another republican contender may be closer to jumping into the presidential race. dana bash part of the best political team on television live from our washington bureau. dana, i understand you have an update on michele bachmann? reporter: well, you know, she was probably dipping more than a toe in the presidential waters, but last night she called into a gop fund-raising event in the ever-important first caucus state of iowa and she went a little bit further. she promised she would make an announcement in the town of waterloo, iowa, which happens to be where she was born. now, she already made clear that she would make her plans known in june, but with sarah palin suddenly making moves to suggest she may, emphasize may, be thinking about a presidential run, the question is how would that impact bachman who would likely draw from the same voters as palin to win the gop nomination. here s what she said last night. my decision will be independent of whichever candidate gets in. i hav
that won t impact whether or not i get in or not. reporter: and suzanne, bachman also conceded if she does run, she d have to have more message discipline when she s in what she called the presidential realm. i can t imagine both of them in, but that would be quite a campaign to cover there, dana. reporter: it sure would. i understand the house got another chance to go on the record about the military campaign in afghanistan. can you give us a sense of how that played out? reporter: it was really interesting. it was a bipartisan amendment for withdrawing troops into afghanistan and it got far more votes than ever before. it failed but just bbarely, 204-215. 26 republicans joined democrats to support the measure. this even as the president is traveling overseas. that s the thing that never used to happen before while the president is abroad. not just that, the top two democrats also supported the expedited withdrawal and members gave various reasons for it. i talked to a few l
malveaux. i want to get you up to speed for friday, may 27th. secretary of state hillary clinton is in pakistan today to smooth things over with the government leaders. they are still angry over the secret u.s. raid that killed bin laden. sources say clinton told the pakistanis that american aid is on the line, unless they do more to rout out terrorists. today we discussed in even greater detail cooperation to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda and to drive them from pakistan and the region. we will do our part. and we look to the government of pakistan to take decisive steps in the days ahead. a cia forensics team will also be heading to pakistan. pakistan will let cia experts scrub osama bin laden s compound for evidence. now, the team will use sophisticated technology to look for anything hidden in the walls or the ceilings or items that are buried on the grounds. the patriot act gets a four-year extension. this was just minutes before that law was set to expire.