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Santorum. he was an author of the welfare reform. take a listen to his speech. >> what barack obama has done is waive that work requirement. that is an assault on what has built a great successful program. >> karen, fact checkers have disputed the claim on the work requirement. why pursue this line of attack during the convention? >> it is an absolute lie. what santorum has said. i think they believe this is a winning issue for them. unfortunately, it is part of the dog whistle politics. we talk...

You almost never mention jobs. i mean, does he think that the economy is not the number one issue here in places, for example, like illinois? >> well, its not the number one issue thats going to drive him to get the mom nation if people are voting on the economy, most likely theyll go with the other guy, and thats why this is a gaff, and its probably not what he was trying to say, but its telling, nonetheless, just like when romney said he doesnt care about the very poor. well, you can kind of u...

Actors. theres not -- the conventional political calculus doesnt apply. >> right. they play by their own rules. theres no doubt about it. >> you guys get a sense that people have tuned this off at this point? we talk about it, and obviously, and were going to keep this thing going. but that the average american is kind of like shut it down -- i just get a sense. >> im not so sure about that. you look at the numbers that have collapsed for the republican party nationwide over the past two weeks. ...

aggravated murder. theres also one count of felony assault. were standing by this hour to hear from the football coach who is being hailed as a hero for chasing the suspect out of the school cafeteria where the shoot it is took place. lets go to ted rowlands right now standing by with more on what is going on. dramatic developments under way even as we speak. >> reporter: wolf, the charges just came down within the last few minuted filed by david joyce. its three aggravated -- all agai...

Ugly and expensive, very expensive. theres already been $5 million spent in ohio and the candidates are just starting there. >> what does this race look like this morning? we had talked about if rick santorum won michigan the whole thing would be turned on its head. there would be new calls for a new candidate to get into the race. that didnt happen. mitt romney hung on. won a blowout victory in arizona. how do we look at this? >> the romney campaign is showing it bends but doesnt break. its alw...

We have alice stewart with us today, thank you for being here. >> great to be here, heezra, thk you. >> who had the best night and who had the worst? >> its a toss up, san ftorum h a good night and that means that romney had a good night. what santorums performance did was minimize the gingrich surge, i guess you could say, the first five minutes of the debate, without a doubt belonged to gingrich but after that santorum made good points and romney made good points to capitalism issue. that was ...