brian lamb: here is michele bachmann talking about shakespeare.irector witmore: it just doesn't quit. [video clip] michele bachmann: it was press secretary jay carney who admitted that the sequestration was president obama's idea. there are numerous republicans who voted against sequestration because we knew all of these calamities were in the future. and so it reminds me of the shakespeare line, thou protest this too much. didn't you know this was going to happen? we knew it. that is why we voted against this bill. brian lamb: she wasn't reading that, so it was obviously off the top of her head. director witmore: she doth protest too much, hamlet, i mean, macbeth. it is very common for people to reach out from memory to quote shakespeare. another common one is alas, poor yorick, i knew him well. but actually, it said in the play, it says, i knew him, horatio. when someone misquotes shakespeare, other people hear it and they keep doing it. so we like to have the sources at the folger. we have the first editions, so you can come and check. he was l

narrowly defeated michele bachmann. self seventh place finisher mitt romney became the nominee. >> we're still evaluating our chances of winning the caucuses. if we think that's going to be helpful to us we will do it. >> reporter: the lack of enthusiasm has sent a shockwave through the apparatus. senator chuck grassley made this statement with 11 declared candidates and 1400 gop activists in attendance. >> we want the straw poll to be a big event. it funds our voter turnout which is what really counts if we're going to succeed in 2016. >> reporter: as enticement the state party will not aukzction it off. money is critical. >> they are charging $30 a ticket or so in recent years and there are anywhere from 15 to 25,000 people cast a vote and you have to have a ticket to cast a vote. so you're talking about significant money in a state the size and the population of iowa. >> reporter: bottom line for senator ted cruz or dr. ben carson competing there could generate headlines and buzz for momentum. it could kill the event

>> michele bachmann. >> where did she wind up? i'm with mr. bush. everyone needs to take a chill pill. still solid year-and-a-half away. look, this is calculated thing. not like he woke up oh, let's go skip it. he and his advisors presumably know what they're doing by him not attending. >> add in the fact some of these people have also not said whether they're going to get in on this too. i think it is kind of a waiting game to see who will play and who will not play. would i say this the iowa gop chairman jeff kaufman told the register newspaper we hope governor bush rethinks his decision, realizes grassroots will only grow in iowa if he waters them. wow that is sticky. i'm being kind there. >> they don't like -- in a word they don't like to be ignored. iowa prides itself being first-in-the-nation. they think they should have proper attention paid to them, i agree with arthur. i think it's a smart move. he knows he will lose. like me entering the world championship of poker. i would lose. would never do it in million years. >> bill clinton skipped

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candidate of the summer of the year before so there will be a candidate of the summer of 2015 and michele bachmannour years ago, and that will not necessarily mean what we are talking about next winter. >> and the candidate of the summer could be john kasich the governor of ohio who had a testy sit down, and he used the health care law to expand medicaid. >> i don't support obamacare and i want to repeal it but i did expand medicaid because i was able to bring ohio back home to treat the mentally ill and the drug addicted and help the working poor get health care and because you oppose obamacare doesn't mean when you have an opportunity to bring the $14 billion of ohio money back to ohio, that's not obamacare, that's medicaid. >> i think the words expand medicaid will cause republican voters at least some of them to say, i am not so sure about you? >> i had been on the trail with john kasich and he gets asked about this because republican voters are skeptical of expanding any program. and john kasich is not alone in being the republican governors that accepted money and there was an influx of fede

you don't have michelle bachmann. >> i don't think trump will run. a marketing strategist. we will get to some good candidates. i think john kasich is a good candidate, jeb bush is a good candidate. >> you said it doesn't hurt. speaking of the clown car, i think i invented that term and i will hold on to it. the latest bloomberg, of likely voters has donald trump at 8%. behind paul, walker, bush and rubio you good get this. ahead of a lot of senators. he was feeding the red meat going after his favorite punching bag. >> we're dealing with babies. and i call the president the 5-1 president. we got bergdahl, they get five leaders accident killers that want to kill us all. and they're all back on the battlefield. and we got this piece of garbage named bergdahl who years ago -- who years ago we would have shot for treason and now they're saying, well, you know -- he doesn't feel good, he had a hard life. >> you know, i don't know. you don't call people human garbage when you run for president. all the people, good, bad and indifferent. >> and whar still

former congresswoman michele bachmann led the way on this conspiracy. >> i introduced the lightbulb freedomact. you new hampshirites, if you want to buy thomas edson's invention you should be able to. president bachmann will let you buy any lightbulb you want. >> and now republicans have turned their attention to another vital appliance. congresswoman marsha blackburn is exposing the nefarious obama plot to take away our ceiling fans. >> the department of energy is so determined to redesign the ceiling fan just like stretching their tentacles into lightbulbs and so many other areas of our home. what they are doing is pricing people out of the ceiling fan market. >> now the obama administration claims the goal is to make ceiling fans more energy efficient, but what's next? where will it stop? will president obama try to take our clock radios? what about our toasters? could they? would they even banish the blackberry? wait a minute. i've got a bright idea. maybe republicans should stop spinning out these crazy conspiracy theories and start focusing on real issues that matter to real people bu

michele bachmann was there, ted cruz was there, mitt romney went there before he ran.er being invited to speak there, but then you have this recent cnn poll that shows that americans would rather have a candidate who says religious views have no place in government over one who believed that religious views ought to drive policy. interesting, 56% to 42% there. ben, to you first. are republicans, say a jeb bush who is seen as more moderate in jeopardy at all if more americans decide that they don't want to hear about religion from their candidate? >> no because usually, especially during a primary republican voters conservative voters definitely want someone that has a moral compass that is based really on their religion and we've seen that. and ultimately not everyone that's polled votes in an election. so from that perspective, i think jeb bush is being very smart here. he's taking a play out of his brother's playbook when he was running for president as he was a compassionate conservative and was open about his faith, and i think jeb bush is a guy that's open about h

the next election cycle, the straw poll winner was michele bachmann. and that year mitt romney went on to get the nomination. it's not even like it picks a winner anymore if it ever did. it is a nonpredictive scam of a corrupt contest. everybody hates it. still, though, there's a couple reasons why this decision by jeb bush today is potentially a big deal and why getting this news today from the jeb bush folks was a surprise. the iowa republican party realizes this year that they have really screwed things up. so badly they have put the concept of iowa being first in the nation at risk. a lot of other states, a lot of people involved with the political process are fed up with iowa getting to go first given how iowa has handled that responsibility in recent years. in the last election cycle in 2012 the republican caucuses themselves were so screwed up nobody even knew who won the iowa caucuses for weeks. not the straw poll. i'm talking about the actual caucuses. even know it's not crystal clear who won the iowa caucuses in 2012. at one point they said m

you saw michele bachmann have a breakout performance in june 2011.s to really eviscerate rick perry. so these debates can really matter, but when they are parsed this way and broken down this way, it's not really sure how it's going to go. >> rick santorum george pataki martin o'malley all expected to get in this coming week. >> it's going to be an interesting week. i think the biggest question is going to be martin o'malley who who has so far trying to frame himself as the anti-hillary clinton without talking about her too much. he's trying to draw a sharp contrast on issues. there's no question there's some energy on the left for an opponent. but it's not clear more than just wanting to see her sharpened in a primary. a lot of polling shows she's in good shape. this is not looking like a repeat of 2008. we'll see. >> one of the takeaways has to be you win even when you lose so longs as you put on a respectable race. otherwise, you wouldn't have so many admittedly second tier candidates willing to jump. >> on the democratic side you don't really hav

michel michelle bachmann won that. romney won the straw poll in 2007. i ended up winning the iowa caucuses with the largest margin a republican had ever won the caucuses ever. michelle bachmann, four years ago, she wins the straw poll, she comes in sixth in iowa. it is not a good indicator, but it oncan be an eliminator. that's why i think, you know, having been through this process before, it's given me a little bit more reflection about what do we need to do to win the caucuses and then, frankly go on to wim a nomination. my goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something it's to win the election that means everything. >> a practical mindset. let me ask you this in terms of indication, speaking of iowa. mark halprin had a panel of democrats. he asked them what she's accomplished. this might not look great in terms of what hillary clinton. >> what did she accomplish as secretary of state? >> secretary of state? i really can't name anything off the top of my head. >> give me a minute. give me two minutes. >

that's why it was down to the wire between rand paul and michele bachmann. lot of stock in it. >> i bet ben carson does. >> i want ben carson to do well. it's just going to show what the republican party is like. >> speaking of the republican party, how about this one "the new york times" headline, "a hillary clinton match-up with marco rubio is a scary thought for democrats." the thought that rubio could offer a generational contrast to the 68-year-old clinton, the kind of contrast that barack obama drew in the 2008 primaries and i actually think there is something to this one. >> i think there is too. if it's bush versus clinton, the arguments kind of cancel each other outgoing back going back to the past. rubio can also appeal to the hispanic voters and which scott walk ser a generational difference and could be a strong match-up against hillary clinton on his issue of immigration he's really going to alienate a lot of latinos. >> i think the rubio appeal is a theoretical thing. first of all, he won in 2010 with 48% of the vote. in a really strong republi

at one time, herman cain was in the lead another time michelle bachmann rick perry and almost none ofd up getting past iowa. it's so early and so fluid. i saw another poll this week which had the front runners only at about 10%. they're all bunched up and within strikericing defendant's exhibits -- distance. >> you see your strategy is to get that number up to get into the top ten to make the debate. what is the strategy. how do you approach this? you've got six weeks to turn this thing around. >> rick santorum wasn't a candidate until a couple days ago. you got to remember another thing. he's not in the senate or governor. he doesn't have a tv show his last name is not bush. his campaign started three days ago when he announced he was running for president. what the polls don't measure are engagement of support. rick santorum last time won because of all the volunteers he has. he ended up building up more than $300,000 mall dollar contributors. the reason he's an underdog is because he represents the underdogs. >> you know, he mentioned standing up for the little guy. he's talked abo

in 2012 we saw a rotating cast of republicans who were challenging mitt romney from michele bachmann said self-deportation, he was up against the ropes. the biggest impact he could have on the race show he influences the dialogue here. but i get a sense that things are a little bit different this time. republicans seem more interested in winning and more intent on winning. he will still influence the conversation of this race. >> particularly on the evangelical side. hi see running more as a conservative on the evangelical side. that part of the field is pretty crowded right now. >> it's crowded. >> they tend to split up the electorate right now. >> and carly fiorina can say things about hillary clinton and is saying tough things about her that maybe some of the men can't. >> absolutely. and she understands that that is her space that you're going to have 11 or 12 men on the stage and she is the only woman in there. that's why she is saying let's take it off the table. don't give her the benefit of being the first woman president she can't say that if i'm running. >> shift to bill cl

>> well john heilman, the straw poll selected michelle bachmann i think four years ago.you can say, hey, i'm going to stay out of it. if you are more of a recent candidate. if you are jeb and it's a shock and awe campaign don't you, i'm sure his brother was in the iowa straw poll. >> it's interesting, the straw poll announced the other day they will do their poll differently now, they're getting rid of the fees and make it less of a carnival with all the food and try to make it more of a. >> serious -- >> exercise in democracy rather than -- the notion is to try to make sure everybody participates. so i think there will be -- they are already expressing dismay governor bush is not going to par tis pavement he's not an iowa candidate. i think if you run, joe, you calm it shock and awe, as the prumttive front runner you got to kind of play. >> the desmoines register reports bush will stred an attend for the red state in atlanta. he is the first republican name to officially opt out. he placed recent 7th. meanwhile, two days later and bush is still paying for iraq. >> on th

and some have said, even in my trip to libya with my friends steve king and michele bachmann if it weren'tgaddafi they could not have gotten him out of office and he would still be helping us kill -- find and kill terrorists. but now libya is in chaos. there are muslim brothers doing the best they can to put egypt in chaos. syria is now in chaos. iran is taking over more and more including just last september, president referred to the success story in yemen. now iran is the power player in yemen. not the united states. the obama administration in yemen basically has been whipped by iran. this is scary stuff when you look at what has happened in the middle east since this administration took over. if i might -- the story from "judicial watch" dated may 18, pretty timely, includes information about the documentation that was ordered by the united states district court and is now -- has now been obtained even though the administration blacked out a lot of information that apparently would be embarrassing to it. story says "judicial watch" announced today it obtained more than 100 pages of pr

she is equipped with leading conservative voices with the knowledge that they need including michele bachmannve king, and new encourage -- newt gingrich. she led the effort to dismantle the lefts war on women. she defeated the left's attacks and they fell on deaf ears. in addition to being a wife and mother of four, she has built one of the most respected polling and public research firms in america, proving that conservative values like hard work and perseverance really do pay off. she understands -- her understanding of the free market and the opinions of everyday americans give her unique insight into how we can win our country back from the liberals like barack obama. hillary clinton, and the hollywood elite. she is a person that we should all listen to. i'm excited that she is here with us today to deliver some remarks about the state of the conservative movement. ladies and gentlemen please give a warm welcome to my friend, kellyanne conway. [applause] ms. conway: good morning, south carolina. [applause] thank you for having me here today. my 10-year-old daughter is with me claudia. i'm