john na thanh. guy, you said something interesting a moment ago. sam, he apprenticed with various people and learned the black arts. so who are these people? we re focused on sam here, but it sounds like he s the tip of the iceberg. the people who set the libor bank rates, who front run the market at goldman sachs and create these derivatives and trade ahead of their clients. it s a cultural thing. it s smart people, really smart people, mobsters that call them wise guys, wall street guys are smart guys. let s bridge it back to romney and once again, i m not saying romney is dishonest. be careful here. we talked about this offcamera between entrepreneurial rich guys and wall street rich guys. these entire art is about beating the system and proving i m smarter than the next number. you don t steal, you don t walk into it like a bank and steal a billion dollars. you dice it into a bucket at a time. it becomes invisible.
base? precisely i think that s right. romney had sort of an ironic base playing to go there, sort of a step removed, but i think the to my mind, the, you know, biden nobody s better at it right now in politics than biden at sort of playing this heavy, more in sorrow, more than anger, nobody is a better knights of columbus dinner speaker than biden. it s true. biden has this is wildest, hocus-pocus in washington about let s take biden off the ticket and all this kind of stuff. nonsense. the guy is on fire. right. he connects with the base and with white working class people which obama has trouble with. he s fantastic. and that was a great speech by joe biden. he raises all the issues, after listening to him, i wouldn t be surprised if we did see connor on the ticket. he s still up for the vice presidency, right? i just want to challenge one thing, howard. i agree, he certainly connects
accounts. i think, i think, mika, more to the point, there may be a few years back there, where mitt romney, the guy worth $300 million, $400 million, paid nothing in taxes. i think that s what they re really afraid of. that s painful. for the long run. donny? i would love to ask everybody around the table a human gut question, forget republican, democrat, conservative, liberal, as a human being, as humans we vote for another human being, when you hear all this stuff, at the end of the day, do you really feel this guy is an absolute straight shooter? and you just don t in your gut. you just ask michael steele that question. michael, just as a human, forget republican i know the rest of the table like i know a lot of rich guys, not a lot of rich guys, you feel something here. i think the american voters feel this. okay. bill clinton. michael, what do you think? no, i think there s a real element there that, again, rubs at people and it was part of the
two questions. first of all i find it fascinating my good friend michael steele is talking about the obama people and not talking about the next four years for the black community. i haven t seen mitt romney talk about the next four years for the black community, white community, hispanic community or any other community. secondly on flipping and kind of pointing my finger at the other side, what was the obama campaign s explanation of why he was not at the naacp. he s the president of the united states, he has a hell of a lot of things to do. but there had to be something better than that. was it a calculated decision for the african-american president to not be speaking to that convention? but the inference in your question is that the president has never spoken to them, the naacp and that s not the case. right now coming the day after romney. does it to the american public, was it a strategic decision to not be there? strategic in the sense that you want you know wha
for faking his suicide. and it gets even more crazy from there because apparently he was conned at the height of all of this. thanks for being on the show. octopus . that s it. what s your draw? to sam? yeah. i worked on wall street when i moved to new york and saw like how the ocean of possibility for fraud, they were counting on me as a junior lawyer to do the kind of deli against and research and if they were counting on me they were in a lot of trouble. i was just a kid. that s frightening, actually, isn t it? tip of the iceberg. yeah. what? yeah. it s the kids and the low-paid workers, the regulators, that are supposed to keep the gate and they don t do it. tell us about this guy and how he did what he did, because if this is one of the most unbelievable frauds how many more are out there. that s just it. sam is the child of a rom nent trading family, the israel and aarons family. he grew up in wealth and privilege with alan greenspan