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Anniversary. one year. one year. a year and a half later, we have issues but it's growing pains. >> i was thinking this morning that the 9.12 project, i started the 9.12 project and i don't have anything to do with it and that project, you picked 9.twsm -- 9.12 to do the big rally in washington, dc, the moment i get blamed for and i didn't have anything to do with it. you guys were the ones that organized it but everyone came. >> right. >> a volunteer that suggested to us, we said we wanted to do sent and he said let's do 9.12 and i volunteered to help out and organize, because i like to

-- told the story of someone 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...

Let me introduce the guests. the cofounder of the national tea party federation, and the cofounder of tea party patriots, also one of the 100 most influential people in the world according to time magazine. and also she is a national coordinator, and the president of freedom works, and the national chair of the 9/12 project and a representative of tea party express later in the program. you guys were invited because you four here and the one on the television are the five big of the groups in america and does everyone agree with the concept we are at a crucial point? >> absolutely. >> are the ...

Organize, and i am an organizer. 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 ...

The "n" word that were supposedly shouted and it came from a push back on the narrative. on the founding of the federation which is not speaking for the tea party, not a representative entity other than a group of like mined people who actually reject violence, bigotry, racism, and specifically formed it in that context. it's very clear, it is messy when you work with federations and groups with 2,500 groups in the patriots there will be people who are the nut jobs but we work hard and in the federation we work to denounce that and to renounce those people. >> and we're standing together as am...