U.S. Sen. John McCain ripped Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann on Wednesday for suggesting an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is working with the Muslim Brotherhood. Meanwhile CNN's Anderson Cooper interviews Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who has taken a lead in criticism of Bachmann's charges.

In an interview, a Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt’s Daqheleya province, Ibrahim Ali Iraqi, says a claim by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., that the group had infiltrated the U.S. government is "ridiculous." “The Muslim Brotherhood can’t even penetrate the Egyptian government,” he says.

An internal poll taken by the Democratic challenger shows U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's lead over Jim Graves has shrunk to two percentage points, which is within the poll's margin of error. The Bachmann campaign says the poll lacks credibility. The Graves camp says it shows fallout from Bachmann's claims about the Muslim Brotherhood and its influence in Washington.

There was apparent communication between Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and her Democratic Congressional colleague Keith Ellison before Bachmann's recent claims that Ellison had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood on a nationally syndicated talk show. But in her 16-page letter to Ellison, Bachman never raised suspicions about his alleged ties to the organization.

House Speaker John Boehner was asked Thursday about Rep. Michele Bachmann's assertions that an aide to Secretary of Hillary Clinton should be investigated for ties to Muslim extremists, and he called such accusations "dangerous." The remark comes as Bachmann is increasingly under fire for her comments from Republican colleagues.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was discussing the mandate for insurance coverage of contraceptives during an appearance on Glenn Beck's television network. She wonders if the administration's enthusiasm for cutting medical costs by reducing childbirth will one day lead to limits on the number of children per family.

"The concerns I have and my colleagues have are real," the Minnesota Republican congresswoman said in a Pioneer Press interview, speaking of the recent controversy in which she alleged that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the U.S. government. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says allegations like Bachmann's "have no place in our politics."