so is this the strategy heading into november joining me now is craig unger contributing editor at vanity of vanity fair magazine and author of the book boss rove inside karl rove's secret kingdom of power a brilliant book by the way i strongly recommend credit welcome back great to be back tom what information thank you for joining us what information do you have on the republicans using a soap. called jimmy carter strategy and president obama well i see the hand of call rove behind this again and rove has been the party boss has become the party boss of the republican party he is not out front he's just a talking head on fox to a lot of people but he controls about a billion dollars in super pac bonds and there was a meeting in washington earlier this week in which the republicans and began to unveil what they're calling the jimmy carter strategy and they're attacking and this is a typical rove tack a tactic attacking obama at his strong point and then you may recall they did that with john kerry in two thousand and four with the swift boat veterans for truth and it looks to me like rov

hundred forty four sickened by a growing meningitis outbreak and mitt romney might be responsible as craig unger at salon reports this week the pharmaceutical company there was a responsible for the outbreak massachusetts based new england company company was cited for numerous violations in two thousand and four while mitt romney was governor however his administration did nothing to punish the company or place more regulations on it or show between two thousand and three and two thousand and six there were six complaints against the new england company yet the romney administration did not crack down on that company and instead sign an agreement allowing the company to regulate itself in the future so it should be noted the new and combine in company is a big. both mitt romney and republican senator scott brown in massachusetts but as a result of their self-regulation ordered by romney twenty nine americans are now dead as an attorney representing the victims argues quote it goes all the way up to mitt romney when the person who is supposed to be in charge of oversight does not believe oversig

. >> now, craig unger recounts the political career of karl rove. he extends his tenure as senior vice president b. chief of staff to president george w. bush and his attendant countries involvement with the superpac, and american crossroads. [applause] be mac thank you. there's a little less than two months before the election and in many ways this is the time the book was designed for because this are into these last two months, this is the election really get going. and to me, one of the great untold stories is not just obama versus romney. it is obama versus karl rove and he's in behind the scenes the whole time and he has put together over $1 billion that will be spent in these last two months. read new york here are not going to see much spent in the battleground states. and he's become king of the sub two. he has cover when you put this together money with money romney has raised the republican national committee is a total of about $1.8 billion. to put that in this, in no way, mccain had 375 million to spend, so this is a fact or a five. you

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craig unger has a piece about the g.o.p.'y're calling -- a source calls a jimmy carter strategy to try to make the president seem weak on defense here in the final month of the campaign. mainly based on what happened in libya. it seems that governor romney is going to go all out and double down on exploiting the tragic death of ambassador stevens to make the president look terrible at foreign policy despite his successful record of it. do you think that's a game changer for mitt romney? can he use this tragedy to try to make the president an object of scorn? >> well, first of all the tricky thing there is that there is a debate that's on foreign policy. the last of the three debates they'll have. so he has two debates in between now and then that are going to be mostly focused on the economy and their domestic issues. that being said, there is a potential it would seem to make some hay out of the administration's changing story or at least incomplete story that they have given along the way about what happened in benghazi, wh