jail right now. is that right? there s a tad bit of a problem there. four in jail right now. i mean, that s e-mailed me and said term limits mean something completely deferent in illinois. something to be proud of. i can t understand why santorum went to puerto rico for three days rather than illinois. it s winner take off. why he didn t just go to illinois and camp out. the thing is about rick, he said yesterday when he came on the show and said i won ten states. he won ten states. this guy really was. i have a good friend that has been with him from the very beginning. the day of the election in iowa, invited basically the whole campaign team to go eat lunch. all two of them came out. we had lunch.
military spouses in the next two years. they do not want to miss out on your potential. all right. nbc s chris ten kristen welker is traveling with the president. she joins me from the bus tour. there is a bit after delay but she is watching that for us. hi, richard, that s right. we rp on the bus heading to our next event. as you mentioned, president and first lady just wrapped up that event in hampton, virginia. it was significant because it was the first time we saw the first lady appear with the president during one of his trips to sell his jobs plan. so in addition to the announcement that you just talked about that the first lady made, we also heard the president talk about the part of his american jobs act that would provide tax breaks for companies who hire veterans and their spouses. the event gave him a chance to reach out to some of the 700,000 veterans who live in this community here in virginia and who will be a key part of the
voting block in 2012 in this key swing state. so right now, we are heading it the president s next event. we are riding on a bus. i want to make it clear, the president is not on our bus. if we can pan over to give you a better sense of what this bus looks like, really a mixture of journalist, white house staffers, as well as secret service agents. we have spent a lot of hours on this bus during this three-day bus tour, eat lunch, filing reports as i m doing right now. a lost print journalist file report from this very space. so certainly some tight quarters. but we get a lost work done while on this bus. we are heading to north whe chesterfield right now. that s where the president will speak to firefighters, again saying his jobs act will benefit them if it were to pass. wrapping up three-day bus tour in two key swing states, virginia and north carolina. he won both back in 2008. he is trying to hold on to them in 2012. richard? kristen, at least the seats