confusion is king on wall street lately. and the president, a.k.a., the self-proclaimed tariff man, isn t helping at times. there is uncertainty about the u.s./china trade war and where that stands thanks in part to the president s tweets. as one financial expert put it, volatility is the new normal. if you re watching the stock market today, you got whiplashed. the dow was down 700 points. it was down 785 points earlier in the day and this didn t help either. word of the arrest in canada, the cfo of a chinese tech giant, the details of why are sketchy. the wall street journal reported the d.o.j. was investigating whether she violat violated sanctions with iran. the president took credit when the stock market has climbing higher. hasn t claimed responsibility for the volatility. joining me is michael dantonio,
instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest was a big gift. free extra septemberives were very big with young college-aged women. and then finally obamacare also made a difference for them because as you know, anybody 26 years of age and younger was now going to be part of their parents plan, and that was a big gift to young people. all right, mike. a lot of republicans i m thinking of governor bobby jindal among many others have come out and whiplashed against these comments and saying it s ridiculous and not the reason governor romney lost. what s the reaction been like in washington? republicans are very disappointed by this, and there are three big reasons. first of all, this is sour grapes, like this certainly isn t gracious. second, it s just not accurate. there were many, many other factors that were involved, gifts to minorities were not the reason that president obama won the white state of new hampshire, the largely white state of iowa. it s not why he won the homet
one of the nation s best-known landmarks, the washington monument, will now be closed until at least 2014. believe it or not, it is all because of the damage from last summer s major earthquake. as wjla s jennifer donnilen reports it is a repair job. reporter: the freak earthquake last august may not have brought the monument crumbling down but the top whiplashed and cracked. so came the news, the monument could remain closed until 2014. i did know about the earthquake. but i expected that it would be ready and working this summer. so i was surprised. reporter: surprised because almost a year since the quake, they could only take pictures. the national park service put out a timetable for repairs, the construction bids are under way. once a contract is awarded sometime in september it may take 12 to 18 months to fix the cracks. the ultimate challenge in fixing the washington monument is the height of the damage. reporter: getting skilled
investigation. plus appropriate or despicable? we put my controversial opening question from last night s big debate to the truth test. and a deadly day in afghanistan leaves six u.s. marines and four french soldiers dead. the french now threatening to the french now threatening to pull out for good. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin tonight in south carolina where the republican candidates for president down to their final night of campaigning before tomorrow s all-important presidential primary. everything we expected at the start of the week now turned on its head. polls show newt gingrich surging. the one-time frontrunner mitt romney sees the state slipping away. today governor romney fought back by demanding speaker beginning rich release more details of the ethics investigation back when he was the house speaker in the late 1990s. i think over 80% of republican congressmen voted to reprimand the speaker of the house? first time in history. and nancy p
longer the elephant in the room, governor rick perry announces he s joining the republican party for president. he may be the republican front-runner but he was not feeling the love at the iowa state fair. he got heckled and laughed at over three words he said, words he may come to regret on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com ing. oh, thank got it s friday. wait a minute. i ve got to move my stuff. good morning. happy friday to you. it s august 12th. welcome to american morning. up first, texas governor rick perry, the elephant in the room, is about to go on for 2012. perry says he s ready to toss his 10 gallon hat into the ring. we re going to have an announcement at 1:00 eastern time over in south carolina and then hop in an aircraft, come straight to new hampshire, and i hope you ll be watching your television set and listen to however you re picking it up on the internet or whatever. we ll have our announcement to give our intention