that he likee michelle bachmann, mike huckabee.is looking less likely that these are not the top tier of republicans. many are not that republican national figures that fill that void. you could tell with the debate over gay marriage that they have the upper hand on that issue. you can see the challenges socialthe conservative movement. >> there is a party right now. there's one set of the party that believes they can win by subduing the conservative issues. a social conservatives believe the opposite. if you heard him talk about mitt and john mccain, he believes they could not win over social conservatives. it is two schools of thought. they are not backing down on this. they will not support a candidate like chris christie during the republican primary at least because they do not believe they will bring out the base. that is part of the reason we know that romney and mccain were not able to win. the last time social conservatives ideology was really pushed in the republican remember in 2004, terri schiavo? they intervened. those

they ended up being michelle bachmann.nded up high and ended up low. >> santorum you thought would be this kind of colorful character, your best supporting actor so to speak but had he this miraculous rise in the last two weeks that i don't think anybody saw coming. >> you ended up portraying him quite favorably. not because he just ended up winning the caucus. >> he had an old fashioned retail politics, he did drive around in a pickup truck with one or two staffers, meeting everyone he could, there was a line in the film that sometimes he would talk, would outlast the questioners. with somebody who didn't have money to do this, it was a good thing these days approximately. >> retail politics in a mid western state ends up being so important for the presidential process. >> i was under the impression that if you didn't have a lot of money there was no way you could play in the american presidential election. the idea that you can be somebody going around with very little money answering people's questions i think is a grea

against this thing it's like wait a minute if if michele bachmann's against and i'm against it or you know alan grayson was on my show today on my radio show he's against bernie sanders last week he was you know i mean it's here's here's a question if fast track fails. t.p. is still going to be dropped to the level congress. but then it can be amended and it can be debated is it possible. this is this is my hopeful that i'm the eternal optimist maybe but tell me please don't tell me i'm one of those that are probably . if they don't get fast tracked that means that there will be a debate and there could be a memo as to p.p. which means that the american people will get to actually learn what these six hundred corporations have tried to shove down our throats you know what they've tried to do to america. couldn't that be like turning point we're where we just like to really start moving in the other direction and maybe even. just. really you know the pinnacle of it was going to notice it so my gut instinct is actually we won't get assigned to p.p. without fast track because here is the

at the same time, i am living in a community where michele bachmann has served.i have thought of running against her years ago and i did not. i am at a time in my life -- i am 57 years old -- it is a good time to do it. i thought of running for governor before. i attempted to run for u.s. senate before. this is something that i am ready for. what i would say about what motivated me is that i had a grandfather who was in the state legislature three terms. i think having a relative close to me that had served in politics possibly had an effect. a very politically minded sixth-grade teacher during the election of next and -- nixon. we were on the campaign trail in the sixth grade. having our little school election and so on. i think that was very powerful. at a young age, to have that social studies experience touring an election year with a very aggressive teacher. being a womanhink running for office is harder than being a man running for office? caller: well, i think the fact that michele bachmann has held the seat for 10 years -- i have a feeling the constituent

it is fun to read michelle bachmann lines. they just jump out. john boehner confirmed today that house republicans will consider lawsuit against the president at their retreat which began today. ji joining us now is the president of the mainstream parter nip and mbts.com editor, richard wolffe. welcome to you both. the opening discussion of this pushback of executive action? >> i think it misses the point. he called for action and said if they're not going to act, he will act. he can't wanl the inmany mum wage for every american, but he can for federal contract exployees. so i think this lawsuit talk is stupid. it's nonproductive. and it really misses the point. i thought the president attempted to -- all day we were told he's going to be tough, he's going to usurp your authority. maybe on the car ride up from the white house he changed his mind because i found it to be a conciliatory speech that he would like to work with republicans to solve these problems, but if they weren't willing to meet him, he was going to do stuff he could do by himself

republican congresswoman michele bachmann joins us.et's go right to paul krugman's "new york times" op. ed. are the republicans the enemies of the poor? >> absolutely not. i think all you have to do is look at the president's policies and that's all you need to know for how to increase more people on dependency and more people on poverty. and it's not working. "the wall street journal" had a great article today. it says we t. looks week we are going into a european structural unemployment problem. perpetual high numbers of unemployment and low numbers of job creation. that's not good for young people. it's not good for anyone. and that's the problem. you know, when i see op. eds by republicans and democrats on the question of poverty. i research what they are doing to. had he it's so easy, republicans and democrats sort of take pot shots from either sides of the aisle. are you even doing anything? are you doing anything to help take pot shots. poverty is such a serious problem in this country. interesting that i think that the democrat

fazio what are your thoughts on the fastrack bill curious this is this is something that both michele bachmann and peter de fazio pose i think a secretive nature of it is what's most disconcerting and you know we've had a lot of secret meetings you know since obama took office it's bad if obama does it's a bad if you know arse if their public inside doesn't so i think that there definitely needs to be transparency and i think that you know the tea party and michele bachmann raise some good concerns and i think that we really do need to make sure we understand the ramifications of this and president obama has not said whether he supported against it yet he needs to own where he has not i mean i have not found i know the administration's push yeah i know he's been for you know free trade but he has not come out and said whether he's for this or it's for and one of the things i find pretty interesting about the keep the debate up surrounding congress is you're seeing the same sort of divisions between establishment politicians in washington and sort of a cheesy british term backbenchers you know

and people i mean you're you're one of the more well known progressives in congress you've got michele bachmann opposing those you know it's a good thing i mean my true conservative or tea party person why would they want to give up their legislative rights their constitutional rights a. lot of time talking about we are giving away our constitutional rights here we're deferring everything to the executive branch it's you know we're hopeful that we can put together an unholy coalition of democrats and tea party republicans and a few conservatives or republicans really get at the how destructive our trade policy is to get to two eighteen i think we can do it we almost beat nafta we would have beat nafta if it hadn't been for those meaningless nonbinding side agreements i don't think that trickle work again so i think all their energy is going to go into passing fast track and then basically no i gave us any opportunity to do it i think let's hope we. are saying thanks thank you. very. joining me for that ides big picture politics panel are heather servo political consultant and associate blueskin

and we'll have a debate with senator bernie sanders and congresswoman michele bachmann. they are both here live. >>> and another cnn exclusive. our own jim sciutto is in iran where tough rhetoric is going on. ordinary people have you sanctions relief as a life or death matter. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." president obama is fine-tuning his state of the union address. he'll go before the world and the congress tomorrow, determined to put his agenda back on track. he'll make it clear that he's used 2014 as a year of action and he's prepared to act on his own, if necessary. let's go straight to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim? >> reporter: aides will say that he's frustrated with congress and will talk about using his phone and his pen, a reference to his promise that he's repeated over the last several weeks that he's going to use some executive authority power to get action in the coming year when congress won't act and it is also a risky path ahead. it was the shortest of sneak previews in a six-second video using social media. >

at the same time, i am living in a community where michele bachmann has served.i have thought of running against her years ago and i did not. i am at a time in my life -- i am 57 years old -- it is a good time to do it. i thought of running for governor before. i attempted to run for u.s. senate before. this is something that i am ready for. what i would say about what motivated me is that i had a grandfather who was in the state legislature three terms. i think having a relative close to me that had served in politics possibly had an effect. i think also a very politically minded sixth-grade teacher during the election of next and nixon. we were on the campaign trail in the sixth grade. having our little school election and so on. i think that was very powerful. at a young age, to have that social studies experience touring an election year with a very aggressive teacher. host: do you think being a woman running for office is harder than being a man running for office? caller: well, i think the fact that michele bachmann has held the seat for 10 years -- i have

today, you focus on a great irony that of all things, in retrospect, sarah palin and michele bachmann have become iconic figures of women who can do it all. in sarah palin's case, having five children, choosing to have a down's syndrome baby while she was governor of alaska, and becoming with her husband and her own parents, active grandparents, sheltering her pregnant unwed daughter, bristol, while running for vice president. palin can actually kill a moose, and she has an amazing ongoing presence as a media star. she may well in all fairness be in the running for super women superwoman of the past decade. but wait. it's the conservative women's movement, as you pointed out, that has classically blamed feminism for promulgating the idea that women can do it all. who is selling the idea now? what could phyllis schlafly have to say to sarah palin, since schlafly blames women's studies professors for failing to teach mothers to prioritize staying home over working? let me comment on this notion right away. and let's not just let it escape us as a sign of progress. it is in -- it is a mi

if you are michel bachmann, your husband could rg threaten to arm wrestle someone. >> the person he wasrying to thumb wrestle -- >> didn't end up having a bone in his thumb. that was the thing that was great about the early states. >> is it great, that if you don't flip the pork chops at the county fair properly or if you're in these situations where you have to be quick on your feet and you have no idea what's going to come at you from an audience that those things end up having a disproportionate effect on the race? >> any major office you are going to have crazy things thrown at you. i think the ability to sort of adapt to very different kinds of situations in iowa a lot of those things are small town fairs, situations you're probably not going to run into in the oval office, but the ability to see how average americans are living and their concerns, that is important to our democracy. and it wouldn't work in states where would you have to spend a lot of money to even be competitive. >> it's good for the candidates to see things they wouldn't ordinarily see. >> i was there nine month

but, you know, i guess michelle bachmann and her strange camera angles were not available. movement that has fizzled and is looking for a face, any face that can sound reasonable. if not reasonable, then at least get some headlines. and the response here is not the point. what they want to do is be annoying and inflammatory. and i'm sure they'll find someone to do that. >> who do you think is the most likely choice to deliver the republican response? >> i think governor scott walker who gave the state of the state address in his home state tonight. but the republicans are trying to showcase their leaders outside the congress. i think it's more likely than not we'll have an executive. especially given that mike lee has been trying to ingratiate himself with the republican party. he's been leading -- he gave a speech about a month ago about proposing economic pocketbook issues, proposals trying to make the republican party more attractive to middle class voter. yet he's giving a separate address, a tea party address to show there's some divide still in the republican party. f

republican congresswoman michele bachmann says how about putting the focus on jobs.esswoman joins us now. that's a big theme tonight congresswoman in that republicans particularly should quit being impediments and blocking these extensions. what do you say >> what republicans are trying to do is get the president's attention and tell him what we hear every day from our constituents back home and it's this. people's hours are being cut. wages are being cut. we're not seeing the kind of growth that we want to see. so we want pro growth policies instead of focusing on income inequality we want income growth. it can to be done. that's what we want to hear from the president. if we don't we'll be championing the cause for new jobs, wage creation and increase in the amount of hours for people to work in america. >> do you have that the president might be setting a trap for you in that he loves and democrats love it when republicans look callous. not that you are. like denying an extension in jobless benefits that you look indifferent to this inequality and indifferent to f

. >>> meanwhile, with the obama health care costs mounting, michelle bachmann, it appears that taxpayers could be the ones paying. good to have you congresswoman. the fear is we're setting ourselves up for a nasty surprise, right? >> oh, we totally are, they would not be able to fix the house rules the way obama fixed the house rules for obamacare. always for the government's favor, for the insurance company's favor, this is a total bailout for the insurance companies. it is heads, insurance companies win, tails, insurance companies win. and who loses, neil? not only your viewer, but the people who pay the insurance premiums. in other words, people could never win. i think the democrats are going to run away in droves. and i think charles krauthammerer was right. he suggested in the debt ceiling bill that we attach marco rubio's bill, and who in their right mind would stand for the bailout for the insurance companies, because they're the only one -- >> congresswoman, whether you're for or against, there were almost too many and too big to fail. the argument could be, whatever you feel ab

michele bachmann is doing it, rand paul is doing it. who's next? and the saddest part is that they actually are preying on people that are gad-fearing christians. that's what scares me to death about it. >> p-r-e-y- >> n-g-not p-r-a-y-i-n-g- >> jimmy williams and joy reid, thank you both for your time. >> thank you. >> coming up, the new line from some republicans, eliminate the minimum wage? president obama gave his response to that today, and the stunning image from "the new york times" today. it shows just how close governor christie's inner center was, and today others on the inside are talking. plus, chris christie's connectioning toing this. >> i'll break you in half. >> congressman michael grimm threatens a reporter. look familiar? stay with us. [ male announcer ] here's a question for you: is your tv powered by coal? natural gas? nuclear? or renewables like solar... and wind? let's find out. this is where america's electricity comes from. a diversity of energy sources helps ensure the electricity we need is reliable. take the energy quiz. e

my name is congresswoman michele bachmann from minnesota's sixth district.er taxes. we believe in a limited view of government and exceptionalism in america. and i believe that america is the indispensable nation of the world. >> over here, congresswoman, over here, michele bachmann. missed the mark three years ago. so remember, know your camera. let's get to the next tip. tip three. deliver a speech, not a pizza. if you want to be taken seriously, don't have the pizza man deliver any response, even if it's 30 minutes or less. and the final tip is the big one. hydrate, because you definitely don't want a repeat of this. >> nothing has frustrated me more than false choices like the one the president has laid out tonight. the choice isn't just between big government or big business. >> who can forget marco rubio's watergate. and here is a bonus tip. if you feel the need to reach for that h20, it's okay to lose eye contact with the camera. once you have committed to the sip, you're all in. look away. if you listen to these tips, you should be okay. now all you

at the same time, i am living in a community where michele bachmann has served.i have thought of running against her years ago and i did not. i am at a time in my life -- i am 57 years old -- it is a good time to do it. i thought of running for governor before. i attempted to run for u.s. senate before. this is something that i am ready for. what i would say about what motivated me is that i had a grandfather who was in the state legislature three terms. i think having a relative close to me that had served in politics possibly had an effect. a very politically minded sixth-grade teacher during the election of next and -- nixon. we were on the campaign trail in the sixth grade. having our little school election and so on. i think that was very powerful. at a young age, to have that social studies experience touring an election year with a very aggressive teacher. being a womanhink running for office is harder than being a man running for office? caller: well, i think the fact that michele bachmann has held the seat for 10 years -- i have a feeling the constituent

second constitution put in place since the revolution overthrowing morsi and the now banned michele bachmann. coming up next. sick after the spill, west virginia hospitals have seen an influx of patients even after the water was declared safe to drink. >>> plus it's a scorchers at the australian open. >>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler, and here are tonight's top stories. ohio execution, authorities used a new type of lethal drug combination to execute a convicted killer. witnesses say he struggled for 15 minutes before he died. >>> the wildfire rages across southern california. investigators say burning scraps of paper from a campfire sparked the blaze. >>> army chopper accident. the pentagon is investigating the third deadly helicopter crash this month. an army chopper made a hard landing in georgia killing one person and injuring two more. >>> there's another leak in the nsa spy scandal this time concerning text messages. according to the british paper, the guardian, the spy agency is able to collect and destroy nearly 200 million global texts every day. it is c

people like michele bachmann and a jim demint who is not the heritage foundation. they are all social conservatives. they are anti. i don't see any evidence. grandpa who flirts with libertarianism is a shall issue to the eric are produced. he's not a libertarian. pseudo-libertarian. >> i was hoping i get a chance. university of akron and to two. this question is for adam -- alan, i am sorry. basically you are talking about the 15% of the libertarian are the available voters. there's like a 15% group better in the data. there's 15% i were basically targetable that could move up or down. i was just in years lied. >> i don't think there's a 50% libertarian out there. >> you can pass this to someone else. i'll try to talk to you about it later. >> i'm curious about the role of money. we've had unprecedented money flooding into politics. outside money. does this talking about the future, does this make it impossible for intense polarization? >> it is coming mainly from the right. the money being spent overwhelmingly on negative ads. i saw a breakdown of positive versus

>> i have to tell you, i talked to my friend across the aisle, michele bachmann.ll that are really not interested in this fast track authority, as you can imagine, they're not interested in giving the president more authority to act. >> sure. and we have to agree with that, because it takes away the power of the congress to amend or to change in any way the provisions of a negotiated agreement. so i think we have the votes, or soon will, to defeat fast track. and that's what would bring us right to the transpacific partnership. >> tell us more about this trade group that has come out, and i think you said 500 different organizations. where are they? how powerful are they? and what does it mean? >> yeah, the really great thing about the thing about the citizens trade campaign is it is so diverse. when you have human rights groups, because we know we're dealing with countries that have human rights abuses. the faith community, the labor community, and the environmental community, because we could have our own environmental laws being challenged by corporations. you

the same with michele bachmann from minnesota who claims to be a big advocate for american jobs.to this program and let's talk about the tpp. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. >>> and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, the investigation widens. we're tracking major developments in the chris christie bridge scandal. all day we've been learning details of the subpoenas sent to top christie aides in what has been a dramatic expansion of this case. investigators from the new jersey assembly and senate are trying to learn why lanes to the george washington bridge

and we'll have a debate with senator bernie sanders and congresswoman michele bachmann.re live. >>> and another cnn exclusive. our own jim sciutto is in iran where tough rhetoric is going on. ordinary people have you sanctions relief as a life or death matter. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." president obama is fine-tuning his state of the union address. he'll go before the world and the congress tomorrow, determined to put his agenda back on track. he'll make it clear that he's used 2014 as a year of action and he's prepared to act on his own, if necessary. let's

in 2011 they started giving their response starting with representative michele bachmann she gave the first one. the following year herman cain and senator rand paul have all given tea party responses. karl, is there a schism or problem in the republican party. we will have a republican party response and tea party response. >> look, i think that's fine. this is not, quote, the tea party. this is the tea party express. one group among several different national groups. this is not a necessarily a consensus of all the major tea party groups. tea party tends to be very decentralized and very localized but there are four or five national groups that have sort of put them sfrls on the landscape and this the selection of one. to the degree that it gets attention. it gets attention to a healthy new strand in american politics. i think that's productive. i said last year that, you know, i thought it was very smart to put forward rand paul. he is a different thinker. he is an out-of-the-box way of looking at things. is he a very strong proponent of a new approach. and i think that's healthy f

and soul of the republican party or the people that nominate presidents, they are closer to michelle bachmann or rick santorum or hermann cain than to a crihris christie. they look at centrist republicans, call them rhinos like that's the lowest form of life to them. to them democrats are stupid or crazy but that moderate republicans are traders and i would argue that the hug of president obama hurt christie's chances of winning a nomination more than this bridge thing will. >> christie has talked to matt bye yahoo! news and said i don't think anybody knows what it feels like to have the kind of attention i've had in the last nine days, until you go through it. it's awful. i can explain as vividly as you like but you wont get it. that does ring true -- >> you live by the new york media market and die by it. the whole reason why he was being taken seriously as a presidential contender is simply the same rules as real estate, location, location, location. he came from -- he was the most interesting republican closest to the new york city media market -- zblen. >> and so colorful. >> quotable. >

women get it worse tan cone servetive men, too, like there is no question, when sarah pailen and michelle bachmannconservative women who write about politics on the internet. we will talk about this later at some point, sort of women on the internet, amazing stuff hang around that. it's shocking to me they get the things that people say to them. so there is no sort of monopoly on the society directed towards public women figures. >> right. this is what i'm saying. women aren't exhibiting more power in more ways. not just as gubernatorial candidates or presidential candidates but at the ballot box, at the polls, women are exerting power him people are freaking out. when you see them talking about libidos and shuts, all this stuff. >> remember, when we saw the report earlier this year that talked about women as head of households the key bread winner, the fox news clan talked about how women are destroying america. actually, sometimes it was the women's salary. >> that gets to this question, the deep question that i was asking betsy before, right, which is before, is it the case? does the mod encons

congressman paula brodeur heard the president's hostilities toward our functional principles or where michele bachmann may think he's a king and declare himself king. all that happened last night in their alternative universe. randy webber didn't wait for the speech to start. he tweeted as follows -- on floor of house, waiting on common dant in chief. that commandment dant with a "k." the socialist tick dictator feeding the u.s. a line or is it a lying? his colleague tim huelskamp tweeted about the new imperial presidency doing everything without legislation to advance his radical agenda. did you hear the radical agenda last night? missed that one. "first release of obama's speech reads like dictates from a king. all orders he will do to bypass congress #lawless. after the speech, my colleague rachel maddow asked huelskamp about the tweet he put out. >> the release of the speech reads like dick tas from a king #lawless. >> it does. >> what did he say in the speech that was lawless. >> 14 different points where the president said i don't like the american people who they elect. that's what the presiden

will be attacked from, why don't we go to israel as i did two weeks ago with steve king and michele bachmann and say, you know what? what do you think about what should be done? that's what you do with an ally that's in the region. .i'll tell you one other thing, afghanistan is going to blow up. the taliban is poised to take over that. and as some others have told us some of privately and have said publicly, all you have to do in afghanistan is get an amendment into the constitution you forced on us that says we can elect our governors in each region, that we can elect our mayors and police chiefs. and if you will do that instead of having a stove pipe centralized government, then we can keep the taliban from taking over. >> what do we do? take a look at that map. from afghanistan through the middle east, you've got an apparent resurgence of the islamic extremists with the car bombs, 20 people killed in baghdad this morning. the car bomb in beirut just a couple of days ago. what do we do? how does this be stopped? is that possible? or do you think that islamic extremism will just flourish? >

the same with michele bachmann from minnesota who claims to be a big advocate for american jobs. i ask any republican in the congress bring your numbers to this program and let's talk about the tpp. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. >>> and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, the investigation widens. we're tracking major developments in the chris christie bridge scandal. all day we've been learning details of the subpoenas sent to top christie aides in what has been a dramatic expansion of this case. investigators from the new jersey assembly and senate are trying to learn why lanes to the george washington bridge were shut down for four days in september, and what efforts were made to conceal those closings. what is striking is how close the subpoenas are to the governor himself. they include top aides in his office, chief of staff o'dowd, chief counsel mckenna, spokesman drewniak, and communications director camella. also chairman david samson's, christie's politic

i mean, when you think of michelle bachmann, herman cain, rick santorum, rick perry, newt gingrich.? chris christie? i think republicans would be smart to move to a center right candidate, but that's 23409 where the republican primary electorate is. and i don't think they were going to be there. so i don't think this has changed christie's odds of being the nominee that much. i don't think they were high to begin with. >> david corn, i completely agree with all of that. i've never seen a way for chris christie to get the republican nomination. but now, i'm starting to doubt whether he can even mount a campaign. >> well, you know, i think we all agree here. i mean, chris christie was the candidate for karl rove and the koch brothers and the funding community. the funding base of the republican party. the gravitational pull of the republican voting electoral has moved so far to the right that chris christie by talking about bipartisanship as we just saw him would almost disqualify himself in a lot of states. in iowa, in south carolina, throughout the south. and, you know, i think ther

just yesterday congresswoman michele bachmann released a statement saying when government has policiesed or to bear a child out of wedlock, poverty persists. she's not the only one spouting this nonsense. >> heard this story over and over and over. how as a young girl in high school she was bored with high school and someone suggested, well, why don't you just drop out of high school and have a baby. and then the government will send you a check, and they'll send you a check for every baby you have out of wedlock. >> single moms don't deserve to be demonized. and if the gop is serious about fixing provr ining poverty, the change their rhetoric and get their facts straight. joining me now is congresswoman donna edwards, democrat of maryland. thanks for coming on the show tonight. >> thank you, reverend al. i have to tell you, listening to that, listening to my colleagues, i'm really disgusted, especially as a woman who is a single mom who has raised an amazing young man, not just on my own, but with a lot of help. and i just think that those folks have no idea what they're talking about

issue rose to national prominence during the 2012 republican primary when it was revealed that michele bachmann'sal funding, while practicing gay conversion therapy. in a 2012 suit filed against a prominent conversion group, the plaintiffs, four new jersey men, said they were left emotionally scarred by humiliating techni e techniques that included stripping naked in front of the counselor and beating effigies of their mothers. the american psychiatric association has warned the potential risks of repair tif therapy are great, including depression, anxiety, and self-destructive behavior. given all the evidence at hand, much of the country seems to be marching in the right direction. new jersey became the second state to want the practice last year and legislation has been introduced in pennsylvania, virginia, ohio, minnesota, massachusetts, new york, and maryland. the 9th circuit ruling made clear that california's law did not fall afoul of the first amendment. instead, it struck a blow to the dangerous pseudoscience behind repair tif therapy. as constitutional law professor dale carpenter wrote

michele bachmann. they are jumping all over one of our young democrat women. wn in texas it seems to be getting someplace. michelle bought men tell people -- michele bachmann said she raised 27 kids, besides her own. at person had an idea there were 27 kids stumbling around the house. she was only in the baby business or the foster business for about seven years and she only could have three kids legitimately in foster care in her home. she shoved no punch of kids through that system in seven years. that is not raising those children. she told a whopper. disabledmother of four now grown-up adopted babies. to makeike i am able that comment. host: are you looking forward to the 2016 presidential elections in iowa? caller: i will not be doing much. i will probably be on the phones -- there another thing. you should have another show about the women. there is only seven women in our jail system, our big prison system that we are affording? only seven for every hundred men in our system. our women a much better citizens than the men are, generally speaking. i think

. >> next up is michele bachmann who delivered the first tea party rebuttal to the state of the unionsswoman's performance felt disconnect and vapid some say, in part because the entire speech was delivered to the wrong camera. >> and i believe that america is the indispensable nation of the world. just the creation of this nation itself was a miracle. who can say that we don't see a miracle again? >> why didn't somebody say look at the right camera? finally, it's not often that a single moment can effectively derail an entire speech, but that's exactly what some people say happened to marco rubio last year when that thirsty young senator from florida suddenly lurched for a bottle of waterway off stage right, all the while keeping his eye contact with the camera. it's like he is a golfer. it quickly became the only highlight from that speech. >> in a short time that i've been here in washington, nothing has frustrated me more than false choices like the one the president laid out tonight. the choice isn't just between big government or big business. what we need is an accountable, eff

the constitution was written on stone tablets, and handed down to michelle bachmann hundreds of years ago, and that it cannot be changed. never be changed. that's an impossibility. well, except it's been amended 27 times and, as we detail in the book, almost every major amendment had to do with democracy, with making the system work, and so across the history of the american experiment, when we reached crisis moments, we have amended the constitution. and we rarely do it with just one amendment. usually it's a period where there are two, three, multiple amendments coming through, because people are ready to fix it. and those amendments come in the context of a host of other changes, what we refer to as an age of reform. and that's how we got votes for african-americans, votes for women, votes for everybody. we elected u.s. senate, struck down the poll tax, the wealth tax, in 1962, and then eight years later, 18 to 21-year-olds should be able to vote if they can go to war. we have amended our constitution to make our democracy functional and expand it for the finals. today we believe t

it is no surprise, think he endorsed michele bachmann in the primary.in hollywood. you talk about redistributing the wealth, definitely celebrities get a little bit touchy about that because they are that 1%. when they hear how much taxes are already paying in california, and not paying enough. you think they will now flooding? you had all of these are listers at the white house turning into a nightclub. stuart: is at the white house, john legend, a lot of celebrities were there. a lot of celebrities. that is who the president relates to. some have a problem with that, i don't. how about you? >> i guess i am ambivalent on it. if it means she spends more time with her hollywood peeps denting it up in the west wing and less time nagging us o and what we cn cannot use, i will go with her dancing it up with her hollywood peeps. the last five years we have seen week after week this red carpet entry into the oval office extending to hollywood. it should not surprise us one bit. it should be newsworthy if obama had a low-key 50th birthday party. stuart: the do

reporter: but he was drowned out by the first tea party state of the union response delivered by michele bachmann looking slightly off camera. >> a history-making turn. >> reporter: there were two cameras recording her speech and she was looking at the one with the teleprompter but the video us used by most of the networks used the other one. >> who are you looking at, congresswoman? >> reporter: in 2010, one of the most successful republican responses was delivered by then virginia governor bob mcdonnell before a cheering live audience. it made him look almost presidential. but the bad luck of the delivering the state of the union response still got mcdonnell. just last week, he and his wife were indicted on corruption charges. not to be forgotten is louisiana governor bobby jindal who gave the response in 2009 but his down home delivery and small time approach did not go over well with the chattering class. it may have hurt his chance as a presidential contender. >> like the president's father, my own parents came to this country from a distant land. >> reporter: republicans are not the only on

>> you are making this up. >> they went to michele bachmanns for christmas.love new orleans. >> you love nola. do you know the name of the team? >> the new orleans saints. >> basketball? you can't yell at me. you signed the contract. >> the hornets. i will take you down. >> what's a new orleans basketball team? the pelicans. >> the pelicans? >> there is no arguing. it's the time you lot of jeopardy to cheech mare in. >> i love new orleans and ti loe the saints. >> we're ring out 2013. we will take a quick break. we'll be right back. there's no secondhand smoke in here... ...and no cigarette advertising around here. there's a reason we know this is really bad... ...and this is really good. there's a reason 2 in 3 people are surviving cancer. and we cannot be silent until it's 3 out of 3. this shout-out is for everything the american cancer society has done in the last 100 years. make your tax-deductible donation by december 31st and help finish the fight. >>> in new orleans, a great music there. like the jazz vipers play. it's a really loved one. >> the drink