We will figure out where we go from here. Lets started off with nicole petallides. She is at the new york stock exchange. Nicole no panic. The nasdaq was down nearly 2 . Lets take a look at the dow. The fiscal cliff remains front and center. We heard from john boehner today. We are not seeing bipartisan agreement at all. We are off of the lows of the days. Names like bank of america among the biggest losers. While you see a few trying to give it a go in the green, the truth is, you are seeing broadbased selling. The s p 500 is down a full percentage point. While there are some select winners, the truth is, you have many affected. Connell thank you very much. You heard a moment ago from the speaker. You did not hear this morning from the mayans. Brian wesbury is here and he is his usual optimistic self. You are always relatively optimistic about the economy, but even after last night and what we in washington . Sure. You know, yes, the fiscal cliff is coming. We have known him for a lon
Fairfield police said the boy is recovering from serious injuries. Hes in it serious condition at Childrens Hospital. A partially severed knows of some brain hemorrhaging enesco fracture. The incident happened here yesterday morning at this apartment complex in fairfield. Police said that though father lost his temper and attacked a boy because he was crying too much. The two were alone at the time and when the boys 70 yearold mother came home, investigators say she called police. Hysterical saying her son was bleeding from the nose. Cooper was arrested without incident. Police say he has no prior record and fairfield. Investigators also said that when the dust settled cooper expressed grief over what he allegedly did. he was remorseful. He was concerned about the state of his child. He asked a number of times on this child was doing and have some questions about his wife and now his family was doing and we are still investigating as to why this happened. the child is now in custody of
If you missed any of what donald trump had to say this its noon, you can see in entirety on cspan. Org. News coming out of the white house. President obama is set to announce that the u. S. Hopes to keep 9,800 troops in afghanistan following the end of the war later this year. This is planned on is contimbent following the upcoming elections. President obama is expected to talk about this later at the white house. Hell be in the rose gardens. Well have those remarks at 2 45 eastern on cspan. Be sure to join us at 8 00 for a look at the financial crisis. Ben bernanke told a room full of congressional leaders, quote, unless you act in a matter of days, the Financial System and the world will be brought down. Chris dodd is joined by barney frank. Heres a brief look. We did something unpopular that staved off disaster. Heres the disadvantage politicians are at visavis economists. Economists can write articles and do analyses in which they invoke the counterfactual. They can talk about why
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Now, former Senate Banking Committee Chairman christopher. And former House Financial Services chairman barney frank about the financial crisis and the work they did. It is just over one hour. I want to introduce the moderator for this session but before i do, i want to point out that everything we discussed this morning and after this because theoot doddfrank act rose alt all of those issues and we dont really have to do with those anymore. I also want to thank barney frank for begetting with the spirit of the program. He knew we were going to heaven Abraham Lincoln lookalike contest so he grew a beard. We are delightful for that. Take no offense but if you read an act of cong larsonhe and jim siegel are as responsible as that statute as dodd and frank. Amy is the Senior Deputy comptroller of the currency and chief counsel. Ats is her second session the occ so you can see she is say she is occ through. Seriously, if you get to read that book, you will have great admiration for somebod