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>> it was a great day for america yesterday when they passed this bill and i think the critics are not correct, i mean the regulators do have to sort out various details, but i think in a variety of subject areas, including anybody who's getting a mortgage, student loan, a credit card and a consumer side as well as any financial institution that's trading with derivatives or trying to wiggle its way out of regulation, i think all of that is going to stop, you know, the day this thing gets signed into law. >> plus the regulators have to feel their way, they have never had to the experience of h...

Eventually because everyone jumped into it and came to new york and supported it, we came out of it. sort of that type of effort that is needed now as well. i know a lot of my chef friends are having charities. they're having dinners in their restauran restaurants. and also from the consumer side. you can go to the store and ask for wonderful fish from the gulf. you can log into louisia louisiana seafood news dot-com. every day it's updated about what's going on wrrks the fish are coming from, and which seafood is okay to order. >> do you think, marcus, it would be possible to put our heads to...

Bonuses -- i'm wrong in being sort of like hyper critical of them? >> on the goldman case i think it is hard to say. you can make that case with bank of america because of the merrill deal with citibank, and with a couple of others that were -- clearly got support when they were in difficult straits and gave large bonuses. >> greta: i caught you -- i cut you off on the others. >> derivatives, huge, complex issue. jack reed and have been working six months to come up with language to address this. we have pretty much agreement on the consumer side we did at one point. put it in the fed make eig...

Bonuses -- i'm wrong in being sort of like hyper critical of them? >> on the goldman case i think it is hard to say. you can make that case with bank of america because of the merrill deal with citibank, and with a couple of others that were -- clearly got support when they were in difficult straits and gave large bonuses. >> greta: i caught you -- i cut you off on the others. >> derivatives, huge, complex issue. jack reed and have been working six months to come up with language to address this. we have pretty much agreement on the consumer side we did at one point. put it in the fed make eig...

Again, that will probably end up -- it should end up with the courts and i wouldn't be surprised at all to see criminal indictments for some of the allegations that have been raised. so my hope is that the justice department here will step up and form that kind of a task force. that's what we're trying to do on the consumer side of this bill. and, again, there's been a lot of controversy around it. but we've never, ever had before a place where financial products are going to be considered. you get all sorts of protection on the food you eat, the products you buy for your children as consumer ...