which governor perry reports, i don t know. have i? you don t believe what s been released? i don t know. i had dinner with donald trump the other night. the governor said, and i quote, i don t have any idea. it doesn t matter. he s the president of the united states. he s elected. it s a distractive issue. keeping them honest, if it s such a distractive issue to use governor perry s own words, then why bring it up? here s how he answered. i said it s a good issue to keep alive. donald has got to have some fun. it sounds like you really do have some doubt about it. i haven t seen his i haven t seen his grades. my grades ended up on the front page of the newspaper. so if we re going to show stuff, let s show stuff. but that s all a distraction. i mean, i get it. i m really not worried about the president s birth certificate. it s fun to poke at him a little bit and say, hey, how about, let s see your grades and your birth certificate. so he says he s doing it to have
to washington but is all of that true? tonight we re keeping them honest. first the jobs. we created more jobs than any other state in the nation, as a matter of fact, in the last two years, we created almost half of all the jobs created in america. that s governor perry yesterday. you ll hear that a lot in the weeks and months ahead. we checked with the bureau of labor statistics and his numbers, do, in fact add up. texas created about 262,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and now that s out of 524,000 jobs nationwide. but the bureau of labor statistics says many of those jobs were for the minimum wage, minimum wage jobs have more than dunld in texas over the last four years and texas is creating many jobs in part because the population is growing so fast, up more than 4 million since rick perry took office, more people buying goods and services and more jobs. some of the people come illegally across the border. according to the it ex-text association of business, ille
who will have to get out of the race for the republican presidential nomination. also, dozens of people arrested in philadelphia last night, but we ll explain to you why they were all between the ages of 14 and 17. at the top of the hour, we start with the breaking news out of pakistan. the u.s. embassy is saying an american was abducted from his home in lahore. we have the latest from pakistan. reporter: t.j., this is the third time an american has been kidnapped in pakistan. they are rare, but the way it happened is unprecedented. i don t think we have ever seen kidnappers ever break in to take someone. according to the embassy, an american citizen by the name of warren weinstein, around 3:15 a.m. this morning, in the city of lahore, an sassailants brokeo his home and others scaled the walls. police say this house was being guarded by three very well trained security guards. they are saying they are retired military commandos. that is why police are considered these k
shopping sprees, but are still out there spending and that s good. the dow fell to the lowest level in 30 years, but we are not seeing the wild swings we saw all week. the dow closed down 600 on monday and up 400 on tuesday and down 500 points on wednesday and up 400 yesterday, and it was the first time in the dow s history we have seen closing numbers like this. drew? you could probably measure the heartbeat of traders the same way, up and down. tell us what happened in europe? they are trying to prevent the wild up and down swings. what they are doing is they are putting a temporary ban on short selling. what short selling is is when investors bet that a stock will go down in its price, and europe s version of our securities and exchange commission, it put a temporary ban for 15 days on several european countries, including france, italy, spain, and belgium to put a ban on this practice to stabilize the markets after we have seen the extreme moves over the past week, an
400-plus-point gain was a blip or perhaps a building block. well, sadly, we got a decisive answer today, the dow industrial average plunged 520 points, 4.6% amid jitters about europe s debt crisis and growing resignation that the long-term prospects for growth here in the united states are bleak. alison kosik watched the massive selloff up close. john, we had yet another brutal session here on wall street today. you know, there s a lot of uncertainty about the economic outlook here in the u.s. and in europe as well. you know, there s worries about france being downgraded like the u.s. debt was downgraded. they really accelerated the losses in the final minutes of the trading day, and then, of course, there s a fear factor that s around here, you know, investors feel like they re flying blind. no one has any idea of what s coming next or where the economy is headed, and it s that certainty that s feeding this downward spiral, but i also want you to keep in mind, what s also