this case are no longer able to speak publicly about any of this. the information we ve been getting is going to slow to more of a trickle as the hearings go on. people here got a bit of a surprise when christian bale, the actor who plays batman showed up here. it was a surprise to just about everybody. he visited patients in the hospital at the bedside. after that he came to this make shift memorial here and joined a prayer circle and prayed with people. it was all unannounced, they had no cameras with him and didn t want media coverage. our affiliate happened to be there and caught him. and it exploded on twitter and facebook, people pretty excited he took the time to come and visit. i ll bet that helped folks trying to recoup rate in the hospital. thanks, jim. the rest of the day s top stories, let s get right to christine romans. good morning. good morning, soledad, syrian forces stepping up attacks to regain control of aleppo, targeting rebel strong holds in syria s
mortgage giant. this was the subject of were you took him on last night, and his response. watch. he s been on different positions, you know, on some of the issues. single payer. he s taken some positions that are not conservative. he sported the t.a.r.p. fund. and the other thing, really, which really annoyed a lot of people, he received a lot of money from freddie mac. in a way, newt, i think you obably got some of our taxpayers money. they got money and they re still getting bailed out. you re a spokesman for them, and you received money for it. i was never a spokesman for any agency. i never did any lobbyin for the agency. i offered strategic advice. i was in the private sector. and i was doing things in the private sector. congressm paul, this week you said that gingrich should apologize for taking that money. are you satisfied with how he anwered that last night? no, not really. but what can you do in politics. that s the besthe could do with it. but the crowd dn t wcome
this was the subject of were you took him on last night, and his response. watch. he s been on different positions, you know, on some of the issues. single payer. he s taken some positions that are not conservative. he sported the t.a.r.p. fund. and the other thing, really, which really annoyed a lot of people, he received a lot of money from freddie mac. in a way, newt, i think you obably got some of our taxpayers money. they got money and they re still getting bailed out. you re a spokesman for them, and you received money for it. i was never a spokesman for any agency. i never did any lobbyin for the agency. i offered strategic advice. i was in the private sector. and i was doing things in the private sector. congressm paul, this week you said that gingrich should apologize for taking that money. are you satisfied with how he anwered that last night? no, not really. but what can you do in politics. that s the besthe could do with it. but the crowd dn t wcome his answer very
cheerleader/therapist is saying, come on, this is what you have to do, you have to do it with european money, you can t look for extra bailout money from the chinese or from the united states, this is how we did it, it s unpopular and political ugly. and they re setting up a version of t.a.r.p. and they call it a fire wall, but it s over a trillion dollars in money, available not only to greece but to italy and portugal, money the governments and banks to try to do in europe what the t.a.r.p. fund was able to do to the banks here. but we know how politically rough that is. and one final note, chris, before we move on to the other politics, i can t tell you symbolically how weird it is to be in the president s motorcade talking about an economic downturn, dealing with austerity and being here in cannes when you are going by stores by the name of jimmy choo and prada, you couldn t have a more awkward place for the president to be as you see protests spark up in
essentially what europe agreed to is create a $1 trillion t.a.r.p. fund. yeah. originally they only ended up using 50 billion at the end of the day after pay bark but they want to create this fire wall that both banks and governments could essentially borrow from, right? the essential idea was there s already $400 billion of money put in the kitty by governments. let s leverage that up to 1 trillion by attracting private investors, the chinese, your mother, my stock broker. right. and that will give us more money. the whole thing has always had a rube goldberg feel to it, not perfect because the germans don t want to put more of their own money up but it was enough, again, to contain the fear and the panic. the problem is now with that, and now with the greek referendum throwing things, you know, causing problems, we don t really know what the outlook is. we have a g-20 meeting that starts tomorrow. the americans had hoped to bring the focus of the g-20 to global growth. let