CNN's Jake Tapper Chides Fox Debate Moderator For Implying The Financial Crisis Started Under President Obama

From the January 27 edition of CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper:

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JAKE TAPPER (HOST): As somebody who obviously watches the political machinations very closely, what are you hearing about the financial crisis of 2007-2008 or what are you not hearing? 

ADAM MCKAY: Well, that was part of the reason we made the movie, was that we felt like the discussion had kind of gone quiet. There was some fines paid by the banks, yet no one went to jail. Capital requirements are still really low on these banks. We just thought, where's the discussion? It seems to have woken up a little bit. We're hearing about it in the Democratic debates but still the Republicans are shockingly quiet about it. 

TAPPER: In fact during the last Republican debate, one of the moderators referred to the financial crisis as if it had started under President Obama. 

MCKAY: I love how they do that, by the way. There is -- I think there was some poll that showed a disproportionate amount of Americans thought that Obama had actually done the bailout, when of course it was George W. Bush. But I won't let Obama off the hook. He did not prosecute bankers, and that was not cool either. But it just shows the amount of misinformation that's out there about what happened in 2007-2008.