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neil barofsky, welcome. >> thank you. >> when you were a kid, did you say, "mom, dad, i want to grow up and be an inspector general?" >> no, i said i wanted to be a lawyer, though. >> you did? >> it must be some sort of major genetic flaw i have. but my mom keeps a fortune cookie that said, "you will be a great lawyer one day." and i signed it and dated it. i think i was 12 years old. so there was something weird about me that i wanted to be a lawyer. i wanted to be a prosecutor. i mean, that was sort of what i wanted to do. maybe it's from watching tv shows, "perry mason," as a kid or something like that. but i was always drawn to the law. and so i think i did have this drive for public service. but certainly never did think that i'd be an inspector general one day. i didn't really even know what that was until i actually got the job, to be honest with you. >> when you took the job, i read about you. and i thought, "why is someone like that, with that record of prosecution going to take on this job at this -- in the depth of this crisis?" >> part of it was because this new office, t

before heigd on, neil barofsky was a federal prosecutor in new york chasing white-collar criminals andrug lords. he busted 50 members of a columbian guerrilla group deeply involved in narcotics trafficking. at tarp, he was assigned to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse. the banks didn't make it easy, and neither did the u.s. government. neil barofsky tells this story in his book, "bailout: an inside account of how washington abandoned main street while rescuing wall street." he is now a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the new york university school of w. eil rofs, welcome. >> thank you. >> when you were a kid, did you say, "mom, dad, i want to grow up and be an inspector general?" >> no, i said i wanted to be a lawyer, though. >> you did? >> it must be some sort of major genetic flaw i have. but my mom keeps a fortune cookie that said, "you will be a great lawyer one day." and i signed it and dated it. i think i was 12 years old. so there was something weird about me that i wanted to be a lawyer. i wanted to be a prosetor. iean, that was sort of at i wanted to do. maybe it's from

right neil barofsky, and ben white, great to have you on the program. the (vo) cenk uygur is many things. >>oh really? >>tax cuts don't create jobs. the golden years as the conservatives call them, we had the highest tax rates, and the highest amount of growth, and the highest amount of jobs. those are facts. >>"if you ever raise taxes on the rich, you're going to destroy our economy." not true! if you have an opinion, you better back it up. >>eliot spitzer takes on politics. >>science and republicans do not mix. >>now it's your turn at the only online forum with a direct line to eliot spitzer. >>join the debate now. >> eliot: if you want to lower the abortion rate there is an effective way to do it without changing the law. you can see it in our number of the day 61% that's how much birth rate fell when birth control was given away for free. this came out of a study by washington university, 9,000 women, many of whom were poor and uninsured were offered contraceptives without cost. most got iuds or other implants which are the most effective option and

former tarp inspector neil barofsky, he goes after the treasury secretary geithner, he gets fired up if geithner should have been in a position to do what he's done. >> i think there's a strong argument that perhaps he never should have been hired in the first place. i mean he was part of the regulatory failure that produced the financial crisis, as president of the new york fed and i think certainly given the policy choices, there's a strong case that he should have been fired, but, you know, on the other hand, it's not as if he was making these decisions in a vacuum. i have no reason to believe that the white house wasn't behind all these policy decisions as well. connell: it's a pretty long interview but worth watching, foxbusiness.com from adam shapiro. dagen: be careful what you wish for in terms of a replacement. oil paring some of its losses after a surprise decline in the u.s. oil supplies last week. connell: let's go to sandra smith, has the details in the trade today at the cme. sandra: the numbers are out and they should be somewhat bullish for the market, but oil is plung