part in the debates. well, i don t think anybody s ever run the perfect campaign, and actually, these debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. it s pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and concepts with a one-minute response. so, you know, if there was a mistake made, it was probably ever doing one of the campaigns when all they re interested in is stirring it up between the candidates instead of talking about the issue that is are important. you think you have how do you get us back to work? bottom line, he says the debates are rigged against the conflicts but the candidates themselves agreed on the rules for all the debates including the recent one held in las vegas. that s where most of the complaints break down. remember, his first beef is that the debates set up for quote nothing but conflict. here s a question i asked that night giving him an opportunity to respond to the criticism of his health care record. gover
he s thinking, okay, are you kidding me? executive vice president and i m erin burnett. managing editor of cnn worldwide. out front on a friday night. that is his day job. but in his spare time he wrote a the most shaky republican race since 1964. new book called my long trip six different candidates have home: a family memoir, led in the national polls so far chronicling his life growing up this year. in a biracial family. it s amazing to think about it. and mark, it s a really great but there is a big reason for read. it. the tea party. it reads like a novel. a cnn poll shows that the we were just talking about it. but how it all started was, as republican party is literally you write in the book, you woke split down the middle. up a saturday morning after thanksgiving and said i m going half of them support the tea to write a book. yeah. well, my dad had passed away party or are active members. exactly a year to the day before that. well, 49, 51, some call that and y
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police fired tear gas canisters. it s not clear if that s what caused his wound. olson s injury prompted occupy wall street protesters in new york to rally in his support the movement continues to show life around the world. occupy protesters in pakistan marched on the world bank s offices in islamabad chanting down with capitalism. a deal made in europe is putting money in your pocket this morning. stocks jumped at the open after european leaders agreed on a plan to end their debt crisis. the dow jones up right now. we are looking at about 240 is the latest there. the deal hammered out in brussels aims to stabilize european banks and the european bailout fund. the u.s. economy picked up speed during the third quarter. more good news. the government says gdp grew 2.5% between july and september. so that s almost double second quarter growth. gdp it s a broad gauge of goods and services that are produced by american workers. a grim revelation from the wife of the man behind
economy came out just minutes ago. christine roman has those and then zain verjee looking at reaction to a deal made on the debt crisis and alison kosik at the new york stock exchange where your 401(k) could enjoy a big day. christine, let s go ahead and start with you. before we focus on the big debt deal, if you don t mind, let s talk about what this means. tell us about the economy and the good news we re getting. all right, first of all, gdp. how the economy grew in the most recent quarter. the third quarter. 2.5% kyra. that s twice as fast as it was in the second quarter. it shows you there was a pickup in economic activity in the third quarter. and that is the best in a year. so, kyra, that tells us that the economy is doing a little better, it needs to be better than 2.5%, but that is better than it has done in about a year. that is good news about where the economy is going right now. the overnight deal on the european debt crisis. let s talk about how this has im