here he was with megan kelly making megan kelly look even better than she is.et's get a little look at this, please, if we can. >> do you believe that ohio has been settled? >> no, i don't. it may be that barack obama wins the state, but it seems to me that, you know, you got a lot of votes yet to cast. >> can you tell me whether you stand by your call on ohio given the doubts karl rove called. >> we're quite comfortable with the call in ohio. >> he have megan kelly winning her polk award basically because of him. >> he wasn't the only one. almost every conservative, including me, thought we were going to win this election, and we were all surprised when -- >> did you go in and question the returns? did you question the analysis of the returns like did he? >> i didn't, but i didn't have the data. >> did he? >> karl rove is a smart guy. i usually -- i think -- >> did he think he could bully them out of their prediction? >> i thought he was stunned. i think we were all stunned, and then you know what -- >> you know the guy personally. i thought he went into the r

i was watching fox news yesterday because i'm a thinker and i happened to be watching megan kelly whenalarming news about the folks at al jazeera america, the people who just bought this channel. >> there is a real anti-american bias there and yet they're about to infiltrate america. >> they're expanding to eight cities, one of them being detroit, michigan. it is a large community of muslim americans where sleeper cells have been detected. >> john: megan kelly, how can someone so smart and so pretty have a show that's so stupid and so ugly? but if this little bit of tv gold illustrates something, it is why fox news is a mecca for people who hate mecca. so let's get a few things straight. first, the correspondent complained that petro dorals are funding this network. i love it when the people who brought us george w. bush warn us of the evils of oil money. so i could tell you about all of the petrochemical dollars fox news boss mourdock makes from his investments but i don't want to upset him because i don't feel like getting my phone hacked. i'll mention a name you don't hear often on

. >> well, in an attempt to convince rove he was gone, called fox news hoesz megan kelly took an on-camera walk to the fox decision desz k. >> we'll do a little interrogation and see if they standby their call. notwithstanding the doubt that karl rove is attempting to place. keep coming. here we go. this is the decision desk. now we're in the heart of the decision desk room. you tell me whether you standby your call at ohio given the doubts that karl rove just raised. >> we're actually quite comfortable with the call in ohio. >> my god, there you have karl rove who has ridiculously put himself to the hard right, a fox, saying fox makes the call as good people across the country at the time and he says i don't like that. what's the matter with you guys? >> other than everything that was on msnbc and nbc, that was my favorite moment of the night. but it's very damaging for karl. i've covered him forever. >> what's worse? getting all the picks wrong? or refusing to accept reality? >> well, they're both terrible for a guy who, at one point, was viewed as the kind of savant, the architect. >> b

they had to stand up and make him -- megan kelly had to stop running down the corridor. >> the divorce isn't final, but i am seeing other people. >> and i'm very grateful you are. what's interesting about fox news is their ratings have really plummeted since the election. really quite dramatically. down 22% in the key demographic. in january. the lowest demo number since july 2008. and in prime time down 40% in the demo. its lowest demo number since may 2006. it seems from the outside, and they would do this to us, that fox have got some real problems right now. and one of the reasons is that they just called this election so badly wrong. and they may have driven the party and mitt romney down the wrong alley. >> well, apart from whether you blame fox or not, i'm not going to get into that. but i believe that the republicans were horribly hurt among women by the crazy extremists who said that rape won't make you pregnant and it's an act of god. on the other hand, democrats are hurt by those who say third trimester abortions are fine. we have to understand what bill clinton said. aborti

. >> stephanie: to quote megan kelly to karl rove, is this just republican mass that makes you feel betterongress voted for it. they had it as a fail safe mechanism. now it is happening. it is path et thick is a political debate about democrats. how many months away from the next election? this is a long way. september of the election year, you understand you're not going to get a compromise. really in february right after a national election, you people can't rise above this? the president of the united states does stupid campaign events with people with emergency responders behind him as props? the republicans in the house sit around saying oh, hey let it go in. we're going to stand up and say what about the military? >> stephanie: wow. so george bush never used a let's say first responders as the -- what's the word? props? >> you know, he was grasping at some logic there. give him credit. the key phrase there was after an election, they can't compromise. gee, traditionally, what happens after an election, traditionally what happens when one side wins an electoral landslide, they're able

host: let's get a response from megan hughes. guest: kelly, your appreciation for what president clinton did, moving to the middle and brokering deals, it is certainly a valid point. in terms of whether or not president obama is a compromiser, one good group to ask would be some of the democrats because i think they would contend that when it comes to entitlement reforms and things he has put on the table that those would qualify as compromises, being open to potential means testing or peeling back medicare benefits for higher income earners. the idea of change to cpi, looking at that with social security reform -- there are definitely some things that have riled up fellow democrats. host: let's go back to the c- span bus and hear from the student eiko. -- michael. >> good morning. with sequestration coming up on march 1, it seems likely that public opinion will fall on one side of the aisle with -- [no audio] host: it looks like we froze up the signal. guest: i think i saw where he was coming with that, asking which side of the aisle public

host: let's get a response from megan hughes. guest: kellyyour appreciation for what president clinton did, moving to the middle and brokering deals, it is certainly a valid point. in terms of whether or not president obama is a compromiser, one good group to ask would be some of the democrats because i think they would contend that when it comes to entitlement reforms and things he has put on the table that those would qualify as compromises, being open to potential means testing or peeling back medicare benefits for higher income earners. the idea of change to cpi, looking at that with social security reform -- there are definitely some things that have riled up fellow democrats. host: let's go back to the c- span bus and hear from the student eiko. -- michael. >> good morning. with sequestration coming up on march 1, it seems likely that public opinion will fall on one side of the aisle with -- [no audio]host: it looks like we froze up the signal. guest: i think i saw where he was coming with that, asking which side of the aisle public opi

kelly & michael." today, film and broadway actress scarlett johansson. and from the series "smash," megan hilty. inning "live." now, here are kelly ripa and michael strahan! [cheers and applause] ♪ kelly: i love this song. oh, my god. what? what? hi. hi. hello. hi up top. wow. michael: hello! [cheers and applause] kelly: and moving that the home, no place like home, it is tuesday, february 26, 2013, we are back in our studios in new york. [applause] i'm so happy to see our home crowd. michael: and i've got to say, you are pretty in pink. wow. kelly: oh, thank you. michael: you look good. kelly: this old thing. no, i was telling michael backstage that all of my wardrobe sort of went to florida and then went directly to california from florida and