bret: now fresh pickings from the political grapevine. associated press reports the wall street executive who reviewed the obama administration energy loan program donated more than $50,000 to the president re-election effort. allen exonerated the administration began to donate to the campaign two weeks after he testified before congress on the report. he defended the report saying he chose to back the president after the work was completed. they question the report that did not include bankrupt firm solyndra and beacon power saying it shows the president did not want a careful, independent review of the clean jobs scheme. they add if a republican administration squandered that much machine on loser like
nearly four years after america s financial collapse, not a single senior wall street executive has been charged with a crime. not one. why? could it be because obama raised $49000000 from wall street, more than any candidate in history? arthel: at the same time, governor mitt romney has been on the attack with an opposing message. he s calling the obama administration the most anti-business administration since the carter white house. so how will this play out on the campaign trail? here for a fair and balanced debate, jonathan collegio, former press secretary and director of communications for american cross roads and alexis mcgill johnson, she is the executive director of american values institute. good to see both of you. thanks, arthel. good to see you. arthel: i ll start with you. and i want you to talk about how the super pacs are drawing a direct line between the obama white house and wall street and if the underlying strategy is to turn off the president s base.
ron paul ending active campaign in hissed by for the republican nomination. the thing is, he s still going after delegates. yes, mitt romney aside, he s working the state conventions. we ve got more on that in a moment. but first, for the second time in a week, tongues are wagging over an edgy magazine cover. have you seen the latest? it s newsweek saying president obama is the first gay president. it his the response to presiden obama s interview last week with abc news. last week, the mom enough cover was really provocative. anyone who is living in a cave and just came out, b there was the cover there. the country was talking about this. my question for you, is this a response? were you trying to notch it up, you eknow, a bit, to try to recapture some of that interest out there between your two magazines? ashleigh, i don t think so, actually. what we wanted to do with this piece. we knew with andrew sullivan writing, and he s one of the chief intellectual officers with
ivans, an agent who went missing from his home last week. he s being described as suicidal and could be carrying a handgun. police don t think he s a threat to anyone else but himself, but they re urging the public not to approach him if they see him. days after revealing that the nation s largest bank lost $2 billion in risky investments, jpmorgan has its first casualty. the chief investment officer retiring after more than 30 years. over the weekend ceo jamie dimon gave a mea culpa of his own. it was a stupid thing that we should never have done but we re still going to earn a lot of money this quarter. it isn t like the company is jeopardized. we hurt ourselves and our credibility, yes, and that we ve got to fully expect and pay the price for that. may not be enough. a former government watch dog on the bank bailout says dimon should resign from the new york federal reserve board. elizabeth warren says the move would shore up public trust which is still rattled from
is billionaire aubrey mcclendon. he s the outspoken, charzmatic scion of one of america s founders and a founder of chesapeake. chesapeake could be the next enron, or worldcom. chesapeake energy is second only to exxonmobil in drilling for natural gas in this country. more than 13,000 americans work for mcclendon, enjoying perks, which according to reuters includes on-site botox treatments. chesapeake also boasts a campus with three restaurants and a 70,000-square foot facility with a rock climbing wall. it may have been among the first signs that something doesn t end up. mcclendon has often made grandiose promises that aren t backed by reality. at a minimum, i think they can create a million jobs over the next few years. the they he s referring to is a fund chesapeake was launching. now, mcclendon is not a household name, but what he s fighting for is. even as natural gas prices have plunged by 50% over the past year, he s been a believer in gas as the fuel of america