. >> look, there were a small group of senators, including cantwell, byron dorgan, bernie sanders whoing barack obama early on that he had to be tougher on wall street. that, indeed, he was really missing the boat. this was an opportunity to win the center, even win some of the right. because one of the things that went wrong in 2008 in the financial catastrophe that upset the right, conservatives, just as much as the left, is that capitalism was corrupted by wall street. it wasn't working. >> no capital requirements! >> and you're supposed to fail when you screw up, right? >> that didn't happen, still hasn't happened. so he had a chance at that time, the the president, to really take them on. his treasury secretary, i think, and larry summers, his chief economic adviser, didn't give him very good advice. you had people fighting in the trenches like senators dorgan and cantwell and sanders. in the end, even al franken added a couple of really useful provisions. >> and senator tom coburn. there were conservatives along with senator cantwell, who are capitalists. who know that the finan