among the lawmakers who have already announced plans to retire kent conrad of north dakota and jim webb of virginia plus the independent senator joe lieberman of connecticut and jon kyle of arizona, kay bailey hutchison of texas. president obama is on his way back to washington right now after visiting some of the country s biggest tech gurus out on the west coast. today he visited intel, the computer chip giant. the president picking up where he left off in his state of the union address, pushing his plans to use technology to help america, as he put it, win the future. james rosen live on the chill tonight. james, the president also showing is he willing to work with folks who criticized his handling of the economy. yes, shep. the chief executive did some top tier corporate recruiting today. he tapped intel ceo paul to serve on the president s council on jobs and competitiveness even though he has faulted the administration for creating too much uncertainty like ceos like himself.
and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. the president heads out to sili con valley to talk to the top tech gurus. our senior correspondent ed henvy on the stakeout. what is this meeting all about? reporter: it s trying to follow up on the state of the union when the president talked about innovation and what can the government do to help american business foster some of that innovation and create jobs and deal with the stifling unemployment right now. along the way the president will have a little dinner in san francisco with steve jobs of apple, mark zuckerberg from facebook as well as eric schmit from google. interesting subtext is the fact that steve jobs obviously a couple weeks ago took a second medical leave of absence just in the past couple of years for an
very cool disney dream cruise. it was a media junket where a lot of media types and tech gurus such as yourself were on board to kind of get the story of what disney and the dream are offering. so what was the most remarkable thing about this cruise ship? it s not just about vacations, is it? that s right. there are a number of amazing pieces of high-tech on board. including, we ll start with the magical port holes. if you have a state room, an interior state room so your cabin does not have a balcony, and you have a magical porthole. it looks like a window to the sea. but in fact, it s a real-time hd view. a high-definition view from one of the four cameras that is on this ship. and not only is that impressive in and of itself. because it looks so real. but you also have animated disney characters floating in, like the house from up carried by balloons.