You know, I had a stroke a year and a half ago. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ED ROLLINS, FORMER BACHMANN CAMPAIGN MANAGER: I'm 64 years - 68 years old. This is the official explanation from Ed Rollins. So, you know, there have been reports of some tension within the campaign. But now with Rick Perry entering the race he's really siphoned off a lot of her support in Iowa and South Carolina. She won that Ames straw poll at the - last month. A month ago she was the Republican frontrunner in Iowa, which is a central state to her presidential hopes.
What does this mean for Bachmann's campaign? PETER HAMBY, CNN POLITICAL PRODUCER: Carol, Michele Bachmann is really entering a new phase of the campaign. Peter Hamby live in Columbia, South Carolina. And her deputy campaign manager David Polyansky is leaving the campaign altogether. Her campaign manager Ed Rollins, a familiar face to CNN viewers, is stepping back into an advisory role citing health concerns. And it involves not one but two of her people. We begin with that major shakeup in the presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann. Let's start with hard core politics this morning, though. COSTELLO: He had to head back to the wildfires.
ROMANS: Because he was going back to the wildfires. VELSHI: You saw Rick Perry canceled plans to appear with other - ROMANS: Republicans at that forum. Governor Rick Perry is saying, this is the meanest fire his state has ever seen on this AMERICAN MORNING. More than 60 new fires, 60 new fires blazing through the state, some completely out of control. This morning we're asking this, was it police or Apple employees who entered that home to search it? VELSHI: Wow. A missing Apple prototype reportedly left behind in a bar traced behind to a home in San Francisco. CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Iphone intrigue. Jimmy Hoffa saying that Tea Party has declared war on America's workers, and he's ready to lend an army of thousands to the president. CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Tough talk from the teamsters.
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Two of Michele Bachmann's top advisers stepping aside, leaving some to wonder this morning whether her run may be done? Plus this - UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's take these son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ALI VELSHI, CNN ANCHOR: September shake-up. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. Two Bachmann Campaign Managers Step Down President Preparing to Give Jobs Speech Libyan Convoy Spotted in Niger IPhone 5 Prototype Lost in San Francisco Bar Sixty Plus Wildfires Burning in Texas Is Postal Service Obsolete? Obama's Plan to Create Jobs Texas Burning Peace Deal in Bani Walid? Petraeus Starts at CIA Obama's Jobs Plan Preview New Questions in Hacking Scandal Postal Service Budget Woes Threaten Post Offices Studies on 9/11 Dust Could Help First Responders Fires, Tornadoes, Flooding Create Chaos Across the South