joining us now, our specialist, richard florida. he atlantic" and professor at the university of toronto and has a fan base around the megapanel today, richard, so be warned there. they're coming for you. so, people always say, should i rent or buy, and the answer always is, well, some people should rent and some people should buy. and you get these vagaries. are there any rule -- what is the argument for why anybody should buy anything or rent anything? what's the foundation of the very argument that you're making? >> well, i think it's all changed. you know, people used to say, if you buy a house, you can save money, it's going to go up, and you know, it will be sort of for savings, you'll have a place to live, and you'll put money in the bank, which is your house. but as we've seen, that isn't true. and i think what's happening is more and more people who can buy a house are choosing to rent, especially if they think they might have to change their job. and two, and i think quite tragically, many people who might like to buy can't

richard florida is the senior editor at atlantic, richard quest, host of business.sting steep losses. christine lagarde head of international monetary fund warns the world is in this together. >> it's a problem that concerns each and every country, each and every member of our institutions. we are in this together and we can pull out of this together, because from the fund's perspective our analysis says there is a path for recovery. >>> well, that's nice to know, a path for recovery richard quest. could that path go steeply downhill before it gets to the end? >> there is a new reality. there's a new seriousness. i would say it's come in the last two or three weeks. people are now talking about finance ministers, analysts, economists, everyone talking about a window closing to sort this thing out. if you look at the last four or five days in the market, that's exactly what we are seeing. this window is getting tighter and tighter. but we're hearing the same rhetoric. christine lagarde is a fine finance minister and leader of the imf, but you've got to do more than s

our laem legal guys are back, avery cleveland, richard herman in plantation, florida. ght, richard. you say you see amanda knox making her way back to u.s. soil. >> i kind of think so at this point, fred. avery, how weird does this sound. there's going to be a verdict next week. the six jurors and two judges are going to come to a resolution next week. apparently 50% of the case that go on appeal in italy have some for form of reversal in them. the united states has put tremendous pressure on the italian government due to the perceived lack of evidence, even though she does not have an alibi for that evening. but the dna was knocked out. that was a substantial blow to the prosecution's case. i just kind of believe the mood and i can feel a little sense there's going to be a substantial diminishment of her prison time or she very well may be put free next week. >> avery, why are you so skeptical, even with the diminishing of the dna evidence that helped convict her? >> i'm not skeptical but i think i'm hearing a reversal on my colleague's part. i thought richard said the

florida. hi, richard. caller: hi. first i want to send my condolences to all the families that were involved, the victim and the victims' families and the fire department on that day did a great job and i don't want to sound like i'm second guessing them, but what i was wondering was why didn't -- a lot of the people on the top floors were jumping out of the windows of the world trade center to their death. why didn't they put nets around the perimeters of the buildings so they could jump into the nets. host: thanks for your comment, richard. this morning at the world trade center was the ceremony, the reading of the names. president obama was there, as well. we want to show you some more of that and at 8:00 p.m. live is the 9/11 tribute concert, president obama will be speaking there. that's at the kennedy center and it will be live at 8:00 p.m. here on c-span. right now, we're going to take you back to the world trade center from this morning. >> 10 years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the

florida. we encourage him in michigan as well and open up the field and help to find the next president. >> richard president get any credit for saving the automobile industry there? >> well, sure. i think you can't say that the dollars didn't help. of course, they helped. but the format of it, government-backed taxpayer money, there was a bankruptcy. there's a capital markets that deal with bankruptcies. there's financing for bankruptcies. it's called dip financing. it's one of the things governor romney talked about early on is let the companies go through the normal course of bankruptcy, come to a good conclusion, deal with debtholders and shareholders and vendors and management and put the company back on track. so was it the best use of taxpayers' money? i'd say no. was the outcome acceptable? certainly. nobody can complain about that. >> robert schostak, thanks for joining us. >>> and president obama tells black lawmakers to quit complaining. how's that going over? >>> and to hell and back again. the new documentary that exposes the true cost of war. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports"