we have ban little lazy over the past couple of decades. we have taken for granted well, people will want to come here. we aren t out there hungry selling america and trying to attract new businesses into america. the president was making the case that it is time for the united states and our foreign policy to focus on the asia pacific region. we need to redouble our efforts to be engaged in the region. this is true economically and also important strategically as well. that is a good case that the president was taking. bret: answer questions, the president s aide about the statement, about america being lazy. in september, you may remember the president said america is getting soft. a little soft he said is the quote. he went further last month in san francisco saying we have lost the ambitious, imagination and willingness to do the things, that built golden get a bridge and hoover dam. back with the panel. is this a trend, are the critics wrong criticizing
he put his hand on my leg under my skirt and reached for my genitals. he also grabbed my head and brought it toward his crotch. mr. cain said, you want a job, right? i asked him to stop and he did. cain told abc s jimmy kimmel that the allegation is false and he got angry watching it with his staff. they could see steam coming out of my ears and the feelings that you have when you know that all of this is totally fabricated, you go from anger, then you go, you get disgusted. you try to control yourself to make sure you watch this thing all the way through. i was listening very closely and then when it was all over with i said, well, i know what we got to do because there is not an ounce of truth in all of these accusations. so we re also going to be listening very closely and bring you cain s news conference that is live at 5:00 p.m. eastern. joe paterno is going to face a barrage of questions about the penn state sex abuse case. that is happening today. the legendary f
shopping sprees, but are still out there spending and that s good. the dow fell to the lowest level in 30 years, but we are not seeing the wild swings we saw all week. the dow closed down 600 on monday and up 400 on tuesday and down 500 points on wednesday and up 400 yesterday, and it was the first time in the dow s history we have seen closing numbers like this. drew? you could probably measure the heartbeat of traders the same way, up and down. tell us what happened in europe? they are trying to prevent the wild up and down swings. what they are doing is they are putting a temporary ban on short selling. what short selling is is when investors bet that a stock will go down in its price, and europe s version of our securities and exchange commission, it put a temporary ban for 15 days on several european countries, including france, italy, spain, and belgium to put a ban on this practice to stabilize the markets after we have seen the extreme moves over the past week, an
himself, his son james and their deputy here, rebecca brooks, have been asked to, um, answer questions before parliament. brooks used to be editor of news of the world. they have said they will cooperate, but brooks is the only one who is required to do this as she s a british citizen. the murdochs are american citizens. it s not clear whether or not the murdochs will sit before mps to answer questions. and other news international or news corp. papers are under suspicion of crossing the line now, the sun, and the sunday times face allegations that they used unethical methods to access personal information about former prime minister gordon brown and his family including the fact that the son accessed brown s medical records. brown was said to have been in tears, but news international is denying that saying it actually got the information from a private citizen and then ran the story by the browns before publishing it. didn t understand that the
this is an interesting cnn poll. 50% of the country approves of the president s handling of the situation, 40% disapprove. 70% support the no fly zone for libya, 54% support the united states and other countries using planes and missiles to attack gadhafi s troops. 43% oppose. that s pretty close. 70% oppose using any ground troops to attack gadhafi s troops. and 77% say gadhafi s removal for the u.s. but questions continue to fly about what the u.s. goal is and whether the president has authority to commit u.s. troops to this mission. pat buchanan and jenny back is a political analyst. the people cannot decide. they don t know what they are thinking. the last questions, answer questions. they say they want to get rid of the guy, they don t want to use