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the wachovia bank in the bradley shopping center and they waited for us suspecting customers to use it skimmer records all the personal information embedded on the magnetic strip, february 28 and went inside to report it before he could go back outside with bank security, it was gone. >> anybody who might have used their card that day, we are asking them to go through their statements, see if there's any unauthorized transactions and notify the bank immediately. >> customers reported losses of $60,000. >> we are taking a look at news across the nation. dallas police was called to a bus stop. a woman tried to board with her baby inside a rolling suitcase. the woman told officials she was taking her son to a doctor's appointment and the unzipped suitcase was all she had. police allowed the mother and baby keep going. >>> a high school in mississippi canceled prom this year, allegedly, because they wanted to attend. the prom was canceled. the aclu brought on a lawsuit on mcmillan's behalf. hours ago, a federal judge ruled in favor of the school system. >>> a north carolina jury awarded a

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he worked for wachovia, headed his own consulting firm, america's future, or at least the money for itnow in his hands. dana, one of the things lost sometimes, missed, to a degree in the health care debate was the student loan change. >> absolutely. we reported on this from capitol hill but it was impossible to break through the headline grabbing health care story. and it was attached to health care. and this is really a huge, huge shift in a program that is very critical to people out there. starting this summer the federal government will take over the student loan industry from private lenders so banks won't be able to offer students federal staffords loans and interest rates, they will be capped. john, the congressional budget office says that this will save the government more than $60 billion over ten years, much of the money will go to in creased pell grants. some of that savings they used to pay for health care. >> shocking. that's why they put it in there. the people you cover are gone for two weeks. you have to watch the fallout to the health care debate as they go home for c

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megyn: so you're telling me when i go into citibank or wachovia, now, to apply for a mortgage or a car the government could be involved in that transaction too? >> in the future, question. megyn: really? >> they're trying to set up something called the consumer financial protection agency, a stand-alone agency like the environmental protection agency, for example, appointed by the president, politically controlled, and that would look at your transaction, your mortgage. was it fair? did you understand the mortgage that you just have taken out? megyn: how are you going to do all this? now the government's going to be running a large portion of the health care system, they're already running a large portion of the auto system, now they're going to be running a large portion of wall street and our banking business, who's going to do all this? do we need to hire more federal mows? >> yes. [laughter] haven't you heard? they're hiring an extra 16,500 irs agents to impose health care reform. what you're talking about is a much more bureaucratic situation. i really hate bureaucracy, but i thin

post lehman brothers, post wachovia breakup, the capital markets froze. there was a general sechx of concern about where the employees might go, where unemployment might go and different stocks at different banks started reacting to that. our stocks started going down in late 2008. so on that friday in late november, our stock was at $3.37. now, in a market of that sort, unfortunately sometimes stock prices can have an impact on confidence on all sorts of stakeholders that are out there. and rather than taking the risk, as we talked to the federal reserve, as we talked to the treasury, the view was let's take that issue off the table. that's what happened. >> okay. what actions have you taken to negate your status as too big to fail? can we get to a point realistically where, if this happens again, citi is simply broken up, sold off or recan'tized by the private sector without government intervention? >> we have taken a number of steps, mr. mcwatters. first, it starts with capital. we have a strong capital base, very strong liquidity, very strong reserves

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post-a lehman brothers, what cobia -- wachovia, the markets rose. --- the markets rosfroze.and different stocks at different banks started reacting to that. our stocks started going down in late 2008. so on that friday in late november, our stock was at $3.37. now, in a market of that sort, unfortunately sometimes stock prices can have an impact on confidence on all sorts of >> what actions have you taken to negate your status as too big to fail? what will do -- what will happen if this happens again? >> we have taken a number of steps to start with capital. we have a very strong capital base, very strong liquidity, very strong reserves. that is the starting point. the second part is to create earnings. the third part of that is change your risk profile and we have done that. we have some legacy efforts -- legacy assets. we have changed that as well. we manage on the basis of cash on the ground, liquidity on the ground. we work with global regulators. we have made significant changes in the financial health and risk management of the company. we have also targeted the compan

"wachovia is in talks over allegations from mexico. they are talking to the justice department to settle allegations they failure in bank controls allowed mexican exchange houses to launder drug money. they line the u.s.-mexican border and serve as a hub for the global remittance business allow u.s. and iran to send money back to lead america to help relatives. federal officials identified the money as a way for drug traffickers to move cash around ." larry, stockton, california. independent line. good morning. caller: how're you doing? host: fine, thanks. caller: glad to even hear me. this is not the mexican problem, this is a global problem. drugs in afghanistan have been a problem since our army has been there. this is not a drug problem, this is a money maunder problem. the cartel would lobby lobbyists if they could, that is what is going on. they cannot stop drugs inside of the jails. to make a proposal to stop drugs from coming across the borders is stupid to believe, you have got corrupt cops and officials. money maunders propag

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post lehman brothers, post wachovia breakup, the capital markets froze.there was a general sechx of concern about where the employees might go, where unemployment might go and different stocks at different banks started reacting to that. our stocks started going down in late 2008. so on that friday in late november, our stock was at $3.37. now, in a market of that sort, unfortunately sometimes stock prices can have an impact on confidence on all sorts of stakeholders that are out there. and rather than taking the risk, as we talked to the federal reserve, as we talked to the treasury, the view was let's take that issue off the table. that's what happened. >> okay. what actions have you taken to negate your status as too big to fail? can we get to a point realistically where, if this happens again, citi is simply broken up, sold off or recan'tized by the private sector without government intervention? >> we have taken a number of steps, mr. mcwatters. first, it starts with capital. we have a strong capital base, very strong liquidity, very strong reserves.

this, there were a number of instances post the lehman brothers collapse and in our case post the wachovia breakup as well where the markets were not really functioning in a rational way. they were frozen. in those markets there's always this battle between fear and confidence. and there are ways in which fear overtakes it and particularly that's the tool that short sellers need to make money. so that was a very dominant activity. there were no real circuit breakers to stop the short selling. that's one of the things that took our stock down. >> thank you, my time is up. >> thank you, mr. mcwaters. superintendent niemann. >> i'd like to come back to your comments regarding looking forward and financial ins tux reform. you were very clear in saying city believes banks should operate as banks, focus completely on servicing their clients. i could not agree with you more. i think if there's not one lesson learned from the american public, it's what do we want our banks to be. i think the lexicon of the federal safety net is a new term that very few americans have understood previously but are

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