republican governor of indiana, mitch daniels, and governor of massachusetts, deval patrick, and we're talking politics and, yeah, a little football. >>> the new jobs numbers shows unemployment down to 8.3%, and the republicans argue the rebound should be stronger. with us, msnbc's rachel maddow, and california congressman, xavier becerra, and republican strategists, alex castellanos. good morning, and picking up his third win, mitt romney scored the vote. this is where the count stands this morning. it's romney at 48%, and newt gingrich, a distant second at 23%, and paul at 19 and santorum 13%. >> i am a candidate for president of the united states. i will be a candidate for president of the united states. we will go to tampa. what happens is, every primary day or caucus day, the romney headquarters in boston sends out the rumor they believe i will with draw, which, of course, is their greatest fantasy. i am not going to with draw. i am pretty happy with where we are. i think the contrast between romney and me will be wider and wider and clearer and clearer in the next few weeks. >> s

look at black deval patrick -- look at what he bought into insanity with the new york knicks. the unlikely story of jeremy lin continues to unfold. injuries forced him into the starting lineup recently, and he has become the first player ever to score 20 plus -- 20 plus points in his first five nba stars. even lin does not know what to make over the immediate impact of stardom that suddenly looks a lot like a disney movie. >> anytime something likes this happens, a lot of stuff has to be put in place and a lot of it is out of my control. if you look back at my story, it does not matter where you look, but god's fingerprints are all over the place. there are a lot of things that had to happen that i just could not control. there are 20 or 30 things that had to happen at the right time for me to be here. >> he has also become a hit, on social media. he used to sleep on the couch of teammate landry fields. his jersey has catapulted to the top spot among player jersey sales in the nba, after only five starts. he has the third lowest salary on the knicks, but if his crazy to run co

. >>> joining me this super bowl sunday, governor of massachusetts, deval patrick, and new york citymichael bloomberg, and governor of indiana, mitch daniels. welcome to all of you and nice to have you here. >> good morning. >> i want to talk the economy first with everyone. i want to start with you governor daniels. you gave the response to the president's state of the union address and you were pointed about his economic record. let me play a portion of it. >> the president did not cause the crisis that continues in america tonight but he was elected on the promise to fix them and he cannot claim the last three years have made anything but worst, and as i pointed out, 8.3% unemployment, close to where it was in february of 2009, that's a dramatic improvement, just last month more than 240,000 jobs created. do you stand by what you said? >> every word of it, david. the economy is down 30 points, and we just kicked a field goal. i think i would keep the champagne on ice. i heard a little of the previous interview. look at the percentage of the americans working, two-thirds of the job

indiana, mitch daniels, mayor of new york city, michael bloomberg, and governor of massachusetts, deval patrick to discuss the economy, politics and football. plus, our "political round table," all coming up this morning on "meet the press." and be sure to stay tuned after the program for my special "press pass" conversation with former football star turned republican congressman j.c. watts. we talk politics and football as well, only here on nbc 4. >> all right, david, thank you. ♪ >>> one d.c. man will have an extra incentive to watch the commercials during the super bowl. ♪ pizza hut, making it great ♪ ten dollar any pizza any way you like it ♪ ♪ sausage, bacon, pepperoni, that's the one that i get ♪ >> you can't help but dance to that. the man in that commercial is david johnson from southeast. he even has chris gordon here cutting a rug at the desk. that's the jingle he wrote that will debris before the super bowl. johnson won a nationwide contest for pizza hut. >> i went to youtube and found an old pizza hut commercial. and when i heard it, i was like, i might be able to do something with

and against a backdrop of falling jobless figures in january, massachusetts democrat governor deval patricking back against republican suggestions that the president doesn't deserve credit. >> i think sometimes it seems that facts are unwelcome things to the speaker and to many republicans today. there is a way that if we all act as if we are in this together to reduce the deficit and grow the economy and continue the 23 consecutive months of job growth that we have under the president. >> and that's today's "sound of sunday." >>> it is super bowl sunday, and from that, we drew our inspiration for this week's edition of the campaign trail. >> are you ready to go out there and take what's yours? >> yeah! >> what you worked hard for? >> yeah! >> that's dwayne "the rock" johnson in "the gridiron gang." one of the inspirational locker room scenes that hollywood routinely pumps out. and if you've covered enough presidential campaigns, you begin to know that candidates sound a lot like football coaches at halftime. >> our goal is to win. >> i'm convinced i can beat barack bvm. >> we will win the

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the long-running massachusetts casino debate came to a close on november 22, 2011, when governor deval patricka bill allowing casino gambling in the bay state. the new law allows for construction of three casinos in separate regions of massachusetts. echoing many other governors around the country, governor patrick says that the new casinos will put people to work and strengthen the massachusetts economy. ll

and governor deval patrick. >>> governor snyder, you heard rick santorum said that your candidate, mitt romney is the candidate of government. >> i think governor romney has done a great job in term of his record. if you look at his background, we can use someone with public sector experience. he good policies for jobs and economic growth. >> is he going to win in michigan? >> i think he will. now that he's had a chance to campaign in michigan he's come up well in the poll. >> i wanted to ask you about something else in the news this week, gas prices, high gas prices, i want to show this chart that shows the rise in gas prices since president obama took office, during the last campaign, president obama hammered the republicans on this issue, is turnabout fair play now? >> i think, as long as we have this dependence on foreign oil we're going to see these spikes. this is a practical issue not just a political issue. the president's emphasis on trying to break our dependence on foreign oil is important. the president's emphasis on energy efficiency is enormously important. in massachusett

we'll talk to the speaker and we have the super bowl tie-in with governor mitch daniels, governor deval patrickbloomberg of new york. so we'll talk to them about the economy as well. this is really a huge political topic, these new jobless numbers that are very favorable to this administration as they try to usher in economic recovery. so we'll talk about that with them as well. >> followed by "press pass." >> yes, j.c. watts, one of the few supporters of gingrich, who actually worked with gingrich. he talks about the path he sees moving forward for gingrich and where he thinks romney will fall short. >> we can't let you go without your super bowl pick. who's it going to be? >> i think it's the giants. i think they're too tough in terms of wide receivers and eli manning, as a fourth-quarter performer and their pass rush. so, i think they've got all the elements, including a lot of momentum right now. i could go into more detail. this is a huge day! and let me just point out, it's super sunday. before the super bowl, caps and bruins at 12:30. i just can't wait. i've got to do my little job here

guests include rick santorum, once again, and governor rick snyder, a michigan republican, governor deval patrick 2:00 p.m., on "fox news sunday," chris wallace welcomes mitt romney and governor mitch daniels, a republican of indiana. at 3:00 p.m., on cnn "state of the union," candy crowley talks with republican senators john mccain and lindsay graeme, then john hickenlooper and republican governor scott walker. also former shell oil president john hofmeister on the price of gasoline. finally, at 4:00 p.m., on cbs "face the nation," bob schieffer talks with republican governor chris christie of new jersey and martin o'malley of maryland. re-airs begin at noon with nbc's "meet the press." finally, at 4:00 p.m., it is "face the nation." listen on your iphone or blackberry. or go online to c-spanradio.org. host: we are back for about 10 more minutes before we take you live to the energy winter meeting. we want to use this opportunity to hear from you. it is open phones. tell us what's on your mind. send us a tweet, @cspanwj. this is the front page of "the los angeles times." "afghan up or be allies

chairman as you chino governor deval patrick of massachusetts was invited to testify that was an adult i get i would ask enhancements and that is written testimony be allowed on the record. >> governor snyder in particular i noted governor patrick's written testimony. he has a quote in there that -- comes from investment in octets in the government must do its part to help businesses help themselves and he goes on to talk about massachusetts, 47 the job creation 2006 and now even during the last couple of years the recession has gone to whiff on that. he is proud that students lead the nation overall achievement in both math and science and really the nation in massachusetts and health care coverage covering over 98% of the people on that basis, eliminated a structural problem on deficit and has a higher bond rating than they ever had in massachusetts on there and. adding 45,600 private-sector jobs in massachusetts and an employment rate dropped to 6.8% alone what he says is his strategy building on investments and reforms weather was pension or health care in those areas. he talked ab

chairman as you chino governor deval patrick of massachusetts was invited to testify that was an adult i get i would ask enhancements and that is written testimony be allowed on the record. >> governor snyder in particular i noted governor patrick's written testimony. he has a quote in there that -- comes from investment in octets in the government must do its part to help businesses help themselves and he goes on to talk about massachusetts, 47 the job creation 2006 and now even during the last couple of years the recession has gone to whiff on that. he is proud that students lead the nation overall achievement in both math and science and really the nation in massachusetts and health care coverage covering over 98% of the people on that basis, eliminated a structural problem on deficit and has a higher bond rating than they ever had in massachusetts on there and. adding 45,600 private-sector jobs in massachusetts and an employment rate dropped to 6.8% alone what he says is his strategy building on investments and reforms weather was pension or health care in those areas. he talked ab