a sharper screen, potentially siri. it never quite works as well as it claims to in the advertisements, and of course, increases memory. opening bell rang on wall street. time for the market rundown. b becky quick is here. let s talk about wall street s bad day. but oil prices were down. oil prices were down. they re down another 3 cents. earlier a rebound with oil back up above $100. ride now trading about $104 in change. we may not see prices go any higher. watching the rebound on the stock market. yesterday was the biggest drop that we ve seen the entire year for the stock market. first time we have seen the dow down by triple digits. and for 45 sessions in a row we have not seen any sort of thing like that, the double digit drop like this. thisni although we re off the highest levels we saw earlier this morning. right now stocks are up by 25
but they need to begin to message around the question of inevitably and begin to close it down. let s talk about santorum s strength here. we all watched the 2010 primary. every time the establishment tried to force its way on a nominee and start coalescing around them and certainly in the senate primaries, it would be a real pushback here. and again, there seemed the to be a slight pushback from the base, base of the party. conservatives saying, you know, not yet. but do they love santorum? i mean, is this reagan four? or not? i don t think there s love. it s not reagan-esque. but they feel more comfortable with santorum. he s not a great retailer. he s so much better than mitt romney. and he does have an authenticity that the base, the people are responding to. you see it in the exit polls. ohio is classic case. where he is touching every note. with the people who are primary voters.
procrastinating and not enforcing some sanctions right away. what sanctions are left? i think right now they re trying to look at the various international players that are doing business with iran on oil and being financed through the iranian central bank, and what romney is referring to is essentially there should be penalties assign to these various trading partners, and the president maintained an exemption to exempt those out. and so they want to see let me stop you there. that was my understanding of it, too. let s talk about the people we are penalizing. governments and companies that we do business with? would suddenly people not be able to do business in china is that the issue? it s china. it s europe. it s a broad base of companies where we re doing business, too. and to give the white house credit, they re moving in that direction. they re trying to move it without disrupting global markets and disrupting oil. but the fact is the world still needs to some degree ira
issues at many turns. tony, there s a big difference in a lot of space and we call it america between being a theocrat and believing a president should impose his religious beliefs and someone who is anti-religious. let s talk about santorum here. you think santorum is legitimate? santorum went into the senate floor with two other senators and played chaplain that night. the laying on of the hands, whatever, going on here. a religious-style crusade for president of the united states? he brought the senate into session, intervening in the schiavo case in florida, which cost him his seat and played chaplain. don t you think that s overreach? don t you think that s overreaching on theocracy? no. you talk about theocracy, you
editor for new york magazine. also an msnbc political analyst. and susan page, a great bureau chief of usa today. let s talk about this thing that s developed. even in a photo op with the italian prime minister late this afternoon, president obama couldn t escape questions about this contraceptive issue and religious organizations. let s listen to what happened. thank you, guys. come on, guys. come on, guys. shortly afterwards, harry reid tried to defuse the issue again. let s listen. this debate that s going on dealing this issue of contraception is a rule that hasn t even been made final yet. there s no final rule. there s not a rule. everybody should calm down. let s see what transpires.