host: sal russo is our guest. mike is joining us from tampa, florida. caller: sal, i would like to ask you two questions. what are the top three programs that the tea party express would like to eliminate in the federal government? funder?who is your top who supervises most of your funding? guest: one, unlike a lot of groups, we do not have a questionnaire. we do not have a litmus test of issues for people. we interview candidates and maybe we have opposition to obamacare. we have more say, corn and cattle, then you should be for ethanol subsidies. if you have more cattle than corn, you should be against them. we let candidates represent their district and their state to do what they think is best. we do not have a hard litmus test. we let them have their own choices. we support a wide range of candidates. the only thing we insist on is that we have gotten solid on the economic issues. we have to do something about this poor economic recovery. we have to do something about the debt. host: let's take a look at what you have raised. you indicated $10 milli

host: we want to welcome our guests, sal russo. rge is us from eat few kentucky. -- from eat the you, kentucky. -- from east view kentucky. caller: i understand mr. russo is a republican. getting back to the election. -- made the comp -- made the comments that he is not going to support anyone crazy like green goo-- when i going to fix jeb bush? thank you for listening. guest:host: you know sheldon adelson quite will. guest: he is a terrific patriot and does a lot of wonderful things. i think he wants what is best for this country. do you always agree in politics? you don't. i think his heart is in the right place, trying to get good fiscal conservatives elected to office. he doesn't want to support candidates that can't win. it is our position. we don't want to support candidates that cannot win. host, one more tweet from our viewer -- guest: i don't think we need to do that. i think we can reform issues like social security and medicare without burdening our current beneficiaries. i think we can do it better than that. host: sal r

sal russo talks about the state of the tea party. and an examination of the situation with russia and the always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation via facebook and twitter. eastern on0 a.m. c-span. is a pictorial report on the nato maneuvers of 1954. is a gigantic land maneuver under the direction of the fifth corps, u.s. army. it has many purposes, but an additional purpose may be to display nato's might before the communists. two opposing forces, black and green. both sides have the american-built 280 millimeter atomic cannons. the atomic cannon has never been fired in europe. what you will see here is a simulated atomic explosion, but cannon can be fired in europe. the guns are ready. the men are ready. should the soldiers attacked anyone of nato's nations, the atomic dons will fire. >> from the u.s. army big picture series, nato maneuvers determined to deter soviet aggression in europe. sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. the recentlook at consumers security breaches at target and the university of ma