apparently michelle bachmann happened to miss that memo. what is your take? me talk to ben for a second. >> um, yeah, that one is indefensible. let's not kid ourselves. michelle bachmann says so many really poorly thought-out things that it's possible that she would just misspeak because she doesn't know what she's talking about. keep in mind when michelle bachmann said this, who she was defending was oil speculateors. a surprising position, i would think anybody in this economy defending gas in this day. but she did apologize. she respects all human life, all races and it had nothing to do with race. >> yeah, yeah. >> michelle bachmann is guilty but i'm nor interested in mitt romney. go ahead. >> right, look, you have to put all this together. i mean it's absurd to think that this is not part of a coordinated republican strategy. let's look at all the language just used. first tar baby, which we've already discussed it. then she used the word infantile. she also said that he never takes responsibility. that's another racial stereotype. that some how black pe

no. >>> this half hour, michele bachmann says she wants to unite the republican party.hasn't she endorsed mitt romney? i'll ask her. >>> how about a week in hawaii for one ribbon cutting ceremony. how the gsa spent your money. >>> plus a. sleepy pilot spent his plane diving 400 feet, what he mistook for another plane. >>> the rally around the mitt romney movement picked up big steam today. house speaker john boehner and mitch mcconnell say they are ready to get behind the overwhelmingly likely republican nominee. >> and i will be proud to support mitt romney and do everything i can to help him win. >> we're all behind him. looking forward to the fall campaign. >> not everyone, of course, has jumped on the romney bandwagon, including congresswoman michele bachmann. she's my guest from capitol hill. is it time to back mitt romney? >> i think like you saw in 2008 when hillary rodham clinton dropped out of the race, 18 million women got behind senator clinton. it took some time for those women to be comfortable with barack obama's candidacy. i think what we are seeing right

i felt michele bachmann, who i don't often agree with, made some valid points.e unforced errors this issue here is more powerful in ways than some of the conversations around contraception, don't get me wrong, 99% of american women have used it. i've heard the number. nobody talks about that. people talk about their kids, women are insulted when you suggest they stay at home and not work, that something is different about them, less about them. the white house had to move quickly. hilary rosen's a good person. she made a dumb comment in trying to make a bigger point. hopefully she can get back to making those points. i think this is an opportunity for mitt romney to make big gains. >> mike, we were talking yesterday, you said this was a starter gun week for the general election campaign. look at the cover of the "economist" magazine, especially because i'm obsessed with baseball right now be, i thought it was interesting, it talked about the hardball politics coming up. it shows how negative this is going to be, romney on the pitcher's mound with a grenade and t

with me this morning, new york senator kristen gillibrand and michele bachmann.this green line just appeared on my floor. yeah, that's fidelity helping you reach your financial goals. could you hold on a second? it's your money. roll over your old 401(k) into a fidelity ira and take control of your personal economy. this is going to be helpful. call or come in today. fidelity investments. turn here. i take the stuff everywhere. exactly. everyone's more energized, more alert. i've lost their respect. oh who's laughing now!? gazelle!! [ male announcer ] personal, portable mio energy. [ gazelle laughs ] >>> what you have is milt mitt romney running around the country and saying that what my wife really cares about is women's economic issues. his wife has never worked a day in here life. she has not dealt with the economic issues that the majority of women in the country are facing. >> that was the democratic strategist close to the white house that got all of this started this week. hillary rosen was supposed to appear, cancelled her appearance on friday, trying to

you see in this congress michele bachmann and michele bachmann one of these -- wannabe's. there are fights about redistricting. >> use of the one strength the president obama, his rhetorical skill, is not sufficient. >> it has not been used at the scale necessary in this time of crisis. america is in a crossroads. this is a moment comparable to coming out of the great depression. this was a moment coming out of the finaia

michele bachmann is here and you are fired. those are the words high ranking official of the gsa scandal. taxpayers should stop paying his salary. but first, you then at 11:00 p.. now back to "on the record." >> greta: big night for mitt romney. is he the g.o.p. nominee. michele bachmann joins us. it's not official but he swept five tonight? >> this is governor romney's night. i don't think anybody thought it was going to be in contention but it was turning the page in the romney campaign. ultimately to gain access to the white house. now what we need to make sure is obama is a one termer. >> greta: are you ready to endorse governor romney? >> i have been working hard to unite the party. it's not about me. it's about defeating barack obama. i have been working with tea party and bringing people together. i think we're making a lot of progress. >> greta: why don't you endorse him. but now it's fate acome reply, i really speaker gingrich has not moved out. but i take it you would rather have him president than obama as president?

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michele bachmann is here and you are fired. those are the words high ranking official of the gsa scandal. taxpayers should stop paying his salary. but first, >>> rivet can testimony from a former aide to one time presidential hopeful john edwards. he is accused of using one million dollars in campaign cash to hide the affair of an mistress. he said he slit money from wealthy supporters. >> a case of mad cow disease for the first time in six years. a cow tested positive and there is a quote, no cause for alarm. health officials say we can't get the disease from drinking milk from infected animals. mad cow is deadly and deadly through tainted food. now back to greta. cord." >> greta: big night for mitt romney. is he the g.o.p. nominee. michele bachmann joins us. it's not official but he swept five tonight? >> this is governor romney's night. i don't think anybody thought it was going to be in contention but it was turning the page in the romney campaign. ultimately to gain access to the white house. now what we need to make sure

michele bachmann is here and you are fired. those are the words high ranking official of the gsa scandal. taxpayers should stop paying his salary. but first, election results. >> bret: mitt romney is the big winner in all sides. about an hour ago we held a rousing rally in manchester. >> you have a better chance to get a better job? are you paying less at the pump? >> no. >> if the answer were yes to those questions, then president obama would be running for reelection based house record and rightly so. but because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions and distractions and distortions. that kind of campaign may have worked at another place and at a different time, but not here. not now. it's still about the economy and we're not stupid. >> bret: we'll have a recap of tonight's voting and look ahead to the general election. we'll see you then at 11:00 p.m. now back to "on the record." >> greta: big night for mitt romney. is he the g.o.p. nominee. michele bachmann joins us. it's not official but he swept five tonigh

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michele bachmann has already voted for legislation that would cut, yesterday it was $33 billion from snap program. that's the food stamp program. half of the people on the snap program are children or people with disabilities or seniors. the wick program, the women, infant and children program, has been on the chopping block by the republicans. so michele bachmann has already made it more difficult, as all the republicans have if they've supported the ryan republican budget and many of the cuts. made it more difficult for working women who are struggling so hard to make it and take care of their children. >> thank you. and thank you particularly for telling us that women can't spend money from their food stamps on diapers. we did not know that and that is a disturbing and very sad fact. thank you. >> coming up, vast left wing conspiracy? come on, mitt. appear here. we've got some true believers here, you know. >> how does a man who wants to be president, how does he think he can fix that? mitt romney joins us now from charlotte, north carolina. good morning to you. >> joining me now

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does it even matter if michele bachmann endorses him or rick santorum?n't think it really matters what they say, in particular. but i've noted that some republicans are now trying to defend mitt romney as he heads into the general election by touting the fact that he's been on all sides of all issues. >> yeah. >> and i don't think the white house is going to let him get away with that. they're going to make him choose. they're going to force him to choose the last thing that he did choose, which was a hard right attack to try to get to the right of people like bachmann and perry and santorum on any number of issues in the last six months and the white house, i know from talking to them, and the president says it himself publicly, and so do david axelrod and jim messina and the others, they're going to try to stick mitt romney with the very conservative positions he went with in the last few months. >>> the president said, i don't think the republican nominee is going to suddenly be able to say everything i've said for the last six months. i'm not saying

well, let's bring in an actual expert here to see if michele bachmann was right that.he global carbon project, international coalition of scientists that studty carbon emissions. so, prefacer guerney? carbon dioxide is a normal gas. what are you complaining about? >> it's true in a very strict sense that carbon dioxide doesn't necessarily directly influence the human being but it has a great echth, essentially negative impact on the planet when it builds up to the. levels it's at now and that we are anticipating in the future. >> talk to us about that impact. a lot of people hear that but don't know what real world effects it can have and sometimes they are not sure if it's connected. how would it be connected? if it is. the scientific community, the consensus is as the climate warms, driven by the increases in green house gases, primarily carbon dioxide, but there are others, that greater extremes in things like weather, so in things like hurricanes droughts, tornados will begin to occur at a greater frequency as the planet warms up and this is not in many ways that s

i want to hear the democrats pull a page out of michelle bachmann's play book is say they hold the senate and keep the white house is they're going to turn this law around that is going to give the post office an opportunity to innovate, to get current, to give them a chance to compete and take this $5.5 million bill off their books every year that the republicans put on them because they're trying to destroy the jobs. darrell issa is the perfect dude for the republicans to ramrod this through. this is a culture war in america. we treat workers like a piece of furniture. we move them around and give them no say. they want to take away their voice as well. to destroy what these postal workers have done is not an answer and is not better for america. rural america will pay a heavy price because you're not going to have that service. every radio station have shipping and delivery service. shipping and delivery expenses. where do you think the expenses are going go for small businesses in america if they gut the postal service? well, i thought republicans were business friendly. the hell they

let's bring in an actual expert here to see if michele bachmann was right about that. professor of arizona university, and member of the coalition of scientists that study carbon emissions. so what do you think? carbon dioxide? it's a perfectly lovely gas what are you complaining about? >> it is certainly true in a very strict sense that carbon dioxide doesn't necessarily directly influence the human being, but it has a great impact on the planet when it builds up to the type of levels it's at now and the type of levels we're anticipating in the future. >> talk about that impact. a lot of people hear that but they don't know what real-world weather events that they are seeing. >> yeah, there are certainly the scientific community, the consensus is as the climate warms, driven by the increase in greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide but there are others, that greater extremes in things like weather, so in things like hurricanes droughts, tornados will begin to occur at a greatest frequency as the planet warms up. and this is not that surprising it's very much eakin

. >> that's michele bachmann refusing to speak for michele bachmann. hillary clinton gathered last night for time. and mentioned someone else. >> time has honored so many national and global leaders. there's so many i have not been able to meet yet. i was hoping kim jung un would show up. i don't think he's here -- >> no sign of the north korean dictator. her popularity has been through the roof lately her favorability rating is at 65%. she is by far the top pick among democrats for the 2016 presidential race. up next, the supreme court seems ready to uphold arizona's tough immigration law. will that help rally latino voters in november? >>> here is what's happening, connecticut is now the 17th state to abolish the death penalty. they signed the bill behind closed doors earlier. let's take you back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to hb had been, the supreme court heard arguments today on the constitutionality of the arizona immigration law. civil liberty groups says the law encourages racial profiling. the law requires immigrants to carry proof of thei

. >> new york senator kristin gillibrand and former presidential candidate michele bachmann will join david gregory for more on this discussion on "meet the press." you can see that this morning at 10:30 right here on nbc 4. >>> former vice president dick cheney is making public appearances for the first time since his heart transplant. cheney spoke at the wyoming republican party convention in cheyenne for well over an hour yesterday. people say that he seemed pretty strong and that he walked on stage without any assistance. cheney had the transplant three weeks ago at inova fairfax hospital. >>> today marks 100 years since the sinking of the titanic. the massive ship left england bound for new york and hit an iceberg overnight on april 15, 1912. it sank less than three hours later. a cruise retracing titanic's doomed voyage reached its destination overnight. the journey sailed to the site where the titanic went down. those on board held a memorial for the disaster victims. we're also seeing tributes to titanic disaster victims right here in washington. in this region a crowd gathere

michele bachmann, now wading into the war on women. why she says the comments against mitt romney's wife were shocking and insulting. >> ann romney certainly understood the economy and you think women all across the country were highly insulted and they should be because women have borne the brunt of the failed economic policies under barack obama. gregg: well a very serious warning for boston marathon runners today. event organizers highly concerned about the unusually warm weather. temps in the boston area expected to reach 80 degrees. the average temperature this time of year, normally about 47 degrees. so first-time runners and anybody with a medical condition advised to sit out the race, stay at home, crack open a beer, chill. but for those who do decide to run they're being advised to take very frequent breaks and keep hydrating. drink plenty of water. martha: one of our producers is doing that. good luck to you, jay. meantime, house panel is set to grill top executives from gaa later today. this will be a hot one as well, folks.

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