. >> this is steve schmitt, leave a message. >> steve it's nicolle, i will gladly resign if you want to blame me for couric, if you want me to stay i'm back on the bus tomorrow because i never want to deal with that woman again. >> the popularity and huge roll out of "game change" will cement forever the narrative that frankly was not the consensus view while the mccain-palin campaign was under way but was the truth learned the hard way by nicolle wallace and steve schmitt during the campaign. john mccain's first presidency level decision, the choice of his party's vice presidential nominee was a disaster and nightmare. in real life after the campaign, sarah palin wrote a book with her tell-all version how awful the campaign had been. and in real life, after the campaign, the advisor, nicolle wallace wrote a novel about a republican woman who becomes president and makes a terrible, terrible choice for vice president. the advisor who you saw her calling in this scene, steve schmitt is now an analyst for msnbc. >> what would either of you say to sarah palin getting in the race. i have

i think that the santorum and gingrich critique with steve schmitt is taken part. they shouldn't be getting on him for spending so much money. i do actually think there is a little bit of an motional pull to that critique. i think it sort of matters to people that mitt romney has outspent rick santorum seven to one in illinois. as chuck says, the dem graphic there's, he should have been able to win it by spending nothing. he really is just blanketing people in money. i think that people sometimes resent that even if you want your candidate to have the resources to compete. i think that rick santorum has got to push newt gingrich out of the race. he's got to show he can win somewhere outside the deep south. i don't think he's going to do that. so i think the romney campaign has to figure out how they're going to appeal to people who don't like him and vote for rick santorum anyway. >> steve schmitt, what does tonight mean for the strategists and three strategists and campaigns? >> you took a step forward tonight in the mitt romney campaign. the race isn't over. you

. >> steve schmitt, listening to mr. santorum tonight attack plg romney as a manager who just does what he is told, who has no core, who believes what the climate at the political climate at the moment tells him to believe. he is building an effective rebuttal to the mitt romney centered campaign? >> i think one of the things that you heard rick santorum talk about tonight which i think is intended to insulate him from calls to get out of the race or to step aside is that he's looking forward to the pennsylvania primary five weeks from now, giving no indication that he's planning to get out of the race. the gloves are off. he's going to continue to make a tough case. he's going to continue to make an ideological case attacking mitt romney from his right. his strategy is to deny mitt romney the requisite number of delegates he needs to be nominated under the hope that rick santorum in his mind the more conservative the two can come up with a strategy at the convention. f. there's not enough delegates to nominate. >> andre

he played steve schmitt. at this point in the movie the prep for sarah palin's debate with joe biden is not going well at all, and schmitt has a new approach. >> what we need you to do is to memorize 25 answers and four tag lines. do you think you can do that? >> yeah, i can do that. >> on the subject of nuclear iran, senator o'biden and i are most likely in agreement. they cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, period. it was ronald reagan who said that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. we don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream, and there is only one man in this race who has really ever fought for you, and that's senator john mccain. chris: wow. that's the prep in the movie. now watch the actual debate as it happened. >> it was ronald reagan who said that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. we don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. we will fight for it. and there is only one man in this race who has really ever fought for you, and

yes. >> steve schmitt, what's it like watching this?> it's nice to watch it on this side of the table. >> i bet. you had -- the connect ability thing keeps coming back. there's actually a great must-read. but does it matter ultimately in the times? >> i can't believe gingrich played the leonard wood card. >> i know. >> look, i think the problem that mitt romney has in this is that the southern states or the base of the republican party. they're the cultural heart of the party. the thing that makes it difficult for him. but gingrich's problem, and he talks about romney's weakness, but he keeps losing to romney. so i think if you're a guy who is attacking someone's weakness that keeps beating you, i think that argument begins to fall away. >> is there anything he can do to be mitt romney less detached in those areas? >> i think a lot of this stuff is not sensical. he's got a record of achieving, succeeding, fixing broken institutions. he's going to need to tell that to the public through his prism, not through theirs. >> we're going to ta

but what do you say to the guy steve schmitt who said it is all true. >> guest: i regret that he wouldake such a statement. >> chris: we'll leave it there. thank you for coming on. it always a pleasure to talk with you. in the movie which i part of. you wear like a sailors and i guess that would be unfair to sailors and so i will leaf -a leaf li ave it there. up next. rising gas prices and the reason behind the president's flat poll numbers with every door direct mail from the postal service, you'll find the customers that matter most: the ones in your neighborhood. print it yourself, or we'll help you find a local partner. and postage is under 15 cents. i wish i would have known that cause i really don't think i chose the best location. it's not so bad. i mean you got a deal... right? [ bird cries ] go online to reach every home, every address, every time with every door direct mail. wheeeeeeeeeeeee! whee! whee! wheeeeeeeee! ah heads up. wheeeeeeeeeeee! everything you love about geico, now mobile. download the new geico app today. >> i did not run for this office just to get back to w

. >> playing our friend steve schmitt. >> everyone is talking about julianne moore, but once they see see steve schmid, they will be blown away. >> one of the staffers who attacked the movie offered to be a consultant, what about that? >> he reached out to me after i interviewed him, sent me an e-mail saying it was based on a book he felt was accurate and then i asked if he could be a consultant on the project and a year later he's attacking us and the book, i was surprised by that. >> do you think this will damage sarah palin for any political future at all? >> i think the people who love sarah palin are always going to love sarah palin and nothing will ever change that. and the people that aren't fans, i don't think anything will change that. our goal wasn't to influence people's opinions, it was to talk about the system how we elect presidents. >> was this one of yours most rewarding project? >> it was fantastic project and it's a great story and a crazy story, you know? this really happened. it did happen. >>> hbo tomorrow night. >> that's "the ed show" i'm ed schultz, listen me t

. >> thank you, steve schmitt. remember buddy romer? he's in the race, he doesn't matter either. steve sh it's great to you have on. i'm more impressed every time i see that movie. i've seen it three times now. i'm going for the record. coming up, newt gingrich failed to win either alabama or mississippi last night. so why is he still here? what does he plan to do? at least what is his rational for sticking around? we'll hear him out one more time. [ male announcer ] the draw of the past is a powerful thing. but we couldn't simply repeat history. we had to create it. introducing the 2013 lexus gs, with leading-edge safety technology, like available blind spot monitor... [ tires screech ] ...night view... and heads-up display. [ engine revving ] the all-new 2013 lexus gs. there's no going back. monarch of marketing analysis. with the ability to improve roi through seo all by cob. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. i'm going b-i-g. [ male announc

steve schmitt i kept focusing on. elbows in alligators trying to keep things from going haywire, trying to keep his candidate on the road to possible victory and this is the hard part, keep sarah palin a reasonable facsimile of a national candidate and keeping sarah palin from in her own unforgettable phrase, from going rogue. it's pure pathos, so much of what it means to be a human being in the complex, shake and bake everra. >> we not do what we are but we are responsible for what we are. we do not do what we want but we are responsible for what we are. how many times we get pushed in a decision and then begin to regret it. they knew it was a risk, they did it anyway. they knew they weren't picking a president or vice president, picking a running mate who would help them win but did it nonetheless. and faced the consequence and had to live them slowly and painfully. a down payment of what history would exact of them for having made the expedient decision to pick an unqualified candidate for vp. this is what this inc

also steve schmitt is with us, strategist for president obama's campaign in 2008. as we wait for mr. romney's remarks, thanks for being with us. >> you bet. >> steve, in terms of the candidate's role tonight, it was an expected win for mr. romney. is this an opportunity to make a national address? what should he be aiming for? >> these tuesday nights are so important when the candidates, rachel, have an opportunity to get out there, to talk to millions of americans across a multi-network platform, to deliver their message to set up the race ahead. we've seen these candidates have some good nights where they've hit the mark on these speeches and other nights where they've been out of it. every tuesday is a big night. we'll see how he does tonight. >> steve, thank you. you and john, if you could both stick with us, i'd love to get your comments when he's done. we're about to hear mitt romney having been projected the winner of the illinois primary. >> so many friends in this room and across illinois, what a night. thank you, illinois. what a night! [ applause ] >> and

. >> so the doubts that steve schmitt voices in herbility to be president were anything going to happeno him, he's never behind the scenes given any -- >> there are people close friends of senator mccain who think it was a bad idea in retrospect. no one i talked to has said he has ever once said anything disparaging about her. or backed off the decision to pick her. >> let's go from the movies to the real thing. and this race is now heading down in my backyard, kind of like when the troops have to go to the pass, it's mountainous, dangerous region down there for mitt romney. >> you know, you called this, joe. after in tennessee last weekend, mitt romney sang the davey crockett theme, you predicted he would sing "sweet home alabama." he came close in mississippi getting in touch with his southern roots such that they are. >> this guy i see every day, time after time after time, and this is a guy from mississippi. and his name is garrett jackson. come over here, garrett. four years at ole miss. and so -- and so he is -- he is now turning me into -- i don't know, an unofficial southerner a