plus, michele bachmann goes on jimmy fallon and helps him hone his michele bachmann impersonation. that clip a little bit later in the show. first, though, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. responsibility for cutting the nation's debt and deficit is shifting back to congress as the super committee officially yesterday admitted failure. just hours before the midnight deadline, the leaders of the bipartisan panel issued a statement about the deadlock. they wrote in part, "despite our inability to bridge the differences, we end this process united in our belief that the nation's fiscal crisis must be addressed and we cannot leave it for the next generation to solve." i know. that's why you were created actually. the breakdown of the super committee will trigger $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts including $600 billion from the defense department. a number of republicans are already working to stop the military cut. they're supposed to take effect in early 2013. president obama, though, vowing to block those efforts. he said congress must stick

plus, michele bachmann goes on jimmy fallon and helps him hone his michele bachmann impersonation. that clip a little bit later in the show. first, though, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. responsibility for cutting the nation's debt and deficit is shifting back to congress as the super committeeicially yesterday admitted the midnight deadline, th leaders of the bipartisan panel issued a statement about the deadlock. they wrote in part, "despite our inability to bridge the differences, we end this process united in our belief that the nation's fiscal crisis must be addressed and we cannot leave it for the next generation to solve." i know. that's why you were created actually. the breakdown of the super committee will trigger $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts including $600 billion from the defense department. a number of republicans are already working to stop the military cut. they're supposed to take effect in early 2013. president obama, though, vowing to block those efforts. he said congress must stick to the guidelines of the deal. >

including michele bachmann. but as i've pointed out here many times before, we are all in favor of some amount of socialism and we are all in favor of some amount of capitalism. the socialism deniers pretend they hate all forms of socialism, but they don't. they always find some government interference in the marketplace that they support. they all say they support purely socialistic programs like social security and medicare and they all support the most sacred form of american socialism, farm socialism. it's hard to get more socialistic than the government controlling prices in the marketplace. and michele bachmann has thanked the out of control socialist, president obama, for doing exactly that. well, actually she couldn't bring herself to thank the president directly, so she thanked his secretary of agriculture, tom vilsack, in a letter writing, "your efforts to stabilize prices through direct government purchasing of pork and dairy products are very much welcomed." farm socialism is personal for michele bac

including michele bachmann. but as i've pointed out here many times before, we are all in favor of some amount of socialism and we are all in favor of some amount of capitalism. the socialism deniers pretend they hate all forms of socialism, but they don't. they always find some government interference in the marketplace that they support. they all say they support purely socialistic programs like social security and medicare and they all support the most sacred form of american socialism, farm socialism. it's hard to get more socialistic than the government controlling prices in the marketplace. and michele bachmann has thanked the out of control socialist, president obama, for doing exactly that. well, actually she couldn't bring herself to thank the president directly, so she thanked his secretary of agriculture, tom vilsack, in a letter writing, "your efforts to stabilize prices through direct government purchasing of pork and dairy products are veryed." farm socialism is personal for michele bachmann. the b

you heard michele bachmann laughing there. the congresswoman was a guest on late night with jimmy fallon monday night.song choice used by his hoist ba house band is getting a lot of bad attention. >> please welcome to the show michele bachmann. ♪ >> so you don't hear any lyrics, but those in the know no that that was the roots rendition of a 1985 fish bone tune the first word in the title is lying. and we'll let will you look up the next two words. after the show was taped but before it aired, the band's drummer sent out a tweet previewing the moment. he wrote all right late night walk on song devotes, this next one takes the çcase. ask around aboutbecause i ain't tweeting the title. after backlash yesterday, quest love issued a statement writing the performance was a tongue in cheek and spur of the moment decision. the show was not aware of it and i feel bad if her feelings were hurt. that was not my intention. that from quest love, the drummer. jimmy fallon writing i'm honored that michele bachmann was on our show. i'm s

ranks. >> michele bachmann. >> let's face it, michele bachmann has been surging in every single poll. >> jon: at this pace, by the time of the election, she'll be at 5,000%. she can't go wrong. but, sadly, not two months later. >> is it over for michele bachmann? >> that the end for michele bachmann? >> it's probably curtains for her ( laughter ). >> jon: yes, it's amazing what paying attention to a candidate can do to their candidacy. with the death of her campaign, who will rise to complete the circle of prolife? >> texas governor rick perry, jumping into the lead as new republican front-runner. >> jon: president perry! it is on this day, august 31, 2011, that i inaugurate rick perry, the 45th president of these united states. >> this dog don't hunt. rick perry is finished. he's out. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> jon: oh,. president perry, we hardly knew ye. so we stand once again alone, with our boulder at the bottom of the hill. hopefully, this boulder doesn't have the "n" word on it, but... ( applause ) who will push it up for us now? >> latest poll just out from quinnipiac unive

>> michele bachmann. >> you are still with her? >> yes. >> who was with michele bachmann and now isn't? i want to understand why. can you explain why you were with her before and not now? >> i don't know that she is electable. i like her. as a person. and her values and beliefs. >> do you feel -- were you ever a michele bachmann person? >> nor very strong. not someone i would vote for. she would be my third or fourth choice. >> what is the nominee? >> newt. >> how many of you think gingrich will be the nominee? do you realize how bluntly hated he was six months ago? six months ago when he was at 5 percent, six months ago, how many of you were with him back then? who is with him now? okay. why the switch? >>guest: i saw genuineness, his faith, i liked what he said about education and the constitution. he is tough enough to do it. >> who else switched? why the switch? right there. >> i switched because i like his debating style. i like the way he was honest. and he didn't try to tear everyone else down. and i think he would be formid

but they might take a fresh look. >> why michelle bachmann? >> because she's a solid contender. >> bill: the caucus goers are conservative. michelle bachmann is certainly plays to that field. why wouldn't they go to her? >> because she's not been -- she's made a lot of misstatements, doesn't know a lot. maybe the people who went for herman cain would go for michelle bachmann because he didn't know a lot. it's 'cause he doesn't know anything. >> bill: i don't want to get into the sense that, but i will put up two men and you the audience can side how the media treated both of them. john edwards and herman cain. if you think that john edwards got the same scrutiny that herman cain got, then you live in the line -- >> when the story came out -- >> bill: no, no. they didn't even want to put it out, so the "national enquirer" had to do it. >> client: that's the point, because the left wing media protects democrats. look, you can go back to jack kennedy or bill clinton or john edwards. the same narrative prevails. once the story breaks, they have to

michele bachmann, then rick perry and herman cain. they are defending themselves. every day you hear stuff from the left. put them on the defensive so all they can do is defend their record instead of taking shots at obama where they should be. >> greg: the candidate whoever believes obama is the problem. he narrowed it down to 86 million people. >> eric: correct. >> greg: even carrot top could occupy the white house. >> andrea: he's right. so many candidates taken the bait, the media's bait to go after each other. inside the tent. the one who hasn't has been newt gingrich. he has been the one who resisted every debate. i would say, too, mitt romney is running a general election campaign. he has been focused on obama the most. obama's team is focused on romney the most. >> kimberly: you are right. you can tell where the worry is, the frustration is. they think that is the guy to beat. i agree. romney and newton, 100%. newt showed statesman like quality throughout the debate. that is part of the reason he's been elevated. he has been focused on message and focusing

maybe it was a michele bachmann crazy eyes thing. later turned out the reason she wasn't looking at the cnn camera, though cnn was building this as an official response to the state of the union, was because she was actually looking into camera from something called tea party hd. tea party hd. a fake tv network for the tea party. tea party hd today was the subject of a lawsuit in tennessee. a group of investors who collectively sunk nearly $300,000 into this scam claiming in their filing that, quote, the alleged purpose of tea party hd was to be the word's firld's fi news provider of the tea party. it was a scheme to defraud politically conservative minded citizens who support the tea party mission. one of the people who alleges he was defrauded in the tea party hdtv scam which proves it's not just nigerian princes you have to look out for, one of the guys was involved in the other great tea party scam. remember the for profit $549 a ticket self-proclaimed national tea party national convention thing in nashville a couple years ago?

accidently went to one of michele bachmann's staffers. her campaign manager said that dickerson, the cbs guy, should now be fired. but cbs initially saying, hey, she's at 4% in the polls. let's be realistic. she's not going to be getting a lot of questions at this debate. we'll continue to follow this throughout the morning. >>> about ten minutes past the hour now. and penn state trying to move forward from the child rape scandal. emotional scene at yesterday's final home game and the first game since the allegations came out. you're watching cnn "sunday morning." they fit! okay-y... okay??? i've been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans...fit. okay is there a woman i can talk to? [ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less. [ male announcer ] spreading joy in a pair of santa swimtrunks? [ buzzer sounds ] scoring a kindle with special offers for only $79 at radioshack. so right. >>> we're at 12 minutes past the hour. it was a football game, but it seemed like the focus was on everything but football. penn state p

and not just against michele bachmann, every day the mainstream media denies air time to millions of people who will not be president. (laughter) as bachmann's campaign manager keith nahegian e-mailed reporter-- supporters, the media elite are purposely suppressing our conservative message. yes, cbs is clearly biased for asking more questions of the left wing candidates like herman cain, rick perry, mitt romney and newt gingrich. three of these comrades don't even want to electrocute mexicans. now thankfully, bachmann has turned this outrage into an outrage-portunity. on sunday her campaign fired off an e-mail to supporters saying please show your support by tweeting your outrage to cbs news. afterwards i hope will you make a donation to michele's campaign to ensure she has the funds necessary to foyt back against the liberal media. and folks, it's true. michele bachmann needs your donations because to the only does the media have a liberal bias, but evidently so does money. nation, i have got some great news. we solved the global warming crisis! jimmy, drop the styrofoam! whooo! who

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bachmann said that iran said it once the way the u.s. is. wipe us off the earth with their nuclear weapons that they deny they even have a nuclear weapon so a lot of stuff that doesn't necessarily make sense and they're really quick though let's take a look at pakistan where she made a little more sense than rick perry. at this point i would continue that aid but i do think that the obama policy of keeping your fingers crossed is not working in pakistan and i also also think that pakistan is a nation that it's kind of like too nuclear to fail and so we've got to make sure that we take that threat very seriously i understand where she's coming from but the bottom line is they've showed us time after time that they can't be trusted and until pakistan clearly shows that they have america's best interests in mind i would not send them one penny period. so a little bit of division in the republican field over this but do you think that that's a good thing because they're finally starting to realize how complicated a new once this relationship

is this just michele bachmann being michele bachmann? i think this misinformation especially with science is really damaging in a way maybe other gaffes we have seen from the republican field are not. >> there's been debate about the effectiveness of the vaccine and potential side effects. what she's trying to mandate is the executive order perry endorsed. she probably has a problem with somebody running who is opposing a mandate by obama and yet had mandate for 6th grade girls to get a vaccine. if you want it, go ahead. i think she feels and let me say how i feel, that it's stepping on parental rights. that is core issue she wants to address. >> it would be one thing to talk about the government involved in health care. this is a falsehood that stokes fear among families and young children. she bears some responsibility to clarify things. no? >> i'll use perry's executive order. he enforced it only after the fda approved it. a lot of theç implications of e vaccine in the future we don't know. it's very new. she's just calling attentio

first, disrespecting michelle bachmann. a week ago on the jimmy fallon program played a disrespectful song in introducing congress woman michelle bachmann. that kind of thing is not unusual anymore that. is why they lied about this program on the air, we asked headline to apology. it would not. nbc apologized privately. >> of course i accept apology but my dad says it would have been the president of nbc apologizing not the senior vice president of programming. when someone smg is done to a conservative, it's passed off and forgoten. >> bill: important point is that media standards have collapsed. that is dangerous, americans need to be honest watch dogs not ideological lap dogs. when you have media doing thing that's are dishonest you have a major problem. to be fair things have been better over tlchl the far left msnbc network which routinely slandered people in the past has been toned down in a bit. the company has its hands full as this fallon episode demonstrates. same with cnn i am surprised they did not do the right

you see, minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann's campaign is crying foul because bachmann was slated to appear on a post debate show for cbs. cbs's new political director john dickerson was informed of this in an e-mail from his producer, and responded by writing, let's keep it loose, in the hopes we can get someone else because bachmann was not going to get many questions in the debate since her low poll numbers weren't nearly off the charts. ms. bachmann's communications director was copied on the e-mail because mr. dickerson hit "reply all" now we've all been there. laugh laugh one slip of the mouse and the wrong person gets that photo of you in the crocless ironman costume. again, my apologies to door ris concerns goodwin and my apologies to no shave november. (laughter) no surprise-- (applause) no surprise after dickerson's accidental gabfest bachmann's campaign manager stormed through the spin room saying john dickerson should be fired. he is a piece of [bleep] (laughter) to add insult to injury, a piece of [bleep] is polling higher than michele bachmann. well-- (laughter) (app

also coming up: the republican candidates debate and an interview with representative michele bachmann. plus, the tiny mussel threatening the great lakes. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the president of turkey today warned the syrian government's deadly crackdown on opposition could bring turmoil to the entire region. president abdullah gul said syria has come to a point of no return. security forces could be seen patrolling the streets of several cities today. protesters near damascus burned tires to block the troops from reaching them. the united nations has reported some 3,500 people have been killed in the eight-month-long uprising. russian president dmitry medvedev had a warning for the u.s. today over its missile defense program. he said russia might target u.s. missile shield sites in europe unless the u.s. guarantees the weapons are not targeting russian nuclear forces. in moscow, medvedev also warned russia could opt out of the new "start" arms control deal with the u.s. >> ( translated ): russia retains the right to refuse to ta

also coming up: the republican candidates debate and an interview with representative michele bachmann. plus, the tiny mussel threatening the great lakes but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the president of turkey today warned the syrian government's deadly crackdown on opposition could bring turmoil to the entire region. president abdullah gul said syria has come to a point of no return. security forces could be seen patrolling the streets of several cities today. protesters near damascus burned tires to block the troops from reaching them. the united nations has reported some 3,500 people have been killed in the eight-month-long uprising. russian president dmitry medvedev had a warning for the u.s. today over its missile defense program. he said russia might target u.s. missile shield sites in europe unless the u.s. guarantees the weapons are not targeting russian nuclear forces. in moscow, medvedev also warned russia could opt out of the new "start" arms control deal with the u.s. >> ( translated ): russia retains the right to refuse to tak

bachmann said that iran said it wants to play the u.s. is to wipe us off the earth with their nuclear weapons that they deny they even have a nuclear weapon a lot of stuff that doesn't necessarily make them think they're really quick though let's take a look at pakistan where she made a little more sense than rick perry. at this point i would continue that aid but i do think that the obama policy as keeping your fingers crossed is not working in pakistan and i also also think that pakistan is a nation it's kind of like too nuclear to fail and so we've got to make sure that we take that threat very seriously i understand where she's coming from but the bottom line is they've showed us time after time that they can't be trusted and until pakistan clearly shows that they have america's best interest in mind i would not send them one penny period. so a little bit of division in the republican field over this but do you think that's a good thing because they're finally starting to realize how complicated a nuance this relationship is of pakist

moving from invasion now to michele bachmann, what was your reaction when she was supported by herman cain? >> they refused to acknowledge how effective the president's own anti-terrorism policies have been against al qaeda without the resort to waterboarding and without the resort to torture. they can't even use one incident where the president of the united states let this country down. when it comes to dealing with the issues of counter terrorism. by the way, just to add to this mix, these oversimplifications of accusing torture is the best methodology is wrong. we have documented evidence and it's clear from all of the counter terrorism records since the beginning of the attacks by al qaeda. waterboarding is only used once and when it was used once against khalid shaikh mohammed, it had to be used 16 or 17 times before he gave his name. >> although she was not there in person, is it fair to say that the ghost of dick cheney was there? >> i suppose so. the folks who support him in that way, michele bachmann thought there were advantages to invoking his name and to your point about