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"discovery" will make one more trip, chuck. >> all right. nbc's jay barbree hosting the shuttle's landing this morning o morning for us. thank you so much. >> that was a real treat to do that with jay. >> all right. >> thank you, guys. >> all righty. goldman sachs executive boards are hoping this morning strong earnings report will draw some attention away from the fraud charges hanging over the bank. again, could it bring more unwanted attention? let's bring in bertha coombs this morning. i've got to ask, if goldman's making so much more money, is that going to make more cynics look at them a...

Get a recovery. that's because three so massive and dangerous. if they were smaller you could pursue them on a legal front as well as letting them fail. that second volcker rule that, sensible principle is missing in the dodd bill. >> politically not sure if the democrats in this obama adminstration can do that. i want to go on to another question about goldman itself. these charges brought by the u.s. s.e.c. we already know about great britain. we've got germany that may go after them. we know what happened in greece. and the possibility of what the role that will goldman played. how big of a...

Bucket, not john paulson. >> these investors had the opportunity to do their own due diligence, look what was in this package of investments, that's what goldman's argument would be. >> goldman's argument would be these were sophisticated investors. they know there are people on both sides of this deal. the s.e.c. claims, though, that goldman misled some investors by leading them to believe that paulson was also investing in the deal on the other side. >> here is one piece, going to savannah's question. a lot of companies have to hand out a prospectus. a lot to read. if you invest there's a pr...

It allowed the hedge fund to pick the worst mortgages, to go into the bucket. which means the investment was likely to fail. goldman sachs then helped the hedge fund bet against the bucket. goldman sachs then labeled the bucket a good investment. and sold the supposedly good investment to others. telling them the hedge fund also had invested. but goldman sachs did not tell other investors that the hedge fund helped pick the worst mortgages and was actually betting against the bucket. when the bucket failed, investors lost more than $1 billion. the hedge fund made a billion dollars. goldman ear...