and he just simply didn t have the ammunition to deliver on that tonight. in all these cases, the answer was, well, it s complicated. well, that s not good enough. when you re called for economic confidence and use of political capital is hinging on, when spain clarifies, you have a problem. that statement should not do anything to make people feel economically positive about the future. when spain clarifies, we re going to get some answers, that was rather terrifying. i don t think anybody thinks spain is going to clarify or when they do, it will mean much. that s true. the first thing he said out of the gate was, that most of the eurozone leaders are not part of the g-20, and really, any real action was going to maybe happen at the summit of the eurozone leaders later this month. he led with the fact that nothing is happening here. so it was just interesting. but i mean, you know, i think he fried to communicate that he he heaped praise on europe, on them for seei
at the end of the two day gvernlths-20 sum et, president boim took the stage and gave us this. i don t want to sound polly an naish here. resolving the issues in europe is difficult. it is difficult. and difficult problems call for big ideas and creative solutions. so we listened carefully. our friends in europe clearly grasp the seriousness of the situation and are moving forward with a heightened sense of urgency. all right. we have heard that before. from him and from anybody else talking about the europe crisis. so we kept listening. and after 24 minutes and 43 seconds, we never got the answer to our two burning questions. will europe be saved and what s the effect of the europe freefall on american jobs. now, here s the closest he came. the best thing the united states can do is to create jobs and growth in the short term, even as we continue to put our fiscal house in order over the long term. of course the biggest argument around world right now is how do
good evening, i m erin burnett. former egyptian president hosni mubarak has been declared clinically dead. his lawyer and military contradict the reports saying he s in a coma. ivan watson is in cairo want to. ivan, what a day it has been. what are your sources telling you? reporter: good evening, erin. again, these conflicting reports, where we have state media on the one hand saying that hosni mubarak is clinically dead, the 84-year-old president who ruled this country for nearly 30 years. and then we have the supreme council of the armed forces which took over after he was ousted a year-and-a-half ago saying he s not dead, in critical condition, suffered a heart attack and a stroke and has been choppered to a hospital from the prison where he has been held since he was convicted of being an accomplice to deaths of hundreds of protesters here in tahrir square and in other egyptian cities a year-and-a-half ago. and ivan, tahrir square obviously tonight people are still t