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Fundraiser for the democratic congressional campaign committee. he is en route back to the white house today. no word yet whether or not hes been informed, but they do know here at the white house. and you know this, suzanne, that these sorts of episodes do come up from time to time. and what they usually caution in these cases and what theyre cautioning to us through law enforcement sources is that theres no threat to the president. that this letter and other letters in the past are interce int...

Bloomberg had to say. >> the letter was, obviously, referred to our anti-gun efforts, but theres 12,000 people that are going to get killed this year with guns and 19,000 that are going to commit suicide with guns and were not going to walk away from those efforts. >> now, police say the two letters appear to be written by the same person and sent to shreveport, louisiana, the third letter sent to the president came from the same postmark. they were intercepted at off-site sorting facilities, bu...

Orlandoer prescription and for your magazines. doug mche willway in virginia. >> reporter: the postal service has been hemorrhaging money for the past few years. in 2000, only 10% of americans pay their bills on line. datess 60%. today we got our first glimpse of how the postal service plans to make the cuts its facing. its going to be shuting down almost half of its sorting facilities from 480 to 275. that will result in the loss of 35,000 jobs. megyn: we are going to go to the white house and ...

Another example of how he frames it, putting congress on the defensive. >> ed henry live on the north lawn. thank you. the old axiom how neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night could keep the postman from his appointed rounds failed to account for the economic gloom that crippled the service. doug mckelway reports today we found out what is being done about that. >> its business model fell victim to the changing technology of e-mail and social media. that and overly generous retirement benef...

There is a public comment period, they have to be approved by the regulatory commission. its probably early april before we see the changes taking effect. that said, the postal servi is absolutely hemorrhaging money, its going to have to slash both its spending and its staffing. here is dave williams the vice president of operations speaking at a press conference earlier this morning. >> our network is simply too big to handle the revenues that are coming in today, but more importantly way too b...

Last-ditch move to avoid bankruptcy. it could make it xwabl for first class mail to arrive the next day and slow down important deliveries like your monthly medicine and affect how fast you receive things like movies and magazines. >> the fact of the matter is, our network is too big. weve got more capacity in our network than we can afford. weve got to set our network up so that when volumes continues to drop, our network is nimble and flexible enough to respond to those volume losses. >> nbcs ...

Another example of how he frames it, putting congress on the defensive. >> ed henry live on the north lawn. thank you. the old axiom how neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night could keep the postman from his appointed rounds failed to account for the economic gloom that crippled the service. doug mckelway reports today we found out what is being done about that. >> its business model fell victim to the changing technology of e-mail and social media. that and overly generous retirement benef...

Commission, and that will take a lots of time so look for the changes probably in early april. but, as you said, the postal service has been hemorrhaging money so the changes will make some very difficult changes. it will result if the shutdown of many sorting facilities across the country. were talking about 480 present-day facilities reduced to 275 and probably the loss of 35,000 jobs and saving of $3 billion, the timeframe for the mailing of a first-class letter will change. though more overn...