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>> what do you think is motivating republicans to pursue this? are they trying to deny the president a victory? >> i think theres a huge political opening for republicans right now. because the wealthy in america, the most educated america, over the past 8, 12 years have been breaking the democratic party for cultural reasons, not for economic reasons, and theres been a great shock on wall street that this president has been more progressive than they expected. they dont think hes a capitalist. ...

In transparency, we will see this happen again. >> i want to play for you a sound bite of robert gibbs earlier today on financial regulation. take a listen to the presidents press secretary. >> were not watering this down. were not putting this -- chip, the big banks for years had regulation on their side and it led to what i think most people would say was the worst economic downturn in their lifetimes. that economic downturn, why would it be met with handing regulatory power to the big banks a...

Else the lead story. let him go ahead and trumpet reform and what would be a better day, open up with goldman sachs getting an sec fraud charge to start off. so meanwhile, stuart varney was asked about the timing of this. its the same stuart varney from varney and company who comes on every day. here is what he said about the timing and was it a coincidence or not. >> the timing is absolutely perfect. wall street looks very bad, it looks like wall street really was responsible for the panic of 0...

Financial system because you can now turn around and say look what goldman sachs was doing. this is all their fault, we must stop it happening again. whats happened here is a very significant political victory for president obama. he is going to get financial reform. megyn: its hard to be against that, isnt it, when you see something like this going on, and then you see the headlines saying goldman sachs is $5.4 billion bonus bonanza adds insult to injure gentlemen -- injury. >> tomorrow theyll ...

Them. we got to stick together. if we dont stick together they will run over us. i was very successful. >> sean: lets look into mike huckabees crystal ball. i dont like being over confident. ive worked under the premise you unpromise try and over deliver. >> great point of view. >> sean: you exceed peoples expectations. the expectation now among everybody, political pundits is that the republicans will do very well. are they building up too high an expectation? is there a risk they are over conf...

Syndrome. where they kept all those congressmen captive in washington. they say it is us against them. we got to stick together. if we dont stick together they will run over us. i was very successful. >> sean: lets look into mike huckabees crystal ball. i dont like being over confident. ive worked under the premise you unpromise try and over deliver. >> great point of view. >> sean: you exceed peoples expectations. the expectation now among everybody, political pundits is that the republicans wi...

Syndrome. where they kept all those congressmen captive in washington. they say it is us against them. we got to stick together. if we dont stick together they will run over us. i was very successful. >> sean: lets look into mike huckabees crystal ball. i dont like being over confident. ive worked under the premise you unpromise try and over deliver. >> great point of view. >> sean: you exceed peoples expectations. the expectation now among everybody, political pundits is that the republicans wi...

Banking and wild stock swaps speculation. sort of naked betting with no money. the sort of thing that was covered up by our government in 08. in response to the blank lincoln bill, secretary geithner sent a letter to secretary lincoln. it outlines the need for wall street reform. but adds some interesting adjectives from the treasury secretary. of course facilitated so much of what went wrong in past years. geithner wants quote, conservative capital requirements, it will be interesting to see wh...

Use drugs so lets accommodate those people. some people believe in incest so we should accommodate them. people believe in polygamy. >> you know, being gay, just like being on drugs or doing incest or having lots of husbands. reporter michael tracy asked about mr. huckabees position on same-sex couples adopting children. >> arkansas passed a ban on gay adoptions in 08, i believe. what was your take on that? >> children are not puppies. this is not a time to see if we can experiment and find out ...

Speak, taking advantage of prices are far more affordable than recent years. and can you blame them? now is a great time to buy. >> i did see a headline last week, and im wondering how much we need to be concerned about the folks who will -- those speculators, because there are speculators getting right back in the mix, and after all those mistakes and suffered through all of that, are we potentially setting ourselves up for not having learned from the mistakes of the past? >> certainly well hav...