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Next, $100 million. that's how much banks bad behavior cost them. the money is for settle ams to customers during the financial and mortgage crisis. finally, five. that's how many times one chicago grandma called to vote for her favorite "american idol" contestant. her phone company threatening to cut off her unlimited paid for service. >> i got it down to a science now. instead of counting the calls, i keep hitting redial and i timed it and i get about 50 calls in in ten minutes. >> gretchen: comcast high school since apologized. brian? >> brian: all right. on this episode, it's been five yea...

Try to short it out, 2727 wall street has troyed to figure out who pays the most in taxes. exxonmobil topped with a $31 billion tax cat followed by chevron's $20 billion. moscow tops "forbes" magazines list of the most millionaires. new york second with 62 billionaires, tied with third, hong kong and london. and dale earnhardt finishes fourth on the list of nascar's highest bait nascar drivers. and new yorkers flocked to yesterday's st. patrick's day parade. a u.s. news world report ranks new york's third best right

Using that responsibility or tha authority so be it. that's what you expect of a president. this president seems more incline to do see the chips fall as they may it's very unusual for the president. that family is growing. the government controlled mortgage companies are about to welcome a new addition. let's ask adam shapiro from the fox business network. they are supposed to merge 31 billion. >> good for taxpayers or bad? >> here's where we span you and i 300 other americans failed fannie mae and freddie mac which backed 9 out of 10 mortgages in the united states. they are private company...

>> the leading budget hawk who talk about this, basically they say back in 2007 the height of the iraq war the troop surge was going on, a very expensive proposition. the base pentagon budget was $431 billion and that did not count the cost of the wars in iraq and afghanistan but the base was 43 $431 billion. today the base is $551 billion. people are saying why should it be so much more today than it was in the peak war years of 2007. to get back to the 2007 spending levels would require significant cuts. >> neil: real quickly, are they going to resolve this before the 11th hour? >> i think t...

They're just beginning to talk. think of this, the president wasn't in negotiating, he was in detroit campaigning. the senator is right. this president needs to get off the campaign trail. the election is over. now it's time to govern. what's more important, what senator graham is talking about, the president has to start talk being spending cuts. we've already had two months of the new fiscal year. we're $292 billion in the deficit. there's some interesting numbers through there. revenues have increased $30 billion. they've gone up 10%. why that number is important is the president is able to...