water. they ve come to fetch to take to school. it s a matter of life and death. it s in people s nature that they ll want to step up and do their part. join the movement. cnn.com/impact. go to cnn.com/impact to find out how you can help. time for a cnn equals politics update. weefr keeping an eye on all the updates. here s what s crossing right now. even though yesterday s scheduled space shuttle launch was delayed, president obama met with the crew at the kennedy space center. he also visited congresswoman gabrielle giffords whose husband is commander of that mission. giffords is still recovering from an assassination attempt three months ago. and a judge says former u.s. senator john edwards must give another deposition in a lawsuit involving his former mistress, rielle hunter. she is suing a former edwards aide. and there could be an awkward moment or two at the
describing the challenge of overhauling school lunch as a mountain they ll climb one step at a time. what do you really hope to see come from it? i mean, i said this from the beginning. i think this is decades of change. you might not see school menus change by the fall. i don t think so. i don t think that that s i think that these are steps that we have to take very gradually. and over the years, you see change. reporter: it all starts with the corn cakes. it all starts on the griddle, right, with a corn cake. that s it. did you have one? reporter: kate baldwin, cnn, washington. i ll take one. so what we choose to eat, where we buy our food and how much we spend on it says a whole lot about who we are more than you might think. so catch our series eatocracy all this week in the cnn newsroom. time now for cnn equals politics update. we re keeping an eye on all the headlines on the political ticker.
the table. okay, so the moritorium, bottom line, moritorium could be lifted, but building may not actually take place. that s the that s how their palestinians? reporter: exactly. in other words, it kind of slips by. sunday comes the deadline by the way is sunday. sunday comes. the moratorium is lifted. but in effect, it continues because those settlers would have to get approval. they d have to get the approval to do any type of construction. and that would slow things down, buying some time. okay. very interesting. i mean, there are a lot of naysayers about this new round of negotiations. this is the sort of third thing in the rode third roadblock they had and seem to be working through it. one can only hope. thanks for the update. if you get any more let us know. time for a cnn equals politics update. right now cnn senior political expert at the politics desk. who is this guy in front of you?
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insurgent campaign with a grassroot support and this is political bitterness directed right now at o donnell. interesting character. out of nowhere and all of this. brian todd in delaware. it s time now for another cnn equals politics update. cnn s political director paul steinhauser, what s crossing right now? reporter: you were just talking about campaign cash with brian todd. let s talk a little bit more about big bucks. let s start with the tea party patriots. they re one of those major national tea party organizations. new on the ticker, they announced they are going to get $1 million and pump it into the midterm elections within the next few weeks. they say they got the money, the $1 million, from an anonymous donor and say they re going to get it out as soon as possible to local tea party groups across the country in the next few weeks to help them get the message out and of course support republican candidates in midterm elections. this is an article i did earlier today