mark meckler is the cofounder of the tea party patriots and david corn is the washington bureau chiefnbc political analyst. mark, i have to start with you on the most basic question. is mitt romney a tea partier? >> you know, i think fundamentally, if you look at his record, he's not what i would call a tea partier and he has serious differences with a lot of tea party folks on a lot of issues. >> what bugs you the most? romney care -- give us a sense, if you had to sit at a dinner with some pals of yours on the right, and you were saying, you know, i can live with romney, what would you question? what would you go for? >> well, i think fundamentally in the tea party movement, the buzz word for this year is principle. you look at somebody who has changed his position a number of time on a number of key issues, and you have to doubt the principle of the man. and i think that's the fundamental issue with folks in the tea party. there's just a lack of trust. >> do you believe there's any program or policy on which mitt romney would die? would he take that position, stick to it, if it mea

it is bounded by martin and meckler. mark is a father from california andjenny b eth is from atlanta. i went to their convention just to hang out and to meet these people and talk to them. i saw 2000 people. they were intensely eager to find a way to make government work again. they're not talking about a rights or the right to abortion or any of the traditional separating and polarizing issues, they're talking about a government out of control. i am concerned about a government out of control. if we had a chance with the tea party populists that we could come to an agreement about why this government is out of control. it is out of control because we have a system more congressmen are focused on funders and some of the people. the funders are not the people. >> have you ever worked in government? >> no. >> did you ever consider working with the obama administration? >> they did not offer me anything. by the time that administration was in,i was a controversial figure. i had done a work with copyrights. i do not think there's