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good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, a greek collapse. literally. the greek finance minister just hours before he was to be sworn into his new role, it's a crucial role, fainted. it was a depressing visual for a country that is trying with a brand-new government to keep its economy from entering a black hole. the greek leader's collapse kept him from going to the highly anticipated euro 2012 soccer match today. greece took a shellacking from germany. germany was favored to win. the bookies only gave greece 17-2 odds. so the outcome was predictable. sort of like the brea...

11:20 eastern. going to bring you the remarks live. and just a week and a day until the south carolina primaries. one of them will be in florida. newt gingrich attends the opening of his campaign headquarters. that's happening this hour. mitt romney speaks in south carolina in the next hour and r rick perry is going to be in bluffton. >> he's made a career out of poking fun at the political process. but now comedian stephen colbert actually talking about running for president himself. it sounds like a joke, but it's no laughing matter. >> i am proud to announce that i'm forming an ex...

Thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> heather: so tell us, has he handled this correct from the very beginning or did he make a mistake off the top? >> no, he's handled it miserably from the beginning. he hasn't been organized. he hasn't been prepared. what happens in a case like this is you say, mr. chairman, what happened? let's read the transcripts. let's get our stand-by statement ready so that when this thing hits, we are prepared. he's done it miserably. but interestingly, heather, as of yesterday, he began to turn the corner. >> heather: as of yesterday. and how so? >> because yest...

palestinian spring, the time for independence. but up first tonight, testing time for republican presidential front-runner rick perry. this from earlier today, a textbook example of playing it safe. >> our president, the great promiser of hope and change, he has delivered neither. >> this, on the other hand? call this throwing fuel on the fire. >> my friend, governor perry, said if you don't agree with his position on giving that in-state tuition to illegals, that you don't have a heart. i think if you're opposed to illegal immigration, it doesn't mean that you don't have a heart. ...

called now the arab spring, the time has come also for the palestinian spring. the time for independence. up first tonight, testing time for republican presidential front-runner rick perry. this from earlier today. a textbook example of playing it safe. >> our president, the great promiser of hope and change, he has delivered neither. >> this, on the other hand? call this throwing fuel on the fire. >> my friend governor perry said if you don't agree with his position giving in-state tuition to illegals, that you don't have a heart. i think if you're opposed to illegal immigration, ...