we should address? not really, no. you re a politician. yeah. okay. i m being pulled away. you know, we turned down another interview for this. where are you going? you re leaving? absolutely extraordinary, dare i say it, surreal moment. christine o donnell, one-time tea party darling walks out of my studio rather than answering straightforward questions. you ve heard all about the fuss. and if you missed it, tonight we re going to reair the whole interview all over again. i m going to get some of the smartest people in politics and media to weigh in with their verdict. was it christine s day? or was it mine? all right. are we off? are we done? i m not. i m still here. decide for yourself. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, i m here in san diego where i m doing an interview with presidential hopeful jon huntsman and that will air at monday night 9:00 p.m. eastern. but right now tonight, it s all about the scandal involving me and christine o donnell and t
family. take a look at this just released video. are london rioters firing at police helicopters. a live report in just a moment. severe storms strike the northeast, unleashing deadly flash floods and it s not over yet. the ohio valley could be next. but we start with the sputtering economy. president obama says there are steps we can take to spark the economy. watch. there are things we can do right now that will mean more customers for businesses and more jobs across the country. we can cut payroll taxes again so families have an extra thousand dollars to spend. we can pass a road construction bill so construction crews who are now sitting idle, can head back to the work site, rebuilding roads and bridges and airports. that s when the president s weekly address. ohio governor john kasich gave this morning s republican weekly address. the rebuttal, if you will. he says the real problem is leadership. white house correspondent dan lothian joins us now in martha s vi
you know, we turned down another interview for this. where are you going? you re leaving? absolutely extraordinary, dare i say it, rather surreal moment. christine o donnell, one-time tea party darling walks out of my studio rather than answering straightforward questions. you ve heard all about the fuss. and if you missed it, tonight we re going to re-air the whole interview all over again. i m going to get some of the smartest people in politics and media to weigh in with their verdict. was it christine s day? or was it mine? all right. are we off? are we done? i m not. i m still here. decide for yourself. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, i m here in san diego where i m doing an interview with presidential hopeful jon huntsman and that will air at monday night 9:00 p.m. eastern. but right now tonight, it s all about the scandal involving me and christine o donnell and that interview and that walkout. we thought it d be a good idea to bring you up to speed
down 9 1/2%. so what happens next? and is your money safe? these are the questions for legal ber and ali velshi. i ll start with you with the usual entreaty. what is going on, ali? the french economy, actually no growth in the quarter. global economies are slowing down. we re dangerously close to a recession. we may need more intervention from the european bank and more from the fed. you ve been talking about this piers, that rick perry said we can t have more intervention. if the fed intervened it would be treasonous. what s that setup? we have no political agreement in this country and add a few economic reports and i won t bore you with right now that came out again before markets opened this morning that added up into a big mix. people were running into the market, putting their money into gold, which hit another record, and savings bonds. this is pretty serious, isn t it? we ve been talking about the possibility of having some kind of second recession. is this lookin
central bank and the fed would have to get further involved in this economy. now, you know all week we ve been talking about rick perry saying it would be treasonous for the fed to get involved. while his comments may have been misinformed it represents a view in america that fed should do no more work in stimulating this economy. so now we have investors saying we need more investment. you got the morgan stanley saying we do. and you ve got a lot of people in america saying don t do it. so we re at an impasse. investors said let s get our money out of there. they put it into bonds and into gold. the nikkei down 2% on opening. robert, i know you say look at unemployment more than you look at the dow. but when people s retirements are tied up in this roller coaster and every day it s up and down hundreds of points, what should people be thinking? anderson, obviously right now we have a jobs and wages and growth crisis. and not a debt crisis. and until we actually get more