one part the pressure freshmen but also leaders like pence and michelle bachman, who want to establish themselves as rebel leaders and set them against every committee chairman who thought this was a pretty good deal, even at the beginning of the debate. >> here's the thing that john boehner understands that a lot of his new members don't. you can't overinterpret your mandate when you're elected. they were elected to get things done, not because people were in love with republicans, not because people were in love with the notion of shutting down government to make a political point. chris: you sure? don't you think a lot of tea partyers will get re-elected because they beat more republican republicans? they're not going to lose next year, are they? >> they're not if you're going to go overboard. independent voters, senior voters, very very important. chris: the closer you get to being a senior, the more you realize that getting your check and having your health care taken care of is most important. the ones we agree are thinking about being president some day and they could be elected

-- michele bachman? sarah palin?at is my commen host: i just wanted -- and a brat -- nebraska, go ahead. caller: mike huckabee, his philosophy, he or one of his mentors, the entire republican field is amazing. it boggles my mind. only people in the upper 1% would vote republican. americans are starting to wise up. host: the public call to the president, it comes as many schools try to limit state cuts to higher education funding. host: houston, texas, republican line. who would you like to see for the gop? caller: i am serious about this. we need someone who will not be in the pocket, that no one will try to dog out. the french faction of the nuclear -- the new world order, miss laura bush. there is stuff that you probably want to do, but you have been there. if you could in your heart, we need you right now miss laura bush. and i would like to see chad pope run for vice president. host: clarence, florida. you are next. caller: the republicans do not have anyone to run. you are talking about donald trump, he will not

increasingly is that she is not going to run and a lot of that energy that she excites congresswoman michelle bachman from minnesota would be probably the likely person who may be best positioned to tap into that. gwen: she had some big numbers today. >> she did. over $2 million fundraising for the last quarter. that's better than mitt romney raised. of course, she does have a congressional campaign funding. gwen: thank you very much. before we leave you tonight, we want to add our condolences to the flood of those already sent to geraldine ferraro, historic breakthrough and woman from queens. the 1984 vice presidential nominee was saluted this week but both sarah palin and hillary clinton and for the same reason. she made their careers possible. she would have enjoyed that. keep up with daily developments on the pbs news hour and we will see you here again next week on "washington week." good night. download our weekly podcast and take us with you. it's the week podcast at washingtonweek online at pbs.org. >> funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> we know why we're here. to give our war

and michelle bachman won't vote for the final touch and the caulk us and house isn't that big some they yell and scream i think the -- the guys have made a deal on capitol hill and the tea party will be great. >> look, $33 billion is basically two percent of the deficit, and it's one percent of the budget this year, $1.65 trillion deficit. but you're getting about as much as they can get unless they want to shut down the government. i think they have to accept that and the tea party folks have to be happy, but you get two more bites of the apple, the big budget for 2012, and you get the -- debt ceiling. >> are you saying that our current accounts deficit, current accounts deficit, it $1.65 trillion? >> it is. the budget deficit for this year. >> ending when? >> september 30th. >> what is the public debt. >> the public debt is different from the -- >> how much is the public debt? >> national debt is $14 trillion. >> billion? >> public debt is 10 trillion. the national debt is 14. because part of the debt is held over there by the social security trust funds, and it's just an accounting t

you have the broadcasting look at this woman, michele bachman. she gave a speech to weeks ago where she applauded the u.s. constitution for ending slavery i'm not making this up. i'm not making this up. remember the glenn beck rally on the mall the hired helicopters to get the crowd estimate, the estimate was 87,000 people. the was the honest estimate to figure so somewhere between 80 to 100. michele bachman gets up on the stage and she says don't let anybody tell you that there's under a million people here. the tea party sentence don't let anybody tell you -- it's like clenching your years and screaming while somebody tries to say reality is over here and that is who 50 party picks to represent them and respond to the president of the united states and that's who cnn shows the broadcast without interference, without any sense of obligation to correct the lives and the liver the misstatements that she made and that are made all the time so when you think about it from the perspective of the president of the united states, who has a very complica

we all know we listen to michele bachman, representative michele bachman just the other week when she gave her response to the obama's steve of the union address. now this windel to millions, her response, cnn for some stupid reason put this on the air and she says the founding fathers did everything they could to fight against slavery. this is absolute nonsense. it is absolutely not true, but it reinforces and tells the perspective that has to be counted, and we have to have an alternative perspective for that secure remarks just now made me think of the controversy recently over the writings of mark twain and its use of the word nigger in the more famous text and how the extremists want to redact the original transcript to omit the word when his purpose was historically accurate and had all of the negative implications that it traditionally had and he had used it for that reason and it's amazing to me because a lot of this when you're saying now it's not so disturbing to me they put out the message as it was when it went unchallenged, you know, that to me is disturbing because i thi

you have the broadcasting look at this woman, michele bachman. she gave a speech to weeks ago where she applauded the u.s. constitution for ending slavery i'm not making this up. i'm not making this up. remember the glenn beck rally on the mall the hired helicopters to get the crowd estimate, the estimate was 87,000 people. the was the honest estimate to figure so somewhere between 80 to 100. michele bachman gets up on the stage and she says don't let anybody tell you that there's under a million people here. the tea party sentence don't let anybody tell you -- it's like clenching your years and screaming while somebody tries to say reality is over here and that is who 50 party picks to represent them and respond to the president of the united states and that's who cnn shows the broadcast without interference, without any sense of obligation to correct the lives and the liver the misstatements that she made and that are made all the time so when you think about it from the perspective of the president of the united states, who has a very complica

[cheering] [applause] >> i don't know how a non-politician can follow michele bachman. ayman as grassroots as it gets. we drove from self of pittsburgh today to be here. this is and our first time down. we are coming from a very traditionally liberal area, southwestern pennsylvania, can you imagine that? i have with me, altman and karen is with one of our groups also, from a group called the patriots. we just want to let you know our founding fathers gave us the greatest country with the grace of god gave us the greatest country that the world has ever seen, and i think when ben franklin said we give you a republican keep it i think he was talking to us today. i truly believe that. and, you know, not everyone can drive to d.c. every time the turnaround. we have a very small part, so i brought some friends with us. [cheering] >> these are the conservatives and liberals from our area. everyone is upset. [cheering] the 2010 election was monumental. it was a tremendous show, but if you think was big wait until we showed in 3g in 2012. [cheering] thank you, everyone for comi

we have michelle bachman, sarah palin, mitt romney. >> huckabee. >> i was looking at the polls and stuff and news flash, and the ones that are out there at the top, you have mitt romney up there. the rish she will trumps and sarah palins, it is an interesting phenomenon we have in america, sell britt tee buzz can get you forward. and? >> and when a guy named ronald reagan came out of nowhere. he was a television announcer for kraft foods, or somebody, and he became a g.e.. >> and why do we go for that? >> we love celebrities and we don't think much of politicians in terms of qualities needed to do the job, until you're on the job. and then you get these approval ratings or no approval ratings. >> which is interesting because if you look at the mood of the american people, it is dark. it was dark at the end of the bush era. it was dark during the midterm elects. that is when they are more inclined to reach out and pick anybody than the incumbent and somebody with a bit of celebrity can all of a sudden be a threat. >> there is no question. barack obama would probably not have won if there

as much as all the potential republican challengers, sarah palin, mitt romney, mike huckabee, michelle bachmanwlenty, altogether, he's got more than four times as all those guys put together. we don't know exactly how many, 600 million, maybe 700 million people these days going on facebook. this becomes an incredible way social media, for candidates to get the word out on who they are. >> let's not forget that he started doing this you know when he ran the first time. and it is how he announced his candidacy, correct? >> it's how -- his first time -- >> didn't he tweet -- >> the second time he announced it virally on youtube. but the first time he announced it, i think it was in illinois as i recall. but the point is here, that hundreds of millions of people are going on, they're clicking on, he's going on all the time. other people are going on. whether it's facebook, whether it's myspace. whether it's, whether they're tweeting, all these things and this becomes a way for candidates to let people know who they are, what they're doing and they wind up being marketers, if you will, for these pe

[cheering] [applause] >> i don't know how a non-politician can follow michele bachman. ayman as grassroots as it gets. we drove from self of pittsburgh today to be here. this is and our first time down. we are coming from a very traditionally liberal area, southwestern pennsylvania, can you imagine that? i have with me, altman and karen is with one of our groups also, from a group called the patriots. we just want to let you know our founding fathers gave us the greatest country with the grace of god gave us the greatest country that the world has ever seen, and i think when ben franklin said we give you a republican keep it i think he was talking to us today. i truly believe that. and, you know, not everyone can drive to d.c. every time the turnaround. we have a very small part, so i brought some friends with us. [cheering] >> these are the conservatives and liberals from our area. everyone is upset. [cheering] the 2010 election was monumental. it was a tremendous show, but if you think was big wait until we showed in 3g in 2012. [cheering] thank you, everyone for comi

rest were other fire brand conservatives who have been around for a while longer people like michelle bachman and mike pense and tom price. people who are associated with the kind of new write -- right in the house but not necessarily the fresh mean class. >> charlie: what happens if there's a shut down , what does that mean. >> it means a lot of government shuts down. float a lot of concern whether the government can get its act together. the markets are not going to like this, business dispn like this because government contracts are not let, that interrupts the supply chain. things happen. hear not cataclysmic but they're convenient for everybody. everybody loses faith whether the government can get hoifts act together and deal with these bigger questions we're talking about. i was going to mention charlie one of the things i think happened here that's interesting and one of the reasons why i think a shut down seems a little more likely than i thought a few days ago is you've seen democrats, and we saw it in harry reid in that clip right at the beginning starting to demonize the tea party

[cheering] [applause] >> i don't know how a non-politician can follow michele bachman.ayman as grassroots as it gets. we drove from self of pittsburgh today to be here. this is and our first time down. we are coming from a very traditionally liberal area, southwestern pennsylvania, can you imagine that? i have with me, altman and karen is with one of our groups also, from a group called the patriots. we just want to let you know our founding fathers gave us the greatest country with the grace of god gave us the greatest country that the world has ever seen, and i think when ben franklin said we give you a republican keep it i think he was talking to us today. i truly believe that. and, you know, not everyone can drive to d.c. every time the turnaround. we have a very small part, so i brought some friends with u [cheering] >> these are the conservatives d liberals from our area. everyone iupset. [cheering] the 2010 election was monumental. it was a tremendous show, but if you think was big wait until we showed in 3g in 2012. [cheering] thank you, everyone for coming, god

. >> i would like to say that he should look michelle bachman who was clear on energy, fiscal policy world you to match, which means she is reliable. when it comes to a president for canada there is nothing more important than world view. >> who are you supporting? >> right now michelle laughlin. -- michelle bauchman. what do iowans think of obama care? >> it should be repealed immediately. those and the political class me to get a backbone. we have put them in power and multiple places, and they are not doing anything with it. it is totally unconstitutional, and moral. -- immoral. >> i had an e-mail a few moments ago that you should tell your listeners i am very happy. i just got out of the hospital and all of my bills were paid for by the taxpayers. i rejoined the healthy members of society. i could not have afforded my own health care, but i am now a taxpayer again because of obama care. >> every single person needs to look at what the immediate personal sacrifice they are willing to make to save an entire nation and the ideal of a constitutional republic, because it's we have our

tomorrow with several other potential republican presidential candidates, including mitt romney and michele bachman. they will be participating in a formal hosted by the americans for prosperity foundation. you can watch it live on c-span and c-span.org beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, president obama announced his nominees to head the cia and the pentagon. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen talks about military operations in the middle east. and a look at protests against syria's government with the leader of the opposition movement. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> to mark, we will talk with reporters tim reid and paul krawzak.a and we will be at the national air and space museum to preview the final launch of space shuttle endeavor. stuart hall and germy kenny will be our guests. >> this weekend, panel on science, american history, climate change, and the constitution and collins with larry flint. just a few of the highlights from our coverage of the los angeles times festival of boo

we have had michele bachman and sarah palin and rick santorum. ron paul has been here. they are making their way through but it's too early to tell. thank you for the phone call. we're going to see if we can squeeze in byron in georgia. how're you doing? >> how are you doing? i want to make a comment. i've been around long enough that i experienced the change when we used to have to sit in -- balcony's and now we sit now in the transition where we sit with the populations. i say that to make this comment. i know everybody is talking about jobs and creating the economy to grow, but i want a candidate that will deal with the issues of the housing market. i say that because i had a dream that when i got older, i went into the neighborhood where they have homes and dreamed i was going to have a home, which i do have a home now. but the thing that worries me the most is the fact that government is able to come in and assess your home at a higher price that you bought it at and then perhaps say you are in an area that grew and boomed like housing industry now and they overtax

what michelle bachman said is true. social issues reflect the fiscal conservative view also. we know what causes poverty and we are spending $100 billion on people trapped in poverty because planned parenthood is saying, continue the behavior, continue to have babies out of wedlock, the number one group in poverty, continue these papers that causes these social ills. stand firm and do what rush limbaugh and all the conservative people are saying. this is not a compromise. we will not compromise. host: we will leave it there. guest: i agree with you completely that the social policies have huge fiscal implications and need to be addressed as fiscal problems on the budget side. we could argue about a lot of the ancillary issues later once the country is out of fiscal danger. but you are right, these things have indications. when i hear a politician say, i am a fiscal conservative but a social liberal, i have never been able to understand how you can finance social liberal programs with fiscally conservative policies. the math never works out. host: next call from salem, massach

michelle bachman, the congressman from minnesota. she is hugely popular. she is raising the money to prove that she is popular beyond just showing up on glenn beck's show. in the last quarter, she raised more money than mitt romney reyes, which is -- raised, which is an interesting way to gauge her strength. she is a big deal, in terms of her support with the tea party crowd, and that has made her a big deal with the republican field at large. that tells you a little bit of how influential the tea party is. all of the contenders will try to kowtow to the tea party base to convince them they are the best possible candidate, the most conservative, the most able to reflect those values. we have seen less of an argument of about who is the more electable candidate, more about who is most conservative, most in line with the tea party movement. i think that is a telling state of the republican party right now. host: dixon from north carolina. caller: i am a proud pro-life republican baby boomer. i hope nobody wants to call in and say that i am a killer, wants to

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. >> michele bachman was in iowa talking about the legislation she is pushing in her home state, minnesota that cries same-sex marriage. you see it coming up. do i think it will be something that influences the general too much? the focus is the economy and the budget and getting things done. the only thing that affects the primary currently affecting obama and the hole, he had to come against doma because he faces pressure from his own party because in his own party there are people who want to get things done and there are others that may not. not pushing legislation which he can't do because the republicans control the house. he has to get something done because he risks alienating that part of a party. >> the party will be more forgiving but it is certainly going to play out in the republican primaries. the primary voters, won't be as big a factor as general but the primary voters are going to have to be talked to in a certain way by the ones who want to win the primary orel's not w else not w primary, nomination. too far to the right might alienate the center. >> one more before we op

. >> republican congresswoman michelle bachman from minnesota, founder of the tea party caucus there, good morning. thanks for joining us again. >> thanks, matt. >> we are hearing conflicting messages here. we heard mitch mcconnell say raising taxes isn't on the table. john boehner said, i will put everything on the table. i'm not interested in raising taxes on the american people, but if it takes leaving it on the table to have the conversation, i'll have the conversation. so is raising taxes on the table? >> i don't think it should be on the table because tax rates are high enough already. one thing that history shows, matt, is when we raise taxes, particularly on job creators, we actually bring in less revenue rather than more. and so the question really is do we want more revenue or do we want to increase taxes because the two don't necessarily go together. >> but if you do raise taxes, for example, the president is expected to call for raising taxes on the wealthiest americans. some estimates say that could raise $700 billion, why couldn't that money be used to pay down the debt?

michelle bachman, the congressman from minnesota. she is hugely popular. and she is raising the money to prove that she is popular beyond just showing up on glenn beck's show. in the last quarter, she raised more money than mitt romney reyes, which is -- raised, which is an ieresting way to uge her strength. she is a big deal, in terms of her support with the tea party crowd, and that has made her a big deal with the republican field at large. that tells you a little t of how influential the tea party is. all of the contenders will try to kowtow to the tea party base to convince them they are the bestossible candidate, the most conservative, the most able to reflect those values. we have seen less of an argument of about who is the more electable candidate, more about who is most conservative, most in line with the tea party movement. i think that is a telling state of the republican party right now. host: dixon from north carolina. caller: i am a proud pro-life republican baby boomer. i hope nobody wantso call in and say that i am a killer, wants to kill