president barack obama and his re-election campaign. the today the president and the jobs act face a critical vote, a important vote in the senate. they are pushing hard to rally support. if you wonder what the president jobs bill could mean for you, here s a brief overview. in addition to other things we re talking about extending the current payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. there also would be new tax credits for businesses that hire people who are unemployed. president obama is in pittsburgh today where he will speak about his jobs bill less than one hour from now. this is an important last minute push was the senate is scheduled to hold a key procedural vote on whether it will consider that bill. white house correspondent dan lothian is traveling with the president and joins us live from pittsburgh. hi, there, dan. is the president preparing for the possibility that his jobs bill may not pass today s test in the senate? reporter: it it does appear that he is.
whispering whether or not he s conservative enough, too, in terms of climate change, in terms of gun control, illegal immigration, so keep the e-mails coming, especially, nothing against you new jersey and new york folks, but the rest of the country we want to hear from you. juliet: yeah, back off, buddy. dave: governor christie in the rice. clayton: send in e-mails on this story, a lot of protesters headed up in there in boston to bank of america to protest the new debit card fees that go into place. let s explain this before you throw your card down. juliet: explain that thing, baby. go out on a limb. dave: cut her card up. clayton: bank of america. dave: because of course the $5 fees that bank of america is now instituting. charge $5 every month, you use these things for something other than a cash withdrawal and people are furious. clayton: right. you see that little machine there, these machines when you go it check out at the grocery store, most people do debit
consumers are not happy about this. $5. exactly. nobody wants to pay more and face value it seems unfair to consumers and especially those financially responsible, use their cards responsibly but the reason that bank of america is doing this is actually quite simple. it s because it has to. and it s likely just the first of many banks to introduce a fee like this. the reason that i say that it has to do it is because regulation introduced by the dodd-frank act amendment caps fees of banks to charge merchants for processing those debit card transactions so the cap is 21 cents. that s less than half of the 44-cent average that banks charge now. i know 23 cents sound like much but compound it by millions of transaction fees it could cost the banks to lose billions of dollars. so bank of america s arguing that in order to be able to provide features to customers like overdraft and fraud protection, it needs to charge this fee to help cover those
president returned to the country and is looking for the united states help to keep him in power, and some of this was political in nature. sure. absolutely. in fact, the u.s. government discouraged him from returning to yemen, as did the saudi government. we know that from officials in both governments. he went back anyway. he is looking for support. we don t know whether or not the united states was directly involved in the killing, the yemeni government does not have the capability without u.s. assistance to get this done. fran townsend, hope you ll still around. many more questions. live to istanbul to check in with mohammed jamjoom who has information about exactly where al awlaki was killed. good morning. reporter: good morning, christine. we re told by the yemeni embassy in washington, d.c. that the operation that killed anwar al awlaki was killed out in a province of yemen about 140 kilometers from the capital, from sanaa. interesting, because anwar alky was be
jill, we heard some strong words. any action to follow? no action because really what they have to do is get the syrian government to protect these diplomats. it s not just the u.s., candy. it is the french have gone through some similar things. but so far, these incidents seem to be escalating. listen to what secretary clinton said specifically about protecting those diplomats. this attempt to intimidate our diplomats through violence is wholly unjustified. we immediately raised this incident with the syrian government and we are demanding that they take every possible step to protect our diplomats according to their obligations under international law. so that is the u.s. position, candy, is that this is basically ginned up by the syrian government, having people coming out to attack or do something to the u.s. ambassador and others. now, the syrian government says that these are just people who are motivated by this interference, as they would put it, by the u.s. g