>> i don't think that karl rove is taking my lead when it comes to ethics. that really hasn't been his calling card throughout his career in public service. no, what we're going to do is not give karl rove, the koch brother, the private equity guys supporting mitt romney any more advantages. they've already got hundreds of millions of dollars, we're not in the position of saying we're going to step aside and let you play by a different set of rules. >> but you guys are sitting here, mitt romney and barack obama. you're the proxies. you hadn't met before tonight, right? >> correct. >> even though you're technically you're in a full-on war. but why not just sit here and shake hands and say we're going to do it different. >> restore our future discloses and i would encourage you to do the same thing. >> i appreciate that, but as we discussed already, some of the seed money from your organization did not come from a disclosed donor. governor romney still benefits from hundreds of millions of dollars of undisclosed donations. we're not going to stand on the sidel

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karl rove previews the speech. our count down and hannity starts right here, right now. >> sean: it was big weekend for the former speaker of the house newt gingrich who won the primary by a double-digit and romney came in second place and santorum and ron paul. but the battle for the nomination is just getting started as the candidates now set their sights on florida. ahead of that critical primary contest the former speaker is no longer simply calling his top rival. he labeling romney as a liberal. take a look. >> i think south carolinians was the first stated to understand how liberal governor romney he was as governor of massachusetts. he lost probably 15 to 20 points over the course of the two weeks as people realized he was pro-choice, pro gun control, pro tax increase and whole range of areas that despite his advertising and pretending, it's clear he was rough to south carolinians. >> sean: he is responding to his attacks that unleashes ad with newt's involvement with fraem fannie mae and freddie mac. >> new

it was even scarier to watch karl rove rapping in person than on the tv.me of the movements that only dick cheney could manage. >> emcee rove. ♪ it's fun it to come to the dnc ♪ >> colin powell is equally musically challenged. here he is singing at a security meeting in indonesia. and bad boy blagojevich is caught on camera taking on elvis. ♪ >> yikes. don't quit your day jobs, fellows. oh, wait, never mind. perhaps they should have made a speedy escape like president bush tried to do after this press conference. >> this was one of the famous episodes with george bush looking like he didn't know what he was doing because he didn't even know where the door was. >> i was trying to escape. >> and talk about wanting to escape, who can forget vice president dan quayle exercising his spelling expertise in front of the cameras. >> add one little bit on the end. potato. >> you write phonetically. there you go. >> there you go. >> i wouldn't try your luck at, are you smarter than a fifth grader, dan. >> i guess he was wrong and i was right. >> and speaking of a gaf

. >> well, bill likes to use sort of the buzz word karl rove and and karl rove has nothing to do with our super pac. >> his his own, cross roads. >> that would be great if he did, but to my knowledge, he and cross roads are neutral. our super pac is in contrast to bill's group. everything we do is above board. we fully disclose our donors. >> every single donor. >> every single donor to restore our future is fully disclosed. >> early on, one of your first donations from the spawn corporation did not disclose and it wasn't until there was public pressure that we found out who was behind it, a former partner of governor romney's at bain capital, so maybe you've been pushed in the position, but maybe you ought to tell your political director, who will be dumps millions into this race on behalf of romney, that romney doesn't support donations from groups that don't disclose their donors. >> bill, you've cherry picked one example of the corporation where there was a mix up. yet, the reason that was came to light is because it was disclosed. you and the supporters of president obama do not

. >> well, bill likes to use sort of the buzz word karl rove and and karl rove has nothing to do with our super pac. >> his his own, cross roads. >> that would be great if he did, but to my knowledge, he and cross roads are neutral. our super pac is in contrast to bill's group. everything we do is above board. we fully disclose our donors. >> every single donor. >> every single donor to restore our future is fully disclosed. >> early on, one of your first donations from the spawn corporation did not disclose and it wasn't until there was public pressure that we found out who was behind it, a former partner of governor romney's at bain capital, so maybe you've been pushed in the position, but maybe you ought to tell your political director, who will be dumps millions into this race on behalf of romney, that romney doesn't support donations from groups that don't disclose their donors. >> bill, you've cherry picked one example of the corporation where there was a mix up. yet, the reason that was came to light is because it was disclosed. you and the supporters of president obama do not

rove and mr. trip py, are they still there? >> they are awake. i have to say, not to diminish in any way what rick santorum accomplished, a huge victory for him. but joe trippi was telling the story from 19dweat, you tell it? >> dick gephardt, a guy i worked for, lived in the state two years, had his family there, did all 99 counties. we won the state. we got on the jet that night. i watched him as he pulled out a map of the united states and studied it for a few minutes and then pulled it down and said, how am i going to do this? it tells you how tough now the job is, if you are rick santorum to come out of this and take at this time rest of the way? >> karl? >> it's tough for all of them. they have been campaigning for a year and they have been exhausted and they are about ready to enter a brutal phase. george w. bush said the period from iowa through the time that he won the nomination was the toughest time of the entire 2000 campaign. some of them are airplanes as we speak, on the way to new hampshire. and they will be in a constant motion, l

rove and mr. trip py, are they still there? >> they are awake. have to say, not to diminish in any way what rick santorum accomplished, a huge victory for him. but joe trippi was telling the story from 19dweat, you tell it? >> dick gephardt, a guy i worked for, lived in the state two years, had his family there, did all 99 counties. we won the state. we got on the jet that night. i watched him as he pulled out a map of the united states and studied it for a few minutes and then pulled it down and said, how am i going to do this? it tells you how tough now the job is, if you are rick santorum to come out of this and take at this time rest of the way? >> karl? >> it's tough for all of them. they have been campaigning for a year and they have been exhausted and they are about ready to enter a brutal phase. george w. bush said the period from iowa through the time that he won the nomination was the toughest time of the entire 2000 campaign. some of them are airplanes as we speak, on the way to new hampshire. and they will be in a constant motion, lot

get to karl rove in d.c. for a preview. my perspective here, all mitt romney has to do tonight is not fall down or throw up, right? all he has to do smile and say there you go again, be a little reagan nesk and he has got it? >> he has got to do more than that, i think, you are right. don't make those two mistakes that you talked, about he has got to tonight sort of strike a reassuring note. not just simply survive tonight but say things about the bain capital attacks. needs to handle them in such a way that as he has done in previous debates people say can i see him in the oval office and i have confidence that he will be able to take the attack that's coming his way from obama and turn it back on him. all the polls say this bap stuff is not getting any traction in south carolina. do you expect mitt romney and rick perry to throw a lot of stuff about him about that? >> i expect newt gingrich and rick perry. >> bill: who did i say? >> you said mitt romney. gingrich and perry. even if they don't. mitt romney finds. one thing

the architect karl rove is here with the answer.e's known for making controversial statements. >> i think he needs to get off the symbolic crack pipe. >> sean: tonight i go one-on-one with cornell westment and he says he's going to make a statement and he'll respond live to cornell west. and our countdown to election day continues. hannity starts right here, right now. last night governor romney scored an impressive victory. and the campaign battles on, this time in south carolina, ap the rest of the field try to catch up to the front runner and some are targeting governor romney's business background and the head bain capital and rick abouterry had this to stay last night on the special edition of hannity. >> there's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture. venture capitalism we like and vulture capitalism. no. the fact of the matter, he's going to have to face up to this sometime or another and south carolina is goo-goo good a place as any. >> and blaming president obama's class warfare rhetoric for blurring the l

karl rove never went on the reelection campaign. karl rove was in the white house. don't tell me that karl rove wasn't involved in strategic decisions about how we were going to operate and what was going to happen. i'm not saying you can't run a partisan race. what'm saying is the power structures at the white house and i think nora knows is this is that the people that won out in the the power structures wa not the bill daley let's figure out a way for everybody to get along and build links to people, the power structure that won out are the more partisan, the more polarizing power structures. and if i were billaley watching that, i'm not saying the president removed him because he said "i want to run a partisan campaign." but as those power structures were settled and it was settled on a much more partisan and polazing campaign, bill daley did not have room until that. >> rose: senator gregg... >> charlie, i think what matthew looking for that great healer, rl rove. (laughter) >> i'm not saying that! (laughter) >> you have to interview karl rove about me and you

it will be critical. >> sean: karl rove, good to see you. >> appreciate it.o see you. >> sean: what a difference four years makes. wait until you see our comparison of candidate obama 2008 victory speech to the embarrassing address he gave on tuesday night. it's safe to say the thrill up everybody's lec is gone. later, candidate newt gingrich will join us live from new hampshire to tell us how he plans to return to the top of [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. plus veggie nutrition. sometimes life can be, well, a little uncomfortable, but when it's hard or hurts to go to the bathroom, there's dulcolax stool softener. dulcolax stool softener doesn't make you go... it just makes it easier to go. dulcolax stool softener. make yourself comfortable. no, i wouldn't use that single miles credit card. hey, aren't you... shhh. i'm researchg a role. today's special... the capital one venture card. you earn double miles on every purch

from the republican establishment, karl rove, rush limbaugh thee guys are saying enough is enough. this is an act of self indulgence enormous, and an act of complete self-centered mancal behavior by newt gringrich. >> you're going to be here tomorrow night with me and we'll enjoy the "countdown" from the florida primary when we look ahead, when you look at february there are six races. nevada, colorado minnesota maine, arizona and michigan. mitt romney won five out of six of those in 2008. so it looks like-- >> well, look, i presume so, and let's face it, newt gringrich if he had an appeal maybe past tense given all the back and forth, it was going to be south carolina. everybody understood that. and to come back and-to-one mistake. what is the rule in politics never play defense. mitt romney played defense throughout the entire week leading up to south carolina. he said, guys, i blew it. he has been playing offense since then. he'll continue to play offense. newt gringrich is on defense. i don't see where in this back and forth in a tactical level that newt gringrich emergeses. >>

rove and i have different constituencies. my constituents are worried about jobs, health care, retirement security. they are worried about making sure their children can go to decent schools. we need the president's proposal to move forward when it comes to moving -- >> bill: manufacturing. you picked that as your best moment for president obama. china, honduras, india. sri lanka, you name it they pay their workers very little money. okay. so american manufacturers then go over there to get their stuff made and it comes back, all right. go to any wal-mart go. to any cosco and you will see it. okay. so, how in america with union labor in a lot of states will you ever compete with china and honduras? >> well, you know, first of all, with china, stop the manipulation of currency. >> bill: just on wages. >> drive wages to the bottom. you make sure that they have workers rights, human rights, environmental quality principles. our trade agreements are bogus. they're against the american worker and america. >> bill: pay people in ch

dick morris, karl rove are here to tell you why. rnc chairmancnc chairman previs. with 41% right now undecided, have all the pundits just been guessing? could there be an iowa surprise tomorrow the there was in 2008. governor mike huckabee. he is here to go on the record tonight. that is ahead as we count down to the showdown in iowa. but first, rick perry wants the 41% undecided to convinc pi. he is pulling out the stops. took a 14-day bus tour across iowa and he joins us be des moines. good evening, sir. >> how are you. good evening. happy new year. >> greta: happy new year to you, too. would third or fourth place, would you consider that a win for you, sir? >> listen, we are in it to win it. that's like asking the dallas cowboys if they want to win the next football game? absolutely. anybody in this wants to win first place. i don't think anybody is running for second place. that is not the reason i got in it. iowanss are like texans. it's amazing last 14 days as we traveled across the state and hit the small towns and the big cities and talked to them about get

dick morris, karl rove are here to tell you why. rnc chairmancnc chairman previs. with 41% right now undecided, have all the pundits just been guessing? could there be an iowa surprise tomorrow the there was in 2008. governor mike huckabee. he is here to go on the record tonight. that is ahead as we count down to the showdown in iowa. but first, rick perry wants the 41% undecided to convinc pi. he is pulling out the stops. took a 14-day bus tour across iowa and he joins us be des moines. good evening, sir. >> how are you. good evening. happy new year. >> greta: happy new year to you, too. would third or fourth place, would you consider that a win for you, sir? >> listen, we are in it to win it. that's like asking the dallas cowboys if they want to win the next football game? absolutely. anybody in this wants to win first place. i don't think anybody is running for second place. that is not the reason i got in it. iowanss are like texans. it's amazing last 14 days as we traveled across the state and hit the small towns and the big cities and talked to them about get

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we are instead meeting the high standard set by political master scalp carl rove-- karl rove whose american cross owed superpa superpac-- for carl forti operates black rock consultant who make ads for the mitt romney campaign. yes, one hand washes the other but they do it in separate bathrooms. and here's how we at the report keep it straight. now to make sure we don't inadvertently coordinate, we've actually split the staff into red team and blue team. red team, superpac. blue team, exploratory committee. now the blue team wears red shirts that say blue team in yellow while the red team wears blue shirts that say red team in green, okay. i have consulted a paralegal and i have been told that all of this is paralegal. (laughter) now jay, the intern, why don't you just run-- grab me a cup of coffee o buddy. >> sorry, stephen, i'm red team, i can't coordinate with you. >> stephen: good man, jay, stay vigilant no coordination. okay, now seriously g get me that coffee. okay, thanks. he is totally going to jail. we'll be right back. good job, everybody. (cheers and applause) >> thank you so much