the news is the de facto crowning of mitt romney. his even remotely conceivable, long shot opponent conceded the race today. >> we made a decision to get into this race at our kitchen table against all the odds, and we made a decision over the weekend while this presidential race for us is over, for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today. we are not done fighting. we are going to continue to fight for those voices. we will continue to fight for the americans that stood up and gave us that air under our wings that allowed us to accomplish things that no political expert would have ever expected. i walked out after the iowa caucus victory and said, game on. i know a lot of folks are going to right, maybe those even at the white house, game over. this game is long, long wam from over. >> for rick santorum the race is over as of tonight. oddly, after saying today that his presidential campaign is over, rick santorum did go what he had another campaign event tonight with religious rights, anti-gay figure james dobson. maybe

thanks to the inspiring worsd of his new campaign slogan, de facto. and m itt is really connecting to average voters like this casual get together last week when he accidentally came across these four random pittsburgh couples having a picnic with their pet flag stripey. but as sometimes happens during mitt's daily minute of respond tan aity there were 59 seconds of awkwardness, jim. >> romney is coming under some fire following comments he made about cookies from a pittsburgh area bakery. the owner of the bakery, a local institution decided to sends the presidential hopeful some cookies when he came to down but when the moment of truth came romney did not seem impressed. >> i'm not sure about these cookies. they don't look like he made them. did you make those cookies. >> no, no they came from the local 7-11 bakery, or wherever. now it's a little rude but may i point out, he didn't fire them. it turns out the bethel bakery is the pride of pittsburgh. but how was mitt supposed to know that there is something pittsburgh is proud of? (laughter) people j

romney doesn't want to be de facto nominee and losing primaries. romney campaign has to decide whether to run another tough campaign against santorum in pennsylvania, raise santorum's negative or his own. how will they go? the pressure on santorum is building. >> it's in our interests as republicans and conservatives to coalesce, unify and focus on the fall instead of dragging out some long thing in the sum per. >> now it's clear the nominee, most american voters will be looking at mitt romney from that viewpoint, i also hope that rick santorum would understand that it's time for a graceful exit. >> obviously he's lashing out here in the final stages of his campaign. this race for the nomination as a practical matter is over. i understand rick wanting to cling to it a little while longer. i hope that he doesn't. i hope that he sees the need to unify this party. >> and what kind of future does santorum want in republican politics? so far he's dodging the 2016 question. >> next time? you haven't talked to my wife, obviously. >> for all purposes, next

so, you lose a good hunk of arkansas and any chance to make missouri a bona fide, de facto confederate state. jefferson davis in his inaugural speech delivered not too far from here on february 22nd, a few days ago, george washington's birthday, not by chance, said this is the darkest hour of our struggle. and our struggle in davis' perspective just got darker and darker after that. lee himself had lost arlington, his home, which wasn't really his home, it was his wife's home, but it was the closest thing he had to a home, ever. he lost his wife, who was trapped behind enemy lines during most of that spring. he had one daughter behind enemy lines. all of his investments. lee was pretty shrewd. he invested in state bonds and railroad bonds, but most of those bonds were in places like kentucky and missouri. he wrote to his oldest son, i expect to be a pauper if i get through the war. so, how can this man be influential of anything? how can he be "times" person of the year? well, i think some of it had to do with his frustration. and his learning experience of traveling about and seeing w

there was the legal problem that lincoln's pronouncement of a blockade could easily be considered a de facto resignation of the government, because after all, blockades could only be directed against foreign powers. did lincoln mean to imply that the confederacy was indeed a foreign power? whatever the long-term consequences of that legal complication, the more immediate problem was making the blockade effective in accordance with the legal requirement. gideon wells, who i saw earlier wandering around the passageways today, a union secretary of the navy, dispatched the handful of warships that were immediately available, a total of 12 of them, down to blockade the south's principle seaports. he ordered home all of the vessels that were currently overseas on distant station patrol. he embarked on a crash program to acquire new ships to ov. to oversee the acquisition of these new vessels, he hired a man named morgan. he happened to be wells' brother-in-law. as you can imagine, there was squawking about this, princip principally because morgan took a commission and ended up with quite a pile of

action, his de facto super-pac, in fund-raising, including having white house and cabinet officials appear at fund- raisers prompting the new york times to editorialize the announcement fully implicates the president, his campaign and his administration in the pollution of the political system, unleashed by citizens united and related court decisions." question, president obama was against super-pacs before he was for super-pac. when did he change his mind, and you must feel embarrassed. >> i'm not in the least embarrassed. he's still not four super-pacs but recognizes reality and when he saw the sums of money that mitt romney's super-pac dropped on newt gingrich and then on rick santorum, there's no way that he can match that if he stays out of the super-pac business and. and so priorities u.s.a. action is the obama super-pac. and it hasn't raised that much money. bill ma hare's million dollar donation makes up the bulk of it. [overlapping speakers] >> even on merits -- >> obama's campaign is raising money from a lot of small donors, as much better shape than romney. but the big donors th

the wall street journal reports liberty media is asking the fcc to declare it in de-facto control, even though it owns less than 50% of its stock. and that's tonight's market focus. >> tom: despite objections from drug stores, two giant companies managing prescription drug insurance plans are now one. express scripts finished its $29 billion buy-out of medco health solutions today after the federal trade commission ruled combining the two largest players in the industry would not hurt competition. >> reporter: combined, these two companies handle 40% of drug prescriptions, that's almost one and a half billion prescriptions annually. and after an eight month review, the government gave it the green light. >> there's a billion dollars of synergies in this deal and those actually come from looking at the contracts, looking at who has the best contracts with both pharmaceutical manufacturers and the pharmacies, but more importantly it's really driving patients to the right drugs. so getting them on those low- cost generics, low-cost brands and really getting them to adhere to their medicati

whether intentional or de facto? and politicians in some ways are among them and michael, i just wanted to quote the title of a piece you wrote in "the new republic." it was called "newt gingrich: american's worst historian." so do you think there is a sense in which american citizens, some american citizens, get their history from political figures like newt gingrich? >> definitely. i think the bestselling historian in america was glenn beck. at least last year. i'm not sure how his sales are doing this year. if you ever watch glenn beck's program, which maybe who watch c-span haven't done much. many people in america have, at least when he was on fox. i mean, he was using a whi whiteboard and giving history lessons, history lectures in a very dramatic way often with tears in his eyes. and of course for him the progressive era was the beginning of the dissent into hell for america. and so, yeah, we have -- of course, we've always had people like that. i mean, back in the 1890s there was a coins financial school, you

the south begins war, it's already a de facto separate independent society with 750,000 square miles territory and the loss at manassas would not have brought an end to that war that year or maybe even the following year. the union had much the harder job. they better have dominant tradition and three times the number of men and eight times the number of manufactured goods because their job was to invade, occupy, and hold that territory forever. and that's an enormous undertaking. i think it would have taken a number of years under almost any circumstances. so no, i don't think bull run was the moment when the north might have won. >> well, we all know how the south rallied around the con fed rattle victory at bull run. it might as well have rallied around a confederate defeat at bull run. one thing that motivated a lot to join on with the confederate cause about which there'd been a great degree of skepticism all during the secession process was the sense that the south was being innovated. i think that might have reenforced that feeling. >> what i think might have happened, i agree

yes dozens of kurdish settlements within syria have already become the de facto new sovereign states they're not only self-governed but self police this is well that well defined borders like these checkpoints separating kurdish and ara parts of town and volunteer border guards the regime is now distracted with its own struggle so we want but unity patience is bitter but it bears fruit this old kurdish prover is frequently cited in syria these days but what's unclear is how long this newfound independence may last. the boys are thirty four syria syrian rebels still refuse to lay down their arms with growing concerns the opposition could be seeking to scupper the un brokered cease fire and this lebanon seized a large cache of weapons and ammunition aboard a ship within its waters allegedly destined for and said fighters act as franklin lamb thinks the latest arms smuggling average is all about regime change. great suspicion is that these are arms that were left over from libya the because the craft was loaded there were to be fifteen containers but it turned out there were already in

lincoln's pronouncement could be considered a de facto reck ignition of the confederate government because after all, blockades can only be directed against foreign powers. did lincoln mean to imply the confederacy was indeed a foreign power. well whatever the long term consequences of that legal complication, the more immediate problem was making the blockade effective in accordance with the legal requirement. gideon wells, i saw wandering the passage way, union secretary of the navy, dispatched the handful of warships that were available, a total of 12 of them, down to blockade the south principal sea ports, ordered home all the vessels then currently overseas on distant station patrol, embarked on a crash program to require new ships to oversee the acquisition of those new vessels, wells appointed a man named george d. morgan. a competent and experienced business man who happened to be wells' brother-in-law. as you can imagine there was some squawking about this in congress. principally because morgan took a 2.5% commission for each ship that he purchased and ended up with quite a pile

down mississippi's only abortion clinic which is located in the city of jackson making abortion de facto illegal in the state tell the service this bill doesn't sound all that for cody and would require abortion providers to be certified o.b.-g.y.n. ends and have admitting privileges a local hospitals the problem is that the jackson clinic only has one physician with admitting privileges at a local hospital mississippi hospitals have the right to refuse admitting privileges and two of the city's hospitals have fundamentalist christian leanings so basically this would leave the state with one licensed physician able to poor perform abortions on the july first deadline brian decided to take to the airwaves to defend this bill on the american family associations radio show it was here that this really took a weird trip down the rabbit hole the first he managed to portray this legislation as a triumph for women's health even though he has made it no secret that he intends to rid his state of abortions. personhood initiative are clearly shit i want or should be. yes something he might very we

one could argue as some have that we are still on a de facto gold standard and that the market for gold is reacting to the ongoing debasement of paper currency after all gold has been rising steadily and at times rather frenetically since two thousand and one when it was trading at below three hundred dollars per ounce to levels near two thousand dollars in the past year now there are those like economist nouriel roubini who have been calling it a bubble since at least two thousand and nine now one of the good things about markets is that they tend to have their own minds and don't care too much what academics or policymakers think but even if markets don't need policymakers policymakers still need markets and the gold market in particular is one that central bankers keep a close eye on gold as our guest james turk recently said in an interview with us is the messenger and what it's been telling us is that people don't trust governments and they definitely don't trust central banks but how far governments central banks and they're too big to fail handlers willing to go in order to silen

businesses we don't know whether it's going to stand down it's in the supreme court so we have the de facto with the debt that the government is taking on this is people go to some point to either has to be paid or to sault it and if you pay it means taxes are going to go up dramatically and if you default then it means that the stability of the entire economy and monetary system is called into question and neither of those is an informant which you want to make to the best that's in training people that you have a period of time before you get a payment you know to be paying it back as it is a business owner so i don't see any reason to be hiring beyond which you absolutely must at this point in time in being reflected in the employment numbers let me ask you this do you think that the country would be better off if as we've seen politicians have an inability to make decisions carry at any time their you know comes up with a debt ceiling or are something you know increase or something like that it's this huge standoff and do you think that the economy would be better served if politicians

i believe that that privilege is de facto, what it means to be white in america. >> when you -- all ofbout race, about black, white, it's gotten a lot of people riled up and some people ticked off and everybody is going in their own corners. just being an honest person, there's so much that's so obvious about this case. and then there are other things that are nebulous and not as obvious. and to see people taking sides like this, and some of the ugliness that it has brought about in the country is just disturbing to me as a human being, leonard. >> i don't know that it's brought about ugliness so much that it's revealed ugliness that eat been there all along. that is where i draw a distinction with you. we keep hearing people say we need to not rush to judgment with regard to this case. i believe that was mr. morgan's point also, and certainly that's good advice. there's history of african-americans having rushed to judge something as racially motivated when it turned out to be otherwise. but the other side of that is that there's also history of our white american countrymen and women

not as positive as short-term rates rising, but we will take them on a de facto basis.uld help the yields on the portfolio. what the banks need is the short-term and anything that is going to get rise off the floor is a benefit and not a detriment. it will be good to see them turn a corner and people understand that any type of environment where we don't have qe 3 and good for rates and also good for economic growth going forward. they can stand on their own and good for banks more strongly in other industries. >> i assume this is chris, aren't you? just making sure. >> the mortgage market, talk to me about the impact here and again, where you actually think we are here. we have seen tremendous move by the home builders. is this imputed in the price? >> i'm not an analyst and i think they have been more negative on the valuations given the recent rise in the mortgage. i think our viewer stabilized and maybe an up tick in certain segments or areas of the country. we don't believe we are off to the races and there is a very big difference between stabilization and a signi

pennsylvania, delaware, rhode island, connecticut and new york have been decided in favor of the de factoublican nominee now mitt romney. it was thought that newt gingrich's best shot at any of these states might be in the state of delaware. these are the results that we got from delaware at this hour. 98% of precincts reporting mr. gingrich trailing mr. romney by 30 points. it was thought that mr. gingrich said if he could avoid a blow out in delaware that that might be his best justification for staying in the race. we'll have to wait and see what he decides to do. we'll keep you posted. stay with us. ♪ i can see clearly now ♪ the rain is gone children's claritin chewables relieves kids' worst allergy symptoms for 24 hours. plus, it's the #1 pediatrician recommended non-drowsy brand. ♪ gonna be a bright ♪ sunshiny day ♪ >>> as gas prices stay high, both political parties here in the united states continue to blame each other. democrats say oil companies shouldn't be getting tax subsidies and financiers are manipulating the market for their ben fit. republicans say that democrats could b

carolina anti-gay constitution amendment, the announcement he's going to liberty university as a de facto presidential nominee would seem to settle the issue whether or not he will try to seem less anti-gay. if you like super anti-gay romneys in the primaries, apparently you will love mitt romney in the general election, too. the other top contender what he might abandon in order to seem more moderate in the general election is his stance on immigration. on that one, [ ding ] ding, we may already have a winner. the big problem is mitt romney has a really bad problem with latino voters. george w. bush had 35% of the latino vote in 2000 and he won. john mccain had only 31% in 2008 and he got creamed. mitt romney has 14% among latinos in some of the most recent polling. it is not possible to win a national election with a number that low. the romney campaign knows it. one of the things mitt romney was overheard telling campaigners last weekend, his campaign would be doomed if he can't get his numbers up among latino voters. how do you get your numbers up among latino voters when you say you

presidency, as you heard him say, and with that it appears all but certain that mitt romney is the de factocan nominee. in washington, joe williams, who covers the white house for plit co. welcome to all of you. he says he's going to keep fighting. is this over for him or is he really talking about 2016? >> i think he might as well have come out and said i'm suspending my campaign until 2016. this was very hard. he saw the writing on the wall, i presume, with pennsylvania, and even though i thought may looked very good for rick santorum, i think this was an appropriate time. and, you know, i've been vocal in my support for rick santorum. i like him a lot. but i think there is a collective relief in conservative circles that finally now we can start talking about obama instead of santorum and romney and newt and ron paul. as a pundit, i agree, but i think conservatives are ready for the general election to begin. >> mitt romney says, and i'm quoting, senator santorum is an able and worthy competitor and i congratulate him on the campaign that he ran. he is proving to be an important voice fo

. >> mitt romney is the de facto republican nominee. >> is there a light show going on here?co rally. ? would you consider him as a vice president candidate. >>? everybody is on my list. i don't have a list. >> i'm trying to figure out how to put food on the table. >> your check bounced. >> this is one of those goofy things. >> what's up here and what's burning down here? >> i think he ran a half shoe string campaign. >> if i see it, it's bull [ bleep ]. >> you think the millionaire ought to pay less in taxes. >> why don't you pay a higher tax rate. >> the budget pixie dust. >>> how much money do you have? >> how many of you all have a swiss bank account? >> is gov romney support the lily ledbetter action? >> we'll get back to you on that. >> over 92% of the jobs were women. >> that seems impossible. >> his wife has never work a day in her life. >> maybe he haven't struggled as much financially. >> if my daughter wants to say i'm staying home raising my kids, no one should question that of. >> i'm not criticizing hillary what's her name. >> my wife, i have many friends and th

the de facto nominee has used a bit of business school 101 filing for an extension around 5:00 p.m.day just before the week when i guess he thought nobody would notice. so i guess you and i will have to wait until october to see how our tax rate stacks up against mitt romney's. though it is a fair guess that you pay much more in percentage material than multimillionaire mitt. a man who paid just 13.9% in 2010. that of course is what the white house wants to change with the buffett rule. in a matter of hours, the senate is expected to take up the measure which requires americans with adjusted gross income of $1 million or more to pay at least 30% in taxes. senator sheldon white house is a democrat of rhode island. i am delighted to say that he joins us now. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. good to be with you. >> according to gallup, 60% of americans support the buffett rule. among independents, it is even higher at 63%. yet republicans say this is a political gimmick that doesn't address the deep problems with the tax system. and even if it did generate $47 billion in revenue, tha

pennsylvania, delaware, rhode island, connecticut and new york have been decided in favor of the de facton nominee now mitt romney. it was thought that newt gingrich's best shot at any of these states might be in the state of delaware. these are the results that we got from delaware at this hour. 98% of precincts reporting mr. gingrich trailing mr. romney by 30 points. it was thought that mr. gingrich said if he could avoid a blow out in delaware that that might be his best justification for staying in the race. we'll have to wait and see what he decides to do. we'll keep you posted. stay with us. because they don'tt with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. i remember the day my doctor told me i have an irregular heartbeat, and that it put me at 5-times greater risk of a stroke. i was worried. i worried about my wife, and my family. bill has the most common type of atrial fibrillation, o

mitt romney the de facto republican nominee. for me, pro business and market friendly and i regard romney's nomination as bullish for investo investors. there he goes again. president obama unleashes the buffett tax attack. joining me in a moment, austan goolsbee, former chair of the economic kouns sill of advisers. >>> and chris christie calls it like he sees it, saying this country is turning into a nanny state of entitlement at the bush presidential center tax summit. i had the honor of moderating, and former president bush says president obama making a mistake, not extending the tax cuts. take a listen. >> i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts. if they were called some other body's tax cuts, probably less likely to be raised. but if you raise the -- if you raise taxes, you are taking money out of pockets of consumers. and it's important for policymakers to recognize that all the doubt about taxes cause capitalists to stay on the sidelines. >> a very interesting conference. first up tonight, jitters over the health of

pennsylvania, delaware, rhode island, connecticut and new york have been decided in favor of the de factoepublican nominee now mitt romney. it was thought that newt gingrich's best shot at any of these states might be in the state of delaware. these are the results that we got from delaware at this hour. 98% of precincts reporting mr. gingrich trailing mr. romney by 30 points. it was thought that mr. gingrich said if he could avoid a blow out in delaware that that might be his best justification for staying in the race. we'll keep you posted. stay with us bp. dget. she thought allstate car insurance was out of her reach. until she heard about the value plan. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. whose non-stop day starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ i worked at the colorado springs mail processing plant for 22 years. we processed on a given day about a million pieces of mail. checks, newspapers, bills. a lot of people get their medications only through