let s begin with the brutal mob attack on three off duty u.s. marines in california. i always say a marine is really never off duty. orange county sheriff s department charged nine minors, five are facing felony assault with deadly weapon. began late friday near san c clamanty pier. they asked them to stop launching fireworks. look at what happened. if you have little ones in the room, video can be disturbing. u.s. marines left with no choice but to curl up into the fetal position. angry mob didn t let up. fortunately bystanders were able to jump in and break up the mob. orange county sheriff s department marines declined medical transportation to a nearby hospital. investigation ongoing. interesting. when you see camera angles like that and know there are people around. i don t know. always brings warmth to my heart people are willing to get involved. i can see if they wouldn t. this is awful to watch on memorial day when we are supposed to honor soldiers. this is a milita
I do think there is an element of you know, certainly what we teach our kids. there is an element. there are times you see a kid arrested. they came from a nice family. i grew up with a family of 12. friends 11 went to college, one went to prison. so the parents do have something to do with it. kids need to take that beyond. authorities are doing the right thing. there are charges. they are going to have a different future. so grate. the authorities came out, in this town we celebrate our marines and camp pendleton. for once local officials that had their back. to me this is representative of that dark disgusting underbelly of our society perpetuated by social media and voiristic to
Happened. as an intelligence guy, i would certainly want to listen to the tape. not for voiristic purposes, but as important as this did not was, seems to me if you were pursuing every scrap of information, every morsel of data that would cast light on what happened that you would want to listen to that tape regardless of the language, just to hear the emotion and the atmospherics of the last moments of somebody s life. even from a journalistic standpoint, you get the sense of how quickly it happened, how long it went, whatever. the point he was trying to make, i guess, in literal unemotional context that he
Americans sort of are entranced by this british society. this royal society and we can t relate to it maybe that s why we have this sort of voiristic approach to it. everybody is curious. fundamentally you can sit and watch the show with your grandparents and your kids. it s just clean old fashioned fun. when you think about it what really is there on television at the moment where you can sit with multigenerations and have family viewing time? that has been the key to its success around the world. families can join together and talk together about this more viewers than mad men four emmys, 13 million viewers and it is addictive. watched that first episode i want to watch the second episode today. there is under current of niceness in the show. that s lacking in any scripted drama i can think of. that s the key here. the characters i think every character political way they are they are all trying to be nice trying to do the
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, ratings agency fitch affirms of the united states aaa credit rating but says guess what, we re going to downgrade your outlook to negative from stable. this happened after the markets closed. obviously, something negative and all relate the to the lack of action and the failure of the supercommittee, still stocks is soared on wall street. because the markets closed before that action happened. the dow up by nearly 300 points. the reason was a wow weekend for the american economy. retail sales over thanksgiving surged. that s a fair word. they were up 16%, according to the national retail federation. ibm says it was the best kickoff to the holiday shopping season ever. topping it off today the federal reserve said household debt fell $60 billion. the outfront strike team called this optimism. 85% of them said they were not going to go into recession. when the pundits of america were sure of just that. well, as you can see, they ended up bein