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We, indeed, have a republican majority, we, indeed, got the tax rates extended, we, indeed, had some accommodation. at the end of the day, though, the agenda hasn't changed, and i believe michele bachmann will give voice to that agenda. >> but i can tell you, ali, that lots of republicans are not happy that michele bachmann's going to be out there giving her own version of a response of the state of the union, because they think that paul ryan in the official response is going to speak for the fiscal conservatism of the republican party. so, they're kind of scratching their heads saying, you k...

The final 20%, $600 billion that goes to everything else you can possibly think of that the federal government does from science funding to space exploration, which we'll talk about in a little bit. to parts of education. this apparently is the problem. with us for the entire show, and i'm happy about this, i must say, from los angeles, arianna huffington, co-founder and editor in chief of the "huffington post." and from memphis for the segment, mark scoda, national spokesperson for the tea party convention. i'm as offended by the way the government spends our money as the average tea partier ...

That we cannot look at the government budget without taking a very serious look at the defense budget. and that's something which is, if we look at the waste and the kind of wars that we're pursuing, which is are not in our national interest, i think there would be a lot of agreement among the tea parties and those of us who may not agree with other claims they make. >> mark, if you look at this and there's obviously lots of room for debate as to way we spend the defense budget, as arianna just referenced, all of us can walk you through the game-rigging and incentive problems in medicare, medi...

I think it's cowardly when people take the actions anonymo anonymously, i think the government should expose the people and if they're part of a particular group or tea party, we'll be the first to ostracize and support prosecution of these people. however, i also think that the means for politicians uses to besmirch an entire movement like the tea party movement is completely inappropriate. using the race card frankly, and i was there on saturday where people walked through the crowd, the congressional black caucus members who marches while taking videos of their actions hoping, i believe, fo...

Campaign office in virginia. authorities came out today and preliminarily quoted -- called it a, quote, case of random gunfire. richmond police say the bullet was fired in the air and struck the window in a downward direction landing on a floor a foot from the window. the round struck with enough force to break the window pane but didn't penetrate the window blind. we don't know if it was directed at eric cantor's office or whether it was random gunfire. hard to know. there are a lot of facts here not clear. i want to bring in mark scoda with the memphis tea party. you've seen him on cnn. mark...