wrong time to raise revenues. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell insists any tax increase won t pass congress. he will meet with the president tomorrow to talk about it. well, we d like to wrap this up. one of the reasons we are meeting tomorrow is that i think both the democrats and the republicans would like to come together and finish this negotiation and finish it sometime soon. it need not necessarily go to the 11th hour. senate majority leader harry reid meets with the president tomorrow morning and mcconnell tomorrow evening. talks are continuing though formal sessions broke down for now. eric? eric: all right, steve. thank you so much. take care. julie: well, congresswoman michele bachmann rising quickly in the polls. she plans to officially kick off her presidential campaign tomorrow. and this morning, we re getting a closer look at fiscal conservatives from
minnesota, iowa, common sense voice and finally has been heard now in the halls of congress, my goal, chris is to take the voice to the white house where it has not been heard for a long time and people recognize, that i m sincere. in what i say and i will fight, whether it means taking on washington, even sometimes my own party. i am happy to do that, because we have to turn things around. reporter: she finished second in the caucus poll just released and the leader of the poll is former massachusetts governor mitt romney and third place went to business man herman cain and back to bachmann, she s spent 8 days in iowa this year and has a really low, unfavorability rating, 12% view her unfavorably. the only person with a lower number than that, is texas governor rick perry and he s not even an official candidate and something else that is interesting about her, is that 18% of respondents in the poll picked her to be the second choice which is way more than mitt romney got, with 10%,
leads first of the nation caucus polls, minnesota congresswoman bachmann largely ignores pawlenty. today she played up a close house partnership with popular iowa congressman steve kung to defund and repeal obamacare. it will be socialized medicine in the united states. it s a crown jewel of socialism. reporter: bachmann went to south carolina where she signed the cut, cap and balance pledge. two weeks said she said it doesn t go far enough but it s become top priority of powerful senator jim demint and fiscal hawks in congress in texas, governor rick perry s record is getting closely scrutinized, too. his state budget shows a surplus but it has grown faster than inflation and population growth. and spending has grown faster than under the predecessor bush. perry s day of prayer and fasting in houston is august 6. right when he initially planned announce the decision to run or not. he has said he could take more time but he told the des moines register i am getting more comfortab
say the testimony released today from the acting a.t.f. director nelson shows the justice department is actively withholding information and prohibiting people from telling the truth. in a letter today to attorney general eric holder the lawmakers warn him to stop stonewalling saying, it s not a fishing expedition. time for d.o.j. to get out of spin mode and in disclosure mode. nelson claims he wanted to meet with congress about fast and furious and that the d.o.j. said no. they were more interested in protecting the administration politically. it was frustrating, nelson said. it appears thoroughly to us the justice department is trying to figure out a way to push the information away from the it will call appointees at the department. this doesn t surprise a former judge and u.s. attorney who reviewed the fast and furious indictment. there is no way you can have an operation of this size and this magnitude and not have the highest levels of the
government i think know about it. nelson says the a.t.f. prepared what he called a smoking gun report. internal review of case that suggests intradiction could have occurred with the guns and probably should have occur and did not occur. nelson said the d.o.j. objected to the release. the deputy attorney general office wasn t very happy with us because they thought the report was an admission that there were mistakes made. there were mistakes made. investigation is about documents and testimony and congressional investigators say they have less than 1% of the documents they want from the department of justice. it s also a shot across the back to you and suggests that the congress was probably one step closer to contempt hearings or a special prosecutor. back to you. bret: we ll stay on it. william, thank you. there are just about two weeks left to break the political stalemate ahead of the august 2 debt ceiling deadline. day treasury secretary says is