, small state or big state medium state or any kind of competition this way. this doesn't -- this is not about discretion of the states for the states to decide what kind of program they want. this is giving more flexibility. we just passed an amendment on the credit title to give the second more flexalities. this gives the secretary flexibility to consider something in addition to what he or she considers today. today, the secretary is allowed to consider only commodity prices and consumer preferences when making the determinations. now we're saying in addition to commodity prices and consumer preferences, the secretary can also take into account that other issue, and that's what -- that's what -- that the need of those states, or the need of those communities, and that's why so many food banks all over the country and not just in big states like new york and ohio and michigan, but smaller states have called us to want us to do this. there's no score involved. there's no additional cost to the government, to the secretary, to the usda. and this just gives the

it's not big state, small state. it's house versus senate. it's slavery, stupid, as james carville would say. that's what it's most about. before you have political parties to know if you're from massachusetts who is good from virginia and vice versa but once we have political parties merge, you can vote, even retrospective whether you like the incumbent, whether he's done anything good and you know enough to vote on that rhett respectively. this is almost the death of us. why did they get this one number down? they didn't have any track record among the states. none of the slave states had census formula so they didn't know. they just plucked a number out of a hat, plucked a number used for tax purposes and had representation in the house and the electoral college where it didn't fit. turned out to be a huge benefit for the southern states. you heard about thomas jefferson, you heard about adams. who won the election of 1800-1801? you all say thomas jefferson, of course. take away the three-fifths, there are two elections of southerner again

and open house at the university that attracts tens of thousands and comes off something like a big state fair run by ph.d.'s. kids learned about the science of suppressing fire. a wind tunnel turned a research tool to a hair-raising thrill ride. they helped make ice cream with liquid nitrogen minus 350 degrees. >> it tastes really good. >> it's all about the future. >> reporter: dr. wallace lowe is the university's president. >> the university is integral to the state in terms of its economic development, in terms of enhancing cultural life and most importantly, the production of the next generation of citizens and leaders for the state. >> it will be breezy and chilly. >> reporter: it turns out the president might make a pretty good weather caster, too. >> here on maryland day. >> reporter: so there you have it. maryland day, turns out it's a pretty friendly place. i bet you didn't know maryland is the metro area's largest university and it brings in a half billion dollars a year in research funding. at the university of maryland, scott broom, 9 news now. >> for more pictures from maryl

according to the ap, president obama would have 242 electoral votes in a state that has a big lead or states leaning his way. if president obama wins reelection, he says he'll push for major immigration legislation in a second term >>> the bill would involve tougher border security and a pathway for citizenship for illegal immigrants who are already in the u.s. obama says that romney, on the other hand, is in favor of arizona-style immigration laws. >> these are laws that potentially would allow someone to be stopped and picked up and asked where their citizenship

a big social welfare state. high unemployment. growth, and a government that is overly large. the you know, if you have a government that can give you everything that you want, you have a government big enough to take everything that you have. bill: well, republicans keep the house? >> i believe that we will but we've got a real challenge. we have 50 of our members in tough races. 89 freshman running for their first re-election. bill: a lot. >> and we have 32 districts that are in states where there is no presidential campaign going to be run, no big senate race and we call these orphan districts. you take 18 of them, california, illinois and new york. where we are not likely to do well at the top of the ticket and, those districts are frankly pretty vulnerable. bill: i did not hear you say i can guaranty we can keep the house. >> i did not say that, no. bill: are you hedging a little bit on this? lack of confidence? >> no i say there is two in three chance we win control of the house again but there is a one in three chance we cou

to do the job, they chose the man who became iconic of working-class distain for the big state. >> theyent a blue-collar worker to congress. not a lawyer. just a regular joe. >> and man who defined the term for the last election. >> it is not that i want to punish success. i just want to make sure everyone has a chance. >> as joe the plumber, he shot to national fame. now he is running for congress in toledo. his message -- government should get out of the economy. >> this is the same government that brought the auto industry to its feet peeping through over-regulation and our current tax code system. so, let's get away from that and not let the government pick winners and losers, not decide who is going to lose their business and keep their business. >> they will argue at the very least they have delivered the working man and woman at election time. >> they can argue all they want. it is still wrong. >> america is recovering. revenues are up. but it has taken a $1 trillion stimulus and a rethink of the economy that most americans cannot get their heads around. the bailout has revived t

well, gee, you better get a woman or you better get a hispanic or you better pick somebody from a big stateimportant criteria has to be the capacity to be president, that's why you pick them. and lots of times in the past that has not been the foremost criteria. >> i wonder what he was referring to. new york "daily news" columnism, f.e. cupp, and "time" magazine's nancy gibbs, the co-author of the great new book we touted last week called "the president's club" i'll begin with you, the vice president's club, if you will, we heard dick cheney's advice there, so i guess that means seth meyers should be vice president if you are going with that model. >> i'm not sure we would expect different advice from the guy from wyoming on the -- >> don't target an ethnic group or a large state. >> but i was interested in something you tweeted about, the romney plan to be the anti-palin process as possible. i was curious what you were getting at. >> i was curious, you wouldn't be surprised, s.e., when you mention the word palin you get a reaction no matter how you mention. and the way it was characterized

. >> you can see in the numbers the rise of the sunbelt. 1940, the big states were places like pennsylvania and ohio. now it's texas, california, florida. >> another development, we now have the web, and because the government has decided that so much time has passed that it shouldn't be confidential anymore, it's all there from 1940. if you or someone you know took part in that census, you can search for it. that includes verla morris. she turns 100 this year. she took part in the 1940 census and can't wait to read her own details from back then. >> i don't care what people know about me because it's an open book anyway. >> hat's off to verla. it's all there for the research. that's our broadcast for this monday night as we start off a new week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we, of course, hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> cell phone video captures the horror of a gunman's rampage. a tiny east bay university turned into a crime scene. >> she took off her jacket like a couple of minutes, five minutes later, she had a bullet hole in her

, an open house at the university that attracts tens of thousands and comes off something like a big state fair run by phds. we've learned about the science of suppressing fire. [ explosion ] reporter: a research tool to hair-raising thrill rides. physics students helped kids make cryogenic ice cream with liquid nitrogen at minus 350 degrees >> it tastes really good. >> it's all about the future. reporter: dr. wallace lowe is the university's president. >> the university is int -- i want gral to the state, the economic development, in terms of enhancing economic life and the production of the next generation of citizens and leaders for the state. >> it'll be breezy and chilly. reporter: it turns out the president might make a pretty good weathercaster too. >> it's maryland day. [ cheers and applause ] rmt reporter: there you have it, maryland day. turns out it's a pretty friendly place and i bet you didn't know that maryland is the metro area's largest university and it brings in a half billion dollars a year in research funding. at the university of maryland, scott broom, 9 news now. >> g

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but i became persuaded that, in fact, what he wanted -- she was not worried about a big state. wyoming is the smallest state in terms of population. only three electoral votes. but in 2000, that was the difference between victory and defeat, but that was not ordinarily the case. i did not have any special appeal in terms of ethnicity or gender. there are a lot of reasons people talk about hiring vice presidents, but he decided that he wanted me, primarily because of my past experience and i would guess also he consulted with his father, someone whom i had worked for as secretary of defense back in the early 1990's. i think those things came together. >> you make it a point in your book, your code name was back seat as chief of staff. >> right. it was. but i took that as a point of honor. secret service gave me that. we had a dinner when i left, and they gave me, as a token of affection, the back seat at out of an old beat-up junker of a car. it had rats living in it. it was a bad piece of equipment. they presented it to me that i to commemorate my secret service code name. but

but i became persuaded that he wasn't worried about a big state. wyoming is the smallest state in terms of population. we only have three electoral votes. it turned out that those three electoral votes were the difference between victory and defeat. that wasn't ordinarily the case. i didn't have any special appeal in terms of ethnicity or gender or there's a lot of reasons people talk about hiring vice presidents. but he decided that he wanted me, primarily because of my past experience, and i would guess also, he probably consulted with his father, that he might work if, and secretary of defense back in the early '90s when he was president. i think all of those things came together. >> just to go back quickly, the chief of staff, you make it a point in your book, your code name was backseat. >> right. it was. i took it as a point of honor. the secret service had given me that. and we had a form, my staff did when i left just before we turned things over. and they gave me the backseat out of an old beat up junker of a car. it had rats living in it.

. >> well, i'm running for reelection, big state, very expensive for television and yet i should be responsible for the ads i put up on television. therefore the disclaimer is important because it says to people that the ad is speaking for me. and i take responsibility for it. what is radical about that? >> i think what's radical is the bill specifies something that goes on forever when it can be said in far fewer words. >> mr. werthheimer? >> let's move to the tv ads. they require the head of the agency to take responsibility for the ad the same way you have to take responsibility for your ad. the tv ads also require the ad to list the top five donors but that can be done in a crawl and would take up no time from the content of the ads. with respect to the radio ads, there were provisions added last time that are still in this bill that give the fec the power through regulation to exempt the kinds of ads that mr. keating is -- >> that's incorrect. >> no it's not. >> for radio? >> it's not correct. it only exempt the major donor listing, not the rest of the exclaimer. ask >> there's a hardship

now, they're talking about, well, gee, you better get a woman or hispanic or pick somebody from a big state. those are all interesting things to speculate about. it's rare an election ever turns on those kinds of issues. it's much more likely to turn on the kind of situation where they'll judge the quality of your decision making process based on whether or not this individual is up to the task of taking over and serving as president of the united states. should something happen to the president. that's why you're there. aside from serving as president in the senate, your only constitutional responsibility. >> do you have any book in you? >> not yet. i'm thinking about it. this was the -- we could have written five or six of these. but we tried to keep it at reasonable lengths. we brought about 600 panels, which is what the president publisher wanted. >> thank you very much for being with us. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> enjoy your time here in washington. it really is a remarkable opportunity. i know you'll have a great time and learn a lot and just jump in with b

that's a big state.three weeks from now, a big deal. >> rick lazio, do you think romney still has a rick santorum problem? >> i think it's getting less and less every day. i know rick santorum well. he is a good man. and he is going to do the right thing. and i think it will be sooner rather than later. he knows that every day he stays in -- he's got to win 80% of all the remaining delegates to be the nominee. and after the next sort of mini super tuesday which is on april 24th with new york and connecticut and other states strongly leaning romney, he'll need to win virtually every single delegate. so at that point all you're doing is hurting the nominee for the party. i don't think he is going to be in that place. >> but see, howard, i come back to. this you and i are probably going to disagree about this tonight. i think the president delivered a very dark message yesterday at that associated press do. and i think mitt romney today kind of nailed him. romney said you know what in you're hiding. you don

states when he could have picked any other of the -- let's say we agree there are 12 swing states, a big stateny of the other 38 states. are you guys walking a fine line here? >> well, why shouldn't he pick those universities, chuck? they are big universities where students care about what interest rate they're paying on their student loans. this is an issue that the president has been talking about and fighting for for a very long time. he fixes the problem in his budget as opposed to the romney/ryan budget which locks interest rates in. this is not a new issue to him, and it is an issue that is very much on the front burner in washington because the senate is going to vote on this to see if they can try to fix it. the deadline is looming. interest rates are going to double in a matter of months. so we need to do something about it. he's the president of the united states. he is traveling the country to get people involved and have them speak out and tell washington to fix this. there's intransience because they don't want to find funding for $6 billion fix for our students, which is an inves

. >> you can see in the numbers the rise of the sunbelt. 1940, the big states were places like pennsylvania now it's texas, california, florida. >> another big development, we now have the web, and because the government has decided that so much time has passed that it shouldn't be confidential anymore, it's all there from 1940. if you or someone you know took part in that census, you can search for it. that includes virla morris. she turns 100 this year. she took part in the 1940 census and can't wait to read her own details from back then. >> i don't care what people know about me because it's an open book anyway. >> that's off for verla. it's all for for the research. that's our broadcast for this monday night as we start off a new week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams,

we have the big states coming up and texas can be a winner take all state. 's a big enchilada in one day. we have a lot ahead of us. the second thing is that mitt romney can no longer whine and complain he doesn't have a free shot at barack obama. he never mentioned gingrich, paul, or santorum. he took it right to obama. he got the clear shot. i think he said a lot of great things that conservatives and people like me would love to hear, but it seemed very cut and paste, kid tested, mother approved. to string it all and eek out strategies. he will have to polish that. we will see how that works out in the polls. >> would it be helpful if newt gingrich quit the race and put his support behind rick santorum? combined, their traditional conservative support could give mitt romney a run for his money now. it seems that a part they are spending that vote and romney is basically getting a clean head of steam away. >> par basically have two conservatives and one moderate. what's happening is if you take the delegates that the two conservatives have and add them toge

well, gee, you better get a woman or you better get a hispanic or you better pick somebody from a big state. the decision you make as a presidential candidate on who your running mate is going to be is the first presidential level decision that the public sees you make. i think the single most important criteria has to be the capacity to be president. that's why you pick them. >> romney, meanwhile, picking up the endorsement of former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. he says of his had former rival, quote, he's proven he's the most effective republican. this reminds me of going to a surgeon. if i've got a terrible cancer or something to be operated on, i didn't go to the nicest doctor. i went to the best doctor. the guy could have a great personality and tell great jokes and put the knife in the wrong way. giuliani's endorsement not exactly ringing. it's a far cry from his scathing critique of mitt romney on "morning joe" just in december. >> well, i think it's deeper. i think it's deeper than just, a, he's kind of stayed and everything else. i ran against him in '08. i've never seen a gu

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we are at half time, we do have these big states coming up. texas could be a winner take all state. ig an chienchilada in day. the second thing i learned is that mitt romney can no longer whine and complain he doesn't have a free shot at barack obama. he gave a 10 or 12 minute speech tonight and never mentioned gingrich, paul or santorum. he took it right to obama. i think he said a lot great things that conservatives and people like me will like to hear, however, it all seemed very cut and paste. it seemed all kid tested mother approved in focus groups that string it all together and try to eke out some type of general election strategy. he's going to have to polish that. he had his opportunity to go after obama. we'll see how that works out in the polling. >> would it be helpful to your men if newt gingrich just quit the race and put his support firmly behind rick santorum? it's a serious point. combined, their traditional conservative support could actually give mitt romney a genuine run for his money now. whereas it seems that apart they're splitting that vote and romney is getti

. >> he is from florida which is a big swing state and popular there. another is he is young and 40 years old and they want to cut into the big gap with the youth vote. >> young but inexperienced. >> that's what i was going to say next, young, inexperienced, second year in the senate so not a lot of foreign policy experience and that's the downside. i think the positive sides are the swing state, latino, and young. i think that's what romney will focus on in terms of thinking about rubio. >> somebody that knows a little about the process, former vice president dick cheney offering advice. listen to that. >> you watch the talking heads out there now talking about you better get a woman or hispanic or somebody from a big state. the decision you make as a presidential candidate on who your running mate is going to be is the first presidential level decision that the public sees you make. i think the single most important criteria has to be the capacity to be president. that's why you pick them. >> do you think he is right and if so if experience is the most

>> of course by the historical analysis he won't be since he comes from a big state.surprised us here, and a lot of this comes from our friend and analyst joe goldstein, amazingly florida has never provided a vice presidental candidate for either party. that great mega state of florida. could this finally be florida's turn with marco rubio, or who knows, even jeb bush? those are too florida ins. it's been since 1844 since pennsylvania has had a vice presidental candidate on either major party ticket. in the great state of ohio it's been since 1944. it's a maiding how often the candidates bypass these tremendous mega swing states that determine presidential elections. jon: what about a state like ohio? i mean generally whoever wins ohio wins the election, why not choose somebody like a rob portman from ohio and hope that that will deliver the state into your column? >> oh, i my portman is very much on the list. he matches romney in a lot of ways, and he would do certain things for romney, not just ohio, but in terms of balancing experience. he has some federal experien

. >> and listen to what voters are saying in big swing states, are saying in big swing states, next onhis special i'm more of an absentee plant parent. [ cellphone rings ] tuscaloosa? schenecty. des moines. ok. ok. ok. i can't always be there to weed my petunias. so now we use miracle-gro shake 'n feed plus weed prevente it feeds plants and preven weeds for up to three months. so my plants grow bigger, more beautiful, without all thweeds. guaranteed. [ cellphone rings ] with miracle-gro shake 'n feed, anyone can have a green thumb. [ cellphone rings ] everyonews with miracle-gr >> bret: in november the state of pennsylvania could play heavily in the election so what are voters there thinking about? >> as a focus now turns to general election in critical swing states voters have politics over a local staple. anthony works at gino's steaks. >> this republican is watching the presidential race. >> we want someone who is going to row lower taxes. he's going to say, you know we're going to start bringing more jobs to the united states. and it's going to be hard to beat obama. >> i think rom

that's the big state here. one of the things that they are counting on now is they do believe they can rightfully claim the momentum. we saw through the first part and mitt romney wins new hampshire and loses south carolina. newt gingrich immediately loses florida. mitt romney wins florida and loses in that sweep that rick santorum had. what they believe now is that truly is momentum and in the old fashioned sense that meant the states coming afterwards, the gaps began to close. they believe that you have begun to see that in the polls and that will happen in pennsylvania as well. i think the big question out there for rick santorum is if it begins to look at though he might lose his state, is that what he wants on the race? they are hoping to have a squeeze here, but they are fully prepared to spend a lot of money and candidate time in pennsylvania as well as candidate time raising money. >> i'm sure mitt romney will manage to get a lot more pennsylvania establishment republicans on his campaign and spending a

the chinese numbers for the big cap and the big state and the big names, this was a good number and peopleconfused as more time for the sme and a different part of the economy. if you look at what deer and cat and the other names have done on the back not only of that news, but this is a trade. it's a trade that has more renewal. >> the volatility came to multiyear highs. when will the fear come back. the play back. >> that's the exact point. the fear that i have is that there is not enough fear. you look at the decline and you have to worry about a couple of things. i believe that the perception in the market place is that the european crisis is resolved and china will have a soft landing. you have those two as well as rising gas prices and any of those things could upset the apple core here if there is a surprise in the fundamentals. i would be using the low volatility to hedge the portfolio and i would be wary that we have low volatility. it has to be concerned for the month of may. >> obviously you mentioned the same thing today that today we saw the vicks go up. people were using the

and its meat inspection programs hate the idea of a big nanny state government making sure that you and i don't get mad cow disease they don't consider what happened in california a success story they consider it a big government intrusion these guys say that instead of government we should rely on the c.e.o.'s the marketplace they say will police itself so how exactly does that work well in a libertarian tea party republican world there would be no federal food inspectors so that cohen california with mad cow disease would have gotten slaughtered and ended up in your hamburger and the parts that we don't eat would have been made into cow food so it would have quickly spread through the herds contaminating a bunch of other cows that contaminated even more cars and lots of the beef laced with mad cow disease would end up in even more of your hamburgers and your supermarket now it takes a few years for americans who get mad cow disease to get dementia go crazy and die so a couple years from now tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands maybe even a million americans from little kids t

of the texas state board of education. >> that's right. >> stephen: all right, now please tell the good people why it's so important what texas decides is in textbooks. >> texas is such a big adoption state, they have so many textbook, they do it all at once with a lot of money. so it impacts the textbook publishers. they will be used in other states sometimes. >> stephen: between you and california you pretty much set the market for textbooks. >> that's what they say. >> stephen: you don't live in texas but if are you in new hampshire, you might be using a textbook that you personally approved. >> possibly, at least major parts of it. >> stephen: so now there is a documentary called the revisionary, that you are a subject of, right. >> that's right. >> stephen: all right, jim, let's take a look. >> their godless left wing culture has taken over the mainstream media. they have taken over our universities. thousands of professors have converted our universities into left wing seminaries. and for the last two years with the help of their young converts, these so-called experts have taken over our national government. well, i disagree with those experts. somebody has got to s

governor romney is now in pennsylvania the next big state on the docket on apri april 24.orum is still sounding defiant. >> we have an opportunity to reset the race again after pennsylvania. the calendar in may looks interesting. a lot of strong conservative states looking for the opportunity. to tight then race back up. >> bret: so what about this race? bring in the panel. steve hayes, writer for standard. mara liasson political correspondent, national public radio. charles krauthammer. >> i think this race is over. i do. i think that rick santorum certainly can go on, look for character and kentucky and state he is thinks he can do well. if he loses pennsylvania he has to drop out. the race is over and romney showed he will focus exclusively on the president. do what he needs to do to get the general election team in place. i don't see what santorum has to do. he has to win 80% of the remaining delegates. mathematically impossible. >> bret: the real clear politics average in pennsylvania has it at about seven points with santorum leading in pennsylvania as of now. but th