quarter of gains. but put it into perspective, those gains would have to rise another 21% to get back to the prerecession peak. white house is revealing where president obama will donated his nobel peace prize money. $1.4 million will be divided among ten charities, including the united negro college fund, clinton/bush haiti fund. most money, quarter million dollars, will go to the fisher house which provides housing for families of patients being treated at military hospitals. i have done work together with them. it is indeed a wonderful works. they do important work for wounded troops. we appreciate everything they are doing and can use that $250,000. lot of money. thank you. political ally of the president is sending up flares. steve hill den brand says the obama white house says they better correct fast or the november elections will be a political bloodbath for democrats. just ahead, hillebrand tells us
american people what we stand for. is it just communications or have you done a good job doing stuff? we need to be stronger leaders and i think we immediate to be more aggressive. we immediate to push back when republicans try to describe us in certain negative terms. i don t think that we do that very effectively. and i think we should always be on the offense ready go back to work for barack obama? i will always help barack obama. in his re-election campaign. some capacity. you are ready to do that. i m not ready to move to chicago. but you are ready at some point to help him. i want him re-elect. steve hillebrand, thank you very much for coming on. any hope of getting republicans and democrats to work together on financial reform seems to banish today. senate backing committee chairman chris dodd said he will offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul without gop support. after a move talks with the republican senator bob corker they failed to resolve ke
david letterman, for his part, said he s just happy this is all behind him and it s actually helped him in his ratings as well. but joe halderman, the sentencing date, savannah, is in may and he s heading to jail after all of this. a top producer now a convicted felony for cbs news. wow. all right, nbc s jeff rossen with the story. thanks so much for joining us. reporter: see ya. coming up, president obama and democrats are entering the end game on health care, so they hope, with republicans vowing to use the fight as ammunition in november, how will democrats respond? up next, the daily rundown interview with steve hillebrand, who served as obama s deputy campaign manager in the 2008 campaign. plus, are lawmakers closing in on a bipartisan yep, we said bipartisan deal for regulating wall street? we ll get the latest on the negotiations with senator mark warner. but first, a look ahead at ft. cease schedule today. he s got a meeting with the haitian president here befor