congresswoman michele bachmann will also deliver a separate response. so who is really, really speaking for the gop? our congressional correspondent brianna keilar is here in the situation room looking into the dilemma for us. what are you finding out? here s what happened today. following the state of the union address on tuesday, paul ryan will give the official response. that was the announcement today from republican leaders. he s currently the chair of the house budget committee. he s the go-to guy for cutting the tens of billions of dollars they say they re going to cut. shortly after the announcement was made today, the tea party express announced michele bachmann, a darling of the tea party, would give their response to the state of the union on their website following the president s state of the address. we don t know if this is going to be at the same time as paul ryan is doing his nationally advised express. or if they ll wait, trying to compete with the message republi
harry reid calling ryan and bachman extremists. he said that s because ryan has laid out a plan for entitlement reform. he said bachman is an extremist because she s a tea party darling. she certainly. thanks very much for that. let s dig deeper now with our senior political analyst gloria borger and david gergen. what does this signal about what some people suggested would happen? a little war among the conservatives and the republicans between the so-called establishment republicans versus the tea party movement favorites? well, you know, we ve been talking about this, wolf, since the midterm elections and lo and behold, here it is. it wasn t a if anythingment of our imagination. this is the tension in the republican party between those who have served and understand the limits of governing and what they can in the real world, and
out there. and really the tea party express isn t responding to my questions out that. the politicians and the opposition in this case, they try to speak at least with one voice. there will be some differences between what michele bachmann says and what paul ryan says. is what she saying competing with what paul ryan is saying, or is this just another member giving a response, and we know after the state of the union, a lot of them do that. i spoke to the speaker s office. speaker boehner. i was told just that. many members are putting out paper statements. they re tweeting. they re facebooks. they re doing tv interviews. they see it as another response. a spokesman said he understood this was set up for weeks.
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