the first guy i met in the league, a guy named jeff hastings was also a teacher. eally neat, first guy i met and the last guy i said goodbye to was my friend jeff. in the book i mentioned not disparagingly we joke about being a red neck jew boys. that sounds kind of funny but my grandmother was born on a working cattle ranch. my mom is a jew from new york. both are parents, important to expose us to both sides, both traditions. that was a good thing. they did it right. because of that going to israel i got to not only explore what i was at the what the former pro but as a jew as well. that was important to me as well. this next passage i am going to read to you will be the last one about my first shoebox dinner in israel. i am sure you have been travelling but it is need to travel somewhere but a different experience to actually live some place and get to know the people because any place is about the people. nice to go to paris and the crepes and have food and wine but it is different to live there and get to know the people and see what your life is like. that wa

haste, senior writer for the weekly standard. karen, national political correspondent for the "washington post." and jeff for the "new york times." steve, anecdotally, what are you hearing? what's it feel like? >> there is an incredible amount of support here for michelle bachman. the line to her tent from early this morning when i got here at 10:00 a.m. throughout the entire day has been long, sometimes the wait was more than an hour just to get into her tent and talk to people. >> bret: i'm going to interrupt you. i went over there. it's one at a time. you have to sign the thing and it's not -- true. >> bret: the tim pawlenty where you walk through the gate. you have to register. maybe that's why the line was so long. >> but the amount of people spilling out of her tent. >> i think looking around, this is not a scientific way of doing it. but looking at the number of supporters, the people wearing her purple bracelets, all of the things suggest that she's going to have a very good result. >> we hit that line at different times and i was there at lunchtime and people were standing in line for two hours.