so, we had newt gingrich and mitt romney. both on the offensive over the last 24 hours. they know that six days is a short time and that s when the caucuses are. what have we been hearing from both of the candidates, mark? well, hala, you re absolutely right. so much on the line, so much at stake here. six days until january 3rd when iowa republicans will caucus and will really kick off what has been already a very long presidential season. well, newt gingrich had pledged not to go negative in this campaign. he had said that he would only go positive and talk about his plan to try to turn the american economy around. well, the gloves have come off and, in fact, he is going negative. yesterday on the situation room with wolf blitzer, he went right after mitt romney. in fact, let s listen to what newt gingrich had to say. all i say mitt is, if you want to run a negative campaign and you want to attack people, at least be man enough to own it. that s your staff and that s
america? let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. we re just an hour away. eight republican candidates vying for the party nomination. they are all taking to the stage tonight. the topic, national security. it has been 109 days since america lost its aaa credit rating. that s going to turn the rate on our mortgages and a whole lot more. we re not doing anything about it. we re still mad has hell about the super committee failing yesterday. fitch said the committee s failure would most likely result in negative action. so we re upset about the super committee and they are mad, too. panel member john kerry was watching outfront last night. he got mad and he called in. i think people are upset. i think nerve the country is upset. they are looking at congress and saying, why can t these guys get something done? but it s not enough for people just to say, oh, it s broken. you got to ask, okay, why. what is the matter that it is broken? so what now? we re hoping for a shock a
protests have taken place. as demonstrations enter their fifth week, you cannot deny these simple facts. it is power in numbers. just look at the scenes here playing out all over the country. but f as this continues, protesters are increasingly being ordered out of public parks by city leaders who say they have rules to enforce. but protesters say it s a ruse to end their protest. in atlanta, occupy protesters have been camping out in a downtown park for the past week but have been ordered to leave by monday. in new york, protesters barely escaped a stand-off with police after being ordered to leave a park in manhattan. mayor michael bloomberg says the company that opened the park called off its decision to clean the park after it was bombarded with calls from public officials who threatened them. occupy wall street protesters seeing this as a big victory. susan candiotti is in new york city in the middle of it all. susan, how are the protesters reacting to this delayed clean
steven moore and robert reich, labor secretary during the clinton administration. currently he s a professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley and author of aftershock, the next economy in america s future now out in paper back. ali, what happened today? reporter: we had a situation where it s not just fear we were talking about. this was actual fact. we started this morning with slow bad markets out of europe. then before the markets opened we got this report from morgan stanley which talked about slow growth around the world, telling us things we already knew. but they said we re on the precipice of a recession. they also cited errors in policy making here in the united states and in europe, and they said it s likely that european central bank and the fed would have to get further involved in this economy. now, you know all week we ve been talking about rick perry saying it would be treasonous for the fed to get involved. while his comments ma
central bank and the fed would have to get further involved in this economy. now, you know all week we ve been talking about rick perry saying it would be treasonous for the fed to get involved. while his comments may have been misinformed it represents a view in america that fed should do no more work in stimulating this economy. so now we have investors saying we need more investment. you got the morgan stanley saying we do. and you ve got a lot of people in america saying don t do it. so we re at an impasse. investors said let s get our money out of there. they put it into bonds and into gold. the nikkei down 2% on opening. robert, i know you say look at unemployment more than you look at the dow. but when people s retirements are tied up in this roller coaster and every day it s up and down hundreds of points, what should people be thinking? anderson, obviously right now we have a jobs and wages and growth crisis. and not a debt crisis. and until we actually get more