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Swiftly to bring our economy back from the brink. at our second meeting, in pittsburgh, with our recovery beginning to take hold, we agreed to work to pursue a balanced pattern of global growth and repair our financial systems. this weekend in toronto, i hope we can build on this progress by coordinating our efforts to promote economic growth, to pursue financial reform, and to strengthen the global economy. we need to act in concert for a simple reason. this crisis proved and events continue to affirm that our national economies are inextricably linked. just as economic turmoil in one place c...

Let's take an incremental approach, we should have started from scratch, and this and that. i don't think anyone believed that this would be the idea coming out of the mouth of a candidate who in a recent poll was ten points ahead of harry reid. you know, you feel that he's in a world of hurt right now, and you've got to feel sorry for the guy, if this is the idea that's going to defeat him. >> i want to test your memory here, gene, if you can think of something i can't, and that is the -- i've never seen a senator carry a bill like this, that he knew was unpopular in his state. leaving conten...

Wildest derivatives that may serve no economic function whatsoever. >> wall street firms have been hiring big guns to lobby on capitol hill. goldman sachs just brought on former white house counsel greg craig to help fight those civil fraud charges. and the former democratic leader in the house dick gephardt is now a lobbyist for goldman sachs. right here on msnbc, andrea mitchell asked chris dodd of the banking committee if lawmakers-turned-lobbyists were cause for concern. >> i think have you a two-year ban before you can actually come back and lobby the congress on these matters. if you've ...

Committee today, that says if we do this right, republicans will vote for it. this isn't the bipartisanship that some argue we should have done in health care. bipartisanship in health care was let the republicans have the insurance companies help write the bill, we'll call it bipartisan. no. this is strong consumer bills and republicans are going to go along because they don't want to be on the wrong side of this. this is only a choice between main street and wall street and they don't want to go home and argue that -- being charged with supporting wall street over main street. >> senator, ho...

This bill, they're presumably going to be at the signing ceremony. that's going to complicate the political message they want to drive home in the midterms. >> senator dodd addressed this issue of lobbying and democrat heavy weights lining up on the sides of goldman sachs, dick gephardt, greg craig. how hard is this for democrats and what does it mean for the culture of washington you can so quickly and easily move from one side to the other and it's just this constant churning back and forth? >> it means the culture of washington is totally and completely corrupt and that the country is ruled...