host: brad woodhouse. guest: we've made investments in infrastructure that they have had to delay until now. we have lower cash on hand but we're investing in social media and in our state parties. we need to have robust stay party operations to get the president reelected. we pride ourselves in believing that this campaign will be won with boots on the ground as well as ads in the air. caller: good morning. he said that the president was distorting to campaign. democrats must think people in the country are stupid and that he has been creating jobs. it is amazing to me when i hear you represent the democratic party. you guys are going to be in for a big surprise because people are not nearly as dumb as you think we are. guest: he is just wrong. the president has not held a single campaign rally. he is doing fund-raising. republicans would love it if he did that to fundraising. of karl rove -- have karl rove spending half a billion dollars to try to defeat this president and he is wrong on jobs. 4.1 millio

never does. >> bill: brad woodhouse is the communications director for the democratic national committeepaul ryan is the man and this plan is my plan. >> budget marvelous. >> bill: marvelous. right. when i'm president, i hope that's on my desk as a bill and i'll sign it on day one. so, romney and ryan are one in the same. >> they are one in the same and it is interesting because you know, connie mack, a republican from florida and a brief bout of honesty said the paul ryan budget is a joke. he said it is a joke. they purport to talk about we gotta cut these programs and get rid of planned parenthood funding and cut programs for the poor and for education and for higher education because we've gotta get this budget under control. the president said you've got $4.6 trillion in tax cuts. all you do is compound the deficit problem. they'll tell you it is the people's money. give it back. mitt romney, we shouldn't borrow money on things that we don't need. they want to borrow money to give tax cuts to the rich. they want to borrow money from china to continue giving oil companies you know gen

brad, wait, wait wait, brad woodhouse, you know, i'm going to direct this at shawn. i'll let shawn answer because brad's got a little more time. the point is, shawn, the most shovel-ready infrastructure position is the keystone pipeline. the building trades council who obama spoke to today, all are in favor of the keystone pipeline project. and literally hundreds of thousands of jobs are at stake. blue collar jobs, construction jobs. shawn, is this going to be continuing as a campaign issue, because there is going to be another vote. i think obama's not going to be able to get around this. i mean i just don't see how he gets around this, shawn. how does he get around this? >> for three years, this administration has given unions everything that they want. the stimulus bailout for general motors. you name it. >> i'm glad you're -- >> everything that they wanted. the one time that we actually agree with them that keystone equals jobs is the one time he actually caves and sides with the environmentalists. >> brad woodhouse, let me switch gears a little bit. does presiden

then sean spicer of the republican national committee and brad woodhouse of the democratic national committee discuss rick santorum's withdrawal from the presidential race. and what issues are most important in this year's campaign. and after that our spotlight on magazine series continues with military analyst bing west. looking at his recent article on afghanistan. plus your e-mails, phone calls, and tweets. "washington journal" live tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> april 15th, 1912. nearly 1,500 perish on the ship called unsinkable. >> once the lookout bells were sounded, the lookout -- once the lookout sighted an ietbergceber ahead, they struck the bells in the crow's nest three times, ding, ding, ding, which is a warning saying there's some object ahead. it doesn't mean dead ahead. it means ahead of the ship. and it doesn't say what kind of object. what the lookout then did after he struck the bell, he went to a telephone in the nest and called down to the officer of the bridge to tell them what it is that they saw. and when the phone was finally answered, the entire conversa

you will hear that from the democrats this time. >> by the way, brad woodhouse, communications directorhe studio at the top of the next hour and we will ask him more about the obama campaign. there has been a lot of speculation, i have to end with this about marco rubio. he gives a big speech at the brookings institute. everybody says this is his debut, audition as vice president, going to give a major speech on foreign policy. and he does until he gets toward the end of it. here is marco rubio. >> above all else the 21st sent tree provides us the opportunity for more freedom, a world where more people are free to grow their economies, free to pursue their dreams free to become prosperous. >> uh-oh. >> i left my last page of the speech. does anybody have my last page? did i leave it with

then sean spicer of the republican national committee and brad woodhouse of the democratic national committee discuss rick santorum's withdrawal from the presidential race and what issues are most important in this year's campaign. and after that our spotlight on magazine series continues with military analyst bing west, looking at his recent article on afghanistan. plus your e-mails, phone calls, and tweets. "washington journal" live tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> just over 30 years ago sandra day o'connor became the first woman appointed to the u.s. supreme court. tomorrow the former justice takes part in a discussion looking at her career. she'll be joined by ruth bader ginsburg, sonia sotomayor, and elena kagan, the three women who followed her to the high court and still currently serve. the event's hosted by the supreme court historical society and the freedom forum. and you can see it live at 6:30 p.m. eastern on our companion network c-span 2. also tomorrow, live coverage of the indiana senate republican primary debate between senator richard lugar and challenger richard

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and then sean spicer and brad woodhouse discuss at rick santorum's withdraw from the presidential racet issues are most important in this year's campaign. and then our spotlight magazine series continues on bing west and his recent article on afghanistan. "washington journal" live today at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. >> before his official announcement, rick santorum called mitt romney to let him know about his decision to get out of the presidential race. later, mr. ron held a campaign event in wilmington, delaware. -- mr. romney held a campaign event in wilmington, delaware. [applause] >> i am the ceo of r.c. fabricators. i want to thank you for coming today. i am pleased to introduce laurie brace and, also a woman business owner and executive board member. she will introduce the governor. [applause] >> the first of all, i want to thank r.c. in that they invite all was to be here today. recently, in the past half-hour he has been meeting with about 12 of us women business owners and i want to say thank you. as a business owner, i'm very interested in jobs for the people who work for me in m

sean spicer and brad woodhouse discuss rick santorum pose a withdrawal from the presidential race.agazine series continues with bing west looking at his recent article on afghanistan. washington journal live tomorrow at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> president obama was an florida pushing for changes to the united states tax code. he spoke about the buffett role which would require americans are the more than $1 million annually to pay at least 30% of their income in taxes. the president spoke for about 40 minutes at florida atlantic university. [cheers and applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] how is everybody doing today? welcome it is great to be back in florida. it is great to be back in boca. it is great to be here at the home of the fighting owls. i want to, first of all, thank a denver not only leading us in the pledge of allegiance but also giving a great details about burrowing owls. explain it all to me and then told me he wants my job. i explained to him that the constitution required for him to be 35 years old. i will keep the seat warm for him. for a few more years. i