Dick Durbin: “There was a time not that long ago--about a year and a half ago-- when, under the previous President, I was brought into…”

“There was a time not that long ago--about a year and a half ago-- when, under the previous President, I was brought into a meeting just a few steps away from the Senate floor with the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, and the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson. They basically sat down in the first meeting and said: We wanted to let you know the largest insurance company in the world, AIG, is about to go broke. When it goes broke, it is going to bring down so many companies and corporations with it that it can literally crater the American economy. At that point, Chairman Bernanke said: So the Federal Reserve is giving $85 billion to AIG Corporation.”