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. >> for more on the imct, th here d abroad, i'm ined by the assistant nagi editor of the wl seet journal an friend of thprogm. grt toave you back, john. >> is pleure. >> h theresident reassured the markethat's what i think as and he really d him a far. for tse w have not been tchi this date in waingt, itas a wake-up ll. snwas saying -- standa and poor's wa saying look. for those notfamiar with the ins and outs of th bget, it wa ao a wake-up call. this is way behindth curve. washgtonas med further ahead on ts issue. it is dbati it. it ct $4billion. it doing soith the 2012 budget. s&p 500 was not o in front, setting the alarms on the usincrisis. it was behind on tt asell. for whingn, this s been a plus, but it has not energized them. ey were already way energized. >> will itudge them to some kind of comprose? it is ierpred as a really seriou with a call by th public >> i do not thk itudges them if the wer to be aatin wngre, no,or se time -- lots of stufis gng to happen way bore e deadline onhis. th are going to have to agree on the012 budget. th are calling to have to raise the debt ceilin

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>>rotesters had wanted to make this their biestay of demonstrations yet and they poured onto the seets, anting for the downfall of the regi. this washe statue of president assad's father, who he took over from 1 yrs a. a da aer bharisted a statof emergency, the world was watchingo seeow his forces wld rpond. the answ came quickly. ese pictures througut the y th toll of dead and ijure grew steadily. one woman told the b wt it beenike there. >> the secity forces g crazy and they start shoing at t otesters directly. because thnumb of ptests was enormous. it was huge. that's why they srted shooti at them. >> among the casualties were t 12-year-old y, the pictures of hi fatal injuries are too graphic show. the white hoe has deplod the syri authority's usef violence. the killing of demstrates was acceptable and called the govemento implement political form witut delay. th prostsegan five wks ago. they've escalated, president bashar aad h made a series of concessions as wells lifting the cntry's emergency law. he's ford a new govement released some detainees d fired so loc officialless. all m

nature tells me there is a different reaction if you are the banker lending to the house down the seet, down the road, you have a lot of caring compassion for your community a new drive by that house every day. you will have a response of figuring out how to get this house backing to some owners hand. it gives me the opportunity to reiterate what i said in my opening statement. and the reason that the real estate aspect of this is so prevalent in my mind, i've had numerous bankers, half a dozen, telling me that with new regulations they are no longer making home loans. i think this is a terrible, sad circumstance in our country when your home town banker says it is no longer worth the regulatory costs of fingerprinting my employees to make a loan to someone who lives in our town. kansas and much of illinois, we have a large rural communities in which our bankers and other community very well. the idea that you can i go to your home town banker and get a home loan is trouble son. also a conversation with th regional banker telling me for the first time in their banks history, instead of

i said thaone day, we will be able to take to the seets and by peacefully for our freedom. e main goal be for us to shed light on the development so that we can prevent another hamas. hamas is a city in 1982 that was destroyed by assad forces because they tried to crush a rebellion in the city. there were about 200 armed people. they endedp destroying about half of the city and killing 30,000 people. we agree that these are terrorists. no one argued that at the time and no one disputed that at the time. killing 30,000 people to stop 200 terrorists is really not what the situation would warrant. is the recipe the regime has been using from the beginning. when bashar al-assad spoke about infiltrators, to us, it immediately ran all sorts of alarm bells. this is exactly what he was afraid of -- throwing is accusation, ending up with a situation like this, the government moving full force against the resistance, justifying it like this again. we're clear from the beginning to try to document the type of movement on the streets to show that they are unarmed protesters and to show