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In a class action suit. and we as a show reached out to the department of defense, and they said statement. tell us about the class action suit. tell us what you and the other women are hoping do? >> the class action suit is an attempt to effect change. the reprisal that often ensues after a sexual assault is often far more traumatizing than the actual incident. the commander contractually owns you, the military is your entire world and for that world to crush you is -- at a time when you need -- when you have been degraded beyond human comprehension and what you really need is support is neve...

Conservatives, true fiscalñr conservatives, so you can't stand on the sidelines and continue to protest and think it's goingç to change anything. they need to get out and run candidates that they believe in. if they truly want to effect change. >> i want to ask you this question. does the tea party end up being good for president obama and for the down-card democrats? you sort of said nobody loves harry reid, but we all got behind harry reid because sharon angle was so problematic. does the tea party put the republican party in a place where it's harder to win a general? >> yeah, i think so...

Comes to the tea party, has it run its course? and you have 43% of americans saying, yep, it's kind of over, but nearly half saying, no, there is more to go. but on occupy, the question the same, has the occupy movement run its course, and have you 51% of folks. so more people thinking occupy has just sort of petered out, run its course. this will seem odd, but i actually wonder if you have advice for occupy? in part, because i felt like part of what occupy didn't do, it was amazing in its capacity to change our conversation, moved in many ways away from a deficit conversation to an equality c...

Brought out the point that we need women out there. we need them. they understand these issues that affect women every day. and i think, you know, as terrible as it may have been to, you know, have this issue out there, it's been important for women. >> you know, i was talking to somebody who held high office, a female who held high office. this was a private conversation so i don't want to say who it is. she's also someone trying to recruit candidates. here's their theory. that women and men go into politics for very different reasons. that for men a motivating factor is power. for women, it'...

We have the voice in this primary, in this procedure of electing or nominating and electing the president and our voices are going to be heard and they're going to be heard by our vote. >> well, given this mentality, thinking that the republican establishment and some of the candidates are not getting what you want them to have for the tea party, would you endorse a separate candidate? >> no. we absolutely are not going to go third party. we have two viable parties that we need to work from within to effect change. when the movement rose up, people were sick and tired of both party, the democr...