When asked by CNN's Dana Bash if he could name one decision made by Hillary Clinton as a senator that shows she favored banks because of campaign money she received from the financial services industry, Bernie Sanders shared what he thought was the "obvious response" she should have made. Only, it wasn't that obvious.
"The obvious decision is when the greed and recklessness and illegal behavior of Wall Street brought this country into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the '30s, millions of peoples lost their jobs and their homes and their life savings, the obvious response to that is you got a bunch of fraudulent operators and they have got to be broken up," he said Thursday during the CNN Democratic Debate. "That was my view way back and I introduced legislation to do that. Secretary Clinton was busy giving speeches to Goldman Sachs for $225,000 a speech. So the proper response in my view is we should break them up. That is what my legislation does."
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