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And stanley greenberg, but they just did in a new report. byron york is here. byron, these are two big guys in the democratic party? >> they are. >> greta: what is this report? >> its pretty bad. they did focus group research in clump bus ohio, and outside of philadelphia, ohio. they gathered people who had -- wowere not overly political. they were independents or they split the ticket. they were half and half between obama and mccain supporters in 08. basically what they found is that president...

And stanley greenberg, but they just did in a new report. byron york is here. byron, these are two big guys in the democratic party? >> they are. >> greta: what is this report? >> its pretty bad. they did focus group research in clump bus ohio, and outside of philadelphia, ohio. they gathered people who had -- wowere not overly political. they were independents or they split the ticket. they were half and half between obama and mccain supporters in 08. basically what they found is that president...

>> im saying it, i got to eat a shoe, i hope its chocolate but i hope i win the bet. >> wendy murphy, thanks so much. appreciate your insight. risky business, ceo jamie dimon apologizing for the $2 billion trading loss, still defending his bank and the risk-taking involved. plus, take a look. have it your way, bacon on your burger or now on your ice cream sundae, too? wait until you see this. first going for the gold in london, no ones eating bacon sundaes there. michael phelps making hist...

At fastreliefchallenge.com a lot of americans woke up this morning to yet another financial shocker. word of the biggest bank failure in u.s. history. washington mutual collapsed last night. it was seized by the federal government and bought by jpmorgan chase for almost $2 billion. >> we are breaking it down here looking at the collapse of what was washington mutual. ultimately sold to, yes, jamie dimon probably with a little bit of a thorn in his side, even this afternoon. during the height o...

ironically, from the chase department in charge of mitigated risk. my colleague, christine romans watching this hearing from her post in new york. the department thats supposed to mitigate risks made these risky trades and now he is having to answer questions. its obvious why congress wants to know why these stupid trades were made. >> yeah. he says, you know what? im not going to defend it, because it violates common sense. it shouldnt have happened. what was, maybe should have been a...

Obama won the state in 08 by taking most of its populated areas. can he pull off the same feat four years later? joining me is nbc news senior political editor, mark maurray. if we look at the spending for campaigning, there are three virginia locations among the top eight. so explain to all of us the stakes that virginia holds for each, for president obama and mitt romney. >> theres no surprise that the campaigns, the obama and romney campaign plus all the outside groups, are descending on the ...

May cost the company as much $7 billion but the price for jamie dimon and jpmorgan and the banking sector maybe bigger than that because when the blunder became public in april, it sparked a free fall that has cost shareholders $30 billion and now there is new evidence that the man in charge, the unindictable jamie dimon, was warned about the risks of the london whale positions two years prior and ignored them. that news should make jamie dimons scheduled testimony at the senate banking committe...

About why wasnt sandusky arrested in 08? why wasnt he arrested in 09, 2010, et cetera? i thought he was weaving together a political argument and pointing a finger without ever naming the current governor, the then-attorney general of pennsylvania s that how you interpreted that portion of the opening statement? >> yes, thats exactly what it sounds like. and i believe what the defense attorney is trying to do is to say to the jurors, dont look at what sandusky did. dont look at the facts against...

Some would say he even demonized them. here is one example from the 08 campaign. >> the pharmaceutical industry wrote into it prescription care drug plan that medicare could not negotiate with the drug companies. the chairman of the committee went to work for the pharmaceutical companies making 2 million a year. i want to put an end to the game plan. megyn: did he put an end to the game or did he join right in? >> his administration participated in the game. going back to the beginning. get the ...

Here? >> i refuse to sell out of my retirement account because greece goes bankrupt. they spain is some what bigger. italy will be the next program. cyprus is having a problem. stocks go so far down. heres the thing. 10 year treasury bonds in the united states are a measure of fear. interest rates plunge. but they are lower in 08 in the melt down. invest offers say the risk is higher than the 08 melt down and it isnt f. you have a long term stock dont sell out of them and the fact that you are h...