party movement and gina lowden, radio show talk show host. you might not agree what scott as musen has to say overall but how has the tea party changed from 2010 and 2012. is a lot of misunderstanding about this moment. it is building out communities district by district. i will be in houston a couple days at saddle up houston and try to focus and get all the tea party activists choose one candidate for u.s. senate there. that is the hard work of changing the process that doesn t really capture the attention of the media or anybody else because we re not out there protesting on the streets. jenna: why are you choosing to focus locally, matt, if i follow up for a moment? that is the natural evolution after very sophisticated movement. where you win these fights is by changing opinion on
assassination was an internal one. a lot more. we look forward to having you back to talk more about it. reporter: all the public buses in washington d. kr-frplt fitted with a dashboard camera, which automatically starts filming if the bus driver has to slam on the breaks or makes an erratic turn or something. we ll show you some of the video first obtained by a local media outlet in d.c. take a look. oh! oh, my god. reporter: look at that, that mini van goes right into the bus in front of it. lots of close calls, ignored stop signs, people crossing in front look at that, a woman
that. rick perry was here pressing the flesh earlier in the day. you know, talking about mitt romney is a mixed blessing being on the top of the polls, and he is the presumed front runner here in south carolina. so you have these three candidates going after him trying to portray themselves as the romney alternative. listen. south carolinians get it when it comes to the issue of freeing up from taxation, from overregulation, from overlitigation, but particularly from washington d.c. reporter: rick perry is trying to court the tea party voter, the tea party has a strong influence in south carolina. a lot of people sympathetic to their cause of less government, lower taxes, less regulation. rick perry also is touting his service with the air force. other than ron paul, he is the only candidate he and ron paul the only candidates in the gop field who served active duty military. he s vying for the support of the state s large population of
that versus, you know, your two-minute commercial on television? there is a trend for longer form documentaries about issues. and those are quite popular and do well. i think this is new. i believe, though, that if you can t get your message across in 28 seconds, it is very hard to expect people in their busy lyes to sit down and watch a 28-minute documentary that is all about the stuff you read in the paper yesterday. so i think they spent a lot of money on something that probably is not going to have a big impact. jenna: what s the strongest message you re hearing from the gop, what do you think s working this week versus the last two weeks? i really think it is asking yourself if you re better off today than you were four years ago, and thinking ahead, would you be better off in another four years? i believe that there is a majority of the country who believes they would not be. and now it s going to be up to whoever the republican nominee is to sharpen the message and make sure
did in 2008, but he s already said that he will probably win, that romney will win the south carolina primary, and many of demint s associates have now moved to romney. so it tells you that that momentum out of new hampshire is really mattering in south carolina. jon: yeah and but, you know, jon, you just never know. jon: demint also said he would be happy with any of the candidates who are out there, i guess that s kind of a weak endorsement of mitt romney should he go ahead and get the nod. according to what you say, he s going to. at any rate, you say romney could not have scripted a better opening to this campaign. give us some examples as to why. well, the major reason is, of course, a few months ago i don t think anybody was betting that mitt romney would win iowa even by eight votes. that was the big surprise early on. new hampshire was always considered in his corner, though not necessarily by that margin. but, you know what i think a lot of people are missing, if you