president obama, 45% support mitt romney. the tight race makes for pointed rhetoric. i know governor romney came to des moines last week, warned about a prairie fire of death. that s what he said, prairie fire. but, you know, he left out some facts. you know, his speech was more like a cow pie of distortion. [ cheers and applause ] i don t know whose record he twisted the most, mine or his. with a 24/7 focus on the economy, the soon-to-be republican nominee has begun to paint a picture of what a romney white house would look like, starting with the jobless rate. over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we put in place, we get the unemployment rate down to 6% or perhaps a little lower. joining me is former new york mayor and romney supporter rudy giuliani. mr. mayor, you are also a former presidential candidate and a pretty astute observer of politics. let me start out with the broad-brush question, which is give me your most honest assessment of how
good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it is 8:00. thanks for waking up with us. let s get you caught up on some of the news. 33 years to the day etan patz disappeared, someone has finally been charged with his murder. pedro hernandez was arraigned yesterday on a second degree murder charge. this was a man identified as hernandez. he confessed this week to strangling the boy and putting his body in the trash. in the years following etan s disappearance, hernandez had told a family member and others that he had, quote, done a bad thing and killed a child in new york. he seemed like an all right guy. he had a wife and there was a young daughter. and they were, you know, they said hello and everything. they were always smiling. well if this guy, like they say confessed to it, 33 years he s been living in his own personal hell. pedro hernandez is being held without bail. ukraine s parliament may be dissolved because of a fight. it was a real knockdown, dragout fight on t
who might have helped pay for the ads, people who work for the company the obama camp is hammering. that would be bain capital. and a terrifying discovery. radiation from the meltdown of a nuclear power plant actually built into the foundation of an apartment building. wolf blitzer s off today, i m gloria borger, and you re in the situation room. and it could happen any minute now. a suspect finally charged in the disappearance of etan patz. exactly 33 years ago today, the 6-year-old vanished launching a national campaign to find and protect missing children. the suspect pedro hernandez allegedly has confessed to killing etan, but there are many nagging questions still out there. such as what was the motive? did police miss clues for decades? and could they have gotten it wrong now? our national correspondent susan canada yac candiotti is outside the district attorney s office in new york. susan, hernandez is going to be arraigned from his hospital bed? reporter: well
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, facebook face down. here are some of the headlines. the drudge report calls it fadebook. the wall street journal s headline tonight bankers under fire as facebook slips. bloomberg zuckerberg s fortune falls $2.2 billion as facebook drops. to put imi hype, at least not yet. but look at this. facebook s stock fell as low as $33 at one point today. that s down 11% in one day. the company has lost $40 billion in market capitalization since it opened. now that sounds like a lot of money. it is. i looked it up. here s the context nap amount of money is the equivalent of losing the entire companies of hewlett-packard and clorox in a day. poof, gone. the road doesn t end there. nasdaq s ceo says he s embarrassed by the technical glitches that delayed the stock s debut on friday. the glitches kept some traders in the dark for more than two hours. one man with a lot of advice for mark zuckerberg is steve kates, former
people need to know what are m romney did in 1994. one day with had a job, next day we didn t. we d been bought and sold in the past. we never had a problem. we were always a business that had value. when bain capital bought us, that was a whole different story. to me mitt romney takes from the poor, the middle class, and gives to the rich. it s just the opposite of robin hood. that s the latest of several such ads featuring workers who lost their jobs because of bain company. including newark new jersey mayor corey booker. have you had enough of obama s attacks on free enterprise? democrat mayor cory booker of new jersey. i have to say from a personal level, i m not about to sit here and indict private equity. even his supporters have had enough. enough is enough. keeping them honest. mayor booker sharply criticized the ads on bain. but the ad left out what else booker said which is critical of both campaigns. this kind of stuff is nauseating to me on b