and i met paul stein and we combined paul ticks and the heart of a community organizer. he pulled it together. >> you spent time talking about your youth, but also your family and your children and their experiences. and how different america is for them. talk to us about that. >> when i was growing up, america was much more racially obsessed. you know, for example, when i was a kid, if somebody dated outside of the african-american community that would be a thing. for kids in my generation, that is not a thing. kids are more accepting and embracing of alternative cultural and accept people for who they are. my kids embody that certainly. and i think that is a wonderful development. the good thing about my kids is they are proud of being african-american. they love to read about it, talk about it and embrace it. but at the same time they are interested in their own heritage and that maybing -- makes -- them interested in other's heritage as well. >> would you say you adopted your father or your mother's parenting style >> not my fathers buzz because we didn't spank our c

stein. >>> the tea party movement. its leaders are trying to steer the message into the future with a renewed tone. senator rand paulnt reference to recent remarks by rocker ted nugent about president obama. >> we have to reach out to more people, not just those of us here. it has to be a bigger party, and it has to be a bigger movement. there are times -- and i don't think it is our movement -- but there are times when people are using language that shouldn't be used, and i recently criticized someone for using some of that language, and i'm not going to bring it up. but i will say we can disagree with the president without calling him names. i'm not saying that's our problem. i'm saying there are people out in the public that are taking away from our message. when we present our message, if we want a bigger crowd and we want to win politically, our message has to be a happy message, one of optimism, one of inclusiveness, one of growth, one of -- a message that actually brings up the people who are poor among us, brings up those who are long-term unemployed and finds them jobs. our message is that. but we have to f