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Discussions behind the closed door. i have been here since 2003 and the iraq war and the t.a.r.p. program, and everything that we did in 2006, 2007, and 2008, and health care and the energy bill, and so there much wrangling and those discussions are best kept behind closed door, and i agree with the speaker on that, and so we have to work through this. it is contentious, and we have 230-some members of the caucus, and leader pelosi is doing a great job to keep things together with a republican senate that does not want to cooperate and a president of the united states that is completely out of...

Seats, including the most recent election. nancy pelosi is the reason that most of those democrats won because she by her leadership, and only by her leadership, got the aca passed without any republican votes. >> ed: but pardon me, she did such a great job, why are a rising number of democrats saying, no, we want a new face? >> when you consider what the caucus numbers are, i don't think 17 is a rising number. i understand the need for change but nancy pelosi was a great speaker and saved the country when she found the votes for atari, on the president past the tarp program. she saved the aca...

You have said neither party has the guts to take on wall street. is the system rigged? >> there is a reality that i think we all need to recognize with respect to the power of the financial sector. let me go back a minute and say that on this tarp program, i introduced a piece of legislation calling for a windfall profits tax on the executives of any of these companies that got more than $5 million, that it was time for them once they got their compensation and their bonus to split the rest of the money they made with the nurses and the truck drivers and the soldiers who bailed them out. with ...

Millionaire and billionaire friends caused this problem. how about your millionaire and billionaire friends paying for the bailout in not working families in this country. so to answer your question, no, but it was wrong to ask the middle class to bail out wall street, and by the way, i want wall street now to help kids in this country go to college public colleges and universities free with a wall street speculation pass. >> senator, i want to get you in. you said neither party has the guts to take on wall street. is the system rig? >> there's a reality we need to realize with respect to the ...

That on this tarp program, i introduced legislation calling for a windfall profits tax on the executives of any of these companies that got more than $5 million, that it was time for them once they got their compensation and their bonus to split the rest of the money they made with the nurses and the truck drivers and the soldiers who bailed them out. with respect to the financial sector, i know my time has run out but in speaking of changing positions and the position on how this debate has occurred is kind of frustrating because unless somebody mentions my name i can't get into the discussio...