is this the end of griping against the dodd frank financial reform law? good morning from washington. it s a busy friday. na 11th, 2012. my name is chuck todd and this is the daily rundown. knit romney has learned that every section of your life is open to inspection, especially high school. a washington post story on his high school years at the prestigious cranbrook school in detroit, classmates describing his pranks. when he was a senior, he acosted a boy with bleached blond hair and tackled him and pinned him to the ground as the boy, john lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help. romney repeatedly, the allegation said, clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. when reporters called one of his former classmate, phillip maxwell, confirming the story to nbc news, saying the boys grew into a distinguished group of men and now we look back at it and it s a black mark on our own character. the post reports that lauber died in 2004. his family is disputing th
good friday morning. i m sunny hostin. paula faris paula far paula faris is on assignment. the news we hoped for but didn t dare to expect. two kidnapped by a man who killed their mother and sister found alive. the break came overnight. abc s tahman bradley joins us with the latest. good morning. reporter: good morning, rob and sunny. afterty tense two-week manhunt police acted on a tip and s.w.a.t. moved in and the two girls in the woods. remarkably these little girls after all they went through appear to be unharmed. the massive manhunt to find alexandria and kyliyah bain ended with the two little girls found alive. when i seen those kids, they was it was a huge relief. reporter: they are suspected kidnapper adam mayes who had been on the run from the fbi was found in the woods behind this church in guntown, mississippi. preliminary reports indicate he shot himself in the head and was later pronounced dead at an area hospital. reporter: overnight they were
for the nuts and bolts on this fias fiasco, it s the impact on the markets and your own investments. alison kosik joins us now. just what was this massive trading bet all about? before it went south? reporter: fredricka, what jpmorgan essentially did was made a big game am. they made risky bets and lost. the bets they made were to protect against possible losses on jpmorgan s other investments, but clearly they backfired and the bets produced losses of their own. how did this come out? it came out in a surprise conference call that ceo jamie diamond called for lamon called. shares are down almost 8% right now. shares of others are getting hit hard right now. wall veit is worried about other banks wondering, you know what, if jpmorgan can do this and it s considered the stronger of the banks or the strongest of the banks, what kind of bets are the other banks making especially, once again, that aren t as strong as jpmorgan? fredricka? so the ceo, jamie dimon, had quite the
royal forecast. the man who would be king turns up in one of the unlikeliest places doing the weather. why the prince of wales went to forecasting gales and could use a lesson from sam. balmoral as the afternoon goes on. good morning, everyone. sam s job is saved. he s no sam champion. come on. no, no, no. boy, we exhaled when we got the news yesterday. take a look at these two missing sisters behind a sheet there. the fbi saying the girls were hungry, they were thirsty, dehydrated but they re safe right now and we ll have the latest on that. that s right. the kidnapper is dead but they re safe much the good news. a lot of news on the presidential campaign yesterdayment mitt romney is not accused of being a bully back in high school. accusations he helped pin down a clasp pate and chop his air out. the question is how much does it matter? how much will it matter? we ll get into that. also, joe biden, yesterday the president told you that he got out ahead of his
thanks for joining us. i m danielle nottingham. president obama is hoping his new stance on same-sex marriage translates into a windfall for his re-election campaign. the president headlined west coast fund-raisers in two states on thursday and in each he tauted his historic support for same-sex marriage. television cameras were kept far away from the california home of george clooney, the actor hosted a record-breaking fund-raiser that netted president obama s campaign $15 million. and it came one day after the president announced he supports the top gay rights issue. during the dinner, the president went after republican rival mitt romney, saying romney is, quote, backwards on equality. earlier at a fund-raiser in seattle, the president drew cheers when he hit on the theme of gay rights. you should be able to give your kids to do even better than you, no matter who you are, no matter where you come from, no matter what you look like, no matter what your last name, no ma