my name is marie goldman. -- mariurry goldman. i work with a group that attempts to reduce the influence of money in politics. i have tried to get the occupy people and move their energy into politics. talking about the way that money influences politics for campaign spending. candidates that have the values to support money. instead, i found myself listening to them more. it really triggered something very deep in me. i was one of the first people in the celebration, that with the dreams -- i know that i had a lot of them then. some of them became true. this is because we spoke to the heart. and it is because we spoke of a heart. not necessarily getting called in to any one tank, but to hold our hearts. i have a career in exit polling for major television networks. [beep] i watch politics firsthand. i see how it affects candidates, voters. money is so powerful. that is what i trust to do with this website, making people more and more aware of that. my point is, i guess -- [beep] there are people that will be translating this into

goldman sachs at one time. both left the investment bank in the late 1990s. the nation's top securities regulator, mary shapiro, told n.b.r. today that regulators are not to blame for the collapse of m.f. global. she said the securities and exchange commission and other regulators are investigating what exactly went wrong at the firm. schapiro was speaking at a securities industry conference, where she said the sec is looking at revamping money market funds. one option is to let the value of money market funds fluctuate instead of being fixed at $1 a share. it's a controversial idea, because safety and stability are the reasons most people buy money market mutual funds. erika miller talked with shapiro about money market reform, but first she asked her to explain the role of regulators in the demise of m.f. global. >> ms global's failure is a result of their decisions, investment decisions, bad decisions and not the result of regulatory 235i8ure in my view. >> so it's solely the responsibility of leadership say, the cree jon corzine. >> sure they need to manage their risk, they need to follow the rules