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karl rove will tell us about some that you have never heard of. face beto rourke who we showed you last night and now campaign experts, karl rove, senior adviser to george w. bush, and chris stirewalt, our fox news editor. great to have you. you think these headlines about texas are misleading? >> laughable, look, republicans had the biggest turn out after after all of the hubbub coming in was let the democrats were having a fantastic night, they had a dreadful night. their leader robert f beto o'rourke spent $2.5 million, 62% of the vote, half as many as ted cruz got on the republican side, 38% of the democrats voted poor ed crapo, a retired postal worker who spent $785. >> martha: he is very popular. >> gets better, hernandez, a nurse, or maybe she is a former nurse, her website suggests that she used to be a nurse, she spends zero dollars and got 24% of the vote. now she did have a facebook page, but here's a guy who is supposed to be the darling of the democrats and four out of every ten democrats in the state, he loses 103 out of 254 counties

joining me with more, fox news contributor karl rove. ody is going this way or that way and traditional party platforms are in some way being rather abandoned. >> well, for me it is deja vu all over again since in 2002 the bush administration applied a much narrower set of tariffs designed to get at chinese dumping. for example, mexico and canada were excluded from them but by the end of 2003 our trading partners had used the, used their power to put tariffs or threaten tariffs not only on things like bourbon made in mitch mcconnell's hometown or motorcycles built in paul ryan's home state but on real things and real people around the world bought from the united states. trish: you didn't like them? >> the price of keeping them in place was too high. and those were narrowly-drawn. look, carter, mr. lamb there, connor lamb running for congress in pennsylvania, the problem is china. we ought to do something about china. china represents 2% of the imports. if we're trying to get at china, why don't we talk about chinese dumping practices, hi

more with karl rove, former white house deputy chief of staff. karl, we've been waiting for whatever the retaliation was going to be from president putin. to me, it seems like it's sort of tit for tat. it's not like it's anything bigger than what we did. there's probably more pain to come for the russians. >> you're right, tit for tat. russians and foreign minister lavrov said they were looking for a proportional response so they basically ejected the same number of foreign diplomats from russia as were ejected from foreign capitals around the world of russian diplomats. so tit for tat. i hope the sanctions that were announced and the expulsions of russian spies is not going to be the end of the action of the west against this terrible attack using nerve agents in a civilian community against former russian spies, defect tors. this violates so many rules, sort of the informal rules of international espionage, in addition to a huge danger to the population of britain. a nerve agent was used to try and kill two russian defectors. in the process a br

i'm dana perino in new york. >> and we're back with bret baier and karl rove. just after rex tillerson arrived at 4:00 a.m., he cut his trip to africa a couple days short to return because he knew that this was coming because we know now that chief of staff general kelly, john kelly, called rex tillerson and said you need to come home and this is happening. again, i go back to this idea that it was rumored to be a long time and coming. i got the feeling that perhaps rex tillerson for as frustrated that he may have seemed with washington, not with president trump, but with washington that he was getting a hang of the job. >> yeah. you got that sense from people around him. who privately said, listen, rex is not leaving unless he's fired. he was getting -- he was planning trips, he was going on trips, seeing success from meeting with various officials around the world. despite the distance with the president and they apparently did not talk that often, that i think that he was feeling like he was going to be sticking around. that distance however really showed it

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but i wasn't counting on karl rove, so-- . [laughter] >> and i say this-- >> your mistake. >> and i say this because along comes the election of 2000 and of course, karl basically negates the popular vote and-- . [laughter] > >> but the surprising things to me about it there was no ground swell, there was almost not a peep. and so we're stuck with it. there are good reasons why i'll say we're stuck with it. it serves the interests of small states. there are more small states than large states and you have to amend the constitution state by state. it's not a popular vote on amending the constitution. so, i'm-- i can't say that i was particularly surprised that in 2016 we got sort of more of the same, but, i think so i'll fall back on, if we didn't have it today, no one would invent it and on that criterion you have to figure, okay, we thought to think about some way of changing it, but it's not going to get changed. >> if i could very briefly say, i just think electoral college is here to stay. anytime you have elections like bi

fox news contributor karl rove joining us from austin with more. that one wrong, karl. >> yeah, the early reports were tfocused on 15 counties and the democrats outvoted the republicans in those counties. but we got 254 counties and the state is not just dallas-fort worth, hugh stan, san antonio and the sus suburbs. there's a big part of texas. and on the early vote alone with republicans for 804,000, the democrats were 565,000. and then on election day even more republicans turned out and the final total was 1,543 of the republicans. david: now the gop base, what this shows at least in texas, in real red states is just as strong as ever. am i wrong on that in. >> yell, that' well that's righ. this is the biggest turnout ever in a midterm election for the republicans. we mad very few contested statewide elections. the democrats had a high-profile race for the governor in their primary and a high-profile bid in the senate. there are real problems for the democrats. they nominated the guy they expected to nominate for the senate. he came out there, s

fox news contributor karl rove joining us from austin with more. did they get that one wrong, karl. >> yeah, the early reports were tfocused on 15 counties and the democrats outvoted the republicans in those counties. but we got 254 counties and the state is not just dallas-fort worth, hugh stan, san antonio and the sus suburbs. there's a big part of texas. and on the early vote alone with republicans for 804,000, the democrats were 565,000. and then on election day even more republicans turned out and the final total was 1,543 of the republicans. david: now the gop base, what this shows at least in texas, in real red states is just as strong as ever. am i wrong on that in. >> yell, that' well that's righ. this is the biggest turnout ever in a midterm election for the republicans. we mad very few contested statewide elections. the democrats had a high-profile race for the governor in their primary and a high-profile bid in the senate. there are real problems for the democrats. they nominated the guy they expected to nominate for the senate. he came

flonase. >> melissa: let's bring back karl rove, hopefully it's not a silent movie now.hank you for bearing with us. what is your reaction to the move on tariffs right now? do you think it is just an opening salvo to bring everyone back to the table and renegotiate? what's your take? >> i think it's a misplaced action. of the president tweeted out "if trade wars are good and easy to win" know they are not. the last really big trade war we had lasted more than a decade and it took world war ii to get america out of the depression. look, in the bush administration we attempted to help the steel industry by tapering tariffs, they lasted less than a year before they were declared in violation of our international treaty agreements and our training partners threaten to the united states with a very measures that would hurt american industry. it the president is attempting to do the impossible, repeal the law of comparative advantage. this is not even aimed at china. some of our biggest sources of steel are places like canada and mexico with which we have a free-trade agreemen

ann: or karl rove. lou: those fools are often funded by the person you mentioned, karl rove and all of his buddies at the chamber of commerce and the business round table. ann: more important than the trade issue was obviously the promise to build the wall. he has the authority. he needs to listen to the right people. the washington post reported that the pentagon official says we can't build the wall without congressional approval. the guy is a moron and you shouldn't be listening to morons when you're -- lou: who are you calling a moron? ann: the washington post didn't identify the pentagon official though i'm demanding his name. lou: there's only one person over there that could make such a bald statement. certainly general mattis would not. ann: who knows. it could be jared kushner because he's running the entire government. lou: let's turn to -- you called him a shallow lazy i gues i gues just for the record and now you're making a chord with him. before we go too far down -- ann: i called him that

if this is the festival features several office including karl rove, h. w. brands, douglas brinkley, jon meacham, susan eisenhower and more. first up here is "new york times" op-ed columnist bret stephens on his book "america in retreat: the new isolationism and the coming global disorder." [inaudible conversations] good morning ladies and gentlemen. please welcome to the stage bret stephens. [applause] him well, good morning. i should just mention at the beginning that i'm told there would be time for q&a, but that it depends on your asking the sink questions that in in question marks and which i can then repeat for the benefit of the filming of this production. can someone close the door? thank you. the title of my remarks this morning is notes on the passing of liberal culture, and there's a story that might be apocryphal but is too good not to share, which is told about mahatma gandhi. [laughing] hi, jamie. [laughing] all right, i'm going to begin again forging for jane is bene. there's a story, possibly apocryphal, but too good not to share which is tol

your thoughts karl rove on what you heard from michael tonight? >> what is interesting, we are talking about russians and they are trying to meddle in the american elections. do you think a former british intelligence agent who reaches out to contacts in moscow to get dirt on donald trump is somehow not seen by the russian intelligence services? i would support a lot of what is in the dossier is fed to steele by people who are suspect in not clearly under the control of the russian fsb. the russians were meddling here. they were trying to get papadopoulos and page inside the trump campaign. they had a direct line into steele who was hired by fusion gps who was in turn paid for by the dnc and the clinton campaign. nobody will walk away from this without having their finger princeton over something that is russia. >> martha: michael what do you think about the book tonight? >> we want to keep positive prayers for the pilot that went down off the key west of florida. the question at hand: all intelligence agencies are conveying that meddling happened

karl rove and spokesperson for the obama administration maria harf on that. and mark -- rubeio is named a kid killer for his views. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. >> ♪ >> it's been sometime already. didn't you notice? >> martha: that was the russian ambassador to the u.n. reacting to president trump and the leaders of 21 other countries. their decision to oust more than 135 russian diplomats from embassies from around the world and send them home including 60 from the u.s. i think about a dozen of them were here in new york at the united nations. they have 7 days to head home in the wake of moscow's alleged poisoning of spies. trace gallagher joins us. >> hi, whether it's russian troops or using chemicals, russian denials are common. now russia called the accusations nonsense saying russia destroyed all chemical weapons including nerve agents. the british prime m

year's rancho mirage writers' festival is a discussion on political candidates and elections with karl rove, susan eisenhower and tim miller. former communications director for jeb bush in 2016. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage susan eisenhower, tim miller and karl rove. with your moderator, van gordon sauter. [cheers and applause] >> okay. >> put in a good word with the organizer. tell him the reason i was late

let's bring in former white house deputy chief of staff karl rove. larry sabato doesn't take these things lightly. neither do you. do you think he's right in trying to make some of these predictions that the democrats look in pretty good shape in a lot of districts for the house? >> well, first of all, he moved all 26 races in the direction of the democrats. let's be a little bit careful. there were five races that were lean republicans that he moved to tossup out of those 26. that's not a lot. dangerous, yes, but not a lot. and then he had six that he moved from likely republican to lead republican. i disagree with him about moving some of these. there are 26 total. but the likelihood is that we're really focused on these five and to a lesser extent on these. three of them in the midwest, two in the mid-atlantic and the northeast for the republicans. and then on the lanes, three in the south, two in the midwest and one in the mid-atlantic northeast. now, i think it may be a little overstated. i wouldn't ring a lot of alarm bells on this. he sort of

if this is the festival features several office including karl rove, h. w. brands, douglas brinkley, jon meacham, susan eisenhower and more. first up here is "new york times" op-ed columnist bret stephens on his book "america in

karl rove is a former senior advisor to president george w.ox contributor and wall street -- and "wall street journal" columnist. welcome to see you again. >> thank you, sir. paul: i think when we talked about kushner and ivanka trump jared kushner a year ago you said it was a bad idea to put family in senior jobs and then you said maybe you have warmed to the idea because they may have offered the president some good advice. where are you now a year later? >> first of all, he was given too broad a mission and it's not particularly well defined in some instances. jared kushner was put in charge of middle east peace, bringing about a peace agreement between israel and the palestinians. that's a job for henry kissinger in his prime. and then he was put in charge of some sort ill-defined effort to reform the government. and look, he might have provided and she might have provided sort of a stabilizing influence on their father and father-in-law, but you mentioned two issues, the security clearances. there are continuing problems with his fbi clea

karl rove is a former senior advisor to president george w.h and a fox contributor and wall street -- and "wall street journal" columnist. welcome to see you again. >> thank you, sir. paul: i think when we talked about kushner and ivanka trump jared kushner a year ago you said it was a bad idea to put family in senior jobs and then you said maybe you have warmed to the idea because they may have offered the president some good advice. where are you now a year later? >> first of all, he was given too broad a mission and it's not particularly well defined in some instances. jared kushner was put in charge of middle east peace, bringing about a peace agreement between israel and the palestinians. that's a job for henry kissinger in his prime. and then he was put in charge of some sort ill-defined effort to reform the government. and look, he might have provided and she might have provided sort of a stabilizing influence on their father and father-in-law, but you mentioned two issues, the security clearances. there are continuing problems with his

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. >> dana: karl rove is a knox news contributor. dana lash at the nra, she had this to say in response to that. >> one of the things the nra leadership stressed to the president on sunday is that due process must be respected. >> dana: then tom tellis, the senator from north carolina said, i don't think he was saying there's a place where you suspend the constitution and suspend due process. i just don't believe that. i know you heard the words. i just don't believe in my heart of hearts that's what he meant. he's got a legal scholar. karl, one of the special things about these free flowing meetings that the president is having, you get to see some initial reaction, some spit balling, some ideas. what the president said might not sound outrageous for people who think, how else are you going to prevent these types of mass shootings? >> you're right. we see a lot of top of the mind, shoot from the shoulder, shoot from the hip comment. there are ways administratively for the police to, in these so called red flag laws, to be able to ob

joining me now karl rove former senior advisor to george w. contributor and chris stirewalt is here fox news contributor. carl, good to see you on this friday evening. >> good to see you. >> set up the importance of pennsylvania and this election for us. >> well, this is a district carried by president trump by 20 points. been represented for the better part of two decades by a republican. and the republicans should keep it. the democrats, however, have done a good job of recruit ago good candidate. a marine officer, a former prosecutor and he has raised a lot of money. conner lamb has raised $3.9 million going into the final stage of the campaign. he had $800,000 in the back. rick saccone 917,000. of which he had 294,000 left in the bank. to even things up the republican national campaign committee has spent $3.5 million. the congressional leadership fund the republican national committee and other groups have spent an additional $6.5 million that equals roughly $10 million which is 1 ba zillion. a bazillion, a lot and huge. it's huge. >> san

year's rancho mirage writers' festival is a discussion on political candidates and elections with karl rove, susan eisenhower and tim miller. former communications director for jeb bush in 2016. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage susan eisenhower, tim miller and karl rove. with your moderator, van gordon sauter. [cheers and applause] >> okay. >> put in a good word with the organizer. tell him the reason i was late getting on the stage. >> they're keeping us about 5 feet apart. it's just -- >> well, that's nice. >> would you mind extending the cane so i can see how far i need to be away? [laughter] >> are we set? okay. let me, first of all, express my appreciation for your turning out for this event on behalf of susan and tim and karl. deeply appreciated. we owe a special debt to karl. this is his 23rd panel -- [laughter] in 36 hours. [laughter] [applause] i understand the best possible was at one a.m -- the best panel was at one a.m. in the parking lot of the supermarket across the street from the hotel. >> and those of you who are in your -- [audio difficulty] >> let me s

let's bring in karl rove. great to see you, karl. >> early voting in texas suggesting a record turnout for democrats. what result will the endorsement for trump have on republic candidates? >> texas is a red state. last time the democrats won a statewide race was 1994. no democrat has been elected statewide since then. i think that's going to happen this year as well. democrats don't have a strong state ticket but they have the ability to pick off seats in the house and legislature in areas that were republic but voted for hilary clinton. there are three congressional districts, pete sessions, houston, john culverson and san antonio to the western border, will herd. all three seats republic congressmen but carried by hilary clinton. there are similar seat in the state house and senate that could be at risk if republic candidates are not able to identify themselves as themselves instead of having the name of trump on the ballot. >> the question is how big is the threat of increase of democrats headed to the poll

bush karl rove here. ceo of jaguar, land rover is with us. he'll give us the inside on the tariff story as fox news senior strategic analyst jack keane is with us. the ceo of north america julie sweet stopping by as well. a big show ahead coming out. take it off right here with the art of the deal. wall street kicking offer turns of a trade war for president trump's plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. but now reporting the e.u. plans to target $355 billion of american products with a 25% retaliatory tariffs if president trump goes through with his steel tariffs. canadian prime minister justin trudeau now spoken about the controversial tariffs and nasa into the next. >> we've had a very bad deal with mexico. very bad deal with canada. we are renegotiating canada as i said i would. if we don't make a deal i will terminate nafta. i do make a deal which is fair to workers in the american people, that would be i would imagine one of the points we negotiate, tariffs or steel for canada and mexico. >> joining us now is a former nat

bush chief political strategist karl rove wrote the only certainty about the twenty eight team house elections is that republicans will lose seats historically the party of a first term president tends to in midterm elections democrats took a sixty three seat hit in two thousand and ten barack obama's first midterm two years into bill clinton's presidency his party lost fifty four seats and house control back in ninety nine eighty two one thousand nine hundred eighty two two years into the reagan administration the g.o.p. lost twenty six seats all it would take to flip the house this time twenty four and forty eight house republicans are retiring or seeking other office and what about the united states senate let's ask our t. america's edge schultz and on the right conservative radio and t.v. pundit steve malzberg and on the left former florida democratic party chairman mitch caesar welcome thank you all for being here. very severe heya during the campaign the washington examiner wrote the young charming democratic candidate conor lamb is running like a republican on matters from gun

presidential election and this year's congressional races with a panel of strategists including karl rove, tim miller and susan eisenhower. this 45 minute discussion took place in january at the writer's festival. an audible conversations [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the stage with the moderator. [cheering] keeping us about 5 feet apart. okay that's nice. >> would you mind expanding so i can see how far i need it to be a way? let me first of all express my appreciation for your turning out for this event on behalf of suzanne and kim and carl deeply appreciated. voa special that this is his 23rd panel. those of you in your pajamas i know who you are. for anyone in the political system was considering a. alley post in her book courtesy. i would be happy if the three of you. this conversation for your self a. what would be the impact if the democrats won control of congress and there indeed was an impeachment effort? what would that look and feel like and what would that impact be on the people of america 45% of whom at a recent poll feel trump has done a

. >> bill: and karl rove former white house deputy chief of staff to george w. bush. there's a growing process, like-mine and high energy. what do you make of the reports we're get from john roberts. >> we have the fox reporting that suggests mcmaster, shulkin and kelly is out and then reports from axios suggesting from their conversations with senior white house staff they don't see this happening. there may be changes but changes not immediately and changes over time. look, the bottom line is we don't really know in this white house because it's a very unconventional place. the president of the united states on friday had his chief of staff call the secretary of state and say there are changes coming you better get home. on tuesday morning in the morning tweets the secretary of state is out, i'm going to replace him with the cia director. and then three or four hours later calls the secretary of state from air force one to say thanks for your service, i'm replacing you. we hear about a lot the conversation about staff changes because the president is having dinner o

and they are often funded by the person you mentioned karl rove and the business table. >> and more important was the promise to build the wall. he has the authority and needs to listen to the right people. washington post said pentagon officials lgsd we cannot build the wall. that is a moron. >> lou: who is it that is a moron. >> the washington post. >> lou: only one person over that, but general mattis would not. >> it would be a pentagon. >> lou: he is one official. and let's turn to, you call him shallow and lazy. just for the record and now you are making a cord with him. before we go too far that. >> i called him not in trump we trust. no, that was the part of the reason to trust him. a switch changed with him as i described in chapter two. we might have wanted a more eloquent person to make it. >> lou: i sure as hell didn't. i didn't want them -- >> halfway through the sentence. >> lou: hurry to the best bart. >> it was precisely that he was corpses and to allow him and say incredibly courage things. he didn't care what manhattan elites. >> lou: i can't tell you if he is coming down fo

presidential election and this year's congressional races with a panel of political strategists including karl rove, tim miller and susan eisenhower. this discussion took place in january at the writer's festiv festival. [inaudible conversations] but in a good word with the organizer. keeping us about 5 feet apart. would you mind extending the cane so i can see how far. [laughter] are we set? okay. bulet me first of all express my appreciation for your turning out forpr this event on behalf f susan and tim and carl. deeply appreciated. voa special debt to carl. this is his 23rd panel in 36 hours. [laughter] [applause] i understand the best panel was 1 a.m. in the parking lot of the supermarket across the street from the hotel. >> those of you in your pajamas, i know who you are. [laughter] >> let me say to the panel when we run out of time here, i'd like each of you to name a book that you think would be most enlightening and helpful to anyone in the political system who ison considering a campaign for president. last year the winning suggestion was emily post in her book courtesy. [laughter] so yo

yesterday got a debate with karl rove about the refuge in alaska. but the artists refuge a supreme court justice came back to tell eisenhower they were friends at the time. he told ike, we've got to say this spot appeared. he was doing those kinds of things behind the scenes all the time. but the person once in a while like scott berg told his in the very top of library of america volume on writing world war i for a chance to give voices to others in my life. the book that influenced me as a boy growing up was jack kerouac on the road. when i became part of the establishment, i'd be at the century club in new york with arthur sloss injured junior. he's never going to be in the pantheon of greats. the whole counsel of foreign relations people. it used to annoy me to no end because i knew on the road was a special novel and not just that, but the visions of cody, so i started a campaign to get him in the library of america. we've got now two volumes in the air with whitman and with frederick douglass because i thought he belonged in the american panth

karl rove is former white house deputy chief of staff with president george w. bush and a fox news contributor who is always willing and able to make sense of the numbers for us. what do you make of this? are democrats on the rise in texas? >> well, they certainly have a lot of enthusiasm going into the primary. let's take a quick look. i'm going to look at the 10 biggest counties. we have a lot of counties in texas. 254. but the 10 most populace counties in 2014, 253,000 republican early voters and 184,000 democrats. this time around, it's 370,000 democrats, just over 100% increase, and 283,000 republican early voters, about 15%. if you get a look inside of the numbers however, they're concentrated in some counties. harris county, texas, that's houston, has three very competitive congressional races. for the democrats, there's an open seat, for the republicans there's an open seat and then one of the three texas seats occupied by republican congressmen man, won by hillary clinton, texas 7, the western suburbs of houston, and from there, the early voting went fr

he does not have a david axelrod, karl rove, or political strategist in the white house. i think you like to call people like priebus and get his advice. host: we will hear from john in wisconsin, independent. caller: how are you? host: good morning. caller: chris, i don't understand where you get your information from, but you are right on the head, ok? you know donald trump like i know donald trump. believe me, i have experienced working for state service for four years. -- 40 years. this guy is not going to accomplish anything because he does not have a clue on how it's done. it used to be that people who worked with state services moved up and then they went to the higher tier of government. today it's anybody. it doesn't depend on what experience they have or don't have. you are right on the money. host: mr. whipple, what do you think? guest: let me just say that one of the things that is not just donald trump -- one of the things that i've learned in researching this book is that you know how in hollywood they say, nobody knows anything. in washington, nobody learns

karl rove, former chief of staff to president george w. bush.ng pent up for days, trump let it rip. he sort of did. >> two issues per the comment of syria, which clearly caught the defense department by surprise. the pentagon said we have less work to do but we are not likely to come out until we have utterly destroyed isis. and dissolve civil war within syria. neither one of those things have been completed. step back more broadly. i counted in that speech, it was supposed to be about infrastructure. i counted, in addition to infrastructure, at least a dozen other topics. syria, trade, north korea, the veterans administration, tax cuts, roseanne and her success. the wall and how beautiful it was. the military. if you are the president and you want to talk about infrastructure, you've got a choice. give them a plated meal, meat and potatoes and it is about infrastructure, or give them a smorgasbord, which is what he did. and then the media gets to pick and choose what they want to talk about. it got lost in this gigantic smorgasbord of other top

yesterday he got into a debate with karl rove on the arctic refuge in alaska.douglas went camping in the arctic refuge, as supreme court justice, to come back tell eisenhower, they were not friend, bill douglas, he told ike, we have to save this spot. he was doing those things behind the scenes you know all the time. but the perp that i think that we have an obligation to once in a while like scott byrd told us in his wonderful introductory talk about the library of america volume all on writing on world war i, chances to give voices to others in my life, i used to get, the book that influenced me as a boy growing up was jack kerouac's, on the road, when i became part of establishment and at the century club in new york with arthur schlesinger, jr., jack kerouac is a bum. never on the the pantheon of great. what are you dabbling in kerouac for? it bothered me on that. other kerouac books, visions of cody and big sur i started a campaign to get him in the library of america. i did it. it is the road novels of jack kerouac. we have two volumes of kerouac in there

and, i must say, karl rove in the last panel which many of you saw talked about the fact that what he was, thought was important that unifying statement by new presidents talking about the importance of optimism and unity as a country and if we don't feel we have that today, where does that come from? before we get to that i want to ask each of the pan -- panelists why civility matters? do we take it for granted? is there something about civility we don't entirely want? is there something about discord and conflict in a free, democratic, open society? then maybe talk a little bit about, what we've had in the past. we'll get to what we have today. tim, you want to start us off? >> gladly. i think i might have been invited to this panel, jamie pointed the finger at me, you're the problem, because i've had some self-reflection about this, because i started right after the 2012 election, what is basically the largest republican opposition research operation called america rising. and what we did, basically the purpose of our organization was to disseminate negative information, fact-based

the top exam will is karl rove. he was defended in the plame affair by bob lustkin. look at jared kushner. so it doesn't have to be that way. i just say that people aren't thinking about it enough. there are some people are very opposed. some law firms here who have made a political decision. i don't say whether it is right or wrong. i'm just saying that's what's going on. >> you are so incredibly plugged in. you know of all these players. thank you so much for coming and we will chat again. thank you very much. >> coming up next, a retired supreme court justice argues for the full repeal of the second amendment, sparking a major back lash online. we'll debate that. and no charges against the police officers who shot and killed alton sterling in baton rouge, louisiana, two summers ago. he joins me to talk about what they plan to do next. >>> and later, a mysterious train pulls into beijing. was it the leader of north korea, kim jong-un, on board? ahead of possible talks with the and u.s. south korea. i'm brooke baldwin. this is cnn. ♪ let's fly, let's fly away ♪ ♪ ju

we've heard similar from people like karl rove. he floated it out there.ard brett stevens put it out there. why is this discussed? >> i would note something about the democratic party. they are floating so far left. they tell you they're not for something. within short petered of time all of a sudden they are. you look at socialized medicine in 2013 only bernie sanders send supported that. now they have a litmus test in the dnc with those individuals are not allowed. next on the agenda is abolishing the second amendment. it's only a matter of time. in you're for gun reform i hope you're applauding president trump for signing fix nix and banning bump stocks >> it does not go far enough. we need to do comprehensive background check so that criminals go to gun show and buy a weapon. >> republicans have gotten to the middle ground. we've strengthened background checks. that is not something obama did. you guys controlled all of congress all -- >> no comprehensive background checks. >> thank you, i'll bring you back. turn up your swagger game with one a day men

there's no karl rove in trumpland. he's his own strategist and word smith.yal supporter of the president. i think he's doing an amazing job given the deep state and two-party opposition to him. two million new jobs? a growing economy? extraordinary. >> sean: this is personal between you and me. you said once that was lobbying to be in the trump administration. i never lobbied ever, nor would i have ever taken or did i talk to anybody about it. you remember saying that? >> i don't recall saying that. but if i did, i stand corrected. >> sean: no problem. roger, listen, i'm wait till i get my own netflix two-hour special. that would be a big day for me. >> we can call it "get me sean hannity." >> sean: thank you. good to see you. big news. president trump's battle against california's sanctuary state problems. jesse and jessica coming up. ♪ we the people... are defined by the things we share. and the ones we love. who never stop wondering what we'll do or where we'll go next. we the people who are better together than we are alone... are unstoppable. welcome to

karl rove, former senior adviser to president george w. bush, also a wall street journal columnist and fox news contributor. so welcome, karl, good to see you. >> thank you, sir. >> do you think that the politics of gun control politically and their impact on elections has changed fundamentally because of parkland and the student protest in. >> i don't think it's changed fun mentally but i think it has changed somewhat and i do think kim strassel's point about the gun control issue in suburban districts with well-educated voters particularly white women, college graduates, this issue is going to play a little bit differently in the republican candidates in those instances need to be able to point to things such as background checks and increasing the efficiency of the federal system to check people who shouldn't be receiving guns. paul: but is that enough, you will have to go further than that because the democrats will say, you passed that but that's not enough, you're already hearing them say we need assault-rifle ban and more aggressive

in our case karen hughes, karl rove, were very close to president bush, once they leave, you get your footing, regain the footing, move on. it will be sting for the president short term. long term i don't think this will be a have impact on white house. >> isn't that a challenge, neil, to ron's point, whether you move on? you were talking about with the jeff sessions tweet. if you're somebody looking at outside of this white house now, thinking about applying for a job for lack of a bert term, why would you want to do that is it? what is the motivation to work from the outside? can they promote somebody like inside, mercedes schlapp communications director? of course. longer term as you lose people, they are losing people at faster rate than past administrations have, seems it will be a challenging to fill those rules if a president blasting you about any subject as he has done to his own cabinet. neil: he had done reportedly to hope hicks. the reports, eliza, you are closer than i am, he got upset about the white lies comment, now what she meant, didn't serve admin vision in positive

but i wasn't counting on karl rove. >> your mistake. >> and i say this because along comes the election of 2000, and, of course, karl basically negates the popular vote. but the surprising thing to me about it was there was no groundswell. there was almost not a peep. it sort of convinced me we are stuck with this. there are very good reasons why i will say we're stuck with it but it serves the interests of small states. there are more small states than there are large states, and you have to amend the constitution state by state. it's not a party to vote on amending the constitution. i can't say that i was particularly surprised that in 2016 2016 without sort of more of the same, but i think, i will fall back on if we didn't have today, no one would invent it. on that criteria you have to figure okay, we have to think about some with the changing it might is not going to get changed. >> if i could very briefly just say i think the electoral college is here to stay. anytime you have any elections like bill suggests in 2000 or we just had with hillary clinton and trump, there is a little

i was the spokesperson for karl rove during the special counsel. it's very difficult to figure out the legal strategy and the communication strategy but they really must work in tandem. it's a terrible idea for the lawyers to be out front and not in communication or coordination with the p.r. people. the other thing that happened this weekend, this past week, you had reports that questions from the mueller team had gone to trump's lawyers, they said things we might want to ask him if we were to have an interview. now the president knows what that is. there's a subpoena to the trump organization. there is mccabe's firing. the dowd comments about how they should all end. yes, i am speaking on behalf of the president. no, i am speaking in my own capacity. i don't believe any event. they have to get their p.r. people in sync with their legal people or they're going to continue to have news cycles like that. >> jesse: it's amazing after all of this that hillary is the one who colluded with the russians. president trump ruling out his plan to fight ameri