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Has talked about putting a hold on that nomination. Any word on that right now . We are working on that. The may 1 say, thank you for having me on. People in arkansas to watch c span lot, i want to thank cspan for what they do. Back to the tom wheeler nomination, basically there is sentiment within the senate that we ought to repair this with the republican nominee. Have acans would like to republican to go alongside the process. The problem is the we have not thecially released republican name that they want nominated. Hopefully we will get this done quickly and senator rockefeller has said t...

Georgia's -- georgia megachurch, rick santorum seemed to draw a parallel between the late entry of the u.s. into the fight against nazi germany and what's at stake in this year's presidential election. >> america sat from 1940 when france fell to december of '41 and did almost nothing. we are a hopeful people. we think, well, you know, it will get better. yeah he is not -- i mean, he's nice guy. i mean, it won't be near as bad as what we think. i mean, you know, this will be okay. sometimes, it's not okay. >> okay. let's bring in our panel. joe williams is a white house reporter for politico, ...

He has got a big, big margin in michigan, largely because he doesn't speak conservative with an accent like romney does. romney has conservative but a massachusetts accent on top of it. people don't feel he is authentic this is an opportunity for santorum to show how authentic he is. the white house is licking their chops with this one and you saw that with robert gibbs yesterday. >> you write about michigan, can he win it, can he not? even his chief, brooks partison in here the final analysis, i would bet he is going to carry michigan but then would he bet the farm and he said, well, i would ...

Just federal funding, but state funding. >> where did they come up with that public education and big -- education bureaucracies was the rule in america? y yes, the government can help but the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic. >> dan ballz, the state government should be running schools, rick santorum has been saying plenty of these things on the campaign trail for the entire time he has been running but now doing it with a lot of scrutiny. as you write this week, you know, is he ...

Court decision going forward. >> dan? >> "the new york times," mark leibowicz, profile of david plouffe in the paper. >> remember that phone call. >> mr. plouffe didn't do an interview. >> shocking. >> that was good. big becoffee in michigan, walked into bigby coffee, in grand rapids and utica, let me stand there and do interviews with voters. their coffee is good, too. >> better than tim horton? >> tim horton's is good. these were very friendly coffee shop owners. a reporter's pal. >> that's it for "the daily rundown." see you tomorrow. eight days until the michigan primary. coming up, jansin...