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Ideas and views, but they're united around a common cause. over the next couple nights in "welcome to the tea party" we'll be drilling down deeper. joining me, john avalon, columnist for the dailybeast.com. and author of "wing nuts: how the lunatic fringe is hijacking america." it has changed, the tea party movement, in some ways over the last year. >> it has. this began as a grassroots fiscal conservative protest. over the course of the summer it got increasingly radicalized. some conservative activists advocating conservatives start using rules for radicals and see them start embracing stree...

David louis, they were going to bring the kids into the united states or offered to bring richard's kids into the -- back to the united states which, you know, the fact richard and his wife -- that his wife said, look, do not go to this orphanage where our kids are in the process of being legally adopted. they went anyway to try to get them. to me that raises all sorts of red flags. >> reporter: certainly does raise red flags as well as the fact they were looking for children age from zero to 10. i asked an ngo specialist about that, why zero to 10? he says kids zero of 10 are much easier to s...

The attention doesn't mean it describes the whole movement. >> it's easy to dismiss the movement. it's inappropriate and would be foolish. there are people of -- who have never been involved -- what's so interesting about it there are people who have never been invol involved in the politic process who feel energized. >> that's hugely important. put yourself in the shoes of the small business owner participating in protests for the first time. ask yourself why. while he was struggling to pay his bills on time last spring he saw big business and big government run up huge debts and pass the buc...

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