Barack Obama and Mitt Romney appeared before a conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Moody’s cut the credit rating of 15 major banks, including Bank of America and Citigroup. And the White House refused to turn over certain Justice Department documents to a House committee, prompting the panel to vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.

Ed Kilgore, a Democratic strategist and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, is the moderator of this week’s “Left, Right & Center,” and Joshua Trevino, a senior officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins the conversation.

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly. Follow him on Twitter: @areedkelly.

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