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Upon book sales. book sales are actually down in 2012, down from 2011. you see that effective tax rate of 18.4%. as he pay 112,000 in federal taxes. he gave $150,000 no 33 different charities, including fisher house, which helps wounded warriors and their families in to 2011 his total gross was $789,000, because his book sales were higher in 2011 then 2012. charitable donations back then, $172,000. federal taxes paid, 162,000, effective tax rate in 2011 was 20.5%. that was a little bit higher than the 8.4% in 2012. and with vice-president biden his total gross income in 2012 was $385,000.

24 hours? to tell us, jonathan capehart, my colleague at the "washington post." during this show, news has been made. president obama has released the 2012 federal income tax returns. what do they tell us? >> one, that he paid an effective federal tax rate of 18.4% on income of $608,000. they donated more than 150,000 to charities and they paid a total of $112,214 in taxes. the bidens, however, made $300 combined, $385,000. paid $87,851 in taxes and donated $7191 to charity. >> i want to ask you about marco rubio. he is doing seven sunday shows, including univision. he is spanish language, all...

National suicide. >> white house officials believe the threats are more tactical than a real move toward war. nobody knows for sure. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. boeing says it is halfway to getting the troubled dreamliner jumbo jets back in the air. they conducted several test flights of the revamped battery system. certification test flight could take place today. a key step toward getting faa approval for them to fly again, all 50 of the next generation passenger jets were grounded in january because of batteries on two of them overheated. political and economic leaders wat...

Claman and she is coanchor of countdown to the closing bell and after the bell and all kinds of bells. [laughter] >> that's right, we want to see this number come down and not jump higher. we get these numbers every thursday. they decide, i don't have a job, i need to apply for unemployment. as you saw in your graphic, it jumped to 385,000. well, people are saying that easter fluctuations in hiring might sometimes affect this number. but it is very nebulous as to why we saw this. the fact is we have seen some trends that have not been so strong. that stretch it out over a year and it's not the...

A big jump in the weekly unemployment numbers at that came out earlier today. jobless claims increasing to 385,000, the third straight weekly increase we'v. and there are a number of stories about the jobs that are created and peter doocy has it live in washington. >> reporter: megyn, the lower wage jobs are created two and a half times than the mid wage or higher wage jobs. lower wage jobs only made up 21% of losses during the recession and are now responsible for 58% of recovery growth according to the national employment project. and we've also got a list that shows specifically which low w...