. - myreedom. for all who served and all who serve, we can never thank them enough. >>> welcome back. eight candidates aiming to go against president obama in 2012 met in michigathis week for the first republican debate focused on economic issues only. i was privileged to co-moderate this wide-ranging discussion. let's tatake a look at the highlights. italis on the brink of financial disaster. as president, whawill you do to make sure their problems do not take down the u.s. financial system? >> europe is able to take care of their own problems. we don't want to step in and ty to bail out their banks and bail out their governments. they have the capacity to deaea with that themselves. they're a very large economy focucused on the domomestic eco or we will fail. the third agency of government i would do away with education, the -- commerce and, let's see, i can't -- the third one i can't. sorry. i think ben bernanke is a large part of the problem andnd ought to be fired as rapidly as possible. i thi