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foreclosures, and he had a winning streak on a game show. what is the consumer financial protection bureau? it aims to put a stop to predatory lending. it will keep an eye on credit card fees and student loans and keep an ear on consumer complaints. because a whole lot of centers don't like the bureau, the confirmation could be, dare i say, in jeopardy. dan, tell us first why this nomination is not going to elizabeth warren? >> reporter: well, certainly the white house saw her as somebody that could set up the agency and had hoped that she was the person who could potentially lead th...

>> this is a big deal. he's done. he didn't have a big chance from the beginning, but now it's over. calling him radical and right wing social engineering is deadly. >> that was the influential conservative columnist. seeking to down play the controversy, a spokesman for gingrich yesterday issued this statement. "there is little daylight between ryan and gingrich, but look how it gets reported. newt would fully support ryan if it were not com pulse area. we need to design a better system that people will voluntarily move to. that is a major difference in design but not substance." gingrich als...

Extremists on both sides to put in their biggest chips, be it medicare on the left or some types of things in defense or other things on the right. it doesn't look like it would happen that soon. if it does, i think that it would change the political debate because then people trying to run against obama would have to say what their plan is and their strategy is. it will be more hit him on what he hasn't done over the past three years. i think that's another reason it won't come up. >> we'll see. coming up, "mad money," jim cramer, more on this deficit debate and more "news you can't use." t...

>> well, there are two things there. first of all, the longer they spend talking debts and deficits they are off topic as republicans are. yes, that's why people are saying you are not dealing with the economy or changing it. you are not talking about things we care about. it's not like this is the first they have talked about jobs. people need to talk about jobs as they deal with the deficit. it's not republican territory the way it's framed up. as long as it's about raising taxes on people making $250,000 or more, that's great territory for democrats because more than 70% of voters agree wit...

Day in the markets. all's well that ends well. don't you love wall street? back to you. >> it's a little bit of a roller coaster, but we're happy when the roller coaster is up. melissa francis at cnbc world headquarters, thank you. just ahead, move over, gang of six. here's another gang of six. the latest in the deficit debate. plus, fierce wildfires racing across texas. more than a million acres burned so far. and no end in sight. plus, a rebel divide in libya. there are new talks of friction among the factions trying to oust moammar gadhafi. but first, today's trivia question. presid...