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Bachmann asks if obama has committed an impeachable offense and now 15 sitting members of congress have talked impeachment. this impeachment thing has been going on almost since the beginning of his presidency, the first term. >> thats right. and you reported on this show about the candidates for senate in georgia on the republican side, three of whom raised their hand and said yes, this president should be impeached. and thats what theyve done from the beginning. they have attacked this preside...

State of connecticut speech today you gave. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. coming up, the justice files are back. the case of the affluenza teenager. too rich for jail. plus, the promoter of the george zimmerman celebrity boxing match responds to the outrage. and there is now a petition to put a stop to it. and we have a response from that republican congressman who refused to condemn a voter who said this about the president -- >> obama, hes not president as far as im conc...

You, i cant say because this is a public place, this guy is a criminal. nobody is stopping him. and the other thing too, congress doing nothing, that legally allows this moron to make decisions. he has no authority, none. and he is just -- we just said oh, yeah, we should do this and we should do that, but nobody is doing anything to accomplish anything. >> this -- look, everybody knows the lawlessness of this president. he picks and chooses which laws he is going to enforce or not enforce. he d...

Trotted out similar lines. its all variations of what we have seen from the right time and again. calls for impeachment, conspiracies that the president was born in kenya, loose talk of him being a dib tater. and instead of putting an end to this toxic talk, some on the right seem to revel it. the latest example comes from an event involving gop congressman jim brendenstein. it was posted on world net daily and they say its likely it was recorded in the past few months. take a listen. >> obama, ...

>> thanks, reverend. ahead, is chris christie strong than the political storm? new questions tonight about hurricane sandy and what his states top paper calls, quote, political slush fund. also, ted cruz and the new myth of president obamas lawlessness. what is this attack really all about? plus, the shocking republican town hall where a voter said this to a gop congressman. >> obama, hes not president as far as im concerned. he should be executed as an enemy combatant, really. >> how did th...

Some political correctness or appeasement. >> what sort of message does this send to the world when we dont bring them in front of a military tribunal at guantanamo bay. are we showing to annas point about weakness but are we also showing that were not committed to bringing these guys to justice in a proper way as an enemy combatant on the field? >> yeah, i think you are right. guantanamo bay was set up for this very thing. the other part is when you have had terrorists tried in the u.s., such a...

Maybe another way to ask the question, then. do you think this administration thinks and acts the same way your administration did. >> from outside partnershipses i would say no. it seeps to me they are more concerned about bringing to justice. and the fall position for them is, only by bringing someone to justice in the criminal court system complying with the rule of law. i fundmentally disagreement bringing them with military commission is consistent. and holding them as an enemy combatant is...

The evidence against him that that one will have the outcome that i think most people expect and hope for. martha: you look at what happened in benghazi, it has become very clear over the recent months that the war on terror is absolutely not over, and yet this act treats it as if it were. because if you were an enemy combatant and he were part of an ongoing war, hes young, we know thats why they wanted him alive, hes connected -- war on terror, no war or terror? why bring him to new york if tha...

>> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. welcome in on this tuesday, day two. we are ready to go. tuesday is the blah day of the week, isnt it? >> definitely not friday. thats for sure. hump day is at least hump day. thursday is friday eve as we like to say. >> it is monday, tuesdays nothing. i say we throw this one away and we have a four-day week. >> works for me. >> thats my proposal. >> diana for president. >> absolutely. we begin with the l...

Starting to affect everyday people. before it was federal government workers. we understand that is tough for them. these people were furloughed. a lot of people are at work not getting paid but when you take away social security benefits if we reach the debt limit on the 17th, take away medicare and medicaid, these are people who live off of this stuff. they go to the doctor because of this stuff. they eat because of this stuff and to take it away from people voting for you, who put you in offi...