national campaign manager alice stewart to try to put this hastily together. still setting up this particular venue. this is the venue where the caucus reception was for the bachmann campaign last night. as noted at the top of the hour the national campaign manager for the the bachmann campaign suggested getting out of the race may be a course she may want to consider. sarah palin said something similar on the air last night, while she was complimentary of congresswoman s bachmann s effort and her role in her campaign that her best role may be back in the house as a u.s. congressman from minnesota. if you read voices and body language it does look like the decision is made to discontinue the campaign, but that is just a sense i get, not something official i get from the campaign. jamie: we could know in less than an hour, thanks so much, steve brown, live in des moines. bill: as we await bachmann s big
i guess that is what s so stunning, if you re just waking up and just tuning into the coverage, president obama went on the air last night, announced osama bin laden had been killed on a raid and, again, for me, the surprise is, mika, how quickly everything happened. the initial the initial rumors that were going around the diplomatic community and also the media community was that this is something that had happened a week ago, when the president came on, we found out actually it had been ordered yesterday. he had been shot yesterday, at very close range. yeah. again, very stunning how quickly this turned around. a navy seal. and the president addressed the country late last night. if you missed that. we do have new video into the compound where osama bin laden was hiding out about an hour
bit more. just a little bit more. not a whole lot more. just a little bit more. just a little bit more. remember the chart we put on the air last night, how union membership and middle class income, the way it s gone down over the last 30 years and ceo pay and how the top 2% of this country has just taken all the goodies especially in the last ten years? and now the president, because we re in what they call a budget crisis is saying, the most fortunate among us can afford to pay just a little bit more. well, how do you think the republicans responded to all of this? it was almost as if we were offending them. we re offending the wealthy in this country while there are more and more millions of americans who are just trying to make ends meet. and the income disparity in this country continues to grow, and the president is just asking for just a little bit more. i just came from a town hall
just a little bit more. not a whole lot more. just a little bit more. just a little bit more. remember the chart we put on the air last night, how union membership and middle class income, the way it s gone down over the last 30 years and ceo pay and how the top 2% of this country has just taken all the goodies especially in the last ten years? and now the president, because we re in what they call a budget crisis is saying, the most fortunate among us can afford to pay just a little bit more. well, how do you think the republicans responded to all of this? it was almost as if we were offending them. we re offending the wealthy in this country while there are more and more millions of americans who are just trying to make ends meet. and the income disparity in this country continues to grow, and the president is just asking for just a little bit more. i just came from a town hall
clause that you and i discussed on the air last night is one that hasn t even been reduced to writing yet this clause that would give out $150 billion to corporations which by the way, would be enough to hire 5 million americans, reduce the unemployment rate by 3% and give them all paychecks of $30,000 a year. when you are hand out $150 billion, you need to see the work, you need to see what the document says, they keep telling us all the time, read the bill, read the bill there is no bill to read there s been no hearings held there s been no markups. there s been no analysis by the joint tax committee, they throw out this framework and say take it or leave t this is legislative malpractice. not the first time to spend $1 trillion this way just because the president reached some kind of agreement with his arch nemesis, mitch mcconnell, and left the rest of us out. ralph can tell you, not the first time tax bills legislated like this at the last minute.