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i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, ratings agency fitch affirms of the united states aaa credit rating but says guess what, we're going to downgrade your outlook to negative from stable. this happened after the markets closed. obviously, something negative and all relate the to the lack of action and the failure of the supercommittee, still stocks is soared on wall street. because the markets closed before that action happened. the dow up by nearly 300 points. the reason was a wow weekend for the american economy. retail sales over thanksgiving surged. that's a fair word. they were ...

As the acquisition of lou buy kits. our developing markets business was up 12% in the first half of this year. they continue to be robust markets. that's where we see the future growth coming from. >> neil: you weren't signaling that you see a recession in this country or a down draft worse than a few years ago, or were you? >> no. we believe the economy has bottomed out at this point, but we don't see a decided recovery anytime soon. >> neil: so nothing on the horizon in washington convinces you that they're going to be able to fix this? >> unfortunately, no. >> neil: what is your biggest con...

Lightning strikes on planes. >> would you believe that on average, every plane in the air gets hit by lightning at least once a year? >> i can believe that. >> it happens. i've seen it. i have looked out the wing, and i have seen it hit the little winglette on my plane that i was sitting in -- i don't know, 12 or 13, so i could see straight out. but the problem was, not so much that it got hit by lightning, because it happens all the time. where it happened. it happened when they were on approach. and even if there was a down draft pushing this plane down -- because there could be multiple thi...

There are incumbent democrats runs. that is an open field for republicans. what are the chances of picking up the six is seats they need to get control? >> i think their chances are very good. because this is the most republican senate class in terms of which states are up. and it's also, it's a class in which a lot of democrats won about six years ago. so, i think the crucial figure here, is of the 12 democratic states that are competitive, seven of them were carried by mitt romney in 2012. all the republicans have to do is win the states that mitt romney carried in 2012 and that's enough to ...