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Again, securities fraud is the obvious response but identifying particular statues is completely different; I don't think expecting him to know the particulars when criminal prosecutions of these bankers is _not_ actually part of his campaign is perfectly reasonable. Hell, the statute of limitations straight up prevents any kind of prosecution; given that this makes it a non-issue, and again, that this was not an aspect or dimension of his campaign, it is utterly silly to breathe down Bernie's neck over this.
Well maybe Bernie should stop talking about it if he doesnt want to get asked questions about it. Otherwise he looks like a complete moron on a subject that he spends a considerable amount of time talking about
Again, he was making the very basic and obvious point that executive power is a function of legislation, with Dodd Frank being cited as an example of legislation with powers of compulsion over the financial industry; he did _not_ answer that this was specifically a means of breaking up the banks.
Then it is a complete non-answer, since the question was "how are you going to break up the banks?"