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rerejected by the house republican caucus to be in leadership. it makes me think, did she always want to run for president or did she get rejected because all those folks thought she would use it as a platform and is this a problem at some point in the pain? ff look, that all took place in the wake of the 2010 campaign, after the tea party had taken out many established republicans. they still have their eyes set on them. there is a divide there. michele bachmann is self-identified with the tea party. they won't invite someone like that into the tent willy-nilly. i think what's been fascinating about michele bachmann is how she's handled a lot of this, whether it was chris wallace asking her if she's a flake, some of the gaffes she had to respond to. i think if you make the sarah palin connection, sarah palin would be on twitter or facebook talking about the -- >> very defensive. >> michele bachmann has done a very good job of handling it like a real politician would. i think she's proved herself very well. >> she's also proven to be the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110628:13:36:00

>> we are. >> you've become quite the entity. anyway, we checked four statements, two on michele bachmann, one on chris christy, one on harry reid. that's who we're checking today. let's start with the michele bachmann, her first thought from her june intershrew view in new hampshire. >> if you threw a barbecue yesterday for the memorial weekend, it was 29% more expensive than last year because barack obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29%. >> how did she do? >> false on the truth-o-meter. that's just not the right number. that number comes from a "new york post" story that looked at statistics for the new york area. when you look at national numbers, it's about 10%. but the other part of this is false, too. you really can't realistically blame president obama for the increase in food prices.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110628:13:45:00

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110628:13:49:00

fist candidate feeling comfortable going on the attack. pawlenty wasn't comfortable going on romney. listen to this, michele bachmann on mitt romney and the life issue. >> governor romney has stated that he's pro-life, i take him at his word, but he's had some issues with that in his past where he's taken various positions. this this was a wonderful opportunity to sign the pledge and none straight that he's pro-life. he chose not to. i think that's troubling and i think that he should have signed the pledge. you can get a lot of things wrong. one thing that you cannot get wrong is the issue of life. >> matthew, when i hear the phrase "i take him at his word," i think of ricky bobby, with all respect. that's her way of sending a message. >> bachmann has always been underestima underestimated. this is a woman who upset a established republican state senator, she came into the state convention, walked out with the nomination. then they ran a primary, she

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110628:13:08:00

the tea party movement and in the republican sort of popular culture move the to be here. and so people seem to be excited about that. we made the drive from waterloo where we spent a couple of days with michele bachmann. of course, she has kicked off her campaign. she's now in new hampshire today but coming back to iowa for a bus tour. and as you referenced, the president will be here as well. he will be talking about jobs at that alcoa plant and of course his competitors, people like mitt romney, already taking shots at that, saying the president will be more about union bosses than workers. so there's a lot going on in iowa. >> the place to be. kelly o'donnell in pella, iowa. thanks very much. quickly, surprisingly good economic news turning things around on wall street this morning? we'll see. cnbc's becky quick joins me. is that true? real good news? >> it is true. believe it or not, i can't tell you how long it's been since we had good economic numbers. this is a big surprise to the markets. you saw a knee jerk reactions,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110628:13:38:00

obama. when you look at the time period that's included, it actually predates when he became president and it's not clear from the acquisition records that it was under his administration they were ordered. so barely true. >> you know, we'll get to chris christy and harry reid in a moment. we have a glait new iphone app, according to your app, you have checked 26 statements of michele bachmann. she has had 18 of those statements rated false or pants on fire. does anybody have a worse record right now of people you have fact checked than michele bachmann? that is just horrendous, 69% of the statements she has uttered you have said is false. >> definitely of the presidential candidates she has hey much higher percentable of falses and pants on fires. an entity with worse percentage is chain e-mails. >> so you're compared to chain

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110628:13:50:00

defeated this guy who had been there forever. she runs for congress, competitive district, wins there. democrats have always tried to gun her down since she was first elected in aup 0 si06. >> the deadline sent an e-mail with the subject line, president bachmann, question mark. >> when we come back we'll talk karl rove and new ads and boehner versus cantor. how many illinois governors have been subjected to arrest off indictment over the course of the state's history? there's a governor sweep apparently there. six. dan walker, george ryan and rod blagojevich. that's about one of every seven governors in illinois state history. not all of them actually served time, but all of them came under some sort of conviction or indictment. we'll be right back with more from our package. ore on car ins? host: what, do you live under a rock?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110628:13:41:00

unemployment is down overall, but it's actually gone up the last three months. the way he said it, attributing it to democratic policies, is really a stretch. when you look at when the democrats had control of both houses of on gres acongress and presidency, you would have thought they could have had the biggest impact and hisses panic unemployment did not decline na period. so barely true. >> bare cli trues, let me ask you quickly, are they trues? >> we're actually going to be revisiting whether to call them barely truths. >> on all of your cases today, they sound a lot like false rather than true. >> we're thinking about changing barely true to mostly false. we'd love to hear from viewers what they think of. we're thinking about changing it to mostly false. >> what we didn't have today? >> pants on fire! >> congratulations, michele bachmann and oerz. karl rove goes back on the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110628:13:25:00

ann, nice to see you. she's conducted this poll for more than 20 years. >> great to see you, chuck. >> let me start with, tell me about this. a lot of people were surprised about bachmann's showing. who is the iowa republican caucusgoer that you discovered? give me a little bit of their makeup. who are these folks, age, gender, ideology. give me a little bit about them that you discovered. >> well, i can't give you all of those details without them being published. but let me say this first of all. that is that this is an early test and largely this is a group of undecided voters. 14% have no first choice and 69% have a first choice who say they could still be persuaded to vote for another candidate. the one thing i will tell you that everybody looks to iowa for is what's the evangelical vote in the caucus makeup? that number i think is running 46%, it's lower than we saw in the entrance poll in 2008. so it looks like there's a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110628:13:27:00

like michelle bachmann, she's kind of blasted on the scene and normally in an early test you're only going to see the candidates with strong name recognition really showing up. well, she hasn't been around that long, yet she's built that strong name recognition. that means people were watching the debate. that's what that tells me. people are paying attention and trying to get a handle on who they like in this field. >> and the other person that jumped, you brought up bachmann. let's talk about herman cain for a minute. here is a guy who had much less name i.d. and still able to get double dij imts. does that mean he has an intensity of support that's maybe greater than everybody else? >> well, i would say that what people here in herman cain they like. so he's got to widen that base and get more people to hear what he has to say if he's going to do better than third place. the intensity of support has to go to michele bachmann. the percentage of people saying they feel very favorable to her,

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