D damon harris died a couple of weeks ago. Im brooke baldwin. Lets take you to washington now. The situation room with wolf blitzer starts right now. Happening now, they are just about to ring a bell on a roller coaster day, almost history making day on wall street. Stay right there. Were going to see how close the dow industrials come to their alltime high. Also, whats wrong with this picture up on capitol hill, lawmakers are getting out of town instead of working to help the forced spending cuts that hit tomorrow. Plus, look at this. Dennis rodman, yes, believe it or not. Dennis rodman scoring a diplomatic triumph. There he is. He is sitting right next to the leader of north korea, kim jongun, courtside at a basketball game in pyongyang. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. All eyes are on wall street. The New York Stock Exchange closing on a day that saw the Dow Jones Industrial average making a run at breaking its alltime high. Our chief Business Correspondent ali velshi i
On forever and the fact that its not going to be a dramatic impact today, tomorrow, or next week will undercut the argues and make the process the world is coming to an end but its going to hurt. Im sorry. The congress is just looking so bad on this. They went home they are not only ones. The white house has got some tough decisions to make. Do they talk down the economy . Do they point out all of the things that are going wrong . Or do they try to fix them . Fix the damage that is robbed by these budget cuts the next three weeks. A tough situation. The good news is we have monday to talk about it all again. And tuesday and wednesday. And the following week. Coming up monday on starting point is comedian bill cosby. Really . Yeah, that is going to be crazy. Cnn newsroom starts right now with carol costello. See you back here on monday. Happening now in the newsroom. Are you on your way home . I assume youre going home to new york . Skipping town. As america faces a midnight deadline on
In reality, campaigns become 10 times more complicated when we zoom out and analyze all the factors that are required on a national scale. It is an understatement said that running a president ial campaign is one of the most difficult feats in the american political system. The speakers are expert industry. In alphabetical order these are our speakers. David axelrod start his career in political journalism but shifted to Political Consulting in the mid 80s and went on to become a key strategist for the 2008 Obama Campaign. His role in 2011 when he became senior strategist the 2012 Reelection Campaign. Guestco is the founder and Institute Director for the university of Chicago Institute of policy. Eric fehrnstrom began as a reporter for the boston herald. After working for marketing and advertising firm, he became the then Current Governor mitt romneys Communications Director and was most recently a topic and strategist for the romney president ial campaign. Larry grisolano has been bot