officials are trying to determine whether the money disappeared before it left zurich or after it landed. wall street journal, barnes and noble is planning to stop production of the nook. the color screen tablets says sales of the ereader have fallen 35%. this is a struggling book industry that now turned into the nook and didn t work. the market proved to be too tough for barnes & noble forcing the company to invest too much money to keep up with the ipad and the kindle. overall retail sales for the company have declined by 10%. of course, you wanted to know what was up. i didn t actually. with singer brown. escharged in l.a. last night with hit and run and driving without a license after rear ending another car in may. if convicted he could face up to four years in jail for violating his probation stemming from his domestic violence dispute with rihanna. that s a singer. let s go to politico. joining us now with the political playbook, jim