this week we learned that the measure of consumer confidence fell for the fourth month in a row to its lowest levels since january. you may disagree with why it s down. but, again, the customer who in this case is the american consumer is always right when it comes to the economy. why? because if americans are worried about the economy, they delay making important purchases and a perceived economic slowdown can easily become a reality. okay. so it s happening. but why? well, probably the biggest reason is this jobs. 20 straight months of job growth. yes. but over the last five months, look at that trend. roughly corresponding to the drop in consumer confidence, hiring in america has slowed. a week from now we ll have the job creation numbers for june to see where this trend is going. but until we have a strong jobs recovery, americans are going to hold back. and that is going to hamper a wider recovery. frankly, there is good and real reason to be nervous. it s that economi
we still don t know this how when he was literally caught in the act raping a boy in a penn state locker room shower, did he get away with it and go on raping more boys? graduate assistant mike mcqueary saw the him with the boy in the shower and he froze and did not stop sandusky, but he did report what he saw, the legendary head coach joe paterno what he saw. and joe paterno told his bosses and everyone who had the power to stop jerry sandusky had the information they needed to stop jerry sundusky, but they didn t. why didn t they? that is the 360 exclusive that could point to more answers. an exclusive with susan candiotti. reporter: we have exchanged e-mails with sources close to the case, and about when penn state knew it and what they k w knew. the e-mails are between graham spanier, and athletic director tim curley now discussing the infamous 2001 shower incident where grad assistant mike mcqueary said he saw sandusky molesting a young boy. the first e-mail is dat
proof. that s fair. so here you go. you probably know that more than any other developed nation, the u.s. economy is driven by its citizens and on how confident they feel about their future. this week we learned that the measure of consumer confidence fell for the fourth month in a row to its lowest levels since january. you may disagree with why it s down. but, again, the customer who in this case is the american consumer is always right when it comes to the economy. why? because if americans are worried about the economy, they delay making important purchases and a perceived economic slowdown can easily become a reality. okay. so it s happening. but why? well, probably the biggest reason is this, jobs. 20 straight months of job growth, yes. but over the last five months, look at that trend. roughly corresponding to the drop in consumer confidence, hiring in america has slowed. a week from now we ll have the job creation numbers for june to see where this trend is going. but
law has been ddivisive. i respect the very real concerns americans have shared. i know a lot of coverage through this health care debate has focused on what it means politically. it should be clear by now i didn t do this because it was good politics. president obama today. here s mitt romney. i disagree with the supreme court s decision. i agree with the dissent. what the court did not do on its last day in session i will do on my first day if elected president of the united states. i will act to repeal obama care. governor romney called it bad law and bad policy. but keeping them honest it is also nearly identical to his own plan as governor of massachusetts. as for the mandate, well, keeping them honest, justice roberts today contradicted a key claim the president made. the president said that mandate was not a tax. for us to say that you ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. what it s saying is we re not going to
trard toward tracing their way through the cartels. instead, we, the oversight committee lost track of those weapons. some made them back into the country. two were found at the scene were border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now, tonight though, after six months of reporting, fortune s magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line, letting guns walk was not i repeat, not part of the plan. she writes, five law enforcement agents directly involved in fast and furious tell fortune that the atf had no such tactic. she goes on to say, they insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. just the opposite. they say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws which stimied them at every turn. however, committee chairman, darryl issa, declined to come on this program to elaborate. committee member john is going to join us in