another huge gamble. you wonder, gene, you're in washington, how could it be that after september 15th, 2008, and we elected the democratic president who said he was going to change the system the democratic majority. you had at times a filibuster approved senate. how could it be that the progressives that have campaigned against wall street greed for so long because, you know, a lot of people -- how could it be that they didn't reform the system? you just said they didn't reform it. why? >> nobody wanted -- wanted to do any sort of fundamental reform. and from the administration's initial proposals. for example, we were all talking about these toxic synthetic derivatives and this huge gazillion dollar unregulated unforeseen market that had essentially caused everything to crash because they were making