Senator Jim DeMint: Debt negotiations a 'matter of national survival'

Senator Jim DeMint, widely considered one of the Tea Party's leaders, is in New York this week promoting his new book, "The Great American Awakening: Two years that Changed America, Washington, and Me."

The book discusses the rise of the Tea Party movement in the United States and offers the Senator's take on what has become of the country since the 2008 elections.

Senator DeMint joins Christine Romans this morning to discuss his book, the 2012 GOP race and Washington's debate over the debt ceiling.