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Dropping 77 points yesterday. the s&p was down 9, the nasdaq fell 24. taking a look at overseas trading, in tokyo the nikkei sank 18, and in hong kong, the hang seng lost 218. uncertainty over europes debt crisis resurfaced on wednesday and kept overseas investors on edge this morning. asian stocks sputtered today after moodys slashed spains credit ratding to the edge of junk status. an italian debt auction added to investors anxiety ahead of sundays elections in greece. those greek worries ...

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And counting, threats from iran. ahmadinejad has been in venezuela dredging up things with castro and cuba. we have serious issues and theyre talking about youre richer than i am. soundses like schoolyard sand box stuff. >> its true that joana goldburg says newt is capitalizing on the antiestablishment move in terms of the g.o.p. and thats true. his people might not like him but the rank and file people have liked him. >> what ellen and cal are saying, the theater part is taking over. the bigges...

Somebody would say something tacky and he would smile and wave and walk on. maybe he would fire back but he did it right time, right spirit. one of the things that people look for is the leader is able to rise above his own personal emotions in confronting something that frankly would make us all mad, quite frankly. >> greta: didnt help that his supporters got his facts wrong. that was rather not helpful to his cause. anyway, the one thing i do know im going to watch the forum tomorrow night. it...

Before that but this didnt help. >> it felt like a backstage moment back in the day when they talked that way. i betcha $10,000. >> i want to go to romney, explaining how his life has not always been easy. this is how he does it. and he has to go to his youthful days in france in order to make the point. lets listen to this. >> i grew up in a home with a great deal of affluence. my parents had done very well. my dad had grown up poor. he wanted us to work hard. as an american i had everything i ...

Studies have all been done. simpson boles committee. we understand what needs to be done. all that lacking is the will to do it. if we dont fix medicare in particular it wont be there in a few years. >> greta: how do we fix medicare? what is the national health bill to attempt to address it? >> the obama care bill raided medicare. it took half a trillion dollars out to pay for whole different set of americans. that didnt help. it made it worse. medicare is in deeper care as a result of obamacare...

Financial guy looking at that speech last night, i believe that that speech made a downgrade of americas financial reputation much more likely. didnt help. bill: wow. an fg, we call you. what are people doing, what are the markets doing? the are they running for the hills? >> reporter: no. there is no panic at this point. there is not that much major selling, quite frankly, not at this point be. thats because most people or many people do not believe that august 2nd deadline. they think, and the...

That that speech made a downgrade of americas financial reputation much more likely. didnt help. bill: wow. an fg, we call you. what are people doing, what are the markets doing? the are they running for the hills? >> reporter: no. there is no panic at this point. there is not that much major selling, quite frankly, not at this point be. thats because most people or many people do not believe that august 2nd deadline. they think, and there have been reports to the effect, that deadline should be...

Jones. also his successor tom donilon. david, this has been expected at some point soon, but when you go back and certainly in bob wo woodwa woodwards reporting, jim jones was never an insider. he was a key adviser and endorsing of barack obama in the campaign and that was a big help with all of his stars, but he never really was an insider. >> he wasnt. and covering this in the bush administration and you covered this, the ins and outs of this every day, looking at the national security team an...

Unemployment rate of 11.5%, two points above the national average. he said that the president -- because hes going there for a fundraiser treats the state like an atm. when they had horrible floodings last march didnt bother to do a fly-over. he cant have made the president look worse. >> thats the fall-out of something like this you see democrats saying similar things. anyone associated with that campaign very disappointed with what they saw. a lot of folks in the white house will have to answe...