. >> so another issue tied to potential enforcement action involves around lehman brotherses. one the biggest bankruptcies ever. the agency spokesperson is on the record saying that you guys still have an open inquiry into the bankruptcy and the failure of that firm. there's apparently a memo. can you say if there's a reasonable prospect there will be a case in that area? >> it wouldn't be appropriate for me to comment except to say that the matter is still under consideration and analysis. we looked very closely at the examiners report. we conducted our own independent investigation including reviewing millions of pages of documents and dozen witness interviews and the matter remains under consideration. >> so the memo isn't the final say in the matter? >> i'm not going to comment on a particular memo and what it said or didn't say. that's the current status of the case. >> you've brought a lot of inside trading cases recently. i think you beefed up that area, and it's been helped by technology. the very biggest cases though have been brought as criminal prosecutions by the u

think back to 2008 and the financial crisis and the fall you are of lehman brotherses.ldwide credit freeze showing how interconnected the financial system is. back then a car buyer in oklahoma knew he couldn't get a loan because a bank in new york collapsed. when a business needs to cut costs, it lays people off. the question now is could the same thing unfold in greece? could greece be the new lehman brothers? how do choices made in a small country in europe set off a worldwide credit crisis? whatever the answer, the eyes of the world are on the greeks as they go to the polls. joining me now from athens, cnn's john defterios, host of "global exchange" on cnn international. you're in athens where the fate of the world could be in the hand of the greeks for the second time in 2,000 years. do they get it? do they feel that pressure that this isn't just an election about greece and this is an election of the world's economic condition? >> reporter: i think they're more aware of that than ever before, but i think we should step back, ali. we're in parliament square. this is