the tennessee tea party wants to change some of their history particularly. it's mainly the issue of slavery that has some tea party members asking for changes i sat down with a local activist who tells me it's not so much what's being in the text but what's been left out and how that could affect your kids' future and future generations of americans. are if you want to know if they're so concerned about being left out as if they're not really sure they like the way that slavery was portrayed they think that slavery was seen as too. negative and that kids are going to grow up and be taught in history that slavery was a bad thing and they don't realize how much you contributed to the south's economy at the time yeah because i think the worst thing that you could ever think was that you know if there weren't slaves the economy wouldn't have existed and actually we don't have to even look at history books we can look at alabama right now when you kick out all the illegal immigrants of the economy collapses i mean the bottom line is the slaves the did build this c

tea party nation. he is not a floridian. he is from tennessee. >> hello, florida.er new to gingrich was polling at 5%. and i endorsed him. look what happened to him. i am just saying. i am here today because i want to see something great happens in florida. i am old enough to remember my history. i remember, in the 1980's, there was a guy named mr. ronald reagan. there was a guy helping ronald reagan named newt gingrich. and in the 1980's, there was another guy who is just a wall. in 1992, reagan was gone. newt gingrich was helping the conservatives elected. there was another guy who was out there. he was voting for liberal democrats and contributing to liberal democrats. in 1984, newt was helping conservatives take a hold of congress and support the reagan legacy. this other guy, he was running from reagan. in 2002, as a private citizen newt gingrich was out there advancing conservatism. in 2002, this other guy was announcing i am a progressive. what is up with that? from 2003 to 2007, newt started new businesses. he helped advance the conservative cause. this guy

tennessee today came out and supported him. and there will be more right behind him. probably after south carolina. >> more important voice today was senator demint who i don't think much of, but he is a tea party favorite and he said, she from single second, he said i think he will win south carolina and that was a big statement for senator demint to make. >> you see the conservatives on the right and the tea party, and jim demint and other activists that spoke as surrogates starting to coalesce. >> they are not talking about ron paul. ron paul. >> he did really good. >> he has a lot of people, what are they going to do? >> they can go to the convention and get delegates and that is where it will hit, it will hit the fan. will he get a speaking slot? he citizens it -- deserves it and he will get it. the attacks by newt gingrich and rick perry backfired in a big way if you look at rush limbaugh and the other would have not had nice things to say about mitt romney came to his defense by sag, what are you doing? why are you playing the democrats' card. i am delighted. wish they would do it longer. they when. it won't go much beyond south carolina, one of the things you see in presidential politic

in new york city, a woman meredith jerome, meredith from tennessee is being prosecuted, has a legal license to carry. mark mekler of the tea party the story here? he is from indiana. he has a registered gun in indiana, comes to new york city to visit the empire state building and carrying 15,000 dollars worth of jewelry, a business man and he wants to protect it. so he he's carrying a legal firearm and goes up to the security desk at the empire state building and what happens. >> he does the right thing. sees no firearms per it meds goes to check it with security. called the n.y.p.d. exams his permit and doesn't matter you're in new york city, and puts him in handcuffs, a gunnery sergeant who served in the united states marine corps, but emblem matic problem. and new york city doesn't respect the second amendment and the notion that somebody can have a legal firearm and make a mistake. it's a felony. >> clayton: a felony and automatically gets three and a half years. what's going to happen to him. is it going to be overturned. >> in this case there's so much political pressure and media coverage i think d.a. vance is going to ta