why wouldn't they support chris christie? substantively when you look at the things they support, there's not much daylight between chris christie and mitt romney. they're offering the same things roughly speaking on the most important policy issues. maybe it's not a matter of substance. maybe it's a matter of style. >> you don't send your children to public schools. you send them to private schools. so i was wondering why you think it's fair to be cutting school funding to public schools? >> what's her name? >> what's her name, guys? real quick. the governor's talking. what is it? >> gale, first off, it's none of your business. i don't ask you where you send your kids to school. don't bother me about where i send mine. i as governor am responsible for every child in this state, not just my own. the decisions i make is to try to improve the educational opportunities of every child in this state. so with all due respect, gale, it's none of your business. >> you're not compensating...

going on. the two things that make them consequential events will not be overtly discussed. there's the surface event, the sort of headline and the important thing that is below the surface. the first of these is something being done by texas governor rick perry. he's hosting a gala lobbyist fund-raiser tonight at the hotel in washington, d.c. the word lobbyist exists because of the willard hotel. the willard is close to the white house. in the late 1800s people trying to get favors done in d.c. would hang out in the opulent lobby of the hotel waiting for politicians or cabinet officers or the president to come by that hotel so they could schmooze that person. the willard hotel lobbyists gave the lobby profession its name. that's the legend. which the willard hotel itself enthusiastically promotes. tonight the fund-raiser for rick perry constitutes what his