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Can the Republicans keep their party together?

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House Speaker

John Boehner has said that taking control of Congress was the first big adult moment in years for the Republican Party.

But established leadership as being challenged by movement conservatives, starting with Minnesota's controversial congresswoman Michelle Bachman.

Veteran senators hatch, Lugar, and Snow face challenges in next year's

GOP primaries, and presidential hopefuls may face a right-wing litmus test in New Hampshire.

Is the party divided between pragmatists who want to work within the system and ideologues

who want to blow it up? On reporter's notebook later on, The New York Times and WikiLeaks.

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Hello again, Mormon Allene, back with To the Point.

When Republicans won control of the Congress, they appear to be on a role. Now it's unclear whether

established leaders or movement conservatives are in control. Will internal divisions

limit the party's effectiveness on Capitol Hill and in next year's elections? In reporter's

notebook, The New York Times published secret documents obtained, rather, from Wikileaks.

Now the paper is publishing a book about what it learned and about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

We'll get a preview.

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