petersburg. deputy national security adviser ben rhodes held a gaggle earlier this morning and walk out with majority of the leaders supporting them for a strike against syria and they will go along with the united states in terms of supporting this notion that chemical weapons should not be used. but they re not really saying which countries are with them. which countries are against them. we might get that after the summit is over. that s an indication there that perhaps they don t have all the support that they would like to have. one thing we should poin out, though, this news conference that president obama is scheduled to have at 9:50 this morning that could move around depending on how the bilateral meeting that is hapwing the french president is going and whether or not that runs late. questi carol, the big question opposed to the president is if he will take military action if he does not get congressional authorization? you played some of the sound from the town hall meeting
presidential election where it s more movement. so college students aren t tuned in to who their local congressman is going to be. hard to get people involved into that. this year particularly with the tea party and people are becoming at least more aware of their local politicians. emma, do you find what s hapwing older voters, there is this enthusiasm gap. people so excited about barack obama in 2008, frankly, the way the economy has been going and the way they see their future going. they re just not that interested. they don t want to vote for the republicans, but they re not going to go out there and vote at all. i don t think this is any different than any normal difference between a mid-term election and a presidential year. we always see a lower voter turnout in a mid-term year. i don t see the enthusiasm gap the same way that it has been publicized. you think students on your campus are excited, politically active? yeah. what kinds of things are going on at pen