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Americans. >> could a rumpled 73-year-old become hillary clintons most dangerous opponent. ? he has a powerful weapon. he can puncture clintons aura of inevitability by beating expectations. >> i dont look upon this campaign one which you are trying to pick up delegates. >> eugene mccarthy mobilized a volunteer army of students who flooded into new hampshire, shaving their beards, to get clean for gene. mccarthy surprised second place finish with 42% of the votes was a stunning repudation of pre...

We are back. if you believe some people, the race for the democratic nomination over. hillary clinton has it won. as our colleague tom brokaw likes to say, there is the theory of ufos, unforeseen occurrences. yesterday martin omalley announced his candidacy. before him bernie sanders of vermont. he just might be the kind of ufo weve seen in the past. >> we are going to build a movement of millions of americans. >> could a rumpled 73-year-old self-described socialist become hillary clintons most ...

Happening at gm. and looking as much as $35 million in civil penalties. keep in mind, thats on top of lawsuits and on top of the justice departments criminal investigation. >> a huge hit for gm. thank you. beating expectations. it appears the obama administration reached the health care enrollment goal. they tell the associated press that signup was on track to surpass 7 million on mondays deadline day. obamacare saw a surge in consumer interest yesterday. there were several problems for healt...

That would be more than we would expect. expecting 158,000. the unemployment rate, a separate and different measurement, ticked up slightly. unemployment at 7.5% according to numbers were just seeing now slight uptick to 7.6%. christine romans on the phone right now with the bureau of labor statistics to find out whats more is going on. >> so this is what i can tell you when you look inside the data. the full press release in a minute. potentially expected better than expected. beating expectati...

The u.s. department of transportation. so, executives with the new airline say they expect this will all be done by the third quarter. meaning late summer. into early fall. shep? >> shepard: casey stegall tonight for us. new signs the labor market is improving with the number of americans seeking jobless benefits down and sharply. labor department reports new claims dropped by 27,000 last week. beating expectations. applications from now fallen in four of the past five weeks. and indication of s...

Protections for consumers. if you want to call up after you bought something and falls apart and you dont want to pay for it you call the credit card operator and have it expunged, you cant necessarily do that with cash and get your money back, big protections built in for people who use credit card. im not a fan for credit card debt, but a reason to use it sometimes and this will make it it harder and more expensive. >> starts on sunday and look at the retailer before you purchase it, dont want...

Believe. so it is possible those votes change. but michael brendan jordan. mitt romney, the campaign has two, a good headline, which is, wins the cpac stroll poll, wins in maine, good day for romney, back on track. >> absolutely. i think weve seen that the media has this amazing influence over the race. good story lines in the week before a contest can lead to a 10-point surge as we saw for santorum in iowa. we saw for huntsman, went from 7 to 17 in new hampshire in about two days. we saw it fro...

In terms of the bar, we talked about beating expectations, he did that last night. i think that you had to walk away with a new opinion of romneys debating skills. >> gingrichs team say they are working on a new ad. they plan to unveil it soon in florida. participant of the ad will feature mike huckabee. let me a play a bit of the old ad that gingrich wants to bring back to life. >> im mike huckabee because we have the right to know the truth about mitt romneys dishonest attack and even an ameri...

Tell your doctor about alcohol use, if youve ever had gout, or are diabetic and experience increases in blood sugar. flushing, a common side effect, is warmth, redness, itching, or tingling of the skin. ask your doctor about niaspan. fight back. fight plaque. niaspan. the latest numb her shows the economy added 244,000 jobs in april, beating expectations. that of course is good news. the jobless rate is at 9%, not really good news. in fact a little higher than last month, but analysts say that...

Estimates. intel, ibm, yahoo! all beating expectations on the top and bottom lines. thats it from cnbc. now back to "hardball." we cant just tell the wealthiest among us, you dont have to do a thing, you just sit there and relax and everybody else, were going to solve this problem. this is not a trade-off that im willing to make. its not a trade-off that i think most americans think is fair. no matter what party you belong to. thats not who we are as a country. were better than that. >> welcom...