mike: dirk nowitzki, no stranger to the end of game conversations. had a game winner dallas for the first month of the season and a couple weeks ago in orlando, a come back over turkoglu and a jordanesque look. he has done it before. we will see where the maverick goes with 1.5 to go. hubie: you have to switch. you have to switch on every down screen. the key is, no lob to the front of the rim. mike: dallas, brought out haywood. they down size and so do the lakers, bynum is out and kidd will trigger, 1.5 to go. game tied at 98-98. kidd, looks, looking. to nowitzki for the win. let s play five more. dirk nowitzki, who has missed the majority of his shots here today, has missed 17, had the shot at the game winner, didn t get it. and the only unhappy people are the 40 people who have to change it over for the kings game in a few hours. a word from your abc station. mike: first overtime in a month nor the lakers. they are 4-1, their only loss in detroit to the pistons. i
good morning everybody. thanks for joining us. i m betty nguyen. mitt romney heads into the belly of the beast today trying to win over conservative activists who have so far failed to support his candidacy. members of the influential conservative political action conference are holding their annual convention in washington. most don t think romney is conservative enough. susan mcginnis is in washington with details on that. good morning, susan. good morning, betty. the thousands of conservatives that are here in washington right now for this huge conference may not be rallying around mitt romney right now, but they are unified in their goal of defeating president obama and their latest rallying cry, the president s policy on birth control. it s one of the biggest events on the conservative calendar. we must outsmart the liberals. we must outsmart the stupid people that are trying to ruin america. this morning, thousands are expected to pack this ballroom in washington,