also asked again if president obama would be offering romney any sort of cabinet position. and carney said he did not expect that to happen. i think this was in large part about optics. striking a tone of bipartisanship after what was really a grueling campaign season. helping these two former rivals t

ditto, jon stewart and steven colbert. steven is great. but why person of the year?what has the vice president done? new jersey governor chris christie is there. okay. you could make a case he handled sandy well. but what else? our pal karl rove, on the person of the year list. why? also psy. we dealt with him yesterday. you know what? i'm voting for him. i want him to be person of the year because that would send time magazine a message, stop screwing around. if barak obama doesn't win person of the year, i'll be surprised. yes, time nominated mitt romney. but he has no chance. neither does hillary clinton who was somewhat responsible for the libyan mess. bill clinton is on the list. i vote for jay-z over the former president. i have nothing against mr. clinton. he's another brilliant man. but why would he be person of the year? for what? so you can see that we are living in a very shallow time in america. pardon the pun. >> gretchen: that's such an interesting point because remember a lot of people scratch their heads when president obama won the nobel peace prize

devastating loss because he won the voters who really count according to the thesis of his top adviser stewart stevensost. >> and he'll never work in republican politics ever again. >> stephanie: he wrote arguing winning wealthier and whiter voters romney secured the moral victory over obama. how can i take what romney said and make it even more-- >> we made the white decisions--the right decisions. >> stephanie: that's even doucher. he said on november 6th romney carried the majority of every economic group except less than $50,000, income, that means he carried the majority. the republican party has problems but a we go forward let's remember any party that captures the majority of the middle class must be doing something right republican ideals, mitt romney carried the day. >> in other words, eat the poor. >> stephanie: and spread them into mulch. >> at what point do they not go in a padded room. we won all the electoral votes from the state of delusion. >> stephanie: i love the analysis. implied argument that poorer votessers are inferior, further they write unfortunately for romney, poor minority

. >> you can't changes the numbers but i would like to point out that jon stewart and steven col bevtdemographic skew is a little bit younger but very good about making fun of both candidates. pretty equally. >> the excuse is the writers live in los angeles and new york city. they are part of those communities. they are the two most liberal cities in the united states. >> when clinton it was president it was about monica lewinsky. >> but except mitt romney is not president. it happened four years before romney was running. >> take a random example, joe biden is good source but he doesn't get the attention that ford or reagan. >> would you say biden was biggest targets. >> among democrats. >> jon: do people take these impressions of the late night comedians they make? >> i think they must, why would president obama spend so much time on those shows. >> he spent more time talking to jay leno than he has talking to the press. >> romney has done no national press two weeks before the election. >> except us weekly and rolling stone. >> if he knew he would get coverage he would do it, too. >

you wrote a really interesting piece about walking through the crowd, and talking to stewart stevenswho is one of the architects, lead architect perhaps, of the romney campaign. what do you think is different for them now? there is a bigger picture and a voice that perhaps wasn't there a month or so ago? >> that's it. they are trying to close on a really big note. when you listen to romney's speeches, and i bill and i were both at the rally -- they are trying to convey a larger vision like destiny and redismiewl a better life. he is trying to convey a sense that he, mitt romney, has a big vision for the future. they also think that's a major contrast with the president having said, just that morning on friday, voting is the best revenge. you know, they put out an ad hour its later, contrasting the two thing, romney's big vision and voting for love of country and obama's revenge, voting is the best revenge. they are trying to end on a big note and say that mitt romney has a real vision to make things better in the future. >> martha: interesting piece. i urge everybody to take a look a

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stewart questioned the president, about the event at the u.s. consulate in benghazi libya on september 11, when four americans were killed, including ambassador christopher stevens. >> other people were -- >> the truth is, information comes in, folks put it out thought the process, people say it's still incomplete. what i was up clear is we're going to do an investigation and figure out what happened. >> as part of the investigation, is it helping the communication between the divisions of, not just what happened in benghazi, but what happened within? i don't know, i would say even you would admit, it was not the optimal response, at least to the american people as far as us being on the same page. >> here's what i'll say. >> yeah. >> if four americans get killed, it's not optimal. >> right. >> and we're going to fix it. and -- >> all of it? >> all of it. and what happens during the course of the presidency is that the government is a big operation, at any given time, something screws up, and you make that you find out what's broken and you fix it. >> question: did jon stewart unintentionally do president a disservice by first using the word "optimal" in his que

lives outside this have, i think that kristin stewart is very weird-- >> i had to did that and one that's for you, let's talk about lincoln, this is stevenuse personally, and a drama starring vandal day lewis and limited release blgs opens wide on november 16th. and well, yeah, you i thought so. and not only covered it in the campaign, and-- >> a conversation. >> and the last thing i want to do is go to the movie house with a bunch of teenagers on thanksgiving weekend. forget about it. >> lincoln, you want to talk about history. i like that movie. >> and how about this one, life of pi, and dana, because it's-- >> life of cherry pie, pumpkin pie. i read this years ago. >> and zebra, you like animals. >> now i know. i read this years ago and took imagination and a while to get through it and a lot of thought. sometimes the movie isn't as good as the bk. but from the trailers, i think they may have captured it. >> sky fall came out earlier and no, rise of the guardians, let's did that, "dreamworks," it's animated film and mr. gutfeld? got to give you that one animation. >> i don't have no idea what the movie is. i don't go to movies and wit

steven colbert and jon stewart have the famous youtube video clip. you have former staffers who are running these committees to help them get elected. host: majority pac having a very good night on tuesday, support and five winning candidates. these are from the numbers crunched by the sunlight foundation. beverly from pittsburgh this morning on the democratic line. guest: my hometown. caller: i am concerned about the actual total number of dollars spent. it is too much. it could be on tv. we can save our trees by not sending in so much paper. so many paper ads. guest: did you get a lot of mailing? caller: i didn't get the question. guest: did you get a lot of candidate mailing? caller: yes, i did. the center for responsive politics said it will be $6 billion spent and so there is a big part of that that we will not know because there are a number of groups that don't have to disclose their donors or spending. we may never know the complete build for this campaign. it is the first presidential campaign in which both candidates declined public financi

steven colbert and john stuart have the famous youtube video clip -- jon stewart. have former staffers who are learning these -- who are running these committees to help them get elected. host: majority pac having a very good night on tuesday, support and five winning candidates. these are from the numbers crunched by the sunlight foundation. beverly from pittsburgh this morning on the democratic line. guest: my hometown. caller: i am concerned about the actual total number of dollars spent. it is too much. it could be on tv. we can save our trees by not sending in so much paper. so many paper ads. guest: did you get a lot of mailing? caller: i didn't get the question. guest: did you get a lot of candidate mailing? caller: yes, i did. the center for responsive politics said it will be $6 billion spent and so there is a big part of that that we will not know because there are a number of groups that don't have to disclose their donors or spending. we may never know the complete build for this campaign. it is the first presidential campaign in which both candidates d

. >> they're fueling my zeppelin, steven, sorry, i can't talk right now. i gotta go! >> stewart! [cheers and applause] >> what a pleasant surprise. [laughter] i was just -- >> you know why i'm here, jon. >> valentine's day isn't for two weeks. [laughter] >> you have something that belongs to me. >> immersion blenders for my butternut squash soup. [laughter] you're not getting that superpac back, colbert! >> i want my unlimited money, jon! >> you don't treat that money well. you didn't understand that money, you don't know what it's like! [laughter] ♪ ♪ >> hey, buddy. [laughter] >> it's over, jon. >> we can share the money. i don't need all of it, i just need some of it. [laughter] >> shh. >> think of the money, and i just really don't think that i could -- >> shh. jon -- >> don't make me give it back, stephen. i can't give the money back. >> don't worry, jon, you don't have to give the money back. ♪ ♪ >> no! >> you don't have to give it to me, jon, i'm going to take it from you. >> stephen, come back here! >> superpac! [cheers and applause] prison. [applause] >> that was, that wa

steven colbert and john mccain. trevor potter is the lawyer for the tabare -- colbert superpac and the segment is colbert heading off to john mccain all of which according to trevor to jon stewart is perfectly legal. okay, que the tape. >> can i run for president and keep my speed eight? don't sugar coat it. >> no. >> we could have it run by somebody else. >> someone else can take it over. >> yes that someone that you wouldn't be coordinating with in terms of the ads and strategies. stat i wouldn't want to even create the appearance of electoral scope. [laughter] if that is the word i can say on a family show. >> i think there might be a guide. jon stewart? [applause] >> if you will. >> colbert superpac transfer activate. [laughter] [screaming] >> colbert superpac is dead. [laughter] >> it has been reborn. >> you are definitely not coordinating with stephen colbert superpac. >> now that that is all cleared up, the nation i have a major announcement to make. for over a now the people of south carolina have been crying out for someone who can restore our nations for greatness to its current production. well, america, that someone is now. i am proud to announce that i am forming a