according to a usa today suffolk poll. is this the proverbial hail mary to get himself back in contention? i think it is because i think the republican elite community, conservative intellectual crowd appreciates that christie is willing to do this, and tlog go out here and talk bow it.willing to go out here and talk bow it. he needs to be able to build and fund a campaign if he s going to be able to truly be able to pull this off. so i do think this issue is it s funny, the entitlement issue is an issue that matters a lot more to donors than it does rank and file americans. and let me tell you another challenge here on the entitlement issue when it comes to the republican party. the republican party, its most loyal voting group is becoming older white americans. the senior vote is no longer even a 50/50 vote. the senior vote leans republican. the last thing they want to hear about is people messing with social security. i think this is beginning to be
spot. i personally appreciated the saxaphone. i thought that was great. while 2011 saw the death of osama bin laden and american the leader of al qaeda is elite community also suffered losses. among them the 8 killed in downed helicopter in afghanistan. when we have a catastrophe such as that there s a lot of children video involved. while the bands are good the blues brother finals, memorable. this year the director of national intelligence took the stage with them. having my old boss come up, it doesn t get any better than that. on this night they raise $2340,000 for scholarship. my dream is now coming true. i am a sophomore at stevenson university as a film major. [applause]
gadhafi might be out of power tonight, that he could not do it from any place in the world. i think the more relevant question to people who have been on all the talk shows and were on with savannah guthrie on meet the press today and all of our other colonel erik whether the maxine waters pressure and all the other pressure from domestic allies and critics becomes a problem optically and where he is vacationing. he is not somewhere more secluded. he is in a very well to do community, an elite community. that s at least the perception. so i m only talking about the politics of it. not whether or not a vacation is completely justified for someone like the president of the united states. andrea mitchell, thank you as always for your perspective. yes, there are several issues at play here for the president. obviously, the very serious one about the power void that may