i want to go back to john karl at the white house. we've also heard of a moment of silence, john, on the floor of the house of representatives. today, the president has gathered his team to deal with this, but no other plans or specific action from the president right now? >> no specific public action from the president, but i'll tell you, this is issue number one here as you can imagine, george. the president has been on the phone with the fbi director. he has been briefed by the homeland security secretary. he has been in with his homeland security advisor. and up on capitol hill as you mentioned speaker of the house john boehner will be leading that moment of silence at 6:30. this is the kind of terror -- you know, again, no confirmation as to who is behind this, but this is the kind of attack that has been feared really since those days immediately after september 11th. the fear that soft targets would be hit. you know, we have all kinds of security around the major hard targets here at the white house up on capitol hill. but this

i want to go to john karl right now as we're learning the ground toll in logan has been lifted. we expect to hear from the president? >> that's right, george. we're going to hear an address to the nation from the president at 6:10 eastern time here talking about what's happened in boston. and shortly after that there will be another moment of silence on the house floor this one led by the speaker of the house. but we expect to hear from the president at 6:10 p.m. here at the white house. >> so we'll learn -- already we've heard from the governor of massachusetts deval patrick, the police commissioner of boston telling us what they knew shortly after 4:30 all they could confirm were the two explosions near the finish line of the boston marathon. a third explosion at the john f. kennedy library. no injuries or no other devices according to the police commissioner of boston have been found at this point. but authorities taking no chances. the federal aviation administration closing the air space above the explosion site near the finish line right after took place we've seen the may

i'm thinking specifically of people like john bolten, karl rove, dick cheney? >> yeah, i've said that. i've avoided saying it today, but i've said it enough that people know what i think. i think he fell into bad company. what i think george bush's problem was, having gone to school and put down people like bob shrum who read books and thinking they're all a bunch of intellectuals and basically mocking that kind of a life where you really are a life of ideas. then he got into the white house and all of a sudden fell in love with people with ideas. these neoconservatives. all their ideas of strauss and all that stuff and that whatever it is, some form of -- whatever the tradition those neocons come from. he fell into believing all that stuff. and he started to believe in this freedom agenda. and all this stuff came from them. it came from bookish people. the same bookish people he put down in college. we would be better off if he studied in college and then came to the presidency educated so he wouldn't be a hermit crab. that's the problem. >> okay. >> he had to

in phoenix there was report of a suspicious package at john mccain's office. and karl levin's office was evacuated because of similar circumstances. a man has been arrested with a backpack full of letters, and he is in custody. coming up rt rybak will give us his take on the votings, plus at least progressives have mark sanford to keep their sparts up. and later, scrutinized and also misunderstanding, a new documentary, revisits the remarkable life and times of angela davis. it's wednesday night, we're just getting started, you're in "the war room," and we'll be right back. party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. >> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with a

. >> john: he did that with karl rove a couple of years ago. >> exactly. was the funnest thing on c-span since the vote on background checks. i think kind of this is where we are. we don't have enough money for air traffic controllers but we have enough for comedy writers. it's okay for planes to crash but jokes have to land perfectly perfectly. >> john: in fairness, rich little did this when george bush was president--not george bush sr. but george bush jr. conservatives were smearing this as a way of task paying money. >> i'm jealous of how often as a comedian of how they keep playing obama's set. how come my set on make me laugh laugh.didn't have that. >> meanwhile, he was running that line the strapping young muslim would be used against him. they would take it as fact as keep playing it. >> john: i think it's the swag he brings by taking the worst people have said about him and turning it into a gag makes it flatten. >> i remember the day when i was a strapping young liberal that my base thought i was. >> john: unfortunately the base doesn't care but

john boehner majority leader and barry jackson worked for karl rove. what ended up being happening she was criticized by tom levine. and the other part to it was she had been part of this cover up of torture. her appointment was basically in trouble. at some point in time when john boehner in august called me issue -- and cut a deal with me. he said i had 24 hours to consider this deal. that in fact, i would be able to get a job comparable to the salary i made in congress and he would help me raise legal defense money to put this behind me if i pulled out of the election. they then would get it a replacement which congressman boehner named -- >> what year was this? >> this was in 2006 in august. i had 24 hours. i remember john boehner saying if you don't accept this deal in 24 hours, it's off the table, we won't have this deal again. i called within 24 hours and i said fine. i'll take the deal. comparable salary, you find me a job and you help me raise legal defense money to fight this thing. i just won the primary in 2006. boehner's call made the seg

karl you brought up john amaechi. i talked to john amaechi yesterday.lay ball and came out. and he said to me brooke, i don't understand what is. the media is all over this story. if it is not such a big deal why do you think it haslong karl? >> look let me say this okay. i can really care less what somebody else's opinion is okay? if that's chris' opinion, god bless him. i'm not here to get intochris. because i do respect him as a person. that's not what i'm doing. i'm speaking on behalf of karl anthony malone. and i'm telling you that some of my best friends are gay. that don't test my manhood, but another thing, it is time for us to kind of accept it. it is here guys. we got to accept it. i'm not here to go back and forth with anybody what they think. i'm telling you i personally have experience with john amaechi my brother-in-law, who iely love like he's my blood brother, is kin, he's openly gay. i'm not here to judge. that's not what the point is. the point of the matter is the point of the matter is it is here we can be can go on from there. i'm a

karl rove. ambassador john bolton looks at the international connection of what's happening in boston.vers rise and why would one of the architects of obamacare call that law a train wreck? that's from a democrat. martha and i will see new ten short minutes on "america's newsroom" oh, boy. [ groans ] ♪ ♪ [ engine revs ] ♪ >> steve: developing story in the news, moments ago we learned former mf global chairman jon corzine, former democrat from new jersey, is being sued by the trustee for the failed brokerage. they say corzine breached his duties. $1.6 billion in customer money, disappeared. >>> and the stakes just got higher at wimbledon. a 40% increase in prize money for this year's tennis tournament. winners will now get $2.4 million, that's 65 grand more than they got last year. >> brian: take a look at our latest fan. this great dane woke up with anna kooiman earlier this morning. look at that. she's in florida with dozens of pets who still need a home. >> gretchen: we asked you if you wanted to name that cute one. good morning again, anna. >> good morning to you. we told new our la

john: did senator graham outline a g.o.p. strategy underlying the president's strengths, his high marks in handling security. >> karl rove's olda you don't go for an opponents weakness, you go for the opponent's strength. right now president obama politically is seen as--he gets high marks on national security and foreign policy. so the members of congress who have positions of where they have a media platform are trying to essentially weaken that advantage they have over the party. >> john: do you think the g.o.p. house will look at this attack as a way to exploit it in a series of hearings going forward. >> we've already seen that. peter king, the republican congressman from new york, the chairman of the homeland security committee he's already calling for hearings in extremism in the entire muslim population. swanshe's calling for surveillance of the muslim population. this is getting ugly here where the republican party is putting out ideas to religiously profile people, it's disturbing. >> john: and we know how tough peter king has been on terrorism. >> right. >> john: you hope the bomber was a white american, and doubled

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washington, the president did say to jon karl, our friend from babc, look at the immigration issue, one place where democrats and republicans appear they'll make progress. >> john harwood in washington, thanks very much. >>> while we're still here in sequester stubbornness, maybe the president missed the memo, but lower government spending will not stop private sector growth. we had 4% in the last quarter. so it's spending cuts, not tax hikes, that spur the economy. anyway, here's cnbc contributor howard dean, former vermont governor and former dnc chair. and veteran republican strategist ed rogers. you know, ed rogers, i'm weary of the president's whining about the sequester. first of all, it was his idea. second of all, republicans offered many times to give him flexibility on managing these accounts. and third of all, he doesn't seem to understand the difference between wasteful and unessential spending and essential spending. what's up with that? >> yeah, the president is just blindly for bigger government, more government, more spending. whatever the question is, the answer is more government, more taxes. and there's been no effort to mitigate the sequeste

karl rove wants to do this, smart republicans want to do this. a lot of the tea party members in the house who are now in control of john boehner in a lot of ways don't want to do it. he's going have to make a tough decision. >> 50 plus 1, baby. that's all you need. >> the people concerned about illegal immigration getting anything done is if they agree to a comprehensive deal. people will continue to come into the country, continue to be hired illegally, continue to be exploited. it will never stop unless they agree to do it. that means comprehensive deal. anyway, thank you, michael. you've come to the tloout. shrummy, you as well. i think the problem is the way the votes are counted. democrats are doing too damn well in the big cities. >> democrats controlled the congress before, chris. >> i know. it takes a lot more than 51% of the population for them to carry it because they waste the votes in the big cities. >>> coming up -- you know all this, bob. coming up, the war now crowd is whooping it up on the right. president obama today says he needs more proof on the use of chemical weapons in syria before making war decisions. it's nice, isn't it, wh