you have marcus bachmann in reparative therapy.michelle obama's comments in 2008 about being proud of her country seems like childs play, compared to other political spouses. >> how much more shopping at target do we expect to see? the challenging is she's no longer that, you know, relatively simple mother of two who she was in the last presidential campaign. she's first lady of the united states of america. >> sure. >> how do you humanize her? >> like i said, i think michelle obama really connects with the american voter and i think there's a sort of -- there's a pre-existing mystery. there's a sort of not lust but a real intrigue around the first lady which is why she can command $10,000 for a photo op. the first lady holds the keys to the president's mind and heart. i think because of that and the fact she has not endured the same scrutiny any candidate did, there's a desire to know more about her. based on how michelle obama comported here's, she's well placed for the next four years. >> she was the best spouse of a candidate i

ok i mr santorum would you rather have sex with chaz bono or marcus bachmann. but what is the anatomy on chaz bono. i think about may still be up for for debate but. we have to we have to go here so mr cain would you rather have sex with one of the women that you sexually assaulted in the one nine hundred ninety s. or one of your future victims that you have yet to sexually assault future victims know that car gas used are you can it's i have to wrap it up that's all the time we have tonight thank you for joining us and thank you at home for watching this northwest republican presidential debate. our welcome back everybody we're going to do a little bit of our post-debate coverage right now try to wrap up all of the loose ends we thank you all for watching on t.v. all of you for participating online looks like we had a lot of viewers today for this special place in politics republican debate that we have this evening now let's take a look at what some of you had to say we took a few online polls and first of all i wanted to know who won the debate we decided to

they want michele bachmann. you saw him throw a softball can question to bachmann at the previous debate. they want bachmann and cain to be viable. the question for them, if they can keep the people propped up, is there an opening for mitt romney to go to iowa, sneak in and win the caucuses because the conservative vote is divided? can he sneak in and win the vote and win new hampshire and shut the whole thing down? that will be the fundamental strategic decision they have to make in the coming weeks. are we going to play in iowa or not? it's going to be tempting for them to do that. >> you get the feeling romney wouldn't mind saying good-bye to rick santorum. from the sidelines, he gets in really hard hitting shots and does not make a fool of himself like some of the other ones do. >> i think, you know, beyond the fisticuffs quite literally and verbally with rick perry, it was rick santorum that gave mitt rommy the hardest time last night. santorum has been consistent throughout all this and can make a relative

the bachmanns are clearly one step beyond and that marcus bachmann actually engaged in reparative therapy as far as i know, herman cain believes sexual orientation can be changed. rick perry championed a constitutional amendment that banned not only gay marriage but civil unions. i think that although this is a minority position in the country at large, it's a majority position among the republican base. and so, this kind of, you know -- these -- >> well, how far does this go? trent lot a few years ago, seven years ago, he came out and said, we make a choice at a certain age. and somebody said, like pepsi or coke, crest or pepsodent, like toothpaste. i thought about it this week, i think i'll be straight. i think i'll be gay, like anybody can remember making a choice like that. and yet it seems like a mental trick they do. they can't handle the fact of nature/nurture, whatever, so they say something stupid, oh, we make our choices. why is that politics? why do they have to make a political statement like that? >> in part, because it goes beyond homosexuality, and so much of their politics

the tea party turns on michele bachmann. but first, following thursday's big rally.'s see how stocks close out the week. brian sullivan has the market wrap. brian? >> it's kind of a boring day and i mean that in the best possible way. we are in for the best october on record and the best months on record going back to 1974. break out that amc pacer i know you have in the garage. the dow is up and the s&p up fractionally. you know what, nothing wrong with a day like today. a nice ballad of nice and easy to go into the weekend. i'm not complaining. >> does this suggest the confidence on wednesday meeting an agreement with regard to cutting debt from the banks and the greeks not being fearful about default, does that mean that's becoming something more substantive? >> i think it does. if we saw a turn down today, maybe we would reevaluate. we are talking about a plan. nothing has actually been done. they have got an agreement, but no actual transactions have taken place. the good news though and i guess like the 70s again, greece is the word. greece of a different kind,

michele bachmann says we shouldn't pay taxes. he doesn't want taxes on any manufacturing, but his headline was i want to go to war with china. >> yeah. >> he meant an economic war, but it's like the war language, the rhetoric has to be as excessive as it can for any of these guys to have a chance of winning over those republican primary voters that barney was talking about. >> can i add, by the way, you're talking about not raising taxes. they have backed away from savaging social security and medicare but these are all, they all want to increase military spending. we're spending at cold war rates of military spending and going all over the world. you cut taxes, you claim that you're going to proteocial security and medicare and you increase military spending. they are going to really make the military the volunteers, volunteers in a sense that we won't be able to pay anybody. we'll have to volunteer for people to give us bullets and volunteer people to fly planes. the illogic is incredible. how do you justify that and cut how do

michele bachmann initially said

i don't want michele bachmann to leave.ully support michele bachm n bachmann. my issue is gas prices and she promises she'll get prices down to $2 a gallon and believes women should submit to their husbands. i want my daughters to understand that as well, so i need to get her message out for all of those ridiculous reasons. >> all right. okay. there you have it. sherry, what do you say to this? >> michele bachmann has every right to be in this race. she's a congresswoman. she's been a successful employer. she's a very strong, independent woman. this also shows that the tea party is not this great big organized party. they are centralized around a few key very important fiscal issues, so you have some people that claim to be tea partiers that want her out. others support her. i think it reenforces the movement and i think she should stay in. this is just one guy who is part of the tea party who supports another candidate, so i think she's doing just fine. >> and the buzzer goes off. a new "time" poll shows if hillary clinton

let's explain what michele bachmann is talking about. there's a tea party group, american majority, that came out a few days ago and urged michele bachmann to drop out of the race. they say she's not representing the tea party too well, she's talking too much about social issues. michele bachmann is not only taking aim at the tea party group, but she's taking aim at the the perry group saying this group are supporters of the perry campaign and that the perry campaign put them behind this. the perry campaign denies this, they say they have nothing to do with it. the group denies this, as well. but michele bachmann, she's intent saying this is a political and dirty trick orchestrated by the perry campaign. alina. >> very interesting. you don't need to be a rocket scientist to know that rick perry is ahead in the polls and in some ways, that's probably not a surprise. now, having said that, you're there in da moip. what do we need to know about today's event in iowa inspect. >> this is a big gathering of the republicans and conservatives, t

so bachmann isn't doing as well in the presidential poll.ampaign is in trouble. >> it appears that your campaign is imploding. what has -- why has there been such downfall in the national polls and the state polls for you? >> well, your assessment is completely inaccurate. it is not true at all. we're just starting a kickoff today of four days here in new hampshire. and we have add had a wonderful experience in iowa and we have been in south carolina, florida. we worked very hard and we have very strong numbers in those states and we're looking forward to continuing that. i'll be doing several town halls today in new hampshire and we look forward to it. let me correct you. we did not participate in the florida straw poll. we didn't participate at all. so the ranking is completely inaccurate. >> let's take new hampshire, which they just put out a poll, your favorability there was 29% in july. it is now something like

our headliner, congresswoman michele bachmann. with her presidential campaign at a cross roads, we asked, how she plans to get back in the game. >>> and then -- the flat tax sensation. rick perry hopes it will break his losing streak. >> the flat tax will unleash growth. >> herrian cain is driving his veshs to the top of the poll. >> 9-9-9 >> it's a republican crowd pleaser. >> but does the math add up? our power house roundtable. >>> and then, one of to world's richest men on the global obligation to the poor. >> every dollar makes a huge difference. >> microsoft founder bill gates on getting government to give in a gloomy economy and revealing comments about his love/hate relationship with the late steve jobs. >>> good morning. welcome to the program. lots to get to today, but first some news since your morning papers. more than 2 million people in the northeast are without power this morning, after freak snowstorm slammed into the east coast. the record breaking nor'easter brought winds of over 60 miles per hour. the largest oc

. >>> and a tea party group says michele bachmann is all about one thing -- michele bachmann, and it's time for her to g-o. >>> let me finish tonight with jack kennedy and how he could never figure out texas, even at the end. >>> we start with the latest flip-flop from mitt romney. susan page is the washington bureau chief for "usa today," and steve kornacki, welcome back, steve kornacki! i haven't seen you in a while. he's with salon.com, seriously, i mean it. here's the latest flip-flop from romney. he was asked this summer what his position was on manmade global warming. let's listen to his response. >> i don't speak for the scientific community, of course, but i believe the world's getting warmer. i can't prove that, but i believe, based on what i read, that the world is getting warmer. and number two, i believe that humans contribute to that. i don't know how much our contribution is to that, because i know there's been periods of greater heat and warmth in the past, but i believe that we contribute to that. and so i think it's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutant

the worst last month was michelle bachmann. she had negative fans lost.bump there. facebook says that's not good for michelle bachmann, obviously, because in 2010 over 70% who had more fans on facebook won the congressional races. one professor saying here to that point. when candidates appear to be socially active and engaged in democracy, they develop a vast well of good will with the political elites who have the ability to make or break them in the future. here's why social is mentioned. one site ranking items like passion or how likely people are talking about you. by that measure, ron paul is at the top. just last week, that measure of passion. he was at 53%. but romney gains on positive comments. what's being said on the social media sphere. the mentions for him, the sentiment ranking. romney has four positive to one negative comment. it was just two to one last week, which is where perry stands now. organizations see the important tie in politics and becoming key partners. who will cohost the gop debate? twitter barely in the mix in 2008. now part

what's the word on bachmann? >> how are you?, michele bachmann finished and event, craig, at new england college, good crowd there. i would say more than 100 people. and she has been well received by people here, but the important thing is that these are people that really care about fiscal issues and care less about the social issues that she in part stakes her campaign on, craig. >> how important is new hampshire to michele bachmann's overall campaign strategy? >> well, this is an interesting question. there's no question she's running an iowa-centric campaign. they have a power point in which she calls iowa a must win state. there's a slide later in the state of iowa in which he says iowa is important but won't dominate our efforts. i'm sorry, new hampshire is important but won't dominate our efforts like iowa. >> jamie novogrod. >>> see you tomorrow, noon eastern. up next, andrea mitchell reports. trade on luck. i trade on fundamentals. analysis. information. i trade on tradearchitect. this is web-based trading, re-visualize

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and michele bachmann says that she is rebooting her campaign it. all right let's get a few things very clear here realistically does herman cain have a chance of sealing the republican nomination of course not this is more of that flavor of the week probably because let's face it at this point the g.o.p. isn't so stoked on any of its offshoots so every single week we see some new candidates surgeon this time it happens to be herman cain the man who doesn't on muslims working in his administration and thinks that a nine nine nine plan is going to solve all of america's problems you know it's funny if the media never bothers to mention that his plan is completely unrealistic because part of a claims a two thirds vote will be needed in both the house and the senate to increase his nine nine nine plan so what they gloss over is that mr cain can't think we change the rules of congress he would need a constitutional amendment to require a two thirds vote to raise taxes and i well i think we all know how easy that is and of course they are still finding o

just ten weeks ago, michele bachmann was surging. winning the iowa straw poll. >> take it to the bank. cash the check. >> reporter: winning praise for her steady debate performances. >> i will not rest until i repeal obama-care. >> reporter: bachmann is facing this. >> she can't focus on those things, what the tea party really is about. she needs to exit stage right. >> reporter: the minnesota congresswoman is taking fire from some of the very people she had counted on, the tea party. one tea party leader said she should get out of the race now. >> the longer she stays in the race, i think the more potential for there to be damage to the tea party brand. >> reporter: bachmann who considers herself a founding member of the tea party and the leader of its congressional delegation fired back. >> it certainly isn't a blow to my campaign because i've had nonstop support coming out of the woodwork from tea partiers all across the country. >> reporter: but last week her entire new hampshire staff resigned en masse. her poll numbers have dro

and next, wayne newton kisses michele bachmann.o miss it. >>> in my play book tonight, michele bachmann is down in the single digits in the presidential polls but he has at least one very enthusiastic fan. >> wayne newton. tell me, listen, it looks like you are on a date. >> i will support this beautiful lady as long as she wants to go. >> what do you -- >> that's pretty good, don't you think, greta? >> that is pretty hot. >> just how hot was it? bachmann spent the entire interview snuggled under wayne newt newton's armpit and then mr. las vegas went for first base. >> good luck to both of you. >> thank you for allowing me. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> yowza. can we go to the replay the videotape. michele bachmann seemed to flinch before she got her ready for tv smile back on. but she is no stranger to awkward displays of public affection. she has experience here. after the 2007, she kept a death grip on bush's shoulder until he let her plant a wet one on him. joining me is comedian liz wins ston. cocreator of the daily show. >>

, although i guess bachmann is over by now.oblem is, i mean, we know how combative politics has become. the real problem is that a lot of the stuff the republicans are dealing with now is really harmful to individuals and harmful to the national interests overall. i mean, the economy right now is in a very delicate situation. economists tell us there's a danger of another recession coming up over the next year or so. you start throwing these people out of work in state and local governments, for example, when in fact you could do something to prevent that, that just weakens the economy more. and then, you know, i know there's controversy over the way, over joe biden's recent comments, but the simple fact of the matter is, when you start slashing police forces the way some of these towns and cities have been doing lately, you do endanger public safety and crime does tend to go up. >> in terms of the white house's approach here, i would have thought that first responders, that breaking out that first responders money would have m

the fact remains that bachmann's campaign is struggling. and if she does not win in iowa, and she trails badly there in the polls, she will be in serious and maybe irreversible trouble. lara? >> all right. thank you, ron. >>> and moving to the manslaughter trial of michael jackson's doctor. the defense dropped a bombshell during their final day of testimony yesterday. their medical expert witness testifying he believes the king of pop accidentally killed himself. abc's jim avila was in the courtroom and has this report. >> reporter: the defense wrapped direct testimony from its last witness. with dr. paul white, telling the jury, michael jackson self-injected the final fatal dose of 25 milligrams of propofol, with a syringe connected to his i.v., after swallowing eight pills of the sedative lorazepam. >> you think it was a self-injection of propofol, between 11:30 and 12:00? >> in my opinion, yes. >> reporter: dr. white testified it's the prosecution contention that dr. murray used a jerry-rigged i.v. drip to continually infuse michael jack

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