i m walter perez, it is almost time. eagles and vikings kick off at 6:40. if the eagles pull a win off tonight it will be first trip to the super bowl in 13 years as if we didn t necessity. many remember the game back in 2005 when they who to the patriots 24-21. one you love a rematch. patriots are playing jag wars right new so rematch is a possibility in minneapolis. tonight we have got crews all around the city, we will bring you live coverage for the next hour and a half, this is an exciting night and we have got you covered. chad pradelli is live outside lincoln financial field hang ing out with tailgaters. trish hartman at chickie and pete s, and christie ileto is in mayfair where things got pretty exciting, after the phillies won the world series a few years ago and our dan cuellar is down, near the stadium, but first we will begin with sports anchors ducis rodgers and jamie apody where we are live inside the linc, hey there, guys. hi there, it is certainry game,
the best of my ability, so help me god. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the 55th governor of the state of new jersey, governor chris christie. [applause] thank you. thank you. bank you. thank you very much. thank you. lieutenant governor redondo, sweeney,esident speaker panetta, republican leaders cain and brenna, all the former governors, members of the supreme court, members of our congressional delegation, members of the new jersey state legislature, family and friends, people ofe again, the new jersey have given me the opportunity to serve. [applause] and i thank each and every citizen for that honor. and once again, i have taken an oath where i have sworn to the peace and prosperity along great citizens, and both it is, a long one. byis an oath i have lived for the last four years, and it is the oath i will live by for every day i am privileged to call myself your governor. [applause] the oath, though, is just a symbol of the bond that we have created with each othe
every life has value and no life is disposable. [applause] this government, our government, we will fight to continue to change so that we value our differences and we honor the strength of our diversity, because we cannot fall victim to the attitude of washington, d.c., the attitude that says i am always right and you re always wrong, the attitude that puts everyone into a box that they are not permitted to leave, the attitude that puts political victories ahead of policy agreements, the belief that compromise is a dirty word. as we saw in december regarding the dream act, we can put the future of our state ahead of the partisans who would rather demonize than compromise. as your governor, i will always be willing to listen as long as that listening ends with us being willing to compromise for the people who sent us to do our job. because you see, in the end, i have had no greater honor in my life than having twice been elected to be the governor of the state where i was bor
once you get into philanthropy a little bit, there is a lot of it. there are a lot of causes. how does the veterans piece of this fit in? the colonel that used to work for me started the dixon center here in town. he is focused on these kinds of issues. i don t think there is anybody in the country that knows more about this space then he does per se. it is that consolidation that we see. i will give you a specific example. we convened a group that focused on scholarships for kids, for military kids. 30 or 40e organizations there. there were some organizations that couldn t figure out how to get a scholarship. there were some organizations that had nothing but fellowships and didn t have the money to get it. of these people. how do we get them to work together? that was the idea. you can do that in education, health care, employment, all of those kind of things. i think leaders in the community and these charitable organizations need to figure out how to help us get to som
issues going on inside russia. some things going on inside russia are quite problematic. one oftin the reasons why he is most popular is because russians are experiencing a time of prosperity. level of abouta four percent growth, which is ok, but not where they wanted to be. his economic growth has fallen close to zero. one 1.3%. then it was close to zero. the sense that he brought prosperity to russia if the you are go badly, then disgruntled, and people are looking around, and they are saying, actually, this guy, things are not going so well economically right now in russia. the if there is a dip in oil price, which is so important for the russian economy, then they start another scenario where his leadership is really under much more pressure than one would have imagined. of focusingelement on the successful russia. come to russia, and see with the new russia is like. it is completely different than what the old soviet union was like. this is not your father s buick.