patriotic americans that would be nothing would make them happier than to have their business in ohio or michiganthis country. >> this month the united states in april the highest corporate income tax. >> sean: this april. >> something steve forbes writes about. >> how are we going to be competitive in a global marketplace if we have the highest corporate business taxes in the world? >> if i don't get stan in i will be. stan, sorry, we saved the best for last. >> i appreciate that. i run a plastic bag manufacturing and recycling company and we have 1250 jobs here in the united states, ten plants and we spend all of our time focused on working against the government who is trying to ban us out of existences and it is a great industry. it is a home grown industry. it is with people that go to work every day and pay their taxes, trying to put food on the table. amazing people but state governments are trying to ban us out of existences, tax us out of existences. >> sean: have you have to spend all the money to protect the jobs that you have just to stay in business. >> absolutely. and what we he hav

patriotic americans that would be nothing would make them happier than to have their business in ohio or michigan this month the united states in april the highest corporate income tax. >> sean: this april. >> something steve forbes writes about. >> how are we going to be competitive in a global marketplace if we have the highest corporate business taxes in the world? >> if i don't get stan in i will be. stan, sorry, we saved the best for last. >> i appreciate that. i run a plastic bag manufacturing and recycling company and we have 1250 jobs here in the united states, ten plants and we spend all of our time focused on working against the government who is trying to ban us out of existences and it is a great industry. it is a home grown industry. it is with people that go to work every day and pay their taxes, trying to put food on the table. amazing people but state governments are trying to ban us out of existences, tax us out of existences. >> sean: have you have to spend all the money to protect the jobs that you have just to stay in business. >> absolutely. and what we he have done is we hav

if he loses here, and it looks like he will, he will not have won ohio or illinois or michigan or withre the manufacturing base has been. what about wisconsin for santorum? >> it looks like rick santorum is trying to bowl his way to vic fri in wisconsin. i don't think it's going to work. it's beginning to remind me a little bit of the monty python movie, the holy grail. you remember the scene where there's the night and they keep chopping his arms and leks off. >> keep going. you're warming up the crowd with all of this. just keep on going. you're hot, buddy. you're hot. keep going. >> as the night knight shrinks, keeps saying it's a mere flesh wound. i think that's where rick santorum is right now. at this point, the players, mean it can media players, the republican party players and increasingly the voters, i think, are deciding and among the republicans that the race is over and it's time to turn their attention to president obama. i think for dignity sake, rick santorum is trying to stay around at least until pennsylvania. he better be careful what he wishes for there, ed. that's

he has to win, michigan, ohio, or pennsylvania. he won't win michigan, i don't think.hink he will take florida. obama can't go to florida and say i brought back g.m. voters will say what are you talking about? if he were smart he'd say to floridians, the seniors out there barack obama cut $500 billion from medicare. in obamacare. it's already done. already in there. he could take ohio and pennsylvania, romney. >> eric: according to rove, in the that rove knows everything but he has elected a couple presidents. according to rove florida is the key. sopick rubio or jeb bush. do you disagree that would give him florida? >> bob: i don't december agree. everybody wants rubio. >> greg: i am the choice. i am the choice. he won't pick me. the past? the art films in germany come back to haunt me every election. >> bob: they were x-rated? >> greg: they were artistic. nudity is superficial. >> bob: this is a referendum on obama but the a terntive has to be accept to believe people. i'm not sure that romney is not foining to have enough gas. the problem with romney, he has no pers

ohio. i think 6% of signatures. the way it works in michigan with 5% of signatures. in michigan february 29th this year without any fanfare we saw in ohio or wisconsin, these michiganers turned insignificants to recall a new law passed by the republicans. the caravan to the state capitol in lansing and carted these boxes to the board of state canvassers. this week, they found out they got enough signatures. they had more than enough by 40,000. the staff of the state canvasser said they went through the signatures and totaled up the real ones and threw out the ones they could not verify and said there were more than enough signatures to put this michigan law on hold and let the people decide with a vote or maybe not. even though the people gathered enough signatures and even though the state of canvassers said they have enough signatures. it was rejected today because the font on the petition was too small. a group calling themselves the citizens for fiscal responsibility challenged the petitions because they said the font size was too small. the two democrats on the board voted to let the petitions go forward. the two republicans voted no.

if he loses here and looks like he probably will, he will not have won ohio, illinois, michigan or wisconsinl of where the manufacturing base has been. this of course is where santorum has been trying to score very well. what about wisconsin for santorum? >> looks to me like rick santorum is trying to bowl his way the victory in wisconsin. i don't think it is going to work. it's beginning to remind me a little bit of the monty python movie "the holy grail." remember the scene where there's the knight and they keep chopping his arms and legs off -- >> keep going, howard with, you are warming up the crowd with all of this. just keep going. you are hot, buddy, you are on the stump. keep going. >> as the knight shrinks and loses limbs and legs he sae keeps saying it's a mere flesh wound. i sort of think that's where rick santorum is right now. at this point, the players, meaning the media players, the republican party players and increasingly the voters, i think, are deciding -- ang republicans, that the race is over and it's time to turn their attention to president obama. i think for dignity s

have a ninety nine percent spring and i was i was reading about the teamsters and michigan or now it's moved into ohio about the red cross i didn't realize the red cross in michigan was getting blood for free selling it for over one hundred bucks a pint and make made over two million bucks last year and doesn't want to give their employees health care it's about at least right and some believe what's going on the red cross and they pay their c.e.o. like three hundred thousand dollars you would think a person would do it for free i mean what an honor to be head of the red cross you know be somebody the retired that should do this they pay this person a tremendous amount of money and then when it comes down to negotiate it's not just in ohio where we're having this battle we're having in colorado they basically fight us all the way and they're making profits on on blood and it's amazing it's a business you know and what we want is a fair share for people we have people on strike we just had a demonstration at the red cross building here and we've got to call attention to the fact that the great red cros

. >> but it's now april, it's not january anymore, we're not in iowa or new hampshire, michigan, ohio, all of those states we have covered. the nomination is wrapped up, and they still can't say we love you. they can't say the words. >> you know, casic, i would say in a vacuum it's like let the process play out, it's political. but it's not, politics doesn't exist in a vacuum. go back to jeb bush's endorsement of mitt romney. he did it in a -- >> you're giving me the assist here. >> let's watch here. here is his hands off approach mirroring what we have already seen. catch the words here. here is a refresher starting with florida senator marco rubio who wasn't exactly sputter wg excitement when he endorsed the guy late last month. they are so -- i don't know what -- >> i am going to endorse rom any is not only because he's going to be the nominee but he offers such a stark contrast to the president's record. >> okay, i'm stuck with him and he isn't obama. and another governor gave a rather back handed endorsement, wait until you hear this, let's watch george. >> i think it's time to r

but he hasn't yet pulled off a victoati in his big soffite lik ohio, illineat ts, or michigan, althoughn wiund onsin our latest poll s him trailing romney by lench peat tnts. at the s6 c13 >e time romney has momentum in the endorsements race. he has marco rubec. those things where you have republican leaders coming behind him and sjusing, it is time to wrap up this process. a contilooed procehos is soffip to damage the party. those are some of the issues and prehosures that santoye m is facing. we'll ask him about that when he jeat tor us. >> i know the other big talker is the health care. it is s foh an interesting coor titutional issue. constitutional question coupled with election year ply citics. >> you said it. it is kind of the perfect stoga. as you sbeid, these comy fouevel setting. the setting is this political calendar. wech this was the president's signature domestic tccomy fouishmentand democrats spent more a than a year comeyi to get this past. based on the oral arguments, i don't think ale sone. >> uestioor that it is in someple being struck down. we will ac senator charles

he will visit job-training program in ohio sand and a fund- raiser in michigan. experts say the economy could make ork the 2012 campaign. the president took aim at big oil yesterday during a speech of the white house. he told americans he feels their pain at the pump and called on congress to pass his plan to end tax breaks for oil and gas companies. >> the dow jones is starting the day above 13,000 again today after wall street had its best day in a month on tuesday. analysts are crediting the rally on easing worries about europe. all eyes will be on berkshire hathaway stock today one day after billionaire businessman warren buffett announced he has stage one prostate cancer if. the 81-year-old those investors that his condition is not life- threatening -- told investors. >> college students on eds this morning. >> police are saying someone attacked a woman at george mason university near the johnson centers and the suspect is still on the loose. john gonzalez joins us live with what else makes this campus attack so surprising. >> that's right. even the campus police department is calling this extre

when they leave even if they are from michigan or pennsylvania or ohio they don't know anything.wn in missouri where they have formed this new community where they live together and try to find their place in the world. >> you have been profiling them for more than a decade. you are upper manhattan. >> please. that's east side and west side. >> i can say something there. bottom line, what got you into this? >> i made a film called "devil's playground" when i was younger and then a tv series and this new series which premieres tonight. it's the culmination of a lot of stuff. most people learn their amish knowledge from one of our films or from witness. it's not about any of these things from the past. it doesn't treat the amish as a punch line or a hidden and strange world. every episode not only shows what these kids are going through but takes an area of amish culture and shows you what it really is. why do the amish shun kids who leave? why do they get together and build barns? how are these kids going through this identity crisis of leaving their faith, how do they find their

if he'd lost michigan or ohio or illinois, that would have been problematic. but he won them all. he won all of those midwest states that always knocked down these sort of right field challengers. they always do. and they did it again this year. im >> some say it's now just a matter of time for romney to capture the republican nomination. 80% of wisconsin voters believe that romney will be their nominee next fall. it's a perception romney tried to drive home during his victory speech in milwaukee last night by focusing his attacks squarely on the president. >> out of touch liberals like barack obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. but the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses in the nation added together. so it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs. you know, to build a strong economy that provides good jobs and rising wages and that reduces poverty, we have to build successful businesses of every kind imaginable. and president obama has been attacking succe

when they leave, even if they're from michigan or pennsylvania or ohio, they don't know anything.missouri where they have formed this new community where they live together and try to find their place in the world. >> wow. you have been profiling them for more than a decade as you said. >> yes. >> upper west side manhattan guy. >> east side, please. like east side-west side. >> all right. okay. i can say something there. bottom line, what got you into this? >> i made a film called devil's playground when i was younger and then i made a tv series called "amish in the city" and this new nears is really in a lot of ways the culmination of a lot of stuff. it is not about rumspringa and most learn their knowledge from one of our films or "witness" and it is not about rum springa and not about the past and it doesn't treat them as a punch line or a hidden and strange world. every episode not only takes and shows what the kids are going through and also taking an area of amish culture and shows you what it really is. why do the amish shun kids who leave? why don't they use electricity? w

or lately the elevators installing for the cars at his california beachhouse. all of which have underlined the fact that romney is rich. but in michigan, ohio and illinois, he styled himself as a fighting underdog. and he's doing here as well. >> this was an uphill battle for me. if you looked back three or four weeks ago. and now we're looking like we're going to win this thing on tuesday. tuesday. >> reporter: for his part, santorum dismisses the idea that endorsemen endorsements from the republican establishment constitutes a romney bandwagon. >> i don't know how the folks can look at this and see us running well in all the swing state, running well ahead of governor romney, doing so with a fraction of the money he has, with a fraction of the establishment behind him and all the endorsements and all the inevitability and all the phoney math, yet, here we are. >> reporter: santorum's campaign says it's looking ahead to the contest in may but by then a majority of delegates for him may no longer exist, a path to that majority may no longer exist if it ever did, jeff. >> glor: dean reynolds, in milwaukee, thank you. it is one of swing state

about 10 points in a lot of the big states that we have seen talking about ohio, he started out after his losses or after michigan arizona, he started out doanewn about 10 points. anyhow was illinois was close and the final result was 12 points. the advertising has been moving numbers. there is no reason to expect anything different happens in pennsylvania. i think that's, you know, looking ahead again. that's going to be an interesting race and it could be where we end this campaign. >> in the meantime, word has leaked out both have confirmed it that newt gingrich and mitt romney held a meeting last weekend in louisiana. what the hell was that about? do you know? >> both sides say that there was wasn't really much to it. they say that the candidates regularly meet, you know we can believe that or not. i think that there was a time there where gingrich was acting like he was going to run a clean campaign, going to kind of go out with a whimper and then yesterday, he again started attacking mid romney for having no principles. so i am not really sure how to read that. maybe the meeting didn't go well. maybe, you k

right now, you have to say the president is stronger in florida and ohio than romney is in michigan an pennsylvania ords to be in a position where he can put together different paths to 270. right now, the president has more ways to get to 270. it's close. they are both going to start with 200 e lek tral votes. it's a more meaningful number. >> eugene robinson, i want to show you what mitt romney said when asked about this. take a look. he's very confident. >> start packing. that's what i would like to say. obviously, we have a very different view. the president, i'm sure wants another four years. the first years didn't go so well. >> you know, i got to know michelle. she's a lovely person. i have never met barack obama. i believe it's mitt's time. i believe the country needs the kind of leadership that he is going to be able to offer and i believe he is the person that can turn around this economy. i think it is our turn now. >> eugene robinson, talk to me. your response? >> i guess it's my turn now. you know, we are all stunned that the romney's believe in romney's candidacy. what they said is right

the need of those states, or the need of those communities, and that's why so many food banks all over the country and not just in big states like new york and ohio and michigan, but smaller states have called us to want us to do this. there's no score involved. there's no additional cost to the government, to the secretary, to the usda. and this just gives the secretary one more consideration, doesn't force him to take into account any one of these. it just says they can consider commodity prices, consumer preferences and need and that's why the amendment makes sense. >> senator conrad? >> i'm told and just asking the question of senator johanns and senator brown that the bush administration claimed they already had this authority. but the current administration argues that they don't. is that the case? >> senator johanns? >> i'm not entirely certain about that because at least when i was secretary, senator conrad, we looked at this from an agricultural standpoint. and so i probably never pushed the authority. this administration may be looking at it. times are different. times are more difficult and may be saying, gosh, do we have the authority here? kind o

or 'bama turned from red to blue. florida is always a presidential battleground, ohio, indiana. let's put michiganr a minute. let's come over this way, iowa will be one. i'm going to leave those ones for that now. colorado, new mexico, nevada, focus right there you look at those state there is, these are bat grounds what will happen? we don't know, a long time between now and then. president obama has a double-digit lead in all the national polls right now, forget about them. we know, november 2012 will be more competitive than november 2008. let's just assign some, for the sake of argument. mitt romney thinks he can win in michigan, say prove it the auto bailout should benefit president obama. let's leave that one red for now. santorum bows out in pennsylvania, can romney win that? tried twice, let's for now, romney campaign might not like it, say that one says in team obama. these ones get interesting, president obama won in virginia and north carolina, for the sake of hypotheticals say romney takes north carolina and obama, this is part of the latino problem, part of the young voter problem to

>> you will see a lot of that in states like pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, some other states, where we're looking at disenchanted democrats or those reagan democrats. people who voted for obama and thought they wanted something new didn't like the bush economy, and yet they're not happy with how obama has prosecuted himself on the economy. they think, okay, working class, mitt romney is offering a better message on the economy. so yes, we'll seeing a lot of push for working class voters in the midwest. jamie: erin, president obama, any prediction on any of those swing states that you think he has locked up if you were advising governor romney? would you say put this at the bottom of our priority list? >> yeah. i'm surprised to see new mexico still listed as a swing state. a lot of republicans i have talked to here in washington say, new mexico is sort of off the table for us. some are even saying colorado is no longer possible. it will still be in the map and i'm sure governor romney will campaign there the romney campaign sees colorado as having some potential but a lot of republicans don't. i don't think we'll see as much

in places like ohio, michigan, wisconsin, the industrial midwest, where some of these income inequality gaps are bigger, rather than the swing voters in, say, florida, north carolina or virginia. >>> rick santorum returns to the t daughter bella had been released from the hospital, sending out this picture. santorum will be back on the stump in pennsylvania, the campaign cancelled the day's first two events to allow the santorum's to settle at home in northern virginia with bella. but santorum will stump in gettysburg this afternoon and then resume his normal schedule. meanwhile, mitt romney is playing hard ball in the key stone state. his campaign made a $1.9 billion ad buy before the primary and they have a very personal attack ad at the ready that has aired, and then has been pulled. here it is. >> rick santorum, 17-point loss. historically embarrassing. rick santorum lost his home county by 30 points. >> he lost across the board with voters, among democrats and independents, women and men, blacks and whites, young and old, rich and poor. >> we fired him as senator. why promote him to president? >> now the campaign ad was pulled down while santorum was taking care