he will have an advantage but it might be a lot closer than $665 million. neil: do we note where this money know where this money is coming from, who is giving to the president? 98% of the last quarter i believe were $250 donors or less so that suggests it s broad-based and there are a lot of low donors in play and he s using the internet platform he used last time to set up having more cash on hand going into next year. neil: interesting. thank you very much. good seeing you again. likewise. neil: the keystone state, given the choice between a government bailout or bankruptcy, pennsylvania state capitol is going with bankruptcy. rick santorum joins us. what do you think of what they re couldn t plaining? it s a dysfunctional situation
the sixth largest economy in the world. it s $665 million in seafood and it s $20 billion in tourism, and that s two of the industries. and maybe we need to hear that more, quite frankly, because everybody in here just kind of sat up a little bit when you said it would take 20 years to possibly recover. but tell me, and again, what i am impression tough right now, how much damage has been done so far? last night we attempted to meet with lee san jackson and frankly got overwhelmed by people asking her questions and heard that over 300 shrimpers and oystermen in mississippi showed up to meet with her last night. they are saying now that they re already done. their season is over and it was just beginning. we asked governor riley last night if he had intentions to open up oystering and shrimping early, and he really didn t have a good answer for that yet
moment. we go to france, reporting its figures just a day after paribas reported its profits yesterday. lloyds banking group here in the uk, very much in focus after reporting its first quarter net losses. those coming in at about $4 billion. this company was very much impacted by the fact that it was forced to repay clients who had missold insurance and put aside about $5.5 billion for that. the smi in zurich, that s one of the markets that s also falling today. swiss re came out with its first quarter figures today posting a net loss for that period equal to about $665 million. let s have a look at the global currencies in light of the interest rate decisions we re expecting to come out of the ecb later on and also the bank of england at 12 noon london time.