tonight we are featuring michele bachmann.he raced away from our dana bash who was trying to ask her questions about remarks michele bachmann made at the conservative political action conference over the weekend. in the statements she slammed the white house reaction during the attack that killed four americans in libya last fall. >> a war was raging in benghazi for hours and all we know is that our president went awol. >> while cries from american diplomats and soldiers went unanswered. >> then she shifted to government spending specifically the white house budget. >> a new book is out talking about the perks and excess of the $1.4 billion a year presidency that we are paying for. this is a lifestyle that is one of excess. now we find out that there are five chefs on air force one. there are two projectionists who operate the white house movie theater. they regularly sleep at the white house in order to be readily available in case the first family wants a really, really late show. and i don't mean to be petty here but can't

we were talking about michele bachmann.ve talked about this report that the republican national committee pointed out or put out last week rather where reince priebus commission this big study. this post-mortem to look at what went wrong in november 2012. we talked about this yesterday morning. what the republican party had to do to shape up. well, the problem with that is that there are people on the right who won't shut up. leading the pack, michele bachmann. she just keeps opening her mouth and saying stupid things. making the republican party look like a bunch of clowns which unfortunately, too many of them are. we've talked about some of the things that michele bachmann has said. remember all of the crazy stuff she said during the campaign. and she has zero regard for the truth. zero regard for the truth. she got in trouble because she came out and accused some vaccine or something of causing -- >> the hpv -- >> bill: yes. she was blurting and it turned out she had no evidence to back it up. walking out of some event.

and michele bachmann made a mistake pursuing it. with the nation now owing close to $17 trillion, i wish the president were more like pope francis, who has a cardinal in argentina rejected of all the lavish perks. mr. obama is entitled to protection, convenience and comfort as he he runs the nation. congresswoman bachmann and all the opponents of president obama should zero in on what's really important, the president's failure to deal with out-of-control spending and his core belief that america is not a fair country. that's what's important. not who is walking the presidential dog. by the way, that's the gardner who walks the dog. and he has always walked the dogs. and how many movies the obamas watch? jimmy carter watched 300 movies. might have been why that was so out-of-control back then. it's long past time for partisans on both the right and the left to cut the nonsense and look at things clearly. we have got huge problems in america. the president is directly responsible for some of those problems. he is not willing to compr

there is one saving grace i give to people like michele bachmann. they know not what they do. the thing is, when the congresswoman says we in the media should investigate anti-american elements in the house of representatives, she must not know that this thing happened all once before. there was a panel of the congress itself called the house unamerican activities, carried all kinds of hearings and probes into congress and hollywood and all over the place. they are not proud of that committee. why? because it created a lot of mayhem, suffering, a the lo of people's lives ruined. going out there and eholding a fishing expedition causes good people to circle the wagons and then tends to predict some bad people along the way while ruining, as i said, the lives of good people. so we don't need some purge in this country. remember, congress is critical of the way we do things. here, i think it's because he or she wants to be a better country. don't you think? there must be someone who secretly hopes to brings this country down. i suppose that's possible. but don't count on a bunch

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but today bachmann's running from something else. reporters.ech at the conservative conference two weeks ago was riddled with errors and flat out made up. now we learn that she might be in the hot water with the office of congressional ethics. wow. look out. i see a fading star. joining me now, angela ryan, carolyn heldman. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thank you, rev. >> angela, one member of congresswoman bachmann's staff told the daily beast, quote, politics is like jumping off a diving board. you rise, you plateau. but at the end of the day, everyone comes down. some people make a splash. and some people belly flopped. she belly flopped. and you don't get a second chance at the diving board. did it all catch up with the congresswoman? >> you know, rev, there's a whole lot going on here. with the office of congressional ethics, you know, she's not only in potential violations of the ethics rules of the house but also of federal election commission standards. if she has done any of what they've alleged, she's in a lot of trouble.

it is part of the routine of working with michele bachmann.ing i would add on a more serious note, we can joke around about this stuff, but people gave, real people gave to her campaign. real people gave to her pac, people that don't have money handy. she got them to give money to her political action committee and campaign and she potentially misused it. i feel bad for people that were deceived if this is, in fact, true. >> it is hard to feel bad for anyone that gave money to michele bachmann to become president of the united states. >> have a heart. >> those people are making mistakes with money all day long. you can't start -- ana marie, the staffer that revealed this has said to me that was unconscionable, that's his quote, you know, that she was refusing to pay the staff but the consultant, she was dipping into the other pot to pay big time, and as the details of this come out, it is going to get more and more specific and seems to me michele bachmann will have a lot of local coverage of this there in minnesota. >> i think she probably wi

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i would also like to declare, i have also chased michele bachmann.remely quick and it's incredibly hard to catch her. my heart goes out to dana bash. >> you have had to chase her? really? >> yes, i have chased her. she's really very quick. she's really quick on her feet. if she doesn't want to answer a question, it's just not going to happen. >> she's quick on facts, too. but go ahead. >> she's more fast and loose with the facts and that's the problem here, and really if you listen to her entire speech at cpac, what we're talking about in terms of the dog walker and the presidential limos, that's the tip of the iceberg. her biggest point was that republican conservatives care about americans, care about people in the audience. democrats do not. and saying that the president is living a lavish lifestyle and help americans take care of each other. her speech was so riddled with facts. she's saying that we need to fund alzheimer's research and the president wants to increase alzheimer's research. so it's almost impossible to know where to start with the

now congresswoman bachmann deserves the benefit of the doubt.ss that a video of her running is not the last thing she's concerned about. >>> i don't spend a lot of time thinking about former president bush but his brother jeb just said something that i couldn't believe. watch this. >> he is like the most focused, disciplined guy, to imagine being a former president and not having an opinion on anything over the last four years? really? to have that discipline, to be respectful of the president that hasn't been as respectful of him as he should have been? man, i could have never done that. >> really? president obama hasn't been respectful of former president bush. jeb is sticking up for his brother because that's what brothers do. but i've never seen any evidence of what he's talking about. i mean, we should always respect the office of the presidency. but tell the truth when it comes to any president's record. should we respect the dismal economic record that sank us into recession and exploded our national debt? this isn't just a bush family af

if she's not doing something inappropriate, she is not michele bachmann.re were claims that hillary clinton's aide had ties to a terrorist group. there were claims that vaccinations caused mental retardation. >> a woman came up crying to me after the debate. said her daughter was given that vaccine. she told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine. >> in appropriate gender stereotypes. >> be submissive, wives, to your husbands. >> and inappropriate remarks on slavery. >> i think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forebearers who worked tirelessly, men like john quincy adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country. >> here was a greatest hits reel of michele bachmann and how inappropriate she really is. >> now we have moved into the realm of gangster government. we have gangster government. i want people in minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue. we have an imperial presidency. our fathers thought taxation without representation was bad. what would they think of representa

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and michelle bachmann under investigation. let's go "outfront." >>> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" today, america's new path to war. so the united states is lowering the threshold for american military involvement in a possible war with north korea. in the face of mounting threats from the young untested dictator of the country, the u.s. is getting ready to fight back. now while the nearly 30,000 american troops in south korea are already obligated to defend that country in the vent of an all out war, under the new plan, the troops could fight in direct response just to provications from north korea. it could be a significant difference from the way things are right now. pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is "outfront" tonight. chris, what is this new agreement mean for american troops and the threshold where they would be in conflict? >> reporter: erin, it basically puts it down on paper in formalizes the agreement that the u.s. is going to be a part of this defense right from the get go. not just all out war but even the small scale attacks. so wha

and here is michele bachmann.y get when they still try to convince us that obamacare is bad for this country? they have been saying this for what the last three years, even before obamacare, of course was passed, but even when they were debating it in the congress before they passed it. we never heard anything as extreme as fruit cake michele bachmann on the floor yesterday. >> that's why we're here. because we're saying let's repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children kills senior citizens. let's not do that. let's love people. let's care about people. let's repeal it now while we can. >> bill: nutty as a fruit cake this is the same woman who attacked president obama at cpac because he lives in the white house and has security and has somebody walk his dog. he does not have a dog walker by the way. but they are so nutty. why do people take these republicans seriously? i mean they are not doing their job. they are not even close to doing their job. they are not serving the american people.

bachmann to come on the program. like tuesday, she declined.sk dana bash to try to get some answers. she joins us now. you have just gotten a statement from the congresswoman's spokesman. how does she back up her claims? >> reporter: that's right. let me just answer that by reading you the statement and the statement is from her spokesman. he says obama care is forcing doctors into the employ of cost-cutting hospitals, gives government the authority to determine services that will and will not be covered, has a board independent of congress that can cut payments for care and allows the secretary of health and human services to force all health plans to eliminate any doctor that doesn't practice medicine the government's way. the history of government-run health care systems around the world is a history of denial, delay and sadly, even death. anderson, i notice that she responded not long after the democratic campaign committee which is in charge of getting rid of republicans, of defeating them in elections, put out a press release blasting her

because everything michele bachmann said it is a flat outright lie and she knows it.as the distinction of getting more liar liar pants on fire from politifact than any other person alive. she is a mom you mental embarrassment to her own party. i thought it was a good opportunity for the white house to really trash her ai was disappointed they didn't accept her invitation. >> michael: i suspect fit was jay carney he would have reacted a little more forcefully. >> yes. >> michael: is this going to tell us anything about bachmann the politician, the ethics committee hearing? >> the fcc is investigating improper payments to her chief of staff, and then the head of the cia, he is a serious guy, and if they find out there was some hanky panky -- they are looking into intentional campaign contribution violations. so she's in a whole mess of trouble, and i think this is maybe the one thing that could bring her down. of course that's up to the people of minnesota. >> michael: that's true. but it would really be a shame to see her have to suffer through that. >> oh yeah. >> mic

she's michele bachmann.he runs another time for the republicans presidential nomination, she is going to come out with stuff like this and probably again skew the arg toward the more crazy side in this context. what's interesting, clearly she has no sense this is achievable. they're not going to appeal obama-care. any with sense knows that. the language is hyped up and heated. if she thinks she can do what she did, by the way she failed at in 2012 and do it all over again, i would be less than surprised because that speaks to her mindset, which is perplexing. >> richard wolffe, michelle goldberg and ryan grimm, thank you so very much. >> thank you. >> next, budget cuts are getting really personal. find out whether the sequester is forcing some work others to byopt. >>> michele bachmann's claim about obama-care was not the only lie she got caught making this week. on tuesday bachmann ran way from a cnn reporter to avoidancering her claim the obamas are living a lifestyle of excess. even bill o'reilly dissed h

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you see what they are doing to michele bachmann? michelle back man is under all kinds of ethics' investigations now. why do you suppose that is? she's evil. yeah. uh-huh. she is uber clear on what's going on. >> one second he's talking about radical islam and the next, an ethics investigation into michele bachmann? it's making people think beck's saying bachmann's ethics probe is just a plot coming from radical islamists. how does that make any sense? congressional investigators are looking to allegations of improper payments to bachmann's presidential campaign. now, we don't know the facts and she deserves a fair investigation. but one thing should be clear, radical muslims respect behind a house ethics investigation. but don't tell that to this fearmongering team. >> he's connected with radicals, islamists, communists, and socialists. >> it appears that there has been deep penetration in the halls of our united states government by the muslim brotherhood. >> i want to he show you a little bit of some of the laws being passed here

she's michele bachmann.he republicans presidential nomination, she is going to come out with stuff like this and probably again skew the arg toward the more crazy side in this context. what's interesting, clearly she has no sense this is achievable. they're not going to appeal obama-care. any with sense knows that. the language is hyped up and heated. if she thinks she can do what she did, by the way she failed at in 2012 and do it all over again, i would be less than surprised because that speaks to her mindset, which is perplexing. >> richard wolffe, michelle goldberg and ryan grimm, thank you so very much. >> thank you. >> next, budget cuts are getting really personal. find out whether the sequester is forcing some work others to byopt. ngine? search engine, uhh, probably google. if we do a side by side blind test comparison, and you end up choosing google, you get an xbox. i'll bet you the xbox, you bet me your son. well let's look up what you need. okay, i would do the left. yeah? what?! i am a daddy! b

it should be pointed out again, michele bachmann is the one who made that connection.imply asking her about public statements she made and apparently she has no facts to back them up. today, she took to the house floor and said this about the affordable care act, obama care. >> the american people, especially vulnerable women, vulnerable children, vulnerable senior citizens, now get to pay more and they get less. that's why we're here. because we're saying let's repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens. let's not do that. let's love people. let's care about people. let's repeal it now while we can. >> literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens. her words. keeping them honest, there may be plenty good or bad about obama care but literally killing people, sort of a new one. does she have any evidence to back up such an explosive and by the sound of it b on the tuesday. like tuesday, she declined. once again, we ask dana bash to try to get some answers. she joins us now. you have just gotten a statement f

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michele bachmann.he brought a huge -- to the state capital. >> president obama and democrats have proposed government invest mentes in roads and bridges. and the failure to sufficiently invest has consequences. once every four years, the american society of civil engineers comes out with an assessment of the nation infrastructure. water, environment, transportation, public facilities and energy. this year's report card has some good news and bad news. the rate improved slightly from the last report card in 2009. that only brought us up to a d plus. to bring our infrastructure up to par, we would need to invest $3.6 trillion by 2020. that would create jobs, boost productivity, repair bridges, roads and water mains and stimulate the economy, but it won't happen unless republicans like michele bachmann get behind president obama's push for infrastructure spending and not just when it makes for a good photo op. >> the republicans are just totally bamboozled and entirely lacking in confidence. >> the nation

right now the focus is on what michele bachmann knew and when did she know it. >> bachmann's attorneystatement and the attorney really seems to be downplaying her role in this and the investigation. i'll put it up for our viewers. her attorney, william mcgwynnly, total us in a statement, there are no allegations that the congresswoman engaged in any wrong doing. we are constructively engaged with the office of congressional ethics, the investigating committee you are talking about, and are confident that at the end of their review the oce board will conclude that congresswoman bachmann did not do anything inappropriate. so what do you make of that? >> well, michele bachmann's lawyering up, and lawyers speak in legalese. what that says is trying to distance michele bachmann from the investigation, which is right now focused on two specific senior members of her campaign staff. that is true. the sources i've spoken to say the inquiry is focused on two senior members of the staff. but the key question, again, as always seems to be the case in political scandals, what did she know and whe

carson will speak after michele bachmann finishing at the podium.cott walker as well as house speaker newt gingrich. told the crowd that republicans and conservatives need to change the way they approach politics, here is more. >> we don't need new principles, but we need lots of ideas how to implement those principles in the 21st century. >> some of the other speakers later today will be former g.o.p. vice-presidential candidate sarah palin and also mia love, the mayor of saratoga, utah had a prime speaking spot last year and kathy mcforest-rogers, a leader in the house of representatives and keynote speaker texas ted cruz who has become a favorite of conservatives. one of the headlines each year at cpac, the results of the straw poll, who people would like to see as the next president. mitt romney won last year and won more than anyone else in the straw poll. we have a look at the straw poll winners recently. romney won four times, texas congressman ron paul often does well here, too, thanks to the number of college students who attend this event.

michele bachmann i think they are like grifters.ely right. we can't go long on this because we have got to take a break, but you are absolutely right. and interestingly enough. i don't know if you saw this, but you know who has been warning people against listening to preachers who -- scamsteres -- this is a quote, scamsteres in religious garb? pat robertson. who just two days ago -- just asked people if you are bankrupt, if you are losing your house or whatever, you only have to send in 20 bucks a month to him. [ laughter ] >> there was something with chris christie and gay conversion therapy. i thought you were going there. >> hal: no i don't think those two go together. it's more like that giant big gulp -- >> yes. >> hal: okay. 1-800-steph-1-2 is our number. it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ [♪ theme music ♪] >> hal: i'm here this time. i've got it together. we're in the final hour -- and i have totally got a system now. >> now we have worked it out. >> hal: let's have a little honesty, doing morning radio while it looks like

a lawyer for bachmann is denying she did anything wrong. bachmann's 2012 campaign filed a plant with the election committee saying that election funds were improperly used to pay staffers and others. the office of congressional ethics is conducting a preliminary investigation and could dismiss the case or refer it to the house ethics commission. >>> here's your first look at "scrambled politics." the son of rob portman is defending his father's delay in supporting same-sex marriage in an op-ed for his college paper. will portman writes, i'm proud of my dad because he's been thoughtful and open-minded in how he's approached the issue and he's shown he's willing to take a political risk in order to take a principled stand. >>> the man once in charge of american intelligence returns to the spotlight tonight. former cia director david petraeus will speak at the university of southern california. it's his first public appearance since resigning after an extramarital affair. >>> the main ingredient in many over-the-counter medicines is getting th

the fact checker called bachmann's claims absurd. winger agrees. >> michele bachmann said it's long past to cut the nonsense and look at things clearly. michele bachmann actually trivializes it as a huge problem and irresponsible spending by the federal government. two words, not good. >> okay, everyone. i'll let you set your dvrs and tivos. are you ready? bill o'reilly is right. i agree with bill. this is another trivial pursuit. it's not about policy. it's another silly personal attack like all the ones we've become used to. whether it's claiming the president wasn't born in this country or that he didn't really go skeet shooting or attacking his lavish vacations where he grew up or for presenting the first lady an award at the oscar's or for slamming him for filling out ncaa brackets. bill was right. but i wonder if he told his colleagues that these attacks were a waste of time? >> the misplaced priorities of our celebrity president were on full display yet again. >> tonight, presidential priorities, basketball or budget. >> presi

gingrich and minnesota representative michele bachmann at the political action conference. after that, "q&a" with fred barnes from "the weekly standard." then, another chance to see david cameron. >> the conservative political action conference ended yesterday this morning -- ended yesterday. we talked with a reporter from politico about the gathering. host: we also want to get more on the cpac conference. we were live thursday, friday, and yesterday. all of the speeches are available on our website, c- span.org, and the straw poll looking at 2016 candidates, senator rand paul, who kicked off the cpac conference, closely followed by senator marco rubio. rick santorum, coming in third, governor chris christie at number four, representative paul ryan, then governor scott walker. a front-page story in "the baltimore sun," saying he would seek office himself, and others. james is following the story from politico. hohmann is joining us live on the phone. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you. host: is nothing more than a beauty contest. was veryis straw poll close. it's so

bill o'reily blasting bachmann.nn chief congressional correspondent dana bash tried to get bachmann to explain unfounded charges that obama was enjoying too many perks. >> it turns out o'riley tried to follow up. bachmann's spokesman suggested he read the book about bachmann -- okay. i'll get this right. he suggested that bill o'reily read this book where bachmann got those so-called facts out of. that didn't sit too well with o'rio o'rei o'reily. >> trivial attacks on president obama are obscuring serious problems in this country. does the president live well in the white house? yes, he does. is there money wasted it? you bet there is. every other president in history lived in comfort and president bush the younger had a bigger budget than barack obama does. this is a trivial pursuit and michel michele bachmann made a mistake pursuing it. >> he said she needs to focus on bigger issues. >>> will gitmo ever close? facebook.com/carol cnn or tweet me @carolcnn. a lot of heat with this question. keep it coming. you can

vote for the ryan budget. >> we wanted to ask congresswoman bachmann about the fast-break as. >> thedog walker, which is not true. >>> this is a trivial pursuit. >> he definitely looks like barack obama. >> it does look very, very much -- >> i turned to my wife and said whoa. >> great religions, judaism, christianity and islam that seems jerusalem as -- the story of the exodus. >> if satan had a son, would he look like the guy? itches just as josh way carried on after moses. >> no one is calling him the devil. >> you can put it on your screen. >> is there something else i can do to mott make these guys paint horns on my head. >> angela rye. >> and dana milbank. angela, we just heard the president saying he wished republicans would stop -- and it seems the history channel has cast an actor in the role of satan that glenn beck and others say looks just like the president. i thought his greatest sin was being a kenyan socialist. now it appears he's satan as well? >> they just can't get enough. they tried to say he was born, he didn't wear a flag pin during the campaign, didn't say the p

michele bachmann needs to answer those questions.ut at the end of the day, cpac is a good organization. it brought a lot of things to light. but you've got to tell the truth and you've got to have facts when you're a public official. that's why we have primaries and general elections. >> all right, thanks for playing today, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, we'll have more on that unbelievable shooting out of colorado. the executive director of the department of corrections, the man in charge of all of the prisons in colorado opens his front door and is shot in the chest. more to come next. [ engine revving ] ♪ [ male announcer ] every car we build must make adrenaline pump and pulses quicken. ♪ to help you not just stay alive... but feel alive. the c-class is no exception. it's a mercedes-benz, through and through. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. through mercedes-benz today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our

and michele bachmann made a mistake pursuing it. >> he says bachmann is playing small ball with the presidentan't backup her criticism. >>> to the politics behind the gun control debate. democrats in the senate have decided not to put a ban on assault weapons in their proposed gun control bill, that's because it's not likely to pass. they're putting more of their efforts into required background checks. vice president joe biden says he's not giving up the fight. >> this is not about anybody's constitutional right to own a weapon. for all those who say we shouldn't and can't ban assault weapons, for all those who say the politics is too hard, how can they say that? when you take a look at those 20 beautiful babies and what happened to them and those six teachers and administrators. >> gloria borger joining me now from washington. gloria, what's going on behind the scenes on capitol hill with these gun measures? >> well, if a ban on assault weapons were easy to get, they would have renewed it when it expired in 2004. the truth of the matter is is that it's difficult politics on both sides of th