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Fraud, in fact, the accounting fraud by the banks, the fraud from the ratings agencies and then the movement of that money into political circles in order to get accounting changes that are with us to this day, the treasury secretary of this country, in fact, directly responsible for helping to transfer some $3 billion of taxpayer money into aig, through aig and into the bonus pool at goldman sachs and, yet, he's your treasury secretary. the commission has referred its findings and several people to authorities for potential civil or criminal cases, however they will not say who or how many le...

Had wall street executives transferring risk into the american pension system and then when it blew up, they had bought insurance, the wall street executives had bought insurance that the garbage they were selling to america's pensions was going to blow up, it did. aig was happy to collect the insurance money but didn't have anything to pay out. so we all had to pay it in our tax dollars to pay off goldman sachs $3 billion that went into their bonus pool and across wall street. the bigger question for me, richard, it confirms, again, all of our worst fear, that wall street executives were gami...

And they get fringe benefits. part of the fringe benefits things go bad, they get bailed out? >> truly the party of incumbents. they want to support -- look the corporations'uzunget hit up for donations from the politicians and the politicians come back and say what can we do for you? >> sean: is it is the political system that is more corrupt? i believe capitalism works. capitalism is the answer they create the jobs. >> capitol hill is the problem not wall street. >> i think linked network between capitol hill and wall street. for example in the bailout we've had two trillion dollars of bail ...

And they get fringe benefits. part of the fringe benefits things go bad, they get bailed out? >> truly the party of incumbents. they want to support -- look the corporations'uzunget hit up for donations from the politicians and the politicians come back and say what can we do for you? >> sean: is it is the political system that is more corrupt? i believe capitalism works. capitalism is the answer they create the jobs. >> capitol hill is the problem not wall street. >> i think linked network between capitol hill and wall street. for example in the bailout we've had two trillion dollars of bail ...

Feinberg, remember we told you about this six months ago, he wanted them to get the bonus pool down to a certain amount of money. they'll have to withhold about $21 million to get down to that number. if you're a former employee, you're probably thinking they owe you that money. they say not so fast. >> here the deal. the division of the company that made the risky bets that made us pay -- bail out that entire company two or three times now is eligible for bonuses. what kind of system is that? well, michael lewis who wrote a bunch of books about the financial industry and was a guru himself in...