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Today. theyre not going to use it. oh, no, it was the energy department that put it out. it was kind of a not smart thing for her to say. i want to be as respectful as i can. strategic petroleum reserve does nothing. you can put a few -- 618 million barrels. look, i have a solution for the president here. just stop killing fossil fuels. stop begging saudi arabia for oil or russia for natural gas. someone should remind him we have a lot of oil in the united states if they let us drill it. build t...

To being subpoenas. and maybe the biggest thing he said today is that he is loyal to the job and to the laws he discharges. not to any person. >> i am not going to do anything that i think is wrong. and i will not be bullied into doing anything which is wrong. >> what he clear will i things is wrong is bad mouthing bob mueller. >> you say you have known him a long time. >> hes not in a rush to change the laws protecting the president and not the biggest fan of investigating him. the swing factor...

It is just not that big a swing factor in this environment. >>trace: good to see you, mile. >> f.b.i. agents have been able to inspect the scene in benghazi, three weeks, now, after the deadly attacks which killed a u.s. ambassador and three staffers. the f.b.i. reports the agents arrived today and left a short time later. according to the reporting of cbs it consisted of several forensic specialists who collected as were evidence from the burned out come pound. this comes after a bombshell repo...

Very likely and this could be what pushes us over the edge. jenna: mike, are you hearing that as well? this could be a precursor it is another sign were headed toward a recession? >> it doesnt help. the tangible results of a lower credit rating, higher borrowing costs for banks the need to have more capital have mostly been put in place. right now the stocks and bonds of banks are going up because we sort of already built this in expectations. i agree the appetite for aggressive lending is only ...

the latest shooting was on monday when three children and a teenager were kill at a nearby jewish school. police say negotiations are still under way with the suspect in this hours long standoff. diana magnay joins us from toulouse with the latest. this standoff has been going on for three hours now at the very least. is there a sense theyre making any headway? >> reporter: well, weve just heard from the mayor, actually, whos been talking to police right outside the house, just up the ...

Of the tax hike? >> it will be a very big tax hike. the voters should be well aware of it. >> neil: i really dont think they are. they hear about the deadlines including debt deadlines but they know the which i cane ri on capitol hill on behalf of both parties, buying time but this time were out of time, right? >> well. you dont need all the voters to understand everything. all you need is very small percentage on the swing factor. if you swing 3-4% from democrat to republican, it would be a lan...

President obama is coming out looking okay. hes doing the best with 51% approval. deb, if you step back and look at this through a political prism, clearly it is independents that are the swing factor here and it is still unclear if there is a shutdown, clearly independents object to it. they want compromise. they want -- oppose gridlock but it is not clear who they would blame if a shutdown were to happen. right now president obama seems to be coming out above the fray looking like hes trying t...

Of the risk premium associated to japan will be priced out of the market in the rest of the week. >> okay. so this could be looking like a buying opportunity in japan then? >> it could very well be. i think a lot of people have been approaching the situation in japan as a buying opportunity in a sense that as soon as the uncertainty comes down to more comfortable levels surrounding the nuclear story, which nobody feels comfortable with reading, as soon as that happens, they want to be stepping i...

Summit. one of the issues, the cloud hanging over europe is the european crisis, the debt and deficit crisis. are you or the markets generally taking a more relaxed position about that despite all the downgrades that weve seen in portugal and so on in other countries over the last couple of weeks? >> i would say thats the case. weve become more comfortable about a month ago, especially on the situation in spain, here for europe and the spain is the swing factor. dont forget as well with respect ...