you are hearing jim acosta's reporting and da michelle bachman's concerns and dana baschuck and it stems from what it means to be a 501(c)(4). who goes for this keen of status. how many on either side of the this equation may have come up against road blocks from the irs. so far we are hearing a lot from conservative groups. with rehearing more of the progressive liberal groups as well. do we all need to take a big step back and wait for the numbers before the accusation continue to fly so fast? >> right. i think, you know, this is a washingtonbug washington phenomenon at the moment. the notion this is some earth shaking scandal and that responsible people should be talking about impeachment seems, frankly, ridiculous, at this point. remember, no one is entitled to be a 501(c)(4) organization. you have to be involved in a

because michelle bachman was here surrounded with tea party members and the house and senate.the question, what does the president know and when did he know it? so there were shades of those kind of watergate-nixon questions being asked here. i asked the congress woman, what did she mean by this? does she feel the president may be subject for impeachment if this thing keeps going? here's a little of what she had to say. >> it goes all the way to the white house. we need to know what the white house knew and when they knew i. as i have been home in my district and the 6th district in minnesota, there isn't a weekend that goes by, that someone says, michelle, what are you waiting for in congress? why aren't you impeaching the president? he has been making unconstitutional action sense he came in congress. i will tell you what i am hearing from people back home. >> reporter: now, she did go on to say she wants to make sure the facts are laid out. she doesn't want to jump to conclusions and she wants to see whether or not there is proof that anybody at the white house was involved

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. >>> republican minnesota michelle bachman announce had her decision just a few hours ago. she said 8 years in congress was enough and her loss last fall did not affect her decision. >>> she will be in boston to attend a democratic fundraiser. and the white house has not given locations on the areas she will have you today. >>> and with members of the oakland a's, he got another big surprise from the as and aaron aaron hern's a special night with the team. >>> they scored 3 goals and their goaly jonathan quick, they will face between -- they will face them between tuesday and wednesday. >>> how is the traffic? >>> traffic is looking good as you come through. no meaning problems on 880 westbound getting on the westbound bay bridge, this traffic looks good coming into san francisco and northbound 280, let's go to steve. >> we have that roman candle, but it is getting a little bit of drizzle and it will be out of here. we have another mild, mild morning, some locations are already close to 60 and then high pressure is building and this will start to building and cloudy out to

they missed the last thing because they were laughing at michelle bachman because she's ( bleep ) insane. >> i don't think we know what the facts are. ( laughter ). >> jon:-- here's what i know-- i i said, life and death. arrogant cluster... life or death. the facts are ( bleep ). un. ( laughte.. un yes, the administration's lack of transparency is equal only to the republicans', as of now, fact-free, bone-deep certainty and contempt. and this, my friend. >> abc news trumpeted an exclusive story that purported to reveal e-mails proving that the white house had meddled with the beg talking points last september. >> part of his story turned out to have been based on an inaccurate summary of e-mails that made things look worse for the white house. ( laughter ). >> jon: can anybody do their jobs in that town. ?o now even the president is messing up. we found an e-mail where the state department said they wanted to edit it to reflect political concerns. oh, look, it's a groupon. i'm sorry. it's becoming very clear that nobody really knows enough about these three scandal/issues to make any de

called it a breach of trust and house speaker john boehner said somebody needs to go to jail and michelle bachmand the internal revenue service tried to up tim date them. >>> there could be cuts to the food stamp program and they have cut 2. $5 billion from a farm's bill. democrats say any cuts increase the suffering for people who need help buying foods and this must still be worked out. >>> police have arrested a man in connection with a mother's day parade that left three people injured. they arrested him last night and the shooting happened near the french quarter. the surveillance shows the gunman and the crowd scattering and three people were seriously hurt. >>> you may not be able to trust the labels on your favorite foods. the real count can be several higher and every food they tested was off. >> we have three different meals that each of them had and they all had an extra 08 calories on them and that's an extra meal in itself. >> one had 380 calories but it is advertised as having 310 calories. >>> kings fans cheered and the governors voted to prevent the kings from moving to seattle an

carol. >> i was going to ask you that, we haven't heard from michelle bachman in time. we haven't heard a people in now. >> reporter: she had that bruising company. so she's been somewhat out of the limelight. she came back really after the president hitting him pretty hard throughout this news conference, asking about this irs scandal. what does the president snow when did the president know it? that's a reference to richard nixon and watergooet. the questions asked of mr. nixon back then. i asked her, are you calling for impeefment? she said not a weekend goes by when she talks to her constituents when they don't ask her about impeachment. she said, we don't want to jump to conclusion, after the fuse conference was over, i asked her about some of her comments, she said she feels this irs scandal is worse tan watergate. obviously the white house is going to strenuously disagree with that. they feel they put much of this programs not all of it to rest wot ousting of the acting irs commissioner yesterday, carol. >> all right. jim acosta reporting live from capitol hill.

michelle bachman was presiding. >> on this vote the yeas are 229. the nays are 195.d. >> bill: yes. that, of course, was the repeal of obamacare for the 36th time. by the way 229 to 195. >> that's pretty close. >> that's not -- that's not overwhelming. some republicans obviously are still getting sick and tired of this. what did john boehner say afterwards? we are going to have more votes. we are going to continue voting. they are so obsessed with this anti-obama. mike huckabee says because of benghazi president obama is never going to finish his second term now. he is going to be out of. james inhoff said we ought to impeach the president. michelle bachman said people are saying why don't you impeach him? these guys are out of control. darryl issa is saying it's going to hold more hearings on benghazi. john boehner promising more votes to repeal obamacare. so again, the one thing president obama can certainly and we can all be sure of is the republicans will just make fools of themselves on all of these issues. obama would be better served and we would be better ser

michelle bachman is holding this briefing and she will speak shortly and this is featuring tea partyders trying to te her,they targeted this and again we are watching this live and monitoring the developments in our washington d.c. newsroom and the washington bureau is examining this as well and kyla campbell will talk about it coming up on mornings on 2. >>> there is a new fundraising campaign launched to bring the blue angels back. they were cut along with 60 others because of budget cuts and now crowd tilt.com, organizers hope to race money so if you want to help so far $6,500,000,000 has been raised. >> well, it's now up to $475 million and in the end nobody matched all of the winning numbers. so it is the second in pow ball history and the next -- power ball history. the numbers were 2, 11, 26, 31 and the powerball is 32. >> i love the discussion what people would do with the money, it is always fun to dream. >>> we understand police action at bart, what is going on? >> police action where they had delay ef information over and i because mcarthur maze is one of the transfer poin

you know. >> yeah. >>. >> a new novel on michelle bachman.he main female character in "fires of siberia" written by trey segger is inspired by the life of the tea party congresswoman. she is described as being, quote, if you will of fire brand and red-state sex appeal. she is beefing up her foreign policy see experience. only she and one man survive. the author says he has never met bachman. >> chris, we were anticipating the president's speech yesterday because you and i talked several times on the show about the drone policy. we were looking forward to that. but let's start with the president first of all, kind of put what we used to call the war on terror in new perspective. here is the first, where he what we are doing, though is legitmat. >> the united states is at war with al-qaeda, the taliban and their associated fors. we are at war with an organization that right now would kill as many americans as they could if we did not stop them first. so this is a just war, a war waged in self defense. >> the president defends what we are doing

. >>> and a trial against michelle bachman, they claim she used a distribution list during her failed 2012 presidential campaign. just yesterday bachman announce had she will not seek reelection next year but she said it has nothing do to -- nothing to do -- the reason has nothing to do with her campaign spending. >>> six flags remains locked out of their job and that could affect the safety of park rides. >>> an earlier crash has been cleared and the damage is done, we will have more on how long it may take you to get into the city. . >>> 7:21 mother nature was no match for the grounds, check this out. gusty winds whipped the tarp all around almost taking grounds keepers with it. by the time the tarp was down the ground was soaked. and the game was canceled. >>> they were at at&t and once again giants did not look like world champions during last night's game at at&t park. they had another sloppy game and the as could sweep the series over the giants today, first pitch 9:45. >> they remained locked out of the job and they offered the workers a new contract but it does not address the

. >>> on to world of politic, michelle bachman, a one-time candidate, announcing overnight she not runess. >> looking forward after the completion of my term, my future is full, it is limitless, my passion forces have america will remain. i want you to be assured there is no future option or opportunity be it directly in the political arena or otherwise that i won't be giving serious consideration if it can help save and progressive conservative our great nation for future generations. >> kind of surprising since bachmann became the faith of big government rage. in fa in fact, "newsweek" became all the rage. she became the butt of a lot of jokes. >> i am looking forward to resting, to spending some time at home and, most of all to blinking for the first time since this all started. >> didn't every politician become the butt of a joke in 2008? don't worry, bachmann says she won't fade away. she insists it played for the role in her decision not to run again, nor did an investigation into her presidential campaign. as i said, she says, she will be back. >>> still ahead in the newsroom, f

truly a good morning after most of you wept to bed michelle, the michelle bachman announced she is stepping down. she illwill not be seek reelection. is she running for president? could that be the reason? or, could she just think she probably was going to lose her race. she barely won the 6th district of minnesota a year ago. we'll be discussing that. 8-665-5577. the summer bromance film of the year, the obama/christie brother man's. could it be that worried about conservatives who are screaming bloody murder over whether or not he is going to be able to run for president with president barackorrowar bam /* we've got that and all a bun of other stuff coming up on current tv. the young turks is that were honest. they know that i'm not bsing them for some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know i'm going to be the first one to call them out. cenk on air>> what's unacceptable is how washington continues to screw the middle class over. cenk off air>>> i don't want the middle class taking the brunt of the spending cuts and all the diffe

chicago this afternoon, engaging in the political process -- and we have seen news reports on michelle bachman saying she won't seek a 5th term. >> i came to the briefing room and i can tell you that this subject it not come up. so i don't have a response from the president, i believe that we all wish her well, in her future endeavors. we just heard from a short time ago from the commanding general in southwest afghanistan. given the comment you made earlier, with some of the questions about the fact that when we refer specifically to the afghan the order that by the end of 2014 there will be sufficient gains there. todaynew statements saying that the taliban will not be fully defeated, thus that affect the -- reflect the president's position on that? >> it allows me to remind everyone what the president's policy in afghanistan is. the objective for going into afghanistan, which had been essentially lost by the time the president took office, was to go after those who attacked the united states on september 11, 2001. the president made clear through his policy review that we need to refocus at

. >> don't forget michelle bachman isn't this just a reduce for the hillary clinton for campaign?> we are hopeful that hillary runs. absolutely. we would love to see her do it. i think she is the clear frontrunner for the party, male or female but this is bigger than one woman and one cycle. so we want to make sure the bench is getting built for 2016, 2020, 2024. there should be a woman on the ticket. we have some fantastic who i am have answered to titles like secretary and governor and senator and they are ready for the next step. >> who is your list include? i am sure it's always a problem because you are going to? >> i think secretaries sebelius and napalotano. i think if they were men we would see them on the short lists already, klobashar, jillibrand claire mccaskill should be mentioned. >> dianne feinstein from california, barbara boxer? >> for sure. these are lions of the senate, women who have been doing incredible work for cycles and decades and ought to be considered for higher. and then we have, you know, folks around the country who everybody is looking for who is the

minnesota congresswoman michele bachman announced that she will not run for reelection in 2014 in a video on our website, congresswoman bachmann said quote this decision was not impacted anyway by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign, and quote. earlier this year a former campaign aide filed a complaint with the federal elections commission claiming the lawmaker made in improper payments to an iowa state senator who was the state chairman for 2012 presidential run. >> earlier this year, the commonwealth club of california hosted a discussion on ways consumers and companies can share products and information while also spending less money. we heard from the cofounders of to internet publishing companies during this 65 minute discussion. >> it's hard to imagine any other way of satisfying our needs and desires. when consumers buy less stuff, the economy suffers. now entrepreneurs in silicon valley and around the country are greeting new technologies and companies enabling people to share or rent, not by. the sharing economy is hot and hundreds of start

planning to take up a bill to repeal the 2010 health care law sponsored by minnesota representative michele bachman. we will have that debate and gavel-to-gavel on our companion network c-span net next week. >>> considered a traitor by many people in my community, and there is patrick smith on salon.com. he chases me a around, to you know basically harass me about trying to the commercial pilots out of work. the fact of the matter is that the heyday is over. the fighter pilot is gone. israel announced a couple weeks ago that in 40 years all fighters will be uad. that is bold when they come out and say we are going to replace everything. but i am here to tell you it's really fun. it's really cool. what makes it better than anyone in this room as i flow a fighter and i can land an aircraft carrier by myself, but it doesn't make me better than a computer. the computer all these lands better on the carrier by itself. the computer doesn't get tired. it doesn't have a ramp strike at the end at 3 a.m. and it's the bomb on the target as it is supposed to and it doesn't make mistakes and getting the visual

michele bachmann is out. on her campaign website, the four-term republican congresswoman announced she will not run for reelection next year. despite the fact she remains a member of the lower chamber, bachmanuld follow. >> the law limits anyone from serving for the president for more than eight year, and in my opinion, well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific congressional district. >> last year she won reelection be a margin of 1%. lately she's been the subject of a congressional ethics investigation amid accusations that she illegally funneled presidential campaign donations to an inwhat state senator. bu bachmann is adamant. >> be assured my decision was not in any way influenced by any concerns about my being reelected to congress. i've always in the past defeated candidates who are capable, qualified and well funded. i have ever confidence that if i ran, i would again defeat the individual who i defeated last year, who recently announced that he is once again running. rest assured, this decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the recent activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presid