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>> i dont think so. i think hes going to say youre a lightweight. senator barbara cawall key will be honored this week after being the longest serving woman. >> the first woman ever to wear pants on the senate floor. >> its a big deal. >> the maryland democrat has served more than 35 years, including her time as a member of the house. the 75-year-old won her first congressional race back in 1976 and was elected to the senate 10 years later. i love that story. that will be fun to watch. >> very...

Know senator santorum and speaker gingrich and congressman paul. senator santorum i think has the same characteristic as the president in terms of his background. spent his life in government. nothing wrong with that. but right now we need someone who understands the economy fundamentally. senator santorum has the same economic lightweight background the president has. >> economic lightweight. thats the line that got the attention of both santorum and president obamas chief strategist david axel...

Others. >> they actually seem to be tagging both the president and rick santorum with that label. lets listen. >> im someone experienced in the economy. im not an economic lightweight. president obama is. were not going to be successful in replacing an economic lightweight with another economic lightweight. were going to have to face him we well. >> thats like calling another guy that you consider a colleague and youve been on the debate stage with him for years, calling him a lightweight -- i d...

>> you cant call your wife a heavyweight on the campaign trail. and then calling people you want to support you a lightweight. >> its not right. >> stay away from the weight classes. >> its not right. but he didnt mean that about ann. he meant like she is the champion. >> whatever he went, husbands, dont call your wife a heavyweight. with us on set, we have nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director and host of "the daily rundown" and a man who has never called his wife a ...

We had some fun doing that yesterday. >> so mitt romney says that you are an economic lightweight. respond. >> well, you know, look, mitt romney, if he is -- if im a lightweight, i agree, he is a heavyweight. he is a big government heavyweight. thats what his record was. he put in place a huge government program called romneycare. put in almost $1 billion in new taxes. and of course, you know, when he was governor of massachusetts, his heavyweight record wasme 47 out of 500 in job creation. if t...

Setting. ment has coordinated attacks breaking through, and as john sa said. in part to make sure he wins illinois. its been true for a while that santorum has to knock romney out to be the nominee. hes not going to beat him in delegates, yoj. hes trying to do that, and its been. that hes resorting to trying to bring the kind of name calling you call hardballing. its unusual but certainly not precedented. >> the idea of calling the other guy a lightweight and then youre using the term knockout. ...

line as well, doesnt it? yeah, yeah, yeah. >> santorums closing pitch, a poke at the former illinois senator who now lives in the white house. >> you have a particular obligation to write a wrong here in the state of illinois. >> there are 54 delegates at stake tuesday in the state of illinois. a look at the math shows you time is running short for anyone else trying to stop governor romney. you need 1,144 to clinch. governor romney is 519, not halfway but look how commanding the lead ...

the story and she has a live report. the u.s. soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians will meet with his lawyer for the first time today. staff sergeant robert bales arrived at ft. leavenworth, kansas, a military prison over the weekend. in afghanistan, people are outraged and now there is speculation u.s. troops may be leaving the country even sooner. officials in france are warning jewish organizations to be vigilant because a killer could be targeting jews. today a gunman...

apple holds almost $100 billion in cash reserves. this morning the company announce wad it would do with some of that cold cash. apple announced a $10 billion stock buyback that would begin in october. it also would begin giving shareholders a quarterly dividend for the first time since 1995. and espns chris mortenson a reporting that peyton manning will sign with the denver broncos. four-time nfl most valuable player had been deciding between tennessee and denver. indianapolis colts...

afghans want him tried in their country but the ambassador to the u.s. says his government trusts the american investigation. and the worlds most valuable public corporation now wants to share its wealth. some of it anyway. apple just announced a quarterly dividend of $2.65 a share beginning sometime this summer. it also plans to buy back $10 billion worth of shares over the next three years. together those -- that outlay rather costs 45 billion or as apple might think of it pretty m...