one point. i don t think she can do that. it s only 76 days, so things are starting to consolidate a little bit, but the interesting thing is the person we haven t brought up yet is the person that everybody thought would be the nominee last month and that s governor perry of texas. did he recover tonight? certainly. governor perry could recover. one of the things america likes is somebody who can get up off the mat. what do you think? i want to get back and talk more about herman cain. he s not for perry. wait a second. what america needs desperately, if you look at the economic situation, we desperately need a big, bold plan. the only one out there is 999. i disagree with you. i don t think so. what s bold about romney s plan? wait a minute. i ve re read gingrich s contrac. he sent me a book on it. there s some things i disagree. it s tinkering. you want to blow up the current tax system. i do, too. i support a fair tax. if you want to turn america
one point. i don t think she can do that. it s only 76 days, so things are starting to consolidate a little bit, but the interesting thing is the person we haven t brought up yet is the person that everybody thought would be the nominee last month and that s governor perry of texas. did he recover tonight? certainly. governor perry could recover. one of the things america likes is somebody who can get up off the mat. what do you think? i want to get back and talk more about herman cain. he s not for perry. wait a second. what america needs desperately, if you look at the economic situation, we desperately need a big, bold plan. the only one out there is 999. i disagree with you. i don t think so. what s bold about romney s plan? wait a minute. i ve re read gingrich s contrac. he sent me a book on it. there s some things i disagree. it s tinkering. you want to blow up the current tax system. i do, too. i support a fair tax. if you want to turn america around,
exchange because many palestinians were serving life sentences for deadly attacks against israel. we ll be heading to shalit s hometown where fred pleitgen is. this is a very heart-wrenching moment for many israelis who are concerned about potential retaliation given how many of these soldiers have been released and with actual euphoria from many palestinians. fred pleitgen is with us now in gilad shalit s hometown. good morning, fred. reporter: good morning, christine. certainly the people here in shalit s hometown of mitzpe hila. there was controversy where people were saying the political price is too high. one of the things they re concerned about is not only that some of the people they re releasing could become violent again, but also this could spawn other groups to kidnap other israeli soldiers. that is certainly not the feeling here in shalit s hometown. people are saying they re happy he was back, scenes of jubilation as these first television pictures came showin
signals pointed towards a slight bounce. that s been reversed. we re now looking for a bit more selling. why? nothing s changed. absolutely nothing has changed overnight. you still got ben bernanke who doesn t have a functioning plan to get the economy going. president obama doesn t have a functioning plan to get the u.s. economy going. they re in recession in europe and nothing has changed. so in the absence of a big, new, bold plan. we still think there s a global recession in hand and down goes stocks. just a little bit more this morning. sure. ok. and the reason for it is because bernanke a couple of days ago was a blabbermouth and said everything is screwed up right now. everybody was expecting everybody, the big time investors were expecting that ben would chuck money out there. he d print up a storm and away you go! well, he came up with $400 billion, switched from short-term securities to long-term securities. twisted. he did the twist. well, the market didn t like that
gulf of mexico. residents of mississippi and louisiana got short notice warnings today. get ready for tropical storm lee to hit this weekend. it may not be as powerful as a hurricane, but it s moving at a crawl, which means new orleans canals and levees will be tested by a prolonged rain. up to 15 inches or more are expected plus a storm surge. we ll get a live update on storm preparations in a few minutes. but first, today s stunner from the labor department, the country saw a net gain of no jobs in august. plus no change in the unemployment rate still 9.1%. it is the worst jobses report in a year. wall street crater, the do you industrial, s & p 500 and nasdaq all lost more than 2% today. president obama didn t even try to put a positive spin on the news. no on-camera statement, not even a written one. we did catch one clims of him today as he left for camp david without even turning to wave good by. with us now, the president s former economic advisor, christina roamer