martha: that s right. steve centanni is live in washington covering the live story, today. what is the basic goal, do you think of the press conference? what are you hearing, steve. reporter: the idea is to build on the momentum of the primaries, where a tea party candidate, as you know, chalked up notable victory and to try and carry the excitement over into the general midterm election in november and the tea party patriots, a coalition of hundreds of grassroots groups across the country, will announce an anonymous 7 figure donation and it adds a bit more of a national party flavor to a movement that is proud of its grassroots origins, but, officials say the big donation will not be used for tv ads, just forget out the vote efforts, between now and november. martha? martha: and, any reaction to this from the white house? well, no, not directly but of course as you know, the president did weigh in on the tea party movement, yesterday, during a town hall meeting and he said america
low. yeah. except for the tea party. you ve got to remember in 2008, you know, we were all standing up and screaming, you know. yes, we can, you know, but now, you know, the tea party people are the only ones hollering. there is no enthusiasm in the republican party. how do you run get out vote efforts then for democratic candidates then? how do you get voters enthused enough to take time out of the day to go vote in november? you start talking about issues, like the lack of economic fairness is what you talk about. you talk about jobs. you talk about how we re going to pull out of this thing. i mean, people out here are hurting rachel. i was noticing the other day suicide rates are way up, you know, in rural america, and, i mean, it s that tough, and that s what we ve got to do. we ve got to talk about we don t make anything anymore, and, you know, you can t do that forever. you can t just buy, buy, buy, buy and not make anything, and i m, you know, a strong believer, and