good evening. is michele bachmann s latest misstep the beginning of the end of her campaign? by most accounts bachmann did well in the republican debate taking rick perry to task on his order to girls to get the hpv vaccine suggesting he was catering to pharmaceutical manufacturer, merck. i ll tell you this, i had a mother last thiet come up to me here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me last night. i didn t know who she was before the debate. this is the very real concern. people have to draw their own conclusions. that was bachmann on the today show accounting what some stranger said to her. no reason to doubt someone says this to mrs. bachmann but it s incredibly irresponsible for her to repeat this as part of her argument against the hpv vaccine and then thro
issues this had the making offing of a political fire storm, kids, sexually transmitted disease and government telling parents how they should protect their own children. the issue, of course is texas governor rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human paploma virus, hpv, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later, the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry as someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now, after the debate, she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation, something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is, by all accounts, just flat-out wrong. more on that in a minute. but first bachmann and perry going hea
issues that came up last night in last night s cnn debate, issues this had the making offing of a political fire storm, kids, sexually transmitted disease and government telling parents how they should protect their own children. the issue, of course is texas governor rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human paploma virus, hpv, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later, the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry as someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now, after the debate, she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation, something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is, by all accounts, just flat-out wrong. more
it is september 14th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello joining you live this morning from new york. thanks for waking up with us. nearly one in six americans are now living in poverty. that s according to a new report from the census bureau. it s a gut check on where we stand in the wake of the recession. here are the raw numbers from the government. 46.2 million lived in poverty in 2010. that s over 15% of the population, the highest level since 1993. for a family of four, the poverty line is just over $22,000 a year. some advocates for the poor say that bar is way too low, but the conservative heritage foundation is pushing back again. if you qualify as being in poverty today, then you re really in deep poverty because that number is so low. that s based on an outdated formula from the 60s. i think that these numbers are designed to exaggerate the extent of poverty in the united states in order to build a larger welfare state, and it does make it mo
i would have to tell you, rick perry walked in here as a front-runner tonight. and i imagine he walked out as the front-runner. it s 10:00 eastern time, we re live with this special edition of ac 360. the tea party republican debate just wrapped up in tampa, florida. a lot to talk about. all the usual suspects, but some surprising moments as well, and a very pointed and contentious moments. we have analysis of all the candidates and key issues. we ll replay some key moments from the debate in case you missed it, and the facts thrown out in the heated it debate, to see whether there was truth to them, or there was stretching going on in tampa tonight. a look at some memorable moments from tonight s debate. take a look. it has been called a ponzi scheme by many people long before me. but no one s had the courage to stand up and say, here s how we re going to reform it. the term ponzi scheme, i think is over the top and unnecessary, and frightful to many people. the questi