this figure may be the best possible outcome. >> thank you. >>> i think moynihan should be played in the movie by conan o'brien, he looks a little like him? thank you. >>> sue, down to you. just minutes ago, we got a report of an earthquake in hawaii, it measured just above a 4, so far, no reports of damage, this comes as a hurricane and as another major storm is now zeroing in on the islands. jim cantore is on the big island. >> good morning from downtown hilo the middle of the night here, we have a six-hour lag from the east coast to the united states. we already had some rain, the outer bands and the outer fringes affect the big island here. the radar shows rain throughout the entire island chain. we have hurricane warnings here. the first time since 1993 we have had hurricane warnings for the big island. if we get a landfalling hurricane here, it will be the first one on record. areas in the higher elevations could see winds over 100 miles per hour, they could power for days. that's what officials are telling everybody and what to expect, because we could have those stronger wind

the agreement comes after a phone call last week between bofa ceo brian moynihan and u.s.ttorney general eric holder. just officials continued to meet on wednesday. countrywide has cost merrill about $50 billion in litigation. one al qaeda accounts for 75% of those troubled investments. now, these mortgage settlements are the production of the task force president obama formed in 2012 to investigate fraud that helped fuel the financial crisis. major global banks including bofa, bnp paribas and credit suisse have been fined at least $50 billion this year for u.s. authorities from everything from shoddy mortgages to money laundering. news of bank of america settlement comes as the fed approves the company's plan to raise its dividend for the first time since the crisis. checking in on shares this morning, just about flat, at least right now. back to you. >> courtney, thank you for so much for that. some would argue those fines truly are inflationary. >>> moving on, hawaii is about to get its first direct hit by a hurricane in 20 years. hurricane iselle is forecast to make la

i also read an excerpt of your speech when you received the daniel moynihan prize for social science research. and you said in that speech that this country is at another pivotal moment in history. what do you mean by that? >> well, what i was referring to at that moment was there had been two periods in our history where inequality had risen to what i thought was an unconscionable level. the gilded age, the end the 19th century and the roaring '20s, right before the great depression. in both of those instances we stepped back from the brink. we realized where we were going as a country. we said, that's not where we want to go. and the gilded age was followed by the progressive era, anti-trust policies trying to get at the monopolies, getting at some of the sources of this inequality that was undermining our society. the roaring '20s was followed by the legislation creating social security, created labor legislation that, minimum wages, maximum hours. lots of things that we take for granted now but are a part of our social fabric. the question i asked was inequality has now gotten ba

. >> brian moynihan writing a very big check. bank of america agreeing to pay $17 billion for misled -- allegations for misleading investors in the bond business. geiger here with more on the settlement. we also have michael bowie, a andner at catholic ensign friedman to discuss the allegation. owitz, benton and friedman. >> they have already paid $55 billion largely due to the acquisition of countrywide and some of it due to merrill lynch. this is the last big push for brian moynihan to get past the legal issues dating back to the financial crisis tom and i think there is a big sigh of relief that a lot of this is over for them. what about personal prosecution? now we are done with the big banks, now we will go after the the former countrywide it other executives are now seems like going to be sued statute that a gives the government very broad thel ability to punish executives. it seems like they will do that. >> not with jail time, with money. >> talking about the former ceo of countrywide, andrew mizuho. >> there was an inves

bryan moynihan said the deal was "in ere best interest of our shareholders and allows us to continue to focus on the future." the bank will now pay $9.6 billion in penalties and has promised $7 billion to help homeowners with loans. however, part of this fund will also go to housing rehabilitation and to low-income rentals, and critics call that a diversion. bruce marks with the neighborhood assistance corporation of america says the funds should be helping more homeowners avoid foreclosure. >> that money needs to go to the people victimized, the homeowners, the communities, and home buyers trying to get affordable mortgages. >> reporter: despite this record fine, almost $17 billion, this was still a civil, not a criminal, case. bob, six years now after the financial meltdown, not a single top banking official has been successfully prosecuted for banking fraud. >> schieffer: okay, wyatt a long western drought won't let up. today a new federal study said the west had lost 63 trillion gallons of groundwater since the beginning of last year. that would be the equivalent of 4 inches of w

josie moynihan met him through her veterans support center. >> it's devastating to happen to anyone nevermind a combat marine. >> reporter: the purple heart veteran has five children, the newest a baby girl. >> welcome home. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: in 2012, del walked into his new home in antioch given to him mortgage free through the bank of america partnered military warrior support foundation. >> to think that now i'm going to be able to raise my family here, you know, with so many people from the community outreaching to us and willing to help us out is just -- i could never have expected this. >> reporter: del still feels pain from his war injuries but his friends say he is a warrior and he will get through this, too. in antioch, linda yee, kpix 5. >> del's friends have set up a facebook page to help him. find the link at kpix.com. >>> 7 afghan police officers are dead after one of their colleagues old fire at a check checkpoint. they stole the victims' weapons and fled in a police car. another shooting killed a u.s. general. a man dressed as an afghan fire opened fire on a military

sara moynihan who is a young lady who got a double heart lung transplant where the government said youn't do it because it was adult lungs she got it finally and blew out the candles recently on her 12th birthday. congratulations. >> amen. >> great story. >> god bless her. >> my one more thing got bumped too because peter, my husband, if you scene me something that's so funny and cute for one more thing it has to be real and not a hoax. so instead i have to tell you about something else. if you go to one.org, one campaign which deals with hiv, poverty all around the world started by bono, i go to be the curator this month talking about women and girls. there's a lot to be concerned about in africa but there's a lot of hope and promise

we will be there with michael moynihan and julie roginsky. as well as kmele foster.the bana thank you for being with us. do. lou: good evening, everyone. in just under two hours the sun will that on ferguson, missouri, where officials and more than 20,000 residents are bracing for what may be yet another night of violence and chaos and there have been 10 days of clashes between demonstrators and rioters and looters and law enforcement. police dealt with looters with two fires being said. police arrested nearly 80 people. mike tobin is in ferguson with the very latest for us on last night's clashes and what we can expect tonight. >> tour what begins as a public expression of frustration of police treatment of black people gives way to clashes. two people were shot by police, but by criminals, although officers again resorted to heavy crowd control equipment and tactical teams pinpointed, blocking people from the crowd and arrest records show 70 people arrested, only four of them from ferguson, 18 from out-of-state, supporting the claim that ou

what can brian moynihan do to change the trajectory of think of america? been operating improvements. back to europe, we have a global age in the western world, a massive deleveraging, particularly in europe. it creates sluggishness for gnp growth. he is dealing with low interest rates, the yield curve is fairly flat. the net interest margin, therefore, in the western world is more challenged. they are trying to work through that. >> you say they are adequately reserved. bank of america, j.p. morgan, citigroup. number of days compared to operating income. >> j.p. morgan paid $13 lien, citigroup paid seven dollars lien. >> shows scope and scale. >> i'm curious about ongoing cultural change in largest banks. yesterday we saw the fdic and the fed say your plans for the wind down are not sufficient. you are going to have to make some changes. real, aggressive regulation. no, you cannot just say something. you have got to fix it. >> that is more about a cultural change with the regulators than the bank. sendinglators are a message, take us seriously or we will

by all accounts, the bank of america ceo brian moynihan just lost a battle with the u.s.overnment on how much will cost to settle claims on toxic mortgage bonds. bfar a tentative agreement, would pay at least $16 billion. bill cohan is our contributing editor with us from skype to talk about eric holder's latest victory over wall street. it is not really a fair fight, is it? >> it has never been a fair fight. if you go back, he prescribed this when he was an assistant in the justice department. memo wheree holder he laid out, i believe in 1999, this whole strategy for how to deal with corporations that violate these kinds of laws, and basically, the idea was to get them to settle, more or less, more often than not, but he is playing the playbook out and it is not a fair fight. not even close. >> if you are either a customer of bank of america or a shareholder of bank of america, how do you look at this? , this has to get behind us. let's put it behind us. let's get out with the basic business we have of being a wall street mega-bank and these huge settlement or lawsuits o

ask you really wonder what is going through brian moynihan's mind to this morning. >> he came after theback to that countrywide purchase in 2008, which looks so good at the time because it was cheap. >> things are cheap for a reason. >> yet. this is "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ >> good morning, everyone. a good friend of "bloomberg hormatsance," roger will be with us on bloomberg television and radio, i left number station with the former undersecretary i should say for state was just absolutely scintillating on the summer of 2014. this is not to be messed tomorrow, hormats on "bloomberg surveillance." >> this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am scarlet fu here with tom keene and adam johnson. our guest host, steve sadove, formerly of saks fifth avenue. the taxman has a message for samsung -- it is use it or lose it. the company is almost sitting on twice as much cash as apple. of 60g has the equivalent billion dollars in cash at the end of june. even though pandora is based in oakland, one of america's most diverse cities, the streaming media company says its staff is almost two thirds wh

in before that in the seven days a congressional aide to representative james o'hara and patrick moynihan. joshua? [applause] >> thank you for coming here for what i have to say. i am grateful for that. it is a striking coincidence of process to repeated self and times over the past decade and a half is now taking place once again that it strikes back in self-defense and then receives widespread criticism around the world in this was the subject than i tackled in this book why does it work this way? the idea came to me about four or five years ago one morning when i read in the paper on the internet about a story in sweden that ran in the widest circulation daily in sweden and they reported israelis were now slaughtering palestinians randomly in order to harvest their body organs for sale. this story had no basis whatsoever in was built around the case of a deceased palestinian who had a scar on his body because he had an autopsy. but when the reporters for other publications followed up and went to the family they denied it ever making an accusation. so essentially they've made it up. th

this is brian warner hands -- brian moynihan's last big look.ake of america and allowing it to regain substantial profitability. >> federal officials acknowledge the settlement does not release individuals from individual charges. inc. ofnot shield america from possible criminal prosecution. does that mean we could potentially see officials led away in handcuffs? >> i don't think so. a lot of the statute of limitations on criminal charges or what they can charge individuals with have expired. however, like what we reported yesterday with the former head and cofounder of countrywide financial, one of the worst , angeloin the market mozilla is likely to be sued by the u.s. attorney in los angeles by civil charges very similar to what bank of america paid out today. >> countrywide, just for historical context, it was the ink the company took back 2008. countrywide's role in all this was what? >> at the time, it was the largest issuer of subprime mortgages in the country. they really drove the growth in that market. they had a wave of defaults that

sara moynihan who is a young lady who got a double heart lung transplant where the government said you it because it was adult lungs she got it finally and blew out the candles recently on her 12th birthday. congratulations. >> amen. >> great story. >> god bless her. >> my one more thing got bumped too because peter, my husband, if you scene me something that's so funny and cute for one more thing it has to be real and not a hoax. so instead i have to tell you about something else. if you go to one.org, one campaign which deals with hiv, poverty all around the world started by bono, i go to be the curator this month talking about women and girls. there's a lot to be concerned about in africa but there's a lot of hope and promise too and you can read about it at one.org. bret baier is next. don't miss "the five" tomorrow, we'll be back. >>> this is a fox news alert, i'm shannon bream in for bret baier in washington. the truce between israel and hamas has been broken. israel's military said hamas jumped the gun by firing rockets two hours before the formal end of the cease-fire. hamas me

the settlement comes after a phone call last week between b of a ceo brian moynihan and eric holder. you. >>> if you surf the web in virginia, you're in luck. the common wellth halth has the fastest internet in the u.s. according to a new report. the reason for virginia's dominance is in ashburn. that is where the hub for networks like verizon and facebook are. alaska has the slowest internet in the country. the u.s. falls behind 11 other countries losing out to south core re core radio korea and israel. >>> let's check back in with melissa. >> which this is chopper 4 over the scene. bw parkway authorinorthbound at. several miles of backups. everybody getting off at 32. people have baby-seb been sitti for over an hour. your alternate the either 95 or route 1. wider look, slow top of the beltway. past 50 a little slow and 66 into town, 66 and 95 generally looking pretty good for this time of morning. prince george's county looking good, as well. remember you can always follow us @first4traffic for your chance to win a $125 gas gift card. we're giving away four this month. and tom kier

. >> five seconds, back in 1963, daniel patrick moynihan wrote about the destruction of the black family. he said he was noticing a disturbing trend of fatherless black homes, and an increase in black men going to jails and higher dependency on welfare. that's where we are today. it's not because of lack of opportunity. >> it's not because of single mothers, i'm sorry, that is not fair to blame single mothers. >> you have a lot more grips for the male. i'm sorry. thank you for coming on. is attorney general eric holder getting ahold of the situation or perhaps making it worse. to tea party.net chief strategist nigel. what do you think of overall purpose and mission in ferguson? >> i suppose it's somewhat political damage control in that the president quite frankly has been a miserable failure in reference to the black community. just look at the statistics, the amount of black wealth that has been lost during this obama economy, the black unemployment rates are much higher than they are on the national average. and i think he sees an opportunity, and make no bones about it, i keep hearin

he told bank of america ceo brian moynihan we're going to sue you. a good portion of the money will go to consumer relief, loan modification. >> what home owner isn't struggling? >> if you assume 17, which is not certain yet, it looks that way. $9 billion in cash penalty. consumer relief, 7 billion $7 b# billion. loan mods and soft dollars. the cash penalty goes into the treasury coffers for the government to use as it sees fit. >> thank you. >> there you go. general expenses. >> it's interesting one parting thought, there's been a hiring freeze at the doj in recent years, but recently lifted. they brought huge cases, they need manpower. >> kate, thank you very much. great stuff. >>> herb hates the gluten-free craze, he'll tell you why. >>> and she's back, the prancing queen is out with a brand-new workout video, honestly this is the best thing that i have seen in a really, really long time. this made me happy. over 20 million kids everyday in our country lack access to healthy food. for the first time american kids are slated to live a shorter life

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if black men can't find jobs, what are the problems this causes, according to moynihan?emale has to become the money maker. >> yes. >> it says a fundamental familiar of negro american family life is the obvious reversed roles of husband and wife form so if the woman is doing the earnings, somehow the roles are reversed and the family is -- an unstable family. so that's deemed here a damaged family, right? he can't fulfill the role that f the men are supposed to fill, so he's psychologically damaged. the available also creates a he problem and contributes to the i mailedry arcable family structure ofly how does that happen? we have the program aid to dependent children.>> ashley? >> i know it came up in the wek black power reading about how sometimes fathers would step oue of the picture so the family could qualify for that aid. so that would leave it to be a female headed household. >> both that the man is damage psychologically damaged, so the becomea and the man might actually leave, desert the family, so his children can be fed through access to welfare benefits.ez th

. >> rachel, bobby moynihan.'s so great. >> it's such fun. it's just the thrill of my life. >> seth: and it's about, it's sort of based on your life. >> it's based on my life, my sister and i both had diaries. this will be hard for you to figure out, but she was a tall stone cold 70s fox who had the boys chasing after her. like pepe le pew. just like floating behind her. and i looked like a 50 year old polish farm wife. i was really sturdy. >> seth: here we go we have a visual. >> yeah just those on the little things on your chairs, who got laid in high school? [laughter] the one with the brown braces, that looks like she had meat in her teeth? [ laughter ] or this one who looks like she's mid-orgasm? [ laughter ] yeah. yeah. so the journals, hers would be like "oh, my god, i was supposed to go camping with mom and dad and paula but i was making out with bill and oh, my god, i spent the night with him. and p.s. i might be pregnant." and mine was like, "i changed the grid on my rock tumbler today. and the amythst

bank of america, we still have not gone the announcement from brian moynihan about a settlement overt do you want to get smarter on over the weekend? >> that is a great question. one, smarter on europe. i am starting to worry more about deflation. that is changing the mixers. how thaterned about might impact u.s. monetary policy, to the extent that there has been a move to normalize interest rates. if europe is going through a , that might have an impact on the pace at which we normalize interest rates. >> thank you. stay with us. jason moved the markets green. " is up next with betty liu. ♪ >> good morning. it is friday, august 8, and we are live from bloomberg world headquarters. "in the loop." -- you are "in the loop." and i am betty liu. one of the issues in housing -- getting first-time buyers into hovnanian hasara more. the ceo of the humane society joins us later in their campaign -- on the campaign and the battleground state. president obama has given the go-ahead for air strikes against islamic militants in northern ofq threatening thousands religious minorities stranded on

before that in the 1970s he was a congressional aide to representative james o'hara and patrick moynihan. joshua. [applause] >> thank you for coming here to hear what i have to say. i am grateful for

is one of the arguments that has been made continuously, especially by jpmorgan chase and brian moynihanmade the same argument. we bought countrywide, we bought merrill lynch at the urging of the government. jpmorgan chase bought bear stearns and washington mutual at the urging of the government. now you are penalizing them. in the case of jpmorgan chase, the wrongdoing also occurred at jpmorgan chase itself and the wrongdoing occurred at citigroup. i'm sure there is some element of this where they have evidence that wrongdoing occurred at bank of america itself, as opposed to merrill lynch or countrywide, and that is why, in large part, the size of the settlement is so big. >> it is pretty big. three years of profits? >> about that. >> how do they rebuild from that? , they needed this to get behind them. this past week, the elevated tom montag to be the coo of bank of america. they are putting this behind them. this is something that wall street has to do to get these issues behind it. it started with jpmorgan chase. what -- once they got it behind and, the stock went up 26%, jamie dimo

in before that in the seven days a congressional aide to representative james o'hara and patrick moynihan. joshua? [applause] >> thank you for coming here for what i have to say. i am grateful for that. it is a striking coincidence of process to repeated self and times over the past decade and a half is now taking place once again that it strikes back in self-defense and then receives widespread criticism around the world in this was the subject than i tackled in this book why does it work this way? the idea came to me about four or five years ago one morning when i read in the paper on the internet about a story in sweden that ran in the widest circulation daily in sweden and they reported israelis were now slaughtering palestinians randomly in order to harvest their body organs for sale. this story had no basis whatsoever in was built around the case of a deceased palestinian who had a scar on his body because he had an autopsy. but when the reporters for other publications followed up and went to the family they denied it ever making an accusation. so essentially they've made it up. th

in the george debut wishes to it before that's it is a congressional aide to o'hare and senator moynihan[applause] >> the queue for coming here for what i have to say. it is a striking two incidents that a process that we have watched repeated itself many times is now taking place once again that israel is attacked that strikes back in self-defense and then receives widespread criticism around the world from the united states and the media. this is the subject that i why doesn't work this way? the idea came to me four or five years ago one morning when i read on the internet about this story that ray circulation in daley in randomly in order to harvest the body organs for sale. the story had no basis whatsoever and was billed amounts the case because he was autopsied he had a scar but when the reporters from other publications followed up and went to things he did not remember the accusation remember if they need it it up the swedish ambassador to israel apologized and was forced to withdraw her apology on the grounds it was an infringement. >> when i read about this i thought how can th

settlement was reportedly reached in principal after a phone call last week between bofa ceo brian moynihan and attorney general eric holder. >> what are you going to say? >> so the big -- two things i would say. first of all, most of this was from countrywide, long before they ever bought the company, right? 4% of loans that went bad were done by bank of america. second, bnp and the french ought to shut up, right? because they only paid $10 billion for activity covering 20 years. >> but this is a jamie dimon problem because they bought merrill and they bought it at behest of the government. i can make all the same arguments that jamie made and -- >> i have the same opinion. >> and i have the same opinion of that. and worse, my real opinion is of all the bad things that happened, who is paying for it? the shareholders. >> the shareholders. >> and there's nothing in there that is punitive to make future people not do anything like this because there are no individuals who are the ones who actually have to account for any of this. >> so it's technical of consumer relief? >> well, that depends

so again, even if you argue as lewis did and moynihan did that the origination of the problem was being kept out of opportunity, he's arguing again that this culture become self-perpetuating. what causes children to be poor? it's the culture of their families and their communities that causes them to be poor. he wrote then a book about a puerto rican family in san juan in new york, a similar argument about a culture of poverty. this was challenged by a lot of researchers and social scientists who did a lot of research seeing is there really a culture of poverty? even though it was challenged quite robustly, the idea really was widespread and it became important to the ways in which federal policy makers designed programs to overcome poverty. so it's cultural characteristics rather than what kara is pointing to, what carmichael and hamilton would call cultural racism creating these economic problems. amidst the debate in the 1950s and 1960s, when americans thought about poverty and when they thought about a lower class, they increasingly envisioned african-americans. nationian glazer put

i think angelo mozilla is probably out there playing golf somewhere while ryan moynihan is struggle with. it is very sad. >> ouch. that does raise this issue separately of living wills for banks that were issued. let me quote the "wall street journal" for a pekd. after banks this week apparently failed to convince regulators they can go bust without bringing down the financial system. it says the officials were surprised by the public rebuke. one senior executive got the memo less than three hours before the public release, said there was no communication with regulators beforehand and that this widens the gap of trust between banks and their regulators. >> right. well, there's always two sides to the story. i think about a year ago the fed and fdic did release some very pointed guidance, very specific details about what they expected in these plans. i do know that the banks feel that they didn't get enough individualized feedback. from their perspective this stuff is expensive. they need to do it and i was delighted that this joint statement was so strong in directing them to do it. but

late last jump, the attorney general eric holder called the bank's brian moynihan. the eventual results, a cash penalty of some $9.6 billion in cash and another 7 billion of so in consumer release office. much of that will be forfeited ref knew rather than cash and may be tax deductible. but the 9.6 billion will not be. today's deal should bring bofa closer to its liabilities with the amount of this settlement roughly 80 billion in regular or regulatory payouts. it's a victory for the justice department, which many say has been too slow to punish arrant banks for the financial crisis among other things. >>> countrywide being a prime example here and where they'll ever consider such moves against when the liability has been clearly drawn. >> two questions. one is what did bofa do wrong? not in terms of the merits of what they've been accused of in this case, but 234 terms of the negotiations for them to end up with a south side 17 billion fine relative to they're not good big. so maybe the negotiation was at fault. i was told by if much more than 17, moynahan would n

i can talk to -- i wasn't going to say who i was, but i'm a brian moynihan and i see your heat. >> i know of him. didn't you get a christmas card and all that? >> i did not get that. >> well, i'll tell you what, we'll talk about it more, but it's a significant breach. where is the beach? ain't nothing happening. >> all of these attacks, in the medium term, there's no impact. >> the user name and password -- >> you know, my worry is that each time, somehow -- i don't know if you're the same way. i have one or two or three passwords at the most. so if you figure out one or two or them, you can kind of own me pretty quickly. and so to the extent that they're able to get pieces like that, and it's unclear from these media reports about what they have. >> i have dozens. in fact, that little thing we use for remote access that changes every minute, my password -- i've got that hooked up to that. so i have to look at that to get into my -- so don't even attempt to try to do anything to my account. >> thoses of passwords. >> joekernen1 is not your password. >> no. >> do you think they could

before that in the 1970s he was a congressional aide to representative james o'hara and patrick moynihan. joshua. [applause] >> thank you for coming here to hear what i have to say. i am grateful for that. it is certainly a striking coincidence that the process that we watched repeated itself many times over the past decade and a half is not taking place with the cad under which israel if attacked and it strikes back in self-defense and receives widespread kisses him around the world and from various corners in the united states in media. this is a subject that i tackle the next book. why does it work this way? the idea for the book seemed to me for five years ago when i read in the paper and the internet in a newspaper in sweden, there is a story that ran, which is why the circulation in sweden and the story reported that israelis were now slaughtering past 10 and randomly in order to harvest their body organs for sale. the story i say had no basis what the lover. it was built around the case of a single deceased palestinian who had a scar on his body because he had an autopsy. but when

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