he has to fight for the nomination. wide ranging interview. we talked about the issues that he faces in the republican primaries. i think the part that interested me the most, though, was talking about what he would face if he does become the nominee against barak obama and the idea that they re going to go after him as a fat cat. in fact, i even said, maybe his gordon gecco, greed is good. and he said, they re absolutely going to go after me about that and this was the lead of the interview, if i may, the democrats and the president are going to put capitalism in on trial. they re going to question everything about capitalism and the fact that people get laid off and businesses close and all kinds of things happen. but that s part of why the free market eventually works. that he s happy to have that conversation cause he s going to say, i know how an economy works. you don t. i ll make it better. you made it worse. shannon: i think people will also see a side of him that they proba
has been successful is bad and everyone who is rich is bad. i don t get it. most of us wage earners are paying 39.6% in taxes. add another 12% in new york state in city taxes and we re paying 15% of our income in taxes. he doesn t get this whole fat cat thing and fair share argument that obama has even if he supported him in 2008. that s ok. if you want to call them fat cats and say they re greedy, fine. a lot of them are hiring a ton of people. business unlike government can t use force. they re pleasing their customers. rush limbaugh took heat for saying let s help more people. greed or charity? greed every time. mother teresa helped a couple thousand people. these job creators created hundreds of thousands of jobs. like the pocket chair creator. has to be at least a dozen. gordon gecco may say greed is good. bernie sanders, u.s. senator
dangerous with that, you re going to have another disaster like we had. sure. the movie is made by the parent company of this news channel, 20th century fox. i know guys down on wall street who have the slogan from gordon gecco greed is good on their desk. they do? how many people is he a hero to? he s an iconic figure, you know, everyone in a movie likes a villian so, i mean, back in the day with his role as gordon gecco and the greed is good mantra, some people got into it because of that. so there are people down there that do view gordon gecco as an iconic figure. congratulations, movie star. thank you very much. good job. c.e.o. of john thomas financial in his real life. and oliver stone s new best friend. thank you. coming up on our show, experts tell us the recession is over. will voters believe that with so many people still unemployed? frank luntz asked them. that s coming up. auto then it s a new documentary highlighting problems in america s education
big bonuses, correct, yeah. if it s not a documentary, does it touch on anything like that, how the market really crumbled? what it touched on is the fact that a few of these banks like goldman-sachs, split these derivative products together that almost collapsed the greatest financial system of our time and oliver put a great story behind that. he villianized those who should be villianized like they combined it with a family drama like shia, you know, and gordon s daughter, just an unbelievable story. so are you. you re going to resign from your job and go right into acting. why don t you make the announcement right now? look at how natural you are in front of that flat screen working around. thank you very much. here s what happened in wall street, it didn t really happen in washington, did it? wall street was doing their own thing. you mentioned about lehman and about goldman, how is washington to their defense supposed to know the inner workings of these huge corporation
quite exotic. fast forward to today, it s not about the little phone which wasn t so little, it s about the internet. the biggest difference is the flow of information. back then you saw the infamous phone was like cutting edge technology and now it s like ancient. we have a device that s one size that flows all the information so quickly. how did you get it how is this story told? told in a way that told honestly what happened. some of the dishonesty that went on there but not go everyone s heads. it s not a documentary on wall street. it s just a great story. you combine that with a cast like shia and josh brolin, michael douglas reprising a role back as gordon gecco and you have the backdrop of the economic meltdown. it just makes great for a story for everyone to go see. if you re saying it s not a documentary, then we don t see what really happened on wall street. a lot of people have had problems with government intervention now and financial reform and government stick