long time to produce the certificate and when it came out as you know check out the internet many people say it is not real. okay? that it s a forgery. and the republican candidates. donald trump for the hour. this is piers morgan tonight. donald, thank you for inviting me in your this is almost the lair of the 1% of the 1%. thank you for being here. what do you think about this whole occupy wall street thing? you, i guess, are in the target range. you re the prime example of capitalist success in america. what do you make of them? do you think they have justification for the anger? i think some are very serious people. i think some are down there for dating purposes and i have said, you know, they re down looking for girls, looking for women, looking for men. they re looking for anything. some are very serious people and they should be serious because the economy s terrible. i personally think wall street isn t their target. i think their target is the white hous
as you know check out the internet many people say it is not real. okay? that it s a forgery. and the republican candidates. donald trump for the hour. this is piers morgan tonight. donald, thank you for inviting me in your this is almost the lair of the 1% of the 1%. thank you for being here. what do you think about this whole occupy wall street thing? you, i guess, are in the target range. you re the prime example of capitalist success in america. what do you make of them? do you think they have justification for the anger? i think some are very serious people. i think some are down there for dating purposes and i have said, you know, they re down looking for girls, looking for women, looking for men. they re looking for anything. some are very serious people and they should be serious because the economy s terrible. i personally think wall street isn t their target. i think their target is the white house and certainly washington. but they are some very serious
i m erin burnett. outfront, count down to another downgrade of america? the super committee held a rare public hearing today. they re the group of 12 charged with cutting the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. if they don t do it, we can end up on a rate to higher interest rates and a lower standard of living. here are the dates we need to watch. november 1st, cbo says the super committee must submit their plan for review. that is five days from now. november 23rd, that is the deadline for the final submission. and then december 23rd, the final deadline when congress must up or down vote that plan. the committee must come to an agreement, and congress has to pass it or automatic across the board cuts will be made, half of them coming from our defense budget. the problem is those cuts don t come until 2013. they are too small to prevent more downgrades. yes, thanks to congress, america s economic standing in the world is on the verge of another downgrade. economist ethan har
so the key now is to make sure there s strong followup, strong execution of the plans that have been put forward. as president and candidate for re-election in tough times mr. obama was crystal clear on the domino effect of that euro zone deal. if europe is weak, if europe is not grown as our largest trading partner that is going to impact our businesses and ability to create jobs here in the united states. a bit more positive news from the commerce department. it reported that the over all u.s. economy grew at an estimated annual rate of 2.5% in the third quarter. now that s hardly a robust rate yet it is nearly double the anemic growth back in the april, may, june quarter. can this rally be sustained? can we finally set aside worries of sliding back into recession? we begin with alison kosic live at the new york stock exchange tonight. was this rally all about europe? it was all about europe, john. the european debt deal is what wall street has been waiting for, f
downgrades of our economy are coming. the president rolling out some changes to his tenth housing plan today in one of america s hardest hit cities, las vegas. if you meet certain requirements you will have the chance to refinance at lower rates which could save you hundreds of dollars a month and thousands of dollars a year on mortgage payments. in a nutshell the plan increases the number of home owners eligible to refinance. now the administration says it would allow more of the five to seven million under water home owners who are still current on their mortgage payments to refinance. the administration is pushing for a rate of about 4% for those refis. we had two key questions. one, will the plan increase housing prices? well the chief economist of real estate website zillow website told us, even if the plan is fully implemented and everything is perfect, prices of homes may not rise. that was not the answer we were hoping for. two, will it work overall? ken rosen is