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Lehman brother failure, aig failure, or bear stearns failure, and so what my goal is to create transparency particularly in the derivatives market and to have better oversight and accountability so we have a stronger financial services industry so we can stay at the center of the world financial markets. >> thank you very much, kirsten gillibrand, the senator from new york. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tamron hall is up next. tomorrow well have general david petrae...

>>neil: as charlie mentioned if you are going to go after one you might as well go after all of them at least the big three, moodys and fitch but s&p is the only one that downgraded the u.s. debt, and many can argue with that, but, it is interesting that the other two that did not, they escaped this fate. so far today. >>guest: no, i agree, and the other two when they saw the backlash the week after we got downgraded i guarantee any plans they had about downgrading the u.s. went out the window. ...