arrested karl rove on any given day i'm not kidding there's a prison there in the air in the capital if we had spotted him in the capitol we could have arrested him so republicans hold attorney general in contempt over a bizarre conspiracy theory yet war criminals and operatives who leak names of cia agents for political retaliation get to walk. but here's the bigger picture nancy pelosi says she could have arrested karl rove any time and there's a long list of crimes that rove was implicated in from helping set up secret overseas prisons to torture to outing a cia agent to of two to lying to lead the united states into an unnecessary war to secretly illegally wiretapping american citizens but the speaker of the house palosi said she wasn't going to arrest rove he successfully called her bluff because not arresting him she said was quote the best thing for the country and quote in july of two thousand and eight when he was under a subpoena to testify before congress about his crimes rove didn't even bother to show up instead he left the country to go to yalta eric holder at least sho

karl rove said on fox news that he was the lawyer for this woman, dana jill simpson, after karl rove went on fox news last week and made this weird allegation out of the blue, president obama's campaign lawyer wrote a letter to karl rove which we have. the letter says i have never represented dana jill simpson nor had anything to do with your allegations. i have never met ms. simpson or talked to her on the phone or crossed her path in any way. the identity of her lawyer is public record, a lawyer i have never met, but whom you can find through the search engine of your choice. you can google who the lawyer was. we spoke with the lawyer. we asked her about the weird thing we heard on fox news about bob bower, and she said, quote, bob bower was toty unknown to everybody down here. there were a lot of other lawyers on the periphery, but he was nowhere to be seen. he was not involved in any way nor was his firm. i think karl rove is delusional. i think leers lying. we contacted mr. rove's office today to see what he was talking about. why did he bring this up? and what about the fact it

with that said let's play karl rove's response to all of this. he was on fox yesterday or wednesday night. >> we have some of the best lawyers in the country both on the tax side and on the political side. the political election law to make certain we never get close to the line that will push us into the gps political grip as opposed to a social welfare organization. >> does that sound like an adequate explanation that everything will stay on the up and up while we're there with closed doors and no reporters and recording devices and so on? >> i don't doubt that karl rove's crossroads gps group has the best lawyers in the business but as you said part of a tax-exempt nonprofit like crossroads gps which has spent tens of millions of dollars in this election cycle is that we don't know who their donors are. we don't know how they work internally. and, really, you're going on karl rove's word here and you can take that for what it is. you know, in terms of the complaint that bob bower the obama attorney has made it is unlikely the fec will act on t

i have to tell you, i was literally stunned listening to karl rove speak. this is the guy who had to go in time after time after time to stop himself getting indicted. in the valerie plame case was about attempting to go after the wife, a secret operative wife who worked for the cia of an ambassador sent to africa to find out if really iraq was trying to acquire nuclear material from niger. this was about covering up the biggest intelligence blunder or sham that we've had in modern history. the idea we went to war based on the idea that iraq was getting nuclear weapons and leaking a cia operative's name. this is unreal he col even speak the word leak. >> ken, when are we going to start seeing ads about this leak story from karl rove's super pac? didn't he just unleash another major buy in nine states? >> you know, i actually would not be surprised to see ads either from super pacs or outside groups associated with rove or others. its democrats should sit up and take notice anytime karl rove says anything that suggests a strategy or attack in the presidentia

. >> do you remember in the bush administration when harriet miers, white house koucounsel a karl rove were going to be held in contempt. that was the firing of the nine assistant u.s. attorneys. there were political firings. but, in fact, what happened, it got pushed and pushed, but then karl rove testifies in private and everything goes away.

bob bauer has karl rove like this, and karl rove has stepped right into it. when you make an allegation on t.v., as karl rove has done, suggesting that somebody was, you know, being vin dictive because of something that they did when in fact the person didn't do it t karl rove has to explain himself. he can get out of this by issuing a public retraction a public apology. what do you make of this peter? peter: i don't know if he is in any trouble. he is just dumb. if they have him on to be, you know, a pundit or someone who knows what he is talking about he has clearly shown he is just wrong. so he either wildly screwed up. right? or he is making something up to try and help his case. i mean either way, he looks like a dope. david: he looks stoeshlths stupid. you know, yeahtotally stupid. you know, yeah he could make sure bob bauer is the bob bauer he thinks. he didn't check about that. he has been all over fox news claiming because president obama asserted executive privilege that this means the president is in the middle of this or involved in some fashion.

why is karl rove so protective of his donors? >> you're always picking on karl rove. he's trying to start a nice welfare program. >> i just want to know who is giving to his welfare program. that's all. >> you can't blame the guy for trying. listen, i think the whole system is messed up. we have to tear this all apart and start over. at first, it was the super pacs, and now this making it a social program, a way around the super pacs. think we should let everyone give any amount they want to any candidate as long as there's full disclosure. make it more direct. >> karen, what do you think? >> nice try, mark. >> i'm serious about that. just be open and honest. >> i agree on the disclosure problem. but here is what is going on in this specific case. they're a social welfare program. you're being unfair to millionaires and billionaires whose profits they're trying to protect. we saw last week some of the major donors say that they were intentionally going to use these loopholes and these shadow groups to give, and one of them, and i quote, said because it will be more un

could the protests karl rove? don't ask them who karl rove is. >> who is karl rove? why are we marching against him? >> basically -- oh, god! >> think newt gingrich and work your way backwards. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> ♪ dynamite >> thank you, jimmy j.j. walker who is going to be on this hour. i think that's the first time we've done a multiple head shot. >> i'm getting the sense it's the last. >> no, i liked it. i am going to do the cold open from behind the sofa every morning now. >> right. hopefully. above the sofa. >> all right, meanwhile, let's get to your headlines. we have a lot of news to get to this morning because we're getting some incredible new images out of colorado. you can see entire neighborhoods there literally burning to the ground at six different wildfires spread throughout the state. the governor describing this as like looking at a military invasion. the fires are being fuelled by record high temperatures and 65-mile-per-hour winds. right now, at least 3200 people are being forced out of their homes in the colorado springs area. t

but karl rove is in a league of his own with this. they might name the hall of name after him, in fact. in the bush white house he had a habit of baring bad news by releasing it late on friday afternoon, and now he has criticized the president for releasing bad news on friday afternoons. he has accused the obama team of being in a permanent campaign. he is now accusing the president of trying to win by relying on an endless barrage of ads. he out did himself this week on the sean hannity show and predicted what the president and his allies would do to win or try to do to win. >> they will do it by trying to take their wallet and buying it. >> in fairness to mr. rove, if he were making this argument four years ago, he may be able to present it with a straight face. in that time, the president was one of the most prolific fund-raiser that anyone has seen. he benefitted from a huge financial advantage. four years later, however, rove's argument is unbelievable. and under the circumstances more than a little ironic. politico reported that

this is karl rove cross rotes super pac raising more money than anyone on the democratic side. the republicans have the leg up. super pacs are the best things that happened to them because the billionaires want to give to them. it's an investment on what they'll get in return. democratic donors on the other side are just not that motivated for a number of reasons to pour in this unlimited money. republicans love the new rules to the game. >> right, paul, let me ask you what is the difference between this retreat and say, president obama attending a fundraiser hosted by sara jessica parker? >> i think it depends on the content of the retreat. i think that they're both equally sucking up to rich people to try to get contributions. you know, obama has increased his victory committee to be able to take the same amount of money that romney has $708,000. the question is are they talking policy sitting down with policy advisers? is this a tradeoff for you get money and then you talk to the people who might wind up in my administration. that's a little bit different than sitting down w

>> steve: in other words, at the anti-karl rove rally, it's like, karl rove is bad! who is karl rove? >> brian: in washington, it's a weekend. how could you not know who you're protesting? >> alisyn: how could they get them to turn out. >> steve: that's karl rove right there. >> brian: he's all in the eye of the storm. >> steve: yeah. interesting video from the blaze. >> brian: next, only on this show unless somebody else has format exactly like ours. who is the leak? who is the leaker? republicans ramping up the pressure on the attorney general to get to the bottom of it. will it work? our panel weighs in. look at them. >> alisyn: can you imagine working with your ex? denise richards is going to. she's co-starring with charlie sheen when she joins us. >> brian: and try it disspell a rumor. >> steve: big news or not. you be the judge ♪ i'm making my money do more. ♪ i'm consolidating my assets. i'm not paying hidden fees or high commissions. i'm making the most of my money. and seven-dollar trades are just the start. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. i'm wi

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karl rove is not the one to apologize. this super pac issue is serious. when you're talking about karl rove and mitt romney, they have so much experience. mitt romney from bain capital and karl rove with how to float the rules. having a blind trust and moving your money offshore is like practice for what you need to exploit citizens united which why at the end of the day we have a call for the revisitation and overturning of citizens united as soon as possible. it is destroying american politics and we are watching it unfold right now. >> ana marie cox and karen finney and dr. james peterson, brilliant even over those two segments. thank you to automatic. >>> stay with us. much more ahead. >>> the notion that my white house would purposely release classified and national security information is offensive. >> of course, the white house leaks it! and, of course, they did it to make obama look like he was tough on terror! ♪ and i will always love you ♪ havi ng a n irregular heartbeat havi called atrial fibrillation ng a puts you at 5 times greater risk o

saying i could have arrested karl rove on any given day. i'm not kidding. if we spotted him in the capitol we could have arrested him. what is leader pelosi talking about? that goes back to 2007. the bush administration invok invoking the executive privilege. the focus of the executive privilege assertion, karl rov rove's conversation with justice department official of. then senator obama was asked about it during an interview with larry king. >> there has been on the part of this administration to try to hide behind executive privilege every time there is something a little shaky that is taking place. and i think the administration would be best served by comeing clean on this. there doesn't seem to be any national security issues involved with the u.s. attorney general question. there doesn't seem to be any justification for are not offering up some clear plausible rationale for why these u.s. attorneys were targeted when by all assessme t assessments they were doing an outstanding job. i think the american people deserve to know what was going on there.

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. >> karl rove is the coordinate or running things. running the conference calls if you ask me. >> ken, what were you going to jump in and say. >> there is coordination. we have written about this before. there are these meetings that occur, so far they are occurring once a month. the weaver terrace group meeting, so named for the residential street in northwest washington in which karl rove used to live where he had the first of these in his living room. they involve a number of representatives from a number of these big groups super p.a.c.s, 5 open 1 c 4 non-profit organizations which don't disclose donors. they do the odds whichrations, which groups they are going to play in, how much they are going to play. there is coordination. however, what we detected which was interesting was a little bit of dishe knew among the ranks where karl rove in particular seemed to be disparaging the super p.a.c. supporting mitt romney to which sheldon adelson, we understand is going to contribute as much as $10 million suggesting the money would be b

could the protests karl rove? don't ask them who karl rove is. >> who is karl rove? why are we marching against him? >> basically -- oh, god! >> think newt gingrich and work your way backwards. "fox & friends" starts right now.

. >> karen, i want to play a new health care ad by karl rove's cross roads super pac. take a listen. >> i would never vote to take away a senior's health care or himt anyone's care. >> but heidi endorsed obamacare. >> that ad basically implies she's lying. but i want to play for you the original ads that they're quoting. >> 12 years ago, i beat breast cancer. when you live through that, political attack ads seem silly. i would never vote to take away a senior's health care. >> so, congratulations to karl rove. >> it's really classy isn't it? having lived through this in the clinton years, this is the kind of very nasty distortion that we are going to see over the next several weeks. but here's the thing. remember that political speaking, mitt romney has to win independents. this is about the independents. and they have to be worried that a little bit too much of the extremes, remember what we saw from the tea partiers and this kind of extreme ad. again, a a woman who overcame breast cancer. that's not going to appeal to independent voters. if you're someone for whom th

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and the very very ugly karl rove of his g.o.p. is crossroads g.p.s. american crossroads super pacs rove has already done enough to help weaken american democracy but now he's just flat out making a mockery of rove will be attending and speaking to mitt romney retreat this weekend. high end donors which is reportedly an opportunity to strategize and fraternize among the new backers robes super pacs plan to spend plan to spend upwards of three hundred million dollars to help romney beat president obama in november but by law they can't associate or coordinate with mitt romney or his official campaign so it seems like by attending the event rove is breaking the law but of course he doesn't care this is the guy who dared nancy pelosi to arrest him for years who helped commit treason by outing a cia officer and who participated in lyon our nation into two bloody expensive and unnecessary wars just for political gain and now he's making a mockery of the few laws left to protect our electoral system. that it's very clear. you may remember last week when mich

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but before any of the facts came out, karl rove's group was on the attack. they tweeted quote, how does commerce secretary have three car crashes in five minutes and alcohol not be involved? skills. that's bad enough. when they wrote quote, breaking, john bryson cited for reckless endangerment of the economy and failure to yield to common sense but he's doing fine. reckless endangerment of the economy. mocking the man after an accident, classy. the commerce department now says bryson suffered a seizure and that crossroads realized that wasn't funny. so they tweeted quote, earlier bryson's tweet attempted levity before facts known and failed miserably. we took it down and regret the tweet. well, but at least this time crossroads did set the record straight. recently they put out an ad claiming 85% of college grads are moving back with their parents. that's not true. they pushed the ridiculous idea president obama would give secrets to the russians and they slammed president obama's green energy law showing a company that also got support from mitt romney. ame

karl rove went broke? really? well, if you believe that, then i suppose you'll also believe valerie plame wasn't a covert agent when her name was leaked back in 2003, a lie repeatedly on fox news. in the name all of fair and balanced it should be noted that rove did describe himself as quote of a mixed mind on whether a special prosecutor should investigate in this case. so what happened to the cut-throat operative who orchestrated one of most dishonest and divisive campaigns in modern political history? well, make no mistake, while offering that vaguely moderate pretense on air his super pac american crossroads is spending millions to defeat the president and democrats right across the country. unfortunately while fox news will repeatedly promote rove's book "courage and consequence "s it doesn't have the courage to disclose rove's real reason, they continue to imply that rove is another political commentator when in fact he's driving a super tanker of cash directly against the president. but don't be worried bec

i just got off the phone with karl rove. they asserted executive privilege in that case and would not let him testify. karl said the key issue there was not that president bush had been involved in these conversations but that karl rove as a non-confirmed member of the white house staff was an extension of the president and to subpoena him to testify was in effect subpoenaing the president. so this question of executive privilege is not necessarily mean that the president is involved. it can be white house aides who were involved. other people like that. he said it was, what surprised him was the fact that this was over justice department document, not white house documents. the cabinet officials, because they are subject to senate confirmation, are not covered by executive privilege. they are in fact, as i say, subject to the advice and consent of the senate and the fact that they would assert executive privilege there raises the question certainly if there were communications if not directly between holder and the presiden