and closed at the highest level since mie of 2008. 100 points away from dow 13,000. the nasdaq on fire hitting a 12-year highgh this week. the average is moving on easing concerns of europe and encouraging data in the united states. the fed appears open to another round of bond purchases to keep interest rates low and boo the economic recovery. the minutes released this week show the open market committee was divided because of concerns about inflation. americans are still shopping but not as much as some economists were looking for if. retail sales for january rose 4/10 of a percent. slightly lower than expectations. two years after it nearly collapsed in to financial ruin general motors posted the largest profit on record. they made $7.6 billion in 2011. in in spite of the numbers earnings fell short ofof expepectations with short fallsn europe and south america. >>> a lot of signs of hope for the market and the economy but my next guest says things may not be as bright as they seem. david darst is joining us with more. nice to see you. >> thank you for joining us.

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it seems to mie the same people that did it for him down in iowa are showing up in minnesota, the last time i checked that state is a stone's though away. what do you make of what is unfolding? >> well, one thing about rick santorum is he believes what he says he believes. and in minnesota, whether the conservatives like us liberals or progressives, prides authenticity, that is something romney lacks. >> you are speaking volumes, my friend. let me tell you about newt gingrich last night at this event. he walks in, he speaks, he says vote for me, does no retail politic what's so ever. i was really stunned by that. he didn't interact with the people, maybe he has such a tight schedule he doesn't have time for the people. rick santorum is the guy of retail politics, going town-to-town, bus stop to bus topp. what you're saying is correct, how unique is the electorate, if you take that style of politicking, santorum at 33, romney at 24, where does president obama fit in with this style of politicking? because president obama is not the kind of guy to walk in a room and say how is it going,

mie commodity prices are hurting business at pepsi co.ng costs and eliminating 8,700 jobs worldwide. apple shares hit a record high after the announcement of the launch of an ipad 3. now back to "hardball." >>> there's no such thing as correlation in politics. it's not easy to get the nomination. it's not easy to be elected president. this is a testing approach. so far, we're doing pretty well. >> welcome back to "hardball." that's what the guy who is losing looks like. if anything, the gop race is more in the state of flux following rick santorum's wins two nights ago. more concerning for the governor, are the republicans worrying about his campaign. "conservatives don't trust mr. romney in part because he gives them little reason to do so. he seems to retreat at the first sound of a liberal moral argument. this means he'd play defense against president obama, who is distilling his campaign to a moral defense of taxing the rich and government redistributive justice." the "wall street journal" editorial page, all the way to tampa florida.

naturally he has a lot of billionaires, you mie think he doesn't need one.enwald has been writing about an idaho billionaire mitt romney's national campaign financial co-chair. frankly it looks like an ak of of bravery for glen and salon.com, frank van der sloot, described as a billionaire, lives in idaho, in addition to being the national finance co-chair, he runs a company which sells household products. he has involved himself m a number of political causes in idaho over the years, in what would seem to be a very high profile kind of way but he has taken a very aggressive stance toward anybody reporting on his political involvements. for example in 1999, idaho public television planned to air documentary how schools were taught about issues of sexual orientation. they led the opposition to the documentary being aired by paying for bill boards to be put up across the state railing against the documentary and warning about the homosexual lifestyle. in 2005, a local newspaper called the post register ran an award-winning series about how the boy scotts organ

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held here in washington transportation infrastructure chairman micah and the committee conducted -- mie ka and the committee sucted several bipartisan and bicameral hearings at forums arn the country. in total, 14 hearings were held from locations like los angeles and chicago and also to tennessee and florida. the previous transportation authorization safetea-lu was enacted in 2005 and expired september 30 in 2009. since that time, surface transportation programs have operated under a series of short-term extension the most recent of these extensions expired march 31, 2012. the transportation and infrastructure committee put together a long-term re-authorization of highway transit and highway safety programs that will provide much needed certainty and stability to those charged with rebuilding our nation's infrastructure and all who depend on it for their safe travel. h.r. 7 authorizes approximately $260 billion over five years for highway transit rail safety and other programs which is consistent with current funding levels. it provides five years of stability for states to undertake m