american dream or making money. if you compare donald trump to mitt romney, it wasn t that both were either millionaires or billionaires, it s what mitt romney did. he said that he was for creating jobs but we also found in his record shipping jobs overseas. that is what the point is. it s not begrunling anybody for the money they may make or pursuing the american dream. so i think, you know, it s yet to be seen whether those poll numbers for donald will hold up and the reason for it. but i ll ask anybody here and now, do we remember or know where michele bachmann is, who won the 2011 iowa straw poll. we don t know where she is now. we can go back to who was leading, joe leishman, rudy giuliani in the past. history is a good teacher. suzy, mitt romney did not certainly flaunt his wealth the way that donald trump is. he kind of tried to hide it. i m saying this is resonating
interesting, though, is there s two ways to look at bachmann s departure as signaling some end to that ugly period, right? the bookends are the real backlash politics in 2008 that reached the culmination of the tea party and the ugliness there and are now on the wane and are, you know, or you can see as michele bachmann is, essentially, the john the baptist to the people that came after her, like ted cruz, who s kind of the michele bachmann with elite pedigree and tremendous rhetorical skills. so my question for you, particularly that she comes out of the e advantage jell call movement, whether you see this as something that s going to endure the michele bachmann base or does signal some kind of end to that period. i think the republican base, the evan they are not going anywhere. no one is getting through the iowa caucuses without pandering
today, because it is closed and has been for a long time. the american embassy in iran was part of the hostage crisis thing with iran during the iranian revolution. iranian revolutionaries storming the embassy, holding americans hostage. we closed our embassy in tehran after that, we have not had an embassy in iran since 1980. here s michele bachmann speaking in 2011. you may have heard that there s a break-in at the british embassy and the british had to pull their people out. that s exactly what i would do. we wouldn t have an american embassy in iran. if i were president, she would close the u.s. embassy in iran that hasn t been there since the 1970s. that s a very bold move. here s the thing, as amazing as michele bachmann is, and she is amazing, as amazing as she is to watch in american politics, she is also on the intelligence committee in congress, the intelligence committee whose job it is to oversee the cia and
backlash politics in 2008 that reached the culmination of the tea party and the ugliness there and are now on the wane and are, you know, or you can see as michele bachmann is, essentially, the john the baptist to the people that came after her, like ted cruz, who s kind of the michele bachmann with elite pedigree and tremendous rhetorical skills. so my question for you, particularly that she comes out of the evangelical movement, whether you see this as something that s going to endure the michele bachmann base or does signal some kind of end to that period. i think the republican base, the evan they are not going anywhere. no one is getting through the iowa caucuses without pandering and appealing to that base. it could be cruz and it could be rick santorum, who reminds us he won 11 states. it s not going anywhere. maybe in retreat, and i think michele bachmann, one thing she
you may have heard that there s a break-in at the british embassy and the british had to pull their people out. that s exactly what i would do. we wouldn t have an american embassy in iran. if i were president, she would close the u.s. embassy in iran that hasn t been there since the 1970s. that s a very bold move. here s the thing, as amazing as michele bachmann is, and she is amazing, as amazing as she is to watch in american politics, she is also on the intelligence committee in congress, the intelligence committee whose job it is to oversee the cia and military intelligence program and a bunch of other parts of our government that handle very sensitive intelligence data. it is part of michele bachmann s job in congress as assigned by the republican leadership in congress, to oversee those very sensitive parts of our government. it is easy to not just dismiss michele bachmann, but to enjoy michele bachmann as the sort of living, breathing embodiment of the crazy in american poli