what s the matter with white people. eamon javers is cnbc s washington correspondent. is this getting traction? do the american people care about the fact that romney is releasing only two years? i think if you frame it in terms of documents and details, the the american voters don t necessarily care about that stuff. it s kind of complicated and confusing, but what they do care about, kind of in the gut, is this sense of somebody s getting away with something you re not. so if romney s paying a lower tax rate than other americans, those folks are going to resent that and see how that happened. is he in fact paying less a tax rate than most americans? e yeah, what we re talking about here is the federal effective tax rate. that s after you take your deductions and everything else. he s saying over the past ten years, he paid 13%. most americans, so your median income was about $75,000 a year. those folks paid less.
like the house you were meant to go to to rip people off. sorry i said that. jon fortt from cnbc, thank you for clearing it up for us. sure. we the jury find the defendant not guilty. it s been almost one year since casey anthony was acquitted of killing her daughter caylee. her attorney, jose baez joins me to talk about plea deals, allegations and lies. voter i.d. on trial. a panel of federal judges gets to decide if voters should be required to show a government-issued i.d. rick perry makes it official. he is bucking the president s health care law. details on that all right here.
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when something happens like what s happened at jpmorgan chase, someone needs to be accountable and part of that is jamie dimon should withdraw from should resign from this position of public trust. that was massachusetts senate candidate elizabeth warren calling on jamie dimon to quit the board of the new york federal reserve. last week s announcement that chase racked up a $2 billion trading loss has sparked a management shake-up and more calls for regulation. this morning, ina drew announced her retirement. joining from us washington is cnbc s eamon javers. always great to seep. you thanks for having me into this would seem to be yet another reason to make the case for more regulations, but we already see folks pushing back on that. what s going to happen in terms
which leaders could keep europe out of an economic crisis. it s far from a sure thing. one nation remains the key to making all this work. ron insana is cnbc s senior analyst. ron, we have 26 of 27 eu member countries. they have agreed to this new deal. so what is it and explain why britain is being the holdout on this. britain is being the holdout because as it long has been the case, they have not wanted to give up their sor rinty. it s why they re not part of the currency union itself and it s also why they don t want to go too far in because europe wants to put a financial transaction tax on. they want budget discipline that s enforced by the entire group. britain is not willing to give on those issues. however, the members of the euro zone who are, in fact, using the euro as a currency have agreed they will tighten their belts and be governed by the entire body. they re trying to make a much tighter union both not just in monetary terms with the currency but also in fiscal terms