i thought was too much of a campaign event and it's -- you do something like this, and you get kids involved and they can't come to the white house, i can't think of a worst combination to leave yourself as vulnerable as you are. in many ways, whoever thought this up deserves to get hit on it because it doesn't make it. >> it seems like a little bit of karma for a president who likes to use children in press conferences. now it's backfiring because the children are pretty powerful when it comes to pr tactics. they want to get a tour. what's worse is they should have backed off because now it'sw story after story after story.af we learn things like, obama's dog has a handler for over $100,000 her year? what? >> i think he does more than handle the dog. >> what else do you think he does? reached out to the press office. i spoke to the assistant. i e-mailed both of them. i called both of them and jayi