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in any way influenced about any concerns of my being re-elected to congress. >> it's a stunning fall for the woman who became the public face of the tea party. and a real contender the gop presidential nomination. by july 2011, she was number one in the polls in the gop primary. and later that summer she actually won the iowa straw poll. it was a wild ride but through it all, one thing stayed the same, bachmann never stopped embarrassing herself and her party. >> i wish the american media would take a great look at the views of the people in congress and find out, are they pro america or anti-america. >> i think before his second term is over, we're going to see a miracle before our eyes. i believe god is going to answer our prayers and we'll be freed from the yoke of obama care. >> let's repeal this failure before it literally kills women,

kills children, kills senior citizens. let's not do that. >> if you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. it's personal enslavement. >> does it strike you as the unemployment rate goes up, your chances of winning office also go up? >> well, that could be. again, i hope so. >> i haven't had a gaffe that has caused me to fall in the polls. >> self-reliance means if anyone should not work, neither should he eat. >> the president does not want to have to be confronted with priority in spending because he has a lot of shizpa. >> this is waving a guitar in the air. i have never seen a more irresponsible president who is infintile. >> bachmann got famous for trying to bash this president. but in the end, she did most of the damage to herself.

remember how she delivered the tea party state of the union response while appearing to look somewhere off camera, somewhere out of space? >> remember the newsweek recovery, gazing off into the distance, she made the political campaign struggling and recent polls have shown her trailing and she was literally running away from questions about ethics scandals but bachmann insists those investigations have nothing to do with her decisions. >> rest assured, this decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presidential staff. >> bachmann says she's not going away entirely.

that she's still open to opportunities in the political arena. we can hardly wait. joining me now are ed rendell and karen finney. >> reverend, 100 years from now, take a visionary trip with me. what will historians say about the michele bachmann era? >> well, i think think she will be put in a group of people during this era and one group and another, i think she was a very destructive force and she'll be grouped with a lot of people in that grouping and i think she'll just be a footnote. probably her greatest legacy is trying to repeal obama care 30 times, a huge waste of time and taxpayer money. >> you know, karen, when you

look at the fact that most, if not all of the legislation she introduced didn't pass, many of her efforts rallying and those that are activists respect activism, even if it's on the other side but it really was around issues that had no longstanding and she really more than anything else bashed this president over and over again -- >> yes. >> let me give you some of her favorite targets, including when the president was won. >> the president of the united states is threatened by my candidacy. he fears me. >> the swine flu broke out in the 1970s while jimmy carter -- i'm not blaming this on president obama. i think it's a coincidence. >> this bucks a health care dictator. >> with your help, we will make barack obama a one-term president! >> well, that didn't work out

too well for her. but eye side from that, she was equally infamous for getting all her facts wrong. watch this. >> right. >> but we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the united states. >> here in new hampshire, what you have done is nothing short of remarkable and the shot that was heard around the world that conquered -- >> she told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. >> i mean, how do you build a legacy after that, karen? >> well, that speaks for herself. she will be infamous in some ways. but i think she also represents what bob dole was talking about

in terms of a republican party devoid of ideas. i mean, nothing of what you just showed -- and really i can't think of one idea that michele bachmann had on her own that wasn't about hate or wasn't about being against something else, not a positive, proactive idea. that's how she tried to build her career. that's how she built her reputation. i hope that what this is a signal for is that there is a limit, even in a very republican district, to how much people will take and look at how hard this race was going to be for her. i hope that's a sign that at some point voters say, time out, enough is enough. we don't want to be the butt of jokes anymore. we don't want to be embarrassed by her gaffes anymore and we don't want to be represented by somebody that is not willing to get things done. >> now, there's a bigger picture here and that is that in my lifetime i've seen when i was a

kid all the way to reagan and george bush, the rockefeller republicans, is michele bachmann represented, the right wingers have been totally obsessed with just trying to tear down this president, they haven't achieved anything, it's been the demonizing of barack obama president. >> i agree. and first i want to say that i've totally forgotten the swine flu comment. it was stunning to hear it again. i think karen is exactly right and you're exact ree righly rig. ronald reagan, we may have disagreed with him but he stood

for something and it wasn't destructful and it wasn't hateful. george w. bush was never a hateful person. never was a hateful person. this republican party, which is embodied by michele bachmann, as you said, she wasn't a joke. she was the head of the republican polls. she won the iowa straw vote. she was not an insignificant figure in the party. and it was just full of negat e negativism and president obama could do no right in their eyes, even when he led and authorized the raid that killed bin laden, there was praise for the s.e.a.l. team, there was praise for this, praise for that, there wasn't praise for the president who authorized a mission that, had it failed, it would have been a major disaster. so karen is exactly right. they represent nothing but destruction, negativism, no

hope, no ideaism. that's why it's turning, slowly. but it's turning. >> when you look at her as a lawmaker, very, very thin record. in 2004 she sponsored 58 bills, got one bill voted on, just one. three resolutions agreed to. she's got zero bills passed into law. now, if i'm in her district, that would concern me but if you're the leader of a movement, shouldn't you have tangible results? this is what this movement represented? >> sure. and ideas. one of the bills was repealing obama care. that's not a fresh idea. that's not moving anything forward and certainly is not something that says, let me take a look at what problems are out there and how do we solve those problems?

i hope that part of what this represents, and the positive that can come out of this, i know a lot of late-night comedy writers are heartbroken not to have her on the national scene anymore, i really do hope that to some degree we take a look at this and say, you know what, it's not going to work. and perhaps it's a sign that, you know, the tea party, because they hadn't really come forward with ideas, you know, what -- to the rest of the republican party i kind of want to say, well, what have you been so afraid of? put ideas out there. stop cowering in a corner because you're afraid of the tea party folks. you had a republican district that was poised to reject the top tea partyier. come on with some ideas. >> i'm going to have to hold it there ed rendell and care refinney, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you for tanking us down memory lane, rev. we have a disturbing turn in the debate over gun control.

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tea party darling michele bachmann is out. after four congressional terms, bachmann joins a long list of tea party favorites who stars burned bright and then burned out. >> i believe there are members of the democratic party that -- >> bye-bye allen west, we hardly knew you. >> we may have to she had blood every couple hundred years to preserve our basic freedoms. >> sorry to see you go, joe walsh. don't let the door hit you on the way out. >> if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut that whole thing down. >> well, i guess voters found a way to shut todd akin down. >> the goal seems to be the government takeover not making insurance more available.

>> thank you, jim demint, the thing about the tea party is, it's like a big game of whack a mole. one goes down, another pops up. people like rand paul and ted cruz are following in the footsteps and ripping a page out of the bachmann play book with the new ad attacking the president. >> this administration and allies have used the resource of the government itself to intimidate or silence those questioned or oppose it. >> the tea party is not over by a long shot and voices like michele bachmann keep dragging the republican party farther and farther to the right. joining me now is joy reid and ryan grim. thank you for being here tonight. >> good to be here. >> good to be here.

>> joy, are bachmann's -- are the people that follow her paranoid? i mean, extreme politics basically the norm now call for the gop? >> yes, when you were showing that list, i was thinking, is that the new cap for saturday night live? it's so much fun to listen to. basically, it is gone and barack obama was president and suddenly didn't like government spending and government spending on social programs that a lot of them receive because barack obama was there. so this anti-government movement, when this momentum took that party by storm in 2010, it was the answer that they've been waiting for to the grassroots of the obama movement and michele bachmann rode the wave for a while but now it's crested and people are not that

into it. the district is less conservative so she faced some tough times. >> she was pretty close the last election. >> she sort of had to beg her way back in. now this time she has the ethics' issues, fbi looking into her. i guess her next route is on fox news. >> ryan, there's a new class of tea partyiers. watch this. >> ultimately, as secretary clinton runs for office in the future, she's going to have to explain why, during her helm at the state department, one of two things happen. either, number one, they were aware of a security situation in libya and failed to act accordingly or, number two, they had such a bad operation that they were not aware of it. >> the republican party has been a party of civil rights and voting rights. >> i think president obama is the most radical president that we've ever seen but i think an awful lot of republicans failed

to stand for principle and contributed to getting in this mess. >> you have the new class of tea partyiers with the same kind of far right rhetoric. ryan, are they going to be able to paint these pictures and get the same kind of response that bachmann and the 2010 partyiers got, tea partyiers got? >> well, i mean, there's going to be a vacuum now in the crazy caucus. there's going to be -- and i'm serious, you're going to see some jockeying within that far right there's a lot more room on the far right blogs for me to say stuff and get myself out there. there may be that national following that funnel money into my district which they can spread around my district and

that will help the power within my department as well. where bachmann went wrong was running for president and failing. people in home districts don't like it when people don't seem happy representing them. like -- you know, take chris dodd, for instance, when he moved to iowa to run for president, his popularity back in connecticut sunk. now, i'm not comparing chris dodd to michele bachmann by any stretch -- >> yeah, be careful. >> but voters don't like it when you step too far out. so i think that's what ultimately did her in along with the insanity. >> when you look at the whole movement of the tea party, it seemed like, as i was saying to karen and to the governor, that they were more focused on demonizing the president than really any kind of change, even change to the right that you or

i may disagree with. it would just stop president obama. repeal obama care. they didn't have a health plan of their own. >> right. >> repeal obama care. president obama in his disguised blue, it's orange sky day. i think that kind of runs his course since 2010 they dropped 24 points in the polls. a lot of it is because i think it was just over and over and over they were just the anti-obama people. >> people who are always angry and dressing in period costumes and marching around with obama-hitler signs, it's great theater for a while but at some point you have to have an agenda and the tea party masks the fact that there's a huge rift in the republican party. when you look beneath the surface, there's real differences between them. you have the evangelical group that says we want to mitigate social issues only.

that's why you have the todd akin. they are like, get rid of social security and medicare. that's our agenda. you have people focused on ripping away programs for the poor. so they've all got their own agenda and wall street guys who run the party who are saying we're going to give you mitt romney. all of that gets masked because they all only agree on one thing, we don't like barack obama. they kind of helped them up until now. can they carry that forward to 2014 and 2016? i think it's doubtful and you're going to start to see the rifts start to reopen. >> now, let me ask you, ryan, that can further neutralize their effect? >> no. i think that they are doing a good job of neutralizing themselves. there's this conflict that they have with reality, basically.

rendell talked to earlier republicans and even going to joe mccarthy at the beginning, he went crazy at the end of his life but in the beginning he was mean-spirited and hateful and there were communists in this country and some of them worked in the government. now, whether or not they were going to actually overthrow it, of course, they were not. there are people at the fbi concerned about people who are in the government. when it comes to michele bachmann and her conspiracy theories, there isn't anyone anywhere who can provide a shred of evidence to back it up. so that just doesn't last. that gets exposed to the sunshine and it dies. >> i will agree with you, he did at least have a conspiracy theory. you couldn't find a thread. >> i think he was craze sfwly e.

there was some kernel of truth to it. >> and there was consistency with what you and i may think is crazy. >> yes. >> joy reid, ryan grim, thank you for your time again. >> thanks. still ahead, the big story about the obama presidency that republicans are afraid to talk about. but first, glenn beck has a new conspiracy theory to explain his conspiracy theories. you'll want to see this one and i'll want to hear from you. ask askrev@msnbc.com. i'm answering tonight. stay right here. ♪

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>> should the pictures be revealed? >> no. >> how do we know bin laden is dead? >> you don't. they are trying to recreate the arab spring in america. this spring. and it starts in about a week. and gang, it's going to get bad. >> we have been sold to radical islam. >> i have the smoking gun. i have it right here. >> if the president wins, i don't know how we survive. i will tell you, last week we purchased more farmland as a family. may i recommend, if you have a chance to buy farmland, you buy farmland. >> buy farmland because the president won and we've been sold to radical islam and we may not survive. now, that's really out there. but beck has made himself rich by saying the most offensive claims about this president. >> we've been lied to about everything about this president. there's no way he doesn't understand islam. there's no way he doesn't

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you hear is scandal, scandal, and more scandal. but when you look around, here's what's really happening. housing prices just sparked higher than they have in seven years. consumer confidence in a five-year high this month. more americans are optimistic about jobs and the economy. and i wonder how that socialist president is doing. >> another day, another record for the dow. >> worst socialist ever. i guess all of those right wingers who blamed the president in 2009 for the dow dropping should be praising him now, right? still waiting, rush. so does anyone have any other questions? >> the american people are continuing to ask the question, where are the jobs? >> where are the jobs? where is the economic growth? >> where are the jobs? >> millions of americans still

ask the question, where are the jobs. >> so glad you asked. here they are. the job market was in free fall under bush. now we have 38 straight months of private sector job growth under president obama. so this is why we keep hearing the nonsense from the right. things are getting better and they can't handle it. let's bring in james peterson and peter goldman. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> james, you can't deny the economy is back. here's the recent headline from "forbes" magazine. "economically, could obama be america's best president?" what do you think? >> well, when he's one of only five presidents to double the stock market over the course of his tenure and when you think about the place that we were and the recession that he's pulling us out of, his marks are fairly high here. as you mentioned, housing surged, unemployment still

ticking down, stock markets at record highs. we want to keep our attention on this, not just because of president obama's success but to make sure that the economy becomes whole for the poor folk and everybody. at the end of the day, it's very difficult to argue with president obama's value in terms of wall street and bringing the economy back from the brink. >> the numbers speak for themselves, peter, and james is correct, it is now equal because in poor areas and in areas in african-american, latino, we are still disproportionate. if we cannot continue where we are going, those areas will not get relief and the president is focused on what he's doing. listen to this. >> my job as president is to advocate for policies that generate more opportunity for everybody, policies that strengthen the middle class and give more people to climb their way in to the middle class. policies that create more good

jobs and reduce poverty and educate more children and give more families the security of health care and protect more of our children from the horrors of gun violence. that's my job. those are matters of public policy and it is important for all of us, black, white, and brown to advocate for america where everybody's got a fair shot in life, not just some, not just a few. >> now that's the president at morehouse college last sunday in the middle of all of these scandals, talking about the policies, talking about needing to move forward. >> the real scandal is he's the only one that seems to be talking about jobs. most of congress is now consumed with one scandal or another, mostly gop-driven scandals designed to mask the real problems that we're facing because the real scandal is the longest running scandal, which is gop obstructionism so you can

blame the guy in office in the hopes that you pick up votes in the midterms. this economy is not a healthy economy. there are a lot of problems in the economy. as the president pointed out, you have a lot of people working who are poor, you have a lot of people unemployed and have been unemployed for months and months at a time. this is something that he has actively tried to address in his presidency and he's met time and time again with the people fearmongering and scandal mongering. >> james, help me out. i read a lot. i go through everything. i search the internet three or four times a day, read all of the papers. do the republicans have a jobs plan? >> no, they do not. rev, imagine this recovery, how much more robust this economy would be if the republicans considered the president's jobs bill, which is on the table, which does sort of feed infrastructure spending. and think about this, the

government has been shrinking, rev. the government has been shedding jobs. imagine if they were still hiring construction workers to work on infrastructure. imagine how much more robust we could be. >> let's look at the unemployment rate. back before the 2010 midterms, we were at 10% unemployment. >> right. >> now we're at 7.5. i mean, clearly we had to deal with areas where it's higher but we are going really strongly in the right direction. what can happen if this continues in the 2014 midterm? >> well, ideally what happens is housing prices continue to rise because people feel comfortable to take on a little debt because they are working and they feel more secure in this job market than they did a year ago or two years ago and that money gets cycled through the economy and

people decide to fix up their porsche and they hire a carpenter, a contractor. that contractor goes out and spent that money in the local community and eventually tax coffers get thrown out. we're a long way from there but we are moving in the right direction and it's important to focus on that. >> james, is that the reason, because the president has been so focused and because things are moving in the right direction, that with all of the these scandals, his popularity remains high, still 53% in the middle of all of this stuff that they are throwing at him? >> it's that but it's also the fact that -- it's the transparency of those sort of scandals not really being the scandals that people are chumping them up to be. remember, in 2010, unemployment was at 9.5%. these midterm elections with unemployment hovering around 7,

7.5%, will be completely different. yes, people do -- economic is a behavioral science, rev. people will respond differently to politics based upon this nation. >> thank you both for your time tonight. >> thanks, rev. ahead, bachmann is gone but today they are still trying to repeal obama care. this is about people, not politics. we'll tell you how this show is getting active to help americans in need. and the e-mails are rolling in. i've got my computer up and i want to hear from you. the answers are coming up. everybody has different investment objectives, ideas, goals, appetite for risk. you can't say 'one size fits all'. it doesn't. that's crazy. we're all totally different. ishares core. etf building blocks for your personalized portfolio. find out why 9 out of 10 large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock.

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we're not giving up until a full square will repeal this bill. >> i want to repeal the law of the land. is that clear? >> this issue is now revived. it is back on the table. >> repeal, repeal, repeal. michele bachmann's leaving out but others are keeping that drumbeat going today. >> so the only answer is to repeal the obama care because in addition to the irs rolls, there are other problems with regards to obama care. >> california just announced the

cost of the health insurance under the insurance exchange and the prices are good. but republican governors still want to block it. 19 states oppose expanded medicaid. they are blocking people that need it most. that's why we're proud to sponsor a feel health clinic in new orleans on july 3rd with a national association of free clinics because while republicans drag their feet and yell repeal, the associated medical director of the association free clinics in new orleans. thanks for being here. >> no, thank you, reverend al. we appreciate all you are doing down here for us. >> michele bachmann will not run for re-election but a fight to repeal obama care continues with republicans.

as a doctor, what do you make of that? >> i think it's a waste of time, reverend al. it is law now. instead of us focusing on things that we can't change, let's do things that we can't change. i'm in a state that has one of the highest uninsured rates in the country. one out of four louisianans do not have insurance but they are working poor. people are dying largely from preventible diseases. i'm not worried on that. i'm focused on changing the way that we have improve our nation. they are wasting time and taxpayer dollars it would ensure 214,000 more people in louisiana and give the state $15 billion. how can he be against this?

>> don't know. he's very adamant on that. we're going to be able to provide health care, the safety net. while the politicians continue to bicker and fuss about what they are not able to provide support, we are able to provide health care free of charge and on july 3rd, you'll see that. you'll be down here in full effect. it's the largest health center in the world. more than 60 offices or more. we're providing hiv testing, referral for mammograms, health services, not everybody that comes as sick that we will connect them with outlying facilities sole health care can continue. people are dying. we have to do something about this. >> now, let's get into a clinic for a second. we worked at four of these free clinics in new orleans. what kind of problems do you diagnose or treat there in the clinics? >> hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, a lot of male

health issues. and at the very first clinic, some patients were not seen in two to three years, actually, five years in some cases. they didn't have medicines or refills. reverend al, the volunteers are wonderful. i can't thank them enough for what they do. but we do need more volunteers and we need patients that we can treat. >> i want to put this out there. people that are uninsured are not working. tell us about that. because it's not that they are lazy and not working. >> that is not the case at all, reverend al. many are employed but they are not able to afford insurances or the small businesses that they work for cannot afford to provide insurance to them. the individuals still working but there is a direct correlation between uninsured and outcomes. that's the choice that many

americans have to make today. we need to provide them resources and that's where the free and charitable clinics come in. we will have the largest clinic in the world on july 3rd in new orleans and we need people to come out and support these events and we need more volunteers. >> what do patients tell you that they need help for? >> they drive from new orleans to continue health care and don't have insurance to this day. they drive to new orleans because they've seen information about the national free clinics. we see a lot of things, providers are great, cammaraderie is amazing. we're tired by the end of the

day but i would do it again over and over again. >> dr. ronnie whitfield, thank you for your time and we really look forward to seeing you on july 3rd. >> thank you, reverend al. i can't wait. >> folks, please be part of this clinic in new orleans on july 3rd. we'll do the show live from the clinic but we need your help. many people say to me all over the country, what can i do to help? you need to take this opportunity where people have stepped out and have put themselves on the line to provide free health care, to people who are not lazy, who are not doing nothing, who are not beggars, who just need help. whatever you can do, whatever you can donate, we cannot live in a country where americans who just don't make enough to insure themselves suffer from diseases can depend on other americans to say we are a nation that helps

each other. i want you to help, fellow americans. this is beyond politics. this is beyond ideology. this is beyond religion. this is looking in a mirror saying, i am doing something to help. somebody in need. that is who i am. that's the kind of person i want to be. to donate, you can find all of the information on our web side, urgentcare.msnbc.com. be the person you really want to be. give.

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we've got you boehner. oh, glad you like my expression, we got you. but you're right. where is the plan? where is the boehner's job plan? i think we can be fooled. we must see a plan and see how we delivered it. bill asked, i'm a 54-year-old white male. how can i get involved with community activism like you? i'm disabled and only have a fixed income. find something in your community that you can volunteer. people can help in the offices. they can help counsel, they can help do work that is just about them being there and trying to put their best effort and getting job and it's about all

of us understanding we need the rest of us. thanks for watching. this is "politicsnation." i'm al sharpton. fall of a viking. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. michele bachmann is quitting the congress. what is it with these people? is it congress? is it the right wing? what gives? sarah palin was the vice presidential nominee of the republican party in 2008. remember? game change? she was the game change. then she quit. left the governor's office halfway through her term. her only term. then jim demint, the guy ruling the whole right wing of the republican senate, wing to the right of mitch mcconnell, that's half the party.