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Lued huddling closely to plot a successful way forward, i'm looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail monday after family time for easter holiday. nbc political reporter domenico montanaro. we have news that santorum's daughter has been taken to the hospital. what more on that front? >> we know he's come off the campaign trail because his daughter bella has a chromosomal disorder and his wife has done the majority of care for bella as santorum has been off the trail. he's home this weekend for the easter break and it's just another reminder of some of the complications that she's h...

Gloria borger, if you're a republican at this point, you're thinking about running for president, what do you go after? >> well, first of all, let's say you're in congress, because you do have a bully pulpit there, what republicans are going to be doing after they come back from their easter break, is talk about drilling, they're going to be talking about expanding offshower driof offshore drilling and say this is what the president needs to do, this would help us get gasoline prices down, this would help us with energy independence. so you're going to see congress doing that and clearly we al...

From the white house to those s&p negative outlooks? >> shep, the folks here say they believe the political process will outperform standard and poor's expectations. they point to this month's down to the wire budget talks which they say show that democrats and republicans can find common ground. today 140 point loss in the dow industrials shows the market is skeptical and white house press secretary jay carney indicates they don't want a down to the wire agreement at this time. >> that's why it's important to move sooner rather than later. you don't want the instability caused by any doubt ab...

Much, much lower. we've been under half a million people filing for unemployment every week for five months so that's a positive friend we -- trend we want to see. jon: but there's been a big jump in emergency benefits. >> there has an big jump and in the recent week there's been this huge drop and the reason for that, when congress went on easter break, they did extend those benefits and we found out recently they voted in an extension. so we saw the drop in people collecting emergency benefits, and now we'll probably see them come back up again because we don't really have any clear indicati...

This pales next to what these people are going through. they're running out of money. they're paying, they're staying at local hotels, for food, for laundry. they're missing work at home. a lot of them came for easter break and now, they're anxious to get home. they're losing money and work. but you're right. this has been a pretty good day, all things considered. 200 flights out of germany alone. that's going to take some pressure off these people, but for most, the wait is going to continue. >> we know from the state department they are providing small loans to those in the u.k. but are not ...