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>> this sounds so similar to what weve heard over the years. i need more money. i need to be bigger faster grander and i need a bigger bureaucracy and i need to hire more people and on and on and on. i think what you need personally is competition. >> reporter: gibsons job is temporary. the senate veteran affairs committee will hold a meeting on president obamas nominee next tuesday. another record close for the dow today. industrial average gained 77.5. s&p 500 was up eight. the nasdaq finish...

Consumer index came out just this morning. according to thomson reuters and university of michigan, consumer sentiment in october thus far fell to a nine-month low to 75.2. that is down from septembers 77.5. this october number, it missed expectations but this number is particularly illuminating because it gives us a good sense how people feel about the economy and personal finance and spending. the numbers show a somewhat moderate reaction to the government shutdown and the debt ceiling battle....

About a minute ago, i thought of the movie "crimson tide." when denzel washington and jeanne hackman were on a united states submarine and denzel washington said," god help us if it were wrong". he said, actually, "god help us all if were wrong." i kind of feel that way right now. if these people were to ever get power, god help us all. stick around. "rapid response panel" is next. im kayla tausche with your cnbc market wrap. the dow falling 70 points, the s&p dropping 6 and the nasdaq losing ...

Definitely closing the gap with the president. in april if you look at team oek obama, outside super pacs, obama had 144 million cash on hand, romg had 77.5. thats a 2-1 spending and thats 2-1 advantage although the fund-raising numbers from april are much, much closer, basically neck and neck. >> right. were seeing played out in real time results of the roberts court activist intervention to change the marketplace for campaign finance and to allow the wealthy to give as much they want in an unl...

And unrest in the middle east, any wonder consumer confidence is on a dive? consumer confidence, tumbled this month to 67.5 percent, the lowest since november of 2009, and, after reaching a three year high of 77.5, in february. and, yet, while americans appear to be gloomy about the future, dont feel so bad about the present, apparently and here to explain all of this is brenda buttner, senior business correspondent for the fox news channel and anchor of bulls and bears on the news channel. what...

77.5. this is what economists had expected, not to be so high, but they had expected it to go back up. the big concern, lets talk about oil and oil prices. here we are in february talking about this. normally, we would be doing a segment like this probably prior to summer season. >> exactly, in may. >> yeah. and here we have the price of oil passing $100 a barrel last week in the u.s. national average gas price now $3.35 a gallon. but as we focus a lot on libya and whats going on in the middle e...

But its still well below a reading indicating a stable economy. stocks plunged today. the dow lost 178.5. the s&p 500 gave back 27.5. the nasdaq dropped 77.5. most of the democratic members of the indiana general assembly left their desks today in protest of right to work legislation in that state. correspondent steve brown is live in indianapolis to tell us what happened. good evening, steve. >> hey, bret. the indiana house democrats are believed to have fled the state are either reportedly in ...

But its still well below a reading indicating a stable economy. stocks plunged today. the dow lost 178.5. the s&p 500 gave back 27.5. the nasdaq dropped 77.5. most of the democratic members of the indiana general assembly left their desks today in protest of right to work legislation in that state. correspondent steve brown is live in indianapolis to tell us what happened. good evening, steve. >> hey, bret. the indiana house democrats are believed to have fled the state are either reportedly in ...

Think youd have been critical of that, too. >> neil: no, actually, that to me is arrogant. we disagree on that. >> that is the first time we have disagreed on anything. >> neil: it is. when a congressman brings with him 2400 bill to make a point and then to mock it as if its a prop. its not, its if bill. and play games with, that you know, there is a double standard on the games. more to the point, senator coburn and others made points. key reactions -- i guess well have that, right? take a peek...