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Bit of a roller coaster ride for the dow this month. the dow up 547 points today as stocks recover from last week. but republican rallying cries against the deficit and the national debt that once brought the tea party to power seem to have been, shall we say, decaffeinated since obama left office with fresh news from the treasury department that the annual deficit will be jumping up 17%, just shy of $800 billion for this fiscal year, a level we haven't seen since 2012. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. where are the tea partyists now? >> reporter: not seeing that. i saw a lot of...

For tea partyists, or a nightmare if hillary clinton doesn't win. i think secretary clinton is running. michael steele is former chairman of the republican national committee and joy reid will soon be hosting her own show i would like to say at 2:00. she is going to bring in those numbers for everybody. what an afternoon it's going to be. >> that's right. >> just teasing. it's the quality that matters, not the quantity. tell somebody that. let's go with michael steele. michael, i have to talk to you about this rand paul. do you know this guy? >> i know him. >> what is rand paul like? he is lik...

They go, that's the two senators lindsey graham would likely follow john mccain and endorse mitt romney. but what jim demint does could be significant, as well. nikki haley not nearly as popular with tea partyists. while a lot of people love her around the country in that community, not as much here. jim demint is basically one of the first names the tea partiers throw up when they show the face of this party. and if he comes out to endorse somebody, that could help coalesce some support behind mitt romney himself. >> one of the few politicians in america that i would say right now whose endor...

Campaign for governor, and i congresswoman maxine waters hope he gets into the race. wants none of it. but it's kind of hard when he >> put on your marching shoes. first set i'm not ready to be shake it off. president. stop complaining. if he said the family didn't want me to run or something like symptostop crying. that, but i'm not ready. what is there about four months we're going to press on. >> i found that language a bit later that makes you ready? i'm concerned about that. curious because the president i also this this contest -- spoke to the hispanic caucus. he certainly didn't tell th...

Not surprising. since everybody is beating up on teachers unions from chris christie to barack obama. >> let's look at the budget fight in washington. our poll finds that the public is much more concerned that republicans and tea partyists may go too far. that doesn't surprise me a bit obviously republicans are more conservative, bigger cutters. that's pretty common sense right there. isn't it? >> it is. the bigger problems for republicans in this poll is their base says the number one or two issue in this country, core republicans say the top issue in this country is spending and the deficit....