More than Bernie Sanders’ curious defense of his gun control record, or Martin O’Malley’s insistence on his existence, or NBC’s maniacal symphony-being-held-at-gunpoint-and-forced-to-play-the-same-ten-notes, Hillary Clinton’s refusal to explain the obscene amount of money she has personally taken from the financial industry was the least-boring part of last night’s Democratic pabulum potluck.

Sanders was asked about the differences between his economic plan to redistribute wealth and Clinton’s plan to do less of the same.

“Well, the first difference is I don't take money from big banks. I don't get personal speaking fees from Goldman Sachs,” Sanders replied. A few people in the audience cheered. One guy booed. (The exchange begins at the 1:48 mark in the video below—that's one HOUR and 48 minutes in, ha ha.)

Moments later, Sanders continued, with O'Malley acting as cheerleader:

SANDERS: Let me give you an example of how corrupt -- how corrupt this system is. Goldman Sachs recently fined $5 billion. Goldman Sachs has given this country two secretaries of treasury, one on the Republicans, one under Democrats.

O'MALLEY: Say it.

SANDERS: The leader of Goldman Sachs is a billionaire who comes to Congress and tells us we should cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

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.

In this case, “Goldman Sachs” isn’t just shorthand for “rich assholes”—the firm paid the most to Clinton ($675,000) out of the ten banks that gave her six digit speaking fees after she left her position as Secretary of State.

According to public records, Hillary Clinton made nearly $3 million in speaking fees from banks from 2013 to 2015 (though Bill Clinton has made far more giving speeches after he left office).

The AP has reported that together the Clintons made more than $50 million from giving speeches since 2000; from 2007 to 2014, the couple claimed $139 million in income.

Rather than explain how taking all of that money from corporate and financial interests won’t compromise her ability to govern them, Clinton responded by pointing out that President Obama too has taken a shitload of money from these same interests, and that they didn’t prevent him from...maintaining the status quo?

"I can take that, but he's criticized President Obama for taking donations from Wall Street, and President Obama has led our country out of the great recession," Clinton said.

Clinton then pivoted to a critique of one of Sanders’ votes on a 2000 bill that loosened regulations on commodities trading (shepherded in by, yes, the Clinton administration) and ended with a reminder that the Republicans are far worse.

CLINTON: Well, the last point on this is, Senator Sanders, you're the only one on this stage that voted to deregulate the financial market in 2000, to take the cops off the street, to use Governor O'Malley's phrase, to make the SEC and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission no longer able to regulate swaps and derivatives, which were one of the main cause of the collapse in '08.

So there's plenty...

SANDERS: If you want to...

CLINTON: There's plenty of problems that we all have to face together.
And the final thing I would say, we're at least having a vigorous debate about reining in Wall Street...

HOLT: ... Senator...

CLINTON: ... The Republicans want to give them more power, and repeal Dodd-Frank. That's what we need to stop...