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>> yeah, absolutely. i think there are two different issues. one is the element of risks involved in any capitalist enterprise. there is risk involved. that is not the real issue here. it's not whether this was a risky investment. it's whether there was favoritism involved and whether this was a point beyond which they should haven't gone or pulled back on it. the more e-mails that have come out, the more there are questions about that. that's what they have to try to answer. >> get in with dan in one respect. i think in part it's about the risk involved. i don't remember the president in febr...

>> bret: we begin a new segment called "center seat." our guest this evening, minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann. thank you very much, congresswoman, for being the first in here in the panel. >> thank you. pleased to be part of it. thank you. >> bret: let's start it. dan, why don't you begin. >> okay. congresswoman, i think we want to start on the economy. one of the things you said is that the way to get the economy moving right now is to start cutting spending in significant way. i wonder if you can point to examples where there has been success in producing economic growth by sharply ...

Owner with 500 employees in illinois said this jobs plan is a disaster. he wants to continue with the payroll tax deduction. gnat shred of evidence it created a single job. continue to prolong unemployment business. he wants more stimulus projects for more solyndra of the world. he wants to take away deduction for popular deductions that people have. mortgage interest, charitable deduction and the deduction for state and local taxes. this is a disaster his plan. that's why it's dead on arrival. it's a joke for people who create jobs. >> bret: but his question is what is your plan? if you not a...

And i was nervous about his social security burden and what it would be. he is now 24. it's sobering what his generation will have to pay in social security taxes going forward. so we have to do something. there is no question. >> bret: congresswoman, this goes back to dan's question and the president was hammering republicans today on the jobs bill. the second stimulus as republicans call it. take a listen to his statement and your response to it. >> go ask the republicans what their jobs plan is, if they are opposed to american jobs act. have it scored, have it assessed by the same independe...

Change again in culture of the military. would you apolish it? would you reinstate "don't ask, don't tell" if you were elected president? >> i would reinstate it. the military is not a social experiment. it's serious duty of the united states government. we need to maintain order and decorum. there was disagreement on the policy and i'd reinstate it. >> what if it was shown in the ensuing 18 months there was no disruption in decorum or order? >> we have to take it in consideration, but today what i would do is reinstate it. that is another day. >> bret: dan? >> i'd like to turn to afghanistan ...