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We'll talk about all that with senator chambliss and menendez in just a moment.

It is about doing everything well. because in the end... everything matters. performance without compromise. that is what drives us. we are back with republican senator saxby chapel bliss of georgia and robert menendez of new jersey. senator chambliss, just to button up how you feel about taking up immigration reform next, you don't see politics in a scheduling change? >> oh, sure. i mean it's pretty clear that's what this is all about, but here's the problem with trying to deal with an immigration reform bill now, candy, from a realistic standpoint and from a legislative standpoint.

Up after we get through wall street reform, which is incredibly important to this country and to the taxpayers so that they never reach into their pockets again. >> senator chambliss, when you look and see those pictures out of arizona and listen to the governor, what you do know is this is an urgent issue so why not and go ahead and take it up now? >> well, it's a peculiar issue to arizona that is not taking place in many other states, border states have unique problems when it comes to immigration. we have an illegal alien problem here in georgia, but it pales in comparison to what's going o...

We are back with republican senator saxby chambliss and democrat robert menendez. senator chambliss, first to you, financial reform. senator shelby, who's been working on trying to figure out a deal says that democrats are not going to get cloture, they can't get to the magic 60. they haven't found a deal that would bring over any republicans. is this ever going to happen? >> well, first of all, candy, there is not a member of the united states senate that doesn't understand very well that we've got to eliminate this too big to fail. what we saw in the financial collapse that's happened over t...

Probably agree with you on that. senator, let me turn to a slightly different part of the financial reform, and that is we heard this week as a result of a government investigation that we've had members of the s.e.c. has over 3,000 employees, this involved less than 1% of them, but that they were spending an inordinate amount of work time watching porn on their computers. we're talking about senior people making $100,000 up to $200,000 a year. let me put up on our screen some of the things that over time the financial crimes that were missed by government financial regulators. aig, enron, wor...