ezra, how do you analyze what's going on inside the democratic party right now? >> well i think it's what you see a lots, right? i think you're exactly right to say they're moving it very fast because they're worried about too much debate. i don't know if they're trying to hide something. but what they learned about health care is when they let it sit out there, when they let it drag out, the other side got their opposition together. they want to move this while the politics are on their side and quick. and in that way, this is bigger problem than people recognize, they're taking advantage of the fact that people in general and a lot of legislators don't understand this stuff. health care reform, we had done this before, there was a whole intellectual structure devoted to understanding health care reform. these guys don't know who to call, they don't know how the deals work. they want to get on the right side of the wall street politics and get it off the table. >> what is hard to understand for a washington politician, ezra, about eliminating bank secrets, trans

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like my brother, ezra has written some of those issues and it's documented that there were all kindsf people who bet against housing in 2003 and 2004 and they got burnt. and some who could hold on ended up doing really well and making a lot of money but it's hard to when we're in a world where it's much easier to compare -- to be compared and compare yourself against others, your other managers or other investment firms. and people used to be maybe up a quarterly basis and a yearly basis and now it's daily. and people look at these screens and they know what they're doing. they know they are p & l profit and loss but they have a sense for their competitors. you'll be surprised. i talk to these guys all day long. and people often kind of criticize me, criticize "the wall street journal." you always write negative stories about funds and the industry. and these stories come from people in the industry because they all hear each other are doing and they're the first ones to kind of call up who's blowing up and doing poorly. that's because they're very focused on each other. they're focu

ezra writes -- i guess the bottom line here is let the hypocrisy continue.g back tighter controls. we had tougher rules but first thing the republicans did with their power in 2001 was deregulate the banking system. we've got sold-out by a traitor." all right, let's hear what keith has to say. keith's the line from springfield. do you favor tighter regulation of wall street, keith? >> caller: yes, i do. >> tell us why. >> caller: well, i feel that the american people are the bones, muscles and vital organs of this country. i feel that the american people have an inalienable right to purchase. to purchase real estate or whatever it is to make the individual happy and conent in these times, i feel that the wall streets and the economic situation that we have seen ourselves in and found ourselves in is the atrocity against the american people. i think that the american people have the right to pursue this happiness in a manner and fashion that should not be convoluted in a way where they're losing their homes, myself, and my family and my two children lost our

ezra is very, very moved by this and a lot of you are.teresting take on this and he joins us on the phone calling from pennsylvania. barry, you have the floor. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm very confused here because it seems that this gentleman is accused of doing various things and the administration wants to take him out, but at the same time the administration wants to give the 19 of the 9/11 hijackers a full civil trial with the full constitutional rights at the expense of mine and yours tax dollars despite the fact that 1975 the united states senate committee put a ban on all assassinations. >> so you see a disconnect. you see a conflict there. so which do you support? which do you think is right? do you support this idea of targeting him? which -- you see the conflict. so which side do you go with? >> caller: i don't think we should assassinate anybody. if this gentleman is being accused of this crime he needs to be brought to trial. he's a united states citizen. we don't shoot our own citizens off hand. he's got the