CBS Evening News - 2012-05-13

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[0:00] Tonight, the $2 billion shake-up. Three

[0:03] top executives now reportedly leaving JP

[0:06] Morgan Chase after its massive trading

[0:08] loss as the CEO admits to stupid

[0:10] mistakes. We'll have the latest.

[0:13] Do you, sir, take

[0:14] The debate over same-sex marriage, front

[0:16] and center this Sunday. Bill Whitaker

[0:19] and Terrell Brown are both on the story.

[0:21] Starting over, jobs are open but many

[0:24] workers don't have the right training.

[0:25] We'll show you a program trying to

[0:27] change that.

[0:29] And the graduates, Tony Guida with a

[0:32] story of a war zone refugee who went

[0:34] from janitor to Ivy League grad.

[0:41] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:45] And good evening, everyone. I'm Jeff

[0:47] Glor. Three executives at the nation's

[0:49] largest bank, JP Morgan Chase,

[0:51] reportedly are out. This after the bank

[0:54] revealed on Thursday it lost at least $2

[0:56] billion in risky trades. Those stepping

[0:59] down will include the senior executive

[1:01] who oversaw the transactions and two of

[1:03] her traders. Today, CEO Jamie Dimon

[1:06] called the trades a terrible, egregious

[1:09] mistake. He also acknowledged the

[1:11] Securities and Exchange Commission is

[1:13] investigating whether rules were broken.

[1:17] We know we were sloppy. We know we were

[1:18] stupid. We know there was bad judgment.

[1:21] We don't know if any of that's true yet.

[1:22] Of course, regulators should look at

[1:24] something like this. That's their job.

[1:25] So, you know, we are totally open kimono

[1:26] with regulators and they will come to

[1:28] their own conclusions. We took far too

[1:30] much risk. The strategy we had was

[1:32] barely vetted. It was barely monitored.

[1:35] It should never have happene

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