this. michelle bachmann, she s been pulling it together and a lot of people are talking about her and she s doing well in certain polls. what do you make of her candidacy and how does that affect yours? well, i know congresswoman bachmann, i campaigned for her, i respected her over the years and worked with her over the years. she s from minnesota, obviously. but everyone brings something different to the table. one of the things that i bring to the table is a record of executive leadership and rumts, not just talking about these issues, but getting them done on taxes, spending, market-based health care reform, employee pension reform and much more. that s one of the things that people are going to be interesting. having done these things and talking about them. go ahead. talking about what happened in washington. president obama has stepped into the deficit talks, meeting separately with senate leaders harry reid and mitch mcconnell at the white house to try to offset a federal
former speaker of the house nancy pelosi says we ned to pass the healthcare bill to find out what is in it. we have the latest poll on what americans now think about what is in it. and we ll reveal it to you coming up. president obama s spokesperson says it s nuts to think the public cares about the president being involved in the deficit talks. really? we ll report and you can decide. and in the dumbest thing you can do category for the day you can t miss a video of a guy who tries to ride an escalator on his rump instead of his feet. wait until you see the scary ending. that and much more when i see you just a few minutes away. jenna: we actually have that video for you right now. look at how we planned that. john: we re trying to get an edge in here. jenna: it is unbelievable video so you can see it more than once. this truly could have been a horrific deadly accident. you take a look at this teenager, he hops on to the rail, it s almost it is hard to watch, it s not almost hard t
that puts us on a trajectory where we don t have the cushion, if anything bad goes wrong. the cbo is one more indicator of why we ned to come together in a bay partner way, and work on the deficit reduction. reporter: van hollen is at the white house meeting today and meanwhile, democrats yesterday were asking that we in include more spending in the deficit talks, to create jobs, something president obama said didn t work well the first time around. heather. thank you so much, we appreciate the numbers are staggering and scary. bill: the stark numbers about the economy, 6 million americans were unemployed for 6 months or longer. about 25% of mortgage holders nationwide are now under water. owing more money than the home is worth. and, consumer prices for all goods have increased, each month, since june of 2010. that means inflation. and concerns about the economy, that brings us to our web question of the day.
maryland the white house briefing asking if there s wangers going on. jay kor nee told us yesterday we adopt know if we ll get a full read out of the discussion. certainly they re likely to discuss the topics at hand. the deficit talks, the debt ceiling. yet no one expects there to be a deal at the end of this game. it s really a social outing. i would pay to drive that golf cart. i just can t imagine what they ll be talking about. reporter: absolutely. thank you so much. reporter: thanks, richard. michelle bachmann will be speaking at a conservative conference in minneapolis toeld and could launch on a new attack she launched on president obama. she said obama has a covert plan for medicare. i think very likely what the president intends is that medicare will go broke. and that ultimately that answer will be obama care for senior citizens. what else would the plan be? we have a reporter for real clear politics. thanks for getting up with us
requires pro-life cabinet appointees. some of his opponents signed the pledge, including ron paul, tim pawlenty, michelle bachman and newt gingrich. jamie: you can mix business with pleasure, can t you? that s what president obama did, taking to the links with john boehner. it s the first time the two have played golf together and vice president joe biden, ohio governor john kasich, they rounded out the foursome. who came out on top? and will this friendly meet-up move the ball down the fairway on the deficit talks? caroline shively has this report from washington. forget the u.s. open this weekend. all the buzz in washington is about the golf summit. president obama and house speaker john boehner ditched the suits, grabbed the clubs and began 18 holes at andrews air force base. the first putt had to hurt the