Bernie Sanders interviewed by Rolling Stone

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The Obama administration has been widely criticized for not prosecuting Wall Street executives who presided over the financial crisis. Would you have tried to send them to jail?
Ha!

…And do they still deserve to go?
I'd like to be able to tell you more than I can. I think meetings that one has with the president have got to be held private. But what I can tell you: About a half-dozen of us went to visit the president, I'm guessing six months into his [first] term. And we went into the White House, and Larry Summers was there and [Tim] Geithner was there. We had all their money people, all their financial people. That was the issue.

I like the president very much, and I have supported him. We've worked together. But these are some of the disagreements we have. The American people were crushed by the greed and illegal behavior on Wall Street, right? And the American people wanted justice.

And we said to the president – I wasn't alone on this – we said, "Mr. President, you gotta do something. You gotta be tough on this issue." The end result was seven years have come and gone and there are still no high-ranking CEOs who are in jail. There are kids who smoke marijuana who have criminal records, but not CEOs of large corporations. No matter what kind of crimes and illegal activity, these guys [Wall Street CEOs] are too big to jail?

That is one of the reasons why people become alienated from the political process. They just don't see justice. From a public-policy point of view, in terms of holding people accountable for serious crimes, the Obama administration blew it. From a political point of view, in giving people confidence that we have a criminal-justice system that works for all, regardless of their wealth or power, it blew it.

Now what do you think a president should have done? On Day One, I am appointing a special committee to investigate the crimes on Wall Street. We're gonna move this quickly, and if these people are found guilty, they will be in jail. Nobody in America is above the law. Is that what Barack Obama said? Mm – not quite.

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its about time he gets some exposure 

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President Sanders will define a pivotal turning point in history. 

And can't wait for Elizabeth Warren to take the baton and become the first female president. 

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Their covers been on point since Adele last month.

Get it, Bernie!

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King :applause: 

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For the ones who did illegal stuff they should go to jail

 

some ppl wanna throw the rich in general for the way they managed things. On an individual level each one didnt have enough power to influence anything, they had to go with the flow andcouldnt have predicted a crisis

 

lets not forget the Federal Reserve was criticized for leaving rates low too long between 2001 and 2006 and the Governments loan insurance as well both which helped blow up the housing bubble

 

should we throw the Government in jail as well? The Government had a hand in this too it wasnt just the banks

 

Then theres every day people who made dumb decisions to stretch themselves to the limit in credit card debt and mortgage debt. U cant put all the blame on the banks for your poor money management. Just because they were willing to lend too mich doesnt mean you should have taken all the available credit

 

so even average joes were partially to blame for this crisis. All classes had a hand in this!