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A quiet holiday weekend on campaign trail as the republicans are ready for the next big showdown, the pennsylvania primary in two weeks. presidential candidate rick santorum has canceled campaign events tomorrow in order to spend time with his hospitalized 3-year-old daughter bella who suffers from a rare genetic disorder. this morning on the issues, a disappointing snapshot of the economy on friday, it showed employ employers adding 120,000 jobs in march, half the number expected and the unemployment rate fell slightly from 8.3% to 8.2%. here to debate the way forward, give us a preview of ho...

Then the whole auto industry was going to virtually disappear. he was wrong and the president was right. >> governor, the president took on the reality of our job situation when he talked about the jobs report on friday. i want to play a portion of that for you. >> our economy has now created more than 4 million private sector jobs over the past two years. more than 600,000 in the past three months alone. but it's clear to every american that there will still be ups and downs along the way and that we've got a lot more work to do. >> the ups and downs the president talks about certainly ohio i...

They going to raise taxes, how many more regulations are going to be piled on. uncertainty affects small business, all job creators in america. this recovery, while i feel good about the fact that we're moving in the right direction, at the federal level is too anemic. frankly what i've got concerned about is i have wind in my face. hey high is doing what they can do but i wish they'd get their act together in washington. >> let's talk about that, senator durbin as we focus on the economy, on the budget, on the question of taxes in washington, we have a general election campaign that's shaping...

David, when i took office we were 48th in the country in job creation. and in february, working with my partners in the legislature, we were the number one job creator in america and we're number four today. let me tell you, our success here is not based on one industry. in fact, in the auto industry and we're thrilled to see auto jobs coming back, that has not been the greatest growth, according to the bureau of labor statistics, we've created 1,600 jobs in the auto industry but 23,000 in health care. what we're doing in ohio is moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversif...

Durbin of talk of the economy. some of the press accounts i read over the weekend asked this question, whether this dip, slower hiring represented a momentary stumble or bad turn for the economy? what do you think it is? >> i think we're moving in the right direction. we've had seven straight months where the unemployment rate has gone down or not gone up. we've had 26 months of economic growth. we're on the right track. like the president, we want this to move more quickly and of course we want to see more jobs created. the good news for ohio and illinois is that more manufacturing jobs are c...