go county by county and scott walker overperformed two years ago in an election that was a referendum on him. pretty amazing. for those of you out there, the big players, sheldon adelson who supported supporter for newt gingrich, they were all playing in this. debbie wasserman schultz is going to regret saying this was a dry run for november. that is a big sound bite and i m sure the chair woman would like to take it about. most special elections don t have an impact on the national elections. at the same time, you know, recalls always kind of make me feel a little squeezy because i feel like we ought elections have consequences. you vote for a person, you vote for a right-wing politician, you have to live with the consequences. gloria, what do you think the implications are? as we said at the beginning how the independent vote is going to go in this country. you have a state like wisconsin where independents, obviously a lot of them prefer barack obama. but some
of course, he has more donors, big and small, online, major donors, and santorum basically, go guy, one big donor, and he will have and newt gingrich has sheldon, and the donors are tires and they have donor fatigue. at the lot of people are saying i cannot keep up with the presidential, it is on or off, let s lockup the senate. i called a couple of senate races and said i will dump if some money . neil: at the expense of the white house? guest: they want to make sure the republicans win the senate and they are picking seats they think they can get at a good price. neil: i am sorry to be slow but not to say they have given up on the white house. guest: no, but right now if you have a big check and you are ready to rock-n-roll and you
something because we re all sort of reacting to the unfolding crisis and wondering where s it going go next? you know, i was talking to someone, you couldn t have written this, an earthquake and then a tsunami and then a nuclear catastrophe. but my question is where s the telethon? where s the telethon. maybe because of what you said, i don t know, but i haven t seen a big telethon for japan. there should be. we have what we call dough nar fatigue. we ve had crisis after crisis after crisis, it seems. there are only a certain number of people in a recession economy still crawling out of a recession that has disposable income. so many people in america are suffering economically right now, so i think that there is a certain amount of donor fatigue going on right now. all right. issues with jane velez-mitchell airs every night at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. thanks, jane. president obama delivers a
we re back with george and john how that papaling packs we re back with george clooney and john prendergast. how much of this fight that you engage in, if we can call it a fight, are you hampered by the fact of americans have greater interests, george? well, you know, sure, there s donor fatigue in certain ways. we re not asking for any money. hampered, no. because the american people have a tremendous capacity to care. and here s the truth. the truth of the matter is this. if i put it to you like this, if you took two minutes out of your day, out of one day, just today or tomorrow, to write an e-mail, it s a modern day now, we re e-mailing, and twittering and facebooking. write an e-mail to the white house saying, please do everything you can, diplomatly, again, not causing any money, not costing any soldiers. do everything you can. you have my support, even if i didn t vote for you. you know, the same thing to senator lugar and the same thing
where the government is not, some fear for the stability of this nuclear nation. humanitarian organizations are also facing donor fatigue in their efforts to raise funds for pakistan s flood survivors. even actress and u.n. goodwill ambassador angelina jolie interrupted a red carpet moment last night to appeal for donations as pakistan s desperation grows. it s one of those that we can t really just donate and contain and hope it, you know, gets better. it may get worse before it gets better. it s a very, very big one, and i myself don t know quite how to tackle it yet but just keep asking questions and do what you can. all hands on deck. here with us now is u.s.a.i.d. administrator dr. rajiv shah. dr. shah, thanks so much for coming and talk about this crisis. $76 million has been pledged by the united states. we ve got we re diverting air equipment from afghanistan, from the military, and from the war effort. and yet what we re not seeing is