we can get into the weeds, but it is interesting that john corzine is considering his next career moveuld have to do with a hedge fund. >> a lot of people say he gave the order to move the money. terry duffy said he made the decision to move the money, and now there is no investigation -- >> that bha the case, but there are no charges. >> former governor, senator, former ahead of goldman sachs. >> he is an optimistic guy, obviously. >> stick around, we'll have more thoughts on this story and john corzine's latest moves. >> i'll stick around. we'll be back with the closing countdown. >>> and find out how much are we paying if the tax cuts are not in place. ♪ ♪ three, six, nine ♪ the goose drank wine ♪ the monkey chew tobacco on the streetcar line ♪ ♪ ♪ clap, pat, clap your hand ♪ pat it on your partner's hand ♪ ♪ right hand ♪ clap, pat, clap your hand ♪ cross it with your left arm ♪ pat your partner's left palm ♪ clap, pat, clap your hand, pat your partner's right palm ♪ [ male announcer ] it's back. the volkswagen beetle. that's the power of german engineering. [ male announcer ] it's

oh $1.2 billion missing john corzine our buddy wouldn't do that. he's just a moron.oddamn it there is no justice in this country. another sense of it. corporate cabses are so high. my ass they're high. 26 companies mega corporations in the 2011, paid their ceo more than they paid federal taxes. you we can't pay our taxes but you can pay your ceo. average profits was $1.4 billion for those 26 companies. not the combination of the companies. average profit was $1.4 billion. why the hell didn't you pay taxes? because they bought the government. they give money to the politicians, and in return they edit subsidies tax loopholes. let me give you examples. first, look at these companies halliburton. their coe got $16 million. how much did they pay in taxes? negative $1.026 billion. they paid a negative. that means we paid halliburton. you had a great profit? give your money to the ceo and then we'll give you profit on top. boeing we gave them $605 million in taxes. atatt & t, money out of our pockets to give them more money. and this is--this is frustrating, man. let me sh

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chief of the firm as you mentioned senior democrat former new jersey governor and former senator john corzine claimed he was in the dark about the problems. >> as the chief executive officer of mf global, and i say this with all sincerity, i truly apologize to all those affected. i want to be clear, i never gave any instruction to misuse customer funds. i never intended anyone at mf global to misuse customer funds. >> reporter: in an email before the collapse of mf global sore dine was more upbeat about its future writing to employees in january 2011, quote let's be an example of how to do it right and play a leadership role in restoring confidence to our history. during the december 8th hearing lawmakers questioned whether corzine and other executives were offering a complete accounting of what happened. >> this is a glaring, glaring example of why the american people are rapidly losing faith in our ability here in washington to get our hands around this. >> it's estimated that as much as $1.2 billion in customer money is missing. i know that every member of this committee, and certainly cus

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no criminal charges again john corzine. so there's a lot of news this morning. >> let's talk about apple. >> we will. >> you want to talk about cisco first. >> let meadow cisco. ate stock that was almost $30 in the last 18 months or so. followed pretty closely. and chamb and chambers said a couple of disappointing things and company lost its weight. it will be up today but still only back to 18. closed at 17.35. up a dollar. company is taking advantage of a slow summer afternoon. made a splash with its fiscal fourth quarter results. it earned a 56% jump in profits. and revenue was up 4%. both above expectations. announced a 75% boost to, of its dividend to 14 cents a share. so let's see. that will be -- it's yield is 1.8% yield or now. so that does take it up to where somewhat attractive in terms of acyield stock and more mature company. it just started paying a dividend last year and ceo john chambers talked about the dividend hike on the "closing bell". >> once you start adding dividends our thoughts would be you continue

a half years ago -- three years ago right now obviously the worst part of my campaign against john corzinethree years later i'm talking to you here as keynote speaker. >> it's got to be a thrill. >> we'll have more later, including what the first lady of new jersey had to say about that headline that's extremely insulting. >> is there a risk that chris christie does so well tonight that he overshadows the guy we're all throwing the party for? >> i don't think so. chris is a stand alone. he generates his own interest and power. it's going to be about mitt romney. he's the deliverer for the romney message and it's going to submit that connection that the romney tea is looking for between the tiks or to be the top of the cam pan. skblip got that question about ryan. will that affect rhode island in. >> no, no, everybody should do as well as they can. you get four hours when you're running for president that really count. that speech is the first of those four. the debates are the others. romney has to do well. >> i think it's doubling it down. i come back to the mitt mechanic. the hope is, lo