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Lued huddling closely to plot a successful way forward, im looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail monday after family time for easter holiday. nbc political reporter domenico montanaro. we have news that santorums daughter has been taken to the hospital. what more on that front? >> we know hes come off the campaign trail because his daughter bella has a chromosomal disorder and his wife has done the majority of care for bella as santorum has been off the trail. hes home this weeke...

Gloria borger, if youre a republican at this point, youre thinking about running for president, what do you go after? >> well, first of all, lets say youre in congress, because you do have a bully pulpit there, what republicans are going to be doing after they come back from their easter break, is talk about drilling, theyre going to be talking about expanding offshower driof offshore drilling and say this is what the president needs to do, this would help us get gasoline prices down, this would...

From the white house to those s&p negative outlooks? >> shep, the folks here say they believe the political process will outperform standard and poors expectations. they point to this months down to the wire budget talks which they say show that democrats and republicans can find common ground. today 140 point loss in the dow industrials shows the market is skeptical and white house press secretary jay carney indicates they dont want a down to the wire agreement at this time. >> thats why its im...

Much, much lower. weve been under half a million people filing for unemployment every week for five months so thats a positive friend we -- trend we want to see. jon: but theres been a big jump in emergency benefits. >> there has an big jump and in the recent week theres been this huge drop and the reason for that, when congress went on easter break, they did extend those benefits and we found out recently they voted in an extension. so we saw the drop in people collecting emergency benefits, an...

This pales next to what these people are going through. theyre running out of money. theyre paying, theyre staying at local hotels, for food, for laundry. theyre missing work at home. a lot of them came for easter break and now, theyre anxious to get home. theyre losing money and work. but youre right. this has been a pretty good day, all things considered. 200 flights out of germany alone. thats going to take some pressure off these people, but for most, the wait is going to continue. >> we kno...

Affect and a lot of times fly into eastern europe and try and truck cargo all over europe and it is affecting delivery times and they are keeping the customers updated on an hour by hour basis. that is how quickly things are changing for them. in schools, and the u.k., there is a question whether or not schools have to shut down, a lot of teachers and students were on easter break, coming back today and the question is, who actually shows up, over the next week, you can have school if there are ...

Worrying thing as well is what were being told by the italian aviation authorities. they said they had to close their airspace in the north of the country. there is not much sign its going to get any better. to give you an idea of the problem. 16,000 flights have been cancelled so far today. normally you would have about 28,000 flights to europe. you can see the aviation industry is losing a huge amount of money as a result of this. but the effect on businesses is also going to be felt. this, of...

>> half past the hour of 6:00 on a monday morning. thanks for shariing your time with us today. last week, the unemployment benefits ran out for over 200,000 laid off workers when the senate failed to reach an agreement before they went on easter break. democrats will need at least one republican vote as they try to end debate on the issue. republicans want to use stimulus money to pay for the $9 billion extension. democrats say that money is supposed to go towards creating jobs. >> thanks. lawm...

Months. >> right. >> youve got the senate that went home for the easter break, leaving 200,000 people to roll off their benefits. we are told theyll address that first thing when they come back on monday, but tony, youre also starting to see a renewed discussion about how long ex10ed unemployment benefits are going to continue. you can give benefits in some places up to 99 weeks. the average length of unemployment is 3 two weeks. at what point do you have a vigorous discussion about how much its...

That easter break, huh, carl appreciate it very much, carl cameron, capitol hill. trace: taking you to the east room of the white house, we are five minutes away by our clock from the president coming in to sign this health care reform. if we use the word of major garrett, celebration, it is for all intents and purposes that, we see it going on there, we saw pictures -- there you see health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius coming in, anthony weiner is taking pictures with a number ...