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Split in the party, e.j. when you look at the fact that mainstream gop members support raising the minimum wage while tea partiers are against it. extending unemployment benefits, republicans are for it. tea parties are against it. and most tea party republicans don't view ted cruz favorably. most nontea party republicans, while he is overwhelmingly popular with the tea party crowd. isn't it really just these tea party republicans who are so out of step with the rest of america? >> they are. they represent maybe a quarter of the country. but they represent a very big proportion of the republic...

Without being a little arrogant? don't you have to be a little arrogant to think you can be president? >> last night you saw a president who spoke from this podium who was arrogant but very productive with congress, even members of the opposite party, that's bill clinton. bob woodward wrote a book called "the choice" that cataloged the budget showdown between congress and clinton. clinton and gingrich in this book bond over their troubles with their wives and other things and they smoked cigars and drank whiskey. this is part of the governing process. it's okay to be arrogant as long as it's n...

3 out of 4 americans believe the situation is getting worse. 2 out of 3 americans believe that it's hurting our political process, our governing process. these are huge numbers and as a result of that, we decided we should maybe give the american public a vehicle by which they could express more of this. >> sure. i'm sure a lot of people will wake up and say i feel the same way. i'm frustrated because they're talking about i need 20 years worth of some candidate's income tax returns and stuff like that. little things rather than the big issues. that's what we want to talk about. the big issues...

23%. jon huntsman got 17% to finish in third place. rick santorum finished with 10% ahead of newt gingrich with 9%. rick perry had 1%. well, it was a big win romney needed to shore up the front-runner status. now he's the first republican to win both iowa and new hampshire this morning on cnn, romney turned attention to beating the president. >> you've got almost 2 million people that lost their job under this president. you have income that's dropped to 10% over the last four years. you have 24 million people out of work or stopped looking for work. this is a failed presidency. plen...

Office. 535 other people that are part of the governing process. >> totally agree. >> so you'll need a wholesale change of what happens here in this country, an it's not going to be solved in one election cycle. >> sure. >> we're talking several election cycles, we need to be long term in our thinking about that. >> the problem with that long-term thinking it's not good for the 50 million who are in poverty in this country nor is long-term thinking totally sensational for the one out of five which don't have a job which i do wonder how they will feel about all this long-term thought. in egypt ...