also minnesota is a border states of iowa. iowa knows minnesota and minnesota knows iowa.penn's minnesota background, particularly as governor, gives him an edge in the iowa caucuses and iowa's presidential primary. together these races add up to the kingmaker, the king then goes on to win more caulk busses primaries, collectively fingerrering the party's favorite for the november 2012 presidential election. bit way, here's of former governor of former governor tim pawlenty. age 50, white, married, two teenage daughters, ana and mara. university of minnesota, ba in doctor of law. practicing attorney, 15 years. minnesota's state legislature house of representatives, 10 years. minnesota house majority leader, four years. state of minnesota eight years, 2003-2011. question, can pawlenty win iowa? tim? >> absolutely, and i'm very happy he began by going to iowa and attacking ethanol subsidies, especially because he used to favor them. that takes guts. his being from a border state is good. okay, michelle bachman could complicate it, but if the ethanol thing is a cue and he'll

what people are referring to in minnesota. bureaucracy projects the budget for the next two years based on hypothetical pending increases and proposing 20 plus increase in state spending in the upcoming two-year period. i would never have allowed that as governor of minnesota and never have happened budget is balanced to this day and upcoming two years, they should have not allowed the spending increases. you are responsible for a car accident after someone buying your car. >> chris: here's what critics say. you relied on short term awn times one time fixes. you got 2.3 billion for the obama stim tim plan. that money is running out and you got four billion because you delayed paying school districts and because you held upitate aid. local property taxes shot up. the year that you came in to office. minnesota land openers paid 5.1 billion in property taxes and the year you left they paid for than 8 billion. >> yeah, go through those peculiarly. there is an answer no in each. local property taxes are set by local units of govern

>> no, it was more minnesota team challenge working with the va.as open for me to do a program while i was in team challenge. so essentially i had to get it approved because they have their rules and they have there monday through friday, everything planned out. but i was able to ask them, you, can i go to this, it was cognitive process therapy about three months. three was out of the i was there i was able to go to the va, you'll need with my psychologist. then i would go to a group meeting with some other veterans, and then i would be sent back to the program. so it wasn't really much of a working relationship. i would say team challenge said yes if you want to go there one day a week you can do that, and the va set up a program for that. >> so there could be better cooperation between the va and some of these community-based operations? >> yes, sir. absolutely come at a is something i struggled with. something i continue to try to help with when i graduated. the program was the more open to programs like this because every time i tried to talk t

i know you were a strong opponent of same sex marriage when you were back in minnesota.'t said much about it lately. what do you think this means? >> well, i stand for the proposition that marriage is between a man and a woman. i think that minnesota, for instance, this year just about a month ago or so passed that the legislative level the constitutional amendment to allow the people to decide what the definition of marriage will be. that ballot question will be on the ballot in 2012. the people of new york came to a different conclusion. i think what we know is that ultimately you have all the various laws and the various states. there will be a conflict. if someone from pennsylvania or from new york, for instance, moves to a state where marriage is between a man and a woman, will these marriages be recognized? ultimately it go to the courts. as president of the united states i will only nominate judges who are not activist judges, who are not legislating from the bench. so i think that's why it's going to be very important to.... >> schieffer: would that be a litmus t

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the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: i'm here with the senator from south dakota -- i first want to thank my colleague from minnesota for his strong words. i'm here with the senator from south dakota, senator thune, to talk about the legislation that we are introducing today along with several other senators to find a good way to handle this, not the way this has been handled. my colleague from minnesota talked about senator coburn's amendment that we will be voting on tomorrow. i urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment. i believe that, first of all, we need to invest in home-grown energy and that this amendment would abruptly eliminate the veetc, the volumetric ethanol excise tax credit, immediately without any kind of a glide path during this year, so that the people who are directly or indirectly employed in this industry, 450,000 people, when you think about all of the jobs that we work on every single day, just because jobs are in states that maybe some people don't live in, north dakota, south dakota

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i want to know how minnesota's health plan keeps tim pawlenty alive without a spine. (laughter) o boomny care! obamneycare was perfect! you had romney on the ropes. you've got to finish him! you've got to sweep the leg. cnn's cornell belcher gets it. >> if someone occupy it is state that you and i occupy and they're ahead of you i'm sorry, you've got to cut that person and make them bleed. now, do you take a hatchet to them the first night in the debate? no, but you have to make them bleed because you're never going to get ahead of that person unless you cut them and you make them bleed. >> stephen: yeah! down him! down him! what, what? oh! make him bleed! by the way, someone needs to check this man's crawl space. (laughter) why didn't you stick it into romney and twist the handle? by the way, if romney won the debates, i'm a big supporter of his now. and all i can imagine is pawlenty is now running for romney's vice president. why else would he let mitt mount him like a silverback gorilla. (laughter) and, folks, there are a lot of good reasons for pawlenty to be vic

a field in minnesota and you ask how many species of insects are there in a typical knees field through a growing season. what we can say is that the studies have shown this is a process seven hundred species of insects that visit maize every year and so if you think about how many cuss there are there's media about. five to ten stacey's a pests so all the rest of those species the other six hundred ninety five or so species would be considered the non-target species so they're far more non-target species than there are target species and so when you try to control the target it's very likely that you're going to affect some of those other species as well the industry attempts to destroy five insect species because loss is worth millions that is understandable what is more difficult to comprehend is that industry does not seem to care that almost seven hundred other animal species are also affected. the scientists of norway and america just at the beginning of their research quite frightening for the grain is already on the market and industry.

what one minnesota store clerk used to defend himself from a what one minnesota store clerk used to defend himself from a robber. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello, and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with critical clues. the "new york times" is reporting a cell phone seized in the raid that killed osama bin laden contained contacts to a militant group that has ties to pakistan's militant intelligence agency. the phone belonged to one of bin laden's trusted couriers who was also killed in the raid. according to the "times" the discovery was that bin laden used the group as a network inside pakistan. it raises questions about whether the military organization supported him on behalf of pakistan's spy agency. but officials tell "the times "there was no smoking gun showing that the agency had protected bin laden. >>> it is a race against time for the community of minotte, north dakota. calls for new evacuations has thousands fleeing to higher ground as a giant surge of water heads thei

today, minnesota congresswoman michele bachman said to announce her bid in iowa. poll shows you better take her seriously on this "american morning." >>> good morning, everyone. it's monday, june 27th. kiran chetry has the day off. carol gets to set in. >> i'm a lucky girl. the birthplace of the atom bomb. shut down this morning, laboratory's emergency operation center has been activated. all hazardous material, officials say, is accounted for and protected. >>> two nuclear power plants in nebraska are under siege this morning from floodwaters from the missouri river. a protected flood wall at ft. calhoun collapsed yesterday. >> officials are worried that water may be getting dangerously close to both reactors. so the water is right up there at the gate, essentially, right, patrick? >> reporter: yes, it is. this plant uses the missouri river to cool down some of its radioactive, spent fuel, the reactor. they need the river. when the river rises, as it has done so dramatically, that creates quite a problem. how big of a problem is it? they're actually using diesel

i know government can cut spending, because i did it in minnesota. i cut state spending in real terms for the first time in our state history. we did it with priority-based budgeting. we did it by setting a record four of the toes. it took a government shut down and a long union strike and many other difficult decisions, but we got it done. we did not close our schools. we did not empty our prisons. we cut spending where it needed to be cut. we can do the same thing in washington. compounding the money should be a last resort only. it would force policy makers to finally do their jobs, to cut what we do not need, to allow us to keep the things we need the most. there are some obvious targets. we can start by what i call the google test. if you can find a service or a good available on google or the internet, the federal government probably does not need to be providing that good or service -- the post office, the government printing office, amtrak, fannie mae, freddie mac, and others. all were built for a different time in our country and a different

stop the gentleman from minnesota is -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota is making a point for debate. the gentleman is recognized. mr. ellison: further parliamentary inquiry. the speaker pro tempore: state the inquiry. mr. ellison: doesn't the ryan budget end medicare as we know it? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota is not stating a proper parliamentary inquiry. the gentleman is recognized. mr. ellison: thank you, mr. speaker. i raise this point of order because i think it's important to discover whether or not the underlying rule for the homeland security appropriations bill also deems the republican plan to end medicare as we know it. it's the only vehicle we got to actually talk about this rule, and this bill and how we are being denied the ability to actually offer amounts that we would like to, to eliminate what's actually happening in this bill. mr. speaker, we have a responsibility to raise our -- erase our deficit. claiming to reduce the budget deficit on the backs of americans who've paid into their retirement their entire lives not onl

we took a very different approach in minnesota. care reform and we're really leading the nation in it. but it's more based on consumers and freedom and market choices and letting people decide what's best for them and their families rather than government. >> is it unrealistic to think what works at the state level can work nationwide? >> well what we know works for sure not just at states but nationwide is markets. when people are given the freedom to choose what's best for them and their families and having accountability not just for volumes of procedures performed but pain providers for values and results those are the kinds of reforms we did in minneso minnesota, they work and deliver results. it's different from obama care, different than having mandates and government takeovers. we did it the other way. >> a national journal political insider poll and they chose romney as the winner of the debate and chose you as, quote, the biggest loser. why do you think that some of these republicans are panning your performance. 26% say

minnesota congressman michelle bachmann makes her debut tonight. she has yet to formally announce but all signs are pointing to a presidential run. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum among the least known of the seven. he's popular among social conservatives, opposing abortion and same-sex marriage. and herman cain is beginning to gain some traction. guys, thanks very much. i want you to listen to what tim pawlenty, the former minnesota governor said about mitt romney yesterday on tv. listen to this. >> you don't have to take my word for it. president obama said he drafted his obamacare after romney care. so now we have obamneycare. what i don't understand is they both continue to defend it. >> it wasn't exactly a slam, but for tim pawlenty, it was a biting comment. >> yeah. i think it was a slam. 59 mitt romney. it's clear that pawlenty has made a decision he's going to take on romney and try to make this a two-man race. i'm not so sure that's a great idea. i think it's a little early on to try to do that. right now, pawlenty is everybody's

as i can attest, we used this in minnesota. if we apply this approach throughout all federal agency, we can save up to 20% in federal agencies. their real slog of the next administration will be an unrelenting battle against overregulation by our federal government. this is suffocating our spirit. conservatives have made the federal bureaucracy the butt of jokes. considering what they're actually in charge of our doing like the strength of our toilet heads, the glow of our reading lamp, it is hard not to laugh or cry about such things. federal regulations will cost our economy nearly two trillion dollars this year alone. this is that had been -- this is a hidden tax. make no mistakes, the current administration was for far bigger gains than just the incandescent light bulbs. the private health-care market is in intensive care and the prognosis is bad. the financial regulation is called for 200 new rules. none of these represent the scandal of freddie mac and fannie mac. they came out and touched in the so-called finance reform

i heard about that in minnesota and it would come our way as well.nced i was going to introduce a constitutional amendment allowing the people of minnesota to a vote on the laws they live under, particularly, the definition of marriage. whether marriage would be between one man and one woman. [applause] that is a good concept. as you can imagine, this was the height of the controversy. i was at the tip of the spear on that effort. the reason i bring this up is because i say to you, persevered. never despise small beginnings. we were just a few people that got together and tried to make this happen. the bill i introduced, we were not able to get it out of the liberal dominated senate that i was in. we tried and tried again and were not able to succeed, but we did not give up because we knew the people of minnesota ultimately wanted to build a vote on this bill. 30 different states have put this bill up. every time the states put this over for the american people, they have voted in their states to retain the traditional definition of marriage is betwe

despite the protests, greece's minnesota born prime minister george papandreou managed to get his austerity measures through parliament. greece is cracking economically and socially and the bigger worry here is that the collapse will trigger another economic earthquake with shocks felt round the world. mark phillips, cbs news, athens. >>> in iraq, three more american soldiers have been killed. the military says they died in a rocket attack on a u.s. base near iraq's border with iran. one military official says it appears to be the work of an iranian backed shiite militia. in all 15 u.s. troops have been killed in june, making june the deadliest month for u.s. forces there in two years. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," stocks in asia were up today. ashley morrison is here in new york with that. good morning, ashley. >> good morning to you, betty. that's right, stocks in asia were higher this morning. tokyo's nikkei was.0.3% and hong kong's hang sang gained more than 1.5%. >>> on wall street yesterday, news of the budget crisis in greece sent the dow rising 72 points, while the nasdaq gained 11.

david and professor of entomology at the university of minnesota is attempting to examine just this point is that the. bt corn bt cotton and even bt potatoes were commercialized before many of the potential effects of these crops on the environment where investigated so. how much gene flow what kind of non-target affects how to whether or not resistance in the target will occur and how to deal with these things were not figured out before that before the plants were commercialized and it was as they were commercialized people were raising these issues and and frankly what it is is that takes a while it takes a number of years to figure these things out and the. the people who made these plants knew that they wanted to get them commercialized as fast as possible so you run into a problem where the people who are trying to sell these things who want to sell them the soon as possible because the sooner they sell them faster they can make their investments back in the same time we need to take the time to evaluate the environmental effects and so in the united states the route that's been tak

and as far north as minnesota. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories.e evacuations have been ordered in arizona. three large wildfires are burning there. the biggest near the border with new mexico has scorched 184,000 acres. the third largest wildfire in arizona history. >>> and dominique strauss-kahn is expected to plead not guilty when he's arraigned today. strauss-kahn who resigned from imf last month is charged with sexually assaulting a new york hotel maid. >>> the ever changing new york art scene has seen prodigies come and go, but the latest new kid in town, if you will, is certainly something special. elaine key an know has her story. >> reporter: at first glarngs it's the kinds of arlt you'd expect to see. >> she's an being a strablgt extregsist, but always sewer relyist 37. >> reporter: the pieces come with sophisticated titles. escape from the cosmic zoo. a low closer look reveals hints about the artist's identity, a little heart, a pink pony and hand prints. she is 4 1/2-year-old aelita andre. >> how does it make you feel when you paint? >>

the congresswoman from minnesota, michelle bashman. bachmann.r yum. say hello to the seven candidates here tonight. >> there's the formal introduction. the crowd is excited obviously. momentarily this debate will formally begin. the photo opes and the photographers are there taking pictures. all seven of these candidates. as we watch this, gloria and david is still here as well. i think the initial round, the first few questions will set the stage, gloria, for what could happen over the course of two hours. >> i have to guess that the first few questions are going to be about the economy and how these republicans are going to say they would manage the economy better than barack obama. and as david was saying earlier, we don't have a lot of detail on the plans, and the plans we do have some detail on don't seem to add up. >> the democrats are saying they put out a long memo and i spoke to robert gibbs the former white house press secretary who was here a while ago. he's in new hampshire. they make the point. if you like the way president bush lef

. >>> the minnesota twins baseball team, meanwhile, has reprimanded a security guard for scolding a lesbian couple for kissing. the women say they exchanged a quick peck on the lips during a baseball game last month. >> you kissed that girl, you can't do that. and i was like, yes, i can. and he said there's no grab [ bleep ]. and i was, like, grab [ bleep ], i didn't even grab [ bleep ]. >> here in the stadium we expect to adhere to the ten commandants and after that statement i immediately stopped conversing with him. >> the twins organization has

. >> minnesota congresswoman, michele bachmann used the debate to make some news. bachmann was considered a likely candidate heading into the debate but not officially into the race. she made it clear she's planning a run. >> i filed my paperwork to seek the office of the presidency of the united states today and i'll very soon be making my formal announcement. >> so, what did debate watchers think about this republican showdown? several of our correspondents spoke with viewers to get their reaction. some thought the candidates dodged the issues and even side stepped a lot of questions. >> to me, it's just been political posturing, getting their big talking points out. you know, they got to check those blocks. i haven't heard anything about me. >> a lot of them are not answering the questions. you ask a question, and then they'll side step it and answer something entirely different. >> not surprising.

san francisco volvieron a perder, esta vez contra los gemelos de "minnesota".partido y permitÓ que los "twins" pegaran 8 batazos consecutivos, empatando aÍ un record en el beisbol de grandes ligas.---con esta mala racha en la loma, "bumgarner" fue sacado del partido y remplazado por "guillermo mota" quien no permitio batazos en casi 5 entradas... a pesar de esto, y del "imparable" que peÓ "eli whiteside", los gigantes no se pudieron recuperar y perdieron 9 carreras a dos contra los gemelos de minnesota. --los atÉticos de oakland tuvieron mejor suerte de visita en la gran manzana donde se enfrentaron a los "mets".--tras el intenso encuentro, el equipo del este de la bahia logro vencer a la novena de nueva york 7 carreras a 3.---esta es la sexta victoria consecutiva para los atleticos, lo cual representa su racha exitosa mas extensa desde el aÑo 2009. ---ahora pasamos con "bernardo osuna" con mas accion deportiva. --en san francisco un grupo de danzantes se reunio en el distrito de la mission para recibir el solsticio de verano.--los asistentes participaron en un

john's abbey in minnesota. >> who would have thought that at a monastery in central minnesota is the world's largest collection of photographs? snr for 50 years this underground library at st. john's abbey has catalogued historic christian manuscripts. it's part of a monastic tradition that dates back to the sixth century. >> i've a benedictine monk. there's an impulse in us to exercise this role of cultural guardianship. that's an impulse that continues even in the modern age. >> reporter: many of the texts were handwritten long before printing presses. some like this koran were created soon after. this one commissioned for study by some of the first protestant scholars. >> it's the first copy of the koran. it was published in 1543 with a preface by martin luther. >> reporter: father columbus says these ancient texts echo with relevance to our time. >> christians were dealing with islam. so the result was they wanteded a translation of the koran into latin. so that christians could read it. of course it wasn't for the sake of religious understanding. it was for the sake of refutatio

. >> they are also talking presidential politics in minnesota. there were two rival conferences there in minneapolis this weekend. one involving liberal bloggers, the other involving conservative bloggers, republican presidential candidate michelle bachmann as peter was just mentioning, a minnesota congresswoman spoke at the conference. >> we are now two years into an economic recovery. were you aware of that? we're two years into it. now normally when you go into a recovery, you begin to have a dramatic turn around, in fact you start adding jobs at hundreds of thousands of jobs a month. how's the president doing? not so great. that's right. we're now approaching the obama trench of a double dip recession. >> as backmhmann someone actual threw glitter at her. a gay rights activist group claimed responsibility. >>> the long island golf match was -- it gave the two political rivals a chance to talk about some pretty big issues including u.s. debt ceiling, one thing they are mum about, so far, the score. >>> in other news, afghan president hamid kar

>> under minnesota state law, like many states, we are required to balance our budget. there is a deficit that is in minnesota that the current legislature is grappling with. clearly, that has the to do with obligations regarding spending. that's why at the federal level, as president of the united states, my very first and singular focus will be on turning the country around. we're on the wrong track. i want to turn the economy around. i'm a job creator. former federal tax lawyer. i get it, what the problems are. i have get what the solutions are. i have a titanium spine to be able to do what needs to be done to turn the economy around. >> chris: if texas governor rick perry gets in the race, doesn't he overshadow you on tea party and social issues? >> well, i think there is room in the race for all sorts of candidates to get in. it's good for the people of the country to have has many candidates as want to get in, as would like to. >> chris: finally, let's talk about michele bachmann. and you say -- it's interesting. you say that people saw in the debate, saw you as a

. >> morning are a busy tyke for lisa hoarding in lakeview minnesota, they had a lot of experience over the years getting five kids ready for school, they were waiting for empty nest in a few yearser but things didn't turn that way, it all started with a mission trip to africa. >> we thought we would work with digging wells in africa. >> it turns out they were needed for another project. >> it hadn't occurred to us that god may want us to parent african children. >> well, what are you going to do about visiting orphans in distress, that's a question of obedience. for us, it meant adopting. >> the hoarding adopted phillip and [inaudible] >> a little family in minnesota and two boys not even born yet, with god digging in my heart, across the continents and across time zones and all of that, he put a family together. >> they're convinced this is only the beginning. >> i'm excited about refueling what's attached to us, there's no period to the end of the sentence, now it's what next? >> cbn news met with the hoarding with the orphans summit. >> it's how does god want to use us. >> this coup

minnesota couldn't not touch him.hey turn it over to the bullpen in the eight and cody ross needs to put the giants up 2-0 because minnesota comes back to make it 2-1 and then brian wilson gets himself in a game but more times than not gets out. sandoval wants to show his new speed. that's it, giants win 2-1- cleveland comes in this weekend for three in san francisco. the a's take on baseball's best, the phillies after losing 2-3 from the new york mets. they are below .500 but the new yorkers, from '69, remember that. reyes was the star. he is coming home on the single. almost right back to the box. mets win 4-1. they are playing the powerhouse phillies tomorrow. a's winning two on the road trip. nba draft. warriors with the 11th pick. >> the golden state warriors select clay thompson from washington state university. >> they picked up a couple other guys. tyler and jinkens. here is a guy from washington state, his dad played in the nba. jerry west once traded for him. so, hey, looking like he can shoot, runs the floo

house from minnesota and was first elected in 2006., we are awaiting her official announcement for president this morning here in waterloo, iowa. while we wait, remarks from the christian science monitor. she looked at the announced republican candidates for president earlier. we now go it the elephant stampede the lay he is story you have been working on, five reasons the republican race is so unsettled. give us one or two. guest: one reason is that the republican field is very large and the front-runner, who is a very recent front-runner happens to be somebody that is the most energetic part of the party, the conservative tea party wing of the party, isn't happy with so they are struggling with what to do about there. do you go with the republicans have a history of going with next in line but next in line is mitt romney who is relatively moderate. so, typically the republicans have had a clear frontrunner in february of the year before elections. this time that didn't happen until the end of may, beginning of june. another element i

she was in last night's debate as a congresswoman from minnesota.ts think she came out as a rising star. >> i want to make an announcement for you, john, on cnn. i filed my paper work to seek the office of the presidency of the united states today and i'll very soon be making my formal announcement. so i wanted you to be the first to know. >> appreciate that. welcome. >> her performance had some of our analysts declaring her the debate winner. carol costello is here. tell us more about her. we were talking about her this morning, carol. all of these children. it's amazing she is doing both! >> she is doing both. five children of her own and 23 foster children and get into that in a minute. let's talk about the political pundits. they are saying more than they won the debate. they have a crush on michelle bachmann. the adjectives they are using you possess would not believe it. star performance and top tier and called her pify that means having substance and to the point. seriously, michelle bachmann found her footing last night with one zinger after

another republican from minnesota is also running for president, former minnesota governor tim pawlenty. governor pawlenty, great to have you in the studio. thanks for being here. >> good morning, ann. great to be with you. >> you seem to have an unusual problem. "the des moines register" iowa poll show you have the second highest net favorability rating of all the republican candidates, but as you well know, you won just 6% of the poll over the weekend, behind newt gingrich, behind ron paul, behind herman cain, the former ceo of godfather's ceo. you've spent 26 days in the state. disappointed? >> no. these early polls aren't very good predictors of how the race is going to come out. if they were, we'd have hillary clinton as president or someone on the republican side more popular than john mccain last time. but the fact of the matter is iowans decide late. they're people who consider the polls late. so the reality is mike huckabee at this point was at 4% in the polls. we're the 6% and he ended up winning the iowa caucuses. there's still plenty of time to do well in iowa and beyond. >>