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January 25, 2012
In is plenty of ground to attack romney from the right but some of the attacks on bain capital come from the left from the presidents "play of the day" book and i suspect from all of the positives that gingrich has, he will be start of some ads one for house democrats attacking paul ryans plan using the comments over the last summer on "meet the press," and another attacking mitt romney on bain capital. >>neil: you know newt gingrich has toned down some of the attacks, for example, on bain capit...
January 23, 2012
He needs to say, yes, i am wealthy because i got a good education, i worked hard, and i sacrificed. and this is the beauty of america. the beauty of america --. >>neil: a lot of rich, john kerry was rich of course he married into wealth. they are all afraid of their money. >>guest: and it is so, it is such a fundamentally anti-american attitude to go into a race with feeling --. >>neil: something about newt gingrich with all of his baggage on financial issues with freddie mac and fannie mae cons...
December 30, 2011
Governor chris christie. the boss slammed christie in his hometown newspaper for his budget cuts that reduced services to those in the most dire conditions. miley cyrus certainly may not be known for her political acumen but the teen starlet ripped into republican presidential hopeful rick santorum on twitter to express her outrage over his opposition to gay marriage. and eva longoria also took to twitter this year, calling out newt gingrich with this tweet, you clearly know little about the...
November 29, 2011
tonight. ratings agency fitch says theyre going to downgrade americas outlook from stable. stocks soared on wall street. because the markets closed before that action happened. the dow was up by nearly 300 points. the reason was a wow weekend for the american economy. retail sales surged. thats a fair word. they were up 16%. accord together national retail federation. it was the best kickoff to the holiday shopping season ever. topping off, today the federal reserve said household debt...
November 29, 2011
ratings agency fitch says theyre going to downgrade americas outlook from stable. stocks soared on wall street. because the markets closed before that action happened. the dow was up by nearly 300 points. the reason was a wow weekend for the american economy. retail sales surged. thats a fair word. they were up 16%. accord together national retail federation. it was the best kickoff to the holiday shopping season ever. topping off, today the federal reserve said household debt in this ...
November 29, 2011
im erin burnett. outfront tonight, ratings agency fitch affirms of the united states aaa credit rating but says guess what, were going to downgrade your outlook to negative from stable. this happened after the markets closed. obviously, something negative and all relate the to the lack of action and the failure of the supercommittee, still stocks is soared on wall street. because the markets closed before that action happened. the dow up by nearly 300 points. the reason was a wow weeke...
November 5, 2011
the lawyer for one of the accusers finally spoke out. lets go "outfront." im erin burnett. out front on this friday, the lawyer for herman cains accuser speaks. >> she made a complaint in good faith about a series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances from the ceo. she and her husband see no value in revisiting this matter now, nor in discussing the matter any further, publicly or privately. >> joel bennett, thats who it was, sawed his client stands by her comments while t...
November 4, 2011
im erin burnett. out front on this friday, the lawyer for herman cains accuser speaks. >> she made a complaint in good faith about a series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances from the ceo. she and her husband see no value in revisiting this matter now, nor in discussing the matter any further, publicly or privately. >> joel bennett, thats who it was, sawed his client stands by her comments while the cain campaign continues to call the claims baseless. jeffrey toobin is ou...
October 24, 2011
Up very strong on acumen. it seems to a democratic president to say, im the foreign policy leader here. >> he has been not only more effective, more assertive, and more forceful i think than even his chief primary opponent and now secretary of state thought he would be. hes been more assertive, and auk sesself, than democrats and republicans in the house and senate thought he would be. i differ with david just a bit. i think all those successes were bragged about during the campaign and rightful...
October 24, 2011
Very helpful to him. but i do think presidents can do something about economies. and i dont buy that they can only do foreign policy. >> this isnt lasting, david, though, if you think about whats really driving voters concerns. we saw this with the first president bush. you know, he won in iraq, at that point, and thats not what the campaign was about. >> i guess i still mostly think that. but not entirely. you know the middle east just doesnt go away. i had a briefing from a senior military per...