joining me from chicago is david axlerod, the senior strategist in the obama re-election campaign. play what started all of this. hillary rosen was on anderson cooper 360 talking about what some call the role on women and mrs. romney when she said this. >> you have mitt romney running around the country saying, well, you know, my wife tells me what women really care about are economic issues and when i listen to my wife, that's what i am hearing. his wife has never worked a day in her life. she has never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing, in terms of how do we feed our kids and send them to school and why do we worry about their future? >> now, jim ma cena, the campaign manager took issue on twitter almost immediately. you took issue on twitter almost immediately. the first lady sends out a tweet critical of this. the vice president says it was wrong. the president himself answering questions about it. why is this such a big deal? >> i don't know in the long term whether it will be a big deal. it was an unfortunat

chief strategist from the obama campaign, david axlerod and senior romney advisor, ed gillespie. axlerod and gillespie. only on "fox news sunday." >> iran and north korea continue to pursue their nuclear programs. we'll ask our sunday panel is another round can rein in the rogue nation. >> i remember my dad. >> what do you make of mike wallace from brookline, massachusetts, having had this extraordinary journey. >> it is extraordinary. >> all right now on "fox news sunday." >> hello again from fox news in washington. first i want to thank all of you who sent me notes on the loss of my father. some of you met my dad for a moment, some watched him on television for years. but he meant something to you and your notes have meant so much to me. i'll have more on my father later in the program. >>> now on to the 2012 battle for the white house which shifted to the general election this week when mitt romney became the presumptive republican nominee. we'll talk with one of his senior advisories but first, david axlerod is in chicago. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thanks and let m

david axlerod misspoke, but it's fair game to exploit his statement.: you know, dick, "the washington post" had an interesting piece yesterday, and they talked about how axlerod, geithner -- we'll talk about what he said in a minute -- >> and the president's other advisers are in a bit of a pickle because they can't go out there and tell the american people it's all roses and sunshine right now. they have to acknowledge the plight that we're in, and yet they can't be too doom and gloom because we don't like that either. >> well, i think the important thing to remember is this: today the united states senate is voting on the buffett rule. mitt romney's against it, barack obama's for it. what it would do is make sure that people -- not businesses, but people -- that makeover a million dollars a year would pay 30%, the same thing the firefighter or waitress or ordinary person at salary pays. mitt romney's against it, barack obama's for it. it's called tax equity, fairness. and we're, and to make this, to get distracted by david axlerod's somewhat stumblin

we'll talk with one of his senior advisories but first, david axlerod is in chicago. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thanks and let me add my condolences to the others you have received. >> thank you so much. >> i want to start with what barack obama promised in 2008. >> if you don't have any fresh ideas and use stale tactics to scare voters, if you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. >> here is what president obama has been saying about the republican budget. >> budget so far to the right, it makes the contract with america look like the knew deal. it's an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. it is thinly veiled social darwinism. >> this from the candidate of hope and change? >> well, chris, come on, that -- to say you don't want to engage in empty scare tactics it difference than saying we'll look at the proposals on the other side and critique them that's what democracy is about. the republican budget is the wrong direction for this country. more massive tax cuts for people at the top, more c

david axlerod also wrote disappointed in hillary rosen's comments about ann romney. they were inappropriate and offensive. >>> a congressman is facing backlash after comments he made in a town hall meeting in his homestate. >> what percentage of the american legislature do you think are card-carrying marxists ? >> i believe it's about 78 to 81 members of the democratic congress party that are members of the communist party. >> but west is not backing down. his staff released a statement reading in part "the congressman was referring to the 76 members of the congressional progressive caucus. the communist party has publicly referred to the progressive caucus as its allies." outraged progressives responded with their own statement saying "allen west has denigrated the millions of americans who voted to elect congressional progressive caucus members, when people like representative west have no ideals or principles, they rely on personal attacks. we will not engage in base and child iish conversations that lower the high level of discourse americans rightly expect from

jim messina and david axlerod played defense within an hour and vice president joe biden tried to change the suspect. >> subject. >> the war on women is real. it's been intensified. the next president of the united states is going to get one and possibly two or more members of the supreme court. >> in an interview last night president obama delivered the final blow. >> i think it was an ill-advised statement by somebody on television, it's not something that i subscribe to. >> did you catch that? he pretended he didn't know her, which is the ultimate washington, d.c. insult. that's happened to you a bunch. >> meantimes. >> people pretend they don't know you. >> thanks for bringing that up. >> what's your name? >> terrible. she's the only person that's been to the white house more than george clooney so it's clear he knew who she was. ettes it's like going to the same bar ten years and one day the bartender doesn't know you and you're like what did i do last night? was that a bathroom? anyway. interesting things about this. jay carney is a genius. because he invented the carney rule, when

the rest of that interview in a couple moments, the speaker responding to comments by david axlerod that engaged in a, quote, reign of terror. we'll get him to react to that. one thing he makes quite clear, as he says himself, he's been around politics for a long time. there are six and a half months before the election. martha: a very, very long time. bill: that's a very long time where any one of a number of things could take place either here or overseas. so keep an eye -- martha: yeah, tucker was saying only 10% are undecided, but you have such a long time for people to assess these candidates and a lot of history that could happen between now and then, and we don't know what that would hold. stay tunessed right here in "america's newsroom." and it was one of the biggest campaign promises that the president made, and it had to do with transparency. >> i will also hold myself as president to a new standard of openness. martha: we'll see. a top republican senator is warning that the white house should not break that promise. senator charles grassley is here to explain what he wants to

we see him gaining ground, and david axlerod coming out saying no, we're not going to let you forgett you have been saying the last sixth mon months becau you're saying what you want to be. so the obama campaign will be trying to say no, let's play the video tape again, and again, and again. >> but, ryan, it's taking it's toll on republicans, but "washington post" saying john pais ner says he was worried about the seats. he said there's a one in three chance we can lose and we have work to do. so now boehner, the speaker of the house, concerned about going too far and creating an image that could put his majority in danger. >> i think he is concerned and he wants to remind donors that the house is not safe. house freshman behave like radical revolutionaries, many of them, over the last year. people i think are generally worried about, like you said earlier, about the possible shooting of the hostage. when you start taking that met for to it's conclusion, what is this hostage that you're talking about? you know, when they were talking about that particular hostage, they meant defaulti

. >> and the president's top reelection advisor is david axlerod appeared on two sunday talk shows saying he was surprised and disappointed by the scandal. >> i must say that in my experience, the secret service hats been completely professional, so impressive. i always felt like they were, they were willing to do anything to protect the president and the people around the president. aen so, this was really disappointing. >> now the chairman of three different congressional panels are pushing for more information, but so far, no hearings have been scheduled, harris. >> and steve centanni, thank you very much. another scandal to tell you about though, this one dealing with your tax money. the general services administration now about an indoor investigation that's growing. you may know that the gsa coming under fire after lavish spending on gifts, trips and $800,000 training concerns, gsa is supposed to be looking for wasteful government spending. joe lieberman wants the government probe to find out how widespread the problem is. the senator calling the culture at the gsa, quote, sickening

their credit, top obama officials such as jim messina, the obama campaign manager and strategist david axlerod immediately condemned the remark as did the first lady michelle obama. there has been some olympic level back stroke swimming happening all week from democrats trying to put as much real estate between themselves and hillary rosen as possible. and she did issue an apology of sorts. and working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs. i know, i've shared them both and i'm sorry if that offended you. >> well, the apology was a bit tepid and revealed a cluelessness on the part of hillary rosen of the when a person begins an apology with "if" mark it down, not a real apology. >> it doesn't matter if it comes from a democrat or republican, i apologize if i offended anybody. it's like saying i don't think i offended anybody, but if i offended a hypersensitive person, i'm sorry they couldn't take it and had be to be consoled with my phony apology. >> no, miss rosen you did offend people and not just ann romney, but every person in the country who stayed at home to raise chi

david axlerod the head of the campaign.d up sen grassley, i think a 6-year-old hijacked your account and sending out foolish tweets just to embarrass u.p. to bring senator grassley-- >> neenor, neenor. and you have to look at what the president said about the obamacare, it's a question that's out there. did the president not understand the power of the supreme court? no chance the president didn't know about marbury versus madison 1803. no way he doesn't understand the power of the supreme court. so then what, why did he say that? because he believes that that law shouldn't be challenged. >> clayton: was there a leak? some sort of leak? did he get wind out of what is going to come out of the supreme court. we're not going to know, but they've voted. we know, no, there's not likely a leak, but the idea that they're trying to be preemptive and get out in front of it without some positive message about health care, the idea perhaps running against the supreme court in the fall? couldn't necessarily be a win-win for the preside

david ak axlerod was not impressed. >> i think a 6-year-old hijacked your account sending out foolish tweets to embarrass you. >> he says the use of the word stupid was his own. he spoke about his tweeting style spelling errors and all. he told the legal times that his iphone is partly to blame. there are a couple of factors involved. a lot of it has to do with the automatic correcting done by my iphone. i love tweeting but i don't like to type so i probably type and hit and send it out just a little too quickly. >>> overseas some of the final preparations are underway in north korea, ahead of a planned rocket launch. the regime says it's for scientific research but with the country's history of nuclear activity, it's raising new tensions in the region. in a rare move. >> north korean officials, get this, allowed reporters to look at the test site. the launch will coincide with the 100th birthday of kim il sung. his grandson is in charge. south korean officials say satellite images suggest the north is also preparing for a third nuclear test in what can be another show of force. >>> s

and david axlerod quoted this, from the department of clueless rnc chair he says gop problems with women are contrived by the media. andrea? >> well, i think that the interesting thing about this is that the lead story in "the new york times" today is that the republican national committee has retired its debt. they have raised so much money. and they had a problem under previous leaders. so he has done a really good job on the money front. on this front -- >> but i was going to say, you're being nice. this was a clueless thing to say. >> it was a figure of speech, and people pounced, including myself, about the caterpillars. and he said he wasn't trying to compare people to insects. but his point, the point of critics is -- >> but it was clumsy. >> it was clumsy. >> are you a borat fan? >> oh, yeah, of course. >> where he knocked on the door and he opened up the door and was helping this candidate, and a woman answered the door, and he goes, i want to speak to the man of the house? and he she goes, he's not here. and she goes, i can vote. and he said, no, no, in kazakhstan, you have the

bill: harsh new criticism of republicans from obama's seen or adviser david axlerod. >> i think a lotf republicans want to cooperate. but they are in the reign of terror from the far right. you can see the republican party has moved out of the mainstream. this is good. a reign of terror. good morning to both of you. tony, are you a good republican or bad republican. >> obviously i'm not a robes pierre republican who led through the reign of terror. this whole talking point is absolutely ridiculous, especially when you think about the fact, even done your air i saw democrats touting a small business bill that went through congress in a bipartisan way. the republicans gave the president his pretrade agreement and tax bill. so the idea we are bad guys block every piece of legislation he introduces is wrong. bill: kirsten are you a good democrat or bad democrat? >> i'll go with good. the idea that tony is bringing up trade agreements as an example of working with the president says it all. i think i know what the public debate has been on and trade agreement has not been the biggest issue

chris has exclusive interviews with david axlerod and ed gillespie and a touching tribute to his latem, thanks for watching. >> i'm chris wallace. the stage

hillary rosen is not the president's spokesman jay carney, david axlerod or the president himself saidorks for them when axlerod says about the commentators. she doesn't work for us. her 35 trips to white house were not because she was a cnn commentator. she is a major advisor in partner with anita dunn, the white house communications director. megyn: why would barack obama want her make an incendiary comment. >> she represents -- that view getting this women's issue out, dividing married women from where they have had problems from single women where they need to keep those margins, trying to keep that deviciveness going is critical to the president's campaign. it's like contraception. she didn't misspeak. when the dog doesn't bark -- she works for the dnc. she has a contract. megyn: she deny that. she says she is not an advisor to the democratic party. >> anita continues an advisor. but i'm more interested in the fact that she was at the white house 35 times which is about 3 1/2 times more than petraeus. but she is there representing clients, many of whom get exemptions. megyn: expla

and, in fact, his top two campaign advise, david axlerod and jim messina, both fled into twitter almost immediately to tweet their, quote, disappointment with her comments, and later on in the day the president himself weighed in. they're in maximum damage control was they know the damage that was inflicted over similar comments made by hillary clinton back in the 1992 campaign when she said i'm not some tammy wynette standing by my hand, and i guess i could have stayed at home and baked cookies, they saw the damage created by those comments, and they knew if they let this kind of insulting comment sit not just at stay at home moms, but dads and, frankly, parents of all stripes, that it would create enormous damage for them particularly among a core democrat constituency which is women. jon: but, julie, hillary rosen, it has been pointed out, did not work for the white house or the obama campaign, so why do her comments as, yeah, democratic strategist and pundit but not necessarily one tied to the white house, why do they hurt so much? >> because the republicans saw an opportunity to de

if you read -- david axlerod is tweeting this is how a loving dog owner cares for his dog.ing, they're obsessed with the dog thing. the reason with that is i have heard, the dog story totally tanks mitt romney's approval rating. >> people care more about pets than people. >> don't tell them about the hung ee ee eer games-esque futu awaits us. >> the good news about obama is that flip-flopper is an old metaphor, you need a fresh metaphor in the habit of etch-a-sketch. >> democrats and liberals have cried wolf about budget cuts, for 50 years, any time the rate of increase was not high enough for them or didn't keep pace with inflation, whatever, they went to the barricades and said, this is a budget cut, this is -- not compassionate. and so having cried wolf so often, when the wolf is truly at the door as it is now because this ryan budget is a truly radical document that shreds the social safety net, rips up the american social contract, the american people are going okay, what else you got to tell me, ryan plan, you've been crying wolf about these republicans for so long, w