and the best model for him with howard dean. because dean had crashed and burned as presidential candidate. he gone pretty far and done it successfully is chair of the party. and so, there's an adjusting theme in the book were the campaign manager is meeting with a young new media person named joe gross virus. and rose phares worked on the dean campaign and was head of new media for howard dean at the dnc and was brought in for precisely that reason. and he says tuberose fires, hillary is all the money, all the endorsements, so we have to do it another way. the only way it's going to work if it's bottom-up and organic. so can you raise a bunch of money over the internet basically. gross virus says yes but we have to do it by creating a grassroots movement is going to inspire people. you can just have them for money. you have to give them ownership of the campaign. and that really became the genius of the obama campaign, without jamal bottom-up politics with top-down structure, which dean couldn't figure out how to do and obama di

you know, howard dean is trying to explain the health care bill as moderate. but the best way to evaluate the health care bill is that no democrat is talking about it. the democrats who are talking about it are talking about that i voted against it. the west virginia democratic candidate for senate just shot a hole literally in the cap-and-trade bill. so what you see here is a reaction to an agenda that started out centrist during the 2008 campaign and became a left ditch agenda during the last two years. and the tea party has risen up speaking against excessive government, but the american public is in the right center of the road. they're not in the right ditch or the left ditch. our tea party friends have done us a favor. but if we talk about doing away with social security as part of our agenda, we're going to lose the public. the public is is in the middle of the road right of center, sarah palin could do well if that's where she aligns herself. but if you get too far right or too far left you're going to lose the american people. >> schieffer: bill galst

governor howard dean joins me.le women and gays out of our classrooms. >>> the 2005 howard dean staged an outside the belt way grassroots campaign to become the head of the democratic national committee, an organization that liberal group activists felt was plagued by inertia and self-serving d.c. insiders. now republican insiders like michael steele are trying to co-opt and outside the beltway movement, the tea party, that threatens their control of conservative voters. joining me now to discuss how michael steele is managing the merger of the republican party and the tea party is former governor of vermont, howard dean. governor dean, i don't know where to begin with the michael steele interview. you have good days and bad days as the chairman of the party, don't you? >> he won't be on msnbc voluntarily for quite some time after that interview. he's got an impossible job. it's really tough to try to do what he's doing and he has to defend some things that are indefensible. the minimum wage polls up in the 80% in

howard dean's scream, jeremiah wright's rants. today an eternity. finally, bloggers rule. "newsweek" had the monica lewinsky's story, but it was a blogger, matt drudge, who broke it. gone are the days when the big boys who control newspapers control the political news. hi, i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. today a look at how the new media universe has changed things in politics. let's look at some of the new rules politicians forget at their peril. for one, beware the cell phone camera politicians wept to school on this, from former virginia senator george allen, once a highly touted presidential candidate. et>> l's give a welcome to macaca here. welcome to america and the real world of virginia. >> boy, that killed his career. he said it was a nonsense word that came off as a racial slur. never again. >> well, this is the world he's in, we're all in now, where you have to be very careful. and i never quite knew what the word meant. he never explained what it meant. but it went viral, and once it went viral, he was done. >> katty, this was a volunteer campaign and

howard dean.in aneurysm though. no, he's got to go. >> chris has a brain aneurysm and we give a speech together talking about the future. he's like what's going on? chris just had a brain aneurysm and he was like, that's too bad. see you. no problem. >> i could have fixed it right there on the spot. get the guys to bring up some cutlery from the kitchen. >> he's just fine. >> let me ask you, barnicle is going to vermont this weekend. are the leaves changing? i want to take my kids up there. >> absolutely. >> where do i go? >> at this point you probably go from burlington on down. the northeast has probably hit their peak. it's great. >> south of burlington the leaves are still changing? >> absolutely. >> go to woodstock, stay at the woodstock inn. it is i think the single most beautiful state in the country. >> woodstock, that's like the movie holiday inn, if you can get your family there over christmas, it's wonderful. >> it's wonderful. >> i'm going to go back and send a bill to the vermont tour

. >> bill: far left guy howard dean says americans are getting fed up with the tea party movement. the polls do not reflect that we will talk with democratic governor ed rendell about the situation ♪ your army keeps marching to hell. >> bill: the supreme court will decide whether the vicious fred phelps group can continue to verbally assault military families. megyn kelly will have an update and the latest on the grand jury investigation of john edwards. hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thank you for watching on our very first day. >> bill: congrats to fox news. it is our 14th anniversary today. >> who won? who lost? who cares. >> bill: we'll show you some scary clips. >> bill: i disagree with you. i disagree. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. fox news 14 years old today that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. in the beginning o'reilly report on at :00 a.m. catherine crier was on at 8:00. chances are you couldn't see us in 1996 because we had very few cable clear

earlier this morning i spoke with former dnc chairman howard dean.i asked him what advice he would offer to president obama and his party with the midterms just over three weeks away. >> keep doing what you're doing. he needs to get out there. he is the leader of the party about he enner g eneenergizes p. what he's done so far, we started come back now, and i think it's mostly because of him, and that is to say, this is a choice, it's if the a referendum on the last two years. this is a choice of what you see on the republican side and what you see on the democratic side, that's a winner for us. >> okay. obviously the jobs picture, though, has not gone the way the white house hoped has this administration done anything specifically wrong to affect the way the unemployment situation played out? the republicans bear specific responsibility for the jobs picture in the last -- in the last month. we gained private sector jobs. we lost public sector jobs. the reason we lost public sector jobs because of republicans have been unwilling to pass any kind of a

but at this point today, that's what it looks like to me. >> howard dean told me he believes the house is going to be hung on to by the democrats by four or five seats. he thinks that's what it's going to tally to. >> it's within they hole up by five or lose by 50. anywhere in between. there are so many seats in play, alex. around those margins, anything can happen, if the democrats turn out their own voters. >> a.b.stoddard. >>> a new memorial unveiled in iceland in honor of john lennon. the memorial lit up the skies. it has a large beam of light, similar to the ground zero memori memorial beams. lennon's widow, yoko ono, and son sean paid tribute. saturday marked lennon's 70th birthday. [ male announcer ] in the past, landing an airplane was complicated, with a series of stepped altitude changes. [ air traffic controller ] okay, 245, proceed to your next cleared altitude. [ sighs ] [ male announcer ] today, truecourse flight management systems from ge allow for fuel savings, lower emissions and less noise... ♪ ...making the old way of doing things... [ air traffic controller ] 245, y

today, she co-headlines an event in sacramento with democrat howard dean. while she's in the golden state, palin is not meeting with the two high-profile republican women. meg whitman, and carly fiorina. but she is attending a big republican national committee event tomorrow. >>> in neighboring nevada, it's a close senate battle between majority leader harry reid and tea-backed republican sharron angle. they held their only face-to-face encounter of the campaign last night. alex stone has that story from las vegas. >> reporter: in a highly-anticipated debate, senate majority leader, harry reid, faced off with tea party star, sharron angle. >> don't frighten people about social security. the deal was made by president reagan and tip o'neill is holding strong. >> man up, harry reid. you need to understand that we have a problem with social security. >> reporter: reid knows he's in trouble with nevada voters. he tried to label republican angle as crazy in tv ads. >> introducing sharron angle's crazy juice. >> reporter: the contest here in nevada is one of the

howard dean told us why entirely because the trial lawyers wouldn't have liked it.politics and he pretends all he cares about is the future of the country. >> bret: speaking of healthcare, republicans around the country call for repealing and replacing the current at least law. there is a legal challenge. attorneys general filing lawsuit against it. challenging the constitutionality. a judge in florida today moved the case forward and it cleared the first hurdle. they will have oral arguments. the justice department put out a statement saying while we're disappointed they did not dismiss the entire case, we welcome the decision to judge most of the claims. we remain confident that the law ultimately will be upheld. it looks like this is moving forward to the u.s. supreme court. >> this is a big step. the judge in the case said i'm not describing what has happened in this law is constitutional but i'm saying on the individual mandate and the expappas of medicaid, the -- expansion of the medicaid and elements upheld, the attorneys general made a plausible case it's ex

. >> listen, robert gibbs, even, you know, howard dean has said, many people have said, listen, the votersthetic and some voters are upset by that saying, you're blaming us. do you feel as a former head of the dnc, do you feel democrats or voters are and they can especially towards midterm election sentence. >> democratic voters aren't as wildly enthusiastic as the tea partier are and there's no question about that. but remember, there's an age-old adage that a tepid vote counts the same as a wildly enthusiastic vote. what our task is to get our voters to the polls and say to them, look, what's going on hasn't been perfect. there have been some mistakes made and we know you're disappointed by what's going on in the country, but this is not a referendum. it's a choice between two parties, two individuals, and the choice is absolutely clear. for the people who were at that rally today, you've got republicans, a lot of them, across the country, talking about repealing the minimum wage. well, that would be disastrous for the people of germantown, for example. you've got people talking about re

he worked on the campaigns of howard dean and john edwards.regarding the program it was the clean start. 20 veterans for non-violent crimes are working in the in house hraupdry department. having inmates take over the jail save 1 million yearly. it has agreed that they would be hired after being released. roosevelt is helping with business classes. >> they love the fact they are working and doing something that is giving them a skill for when they get out. we talked with them. we're trying to put together a case management thing, an education, a skill. >> the officers who are repping to never sea is, they get access to mental health prams. outside of the cook county jail. >> thank you. >>> and take a pass on the can. we're using freshin grates, we're making pie. >>> time for a lunch break. we're going to take a dessert break. linda hunt the owner and chief baker at the bakery cafe in dewit, michigan. >> she looks cute. >> thank you. >> adorable. >> this is your line. >> this is cute. ky not either. >> i know. >> i love this. >> we're going to

they savaged howard dean. makes him look hypocritical. >> i think the whole thing is dirty and newscasty. but this target thing bothered me, it was so dishonest. thank you very much. and more bad polling news for president obama. george stephanopoulos will analyze. and jim morris trying hard to get republicans elected it's work through the grime and the muck, month. tow and pull without getting stuck month. sweat every day to make an honest buck...month. and if you're gonna try and do this in anything other than a chevy... well, good luck...month. great deals on the complete family of chevy trucks all backed for a hundred thousand miles. it's truck month. now, during truck month, get 0% apr financing on all trucks and full-size suvs like this 2011 silverado. see your local chevrolet dealer. >> bill: impact segment tonight, 43% of americans approve of the president's job performance. 53% disapprove. the lowest approveal number the routers poll ever reported. joining us is one of the stars of "good morning ameri

they savaged howard dean. makes him look hypocritical. >> i think the whole thing is dirty and newscasty. but this target thing bothered me, it was so dishonest. thank you very much. and more bad polling news for president obama. george stephanopoulos will analyze. and jim morris trying hard to get republicans electedñ÷ >> bill: impact segment tonight, 43% of americans approve of the president's job performance. 53% disapprove. the lowest approveal number the routers poll ever reported. joining us is one of the stars of "good morning america" george stephanopoulos. we know about the economy and how that is hurting mr. obama and democrats but there has got to be more to. it looks like it's taking on a life of its own now. the routers poll shows that democrats, people who are in the party are now turning a little bit away from the president. so what? there has got to be something. >> remember, the president is still in a higher place than bill clinton was at this point in his term, and ronald reagan and all of t

. >> sean: tonight on our american panel, national campaign manager for howard dean currently media consultantor jerry brown's soon to be failed campaign joe trip here. former nfl player founder of the chairman of tarkenton.com, fran tarkenton is here. former "saturday night live" cast member author of the new book i'm not high but i've got a lot of crazy stories about life as a goat boy, dad and spiritual warrior, comedian jim breuer. you are working against dead fish but for jerry brown? >> yes. >> sean: you support illegal immigration, don't support the rule of law. tell me where meg whitman went wrong? >> not talking about this early on. she didn't take any responsible. >> sean: stop! i fired this woman and the woman risks deportation. >> during the primary, tough as nails on illegal immigration -- >> sean: she would be brought up on charges! >> no. >> sean: yes, yes! she is about to be deported and she has three kids. >> she campaigned through the prime party tough as nails on illegal immigration. at no point did she say, i had a problem once with somebody -- [ talking over each other ] >

they savaged howard dean. makes him look hypocritical. >> i think the whole thing is dirty and newscasty. but this target thing bothered me, it was so dishonest. thank you very much. and more bad polling news for president obama. george stephanopoulos will analyze. and jim morris trying hard to get republicans elected this cycle, but why? coming right back. it's work through the grime and the muck, month. tow and pull without getting stuck month. sweat every day to make an honest buck...month. d if you're gonna try and do this in anything other than a chevy... well, good luck...month. great deals on the complete family of chevy trucks all backed for a hundr thousand miles. s truck month. during truck month, use your all-star edition discount for a total value of six thousand dollars on silverado. see your local chevrolet dealer. we get double mi on every purchase. echo! so we earned a trip thgrand canyon twice as fast. uhoh. we get double miles evy time we use our card. i'ltake these. no matter what we're buyi

i will talk to arianna huffington and howard dean about the terms. >>> and then "dora the explorer,"nd we'll talk about this battle. [ cellphone rings ] kowalczyk. [ man ] emergency, kowalczyk. what is your emergency? the intern forgot the donuts for the status meeting. ♪ bingo. [ tires screech ] ♪ ♪ bang. [ male announcer ] that's right. we put a turbo in a sport cross. the all new nissan juke. innovation for success. innovation for all. with pringles cracker stix. ♪ crackers turned into tasty, crunchy sticks! ♪ pringles cracker stix. ♪ so delicious... your mouth will be strangely attracted to them. ♪ everything pops with pringles cracker stix. >>> a new study suggests women in the workplace are rewarded for being thin and they get higher salaries. and male's salaries get larger as they gain weight. research shows a woman 25 pounds below average weight makes $15,000 a more. and the psychologists and body language communication expert joins us. welcome to you. are you shocked at the results of the study and where do you think the disdiscrepancy is coming from? >> well, a study showed

joe trippe, former howard dean campaign manager, chip salzman, former huckabee campaign manager, bobging editor of the hill. chip, let me give you this question, what is the chance the new congress would repeal the health care bill successfully knowing the president has veto power? i think this gentleman is assuming that republicans might win back control of the house, possibly even the senate. what are the channels that republicans will take on the health care bill? >> i think they will. 90 percent of the house republicans are running on repealing obamacare, i think they'll try, even if obama has the pen, the veto overside which probably has the votes to do that, i think the real chal sing to go after the funding for obamacare and go back and pick out the ideas they like, like tort reform, tort reform, but it's a 2-term attack, one going offense with portability, tort reform and one on defense, go after the funding if they want to dismantle obamacare. >> does that become a useless exercise if the president has the veto then. >> i don't think it's even going to get to the veto pen. t

presidential hopeful howard dean, former hopeful about the democratic's chances to pull a win on the election. >>> for the first time since having major heart surgery this summer we ear hearing from former vice president dick cheney. he spoke to politicians and entertainers yesterday in bakersfield, california. >> this is sort of our first major outing. some of you may not be aware, but i underwent major heart surgery in july, and i've been in the process of recovering ever since and this is our first major trip since i got out of the hospital. [ applause ] >> and while he was welcomed, you can see h lost weight as a result of all the surgery and recovery. he also defended the bush administration's terrorism policies during his speech. >>> in chile rez skscue workers working on the mine shaft. once the process is complete, they will begin lifting the men out one by one. >> with this task ahead, we are planning the process of rescue to start around this wednesday. this process, the process of rescue, should last for two days. >> telemundo's angie sandival has the latest from copiaco,

gibbs, the president's ironically spokesperson ran attack ads against howard dean in the '03-'04 cycle>> that was a 527. they did release their donors. >> no, they refused. >> no, eventually -- >> after the election. >> but they -- >> after the election. >> the law says -- right, because they filed their report. >> correct. >> so they did eventually disclose. >> eventually. >> are you guys eventually going to disclose? >> no. let me explain why. when we ran issue ads last year over the patient's protection affordable care alcohol, now law, we cited repeatedly testimony before the committee, ceo, congressional budget office and the senator for medicare services that this law would not bend the cost curve down. it would bend the cost curve up. somehow some of the companies that contributed to that effort became public and not by us. they were all greeted with protests at their corporate headquarters. they were, in some cases, threatened. they were repeatedly -- >> so your donors are afraid of a public backlash? >> absolutely, just as george sorros was when he stopped giving to a group pr

california, republican karl rove and here in the studio with me the former campaign manager to howard dean democrat joe trippi. thanks for being with us as always. karl, first to you. before we dig into the races across the country let's talk about money. here is what the president said about you thursday. >>> in this senate race, two groups funded and advised by karl rove have outspent the democratic party two to one in an attempt to beat elections. two to one. funded and advised by karl rove. >> bret: now, the two groups are crossroads gps a 501 c 4. your response to the president? >> the president is completely ina accurate. he said i funded them. i wish i had the billions of dollars that george soros had to fund in the past. i'm using the groups to fund as allowed under the laws of the united states. the former reporter its donors. the latter does not. it is like a lot of liberal groups national resources and defense council, league of voters, senator for american progress, aarp, moveon.org that report the donors. >> bret: here is what democratic national committee chairman tim kaine s

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let's bring in former dnc clairman governor howard dean.governor, good morning. >> glad to have me on. >> the president is hitting the campaign trail pretty hard these days. if you were advising him, what would be your message? >> first offal all do, what you're doing. he needs to get out there. he's the leader of the party. he ener is,s people. what he's done so far, we've started to come back now. it's mostly -- i think it's mostly because of him. and that is to say this is a choice. this is not a referendum on on the last two years. this is a choice between what you see on the republican side and what you see on the democratic side. that's a willer for us. >> okay. obviously the jobs picture has not gone the way the white house has hoped. has the administration done anything specifically wrong the way the unemployment situation has played out? >> let's be blunt about this. the republicans bear specific responsibility for the jobs picture in the last month. we gained private sector jobs. we lost public sector jobs. the reason we lost publ

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architect of two republican victories, karl rove and here in studio, the former campaign manager to howard deanjoe trippi. gentlemen, thanks for being with us, as always, first, before we dig into the races, across the country, let's talk about money, here's what the president said about you, thursday. >> president barack obama: in this senate race, two groups funded and advised by karl rove, have out spent the democratic party 2-1, in an attempt to beat elections, 2-1. funded and advised by karl rove. >> now, the two groups are crossroads gps, 501c4 organization and the other, way 527 group, your response. >> the president is inaccurate and said, i funded them, i wish i had the billions of dollars george soros had he used to fund democratic causes in the past and i am helping to raise money for them and as it allowed under the laws of u.s., american crossroads, and grcrossroads, g and the latter is look a lot of liberal groups, national resources defense council and league of conservation voters and center for american progress, aarp, moveon.org, and don't report their donors. >> here's what t

>> carl paladino is such a throwback, he makes archie bunker look like howard dean.t i want to point out there are lots of republicans being lead by people like ted olsen who's a former solicitor general who argued the supreme courtç case on the recount for president bush is the lawyer for the case, the gay marriage case in california to repeal it. and to make it the law of the land. so -- and i was at a fund-raiser last week where a lot of leading republicans were there with him. so there are lots of republicans out there who understand that this is a fundamental right and if we're going to defend the constitution, we say we're the party of the constitution, we have to stand up for gay rights. it's the right thing to do on its face, but also politically, it's in our best interests because the tide of history is sweeping forward. gay marriage will be the law of the land. don't ask, don't tell will be repealed. and we can either get on a surfboard and go with the wave or get drowned by it. but my advice to the republican party is, do the right thing, get right on thi

with me is the former campaign manager to howard dean, joe trippi.l, first to you, before we dig in the races across the country, let's talk about money. here is what the president said about you thursday. >> in this senate race, two groups funded and advised by karl rove have outspent the democratic party 2-1 in an attempt to beat an lexi. 2-1, funded by karl rove. >> bret: they are two crossroads group. karl, your response to the president? >> first, the president is completely inaccurate. he said i funded them. i wish i had the billions of dollars that george soros has that he's used to fund them in the past. i'm helping the groups as allowed under the law of the state. crossroads is 527. crossroad gps is 501c4. the ladder is like a lot of liberal groups, national resources defense council, league of conservative voters. moveon.org don't report the donors. >> bret: here is what tim kaine said in responding to you. he released this statement. "despite multiple confirm account of american crossroads and crossroads gps conceived in his own home, prom

it is what howard dean used to brag about.t is a real 50-state strategy that allows candidates to stand on principle and be competitive, even in barney frank's district. there are a number of democratic chairman all across america today fighting for their congressional district. they have never had to run the race in their entire careers. it is these folks that are walking precincts that are doing door hangers, pting up yard signs, taking their country back. that is going to be profound on election day. and thank god, not a moment too soon. our country is literally at a tipping point. we have talked about this tonight. ife don't fix all of these problems today, we won't have a country anymore. we have to do this well. to me, november 3 is far more important than november 2. november 3 is the day that this new generation of legislative entrepreneurs starts to think about how we turned political promises into legislation in bill those coalitions inside washington d.c. think about what 10 or 12 new centers can do to change the co

of issues, but the insider establishment that we are a part of casts people like him, hurricane howard deancalled crazy. >> there are plenty of things that people can say, look, i'm sure she is for smaller government, that's fine. but it's the messages that aren't quite as polished and you see so many individuals running for safe harbors of this cable network or this blog site, because that message gets out. >> every now and again, there are objective facts we think, and you say people don't deal with objective reality, we can throw off the reservation. but then somebody says, how about galileo, you know? how do you deal with these people who come in with transformative theories that simply don't fit our objective facts and how do you integrate them into a new world view? >> that's ones who do qualify. >> you don't demonize the people you disagree with. >> the only answer is i am impericism. you ask what the facts are, and you do your best to find out what the truth is. ask sometimes the truth is truly weird. i mean, it really is. and sometimes the truth is the truth. and so i think that's

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on face the nation, from cbs you'll hear bomb schafer with former democratic chair howard dean and south carolina republican senator lindsey graham. and on cnn's state on the union candy controlie will talk to guests including david axel rod and former republican presidential candidate gary bower. you can listen to all five of the sunday morning talk shows starting at noon eastern on c-span radio. and you can follow us and comment on facebook and on twitter. >> this weekend, cnbc's maria bart romo on the weekend that changed wall street. an inside look at the crash of 2008. find the rest of this weekend's schedule including texas book festival at booktv.org. >> washington journal continues. host: peter baker of the "new york times." what does he do now? your interview with the president and the cover story in the "new york times" sunday magazine, the education of president obama. why this piece? why now? >> well, we're talking about these mid-term elections. everybody is assuming they're a referendum, at least a verdict on the first two years of president obama's time in office. we decid

the event's special guest, former presidential candidate and former democratic national chairman howard dean mayor of chicago. that was -- that's one i plan to stay out of. that's up to the people in chicago. and it's not the election that has my attention at this moment. >> reporter: november 2nd is. and even local powerhouse democrats would rather focus on that than the mayor's race. >> i'm more interested in what's going to go on november 2nd. >> and that report from stacey baca of wls in chicago. >>> now we turn to news overseas. in ecuador, that country's president has now been rescued from a hospital where he had been trapped by rebellious police for more than 12 hours. president rafael correa was being treated after being teargassed during an angry confrontation with hundreds of police that were upset over the president's plan to cut their benefits. >>> and in southern pakistan, police say militants are suspected of attacking more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for nato troops in afghanistan. this morning's attack comes after pakistan closed a major border crossing to protest a

for america, the outgrowth of president obama's campaign, sort of the second generation of the howard dean0 state strategy perhaps and sending staff necessary to various states, has that met your expectations, john? >> we've been very pleased with the activity we've been working with them and it's frankly a very different program than howard dean's program. but i mean, they are in all of our -- the majority of our targeted races, they're organizing volunteers, they're organizing get out the vote efforts and i think that that will show through on the election day results. >> j.b., have you been pleased with what the d.n.c. has done for senate candidates? >> yeah. i got to that earlier. i'm especially pleased with not only the tools and technology that's going in to targeting and getting out voters, but the d.n.c. has put a lot of energy into full-time organizers that have been out there a while. they're now part of the fabric of campaigns, and i'm -- i'm playing a big leadership role. >> i want to ask something maybe a little less controversial. sarah palin. obviously there's been a high le