mike barnicle is still with us. >> yep. >> along with sam stein.le, editor-in-chief of newsweek and the daily beast, tina. you are not going to play this game. no games. you are one of the savviest people i have seen in this industry. this cover proves it. come on. >> it's a light check. >> it's a news week cover. >> some people look at it and think michele bachmann looks crazy. others think it's the next president of the united states. >> the queen of rage? >> absolutely. this came out of a week where "the new york times" calls the tea party terrorists, then apologizes the next week. this cover captures that. >> what, looking cross eyed in a light check? >> not cross eyed. >> the intensity in her eyes is in all the photographs. this is connecting with people. people in the crowd are saying i should follow her. there's something about her with the eyes looking out. she's got a very, very intense demeanor. >> mika read it. after she read it, she said there doesn't seem to be a lot of words that back up the headline, the queen of rage. >> i read the

we know michele bachmann wants these jobs because of the intrepid sam stein at "the huffington post," he filed the freedom of information request to find out if while presidential candidate michele bachmann was denouncing the stimulus as, in her words, an orgy of spending, was she also asking for stimulus funding for her district at the same time? because regardless of what she was saying publicly for political effect, she actually knows this is the way that government can create jobs. was she saying something in public that contradicted what she was doing in private? yes, over and over again. sam stein was able to dig up 16 separate occasions where michele bachmann was publicly denouncing the futility, even the job-killing nature of the stimulus act while privately telling the obama administration that stimulus programs would create jobs and please, could chef some of that good none for her district. again, this is not a personal thing, this is not the kind of personal hypocrisy of denouncing medicaid as a program, like michele bachmann has done, it's not the same thing as denouncing

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down in washington, the "huffington post," sam stein. how are you? >> good. >> jaime is going to appear on "dateline." we are getting clips from his memoir. he's going to make people angry. he goes after colin power, condy rice and do we have the water boarding clip? he comes out and says i believe in what we did with water boarding. >> in your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? >> yes. >> no regrets? >> no regrets. >> should we still be water boarding terror suspects? >> i would support using it if we had a high valued detainee. >> even though so many people condemned it and called it torture, you think it should be a tool? >> yes. >> reverend sharpton, what do you think about dick cheney coming out with a memoir where he worked so closely to people that are still around. >> it's interesting he would say he's going to make a lot of people angry. he always did. >> he's make other people angry. >> what i think is interesting is he used the memoir to go after people that served in the administration and who were loyal to the adminis

million investment from the stimulus program and created 150,000 jobs in michigan and i'm joined by sam steinrom the "huffington post." and it is always great to see you, sam. the president is at a plant that i mentioned that was helped with the stimulus plan, but a lot of people want to hear much more than grand thoughts. they want to hear immediate policy, and that is not necessarily reality, but that is what they want. >> well, yeah, i mean, with unemployment hovering around 9% and the stock markets taking the tumbles they have, and with the long-term outlook more shaky, people want to see some policy specifics both from the president and from the republicans in congress about how to get people back to work. that is actually the best way to get the debt closed is to get the unemployment percentage closed to get more taxes paid. so they need to do something to involve spending, and where are the specifics? >> and the president is saying that he is not showing lead ership, and sam, i was watching morning joe and reading countless articles questioning this president's ability to lead, and he

the same day that trump has said that at the christian science monitor press briefing he also told sam stein of huffington post the president is a great friend of organized labor compared to the republicans he is a giant so it really doesn't mean much in two thousand and nine if they're in the sit out the election altogether now we're just threatening to maybe not go to a convention so it's not that huge of a threat ok but so then in your mind you know if we think about you mentioned that you know so much money goes into unions are the biggest. donors excuse me for democratic presidents how much of that money is money perhaps you know the members of the unions they don't even necessarily get to choose where their money goes which campaigns they donate to i mean do they ever feel like they're not being truly represented in what they want what their needs are whether we laws work in this country have to opt in in order to give money to political giving but now we citizens united that line has been blurred so there's a lot of membership that is very upset with the democratic party and very upse

sam stein of the huffington post, he quoted on 16 separate occasions, michele bachmann to petition theal government for direct financial help or aid. a large chunk of those requests for funds set aside to president obama's stimulus program. which bachmann once labeled, and here's a question about jobs. i want to get to policy now, not just politics. the question of job creation. it seems to me everybody when i grew up want add military base near their house because it meant jobs. like the aerospace program. meant jobs. boeing in seattle, meant jobs. the idea the federal government can't create jobs doesn't seem to be questioned locally, even by people like bachmann. they want a chunk of the action if the government's going to spend the money. do federal programs like the stimulus bill that creates job do they create jobs or not and if so, what's the problem with doing them? >> i hear both sides of that argument. i hear companies that say we didn't add anybody on but had to change our bookkeeping to say we did because they insisted we recategorize employees because of stimulus money und

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as sam stein reports, a large chunk of bachman's requests were for funds set aside through presidentram. bachman put in multiple requests for federal money. now the tea party queen may not think her dot requests are entirely hypocritical. she's previously said that transportation projects should be exempt from any ban on earmarks. her feelings toward the epa, howevering are another story. >> and i guarantee you the epa will have doors locked and the lights turned off and they will only be about conservation. it will be a new day and a new sheriff in washington, d.c.. >> but she asked for money from them too dog gone it. congresswoman bachman put in two requests for money from the very agency president bachman would aboli abolish. time to call in mike pappin. you get the $64 question at the end of the program tonight. is michele bachmann a socialist in disguise? >> what she is, is, she's a perfect reflection of the tea party mind. it is this. she tells other people they need to make sacrifices, she tells other people they should do without, bachman doesn't want to do without. she does