nobody out. >> karl: back with nomar garciaparra. karl ravech. we rolled past 6:00 in the east and tennessee is rolling towards the world series championship game. brock myers did it on the mound. nomar. >> nomar: he sure did. showed some composure. you know the california lineup will be tough. swung the bat really well. utilized the fact that his team was throwing strikes and pounding that zone. >> karl: great job by brock myers. ryan lyle trying to get the final three outs of that game. kempton brandis is on the mound for the team from petaluma, california. lyle's first pitch is down. ball one. >> nomar: that ball of bradley smith was hit so hard. he's now at first base, wrapping up what has been a remarkable little league world series for him. >> karl: pitch is down. cole carter has done an excellent job behind home plate. he's got the whole game so far from tennessee. whenever he recognizes his pitcher might be off. he did this with brock myers as well. brock myers was able to get an out, after that. let's see if that works here with ryan lyl

nobody out. >> karl: back with nomar garciaparra. karl ravech. we rolled past 6:00 in the east and tennessee is rolling towards the world series championship game. brock myers did it on the mound. nomar. >> nomar: he sure did. showed some composure. you know the california lineup will be tough. swung the bat really well. utilized the fact that his team was throwing strikes and pounding that zone. >> karl: great job by brock myers. ryan lyle trying to get the final three outs of that game. kempton brandis is on the mound for the team from petaluma, california. lyle's first pitch is down. ball one. >> nomar: that ball of bradley smith was hit so hard. he's now at first base, wrapping up what has been a remarkable little league world series for him. >> karl: pitch is down. cole carter has done an excellent job behind home plate. he's got the whole game so far from tennessee. whenever he recognizes his pitcher might be off. he did this with brock myers as well. brock myers was able to get an out, after that. let's see if that works here with ryan lyl

karl: 2-0. >> nomar: 3-0. what a remarkable, remarkable comeback from ten runs down, they've tied it up. the last three, with two outs. are we going back-to-back-to-back? >> karl: ball four. winning run is at first base for california. you're looking at lorenzo butler. who had a day to remember. >> you want him to pitch, it has to be fourth. >> karl: two men down. dylan moore is coming up. >> just do four straight. best pitch for your best swing. best pitch. >> nomar: 30 runs on 27 hits in this game. >> karl: winning run at first base for california. >> nomar: tennessee only used three pitchers in this game. they're going to special pinch run austin paretti. >> karl: a fastball or wild pitch will get them into scoring position. outfield fairly deep right now. >> nomar: did you see extra innings when this inning started? >> nomar: no, i did not. this has been incredible. >> karl: 2-0. a 2-0 pitch on the way to dylan moore with the winning run at first base. there's the strike. such an incredible roller coaster

karl: 2-0. >> nomar: 3-0. what a remarkable, remarkable comeback from ten runs down, they've tied it up. the last three, with two outs. are we going back-to-back-to-back? >> karl: ball four. winning run is at first base for california. you're looking at lorenzo butler. who had a day to remember. >> you want him to pitch, it has to be fourth. >> karl: two men down. dylan moore is coming up. >> just do four straight. best pitch for your best swing. best pitch. >> nomar: 30 runs on 27 hits in this game. >> karl: winning run at first base for california. >> nomar: tennessee only used three pitchers in this game. they're going to special pinch run austin paretti. >> karl: a fastball or wild pitch will get them into scoring position. outfield fairly deep right now. >> nomar: did you see extra innings when this inning started? >> nomar: no, i did not. this has been incredible. >> karl: 2-0. a 2-0 pitch on the way to dylan moore with the winning run at first base. there's the strike. such an incredible roller coaster

the lead editorial is, we cannot allow karl rove, and specifically names karl rove, to change or undo the will of missouri voters. in part you see todd akin saying as a backlash against karl rove, the tea party saying, we're not going to do anything. we're completely uncompromising. >> we're talking to craig unger for this hour. his new book is called, "boss rove: inside karl rove's secret kingdom of power." how did karl rove go from being almost indicted to the most powerful republican in the united states today? we will continue to follow his life. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. our guest for the hour is craig unger, who has written "boss rove: inside karl rove's secret kingdom of power." in it, he writes "and dinapoli, he's back." craig unger, lay out his rise to power, his fall, and his rise again. >> i think a lot of people saw him as a creature of the bush family and it was all over in 2008 when bush left the white house. that was not the case at all. how we got hardback

thanks for having me and in new york i should say what drew you to karl rove and cause you decide to write this particular book about this fellow. well i think what was remarkable as if you go back to the zero eight election a lot of people were overwhelmed by the sense of hope and change that obama brought and the disaster of the bush presidency that is when bush left office he had started two wars that were ongoing rove had been forced out in disgrace really and was a prime suspect in the two biggest scandals of the bush era the u.s. attorney scandal and the valerie plame affair bush's approval rating was twenty two percent and it seemed like there was a huge mandate to enter a new era that bush had been an extreme turn to the right and now we are finally out of that and yet when i realize just a year into obama's term. in early two thousand and ten call roe was coming back he was not simply a creature of the bush family he was far more than that and in his vision of a permanent republican majority began to grow right after the citizens began to be reborn rather writers citizens un

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

in the process what's behind the big bad world of shadow banking and what can be done to expose and karl rove apparently has a new enemy and they may have made him look like a fool on national television i'll explain who and why is that i was deleted. in the best of the rest of the news the shadow banking system runs the world a new report by the g twenty six financial stability board finds that the world's shadow banking system has grown significantly and is now worth more than sixty seven trillion dollars the shadow banking system is a largely unregulated debt based market for complex and for complex and often risky financial instruments since two thousand and two the shadow banking system has nearly tripled in size and is the day worth roughly half of all bank holdings in the world it's also bigger than the entire globe's g.d.p. and a twenty three trillion dollars the united states has the world's biggest shadow banking system this is what's replace good old manufacturing and the creation of actual wealth here in the united states we now have an economy dependent on banks toure's mani

he chose to write about karl rove.at the end of his reporting would've been a fabulously positive portrayal. but he is under no obligation to give you both sides of the story. he is only obliged to write about what the subject is. i think if you want to hear, you know, the story that she seemed to want to hear, you should seek out those authors. that's a perfectly fair thing to do. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] -- the republican power broker -- and sir come the congressmen and senators assigned i'd never vote for a tax increase.

karl rove lost the gingrich majority, i always questioned karl rove.rl rove was the one who designed the second bush campaign where george w. bush won and then claimed to have enough political capital to reform social security. of course he didn't. i had assembled more people that hated john kerry than john kerry assembled that hated george bush. that doesn't lead to a man date for governance. that's a mandate for gridlock which is exactly what we got. >> mr. tyler, how do you explain karl rove's power within republican circles? are people simply stupid? are they prepared to part with their money because he's a persuasive salesman? >> no, a lot of people that give to karl rove are very smart people, they're entrepreneurs and they do great work. i'm hearing from them now. and karl rove is ver persuasive. when you talk to him, he knows his stuff but he didn't know his stuff here. what it gets down to, martin, you had 14 million people who didn't show up in 2012 -- that turned out in 2008. you have to reduction of 14 million voters. that's very significan

machine played in the rehabilitation of karl rove well as issues rove and roland if you go back. back to the nixon era roger ailes who of course is a chairman of fox news when he was in the nixon administration he put together a proposal for something called g.o.p. t.v. well now they've got it and if you look at the current campaign at one point there were five contenders for the republican nomination who were paid analyst on fox news and of course a six person was call wrote. so as i was watching this i thought well wow karl rove is wiring two hats he's both a commentator on the one hand the other he is the party boss and i begin to realize no he's not a commentator what you see here is really the behind the scenes fight in the republican party going on on live t.v. and when karl rove lashes out at sarah pail and he's saying look i'm the party boss i've got as it turns out ultimately about a billion dollars that i control and you're not getting any of it you're finished you are not going to be the candidate and if you look at the primaries one by one he would take shots at rick

were strippers and in my book you know it's it's not at all surprising in fact i the one time i met karl rove was you know eight or nine months ago i was over at fox news to be a guest on and he and i ran into each other as we were both going into the you know into the the main office there and and it was one of those comic kind of things were where each of you reach for the door and you run into each other instead of the door and he just and i didn't realize as karl rove until after it was over as he was walking away i mean it took me a minute to recognize him because here's this kind of a short pudgy nondescript seemed like you know just an average guy i mean you know and and and yeah but this is a man who has had a massive influence over the history of the united states and our politics and continues to and arguably as one of the most powerful men in the world at this moment how did he start well you know that it's interesting and if you look at the super pacs today and if anything i i frankly think you probably you may have understated the amount of money here but he did gather for t

i wouldn't say inspired by karl marx but certainly karl marx said the solution to these problems is to look for public agencies not to commercial agencies to for example supply social insurance to supply pensions or to supply health insurance when i mean he wasn't prefer sir thomas paine in. one of his books. as an agrarian justice he suggested what is our modern social security system among other things the minimum wage. on insurance and unemployment insurance excluding things like that what what can we learn from karl marx right now what what hala see changes what different directions should the united states government cameron government the u.k. . be making from his analysis having been proven or disproven in some ways over the over this last century and a half percent. i think what they can certainly take from him is the analysis of the crisis and the steps out of the crisis which would include a huge stimulus to the land it would also include real investment in the technologies of the future and in renewable technologies i think in a way marx went beyond keynes whose analysis of

what's been going on in alabama to karl rove include grover norquist karl rove's best buddy who was in here best buddy one of his college buddies who didn't hear to what to do damage civilian and nine hundred ninety nine when i was trying to get the education lottery for our children so our kids could go to college for free rove also had. jack gave them all of them jack a. partner mike scanlon who came in and spent millions of dollars in this book since you spent twenty million dollars how about well and then i was his top priority and to quote i have a motto i had to be stopped and stopped me then he didn't stop you tube when i get up to run for election two thousand and six i was brought to trial one month before the election by the wife of karl rove's best friend who at the time was running this campaign and i want to say that with the u.s. attorney's husband was running my opponent's campaign while she and her office were bringing charges against me it doesn't take a genius to figure this out but the problem now is this is much more serious than just bringing down don so when you s

but here's the bigger picture nancy pelosi says she could have arrested karl rove any time and there's a long list of crimes that rove was implicated in from helping set up secret overseas prisons to torture to outing a cia agent to of two to lying to lead the united states into an unnecessary war to secretly illegally wiretapping american citizens but the speaker of the house palosi said she wasn't going to arrest rove he successfully called her bluff because not arresting him she said was quote the best thing for the country and quote in july of two thousand and eight when he was under a subpoena to testify before congress about his crimes rove didn't even bother to show up instead he left the country to go to yalta eric holder at least shows up eight times so far answers former small time criminal dare i says questions here's the problem palosi should have arrested rove i mean that that is the problem the democrats keep doing what they think is best for the country while republicans keep doing what they think is going to be best for the republican party and to hell with the country

karl rove said on fox news that he was the lawyer for this woman, dana jill simpson, after karl roveent on fox news last week and made this weird allegation out of the blue, president obama's campaign lawyer wrote a letter to karl rove which we have. the letter says i have never represented dana jill simpson nor had anything to do with your allegations. i have never met ms. simpson or talked to her on the phone or crossed her path in any way. the identity of her lawyer is public record, a lawyer i have never met, but whom you can find through the search engine of your choice. you can google who the lawyer was. we spoke with the lawyer. we asked her about the weird thing we heard on fox news about bob bower, and she said, quote, bob bower was toty unknown to everybody down here. there were a lot of other lawyers on the periphery, but he was nowhere to be seen. he was not involved in any way nor was his firm. i think karl rove is delusional. i think leers lying. we contacted mr. rove's office today to see what he was talking about. why did he bring this up? and what about the fact it w

author of numerous books including age shock how finance is failing us and an unfinished revolution karl marx and abraham lincoln the crisis of capitalism sweeping the globe right now perhaps it's time to revisit the park so to say about economics one of the reasons why i'm pleased to welcome robin from our studios in new york city problem thanks for joining us tonight. thank you great to have you with us your book an unfinished revolution is in part history of the relationship between karl marx and and abraham lincoln i was blown away to discover there even was one that these guys had any correspondence and you tell us about them. it began with marx's big involvement with the united states. the newspaper the new york tribune he was signed up in about eight hundred fifty two to write articles for the for the tribune by its managing editor charles c. turner and he subsequently wrote about four hundred fifty articles for the tribune a really long article and at a rate of one or even sometimes two a week across a period of nearly a decade so this was a major part of marx's activity and the

terrorists and dictators could be funding mitt romney's campaign by laundering their money through karl rove's super pac but the american public will never know who they are tell you why and let's go we take. in the best of the rest of the news republican congressman allen west turned some heads last week when he said this about democratic members of congress. it. was later said he was referring to the members of the house progressive caucus which had recently introduced the budget for all to end our wars create a public option and modestly raise taxes on the super rich the romney rich in america are exactly the primary policy positions of the day's communist party as far as i know west's comments did draw a reaction however from the communist party usa their vice chairman libro piano told politico i don't know that being a communist in congress was off limits or out of bounds there aren't any now and if there were in the future does that mean that the voters don't have a say can't choose a communist to be in congress so what does congressman west need to know about communism and more i

karl rove plans to spend as much as a half a billion dollars this election to defeat president obama and democrats what's motivating him what happens to america if he succeeds as journalist and author craig unger in tonight's conversations with great moms. download the official publication. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time. he. for tonight's conversations of great minds i'm joined by american investigative journalist and author craig unger he's previously worked as the deputy editor of the new york observer and editor in chief of the boston magazine also he's been a frequent contributor to c.n.n. the new yorker esquire and vanity fair his book house of bush house of saudi is a new york times best seller and his most recent book boss rove inside karl rove secret kingdom of our documents the return of karl rove following the disastrous bush administration and is set to hit shelves of temper for karl rove is promising to spend upwards of a half billion dollars the

attack on whistleblowers to a corrupted criminal justice system that shields powerful people like karl rove going after those who speak truth to power you know as americans when we think of political prisoners we typically think of china or iran or syria that police political prisoners have become a reality in the united states don siegelman karl rove's sworn enemy has already won and julian a son could be the next. after the break republicans on the house government oversight committee voted yesterday to hold attorney general holder in contempt of congress over the bizarre fast and furious controversy and the best reaction to the vote came from nancy pelosi who said she could have had crawled over arrested at any time in two thousand and eight so why didn't she. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is worth helps keep journalism on the real world. we want to present. something old. is he. in the best of the rest of the news as we reported yesterday darrell wise said it the republican chairman of the house govern

karl rove plans to spend as much as a half a billion dollars this election to defeat president obama and democrats what's motivating him what happens to america if he succeeds as journalist and author craig unger in tonight's conversations with great. for you. rick. there's. crime in. the capital account i'm lauren lyster. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old a good job a true. confession i am a total get a friend that i love grabbing hip hop music and. he was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the role without you see it as a place. for that i had conversations with great minds i'm joined by american investigative journalist and author craig unger he's previously worked as they do. he did editor the new york observer and editor in chief of the boston magazine also has been a frequent contributor to c.n.n. the new yorker esquire and vanity fair his book house of bush house of saudi is a new york times bestseller and his most recent book boss rove inside karl rove secret kingdom of our documents the return of karl rove following the disastrous bush administra

i think karl rove was exercising proper caution. look at the past elections when the decision desks have been wrong. in 2000, the media, why are you doing this? look at the voting still going on in california or alaska. >> speculation in 2000 it may have affected the outcome of the election because people in the western time zone. >> and 1980 when carter people felt that way. and it affected the house and senate races sometimes. >> jon: nobody seemed to be questioning george stephanopolous former spokesman for bill clinton, angering the coverage for abc. >> i think george stephanopolous has done a good job of transitioning a reporter role. karl has a side. he has a side. he is allowed to have a side. it's out in the open. >> jon: next on news watch, no longer an election issue. would the benghazi attack get any real media attention? >> it's too early to know exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on americans. >> cbs releases a new clip adding more controversy on the deadly attacks in be

what now karl. so karl rove in the middle of the ring. who will land an elbow on top of his head?you predict that romney would win the election when there was no basis for that. why did you tell these guys on fox news no, no, i need to call the election back. because i guess you were embarrassed. you were going to be embarrassed no matter what. you're karl rove. he's not the only one. do you remember dick morris. mr. smug dick forries and his insane predictions on fox news. >> it would not continue, and that was not going to be the permanent turnout model in the united states, and i was wrong. we are now in a turnout model that is totally different than we've ever had. blacks are now 13% of the votes not 11%. latinos are 10% not 8%. and people under 30 are 19% not 17%. >> cenk: i didn't think they were going to let the latinos blacks and young people vote. if i had gotten that i would have thought that obama would win. loser. what happened to the 300 electoral votes--oh, it's dick morris on dick morris. buti called president obama's victory six weeks before it happened. do you thi

bush and karl rove left us karl rove is hoping it will all forget but i'm not forgetting and i hope you won't either. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our websites thom hartmann dot com free speech dot org an hour to dot com also check out our two you tube channels there are links to tom harkin dot com its entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and you can visit our dot com to download the audio podcast of our daily three to six radio show and we have a free tom hartman i phone and i pad app in the app store which we've just updated made all kinds of spiffy for the brand new i pad whatever it's called contraption looks really cool and you can set a speed back on twitter at tom underscore our one on facebook at some undersea underscore our on our blogs message boards and telephone comment line at tom hartman dot com and don't forget democracy begins when you show up it's not enough to just sit around and complain we've got to get out there we've got to get active occupy something show up participate or move

and fiscal reforms of pillars of mitt romney's electoral platform we'll hear from the market tickers karl denninger who has been rather vocal on the matter plus we're seeing plenty of analysis of competing plans to rein in government deficits but do any really do this or do they simply shift costs and fail to address the actual problems we'll take a look at ryan's budget and remember that time you were helping launder money for an entity the government had imposed sanctions on and then you got caught and called out by authorities publicly and you were so upset you fired back somehow leaking to the press that your lawyers thought you could sue the reputational damage and you ended up settling charges i'm just going to continue on as usual oh no you don't remember that yeah because that would never happen to you or i but if you're a big bank not to worry we'll talk about standard chartered banks and the rule of law or lack thereof in this country let's get to today's capital account. so by now everyone knows paul ryan is mitt romney's v.p. pick for his presidential campaign but what surpris

karl rove would think so.r point out a friend being wrong. however, i do recall you saying back when, we're going to lose the senate. there's no way we're not going to lose the senate. >> and frankly, a year ago absolutely. you look at it. we were defending 2/3 of the seats. but they put up these tea party candidates. they drop-kicked this thing. they had it. unhappiest guy in the world today is mitch mcconnell. >> stephanie: you've been a political strategist since rutherford b. hayes. you can't write the akin and mourdock were going to say things like they said. if you were their strategist -- >> let's say for the record. it is christine o'donnell, all of these people. every time. they had that seat in indiana. dick lugar would have won with 700 % of the vote. he always did but they took on their own. they eat their own. >> stephanie: i was just going to say -- what we've said about the tea party. it sure feels on the overrish side, doesn't it? >> well yes except you know, john boehner still needs them to ho

karl rove blamed them for it. >> i'm his daughter. i just wanted to meet you and say -- he cut me off right away and said tell your dad not to use my name to make money. >> crazy. all right. it's a big show, and it's go time. >> all right. it is the anniversary of 9/11 and i got a warning for you guys, i'm about to get angry about this story. it's about the negligence of the bush administration and what they did not do to prevent that attack. of course, president obama, of course as usual spoke out on 9/11. [ bells tolling ] >> today we remember a day that began like so many others, tries school and commutes to work. early flights and familiar routines quick hugs, and quiet moments. it was a day like this one a clear blue sky, a bit of sky that would soon be filled with clouds of smoke and prayers of a nation shaken to its core. >> but we have been told over and over again well, there was nothing that could have been done. well, that turns out to be not true but dick cheney just went even further. now here's what ensaid about the pres

is this the beginning of the end of karl rover? >> it is not in my estimation the end of karl rove.emember in 2004 he was the hero, the architect who lifted george bush for reelection in difficult situation, but by 2006 he was the goat when the democrats came back. he's been in this position before when people say he's finished. anyone who thinks that karl rove is finished, his days are on the floor, he is a has been, are people, whether republican enemies or democratic opponents, are wishing for something that not likely is going to happen. they are wishing for something at their own peril. >> he may be around for a while. i personally wish him the same success that he had on tuesday night. wayne slater, thanks for your time this evening. >> great to be with you. >>> coming up, the gop is still reeling from the big loss, and rush limbaugh is fanning the flames today. >>> plus florida's voting fiasco two days later, governor rick scott finally answers questions, but he's refusing to give explanation. he changed the law. where are the answer sinus that's next. [ female announcer ] to

with that said let's play karl rove's response to all of this.e was on fox yesterday or wednesday night. >> we have some of the best lawyers in the country both on the tax side and on the political side. the political election law to make certain we never get close to the line that will push us into the gps political grip as opposed to a social welfare organization. >> does that sound like an adequate explanation that everything will stay on the up and up while we're there with closed doors and no reporters and recording devices and so on? >> i don't doubt that karl rove's crossroads gps group has the best lawyers in the business but as you said part of a tax-exempt nonprofit like crossroads gps which has spent tens of millions of dollars in this election cycle is that we don't know who their donors are. we don't know how they work internally. and, really, you're going on karl rove's word here and you can take that for what it is. you know, in terms of the complaint that bob bower the obama attorney has made it is unlikely the fec will act on thi

karl frisch. look what i brought you jackie.s an early holiday gift. >> i haven't seen you since i lived in dc. >> i live in dc. >> that's how we met. >> he talks about how dc is bereft. all i have to say is neener, we have your jacki. jacki schechner in the newsroom. what are you doing for lunch today? well at 12:30 eastern time the president will sit down with mitt romney. there will be no press in attendance. he's meeting with the 12 nobel prize winners at 12:15 but then a post election niceties. there is no agenda. the white house spokesman said the president would wouldn't mind talking to mitt romney about ways to make the government more efficient. the president is will be meeting with paul tonko in the fiscal cliff negotiations. the man who had a tattoo on his face for the election removed. the r now stands for the man who was running for election but also the man who is a sore loser. >>> it's been four years since hillary clinton ran for president, but she's still carrying $70,000 in campaign debt. secretary of state mrs

karl rove raised $300 million. what do you think karl rove got out of that personally?n bucks. >> and is any of this disclosed when he goes on fox news as a commentator. >> bill: no. >> it's a train wreck of where dirty tricksters get treated like real pundits and the line gets so blurred. >> bill: i would have to say he is the biggest horse's ass on fox news but then there's dick morris. >> just put the two of them in a room and lock the door and say you two fight it out. >> bill: michael here is my question to you, there have been many times and strong obama supporter, but there have been many times in the first four years when i said barack obama, you are not coming through, and fighting the fight. you are too timid and don't have enough backbone on some public option, right? through it away. beneficiary's taxes, never going to renew them, gave them another two years. are we going to see a stronger more backboned obama in the next four years? >> i think we will. we'll get some hints today when he gives this speech about the fiscal cliff. of course he's going to be co

karl, karl -- karl, he's coming up here to the desk, crunching numbers, writing furiously, pointing atl hemmer. a lot of things are going on right now. >> all i'm saying is, look, we've had one instance when things were prematurely called. it seems to me to be a very early call. >> the folks at obama headquarters in chicago, they're not listening to karl. they don't care about what karl said. >> ohio really did go to president obama last night. and he really did win. and he really was born in hawaii. and he really is legitimately president of the united states, again. and the bureau of labor statistics did not make up a fake unemployment rate last month. and the congressional research service really can find no evidence that cutting taxes on rich people grows the economy. and the polls were not screwed to oversample democrats. and nate silver was not making up fake projections about the election to make conservatives feel bad. nate silver was doing math. and climate change is real. and rape really does cause pregnancy sometimes. and evolution is a thing. and benghazi was an attack on u

now i'm joined again by charlie pierce and karl frisch.l i want to read you this about campaign tv ads. do you agree? >> yes. [ laughter ] >> i think anybody who has ever been a part of making television commercials can tell you that. and it's particularly true when budgets of money is being spent. let's say you are running for congress. it's great to have millions of dollars, and have millions of dollars spent on your behalf but at a certain point, all of the ads in the world can't get you elected. you can look at examples all over the country of wealthy people who have poured tens of millions of dollars in their own candidacy, and gone on to lose. >> jennifer: and charlie, 2 billion or whatever the number % is now that is being spent on these ads. they were saying in ohio there have been so many ads that have been run that you could watch straight 24 hours a day for 80 days, and that would be the amount of time you would have to spend in front of the tv right. >> well, you can also drive penny nails into your eyeballs with a pal peen ham

we have karl frisch.re going to play the four-minute video from fox news. >> the producer worked for weeks on that. >> for that news piece. >> yeah. >> jacki schechner is all hopped up this morning, and her news will be better than that. >> is nyquil actually a crock? >> horrible. it did absolutely nothing and then i just sat there wondering if your head could explode from too much congestion. >> this newscast could sound like nell. >> i was hoping for the demi moore thing, but instead i just got the totally not hot voice. >> good morning, jacki schechner. >> good morning, stephanie. good morning, everyone. this won't be the least bit awkward, the president are going to welcome former president bush and former first lady laura bush to the white house for the unveiling of george w. bush's portrait. vice president biden will also be there. up on the hill today the house is set to vote on a bill targeted at gender. republicans supporters claim the bill is about sex discrimination but abortion rights activist