the best day of the year. and the best june in 13 years. lucky 13 i guess. why? well, we were touched by an angel. and considering how important europe is to american jobs and to this presidential election, the president was touched by an angel too. yes. yes, she is, the angel in this case is literal. angela merkel putting another band aid on the europe crisis that buoyed stocks around the planet. literally this started in asia and fell all the way through. this was pretty incredible news. she caved sort of. looks like they re about to kiss, doesn t it? european leaders today said they ll allow troubled banks to use emergency money from the european union. basically that means mostly german rescue funds. that s the truth of it. the bottom line, it means the money will get to the banks more quickly. helping countries like spain, whose crisis is threatening to break up the entire european experiment. now, the market celebrated, that s for sure. this is not the final solution. a
good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront, we have breaking news. this was a very, very big day. stocks surged. the best day of the year. and the best june in 13 years. lucky 13 i guess. why? well, we were touched by an angel. and considering how important europe is to american jobs and to this presidential election, the president was touched by an angel too. yes. yes, she is, the angel in this case is literal. angela merkel putting another band aid on the europe crisis that buoyed stocks around the planet. literally this started in asia and fell all the way through. this was pretty incredible news. she caved sort of. looks like they re about to kiss, doesn t it? european leaders today said they ll allow troubled banks to use emergency money from the european union. basically that means mostly german rescue funds. that s the truth of it. the bottom line, it means the money will get to the banks more quickly. helping countries like spain, whose crisis is threatening to break
newt gingrich is creeping up in the polls after this week s debate, but mitt romney is still the national frontrunner. today, the two battle it out over breakfast. both candidates will be in the same diner at the same exact time. see you at tommy s ham house. tommy s ham house, newt gingrich didn t know about it until we talked to him. we talked to tommy of tommy s ham house live this morning. here s what he has to say about the excitement in his restaurant. i told you here s what he has to say, i want to tell you stay tuned and we ll tell you what he has to say. you want to hear tommy because it s really interesting. two possible presidents, one possible president, with two presidential candidates in his restaurant at the same time in less than three hours. we start this news cast in south carolina where polls opened one hour ago. voters there are choosing a republican presidential nominee. let s get right to the palmetto state. don lemon is at a polling place in lexin
legislative director telling us all she was doing was working the crackberry when she was supposed to be like everyone does. yeah, but the palin world has been very much about controlling the image, controlling the output. now inside palin world has cracked. we have a book from one of her former aides that kind of takes her apart. now we have this in the works. and coming. it seems to me that it really reality has struck for palin, and we are now on to the bachmann campaign for president. right. look, if anyone had been paying attention for the last year, they would not be surprised by the movies, by the books, and now i mean, just looking at the poll numbers. pollster.com, they have been averaging all of the polls on lots of politicians, but particularly sarah palin. and since october 2008, the favorability and unfavorability has been enormous for sarah palin. she has a 57.9 unfavorable
and tonight, apparently, she is in south carolina. she is not messing around. she is really running for president. and we have dueling documentaries now in the works. nick broomfield, a real documentarian is working on another documentary about sarah palin. let s take a look at his work. it was frustrating at times to set up a meeting with legislative leadership to talk about a piece of legislation or a bill or an issue or something that needed to be worked out, and, you know, the whole time she would be doing this. you know? just very unengaged in the conversation. and i would have to go around afterwards and oh, there, there. she was really listening. and well, it sure didn t seem like she was. but she wasn t. she wasn t listening. i never felt that sarah was ever connected to the business in the building. there you have her legislative director telling us all she was doing was working the crackberry when she was supposed to be