captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m erin burnett. vultures dive bombing the carcass. just an image. makes me think of the field growing up, dead deer, entrails everywhere, that s what it looks like for facebook. at least three lawsuits filed in connection to the ipo. and plus investigations by the securities and exchange commission and the massachusetts secretary of the commonwealth and of course headlines like these on the front pages. the best went to cnn money. oh, zuck. inside facebook s fumble and the washington post called it a debacle. here s where the stock closed today, at $32 a share. down $10 from where it opened on ipo morning at $42. that means it s lost a quarter of the value since it opened. that s pretty stunning. you say how? how could one of the most anticipated offerings in american history, when i say anticipated in history and the biggest in terms of size in this country s history, one that was supposed to invigorate and make the stock market a pl
so they wasted time writing something and then voting on something that absolutely nobody ever wanted. so what are we, the people supposed to say? hey, at least they agree on something like not having a functioning government? no, no, this was a fail. it s fails like this that send the americans hurtling closer extinction. we cling to hope about a very special lunch that happened today where something may have gotten done to help our country avoid it. the president bought hoagies for himself and the other men needed to get a deal done, house speaker john boehner. the president brought the hoagies home to the white house. i guess did they cut it in half? brought it back to the white house and the two met in private to talk debt. the debt crisis is worse every single day in this country, and the battle over raising the debt ceiling is in full swing. it s going to happen again this year. remember the last time, we lost our credit rating. frankly an obsession on this show. the
outfront tonight. give me a break. the senate today voted 99-0 to shut down a budget bill. it was not an honest effort. both sides pointing fingers about what was really in the budget. so they wasted time writing something and then voting on something that absolutely nobody ever wanted. so what are we the people supposed to say? hey, at least they agree on something like not having a functioning government? no, no. this was a fail. and it fails like this that sends the american lemmings hurtling closer to the cliff of fiscal fisc fiscal extinction. but at our core, we believe they can get it together and not die like the overfed lemmings. so we cling to hope about a special lunch that happened today. have something may have gotten done to avoid the lemming cliff, except, well, we ll see. the president bought hoagies for himself and the other man needed to get the deal done, speaker boehner. it was a takeout lunch. i guess they cut it in half. they went and brought it back t
about what was really in the budget. so they wasted time writing something and then voting on something that absolutely nobody ever wanted. so what are we, the people supposed to say? hey, at least they agree on something like not having a functioning government? no, no, this was a fail. it s fails like this that send the americans hurtling closer o instingz. we cling to hope about a very special lunch that happened today where something may have gotten done to help our country avoid it. the president bought hoagies for himself and the other men needed to get a deal done, house speaker john boehner. the president brought the hoagies home to the white house. i guess did they cut it in half? brought it back to the white house and the two met in private to talk debt. the debt crisis is worse every single day in this country, and the battle over raising the debt ceiling is in full swing. it s going to happen again this year. remember the last time, we lost our credit rating. fr
stopped an ambitious al qaeda plot to blow up a passenger jet bound for the united states. a u.s. counter terrorism official tells cnn the explosive device is similar to the one used by the would-be underwear bomber. just like that bomb, there one did not contain metal, which raises real questions about whether it could have gotten passed airport security. as of yet, the person who had developed that bomb had not yet bought a ticket. here s defense secretary, leon panetta. what this incident makes clear is that this country has to continue to remain vigilant against those that would seek to attack this country and we will do everything necessary to keep america safe. fran townsend is cnn s national security contributor, a member of both the dhs and cia external advisory boards. chad sweet is a former dhs and cia official, also the cofounder of the chertoff group, a global security firm. good to see both of you. fran, i know you ve been reporting on this throughout the day