>> you will need to respond to michelle bachmann? >> yes.and also, what this means in her own race and how her race is going right now because this very much to be playing into it. >> right, right. folks should be aware that michelle bachmann never did exit the stage in terms of pushing this amendment on the minnesotans. she was very involved behind the scenes, really putting a lot of pressure on those republican legislators to vote for this amendment to place it on the ballot, putting a lot of pressure -- we know how much money she has raised for her campaign. the truth is, the tides have changed fairly dramatically in nnesota. i think michele bachmann will come up short in her own election this year. i think she a cynically taken this issue and propelled it in a way to propel her own candidacy and her own political fortune. i think it is the classic grabbing onto issue that is divisive and confusing to a lot of folks in order to improve your own fortunes. but absolutely she is out of step with where minnesotans are. i think she will find o

obviously michele bachmann doesn't.congress and get things done, bring people together, make this economy work again and she doesn't. >> you just heard the congresswoman, though. how does your plan for the economy differentiate from hers? >> first and foremost we're not going to lower the minimum wage. that doesn't help anybody. what we need is good wage jobs. she's pledged to go to norquist and coke brothers. i'm pledging myself to the people of the sixth district. i know how to get a budget done. we need to be bipartisan about that, come together and talk reality. real solutions for the real problems. create good livable-wage jobs. i've created thousands of jobs my whole life. she hasn't created one job in the district, one net job in the six years she's been in congress. not one. >> jim, a recent article in your local star tribune quoted several supporters of representative bachmann who heard you speak. they liked you. they're wondering right here the quote is "why aren't you a republican? you're a wealthy businessma

it's almost a dead heat between michele bachmann and jim graves who joining us now. f congress. >> stephanie: it really seems like this is a perfect storm this time. there is so much excitement for you. you have had enormous success in business. tell us a little about yourself. >> i taught school for a couple of years and when i was 25 i started a business with $2,500 buck in the bank. and it has created many jobs. and bachmann doesn't understand any of those things. and she has definitely shown her true colors after her failed presidential candidate attempt. so it sets up a pretty good platform for us to defeat her. >> stephanie: jim, i think what -- it's interesting because obviously mitt romney is running as a businessman, but i think there has been a real difference in the way he has run business in a way that benefited only himself. >> stephanie he is a wall street guy, and i'm a main street guy. i'm an entrepreneur that actually built jobs and understands what people and familiar list need. a big difference between romney and graves. >> stephanie: exactly. that'

so you see the same thing with michele bachmann.isconnect between where the electorate is on important issues and this extreme partisan view that she promotes in washington. >> jim, you were talking about coming out of your comfort zone. if you were to win this and end up in a divided house of representatives, how do you imagine managing that given there would be extremists that you would have to work with. >> >> my whole life has been bringing people telling. in business you never ask your banker are you a republican or democrat or centrist. you have a business plan. you have an objective and you go forth. and you get that accomplished. and that's what it is. what the people of america and my district want are real solutions to the real problems. they don't want the sound bites and phoniness going around. they want real solutions to the real problems. and that's what i bring to the table. i live in the real world. i'm not a politician he trying to spin something. i'm there to do the work of the people, to serve the people and then

all of a sudden, michele bachmann. oh no! i love it!

but steve king is very vulnerable, michele bachmann.the senate side, you have joe donnelly, a democrat, may win indiana. and so much of it is -- i mean, joe walsh is not just ridiculous, but he's an embarrassment. and i think people like todd akin kind of put on the national stage for people to say, wait a second, these tea party people, this is not america. this is not what, you know, this is not advancing our country. and i think it gave people kind of a second look pat what that agenda really is. >> and then there's alan west. this congressman from florida said that romney's 47% remark may have been clumsy, but then he doubled down on it. >> really, the number is 48.6. that's the percentage of people in the united states of america that are receiving some form of government welfare assistance. and i'm not talking about medicare and medicaid. >> i'm not sure if that number's correct. what do you make of it? >> i think he was just making stuff up, like he usually seems to make stuff up when he talks. and i think one of the things we ne

>> are you saying michele bachmann is not a formidable opponent? get rid of congress. the only guy that was on that stage that could have stupid up to mitt romney, don't lower the bar for this president. what about the time when rick perry was getting up under his skin and he called for anderson cooper anderson, make him stop. come on, did you miss that? >> listen. >> let me finish, because i ain't got but a second. >> please finish. i'm enjoying it. >> huh? >> yeah, go on. >> when it comes to a line, you said paul ryan outlined him. no from day one web start out with lice saying his name was mitt romney. his name's willard. john mccain saying you look at the economy we know it's not true. from then on, this man has been lying, lying lying lying lying. >> yep. >> the only way he's going to win this debate is if he steal it he buy it or whatever. when you don't stand for something mr. john, you fall for anything. they throwing money at him throwing lies, trying to steal the folks. he is not going to stand. >> joanne, i think i want you to be my on c

o'donnell coached michele bachmann.on replicate moments. >> you have them stand in front of podium. >> you want strong. look at colin powell he commands the podium. it's like this. >> it's about making sure that you fill the stage more than your opponent does. >> they practice debating. john kerry's played romney. rob portman plays obama. >> john: you never see videotape of this? >> no. there is reason why, you don't want to show those vulnerable moments. we don't want to give any component in the prep. >> in a campaign, one of secretaries gave bush prep video? >> they went right to the f.b.i.. what happened. >> john: what is so secret. >> limited government. >> you say limited government. what kind are you talking about. can you be specific? >> yes, i can list cuts. >> would you cut defense? >> i would cut defense. >> so you are soft on defense? >> i know how i should answer the questions but under pressure it's hard. >> john: go back to the clinton days. my instinct is to answer the question that is asked but consulta

joining me is former communication's director from michelle bachmann alec stewart and former new york mayor rudy guiliani and former speech writer for president bush michael gersin. >> thank you . you were back in the spin room. what was different in person than what we saw on tv? >> i think, i think it was a knock out punch and actually what i saw on television and what we saw live, i thought it was the same thing. i am shocked could come out with other opinion. it was a knock out. when you remove the teleprompters and a panel of liberal press that can back up the president, he's lost. the emperor has no clothes and that was apparent in the audience and in television. >> that is true . people don't realize what you have said up until now. you are not using the teleprompter and speaking from your heart. >> that's why i mess up a lot. >> that is he didn't have the basic knowledge or facts and unable to defend his record and there was a sense of him wuking in i am the leader of the free world and i don't need to waste my time here. but as a presidential cand date it is a level playing f

me to get back into this as michele bachmann put it you want me to get back into this thing? captioning funded by cbs >> good morning. it is wednesday, october 3, 2012. for the first time president obama and mitt romney will meet on stage. the president faced critic jim for a five year old speech. his running meat misspoke again. we go to denver for a preview. >> reporter: good morning. both of these candidates are under enormous pressure to perform tonight. they have been preparing for more than a month. yesterday we saw them both take a little break, try to get away from it all. then last night that video changed the conversation. >> in denver, romney went for mexican at chipotle along with ohio senator rob portman who has been playing the role of president obama in mock debates. in nevada the president who has been rehearsing with massachusetts senator john kerry as romney went to the hoover dam. >> it's spectacular. >> reporter: both left the day's campaigning to their number twos and that turned into trouble for team obama. in charlotte, vice president joe biden was tryi

. >> what about michele bachmann. >> no. >> newt gingrich? >> no. >> ron paul?no. >> rick perry. >> sounds familiar. >> who did we declare independence from. >> i don't know. >> do you know? [ laughter ] [bleep] >> king who? >> not midas but. [ laughter ] >> i haven't the slightest. >> do you know what the unemployment rate is right now? >> oh 99%. >> close. once again, gutfeld and mcguirk. that's not really fair. watters, tracks those kinds of people when he goes out. but generally speaking, mcguirk, do you believe that the american electorate is intelligent? do they go and vote on the issues? >> to paraphrase somebody the electorate is an ass we live in jersey shore kardashian world. it's pretty sad. the debate the other night game three i live in new york city as you do the new york area, i know more people that watched the whole yankee game as opposed to the debate and these people can tell you alex rodriguez salary, his contract length, the salary cap that teams have and what players they can get. >> bill: most of those people don't vote. what was encouragi

joining me now is former communications director for michele bachmann's complain. and for rudy guiliani, george. minges, and jake, were you at the debate. were you back in the spin room. what was different in person than what we saw on tv. >> well, i think i think that it was an absolute knockout punch and actually what i saw on television, what we saw live i thought was the same thing and shocked anybody could have come away from that debate with any other opinion, it was a knockout and i think what we saw when you removed the teleprompters and removed a panel of liberal press that can back up the president he's lost. the emporer has no clothes. and i thought that was very apparent, whether you were in the audience or watching on television. >> i think that's true. i think he could certainly learn a less sop. you people don't realize what you said now, you're not using that teleprompter, you're speaking from your heart and based on fact. >> mike: that's why i mess up a lot. >> that's not true. he didn't have the basic knowledge, didn't have the facts to back up. h

o'donnell later coached mitt romney and michele bachmann.hey spent hours trying to replicate debate moments. >> you have the candidate stand in front of a podium like this as realistic as possible? >> yeah. you want a strong bearing, erect. look at colin powell. he commands the podium. it's like this. >> it's about making sure that you fill the stage more than your opponent does. >> the candidates practice debating stand-ins. for obama, john kerry's plays romney. rob portman plays obama. >> you never see videotape of this, not even pictures. >> no. there's a reason why. you don't want to show those vulnerable moments. >> we don't want to give away any component to our prep. >> in the 2000 campaign, one of mckinnon's secretaries gave prep video to the gore campaign. >> gore campaign went straight to the fbi. >> what happened to her? >> she went to prison for a year. >> what's so secret? i pretended to be a candidate. limited government -- >> just limited government. what kind of limits are you talking about? can you be specific. >> yes, i can

. >> so many politicians these days are saying like michele bachmann will say something that factually is nocht correct and they'll say i'm just asking the question. is it responsible to say i'm just asking the question, but to say they'll do anything. >> i should have put the question mark. a question mark would have been better at the back of that. >> so you are kind of backing away -- >> i'm not backing away. >> you wish you could amend your tweet? >> i wish i added a question mark to the back of it. but the same implications. >> to say something like this is like donald trump saying that president obama is not an american citizen without any proof. you are jack welch. you got to take this opportunity while everybody is listening to you to actually say yes, anderson, i'm taking that tweet back. i'm going to accepted a new tweet to say i was exaggerating. there are problems, maybe bls should look into it, but the actually throw out an accusation, that's like asking the government how often do you beat your wife? >> i should have had a question mark, at the back of it. let's face it.

in the michele bachmann is trying to point out that we are not just -- i think michele bachmann is tryingo point out that we're not just our reproductive parts, that we have a brain of our own and we think about the world in many ways that men do. we have economic concerns aside from abortion and aside from contraception. and i would argue, and the reason is a conservative, because my life is affected on a daily basis far more by taxes than by reproductive issues. and that is not me, that is everyone. you may think otherwise because abortion is an important issue to you and that is all right, but your daily life is affected more by taxes than anything else. i think that is what michele bachmann was trying to say. to the foreign policy part, not quite sure what the caller was getting at, but china and russia certainly are important foreign policy issues, both economically and in terms of national security, and i am sure there will both come up on monday at the debate. host: time for one or two more calls. maxine in florida, democratic caller. caller: thank you for taking my call. the probl

. >> but, you know, so many politicians these days are saying, you know, michele bachmann will say something that is not correct or not provable and say, look, i'm just asking the question. is it responsible to say, i'm just asking the question, but to say these chicago guys will do anything -- >> should have put the question mark at the end, like i did last night. a question mark would have been better at the end of that. >> so, you are kind of backing away from the chicago guys part? >> i'm not backing away from anything. >> you wish you could amend your tweet. >> i wish i had a question mark at the end of it. the same implication is there. >> i want to bring in our business correspondent ali velshi because i don't pretend to be an expert on this kind of stuff. that camera? that camera there. what do you make of jack welch's tweet and what are you saying tonight? >> anderson, this is very troubling. anybody who has asked me in my entire career who the best ceo in america is, the answer would be jack welch. jack welch needs to be out there getting this country back on track. ceos and all so

bill mar called sarah palin every name in the book, called michele bachmann every name in the book, davidetterman has done it, kris matthews has done it again and again and again, insulting women. letterman attacked sarah palin's daughter. she was 14, giveñmer a break. nothing, nothing ever happened. it is profound hypocrisy, a theme that runs through the book, how incredibly hypocritical the left has been in ripping the country apart, claiming to be the champions and defender of women, and yet, they just defend liberal women, and their policies are systematically reeking have vac on the groups they claim to champion. women is the perfect example. highest poverty rate in 17 years because of the result of the job killing policies of this administration. the extreme poverty rate for women is at an all-time high meaning those women in america living below half the poverty line, we should not is women living below half the poverty line in the country, yet 7.5 million of them are. of april 2012, 53 million women not in the work force. of course, the administration -- in, they didn't, actually,

trying to do is to move from an extremely right wing set of positions he took to compete with michele bachmann and newt gingrich for the title of the most conservative to a more centrist position and the president pointed out these positions, ronl ne acted indignant. almost like but i said that in march. how dare you bring it up again? there was one other point. when the governor talked about his -- by the way, i got -- as a former co-worker in massachusetts with him, i got to hear more of him today than i used to when he was governor of massachusetts. we didn't hang out that much because he wasn't spending a lot of time on state's issue. but when he said look what he did out in the olympics. i was out in salt lake city this year and they had a front page story in the "desert news" saying he was successful in getting a large infusion of cash from the federal government. so it's true that mr. romney was successful in the olympics but according to what they said was he got a couple million dollars from the federal government. he somehow failed to mention that. but the fundamental point was that

presidential candidates who blink less during a debate are more likely to win the election or as michele bachmann put it, any way i can get back in this thing? hey! thing? hey! there you go. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. it is wednesday, october 3rd. for the first time tonight, president obama and mitt romney will face each other on stage with millions of voters watching. >> as they got ready for their first debate, the president faced criticism for a five-year-old speech and his running mate misspoke again. jan crawford is live in colorado with a preview. good morning. >> good morning, norah. good morning, charlie. both candidates have been under enormous pressure, preparing for more than a month. we saw them take a break to get away from it all but then last night the video changed the conversation. romney went for mexican at chipotle along with ohio senator rob portman, playing the role of president obama in mock debates. in nevada, the president, who has been rehad hersing with massachusetts senator john kerry as romney, went to the hoover dam. >> it's spectacular. i've never see

>> michele bachmann as i recall.t ways to get your attention like john edwards used to raise his little finger. >> and governor romney? >> dennis kucinich would wave wildly. michele bachmann said anderson. >> interrupted you. >> yes. >> even during commercial breaks they or their wife will come up and yell at you. it's a tough job. ideally for me is not to be asking questions to make you look smart it's questions that will get the best response out [ alanunr wh ceso naia otaes larfali ce wueran atsa kw mita les ffen e' bn er. has y e b ofincl ve oer s ar sciicly o rrtndorr liar mbrsndhe fmies [ us d! ad [ pus] ♪ [alanuner febrgsbscls. uaris vi. alorit oin e' radtoel on gasoline. i am probably going to the gas station about once a month. last time i was at a gas station was about...i would say... two months ago. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. i go to the gas station such a small amount that i forget how to put gas in my car. [ male announcer ] and it's not just these owners giving the volt high praise. volt r

i don't know where to start with that last comment from michele bachmann and the cheers and applause to palin by mentioning social without really having a grasp on what it actually means is mind boggling i mean surely these people have taken one political science course before getting into politics right also think it doesn't appear that they have let me take a cue from good old glenn beck here for a minute and break down some definitions for you socialism and various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods communism a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed and then marxism the political economic and social theories of karl marx including the belief that the struggle between social classes is a major force in history that there should be eventually be a society in which there are no classes at all i know a lot of isms right but even though they're often lumped together and used interchangeably these terms are different from one another

>> michele bachmann as i recall.ys to get your attention like john edwards used to raise his little finger. >> and governor romney? >> dennis kucinich would wave wildly. michele bachmann said anderson. >> interrupted you. >> yes. >> even during commercial breaks they or their wife will come up and yell at you. it's a tough job. ideally for me is not to be asking questions to make you look smart it's questions that will get the best response out of the can,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, .. >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> and good morning to you. it is 8:25. i'm juliette goodrich with your cbs 5 news headlines. jury deliberations beginning today in the giselle esteban murder trial. the union city mother is charged with killing nursing student michelle le who disappeared from hayward kaiser last may. her body was found in a remote area four months later. >>> construction for the san mateo bridge finished way ahead of schedule. it opened to traffic at 4 a.m. this morning. it had been closed since friday at 10 p.

. >> so many politicians these days, like michelle bachmann will say something and then say, i'm just asking the question. >> i should have put the question mark there like i did last night. a question mark would have been better at the back of that. >> so you're kind of backing away from the chicago guy part. >> what do you mean, i'm backing away? i'm not backing away from anything. i wish i had a question mark behind it, but the same implication is there. >> i'm going to bring in ali velshi. ali, what do you make of jack welch's tweet, and what do you think tonight? >> anderson, they very troubling. anybody who has asked me in my entire career in america who the best one is, that is jack welch. there are ceos and all sorts of people retweeting what he said. he is absolutely right, there are questions to be asked about the methodology. that household survey that comes up with the unemployment number, i have said in my entire career that people should pay less attention to it. pay attention to hours worked and pay attention to wages and income. that's what touches people. but to say s

because you don't see mitt romney out there with newt gingrich or michele bachmann or other republicanntly unlike four years ago when we saw hillary clinton out there at the end after she lost to senator barack obama. >> michele bachmann is not going to help him. ron paul could energize a few people. newt beginning rich is on campaign but not to promote mitt romney. of course you want your lead singer to have people that know the tune, but mitt romney continues to change the tune, so no one knows what message is. >> and mccain was in new hampshire because mccain is a beloved political figure, with strong chops. you go where people can help you. and newt gingrich is a very divisive figure. we're putting our best faces forward. >> guys, thanks very much, john mccain will be among our guests here monday. he has debated both mitt romney and president obama. we'll get his insight looking ahead. being president doesn't just mean hard decisions and tough choices. sometimes you have to be the commander and chief and the comedian and chief. we have plenty more where this came from. [ ross ] in