in town for the women s ncaa basketball tournament. they went on to win the game and they cheered those kansas ladies on to victory over nebraska. bill, i have to say. i love it when the spirit squad is young men and the basketball team is young ladies. bill: different. talk about march madness. martha: exactly. bill: there you have it. critical day for the republican presidential hopeful. 54 dell fwats on the line in illinois today. rick santorum does not care what the unemployment rate will be. santorum was argued he was taken out of context. romney jumped on that. here is more of santorum s explanation. of course i care about the unemployment rate. i want to unemployment to go down. what i said was our candidacy doesn t hinge on whether the unemployment rate will go down. it didn t hinge on governor romney s idea that the he will fix the economy. bill: the unemployment rate, 8.3%. more than it was four years
romney common knowledge on the campaign trail but watching the conservative candidate throw support behind a bitter rival may be enough to convince voters on the fence to side with the front-runner. this weekend santorum raised the stakes in illinois with this statement. i guarantee i guarantee that we will win this nomination. john brabender is a strategist for the campaign and joins us. john, tough states ahead going into illinois tomorrow, 69 dell fwats that we re talking about here. first i want you to spobd to that ad. we know your candidate, what does he have to say to that but how damaging to have that online now for unit decided voters to see ahead of tomorrow? well, look, rick santorum has been very clear that he only endorsed mitt romney when he was running against a moderate and said that of the two he was more conservative. we now know things like romney care which has been a disaster,
been used as journalism. how on earth could this have happened? deja vu on the presidential campaign trail with the pundits again denigrating mitt romney after a pair of victories by rick santorum, and many prodding newt gingrich, again, to quit the race, and what about santorum s charge that fox news is schilling for romney? plus, comedian ali wentworth on her new show. her marriage to george stephanopoulos, and how the president reacted when he heard she would be entertaining at the white house. obama said, ali wentworth, isn t she inappropriate? which in my world is a huge compliment. huge. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. it was the most popular episode in the history of this american life. public radio reported on alleged abuses at a chinese factory that makes ipads and iphones. it relied heavily on one-man performance artist mike daisy. hurz hoe ira glass put it. when i saw mike daisy perform this story on stage, when i left the theater, i had a