trading is merrill lynch. asset gathering is merrill lynch.ou needed to see countrywide stop bleeding in order to show how good merrill is. this was that quarter. >> lone growth at bac down 2.9% quarter-on-quarter, the worst among the big lions. >> they don't have revenue, that's true. they don't have the revenue growth, i'm sorry, versus, say, a bbt. they do have severine. obviously using shorthand here. but this is a bank that was written off. the fact is they made two acquisitions within a couple of months of each other. countrywide almost put the institution in peril -- >> in complete and total peril. it's a wonder it made it through. when you do that, i feel obligated to -- >> i like it when you push faber to say "dumbest". >> it's competing for number one. aol, nextel, sprint. to your point, they seem to be moving past to it a certain extent. >> i think one of the reasons why this one had been so bad last year was they weren't able to move past it. montac, you have a merrill lynch figure who's moving up. you see the merrill lynch card. i

you've got to do the program, so that's what we did, and then at the end, bob merrill said that he wanted to do an encore, "it ain't necessarily so." >> that calls to mind the famous incident in 1976, time of the bicentennial when the fords were entertaining queen elizabeth ii and someone had not checked the music program, so the time came when the president invited her majesty to take the dance floor, and as they did so, the band broke into a lusty rendition of "the lady is a tramp." they did check after that. both of you had the privilege of entertaining her majesty. is there anything unique about preparing for the british royal family? >> we had a little incident on the south lawn, which started off the visit, and at the arrival ceremony, the president makes remarks first and greets the dignitary, in this case, queen elizabeth, and they are all standing out there, and then the queen stepped up to the microphone to make responding remarks. well, the chief of protocol, who's standing there with them was meant to pull out the step behind the microphone to raise her to the right height, an

. >> once of the most versatile actresses of our time merrill streep joins the governor tonight. >> obama's re-election headquarters well-oiled machine. are republicans ready to fight this battle? >> plus. >> you just lost the love of your life. >> before her husband died of cancer, he wanted to make sure the boys supported their mother. >> i know your mom's values and if she remarries she is going to marry somebody that i approve of. >> his dying wife has a similar message for him. >> she was in her last hours trying to connect us. >> brought together through grief. they discovered a whole new love. , ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [ applause ] >> thank you, happy easter, everybody. welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. well, i think all of you know that this is the weekend that jews observe passover to commemorate the deliverance of the jewish people from slavery to the promise land. and christians celebrate easter, which marks the resurrection of jesus christ. for jews and christians, this weekend marks the high water mark for days to set aside to

take for example the president of merrill tools part of 400 merrill technologies group. he says as a manufacturing business in mid-michigan we know firsthand the ramifications of the recent economic turmoil. the best way washington can help energize economic growth is by making sure business owners are spending less on tax payments and more on creating jobs. he's a larger small business owner but there are smaller businesses that feel the same way. jim holton has served the central michigan community as a restaurant owner nor than 15 years. he's pleased with the simplicity and ease of this legislative approach. he says the beauty of the small business tax cut act is its simplicity. if you're earning profits and contributing to the economy you can take 20% off your tax bill. no hoops. this is great way for business owners like myself in the great lakes bay region and across america to jump start our economy. those are two examples in michigan's fourth district but coke small businesses and small business owners across the country. throughout our history we've depended upo

chris wolfe is chief investment officer at merrill lynch wealth management private banking. with us tonight from the new york-- welcome to the program, nice to see you. >> thank you, tom. >> tom: so is there anything wrong with the government help that is in the market and has helped push this rally to post session highs? >> you know, i think most economist was say no there's nothing wrong. in fact, that was the government's job to step in where the private sector had stepped out. but i think where we are today is after a lot of stimulus, a broad expansion of central bank balance sheet, in the just in the u.s. but globally, we're starting to wonder how long can that stimulus last and how will the government take itself out. >> tom: so with that ahead of us are you recommending selling stocks, peeling back some of the profits that we've seen in the market? >> well, our concerns stem from kind of two things right now. one is as i indicated earlier longer term how does the government take itself out. right now it's a large measure of consumer spending and we're looking at somew

merrill lynch is in the world financial center as is rbc and american express as well. so far folks remain outside although they have dispersed for the most part. this has been going on now for over an hour. we will update you as we get more information. >> bertha coombs coming to us from lower manhattan. for those who don't know the area down there all that well, world financial center is literally just across the west side highway from ground zero. it's a sensitive area thus the activity we see down there. bertha will continue to follow that story for us. let's get back to google story. that's the big story after the bell today. what are expectations and if it's another disappointment, do we have to start rethinking the google story here and exactly what they're doing? >> absolutely. it's going to be paid clicks which are better than expected versus cpc, cost per click down probably about 9%, 10%. what can investors get? what will they look at? it will be the motorola acquisition. we have no idea the strategy or what will happen with margins. if they miss, you'll see

this is the moto mart where merrill made $3 quick picks.ce of paper. went to his billfold as he he called it compared the ticket and realized his life had just changed. >> i turned to my wife who was right there with me and i says we won. and she kind of looked at me funny. and i said no, we won. and then she started giggling. [ laughter ] and she giggled for about four hours, i think. >> now, merrill said he wasted two dollars because only one of those numbers was a winner. the people here in red bud are surprised he was able to keep a secret. the only people who knew were lawyers and financial managers. merrill said he is more interested in investing than what he he can buy. they are a quiet couple active in church vietnam veteran. part of investment include trust funds for the grand kids. >> they're filthy rich. god bless them. mike tobin live for us. the most successful coach in college basketball history stepped down today on rocky topless than a year after she announced she has early onset alzheimer's disease. university of tennessee'

what action are taking against merrill lynch? >> the county has a triple a bond rating. we are fiscally well-managed. we are very conservative, prudent investment portfolio. five years ago, baltimore county use its financial adviser from maryland -- from merrill lynch to advise income strategies. we, like many other jurisdictions were misled as to the security of that financing. however, i was a councilman back then, five years ago. the council was informed that time. we were aware of the nature of the loss and that enacted changes to our bonding portfolio so this would not occur again. now we are investing in the opportunity to pursue a course of action. if we can recover something, it would be great. >> finally, this is earth day. are we gonna see a lot more of that campaign? >> only if you keep running it. it is fun. with a theme of do not drop it, pick it up. we're urging people to do 15 minutes of trash pickup. when it every community in the county to pitch in. >> thank you for coming in. >> next week our guest will be maryland attorney general. it to the question,

your privacy purse fell like a dream will sell on lots to make it a reality his name is nicholas merrill and he's aiming to build a telecommunications company that shield customers from surveillance and he even wants to take it a step further and challenge the government if they ask prayer and permission he ran a new york based internet provider and everything that went down behind the scenes so he is well aware of how easily your personal information is out for grabs and he joins us now to tell us more about this like also tell us a little bit more about your idea. the essence of the idea is i'm trying to redesign the till he reaches industry works and what i want to do is change that basic paradigm and one where it's completely transparent to one where it's more. by using a technique called encryption to basically scramble the user's data and essentially return the ownership of the data to the individual so that the telecommunications provider doesn't have constituted visibility into what people are doing on the internet and what people are saying on the telephone and what inspired you

i was in merrill lynch's midtown facilities.and i live in westchester, so i was trying to get out of the city early, because the traffic is always bad on a friday night. i went by myself. and, for the most part, the ceos of the large investment banks and commercial banks were all there by themselves. >> so everybody converged. at that point, it was just the ceos of the main houses and very senior advisors. >> you had about a dozen different ceos there, and you have in there tim, from the fed. you have henry paulson as the treasury secretary. >> narrator: paulson delivered the message: lehman was in a death spiral, and there would be no government bailout. >> they'd said to us we collectively had to find a solution for this. and this is the important part-- the government was not going to provide any form of assistance. >> narrator: it didn't take long for candidate obama to also hear the news. at the time, he had a secret inside source. >> i was speaking to the senator all along. when we started talking friday night, he was aski

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. >> miracle after merrill. -- miracle after miracle. >> what did santorum said about mitt romney as announced the suspension of his campaign? nothing, not a word. what romney nonetheless considered santorum as his nning mate? >> i am not taking anybody off the list. i don't have a list yet. i cannot say someone is on or off my list. >> ok, there's no list. rick santorum has decided to drop out of the race before he got clobbered again. he lost his 2006 re-election bid by 18 points in pennsylvania. santorum was all but ignored by moderators in their early debates. let us consider what rick santorum has wrought. did he make mitt romney a better candidate, or did he put him in a box, as "washington post" columnist e.j. dionne has suggested? >> i think rick santorum, who appealed to voters who like his ideology -- did not care if he was going to win or not, but like him talking about social issues. the candidate was one to talk about economic issues -- mitt romney. he forced mitt romney in a lile fthero th right and mitt romney wanted to go. now in the general, which is sort of begun al

it has some nice pictures inside of the existing merrill -- mural when it was young and fresh and theas it unfortunately is now. do not know what is going on with the light, but -- also text. [bell rings] supervisor chiu: and you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. the president of united states of america, president of the united states of america, only contact people in compromising with the presidential politicking good afternoon of the standard of regulations and laws in jesus christ, i ain't got beat the devil and god -- but the main thing is -- see, the thing is, the regulations of a good board to help schools out and would help mental illness people, and physical education is good, so keep that in schools. recycling is good. basically, just have a good world. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> nice note to and on. i just wanted to speak briefly in regards to the comments that an individual made earlier about the board taking opinions on public or international affairs. i just want to appreciate the board for always taking courageous stands

along the way in 2000, merrill lynch wood him from goldman, sachs making him the top man in southeastsia. he was doing the family proud. and he wasn't the only one. brother andrew was on a roll with his investment firm, buying and managing commercial properties around new york. andrew now married to wife hayley wolff kissel, former ski champion and stock analyst, bought a co-op apartment on the upper east side, made it the showplace of the building. >> i knew him to be somebody involved in real estate transactions. >> fellow apartment owner peter chamberlain says neighbors were so taken by him, they tapped him to be the building treasurer. he could break into the mutual piggy bank with no questions asked. >> is that unusual? >> yes. that is highly improper. >> as a fellow board member, chamberlain could eyeball some of the books. a little quick math told him the numbers there weren't adding up. he says he confronted the other board members and andrew kissel. a faceoff he lost. >> what did you think at the end of that little bit of accounting? what did you think was going on? >> to be

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check out the scene as patricia and merrill butler accepted their check for more than $218 million before taxes. the couple say they to invest the money and go on a big vacation. of course three schoolworkers here in baltimore county also took part in -- took part -- took home part of that jackpot. >> a man is facing charges for staging an unusual protest at the local airport, witnesses say they could not believe it when he stripped-down naked and refused to put his clothes back on. the 55-year-old says the tsa officers were harassing him. he was sober and is now charge with disorderly conduct. >> should have worked out a little bit before hand. still to come on wjz's eyewitness news at noon what a difference a day makes. your complete first warning weather forecast now just two and a half minutes away. >> but first here is a look at today's midday stocks and last night's winning lottery numbers. keep those clothes on. ,, here's my rubarb marmalade, my cheddar cheese marmalade, my kidney bean marmalade... oh, kidney bean again. that's funny. ♪ you're ththank you, sweetie. oh... ♪ >>> now

my name is merrill easton. i have been a resident of district 54, i do not know, 25 years or so, and before ross was our supervisor there, i was a victim of street violence. i was attacked in front of my house and 7:00 a.m., my face broken in two places, and the police were not very interested in this affair. however, after ross came in as supervisor, he got into the community policing and coordinated work with all of the departments, and i have not had any problems since, and i think that ross needs to get back to work so that people knew are doing these things, like the person you did this to me, they need to be given the resources to turn their lives around and not be attacking other people, and i think that the ethics are in the -- excuse me. thank you. >> hi, good evening. i was expecting to get up here to speak, but i hear you will not be taking public comment on this as you go forward? i am a native san franciscan, and i have worked with ross on a number of campaigns. i have known him since 1995. i find

merrill lynch, morgan stanley, back to merrill lynch. have said she's so traumatized, she can't keep her facts straight. every time of detection you had of her, you overruled because of her trauma. >> you talk about interviewing her for the documentary and she'd tell the stories and you'd never think for a question to question it. and who did the fact checking was "the new york times" and this piece come out. you come to realize this good friend who, you know, i'm sure she bared her soul to you and vice versa, you find out this is a ruse. do you think it's a joke? >> you have to keep reminding yourself that she was lying because it was -- ironically, it was the deception that didn't seem real. and then, after you sort of come out of that shock, it sort of starts to make sense. the cancelled appointments, the disappearances. the inconsistencies in stories and emotions. the emotional outbreaks. you start to say wow, that mystery we couldn't figure out makes sense. >> did you have a chance after this came out to say who are you and why? >>

so that when merrill buys the million shares, the stock goes up a little bit and u make some money. > people couldn't figure out any other way for him to make money except if he was front- running. >> smith: people ran those, sort of, models and couldn't make money doing it? >> they couldn't make anywhere near the kind of returns that he did. especially in... when markets were falling. but he consistently made money every year. almost every month. >> smith: in boston, a team of risk analysts was puzzled, wondering what madoff was up to. >> there's always that potential, that one little potential that you've got a rocket scientist, an einstein here. and he's found some piece of information that's flowing to him proprietarily, because of the nature of his business of executing big trades. >> smith: in the late '90s, casey was working with harry markopolos, the now-famous whistleblower. casey and markopolos first heard about madoff's returns from the french aristocrat, thierry de la villehuchet. >> back in those days, i understand that mr. madoff didn't like his investors mentioning his

office, sheila dixon provided a lot of material to make fun of, like the gift card scandal and that merrill date during a city hall meeting. -- that memorable day during a city hall meeting. >> she pounded her shoe on the table. >> the baltimore mayor did not mind being the but of all these jokes and even laughed along on stage. it was all for a good cause. part of the proceeds will go to the agape house. >> i used to have a mentoring program -- program with middle -- program with middle school students throughout the city. i enjoy working with all kids. that is really the driving force behind it. >> in addition to praising dixon, she hinted at a possible political comeback during the roast. [unintelligible] >> this does not having anything to do with politics. >> her probation, which was brought up in that rose, expires next year. shelton dutes, wbal-tv 11 news. >> students from four schools are learning a major lesson about respect. nearly 80 high-school students listen to guest speakers and participated in open discussions at a diversity conference in brooklyn bill. topics included drug

merrilles in london's election disclose their tax records. a new deal for a tax chief. swiss authorities have agreed to pay germany billions of dollars in funds hidden there by german tax dodgers. jobless claims levels have fallen to the lowest since 2008. in the u.s. >> this is newsday on the bbc. >> the syrian government watch as fresh attacks against opposition forces just days before the deadline for a cease- fire. >> the russian arms dealer known as the merchant of death has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in new york. south korea, china, and japan are stepping up their security operations ahead of the north korean plan in april. john yang plans to launch a satellite into orbit on the back of a long-range rocket over the next few days. japan and south korea have indicated that they will shoot it down if it violates their airspace. >> it will be a big topic at this trilateral summit. japan and south korea have both been very harshly critical of north korea's plans and they have both talked about making contingency plans should that rocket threaten their territo

lynch through your broker and although merrill lynch might hold stock for only 5,000 investors, they're only one shareholder of record. as a result, those companies that want to hide, want to go dark, can do so. and what i have to tell you from a great deal of experience is that bad things happen in the dark. when a company ceases to make disclosure there may be unfair self-dealing transactions, there may be illegality, there may be foreign corrupt practices they want to engage in and not disclose, there are special incentives to go dark, make no further disclosures but with b able to sell your stock to the public. not all companies will do that but some will. >> brown: mr. santalo, how do you respond to that? that the sphere that investors will be putting in money, they don't know what they're putting it into and they can lose a lot of money. >> well, i agree transparency is obviously very, very important in all business dealings and that's true of companies of any size. so a company like care cloud that access private capital and then venture capital, you know, we're very transparent

. >> merrill lawmakers are trying to work up their differences on the state budget package and are pushing to complete their discussion by wednesday. they have less than a week left in the 2012 general assembly. the committee held off on dealing with the shift in teacher pensions and hammering out a compromise on raising the personal income-tax rate. they are scheduled to meet again tomorrow. increasing the state tax on cigars and other tobacco products is also on the agenda. the maryland primary is tomorrow along with the district of columbia and wisconsin. mitt romney is leading, but not enough to convince the other candidates to drop out. chris clackum has tonight's commitment 2012 report. >> mitt romney is expected to win all three primaries tuesday in washington d.c., maryland, and wisconsin. congressman paul ryan entered its team in green bay and said if that happens, the gop campaign is effectively over. nick gingrich still begs to differ. >> i cannot say with any certainty that i will be the nominee. governor romney does not have it locked in. we have no obligation to back off and

. >> citigroup is better off-- >> merrill-lynch. tarp has nothing to do with the economy.ou know why the economy is lousy because president obama did a stimulus package and it failed, didn't know it was failing and-- >> by the way, tarp set the stage for bailouts that needed to be bailed out rescues we had to come back and rescue again. we extended it beyond its origin tensions and pretty soon we were using the money to pay for cash for clunkers, to go back and rescue the automakers. >> those are pennies, pennies, neil. >> not-- >> may be pennies for you, mr. hollywood star, but the bottom line, a slippery slope. >> those are pennies. >> this has opened the door to untold billions going it bailout other businesses down the road, mark my words. number one, and number two, pan to throw this-- a lot of these losses are because of general motors, so to dove tail with the last segment, the unions makers and the third thing, you want to worry and wring your hands, and we're neck deep in fannie mae and freddie mac, we're neck deep in these companies. >> neil: adam, if you could p