to a corrupted criminal justice system that shields powerful people like karl rove by going after those who speak truth to power you know as americans when we think of political prisoners we typically think of china or iran or syria that police political prisoners have become a reality in the united states don siegelman karl rove's sworn enemy has already won and julian a son could be the next. after the break republicans on the house government oversight committee voted yesterday to hold attorney general holder in contempt of congress over the bizarre fast and furious controversy and the best reaction to the vote came from nancy pelosi who said she could have had karl rove arrested at any time in two thousand and eight so why didn't she. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism on this we. we want to present. something else. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule today. so

sherrod brown. this is all by karl rove's crossroads group. it's a dark money group. they do not disclose where they get their money from. they don't have to because of this rule that says if you're running ads that aren't about a candidate, then all your money can be totally secret. that has been a self-policing rule. so the way that groups like karl rove's group say that ads like that aren't about any candidates is they put tags on the end that say tell claire mccaskill this, or tell president obama that. we're not advising you how to feel about thesis politicians, we're just helping you deliver to them a message about an issue. honestly, that's the one rule we have left in campaign finance in this country, and it's a farce. but there was a court ruling earlier this month that said if there is going to be that rule, actually, these groups shouldn't just be policing themselves. the federal elections commission should make the decision about whether or not these ads are about candidate or are about issues and therefore whether you should be able to keep where all your money comes

lights in the party like condoleezza rice, bobby jindal, even folks like karl rove hosting panel discussions on a variety of topics that the governor himself may drop in on. a bunch of potential vp candidates here as well. the basic idea is to bring these donors into the fold, to make thel feel like they're really part of the campaign. tomorrow they're going to get a big briefing from the top leadership in the campaign laying out some of the strategies, some of the polling, some of what they're seeing to really make these people feel like they are part of the operation going forward and kind of, again, raise that excitement level where they can bring in the money that it's going to take to knock off an incumbent president. >> all right. garret haake thank you very much. karl rove is facing increasing pressure from the obama campaign. they say rove's presence raises questions about coordination between outside groups and the campaigns. the obama campaign's top lawyer wrote a letter to karl rove obtained by "the huffington post" saying his defense of his crossroads group was mystif

congress. that's why i didn't arrest karl rove when i had the chance. what did she mean when she said that? >> well, you know, karl rove resisted a lot of efforts for him to testify on things like the firing of u.s. attorneys for political reasons during the bush administration, and they could have very easily voted with democratic control of the house, they could have held rove in contempt, and as speaker pelosi, leader pelosi indicated today at this lunch she had with a few reporters, there's actually a prison in the capitol, and they could have hauled rove into the prison for refusing to testify. and indeed, john boehner will have the power if the vote goes through next week, and there's every expectation they will vote contempt, he can haul eric holder into that prison, that's what it was designed for. to give the congress the ability to do that going back a couple hundred years. does john boehner want to do that, to haul him in hand cuffs essentially? we'll see. you know, i saw another former speaker today, newt gingrich, and we also spoke about this. and he was basically licking

. he won't be demanding any kind of influence over the arab/israeli conflict just like karl rove won't influence any policies despite his heading a $100 million super pac, is that right? >> of course not, martin. what's an extras $10 million here or there. >> right. >> he gave a larger sum to newt gingrich in opposition to mitt romney. he's still got a deficit of $10 million or so to make up. i doubt that this is the last we'll hear from him. that's the reality of this obscene campaign fund-raising cycle that you know you can go out and raise 2500 bucks for your candidacy or some guy who's with a wink and nod can give $10 million. >> it's great. joy ann, the other thing that happened was that romney decided that he was going to take some questions at the business roundtable. but he kicked the press out. now, he's delayed filing his tax returns. he doesn't like to disclose his own financial details. this man has a problem with transparency, doesn't he? he's running for president. why doesn't he take a few questions. >> quiet rooms is, martin. it's very important. mitt romney partly he d

karl rove who may face a potential libel or defamation lawsuit because of some things he said on fox news. a lawyer is demanding a public retraction from karl rove. we will explain it all. it's a great show ahead when the bill press show continues in just a couple of minutes. first, it is time for the current news update with jacki schechner. good morning to you. happy friday. >> happy friday to you, david. good morning, everyone. president obama travels to orlando today to speak to the national association of latino elected officials, the same conference where mitt romney spoke yesterday. david mentioned a week after the president announced his policy change that he would stop the deportation of some young undocumented immigrants, mitt romney is offering little in terms of comparable policy. he says he would support legal policy to those who serve in the military and those who earn advanced degrees but we know he would veto the dream act. mitt romney and rnc walk a fine line when it comes to the hispanic vote. they are trying out a new strategy. less talk about immigration. more abo

country for far too long and one of those 1 percents happens to be america's sweetheart karl rove who runs the super pac american crossroads. doesn't that go against what mitt romney said just six months ago? mitt's spokeswoman assures us, goat, karl rove is on the panel with other media person amounts we're fully aware of what the law requires and we follow both it's letter and it's spirit. i'm very sorry ms. saul, something smells fishy in utah and i don't think it's those fresh north atlantic dolphin steaks that the koch brothers have airlifted in for a job well done. what does this retreat mean? what the media won't tell you there is zero doubt that this will pit working people, latino lgbt folks against the cats with all the money. for an analysis for the big g.o.p. retreat in utah and the influence of money in politics, we go to andy cole and paul blumenthal. gentlemen, welcome to the war room. welcome to be here. >> it's a pleasure to be here. >> it's a pleasure to have you. is this as egregious as it sounds on paper or is this liberal paranoia. >> this is politics is played to

out to force protests. 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 spri

the under. karl rove has a habit of identifying his allies most glaring faults and pinning them on his rival, some call it projections and i like to call it i'm rubber, you are glue, everything that you say bounces off of me and sticks to you with a billion dollars of advertising plenty of politicians use this. 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 ti

joined by karl rove and much more. >> sean: we continue with the edwards' trial jurors, eight of them. i would love to be on a jury. off mike you guys are like chitting and chatting and having a great time. you went in there stranges and came out friends. >> we did. >> we did. >> sean: you were saying something. describe what went on in the jury room? >> there were days when the air was just thick. we have yelled and screamed at each other. we have said horrible things to each other. we have come back and apologized. we have hugged. we prayed together every day. >> sean: you prayed. that might be illegal in america today. >> we did. >> sean: prayed every day before you start. >> held hands and prayed every day. >> two teams a day. morning and quiting time. >> sean: you would argue, fight. almost became a family. >> we all had nicknames for each other. >> sean: what was is your nickname? >> ladiva. >> what was your nickname? >> rush on four. >> it was either that. >> sean: i don't even want to ask the one allegedly flirting with john edwards. >> it was good. >> sean: what was your nick

at the republican convention, simply be a pundit for fox news is karl rove. karl rove, of course, he's got that crossroads g. gps, a bunchf protesters were protesting against karm -- karl rove. when asked by, i believe, it was "the daily caller" who karl rove was -- >> it was actually the blaze. >> the blaze, they didn't know who karl rove was. watch this. it's blazing. >> basically, a guy. >> would you mind telling me why you're marching today? >> team obama -- >> who's karl rove? 6 >> keep in mind, i believe that was a rally against karl rove. all those people rallying against karl rove but some of them didn't know who karl rove was. >> organizers must have had some real powers of persuasion to get hundreds of people out -- they described it as a sweltering hot day to get people out to march against somebody they don't know. >> fantastic. we did hear, i think, last week where a number of showed up to protest mitt romney and as it turns out, those people were being paid. >> what's second on your things to do list if you show up in 100 degree day to march against somebody you don

organizations, including his super pac and karl rove's crossroads gps have spent 37 million dollars compared to $11 million by the president and his allies. back bus now is ana marie cox and karen finney and dr. peterson. "the boston globe" begins its story with mitt speaking at a fund-raiser. this is not considered illegal coordination because romney was, i'm quoting a featured guest. a designation he was the first to take advantage of. it's scary how quickly they find these kind of loopholes, isn't it? >> absolutely. but i think we all expected that was the nature of what was going to happen in the aftermath of this decision, right? people will follow the law right up to the, quote/unquote, letter of the law when it comes to these kind of campaigns that they can and look for those loopholes. part of the problem is there shouldn't really be any loopholes. it's all this cute by half stuff that means millions and millions of dollars from sources we may never know, spent on -- you're only talking about that $37 million is on a lot of things we can see. a lot going on and money being s

to nuclear. tonight you will hear from the house oversight committee chair daryl ice is a, karl rove, rush limbaugh, representative michele bachmann and brit hume. but first, a very heated hearing and a vote one that went straight down the party line. a house panel approving a contempt resolution for attorney general holder. our purpose has never been to hold the attorney general in contempt. our purpose has always been to get the information the committee needs to complete its work that it is not only entitled to but obligated to do. >> i am horrified that you are going forward with this contempt charge when the president of the united states has and the administration have invoked executive privilege for the documents st >> this is a mistake. a major mistake and i really want you to know he that i think that this should be discontinued. >> why would the president claim executive privilege unless there was something ve y very, very important that he felt should not be made known to this committee and possibly to the public? >> i hope we have the guts and the perseverance to get to the wou

in cairo. thank you. still ahead, in-depth look at the 2012 electoral map with karl rove and joe trippi. first, congress is voting whether to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt. the latest straight ahead. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. >> bret: the government is taking steps to stop national intelligence leaks. director of national intelligence james clapper announced leak question would be added to counterintelligence polygraphs and the intelligence community requested inspector general to lead task force for any cases the justice department declines. showdown over the bungled gun walking operation fast and furious will come to a head this week for attorney general eric holder. but they are still a way out. >> ahead of a contempt of congress vote thursday in full house against attorney general eric holder, darrell issa said it can be avoided. >> if the president and the attorney general holder would simply start producing the documents they know they could produce to us, that are not by any means going to be covered by exe

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 those attacksç work, you're probably not voting for president

that the law is working, working, working. plus karl rove's group apologizes after mocking the secretary following an ugly car accident over the weekend. breaking news on friday, voter suppression plan. the governor of that important state is making a big move today, and you can be sure the obama administration will respond. you're watching "politicsnation" on msnbc. high schools in six states enrolled in the national math and science initiative... ...which helped students and teachers get better results in ap courses. together, they raised ap test scores 138%. just imagine our potential... ...if the other states joined them. let's raise our scores. let's invest in our teachers and inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> folks, have you checked us out on facebook? the conversation is going all day long. today the flood of voter purge was the story. pat says despite what anyone says the whole motive in florida is to simply stop as many democrats as possible from voting for the president. while chastity says it's hurting scott's chances of the election. outlook not so good. w

theory is karl rove and adelson dorks they have a conference call? how do they do this? is there coordination there. >> 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 goin

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attack ads against the law and karl rove's crossroads super pac crossroads is so perfect spent twenty four million dollars and the koch brothers funded americans for prosperity has so far spent six million dollars but this has nothing to do with health care the chamber of commerce karl rove or the koch brothers they care less about obamacare they care more about kicking president obama out of office and replacing him with an oligarchy just like them mitt romney and since president obama thinks is healthier for the health reform law is his signature accomplishment and in the mind of most americans it is these guys know if they can knock down health reform then in the process they knock down the president that's why they're targeting obamacare in particular the biggest point and problem is that advertising works and the side is willing or able to spend the most money on advertising usually wins we saw this play out in two thousand and ten midterms when corporate money catapulted tea party republicans in the congress we saw this again earlier this month and governor scott walker outspent

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the architect, the one and only karl rove. he will break down the very latest on these two landmark events. mr. rove, sir. how are you? >> fabulous. how about you? >> and there's a rumor you are going to participate in the frank luntz focus group. that's even more aphasing. >> i'm so exciting i almost can't contain myself. i mean, who would have imagined. >> all right. let's start with the fast and furious. let me go to the comments that were made by jay carney, the president's spokesman, earlier today and trying to make this political, even though i pointed out i expect a lot of democrats to vote to hold him in contempt. >> the republican loss has tried to focus their time and attention on a law enforcement operation from 2009 that was botched and that everyone agrees was botched, and it employed a flawed tactic and everyone agrees it deployed a flawed tactic. and they made that choice rather than focusing on jobs and economy. and with millions of americans still struggling to pay their bills, i cannot imagine this will sit well with most americans. >> two to one the poll shows ame

blasting republicans for approving the contempt resolution. 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

firing of u.s. attorneys and a congressional committee wanted karl rove, who had been involved in some of those discussions with the justice department to testify. 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

. in 1999 we sat down with karl rove, in which he sat down with the mckinley campaign and he tried to take some of the lessons of that campaign for george bush in 2000. >> it established the republican party in presidential elections, at least, and most congressional elections as the majority party. there was really no majority party in the guilded age from 1868 to 1896. so what karl rove wanted to do was produce a new republican majority based on what he would have seen as the most forward looking elements to the business community and also a pretty hetero heterogenous group. similarly, mckinley tried to appeal to european immigrants at the time, which is a very large expanding group in the population. he was able to win over german voters, for example, german-american vote who are had for the most part been democrats before, but most of them became republicans for various reasons. and so rove saw not just mckinley, but mark hannah, the e -- producing this new republican majority. it didn't happen. and george w. bush was not as successful a president as william mckinley. >> we are