at legalzoom a legal plan attorney is available in most states with every personalized document to answer questions. get started at legalzoom.com today. and now you re protected. in her second day of meetings with top republicans trying to make nice after weeks of criticism over her response to the benghazi attacks ambassador rice failed to get senator susan collins on her side. i continue to be troubled by the fact that the u.n. ambassador decided to play what was essentially a political role at the height of a contentious presidential election. collins also used the press conference to launch a new line of attack against rice, tying her to the embassy attacks in africa in 1998 when she was the assistance secretary for african affairs. in both cases, the ambassa r
the syria. iran and north korea that we are working on. what is the end game in. china backing down. we sent assistance secretary of the state sunday to begin trying to negotiate something. there is no chance we re handing it back? by the way, mitt romney, the romney campaign in a very unusual move on sunday morning issued the statement criticizing the administration for not protecting human rights activists in china at this delicate moment. many republicans were surprised. not the right time. not hardly. this is going to make for quite the busy day for you. and the heroism. the child and the wife we don t know what condition they are in. and other hunl recognizes activists have been rounded up. so the people who helped them escape have not been seen since.
new ideas to pay down the debt. that shows progress and a reformed mindedness, i think, that will calm financial markets. reporter: the treasury department thinks the opposite would happen. the treasury department s assistance secretary for financial markets writes on the blog, a fire sale of the nation s gold to meet payment obligations would undercut confidence in the united states both here and abroad and would be extremely destabilizing to the world financial system. even if the u.s. sold its gold, it would only buy a few months time since the u.s. borrows about $125 billion a month. and a former economic adviser in the carter administration says if the u.s. sold gold at any other time to cash in on high gold prices it wouldn t be a big deal. but selling it now would send a bad signal. if people are going to sell assets to try to finance their consumption, like the ongoing budget deficit we have, then i think it s a terrible idea. sort of the notion that you can
opportunity in the middle east. this hour, his vision for the region and the controversial way he s pushing the israelis and the palestinians to make peace. we want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the financial power broker who bailed out countries is being baled out himself as he awaits trial on charges he sexually assaulted a hotel maid. dominique strauss-kahn denies the allegations that many people find shocking. but the former head of the international monetary fund has been tied to previous allegations of sexual misconduct. our brian todd has been looking flow that. wolf, we ve learned about one serious allegation that strauss-kahn wasn t even publicly linked to till his arrest in new york. and about another incident in his past where at the very least, his character and judgment came into serious question. his attorney and his wife vigorously defend dominique strauss-kahn saying the imf s