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The southern poverty law center. michael medved is a conservative commentator, john avalon is a cnn contributor and the author of "wingnuts." still to come the dow jones. well tell you more about that when we come back. [ dog ] you k, i just dont think i should have to wait for it! who do you think i am, quicken loans? ♪ at quicken loans, we wont make you wait for it. our efficient, online system allows us to get you through your home loan process fast. which means youll never have to beg for ...

Someone dressed in ku klux klan robes. it follows a string of recent hate incidents on campus. last august, a 40-year-old ex-soldier turned white supremacist rocker shot up a sikh temple in oak creek, wisconsin, killing six people. you remember that. a few weeks later, a group of georgia men were linked to an anti-government plot to assassinate president obama and its all part of what the southern poverty law center says is a disturbing trend. a study says the number of anti-government groups ar...

Do the findings add up? "outfront" tonight, mark potoch is author of the report and senior fellow at the law center. john avlon is cnn contributor and author of "wing nuts, how the lunatic fringe is hijacking america" which is a suitable title for our discussion tonight. thanks to all of you. mark, let me start with you. you are the author of the report. it focuses on so-called patriot groups which you describe as conspiracy-minded anti-government and on the radical right. in 2012, you looked at...

I think that theyre trying to walk a fine line that does not affective potential presidential candidacy that we expect. >> what do you suspect? >> id like to help lauren out here because i think its obvious. its not mysterious at all, what theyre doing. this is kind of a continuation of clinton derangement syndrome. lets say its berthaism. these wing nuts, these wing nuts, have been assailing our popular democratic presidents going back to bill clinton and now you have to win that trifecta. so n...

Democrats have their wing nuts too, but in our conference, yeah, there are people that respond. club for growth, heritage action, freedom works. >> this morning, the new york times wrote, the tea partys clout is diminished, it will have to turn to narrower issues. tea party supporters need to realize their so-called movement isnt grassroots at all. its getting mowed down at the top, pun intended. youre an enlightened contrarian, do you believe the tea party is losing its steam so to speak? >> i ...

He got an $8 million payoff to walk away from the movement three months before the presidential election. not exactly what armey promised us. >> instead of a hostile takeover as it was by an inside job by a few entrepreneuentrepreneurs, lt an outside job by all of america. >> this is what freedom works and the tea party looked like. before the midterm election in 2010. they tried hard to look like a grassroots movement, polls show 27% supported the tea party movement back then. even americans wh...

>> i want to be clear, the democrats have their wing nuts too, but in our conference, yeah, there are people that respond. club for growth, heritage action, freedom works. >> this morning, the new york times wrote, the tea partys clout is diminished, it will have to turn to narrower issues. tea party supporters need to realize their so-called movement isnt grassroots at all. its getting mowed down at the top, pun intended. youre an enlightened contrarian, do you believe the tea party is losing i...

They become martyrs. they become martyrs in the eyes of the extreme groups and i want to be clear. the democrats have their wing nuts, too, but in our conference, yeah, there are people that respond when growth, heritage action, sure. >> are you disappointed? >> disappointed? it is unbelievable. this is horrible. >> do you find this unbelievable, senator? are some members of the republican party so far right it is making it impossible to get anything done? >> well, there is no question it is tim...

For months theyve smeared the obama administration claiming u.n. ambassador susan rice covered up information about the attacks in libya. now these wing nuts are turning on secretary of state hillary clinton. she was scheduled to testify this week at a hearing about the benghazi attacks. but while suffering from a stomach virus, secretary clinton fainted, hit her head, and sustained a concussion. doctors told her to work from home this week. and her deputies will testify in her place. shes recup...

Organization, do they become something nothing more than than a hatchet job for conservatives or are they principled arguments with that strong conservative undercurrent to them. well see. >> speaking of crazy wing nuts if were talking about a potential move to the center, ann cull tour on fox yesterday, saying that the republicans need to understand they lost and make a deal with the president. let us take a listen to the choice piece of sound. >> are you saying then, for pr purposes, that they...