, and he says, sproul told me that he did this at the request of the rnc.ere was clearly concern on both parties' part that some of these past controversies would get some attention if it was known that he was conducting this very major nationwide battleground registration effort on behalf of the rnc. >> because the rnc spends something like $3 million, they were operating in seven swing states. how wide do you expect this investigation to go? i mean, do you think this man has been operating right across the country in this way? >> well, he certainly has been operating across the country, but as of now we know of nine or ten counties in florida that have reported irregularities in the registration forms that were submitted by employees of strategic allied consulting mainly in palm beach is the first one to raise these complaints. they found similar signatures on multiple registration forms. they found registration forms that linked the home address of a shell gas station, a land rover dealership, all of which has now been reported to both the state attorney

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why is the rnc dealing with a guy who is so suspicious they don't use his name?> he's a pretty known commodity, particularly in arizona. he's been a very controversial figure there. he had been executive director of the arizona republican party, before that executive director of the christian coalition in arizona. he had, in fact, been involved in voter registration allegations in 2004 when he had been paid millions of dollars by the rnc and was -- and there were accusations people working for him this thrown away registration forms in which people were registering democrats. now, this led to an fbi -- >> so they were screwing people who were trying to vote. >> that was the allegation. there were multiple allegations along those lines. there was an fbi investigation, no charges were filed but -- >> that explains why the rnc would not want his name on their docket or close to them. >> and i should say, you know, there continued to be allegations about him. just last year there were allegations about a recall petition in a town in arizona in which he was linked --

they the rnc picked that company and sdrektd them to use them for this work. the executive director of the north carolina republican party says his state chapter had hired the company on the recommendation of the rnc. he said, quote, these are good people running the rnc and i have a lot of confidence in them. in nevada, they paid them directly. in the four other state, they gave the states money for the purpose of hiring the company so the states wouldn't have to worry about voter registration. the national party told the states to hire the company, gave the states the money to do it. so this company, the good people of the republican headquarters, they had it under control. now the republican party has fired that company. and there is no republican plan b for registering voters in these five swing states because that one company was the only company. the republican party's only plan for voter registration. that's all the r more remarkable. the republican party knew when they decided to put all their eggs in this basket this was a troubled basket to be puttin

thank you and have a great weekend. >> hi, i am chairman other rnc. this week americans watched the debate between president obama and mitt romney and the crystallize the choice we face. it was painfully clear during the debate the president obama has no new ideas to fix the economy. his only plan for a second term as a tax increase so large it would destroy over 700,000 jobs. as friday's jobs report shows, america still desperately needs jobs. it the president's soul proposal would mean fewer jobs. we need a new direction. because we cannot afford four more years like the last four. falling incomes, rising prices, 23 million americans struggling for work. $5.50 trillion in new national debt. and now growing turmoil overseas in the middle east. president obama's policies have not worked. as vice president biden admitted, the middle-class has been buried in the last four years. another four years would does barry the middle class even more. during the 2008 debate, then senator obama assured us that he fully understood our problems and that he had the r

the rnc jair reince prices -- the rnc chairman priebus and robert gibbs t work.en hard a pretty good. >> i think we are doing better virginia and i think it is the differencell in the world. >> they outshined it during the mccain campaign. have hit the reset button. game is growing us. well for the door to door operation. in virginia, we will do probably i'm guessing from where today -- 10 times ... calls and door locks. showing up either house for the guy that live there six years ago. i would like to encourage them continue to think he lives continue to send that mail. >> but these tactics have to pay off, they say, compared to the of being the president. powerful.sident is air force one is careful. being the president and having pulpit.y >> gibbs contends it can also hinder a race. >> the biggest thing is, he's a pretty important day job that does not allow him to do probably as much as he would like. h agree, in virginia, women and military would secure the state, well as undecideds. [indiscernible] >> for republicans, it is two of shelling romney is not professional, but personal

let me play that moment from the rnc. >> when he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in janesville where we were about to lose a major factory. right there at that plant candidate obama said, i believe that if our government is there to support you, this plant will be here for another 100 years. that's what he said in 2008. well, as it turned out, that plant didn't last another year. >> mark, there are even conservatives who refer to that speech as being one of the most dishonest that they had seen. chris is talking about bringing the fight. how do you keep from going back and forth? will the moderator have to be the quote, unquote, fact checker in this? >> sometimes the best moderators stay away. i think it's incumbent on vice president biden. we saw president obama try to correct the record the next day after last week's debate, but that wasn't as effective. >> the day after means nothing when you have 70 million people. by the way, chris, they're saying about 40 million will be watching this vice presidential debate tonight. >> well, i think so. i th

the rnc hired the same questionable firm to do voter registration work in four other key swing statesrado, virginia, and north carolina. all those states have fired the firm now and so far florida is the only state to open a criminal investigation. the co-director of the advancement program which watches some of this stuff. and michael isikoff is an nbc news national investigative correspondent. first of all, when you go out and have phony lists, that's a criminal matter apparently. >> yes, this is serious. the florida department of law enforcement is going to look into it because this is voter fraud. this is voter registration fraud, and it actually also shows that we already have laws in place to prevent voter fraud and, in fact, the states going to go after them and that's good. >> give me a damage report on what would happen if these people got away with what they're doing. >> what would happen is really, you know, we know at the end of the day they would not be able to vote actually because, again, we have laws in place that would not permit them to vote. >> but they're showing u

when you put together his money with mitt romney and the rnc and total of 1.8 billion dollars. in perspective mccain had 375 million. this is a factor of five. it will start to come out now. what does he do? how does the operate? what does he do? i talked to a couple of sources they say there is the dark and terrible beauty about what he does. another source told me the caa could learn a lot from karl rove. the way he has deniability with all of the operations he is very visible with 70 percent name recognition. up there with just 10 bieber. but go back over history with the things starting to unfold he has deniability one mobile after another. the story became interesting because most people thought karl rove was finished in 2008 when the bush presidency came to an end. he was forced out 2007. the prime target of the two biggest scandals with valerie plame and united states attorney scandal. bush left the white house with 22 percent approval, the lowest in history even ed rollins said his brand was tainted fervor nobody would want to work with karl rove. fact is he was back wo

now, sproul was hired by the rnc and was told according to him to use a different company or new nameuld not look like he was involved. so it is not paranoia. >> absolutely. that's why we need this investigation. the public can be reassured that this is an isolated incident or the public can be realerted that there is something rotten in richmond. >> senator, jonathan, have a good weekend. >> and be sure to watch "the ed show." ed is in free portport, illinois, reporting at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. we'll be right back. port, illin, reporting at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. we'll be right back. port, illin reporting at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. we'll be right back. port, illin reporting at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. we'll be right back. ort, illino reporting at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. we'll be right back. port, illin reporting at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. we'll be right back. uh, i'm in a timeout because apparently riding the dog like it's a small horse is frowned upon in this establishment! luckily though, ya

. >> greta: today, the rnc chair, peeb -- reince priebus, calling the joe biden appearance, the smirk didn't work. >> that's right. >> greta: i expect the republican party not to be impressed with vice-president biden last night. smiles or no smiles. what was surprising to me was nbc's tom brokaw coming down hard on the vice-president for smirking about when we were talking about nuclear war with iran. >> i think serious people that looked at joe biden's behavior last night, they weren't impressed with t. even the people who thought that joe biden did an otherwise decent job, also threw into the conversation, look, it may have been much better if he didn't distract everyone by his own actions. look, i thought that paul ryan displayed a real gentlemanly, decent, good-natured person that was intelligent, well versed on the issues and how he just sat there and took that embarrassing shrapnel. it was joe biden's mission to save the obama campaign, he would make a lousy lifeguard. i think he fell flat. i thought in the end, what this will be remembered for won't, unfortunately, be the subs

you get rnc. women, it gets worse. and it gets more fitting. prbs.e a sense of humor but don't worry, i'm a normal guy. my kids are named jack and grace so we went the opposite direction of mining. anyway, thank you for having me here today. there's no question that i've seen firsthand the bias and the vicious attacks of the liberal media. it can be tough out there if you're not careful you get bruised and bloodied. and i'm surprised there's not a program for that in obamacare. well, now at the rnc we're doing our best to all the president accountable, and i hope you agree. besides the record money that we spent on tv this year, we launched over 100 hard-hitting web videos on youtube. in fact, the other day i went downstairs and talk to the guy that makes her videos and he told me that the one we released a couple days ago received over 100,000 hits on youtube. and i thought, man, what would msnbc do with that kind of viewership? well, i know current tv is disappointed that they were not one of the three nominees. but brent explain to me that you act

the rnc were here. for some reasons the campaigns pulled back from this part of the spin. spin room is huge. it will be interesting. i'll live tweet throughout the debate. tweet fox nation. i'll sweet for go on "hannity" later. there is a huge twitter following. they said we love what you are doing. can i wear this on tv? i can't wear it. hello, i'm@ericbolling. >> dana: we are having a contest about who is more shameless? >> kimberly: i'm thinking. >> greg: i want to -- >> eric: no. you have to understand this. it was perfectly sunny. blue sky over there. pouring rain. >> dana: what happens to your tan if it comes in contact with rain? america wants to know. >> bob: that's real tan, it's not made up? >> andrea: eric, don't answer the question. >> bob: did you rent your car to go down there? >> kimberly: why are you asking that? >> bob: i'm just curious. >> eric: why? >> kimberly: bob is upset he didn't cover a debate. we would have lost him. >> eric: you would have been a big hit here. not a lot of democrats here. a lot of people get left point of view what to expect. you

i wonder if you care to respond to the rnc, to the rnc responding to you and if you stand by those comments and what you meant by them. >> well, a couple of things. first, i appreciate the outrage from the rnc and the republican party. you know, the day the attack occurred, before the ambassador's family was even notified, mitt romney was the one politicizing this terrible tragedy. and since that day, they politicized it every day since. just yesterday, mitt romney and paul ryan on the campaign trail were saying that the administration was covering up the facts. now, that's politicizing it. there's an investigation going on. and that investigation is getting to the bottom of how that attack occurred, why it occurred and how we prevent it from happening again. that investigation is being taken very seriously. every time a piece of information becomes known, the administration makes sure that congress and the american people know it. now, what i was talking about earlier today, and a question about why it's become such a political circus, and why has it been handled this way, i explained that

. >>> and there's word tonight that rnc officials cut ties for the consulting firm it hired. the firm turned in suspicious voter application forms. and david, what are you learning? >> we don't know how big or small it's going to be but we do know that election officials in florida right now are looking at these forms that were filled out. this coming from a company called strategic allied consulting. it was hired by the republican party to do voter registration there which is something parties do in every election, but what they were doing here, this company says one of their employees may have put fraudulent signatures on some of these forms. they don't know for sure, but they turned over these documents to the election officials there, and now they are going to be going through 106 applications, and officials say they may broaden that out in palm beach county which seems to be ground zero for this. officials saying they may look at 60,000 recently changed applications just to make sure this is not part of a bigger trend. so it may be one of something out of those 106, but

someone at the rnc counted how many times joe biden interrupted paul ryan.counted 82 times he was interrupted. good news is that paul ryan took it to him on substance. they looked like the key stone cops on bengazi. stephanie cutter set the stage blaming that disaster on, who did she blame? she blamed mitt romney and paul ryan. >> sean: nuts. >> it was a bizarre performance. >> sean: yes. in bengazi they were wrong. this is now unfolding as a huge scandal. >> absolutely. >> sean: they said this assistance wasn't requested. this is the anniversary of september 11th this, is a hot bed for where terrorists are being trained. and you would think on the anniversary of september 11th, then, they went out there weeks later blaming a video. now yes, it's a video. no. it's a video. yes, it's spontaneous, no. it's not spontaneous, biden contradicted the state department. >> you've got the white house pointing at the state department like joe biden did. he pointed to the state department and said we didn't know anything about this. they want it more security. state dep

that is the first rnc video. what it does is that says the name of it is it says issues we face are no laughing matter. and so you can be sure that by the time we start our news cycle we're going to have back to back snippets of the vice president laughing at very important, you know, serious matters so that is going to be a huge part of the narrative come sun rise tomorrow. >> yes. this is a great material for saturday night life. and for -- live and internet. we're getting an increasing amount of information from the internet. 2008 more people said they got more information about the election from the internet than daily newspapers those smirks and quirky grimaces and the sort of exaggerated gestures were great fodder for the internet. i've retweeted the link to that video it's a good video. it's pretty amazing how often he was interrupting and laughing and smiling and grimmasing and grinning. it's almost like joker juice was in the water he had there. on the stage. >> greta: full disclosure i've posted without

reminiscent of the rnc. tough as the new yorker has ever been as far as i can remember on any liberal at any time. and california gasoline prices hitting new record high for a third straight day. the statewide average price $4.67 per gallon, up $0.50 in just one week. in an effort toobring down high prices governor jerry brown allowing a slightly earlier rollout of less-expensive want to blend gasoline. i can imagine the millions of californians just sank thank you so much, governor. the transition have already scheduled for the end of the month and can take refineries up to a weaker more to make this witness of the governor emergency action is not happening with any real urgency. california typically has substantially higher gasoline prices simply because it has the second-highest gas tax and the country. late show host david letterman taking a cuerom the obama campaign attack dogs. senator reid and stephanie cotter during his show friday letterman repeatedly repeated the utterly ridiculous claim that romne

tonight the latest on the rnc's voter fraud scandal. >>> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. we're coming to you tr from denver, colorado. the first presidential debate one day away. this is the romney pre-game show. will mitt romney be held accountable for lies and distortions about president obama's record? we got a sneak preview of what happens when mitt romney is forced to tell the truth. a fox affiliate here in denver asked romney to explain what paul ryan could not, how he plans to pay for $5 trillion tax cut by only eliminating deductions. >> there's an option. you could say everybody is going to get up to a deduction and you could use your home mortgage deduction or others, health care deduction and fill that bucket, if you will, the $17,000 bucket that way and higher income people might have a lower number. >> at least the plan has a name. it's the bucket plan. mitt romney will cap deductions at $17,000 for all americans. is that good for the middle class? do the math. for rich americans, the cap, it just might be lower than that. he was very vag

. >> sean: the rnc threw out an ad. we have to focus on something.here is a point where the vice-president, and joe, you kind of admitted this last night. he came off as totally out of control, unhinged. use whatever term you want, but joe does say what he mean and it is rnc threw this ad out. >> i think the vice-president very well knows that sometimes the words don't come out of your mouth the right way. >> but i always say what i mean. >> have you to be ready. you said, i think he can be ready. but right now, i don't believe he is. the presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training. >> i stand by the statement. >> i always say what i mean. >> you know the phrase you use -- obama and biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars? guess what? yes, we do. i always say what i mean. look, this is deadly ernest, man. this is deadly ernest. the middle class has been buried the last four years. they have been ravaged. they have been ravaged. this is depression for millions and millions of americans. [laughter] >> has anybody told h

join us now is the the chairman of the rnc.want your reaction to three topics from the debate last night. >> okay. stuart: first of all, i want to deal with libya. just play one clip, please, this is the one where the president did $here is what he did and did not say, go. >> think about what the governor just said he said when i took office the price of gasoline was 1.80, 1.86. why is that? because the economy-- >> i'm sorry, i roll the wrong clip. my apologies there. earlier we played you the clip where the president was-- where governor romney was actually talking about the libya and the response from the administration, you saw that interchange and candy crowley did, jumping in there. your response. >> i think it's stunning what the president said, the fact that he came out and i don't know the moderator helped this along, but completely dishonest, in saying that he called what happened in libya an act of terror. he didn't do that. and i've got to tell you, even if you, let's just say for the sake of argument, okay, fine, t