can help get your child healthy. get ideas. get involved. get going at letsmove.gov. that s letsmove.gov. following a bunch of other stories right now. randi kaye joins us with a 360 news and business bulletin. egypt s military says former president hosni mubarak is hospitalized in sharm el sheikh where he s been living since he stepped down. state television said the 82-year-old suffered a heart attack. prosecutors summoned him two days ago for questioning on corruption charges. tonight, there are conflicting reports about whether that questioning had begun when mubarak fell ill.
new polling numbers putting michele bachmann seventh right now. donald trump and mike huckabee tied for the lead. however, michele bachmann is considered strong in iowa because of her conservative beliefs and due to the fact she s been living there lately, making a lot of trips and says she was born there. joining me now is my political panel, ari fleischer, david gergen, and carol mosley braun. david, is michele bachmann a real contender in this republican race? anderson, she s gradually repaced sarah palin as a lead spokeswoman in the social conservative cause. and she has made some speeches out in iowa that would knock people s socks off. she s been a very effective speaker. when she makes statements like this, she diminishes herself nationally and i think there are a lot of people who don t take
million. a lot of money, but compared to the others, hard to call it one of the largest political organizations you can imagine. some other hard facts. new polling numbers putting michele bachmann seventh right now against probable presidential nominations. donald trump and mike huckabee tied for the lead. however, michele bachmann is considered strong in iowa because of her conservative beliefs and due to the fact she s been living there lately, making a lot of trips and says she was born there. joining me now is my political panel, former bush white house political secretary ari fleischer, david gergen and carol moseley braun. david, is michele bachmann a real contender in this republican race? anderson, she s gradually replaced sarah palin as a lead spokeswoman in the social conservative cause. and she has made some speeches out in iowa that would knock people s socks off. she s been a very effective speaker. i do think that when she makes statements like this, she diminishes hers
speech on the budget, long-term deficit reduction. we ve talked about how he s handled it so far, trying to at least from the white house perspective, trying to rise above the fray. do you see him still trying to do that or giving more concrete proposals, concrete direction? well, you know, i hope he will obviously give a concrete direction, show us a way forward. but i hope also that he will be able to reach back for some of the inspirational guidance that the american people responded to when he ran, to give people a sense that there really is a way out. that we re not going to be mired in three wars forever. that we re not going to cut social security and change retirement security for the next generation of americans. that we can rebuild our infrastructure, that we can educate our kids. i mean, it s that kind of inspiration that this president is particularly good at, and i hope that s where he goes in the speech tomorrow. ari, do you expect him to be specific in spending cuts?
tomorrow, when will he ever be? he s already passed up three opportunities to be specific. one when his commission came out, two in the state of the union and three when the budget came out. it s time for him to be specific. after all, anderson, when it comes to raising taxes, he s been specific down to the decimal. he knows he wants it to be 39.6. that s up from 35% top rate. so we need that level of specificity on spending cuts. if we re going to have social security and medicare for the next generation, we need the president to describe with specifics what he intends to do so those programs don t go bankrupt and bankrupt our nation along with them. david, we haven t heard a lot of specifics up until now. we haven t, anderson. there s something peculiar going on. on sunday when david plouffe representing the president promised on this wednesday he would come forward with a plan, it sound like he was going to have an alternative that would be alternative to the paul ryan plan on t