to have their way, but the numbers just aren t there. i m just hoping that more americans will wake up and send a stronger message here to washington to clean up our act. congressman paul, you have not announced whether you re running for president. i m not even going to bother asking you because you obviously wouldn t answer. right. but when you look at the field, donald trump has been getting a lot of attention now. do you think he s a viable candidate? he looked pretty viable to me. he was alive and well and kicking. i guess that s what it requires. as long as we check his birth certificate, i guess we ll be okay. congressman paul, thank you. okay. thanks, congressman. still ahead, some of what he was just talking about, donald trump. president obama s half sister was talking about the latest birther claims to piers morgan earlier tonight. we ll show you what she had to say. and also, whether donald trump is a real contender. is he seriously considering a presidentia
recuse yourself then. a vote winner. i don t know. there s going to be serious questions raised about his judgment. absolutely. anything is possible, as we ve seen in the world of politics. piers morgan, appreciate it. gloria borger, thanks. former minnesota governor tim pawlenty was asked would he consider being donald trump s running mate on a hypothetical ticket. if someone like donald trump was to emerge as the republican nominee and asked you to be vice president, would you accept that honor? i m running for president. i m not putting my hat in the ring ultimately or rhetorically for vice president. a spokesman for pawlenty later told cnn what you just heard was not a formal announcement for president, even though it sounds a lot like one to us. pawlenty told piers he d make a formal announcement in the coming weeks. he announced he was forming a presidential exploratory committee last month.
they are on a trajectory to run for the presidency. if it increasingly looks, as it does, that sarah palin is not running, she will gradually fall out of a lot of the mainstream commentary. if michele bachmann does get into this race, she s going to attract press coverage. so it s interesting because it s less personality driven and more job title search driven. if you re running for president, you get a lot of scrutiny and a lot of attention. that s the direction bachmann looks like she s heading. to hear donald trump tied with mike huckabee, do you think donald trump is a real contender? do you think he s a legitimate candidate? well, no, not really i don t. i think it s so early in the process that i hope the republican party i m a democrat, but i hope the republicans have a deeper bench than that, and they re going to come up with candidates who can really begin to talk about the things that are really concerning americans in these difficult times. we ve got a lot of issues i
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 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 herself nationally and i think there are a lot of people who don t take her very seriously. but you have to say she is cutting a deep furrow in iowa. senator braun, do you think she has replaced sarah palin for now? well, i think that what s so pathetic about it is to demagogue and lead the
from the executive director? we believe she s referring to a quote made by planned parenthood s illinois executive director steve trumbley a month before that statement in 2008. he was quoted in the wall street journal saying of planned parenthood, i like to think of it as the lenscrafters of family planning. again, i like to think of it as the lenscrafters of family planning, not big abortion. so what congressman bachmann has done is taken out the family planning part of the sentence and inserted big abortion. she s made up a quote. in the article, he was talking about setting up express locations in shopping malls for family planning services, like birth control, std testing, pregnancy testing, the kind of services which make up the vast majority of what planned parenthood does. he wasn t talking about performing abortions in malls. but she s not the only lawmaker making up things about planned parenthood. here s senator jon kyl. if you want an abortion, you go to planned paren