with $1.5 trillion in cuts by thanksgiving when we could hardly get a debt deal passed, who is good enough to be on this committee? guess what, senator harry reid has named his three people. there will be 12 people total. three democratic senators. three republican senators, three republicans from the house. three democrats from the house. these are the senators now that harry reid has named, senator max baukus, senator patty murray and senator john kerry, interesting selection. they kind of all fit into a different kind of a niche. when you look at john kerry, he s obviously very partisan and you look earlier this week, he referred to what happened over the last week or so atz the tea party downgrade. so he s a partisan. and then you ve got patty murray who is running the democratic senatorial campaign committee. she s obviously a partisan. she s not going to vote for any sort of entitlement changes or anything like that in an election year. the one hope that republicans would have
these folks weren t rioting like we have seen the past several days. they were there to clean up. now the problem is that the violence, looting and arson has spread to sever other british cities besides london. also a nationwide manhunt for two brothers and their older sister accused much opening fire on a florida police officer, then robbing a georgia bank. you re seeing the three siblings there and authorities do consider them armed and extremely dangerous. all right. wall street did a bit of a u-turn yesterday and thank goodness it did. we don t know exactly what it s going to do today. but we are waiting to see. that is coming up for us in about 29 minutes from now. the dow closed up 429 points yesterday. however, that was a reversal of fortunes from monday s loss of 634 points. christine romans in new york for us. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange for us. christine, 29 minutes away. what is going to happen? reporter: futures are lower and alison can tell
the regime. human rights activists say at least 2,000 people have been killed in the regime s brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters over the past several months. as the crackdown has played out, the administration has gone from urging assad to stop the violence and implement reforms himself to of late saying the dictator has lost legitimacy, but until now the administration has stopped short from demanding he yield power. here s how the u.s. ambassador to the united nations described assad s behavior right here on this program last week as she promised to push for more aggressive international response it s horrific. it s appalling. he s massacring his own people who are coming out simply to express themselves peacefully. it s absolutely unacceptable, appalling behavior, and it deserves not only the condemnation but the full force of the international community. and today at the state department, this public hint, u.s. patience with assad had run out if you
mark: tonight on our great great american panel. he s former deputy assistant secretary of state and co-host of five, bob beckel is here. might be easier just to announce the guests who aren t co-hosts of the five. sophia nelson isn t. political commentator. national columnist and author of a new book, black woman redefineed. great to have you. white house political director under president job matt schlapp joins us. the tea party downgrade. that s what john kerry calls it. that s what howard dean calls it. they ve got that phrase nailed down. is it going to stick matt? not at all. it is absurd.
power, it s the tea party out in oklahoma that show one a sign. they re the ones that did it i am going is anybody believing that? let me say as i have before that i m not cheerleading for the tea party in any big group you will have a certain number of wackos and the tea party is certainly no exception to that. if it weren t for the tea party we wouldn t have this urgent conversation about the mountain of debt that we have build up. they get credit for that from whom. somebody named peter wrote to my web site over the weekend blaming the tea party for the downgrade is like blaming the guy who calls 911 to report a fire. i think that s a pretty good analogy. bill: peter is a good guy. see, i don t understand how i