people on the east coast were able to enjoy the spectacular show. it was brief. lasting just a few hours. they were first observed in 1825. it was certainly, i don t know if it was a meteor shower, but a light show. don t even know what that is. there was a show last night in iowa. my gosh. fireworks. fireworks today. you re just a few moments away, but you have a very special guest. the president s top economic adviser is going to be joining us. the president is being hammered by these republican candidates. they disagree amongst themselves, but all agree on one thing. they don t like president obama and they re going after him on issue after economic issue, making all sorts of akizations. there s a big uproar over this recess appointment that the president announced today to have the consumer financial protection agency. as you were talking, i know
do you have the tape? yep. let s listen. guess what, joining us now on the phone, edith and carolyn. let s give them a big round of applause. yeah! by then it was almost 3:00 in the morning and all of us were giddy to begin with. we were having a little fun covering this election. wolf, this is the back story, he never left the computer, never goes to the restroom. anderson was sitting on the floor. erin took her shoes off. what was john king doing? he was looking at the map, looking at the percentage of this and that. everybody was working but we were having some fun, too. erin burnett had lovely shoes but she took them off. she was standing. gloria borr glor gloria borrow borrowi gloria borger was sitting but erin was standing. i felt bad for her. the situation room, 4:00. hello, everyone. thanks for joining us. i m don lemon. the president makes his own choice for 2012. the battlefield shifts to primaries in new hampshire and south carolina and count mich
the crisis, by drought, poverty and violence. half of the camps are fled to ethiopia and kenya. a man who was accused of strangling a woman, has been sent to prison. her killer went to extraordinary lengths to avoid arrest for more than two years, altering his face through cosmetic surgery. the space shuttle atlantis is about two hours from landing at the kennedy space station. the crew will fire the engines to re-enter the atmosphere and end america s 30-year shuttle program. those are the headlines from cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. a warm welcome to world business today. these are the top stories on thursday, july 21st. nickly sarkozy and angela merkel see eye-to-eye ahead of debt crisis talks in europe. the same can t be said in the united states, where legislators are considering a short-term fix to the borrowing limit debacle. and for all the talk of tablets, don t write off the p.c. just yet. we ll talk to intel on how
that they didn t answer the questions. and i think that that s very unfortunate. i mean, taxpayers bailed these folks out. i wasn t one of them who voted for it, but they did bail these folks out. we deserve better answers than they gave today, i ll tell you that. i got a feeling they were looking down at you guys thinking like those guys do. how much is this guy worth? like they don t really have to deal with you more than a few seconds in their life of making money. here s senator carl levin who i think did a great job today as chairman of the committee. he kept asking clear questions, calm as ice, and they weren t answering. let s listen. you re trying to sell a [ bleep ] deal and it s your top priority. come on, mr. sparks. well, mr. chairman should goldman sachs be trying to sell by the way, it sold it a lot of it after that date. should goldman sachs be trying to sell a [ bleep ] deal? well can you answer that one? can you answer that one? well let s bring i
the audience, leaving the whole thing feeling kind of like this. may i be recognized sir? will you be the last one or are we going on all afternoon? once invoked by you could i please respond? after i get done. are we going to be allowed to interrupt each other? mr. chairman, i moved to adjourn. let s hear directly from judge kavanaugh. this is the first of hearing for a supreme court justice that i ve seen basically according to rob mob rule. martha: i spoke to orrin hatch who had a front row seat to the fireworks today. here are the facts. judge cavanaugh is one of the most distinguished judges. mr. chairman, i think we ought to have this loudmouth removed. we shouldn t have to put up with this kind of stuff. i don t know that that committee