joining me now, ariana huffington is the editor in chief and president of the huffington post media groupdavid frum is a contributing editor for the daily beast and "newsweek." steve rattner left a long career on wall street to be the obama administration's car czar. now he is back in business. and mort zuckerman is the chairman of boston properties and the editor in chief of "u.s. news and world report." welcome to you all. david, let me start with you. one of the things i've been puzzling over is, what happened to the tea party? this was the party that -- you know, this was meant to be the thing that was going to totally transform the republican party. and it doesn't quite seem to have that had effect. >> failed to generate an alternative to mitt romney and it's taking a bad humiliation because of it. i think a lot of the energy has gone out of it. especially in south carolina, here's something that i think is maybe relevant. the senator jim demint from south carolina has been a vocal advocate of the tea party. he's also been the leading opponent of dredging the harbor of charleston. it

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