house majority leader eric cantor is with us from capitol hill. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> it is said that mitt romney, who you have endorsed, is winning the delegates but not the argument. what does he have to do now to win the argument, especially with conservative republican voters? >> charlie, mitt romney did what he had to do last night. he racked up more delegates than any of the other candidates. he won six out of the ten states that were up last night. he won my state of virginia in a very handy way when he was only up against ron paul. so, you know, mitt romney and the reason why the voters are going to elect him is because he's the only candidate in the race who's got a plan to turn this economy around. and if you look at all the information coming out of the election, the primary elections last night, it is that issue, the economy and how we're going to get our economy and the deficit straight in washington and get jobs going again is what matters to people. and mitt romney is the leader who has the record of creating jo

eric cantor, thank you for joining us.ppreciate it. >>> 8:30 this morning, newt gingrich is going to join us live right here on "starting point." >>> lots of other headlines to get to. let's get to christine for those. >> thanks, good morning to you. indiana toddler who was the only member of her family to survive a tornado, she has died. 14-month-old angel babcock was discovered in a field about 100 yards from her home. she suffered head injuries and she was taken off life support p her grandparents and her pastor at her side. the death toll from friday's tornadoes now stand at 39. indiana state police say the tornado destruction is so extensive they have no idea how many people are left homeless. 21 tornadoes struck kentucky alone. some 400 national guard troops have been deployed. the governor he's requested a federal disaster declaration. >>> trying to answer for the targeted killing for a u.s. citizen. the target by u.s. drone attacks in yemen last year. he and other american citizens were killed. sources say attorney

where is eric cantor. >> i don't think that's their job.when alan grayson spoke out. they speak out and say stupid things all the time. it's not the job to reign them in. >> isn't this issue much more serious that people repeatedly insulting this president. >> it's not serious. it's ridiculous. just as liberal -- >> so liberals look bad. >> why is it difficult for eric cantor stand up. >> least a member of the majority in fact house of representatives. >> it's not eric cantor's job to depends what every congressional member says. >> we know this kind of a comment allowed to continue the damaging. it's untruthful, and it doesn't reflect -- >> congressional members say terrible things. it's not the job of the majority leerd, the whip, the speaker of the house to reign them in. it's up to voters to decide whether or not they want to put them back in office. >> julian, do you think that eric cantor or speaker boehner should be doing something with this comment by mr. cliff sterns. >> yeah. i disagree. when the left referred to general petraeus,

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in the case of eric cantor, he is a house republican leader and one of the most partisan and feisty and often criticized or complimented for being to the right of the house speaker john boyehneboehn and some have been suspicious of mitt romney's conservativism and maybe behind him. >> harris: with all that said, carl, where does it leave newt gingrich and rick santorum. >> newt gingrich is strong in georgia, where he began his political career and a double digit comfortable lead and rick santorum strong in oklahoma and they're all going to get delegates, but in the the case of gingrich versus santorum, both men are shadow boxing and wishing almost not saying they want the other guy to drop out. >> michigan we'd have won easily had those two votes been combined, but, you know, that's, that's a process, i think, newt's it got to figure out where he goes after georgia. >> and i'm taking rick santorum's advice, he stayed in fourth in every primary and suddenly after three states nobody went to and he became the media darling and bounced ba back. >> reporter: so they'd probably like to see e

house majority leader eric cantor who made a big endorsement yesterday. donald trump joins us at 7:30 a.m.. >> i watched the end of "celebrity apprentice" and i have a lot of questions. >> and senator john mccain will be here and senator lindsay graham. >> in studio. >> that's -- he doesn't do that very often and rick santorum who would like to be the next president of the united states so we've got a busy three hours to kick us off with a fox news extreme weather alert. >> residents in the heartland trying to pick up pieces after a violent round of tornadoes and it was just last night, one of the youngest survivors found alone in a field died. fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth has been following the story from the beginning and joins us live from henryville, indiana. good morning to you. >> hey, gretchen. yeah, it was such a big story around here and really kind of the story that everybody was holding on to for hope for baby angel babcock who was a 14-month-old lone survivor in her family. her parents, 2-year-old brother and infant sister were

house majority leader eric cantor is endorsing mitt romney. the program. >> thank you. >> you made a lot of news when you came out and said that you were endorsing mitt romney. first of all, why mitt romney and why now? >> first of all, mitt romney is the only individual who has -- >> leader can for, i'm sorry to interrupt you but we're having some trouble with your audio right now. we're taking a lot of hits. if you'll wait with us for one moment, we're going to try and get that fixed to make sure everyone can hear what you're saying. we'll have eric cantor join us right after this very quick break. ...that right now, you want to know where you are, and where you'd like to be. we know you'd like to see the same information your advisor does so you can get a deeper understanding of what's going on with your portfolio. we know all this because we asked you, and what we heard helped us create pnc wealth insight, a smarter way to work with your pnc advisor, so you can make better decisions and live achievement. >>> we are working on the audio wit

the way in which the aides started to spin it, eric cantor was the realist in the room saying there isget this through the house republican congress. when simpson boles went to the house floor two days ago and could only get 38 votes, it shows you how difficult it would have been for john boehner to get any deal that he had significant tax revenue through the house republican conference. the democrats more likely than not would have been there had the president been wholeheartedly behind this but you would have -- if boehner would have had to walk on on quite a limb and see a real threat to his speakership possibly after that. it's all speculation. you don't know how much influence eric cantor had in the room if the idea was that john boehner and barack obama this was blown up by the gang of six. but one thing i would throw out about the gang of six. how the collective wisdom in washington, d.c. is that their announcement they could have perhaps trillions in new revenue is the reason why this fell over and liberals could not accept anything less than that, dick durbin, someone very clo

let's bring in right now republican house majority leader eric cantor.always great to talk to you. you endorsed mitt romney this weekend. unfortunately also this weekend an op ed was released that showed mitt supported a national mandate. how will republicans -- the republican base, how are we going to get our arms around mitt romney? >> well, as far as the issue of obama care, mitt romney's been very clear. he said he will sign a repeal of obama care. he is not for it taking effect in this country. and, you know, joe, i carried the bill in the house to repeal obama care. so i look forward to serving in the role along with mitt romney to make sure that we in congress join him once he's elected president to repeal obama care. we've got to. >> so moving forward, you obviously -- you have the confidence that mitt romney will obviously take a republican stand on that. but what about what he said in the "usa today." because, of course, when he was facing a tax on his health care plan as being the same as barack obama's, he said that he backed -- he said he ba

with us, newt gingrich, and eric cantor will weigh into the nomination fight, and with the view from the democrats, debbie wasserman schultz. and plus our political roundtable this morning, what to look for on tuesday, and the president's emerging campaign. on the road, looking under the hood, and fighting f middle class votes. >> i place my bet on the american worker! and i will make that bet any day of the week. with us, republican strategist, mike murphy, and a political analysts for "time" magazine, al paw rins, and savannah guthrie. >>> the republican race is coming down to a battle for delegates, and mitt romney is in the lead winning his fifth straight contest last night in washington state. final results show mom rebeating ron paul, and santorum in third, and newt gingrich a distant fourth with 10%. the former speaker is counting a big win tuesday in his home state of georgia, and first we have super tuesday polls to view so i want to turn to my partner, nbc's political director, chuck todd. it's all about the math and the maps. >> it is ohio, the marquee race wedged in betwe

first of all, the house republican leader eric cantor pushing the senate democratic leader harry reid to abandon senator efforts to amend the jobs act in advance of some key senate votes scheduled for tomorrow. eric cantor saying quote over the past week leader reid and senator democrats have worked overtime to find excuses found the exact despite the support of members of the house of representatives, the president and job creators across the country. is would help businesses and banks funnel money to small businesses. the bill removes various regulations on startup and small businesses. it has come under criticism from a number of outside groups who fear it could lead to boiler rooms to take advantage of unsophisticated investors. a democratic alternative and a bipartisan amendment reauthorizing the export/import bank are the onle votes on tuesday. both facing a threshold. so you have the house republican leader telling the senate to pass the bill as passed by the house of representatives. meanwhile, back to transportation because today the white house continued to pressure the hous

meanwhile, the news from the "hill" newspaper showing that eric cantor will meet behind closed doors to talk about the budget. he writes that he, congressman cantor, will be meeting with the budget committee members to settle internal fights over the 2013 spending limits, and the republicans are at odds today over whether to keep the discretionary spending levels set in the august debt ceiling deal or to cut it more deeply in the 2013 resolution, and conservatives in eric cantor's conference are calling for deeper cuts, and this meeting will take place tomorrow here in washington. on the politics. the republicans who competed in super tuesday are continuing with the campaigns despite a new call from rick santorum's supporters for newt gingrich to drop out. newt gingrich, the former house speaker was the winner in georgia yesterday. rick santorum winning three states and mitt romney winning six states including his home state of massachusetts. newt gingrich telling bill bennett's morning in america radio program that he is not convinced that rick santorum could beat mitt romney head t

of sixty to thirty nine when the stock act made its way down to the house house majority leader eric cantor watered down he stripped the grassley of them and another key of admin which would have strengthened anti-corruption laws and then he put that bill and suspension which meant they couldn't be amended by anybody in the house so all of this this long story does all brings us back to harry reid there was some hope out there that these amendments would be reinserted if the senate voted to put this bill of for a conference committee but reid perfuse instead he took up cantor's version arguing at the conference committee simply would have taken too much time but if you decide to follow the money another motive for reid's moves apparently he's a massive beneficiary of lobbying firms and wall street largest and according to open secrets dot org between two thousand and seven twenty twelve securities and investment firms and lobbying firms were his second and third or third largest donors both industries are king of political intelligence so we just can't help but question it reads claim at th

what they're doing i mean this is their ideology again trumping all common sense minds you want eric cantor turn it well who came to what it was earthquake in hurricane. and this is a six home state he's now i heard recently we've been like a few hours ago and it's sort of back to a little bit now he's asked federal inspectors to come in and survey the damage and now he might invite them invite the money in it wanted this to be clarified all disaster so he got it he got elected with a million and a quarter dollars being cycled by fox news who used to work for through the republican national governors association to his campaign and the koch brothers giving him hundreds of thousands of dollars i mean that bad boy isn't he pretty tied to and it's may simply be that his simpatico with it but whether is or isn't isn't pretty tied to this really hard right ideology of roger ailes and charles and david koch yeah he is because look i mean no liberal as we all know in june schmitz has called for federal aid. you know because the area was so hard you east of cincinnati by tornadoes was a fairly publ

mark up this bill he will stop by wall street darling virginia republican house majority leader eric cantor move its outreach amongst republicans who are obviously conscious of the p.r. nightmare on their hands but then house republicans got luckily they were tossed a lifeline when president obama touted the stock act in his state of the union speech. insider trading by members of congress and signed into law. so senators both republicans and democrats got to work on the stock act and suddenly stopping insider trading with the in thing to do now it's a capitol hill move over lobbyist succeeded in just stripping the senate bill of all the important provisions that are forcing political intelligence agents to register as a lobbyist have to do the beer and really the bill nearly proposed to study the issue that's washington talk for let it die just so you guys know but twitter star i were republicans senator charles grassley introduced the registration amendment that would have allowed regulators to catch private sector actors that trade on this insider information harvested from congress and

conservatives in eric cantor's conference are pushing for deeper cuts. again, the hill newspaper reporting that this closed door meet willing take place tomorrow here in washington. >>> well, on to politics. the republicans who competed in super tuesday are continuing with their campaigns, despite a new call from rick santorum supporters for newt gingrich to drop out. newt gingrich, the former house speaker, was the winner in georgia yesterday. rick santorum winning three states, and mitt romney winning six states, including his home state of massachusetts. newt gingrich tell saying he is not convinced that rick santorum could beat mitt romney head to head. meanwhile, the mitt romney campaign saying that his republican rivals don't have much of a chance of catching him. the campaign releasing a memo saying even though mitt romney lost four of the ten states in super tuesday, he did win ohio by less than a percentage point, he is still far ahead in the race for convention delegates. however, senior romney aides are not identifying any upcoming states in w

eric cantor has a little cover. he did come out for mitt romney today.republican establishment, conservative republican establishment saying we need to get behind one candidate, we need to start preparing for november. >> incredible. it is going to be an exciting day on tuesday. mark preston, thanks so much. appreciate that. >>> super tuesday, march 6th, 12:00 eastern time. if you're not in front of the television set, you do want to check out cnn.com. wolf blitzer will be there hoef hosting the cnn election round table on cnn.com. it is a live insider chat about the day's implications for the presidential race. go to cnn.com/roundtable for that. >>> foreign policy was a big focus of the sunday morning talk shows. u.s., israel relations, president obama's apology over the koran burning in afghanistan, so here are some of the highlights. >> do you doubt the president or the united states' commitment to israel? >> of course. >> why? >> the president's new budget, which cuts aid to israel for its ballistic missile defense shield, you had no evidence that th

but in the words of eric cantor, this is a partisan amendment. a partisan amendment?ne of the main co-sponsors is richard shelby, former chair of the banking committee, another ranking member of the banking committee, not very partisan. it's supported by the chamber of commerce, national association of manufacturers, business round table, and various labor unions. why? because it's jobs. >> senator harry reid speaking to reporters earlier in the day on the transportation bill and the export/import bank. there was a senate vote today. an amendment that would reauthorize and raise the lending cap on the export/import bank. that measure failed and so the debate continues on capitol hill. in fact, the debate is continuing on so many issues, many are wondering whether or not congress is broken. and, if so, how would you fix it? how would you improve the reputation of congress? how at an all-time low, according to the latest gallup poll. we asked many of you here on c-span radio and c-span television. by the way, you can way in throughout the week at 202-626-7962. again our

mitt romney got a big endorsement from eric cantor. he was on "starting point" this morning and this is what he had to say. >> well, mitt romney is really the only man in the race who has a plan, a bold pro growth plan, to create jobs and get this economy back on track. and this is a central issue for this election. it is about how we're going to make the economy better, how we're going to get small businesses back in gear to begin to grow jobs. >> ok. you know how i feel about endorsements. i don't think they much matter. but he is a big tea party guy, eric cantor, and the tea party hasn't exactly been supportive of mitt romney. could this help him as well? >> you just nailed it. seriously. endorsements don't matter that much this cycle, but, yes, you add the endorsement by cantor and senator coburn of oklahoma, another very conservative, and it could help romney with a part of the base he has not done very well with. >> is part of the reason that rick santorum's surge has sort of ended because of the things he said about a college ed

we'll talk live to eric cantor in a moment. first, chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has specifics. >> bill is passed. >> in a 390-23 vote with all the no's coming from democrats, the house passed the jobs act to remove regulations for small businesses. >> this is aimed at helping small businesses get the capital they need to get off the ground and to grow. and to cut out some of the red tape that gets in the way of trying to start a new business. >> reporter: unlike others dozens of other jobs bill passed by republicans that has gone nowhere, this is backed by president obama. in a paper statement, the administration urged paneling and says the president is encouraged to see there is a common ground between his approach and some of the proposals in this bill. yet house democrats complain it doesn't go far enough. >> i think it's so meager, it comes with little fanfare. [ laughter ] >> yes, and it's bipartisan. >> reporter: they note it's foundation of job success. so many are pushing for it to become law quickly.

romney picks up conservative endorsements one from eric cantor and another from senator tom coburn from oklahoma. ohio will be the state to watch, guys. no republican has ever won the presidency without winning ohio. real clear politics an average of several polls shows rick santorum ahead of mitt romney by about 3 points. >> this will perk you up, ainsley. you have seen vladimir putin riding horse back, even killing a tiger, but here's a side of him you may not have seen until this morning. putin at his victory rally in moscow after winning the presidential election. he declared himself a winner after less than a quarter of the vote were counted. according to exit polls he took 59-percent of the vote. >> a heartbreaking end to a child case. they found a little boy's body at the bottom of a well. they thought the 4-year-old might have been kidnapped but they discovered a child's body at the bottom of a 30-foot well. that well is near the boy's home. they are still working to identify the child at this point. they believe the death is a tragic accident. >>> brand new video out of florida

that's why house majority leader eric cantor from richmond jumped out and endorised romney. wife calista gingrich tweeted she's at -- that they were having a fantastic birthday dinner in great falls. >> all right mike, thank you as always. >> thank you. >> always a pleasure mike. more on politico.com. gas price continue to rise three weeks now. >> a.a.a. reporting the national average of regular $3.76 a gallon. that's 29 cents higher then a month ago. in d.c., $3.88 for a regular. maryland $3.71, and in virginia $3.65. in an effort to save on gas, americans have pledged they're going to work from home this week. it's teleworkweek. organizers say having these people work at home this week will save $3.7 million in commuter costs and also keep 2,200 tons of pollutants out in the air. and despite an online apology rush limbaugh's video show has lost another sponsor. pro flowers pulled his ad saying limbaugh's personal attack on sandra flux does not reflect the company's value. he called her a prostitute for backing birth control funding in president obama's health care law. so

majority leader eric cantor picked governor romney as his number one choiie for pressdent today. and here's why. "cantor says: "that's the central issue of this campaign. mitt romney's the only man in the race who's accually created jobs." oklahomaasenator tom coburn lined up behind rrmney today too because he says he's served with the other candidatee and too often they've - quote - diiplayed political expediency rather cantor and coburn have ácompanyá n congress when it &pcomes to backing romney. 16 u-s senators ncluding 2008 nominee john mccain have done the same. the only other candidate with any support there is conggessman paul, whoois backed by his son, kentucky senator rand paul. over in he house, 67 members have endorsed mitt. gingrich has one-sixth as many. santorum and paul combined only have half aa dozen. at the state level, new jersey's chris christie is one of the ten goverrors supporting romney. gingrich has texas govvrnor rick perry on his side. but áromnnyá is also leaaing theeppck with the presidents. he's got one.. former president george h-w bush. cindy crawf

stay tuned for a follow-up on the interview with the majority leader eric cantor.  today is gonna befor us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. >> bret: finally tonight, we had house majority leader eric cantor on "special report" thursday. while we don't like to brag here, it does seem like we left a lasting impression. >> why are you pretty much it among the big cheeses? [ laughter ] >> i don't know if i'm in that category or not. i will tell you this, bret -- >> i know you talk for a lot of people. you call me bret. that's okay. next time you talk. >> neil, i'm sorry. >> neil: you talk to bret. call him neil, it will drive him nuts. the guy has the ego like the chrysler building. no, it was great talking to you. thank you very much majority leader. >> bret: like the chrysler building? come

it will save 40,000 jobs in eric cantor's state. so, here you have those two leaders there, i would hope that they would not want to see more layoffs in these recessionary times we're finally getting out of slowly and painfully and should take up our bill and pass it. >> your bill, let's talk about the specifics for a moment. it's 108 billion over two years. >> 109 billion. >> that is two thirds the size of the infrastructure request in the president's budget. in a country where the estimated infrastructure gap is in the trillions, does it do enough, are we getting far enough in solving our problem? >> let me tell you that i would much prefer to see a larger bill, but i'm also a pragmatist. i have to find the sweet spot. we can't pass a democrat only bill it won't happen in the senate. we must reach across the aisle and we did it and what we did is we kept the current level of spending, alleged inflation, but here is the great news, we also took a program called transportation infrastructure financing, and greatly increased that and