repeatedly cites as their source. pretty serious sounding name. its website is muslim brotherhood in america.com. the man who runs the group is frank gaffney who says the muslim brotherhood is infiltrating every aspect in american life in order to impose sharia law. calls gaffney, i quote, the anti-muslim s movement most paranoid prop grandist. he was pointi ining fingers of suspicious april norquist. gaf ni was actually not allowed to go to cpac one year because of these allegations. this is not the first time bachmann has relied on questionable sources. you may remember two years ago, right here on this program, congresswoman backman made some pretty outrageous claims. saying it would cost taxpayers $200 million a day. and it turned out the source of her unsubstantiated claim was an indian news report that quoted an anonymous indian source allegedly in indian government. how an official would even know how much the president of the united states trip costs doesn t make sens
chief of staff. implying she may somehow be working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood. now, you would think to make a charge like that for sitting members of congress to make a charge like that, that they would have some actual evidence, right? you would think that. but the truth is they don t have any direct evidence. what they have are allegations of past connections of relatives of hers that are tenuous best. has called for bachmann to produce credible evidence. so bachmann produced a 16 page letter she sent to the congressman. we re going to walk you through the lonngic she lays out in thi particular case. mother, brother and late father are connected to the muslim brotherhood. let s start with abadin s father, who s dead, by the way. a professor of social science. now, bachmann attributes this information to 2002 law review article out of brickham young university. according to that article, professor abetin s institute had the support of another man who was a former g
can he get it past the do-nothing republicans? plus rick ponzi keep perry spent the week perfecting a new dance, the walk-back. but will social security send the cowboy packing? also, tim pawlenty becomes the new top mitten for willard mitt romney. and john mccain gets it wrong, really wrong, on america s exit strategy for iraq. welcome to politics nation i am al sharpton. tonight s lead, what a difference a weekend makes. remember last week? it seems that just maybe we had a chance to get something done on jobs. speaker boehner was talking golf with vice president biden, and not once but twice boehner and congressman kantor said the president s jobs bill, quote, merits consideration, unquote. but that was then. this is now. today the president sent his jobs bill to congress, and called for more of the goodwill between the parties. this is a bill that will put people back to work all across the country. this is a bill that will help our economy in a moment of nation
went through together in those great days. that s hardball for now. politics flation with al sharpton starts right now. the party of no is back, but the president may have an answer. tonight president obama sends his jobs bill to congress. can he get it past the do-nothing republicans? plus rick ponzi keep perry spent the week perfecting a new dance, the walk-back. but will social security send the cowboy packing? also, tim pawlenty becomes the new top mitten for willard mitt romney. and john mccain gets it wrong, really wrong, on america s exit strategy for iraq. welcome to politics nation i am al sharpton. tonight s lead, what a difference a weekend makes. remember last week? it seems that just maybe we had a chance to get something done on jobs. speaker boehner was talking golf with vice president biden, and not once but twice boehner and congressman kantor said the president s jobs bill, quote, merits consideration, unquote. but that was then. this is now.
7:00 p.m. eastern. the ball is now in president hamid karzai s court in a tense showdown over afghanistan s government. the newly elected parliament held a special session today and decided to accept karzai s offer of a wednesday inauguration, but only if he dissolved a special court that s looking into election fraud allegations. karzai wanted to delay the inauguration for a month so the court could finish its business. there s more information this morning on the mysterious return of exiled former haitian dictator baby doc duvalier. one of the three u.s. attorneys working with him says duvalier wants access to $6 million frozen in swiss bank you a counts so he can use it to help haiti rebuild. duvalier is accused of looting the haitian national treasury before fleeing the country. one of his attorneys is former u.s. congressman bob bahr. unrest in algeria where pro-democracy demonstrators