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Thinking goes off tracks. talking about tea parties tonight, the 9.12 movement and more. mark, and matt, and yvonne are here from their groups. i want to go to that, start there. racism. racism. >> we don't put up with it. we don't want it in the naacp or our movement and if someone comes to our event we will tell them to leave. we have stood up against tea party express because they had a racist spokesman who they stood by and they have a history of standing by people who make racists comment. we will not stand with racists. >> we will get their side of the story in a second. i agree with you...

We worked out where i was a coordinator for the entire event although i was from a different organization and the 9.12 project was a sponsor of the event. >> we can talk about that as a model of how to tap into the power without stepping on people's toes and respecting their right to do what they are comfortable with. we organized the event and freedom works was set apart and built a massive coalition of groups and there are 1,000 groups i can't name that made it work that day. and we thought we would get 100,000 people and we were optimistic about that and we thought it was an arrogant assump...

Came to a staff member a couple weeks ago on the road and they said glenn has to get involved in 9.12 we are not leaders and don't know what we are doing and i was stressed out and i said to my staff member, call them and say do they think i know what i'm doing? we're all kind of, what were you before? where did your expertise come from? >> i'm an economist by training. so i shut know anything about grass roots organization. >> about anything. >> right. and your training? >> i'm a computer programmer. i've been active if republican party in the past. not anymore. i used to be. >> i've been run...

Take. i would say that it's in the a question of hopeless. we're tired. we have been doing this and i have a full time job, and many of us do, and 9.12ers a volunteer organization we do this on our freedom so i wouldn't say hopeless. i would say we do get tired but there is gasoline on that fire that keeps us going. >> i think, i believe that as i look to the focus, the association i am associated with there is an extreme energy. that is what is happening. in a year and a half we went from emotional elements of tea party rally to making a difference, recruiting candidates and i got a woman run...

Value you can add and you do not take credit for other people's works and that is why it is powerful. this is a big, massive, decentralized, beautiful chaos. that is not a problem, that's power. >> it is the free market? >> absolutely. when people, when you start taking credit for somebody else or you start trying to micromanage and not just reaching out to the other and saying, you buys are good at that and we will support you, you support you, and you are doing the same thing we're doing but we can all be together, and, whatever, once you lose that, then you don't have the free market anymor...