>> a little tiff with michele bachmann. i sort of got kicked out of my first senate hearing because i said something to saxby chambliss that she didn't like. and i didn't know the hearings weren't interactive. i thought they were more like a q&a situation. not so much. >> larry: well, it is. >> but not for me. >> larry: you now throw fancy dinner parties. i've never been invited by the way. you have a-listers at your house last weekend. jackie collins, suzanne somers, lily tomlin, chris bodie and sidney poitier. >> in your face, king. that's got to hurt. that's got to be like a dagger in your heart. >> larry: i've had dinner with sidney many times. >> come on. >> larry: how did this come about, you, a d-lister, what are you doing with these people? >> it's a sham. it's a traf es ti, but yet i'm determined -- here's why. i'm friends with sue mangers. she used to be a big power agent and gives these incredible dinner parties. i thought i would try one there is a lot of people in what i call the beverly hills mafia, and one of

the bachmann's have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children. she is one of congress's leaving advocates for fostered and adopted children. you won't find conservative women my congresswoman bachmann raised in most of the mainstream media or by a feminist women's groups. in fact, many liberals in the media and on college campuses wish they could silence conservative people like this congresswoman. at the claire booth luce institute we are eager to honor leaders i congresswoman michelle bachmann who speaks to students at so many events, to claire boothe luce and other conservative groups. we want to recognize congresswoman bachmann and thank you for your courage and determination in promoting our shared conservative values and for speaking out against a less big government socialist policies. the truth is that you inspire all conservatives to be more courageous and feisty and to speak up in the expanding and promoting our conservative beliefs. it is our honor to now present you with our 2010 claire booth luce policy institute conservative leaders

michele bachmann will be awarded with the 2010 conseevative leadership award. that starts at 1:30 eastern. this morning, washington journal talked about security issues facing the united states. this is about 30 minutes. s. host: john negroponti joins us. we will have new appntee. yo wer the first. what wa theffice met o? wh was its intention? it was meanttoversee communy. inteigen in thete of the me, afte the wea oss the inllig we had and th 9/ comn ha the was an ipes to efo the inlligence community and p someonin chargef the ovall mmun as bee the view was that that person was so involved in the day-to- day running of the cia that he did not have time for the management responsibilities. host: do you think it has lived up to the expectations of the 9/11 commission and congress? guest: the legislation was a product of compromise. there were some that wanted a lot of authority, and some that wanted none at all. i think it came out a little bit weeklakly in doubt and not as mh it had a lot of responsibility and rhetoric in the preamble and the llgislation about t

first of all, myself, michelle bachmann, parker griffith, bob inglis, i believe jerry moran, maybe todd akin, those people i can think of have all introduced legislation to repeal obamacare. a stand-alone repeal of obamacare that is 100% repeal of obamacare, pull it out by the roots, pull it out root and branch, there's not one particle of obamacare d.n.a. left behind. this has become a toxic stew that we've ingested now and it's turning into a ma ig -- a malignant tumor that will start to metastasize in 2014 when obamacare is fully implemented. here's whht we do. my bill and others' bills, we have 90-something co-sponsors on this legislation. i've introduced a discharge petition. i think it's discharge petition number 11. i'm not certain of the number, i think that's the number. i signed it a lot of others have signed it, a lot more need to sign it because of this if a discharge petition gets 218 signatures on it here in the well of the house, it has to come to the floor for a vote unamended that means we can force a vote even over the rule of the speaker of the house who surely would