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Unbelievably difficult work and who are unbelievable professionals. the other thing is the point of what we're doing there is trying to establish an afghan government and afghan state that's hardened against terrorism so there isn't another 9/11 that comes out of there. we are spending $5.5 billion a month there. that does go into the pockets of a lot of warlords and bullies that actually strengthens the taliban's case against the afghan government. that there's a cost to us staying. and what's happening right now with the afghan government standing up in terms of security and other things the...

About deals in the future. that they will reveal to the seller, even though we sold this to you, we're betting against it. a judge is not involved, this is between the lawyers for the sec and the lawyers for goldman. it's done in private. we won't know about it until they tell us it's a deal. >> shepard: the digger issue is long term transparency. if you have these credit default swaps, that they be traded on an open market. now they're sort of side bets, as if you're betting with a buddy as a gambling table. >> here's the interesting thing. i'm firmly of the view that at the time goldman did ...

Republicans blocked that measure on three different occasions over the past couple of days. but they ended the stall tactics tonight after party leaders claimed democrats assured of them they will be able to make changes to the legislation. rich edison of the fox business network is live in washington tonight. rich, what sort of changes are we talking about here? >> well, mostly specifics on what the government would do if a large financial firm is on the brink of failure again, think a.i.g. from a few years ago here. senate republican aids say they expect democrats to include a provision requ...

Billion taxpayer dollars. we doesn't want to see it repeated. >> i'm confused because some of the $180 billion taxpayer dollars were paid by the new york federal reserve, or with the approval of the federal reserve to goldman sachs to pay off on the $1 billion bet revealed last friday. so it's a good thing that the taxpayers are there to pay off the $1 billion side bets of american bankers. i do not understand why it is that we refuse to break up the megabanks. >> over the years they've made the argument on wall street that they needed this power and concentration. in order to be competitive o...

Everer of it has been mentioned in the newspaper reports but not the suit. jonathan egal was legendary for structuring deals that enabled him to get short the sub prime market. so it would really surprise me if this deal was structured so he could be long the sub prime market in march of 2007. i mean, it's -- the whole thing -- it smells. but i would say this -- this is very important to realize. that this is not a case of an isolated transaction. it was pretty standard practice for -- in this market, for the people who were short the market to in effect pick the loans that went into the -- in...