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Slower hiring represented a momentary stumble or bad turn for the economy? what do you think it is? >> i think were moving in the right direction. weve had seven straight months where the unemployment rate has gone down or not gone up. weve had 26 months of economic growth. were on the right track. like the president, we want this to move more quickly and of course we want to see more jobs created. the good news for ohio and illinois is that more manufacturing jobs are coming online. as senator ...

Was right. >> governor, the president took on the reality of our job situation when he talked about the jobs report on friday. i want to play a portion of that for you. >> our economy has now created more than 4 million private sector jobs over the past two years. more than 600,000 in the past three months alone. but its clear to every american that there will still be ups and downs along the way and that weve got a lot more work to do. >> the ups and downs the president talks about certainly oh...

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Next big showdown, the pennsylvania primary in two weeks. presidential candidate rick santorum has canceled campaign events tomorrow in order to spend time with his hospitalized 3-year-old daughter bella who suffers from a rare genetic disorder. this morning on the issues, a disappointing snapshot of the economy on friday, it showed employers adding 120,000 jobs in march, half the number expected and the unemployment rate fell slightly from 8.3% to 8.2%. here to debate the way forward, give us a...

We will be keeping an ear to that. the white house clearly takes this assessment from the s&p very seriously. they did seem yesterday, i would say, carol, to downplay maybe the significance of the s&p assessment. the white house president secretary, jay carney, in the briefing yesterday, said, he and the white house and the administration at-large simply believe that the political prospects for leaders in members of congress to come together and agree on tackling the countrys deficit and debt pr...

The white house is keying to downplay s&ps intervention saying that any warning should be taken in context. >> what the s&p analysis also said was that the american economy is strong. its growing, diversified, dynamic. it continues to be the most important and most powerful economy in the world. as for its political analysis, we simply believe that the prospects are better. we think that the political process will outperform s&p expectations. >> but the man responsible for the u.s. outlook downg...

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