back now with our echoes of watergate panel, john dean, david gergen, john bernstein. carl, i mean this is a serious, troubling decisions that are looming over the investigation. the most important decision is what mueller is going to do. and we don t know what he s going to do. it s clear that he has got the president s campaign, his closest associates, members of his family, in his sights. now it doesn t mean he wants to bring them down in his sights, he wants to find out what they have done. and they have been resisting letting him know what has been done and what they did. there s a passage of carl s book which he co-opted with bob woodward. you said, quote, the moral authority of the president is
listen to mitt romney today. these are tough times with real serious issues. so you have to scratch your head when the president spends the last week talking about saving big bird. so it has been five years to the day that the dow closed at the all time high. but would a romney win get investors to move the dow? one out of every five americans have no religious affiliations? we begin this evening with this story that is happening right now. the government has continued it s vendetta against big banks. the government accuses the mortgage lender of reckless trifecta issuing at least 100,000 affected loans. this story comes as the cnbc.com story makes headlines. the question is why is the government and the taxpayor still in the housing business? let s go to our guest. diana, good evening. well look, confidence in housing is coming back. especially in home prices. some say they think home prices will fall further. optimism has been rising for 11 straight months. you don t
italian quiter confidence hit a record low, and we do have red arrows almost across the board. starting with the bank this morning, moody is with the much anticipated downgrade. the head like here, morgan assistantly only a two-notch downgrade, as another croloud or the industry seems to go away. with the sell jot yesterday, we are negative on the week. a miss for darden restaurants sending shares lower premarket, at the major chains olive garden and red lobster. are they pulling back or simply trading down. could microsoft be working on its own phone? should investors be wary when a software exude starts to act like a hardware company. banks are rising premarket despite an after the bell downgrade. morgan stanley gets a two-notch downgrade. morgan stanley s debt remains lower still. bank of america also fared slight le better than some competitors. citi criticized calling the move completely unwarranted. it is i s mazing, considering the reallies, how the analyst c
anything like reality. he worked with fox news. but mitt and newt know that in politics these guys rib, they tease, they make robo calls saying the other guy denied kosher meals to holocaust survivors. but it s all in good fun. they ll pull it together. and no one explained that better than republican strategist dee dee benkie. think about it this ways, neil, it s a sports analogy, say the republicans are notre dame and the democrats usc. big rivalry. and notre dame has to pick a team captain, so you ve got the fiji, the phi de will d delts and another fraternity. the other are team captain the other two are mad, they are not in a good mood for weeks but the time this game comes along, saturday, forget it. the fighting irish they re not going to let trojan man win no way, no how. plus the other fraternity say they are going to rally around their guy because now they are part of the team so that s two things. everyone is part of the team and they hate the other team. step
stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. chors plaus. stephen: thank you so much. welcome to the report. thank you for joining us. folks, i don t know about you, i don t know about you, folks, but i for one (cheers and applause) stephen: i am really reeling from the presidential elections first may-tober surprise. yesterday s shocking announcement. today i m suspending the campaign. stephen: newt gingrich has left the race! i have not been this caught off guard since he entered the race. (laughter) stephen: now newt pledged to endorse mitt romney at a later date. but mitt s campaign might think newt said enough already. romney is a guy who will manage the decay. he s not the guy who is going to change washington. governor romney is extraordinarily insensitive to religious freedom in america. if governor romney would like to give back all the money he has earned from bankrupti