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That period of time when theyre grieving. the thing in the book i find hard for me to deal with at times, you know, dad wasnt very expressive about his love to us years ago. he grew more so as time went on. occasionally he takes -- he starts to say, i love you more than time can tell, which it was the last words he heard from his sweet little 3-year-old child. you know, its -- hes a sweet man that -- and its interesting to think back about how more expressive hes become with time. >> i remember ...

Expressive about his love to us years ago. he grew more so as time went on. occasionally he takes -- he starts to say, i love you more than time can tell, which it was the last words he heard from his sweet little 3-year-old child. you know, its -- hes a sweet man that -- and its interesting to think back about how more expressive hes become with time. >> i remember him saying on a plane famously the bushes dont do grief well. >> yeah. >> because everyone says, how did you feel? i think maybe it...

John, the president will be in colorado today to meet with the grieving families. it is not a role any president relishes, the consoler and chief. president obama seems to understand the importance of it. it does help not just victims families but the country, no? >> no question about it. a lot of the role of the presidency is to serve as the symbolic leader of the nation in terms of governor and moments like this where you try to strike a tone appropriate to the moment. we have seen presidents ...

significantly weaker, and then overnight, some manufacturing reports came out of the uk, came out of europe, even china. these were weaker manufacturing reports. that spooked the market as well. you have to remember, were all interconnected so if europes got its problems, the big worry is that they can spread here to the u.s. and we all know that europe is facing its own debt crisis. all this is leaving at least one economist to tell us that he thinks that europe is probably in a reces...