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jury's hand. what they tell us about the deliberations. we begin this evening with what you might call the facebook hangover. after the hype and buildup after the initial offering of stock, trading started late, price didn't sky rock and facebook closed essentially flat, just $0.23 higher than the opening. at least facebook was up. dow industrials, nasdaq, s&p 500 closed out their worst week of the year. discuss with business correspondent ali velshi. let's start with facebook. what happened? >> generally you set a price for a stock, $38 in this case that is posed to create enough ...

regime and the frustration of the world's failed diplomacy. >> we begin with the obama campaign's effort to change the subject and refocus the presidential campaign on mitt romney's business record. team obama buying tv time during the evening news in five battle ground states. wednesday night voter in colorado, ohio, pennsylvania and virginia will see this tv ad attacking the private record at the equity firm bain capital. >> we view mitt romney as a job destroyer. >> to get up on national tv and brag about making jobs when he has destroyed thousands of people's careers, lifetimes, ...

same-sex marriage dominated the press's week, suggestions he might have taken part in a bullying incident in high school complicated mitt romney. the two got back to their central cha challenge debating the economy. the president was in nevada, key to his 2008 win, but a toss-up because of high unemployment and a housing crisis. he defended his record and said, governor romney has it wrong. >> we want to cut more taxes, especially for the wealthiest americans. they want to cut back on the rules we put in place for banks and financial institutions. they have said they want to let the ...

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Marriage. jay carney basically says the president wants states to protect marriage rights but is not going to come out himself on whether or not he supports or opposes same sex marriage, shep. >> shepard: obviously not battle with the republicans here. it's his base that is trying to pull him into the 21st century, i suppose. >> hey. and these democrats are torn. because some of these democrats point out and do give the president credit for ending things like don't ask, don't tell. they do think there has been progress this great administratn on their cause. they are worried that what the pres...