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Right across the river here doing time in jail for grabbing a joint. >> i've had clients who thought it was a good deal in situations like that if they could just get less than 18 months on just putting out an application on a loan that was not true but they paid the loan back. so there was no loss. it was kind of the old no harm no foul. yet they can't come up with a way to prosecute some banker who's orchestrating all this and the derivatives and everything else? it's nonsense. >> we've got to take another break. matt, great to have you here. everybody else on the table stick around next. ch...
Some of your tweets there. thanks very much for tweeting with us and watching us. is it possible that some wall street executives are so clueless they don't understand when the financial industry nearly wrecked the economy five years ago and received tax funded bailouts the people on main street why justifiably angry when they learned many executives still received huge bonuses. robert benmochey told the "wall street journal" this week that criticism of those bonuses was ignorant and that it was intended to stir public age for get everybody out there with their pitch forks and hangmen nooses a...
We're joined by matt taibbe, current contributing editor at rolling stone. his article "losing the pension funds" is in the current issue. not the article of miley cyrus. what do you make of these comments? >> i think this goes straight to the top of the clueless post crash ceo comments pyramid you. had lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs who said he was doing god's work. the guy who said people in foreclosure should suck anytime and cope. this us worse than that. this is probably the most clueless thing. >> chapter one of public speaking for dummies is, do not use painful events as metaphors and...
>> i've had clients who thought it was a good deal in situations like that if they could just get less than 18 months on just putting out an application on a loan that was not true but they paid the loan back. so there was no loss. it was kind of the old no harm no foul. yet they can't come up with a way to prosecute some banker who's orchestrating all this and the derivatives and everything else? it's nonsense. >> we've got to take another break. matt, great to have you here. everybody else on the table stick around next. christiane's interview with the iran president. she asked him about the...