axelrod s comments, titanic struggle might be an understatement when you look at some of these poll numbers. reporter: well, it has the virtue of being honest, put it that way, and the virtue of necessity. they re trying to fir up the base. that s what the president has been doing ever since he gave that jobs speech to congress. when you tell the base that they are in for a struggle, it s a political call to arms and that certainly serves their political purposes at the white house as well. about 12 hours ago the president alit on the south lawn of the white house aboard marine one. three days, five cities, three fund-raisers, those marines who fly marine one, laden down with the $4 million he raised on that trip, unclear whether that was actually on board. good news from the white house today from an unlikely source. our friends at bloomberg surveyed 34 economists. it sort of flies in the face of what we ve been hearing from the republican op is situation. they surveyed them about t
romney follows a string of new york fund-raisers and new hampshire town hall fund-raiser in massachusetts today. the fact of the matter is you ll have these donors be able to sit there and say i m going to wait, no reason to rush now in their minds because they have the excuse of chris christie opening the door a little bit and potentially deciding that he might change his mind and get in. all right. back from the west coast, president obama heads to a local d.c. high school this afternoon to deliver his back-to-school address. it s a brief break from the campaign trail. his top strategist says there s a ton of work ahead. here s what he said. we don t have the wind at our backs in this election. we have the wind in our face because the american people have the wind in their faces. and so this is going to be a titanic struggle. but i firmly believe we re on the right side of the struggle. nbc s mike viquiera is live for us at the white house. mike, we ve been hearing about somethin
surrounding the new jersey governor and a possible run for the white house. how many times does a guy have to say no before it sinks in? you folks are an incredible disappointment as an audience. the fact that that took to second question. shows you people are off your game. that is not american exceptionalism. jim acosta, hopeful supporters still only heard one thing, he didn t say no. any reason to believe that he s reconsidering now? yeah, the buzz is exceptional, kyra. yes, there is reason to think that he is reconsidering for a governor who is known for his new jersey brand of straight talk. chris christie never really came out and said last night whether or not he s running for president. unlike what he has done in the past. he sounded very much like a candidate in a speech at the reagan presidential library out in california. the new jersey governor accused the president of dividing the country in order to win re-election. he took a settled dig at rick perry when
that it does get better. here s a little bit of my story. december 2010, i thought i was bi, and then i always got made fun of because i virtually have no guy friends. and i only have friends that are girls. and it bothered me because we would be like faggot and they would taunt me in the hallways and i felt i never could have escape it. people would constantly send me hate telling me gay people go to hell. he said he got hate messages on the site formspring which allows kids to post anonymous comments about each other and to each other. but back then, as you hear, he said he rose above the negativity. i promise you it will get better. i have so much support from people i don t even know online. i know that sounds creepy, but they re so nice and caring and they don t ever want me to die. two weekends ago after saying good night to his sister, jamie rodemeyer took his own life. he was only 14 years old. his school in williamsville, new york, does have a bullying preventi
people would constantly send me hate, telling me gay people go to hell. jamey said he got hate messages on the social networking site formspring, which allows kids to post anonymous comments about each other and to each other. but back then, as you hear, he said he rose above the negativity. i promise you it will get better. i have so much support from people i don t even know online. i know that sounds creepy, but they re so nice and caring and they don t ever want me to die. two weekends ago, after saying good night to his sister, jamey rodemeyer took his own life. he was only 14 years old. his school in williamsville, new york, does have a bullying prevention program. you ll hear a bit from the local superintendent shortly. a lot of schools now have similar programs and more states are enacting new anti-bullying laws. some, though, are facing resistance from groups saying bullying and intolerance programs promote tolerance of a gay agenda. but jamey was above all tha