. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> michael: the last few weeks have, indeed, been rough for the president. he has faced scandals on several fronts from the irs to benghazi to the associated press. but so far not much has been stuck and his approval ratings remain high. let's starts in the house where john boehner confessed to politico that he had not spoken with the president since the beginning of the year. the second most powerful politician in washington is not talking to the first most powerful. that is not good. it's why politico described him as a relatively weak speaker. boehner responded saying that they missed his style. his style? nancy pelosi wrote you're missing my style. 0 jobs bills. 37 votes to repeal health reform. that's hashtag boehner style. he told politico, i'm busy trying to organize my own guys. granted the g.o.p. is in complete disarray according to bob dole who said this on sun

i'm not sure. >> you get as many as five. >> mitt romney, we haven't seen much of mitt romney. seriously? is it a good idea for women to have lots of kids very quickly? i think we are just seeing the real mitt romney emerge. >> this is the mitt romney i didn't want to vote for and i didn't vote for. he's a religious fe gnattic telling 21 college students that have binders full of children. >> okay, guy, got to leave you there. to abbey, mark and may, thank you all, indeed. >> coming next, dear piers. your tweets and my replies. this is going to be interesting, this segment. join us at projectluna.com help the gulf recover, andnt to learn from what happenedg goals: so we could be a better, safer energy company. i've been with bp for 24 years. i was part of the team that helped deliver on our commitments to the gulf - and i can tell you, safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge safety equipment and technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center, where experts watch over all our drilling activity, twenty-four-seven. a

this because at the very time that all of the talking points about benghazi came down you were mitt romney's running mate trying to unseed president obama. do you believe, do you believe that the white house purposely misled the american people on benghazi to try to beat you and mitt romney and win the election? >> i don't know the answer to that question. so i'm not even going to speculate. that is what good oversight does. that is what this investigation is all about. which is why did they continue to perpetuate the story which they knew was not true you and what was the reason for doing so? so rather than make a conclusion before an investigation has been completed i think we just need to investigate this for the sake of good government. this is what the legislative branch does. that is what the separation of powers is all about, accountability of the executive branch by the legislative branch. i don't want to speculate as to why and what they did until we have all of the information. i think what we know right now is that they were misleading. >> chris: we have less than two minutes left

mitt romney fought over never raising taxes, and that continues. you say the election was fought in november. it feels as though the election is carrying on, that that fight, regardless of the issue, it's almost as if every single subject continues now. >> it feels like that because that's what's happening. it's as if the election didn't occur. it's continued partisan politics and continued politics of destruction, if you will. and what i think my republican friends don't realize is, the people who are being hurt, it's not the administration. it is the american people that we just discussed. very unfortunate, but you say for 3 1/2 years. frankly, we're going to have another election in just about 18 months, and the american people will have another opportunity to say, no, we don't want this confrontation, we don't want this gridlock, we don't want constant opposition. we want positive cooperation for our country. i frankly think if the republicans continue along the path that they've been pursuing for the last five months, hopefully the american pe

the same campaign people that lost mitt romney the presidency, lost mitt romney his supposed home statet scott brown an incumbent u.s. senate seat in massachusetts, they are the same people in massachusetts doing the gabriel gomez campaign for the senate seat against ed markey. so, it's the second coming of scott brown either way, right? joining us now is steve kornacki, host of msnbc's weekend morning show "up with steve kornacki," also senior writer at salon.com. steve, thanks for being here. >> no thanks needed for massachusetts. >> you know this stuff chapter and verse. that's why i wanted to ask you, broadly, what do you find the most interesting thing about this race? looking at history here, how does this fit in? >> massachusetts, yes, deeply blue state, 13% of the registered population is republican, but one of the consequences of sort of one party rule is every once or twice every decade, i'd say, the electorate of massachusetts gets riled up, gets cranky about one party rule and takes it out on a democratic candidate and that's sort of how scott brown got in over martha cokely

how did he get that information about mitt romney's taxes? bill: also o.j.on is back in court. he was on the stand speaking on his own behalf to plead for a new trial. >> did they ever show you the references in discovery to your drinking incident? >> no. >> did they ever tell you it is a possible fact that you could use, that possibly could use a new de >> absolutely not. martha: leaders of the tea party holding a news conference right now on the whole scandal with the irs and irs workers admitted as you know to targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny. congresswoman michele bachmann spoke just moments ago. here is some of that. >> subsequent to the original story we had an admission from the irs that they in fact made these decisions. this is extremely troubling because the axiom is, the power to tax is the power to destroy. martha: she has said she believes this was not limited to low level workers in cincinnati. we'll continue to bring you the latest developments out of that. bill: you might remember during the 2012 presidential race senate major

has anyone been missing mitt romney?been six months since he dropped from the public eye, but failed presidential candidate mitt romney resurfaced this week, speaking to the "wall street journal" in advanced of a planned comeback of sorts. "the journal" reports, "mr. romney said in an interview he plans to reemerge in ways that will help shape national priorities. as a first step, the former republican presidential nominee plans to welcome 200 friends and supporters to a three-day summit next week that he will host at a utah mountain resort." i think it's park city. "he's considering writing a book," by the way according to this account "and a series of opinion pieces and has plans to campaign for republican candidates in 2014." it sounds as if romney wants back into politics in some way. does the party and his future candidates want romney as part of their path to victory? john is a republican consultant who ran rick santorum's presidential campaign last year. david corn is washington bureau chief for "mother jones" and

missionaries and who did not, like mitt romney, avoid service in the vietnam war.efusing to serve in that war was not dishonorable. young men under pressure from draft board who is refused to serve did the on norable service of helping bring the war to an end through their protest. supporting that war and supporting the draft that sent young men to their deaths in vietnam, which mitt romney did, supporting those two things, the war and the draft, then refusing to serve in that war was the most dishonorable posture that was possible for an able-bodiyed man like mitt. his missionary time in frans was for him and him alone the best of times and the worst of times. coming up, chris christie's made a move that should tell everyone he's not so sure his re-election is going to be so easy. his democratic opponent, barbara buono will join me next. [ jackie ] it's just so frustrating... ♪ the middle of this special moment and i need to run off to the bathroom. ♪ i'm fed up with always having to put my bladder's needs ahead of my daughter. ♪ so today, i'm finally talking to m

mitt romney, he looked quite good. should we take this seriously?t of kids quickly and then go on? >> we are seeing the real met ronnie emerge. very much into his marriage and his kids. and this is may be why he did not do so well with single women. >> you don't say? the final word for you. >> this is the mitt romney i did not want to vote for. he wanted us to think he was normal but he is a religious fanatic telling 21-year-old college graduates to have binders full of women. >> got to leave it there. thank you all very much indeed. coming next, your tweets and my replies. this will be interesting. u 8 >>> i respond, gun-control has failed. be a man and move back to england. my answer is gun-control has failed. we continue to campaign against gun laws in america. civil rights, came marriage, and common sense will eventually prevail. next, talking about then ferguson. you ate his lunch, could job revealing the irresponsible parents are the issue not guns. without the guns in the house, the parents can't be irresponsible, can that? and this from davi

but the through line between mitt romney and ted cruz is the policies. what is ted cruz going to do for the 47%? he's going to abolish the irs, abolish obama care, he's going to eliminate dodd-frank so he's got policies that are really for the top 1% but he's trying to pan them off as though they're policies for the 47%. it's the entire republican project now of supposedly remaking itself, but it's really all about just talking more nicely about people that they don't want to do anything to help in the first place. it's just a kinder, gentler, kind of rhetoric but it's the same -- it's the exact same policies. >> wayne, maybe it's my religion, but this guy reminds me of cromwell. this guy, he's got that look on his face. occasionally it goes from frown to smirk, but you can hardly tell it when it happens. he's never any happiness factor there. it's all indicting, indict, indicting. he doesn't like republicans, he doesn't like john mccain. what did he call him, something terrible the other day. he just keeps doing this. does he have friends? does he have

mitt romney, he looked quite good. should we take this seriously? kids quickly and then go on? >> we are seeing the real met ronnie emerge. very much into his marriage and his kids. and this is may be why he did not do so well with single women. >> you don't say? the final word for you. >> this is the mitt romney i did not want to vote for. he was arrested think he was normal but he is a religious fanatic telling 21-year-old college graduates to have binders full of women. >> got to leave it there. thank you all very much indeed. coming next, your tweets and my replies. this will be interesting. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover, and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i've been with bp for 24 years. i was part of the team that helped deliver on our commitments to the gulf - and i can tell you, safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge safety equipment and technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center

mitt romney. that very night.s been a political football used by the republicans ever since september 11th, 2012. it continued yesterday at the hearing. all right. so here it is. what have you got? let's see it. what have you got? what is all of this evidence that will destroy obama going to destroy hillary clinton? there were two things that came out. this guy greg hicks disgruntled state department guy. he testifies hey i asked for fighter jets to come in and the pentagon turned me down. well, leon panetta pointed out right, that the nearest fighter jets -- he said if they had flown fighter jets in, flown over, that could have stopped -- the killing stopped the terrorism. stopped the attack that was going on underneath. leon panetta pointed out the nearest jets were in aviano air force base, italy. they were not on stand-by. maybe they should have been. they were not. it would have taken at least nine hours to round up the crew, get the jets ready get to libya. meanwhile, the tankers needed to refuel them for th

by the heritage foundation picked up by mitt romney republican governor of massachusetts and put in a place there should you guys be like this is what i don't know i don't know. i don't know if you can cash out victory after the first minute football game california is going to see a reduction in premiums yes but overall the committee in the house has already said that we can expect to see premiums across the nation anywhere from double to can top so there's that happened in the last seven years we whatever it is in massachusetts we don't well remember premiums have gone up the mistress is in the message you are everywhere misuse is already had a very high insurance rate already so to say that massachusetts is the is the harbinger of things to come throughout the united states i don't know if i buy that this is a very favorable petri dish simpering not necessarily obama romney care and not necessarily because you're looking at a very small sample of what works well in massachusetts there's a reason we have the temperament because who's to say that the bureaucracy the mass bureaucracy

. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar.rt is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? current tv is the place for true stories. with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. real, gripping, current. documentaries... on current tv. ♪ ♪ little diddy about jack and -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ -- two american kids growing up in the heartland ♪ ♪ jackie going to be a football starer -- >> announcer: stephfy -- ♪ debutante backseat of jackie's car. >> stephanie: i never did it in the back seat because that would make me a slut. so i did it in the front. >> that was your reasoning? >> stephanie: uh-huh that was my rule with my high school boyfriend. a little too much information this morning. >> wow! i just love the way you rationalize that. >> stephanie: catholic girl started much too late. >> no meat on fridays. >> stephanie: it might have been friday. i used that one too. richard in illinois good morning. >> caller: i just called in to say when the president said w

it's okay to make mitt romney jokes? >> whatever happened to mitt romney? >> who? >> exactly. >> who he? >> we are excited to start off this hour with hudson taylor, the founder of athlete ally from new york. he will talk about jason collins and then we will joined by reporters from the boston globe, by huffington post and buzz feed. from buzzfeed in studio as a friend of bill at the next hour. we will get to jason collins on all of the latest, but first. >> this is the full court press. >> other headlines making news on this wednesday, a bill has gone up in south carolina that the former governor mark sanford is probably not a fan of an ad featuring his picture for the website that sets up extra-marital affairs. politico got a picture of it and says next time use ashley madison to find your running mate. >> he qualifies as a member. uh-huh? >> uh-huh. >> mark sanford getting endorsed by larry flint who said he is the ultimate sexual model, role model. >> that's one endorsement he could do without. >> yahoo's ceo who made headlines for getting rid of the popular wo

mitt romney won it by 18 points. you have a lot of ground that you can give and still wind up over 50 -- i don't know if he gets there, but he's certainly close, which as you read the litany of things that have come to light about this guy over the last four years, pretty amazing. >> so there's going to be a moment maybe. 50/50 now. let's assume it's 50/50. don't get in the way of the voters. they have to decide tomorrow down there. it's 50/50. if he wins, the guy we're looking at, mark sanford, two days from now, three days from now, he'll be standing in the u.s. capitol in washington at one of the mock swearing ins. ready? here's the opinion question, the kind you hate. is that good for the republican party? to be swearing in mark sanford as a member of their caucus? this guy? >> i wrote a piece today on the "the fix" on the blog" arguing this might be a short-term loss for democrats but a long-term gain which is you have a guy in mark sanford who is not someone who is going to play well with a national audience to

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it's interesting, though, because you're talking about harry reid's comment about mitt romney.eally believe that if we really want to look at the irs, we should be looking at the tax code, looking at the status of 501-c4s, folks like mitt romney who are able to sort of maneuver or apple this week we learned was able to maneuver -- >> mitt romney, of course, paid 9% in tax. >> they're able to maneuver the tax code in a way that's very, very beneficial to them. but ultimately makes the american people sort of subsidize corporate america in ways i don't think we're always conscious of. i'd love to see us pivot around some of these issues and get to the core of what really matters here. but as long as they're talking about irs and obama care, you know that's pretty much political theater. >> gentlemen, i wish we had more time. we've got someone who's coming up in moore, in oklahoma. so julian epstein, professor james peterson, i'm afraid we have to cut it short. thank you, gentlemen, very much. >>> coming up, seeking shelter from the storm. we'll take a closer look at the delicate

>> guest: no, not romney was coming -- mitt romney team leader. jane swift, i forgot whom she was running against, she was running against someone else. she was in a primary. c-span: i remember in your book you say something like she was 60 points down. >> guest: that's right. she was 60 points. c-span: even in her own party. >> guest: in her own party she was 60 points down. everybody knew she was the landaluze but she said it had nothing to do with anything. some weeks, not many, less than a month after she made this political decision she never got to run because mitt romney, she had to defer to mitt romney because her own party saw her as so weak. so, the whole gesture was for nothing. c-span: but she also had the other politician in this thing. scott harshbarger. >> guest: scott harshbarger was the original. in the 1980's he was the original chief prosecutor. he didn't actually prosecute at the trial. he then went on to greater things. he ran on his victory in the amirault conviction in the 80's. he was advertised as the prosecutor who would

the atlantic magazine called hero bama's mitt romney.president really meant it about taking on the powerful he would take a good look at her and maybe not appoint her. more to the point the media should be all over it. the media should be saying this is hypocrisy for the president to be denouncing special issues and having attacked mitt romney all through the campaign for his overseas accounts then he hires somebody that has a lot more money than he ever did in her own grand caymen accounts. >> it was because he talked about one thing and did another. the election he lost because people don't relate to offshore accounts. he might have a point about penny pritsker being on the inside. he was talking about the big money interests that get people elected, citizens united that he didn't mention directly resulted in. you've got to have big money or raise big money in order to get into the government. only one person like president obama can't by himself change the system. he quoted george w. bush in the speech about sometimes it's good to be

then in 2012 both obama and mitt romney had very, very little success in winning those kind of cross-over districts. obama didn't win many red districts, and romney didn't win many blue districts. that tells you something about the way districts have been drawn, for sure, and it tells but the increasing rigidity and intensification of voting appearance by people on both sides. so what it has the effect of doing, john, as you know, is reducing the number of competitive and genuinely scenes. >> john: it will be fascinating to watch his new congressional career and his new wife as a d. d.c. housewife. michael tomasky. thank you for your time and insight this is evening. >> thank you. i enjoyed it. >> john: what do you do with the dead body of boston's most hated citizen even after death tamerlan tsarnaev is a problem. view on tonight's wtf new hampshire, we attend the tale of republican state representative peter hansen who referred to women as, quote vaginas. it's a bit odd that a lawmaker would describe anyone else as a body part especially someone named "peter." actually in a law that all

>>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar.he best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? hershey's simple pleasures chocolate. 30% less fat, 100% delicious. very, very excited about that and very proud of that. >>beltway politics from inside the loop. >>we tackle the big issues here in our nation's capital, around the country and around the globe. >>dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning. >> michael: congresswoman michelle bachmann, our favorite tea party no offense ted cruz, was last seen frothing at the mouth. >> again, the american people have not been told the truth. what we need to know is what did the white house know and when did they know it. >> michael: but she's got issues of her own. actually i wouldn't know where to begin with those but the federal election commission and the office of congressional ethics are investigating finance impropriety, including stealing a

>>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar.d the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> with a distinctly satirical point of view. if you believe in state's rights but still believe in the drug war you must be high. >> only on current tv. >> taking your e-mails on any topic at any time. this is the bill press show. live on your radio and current tv. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to the bill press show in morning. it is wednesday, may the 28th 2013. glad to have you along for the ride. my name is rich masters sitting in for bill. your e-mails bill press show & g mail.com. billion the most unhappy people in the world are religious fanatics. they're casting judgment and i think god is good and i think he wants to be in harmony and respect each other and earth and nature. >> amen on that one. that was from ann, i believe. thanks for that thought ann. excellent. r

now we know mitt romney was vindicated with those hearings yesterday.r, president obama responded to mitt romney's response saying yeah, you know, he just shoots first and aims later. he hit the bull's eye, and then president obama said you have to back up what you say with facts. how dare he say that? everything that they have said up until this point about the video and beyond and security as not been backed up with any facts. it's insane. the media just snores. >> greg: i want to go to dana. bob is steaming. the only way you can put colbert and jon stewart out of business is if fnc becomes completely liberal. >> dana: without us, they wouldn't be millionaires. i'm waiting for the dinner invitation. somebody ought to buy me a steak. >> greg: you one-point be able to finish it. dana: it's pretty. i like to believe because i'm a nice person that deep down inside everybody gets the joke, everyone looks at the same evidence and goes golly. now they're to the point where they have to all cover up their coverup so they don't look bad, and maybe they do star

you are admiting that mitt romney paid steer row dollars in tacks. i pay my taxes. why doesn't me? >> he is saying the income pa tense of the irs. why do we give them control over obamacare? you are talking about the situation which in the year of 2011 no tea party group or group that had patriot or tea party in their name according to the washington post got clearance from the irs to operate as a group. >> they are not nonprofit organizations and. >> and media matters is. in a lot of the liberal ones are. they didn't even get notice to the status, ryan. >> judge jeanine: some of the tea party groups are not likely innocent nonprofit the organizations they may be illegally spending resources on political activity. how did you make that accusation without an investigation? this is political targeting. >> the koch brothers cave money not to help feed the poor. [ overlapping speakers ] >> none of which by the way are audited by the irs. >> judge jeanine: we will have you back, not to worry. up next, creep of the week went missing on his honeymoon. you will not believe where the new br

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. >> democrats are doing their best to tie gomez to mitt romney, the senate majority pack pushed out this memo. after a toe turnout primary he is bringing the i mitt yom any campaign to general election. for democrats the specter of scott brown's 2010 victory and coakley's disastrous campaign is hovering over this. brown's victory was a perfect storm event, took place at the height of the health care ledge reconciliation working through congress in a back room deal. the unemployment rate was near 10% and they were ignoring brown for most of the general election and never saw it coming until it was too late. three years later none have the same intensity including the fact dmz won't be taking the race for granted. remember these numbers. the margin for a republican in mths, the margin or error is very, very small. one reality check, the vote total last night was almost double those cast in the entire republican condition test and the loser by himself got more votes than the entire gop field complained. there is sent active to throw money at this race even if it is a losing caught. movi

the former vice president is now nearly as itches are mitt romney. grown his net worth to more than $00 million thanks to the sale of his cable channel current tv as well as his stock in apple and successful investment firm. mitt romney is worth $250 million. >> right after that failed presidential bid he was worth $9.9 million. now 200 million. >> you start up a cable channel and sell it. it happens. >>> next on this wednesday, chris christie facing new questions about his weight. >>> hundreds of bees on the hunt for a new home. we'll explain right after this. when it comes to getting my family to eat breakfast, i need all the help i can get. i tell them, "come straight to the table." i say, "it's breakfast time, not playtime." "there's fruit, milk and i'm putting a little nutella on your whole-wheat toast." funny, that last part gets through. [ male announcer ] serving nutella is quick and easy. its great taste comes from a unique combination of simple ingredients like hazelnuts, skim milk and a hint of cocoa. okay, plates in the sink, grab your ba

. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> obama's main assignment for kellman's developing communities project was to meet directly with the residents to learn about their grievances... >> the first thing we that we taught obama, was to listen to people. in their home, on their job and listen to what they have say about their lives and what's important to them. >> as obama met the residents, he found that many were single mothers. >> they were spirited, good-humored women... women who without husbands to help somehow managed to raise sons and daughters, juggle an assortment of part-time jobs and small business schemes and organize girl scout troops fashion shows and summer camps for the parade of children that wandered through the church every day. >> we were at saint helena's of the cross church in a conference room. and jerry kellman brought in barack. the first impression was basically he is really young. he was, what, 23, 24

i don't really like what he believes in but we did for mitt romney i felt was really terrible. because it's not, like obama, like reached into his pocket and wrote a check and give it to new jersey. the president didn't do anything for new jersey. we did something for new jersey. perhaps they do deserve it. they had a terrible thing going on but i thought it was in bad taste i guess. >> i'm curious what you think about how social media change the election? and as well as an organizational structure long-term that we on the conservative side don't have. >> i love social media. i'm on twitter and all that. i wrote a column years ago how twitter was useless and no, i'm under 24/7. i don't think it'd anything to do, you might be surprised, i just think it's overrated. first of all this idea that people change their minds all the time to me is ridiculous. i don't play these polls that go back and forth like on abortion. before the election the majority believed abortion is good and in bed. to people change their minds that often. i just think that twitter creates sort of a perceptio

. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? (vo) later tonight current tv is the place for compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current. >> what a way to start the day. (vo) followed by "talking liberally with stephanie miller" >> this is big for me. only on current tv. >> john: today's thing of the day is the geeky pronounce ways. still wilheit won a webby award. his speech was a graphic that said it's pronounced jif not gif. but it was pointed out "g" is for graphic, so it should be gif. and i'll say choosey mothers choose jiff. >>> last week minnesota became the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriag

in this case, mitt romney goes through a bruising primary, out of primary money. he's sitting on millions and millions of dollars on the general election bucket in june, you he can't get it because the convention's in august. he is the proverbial duck in the pond that can't get to the money that's sitting in the campaign. that's why we're talking about moving the convention to the end of june. that's why we're talking about making sure that we have a say over who thed moderators are and who the media partners are. it's not an establishment takeover. we're trying to -- we're trying to protect the candidates, the nominees, and the things we believe in, what we're celebrating tonight. look, you're all leaders in the party. you wouldn't be here. you have your own network. we want to do you proud, build a big party, a party that works with people, that shares da fa. we want to be a party that winning together. that's what we need to do. i want to tell you a little story as i close out here. i want to give you idea where my head and heart's at. i met with a person that

. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. >> john: it's not just you. a lot of people don't like senator mitch mcconnell. even in his home state. but he keeps winning re-election. in a is survey last month his approval rating in kentucky was an abysmal 36% yet he's already leading the likely democratic candidates. which brings me to ed marks bury the only democrat to declare his candidacy so far. the poll has him down by 11 points against mcconnell before the mcconnell money machine kicks in. against this, mr. marksberry brings a working class message which he outlines in a rock video. have a listen. ♪ congress gives tax breaks to send our jobs overseas ♪ ♪ what about us ♪ >> john: i think that's roc

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. >> this is a seat which mitt romney won by ten points. if they no, ma'minate a less controversial republican, they should win. it's :00 in the morning on the east coast. therefore, i feel justified in asking you what michele bachmann's legacy, if there is a legacy, in politics or in congress, i feel in sort of campaigns, there might be one. in congress, i'm not sure there is one. >> and she was really didn't have the kind of influence even with the tea party that even though she founded the tea party caucus, there were other folks closer to some of the more conservative leaders than she was. policy level, she didn't have much that came out of anything she had done. certainly, she could get herself on television. campaign and raise money. and that's one thing democrats wind up loses is that she was a big fund-raiser for democrats. >> to raise money against. >> and she raised a lot of money for herself as well. we think it's not always a good thing to be running for president, have your name out there when you're maybe a second tier person

we conclude to focus exclusively on the commitments that mitt romney was making in the campaign. and we actually formed a document that you will see reflected in the book, we refer to as the general instructions. these are charges that were made by the candidate, mitt romney, to me as the chairman to prepare. and our effort was focused and disciplined on delivering those, on those items. i believe one of the components of our work that will have value for others to view our series of interlocking charters that were drafted following the general instructions. we took the general instructions and sent here are the narrow things we have to accomplish in a deep way. we then wrote charters that essentially laid out a work plan for east -- for each of the departments of government. now, if you're to look at our work from a high level what i think you'd see is we aspire to great a federal government in miniature. if you walk down the hall at the swisher building you would see the state department, the defense department, the treasury department, hhs, et cetera. and in each of those can

to your point, you can rise and also fall quicker, and ultimately mitt romney wound up as the nominee. you know, that ultimately this is a process that does sort of whittle out some of those folks who can rise quickly, but fall quickly. think about it, michele bachmann got elected in 2006, and wasn't a national figure until about 2010, so we're talking about 3 1/2 years in which we've sort of been talking about michele bachmann. it's icarus-like, way up toward the sun and dropping quickly toward thor. the process is still working in that people who make claims like that are ultimately weeded out and do not end up as the nominee. >> i wanted to close this out by talking about a politician who is switching back again. you've confirmed, mark murray reports that linking chafee will become a democrat again. >> and chris reported that news, too. he's got from -- he was a -- there is a crowded democratic primary for the governor of rhode island. there is doubt he might be able to win that nomination. some peopleivity spoken to thought his path of remaining as an independent is safer, because

he lost there in 2008 to john mccain and bigger to mitt romney in 2012. even so, texas is being seen more and more as potentially winnable by democrats. speculation over whether and when democrats could leverage changing demographics in the state and turn it red to blue has been simmering for months now. it is a state that has seen economic success at a time when the nation is floundering economically and the president in traveling there today is trying once again, to his credit, to drag the nation's attention back to the arena of jobs and the economy, despite the best efforts of our collective attention to grandstanding and conspiracy theorizing on the benghazi attacks or salacious murder trials. >> i have spent the day in austin talking about what we can do to reignite the true engine of america's economic growth. a thriving, rising, middle class and dynamic cutting-edge economy. that's our priority. that should be washington's top priority when you are talking to your members of congress, when you are talking to elected officials. you have to remind th