she said michelle, and i interviewed her staff, michelle doesn't like rich people, she doesn't like fat people, she doesn't want me waddling around the white house, and she then washed her hands of the whole thing, and announced she is not going to campaign in 2012 for obama. .. and obama's does not want to do that. if karl rove watches his brain than barack obama zero was his home. [laughter] that is a good lie in. david axelrod is the creator so when barack obama ran he did not haq of record to run on but what he had was his personal story the black african and list was insight into his character and hubris of himself he doesn't really understand how the world works that makes him an amateur. >> host: you say he proposed n new term for his term in office? >> yes. what the historian said i don't think that is a good idea to call it a new foundation. it sounds like elements girdle. >> host: you go to great lengths to talk to the historian at the table but you eight outside of the city not to be recognized. >> they were all sworn to secrecy and not supposed to report but i finally got to

so when oprah offered to do an oprah winfrey show to launch michelle obama's anti-obesity campaign, michelle held a meeting in the white house were the first lady has her office. and she said that i don't want some rich, fat woman being the emblem of my enter obesity campaign. oprah found out about that. she was furious. she said, and i ever tribute or myself. michelle doesn't like bridge or fat people. she doesn't want me waddling around the white house. she then wash your hands of the whole thing. and she has announced that she is not going to campaign in 2000 well for barack obama. two the role of jesse jackson in barack obama's early political career. >> that is very unknown, and i was very fortunate being able to find out about that. jesse jackson is a highly regarded figure in chicago. when obama started running for the senate, he was advised to go to jesse jackson and get some help from him regarding foreign policy issues, domestic policy issues, but even more important, his oratory needed some work and they thought that jesse jackson can help them. and jesse jackson agree to do so. e

shame on you, michele! you should stand on the floor of the house and apologize to huma amedin and muslim americans for your wild and unsubstantiated charges. other republicans call for bachmann's charges to be recalled. they called out lindsay graham. today john boehner was asked about it. here's what the speaker said. >> i don't know huma, but from everything that i do know of her, she has a sterling character. and i think accusations like this being thrown around are pretty dangerous. >> well, you might get the idea, joan, if you're somebody like michele bachmann with her intellect, you may get the idea this is okay because you have the other guys throwing this stuff around. you go further but in kind. i think it is unkind with what we are getting from the other guys. your thoughts? >> let me start by saying michele bachmann is joe mccarthy in lipstick and she's a dangerous welcome. i want to welcome joe to decency where senator john mccain took us and ed rollins is taking us. chris, the rhetoric in this

michelle does not like rich people. she is not like fat people or waddling around the white house then she washed her hands and has announced she will not campaign for barack obama in 2012 to seven the role of jesse jackson in his early career? >> that was a known. he is still a highly me guarded figure and when obama ran for the senate he was getting some help regard dain foreign policy issues or domestics policy issues but his oratory needed work. every saturday for a year barack obama was invited to the meeting that jackson held that he worked on his oratory and delivery and improved tremendously. barack obama has not invited jesse jackson and once. he has completely cut himself off. it appears there would be the object of jackson being in the white house. that it may signal to the white voters to be in jacksons corner and obama does not want to do that. >>host: if he was the brain then he is his homer. >> that is a good line. [laughter] david axelrod is a brilliant creator so when he ran 2008 to he did not have reco

and thank you michelle goldberg. >>> up next, oops. they did it again. the romney campaign takes more president obama words mildly out of context in a new ad. we've got the ad, by the way. watch and see how they lie here. it's really sad. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. you can now try snapshot from progressive free for 30 days. just plug this into your car, and your good driving can save you up to 30%. you could even try it without switching your insurance. why not give it a shot? carry on. now you can test-drive snapshot before you switch. visit progressive.com today. >>> mitt romney and other republicans have tried to downplay president obama's role during the mission that killed osama bin laden, but the admiral who oversaw the operation is telling a very different story. admiral bill mccraven, head of the joint special operations command, called the president fantastic, and quote, at the end of the day, make no mistake about it, it was the president of the united states who shouldered the burden of this operation that made the hard de

the next five are michelle obama's parents. little michelle and leptin craycroft said on the right. the next slide. so this unknown character who does not appear in the book is a contemporary. so mary milton and this gentleman were born roughly a year apart. he is a mississippi farmer who was noted in the 18th 70s as a 35-year-old who is part of a census tract, a woman named betty were. betty wore and robert taft and have a child named henry. could you go to the next slide? so on this record from 1870 and mrs. e., the last name is at the top in the last corner and you see the household as you come down line lines josie robert 34 and you come down to betty wore, she is 31, black. she is virginia. if you come all the way down i know this is not so easy to see. there is they had me. for names that. next slide. they are, henry shows up in the 1900 cents this. now he is 32 years old. if you follow down, has one, two, three lines down. 10 over 12 says is 10 months old. that is gathering. now go back to sides. robert gavin, my great, great, great grandfather was a white mississippi planter

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michele bachmann, what she did, rather deliberate. she's going to raise money from saying what she said, and she will earn the ire of her colleagues, yes, even john boehner condemned her, but they need her because she makes them look measured and reasonable. to me, she's an embarrassment to all ignorant and lying americans. >> i represent that. a number of republicans have attacked michele bachmann. having worked for congressman bachmann's campaign for president, i am fully aware she sometimes has difficulty with her attacks, but this downright vicious and reaches the senator mccarthy level. shame on you. you should apologize to huma abedin and secretary clinton for your wild and unsubstance shated charges. >> the problem here is across the boards. it's not muslims. it's the far right wing fundamentalists causing the problems. christians, jews, and muslims are making life really interesting for the rest of us. the moderate and progressive -- and sane conservative christian jews and muslims are getting along just fine right now today.

talking about michele bachmann in the story. there's some other good guys in part of that letter. but they're wrong. i think you have to be really, really careful on these types of attacks. that language she's using is so paralleled to what mccarthy said. you have to know your history. and you cannot make these accusations without some real hard proof. to demonize someone like huma is a huge mistake. >> joe and i were talking at dinner the other night. i think i brought this up. you can't turn on an american television show with at least one of the young characters being from background of south asia and the middle east. it's part of our culture now. and to single them out as dangerous the way this character has done, this congresswoman. and i think ed rollins has a point. this is something that has to be addressed on the floor of the house. she has to say i take this back. you have any thoughts on this, joan? >> well, yes. i do think they need to denounce it on the floor of the house. i don't know who he's referring to, by tren

mccain didn't mention michele bachmann on the floor.ut i know that thomas rooney of florida and lynn westmoreland of georgia don't make for as good a story. we're talking about this because of who michele bachmann is. the fact of the matter is, she didn't write this report. she sent a letter asking questions. that's what representatives do. >> she sent a 16-page response. doug, citing a report by the president of the conservative center for the security policy, the lawmakers, including michele bachmann, said that ms. abedin's mother, brother and late father had connections to the muslim brotherhood. what do you make of all this and are we making too much of it? >> well, i don't personally know huma, but she has a sterling reputation. she's been a loyal patriotic and devoted public servant for a while. i really applaud mr. mccain and also senator lindsey graham for coming to her defense. i think she really represents what is good about public service. and i think, in this instance, michele bachmann and the four other members who signed t

nicole or michelle, let me ask you, michelle, did she -- did she -- it's hard to ask this almost, but did she think that had she gotten the doxil that she would have survived? >> i think she thought it would have at least put her into remission, maybe save her from taking some the chemo that was detrimental to her that didn't do anything for the cancer. but she had to battle the side effects. i think she definitely thought that she would have had a better chance. i don't know -- i know she didn't know if it would actually cure her or, not cure her, but put her in remission again. i think she thought it would at least save her from doing something else that was more detriment detrimental. >> doctor, you and i talked about this last time you joined, obviously, renee on the set. what do you think? you're a -- this is your area of expertise. would it have made a huge difference? you assume it would because that's a medication you wanted. can you say it would have made a huge difference? >> it could have. you know, renee lived with this disease almost six years. she got to go on a boat tri

and michelle sends her love. malia was having a sleepover with some of her friends and michelle thought, you know, you can't just have a house full of girls and no parental supervision. just letting you know. but she says hi. the girls say hi. and bo says hi. now, you may not have noticed, but we're in the middle of campaign season here. and this will be -- one way or another, this will be my last campaign. which gets me to thinking about my first campaign. and, you know, i was a lawyer and i was teaching law. you know, the state senate seat came up, i told michelle, you know, some people had talked to me about running for office. what does she think. she said that's a dumb idea. but after i explained to her why i thought it might make sense for me to run, she joined in. we didn't have a budget. we didn't have tv ads. we printed a bunch of stuff that at kinkos. and we had friends that volunteered. we knocked on doors and i'd go to the grocery store and shake hands. we would march in parades. in fact, the fourth o

here's michele bachmann. hmmmm. maybe there should be an investigation.o mention one more piece of unsettling evidence, michele bachmann is married to marcus bachmann who i think we all know is hiding something. (laughter) that his name is an anagram of arab's mann muncch. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ >> jon: welcome back. presidential candidate mitt romney continues to refuse to release his tax returns from any year prior to the years he was running for, i don't know, the presidency. (laughter) because as his wife ann romney explained today y don't you all shut up. >> we've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about how we live our life. >> jon: you know enough! you have learned that we, the romneys, live in the gray knelter-- netherworld betwixt what is legal and what is moral. where desire meets power and one fight get its drunk, sleeps and has a baby named privileged t moneybucks. but as you may remember yesterday i revealed that we here at the daily show have come into possession of the secret tax returns in

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here's michele bachmann. hmmmm. maybe there should be an investigation. not to mention one more piece of unsettling evidence, michele bachmann is married to marcus bachmann who i think we all know is hiding something. (laughter) that his name is an anagram of arab's mann muncch. we'll be right back. as you can clearly see from this attractive graph that our sales have increased by... sorry, my liege. honestly. our sales have increased by 20%. what is this mystical device i see before me? it's an ultrabook. he signed the purchase order. with an ultrabook, everything else seems old fashioned. introducing the ultra sleek, ultra responsive ultrabook. a whole new class of computers powered by intel. >> jon: welcome back. presidential candidate mitt romney continues to refuse to release his tax returns from any year prior to the years he was running for, i don't know, the presidency. (laughter) because as his wife ann romney explained today y don't you all shut up. >> we've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about

and that same story, my family's story, michelle's family's story, i heard it from you guys. it was your story, and we understood and we'd sit and talk and we'd agree that, you know, america has never been a country of people looking for handouts. we're a nation of workers and dreamers and doers. and we understand that we've got to work for everything that we've got, and all we ask for is that hard work pays off. that responsibility is rewarded. so that if you put in enough effort, if you're willing to put in some sweat, tears and overcome some difficulties in your life then you can find a job that pays the bills and afford a home that you can call your own and count on health care when you get sick and put a a -- put away enough to retire on. let me take a vacation once in a while. i was telling folks in ohio, i remember my favorite vacation when i was 11 years old, traveling country with my grandmother and my mom and my sister and once in a while we'd rent a car, but a bunch of times we'd just take greyhound busses, and sometimes we'd take the train and stay at howard johns

i think michelle bachmann -- we have a lef wing -- . [ multiple speakers ] >> michelle bachmann wouldn't be pulling in the money she is pulling in from women, men and every american under the sun if her message wasn't relevant to women as well. >> ultimately, this is why i think there are at times too much emphasis on getting women to run for office. i'm more concerned with finding candidates representing values i believe in, limited government and free market. i would much rather see a john boehner than a debbie wasesser man shultz. that'skay. i think they bring other things to the table but we should be careful not to become too focused on that >> behind the headlines: a new documentary about women weightlifters is timed to release as the 2012 olympics start this week. called, strong! it takes viewers behind the scenes into the world of women weightlifters who struggle to fit into a society that values femininity. >> i don't think those fit. i think those are 24s, they're too small, too big. >> these women push the boundaries of what it is to be female. they are in a traditionally male

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shame on you, michele. you should stand on the foor of the house and apologize for your wild and unstanuated charge and other republicans also called for her charges to be withdrawn, they called them outrageous. today, the speaker of the house was asked about it. here's what speaker said. >> i don't know, but from everything that i do know of her, she has a sterling character. and i think accusations like this are pretty dangerous. >> you might get the idea that this is okay. i disagree with john. i think it's inkind. >> let me start by saying michele bachmann is joe mccarthy in lipstick and he's a dangerous american and i want to start by welcoming john to a zone of decency where senator john mccain took us and ed rollins is taking us and the rhetoric in this country is to dangerous that it's important to acknowledge that they have now staked out a lunatic grin nlg. that's a good thing and we should applaud that today and you know that a however is coming. however. >> here's something, by the way, feehery,

here's michele bachmann. hmmmm. maybe there should be an investigation. of unsettling evidence, michele bachmann is married to marcus bachmann who i think we all know is hiding something. (laughter) that his name is an anagram of arab's mann muncch. we'll be right back. her cup of coffee? how long is this one going to last? forty-five minutes? an hour? well... listen. 5-hour energy lasts a whole lot of hours. take one in the afternoon, and you'll feel alert and energized 'til the cows come home. it's packed with b-vitamins and nutrients to make it last. so what's it going to be, partner? 5-hour energy. wise choice. 5-hour energy. hours and hours of energy. >> jon: welcome back. presidential candidate mitt romney continues to refuse to release his tax returns from any year prior to the years he was running for, i don't know, the presidency. (laughter) because as his wife ann romney explained today y don't you all shut up. >> we've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about how we live our life. >> jon: you know

michele bachmann has drummed up a new conspiracy theory. she and other members say the muslim brotherhood has infiltrated the federal government. she has attacked huma abedin, wife of the former new york congressman anthony weiner. still the wife of. she says abedin is tied to the muslim organization through three family members. as for bachmann's source, one of the leading anti-muslim conspiracyists. with me now is brian levin and ron reagan. author of "my father at 100." thank you for joining us. brian, you're an expert at this. to get this straight, her basis for saying huma abedin who works close to hillary clinton, secretary of state, is in the muslim brotherhood is based in something put out by frank gaffney who also says the logo for one of our government agencies is an islamic symbol. what do we make of this kind of nonsense? >> i could go on and talk about individual facts, but let's look at the forest instead of the trees. this reminds me of joseph welch who in 1948 said this to joseph mccarthy. let's not assassinate this further.

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no, michelle things that is good. she thinks it is great. michelle thinks it is great.ed service will be my last campaign. it got me nostalgic thinking about some of my first campaign for iran for state senate -- i ran for state senate or not is 33 years old and ran for united states senate and backed them i did not have air force one. i did not have anybody driving me around. i was driving me myself and filling out my own guess. -- gas. we did not have fancy stuff like gps, so he wants to go somewhere you needed a map. you're trying to figure out how to fold it back. a bunch of times, i would get lost and finally when i got to the place i was supposed to be, i had to find my own parking spot. these days i just pull up. sometimes it would be raining now try to find my umbrellas. i have such great memories of those first campaigns. the reason is because everywhere i went, and illinois is a big state, so you would go to inner cities, farm towns, suburbs and people of every walk of life -- everywhere i went, i would hear people's stories. those stories reminded me of my ow