bob cusack is managing editor for "the hill."was the chief editor of "inside washington publishers." let's turn to thwhat is facing the house, gop tax cuts. guest: this is something that majority leader eric cantor has been championing. it would cut taxes for small businesses 20%. the debate will start on wednesday on that in the house with a final vote on thursday expected to pass, but probably does not have the votes in the senate. one of the things to watch on the buffett rule is where the moderates in the senate to go. scott brown is up for reelection. will be some interesting votes. it's not going to get 50 today, but there could be interesting roll-call votes today. host: let's go to south carolina, don on the democrats' line. caller: i want to ask your guests, i believe that the supreme court has been unduly influenced by money and politics at this time. and with the media, also, been corrupted by citizens united decision and many other decisions recently that the courts have made, i am looking for a procedural change in a

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bob cusack thank you so much. have a good weekend. happy easter. ernor bob mcdonald, keep own on that. it worke went to obama in two. martha: only ten vf picks have helped win a state. some people say they want to keep ryan where he is in a very powerful position on the budget committee, or ways and means. bill: we'll find out in august. that's why we watch. jon scott standing by, what are you working on. jon: we saw the tape earlier in your program, the scandal at the general services administration is growing, the video featuring an employee at the conference rapping about how much money he and his cohorts were spending and bragging about how they would never get caught. we will play it for you again aeu haoefpld the update on the marine who was criticizing barack obama on facebook, what is going on in this case. and it's the club that sponsors the most prestigious tournament in golf, should augusta allow women to join? we'll get into it ahead, happening now. bill: good deal. we'll see you at the top of the hour here. he was accused of being a bul

let's have one with bob cusack, managing editor of the hill. great to see you, this sunday morning. >> good morning, jamie. >> jamie: good morning to you. how do you close the gap if you are mitt romney, rick santorum and newt gingrich, how do you get the statement out, that you are potentially the winner as a presumptive nominee or maybe a game-changer. >> romney has to close it out and he wasn't able to do that in alabama and mississippi and santorum, newt gingrich, one needs to have a surprise and i think santorum has to -- and he has to win wisconsin. the math does not look good for him because it does not swing back to the south where he has done well until may 22nd. upcoming contests to watch, wisconsin on tuesday and also, april 24th, that is santorum's home state of pennsylvania, i think that santorum has to be thinking, if he doesn't win one of these states on tuesday, that he may have to think about bowing out. >> jamie: he has not spent that much time on pennsylvania and let's face it, it is three weeks after these three races. >> ri

bob cusack from the hill.easily issue number one in the election, and john boehner, in our exclusive interview, says it is all about -- this election is all about the president's current policies. >> clearly, the policies coming out of washington have every employer and every investor scared to death. because they don't know what's next. and as someone who ran a small business, when i saw that kind of uncertainty, i sat on my money. i sat on my hands waiting for the picture to clear. and i think a lot of business people around the country are looking to november hoping that the picture will become clearer so that they know and understand the path forward. bill: all right. the rest of that interview in a couple moments, the speaker responding to comments by david axlerod that republicans are engaged in a, quote, reign of terror. we'll get him to react to that. one thing he makes quite clear, as he says himself, he's been around politics for a long time. there are six and a half months before the election. marth

let's talk about that with bob cusack the managing editor of the hill. good to see you.right to it. in the state of ohio let's put up this next poll on the screen. the president as a 6-point lead. 71% of obama voters say they are voting for him, by contrast 63% of romney voters say they are voting against obama, which is 29% voting for romney. >> it's good news and bad news for romney. he's within striking distance after a bruising republican economy. this looks like 2004 where a lot of voters voted against president bush and not necessarily for john kerry. we know how that played out. ohio was a edi sider there, which bush would be, and he won because he won that state. mixed news for mitt romney. gregg: this is curious to me. almost 70% of ohio voters are dissatisfied with how things are going in the country today. quite often the president games the blame. look at there, mr. obama's disapproval rating is nowhere near that number, it's at 47%. what do you make of that? >> i think it's all about likability here, because the polls show policy wise they don't like preside

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