>> yeah, that's right. there is even one foreign reporter who says that a member of bachmann's staff threatened to break his arm if he got too close to the candidate. what you have out there is an extraordinarily tightly controlled, some might say overly aggressively controlled sort of campaign event format, where you can't get that close to the candidate, she asks reporters -- lets reporters ask her questions by choosing their names from a list and if you get a little too close, it's a bit like approaching a celebrity. >> we should read a statement the bachmann campaign provided to nbc news. it states the number one priority for us every single day, we step out to the campaign trail, is the safety and security of michele bachmann. alex, i think i recall an article in politico earlier in the week that kind of compared the campaign styles of bachmann in iowa to rick perry, to make the point that bachmann did seem to be a little bit more isolated, kind of zooming in to a republican dinner at the last minute, not really staying to grease the hands of a lot of the folks there, whereas rick perry