karl rove. karl is the founder of the country's largest superpac, american crossroads. unfortunately, i couldn't reach karl rove. i can never quite draw the pent gram-- pentagram right. so instead please welcome the next best thing to karl rove, a pair of glasses on a ham loaf. (cheers and applause) the best part of having ham rove on, my pac can write it off as both a political consultant and catering. ham rove, thank you for joining us. karl, now that i've got a pac, what should i do? (laughter) >> stephen: you know what? he's shy. i'll tell you what. we'll discuss this later. over dinner. luckily i have another guest even better than karl rove. please welcome abc news political analyst and chief strategist for george w. bush's 2004 re-election campaign, matthew dowd. matthew, thank you so much. all right. matthew (cheers and applause) matthew, these kids want to know what i stand for, okay. what do pacs usually stand for like americans for prosperity, what do they stand for? >> well, it could be taxes, there's lower taxes. it could be change the laws on health-care r

joining me karl rove.e back. >> thanks for having me. >> sean: you have been contending these candidates need to distinguish themselves and stand out and let's run these ads and see if they are doing the job. here's michelle bachmann. >> as a -- i was born and raised in waterloo, mom of five and foster parent tax lawyer and small business job creator, we can't keep spending money we don't have. that's why i fought against the wasteful bail out, the stimulus, i will not vote to increase the debt sealing. i'm michelle bachmann and -- the debt ceiling. i'm michelle bachmann and i approve this message. >> how do you rate that ad? >> good ad. she says i was in iowa, important to people in iowa she describes who she is. and describes what she believes. i think she does so with a lot of presence. good on camera. i think it is a good introductory ad. i've seen reports that it can be as little as $1,000, $30,000. important in iowa in the early states to say to tell all these insiders watching the campaigns closely

we asked karl rove. nice to see you. >> great to see you. >> greta: in add's "wall street journal", you described the president's press conference a week ago you said it was a b -- buff foe performance. i telecommunication a tough of sarcasm, tell me what you mean? >> i mean ironic. it is not sarcastic, i'm being ironic. the president gave an outstanding theatrical performance. he started off by blaming others. we expected them to blame bush. he also blamed the democratic congress. saying they had runaway with the credit card. they were just doing what he was telling them to do. he insisted that others solve the problem. he said within 24 to 46 hours i demand congress give me a plan. he said the worst alternative to come out of this would be if we raise the debt ceiling without taking any steps to rein in spending or reduce the deficit. the so-called clean debt ceiling vote was what he advocated for months and months he said we ought to raise the debt ceiling without addressing spending or debt questions

ok so karl rove conservative crossroads organization his campaign ads you know i got up in a pretty unlikely place it ended up on grindr which if our audience doesn't know what that is it is an app that zine to connect gay and bisexual men by showing where the closest men are to them that are gay and bisexual on that site too so this is the campaign as it's playing under their grindr up i believe that karl rove groups the response was that you know based on your browsing history this ad could show up anywhere it's done through another network i do sort of like do that with any of them come on you know it's great to their way of thinking and those are always going up yes shows up on an app that is g.p.s. based i love that and also love the idea because the tips are told to hold this right and that's like a very insider e. paper for washington i love the idea that some conservative inside washington guy who obviously browses a lot of concern i was younger i was you know matthew i would like you know some say i'm sorry how do you know public in going to a bathroom and i mean it's very dirty to

karl rove wrote in the wall street journal, this is karl rove now, saying for example if african-americane of the turnout drops just one point, one point in north carolina, mr. obama's 2008 winning margin there is wiped out. two and a half times over. i mean, there is what karl rove wrote in the wall street journal two or three weeks ago. that if we just drop the black turn out by 1% of what happened in 2008, it flips it two and a half times over. and it changes the outcome of that state. and it changes the electoral map. that's real serious. you don't need a whole lot of fall-off there. >> and they are telegraphing the punch. i mean, karl rove is telling us right now, what the objective is and what they are thinking about. then you see the governors across the country admitting it. list objective was it make obama a one term president. now you see the small tinkerings. what you and i know from 2000, all you have to do is crunch the numbers on the edges and there is a major impact on the next election. >> he didn't think he was telegraphing it in the punch. it was in the wall street journ

meanwhile, attack ads paid for by karl rove's political action committee are claiming that any tax increase will harm the economy. but one of rove's biggest donors isn't buying it. home depot founder told lou dobbs, the richest americans should be making sacrifices. >> we've got to take some pain. >> what kind of pain? >> well, i say this as a devout republican. i think in these negotiations, i think number one guys like me, i've said this before, there's a caveat. i shouldn't get social security. >> okay. >> i should pay more taxes. but all the money generated out of those actions should be entirely devoted to paying down debt. >> joining me tonight is laura flander, host of grit tv on free speech, tv and editor of the book "at the tea party." and in florida we're joined by mack papantonio. >> there's not going to be a deal here because the republican party is owned and operated by corporate america. and corporate america has told mcdonnell and boehner not to budge on issues like $80 billion subsidies for big oil factory farms and weapons peddlers. they've been told don't budge on $100 bil

and it's just like karl rove to pull a stunt like this and raise the question that maybe she's not fitse he happens to be supporting mitt romney or anybody else of the establishment. but certainly not a tea partier like michele bachmann. welcome to the dirty pool hall of the republican party, michelle. ahead, what are these republicans up to with the bachman story? i'll talk with bob strom and ron christie. >>> bill o'reilly took on news for a phone hacking scandal for the first time. take a guess on who he sided with. ♪ [ tires screeching ] ♪ if it can survive this drive... ♪ it can survive yours. the nissan altima. innovation that lasts. innovation for all. ♪ our girl's an architect. our boy's a genius. we are awesome parents! biddly-boop. [ male announcer ] if you find a lower rate on a room you've booked, we won't just match it. we'll give you $50 towards your next trip. [ gnome ] it's go time. >>> i keep a very rigorous schedule, i feel great. >> that was michele bachmann answering questions about her medical background after a right wing wesh bsite reported that she suffered from

karl rove, deputy chief of staff for president bush and a fox news contributor among many other things with me, now, good morning to you, karl, back in your home state of texas. >> that's right. good morning, bill. bill: what is bachmann doing? >> moving up dramatically in the polls. and actually there are three stories here. story one is, and we don't talk about it much, is, is a steady and consistently, mitt romney is out in front and what we are talking about is the movement below mitt romney and the battle to become the not mitt romney candidate and they'll end up being -- these things tends to end up having the front-runner and the not front-runner camp and today, bachmann is winning the not mitt romney primary to become the person who could go one-on-one with him next year. and the third story, we don't pay much attention to, is, these are national polls. and, as a result they sometimes mislead us. because, at this point, for example, in 1999, dan quayle and elizabeth dole and lamar alexander were trailing george w. bush and behind them, was the guy who ultimately became bush's p

and it's just like karl rove to pull a stunt like this and raise the question that maybe she's not fit he happens to be supporting mitt romney or anybody else of the establishment. but certainly not a tea partier like michele bachmann. welcome to the dirty pool hall of the republican party, michelle. ahead, what are these republicans up to with the bachman story? i'll talk with bob strom and ron christie. >>> bill o'reilly took on news for a phone hacking scandal for the first time. take a guess on who he sided with. [ male announcer ] introducing the ultimate business phone -- the motorola expert from sprint. its powerful tools help you work faster and smarter so you can get back to playing "angry birds." it lets you access business forms on the go, fire off e-mails with the qwerty keypad, and work securely around the world so you can get back to playing "angry birds." it's the android-powered phone that mixes business with pleasure. so let's get our work done, america, so we can all get back to playing "angry birds." the motorola expert from sprint. trouble hearing on the phone? visi

i believe the karl rove group the response was that you know based on your browsing history this could show up anywhere it's done through another network i do sort of like you do with any that come on you it's great there i think was the only thing that he has shows up on an amp that is g.p.s. taste i love they also love the idea because it's if you're told to hold this right and that's like a very inside repapered for washing touch i love the idea that some conservative inside washington guy who obviously browses a lot of cars are going to go. right. to i would like some absolutely you know public angling to a bathroom because i mean it's very dirty stale long lines conservative community there is a catholic who kind of sounds like the michael jackson of a cap across he likes to he's he's described as crazy as homosexuals super culture he likes attractive young men to sit on his lap and then he treats them to trips in the florida keys only problem is that he is archbishop emeritus of miami. i was going to run solve what it was actually he doesn't anymore i guess you know when you're y

on that site too so this is the campaign as it's playing under the grinder out but i believe that karl rove groups the response was that you know based on your browsing history this i could show up anywhere it's done through another network i do sort of like you do that either come i do it's great there i think was the only thing up yes shows up on an app that is g.p.s. based i love that you also love the idea because a tipster told the hill this writing that's like a very insider repapered for washington i love the idea that some conservative inside washington guy who obviously browses a lot of concern to. some there are going to be very public in going to the bathroom i mean it's very dirty state along the lines of the conservative community there is a catholic who kind of sounds like the. michael jackson at the capital what he likes to he's he's described as crazy as homosexuals super culture he likes attractive young men to sit on his lap and then he treats and a trip to the florida keys only problem is that he is archbishop emeritus of miami . and so south florida well actually he does

. >>> and claire mccaskill and karl rove are having a tweet in battle. mccaskill said that karl rove a wave and friendly hi in st. louis airport. even though he's up on tv distorting my record, still wanted to show good manners. karl rove says, saw claire mccaskill at st. louis airport, and she waved but wasn't happy. must be at crossroads. can't they make the tweets shorter? those are the things we thought you should know. [ p.a. announcer ] announcing america's favorite cereal is now honey nut cheerios! yup, america's favorite. so we're celebrating the honey sweetness, crunchy oats and... hey! don't forget me!! honey nut cheerios. make it your favorite too! . >> welcome back to "newsnation." summer vacation means summer camps and relaxing for students, but experts say that some students can experience a summer slide, and they say that by fifth grade low-income children are two years behind because of a lack of summer learning opportunities. meanwhile, new studies indicate that u.s. students are falling behind in the global education and the skills and

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joining us now out of washington, fox news contributor, the architect karl rove. this is moments after it they just tabled the boehner bill without a vote. they said we should be allowed an up and down vote. i just heard harry reid say that republicans are blocking the ability to compromise. all they do is talk. it is time for them to step forward. they just passed two bills. they are worried about a -- 800 days they haven't passed a bill in the senate and the president has never laid his cards on the table. >> think about this they could have avoided all of this had last november and december when they still had a big majority in the house and a big majority in the senate had they voted an increase in the debt ceiling but harry reid delive rattily decided not to saying i want the republicans to have some ownership in raising debt ceiling. they could have done this last november. in november/december we were facing a deadline that was going to happen in april and harry reid said don't worry about it we will wait until the republicans get here. the other thing that

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joining us now out of washington, fox news contributor, the architect karl rove. this is moments after it they just tabled the boehner bill without a vote. they said we should be allowed an up and down vote. i just heard harry reid say that republicans are blocking the ability to compromise. all they do is talk. it is time for them to step forward. they just passed two bills. they are worried about a -- 800 days they haven't passed a bill in the senate and the president has never laid his cards on the table. >> think about this they could have avoided all of this had last november and december when they still had a big majority in the house and a big majority in the senate had they voted an increase in the debt ceiling but harry reid delive rattily decided not to saying i want the republicans to have some ownership in raising debt ceiling. they could have done this last november. in november/december we were facing a deadline that was going to happen in april and harry reid said don't worry about it we will wait until the republicans get here. the other thing that

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jon: we lost our feed to karl rove. at any rate, if you want to read more about what karl thinks about the debt and decifit battle, log on to foxnews.com/opinion. he's got a piece for you there. and of course you can get all of the day's top stories and breaking news, 24/7, right there, fox news.com. alisyn: we're going to be talking about that very thing with senator john barrasso coming up, too. it's not the end of the topic. jon: also senator tom carper of delaware is scheduled to join us so we'll get the democratic view as well. alisyn: we'll be covering that all morning. meanwhile it was sentencing day for casey anthony, high drama inside and outside the courtroom as the one-time accused child killer learns whether she could get out of jail soon. an in depth look at her sentence. >> and police storm a -- storm a kindergarten after a 6-hour hostage drama. what happened to the kids? we're live with the story. alisyn: fallout after the judge sentences casey anthony to four years for lying to investigators, the only cha

karl rove feels this is how it is going to end. in the house of representatives that says we will take some smaller spending cuts, no tax hikes in there and it will not require the balanced budget amendment but that will be the end deal but we are running out time. we are big time running out of time with just over two weeks away from defaulting. molly: and the rest of your headlines, a fox news alert, nato is reporting a service member has been killed in southern afghanistan by a man dressed in an afghanistan army uniform. it is unknown whether he is a member of the afghanistan army or in disguise. and a massive search underway for this man, 24-year-old, who escaped from the washington, dc, holding cell and considered armed and dangerous. he is charged with the murder of a 71-year-old retired army sergeant. if if you have information call 9-1-1. >> and the attorneys of casey anthony are not taking any chances and she will likely be released in the middle of the night with a motorcade. yesterday the lawyer admitted she is nervous a

karl rove is back. how are you? >> fine, sean, how are you? >> let me start with the president. he says in no uncertain terms i will not consider 30, 60, 180 day stopgap. in the end i think it may come to that. he will have to eat a lot of his words here, no? >> absolutely. i think the republicans ought to make him eat those words. cap, cut and balance was good. it got him on the offense. it is the only measure that passed congress either house and passed with a by partisan vote. we can't stay there. as you and i talked last week the next step ought to be to try to push it through the senate and when harry reid says no and democrats refuse to take it up then plan b. take a chunk of the $1.5 trillion in cuts by partisan negotiations talked about put them into a bill make certain they are real, make certain they happen sooner rather than later, take things that are popular and things that are tough to vote for put them in one package and pair it with a smaller increase in the debt ceiling and pass that through the house. by 5, 6, 7 months depending how big the package is the bigge

when i follow karl rove four bollenbach which i do follow, it doesn't mean that i read all of the storiesbut at least then i start to get a sense of okay, this is what fox is talking about, and you know, i also follow the bloggers in the middle of the country that are not a part of the coastal -- it's actually fun exercise in a way to say what are the different places here that i need to touch in order to get kind of a pretty good view of what's going on? of course you never did -- is the sort of realism in the philosophical terms like you see where you believe what you see above the world and we all do that to some extent as best we try to say i know things are being edited out. i'm going to pay attention to that we are susceptible to that, but you can if you are choosing and you want to get a good view of the world i think you can do a lot better than facebook or google or google news for world you can get a much better view. >> host: so you believe what you see what you are saying that the feedback now increasingly throop search and personalization what you believe is they can inferred

karl rove sure of the university of chicago was my mentor. i went through all of that and then decided at that time i was one of the few people who had doctoral level training in counseling who was also a minister. my whole life has been -- >> maybe had a degree in this. >> she was making her little and in counseling, but i wanted to work as a pastor. that's what i did. >> so you all were married what year? >> 1952. september 15th. >> and children? >> we have john who is a lawyer, head of a major program in southern california in the area of communication, actually. we have a daughter who is in tampa, and she graduated also from college back east, in colorado, i should say, and then oregon this is just. some people may know him because he has developed a view called blended values. it is the basis for looking at stocks you are going to buy not just from their economic value but from their social impact value. >> name is the company is what? >> well, he's independent right now. he's in new york, and he consults. he really does quite a bit. >>

. >> karl rove who is well known as one of the top aids to president george w. bush, used to talk about mckinley. there were suggestion that karl rove was the mark hannah to george bush, mark kwlan to william mckinley. who was mark hannah and do you agree? >> there's probably something to it. mark hannah was one of mckinley's life-long friends. he's one of the few major business figure that the mckinleys spent considerable time with. freffs ohio. he kind of discovered mckinley when he was governor of ohio. hannah had many different business interests. he was a tremendous businessman. he was interested in politics. but he just didn't want to climb the ladder. he kind of picked mckinley out as somebody he could mentor and connect to the right people and really hold mckinley's hand when he ran in 1896. mckinley repaid the favor by helping him get in the senate when he was elected. hannah was desperate to become a senator, which mckinley helped him achieve. they remained good friends. >> how did william mckinley get into the span-american war, and what was it? >> th

karl rove joins us with the economy in 2012. martha: welcome back, everybody. there's fallout today over new reports of fuzzy math inside the health care overhaul, the latest report reveals that older adults who have jobs will end up paying more for their health care coverage than those who don't have jobs, ken murphy, chair of the gop office joins me. good to have you here. >> great to be with you. martha: how did this happen and what do you make of it. >> it's an amazing thing what happens when you don't get a chance to read a bill. basically it works this way, someone can retire at age 262 and someone may decide to work, the person at 62 starts to get social security income, so you can have two people making exactly the same amount of money but if you're getting social security income, about $9000 of that is in tax and doesn't count as your income so on the books it looks like you're making less than you are and you qualify for medicaid. medicaid is supposed to be there for needy families or those disabled, not for the middle class and it's a big glitch and

>> the implications of this politically, karl rove has written a piece saying 100,000 fewer votes from african- americans in north carolina could wipe away the gains the president needs. and hispanics in that same survey are the hardest hit group by the recession. and that comes at the same time they have the most -- the growth clout as a political force. will they be more politically engage next year and again the democrats -- >> pat, these statistics that we put you on the board on the wealth of blacks and whites are so worrisome that barack obama ought to put out a policy for black -- agenda for black americans. would than a bad move or good move? >> terrible move for this reason -- the white working class has been hammered completely, again their aspirations and hopes for the future are going down. they're the most alienated of any groups of americans, they're line the teapot movement. if you do something for heavens sake, do it for all americans! >> 400 topperrers in this country make as much as the black, white and hispanics. >> so that's where -- it's a huge disparity. >> i thin

karl rove is here to weigh in. bill: also this is not what you want, alia. gaping hole ripping into the plane's body only minutes after takeoff. the dramatic exchange between the pilot and control to get it back on the ground before disaster...isr strikes. bill: now for the first time we're hearing a dramatic exchange between a pilot and air traffic control after a scare in the air, tbhak april a. flight from phoenix to sacramento started out like any other but minutes after takeoff a 6-foot hole ripped open in the fuselage and the pilot realized he could not make it back to phoenix. listen here: >> require an emergency vehicle, we lost the cabin. >> apparently we got a hold of the fuselage at the back of the airplane. >> probably ought to turn around and go back to phoenix. we'll get back to you. how far are you away right now? >> your 3:00 position, and the five, zero miles. >> going to yum that, could miss fiend i. bill: we'll take yuma for a thousand, alex! the plane landed safely, everybody on board was okay. pilot, well done! >> alisyn: an oil spill in

been months of protests in syria calling for president bashar al assad to resign political writer karl rove says that the west is intervening in the fragile situation there are lots of security barriers if you know where the embassy is and the situation on the ground in damascus so it will probably had a bit of. let's put that that way but i think we need to focus on the bigger picture over here. and i think this is indicative of. by the u.s. and france. to sort of do a bit of face saving exercise and appear as if they're on the good side in syria. actually i wouldn't be surprised if some of the demonstrators were actually there even genuinely by anger because that's the sort of. that nobody can tolerate i think what we need to look at is that there is a blatant intervention by the american and french governments at least if they were fully aware of what their ambassadors were doing in a very fluid dynamics tuition on the ground in syria. trouble is brewing for italy as it edges closer to becoming the fourth european country to need a bailout borrowing is at a record high as italy's debt su

sometimes you have to beat the bad guys with their own game so don't need the pac man and let's give karl rove super pacs a run for their money issues and watch. the bad him fall empty hearing on meet the press yesterday to let me use his experience as governor of minnesota to explain why he'd make a good president. i've got the record of toughness better than anybody else in this race my goodness i was the first governor in minnesota's history to shut down the government i set a record for vetoes i took more. since when is shutting down the government and furloughing tens of thousands of government workers and suspending crucial government services a good thing especially when you're running to be head of the us government is like buying to be c.e.o. at a company and how do your previous record of running companies into the ground. and the very very ugly ron paul libertarian congressman from texas is pushing a bill to privatizing airport security and is making the absurd claim that nine eleven happened because our government bans and guns on airplanes in an interview on where else but news pa

inside the grove you weren't supposed to talk about that i said no i snuck in there which point the karl rove of five previous administrations blew up at me and got in my face something david gergen has never been seen to do in the five administrations that he's worked with and thousands of media interviews so this is a big deal to them they wait for decades on a waiting list to get into it and major decisions are being made they are outside of the democratic process and so this is one of the main meeting houses for fifteen days i mean why would why would how do you have these three well how are four people why would why would these heavy hitters the most powerful people in the world travel and spin weeks together for just a party it is a partying atmosphere where they try to cement the elite together and basically create a consensus for an agenda and i've had several of the widows of bahamian grove members send me their internal annals of the you can actually buy from collectors that are thousands of dollars apiece i have several of these and in there there is a very pro world government ant

. >> karl rove, who is well known as one of the top aides to george w. bush, used to talk about william mckinley. but there was also a lot of copies suggesting that karl rove was the mark hanna to george bush, mark hanna to william mckinley. who was mark hanna? and do you agree with that comparison? >> there's probably something to it. mark hanna was one of mckinley's lifelong friends. he was an industrialist. he was one of the few major business figures that mckinley spent considerable time with. he was from ohio, and he kind of discovered mckinley when he was governor of ohio, when mckinley was. and hanna had many different business interests. he was a tremendous businessman. and he was interested in politics, but he just didn't want to climb the ladder. and so, i think he kind of picked mckinley out as maybe somebody he could mentor and somebody he could connect to the right people, and really helped hold mckinley's hand when he ran in 1896. and mckinley repaid the favor by helping him get in the senate when he was elected. hanna was desperate to beco

losing one of the many democrats that lost in december and it was a warm-up and you see people like karl rove who's advising two of these independent pacs who are now -- you know, we used to at least wait until the election year. but that i have running ads against democrats now, and then the democrats are responding. billy burton who used to work as a secretary. president obama says he'd rather not see this but i think he doesn't want to see the democrats at a disadvantage. so by the time we actually get to november, 2012, there'll be tens much billions of dollars of special interest money flowing into the system and in some ways it gets candidates. i think even republicans and democratic candidates alike because it may sub assume them and they may lose control. this is one of the fears that people have is that the actual candidates will lose total control of their own races. that the messages will be dictated by people who come in with these billing ad campaigns and they'll pick key races, key seats, key committee chairman and you can put 1 or $2 million in and totally blow them out of the

to point out they're almost zero zero zero that's what i know ok karl rove donor can like go on he says i should have to pay more taxes former g.o.p. senator alan simpson he says the refusing to pay more taxes is goal. because you yes he could well you know this is what david brooks of the new york times and republican. already has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest their practical governing alternative the members of this movement do not accept the logic of compromise do matter how sweet the terms because on the right the members of this movement do not accept the legitimacy of scholars to lecture with already members of this movement have no sense of moral decency and members of this movement have no economic theory worthy of the name and congressman duncan hunter said this about ronald reagan he said well here it is. here. here. out a way i care republicans that even their savior ronald reagan couldn't get a life but i disagree with that ronald reagan inspired argument that he was a moderate i don't subscribe to was an amazing individual i mean that i'

i am in the process of getting to karl rove's new book as well as hank paulson's book. i don't know that anything has had more of a lasting impact on what we are talking about today than what happened a couple of years ago with regard to the economic meltdown. i think reading secretary paulson's autobiography will be enlightening. i got pretty frustrated with him by the end of his time as secretary but i want to give him the benefit of the doubt. and see his side of the story since he was there. and front and center with all the discussions. i'm also reading a new book, a local alabama author called the final summit because it is an inspirational journey. he takes real people from the past winston churchill, abraham lincoln, george washington carver and he leaves them in a fictitious way but using real life examples to inspire us to be better leaders and andy is a personal friend. i also just finished every reading which i do every year of my favorite book of all time and that is robert lee's "to kill a mockingbird." she is not only a resident in my district but is some

is just fine, then why did tim pawlenty the former governor of minnesota go after her and why did karl roveher? >> well, i think people brought it up and tim pawlenty tried to walk it back a little bit. i think it's unfair. a lot of presidents have had health problems. she'll be fine. i don't see why it's a big issue. i never play the girl card myself but i think it's a swipe at women because more women than men get migraines. i think it's a subtle way to g after her. >> i think the republicans have got a war on women and i also think that the she is scaring the hell ouft of the establishment. i give her credit for the way she didn't back down to the attacks. thanks for being here tonight. i appreciate your time. rush limbaugh claims up the heat on the climate change denials. as a home, there are things i'm supposed to do. like, keep one of these over your head. well, i wasn't "supposed" to need flood insurance, but i have it. fred over here chose not to have it. ♪ me, i've got a plan. fred he uh... fred what is your plan? do i look like i have a plan? not really. [ female announcer ] only

joining me with analysis the author of "courage and consequence" karl rove. great to see you there in texas. >> thanks monica great to be with you. >> thank you. i can't say i'm surprised by this. but it is outrageous and incredibly dangerous for the united states. the obama administration is seeking to establish formal contacts with the muslim brotherhood. which is openly committed karl, to the destruction of the united states and the west. what is team obama doing, establishing formal contacts with these people? >> you're right we shouldn't have been surprised in one sense because he made such a big deal about meeting with our enemies in the campaign. you would have thought having been in office for 2 1/2 years he would have been sobered by events and made another decision this is inexplicable. why does the administration go out of its way to give legitimacy and credibility to the muslim brotherhood by announcing formal contacts? what is to be gained? except to advance the muslim brotherhood and make america look weak. it looks like we are the is up can't,