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with the usual. what is going on, ali? >> look, we started off the day this morning with a rough night in asia. european markets on news that, you know, the german economy, the strongest in europe has weakened to almost a stall, the french economy, absolutely no growth in the quarter. that took u.s. markets downright off the top. but before that, more than 12 hours ago, we got a report from morgan stanley to say what we've all been saying, global economies are slowing down, that they were on the -- we're dangerously close to a recession, we may need more intervention in europe from t...

with the usual. what is going on, ali? >> look, we started off the day this morning with a rough night in asia. european markets on news that, you know, the german economy, the strongest in europe has weakened to almost a stall, the french economy, absolutely no growth in the quarter. that took u.s. markets downright off the top. but before that, more than 12 hours ago, we got a report from morgan stanley to say what we've all been saying, global economies are slowing down, that they were on the -- we're dangerously close to a recession, we may need more intervention in europe from t...

"aftershock," which is now out in paperback. ali, what happened today? >> a lot of things happened here. we had a situation where it's not just fear we've been talking about. this was actual fact. we had -- we started this morning with -- with slow bad markets out of europe, then before the markets opened, we got this report from morgan stanley which talked about slow growth around the world telling us things we already knew. but they said we're on the precipice. they didn't say we were there, they didn't say it's the base case, but they said we're dangerously close. also cited error...

anderson. >> he was giggle. >> that's the first time i have ever seen him completely lose it. it was funny. >> a lot to talk about this morning. we have breaking news. a suicide truck bomber targeting the u.s. military base in afghanistan. it happened in the city of gardez a few hours ago. officials say the truck ripped through the main security gate. killed two afghan guards. nine others were hurt. and the taliban is taking credit for the attack. >> less than two weeks after downgrading america's aaa credit rating standard and poor's is the target of a justice department investigati...

dealing with our debt crisis they're wrong. they're wrong. we can't afford to just do one or the other, we have to do both. >> president will roll out the entire job growth proposal early next month in a speech. it will probably be a combo platter of tax cuts, investments in infrastructure and long-term health for the unemployed. what will governor rick perry say today? you know you're dying to find out. he's not backing down about his treason comments about fed chair ben bernanke. he says the fed should be audited. >> i think we're seeing it almost weekly or even daily, scientists...