Euro zone finance ministers are meeting today. The gathering comes amid slowmoving talks on a deal with greeces creditors. Germanys finance ministers says his country will do everything he can to keep greece in the eu. Uber trying to raise more to value the company at 50 billion. Facebook was the only other company to reach that valuation. An alibaaba buying more online retailer zulily to take its stake to 9. 2 percent. The chinese ecommerce giant not looking to acquire zulily outright. The big Global Market story leading the wall street journal, china cutting rates again. Good day. How are you . Reporter its 6 00 in the evening here and im doing well and this is the third rate cut that weve seen in six months and probably going to see more. The economy here as you guys know is slowing down but most people are getting more and more concerned that the economy is rapidly losing momentum. The april data so far has been disappointing. The trade figures as well as the inflation data out ove
examples of it taking it of him taking it to the outer limits. you look at the contributions to perry s gubernatorial campaign where there are no limits in texas. 2.5 million from bob perry, that huge texas land builder. herald simmons opens runs a nuclear waste dump in west texas. $1.1 million. what does he get? state approval from perry. so there s example after example where this has come up and you are going to see as the campaign unfolds each of these issues being dissected and perry having to answer for. one thing republicans always warn me of, it s an opposition research guy who is the campaign manager. matt rhodes who knows how to string together things. they have their handsful. how much traction does it have in a republican primary as opposed to the general election. michael isikof, thank you.
push for his jobs plan. it s now congressional democrats signaling publicly that they re not on board. telling the new york times there s little chance they ll support a stand alone bill. just look at the names. pennsylvania senator bob casey. i think the american people are very skeptical of big pieces of legislation. he wants to break it up. west virginia senator joe manchin. we ve got to have legislation supported by democrats and republicans. i m going to have to look at it. by the way, both of those guys are up for re-election. and the president s trip to promote the bill yesterday in north carolina didn t sell that state s democratic senator. kay hagen was swept into office on obama s coattails in 2008 sort of took a pass from the new york times asked her about it. she said, quote, we ve got to have legislation that is supported by democrats and republicans. i m going to have to take a look tat as well. so here you go. democratic senators starting to hand wring a li
look at whether bachmann still stands a chance. calendar chaos. states are still scrambling for position in next year s primary schedule. the order matters big time if you are rick perry or mitt romney. it impacts strategy, momentum and most important to us reporters, whether we re ringing in the new year in des moines again. it s thursday, september 15th, 2011. this is the daily rundown. i m chuck todd. let s begin with the first read and it s the president s headache continued. almost on cue, here comes the democratic hand wringing. as the president continues to push for his jobs plan. it s now congressional democrats signaling publicly that they re not on board. telling the new york times there s little chance they ll support a stand alone bill. just look at the names. pennsylvania senator bob casey. i think the american people are very skeptical of big pieces of legislation. he wants to break it up. west virginia senator joe manchin. we ve got to have legislation su