Here in the United States, Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders faced off in the final Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses. During the spirited debate, Senator Sanders criticized the former Secretary of State for her close ties to Wall Street, invoking the $5 billion settlement Goldman Sachs reached with regulators over its role in the financial crisis.
Sen. Bernie Sanders: “Secretary Clinton—and you’re not the only one, so I don’t mean to just point the finger at you—you’ve received over $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs in one year. I find it very strange that a major financial institution that pays $5 billion in fines for breaking the law, not one of their executives is prosecuted, while kids who smoke marijuana get a jail sentence.”
We’ll host a debate between two socialist feminists about Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders later in the broadcast.