with an anticipated bank account of more than $200 million officials at american crossroads said they would probably begin their campaign this month. crossroads is co-founded by karl rove who gave a sneak preview of the coming assault on president obama. >> american crossroads is about to launch its first major anti-obama blitz this month in terms of an advertising campaign. what's that going to look like? >> well, it will be revealed later this week but president obama took his campaign and about $1.4 million worth of ads in battleground states to go after governor romney on the issue of energy prices. the record needs to be set straight about what this administration's policies are with regard to energy. >> if you want an idea of the kind of ads crossroads will run against president obama, look no further than the gas pump. >> now he's taking credit. for which part? the $5 gas or the millions of americans struggling because of it? tell the president his oppressive energy policies aren't working for us. >> we know domestic oil production is at an eight-year high. the oil and gas extr

all right created very so american crossroads was founded you may remember by karl rove and is funded by some other people harold simmons an eighty year old billionaire who more or less copyrighted the phrase obama is the most dangerous american alive now also behind the american crossroads money machine is perry another eighty year old billionaire from texas who was i remember him he was the mastermind behind another very effective political ad the swift boat campaign back in two thousand and four designed to discredit the democratic presidential nominee john kerry. you know in cures nor do you know him and he lacks the capacity to leave all that you. know i'm sure you're going to hear the word hero maybe treat all shipmates he lied before the senate and john cured. more of them and served with him to the designers country most certainly. are these type of values are certain to dominate the airwaves and there are a few reasons for that the most significant of which is of course the citizens united case in which the supreme court ruled that corporations are people and their political

all right so american crossroads was founded you might remember by karl rove and it's funded by other people one of them is harold simmons an eighty year old billionaire who more or less copyrighted the phrase obama is the most dangerous american alive also behind american crossroads money machine is another eighty year old bob perry a billionaire from texas who you may remember as the mastermind behind another very effective political ad the swift boat campaign back in two thousand and four designed to discredit the democratic presidential nominee john kerry john kerry is not and he lacks the capacity to believe much of. your carry on the war hero he betrayed all his shipmates he lied before the senate john kerry. more than he served with the designers country he most certainly did. well these types of ads are certain to dominate the airwaves and there's several reasons for that but most significant of which is of course the citizens united case in which the supreme court ruled that corporations have the same power as people and their political expenditures therefore cannot be restri

>> well, ate zecitizens united really a crossroads in american democratic life.ve been defined as people. the supreme court made that decision 5-4 saying that corporations are people and have the same rights and political speeches as individuals, and it's really opened up the floodgates. citizens united can only effectively be changed either with a 5-4 reversal in the supreme court, and that's the long, tough law. this has a detrimental impact on the debates. american crossroads has $200 million ready to attack president obama, and they're going to blame him for not flipping that switch that they pretend is in the white house that the president can just flip in order to lower gas prices, which obviously, is kind of crazy. but this is $200 million that they are going to spend, supposedly, the super pacs have no connection to the candidates. but ed gillespie, of course, is now going to be leading the charge here at american crossroads on this attack against obama, and he's been a major adviser for mr. romney. so, you know, americans, i suppose, if we want, we can c

politico reporting just as american crossroads stepped in to help with senate turn out two years ago to compensate for the underfunded rnc, some new super pacs will help where the state party's need assistance. should be noted though, take a critical eye of what happened in 2010. what we saw was karl rove and his endless supply of cash can do a lot, but not everything. it can't fill the organizal void by a hallowed out republican party in chaos. as much money as he has to throw around, there's certain party functions that take humans, local grassroots humans and that can't be replicated by money flown in somewhere else. >> what's the sharon turn ut infrastructure if the republican party isn't all that here, what is she relying on for turning out votes? >> karl rove. >> what? >> american crossroads announced they will dump a bunch of money into nevada to help them with get out the vote. they have poured some money, my understanding, into the nevada party, which is a shell corporation. there's nothing there. >> can you really fly in a get out the vote infrastructure? >> not only does i

and the sad fact has not been lost on the american crossroads. for example, watch this... >> the proofsy of the united stesey. i'm so in love with you... >> he's a jackass. >> sean: the saddest part of all of this is that you are paying for his play time, including his travel to the jimmy falin show, where he discussed tuition. john boehner is demanding a refund. let's take a look. >> this week, the president traveled across the country on taxpayer's dime and it cost $179,000 an hour, insisting that congress fix the problem that we were already working on. frankly, i think this is beneath the dignity of the white house. to travel to three battleground states and go to three large college campuses on taxpayers' money to try to make this a political issue is pathetic. his campaign ought to be reimbursing the treasury for the cost of this trip. >> sean: all right. joining me with the reaction to the campaigner in chief's very busy week. the co-host of "the five," they deal with bob beckel every day of the week and they get combat pay. >> that's a go

have you seen american crossroads, $300 million. they're already going up with ads criticizing president obama. what means more this is type of ground game or $300 million on tv. >> air war versus grassroots. something tells me the obama team will he have their share of ads to air both on networks and the web. after the break, new developments in the trayvon martin investigation. we'll have a live report on the details next. emily's just starting out... and on a budget. like a ramen noodle- every-night budget. she thought allstate car insurance was out of her reach. until she heard about the value plan. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. introducing gold choice. the freedom you can only get from hertz to keep the car you reserved or simply choose another. and it's free. ya know, for whoever you are that day. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. in what passes for common sense. used to be we socked money away and expected it to grow. then the world changed... and the common sense of reti

american crossroad with $24 million. and restore our future with $6.5 million.a big factor in this campaign or in effect will both sides have enough to make their case? >> i think both sides will have enough to make their case. the president is going to be raising a lot more than the romney campaign will raise. the chart pointed out super pacs on the right will do better than the super-pacs on the democratic side. you will have the money to make the case. the problem is with all of that money, i think you are going to see one of the most negative campaigns out there. you've got a president who is not very popular. a congress that is not very popular. the least popular republican, any challenging nominee in recent history. at that point, everybody pointing up the negatives, not necessarily the positives. >> chris: karl, i want to talk to you about money and support as one of the founders of american crossroads, the republican super-pac. the "washington post" says outside, independent republican groups are going to focus on television, the air wars, while outside

♪ oh yeah >> again, that ad is from american crossroads, the conservative super pac calling him a celebritynt. the mccain campaign ad called then-senator obama, quote, the biggest celebrity in the world, mixing in shots of obama with britney spears and paris hilton. >>> moving to capitol hill, the house is expected to vote today on a one hiv year plan to extend lower rates on federally funded student loans. president obama spent the week touring college campuses, urging congress to act. but house speaker john boehner says the president is simply drumming up controversy for his had own political gain. >> for the president to milwaukeemake a campaign issue out of this and travel to three battleground states and go to three large college campuses on taxpayers' money to try to make this a political issue is pathetic. his campaign ought to be reimbursing the treasury for the cost of this trip. >> the argument from speaker boehner and house republicans is that they support the idea of cheaper student loans. they just want to cut spending from the president's health care law to pay for it. a white

future," the super pac backing romney, has raised $43 million, and the republican- leaning "american crossroads" has raised almost $27 million. so far, it's hardly spent any of that cash. meanwhile, the super pac backing the president, "priorities u.s.a.," has raised only $6.5 million. >> i'm sure there will be other super pacs spending on behalf of obama, but it remains to be seen who they will be and whether they'll be able to raise enough real money. >> reporter: the other unknown: what campaigns fueled by super pac dollars will look like once the general election heats up. >> you'll have the possibility, of super pac ad wars turning up the last weeks of the campaign, financed with millions of dollars, overwhelming the campaign the candidate or the party was trying to run itself. >> reporter: sylvia hall, "nightly business report," washington. >> susie: another setback for johnson and johnson: the health care giant has been ordered to pay $1.1 billion to arkansas for violating the state's consumer protection laws. arkansas sued johnson and johnson, claiming the company promoted its anti-psyc

you can look at american crossroads and the rnc.otice saying next week, we plan to advertise in these cities as obama makes this trip through the country. it's basically a smoke signal or whatever to american crossroads or whomever, hey if you want to join us in this effort. it's easy and the camera pavans do this as well to lay out your game plan in public which is way to signal to your colleagues on the other side of the wall to complement that in some fashion. >> and sheldon alingdzdelson and newt goes to vegas and santorum wins a primary in missouri and foster frees who is a funder of his super p.a.c. is standing alongside of him on stage. >> a remarkable coincidence. >> that's against the law. right? isn't it? for them to coordinate? so why doesn't the sec step in? >> you raise a good point. there is an awful lot that the s.e.c. should be doing that they are not doing because they are deadlocked. peter welch and i and some of our colleagues sent a letter to the president urging him to make appointments to the s e.c. it's suppos

snchl chanting obama) (chanting obama) >> american crossroads is karl rove's super pack.e was on o'reilly explaining why he put this ad out. >> that's the point. he sounded great. he appeal to do young voters last time around. they were 18 percent of the electorate which is a significant expansion of their share of the electorate but it didn't turnout too good. high unemployment among young people high unemployment rate of young people since we began keeping records in 1948. tw too many kids getting out of school forced to move back in with their parents. he has anti students and anti young people policy. >> whether president obama should be investigated to win taxpayer money to campaign. it crosses the line and he should take a step back. >> listen up all of you tech geeks out there. clayton morris is here. not that he is a geek. but he will show us the best gadgets to get you in if shape. >> a proud geek. everybody is getting ready for the bikini body. i know i am. you want to use technology to help lose weight. i have lost 12 pounds already using this which is the sit

american crossroads does political action, the ads, etc. those donors are open records right? cross gps no, we don't do political spending so our donors can be secret. is that reality? of course not. it's not even close. all the money is intermingled. they are in the same office. it goes to the same place. of the $123 million raised by both groups, 62% of it came from secret donors. why are they allowed to be secret? it doesn't make abe sense. you hear conservatives we're all for transparency. by the way, it is not legal. they should of course not have tax exempt status, and to give you a sense of how much those secret donors are giving? there is less than a hundred of them giving that secret money. on average $75,000 per donor. gee, i wonder if they're protecting the rich in the interest of the rich. on average they're giving three-quarters of a million dollars. and they get a great return on that investment when karl rove gets the entire republican party sell out for them. should they have their tax-exempt status revoked? of course. they're not supposed to make political spe

this was an ad released by american crossroads. there was an ad against mccain campaign took out against obama calling him the biggest celebrity in the world. that didn't necessarily work. do you think it will work this time around? is it smart going after him for his coolness? >> dana: of all the mccain ad i think it was the most effective. at the time, looking back you go my gosh, that ad was brilliant. they could see it coming. people should go on and finish watching the rest of that ad. it juxtaposes what is happening now, unemployment, student loans, healthcare, the other stuff that makes it not so cool. >> andrea: paints him as unserious. >> bob: that was brought to you by karl rove crossroads, keep it clear, bush's chief advisor. that is suspect. >> dana: why? >> bob: the guy is cool. that's why he appeals to young people. just post with mitt romney? cool and whatever he is? if you talk about a personality versus non-personality. >> andrea: i want to agree with you. remember the republicans went after bill clinton when he we

itç saturated with this negativity paid for the american crossroads who released this picture of theent being cool. a 9 to 10 turnover, look how easy it is to watch. >>> i can see some regular voter in scranton, anywhere i grew up, northeast philly, saying, that guy is screwing around as president, he's not taking it seriously, screw him. i'm paying for the other guy. if you don't pay any attention, that is obama and that's the way he is portrayed. >> before they put $6 million into this, they did the focus groups. they polled them before and after and they got the sense this sort of cheap shot might work with a certain type of voter in a certain place. >> you know what kind of voter. perhaps a white voter, not necessarily, but turned off to what looks like too cool.ç >> they have the barry white, oh, yeah, over and over again. it's hard to know what is in someone's heart when it's turned around on. >> a candidate is good at targeting an owe popponenopponeh and riding on it. they want to say he's above you and he's weak. weak leader, romney is strong, obama is weak. they're going to

i want to show you -- listening to the republican superpac american crossroads ad, the radio ad hammeringnt obama on energy policy. >> our health care, pensions, and way of life are on the line. say no to the obama administration's extreme epa rule. american cross kroed roads responsible for the content of this advertising. >> the epa is extreme. newt gingrich, getting surgery, running on gas prices. this question of energy policy, gas prices and expensive new cars we want to put gas, all connected and undoubtedly will be in the election cycle. >> we have no energy policy. what energy policy? i mean -- we never have. that's just the way it's been since the end of world war ii. we have a bunch of ad hoc measures that people come and go. this leaves people in the auto industry wondering, do we get behind wind, hydrogen? we should either have a policy or leave it to the mark. >> this is some of the most powerful kormss on earth. oil and gas companies invest heavily in companies like american crossroads and others that fight for their interests. let's be honest, huge oil and gas conglomerates

american crossroads, the republican superback founded by rove and gillespie plans to launch a major blitz against president obama. according to "the new york times," they have more than $2 million to spend and they're going to tie president obama to america's economic woes. the reason why they might be doing this sooner rather than later is it gives mitt romney is a chance to regroup and work on his strategy moving forward. >>> a new poll out this morning has swing independents in 12 battleground states raking themselves closer to mitt romney ideologically but liking president obama better. it was released in mid march and released this morning by global strategies group. what people did was rank themselves on a scale of liberal to conservative. they put themselves closer to mitt romney but obama comes out in the poll results ahead by 6 points also his favorability is at 57% and mitt romney's is only at 41%. >>> hillary clinton won't be at the democratic national convention in charlotte in september. a spokesperson for her says in keeping with her being secretary of state, she doesn't eng

now, your pac, american crossroads, i'm sorry, super pac, not just a regular pac.is a super pac, all right? [ laughter ] put a recent video. >> super pac. >> bill: you bet. saying that president obama is a cool guy. roll the tape. >> hip. ♪ [chanting obama] ♪ oh, yeah. >> preview. >> i ♪ >> i'm so in love with you. >> oh, yeah. >> nice. >> he is a jack ass. >> is he a jack ass. >> obama, obama. [chanting obama] >> bill: that's aimed at younger voters, obviously saying that you were sold a bill of goods, it didn't happen. that's where you are going with that. >> yeah, good. i'm glad you got the message. there is always good when the video like that -- everybody gets it. there we go. [ laughter ] >> look. >> bill: go ahead. >> well, yeah. i mean that's the point. he sounded great. he appealed to young voters last time around. they were 18% of the electorate which was a significant expansion of their share of the electorate but it didn't turn out too good. high unemployment among young people. highest unemployment rate among young people since we began keeping records

american crossroads raking in tens of thousands of dollars, and in that case democrats are actually behind>> the superpac she talks about, this is about the supreme court saying we could have the limited donations, and they themselves said, oh, it's not going to be corrupting, which isn't very confident when we talk about the health care ruling coming down the pike. what do you make of the latest news on the money front? >> any time we give a bunch of money in any situation, there is going to be corruption. i'm just concerned that a small number of americans who have huge bank accounts are able to have a disproportionate amount of impact on the elections, on who gets to stay in the elections and on who has to drop out. really, it's come to a situation where your vote doesn't really matter unless you can, you know, give a ton of money to a candidate or a bundle of money tie candidate. that really is where voting happens, not this sort of going to a polling booth and pulling a lever. that's sort of a last gasp dinosaur part of it. i want more people to have a part of the protcess, and a smal

american crossroads started running an ad. run the video of the ad. we don't have to hear it.mage of the president out and about all the shows. identifying with young people, being the biggest celebrity in the world. it goes on and has stats of one out of every two college students not finding a job after they leave. we saw something similar in the mccain campaign. i seemed to be effective back then. is this ad effective? >> i think it's the most effective anti-obama ad i've seen. i don't think most anti-obama ads are effective. i don't love all of them. most of them are heavy handed and dumb. this is not. this gets to the core in my view of his weakness, his t fact he is not half as sophisticated as people imagined he was. he is a kind of hollywood figure. he hasn't made hard choices he promised to make. remember the pitch in 2008. it saw the speech after speech. i'm the adult here, i will tell you things you don't want to hear. one thing he has never done, told people something they don't want to hear. >> bret: we want to update everyone on the fox news alert we brought you