and a new drug, is it to blame for a brutal attack where police say this is truly gruesome. a man chewed off the face of his victim. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, tipping point. the latest syrian pictures of 49 murdered children in syria have made people ask whether america must step in. the uprising has left more than 12,000 syrians dead. with the rest of the world watching from the sidelines. today the only response was symbolic. eight countries including the united states expelling syrian diplomats. in the year when the president is running on his foreign policy victories syria is becoming a lightning rod. this administration has a feckless foreign policy which abandons american leadership. i know because i visit with these people that they are ready to help these people and they are helping them some. it cries out for american leadership. and today mitt romney said the president s quote lack of leadership has resulted in a policy of pa
for a brutal attack where police say a man chewed off the face of his victim. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. the latest syrian pictures of 49 murdered children in syria have made people ask whether america must step in. the uprising has left more than 12,000 syrians dead. today the only response was symbolic. eight countries including the united states expelling syrian diplomats. in the year when the president is running on his foreign policy victories syria is becoming a lightning rod. this administration has a foreign policy which abandons american leadership. i know because i visit with these people that they are ready to help these people and they are helping them some. it cries out for american leadership. and today mitt romney said the president s lack of leadership has resulted in a policy of paralysis and we should work with partners to arm the opposition. now, that is something a lot of people that s a lightning rod in itself. and the obama administrati
first, folks there hit with a dust storm, then monsoon rains moved in. now a really creepy situation is developing. we re live with that story. and as the national debt spirals out of control and a government default or possibility thereof seems to get closer and closer, the push to end the crisis, going full force. but the series of closed door meetings is bothering some lawmakers. we will go in depth. rick is live at the dot com wall with three hot videos for you. you get to choose which one you want to see. what do we have? reporter: you decide, we report. these are three great stories, we love them all. which one do you like best? go to foxnews.com and check out your choices today. they involve a fishtail that even steven spielberg would love. want to hear about that shark that jumped into that guy s boat? or the saki con soar? maybe you connoisseur?
president to compromise on medicare or social security with paul ryan. it makes good sense for him to be seen as the person defending the core values of this program. he can talk compromise. as we re seeing in his rhetoric, he will say on this principle, this is a matter of first principles and i won t compromise. some element of trying to have it both ways. this is really important politt polittically because they have been blown out with senior voters to date. no doubt about it, senior voters in 2008 and more importantly 2010, senior voters went overwhelmingly for republicans. that may change in 2012. let s talk about wall street. it seems like wall street and the wall street lobbyists are putting a full-court press on congress, having a lot of closed door meetings. what s going on there. interesting. specifically, these house republicans are hearing from wall street executives, top wall
fox news is reporting we are hearing from brett favre. according to them he did a meeting with someone from the nfl, closed door meetings. they went on to report that favre admitted leaving the former leaving her voice mails, but denied texting her any of the inappropriate images themselves. as for the girl on the right, jenn sterger, we still haven t heard from her. the nfl says they re in the investigation. she could meet with the league by the middle of this coming week. interestingly enough, she has a manager but also retained an attorney. shocking. uh-huh. one of the questions, did favre violate personal conduct policy. will they suspend him in one game which would end his record streak of consecutive games started? so, the big questions here, really haven t been answered in terms of what this will do to his career, his marriage.