the pressure on bachmann is coming from those in her own party, including carl rove, this morning on fox news. >> it's going to be important for her to get her doctors out there quickly to provide the medical records and provide the reassurance that people are going to want to have this is not a serious issue. >> word of bachmann's migraines first surfaced monday in the daily caller which quoted three unnamed sources who claim bachmann frequently suffers medical episodes. political reporter today, bachmann missed eight votes in the house last july while being treated for a migraine. when asked about bachmann's fitness for office, tim pawlenty said this today. >> all of the candidates, i think, are going to have to be able to demonstrate they can do all of the job all of the time. if you're going to be president of the united states, you have to be able to do the job all the time. no time off in the job. >> joining me now, jonathan capehart, contributor for "the washington post." thank you for being here. in that brilliantly-written "west wing" scene that we opened this segment was we

. >> sounds like carl rove wants to know, sounds like the republican establishment is getting very nervousout how michele bachmann is rocketing up in these polls. they want to stop her, don't they? >> right, this is part of a bigger issue. not so much she suffers migraines, it's she is number two in nbc news, "the wall street journal" poll, that she has been doing so well since she became more focussed, more determined and driven to listen to what he tells her to do, and succeed at it. she could very well win the iowa caucuses. it's where she was born, waterloo iowa, she represents minnesota, right next door. why you showed former governor, tim pawlenty, as long as michele bachmann is number two in the polls, as long as she's nipping at mitt romney's heels, there's noerr for tim pawlenty, if he doesn't win iowa, where does he win? >> it always shows the weakness of the guy who's been thought of as the front runner, romney. and it doesn't strike me that rove and company are particularly out to protect romney, they just want bachmann out of this race. she's the distraction, she's the one the

they have people like jeb bush and carl rove talking to them behind the scenes because jeb bush and carle nervous they'll never see the white house if they are on this pass. the path to the white house leads through latino communities and they'll never see inside if they don't change. >> let me get to casa blanca. back to christina, this question about the immigration bill, i'm a skeptic either side are listening to that. they want the politics, is that fair? >> absolutely. you saw that play out in 2005 and 2006. you had a comprehensive immigration reform bill that president bush supported and a lot of republicans risked their neck for. that's one reasons republicans lost the house in 2006, it wasn't just a democratic wave. >> there are three people i trust on that and one of those is lost, ted kennedy. but i think lindsey graham and chuck schumer are good on that. >> i completely agree with that. >> thank you guys so much. maria come back and christina. let me finish with a way out of the debt ceiling, wow. you're watching "hardball." introducing the schwab mobile app. it's schwab at yo

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, no one mentioned and i sat here an listened, no one who called in recognized the fact that's a carl rove entity. he set that up. that's totally a republican policymaking memo talking organization. another thing, too, is this country, you asked as far as is it debt? -- is it dead? >> this country actually -- if you look at what happened with germany and hitler and the propaganda machine that was out there then, that's what's here today in america. we've been propgannized, lied to, misinformed, and most of all, will not take the time to understand what's really going on with america and with our leaders that pretend to say that they are all trying to work together. nobody's working together with president obama. he has been over backwards to the demise of his own base to try to work with the republican party, and they've drawn lines in the sand and have said absolutely not. >> host: going to jump in there. thanks for your call. >> guest: well, first of all, hopefully all of us as americans celebrate the 4th july don't draw lines in the sand, but work together. that has to happen on capitol