of congress behind him. he is taking the lead. this is what we expect and ask of a president. take the lead. he wants the american people behind him. then he gets the international community behind him. and then we put chemical weapons behind us. forever. all right. that s the message here. all right. and we hope they don t respond. if we do hit him. general wesley clark, thank you so much. we ll deal with the response. we ll deal with it. that s what america is afraid. great to have you with us. appreciate the discussion. thank you. you re watching the ed show on msnbc. we re right back. i m jackie deangelis with your cnbc market wrap. the dow surging 140 points today, the s&p up 16. the nasdaq rising 46. consumer borrowing rose at an annual rate of 4.4% this july, down from a 5% rate a month earlier. and gas prices are on the rise. now at an average of $3.58 a gallon, up nearly 3 cents in the last two weeks. and manufacturing profits
bret: new home sales rebounded in march by 1.5%, that s better than february but not as good as january. the dow if it finished ahead 12 after that scare we telling you about earlier with the tweet from ap. the s&p up 16. nasdaq up 26. if you are a lot of people online shopping break you get on sales tax. it can add up. washington wants a piece of the action. chief washington correspondent james rosen on the online money grab. the motion is agreed to. ecommerce may soon get a reboot after the senate voted 74 to 20 on monday to advance the marketplace fairness act. a measure that would require online retailers who do more than a million dollars a year in out-of-state business to collect the applicable sales taxes for each state in which their online buyers reside. proponents say this will level the playing field for
i m guessing though that mocking the president is not going to help republicans pass this bill right now, shep. shepard: pass this bill. how many times can he say that in one day? you know, there is probably dozens for this president. is he keeping that refrain going. is he going to keep the heat on congress no matter what. shepard: ed henry, thanks. stocks higher today third straight day after european promised to help. almost double. this in fact it was double this at one point in the session. the dow up 141. s&p up 16, nasdaq up 40. now the bad news. the government reporting august retail sales were the weakest in three months. it is important because consumer spending as we have been saying here for what seems like a decade consumer spending accounts for nearly three quarters of our entire economy. analysts say the downgrade of u.s. debt and roller coaster stock market scared off