martha: such a tragic loss for this family and his mother is not giving up without a fight in this. for its part, florida a&m suspended the band at this point. they set up a task force on hazings hazing. bill: most economists tell you the u.s. needs a consistently to add at least 200,000 new jobs every month in order to get back on track. my next guest says that is not nearly enough. douglas holtz-eakin, former director of the cbo, congressional budget office and president of american action forum. welcome back to america s newsroom . thank you. bill: you wrote a piece for national review alongwith elaine chao, the former labor secretary. the question is why is creating 200,000 jobs a litmus test of a successful jobs report? we re not at that number and you re not impressed, are you? people were thinking 200,000 would be successful. the number we got today, 115,000 was well below that.
responsibility that comes alongwith being the frontrunner. this fast for wad the remaining primaries and on to november 6th. tonight is the start of a new campaign to unite every american who knows in their heart we can do better the last few years have been the best that barack obama can do but it is not the best america can do. reporter: and the only surrogate to back him up in new hampshire was his wife, ann romney. the former governor predicted the obama campaign will try to divert, distract and distort. he made clear the main issue in the election will be economy. romney campaign wants to make sure voters continue to hear everything he had to say. they shot remarks in camera that is four times the resolution of and use the footage in election ads. martha: all very jubilant surrounding the romney campaign. not so much in the gingrich
that we re going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. reporter: the protests and rallies continue today. a up do couple of high schools walked out of class. a middle school in broward county. last night up in sanford where the deadly shooting happened, reverend al sharpton helped lead alongwith trayvon martin s parents a national rally for justice. 5,000 people attended, including several busloads of supporters who drove in all the way from georgia and the leaders there, the parents and the civil rights activists, demanding that the shooter get in custody. the trayvon martin movement is just not here in florida. it is in new york city. it is in california. it is in london, england. it is going to keep growing until they prosecute and
no. it just continues. i spoke to gingrich last night. clearly he is intending to go on not just to louisiana which is on march 24th but all the way to texas which will be in late may. could be even later. which has 155 delegates. he is clearly talking about trying to create a brokered convention where nobody goes into tampa with enough delegates to win and then who knows what happens. it becomes kind of a jump ball in the gingrich scenario. bill: i see. byron, thank you. enjoy the barbecue while you can down there, all right? thank you, bill. it s great. bill: thank you for being with us today. alongwith the south now there are caucuses in hawaii, american samoa, with another 23 delegates at stake there. here is where the candidates stand. mist romney, 544. rick santorum 217. newt gingrich holding onto 147 and ron paul with 47. first man to reach 1144 wins
china has rare earth materials inside their country. they have a corner on it. they have 97% of the all the rare earth minerals out there. they make it tough for other people to get access to it by changing taxes they have on exports for these materials. that makes thing very difficult for the rest of us who want to make devices like your cell phone or your flat screen television. that is one of the reasons why they also keep their products keeper cheaper than when we make them. the president alongwith the e.u. and japan filed this trade case because they want china to trade their policy on these minerals. peter morici, former chief economist for the international trade commission. he teaches at the university of maryland and knows all about this stuff. peter, will they change? will this make china change? if we win the case china has two choices. it can either trade its policies and we can retaliate and retaliate ways it doesn t like. we can block exports