police for 15 years. >> houma's a small town, nice to live here, quiet. >> houma is usually quiet.along with police is a cameraman. >> what the [ bleep ]? >> shooting for a local tv show called "the beat" produced by martin fowles. >> sometimes you come back with no video, sometimes you come back with some pretty good stuff. this time was real good stuff. >> but how did this couple's happily ever after turn so quickly to disaster? it begins when someone calls 911, but hangs up. >> get down! >> they thought that the groom was having a seizure. just the way they were behaving, you could tell that they had had way too much alcohol. >> police and paramedics arrived at the scene. they determine the groom is not having a seizure, but he is highly intoxicated. >> back up! back up! >> stuff got crazy real quick. >> officers are trying to get the crowd to back up so they can help the groom. but when the groom sees police, he starts slugging away. >> trying to persuade him to take a ride to the hospital to get checked out, and for some reason, he just didn't want to have it. >> while the pol

i think this is less about houma and more about barack obama.look at the anti-international laws, they don't pop up right after 9/11 which you might have thought maybe that's the impetus for this. they p don't pop up when we go to war in iraq. they poup up post-barack obama. this is kind of -- that whole kind of other -- will is some kind of muslim relationship there, there's in kind of devious activity that's happening in the government and it may creep into my local municipality. it also allows people to paint someone who is other they don't necessarily live around. these laws don't pop up necessarily in the blue states. if you look at the way muslims are distributed in this country, just a top ten states where they are, it is not really blue states. only one that -- fits into their there is texas and less than 1% of the population of texas is muslim. it is somebody other than the people who live next to me and i can demonize them and can dem demonize barack obama through these people. people are being used in that way. very sad kind of statem

when people do join on the opposite side, michelle, and join in this witch-hunting of people like houma-hunter, rush limbaugh, no surprise there. he makes money doing. this newt gingrich has tried to stay in the game with the far right. eric cantor, he is the new nixon, he doesn't believe a word of this, but he rides this horse better than anybody. >> and he knows better than to stand up to these people. >> right. he is nixon. and john bolton, who wants to be secretary of state. imagine a secretary of state of this country who engages in this kind of witch-hunting. >> i think somebody should ask mitt romney whether he agrees with john bolton that these are legitimate questions. one of the things that was fascinating was there was this moment when it seemed as if finally michele bachmann and her ilk were going to be marginalized in the republican party. we had this very rare outbreak of republican decency. and there has been such a huge pushback. the tea part has come out in support of michele bachmann, the religious right, the religious research council came out with a statement of supp

. >> these allegations about houma abadin and the reports from which they are drawn are nothing lessn an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen, a dedicated american and a loyal public servant. these attacks have no logic, no basis, and no merit. and they need to stop. >> in response, balkman said, quote, i will not be silent, as this administration appear pieces our enemy. >>> the big argument on the presidential campaign trail seems to revolve around mitt romney's record as abs man but tonight derek is asking, in a very hoarse voice, do former ceo's really make for a good commander in chief? >> it is an enduring american political fantasy. the president man as president, using his mad ceo skills to slash the red tape and the excess bureaucrats and give us that lean,' fission government we say we want, right? the only thing is, it's a myth. it's never worked out that way. the prime example? herbert hoover. made a fortune in mining before he was elected in president only to lead intuse the only economic crisis worse than the one we're in right now. other successful

united nations observers have gathering details from houma province violence last week. >>> in china, people have died and one is missing after flash floods from heavy rains. roads and buildings in low-lying areas were covered by raging water. >>> and in japan, at least 26 people were killed by severe flooding and mudslides that forced 250,000 people from their homes. many are returning, but thousands are still cut off by blocked roads. >>> in england, cooling towers at a former coal-fired power plant were demolished in an explosion. the towers which stood for 50 years came down in a matter of moments. >>> france's annual bastile day parade celebrated the start of the french revolution with military units, jets in the sky overhead and a less-than-perfect parachute performance. the new french president visited one paratrooper who injured a knee landing after straying off course. >>> and now here's your look at this morning's "dish of scrambled politics." the "huffington post" reports former white house chief of staff, rahm emanual has no patience when it comes to mitt romney's complain

. >> gretchen: nasa testing out its orion capsule in houma, arizona. casey stegall is there for us live. good morning. you got a close up look for us, huh? >> good morning to you. i don't know how much closer you can get than this. check this out. this is orion. in two years time, this thing is going to be launched into deep space. it's going to go 15 times farther than the international space station. this is obviously just the crew capsule. but take a look at what this thing will look like when it hitches a ride on a rocket to get there from kipuka inch really, florida. these are nasa animations, when it goes up in 2014, it will be unmanned at first because they must test it. when it comes to reentering the earth's atmosphere. >> the shuttle came back in 17,500 miles an hour. >> here in arizona, they're going to be testing the capsules' parachute system. the devices will help bring orion safely back home once it gets past reentry. so they're dropping it out of a c-17 cargo jet at more than 20,000 feet over the arizona desert. this is the fifth of 18

sophist katd sophisticated politically as hillary clinton, is tooled around by the wylie nature of houma amadean who is working as a lifetime mole is crazy talk, isn't it? >> if crazy were people, michele bachmann would be china, chris. you know, when this topic first came up, i thought, why are we acting as a megaphone for this sort of lunacy. it's dog whistle politics. who knows if michelle botchmic believe bachman believes it. >> this loony right wins if the center left loses. we all want to remember that. >> that's really the point i'm headed towards here. at first, i thought, why are we offering a megaphone. i think we're doing the lord's work in a way f you will, by bringing attention to people like michele bachmann because she is an integral part of the republican brand. while mitt romney, let's say, may not believe there's muslim conspiracy in the state department or u.s. government, some people do. if you vote for mitt romney, that comes with him. this is part of the republican party today. >> let me go back to brian. you're an expert. i looked at our nbc/wall street journal pol

just to get this straight, her entire basis for saying that houma, who works closely to hillary clinton the logo used for one of our government agencies is an islamic symbol. what do we make of this kind of nonsense? >> look, i could go on and talk about individual facts. let's look sets. this reminds me of joseph welch who in 1948 said this to joseph mccarthy. he said let us not assassinate this further. senator, you have done enough. have you no sense of decency. this is what we have here with miss aberdeen. she's married to a former u.s. congressman who is jewish. she's been in vogue. i don't know many people who have her record of achievement and her public persona who are members of the muse limb brotherhood. there are radicals in the united states. i just won an investigative journalism award for looking at them. some of these folks they are pointing to are really being publicly assassinated. i think any person with decency has to go on television and say enough a enough. >> this is the person. let's get a background. in her letter to the state department's deputy this is what bac

her letter singled out houma abadean as having ties to the muslim broorth hood.rote abedin has three family members connected to muslim brotherhood operatives or organizations. her position affords her routine access to the secretary and to policy making. now james sensenbrenner has been added to republicans who responded. he responded to a woman who voiced support for bachmen and her investigation. >> let me say that i do know huma abedin. and i think that the comments that were made about her in that letter, whether or not they were taken out of context, were the wrong thing to do. she could not have gotten the job either as then-senator hillary clinton's top adviser or the job in the state department without passing a rather rigorous security clearance. and if there was any indication that she had any connection at all with the muslim brotherhood, she would not have passed the security clearance. >> bob shrum and howard fineman, gentlemen, i don't know what we are living here, but i have to say i'm impressed at least piece meal by the republicans sticking thei

houma, who is married to a fellow who happens to be jewish. has been through hard times, brought on by himself. but she's stuck with him. i would call her a loyalist. and as for her working with hillary clinton hand in glove, whatever you think of hillary clinton, most of us think a lot of her, she would be able to suspect someone trying to influence her. don't you think she political and would know if someone is trying to persia muslim brotherhood line on her? it is so absurd. >> she knows a lot about the middle east. look, that's absurd. i think you have to, you have to tease all of this apart and you have to separate out those who might sincerely have these crazy views and those who pick their shots and who come out with this stuff. strategically or tactically. i think right now, frankly to change the subject from bain and mitt romney's tax returns. i think john sununu and rush limbaugh would love us to talk about anything but those subjects. so they come up with eruptions to try to change the subject. >> it is not all -- i'm not going to s

. >> put simply, houma represents what is best about america, the daughter of immigrants who has risen to the highest levels of our government on the basis of her substantial personal merit and her abiding commitment to the american ideals that she embodies. i am proud to know her and i am proud even maybe with some presumption to call her my friend. >> congresswoman bachmann responded to senator mccain's comments but did not back down. she said her words are being distorted. today the state department described the allegations as preposterous. >>> veronica is here with more about our weather. >> things are starting to calm down a little bit, but, you know, we're not completely out of the wood that watch for severe thunderstorms continues until 9:00 p.m. as far as damage reports, trees down in chevy chase, maryland, trees down in frederick, maryland, and three-quarter inch size hail reported from rockville, maryland. and we're hearing too because of the high winds with these storms that have been pulling eastward that chesapeake bay bridge closed in both directions right now. no word a

muslim family members, stepfamily members and this is a part of a code about this president, about houma, who's a wonderful, civil, american servant that really needs to be denounced, but is only possible because the mainstream of the party thinks it's fine to demonize our president has un-american. >> i still think michele is a special case. we had her on this show, probably where she really made her bones politically. she said we have to have an investigation by the u.s. government into the members of congress who are un-american and it's an incredible. she runs in a strange part of the world. the romney campaign, back to the candidate here. to make the president sound anti business. take a look at this ad then we'll watch the real thing it was taken from. >> if you've been successful, you didn't get that on your own. you didn't get there on your own. i'm always struck by people who think wow, it must be because i was just so smart. there are a lot of smart people out there. it must be because i worked harder than everybody else. let me tell you something. if you got business, you didn

casey stegall is in houma, arizona. how did the test go? >> it went off without a hitch.rop test out of 18 total that will be conducted. here is how it works. they basically release a hockey rye onspace capsules from the back of a c-17 military cargo jet and then deploy the chutes. but it's not even close to how fast this thing will descend when it returns from a space mission one day. >> the shuttle came back at 17,500 miles an hour. this will come back at more than 20,000 miles an hour. so we really have to make sure the heat shield does work the way it's intended to be. >> to test that, it will be launched into space in two years. 2014. it will be unmanned at that time so they can see how the spacecraft fairs when it reenters the earth's atmosphere. >> shep: careful with this will be thing, casey. we will be having more money or it will not be doing much of anything. the rest of this project, though, how does this flight work? >> much like apollo. it's going to aa ride on a rocket into space and the journey takes six months one way. orion can accommodate about four ast

that i come to the floor today to speak regarding the attacks recently on a fine and decent american, houma uma abedin. recently, it has been alleged that huma abedin, a muslim american, is part of a nefarious conspiracy to harm the united states by unduly influencing u.s. foreign policy at the department of state in favor of the muslim brotherhood and other islamist causes. these allegations about huma abedin and the rapport from which they're drawn are nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen, a dedicated american, and a loyal public servant. they have no logic, no basis, and no merit. and they need to stop. they need to stop now. ultimately, what is at stake in this matter is larger even than the reputation of one person. this is about who we are as a nation and who we aspire to be. unjust acts that malign the good name of a decent and honorable person is not only wrong. it is contrary to everything we hold dear as americans. >> houuma abedin has long been top aid to hillary clinton both in hir time in the united states senate and now as secretary of

. >> let me say that i do know houma abedin.er in that letter, whether or not they were taken out of context were the wrong thing to do. she could not have gotten the job either as then senator hillary clinton's top adviser or the job in the state department without passing a rather rigorous security clearance. if there was any indication she had any connection at all with the muslim brotherhood, she would not have passed that security clearance. >> a democratic strategist and director of the "huffington post" media group and msnbc political analyst. gentlemen, i don't know what we're living here but i have to say i'm impressed at least piecemeal by these republicans sticking their heads up and saying enough is enough, this mccarthyism. bob strum first. >> they need to be more. she's on the intelligence committee. she has routine access to some of the most important secrets this country have. michele bachmann and intelligence committee are an oxy moron. they need to get her off there. number two, i'm glad to see this. i wish we

. >>> these allegations about houma al madine and the report from which they're drawn are nothing lessn an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen, a dedicated american, and a loyal public servant. >> representative michele bachmann is facing republican blowback from an accusation she lobbed at hillary clinton's aide. the congresswoman helped pen a letter warning of the influence of the muslim brotherhood in the president's administration. and notes abidine having three brothers connected to muslim brotherhood operatives and/or organizations. ed rollins slams her judgment writing, her unsubstantiated charge against abedin is extreme and dishonest. having worked for bachmann's campaign for president, i'm fully aware she sometimes has difficulty with her facts but this is downright vicious and reaches the late senator joe mccarthy level. patricia? michele bachmann was on glenn beck earlier and said, we did not infer she's a member of the muslim brotherhood or working on behalf of the husbamuslim brothd which is a great walkback. isn't it? i don't know what it is. it's so

last week, bachmann and four fellow lps charged houma abadeen to use her position near secretary of state muslim brotherhood. she's the wife of former congressman anthony weiner. weinor resigned in disgrace last year after an embarrassing sexting scandal. bachmann wrote she has three family members connected to muslim brotherhood operatives and or organizations. her position affords her routine access to the secretary and to policymaking. egypt's newly elected president is from the muslim brotherhood. secretary clinton met with him last week in cairo. bachmann says her letter has been taken out of context. house speaker john boehner was asked whether he shared bachmann's concerns. >> i think accusations like this being thrown around are pretty includes. >> reporter: john mccain gave a rousing defense of abadeen. >> these rely on a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations of members of a family. >> reporter: wiener seems to be making an attempt to clean up his image. the family is featured in this week's issue of "people" magazine. >> there are rumors wiener was going to hop back i

support later in the conversation for the simpson bowles tax plan and on cnbc we have a story about houmatax-free spinoff of sirius xm. has an application in front of the sec to get control in the case that he doesn't reach a peaceful agreement with the current chiefs at sirius xm. the other big story in the media world today, yesterday a federal judge striking down a request from u.s. broadcasters to block barry dillers new venture and diller spoke out for the first time this morning about what that means and what the next step is. this is diller. >> the next step is we now offer the service to consumers which is what we wanted to do. we wanted to offer consumers an alternative. if you have a vested interest then you're probably not going to like this. if you're a consumer and like an alternative to paying for cable or for paying for satellite and you want to receive free broadcast signals which is your kind of native american right. >> all the moguls flooding in to the sun valley for a morning panel on china, a lot of other events throughout the day and we'll have them life for you here

and off camera i kept pushing him on that and he said, with houma abedin the top aide to hillary clintonthing wrong with raising these questions and went into the specifics saying her parents were tied into the muslim brotherhood and that needs to be looked at. obviously if you look at the sort of the links they're trying to draw between huma and the brotherhood he's going to keep pushing it and republicans are getting into political -- >> why? what are they trying -- are they suggesting huma is an agent of the muslim brotherhood. that's about as bad as the lighting on your face right now. what is going on there? we have a thing going. holy cow. we're not a big fancy tv company like msnbc. >> hold on a second. >> that we know. >> let's go to jim for a second. flashlight. >> jim, lean forward there, lean forward. >> okay. >> now lean back. >> yeah. >> blink like jeremiah denton. >> you guys need to work on that. >> we will we'll work on our lighting. he's pointing to the column tony blair wrote islamic terrorism is the biggest threat to the world and that people are downplaying the threat

and houma said she invited the reporter into the house because she said i want people to know we're amal family. i'm proud to be married to him. he did a stupid thing, but he's in counseling and said it helped and probably doing all the laundry helps too. >> no doubt he's a good father. i wonder, cynics would say this is part of a pr campaign -- >> it's "people" magazine. >> what is he thinking politically, if anything right now, mike? >> it's clear, sandra makes the point in the piece it's clear he wants to stay in the mix. he said that the stories that have come out about him, perhaps running for mayor of new york city, public advocate in new york city, i can tell you from behind the scenes he's done nothing to discourage those stories, but he tells sandra, i'm doing nothing to plan a campaign. mika and willy, you can read between the lines of that. nothing imminent. >> we wish the best for the family certainly. hope it works out. yesterday jon john mccain making waves with politico, on why he shoes sarah palin as his running mate why he didn't choose mitt romney was it because of t