. >> when we return, carl rove and joe trippy weigh in on results and what they possibly mean forú(hcqhpbcdúg >> bret: more now let's bring in our guest, carl rove, former senior advisor to george bush and good evening, gentleman. carl let's start with you. interesting news out of virginia. we just had the virginia governor on. and you're hearing a couple maybe breaking away. >> the governor said they picked up one seat giving it a 21-19 split. i understand senate district 17, the republican is gone ahead. final tally gives him an 86-vote margin over the incumbent. this ties the senate at 20-20 z republican lieutenant governor, republicans control the senate. >> bret: how big a deal is that as virginia described it? a swing state for 2012? >> well, republicans picked up i think six or seven seats in general assembly giving them a record number of seats there. and they take over the senate. and this is not a good time for the democrats in this critical battle ground state. not a good sign for republicans. now approaching two thirds of the state general assembly. and now, tonight ha

. >> when we return, carl rove and joe trippy weigh in on results and what they possibly mean for 2012ep it here. i take my multi-vitamin but wanted to do something more for my nutrition. there's so much information out there. what's good for you today, is bad for you tomorrow. i had no idea what to choose. until i found pronutrients -- a new line of supplements from centrum, who i totally trust. omega-3 supports not only my heart, but my brain and my eyes too. probiotics helps with my digestive balance and my immune function. and fruit & veggie has antioxidant properties. new pronutrients from centrum helps make nutrition possible. >> bret: more now let's bring in our guest, carl rove, former senior advisor to george bush and good evening, gentleman. carl let's start with you. interesting news out of virginia. we just had the virginia governor on. and you're hearing a couple maybe breaking away. >> the governor said they picked up one seat giving it a 21-19 split. i understand senate district 17, the republican is gone ahead. final tally gives him an 86-vote margin over the incumbent.

. >> when we return, carl rove and joe trippy weigh in on results and what they possibly mean for >>ret: more now let's bring in our guest, carl rove, former senior advisor to george bush and good evening, gentleman. carl let's start with you. interesting news out of virginia. we just had the virginia governor on. and you're hearing a couple maybe breaking away. >> the governor said they picked up one seat giving it a 21-19 split. i understand senate district 17, the republican is gone ahead. final tally gives him an 86-vote margin over the incumbent. this ties the senate at 20-20 z republican lieutenant governor, republicans control the senate. >> bret: how big a deal is that as virginia described it? a swing state for 2012? >> well, republicans picked up i think six or seven seats in general assembly giving them a record number of seats there. and they take over the senate. and this is not a good time for the democrats in this critical battle ground state. not a good sign for republicans. now approaching two thirds of the state general assembly. and now, tonight have gained control

. >> a look at who carl rove was trying to speak to and why this group tried to steal the stage. >>> nba fans are left in limbo this morning after >>> this morning we've got rain across parts of maryland, virginia, and west virginia, points south and west of there. the closest rain right now to washington is in fairfax county. these areas of green, light rain. areas of yellow, more moderate rain in stafford county into southern culpeper. these are advancing to the north and east will be with us here through the morning rush hour. plan accordingly, leave early. speaking of leaves, we've got leaves all over the roads and streets and sidewalks. they're slippery now, wet with rain, and it's in the 50s throughout the region. sunrise at 6:51. we'll have occasional showers throughout the day. may climb into the low to mid-60s early afternoon. perhaps even some thunder along with some of the showers coming through later this afternoon. here's the evening planner. sunset at 4:54. a blustery wind developing this evening. may get moderate rain with thunder and lightning early evening, then ligh

carl rove have some thoughts. diane sawyer has interviewed gabriel giffords. she will be here with a preview of that chat upcoming. sort it all out karl rove who joins us from phoenix, arizona. mr. rove, as far as the g.o.p. is concerned. what's the most important thing that you have seen in the last few days? >> i think the most important thing has nothing to do with the republic field per se and that is the cbs news poll that said the president's approval on the economy, which is going to be the number one issue dominating the next 13 months, that his approval rating was 34% favorable, 60% unfavorable. and among those that felt strongly about it, 41% of all voters felt strongly disproving of the president. that's a pretty strong number. >> bill: okay. now you know and we have brit hume coming up behind you. that part of this occupy wall street movement was to set a scenario that it isn't the president's fault that the economy is faltering. that it's the fault of wall street and the bankers and the greedy 1%ers who are oppressing everyone else. it's not mr. o

. >> bill: joining us now from austin, texas, fox news analyst carl rove. is it really the choice? is that really the choice that congress has between protecting the tax cuts in place now, which are about 35% for people like me, the 1 percenters or expanding the payroll tax cut? is that a choice? can't you do both? >> well, you could do both. let's are be clear about. this the president earlier this year with bipartisan support got an agreement that we would roll back part of the social security payroll tax this year thereby reducing the revenues that go into the social security by about $175 billion and havening the day when it goes broke. now he is asking for us again to do it for next year. if the congress does do it they need to offset this by reductions in spending, otherwise we are simply going to do. >> bill: that's right. >> and make social security less solve solvent. >> bill: i don't understand. this i'm not being disingenuous on any level at all. certainly president obama knows that the super committee failed, that the spending $4 billion a day now that we don't have con

. >> bill: directly ahead, carl rove on president obama's chances for re-election one year before theote. later, why do the majority of american women still support barack obama. we will talk with janine turner and kirsten powers about that moments away. b d d0e(ll now and get your own incredible jaw saw for just three easy payments of only $39.95 that's an amazing offer on an the jaw saw will save you more time and allow you to do your jobs faster and safer than ever before. call the number on your >> bill: impact segment tonight, this time next year preparing for the most important vote we will ever cast the presidential election in 2012. election to be close president obama having entrenched support and bad economy as a hammer. fox news analyst karl rove who has been serving past re-election campaigns which provide very interesting insights. president bush the elder lost re-election, mr. rove to bill clinton but a year out, a year before the election was held he looked pretty strong with a 62% approval are rating. what does that tell us? >> well, look, it tells us he had a rather r

think can communicate a clear message to the public in the way that they've always been jealous of carl rovelk and actually speak like a human being. >> is this, to your knowledge, her first invasion of hollywood for aid fund-raiser? >> she's been there tomorrow. this is the big coming-out party. this is her ball in hollywood so to speak. >> norman has a big house. >> let's remember, she's not like a national candidate. it doesn't matter if holewood is giving her money. people in massachusetts don't care about that in the way that people in the rest of the country would care. she has raced $3.5 million and scott brown has $12 million. she has a long ways to go. i think of hollywood as wall street west. they make crazy money doing silly things, and they want power. they want access to power, and they're looking for candidates to spend money on. >> the interesting thing about hollywood money is they're not asking for anything. they don't then go to the government and say, hey, we need these new banking regulations and so forth. they just are pouring their money. >> they get abused. obama treat

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american cross roads funded by carl rove among others, they plan to step in and while the nominee isetting its footing start battering barack obama in key states. >> meacham. >> mike, that leaves a quick last question. do -- what is the view from chicago? >> the view from chicago is that it's mitt romney. we can see them already trying to define him to get a head start on that war that's going to come as soon as he's official. so we already see both the president's top officials, white house and otherwise, and in the media -- the obama campaign out trying to portray mitt romney as a flip-flopper, as deceitful for his most recent ad. as someone who is tied to banks is going to be big. one wall street person said to me, looking at the war that's coming, looking at how they know that the obama campaign is going to try to define mitt romney, anyone in the investment banking business and concerned about their image right now is wearing depends. >> in other words, the view from chicago's very, very good. >> very, very good. >> can i say next week mike allen will be known as something else,

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. >> carl rove went on fox news earlier and he was the first person to say something, you know, who was within the fox world and said that herman cain has -- his campaign is hurting their credibility when they say things like this that are provably not true. i think mr. cain is not the first candidate with negative media stories to blame the media, to use the strategy of saying he's being attacked and to attack the accusers. i think that, you know, there is a potential risk for him. it has worked so far very well for him, but there's a potential risk for him if he goes too far of looking negative himself. i think it'll be very interesting to see how this question comes up at the debate tonight. as mark haleprin said before, i don't think this can be avoided. >> michael, it looks to me like we may not get a perry mason moment here to use an old reference from television. when the accused stands up in the courtroom and says, okay, i did it. i don't get the sense that mr. cain's the type of person to say i've not been giving it to you straight, here's the scoop. it seems like from his poin

as a matter of fact, i said on a fox interview an invitation for carl rove and i to kiss and make up and move forward a united party. i talk about the cronyism of especially the republican party in delaware, which those leaders have been ousted, but the reason i bring that up is not to perpetuate it or to fan the flames, but to put it to rest and to say that, you know, if that, you know, that cropny crowd -- crony crowd would embrace the principles that the grass roots crowd, that our party was founded on, and not just our party, but our country was founded on, we will be a power house if we can unite, and i detail things my campaign endured and what i went through as a candidate. again, to illustrate a point of what happens when we divide instead of when we unite, and everybody knows it's no secret that the 2010 elections -- the republican party was divided, but i think that there are some examples to look at, and i draw the contrast between kentucky and my own race where in kentucky we are the nrc and senator mitch mcconnell really campaigning against rand paul. he was the worst th

carl vokarl rove is saying he's release evidence that would in cain's mind, at least in his argument,pate him. >> and they're urging cain to get on top of this. he's going after not just the women that accused him but also gloria allred and putting her in the mix. does that help herman cain make the case that the media is out to get him? it's all made up? or when you start going after the media, alex, is that just really preaching to your small base? >> well, chris i think going after gloria allred is the card hrm harm to pl herman cain has to play. it's not a particularly good one but one that is available. what you're hearing from republican as the press conference in new york yesterday, the riesen herman cain's position got so much more difficult, he can't just attack the media, reporters, those unnamed sources that he likes to go after. there's now actually a woman with a name and a face and a voice who herman cain has to try to discredit, if he wants voters 20 put these allegations aside. that's a much harder thing to do and potentially much uglier thing to do. >> i want to menti

. >> is carl rove agnostic as to who wins the nomination? >> i'm sure he's not.hat tim pawlenty would be good. the romney campaign we learned through this book has feared tim pawlenty more than anyone. they thought if he could get out of iowa, he could be new hampshire, he was someone, he was bland enough, the generic republican numbers. generic republican crushes obama. tim pawlenty is generic republican. charlie cook calls him the placebo. >> mike allen. thank you, your ebook once again, "the right fights back." i can't wait to read that. i'm downloading it. >>> next, willie's news you can't use. we're back in a moment. [ male announcer ] xbox 360 with kinect, this season's hottest games and...sweatbands. [ grunting noises ] ahh! this is gold. [ mom ] woo! [ game ] snaps up the ace. i'll never be popular. [ game ] next game decides our winner. [ male announcer ] get low prices on this season's hottest games. like kinect sports season 2 for xbox 360 with kinect. rated e for everyone. backed by our christmas price guarantee. save money. live better. walmart. but

and those tend to be -- it's a bit of a cliche, carl rove tried to polarize everybody into, you know,rate in a general election is these people who are up for grabs. they went for obama in 2008 and went very heavily against the democrats in 2010. and that's who the battle will be for. and i'm leaving out a lot of other factors. these things are decided state-by-state, not in a national poll. we don't know if ron paul will take his band off in a third-party candidacy. we don't know who will trip and fall in a debate. but if you look at it through the prism of the swing voters, it's an interesting competition. between two men who are in some ways alike. >> you come from the up for grabs people. bucks county, suburbs, where are they right now? >> i think that race will be very interesting, those two, but i think the country wants something better than it has. and i still think it's -- if it's about the past, it's in dispute. if it's about the president, it kills the president. if it's about the future. obama can still do it if he presents a second term that looks better than his first te

if you go back to 2004, carl rove said to the president if the conversation is the war on terror, themately is what won him the election. so what is the main attribute? what is the president's image that will ring true in voters' minds when they go to the polls? >> well, i think the image they'll have and what they have today is a guy who is earnestly working to solve what is the major problem facing our country, and that is how do we rebuild an economy, not just in the short run to create jobs, but in the long run create jobs to restore the middle class and the economic security that people have lost over -- not just the last three years, but over decades. that's the big challenge of our time. we've seen a hallowing out of the middle class, and we've seen a situation where people's wages have been flat lining for decades. we have to rebuild an economy where people have a chance to get ahead if they work hard, they can get ahead, if they're responsible, they're rewarded. that is the essence of who we are. that's going to be the key issue in this campaign, david. >> if he's the guy see

rove. great to see you, carl. thank you. >> thank you, mondayca. >> so we know that every presidential campaign needs a great grand strategist. a great pollster, and a great crisis manager. when you look at what's happening now to the herman cain campaign. how do you think they have handled this so far? >> well, until today not well. when it broke over the weekend their first response to say this is a smear by the mainstream media to which there is no basis. then it was they didn't know whether or not he had been accused and then today he came out and said rather forth rightly, i knew about it, different what he said yesterday. i knew about it and i was falsely accused and nothing happened. unfortunately we're now at a point where people are going -- then he pointed people towards the national restaurant association and said you have got to go talk to them what's going to happen is a demand for the national restaurant association to release the results of the investigation that was done to make public any details