president apparently will ever be. he has been out there and roughed up in the primaries and been face to face with the serious lingering economic difficulties america faces. if anybody is detached from the lives of real americans if anybody is disconnected from where jobs and wealth come from, it is our president. so. chris: whaif i may, though, sir,, what did you mean when you said romney doesn t talk that way? i m saying that he has the right prescription for america. he is meeting the objective that i hoped our party would need of offering specific positive constructive remedies for our debt problem and our slow growth problem. as things go alock i want to encourage him to express the same principles more often from the standpoint of the young, the poor, those who have yet to start up th ladder of life, the same principles but aimed in a slightly different way and i know he will do that.
governor daniels shooting down speculation that he would consider being romney s running mate. this after creating quite a stir this week when he told the indianapolis star you have to campaign to govern, not just to win, look at everything through the lens of people who have yet to achieve. romney doesn t talk that way. and chris wallace asked him about that controversial comment on fox news sunday. chris: what did you mean when you said romney doesn t talk that way? guest: well, he has the right prescription for america, he is meeting the objective i hoped our party would meet and offering specific, positive, constructive remedies for our debt problem and our slow growth problem. as things go i encourage him to express the very same principles more often from the standpoint of the young, the poor, those would have yet to start up the ladder of life.
battles between police and protesters. egyptians took to the streets on thursday upset at how police handled or they say mishandled the football riot that left 79 dead a day earlier two people were killed in suez on thursday. u.n. diplomats have come up with a new security council resolution on syria and how to deal with them. it draws specific language russia doesn t like including references to sanctions and military intervention. i m manesha monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. hello and welcome to world business today. happy friday to all of you. i m nina dos santos at cnn london. and i m andrew stevens at cnn hong kong. the top stories this february the 3rd, friday, it s megamerger in the making. xstra tchlt at and glencore. bentley rolls out a vehicle worth around $200,000. and it s nearly super bowl sunday where the halftime ainvestment rts can cost as much as a movie. the mining group xstrata are in talks to merge with glencore. the
you say this is a crowning moment for you for the interaction part of it. we always wanted to have more interact i democracy. now with the internet you can really hear from people. so today and the last few weeks we ve been accumulating questions from you and people who care. you can vote on them. we had 100,000 votes so far and during the debate we ll see on people vote on questions and after the debate we ll vote on some of the answer. bret: fantastic. let me talk about the economy. today was a big day on wall street and bad day on wall street. the dow was down 500 points at one point and finished down almost 400. when you look at the economy, what do you see? first, we re in a tough spot. it s obvious. everyone is now figuring it out. what is happening is companies are doing well, but they re not hiring. if they re not hiring, they re not creating consumers. we have a jobs problem. we have a growth problem.
18able . flat on the back and more maul businesses are fail fewer are starting and fewer small businesses are hire that marries tremendously of course because small businesses create most of the jobs and . most of the people. we have a growth problem and visibility problem and so no one will be bold in this environment. a lot of democrats are arguing about all of this couple of trillion that corporations have off shore and afraid to take on . they say at the top u.s. rated 35 percent that it approximate it is forgiven they can bring it back without the high-tech difference. the corporations won t do what washington wants to do and they will not hire workers, they will just, i guess keep it and leaving that aside whether that is their want or not, what do you think they