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>> also the unpredictable ali wentworth on her life with george stephanopoulos. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. tonight a candidate on the rise. people being slaughtered by their own government and a hollywood star breaking with the pack politically. but first rick santorum winning contests proving every pundit wrong. listen to a confident rick santorum just a few moments ago in texas. >> i feel blessed, truly blessed, to be here at a time when our country needs us. lots of generations don't get the opportunity we have right here to be a generation that reclaims the g...

Have two choices for our largest political solutions and they're both being prebaked in an auction. >> and you also have to wonder, why aren't the occupiers of wall street down on "k" street, because, in fact, they could be shaming people into this. >> they are. >> going after the countries, but you can shame the legislators. why don't they push them and say, return that money. return any money you're going to take a vote on. >> susan, they freaking took over the hart building last week and had to be escorted out. >> she wants more! susan wants an occupation in washington. >> well, but if you'...

I think the energy coming out of the wall street protesters is always a good thing. when people nonviolently speak out and stand for something, it's good to challenge authority when they do that. >> do you think they want reform or do they want structural change? the kind of stuff i grew up with and you grew up, which is a real argument about what kind of a system, kind of system we have in this country. is this for structural change, radical change, like the way profits go to different corporations or the way people get jobs? is it systemic? or do they just want things fixed a little? i'm cur...

Any candidate who can speak to some of those legitimate frustration we see from some of the members of the tea party, and with the notion that government has gotten so big, it's become unresponsive, are going to do well. what i think is hard to explain is why these republicans who are washington insiders, like dan coats, who is the ultimate washington insider, he's been a senator, a lobbyist and an ambassador to germany, how candidates like that are doing well in this environment is hard to figure out. >> matt, what do you make of that? >> the first reason is dan coats was conservative champio...

Of bipartisanship that we have not seen in the past 18 months and that we don't necessarily see on the horizon beyond the banking bill. it is -- there's opportunity for this, but unless there's a way they can move forward and actually start working across the aisle, i think it's very hard to have any meaningful reform that is pushed for and that is championed by republicans. >> yet, a challenge for president obama, managing so much government expansion that he has to still be talking about a way -- the economy is improving, how they're creating jobs over the next two years rather than looking ...