Good evening. The show begins tonight shopping. Not so much. That's the report of American

consumers from Starbucks to McDonald's. All the way to Shanghai customers are not buying the stores are slack sales

Starbucks I watch because that's high-end spending on coffee. You can get a lot better over at another venue, another

franchise. Also it's very strong coffee and the pastries and sandwiches are

petite and perfect and expensive.

And it's off.

And there is no other explanation

of the fact that retail and sales in general

are slowing. No crash just slowing. I learned

from Liz Peak. We also turn to the political contest the very clever and creative way that one side of the ledger that would be the

Democrats are seeking to change the past about the major candidate at the top of

the ticket before after.

New speak.

We've always been at war with East Asia.

And then on to Venezuela, a report with Allison Federka about

how there is no transparency and there's no way to ascertain the actual count, the way the way the number, the way the number the way the

voting is done in Venezuela. There is disorder in the streets

reported it will it will continue. The regime will use brutality. The regime will use brutality.

The Rajo joins to talk about an extraordinary event in Africa in Mali.

The Tuareg, who are Native peoples to North Mali,

combined with an al-Qaeda branch called JN-I-M to ambush a column of Russian mercenaries called

Vagnac Group at one time now called Africa Corps. Many casualties. Bill Rasha reports more than 50 dead, maybe more than 80 dead, many captured.

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