palin and bachmann do not represent the mainstream views. >> stay tuned.hey are more mainstreamed than most people think. >> both of you, thanks and lots more i'm sure will be discussed. >> thank you so much. >>> up next, the growing health crisis in haiti. the death toll in the cholera outbreak. i was just there. the crisis is rising and health officials predict the scale of the new epidemic exceeds all estimates. >>> and the cnn heroes, anderson talks with several of the rescued chilean miners. how did they hold on to hope? we'll find out next. ♪ [ female announcer ] if you want to just push messes around, dishcloths are just fine. for a better shot at getting surfaces clean, you'll want bounty extra soft. in this lab test bounty extra soft leaves this surface 3x cleaner than a dishcloth. even with just one sheet. super clean. super soft. bounty extra soft. in the pink pack. and try bounty napkins. >>> coming up, cnn here lows, a "ac 360" exclusive. anderson sits down with the chilean miners and talks about what it was like to ration food. susan hendrick

policies that are good for the american people coming out of michele bachmann.nk that we need to listen more carefully with donna edwards said on the floor of congress this week. what's un-american is americans wondering whether they're going to be able to have a turkey on the i believe that thanksgiving because of the kind of policies that michele bachmann is pushing, and maybe it's obscure to many people in the public, thanks to our pay to play media and the propaganda that was anonymously pushed during the campaign in this last race and you've talked about that here. but i really think it's time for us to talk about how the american people are hurting. >> okay. >> and what's going to be done to help, not spread this hate. >> here is secretary clinton saying that she's not going to be running for president. here it is. >> i have said it over and over again, and i'm happy to say it on your show as well, i am committed to doing what i can to advance the security, the interest, and the values of the united states of america. i believe that what i'm doing right no

bachmann comes from minnesota. rand paul has a lot of farmers in kentucky.e just got the deficit commission that recommended deep cuts in farm subsidies. they are -- farm subsidies are socialistic by their definition. they should be against them. we'll see when their ox is getting -- and their constituents are suffering from what i think is the often legitimate cut of those subsidies and see how they react. >> you make a great point. these tea partiers want to go after these billions of dollars in subsidies but we have a cheap food policy in this country. minimum wage earners can go into the grocery store and feed themselves. we're not subsidizing the farmer, we're subsidizing the consumer and making it easier for everyone to buy food. >> when it comes to disaster relief, price supports and everything is cyclical. there will be some tough times and this is where it's going to cost some conflict for some these tea partiers who are out in the middle of the country. >> right. >> because that is their economy. but i have to say that for rand paul to do this, it

palin and bachmann do not represent the mainstream views. >> stay tuned.t people think. >> both of you, thanks and lots more i'm sure will be discussed. >> thank you so much. >>> up next, the growing health crisis in haiti. the death toll in the cholera outbreak. i was just there. the crisis is rising and health officials predict the scale of the new epidemic exceeds all estimates. >>> and the cnn heroes, anderson talks with several of the rescued chilean miners. how did they hold on to hope? we'll find out next. ♪ i hate suburbia and the bourgeoi-sie ♪ ♪ but i really love my bank ♪ i hate-- didn't quite catch that last bit. i said i really love my bank. right... is there a problem ? it's not really raging, man. uh, we were hoping for more raging ? well, you said write from the heart. yeah... don't do that. at ally, you'll love our online savings account. named the best of 2010 by money magazine. ally. do you love your bank ? progresso. hi. we love your weight watchers endorsed soups but my husband looks the way he did 20 years ago. well that's great. you

. >>> the father of the tea party goes after michele bachmann.hris hayes on what's in the teapot next. >>> as far as straight-up conservativism goes there isn't much daylight between michele bachmann and her opponent in the race to be the next house republican spokesperson but michele bachmann the founding member, her hopes of being the fourth ranking republican in the house appear to be in trouble. she told politico, i have been able to bring a voice and motivate people to put the gavel in john boehner's hands so the republicans can lead going forward. she brings a voice all right. she claims. the she doesn't have the support of pence, cantoregon ryan. today rand paul endorsed henserling. asked about the tide against her she told fox pac about her creative idea to get her message to the peoples. >> what does it signal when you hear from party leadership that say they want someone else and not you? >> well, i think that again we need to make sure the house leadership reflects charting a new course which the american people want us to do. i bring

palin and bachmann do not represent the mainstream views. >> stay tuned.y are more mainstreamed than most people think. >> both of you, thanks and lots more i'm sure will be discussed. >> thank you so much. >>> up next, the growing health crisis in haiti. the death toll in the cholera outbreak. i was just there. the crisis is rising and health officials predict the scale of the new epidemic exceeds all estimates. >>> and the cnn heroes, anderson talks with several of the rescued chilean miners. they were trapped underground for nearly two and a half months. how did they not fall into despair? how did they hold on to hope? we'll find out next. [ male announcer ] let's be honest. no one ever wished for a smaller holiday gift. ♪ ♪ it's the lexus december to remember sales event, and for a limited time, we're celebrating some of our greatest offers of the year. see your lexus dealer. we're celebrating some of our greatest offers of the year. we asked people all over america where the best potatoes come the best potatoes? idaho. idaho! idaho. and how do you kno

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bachmann told politico, told them this. "i have been able to highly motivate people from disaffected democrats to independents to republicans to nonpolitical people. there was a real question with, even 18 months ago about whether the tea party would become a third party. i have been able to bring a voice and motivate people to, in effect, put that gaffe until john boehner's hands." the tan man isn't ready to give bachmann credit for his job promotion. in fact, so far, none of the republican leaders are endorsing her. for more, let's bring in democratic strategist bob shrum, professor at new york university. bob, good to have you with us tonight. >> glad to be here. >> she is thirsty, don't you think? >> and mod nest that article for politico. it wasn't michele bachmann and tea partiers that won it for the republicans, but it was the economy. they no more want her as the caucus chair than they want sarah palin as the republican nominee for president. some of them, and a lot of them believe, and one of them at les has said p

congresswoman michele bachmann joins us. why do you think the left is so vested in this issue. gerch rendell's argument theoretical. bush is right. he did the right thing. he protected us, he had to dunk these three guys and he did and he got information. and we captured a whole bunch of really bad, bad people from it could he have gotten it another way? maybe, maybe. okay. but he had guys sitting there he had psychiatrists sitting there he had medical doctors sitting there so, to me, i would have done the same thing. but to hear the left, this is the worst thing the united states has ever done, we're a terrible country for doing it. why? >> it almost seems as though they need to come up with some sort of a case to defend the people who are making this action. the radical terrorist. and here, take a look at the terrorist who have beed haded people like daniel pearl. they don't think twice about that. >> bill: i don't know that that's fair though congressman. i think liberal people are very, very angered at daniel pearl and others. >> of course, i'm sorry. i didn't mean to sugge

joining us now, republican congresswoman michele bachmann of minnesota one of the leaders of the teank you. >> congratulations on your re-election. >> thank you. >> let's talk about the tea party. ow brand new cnn opinion research corporation poll just out today shows this. in october, the unfavorable number for the tea party movement was 37%. it's now gone up to 42%. a slightly bigger number as far as unfavorable attitudes towards it's tea party. what's your sense? why is this happening? >> well, it's interesting, because they were so wildly successful at the polls. just a couple of weeks ago. i think they'll continue to be. i think it really depends upon how they're being portrayed in the media. that will affect polls. clearly, people who are part of the tea party recognize it's not a political party. it's really just a set of ideas that have more to do with limited government, making sure taxes don't go up and making sure that government lives with its mean. that's essentially the tea party. >> by all accounts widely successful although significant failures in delaware, nevada and

> discretion can be the better part of valor, even if you're michele bachmann. her bid to usurp the spot in the house conference chair was spat at by the old guard. developing tonight, she took the spit. minnesotapost.com reporting that bachmann has dropped out of the race, which will now presumably go to jeb hensarling. and as senator jim demint prepares his pupil for the purity test, mcconnell is hoping they flunk. and senators who plead the fifth on an upcoming vote on earmarks will face primary challenges. politico reporting that senator minority leader mcconnell is efforting a defeat of the demint plan to ban the earmarks. mcconnell is reportedly encourage colleagues to consider their options before siding with the demint plan, which the gop conference will vote on next tuesday. demint releasing a list of ten senators and senators-elect who are in favor of it. and while mcconnell has not publicly opposed demint's proposal, his surrogates are out like. like senator inhofe of oklahoma saying, if mcconnell cannot earmark, then the guy in the white house gets t

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that's why michele bachmann is somebody who i don't generally go out of my way to quote.ks on this seem like they are a microcosm of this. she said she would like to consider transportation districts that she names for her own district. she doesn't want to call those earmarks anymore. does she have a case to make? isn't that a classic definition of a earmark? >> it is. that's exactly what almost all earmarks are. you know, people have sort of created this idea in their head of all earmarks are sort of the bridge to nowhere or the coconut grove earmark in florida from a few years ago. sort of, you know, sketchy looking earmarks that may or may not be justified, that may or may not be tied to some kind of corruption. people, you know, it's become tied to things like that. in people's minds earmarks have become a bad word. and for reasons i think that have political expediency. republicans have also tied earmarks to the broader issue of spending and debt. you know, you say it doesn't have much of an effect on spending even if you were to actually eliminate the funding in the

it could be interesting to see how much the tea party activists rallied behind michele bachmann.is a little bit further down. tavis: it might seem like washington-beltway politics, but it really does matter because it has a lot to do with how president obama is going to get his year started with this new congress. how this leaderships' stuff works itself out. tonight, i thank paul caine from "the washington post". thanks for your time. up next, oscar nominated actress carey mulligan. stay with us. carey mulligan has quickly established herself as one of the bright young stars of for generation with roles in "pride and prejudice" and her oscar- nominated turn in "an education". in addition to her role in "wall street: money never sleeps", she stars in "never let me go". >> please, why do you do that thing over my shoulder? >> i'm allowed to touch tommy. >> it's the way you touch him. you know what i mean. it is copied from the television show. that behavior is not what people do in real life. if that is what you are thinking. >> it is no big deal. a lot of people do it. oh, kathy.

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is it that kind of naked bribe, or is it that she has the michelle bachmann hair helmet?think all of that plays into it. the naked bribe is almost a bonus. the real interest is to make a gesture to the incoming tea party freshmen to say -- from boehner and cantor, we care. we don't want to be at war with you tea party people. we want you to -- we want to co-op with you. we'd like to find one of you who happens to look like michele bachmann and bring her into the leadership group. but he gets to come to the meetings. that, i think, is supposed to represent inclusion. we'll see how that ultimately plays. because the real battle will be over policy. the vote to raise the debt ceiling and things like that. but it's a gesture, really. >> lastly, congressman west and joyce coffman and this it threat to the florida schools. what in the world is going on here? >> i don't know. it's just plain crazy. i guess it is, you know, a good thing for the nation that we will not have this clearly -- frankly unbalanced person operating as chief of staff to a member of congress. but then agai

congresswoman michelle bachmann thank you very much.pleasure to visit wooliness for leadership that you've shown in fiscal and budgetary responsibility. [applause] great to have you here. >> thank thanks, mike. >> mike: well, can't wait until christmas? when we come back we're going to get an early start to the holiday season with all the gift of giving. later, b.j. thomas joins us right here on our show. . [ applause ] >> mike: welcome back. it is that time of year we are starting to think about christmas. i'm one that can't wait christmas. a new book i just wrote is called "can't waitchristmas." a story of how my sister and i used to unwrap all the presents while under the tree while our parents were gone we would play with the stiff and wrap it back up and act innocent. we made a children's book out of this. it is a lot of fun. your kids or grandkids will love it. it is written so that even our crew can understand it. it is very simple. i'd like to make sure -- first of all we are going to give everybody in the audience a copy of the

what happened to michele bachmann is simple t happened to nancy pelosi, you are the leader of the momws. that is what happened to michele bachmann. >> the kumbaya messaging of republicans that is what there is, that there's no difference, we are all working together but these guys are totally unnoticed much the michele bachmann story is they didn't want her anywhere near the leadership because these not controllable. she is very radical. she has got a -- she loves the sound of her own voice and consistently steps on their messaging. so they did not -- >> tea party -- that is not because she is a tea party member, but because she is michele bachmann. >> somebody aggressively involved with the tea party movement who is going to be in the republican house leadership? >> there is a lot of republican leaders from -- in the senate and the house, from, you know, got ron johnson the senate, marco rubio, you have got a lot of the house members, very comfortable with the tea party. >> the big question is whether the republicans are going to be able to co-opt the tea party message. now, let's re

congresswoman michelle bachmann thank you very much.t's calls a pleasure to visit wooliness for leadership that you've shown in fiscal and budgetary responsibility. [applause] great to have you here. >> thank thanks, mike. >> mike: well, can't wait until christmas? when we come back we're going to get an early start to the holiday season with all the gift of giving. later, b.j. thomas joins us right here on our show. etfs? exchange traded funds? don't just give me ten or twenty to choose from. come on. td ameritrade introduces commission-free etfs with a difference-- more choice. over a hundred etfs.... ...chosen by the unbiased experts at morningstar associates. let me pick what works for me. for me. for me. the etf market center at td ameritrade. before investing, carefully consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses. contact td ameritrade for a prospectus containing this and other information. read it carefully before investing. [ female announcer ] this isthis is norma.ption. who's inundated with all the

now michele bachmann's family has received over $215,000 for the bachmann family farm in independenceisconsin. kristi noem has received over $3 million. and incoming congressman steven fincher's family has received $3.2 million. are these the the new welfare queens. there isn't a welfare recipient that has gotten anywhere near this money from the federal government. republicans took an important step forward today. so it was really surprising when one of the biggest advocates of pork or earmarks depending on your perspective, minority leader mitch mcconnell said this on the floor monday. >> i know the good that has come from the projects i've helped support throughout my state. i don't apologize for them, but there is simply no doubt that the abuse of this practice has caused americans to view it as a symbol of the waste and out of control spending that every republican in washington is determined to fight. >> all right. hey, that's change we can believe in. of course, this is just the first step, we'll believe it when we see the programs get cut from the budget. our next guest is not

congresswoman michelle bachmann thank you very much.lls a pleasure to visit wooliness for leadership that you've shown in fiscal and budgetary responsibility. [applause] great to have you here. >> thank thanks, mike. >> mike: well, can't wait until christmas? when we come back we're going to get an early start to the holiday season with all the gift of giving. later, b.j. thomas joins us right here on our show. lédététt8 [ male announcer ] is your current denture cleanser missing something? now you get a cleanser with scope freshness. ♪ new fixodent plus scope ingredients. ♪ cleans...kills germs that cause denture odors... and provides your dentures with the freshness of scope. ♪ new fixodent cleanser plus scope ingredients. but now, to get it really cooking, you need a little website development. some transparent reporting, so you know it's working. online ads and 1-on-1 marketing consultation. yellowbook's got all that. yellowbook360 has a whole spectrum of tools. the perfect recipe for success. visit yellowbook360.com and go beyond y

i was surprised, not that cantor said forget jeb henserling, we are going to put michele bachmann in the leadership, the number four spot. but he made no statement that of course there will be a member of the tea party in leadership and we want to hear their voice. >> i think there is a civil war oforts going on. we don't talk about it much between the republican establishment and tea party people. it's sarah palin/karl rove if you want to personify it. michele bachmann among the republican leadership, she is seen as grandstanding and seen as quite electrifying force. she is not someone that they see as able to govern. govern means compromise, work with the others who you disagree with. >> chris: raised a lot of money for the party. >> fine. in terms of governing -- i'm admiring of the response we have heard from john boehner, and from eric cantor and others, which is at this modest agenda, which here is where we look for opportunities to work with president obama, john boehner and the same interview on special report said look, we can start off right now with the trade agreements, w

you know how much of that much of the attack can we expect now because we had people like michele bachmann saying that once republicans take over the house if they do in midterm elections all we should do is just issue a subpoena as you know and hold our oversight hearings how many promises of those are we going to see delivered thing there's going to be a million years investigations coming out of the republican house and there's no doubt about that i mean to me what's more interesting though those those witch hunt is going to be a very sort of tightrope he has to walk between actually having to govern now it's a lot easier easy to close everything when you're in the minority now he actually has to pretend to govern and he's going to sort of deal with the people in this caucus that want your approach to their districts to get reelected who realized that they'd have to do things like raise the debt limit less the united states the fault in create mass economic chaos and are you going to have to michele bachmann's who are going to basically want to oppose everything zero zero zero on everyt

there's a bunch of them out like like michele bachmann. i wouldn't want her to be my senator but i think she's great. so, anyway. you know, on health care, i can't believe that, you know, they're trying to tell us that it's going to get cheaper and, of course, it's already going up and, of course -- if they had just dealt with immigration they wouldn't be dealing with health care. i mean, that's the way i see it. that's a personal opinion, probably. don't you see it -- i watched it for years and i think you're great. guest: thank you. caller: tell me your real personal opinion on john boehner. guest: look, i think john boehner -- you hear things about john boehner. he's not well-known. i have been told, anyway, by a number of republicans who dealt with him over the years and, look, you're going to have trouble believing this, beneath his partisan republican is the heart of a real reformer. look, we're going to find out. the reason he's moving up to speaker, everybody moves up a notch. eric cantor moves from whip up to majority leader and c

also on the other side of the aisle, tea party chair's michelle bachmann is throwing her support to jebthese two events. karl rove is back with us begins. these are two powerful, well known leaders in the house, nancy pelosi more so than michelle bachman -- bachmann. >> there are at least 15 democrats who have gone on the record expressing their opposition -- opposition to her being made the democratic leader and i suspect that's the tip of the iceberg. there may be two or three times that many who are privately thinking that. you also have another group, people who have yet to declare the leaders' race, like fazio of oregon who said let's delay this until december, let's not do it next week let's delay it, the current democratic leadership held a meeting yesterday and decided they didn't need to wait so they're going to try and ram this through. so look, this is a bad thing for the democrats. this is the leader who crashed the democratic party after six years in power in the house and did so in a spectacular fawrks yet, she's intent upon remaining leader and it's hard to remove them if

>> i think michele bachmann is a national figure in her own right. she represents strong relationship with the tea party and largest fundraiser in the house on the republican side. my guess is she will be a bigger and bigger national figure and her influence in the house will be considerable but the strengths of being great national leader aren't always the same as figuring out how to sit in the back room and work out the legislative processes. this may use her talent as strongest, national communicator and national mobilizer of people, resources and vists and one of the key conservative of her generation. >> greta: i suspect either she did a head count and discovered she wouldn't win, or she got offered something. >> i think that, i think that there is a clear sense she is a great effective outsider and probably in terms of the head count it might be difficult. i wouldn't under estimate how sharp she is or overestimate with this means for her long-terms influence. he will remain one of the most important articulators across the country, a real rally

there is any question if you just watch and listen today and read, there are people like michele bachmanne pence, even joe arpaio out in arizona the sheriff with the immigrants. those are folks who didn't get the time of day, any attention from the old line elite media in the country. and so all of a sudden they have voice where before they were silenced or even finished by the established media outlets in the country. i think this representation of the fact that the tea party has been the driving force over the last year and a half. since the whole health care, tarp, sim columbus argument -- stimulus argument started. nay sayers, people put down previously have been loud and have driven the independents. if you want to measure, this bill, look how independents moved away from the white house and away from the president. that's just not a good sign for the democrats. >> bill: the three signs that you mentioned and michele bachmann is a guy. i say everybody is a guy. are conservatives. are you saying that the conservative movement is gaining in power? >> yeah. i think voices like that were

and by the way, what congresswoman bachmann said there about the president's trip to asia costing $200 million a day? that was a lie. it didn't cost anywhere near that. not all republicans are for this earmark ban. here's what senator jim inhofe said this week on the senate floor. >> they said earmarks are a gate way drug that needs to be eliminated in order to demonstrate we are serious about fiscal restraint. there's just one problem with that. it's not true. instead of putting money back in the pockets of the american people by reducing spending or shrinking the deficit, these efforts to eliminate earmarks would put money into the hand of president obama, by allowing his administration to spend the money as he saw fit. at the end of the day, none would have saved money, president obama is the winner, the american people the loser. >> ouch. the american people are the losers. joining me now, david gergen and roland martin along with dana loesch, editor of bigjournalism.com and radio host, 97.1 fm. david, is it really such a big idea, this idea of cutting earmarks, particularly when y

bachmann over someone else? >>guest: i don't know either candidate.e people i look forward to meeting and talking to when we place the leadership election votes. >> are you enjoying this? you are handling yourself very well i am asking pointed questions and you are doing a great job. >>guest: i don't have a lot of political experience on a statewide basis or national level but i came out of a tough campaign and we need people who are willing to answer the tough pointed questions. >> you are very good at it. what is your first priority, job when, when you walk into the house of representatives? >>guest: we need to start looking toward balancing our budget, cutting spending. that is what i campaigned on. i have a lot of practice running small businesses and involved in agriculture in south dakota and people want people who know what is important and how to get our economy going and put people back to work. >> do you want all of the bush tax cuts made permanent? all of them? for everyone? is that a bottom line thing for you? >>guest: i do. they all shoul

. >> michele bachmann backing down from a contest she was clearly going to loose. tea party new comers, not michele bachmann, new comers might have more strength when they come in? >> republican leaders, they got the message. they recognize right now that their interests are very aligned and a lot of the leaders within the republican leadership now, john boehner has gone out there and he campaigned for a lot of folks that had tea party support. somebody who is such a strong fiscal conservative, great deal on respect. he's built up respect within the folks of the tea party activist element. we're aligned on a lot of the issues tea party folks are. it's going to be very helpful. >> you have a higher class problem than the democrats. you have the majority. >> we'll take it. >> kevin -- >> good problem to have. >> good problem to have, exactly right, steve? >> good to see you. >>> up next, helping america's wounded warriors. tammy duckworth from the department of foreign affairs joins us. not that long ago, many families were priced out of an overheated housing market.

michelle bachmann tried and failed in a big way to get a spot in the republican leadership.he threw her hat in and jeb hencerling has the establishment support and michelle bachmann withdrew before the vote which underlie tess limits of a unique tea party base outside of the republican leadership table. >> but what if they do put together and in growing numbers create a tea party caucus, doesn't that mean that the larger they are, the louder they're going to clamor and then they're going to have to be listening to? >> absolutely. i think they're already being listened to because there is so much concern about a unique calk bus developing. last year or earlier this year, they already developed a tea party caucus in the house, but it only got about 45 minutes and a lot of those people were folks who were established republicans and wanted some tea party credentials. >> oh, i see. james hohmann, thank you. >> thanks, alex. >>> despite votes for donald duck, elmo and revolt, lisa murkowski is getting 90% of the write-in votes in the alaska race for senate. joe miller is suing to