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Host the white house easter egg roll on monday, and tuesday he meets with the prime minister of singapore. on wednesday the president heads to denver to push new gun control measures, and then on to california for fund-raisers. he'll speak at an easter prayer breakfast at the white house on friday. >> i'm paul steinhauser at the cnn political desk. another test this week for mark sanford. the former south carolina governor whose cleared was -- career was sidetracked thanks to a well publicized affair faces a republican primary election runoff for his old congressional seat. if he wins tuesday'...

The president and first family host the white house easter egg roll on monday, and tuesday he meets with the prime minister of singapore. on wednesday the president heads to denver to push new gun control measures, and then on to california for fund-raisers. he'll speak at an easter prayer breakfast at the white house on friday. >> i'm paul steinhauser at the cnn political desk. another test this week for mark sanford. the former south carolina governor whose cleared was sidetracked thanks to a well publicized affair faces a republican primary election runoff for his old congressional seat. if...

The president and first family host the white house easter egg roll on monday, and tuesday he meets with the prime minister of singapore. on wednesday the president heads to denver to push new gun control measures, and then on to california for fund-raisers. he'll speak at an easter prayer breakfast at the white house on friday. >> i'm paul steinhauser at the cnn political desk. another test this week for mark sanford. the former south carolina governor whose cleared was sidetracked thanks to a well publicized affair faces a republican primary election runoff for his old congressional seat. if...

Build new houses. >> the construction data we got today is the worst number we've really seen since 1970. all of this is coming out of a recession. this recession has been so different than past recessions. normally when we come out of a recession housing is a piece of the gross picture of the economy, 15 to 20% can be attributed to housing, in particular new housing, not so with this recession, only about 4% of growth can be attributed to the housing. not a big surprise when you think about it, because housing is what took us down. martha: the nature of this recession was so much hinged upon ...

At the figures, but over the third quarter, fourth quarter and the first quart -- quarter of this year, the level of gdp looks to be the same ab -- abstracting from the bad weather affect. so what we have is not declining, but not growing either over that period. >> can i ask, how confident are you about the construction data? that seems to be what is causing the down -- a decline in gdp where production and services have experienced increases? >> that's certainly correct. we have quite a lot of data on gdp for the first two months of the year, rather less for march. we have no reason to suppo...