. >>> the mitt romney campaign moved to virginia today where it was michele bachmann's turn to pretend she never, ever said, over and over, that mitt romney cannot beat barack obama. >>> good morning. this is what victory looks like. >> michele bachmann is expected to endorse mitt romney. >> i am honored to be able to be here. >> a move that could help the presumptive republican nominee. >> to lend my voice. >> with skeptical conservative voters. >> she is a good one. >> michele bachmann's endorsement is good for mitt romney. >> better than newt gingrich. >> can he beat obama? >> no. are you calling mitt romney a liar? >> yes. >> he has tough primaries. >> i don't think they want to show him love. >> is he conservative enough? >> this is a very simple proposition. >> this is all on the republican party establishment. >> president barack obama, president mitt romney. >> this is what they wanted. >> you decide. >> i am so confident they know exactly what they are doing. >> mitt romney is closing the gap in several key swing states, florida in play, pennsylvania not in play. part of the r

and in this case, it is michele bachmann, whom i traveled with on the presidential campaign. and there was all sorts of things that we were able to fact check with her, and she's just a fascinating, fascinating candidate. but this one in particular after a night of one of these great republican primary debates, she went after governor rick perry on the hpv vaccine and the mandatory injection she called it inoculation. the vaccinations of these young girls in texas. but that wasn't exactly the whole story. what happened after that was that on nbc in the morning, she said that someone had come up to her after the debate and told words, mental retardation. and so quickly we were able to move on that and took us about three to four hours to research and write this. and plugged into a format. that's what i'm going to show you here. >> michele bachmann's presidential campaign has gone viral. literally. bachmann is under fire for comments that some are calling reckless that the hpv vaccination may be dangerous. as pat kelsey reports, she's not backing down. here's reality check. >>

according to bachmann's office, the bachmann clan applied for dual citizenship as a family. and she officially became a swiss citizen on march 19th. >> there he goes, on his way up the -- do you want to dance? do you want to do the polka with me. >> but that's not the whole story. bachmann released this puzzling statement last night saying she's been enjoying european socialism for 34 years. "i automatically became a dual citizen of the united states and switzerland in 1978 when i married my husband, marcus. this is a nonstory." >> we're going to dance until we get to the end of the mountain. >> well, bachmann's office told politico, disclosing the congresswoman's citizenship was not necessary. but there's yet another twist to this story. i am sad to report that this afternoon, bachmann officially cut ties with switzerland tweeting, "today i requested the withdrawal of my dual swiss citizenship. i want to be perfectly clear. i am a proud american." >> oh, my god -- are you kidding me?! [ male announcer ] it seems like every company has a facebook page these days. but where's

according to bachmann's office, the bachmann's kids wanted to apply for dual citizenship, so the whole doggone family went through the process. bachmann spoke to swiss tv to announce her defection. >> i understand you have been to switzerland a lot. what's your favorite place there? >> oh, goodness. you know, i really have to say that i love going to the brensy and the toonsy. it's beautiful. but also my husband's home. >> i guess visiting mitt romney's money has not been on her most recent itinerary. look, the congresswoman is now eligible to vote in swiss elections. however, she wouldn't be able to enjoy the benefits of the country's health insurance mandate unless she lives there. but, congratulations, switzerland, she's all yours. you know what i think? i think president obama should go for dual citizenship, to see if the righties will go along with that. their silence is ominous on this issue, isn't it? michelle, you're not a turncoat, are you? >>> next up, women's health is under attack in arizona. cecile richards, president of planned parenthood will weigh in. stay with us. grea

is bachmann the answer in closing that gap?e'll knock that and more aound with our "morning joe" crew. and when we come back here, we'll huddle up around the water cooler to watch stephen colbert try to bring mitt romney and his former rivals together. come on, newt, come on rix, come on rick, get behind the man says colbert. i want healthy skin for life. [ female announcer ] improve the health of your skin with aveeno daily moisturizing lotion. the natural oatmeal formula improves skin's health in one day, with significant improvement in 2 weeks. i found a moisturizer for life. [ female announcer ] only from aveeno. >>> we told you at the top of the show, president obama and mitt romney both campaigning in virginia right now. romney was there yesterday. the president will be there tomorrow. 2008 president obama became the first democrat to win virginia since lyndon johnson pulled the trick in 1964. you want to sound smart today tell your friends the closest a democrat came to winning virginia between '64 and 2008 was in 1976,

i will ask you both but listen to another sound by the of michelle bachmann.at she told abc news about mitt romney. the day before the iowa caucuses. take a license. >> he can't beto bameat obama. >> how do you think that mitt romney is going to use michelle obama on the campaign trail? >> you mean how is he going to use michelle bachmann. >> did i say om bam obama? you don't want to mix those two up. >> that's for sure. >> well, as long as you don't call me michelle bachmann myself. >> you are another michelle. my god. how is he going to use her, michelle bachmann and santorum for that matter when they both said such negative things about mitt romney. >> this is going to be the problem for mitt romney with everyone he ran against this election term. it was such a brutal and nasty primary season in the republican party. and, you know, you now see all of his former colleagues coming in and subtling or tepidly endorsing him. and i assume it's because they feel like they don't have any choice. but i don't know how he uses them effectively because we have all of t

family here's bachmann talking it was t.v. . you could technically run for office in switzerland now to what you would consider that. as you can see there's a lot of competition in my head i would have to run against him to be very stiff because they're very good so if the bachmann's didn't become citizens to bring the tea party to switzerland then why they do it for the universal nonprofit health care or because switzerland been a pacifist country for two hundred years run by social and liberal democrats or because gays are explicitly protected from discrimination by the swiss constitution so marcus cannot come out of it what you think. the sense of about the gas and oil prices so we never got to this but i have no idea why they did it you know i have no idea why they did it i don't think we can be overly critical of it look there over there dual citizenship good for them i really don't have any idea what their motives are but it's an interesting question the other half of it is you know what would happen if if you know preside

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can michele bachmann help romney make inroads with republican women, with independents? >> what's really important to keep in mind about michele bachmann, what is great to point out, she represents a wide variety of women. he's actually surrounded by a wide variety of women. they're stay-at-home moms and politically involved women and he's relied on female advisers as well like bess miller. so, to say that romney really does have this woman problem is something that's sort of just brought about by the obama campaign to just talk about, well, look at what obama's doing. the life of julia is a ham fisted way to reach out to women they are hoping to get a headline that obama continues outreach to women just to show he think it's important. but that video itself was really terrible. >> as we see the primary coming to an end in all of this, the overwhelming message has been from romney's former rivals is he's not president obama and newt gingrich and rick perry have been singing that tune, take a listen to this. >> i'm a heck of a lot more comfortable with him than barack oba

and michele bachmann will help with that. you will recall earlier this week there was this controversy over the resignation of a foreign policy adviser on the romney campaign, richard grenell, who happened to be homosexual. there were a lot of social conservatives out there who did not want him to be part of that campaign. he stepp epe eped aside he said personal reasons. you have mitt romney appearing with michele bachmann at this event in virginia that will certainly send another signal to social conservatives that he's trying to be one of them. you will also recall, suzanne, that bob mcdonald, the governor of ji who virginia, also signed recently that required women in the state of virginia to undergo ultrasound procedures before having an abortion. so, you know, this is certainly a signal, a message being sent to social conservatives, that romney is coming for their vote, coming for their support. he wants them to be a part of this campaign. >> so despite that, jim, we saw that bachmann had some pretty harsh criticism of

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a lot of talk about mitt romney is not reaching women in this campaign, miss bachmann. you've endorsed him. what does he need to do? what does he need to say to women? well, first of all, they a myth and it's not true because obama's-- >> schieffer: what's a myth? >> the myth is there is a republican war on women. there's not a republican war on women. that's coming from the obama reelection team because everything they do right now is-- any word that you hear will go through the grid of obama's reelection. >> schieffer: well it must be working because most of the polls show he's running way behind with women. >> actually, if you look at the 2010 electiones, women went republican. they didn't go democrat, and they will this time as well, because women are more concerned about the economy and jocks for themselves, for their husbands, for their children, and that's not happened because obama's broken his promises. he broke his promises on job creation. and this election is about the economy. and i think mitt romney had a great line. he said it's still the economy and we'r

bachmann was once a presidential hopeful herself. she is a tea party favorite, a group romney has struggled to win over. this comes one day after newt gingrich dropped out of the race and pledged support for romney. >> this is a choice between mitt romney and the most radical leftist president in american history. >> reporter: the former speaker of the house won in georgia and south carolina but was never able to gain support beyond the south. >> i have to thank the voters of south carolina and i have to apologize to them. we will have broken their tradition of always picking the nominee. >> reporter: newt gingrich hasn't always been a mitt romney find. the obama camp reminded voters about what he had to say about romney during the campaign. obama's team release add web ad using gingrich's own words. >> are you calling mitt romney a liar? >> yes. >> reporter: president obama officially kicks off his reelection efforts with events in ohio and virginia this weekend. romney is also focusing on the state. he talked with business owners i

bachmann has strong tea party support but when asked why she held out so long for the endorsement, bachmann working behind the scenes to bring the party together. >>> so check out the video. a huge sinkhole opened up behind a house in windmere, florida. it's 50 feet wide, 50 feet deep, swallowed four trees when it collapsed. >>> newly declassified documents, 17 letters or draft letters totally 197 pages in the english translation posted online just a short time ago by the combatting terrorism center at west point. now, they are among more than 6,000 documents seized by u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s during the last raid -- last year's raid that killed bin laden at the compound in pakistan. nic robertson has been reading the letters. nic, explain to us what the documents show, the state of bin laden desperate to launch perhaps another attack in the united states. >> yes. this is 17 out of 6,000 documents or roughly 6,000 doun documents, so we know it's a picture, it's probably at best the partial picture and even the ctc who released this material said you have to take this with events that happened bu

he picks up endorsement from michele bachmann today.t suicide of former nfl great junior seau raising new questions about football head injuries. >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. live pictures of portsmouth, virginia, mitt romney picking up the endorsement of a former rival, michele bachmann, and put governor bob mcdonnell through the running mate paces. chris, we're talking about virginia, talking about an important state, important senate race there as well. that could be a race that determines whether or not the democrats hold on to the senate. and bob mcdonnell, is he a viable possibility in the

today it was congresswoman michele bachmann

minnesota congresswomen michelle bachmann will throw her support behind mitt romney. she abandoned her own white house folks back in january. newt gingrich was in town yesterday suspended his own presidential campaign. >> let's talk about michelle bachmann. >> it is important for mitt romney to get the backing of his former primary opponents. she is one of the last holdouts. the fact she is backing him officially today means that brings your further into the fold and brings the rest of the gop establishment behind mitt romney. >> he still has work to do. newt gingrich talked yesterday. he sort of supported him but did not really endorse him? >> he said he is not quite ronald reagan but he is better than obama. that is kind of an endorsement. i believe there will be a more formal endorsement coming in the next couple of weeks. >> he did not want that to shadow his announcement that he was stepping out of the race. we have not heard from rick santorum. >> they are said to me tomorrow and i'm sure they will discuss that. the santorum team has said he is open to the endor

you saw michele bachmann do it. rick santorum has not endorsed but they're sort of trying to find a middle ground. rudy giuliani, who called him a flip flopper. they're never going to love each other but they're united in their want to defeat barack obama. >> but they dislike the president a whole lot more. >> that's why at some level, the long they are draws out, i think the risk becomes greater for rick santorum than for mitt romney. we're in an all hands on deck era of modern politics. motivation is to defeat the other side. if these republicans are doing everything they can to contribute to beating barack obama, it will hurt him. >> it just reminds voters, though, of why they don't trust anything politicians say. because if you can turn on a dime from saying, by the way, as michele bachmann did to abc news that mitt romney could not beat president obama, if you can turn on a dime and suddenly embrace somebody and say, yes, he can -- >> she might still believe that. y -- we don't know. >> people are cynical for a

. >> michele bachmann will make an endorsement today. she will endorse that romney and will appear at him at a campaign event in virginia. newt gingrich is suspended his campaign. michele bachmann and suspended her campaign back in january. we'll have a live report at 5:30 from washington. >> mother's day is right around the corner. do you know what you will buy for mom this year? >> a good smashing in today's " consumer report.' >>o >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> good morning. sarah caldwell checking on your morning commute. we're dealing with some wet roads in certain areas this morning. mostly north and west of the city. route 23, in jarrettsville is the cause of an accident. 83 looks good towards the beltway. problem free on the j.f.x. a disabled vehicle. up to speed on 97. not tracking anything on 95 down through howard county. side atthe yorknorth york road. no delays to report. the j.f.x. in great shape. if you travel tonight after 10:00 p.m., there will be additional closures on the northbound side of

michele bachmann, the same michele bachmann who said romley cannot win the general election. >> you've come prepared as well. >> we will see more than one. >> they all got to get in line. i think michele bachmann also told a reporter that romney could not beat obama and that is what people are going to remember. but gingrich is not wrong. compared to obama, yes. they will, romney's way, at they all do. >> romney was lucky that the whole afghanistan thing was happening when one of his gay spokespeople quit because they did not want to talk, because some conservative groups whined about it. that would have been front-page news for a couple of days. >> good point. the two types of the parties, the democrats are party of the rabble, uneducated -- >> like tea party people. >> so they nominate people who are wellborn, franklin roosevelt, adlai stevenson. republicans are well off and they nominate people for humble, ronald reagan, herbert hoover. ronny reinforces the stereotype of the republicans as a party that is well-off and a little out of touch. >> rney does not help fat cat image, talki

>> bachmann's endorsement comes just one day after newt gingrich bowed out of the race. the former house speaker is expected to endorse romney some time in the coming weeks. >>> sentencing day today for a supervisor at the national archives accused of stealing the very same materials that he was suppose to protect. matt jablo has been following the story, joining us live with pretty unusual details here, matt? >> anita, it's a known case. the archives vast collections of audio recordings. as a long-time supervisor at the national archives, he was in charge of maintaining the nation's collection of historic audio recordings. stealingthousands of those recordings and selling them on ebay was not a part of the job description, which is why he'll be spending the next 18 months in prison. >> reporter: the 67-year-old man, a rockville resident was sentenced today after pleading guilty back in october for nearly 10 years. he stole as many as 6,000 audio recordings. everything from an eyewitness account to the hiddenburg disaster to a tour. they were blowing on each other to kee

he picks up endorsement from michele bachmann today.t suicide of former nfl great junior seau raising new questions about football head injuries. >> good day, i'm andre