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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 coming online. as senator sherrod brown, my colleague from ohio has been one of the most outspoken champions for manufactu...

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 is part of the ups here, unemployment at 7.6%. it was 9.4% when you took office. do you view th...

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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 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 how the economy and other issues will factor into the fall campaign, assist and the majo...

We will be keeping an ear to that. the white house clearly takes this assessment from the s&p very seriously. they did seem yesterday, i would say, carol, to downplay maybe the significance of the s&p assessment. the white house president secretary, jay carney, in the briefing yesterday, said, he and the white house and the administration at-large simply believe that the political prospects for leaders in members of congress to come together and agree on tackling the country's deficit and debt problems is better than the s&p debt assessment. >> what the s&p analysis also said was the american ...