Sheryl Crow's Showdown With Karl Rove
BLITZER: Right now presidential candidate has his sights squarely set on the vice president, Dick Cheney. That would be Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. He has scheduled a news conference for tomorrow to announce he's introducing articles of impeachment against Cheney. And joining us now our senior political correspondent Candy Crowley -- why is Dennis Kucinich, Candy, doing this right now?</s>CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SR. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well I think, remember, this is the most left candidate that we have. So we have to give some credence to the fact that he truly believes that Vice President Cheney ought to be impeached. Having said that he's an asterisk in the polls right now -- this is a very popular issue with the left wing of the Democrat Party, a small minority of it, but nonetheless, it's a very popular issue. This will give him some face time. This will give him some headlines.</s>BLITZER: And it might help him raise some money, too, in his campaign.</s>CROWLEY: Absolutely.</s>BLITZER: What are the chances though, realistically speaking, that the House of Representatives will actually impeach the vice president?</s>CROWLEY: Slim to none and closer to none than slim. Look this is something that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have ruled out long before now. They know they didn't get elected to come in and impeach the president. They got elected to stop the war and bring home some things that the American people think ought to be done. They also look back at the Bill Clinton impeachment, which Republicans basically got slammed for and they know the country is at this moment not in the mood for impeachment.</s>BLITZER: Candy Crowley is our senior political correspondent -- Candy, thanks.</s>CROWLEY: Thanks.</s>BLITZER: The worlds of politics and show business colliding in more ways than one at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner here in Washington this weekend. People are still talking about a very heated confrontation between top presidential adviser Karl Rove, singer Sheryl Crow and Hollywood insider Laurie David. Let's go live to CNN's Mary Snow. She's in New York. She's going to tell us what prompted all of this -- Mary.</s>MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, to set the stage, you could describe this annual dinner in D.C. as sort of a political prom. You have politicians, journalists and celebrities all mingling. However, there were some unexpected fireworks when the topic of global warming came up.</s>SNOW (voice-over): In one corner rock star Sheryl Crow and global warming activist Laurie David. In the other, President Bush's most trusted political strategist, Karl Rove. Their worlds collided at the White House Correspondents Dinner and when their words over global warming clashed, the political Web site, the Politico, captured the moment.</s>LAURIE DAVID, PRODUCER, "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH": It was odd because he got immediately hostile and very combative and you know the conversation went downhill from there.</s>SNOW: David is the producer of "An Inconvenient Truth" featuring Al Gore. She and Crow detail their conversation on "The Huffington Post" Web site, describing Rove as a spoiled child throwing a tantrum. Their account, David and Crow are working to raise awareness about global warming. They seized the opportunity to talk to Rove. They say things got testy when Crow touched his arm.</s>ANN ARGETSINGER, "WASHINGTON POST": There is some exchange to the extent of the two of them saying, hey, you work for us. Karl Rove saying, no, I work for the American people and walking away.</s>SNOW: Crow then apparently said we are the American people. Fallout from the Rove rogue continues at the White House.</s>PERINO: I just wish that they would channel some of that Hollywood energy into something constructive rather than baseless finger pointing.</s>SNOW: And the White House spokesman added...</s>PERINO: I think Karl Rove just wanted to have some fun on Saturday night, and I think he wasn't the only one.</s>SNOW: Sound familiar? They strike a similar chord to the lyrics of a popular Sheryl Crow tune.</s>SNOW: Team Crow and David aren't laughing about the matter.</s>SHERYL CROW, SINGER: I felt it was very disappointing because...</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right.</s>CROW: ... you want to with leadership, you want to be able to engage because we're all-Americans here and we all have the same concerns and to be shut down, it was very disappointing.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.</s>SNOW: At the dinner, Rove was a guest of "The New York Times", Crow a guest of "Bloomberg News" and David and husband Larry sat with</s>CNN. WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: I'm sure Hollywood sees it as the people versus the powerful, which is the way it was deliberately staged.</s>SNOW: And the fallout continues with Sheryl Crow now being targeted. An idea she proposed to reduce toilet paper use to help the environment has become fodder for ridicule. Just the latest act in the Hollywood versus Washington showdown and a showdown, Wolf, you were there for, right?</s>BLITZER: I was. I remember when they came back from that encounter with Karl Rove, Sheryl Crow and Laurie David, they clearly were agitated. They began writing right away. They were ready to start talking about it, blogging about it. In fact, as soon as reporters started asking them about it, they didn't hesitate at all in giving their side of the story. Thanks very much, Mary, for that. Up ahead, the first President Bush and why the country may not necessarily be ready for a third.</s>GEORGE H.W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There's something to that. There might be a little Bush fatigue now.</s>BLITZER: The former president and why he hopes his son Jeb stays out of politics for now. Plus, battling the president over the war in Iraq -- critic Congressman John Murtha right here in THE SITUATION ROOM.