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Some of them banking. not all the bad guys. the banks are good. let me give you specifics. let's sick to department of justice if that was anything anymore. on all of the fat cat bankers. the president is calling the fat bank bankers. get them. let's get the bad guys. why would we havejidge lan tee do that? why would you have union and thugs do that? get the bad guy. that's unpegging from logic and reason to have the thugs go do that. let me ask you this. who is giving the money to the banks? it's not the treasury. not the treasury. they don't have any money. they don't have a discount window....

Some of them banking. not all the bad guys. the banks are good. let me give you specifics. let's sick to department of justice if that was anything anymore. on all of the fat cat bankers. the president is calling the fat bank bankers. get them. let's get the bad guys. why would we havejidge lan tee do that? why would you have union and thugs do that? get the bad guy. that's unpegging from logic and reason to have the thugs go do that. let me ask you this. who is giving the money to the banks? it's not the treasury. not the treasury. they don't have any money. they don't have a discount window....

Foreign banks as well. >> the fed declined comment. but the record showed the loans were collateralized in full and have since been repaid. they come from the fed 100-year-old confidential emergency lending program called the discount window. the day the loans peaked in october of 2008, at $111 billion, records show half the total went to two big european banks. as short-term loans. i have a rab bank, now 59% owned by the central bank of libya borrowed multiple times, at least $3 billion in total. the bank of china, more than half a billion on one day. all of this legal, because the banks oper...

>> how did they pay it back? by more loans from the fed and more loans from the treasury department. this is basically a circular movement of money that the federal reserve created out of thin air. what is the long-term effect of this? more money in the money supply. chasing the same amount of goods and services. the goods and services cost more. it's called inflation. that's why today, one of the reasons today, gas, sorry, brian. beer and food cost a lot more. >> gave that up for lent. >> you know what, judge? >> it's the same price. no problem. >> at the time, though, we heard from the bank,...