mr. cain, the godfather pizza who wants to build a moat around america filled with alligators and the executioner rick per who has a racist hunting camp in texas. republicans, sometimes you get what you ask for. joining me live now from hanover new hampshire, msnbc analyst alex wagner, and here in studio, former republican congressman rick lazio, founder of ignitewithricklazio.com. alex, who has the most to lose up there tonight? i think this is i think that the broad consensus here is that it is rick per who has the most to lose. he s had some weak debate performances thus far, and everybody is looking to see if he can sort of ramp it up. his advisers have said he s been sleeping a lot. he had an energy level issue at the last debate so that may help him, but i think fundamentally he s been going through more debate prep. he s reportedly been sparring with someone who is taking the
countries. the announcement comes on the same day france, belgium, and luxembourg agreed to rescue dexia, a major franco belgian bank. a couple of hours ago, i spoke with cnn s senior international business correspondent, richard quest. he tells me that what is going on in europe is very similar to what happened in america back in 2008. you really don t want the investment bank to fail. why? because a big investment bank failing of this particular time would cause a ripple of crisis of confidence and that s what happened with lehman in 2008. we re going to see more banks over the coming weeks that whether they fail or not, they re going to need more money. what the authorities are going to have to judge is when is it right to rescue and when is it time to let go? finance ministers from the g-20 nations are scheduled to meet later on this week to discuss the growing crisis. and now to economic concerns here in the u.s. this week, the senate will vote on president obama
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polls. let s not forget, mitt rom any remains probably the favorite. he is not really beloved by everybody. it s still ripe for a guy like chris christie to jump in. if governor christie were to jump in, what would he do to the currents field of republican candidates out there? i think much like rick per ri he would zoom to the top. what has been fascinated becoming this entire race, how for the debates have been, at every one of these debates, republicans have watched and watched the performances. poll numbers have gone up and down. so i think if chris christie comes in, i think we re rumors he is not that great of a conservative. he is a pretty conservative guy, especially for a state like new jersey.
wall street. she is going to be departing the firm and people watching that. the daily rundown is back after 30 seconds. bottom of the hour now. let s do a quick look at what s driving date. eight republican candidates will share the stage for tonight s republican debate at the reagan library, hosted by nbc news and politico will be the first national debate and the debut for governor rick per whoa leapfrogged mitt romney in just