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Partnership with bank of america that has taken us all of the country to talk about the most important issues in politics and policies. Thank you to bank of america for being a great partner for many years now. We appreciate your support. Welcome all of you. We will be taking your questions. I have the twitter machine up here. Just hashtag your questions and they will pop up for me. Now without further ado, chairman priebus. [applause] mr. Chairman, thank you for doing this. Mr. Priebus this is off the record, right . [laughter] mr. Chairman, we are going to start with a gift to the guest whic...

Defend our freedom and to be faithful to the constitution. I think you misunderstood one paragraph. Ted cruz said you can vote your conscience for any one who will uphold the constitution. There is only one candidate who will uphold the constitution. To paraphrase ted cruz, if you want to protect the constitution of the United States the only possible candidate this fall is the trump pence republican ticket. I accept your nomination to run and serve as Vice President of the United States of america. Donald trump gets it. Hes his own man. Distinctly american. Hes a man known for a large persona...

Especially in a bad economy to make it to nashville, that speaks to how passionate they are about the issues. >> yeah. i mean, you know, this movement has built up because people felt a squeeze in the economic crisis and they felt angry at washington and wall street. what you have heard activists say is how can i shell out $500 for the privilege of attending the conference as well as air fare? that's made a lot of of people feel this convention has turned its back on the grassroots nature of the movement. i have spoken to people who are enthusiastic to be here. they is see it as an opportunity...

West? >> of the mud slides. >> huge hit. we'll talk to bonnie about it later on. right now, i want to tell you about what's happening out west. heavy rain causing huge mud slides. swept away cars and damaged homes. this is just north of los angeles. at least 41 homes have been seriously damaged and 500 more have been ordered evacuated. the good news -- no injuries have been rereported. a foot of debris in an area hit by wildfires last summer. crews are using bulldozers and heavy equipment to career roads. we'll check in on that later in the broadcast. the tea party convention is heating up in ...

Parties. i thought the tea party had ca p convention there would be more than 600 people there. there were more than 600 at the protests around the country. >> a lot more. that's a great point. the high watermark of the movement was the tax protest in 2009 where over 300,000 people showed up in 300 cities. that's a lot of people. still less than 1% of the population but it's a lot of people. this is a smaller group. it cost $500 to see sarah palin tonight. it was billed as a convention, a meeting of the tea party leaders. of course if the conference is for profit status has made it a controver...