>> well, from our perspective at the united states mint, it's unsustainable. you can't sustain losses on pennies and nickels and expect to be a viable organization that benefits the american people. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm leslie stahl. by most accounts, the financial crash of 2008 pushed the u.s. economy to the brink of collapse. in its aftermath, some of the country's biggest banks received very big bailouts while large numbers of small local banks failed. this edition features a unique inside look at the seizure of a failed bank and a rare interview with one of the men at the center of the 2008 economic crisis and the recovery plan that has followed, the chairman of the board of governors of the federal reserve system, ben bernanke. plus, morley safer asks, "can america afford the lincoln penny?" well, we begin with bernanke. after the crash of '08, bernanke invoked emergency powers, and with unprecedented aggressiveness, he's thrown more than $1 trillion at the crisis. the words of any fed chairman cause fortunes to rise and fall, and so by t

we had a majority in the senate and the house under a freshly minted president of the united states.i challenged barack obama at that time because as you recall, when he campaigned in 2008, he said he would make it his signature issue, get it done and signed the bill the first year as president of the united states. yet he did little or nothing to promote it. we give up our majority in the house and weakened in the senate and two more years went by and we suggested to the president after he asked me in the oval office and said, luis gutierrez, put your thinking cap on. let's figure out ways we can help immigrants now that we are in the minority in the house. we did that. eventually, the president to send and issued executive order. there are 500,000 young immigrants across this country live in fearr of deportation. we want to make sure the next time they register with the government they register at a more permanent basis. i am happy, delighted to hear. look, i think the president of the united states has a powerful sway. should do say was we immigration reform again and a capture th

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united states, they've heard this so many times before? >> no, i'm bullish on the u.s. i'm bullish, on the fast growing markets, the mint markets, mexico, indonesia, nigeria and where we are at the moment, turkey. we have a board meeting coming up here next week. i'm bullish on those markets. i'm also bullish on the u.s. energy self-sufficiency, improvements in manufacturing techniques such as 3d manufacturing means america is going to grow. i was talking to a fast-growing market investor, all this cap ex will be in the united states, all in the energy sector in the next couple of years. so, i would be bullish in the longer term. this, i hope s a short-term blip. you're right in a sense i think the electorate and, indeed, business is really fed up with government arguing amongst themselves. and really given that we've been in a sort of recessionary mode since lehman, we just celebrated, if that's the right word, five years after lehman, the terrible weekend in september of 2008. really we want to get away from that and out of it and see stronger economic growth. so, things like this really don't help imagewise and psych