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you cannot shock anybody by telling them a karl rove ad tells a lie. the issue is that the assertions in this $10 million ad buy are just blatantly at face value shockingly dishonest to anybody who understands anything about these issues that are in this ad. we're told that republicans have focus group this ad down to the last bristle on the air brush. they are confident that the assertions are false to anybody that knows the fact, they are confident it not be shocking to anyone. they are confident that people do not know what the facts are. are they right? in so, the number one question is why don't more people know the actual facts? how do you run on your record when the other side has crafted a new record for you. a record they would rather run against instead of the record of what you have done. the chief strategist joins us next. [ heart beating, monitor beeping ] woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of water caused all this? [ heart rate increases ] woman #2: but i don't ev

rove and others put into place.wants to cut taxes while raising taxes on 18 million working americans. it's a budget busting plan that the independent analysts would say would add $5 trillion to our deficits. for them to reason ads suggesting that the problem is debt and they're the answer is absurd. that case will be prosecuted over the course of this campaign. you can't hide the impacts of what you're trying to do or who you are or what you're record was a. a all of those things are part of this debate. people will make a choice . >> you mentioned karl rove's policy over the last decade. one of the things we learned this week is mitt romney is going to be doing a fund-raiser with former vice president, dick cheney. he's described him as the kind of vice president he would like to have. i wonder as you are shaping as the obama re-election campaign's narrative about mitt romney, do you think there are important differences between what romney would offer and the george w. bush-dick cheney years offered or is it the

the people at the top like karl rove done believe these issues at all.t them to vote against their own economic interests. >> so they can achieve power. >> to give you an example dr liberty university is where he will speak at the graduation next week which banned the democratic club on campus for supporting same-sex marriage and lgbt rights. withdraw from cpac the question to have a gay rights group. >> he is going to have to be in very deep water here. the fact of the matter is the majority of the american people believe in gay rights. the majority of the gay people are not trying to take contraceptives away from women like roman catholics in their institutions, and going even further and lying about the first -- the president of the united states and saying he is anti-religious because he won't let them deprive women who work for these million billion dollar corporations the catholics run on health care. so sooner or later romney will have to say i'm with the people or i will let this fringe run everything i say. the bishops, thehe will have to choose

this is stephanie cutter from team obama speaking about karl rove. >> here we are again.rove's group crossroads is spending $25 million from secret donners to tear down the president. when robe says the president broke his promise on middle class tax cuts, he's not telling you the truth. >> amazing stephanie cutter taking it to karl rove in a campaign ad. >> i've never seen anything like that before where basically karl rove is a staffer. he's a high level staffer but for the president's re-election campaign to go after a staffer is a big deal which tells you obviously karl rove and crossroads is clearly making some headway for them to go after them people. >> rove is the lead person and remember when they first started crossroads gps, they were saying this was meant to be a shadow rnc. he very publicly put himself out there as the face of the critique of president obama. >> karl rove happy to take it from all corners i think. after the break, he's back. former president george w. bush is re-emerging. will the party embrace the former leader or will he remain he who shall

pay for jeremiah wright ads my bet is that someone among the republicans will go glee probably karl rove who is going to spend three hundred million dollars this year attacking obama's character using reverend wright as rickets advisors proposed and that it will damage obama just like the swift boat attacks on john kerry's character probably lost in the two thousand and four election. and i'll bet that the democrats won't go ugly against romney's mormonism both out of a concern that it's an unfair attack but also because the mormon church unlike a small fraternity of swift boat commanders the mormon church is a very very rich and powerful institution that has already shown he can flip it election result numerous states most visibly with proposition eight in california on the other hand there will be massive amounts of mormon money thrown into this election particularly given that many mormons believe that one of their own is destined by joseph smith's prophecies to become president of the united states and this is their big chance religion and big money two of the most toxic elements of

just listen to the ceo of karl rove's superpac american crossroads, steven law. he's so worried about the billionaires. >> we have some very large donors who contribute a significant amount and they are fully disclosed, they're not overly concerned about it. but there are some people who are concerned about a culture of intimidation. increasingly, people feel like there are reprisals against people who get involved in the political process. >> stephen: yes, secret billionaires are just trying to get involved in the political process -- the same way the secret service wanted to get involved with those prostitutes. [ laughter ] so to protect themselves from accountability, big donors need anonymity. like casino billionaire sheldon adelson, who almost singlehandedly funded newt gingrich's superpac "winning our future," which has recently been renamed "dodging our creditors." [ laughter ] well, now adelson is going underground, where it's possible he also originated. [ laughter ] he says, from now on, if he injects big bucks into this election "it will be to a c-4."

it's from a super p ac co founded by carl rove. >> agenda promised so much. >> we must help the millionsosure. >> promise broken. one in five mortgages are still under water. > the they say he failed the people when it comes to housing. today the obama campaign responded going after rove. >> because of the president's policies and the effort he set many motion over 5.9 million were able to change çktheir mortgages, avoid foreclosure and stay in their homes. carl rove is relying on you doing nothing to call out his bs and i know will prove him Ñ- wrong. >> reporter: çkthat goes çkon f about three minutes and what it does is try to disprove everything from the previous ad but çkyou know as well as i do this day and age Ñ-of super pac there is a lot more back and forth. >> okay i was going to say stay for that live report. . >> coming up new at six what would you do if you opened up the water bill and it was four times as much as normal? what people in one neighborhood say is going on and what the city is doing. >>> and we need them to power a lot of things, but they could be putting our ch

>> a picture of the man. >> let's get on rove. ♪ mr. ♪ ♪ don't ever let him cut your hair ♪ >> these ideas that sounded so good in the classrooms at harvard and yale. >> diplomas from liberty should come with a huge asterisk. target serves pizza. that doesn't playing it a restaurant. >> come on, man. >> rich versus poor. men versus women. >> come on, man. >> let's get right to our panel now. dana milbank of the "washington post" joins us. live from new york, editor of points memo.com. and joining us in our studios, msnbc contributor joe-ann reid from grio.com. >> josh, you're an historian so i would like to start with you and the inane suggestion about the president being the most divisive figure in modern history. is he trying to suggest that this was more divisive than what george w. bush did with gay marriage in 2004? or what the republican does in 1988? or even the anti-catholic bigotry we saw in 1928? they're all worse than this president. is that correct? >> i think it is kreg. does he divide the country in half? i think that's tr

with rove rosie o'donnell if you had him. i can't think of a single thing ok about romney all that or get rid of the hair plugs gone. thanks guys michael they were good as it was. crazy alert an undercover unicorn last week arizona secretary of state ken bennett said he would remove president obama from the state's ballot until he received proof from a y. e that the president was in fact born there well in response to this latest flare up of birth or ism seventeen thousand people have signed a petition asking bennett to investigate mitt romney as well specifically for the possibility that he might be a unicorn that's right seventeen thousand people think mitt romney might be a unicorn and feel that the issue needs to be cleared up with a thorough and lengthy investigation of course since mythical creatures can't be president united states mitt romney would probably have to end his campaign if he was found to be a unicorn but it was a minute's walk that might be a whole different story so if mitt romney could be a unicorn what

nice, carl rove, that seeming to be nice is the smart move.itics. everyone in the nicu, all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment. i wouldn't trade him for the world. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders so they matter most to us. if you're caring for a child with special needs, our innovative special care program offers strategies that can help. >>> four years ago, colin powell passed obama for president. today colin powell praised obama for rescuing the auto industry and led them out of the biggest downturn since the great depression. powell is going to endorse obama -- at least for now. >> the beautiful part of being a private citizen is you can decide when you want to throw your weight if you want to throw your weight. i'm stilllistening to what the republicans say they're going to do to get the fiscal economy moving. i think i owe them that. >> powell keep

carl rove knows which states we need to win. >> i want to look at the details.es that john mccain won and then he has to win back three republican states from obama, indiana, virginia, north carolina. the president won indiana and north carolina but only by 1% or less in 2008. i think the real challenge here if you look at the polls is going to be virginia. >> for mitt romney, yes. nbc had a poll out last week that had the president leading in virginia. if you talk to the obama folks they believe that there are more than 40 different pathways to the presidency. mitt romney has to win florida. for democrats back in the day we had to win florida. we had to win ohio. >> you're jumping ahead. >> sorry. yes. i think that the president has a lot of different pathways to the presidency. mitt romney has few pathways. it is still a close race. we are leading in those three important battle grounds. >> let's take a look at the second part of the strategy, alice. it's to win ohio and florida worth -- wait a minute. hold on. that's correct. worth 47 electoral votes. the rac

because karl rove's group has a new ad out. and it's softer than other attack ads. watch this. ♪ >> i always loved watching the kids play basketball. i still do. even though things have changed. it's funny. they can't find jobs to get their careers started, and i can't afford to retire. and now which ear all living together again. i supported president obama because he spoke so beautifully. he promised change but things changed for the worse, obama started spending like our credit cards have no limit. >> linda -- i know. karl's crying, it's true. and the kids being such losers in that ad always makes me cry. and i don't mean that for people that can't get a job, the rest of is the ad is oh, ho, back home. >> i think it's incredibly ironic that karl rove produced that ad. >> yes. linda do you think president obama is a bad guy, lacks character, et cetera. it seems like that is on an effective strategy. the strategy where they were going to try to get people to hate president obama is not going to work. >> that's not going to work at all. and as we just talked about,

with national security, i'm so glad you got that karl rove power point. they did it at every turn. they made the war, 9/11, their center piece of the reelection campaign and of the 2002 mid term campaign. dick cheney came out and said, if you vote for john kerry you're making the country less safe. so they are brazen. they do it every time. it feels like right now the main stream media is paying more attention and calling them on it. that's the only good news i have. >> david, you wrote a book called "huberous." in brooklyn, where i'm from, we call it something else. this is amazing. standing in front of a firehouse where responders were called on 9/11, criticizing the president while you are playing on national security. then romney has the nerve to say that he would not rule out going to pakistan to take out bin laden in 2007. >> you know, let me pick up on another threat that came out in the opening package there. and that's when john mccain says, any president would have done this. you heard mitt romney say that yesterday. rudy giuliani has said the same. these guys really need

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did you catch this karl rove ad running for $10 million.this case, smart, but not especially honest. did you see that government spending is rising year after year, relentlessly throwing away our dollars, government spends has been basically flat all these last years. flat, flat, flat. anyway, flat all four years, and how about saying obama raised taxes. that's another thing you hear. obama lost every fight we know he had with the republican congress to get rid of the bush tax rates. the tax rates we have today are the same when w. left us. if they're holding the economy back, blame w. republicans can't keep attacked obama from trying to dump the tax cuts and blaming him for having done so. apparently they can. that's what he is doing in this slick ad, walking obama for the tax cuts his guy -- wasn't karl rove the architect of the w. era, the tax rates he left us with. join us again tomorrow when we meet newt gipg rich in tngrich . "politicsnation" is next. >>> tonight's lead. this is the man who is going to fix the economy. mitt romney mad

i believe karl rove would not do what the koch brothers do.e evil people. >> greg: these are sugar daddies for political parties. get over it. >> bob: when you spend $100 million a year -- >> greg: how much money does obama have? >> bob: these people act independently. >> greg: you'd love them if they were on your side, bob. >> dana: what about the union none surprise, the unions will go out and have a campaign for president obama. that was counterbalanced. >> andrea: speaking the contractors, richard trumka has words about his relationship with president obama and what would happen after a second term. >> have you had specific conversations with president obama about what his agenda in the second term might be? >> i have had conversations with the president. i have had conversations with his staff. his cabinet about things of that sorb. yeah. >> andrea: speaking of killer contracts. >> bob: i know richard trumka. a decent human being. private sector, unions represent less than 9% of the workforce. the idea that there is a killer contract out

karl rove is the republican bill ayers.cares about this. >> i would not equate the koch brothers with karl. they are two separate things. you know my feeling about the koch brothers. i think they have broken the law and sold to the enemy. >> eric: stop, snob, stop. >> bob: you always say stop. >> eric: we are talking about campaign financing. >> bob: big money behind campaigns. i believe karl rove would not do what the koch brothers do. brothers are evil people. >> greg: these are sugar daddies for political parties. get over it. >> bob: when you spend $100 million a year -- >> greg: how much money does obama have? >> bob: these people act independently. >> greg: you'd love them if they were on your side, bob. >> dana: what about the union none surprise, the unions will go out and have a campaign for president obama. that was counterbalanced. >> andrea: speaking the contractors, richard trumka has words about his relationship with president obama and what would happen after a second term. >> have you had specific conversati

here is the new ad from karl rove's group that says president obama engaged in massive government spending increases. >> obama started spending like our credit cards had no limit. how will my kids pay that off when they can't find jobs. i had so many hopes, cutting taxes, debt, and creating jobs. that's the change we need. >> mitt romney likened his spending to an inferno, let's watch him. >> rather than putting out that spending fire, he has been feeding it. he spent more and borrowed more. the time as come from a leader and a president who will lead us i will lead us out of this debt. >> and it's not true at all. market watch points out that federal spending is rising at the lowest rate, look at that bar chart there. from 2009 to 2013, no change. it's been about $3.5 trillion right through. every once in awhile i'm amazed when i hear that government spending is spiking, and believing that every year is ticking upward, but it's incredibly flat. >> it is, this market watch piece is getting a lot of attention. i've been trying to think about what is the biggest lie they have told so far. bi

we're never going to know who the people are that put $10 million together for rove. do they keep their names secret? >> because they are not required to disclose that under the law. i think we have litigated this before. and it will take an act of congress to change that. and so, you know, there's no need for anyone to disclose, you know, their individual donation necessarily and certainly, you know, that's a accumulation of funds that paid for this ad. not one necessarily donor that made pour that. >> we don't know that. >> we don't know that. >> we don't know any of that. we don't know anything. >> but bottom line, chris, whether you are talking about gps or obama's super pac, it is the same reality that no one will say when mr. burton puts out ads on behalf of obama. will he disclose who contributed to that ad? no, he doesn't have to. >> but the point that the people paying for the ad are not the single women out there voting for obama the last time. there is no "we" involved in this, cynthia. >> they don't have the money. no, no, no, they don't have the money to

karl rove and the republican party know how important the re-election day is. they have only 18 days to round up votes. and to send scott walker packing. he set out a new set of job numbers that set a spin on job numbers. earlier raw data showed a 23,000 job gain in his first year as governor. on the very same day, he released this highly produced television commercial. >> i have some bad news for tom barrett but good news for wisconsin. the government just released the final job numbers. as it turns out, wisconsin actually gained, that's right, gained more than 20,000 new jobs during my first year in office. add the jobs created this year and the total grows to over 30,000. >> walker cooked the books, is that what he's doing? the job numbers? released a new commercial, did a national tv interview and had karl rove back him up all in the same day. think they're coordinated? face it, folks, republicans are in this to win it. democrats need to get it together and fight back. walker is flat out lying about the numbers. today, the bureau of labor statistics release

we've got two experts here, karl rove, the star of stage and screen. before that a deputy white house chief of staff. and architect, to quote a famous person's word. of two winning presidential election campaigns and many would say also architect of the revival of the republican party in texas. joe trippi is his sometime debater on television. he is a noted democratic strategist, one of the innovators in the use of the internet and social media in political campaigns. he's also the man who helped to bring howard dean that close to winning the democratic nomination -- >> in arizona! new mexico! colorado! >> he was one shout away. he was one shout away from the presidency. and has helped with jerry brown's campaign in california in 2010 as well as many campaigns overseas. so i'm really thrilled they're here. i'm delighted. we're going to have a fun conversation. and i want to start -- we'll talk for a while, then open it up for questions from you all. but i want to start by seeing if we can get into the head of the campaigns as they are right at this sta

a 10-minute workout to give you a body she'll want to rove. unfortunately, some foreign countries just don't get how tv works. because my friend kermit has been booked for illegal advertising on german tv. and not,aise first assumed, for his full frontal nudity. jimmy! jimmy, please, blur that out! okay. you see, back in november, kermit was over in germany doing a junket for his upcoming movie "the muppets." jim. wow, it is disturbing to hear kermit speak german. although, i suppose it shouldn't be surprising given how much he loves pork ?itser. pork schnitzel. the problem is during one guest appearance on zeeben's "disney day," kermit plugged his movie in violation of german media law which bans product placement unless clearly identified as sump, unlike in america, where advertising calls attention to itself by being everything that exists. ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( cheers ) folks, this is an outrage. how could germany do this to a beloved children's icon? well, here to answer for his country, please welcome the german ambassador to the u

karl rove wants to keep attacks about jeremiah wright out of the headlines. sarah palin will bring it on. steve schmidt will weigh in. and a vile of ronlds reagan's blood is up for auction to the highest bidder. how could anything go wrong with that? >>> an online auction company is selling a vile containing traces of the late president reagan's blood. the auction house said it was used for a blood test after assassination by john hinkley jr. on march 30, 1981. it was obtained not from the hospital that treated maryland. unsurprisingly the form president's family has denounced the auction. his son michael suggested the vile was more likely filled with mouse blood. while some might regard this auction as a morbid attempt to cash in, political artifacts remain in interest. the bed abraham lincoln died in is on display. the bloodstained suit worn by jackie kennedy on the day her husband was assassinationed is being held by the national archives. donated anonymously, it won't be on display until the year 2103. the hearse that held jfk's body was sold for $168,000