chris: what kind of a.t.m. machine does he use? last month romney had this exchange about rising gasoline prices. >> i paid $3.45 a gallon on my way over here to fill up my car to come see you. >> where did you go? [laughter] >> actually, a tie, well, here's jimmy fallon with a skit about the flubs that have brought down his competition. >> remember when we all thought it was going to be rick perry? bad debater. little flurry when he speaks. crashed, then burned. hey, remember this? now i want to see his birth certificate. but the best, the absolute best, this guy, the c.e.o. of godfather's pizza. he made some ladies an offer they couldn't refuse. now, that's two medium crashes for the price of one burn. look, i'm gonna be the republican nominee, because i know the one thing that they don't -- if you let somebody talk long enough, they'll say or do something stupid. eventually they'll go on and on and let down their guard just as it was written by joseph smith in the book of mormon. chris: when we come back, michelle obama gets boo

the a.t.m. machine to get cash out and there was poop all over it and i think they want to know what this wasn't about so i think it's a great local story out of i think i think two big rules are broken here right and one is that as a journalist you do want to become part of the story and one way to absolute become a story say poop and pee it like one hundred times over and over again number two don't say poop in peta bunch of occupy protesters who will immediately turn it into a chant is that group did and or repeating it over and over for the whole city to hear so i don't know i think i think they could have handled probably a little more delicately is ripe and juicy no pun intended as the story and at the end of the day we never found out. he'd. tell of mystery. ok now here's the present reason you keep coming up with all these stories you've got a lot of reporting on fracking you know this is the certain process that they used to drill for natural gas and polluting a lot of water supplies for local

and banks and of banks and other businesses and protesters are warning the banks covering their a.t.m. machines with police caution tape this signaling they've really had enough the biggest strike out of the city is taking place right now and it seems history may be in the making or they're essentially doing they're using a tactic that hasn't been used for sixty five years it's called a general strike this was last used after world war two in one thousand forty six by workers many of them world war two veterans who wanted more jobs and higher wages according to some historians listen to this this is interesting it was about working class that anger high inflation and outsized corporate profits sounds familiar right in oakland in particular all it took was a few store managers getting the police involved to help them get goods delivered while retail clerks were striking hundreds of police with riot gear and tear gas showed up to help those trucks push past the picket lines in response to more than one hundred thousand workers walked off their jobs because all ended well when the city valve to st

it's not just a matter of retro fitting parking meters and a.t.m. machines. if you suddenly boot a country like greece out of the euro, you're going to see greek citizens potentially is a run on their bank go. out to take the euros out before the devalued and depreciated drachma comes in and that could cause banks to fail and a whole ripple across other economies there and it happens across the atlantic. i mean, if we thought we had a problem with a.i.g. and lehman brothers and that chain effect three years ago, it's on orders of magnitude larger than that. so we almost don't want to consider the possibility. >> brown: well, mario offered a summary of hope for tomorrow in italian politics. we'll watch for that. thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: still to come on the "newshour": affirming union rights in ohio; ending an era at penn state; choosing schools in anderson, indiana and mishandling the war dead. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the president of iran vowed today his country

>>guest: if you go on an a.t.m. machine and download a print out of transactions you pay.u want your image mailed back, you pay, if you want the statements mailed back banks will charge you for that. it is like the airlines. pay for your seat. for the aisle. you pay for the water. for the blanket. >>clayton: and now the increase per month from $2 to $12. >>guest: banks can charge monthly maintenance fees. the only thing that makes an account free is if it doesn't have monthly maintenance fees but it can have any other fee. banks are increasing the balance to avoid the fees and increasing direct deposit required and increasing the fee. >>clayton: if you have a ca put money in savings but you can be charged for this. >>guest: that is something that is going up and that is a hidden fee. people are trying to avoid the unfair overdraft fees where they say it is a courtesy to charge you $35 to get a $3 latte and the banks are prohibited from that so they are increasing the transfer of fees. >>clayton: and banks using to online mobile applications but you can be charged for that.

for the largest baifntion america, the top 1% of banks, if you go to an a.t.m. machine an put in your card, at some point they will usually notify what you -- notify you what the a.t.m. fee s i think the same disclosure should be made on swipe fees. on the monthly credit card statements across america we should see in parentheses how much was paid to by the retailer to the credit card company. irthink it will be a surprise to many people as to how much they are paying every time they use middle class stifnlgt i should say, how much retailers are paying and charging their customers every time they use plastic. that is more information. that's more transparency. that allows you to understand the relationship that to in point has been hidden in secret. i think that's an important thing. i've also been talking to senator reed of rhode island. he has some thoughts of interesting legislation that he and i are working on concerning the actual cost of credit card fee transactions to the banks and to the credit card companies. so that we'll have a better understanding in that ca

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