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Treasury department to dimarco they were fully supportive of a principle write-down and they felt f ha would require administrative costs and go beyond the dollar set assigned the hamp program and the treasury department would help. >> explain that. there's this program passed as part of the bailout called hamp. they spent essentially none of this money, homeowners haven't been helped with this program. the administration said whatever you need to do. >> we will go beyond the program administratively to help it work. dimarco's pushback, this is an administrative cost to us plus the homeowners ...

We are at these not so great numbers, but the unemployment rate falls from 8.1% write-down in to 7.8%. :lou: let me smooth out the charge. we have a little below average what we did in 2012. there has been a decline and not an improvement according to the labor department. the survey employers, both government and business, to come up with that number. they have another survey, which is called a household survey. 50,000 folks are called and ask if they have a job or not. megyn: arctic cold calling them? >> they are cold calling them, randomly calling them. the establishment survey, that

Several hundred thousand homeowners and minimizing further cost to all other homeowners and taxpayers. >> indeed, roughly 80% of fannie and freddie homeowners are current on mortgage payments. tim geithnerial urged demarco to take another look at the math. arguing the writedown estimated to cost taxpayers $100 billion would spur recovery and offer net gain for treasury. >> we think there is a set of cases where it's clearly in the interest of the taxpayer for them to do principle reduction upfront. not overwhelming number but where it make sense we should do it. >> congressional democrats supp...

repeatedly, shelling, tank fire, nearly 100 civilians have reportedly been killed and now a russian official is in damascus to meet with the regime. we are going to figure out exactly how that will play out in the effort to end the carnage there. we have new information about final moments for josh powell and his two little boys. what the coroner says he did to his two little boys before he set the house on fire. >> and on the political front, a lot of delegates, up for grabs. 70, in fact, in the states that are actually offering them up. three states at play tonight. is rick santo...

Individual character, individual honesty and, heather the most important thing, if we are going to make a new roaryear's resolu, today this is day, start with character. >> heather: how do you determine if someone has good character. >> start in your own life. write down, what are the things i need to work on, rather than, i'll try and lose five pounds, that is a wonderful thing but that is not what our country is based on, beautiful people. the country is based on people with character and people we can trust and banks that have heads that we can trust. politicians that we can trust. fathers ...