down to 8.2%. have a great easter weekend. happy easter. happy passover to all of you. stay tuned right now for chuck. thank you, william. the breaking news he told you about the jobs numbers are out, coming in below expectations on the raw vote. nonfarm payrolls up 121,000, unemployment, though, drops a tick to 8.2%. that's a three-year low. what do the numbers mean? analysis, we hear from the white house later this hour. time for a pep talk. rick santorum meets with conservative leaders for a shot in the arm. not a soul search. and to hatch a llabyrinth schem. struggle with its response, the white house hosts a forum by happenstance on women and the economy, that's convenient. good morning from washington. it's friday. april 6, 2012.

this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. also ahead, for what we think might be the first time since those infamous etch a sketch chens that sent stocks soaring, eric fehrnstrom. first, we start with the jobs report. unemployment rate fell to 8.2%, but only 120,000 jobs add off the pace of the past few months. we're going to dig into it right now actually with mark zandy. a couple things caught my eye on the -- if failing to meet expectations and the big one retail jobs were a negative. >> right. right. which is not consistent with what we're seeing in retailing. look at retail sales numbers they're solid. vehicle sales have been very strong. i'm suspicious of the number. these numbers don't go in a straight line, they're affected by seasonal patterns and we had warm winter weather so that may

be messing with the data. i'm not reading too much into the weakness particularly retail. that isn't consistent with everything else we know. >> when you look at everything else, everything else on the same track, manufacturing up, health care sector up, everything else up, and the other one that caught my eye, the public sector for the first time we didn't see a dip, we didn't see any ads, but we saw a flatline and what does that tell us? >> well,s that a silver lining. obviously a disappointing report. hoping for more. but the silver lining is that the lay-offs, the large lay-offs we've been getting in the state and local government sector appear to be winding down. i don't think they're over. i think we've got more lay-offs to go, particularly local government, property tax revenues under a lot of pressure. i think the worst of it is over. by the end of the year i think it will be completely over. that's a positive. we were losing i aboatload of those jobs not too long ago. >> what do you make of the revisions for the last couple of

months that were downward revisions? >> net-net, january was a bit down, february was a bit up, zero. no significant revisions. i will say, though, these numbers go through a series of revisions and ultimately when we get all of the data in a few years down the road, we'll see that there's actually more jobs created now than is in the current data. a lot of job growth occurring at businesses and establishments that don't get picked up the first go around the overall employment market, the overall pool of people that are in the job market. is it every going to grow or i saw one analysis that says you know what? a lot of baby boomers are retiring and don't exnaek number so the unemployment number might keep going down. >> yeah, that's an excellent point. demographics, the aging of the population, the aging of the big

baby boom cohort, argues the total labor force will continue to slow. there will be a period when i think it starts -- we see significant growth because you have a lot of people, younger people who stepped out of the workforce in the tough times when there are job opportunities and better wages, they'll step back in. generally, yes, you know, when we look back over the next five, ten years, we'll see that the growth in labor force has slowed substantially. either thing to consider foreign immigration, that has significantly weakened because of the tough economy. that's going to take a while to start revving up again. >> mark zandi of moody's analysts, the person we like to turn to on jobs report friday. back to my buckets and the politics. rick santorum he huddled with conservative leaders thursday in northern virginia and by all accounts, it was a pep talk, not a soul searching session. bottom line for now, santorum is in denial about his place in the race. santorum support somewhere

social conservative activist gary bower, a tugs how to win, not a discussion of anything other than that. here's santorum's convoluted rationalization how he can still make the nomination. a bank shot from half court look easy. strategy hinges on a couple of key steps. one, both are beyond the campaign's control and neither is likely. under, get newt gingrich out of the race according to santorum's campaign leaders have promised increase public calls for gingrich to quit, endorse santorum and ask his delegates to throw their support behind santorum. here's how gingrich responded to that idea. >> have you heard anything about senator santorum's meeting this morning, trying to revamp the stampede saying there's an alliance between yourself? >> no. >> step two, get the texas republican party to change its rules for how they allocate delegates for their may primary. currently 47 at large delegates, awarded proportionally.

another 108 delegates awarded proportionately wish take all by congressional district. the campaign wants to make texas a winner take all state, counting on a lone star sweep. >> may looks very, very good. there's a move in texas to make texas a winner take all state. throw those 154 delegatesen our pile, this race becomes a very different race. >> it's a tall order. for a texas rule change to happen they not only have to convince the state party to revisit its rules, they need a petition of 15 members of the gop committee there to even get a meeting called to bring up the idea. and if that happens, then they need a two-thirds vote of those attending the meeting to make the change, and if that happens, they need a waiver from the republican national committee. i've been told by many in no uncertain terms they will not get a waiver from the rnc. once santorum realizes this and

he could lose his native state of pennsylvania maybe he gets back to soul searching mode. that's possible but he wants to see if this scenario is at all likely. santorum tweeted late yesterday, i'm looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail monday after family time for the easter holiday. while santorum went home, this case that's northern virginia to have this meet, mitt romney barnstormed santorum's home state, pennsylvania. lowering expectations for his own performance there on the one hand, while twisting the knife a little bit on the other. >> you expect someone to win their only state. newt gingrich won his state, i won my state. i think people expect the senator to win his home state. >> even as santorum's denial continues, it's clear romney has pivoted toward the general election. last night at a fund-raiser in washington the president took a line from an earlier speech the white house insisted was not a campaign speech and gave romney another mention, again going after the ryan budget, calling

it, quote a budget that governor romney, who is the front-runner in the pub side, has embraced. said the budget was marvelous, he said. we are going to have a big, important debate in the country and i cannot wait because we have tried what they are selling. it's not like we didn't try it. we have tried what they're pedalling and it did not work, that was president obama last night. the white house is casting that republican budget as disproportionately bad for women. at a day long conference today on the women and the economy, not coincidentally coinciding with jobs day, the president will highlight ways the administration helped create economic security for women. he'll peek at the conference just at an hour from now. this may be an official white house event kicked off by valerie jarrett with kathleen sebelius and hilda solis. fits nicely into the obama's m campaign to use the white house to take advantage of a

republican problem with women. team obama plans to jump on a chance to drive a wedge into republicans and women voters. rnc chairman reince priebus to a question on the gender gap -- >> the democrats, of course, say you're waging a -- the gop's waging a war on women. you don't agree with that. looking at the polls you have a gender gap problem. how big a problem is it? how do you close it? >> well, for one thing, you know, if the democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact we have a war on caterpillars we'd have problems with caterpillars. the fact is it's a fiction. >> the obama campaign immediately shot back saying, quote, prince priebus' comparisons to limit women's access to mammograms and a war on caterpillars show how little regard including mitt romney have for women's health. that's not what reince priebus

was equating to women's health with that comment. obama campaign tries to tie romney to the damaged republican band at this point. romney campaign is convinced that romney the candidate doesn't have a problem with women. it's the republicans. he's just being hurt by that association and romney said as much in an interview with news max this week. >> there's no question that over the past several weeks, that a discussion about religious liberty was distorted into a discussion of contraceptives and there was the perception that somehow republicans are opposed to contraceptives. i think this will pass as an issue as people understand our real position. >> clinical romney there. the romney campaign believes mitt romney can fix this problem for mitt romney. one way he plans to fix it ann romney, who is getting more and more frequent mentions. >> my wife has oat indication, as you know, to campaign on her own and also with me.

and she reports to me regularly that the issue women care about most is the economy. >> there's no question that the general election is under way. if you need proof, every day this week either the president or his re-election team has now directly gone after mitt romney. monday it was a tv ad hitting romney by the president's campaign. tuesday the president talks about romney dirg speech to newspaper editors. wednesday a web ad from the campaign. yesterday another web ad and twitter attacks on romney's tax returns. joining me now, david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." this was not an accident of timing. its clear they had a strategy. for you it must be familiar. this feels like bush '04, does it not? >> it really does. i've been thinking about that. one of the things that bush '04 did, that campaign team did, get out early and really tearing down john kerry. what it amounted to, he was a massachusetts liberal. here what do you see the president doing? we've tried these old republican

ideals, that's what mitt romney stands for, that he's a rich guy out of touch. they want to define him as early as they can particularly because he's got to find his right flank. >> they get attacked by a super pac, essentially, the koch brothers connected energy group, not fully connected, some connections and the president responds by attacking mitt romney in the tv ad. let me play the marv lielous th by the president. trying to make the second point of out of touch. here what happens he said. >> he even called it marvelous, which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget. it's a word you don't often hear generally. >> so here we have just in all three things, the super pac they want to tie him to that, then they want to make him seem out of touch, hey, make fun of how

he even speaks. >> right. >> and of course even the caterpillar thing yesterday which was sort of a silly attack, they were like, no, we're going to make him own everything. >> you've made the point of first read this week, they want to make him own the republican party brand. what you talked to white house official for the past, what five months and they say we're glad we're not those guys, not republicans on capitol hill. look how high the disapproval is for congressional republicans, they want to tie romney to all of that. i go back to some of my own reporting on this. mitt romney, long before we got to the campaign season, begs the republican leadership to pass an immigration bill. >> right. >> because he didn't want to have to contend with the issue. they failed to do that as a result democrats did fail as well. he's had to run to the right in the primary on the issue of immigration, it gives him a problem with latino voters. he does have to own the baggage of the republican party now, as well as what the president's trying to do to him, which is cast him in a way that's awkward. the thing about marvelous, it reminds me of what republicans did to kerry, and he speaks french. >> that was like the take.

i want to go back, the president is getting hit today by sort of the -- what do you call it -- the washington opinion crowd, they don't like it he's gone partisan. the same thing happened to bush, the criticism of the referees in the op-ed pages but this is the reality the danger for the president going after the ryan budget, for instance, is that republicans are going to be able to say, hey, wait a minute, mr. president, we're actually dealing with some tough arithmetic and tough budget realities and that is you say you want to help the middle class. well, a lot of these entitlement programs like medicare are cannibalizing the budget and affecting our ability to help people move up to the next income level. so if you're serious about that, what about dealing with medicare in a real way? >> it seem likes both sides are afraid of talking about the one thing, one negative, that they know that their aspect of budget

is, right? president doesn't want to talk about tax increases. he vaguely mentions them but doesn't talk specifics. the ryan budget and romney, they don't want to talk about the specific cuts. >> right. that seems to be because they're both fear what that looks like in tv ads. >> also because all of these politicians are reluctant to go to people 15 and say, look we have to do hard thing and there are some things you'll dis agree with. what obama was successful with in 2008 how he talked about issues, what he represented in terms of how washington worked. you can argue whether he achieved that. romney has to spend time talking about how he's going to solve the problems in the town, the inability of problems getting solved. we'll talk about faith and politics, dick durbin and john kasich, from ohio. >> interesting stuff. >> two visions of the country now. >> it's as stark and clear as you can have it. the man responsible for

setting off the etch a sketch firestorm, eric fern sturm. a look ahead at the president's schedule. it's that big thing, women's conference today. also a seder at the white house tonight. watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. oú

mitt romney isn't officially the nominee yet but the oesh campaign is not holding back. joining me now eric fernstrom,

he made headlines recently describing a campaign switch here and a stark visual metaphor. did, first of all, did you ever think you'd end up seeing -- saying something that would be quoted back by former president clinton who used it the other day? >> well, i -- i hope the people at etch a sketch appreciate everything i did for them. but, look, chuck, fair minded people know i was referring to the race, not the candidate. >> i want to get to that. the question itself, there's is where of course this got controversy. the question itself was about whether you were concerned that mitt romney was being pushed too far to the right and so let me ask you that question again. are you concerned this primary and what's happened to the republican party has pushed mitt romney too far to the right? >> no. mitt romney goes into the general election standing on his conservative record as a businessman, as a governor. the race itself changes. i mean, in some obvious ways,

chuck, we go from eighth opponents to one opponent and we focus 100% on the failures of president obama when it comes to the economy. so the race changes. the candidate does not. mitt romney, from the very begin, from the very outset of his campaign, has been focused like a laser on the economy. and we've got news today that i think puts in stark contrast the difference between the romney candidacy and what we've gotten over the last three years from the obama administration. >> do you buy this analysis that you guys need a, quote, sister soldier moment with a republican conservative moment or causes whether it's on immigration or contraception or other issues? >> no, i think what we need in this country is an economic recovery. i mean we just got an alarmingly weak jobs report and all of the trend lines are bad, chuck. if you look from january to march, theeclines in

employment growth have been very troubling. even the fact that the rate ticked down a tenth of a point is not good news because the experts are attributing that to the fact we have millions of americans who are just dropping out of the labor force altogether. that's what the 2012 election is going to be. that's what mitt romney is going to be talking about. i expect president obama and his team will do everything in their power to try to distract people's attention to issues that are not central to this campaign. >> actually, we just had one of those experts, he didn't say that. he said that the unemployment rate ticking down had a little bit more to do with demographics, aging population and retirements of the baby boomers, and that he expected this report to be revised upward when all of the data's in. >> if you look at the labor participation rate you'll see that it's going down. it's been steadily going down. in fact, about if we maintained the same labor participation

rate we had when obama took office, the real rate would be 11%, not 8.2. >> the point is he said demographics, the aging population, there are more people -- fewer people in the workforce because there are more people 65 and older now who have decided -- who are retiring and you have fewer immigrants coming into the country. >> well, mitt romney's been around this country meeting with thousands of voters, including people who have just grown so discouraged with state of the economy and the failure of this president to lift us out of our economic problems that they've just stopped working altogether. this is a very troubling development. you know, it's not just the high unemployment, chuck. you add to that rising gas prices. you look at the increase in consumer goods, continued decline in home values. it all adds up to a very bad economy. and this president has had 3 1/2

years to get things right. he's failed. that's what this election is going to be about. >> i want to talk about a "the washington post" report that indicate there's are some things in mitt romney's personal financial history that are essentially going to stay cloaked, if you will, and i understand you guys are following the all right of the law. but are you following the spirit of what presidential campaign candidate have done in the modern era of releasing more details, more tax returns, than what you've released? >> well, look, you know the governor has provided all of the disclosure that's required by law. and that is significant. but then he's gone one step further than that and he's voluntarily put forward hundreds of pages of tax return information for you and your colleagues and the press and members of the public to go through. look, we know that there's going to be an extraordinary effort by the obama campaign to distract

from the bad economy. i got to tell you, they got more sideshows than p.t. barnum's troubling circus but it's not going to work because people care about the state of the economy. they care about gas prices. they care about their homes and staying in their homes, and that's what this election's going to come down to, chuck. >> definitively new york plans on releasing any more tax returns? >> we've already put out hundreds of pages of tax return information. >> right. for one year. >> that we're required to disclose. we put out 2010 tax return information. we made an estimate for 211 and we think that's sufficient. >> will you put out the full 2011? >> we did put out the full 2011, including related tax returns. >> the estimate. are you going to put out the full 2011 when it's filed. >> i misunderstood you. governor romney indicated he would do, yes. >> eric fernstrom, senior adviser for the romney campaign.

the only plug you put in new was p.t. barnum, you forgot the barnum and bailey part. the candidates find their answer to the augusta controversy. and still ahead, we'll get the white house's take on today's jobs report with the chief economic adviser alan kruger. what law effectively ended the easter egg roll at capitol, forcing the white house to step in to keep the tradition alive? which president had to do that? tweet me the answer @chucktodd and dailyrundown. wake up!

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only golf club won't say whether it will let women in, ibm's first female ceo, virginia rometty to join the club. recent ceos have been invited but augusta's stonewalling on the question. both president obama and mitt romney want to see, though, augusta's policies change. >> the president's answer to this question is, yes, he believes -- his personal opinion is that women should be admitted. >> any thoughts on whether women should be able to join augusta? >> of course. i'm not a member of augusta, i don't know that i would qualify, my golf game's not that good, certainly if i were a member, if i were -- if i could run against it, which isn't likely to happen, of course i'd have women in augusta, sure. >> best golfer on the campaign trail, calista gingrich, a fixture on the trail with her husband, newt gingrich, tweeted this about the augusta national controversy. i'm a golfer and i'd love to

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but do the job numbers bear that out? the president says they don't. he argue the public sector is lagging behind the private sector and said it's the lack of government jobs that's hurting the recovery. >> if state and local government hiring were basically on par to what our current recovery -- on par to past recoveries the unemployment rate would probably be a point lower than it is right now. >> so that's our deep dive today. the public sector job front. let's look at the last 12 months and compare the jobs numbers in the private sector with those in the public sector which includes federal, state, local governments about. that time the private sector added more than 2 million jobs while the public sector has lost 223,000. we wanted to go back further to take the recession into account as well. from january of 2009 to february of 2012, president obama has overseen a cumulative loss of 41,000 private sector jobs.

over the same period the public sector lost more than 580,000 jobs. the president made the case if the public sector kept pace with the private sector the jobless rate would be down a full point. we asked mark zandi to do the math, he calculated that the unemployment rate would drop two percentage points -- two tenths of a percentage point down to 8%. the president is urging state and local governments to hire more. a bad economy, when there's reduced tax revenue, it follows that states would cut back. but not all of them are doing it at the same rate. look at this. the roosevelt institute found 40% of all job losses on the local level came from 11 states that by the way went republican in the 2010 midterms where small government policies were promoted. if you add texas you reach more than 155,000 state and local job cuts by those 12 states alone, nearly 3 out of every 4.

given that republicans are the party of smaller government, the figures may not be surprising but makes you wonder about the idea promote job growth on one hand while slashing the size of government on the other. do the two go as hand to hand as folks think? maybe federal level is different from state and local. joining me now is alan krueger, chairman of council of economic advisers and have him most fridays these days, monthly jobs fridays. let me ask you about this current report and say, are you disappointed? >> no, as you have me on every month, every month i say the numbers go up and down. it's important to take a step back and look at each month's report and the context of other data that are coming in. and we see a picture where the economy's continuing to expand. we had 25 straight months of public sector job growth. we've had the best quarter that

we've had in six years but there's a lot of work to be done. job growth was too weak even before the recession. the recession made things much worse. we're making progress but there's more progress that we need to make. >> do you agree with mark zandi who thought the retail number in particular, which probably was the biggest hit for the month when you look at it, we're always looking to see what was the negative and it's usually in the government sector and it wasn't, it was retail, and he didn't believe it. are you in that camp? >> as i say, you want to look at the numbers and the context of other data that are coming in. the other data suggests that the economy's continuing to heal. we've done a lot of adjustment to make progress on the deep problems that had been building in the economy for a long time. so, for example, unemployment insurance claims hit their lowest level in four years last week. so i think there are lots of signs that the economy's continuing to expand. as i said, i think -- it sounds like mark looks at things the

same way -- look at things in the context of all of the data coming in, not overreact to one monthly report. and i think this added to the picture of an economy that's continuing to heal. >> let me ask you this. how do you speed this up? what point are we going to see the acceleration of job growth? right now it seems steady and if you look, if this is just a blip but still it sort of a gradual rise, when do you see acceleration? >> well, you know the numbers move up and down. if you look at the past quarter you do see a stronger job growth than we had seen as i said in any quarter since the last six years. one of the factors that would help accelerate the economy is, as you mentioned, public sector hiring. the president recognizes that state and local governments are going through a very difficult time. the situation's even worse than you indicated because state and local governments lost most of their jobs since the recovery started, about 600,000 state and

local government jobs lost since the beginning of the recovery. the recovery act helped state and local governments to retain school teachers, firefighters, policemen, when that money began to phase out, their lay-offs increased. the president has proposed and the american jobs act and in his budget providing more assistance for state and local government so they can keep more teachers in the classroom, help them improve education and help improve our workforce of the future as well as provide more jobs in short run. >> alan krueger, i've got to leave it there. the president's chairman on council of economic advisers and joins us on jobs report friday. next, in our friday political panel, the comment from eric cantor that team romney wishes he had kept to himself. one more time, as we mentioned, sunday, "meet the press," which party's vision will win in 2012? it's a stark one. assistant majority leader in the senate, dick durbin, ohio

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the daily flashback to this day in 1841 when john tyler was sworn in as the nation's tenth president. tyler was the first vice president to be elevated to the presidency because of the death of his predecessor, earning him the nickname of his ascendancy, two of president tyler's grandsons are still alive today. by the way that presidency, very important, establishing the authority of the executive branch and the authority of the vice president to ascend to the

presidency. for all intents and purposes, it is a two-man race between president obama and mitt romney. we saw it this week as mitt romney started to focus on president obama and the obama campaign started to hit mitt romney daily. let's bring in our political panel. msnbc contributor and political editor for thegrio.com, perry bacon. casey hunt political reporter for the associated press and reid wilson editor and chief of national journal's hot line. hello to you all. the general election started. you're covering a presumptive nominee, casey hunt, on the road and that means you're here in washington about. >> for a few days. it's easter weekend. >> fair enough. i want to talk about everything will get highlighted when it comes to potential bipartisanship for the president. i want to play something that eric cantor said yesterday at a rare public bill signing where republicans showed up for a democratic president signing a bill. here what happee said. >> the president said today that he's always believed that it's

the private sector that is the job generator in this country. i agree with him. i think most americans agree with him. >> now, perry bacon, eric cantor didn't say anything that he wouldn't say boy he was on the grounds of the white house at the time and sounded positive towards the president. >> unusual about him. his guy's running for re-election, too, and they need to show signs of we're doing something other than blocking and preventing obama's agenda. they're trying to show signs of we're getting things done, this is a jobs act, he wanted to show bipartisanship for his members. >> the candidacy you cover says president obama has a government-centered economic philosophy which eric cantor didn't, just refuted. >> he stole the line, i mean this is something that romney repeats over and over again, private sector is where his, you know, where the -- where jobs come from, whereas obama believes pet projects,

government things from the stimulus, all of that kind of stuff have created jobs instead. >> when you see this back and forth, that we're seeing here, eric cantor, romney can't be happy about that. >> i'm sure he's not. eric cantor is running advertisements in his own district on this bill that the president signed yesterday. as perry said, this works for cantor though it might not work for his presidential -- >> all politics that's local a little bit and there are some, eric cantor personally trying to improve his own image when it comes to the republican party, he hopes to maybe keep ascending, but the other thing is that republicans are going to start worrying about themselves. >> jay carney said this monday or tuesday, talking about the fact there will be bipartisanship because of the republicans, he compared to 1996 which is misguided. but that said, there will be a few things where the republicans will reach out and show we are getting things done. >> i want to play another clip

from romney that he's been using lately and it's ringing oddly hollow. it's a attack that romney has on the president on harvard. >> we have a president who i think is a nice guy, but he spend too much time at harvard, perhaps. >> okay. how long did mitt romney spend at harvard? i don't get this one. this one seems weird. makes you sound very disingenues if you're attacking the school you went to. >> it's strange because he has two degrees from harvard. >> unbelievable thing, by the way. that joint mba law school. that is not the easiest thing to do. >> his father pushed him to do it. talk to romney about his time at harvard he wasn't interested in getting the law degree, he wanted the business agree and did themselves both, in four years. obama spent three years at the law school. it's a risky line of attack. they started to try to paint

president oesh bama as out of t. whether they can do that defending this multimillionaire candidate, out of touch, remains to be scene. >> romney's trying this. the obama campaign thinks the president ihimself he doesn't ue this marvelous thing, he's trying to do the same thing. >> the obama campaign setting up the notion of mitt romney as out of touch candidate for years now. romney is trying to do the same thing. it works very well against mitt romney. maybe it will work well against obama. they've got to pick an angle that shows obama's out of touch. maybe comments about why president obama, he likes to talk about he pays a lot in taxes or he is so fortunate, that could be seen as out of touch. going to harvard, not so sure of that. >> stick around. i want to talk about the three things i didn't know when the week first started. what law trivia. what law effectively ended the easter egg roll at the capitol,

forcing the white house to step in and keep the tradition alive. it's the turf protection law. the law banned easter egg rolling on the capitol grounds so president rutherford b. hayes had to move the tradition to the white house. how about that congress? you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. not in this economy. we also have zero free time, and my dad moving in. so we went to fidelity. we looked at our family's goals and some ways to help us get there. they helped me fix my economy, the one in my house.

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it's friday. i wanted to share my weekender wisdom. three new pieces of information that i picked up this week that i didn't believe when the week started. let's bring back our panel, perry bacon, kasie hunt, i'll start with you. >> i really thought wisconsin had figured out how to count votes. apparently, they haven't and we have real contentious elections coming up. >> they will hand out lech duties --? she's not resigning. >> but, you know, yet again, big problems in a very important

county in a state -- >> the senate race in several house races and presidential contests. it changed the result by two full percentage points and it went from a five-point win to a seven-point win. >> perry bacon, potus versus scotus. president obama must not be confident. >> oh, no. he said they would uphold the law, but it didn't sound like he was believing what he was saying. they do watch the news and don't want to feel like they're being bullied. >> i do not think we would have heard as much from the president this week had he been confident. >> oh, absolutely. he would have let it go. i think he was very worried and he should be based on what we saw. >> kasie, i'm going to end below. i didn't really realize it, but apparently, golf, the sponsors of golf tournaments do not care if a woman buys a single

product. if the market is anything, money moves these things and breaks down barriers more than anything else and apparently advertisers don't care if women don't like the augusta national rules. >> apparently politicians care about women voters because they've got all of them coming out saying that augusta should change the policy across the board. >> it is weird. here we are, 21st century. >> more than anything else. shameless plugs times. you know what? i'll start with you. >> it's my mom's birthday on monday. so happy birthday to my mom. >> being an aries, good for her. >> your birthday? >> i'll give it a shameless plug to the national tournament, go to national journal.com and you'll figure it out. >> millionaire lobbyists. >> making more money than you are. >> the millionaire lobbyists. >> and "the washington post" story about romney and financial disclosures that we should all read. >> that's it for this edition of "the daily rundown."

have a happy passover and a happy easter. everybody take a break and take a breath. coming up on msnbc, chris jansing and at 1:00, andrea mitchell reports. bye-bye. i'm meteorologist bill care ins with your weekend forecast. easter sunday, afternoon storms taking this in texas and most of the rest of the country looks very nice. unfortunately for the west coast we will see some rain in the northwest. overall an a-plus weekend. and while that leaves a little room for balls and tees, it doesn't leave room for much else. there's no room left for deadlines or conference calls. not a single pocket to hold the stress of the day, or the to-do list of tomorrow.

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