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Billion worth of basically unfunded government spending. >> but to some of the tea partiers, jon, this is too much, too little, too late. i spoke with matt kibbee, head of freedomworks. boehner started negotiating with himself since the cap and balance vote. the bottom line, the tea party is party of principle. then you have the party establishment where you cut deals, you get along to get along with the rest of the party. so there is a division in the party and this division, even if john boehn...

Party movement and gina lowden, radio show talk show host. you might not agree what scott as musen has to say overall but how has the tea party changed from 2010 and 2012. >> is a lot of misunderstanding about this moment. it is building out communities district by district. i will be in houston a couple days at saddle up houston and try to focus and get all the tea party activists choose one candidate for u.s. senate there. that is the hard work of changing the process that doesnt really captur...

And has a fund-raiser tonight. gingrich arrives in miami tonight and will visit his brand new orlando campaign office for the state of florida tomorrow. jon? jon: every vote counts as florida saw in the 2000 election, phil keating. >> reporter: they cant forget that. jon: im sure they wont. thank you, phil. jenna: the tea party played a big roll in the 2010 elections but so far they dont seem to have much clout in the primary season at least according to pollster scott rasmussen who asked voters...

The country. people are very engaged and they are involved. if you look at the 2010 election it was mentioned that the tea party movement was very influential. i think they will be very influential in 2012 as well. jenna: there has been still a lot of blame going around, matt. i like to listen to the head of the dnc talking in new hampshire. she was talking about political discourse in washington overall since, basically this period of the financial crisis. take a listen to what she has to say. ...

Baldwins airline antics. jenna: from that to this. the tea party dominated the midterm elections in 2010. theyre playing a key role this time as well. what that role is exactly. we want to talk more about that. even though so far officially as a movement gotten behind one candidate were learning a coalition of tea party groups will hold a tea party convention on the 15th in south carolina. obviously, a very, very important state. matt kibbee is ceo of freedomworks. david webb, host of the david ...

Wan to do, jenna, is and would not like to see is the tea party get in the business of picking horses. we have supposed to be focused on the fiscal issues, on the constitution gnat of government, unconstitutionality of obamacare being one of the key points. to go beyond that makes us an institution that becomes the tool of a party and we never get anywhere because for decades there have been too many failures in america on both sides of the aisle. it is time that we the american people had solut...

That respect. there are many facets to this. thats why we cant be limited. education is important. activation, get-out-the-vote. but more to get the american people back on the principles that have been successful as a country. jenna: matt, quick final thought from you here. i was taking a look back at articles from last year at the same time and the obviously huge tea party movement and push in those elections in 2010 and 2011 with a huge new year for the republicans, matt. if you take a look a...

Customers complains about baldwins airline antics. jenna: from that to this. the tea party dominated the midterm elections in 2010. theyre playing a key role this time as well. what that role is exactly. we want to talk more about that. even though so far officially as a movement gotten behind one candidate were learning a coalition of tea party groups will hold a tea party convention on the 15th in south carolina. obviously, a very, very important state. matt kibbee is ceo of freedomworks. davi...

This. thats why we cant be limited. education is important. activation, get-out-the-vote. but more to get the american people back on the principles that have been successful as a country. jenna: matt, quick final thought from you here. i was taking a look back at articles from last year at the same time and the obviously huge tea party movement and push in those elections in 2010 and 2011 with a huge new year for the republicans, matt. if you take a look at this year ahead and also what weve se...