back in two thousand and four tina brown had a t.v. show called topic a with tina brown on c.m.t. c and one day she was off and howard dean filled in for her dean had bev harris a black box voting dot org on the show and together they showed how easy it was to rig an election this is the official program that the county supervisor sees as we can see here howard dean has a thousand votes and lex luthor has five hundred so you're beating lex luthor and you see we have eight hundred votes here for you and four hundred for lex luthor let's just let those we'll make that four hundred and we'll give one hundred votes to tiger let's just see what happened here we go back into gems the legitimate way and as you can see now howard dean only has five hundred votes there has nine hundred in tiger woods has one hundred votes we just edited on lection it took us ninety seconds it took only ninety seconds to change the outcome of an election. machine a few months later on march seventh of two thousand and five john kerry's wife teresa heinz kerry told a group of seattle guests at a march sevent

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and he saved it if you asked tina brown and barry diller now they will tell you he saved "newsweek". >> rose: because he was prepared to go in there and buy it to understand what it could possibly be. >> bought it for a buck as he put it plus a few liabilities. >> rose: a few debts. >> but if he mr. there now, they say this, he would have creative ideas about better ways to do the business model and he would be all over it. >> rose: and what made this a great marriage? >> two type as. >> rose: look how lucky she was to have me. >> of course that is what he would say. and i was 27 years younger. and he was asked early on don't you have any sense of mortality. and his answer would always be yup, if janie can't make t she can't make it. >> rose: there is this too, egypt what is going to happen now that we have firstician lambist president, first nonmilitary guy, in a country in which islamists all over the world are looking saying hooray and the military is saying we're still in control? >> i don't know. i think they don't knows what's going to happen. but i am an optimist. why would i

however we've got to ask ourselves would tina brown and her liberal allies at newsweek, or in the dailynsider doing a cover of president obama with the same wording on it? of course not. that's the by as. they know they can get away with it with romney and nobody really will object in the mainstream media and they know they'd get murdered if they did it to president obama. rick: alan. >> i don't know about murderer. jim and i agree this was an effort to breakthrough the clutter. make waves, get newsweek a name. it's helping because we are discussing it. rick: what do you think as far as the impact that a cover like that has. here in new york city and i'm sure in lots of cities around the country you can't walk a city block without walking by a news stand and seeing at least the covers of all of the different magazines. does somebody walk by and look at that cover and does it change anybody's mind, jim? >> rick, look i worked for bush 41 back in 1987 during that 87-88 campaign when the newsweek ran the cover about bush 41, basically the same wording. not only did we win the nomination, w

and frankly, tina brown, she's failed at so many magazines, it's ridiculous.sed up magazine, has very few readers. and they're very partisan. i think it's frankly, almost should not be allowed what they've done. it's disgraceful. but it's a dead magazine. it closed up. nobody is reading it. nobody cares. >> brian: who with would your pick be for number two? >> i have a lot of picks. you have a lot of great people. obviously chris christie is a friend of pipe. berube i don't and portman and by the way, bob mcdonald in virginia is a terrific guy. you have a lot of really good picks. i think the republicans are going to do very, very well. if the economy doesn't get better soon, and it's not going to get better very soon, there could be a big change in the white house. >> steve: we could know who mr. romney's pick is in the next couple of weeks. donald trump joining us every monday morning about 7:30 eastern time. donald, thank you very much. have a great week. >> thank you very much. >> steve: you bet. >> gretchen: now to your herd lines. new government report r