republicans are turning on one of their own after she launches a mccarthy-like attack on a long-time public servant. last month, congresswoman michele bachmann and four other house republicans sent letters to top intelligence and security officials suggesting one of secretary of state hillary clinton s top aides has ties to islamic extremists, huma abedin. they want a federal investigation to determine if abedin is using her position at the state department to elevate the group. yesterday, john mccain, the senator, of course, from arizona, defended abedin on the senate floor, demanding an end to the ugly and sinister attacks. following mccain s reprimand, bachmann wasn t answering any questions. hey, congresswoman, how are you?
deniability at the same time. can you not admit that s going on? i don t see it. i m not getting any of these secret dog whistle messages you don t see it, you hear it. i don t see it happening do you hear it? no, i don t hear it either. i watch this stuff all the time. you guys say, well, bush was unpatriotic for the policies we don t like what he did, but if a republican says president obama s un-american, which they immediately retract, for bad policies that he s put in place, that s all of a sudden some sort of really nasty insidious code word. no, no, no. no one was ever calling president bush s policies un-american or unpatriotic. it s all done in the context of barack obama is not a real american. and i don t want this to turn in the guys ganging up on guy at all, my biggest outrage is he pretty much plagiarized a much better and briefer elizabeth warren quote a few weeks ago. stick around. coming up, michele
. republicans are turning on one of their own after she launches a mccarthy-like attack on a long-time public servant. last month, congresswoman michele bachmann and four other house republicans sent letters to top intelligence and security officials suggesting one of secretary of state hillary clinton s top aides has ties to islamic extremists. huma abedin. they want a federal investigation to determine if abedin is using her position at the state department to elevate the group. yesterday, john mccain, the senator, of course, from arizona, defended abedin on the senate floor, demanding an end to the ugly and sinister attacks. following mccain s reprimand, bachmann wasn t answering any questions. hey, congresswoman, how are you? sorry, i can t right now. i want to ask you about
wondering. that s not good enough. john, isn t it un-american of bachmann to try and paint certain muslims as un-american? i don t like to use the word un-american, but i have a muslim cousin, jewish sister-in-law, atheist brother, i don t get to hate anybody. michele bachmann, what she did, rather deliberate. she s going to raise money from saying what she said, and she will earn the ire of her colleagues, yes, even john boehner condemned her, but they need her because she makes them look measured and reasonable. to me, she s an embarrassment to all ignorant and lying americans. i represent that. a number of republicans have attacked michele bachmann. having worked for congressman bachmann s campaign for president, i am fully aware she sometimes has difficulty with her attacks, but this downright
the romney campaign picks up where donald trump and sarah palin left off, painting president obama as unmerp and michele bachmann s mccarthy-like witch hunt. senator mccain said what you re doing can t right now. going after huma? i can t right now. all of a sudden, republicans care about government jobs. dick cheney wants to keep the defense money flowing to pay for the next war. retired colonel lawrence wilkerson is here.