desk. what is crossing the political ticker right now? >> reporter: the biggest story of the day is president obama's speech. heading into november, first of all, social conservatives, we've talked a lot about the economy. social conservatives are meeting downtown in washington right now. newt gingrich, ralph reid, all talking about the election. not necessarily talking about abortion. but these folks are. these folks are fired up. these folks are key to republicans winning in november. you can check that out on cnnpolitics.com. in addition to that, you talked about being a businessman, in the last 30 minutes, i just received this in my e-mail box. it is a note of congratulations from the bipartisan political action committee. they are a business industry group here in town, ali, and they are saying some very nice