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I hate to be disrespectful. but if you think rush limbaugh isnt calling the shots, you are deaf and blind. just go on. >> leader/entertainer. you have to give him both. that kind of comment about the president is not to be taken seriously. what the president said in the the video is our term in the midterm. we have to energize voters across the spectrum but were focused heavily on the first-time voters from 2008. and we just know who they are. there was about 15 million people that registered an...

Video is our plan, chris, in the midterm. we have to energize voters across the spectrum but were focused heavily on the first-time voters from 2008. and we just know who they are. there was about 15 million people that registered and we were part of registering them for the first time in 2008 and its an electorate in that group of 15 million that are heavily young, heavily new americans and minority voters and women. thats just who they are. this is a group that would normally participate prett...

U.s. senate and radical associations as alinsky background and didnt take a lot of work. the rest of the mainstream media ignored it. if i was right then, here is my prediction now. that is the most important midterm election in my lifetime by far. and if we dont change government, if nancy pelosi is not fire and we dont have a shift in congress, we get to a deficit so large and weaken defenses so much its irreparable harm. i dont know how to dig out of the hole were digging. >> it makes it hard...

U.s. senate and radical associations as alinsky background and didnt take a lot of work. the rest of the mainstream media ignored it. if i was right then, here is my prediction now. that is the most important midterm election in my lifetime by far. and if we dont change government, if nancy pelosi is not fire and we dont have a shift in congress, we get to a deficit so large and weaken defenses so much its irreparable harm. i dont know how to dig out of the hole were digging. >> it makes it hard...

You a hard time? you have been here two terms already. as you said this transparency thing im sure a lot of people will appreciate -- >> you are not a novice at this. you know when you run during the midterm of a new administration it doesnt matter who it is, it is just a bad time to run. i did it in 94. i was a tough time this time it is more difficult. >> greta: why? >> you got a lot of noise. even in 2004 when i ran you didnt have blackberries. you didnt have youtube, facebook, e-mails, twitt...

>> greta: why are they giving you a hard time? you have been here two terms already. as you said this transparency thing im sure a lot of people will appreciate -- >> you are not a novice at this. you know when you run during the midterm of a new administration it doesnt matter who it is, it is just a bad time to run. i did it in 94. i was a tough time this time it is more difficult. >> greta: why? >> you got a lot of noise. even in 2004 when i ran you didnt have blackberries. you didnt have you...

What he just say. >> sean: thats all the time we have left. great is next. we will be back here tomorrow night as always thank you for being wi the battle never stops. see you tomorrow night. >> greta: tonight, get this, karl rove is a rhody? sort of. he has on the road for his book tour. toe hes back in town uncut and on the record. nice see. >> great to be here. >> greta: you have been on a road trip with your book? >> halfway point. >> greta: it is exhausting isnt it? >> 120s in 90 days. >> g...

It all works. so maybe instead of sort of hoping that people arent, you know, doubting them and not trusting them, they can come out and say look, this is how it looks. but everything is aboveboard here. and just name the elephant in the room. >> you think thats going to work? >> it may be the only option. i dont know another one. >> i mean, of all the things, of all the problems that exist in america, we should focus on the ones we can solve. youre never going to outlaw nor do i think you shoul...

Matter here fit into the current political climate in any way? or does it not matter because it -- they could nominate a republican and the gop would somehow find a way to argue against it? >> i think thats -- its really the latter. they cannot try to pander or appease republicans. theyre going to object, and, you know, it will come down to a majority vote. its -- i dont think its likely that the republicans are going to filibuster. and also, if there is a fight over this over the summer, everyb...

Or does it not matter because it -- they could nominate a republican and the gop would somehow find a way to argue against it? >> i think thats -- its really the latter. they cannot try to pander or appease republicans. theyre going to object, and, you know, it will come down to a majority vote. its -- i dont think its likely that the republicans are going to filibuster. and also, if there is a fight over this over the summer, everybodys saying its a bad thing for obama, i think its a good thing...