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Mortgage. she didn't have to give her driver's license to get $507,000. she was a cocktail waitress. that was insane. >> this is what was going on. this is real life. when you came up with the idea for the book, did you see these guys as villains? >> it's a great question. i actually -- i'm not sure i saw them as villains. many some cases, in some cases dick is a villon, and some some cases he is a tragic person. not a tragic hero. >> he is either shockingly naive, not very intelligent, or he is willfully now pretending he is such. >> i think wall street, these people are professional traders....

To give it the last time i got a mortgage. she didn't have to give her driver's license to get $507,000. she was a cocktail waitress. that was insane. >> this is what was going on. this is real life. when you came up with the idea for the book, did you see these guys as villains? >> it's a great question. i actually -- i'm not sure i saw them as villains. many some cases, in some cases dick is a villon, and some some cases he is a tragic person. not a tragic hero. >> he is either shockingly naive, not very intelligent, or he is willfully now pretending he is such. >> i think wall street, these...

Government. i mean, they start all over again. >> there's one amendment i would like to put to that. these people put this cultural zeitguys of greed into the poigs atmosphere. during the bottom of this crisis, i was trying to sell my late brother's house, and real estate agent friend was trying to sell it and said this is just a catastrophe. he said i had a woman come into my friend who was a mortgage broker. she was trying to refinance her house. she had gotten a $750,000 mortgage for her house, and when they asked for her driver's license, she said i didn't have to give it the last time i g...

you can blame the bankers that went wild. regulators that weren't minding the store. >> what goes on behind closed doors on wall street? >> we stand strong, and on the other side we'll eat golden sludge. >> could it happen again? >> i don't think anybody realized that we were within a day away from a major international catastrophic and economic meltdown. >> james wood from "too big to fail," andrew ross sorkin, the man who wrote the book on the crisis. this is "piers morgan" tonight. good evening. it's costing dominique strauss-khan $1 million to get out of jail. the judge is gran...

agencies. you can blame congress. you can blame the bankers that went wild. regulators that weren't minding the store. >> what goes on behind closed doors on wall street? >> we stand strong, and on the other side we'll eat golden sludge. >> could it happen again? >> i don't think anybody realized that we were within a day away from a major international catastrophic and economic meltdown. >> james wood from "too big to fail," andrew ross sorkin, the man who wrote the book on the crisis. this is "pierce morgan" tonight. good evening. it's costing dominique strauss khan $1 million to...