joining me now, ben stein, former writer for richard nixon and gerald ford, author of "the capitalist code." great to have you with us here, ben. let me start by asking you how much this institution, the state of the union, has changed since you were penning them back now a few decades ago. >> many decades ago. i would say it has become much, much, much more controversial now that we have such a controversial president in office, but bear in mind in the last two years of president nixon's administration, he was wildly controversial, as well. so the state of the union was wildly controversial, as well, but i think in terms of the issues on the table, as i've been watching your show and watch your station generally, you're not hitting what to me is the giant issue, the elephant in the room that really must be hit, and that is national defense. and it breaks my heart that we don't see more emphasis on that. that is a huge super issue. there's not going to be secure peace until america is militarily secure, and we're not militarily secure now. >> national security something the president

what does ben stein think about that. >> ben stein thinks that it's fine, put up a wall they're strong people. let's have the wall and let's have a path to citizenship, let's have them both. neil: all right. ben stein, good seeing you, thank you very much. >> good bless you, sir. neil: and good time having charlie gasperino, coming up he has shcuttle scuttle butt on th influencing it. he's also a volunteer firefighter. (low-pitched yelling) but when it comes to mortgages, he's... less confident. fortunately for teddy, there's rocket mortgage by quicken loans. it's simple, so he can understand the details and get approved in as few as eight minutes. apply simply, understand clearly, mortgage confidently. rocket mortgage by quicken loans. >> all right. $5 million for a spot to advertise for the super bowl, all sold out. everybody is anticipating super ratings. of course, this has been an off year for the nfl, hasn't it? charlie gasperino on what could be a tough one. what are you hearing? >> well, the advertisers and sponsors are scared to death of this sort of scenario appearing, that o

you'll be in great health like the president apparently if you have good genes thank you, sir ben stein. ben: thank you god bless you. >> same to you the markets today now as we mentioned a few minutes ago how it was there is nicole on the floor of the new york stock exchange nearly as busy as the president's physician this afternoon that was a crazy day right we went straight up through 26,000 and then i don't know something happened? nicole: yeah exactly first of all you got me thinking about the quarter pounder and some crispy fries, but yeah we had to listen to the president's health to detail but it was really about the market and when we were higher by more than 280 points and swung to the downside , we certainly saw a big day of trading from top to bottom but in the end, in fact we finished down about 10 points taking a look at what we saw merck, united health, coca cola and we saw good names, united health, citigroup, and did show strength overall on the downside here is a look at ge was the one we were focusing on but looking at chevron, disney those came under pressure and ge

glad to have you i'm neil cavuto to charles payne and charlie gasparino, kennedy along with ben stein and adam lashinsky. charles, to you first. thanks for sitting in for me, whatever. >> [laughter] neil: now this whole thing, it's closing it up we're questioning not only the pakistan but maybe foreign aid in general particularly in that neck of the woods a lot of people say the president is getting into tricky territory, here what do you think? charles: this is a eureka moment , right? should we fund people that hiatus that befriend our enemies or harbor enemies and this is on american soil. >> yeah. charles: we should consider it. neil: that's what we've been doing for a long time. charles: put it to americans who need it. i think it's a great idea whose time is long overdue. i think its come about time. neil: we give pakistan billions over the years? >> $7 billion in last 13 years. neil: what do you think? >> i'm completely with rand paul it's a very libertarian idea. i think we should be reexamining the foreign direct investment we have all over the world. i mean i think we should

ben stein, we covered a lot of ground. you were great as always. appreciate it. >> god bless you, sir? >> same to you. the dow closing lower today. s&p and nasdaq, well, ho-hum. new record closes. nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange with the latest. nicole? reporter: it was a record across-the-board. dow, the nasdaq and s&p 500 hit records intra-day. the nasdaq and the s&p did squeeze out gains. those were record closes and the s&p 500 is now having the most record closes since 1964 for january. apple, slightly higher. the big news is the voice speaker which competes against amazon and google has a date. february 9th. introduced last june. 349 bucks. supposed to be out for the holidays but have the date on that. netflix soared. a winner on the s&p 500 adding more subscribers than expected, and mattel and hasbro jumping once again, people are speculating is there a deal between the toy makers, back to you. >> thank you very much. procter & gamble ceo responding to that tide pod challenge. a social media-fueled trend which m

more on immigration with the federation on immigration reform president ben stein. also, -- daniel stein. live at 7:00tch eastern on wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> now, to detroit michigan where the organizers behind the 2017 women's march on washington met in october. this panel runs about one hour.

let's bring in economist and author of the capitalists code ben stein. both elizabeth warren and nancy pelosi by the way good to see you, sir. these democrats they use very theatrical rhetoric dismissing the tax cuts even today now they're saying they are insignificant and pathetic, what do you think? ben: i think that the pathetic quality here is the ignorance of how the american economy works on the part of those two distinguished women. corporate america is america, when corporate stock goes up in value, it means people retirement plans go up in value, their children's college endowments go up in value, local hospital endowments go up in value. those stock gains don't accrue riding around in bentlies and ferraris and by the way in my neighborhood and those stock gains accrue to everyone and there is no lump of coal being given out to lower middle class americans. they're getting the standard deduction. i am not happy with some parts of the tax code but this idea that some have corporate america is some sinister and the ordinary working american is hav

we've got an all-star guest line up for you, economist ben stein on that big risk to your money, now sitting right there hiding in plain sight and retired lieutenant colonel on the explosive iran protest and how they are now blaming the u.s. for iran's riots politics, money we've got you covered welcome to risk & reward i'm elizabeth macdonald. we are on the dow closing in the green in its fir trading day of the new year the s & p 500 and nasdac clenching fresh record highs. could the markets rise continue under president trump's new year agenda. the work starts this week. the president is expected to meet with season at majority leader mitch mcconnell, house speaker paul ryan tomorrow at camp david and later in the week , democrats. this as utah senator orrin hatch is retiring, with reports that mitt romney could possibly make a run for his seat. we've got an infrastructure deal , a long term plan to fund the government, immigration reform, possibly more on obamacare reform all on the docket but first to fox business adam shapiro is at the white house with the very latest. adam? ada

glad to have you i'm neil cavuto to charles payne and charlie gasparino, kennedy along with ben stein charles, to you first. thanks for sitting in for me, whatever. >> [laughter] neil: now this whole thing, it's

you were talking with ben stein and you said quote, the moral authority of the president is collapsingousing. to me, it is an interesting question. i am wondering is that what it is like in a white house when all of this stuff is going on. the challenge of getting stuff done amidst a crisis or at the very least, a huge investigation. >> absolutely, anderson, the white house staff, you know, a lot of people around the president are honest citizens. and you worry greatly about are the pillars going to come down and i have had that conversation with bob woodward on several occasions. carl was concerned about that. and you do, we have a lot of conversations inside the white house should you leave. is the patriotic thing to do to leave the white house. and a number of people did leave as quietly as they could. a lot of supporters ever the president can say why are we talking about this mueller story, a saturday night massacre story that never happened. why is it important? on almost a dozen of occasions -- >> kellyanne conway, they have all been saying it. >> why are we to believe them on t

ben stein, always a pleasure. thank you very much, my friend. >> always a pleasure and have a very nice time in washington. neil: thank you. i am having a nice time. and this being washington, there are still playoff games to set up the league championships in football tomorrow. i don't care because my washington redskins are not in them. i harken back to the days on the washington redskins, they were routine playoff players when a fellow named joe theisman was in the headlines. i'm about to interview by idol, and i've guaranteed not one tough question after this. i do outrank my husband, not just being in the military, but at home. she thinks she's the boss. she only had me by one grade. we bought our first home together in 2010. his family had used another insurance product but i was like well i've had usaa for a while, why don't we call and check the rates? it was an instant savings and i should've changed a long time ago. there's no point in looking elsewhere really. we're the tenneys and we're usaa members fo

more on immigration with the federation on immigration reform president ben stein. also, -- daniel stein. live at 7:00tch eastern on wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> now, to detroit michigan where the organizers behind the 2017 women's march on washington met in october. this panel runs about one hour. >> you are the biggest crowd i have spoken to, i am really glad that it is such a warm and welcoming crowd of women. [cheers and applause] >> and would like to thank everyone has been organizing that women's convention, it was amazing yesterday and it will be amazing today. special thanks to marianne who evenorked so tirelessly, getting me on stage this morning. my name is maggie moore and i am one of the organizers of the rudolph foundation. we work on leveling the playing field for women pursuing careers in the public field and finances. [applause] support and, we internships, provide mentorship and professional development workshops and networking rigid from salary negotiation to speaking with confidence. -- ranging from salary negotiation to speaking wit

ben stein said on the way out of town he just kept shaking his head and said i did not know that a college like this actually existed in the united states. then he went on to say something that was not very complimentary to alma mater. he said i think we ought to have brain surgery to transfer what's here up to yale university. i doubt they liked that but i know what he meant by it. >> two thoughts. one is we've been talking mostly about the traditional pathway between employer and employee but the -- some of the biggest growth in the economy is in the gig economy and in free lance, even among white collar workers and so this is really i think going to change the nature of education because mostly after college, most education was directed and in many cases paid for by employers. but if you no longer have an employer/employee relationship and you're working on your own, who's going to help direct that learning for you and in some cases who's going to help you pay for it? and so this sort of reskilling throughout life is going to be largely self directed and we're going to have to enable st

and then ben stein, for those who recognized bueller -- for those who think he looks a million, that is who he is. he actually -- you talk about jumping the shark, taking things too far, he actually wrote the article in "the new york times" -- of alldition on things -- the faa pondering whether or not to allow people to talk on their cell phones during flights. and he somehow or another creatively drew that to john bell hood being the most destructive human being of all time. i am not kidding. you all are thinking, sam, you are up here accusing people of exaggerating and i am not doing that. i am telling you. he called him the most destructive american of all time in an article about cell phones. [laughter] stephen: i like the guy. brilliant. he is a big civil war fan, i don't know if you know that. he loves civil war history. give a couple to of examples of how an author or a historian can take primary -- take a primary source record and then by paraphrasing it can change can change the context of , it completely. well, i am reading -- this is from mr. sword's book. and i am going t

awesome thing to see >> the couple and their children, area and hand a, on the same plane as the stein beny, bruce and irene and their three sons. zachary, william, and matthew. olga helped take care of the boys for the last 14 years, she talked to them just before they left. >> yes, i say bye bye, good luck, i love you. see you next year. >> the steinberg's, the wise's , guys letter, and two costa rica pilot died after their plane crashed just afternoon sunday. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. andrew spencer, cbs-3, " eyewitness news". >>> student answer staff are finally headed back to whitehall elementary school in monroe township gloucester county, billing shut done back in october due to mold infestation, student hen been attending classes in a section of the middle school while clean up was underway. another school shutdown because every mold remains closed. >> time now 5:36. in business news this morning, the markets are getting ready for their first day of trading this new year. >> money watch's hena doba joins us from the new york torque stock exchange with a p

daniel stein with immigration reform, fairus.org. ben johnson american immigration lawyers association. thanks, come back again, let's do it again. >> laura meckler joins us now --k about the prospect of prospects for 2018 and let's start with where republicans are on this subject with trump administration officials. closer toicans any finding consensus in what they are going to be pushing for here in the coming weeks and months? >> or is so much on the agenda right now, it is hard to say what's going to come to the floor. the urgency is around people brought to the country illegal, -- rock by their parents, so-called dreamers. -- since been in that 2012 and president trump ended onand said i just called congress to give that answer giving young people a path to legalization and that's the question, if we will be able to do that, but wrapped in that is a range of immigration enforcement. what republicans are saying is we will do that, but we also want enforcement. we want new rules, there are all sorts of things wrapped up. we essentiall

daniel stein with immigration reform, fairus.org. ben johnson is the executive director of the american immigration lawyers association. thanks, come back again, let's do it again. >> on monday joined c-span live from the brookings institution for a discussion on the diplomatic and military options concerning north korea's nuclear program. that's like monday 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. sunday night on "afterwards, judge looks back on his 30 year judicial career. he's interviewed by democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. >> having gone from that active life of making decisions and going to court and advocating a was ato judging, difficult transition for you, in did you ever miss the life of advocacy, so to speak? >> it wasn't difficult. i have known people who became judges and so disliked the decision-making process that they left the bench. i was an advocate. was i to be an advocate. i found the decision-making process, while it was different, enormously challenging and in or mislead satisfied. say, i loved being a

stein, i know you want to jump in. >> i like ben johnson a lot, but he doesn't represent people who bring immigrants in or i have no problem with that -- the interest is what matters. we represent millions of americans who think the border should be patrolled and immigrants shouldn't come in and take american jobs. the numbers shouldn't get so high that it is unmanageable. and it challenges both environmental preservation, cultural assimilation, and the ability to accommodate people. donald trump has articulated a sound basis for reform the sound basis requests limitations overall and this is a decision about how many people come in and how to enforce the rules. host: a quick response? guest: dan is a member of my organization so it can't be bad. >> a good organization, but we can't -- >> our goal is to have immigration laws that are predictable and that can match up our needs as families and businesses with the immigration system. question abouta the merit-based system. an undereducated wife. .he daughter's wife had a baby very simple. thank you for the question. you are a doctor. you qu

host: for two perspectives we are joined by daniel stein and best president of the federation for american immigration reform, and ben johnson, american lawyers association. before we get to your hopes and predictions, what do you think was the most important development in 2017 when it came to the issue of immigration in the country? guest: it has been the emergence of the dreamers and the issue of what do we do with the 1.5 million young kids who have grown up in the united states. the fact that they have helped to put a face on this issue and to really bring out some of the truths about immigration and who we are talking about when we debate immigration, them stepping out about their lives and making their stories known has been transformative. we understand that these are doctors and lawyers. these are auto mechanics and cashiers. they are priests and marines. there is a whole panoply of things they do and contribute to the united states and it has been transformative. host: mr. stein, what do you think? guest: 2017 was framed by donald trump's aggressive campaigning on this issue when he laid out 10 major campai

stein a sophomore found dead while home in calter break. authorities in southern investigating his death as a homicide, today a support session was held at the school ben franklin room in houston hall, students we have spoke with said bernstein was a kind, genuine person. >> i know this person, i his face, and now he is, gone and it is, you know, i don't know, it is just scary >> right now investigators have no word on a suspect or a motive for killing. >>> the south jersey doctor accused of killing his wife made his first court appearance today doctor james kaufman appeared via video charged with killing his wife radio hoe april kaufman in 2012 at their linwood new jersey a not guilty plea todayside court the atlantic county prosecutor a crested why it took nearly six years charges. >> there was magic kit there was in magic clue. it was just simply goode work, good solid and like it has always been. >> a lot that has changed inthe past five years and give information, so a we need to get to do what do. >> doctor kaufman is accused of running an illegal prescription drug ring with the motorcycle gang and hiring a member of that gang toer his wife. >>>