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John, the president will be in colorado today to meet with the grieving families. it is not a role any president relishes, the consoler and chief. president obama seems to understand the importance of it. it does help not just victims' families but the country, no? >> no question about it. a lot of the role of the presidency is to serve as the symbolic leader of the nation in terms of governor and moments like this where you try to strike a tone appropriate to the moment. we have seen presidents in the past, george w. bush after 9/11. bill clinton after the oklahoma city bombing do that very e...

significantly weaker, and then overnight, some manufacturing reports came out of the uk, came out of europe, even china. these were weaker manufacturing reports. that spooked the market as well. you have to remember, we're all interconnected so if europe's got its problems, the big worry is that they can spread here to the u.s. and we all know that europe is facing its own debt crisis. all this is leaving at least one economist to tell us that he thinks that europe is probably in a recession and that the u.s. is teetering on the brink of one. candy? >> alison, for months and months a...