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plunge. the dow slid 251 point, today. there's only one other day this year that it has been worse. people are afraid. they're afraid of the blood gushing out of europe's veins. they're afraid of the blood draining out of jobs here in the united states. ultimately, they're most afraid that congress is too cold-blooded to do anything about it. to make a deal that could instill confidence again in the greatest economy on earth. yes, that is, still, by leap, bounds, everything, everybody, the united states of america. instead, by the end of the day, the credit rating agency moody's down...

point, partisan politics and a sitting u.s. attorney general cot in the cross fire. eric holder is in copenhagen this morning. yesterday a house committee voted to recommend citing him for contempt of congress for not turning over documents from that botched fast and furious gun operation. you will remember that program allowed guns to end up in the hands of mexican drug cartels and is connected to the death of at least one u.s. law enforcement officer. those documents are now off limits to republicans and everybody else because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep t...

you're in "the situation room." their voters no candidate can afford to ignore any longer. and both mitt romney and president obama are reaching out to latinos this week with speeches to a national conference being held near orlando. the president addresses the group tomorrow. mitt romney spoke today. but the presumptive republican nominee has the greater challenge. a gallop poll shows mr. obama with a strong lead among hispanic registered voters. 66% to romney's 24%. but the president's advantage all but disappears in the battleground state of florida where the conference is being...

that is, not until people started dying. >> the only way you're going to find those guns in mexico is where? >> at crime scenes. at the death, at the site of somebody who's dead. at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. >> that makes no sense to me. >> between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no, there is no reasonable explanation to let these guns walk. >> two of those guns made their way back north to the ...

that if we take the right policy steps, if we're doing the right thing, then the politics will follow. and my mind hasn't changed on that. jeff mason, reuters. where's jeff? >> right here. thank you, sir. my question is about syria. did president putin of russia indicate any desire on russia's part for assad to step down or to leave power? and did you make any tangible progress in your meetings with him or with chinese president hu in finding a way to stop the bloodshed there? thank you. >> well, these were major topics of conversations in both meetings. and anybody who's seen scenes...