. >> tonight brad woodhouse of the dnc and michael eric dyson have reaction. >> does the hbo movie "game change" mean game over for sarah palin? >> for me, and the experience on this campaign is that there are worse things than losing. >> political analyst richard wolffe on the "game change" fallout. >> the limbaugh controversy is spreading to other talkers. radio expert holland cook and eric bolert have the analysis. >> sean hannity's harvard conspiracy theory was a bust but smeared the good name of derrick bell. tonight the late professor's widow joins me to defend her husband's memory. >>> good to have you with us, thanks for watching. republicans have found their footing in their attacks on president obama. it looks like they are having an impact on the american people as well. it's all about gas. a new washington post abc new poll shows, 65% of americans disapprove of the way the president has handled gas prices. a new cbs news-new york times poll has president obama's approval rating at an all time low? it's only one poll. but that is a number and 54% of americans say gas prices ar

joining me is brad woodhouse.resident keeps reenforcing there's more work to be done to make sure the middle class doesn't just survive but thrive. can this be accomplished with the jobs act still stored in the congress? >> there's a whole lot more that the president would like to see the republicans do. he'd live to move on helping states keep teachers and police and firefighters on the job. he's live to move on inf infrastructure investments. there's a whole lot that the president woultd lid like to se congress do. republicans wake up this friday every month hoping that the unemployment rate goes up, hoping people are losing jobs. that's what they want to see because they want to win an election. we should put creating jobs above politics. that's what the president is trying to do. >> i was wondering if speaker boehner had woken up because i haven't heard thing from him today. some of the republican candidates are trashing the jobs numbers. it's getting harder and harder to claim the economy isn't getting better

. >> the dnc communications director brad woodhouse joins us from washington.c. our audience saw that. do you have some kind of telepathic relationship with mitt romney? even as that ad hit the airways, paul ryan appeared alongside the front-runner at lawrence university today office his unadultated endorsement. >> it couldn't be more appropriate. the two of them share a bromance or have a bromance. they both want to end medicare as we know it. the fund tax cuts for the wealthy. we had a little fun with that. as you know, and you've discussed it, it is a really serious issue. a fundamental shift from where america has been. where we've pledged to take care of our seniors. make sure they have access to affordable health care. they think it's more important to provide big tax cuts. >> but brad, you may not like his policies but you know that paul ryan is a respected congressman. many people actually quite like his ideas about cutting the deficit. do you risk alienating independent voters. >> in a serious air about him. but his policy, particularly his budget. the

. >> i have e-mailed my former counter part, brad woodhouse saying we at least had to work for it.'s sake. >> they have the sound and ads cut already courtesy of the campaign. >> the campaign and dnc are wisely using the time, their using the republican's campaigning in states to bring together voters. the other thing i say, again, we will see a record turnout among african american voters. do not under cut -- i was stunned in alabama by how many n n -- >> among african americans, i think we are going to continue to see record turn wrought in some of those key states that we are trying to hold on to, where in particular, every time the republicans go after him with something that feels racial and they may not see it, the folks, you know may not see it, that is how people are taking it and they will not stand for it. >> certainly, the republican party is doing a wonderful job of digging itself into a hole for a general election, what is the president going to run on? i think the last coupe of weeks have shown us that message and i'm talking about the speech to the uaw, we are all to

. >> brad woodhouse, it's good to see you. thank you. >> thanks, chris, for having me. >> let me bring in karen and michael. we've been hearing the president wants to tout what he thinks of as his big domestic accomplishments. it includes the health care overhaul and the stimulus. let me play a little part of that. >> i regularly told him, look, you don't have to spill this much political blood. >> but he knew from experience the cost of waiting. >> when my mom got cancer she wasn't a wealthy woman, and it pretty much drained all her resources. >> is it playing to the base? we know health care is going to be one of the big debates of this. the polls have been all over. where do you see this 17-minute video touting health care going here. >> look, i think it's an attempt to damage control. they know they really lost control of the definition and the fight over the health care plan. they know that it become very unpopular. much more so than they realized it would be when they were fighting for it. so this is the beginning of an

he will debate that and other propositions, we'll welcome brad woodhouse, his communication director at the democratic national committee and his counter part at the republican national committee, sean spicer. brad, let me begin with you. i know you disagree with me. i think symbolically, the president is totally on the wrong side of keystone. business wants it, labor want it, motorists want it. i think this is a gigantic political mistake that is surfacing in the washington post poll. >> well, look, larry, i do disagree with you. but the republicans are the ones that spike keystone. i remember they axccelerated ths decision in the way the state department cannot possibly make the keystone decision that quickly. >> by the way, i did a search. i didn't see sean or mitt romney or rick santorum attacking president bush when gas prices were $4.12 in the spring of 2008. >> that was then, this is now. but shawn spicer, let me go to you for the reput dal. i want to put my keystone thing back on the table. i'm going to deposit that the president has made a second mistake. even though i agree

. >> reporter: but democratic party spokesman brad woodhouse who hails from the south had too much fun doctored photos showing mitt romney picking on the banjo. still mississippi governor phil bryant says party leaders are still rallying around romney. >> i like to see a man holding a baby and he looks like he'd held a baby before. >> reporter: and mitt romney was holding babies here a few moments ago in birmingham, alabama. now if he wins either mississippi or alabama, mitt romney could have the last laugh as they look at that kind of victory that newt gingrich or rick santorum may be gone with the wind. just a few moments ago, if you'll pardon that film expression, there was something else that was kind of interesting. that romney asked randy owen, lead spinninger of alabama to sing a few verses of the song "sweet home alabama." actually a song from lynyrd skynyrd but randy owen did it anyway and the crowd sure appreciated it. >> all of us love that song. what about kansas. kansas has its caucuses tomorrow. what are they expecting there? >> reporter: well, the romney campaign has ess