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>> im fredricka whitfield in for kyra phillips. we have a number of stories developing on this busy morning but we begin with your pocketbook. just minutes ago we learned the jobless rate has fallen to 8.3%. thats a pretty billing surprise seeing some economists expected it to tick up. lets get perspective from christine romans. what have you learned about how this number has gone down slightly? >> you know, the economy grew in january, and it grew jobs. it grew more jobs than anyone r...

Thats what comes in april. >> chris: congressman, we have a little bit more than a minute left. obviously there is a deadline here. continuing resolution runs out on march 4th. there are some, even republicans, who say its all well and good to have not your cuts, the 30 billion, but these steeper cuts, but, in fact, you are getting further away from a possible deal with the democrats and with the white house when you have these super cuts. you are making it easier for them to say no. thats the c...

We want to let open rule process unlike indianapolis pelosi ran congress. any amendment of congress can bring any member to have the floor to readjust spending levels how they want to. if they want to add spending or take away spending. we will let congress work its well and congress right now wants to bring spending down where president obama wants to take it we have to negotiate. >> chris: we have to leave it there. thanks for coming in and joining us today. it should be a big week on capitol ...

Progressives. you hear this from the presidents biggest supporters. they cant believe how badly the white house and the democratic party played this issue for a year. >> theyre angry that so much was given away, they feel, early in the process. they are angry about the max endless gang of six which pushed it through the august resesz and gave the tea party and opponents a chance, they believe, to demonize the bill. im stunned by the fact that on the house side, you were tauching on this yesterda...

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Right now, ron paul and newt gingrich have delegates but are unlikely to get to the five states. what happens to the delegates? theyre going to get back to us on that. but my point is, when i say that there is still a lot of parts to this process that we dont understand the rules -- you have what i would call a fragile, unstable nominating process -- rule process. i think if youre reince priebus, youre hoping beyond hope that somehow romney gets to 1,144. weve done the math, it is very hard -- i...

Speaker gingrich would challenge the rules before hes lost as opposed to after he has lost. he did that in virginia. he said, look, i dont think its fair to have to get 10,000 signatures. thats after he worked hard to get the 10,000. i got them, ron paul got them, but he didnt so he wants to change the rule afterwards. apparently he wants to change the recall in florida. we knew what were rules were going into it but now that he lost florida he wants to find some way to do better. im not terribl...

But i think both of these cases, these measures came up under suspension of the rules. they came up where amendments werent allowed, debate was limited. >> even 12 years later, you see him physically squirming on that one. dick cheney physically trying to squirm away from the shame of that vote by saying, oh, it was about the process by which the ban was brought up. i was unhappy about the closed rule process. the ban plastic guns legislation was initially opposed by the nra, naturally. but even...