we begin this morning with back to work. as lawmakers return from a holiday, president obama is getting ready to stir the political fires with a call to extend bush-era tax cuts, but not for everyone. this as the president s campaign turns up the heat on mitt romney. brian mooar joins us from washington with details. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, veronica. faced with bad headlines, the obama campaign wants to change the conversation. as congress returns today from its july 4th recess, president obama already has some work planned for lawmakers. later today he s reportedly going to ask congress to extend bush era tax cuts for americans making less than a quarter million dollars a year. the obama campaign needs to quickly pivot away from last week s feeble jobs report. it is aiming its guns not only on capitol hill, but on republican mitt romney s personal finances. he offshores most of his own personal investments presumably to shield them from taxes. i ve
thank you. for thousands of americans whose morning routine is sitting down at the computer and logging into the internet, you could be in for a rude awakening thanks to a rogue computer virus. francisco has details. reporter: logging on to the internet monday morning may be a problem for tens of thousands of computer users in the u.s. it all degan months ago when six acetonians were charged with corrupting four million computers world wide with malware forcing the computers to direct the user to sites they may not have intended. the scam hers made as much as $14 million off ads they sold on the destination sites. they found a way to tap into the one of the most lucrative sources of money on the internet and that s online advertising. reporter: after the scammers were caught, the fbi took over their serve verse allowing people to search without problems. now they re disconnecting an estimated 45,000 infected devices. the good news is the odds aren t high that you wi
24 hours, a petition in maryland to have the issue placed on the november ballot, but just moments after the president made his announcement, governor martin o malley said that most in maryland agree with obama. o malley s says he remains confident that voters will allow a gay marriage if the referendum makes the ballot. he says marylanders are likely to expand the rights if given the chance. we would like to know what you think. if it does reach a referendum, how would you vote? jurors are deciding the case about a consultant to did the robo call that they said was intended to keep black voters at home. another was convicted on similar charges in november. jayne miller has more. they began around 3:00 this afternoon. was it a criminal action, or was it part of the routine business of politics? a lot is on the line for him. if the jury goes his way, maybe, he says, he can get his political consulting business back on track. in the political world, all politicians runn
argues that things would be better if the republicans get out of the way. he joins us at the top of the show. also dirty angry money. montana s governor doesn t like much this pac money and politics that is, he s helping to start a prairie fire out west to ban corporate money from politics. the governor joins us here. plus, why do gay republicans want to be in a political party that won t defend them? isn t that a fundamental question? if people don t like you, why are you there? we re going to ask former congressman mark foley. and the secret service agent that protected jacqueline kennedy, clint hill joins us to tell us what he saw back in november 1963. and let me finish tonight with overdue praise for the secret service. we begin with today s jobs report. paul krugman is the economist for the out with a new book end this depression now. and john heilemann is an editor for new york magazine. thanks for joining us. today s jobs report was a mixed bag, 115,000 jobs
kennedy, clint hill joins us to tell us what he saw back in november 1963. and let me finish tonight with overdue praise for the secret service. we begin with today s jobs report. paul krugman is the economist for the new york times. out with a new book end this depression now. and john heilemann is an editor for new york magazine. thanks for joining us. today s jobs report was a mixed bag, 115,000 jobs were added to payrolls in april. the unemployment rate did drop to 8.1%, the lowest rate since president obama took office. but, however, economic forecasters were predicting bigger growth this month and they saw the smallest jobs gain in six months. that said, in the bigger picture, there have been fairly consistent jobs growth for some time now. take a look at this chart. recession started under the previous president, w., shown in red has been seeing job gains for the last two years. the obama years are in blue. we can see the uptick there month by month. paul krugman