Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Secretary of Treasury Hank Paulson, a guy I used to work for at Goldman Sachs, walk into the Oval Office a couple of days after Lehman Brothers was put … Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Secretary of Treasury Hank Paulson...tell [President Bush] by 5 o'clock tonight, we need $1 trillion in cash, or the American financial system is going to implode in 48 hours. … hours and in two weeks we'll have global anarchy and chaos. Let me repeat that. Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson are not giving their hyperbole, very low key, very professional people in finance. (01:21–01:35)
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Asserts that Bernanke and Paulson requested $1 trillion to prevent financial system collapse in 2008.
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