joining me now is ben white, wall street correspondent for "politico."ning, ben. >> thanks for having me. >> what is going on at goldman saks? now they are just down in the dumps wallowing in manure these days. >> on this front, they settled this thing for $22 million because they don't think they did anything wrong. the idea on these huddles is these analysts have a lot of high frequency information on these stocks to talk to traders -- >> inside information. >> it's inside information if it's an impareneding ratings change. if it's just an item of information for a fast-rating client -- >> let me stop you one second. you live and breathe in the financial world just so folks understand. if goldman sacks is about to upgrade a company, that is inside information and if they whisper that to some of their clients that's a big no-no. it's alleged in this complaint that that's kind of what was going on. >> you are the former prosecutor who would know the evidence needed to prove that kind of thing. but i think what they had was these analysts going to these m

the tweet of the day is sarcasm from ben white.ing the news. he followed with romney needs to do snl to return fire. >> as i like to call him, the prezee and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ prezee prezee >>> the agenda next hour all fair in love and politics, right? mitt romney trying to co-op the president's fairness platform as president obama proves he is still the coolest dude in the room, a contrast in style and substance ahead. >>> sa lashs details in the john edwards trial, the senator's choice words for rielle hunter revealed in court. >>> get this, kids drinking hand sanitizer to get drunk. instead, getting deathly ill. a warning all parents need to hear. the mom and sister of an iowa teen bullied to death for being gay. they'll speak with me live. that and much more coming up at the top of the hour. chris. >> thomas, thank you. beautiful women, beautiful dogs, beautiful beards. see a theme? down to the wire. another most beau

. >> courtesy of our friend ben white, morning money, who is then court he is city of hamilton play strategies, will this is on the election, he says that the unemployment rate, if you think the 8% is key for obama, if the participation rate stays where it is, 63.8%, president now needs only 176,000 jobs a month to get below 8%. >> this would be back to where it was when he took office. >> obviously that nt would woul for you -- >> that's why it's so critical. there's something about march that was a one off. is this year different from 2011 and 2010 or not. >> maybe it was something about the weather. >> we don't know. >> about we get $4 a gallon gas tax, we should be able to get that down to about 20,000 a month for unemployment. but we'd have nice bridges about. >> or if we did a major government austerity program. >> why don't they have austerity over in europe where obviously that should make things slower. we should double their credit card. >> up these freshman house republicans taking credit for what's going on in the which i. ha economy. have you seen that? quotes all over the place f

buzzfeed editor in chief ben smith. the white house is putting a positive spin on a disappointing jobs report this morning. mitt romney sees on the jobs numbers -- mitt romney seized on the job numbers which were roughly 0,000 below both estimates. this is a week and troubling report that shows the employment market remains stagnant he said. million of americans are paying a high price for president obama's economic policies. martin, ezra klein, the esteemed ezra klein said the october jobs report, he tweeted the october jobs report comes out four days before the 2012 election. an unexpected result would be an earthquake. we've talked a lot about the what the economic picture does for the president's re-election chances. there was a lot in the recent weeks, if not months, we've been thinking the economic picture has been getting rosier if not decidedly rosy. something like this would seem to be a problem for the white house. >> ezra klein has been saying all along he thought the number would go up. if you want to talk about unemp

when barber langdon lived in ledroit park along with ben j min butter worth from ohio. whites began moving out of ledroit park shortly after blacks started moving in. also advancements in transportation made residential life possible in the outskirts of the city. the white community was stunned when the first black family capital hill barber ok taif ya williams, his wife and daughter moved into 338 u street. someone fired a bullet into one of their windows. the second family moved in. they were the very famous robert terrell who was the first municipal court judge appointed by president taft and also mary church terrell who is legendary for her civil rights work and her work with the women's suffrage movement. by 1913 there were 800 to 900 blacks who owned or rented home in the area and the community was supported by a black-owned grocery store and other business businesses. more and more blacks from southern communities were moving into d.c. as part of the great migration. with the racial shift in the nation's capital came greater conflict and more and more segregation. in 19

whites agree. polls from usa today and the washington post found similar divides and bruce leshan found sharp divisions in our community today. >> i mean it's crazy. it's like watching the westerns. >> reporter: at ben's chili bowl in northwest d.c. >> black folks and white folks in america just don't see things the same way. >> the media. >> reporter: everyone we talked to was convinced what george zimmerman did to trayvon martin was murder, not self- defense. >> the big issue was the police didn't do what you expect the police to do if somebody shot. they didn't even do what they would do if they shot somebody. >> i think they would have came quicker had he been white. >> reporter: college student jermaine bowden says he's been racially profiled by police and said he felt just the way he imagines trayvon martin must have felt. >> it's the worst to know that i'm not doing anything and just to get stopped, it's the worst. >> reporter: zimmerman grew up in this house in manassas and some people around here think that he has been treated unfairly. >> i think he's already been convicted by the press. i think everybody blew it out of proportion. >> reporter: the ashton avenue diner is less than a mile fro

about being at the white house were those white house operators, so you could find people, and one time, this will really date me, but i was trying to reach ben crosby, and i reached mr. crosby, and we were chatting on, and i said, mr. crosby, where did the white house operators find you, and he said, i'm on a sailboat off tahiti, so they were wonderful, but we had -- the entertainment, when we were first in the white house, was different than the entertainment after the vietnam war heated up, because we had a lot of -- we had a lot of dance, and at one point, a couple of newspaper people came to me and said, i didn't realize that the president was such a big fan of ballet. well, the thing, the ballet dancers, they are too busy running their own -- keeping their bodies in shape, they don't have time to be out protesting. so we had -- we had the american ballet theater, we had the joffrey ballet, we just became big fans of ballet. >> and i read somewhere, you really wished you could have done a square dance, but you felt you couldn't because of the cultural condescension in texas. >> i couldn't do a barbecue either. we did do a barbecue at the

white house staff. she doesn't cover it. ben feller -- no, she's coming.ghter] ben feller is the white house bureau chief for "the associated press." carol leigh covers that and jake tapper covers nbc news. we want to make sure the scholarship students ask a lot of questions. this is for you. we want you to participate, so don't be shy. anyone in this or we'll tell you ask questions for a living and often the question you think is or uninformed elicits the best answer. i'm the smartest, most detailed question what do you a yes or no. saddam even be shy about feeling like -- just ask away. when president obama took office, he promised a new era of government transparency. this is a big priority for him, something they really wanted to highlight. among his first acts as president or pledge in this new love of unprecedented openness. first the question becomes, how has he performed on this promise? has he lived up to this record? one promise not kept with a plan to allow public comment for five days of nonemergency legislation that the president planned to si

at the white house, daniel nottingham, wjz news. >>> democratic snort ben carton is celebrating a victory. carden a one-term senator beat out eight challengers. there you see state senator nancy jacobs, she won the second congressional district republican primary. jacobs will face dutch rufus burger in the general election. stay with wjz for complete coverage of campaign 2012. for coverage, log on to our website, wjz.com. >>> he admits his gas tax is dead, so governor martin o'malley may go another direction to raise money for maryland roads. the governor is now floating a plan to add another penny to the state's 6% sales tak. the governor wants to dedicate the money to transportation. a sales tax hike would make maryland's highest in the region. delaware has none. w jz is in annapolis. we'll bring you both sides of the issue coming up at five and six. >>> the woman from south baltimore who claims she won the mega millions lottery jackpot now says she doesn't want the attention. her lawyer said he doesn't even know if she has the winning ticket. mike has the reports on the mega mess. >> r

the white house endorsed a bill last week co-sponsors by ben cardin and barbara mikulski requiring schools to go more. the safe schools conduct act retires a code of conduct as well as a reporting standard. the bill tied the action to federal funding to assure compliance. officials many say many kids are victims of the 21st century form of schoolyard teasing. this will require joint efforts of schools and teens. all parties must understand that the simple click of a mouse can have a deep and lasting effect. maryland is one of 45 states with a clearly defined policy, so lawmakers are doing their part. prevention and intervention are the next steps to provide a safe online environment for our teens. for more information go to wbaltv.com and click on "hot topics."

the white house endorsed a bill last week co-sponsored by senators barbara mikulski mick and ben cardinre to protect students from online attacks. the safe schools act requires schools to have a reporting standard the bills ties bullying standards. officials estimate that 20% of children and teens are victims of the 21st century form of school yard teasing. curbing the cyber-harassment will require joint efforts of school systems, parents, and teens. all parties must understand that the simple click of a mouse can have a deep and lasting effect on another person. maryland. prevention and intervention are the next steps to provide a safe online environment for our teaspoons. -- teens. for more information go to wbaltv.com and for more information go to wbaltv.com and

ben is right. if you look at natural attrition, they're fading and america is rejecting them. when the white house says now you must unionize and nlrb steps in and says you must cut deals with the the unions, that changes everything and by the way, if-- >> those are two different things, why is your voice so much larger than everybody else's. >> ben? >> with all due respect they have not said you must unionize, i'm sorry, i didn't hear the last part of what you said. >> there's such a small portion of this country. why do they garner so much power and how come-- >> let me put it this way as a jew and a great friend of israel, why are 4 or 5 million jews in u.s. mobilize almost all of the u.s. on behalf the israel because they're well-organized and disciplined and in this case israel i love with all my heart and unions, too, and in certain states-- >> unions are much more powerful in certain states. public sector unions in new york state elected the governor. >> i agree with all of the above that the unions are not what they were and they are weakened over time just by attrition to charles' p

ben crump. >> reverend sharpton, all of the clergy, black and white, thank you for saying it is about justice,, and only justice. we thank you for all of those people who went on change.org to sign a petition, not just to think about it, but to do something. thank you for your unselfish acts, even though you did not know trayvon martin 44 days ago. you just know that a child has been killed. a child who was sybrina's baby, tracy's son, had been killed and you thought if this was my child i would sign this petition. so thank you for signing that petition. and to all(og those people. all of the young people, the people who marched, the people who stood up, who refused to look away. it is for those reasons, young people who were trayvon's age, the high school students that walked down and said we refuse to stand for this. it was the young people -- old people we sometimes get complacent and we see so many things, but it's the young people who believed. they believed completely in justice, the concept, the idea, the dream of justice. i think those are the people who are sitting here today saying w

white house campaign spokesman, ben labolt said, quote 1.3 million americans donated the campaign. we we constantly review the donations for issues. once an issue has been raised we address it promptly as we will do in this case. the president has raised more than $120 million so far for his re-election, not including millions more from the democratic party. bill? bill: so this has happened before. what happened, what was the outcome in that previous case, steve? >> reporter: well the president was forced to give back the money. now, the, this case was two brothers, carlos and alberto cardona who it turns out have another brother in mexico who is a fugitive from the law on drug charges there. it was later discovered that. this situation was discovered and the president returned the money. he may have to return this $50,000 from her as well but that has not yet been determined. obama by the way is the only presidential candidate who has released his list of bundlers, that is financiers who go around collecting high-dollar donations from their friends and associates. bill? bill: than

ben crump. reverend sharpton, reverend bryant, all the clergy black and white who stood in their pulpits and said it is about justice and only justice, we thank you for all those people who went on to sign a petition not just to think about it but to do something. thank you for your unselfish acts even though you did not know trayvon martin 44 days ago. you just knew a child had been killed, a child was spriabrina' baby, tracy's son and you thought if this were my child i would sign this petition. so thank you for signing that petition and to all those young people, all the young people, the people who marched, the people who stood up, who refused to look away, it is for those reasons, those young people who were trayvon's age, those high school students who walked down and said that we refuse to stand for this. you know, those young people, old people, we sometimes get complacent and we see so many things we get jaded. but it's the young people who believe -- they believe completely in justice -- the concept, the idea, the dream of justice. i think those are the people who are sitting here today

ben crump. >> reverend sharpton and reverend black, all the clergy, black and white, stand in their pulpits and say, it is about justice, justice, and only justice. we thank you for all those people who went on change.org to sign a petition, not just to think about it but to do something. thank you for your unselfish acts, even though you did not know trayvon martin 44 days ago. you just know that a child had been killed. a child who was sabrina's baby, was tracy's son, had been killed and you thought that if this was my child, i would sign this petition. so, thank you for signing that petition. and tell all those young people, all the young people, the people who have marched, the people who stood up, who refused to look away. it is for those reasons. those young people that were trayvon's anyone, those high school students that walked down and said that we refuse to stand for this. it was those young people. us old people, we sometimes get complacent and we see so many things, with he get a little jaded. it is the young people who believe. they believe completely in justice, the concept, the

national journal," will cain is with us, he's a columnist for the blaze.com and ben jones joins us this morning former obama whitese special adviser has written a new book called "rebuild the dream." how is that for promoting your book? >> getting it out early. >> happy to help. happy to help. >> we're going to talk not only about the book but also your resignation from the obama cabinet, i want to hear all the inside scoop on that. first, though, we got to talk about the tornadoes, that was an amazing nearly four hours, absolute devastation there. >> yeah, my hometown and not far from my hometown. it was pretty scary to see. i had buddies calling me saying they had to evacuate buildings in downtown dallas and, of course, tv cameras there to capture it all. >> of course, the cleanup efforts are under way this morning. after the string of violent tornadoes. as we mentioned some people were saying there were six, others say many as 13 of those tornadoes tore a path of destruction along the area of dallas-ft. worth, it happened yesterday afternoon, destroyed homes and businesses. and in one instance tossed a 30,000-

ben, what do you make of it. i want to come back to intensity. i'm not sure that the president will win with intensity. what do you think of the choice that the whiteouse has made? >> i think that you're right he has taken the populous task. is it working, and is his management of the economy working? i think you know, he's trying to tell a story about the recovery of the economy and why it's recovering, how he's leading that recovery and it has to be seen to be happening. >> your sense that athletic themeatics will follow. >> it's been pretty good. the jobs report is terrible. >> not to quibble with you jordan, but it's pretty good if you're in the class of the punditry sitting in washington or new york when you look at the polling data. i hate to look at polls. i never really governor that had way or paid attention to them, but a large piece of the public does not see the recovery. is that the support that governor romney is rooting for? >> it's going to be happening in the first, second week of october, we're going to be sitting around saying the same thing, it's ambiguous. i think i'm the guy to talk about the enthusiasm gap for mitt romney. bu

ben. every eligible bachelor that the show has had are white. a spot as the bachelor last summer are suing abc, claiming they were discriminated against during their casting session in tennessee. their lawsuit says "central to this action, the words of the supreme court, is a glaring and inexorable zero. never, over ten years, and a combined total of 23 seasons of the bachelor and bachelorette, have either show featured a personÑi of color, in the centr role of the bachelor or bachelorette. in a statement, warner horizon television, one of the show's producers said this complaint is baseless and without merit. in fact, we have had various participants of color throughout the series' history and the producers have been consistently is vocal about seeking diverse candidates for both programs. we continue seeking out diverse candidates for both the bachelor andç bachelorette. here's the deal. think there is very little evidence that the bachelor's producers have any more than average racial bias, my hunch? they believe an african-american viewer w

that was one of the most visceral white house dinners i've ever seen because not just eviscerating donald trump but all that silliness, or yki a ben styr, hiin >> t hawa pbend heasuski o dng ttle b o aio lo the speec thise dn't have to be as pointed. you know, people still i had i had the memories of last year. >> just to be really superficial for a minute, what i liked about the president's joke last night or was two things. how much of a natural he is, how comfortable he is in h tth ectia t t tt upd ste wn uee thpridt n ifoal sein etr 'sslow jamming the w that became sort of a reason for the romney campaign to attack him saying the president shouldn't be seen like this. i thought it's a reminder of just how the comfortable and how well he interacts with the electorate. >> this is the harvard guy. if it wasmnf mn wkn rea isad eneil oitroey merry prankster de eric fern strom trying to give romney credit for the success of general motors is talking about romney and short sheeting the bed. >> one of the troopers who was assigned to his protection detail short sheeted his bed. the governor in order to turn the tables on this torm wha

ben lomond picked up the rest. but overall a third of an inch to an inch. some of that rain turning to snow up there in the whitehoe is reporting some. truckee and blue canyon it's a rain snow mix. temperatures are very warm. our low treasure is is. ing will keep the rain going with showers coo ever thorps possible off to the north and east. upper 50s very, very low 60s. again today we could be getting partly sunny and mostly cloudy skies. rain returns thursday. it looks much better saturday. >>> 5:51. some birth control pills will soon come with new warning labels emphasizing the risk of blood clots. the food and drug administration says the new labels will apply to raz and razmin. that contain the man-made hormone. pills with that hormone have a slightly higher risk of blood clots. >>> apple is being accused of electronic book fixing. the justice department could file charges as early as today. apple including five publishers are urn investigation. the federal government is examing whether apple cut a deal with publishers. apple and the publishers have declined comment. >>> 5:52. so that's where it is. the sec

ben curtis gets his hands on the texas open. but we start with football where after a great recent runs. being brought back down to earth in the russian premier league the red and white snoozing three nil at home to angie on sunday a bit of an upset this one time dominating possession but it was good hitting charges who made their limited opportunities count samuel eto the man getting the scoring going six minutes before half time substitute lucky yellow would have doubled the visitors need surely after the break really it was a gift off the questionable goalkeeping. on g.'s push for europa league qualification next season was the strength in sixty nine minutes and an own goal for nicklaus player topping off a dismal day for the muscovites who remain third and out of the champions league spots. now the premier league title race in england looks as if it will go right to the why after the weekend's action and all eyes are now on manchester united seeing their league cut to three points on sunday the champions involved in a full four thriller as whoever is in second place manchester city meanwhile taking full advantage of that draw to a single win over wolverhampton me

white. going to war shouldn't be something that is just taken so lightly. you know. >> during their time in afghanistan, van, ben and phil each sustained significant physical injuries including concussions, ruptured ear drums and broken bones. they earned five purple hearts among them. all three men finish their tours and all of them struggle with memories of the war. but they agree what got them through is their brotherhood. >> i would do it all over again only if i had them. >> as often as we can, we try to get together. we're trying to make new memories so the old memories aren't the same old war stories. we're trying to make new stories. whenever we can get together with these guy, i try and do it because they're the best guys in the world i know. >>> coming up -- >> line them all up. >> a u.s. helicopter assault in iraq sparks controversy. ♪ when your chain of supply goes from here to shanghai, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ chips from here, boards from there track it all through the air, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ clearing customs like that hurry up no time flat that's logistics. ♪ ♪ all new technology ups brings to me,

the white house spokesman matt laverick well this is clearly a intergenerational war is clearly a class war it's clearly the new jim crow laws as applied to interest rates if you're a friend of ben bernanke you can lobby for low low interest rates near zero percent if you don't give me a zero rates on the blow up this economy going to financial terrorist like on goldman sachs or jamie done but if you're a student you got loans to create a job we're going to build the economy to create the savings then you're going to have a doubling in our interest rates that's a financial jim crow law well but it's also this notion that the solution to everything is cheap interest rates and cheap interest rates will make every single human problem go away a quote here from cecilia munoz director of the white house domestic policy council said we must keep rates low so more americans get a fair shot a more affordable education and a clear path to the middle class well interest rates have been low they've been declining max for thirty years why then has the middle class also been declining if the only way to the middle class is low rate you tell me max where is the middle class because selective

white house is doing. we've talked about this more, trying to paint romney as severely conservative and moving away from that he has no core message, bens an opportunity for romney, because there is -- right, as they push him on being a clone of the house republicans, every time he moves a little to the left, this wasn't a radical socialist proposal to maintain the existing lending rates but we're talking about it, because it's interesting. he can pick his spots to break with the house republicans, they understand full well that that's the deal. and that it's going to happen as long as he sticks with them on big stuff. and he can again and again use these moments to differentiate himself and move to the center. >> it does raise an interesting question about a potential romney presidency, too, which is that he has no established relationship with his party's leadership. >> and nor does he have an appetite for the sausage making of politics or even state governance. as the catholic church weighs in on policy from the white house and gop, new concerns about the intersection of faith and politics. we'll discuss with "the washington post" e

ben iran and six nuclear powers this week. >> how much do we really know about iran's nuclear program? the whitee a bit. the washington post report that's administration is trying to convince israel that the u.s. of cia drones and intelligence on the ground has given us a good idea of where iran's nuclear program stands at the moment. the white house officials believe that iran hasn't yet made a decision to start building a nuclear weapon but even if they did it should take at least a year to make that happen. the idea here is to buy some time from israel to hold off on any kind of mill tare arery action to see if diplomacy will work to try to limit but not necessarily eliminate iran's nuclear program. one administration critic is questioning that strategy. >> the underlying problem, the basic iranian uranium enrichment program is being further will get matted and oured a minute -- legit mated and our administration seems to think that iran is entitled to enrich uranium. it is just a bad, bad way to start. >> well, as talks begin later this week between iran, the u.s. and five other nations, the

white, black, hispanic, latino. we will continue to walk. we will march and march until the right thing is done. >> well, reaction as well from the naacp. a statement from ben jealous reading in part, quote, 45 days after trayvon martin's life came to a violent end, the wheels of justice have begun to turn. just before air time, george zimmerman's new attorney, mark o'mara spoke to reporters. >> we have a process in place, it's a good process. the best in the world and it works pretty well. we have to let it work. we have to understand and have faith in the justice system. nobody after all wanted trayvon martin to be prejudged as he was walking down that street. i ask not to prejudge george zimmerman and please do not prejudge the criminal justice system. it's going to work. we just need to let it work. >> mr. o'mara said he hopes that george zimmerman will be allowed out on bond before his trial. he says a hearing is set for that tomorrow. like angela corey he declined to say where his client is right now or where he turned himself in. when asked about what guidance he gave george zimmerman, he said he told him to quote, stay calm, listen to my advice. i w