good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, ooh-la-la. france s most powerful woman sticking her nose in america s business. it is sort of her job to do that. christine lagarde, head of the imf, had a doom and gloom message for washington today. economic recovery remains tepid, and downside risks have intensified. what we see is clearly a risk that confidence be eroded. and she didn t stop there. she took on president obama, too. in fact, she called his $3.8 trillion budget, which he says will reduce the deficit from 8.5% to 5.5% of our economy by next year as too rapid. among her suggestions, more infrastructure spending, housing initiatives and further extension of the emergency unemployment benefits. now, hey, we re all for ideas from anyone, but this did seem to be a pretty naked endorsement of the spend, spend, spend idea which is in vogue in lagarde s home country of france right now, where they plan to cut the retirement age from 62 to 60. here s
has the ruling put jet blew on the hook for allowing him to fly that plane? let s go out front. good evening every one. out front tonight, ooh, la, la, france s most porful woman sticking her knows in america s business. a doom and gloom message for washington today. economic recovery remains p tepid and down size risks have identified. what we see is clearly a risk that confidence be eroded. and she didn t stop there. she took on president obama, too. she called his $3.8 trillion budget which he says will reduce the deficit by next year as too rapid. among her suggestions, more infrastructure spending, housing initiatives and further extension of the emergency unemployment benefits. hey, we re all for ideas from anyone, but this did seem to be a naked endorsement of the spend, spend, spend idea which is envogue in france right now. well, here s how some of that has seemed to be working for france. the country s debt is now 90% of the size of the economy. many economis
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, ooh-la-la. france s most powerful woman sticking her nose in america s business. it is sort of her job to do that. christine lagarde, head of the imf, had a doom and gloom message for washington today. economic recovery remains tepid, and downside risks have intensified. what we see is clearly a risk that confidence be eroded. and she didn t stop there. she took on president obama, too. in fact, she called his $3.8 trillion budget, which he says will reduce the deficit from 8.5% to 5.5% of our economy by next year as too rapid. among her suggestions, more infrastructure spending, housing initiatives and further extension of the emergency unemployment benefits. now, hey, we re all for ideas from anyone, but this did seem to be a pretty naked endorsement of the spend, spend, spend idea which is in vogue in lagarde s home country of france right now, where they plan to cut the retirement age from 62 to 60. here s
a good place with this coming into the general election. i think it s going to be very tough to make an ideological case against him. on that score, could you see the beginnings of a campaign being framed up in his comments last night, where they are edging a bit away from ideology towards the competence argument, where the president of the united states is a nice guy, but he hasn t done the job for you, i can. i think when he stepped over the joke line and delivered it harshly, he is not a natural politician in the way that you saw the president, you know, as he was slow jamming the news. he s not going to be able to do that. he was a businessman making a business case yesterday. may as well have had a power point up there with him, you know, with economic slides. if he can make the business case, the one thread that runs through mitt romney s career, you know, whether it s at the olympics, whether it s at bain, whether it was when he was governor, is achievement and excellence an
mitt romney is to withdraw and throw his support behind santorum. they cancel each other out. i do not see how it s different of most candidates running to basis of ego. kidding. the man loves a zoo. who doesn t love a good zoo. he loves elephants. at various times he has taken to him to go to the field museum, he likes to indulge. how many do you think a fundraiser has to pay to go to the zoo. that is, i don t know what kind of animal that is. he is excited about it. that s an old picture. oh, my god, he does love animals. he does. there s pieces of a campaign being waged insofar as callista is stumping for who on she would like to be president.