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missed opportunities here. neil: as there were before 9/11. absolutely. neil: never learn. we do catch on. we have to be 100%. the bad guys only once. you can argue that prior to 9/11 we didn t have the track record or understanding. now there is no excuse. neil: all right. thank you. very, very much. so much more we re going to find out, and i don t think we ve even scratched the surface. meanwhile, the inflict terror, leave us terrified, and seems to forever terrorist. why is so it hard to simply call them terrorists? why are we playing semantics with lunacy? but we can still help you see your big picture. with the fidelity guided portfolio summary, you choose which accounts to track and use fidelity s analytics to spot trends, gain insights, and figure out what you want to do next.
e-mails, thank god for newt gingrich. he s making us look pretty damn good this morning with the people we care the most about. yeah, it s a sobering wake-up call for the conservative press. and i think bill s largely right about how this race stands. there s, you know, people putting the pause button on the gingrich boom because they re wondering what happens after you wake up the next morning. the one thing about all that, and i think we touched on it earlier was with respect to why huntsman is sort of still not catching on and why gingrich did catch on and why romney remains in the 20% to 25% range. i get e-mails every day how people think gingrich is the one candidate who could mop the floor with obama and give it to him in the debates. and i don t want to overstate it, but i think that s a huge component in the psychology of republican voters. they want someone who really will go after the president on a whole bunch of issues. and they ve seen gingrich
now, the cnn newsroom continues with randi kaye. have a great day. thank you. the treasury is sending out checks as promised, and somehow there is just as much fear and uncertainty and economic anxiety as ever. we will tackle the next three main questions. what is going on with the stock markets? the dow is on track for the ninth straight day of losses. any guesses on how long it has been since nine straight days of loss? 33 years. lots of scary numbers are behind these, and we ll get to those in a minute. question number two, who will make the cuts. the debt deal left a hard decision on taxes and spending and entitlements to a 12-member super committee yet to be appointed. thirdly, why did congress leave so much unfinished business? lawmakers went on their august break leaving thousands of faa workers on unpaid furlough. they are also leaving $1 billion in uncollected taxes on the table in a fight over $14 million. it s time to get some answers. don t you think? wa
but you won t get away. the video that has everyone talking on this american morning. good morning. it s wednesday, august 3rd. this is american morning. a lot going on today. we should get right to it. yes, we should. isn t the debt deal done? it s not done yet. they have to do the super committee. and decide what they will cut, cut food inspectors, education grants, they are going to cut stuff out of education. at least some of it is done? some of it done. one of the bitter and dangerous debates this recent history is now history. the bill to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending is law. this is a picture of president obama, he signed the bill in private. nobody around him. notice that. he doesn t look very happy either, does he? he called the compromise a first step toward fixing the economy, though, and argued more must be done. this is, however, just the first step. this compromise requires that both parties work together on a larger plan to cut t