different direction every morning. come on, white chocolate. oh, no. yup. he can explain that one, soledad. soledad. bye, guys. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m going to try to compose myself here. it is top of the hour. 9:00 a.m. eastern time. we begin with five days until florida s republican presidential primary and just hours from the cnn debate there. mitt romney and newt gingrich are locked in a dead heat in the polls. this debate could be a game changer. the votes the candidates want right now, latinos. the ads prove it. joe johns is live in mount dora. he s calling romney the most anti-immigration candidate. reporter: that s absolutely right, kyra. it s very interesting to watch as that develops. senator marco rub yes who s sort of a favorite son of florida actually chaz tiesed gingrich for putting that radio ad out saying it was inaccurate. gingrich saying last night in a press media availability here in florida that he pulled the ad because he did it
hear about. my criticism of all the candidates is who is talking about a specific positive solution to fix our most pressing domestic problem, it s the economy. you don t hear enough about that. and the voters are getting sick of it. neil: when you pull a negative or not, they plant seeds of doubt. with newt gingrich from 37% approval numbers, maybe is not all he says he is. the nice newt, now we re in your face newt.t. i think the in your face newt brings out a side that was always there, but to his credit he was trying to hold back on doing that. he had no choice. neil: now i know you have left the race. i m encouraging my supporters vote for somebody still in the race. let s not lose sight of the mission. our mission is defeat barack
which is what basically happen, doesn t often involve as much disruption as we would like and that was true in cuba, although over to a brother, not to a son. to medvedev, who is not necessarily any way, i was trying to make a bad russian joke. i love a good russian joke. we have the gong. ari s right. when kim jong-il took power in 94, the transition itself was fairly straightforward. he then imposed a set of economic management measures that results in a fam in that killed 2 million people. 2 million people die nd that nation and one of the tactics he developed was that when there was a domestic problem, he created an external problem. an enemy. we were discussing earlier about the fabrication of enemies in order to consolidate and strengthen the peoples in the
the dow finished up thursday, 340 points. this could be the best october in a quarter century. the economy is growing. the gross national product for the third quarter was nearly double the figure from april to june and that s thanks to consumer spending and more business investment. alison kosik will join us in about half an hour for the opening bell, but right now let s talk to global editor at large with reuters. good morning. so, what a difference a day makes. the dow futures are already down this morning and we ve learned that whirlpool is cutting 5,000 jobs in north america and europe. it looks like that big rally from yesterday was not the real turn around we were hoping for. well, i think the rally yesterday was really mostly about europe. and i think the big question that the markets are asking is not so much is everyone going to be fantastic. is there going to be a huge economic rebound in the u.s. and in the world. the question is, is there going to be another di
what will happen him, he suffered badly in the last rating a month ago in the poll losing a lot of ground. this is showing strong leader. libya and gas price is not helping but this will help. you have to follow it up and do other things. how it translates to the domestic problem, i don t. basically, it has been a ten year process. he will get the immediate credit but this has been going on for a long time. democrats are never seen militarily strong. when bill clinton went after milosevic it changed and maybe this is a defining moment. guest: it could be but you have other important matters. he is having terrible problems in libya and i don t know this