On the recordNovember 29, 2016
What happened is the Wall Street bankers crashed the economy. They got bailed out. And nobody went to jail. That made the American people really, really furious. They're still angry about it.
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transcripts.cnn.comElizabeth Warren: “What happened is the Wall Street bankers crashed the economy. They got bailed out. And nobody went to jail. That made…”
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Warren discusses the anger of the American people towards Wall Street after the financial crisis.
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