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i don't really know what has means, but robert rice is here to enlighten us, coming up next.now who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> 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? john: it's time for our thing of the day. today's it's our congressional derangement of the day. congressman michele bachmann's presidential campaign of 2012 is under investigation by the office of congressional ethics for campaign finance violations. it remains to be seen if this investigation will distract her from the pretend make believe fantasy investigations into obamacare killing people and obama's five air force one chefs and $200 million a day for the president to visit india and the ob

. >> john: i would have tried anything to do what robert rice said and repeal the sequester.at do we see now? the two party system saying we need us a austerity so they pay for the sins and gluttony of the upper class. it is easy to get cynical. it feels like the republicans and democrats are paying good cop bad cop when the working class always pays. at the end of the day, there is no doubt the g.o.p. is to blame for all of this. i think the president made a mistake when -- and a lot of people agree, when he said last week this was going to cause pay cuts. when we saw the white house start walking back on the threats of dire consequence -- >> stephanie: mark, he never said it was going to be an apocalypse. >> he never said the sky was falling. good people will feel this and it is unnecessary. >> john: they will feel it. >> caller: right. but the republicans tried to make it sound like he was saying the sky was falling. he was giving. >> real definition of what some people are going to feel. when you tell a waitress -- >> john: his entire cabinet was, too. >> caller: when you

susan rice and robert menendez had this reaction. >> i don't think that the regime in pyongyang wantst that as they must surely know, that would be the result of any attack on the united states. >> we'll chief nothing but continued threats and provocations. these will only further isolate the country and its people and undermine international efforts to promote peace and stability in northeast asia. we have urged the north korean leadership repeatedly and continue to do so to heed president obama's call to choose a path of peace. and to come into compliance with its enter nation international . >>> gabrielle giffords wants the u.s. senate to require all gun buyers for get a background check. she and her husband took that message to a gun control rally at the tucson grocery store where she was shot in the head more than two years ago. six people were killed and 13 wounded in the attack. >>> mitt romney's got another job. the republican nominee for president obama is going to work for his son tagg's private equity firm. he'll serve as chairman of the executive committee. romney rejoined