michelle balkman is here i understand, and she s thinking about running for president. which is weird, because i hear she was born in canada. yes, michelle, this is how it starts. so now you know. tim paw len tea. he seems all american. but if you hear his middle name, tim jose, what a shame. my buddy and outstanding ambassador, john huntsman is with us.
backç in the 1700s? fight the people? remember history? michelle balkman? oh, i forgot, you don t know history. the sideshow is next only on msnbc. hit the road, jack and don t you come back no more no more, no more, no more hit the road, jack and don t you come back no more [ male announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit em with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds and puts down a barrier to stop new ones
just take what we got, which is pretty good, and see what we can work with next year? well, i guess, you know, i believe in a standard, i believe that sometimes you have to have principle and also, you must understand that, you know, it s not alan west who is shutting down the government. i m not saying that. are you disappointed michelle balkman took that stance and it would be a failure if the government shut down. it is a failure in leadership we have this enormous debt, deficit we have, so there s a conglomeration of failures that brought us to this point. congressman west, i want to go back to something you and i have been talking about for the last few minutes, i haven t gotten an answer, you came in with $100 billion. when you pro rate the cuts to where the budget is now, you end up at $61 billion. that is no compromise. that is what you asked for in the beginning. you re saying that you we re not asking anyone else to compromise, if you stick to $61 billion you are no
running. did you get any response from his camp? i don t expect to. it s just something no different than donald trump saying it. what did you learn as your time as governor? you basically, you were actually held up as somebody who went in there and did shake up the two-party system, you did it in your state. but, you know, in some of this you re critical of what the government is willing and not willing to tell us. what was your experience of running a state and how you were able to actually play within that system? well, of course, i had no support because i had democrats and republicans who are the problem. and it was difficult, but i did it and but the key to my running was i only raised $300,000 to become the governor of minnesota. at that time, the dems and republicans spent $12 million. so you can see how unpopular i was with them. you might have a presidential candidate coming out of minnesota. what do you think of michelle balkman? she s my congresswoman.
angle or marco rubio, and look around the country you see in fact you could make the case that the tea party candidates are not helping the republican brand. so will the tea party caucus help the republican brand in the house? i don t know. bret: bill? yes. it will. trust me. i m glad you re reassuring. i ve spoken the tea party, i love the tea party people, most of them. almost all of them. look, that s where the energy is. michelle balkman is heroine of the tea party and encourages them and it makes sense to be welcome to them in a quasi-official way. it s millions of people involved and decentralized, it s a guy somewhere to say something stupid. but nazi party will say something stupid somewhere. i mean, michael steele the chairman of the republican party has said stupid things. i go with the tea party over the establishment, still. bret: second topic. charles rangel, former chairman of the house ways and means committee. he will face next week what is essentially a trial