ben affleck, back on top. i'm nischelle turner outside the dolby theater here in hollywood on oscar sunday, the night the movie industry saluted its very best, one man became the biggest story of them all. it's a story that not long ago no one would have written. 15 years ago, he reached the summit at the oscars, then crashed hard. from a career in shambles, he rebuilt himself into hollywood's darling once again. tonight, the story of the beantown boy who hit rock bottom and then remade himself. here's ben affleck, back on top. "goodwill hunting" wins an oscar. two 20-somethings share the glory. boston boys matt damon and ben affleck fly their mothers from beantown to be their dates on the red carpet. they take home trophies for best original screenplay. what appears to many an overnight success is actually years in the making. long before movie audiences would ever hear of him -- >> hi, i'm ben affleck. >> tv watchers meet a get on the pbs educational series "the voyage of the mimi." this cast mate remembers

cindy and scott. >> ben was family. i mean, he was family. >> and then there was ben's other love, brightest thing in his life, the one good thing that came from his first marriage, alissa. >> everybody said that i, he was he loved me more than anything. and i think it's true. >> quite true, of course. so there was a little jockeying at first. two women, one man, even if one of the women was just 3. >> our first date, alisa was there. we were just eating and i was talking to ben, trying to get to know him. and she was like, don't talk to my dad. >> i remember meeting her. i didn't really like her. she was talking to my dad. >> more than talking to him as it soon turned out. ben and melissa moved in together just a month later, sort of thing a 3 year old finds hard to understand. >> and she said i love you. and i said don't talk to my dad that way. >> but as we said, it was a love story. ben for both of them. as the friend and future brides maid put it. >> he was truly her best friend. and he was the best dad. that's all

the joke is on ben. and ben thought that's what he was signing. but he was actually signing you're a genius, i'm stupid. >> he shoots that series on the water. but home is just outside of boston. a stone's throw away lives his best friend, matt damon. >> so they're sort of brothers from a different mother. and these kids stuck by each other since they were little. >> ben and matt lived about two blocks from each other in a working-class neighborhood here in cambridge, massachusetts. besides being friends, they had something else in common. divorce. both were raised by single mothers. their fame is here, too, or at least making an impact in the neighborhood. >> my boyfriend's son was their best friend. so it was ben and casey, his brother, matt and ethan were the four buddies that ran around all of the time. played their games, rode their bikes and had a good time. >> the four take acting school in drama class in local productions. >> hello? >> hi, is this burger king? >> um, yeah, yeah, this is burger king chlgt. >> can you make a chef salad? >> f

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some of the highest most punitive regulations in the world here. >> neil: ben stein? >> it's very hard to tell what are the effects or various causes, there's less traffic, generally speaking in the red state and climate is generally better in the red states and the schools are not often better. a lot of reasons, less crime, an awful lot of reasons why people change locations, that's all. >> neil: could be the weather. >> well, and florida, texas and nevada. and you can get a suntan any day of the year. >> all right, guys, i want to thank particularly charlie and dagen, blessedly, they're done. (laughter) stocks might be rocking, but charles payne is knocking it out of the park. the best picks for >> three new winners from charles. he has three today. >> american rail car. replacement cycle flying off the roof. tell double two years or lest . main street is going to jump into this. they will do very well and guide wire software. they have a software suite that takes care of that. >> what do you think? >> i am concerned about rad in. they have been losing a lot of mone

>> not bad. >> and ben, what do you think?i love anything that charles said but i am not sure what he knows that the

ben carson. doc, happy easter to you. >> thank you. >> nice to see you this morning. >> same to you. >> i think it is safe to say you got into a bit of a controversy this week following your comments about marriage on the "hannity" program. you were set to give a commencement speech at johns hopkins university, and a number of the student body stepped up to say, look, dr. ben carson doesn't represent our viewpoints here, we don't want him to speak at our commencement ceremony. where does that stand this morning? will you? have you gotten support from the other side? >> i've gotten a lot of support from the other side. many students feel very much differently, and many faculty members feel differently, too. what it has hopefully done is help us to open up a dialog. it's the very thing i was talking about at the national prayer breakfast when i talked about political correctness, how it puts a muzzle over the ability to have open discussions, which the only way that we can really make progress. so,

>>ur economy is not improving. >> neil: ben stein, what do you make of this. you, you've said any good caring government looks after those who are the most needy. is it in your mind accurate to say that 48 million americans are in need of food stamps? >> when i was at the santa cruz, many kids from wealthy families could go down to the local government office, agriculture department i think at that time and apply for food stamps. there was he no checking they would use the money they saved not have to buy groceries to buy drugs. and i've always been somewhat against food stamps for exactly that reason. what level of fraud is there in the food stamp program? what level of dependency are we fostering in younger americans, middle age americans, older americans for the government stepping in and buying their food? we don't know, we don't wan any involuntarily hungry americans. what i remember i'm the oldest on the panel, lyndon johnson had the war on poverty and the war on hunger. the war on hunger seems to have been won overwhelmingly because we now have a war on

. >> the stock market has ben bernanke to thank for it. even though the economy is still struggling. ben bernanke is an academic, which means he doesn't have real world experience, but his theory is you will send your money over to the stock market where you might be roughly 0% and then if you see a high stock market, he says he will feel better about the economy. from the gains from your stocks, it will drive the economy even higher. the only problem is that consumer spending power, it hasn't worked. there is a huge disconnect between the stock market and the economy. as long as the fed keeps artificially driving higher, investors will be happier. this will be just another bubble. dennis: be sure to watch the tom sullivan show this weekend. you can catch it at 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on saturday and sunday at 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. happy friday, everyone. thank you for being withthththt. >> sthaim on stossel? the teacher's union doesn't like my reporting. i'm the problem. there's a solution. they don't like charter schools. >> the doorw

the schools were created by a guy named ben chavez.e's what i say. >> give me the worst school in oakland, black, mexican, poke dot, give us the worse school anywhere in america, and we'll take it, and we'll out erform the other schools in five years. jowrn: ben created the model at the indian haven charter school in the heart of the a rough neighborhood. >> now, these are hard workers here. john: they have the highest test scores in california. you can do that on the same amount the state gives every school? >> well, yeah, less. we get less than every other school. >> the kids in american indian public charter schools are scoring so far above the average for the state for public school children, there's not a word for it. john: here at american indian, they pay some kids to tutor other kids. >> we hire students and pay them. they are excited to make money. reporter: chavez is politically incorrect. >> what do you want to study? >> science. >> science! a mexican in science? yeah, good for you, honey, a rare bird. john: criticized for s

ben white, josh boak, kneel nein and michael santoli.real dissenters on this fed board and who is it if he does is it. >> he has esther george, the president of the kansas city fed who is dissenting this year. i suspect she will again today and then some of the people not voting are very much in the hawkish camp. that's richard fisher, charlie plosser. the thing is bernanke for now has control over this federal open market committee. the governors are on his side. all seven of them, they vote every meeting. he has enough of critical mass of the regional presidents. the question is will we see dissents later, maybe a year for now. jeremy stein has expressed worries about asset bubbles. >> ben, any dissent there from you? >> no dissent from me. maybe bullard comes out with a dissent. the most he gets are two. there's not a lot of resistance. he dominates the open market committee for now. there's no real reason for the hawks to gain a lot of traction as we've talked about, see prcy sequestration, debt ceiling. you have seen some economic b

stuart: this is ben's rally. charles: ben's rally would be dow 15,000. that would be ben's rally. to nicole. which are the biggest dow gainers this year? which are the dow stocks that have propelled us to 14,246? nicole: the first would be hewlett-packard. you can see it is up 1.#% today -- 1.6%. up over 40% this year. that was the big loser of 2012. and then there's home depot, another name that's been a big leader this year, up over 13%. and home depot we should note is hitting an annual high of nearly $71. so that's another one. those are two names that we will continue -- 70.96 was the new annual high for home depot. this is pretty exciting stuff. for all the people who were really beaten down during the financial crisis and everything at 6500 and everything at new lows and job losses, this is a great day. stuart: 8,000 points in four years ain't bad. charles? charles: the february ism nonmanufacturing came in a little better than expected. that gave it the little boost we saw. stuart: here are the other big stories of this hour, federal tax revenue 2.7 trillion dollars, we've

has he got a point, ben ferguson? i find myself in the unusual position of nodding through most of what he just said. >> well, i don't think it's fair to point fingers, necessarily, at the obama girls. i am sure i probably would have taken a vacation once or twice the year my dad was president. >> three a month? >> we have to look at the bigger picture here. how much are we spending on travel, how much on security in look at vice president biden, one night in paris, nearly $600,000? you have to say, this is crazy. how much are we spending on all of this? and at the same time, not allowing white house tours. so i think the bigger the entourage you have and the more you're spending on travel, the less -- i guess the more out of touch our elected officials are with the american people. it's exactly why we need these white house tours. i agree with ben, though, it's these white house tours that keep the american people in touch with their elected officials. >> it's the american people's house. it's their property. they pa

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the schools were created by a guy named ben chavez.e's what i say. >> give me the worst school in oakland, black, mexican, poke dot, give us the worse school anywhere in america, and we'll take it, and we'll out perform the other schools in five years. jowrn: ben created the model at the indian haven charter school in the heart of the a rough neighborhood. >> now, these are hard workers here. john: they have the highest test scores in california. you can do that on the same amount the state gives every school? >> well, yeah, less. we get less than every other school. >> the kids in american indian public charter schools are scoring so far above the average for the state for public school children, there's not a word for it. john: here at american indian, they pay some kids to tutor other kids. >> we hire students and pay them. they are excited to make money. reporter: chavez is politically incorrect. >> what do you want to study? >> science. >> science! a mexican in science? yeah, good for you, honey, a rare bird. john: criticized for

(laughter) >> hold on one second, but, ben-- >> that's why, he's getting a tax he refund. >> ben, there are serious economic consequences to the health care law. sequestration aside we know this is somewhat gimmicky designed to make the g.o.p. look bad and i think it's back firing big time on the president with respect to the polls so far, but all of this points to a disastrous law that's only going to get worse in my mind. >> i don't know that it's going to be disastrous, it's going to be a mess in the doctor's office, a mess in hospitals, a mess if you want to get cured of anything, but. >> pretty good. >> and that's the way. >> let's go, obamacare. >> in every other respect it will be fine. >> i want to take issue with something that you said though. you said that we need to pay for this and we need to fund this. >> right. >> but a third of people. >> tough love. >> a third of people of middle income america are going to get hit with this new tax. >> good. >> on. >> good on their good health care plans? which flies in the face of what the president said? >> good. >> what do you mean

of course his encounters with ben bernanke were legendary, historic. we'll talk to them coming up very shortly. lauren: it will be hard to get answers today because the fed is stuck in this really tough positions. we have to it figure out how to jump-start the economy, not just the stock market. let's go to nicole petallides at new york stock exchange. david: let's start, nicole. we start with fedex it was an extraordinary run-up. it was in the $100 range. it pulls back quite a bit. this is the biggest pullback since 2011? >> certainly is, the biggest pull back since 2011. concerns globally and also going to cut down what they're shipping over it asia. lauren: how is oracle looking ahead of their earnings release, nicole? >> we're watching oracle closely in the tax realm. we'll see whether or not they have earnings. [closing bell rings] david: best buy up another 5%. that stock can not be denied. as you her the bells are ringing on wall street. looks like the indexes are going to keep essentially where they were before and after ben bernanke began to t

[electronic music] - ♪ it's the ben show, it's the ben show ♪ ♪ it's the ben show, it's the ben showk guitar chord] >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: welcome to "the daily show". my name is jon stewart. journalist stephen brism he is the author of atime magazine cover story on what sailing our health care system. it turns out our health care system has price cancer and no insurance. [laughter] we've been discussing this week on the program how republicans led by senators lindsey graham and salty mccain are holding up the nominees for the defense and c.i.a. until the senators get the information on what happened in benghazi including who changed the talking points susan rice used on the sunday morning shows so we can be sure no americans are harmed again by the talking points. >> whatever was said based on information provided by the intelligence community on a series of sunday shows bears no relevance on the ulti

ben bernanke is >>> ben bernanke is masterful. lots of people complained about him. i see there's nothing to complain about. he's doing the right thing. he doesn't want to repeat of 1937. i don't want one either. ial prous to >> good evening everyone and welcome in, this is "the kudlow report." obama arrives in israel to cement our relationship with our great allie and he and netanyahu must deal with series issues. president obama is said that the use of chemical weapon this is in syria would be a game-changer. quote unquote, now back here the markets get back to rally mode. but, did the fed-head ever so subtly indicate an every so slightly less easy posture? that is my take and we will debate it later on. here is something that investors and businesses and consumers do not want to hear, it's a new tax on the internet. even downloads from ituness, who thinks that is a good idea? not me, here is good news "the kudlow report" begins right now. president obama in israel for the first same in his presidency, securing the relations with the allie in the middle east, here

[up-tempo music] - ♪ it's the ben show, it's the ben show ♪ ♪ it's the ben show, it's the ben show ♪ing sponsored by comedy central >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome to "the daily show." my same in jon stewart. does that look like anything in i tried to draw a cartoon. ow indeed. we have a nice one tonight. joining us tonight from the msnbc cable news network we have a basket of graduate degrees. actually it's rachel maddow who has a degree. she has earned them. earned them. not like me with the honorary doctorate although i still operate. [ laughter ] one day i won't kill one. [ laughter ] folks, next month marks the tenth and -- anniversary of the iraqi war. what do you get the paper, sphwhood this might be regret. how do you start it by starting another war. >> the obama white house is engaged in a war of words with "washington post" reporter bob woodward over the origin of the spending cuts. >> jon: oh, a war of words as long as one of tho

this is more of the same we've got enfrom ben bernanke.y dovish and i think we'll hear more about that from the press conference. lori: charles, last word. >> the big question is what happens in the market once the fed starts to hike rates. the last two rallies the market did pretty good. rally from 90 to 2000, the first time the fold hiked interest rates, the market pulled back 6%. proceeded to rally for 71 months and 220% from there. last rally, 2002 to 2007, after they hiked rates the first time, we pulled back 7%. turn around and rallied for another 40 months and another 44%. so people who think it is automatically over once the fed starts to hike rates may even be in for a surprise. lori: wow, you have some history. >> i have to study this stuff. >> eventually good news for the economy becomes becomes good news for stocks. >> at some point. that's when we get out of bizarro world. lori: on that note. thank you so much guys. rob morgan, former fed economist, stephen oliner. and. take your seat in the news conference. we'll check you ou

>> i'm far less concerned about this than ben is. >> neil: ben is okay being segment on the show.ust like you did in the last segment. what is it with you? >> i get what you are saying, but i have a very libertarian capitalistic perspective. if i want my employer to pay for my health insurance and i am willing to let my employer monitor my health. >> should your employer monitor your health? >> one at a time. adam, you are okay with this being done outside of work. i saw adam last night eating a canoli? >> i would have to see details. i think it's okay if they want to monitor. blood sugar levels. >> neil: i have no idea about that. >> it depends where you get it. brooklyn, new york? >> wait -- >>> adam, you are in wallow land that is the issue you don't even know what the company is looking at. so it's out of sight, out of mind mentality that is extremely dangerous. it's fries thing to think that your company -- >> i am so scared. >> you should be frightened. you act like mr. health. >> just drinking. >> neil: i could take a couple of those. [ laughter ] >> but i was trying to fig

to ben stein and charles payne and charlie gasparino. >> the imf are arrogant. they have done more harm to third worlds than you can imagine. what did they become in charge of the environment. what the heck is going on. they want to tax a trillion dollar tax to save the environment. it's regressive and stupid. to your point, hey, that might be a bad idea. >> neil: you don't think it's a good idea? >> put me down in the no column. [ laughter ] >> what do you expect out of the imf. sort of local bureaucrats we have in this country are sort of imported ones from europe. had they are 25 times more liberal and most of these environmental bureaucrats whether people work or not. they have a straight line view about saving the environment and they don't care what economic damage that causes. can you imagine if this actually happened. this is like, a regressive tax. it hurts poor people which they don't care about. it really is a sick disgusting state of affairs. >> politicians and give them all credit right or left in this country knows it is regressive and one tax incr

ben carson. >> dana: paging dr.greg: save the free enterprise. >> bob: there was a guy, dr. ben wasn't there? >> greg: ben casey. >> eric: coming up, did cbs disrespect vietnam vets by sending reality show con zesttants to hanoi? bob was furious about it. >> bob: don't blame that on young producers. it had to go through somebody at the executive branch of cbs, communist show put on by a network that ought to know better. >> eric: he has more to say about that. but first, #birthday. twitter turned seven and how the social media site changed the world and how it changed our lives right here on "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> dana: you know, it's twitter's birthday and it's my sister's birthday. what a coincidence! >> greg: who do you like more? >> dana: i'll tweet her, too. i'm talking about the social network that transformed the way that the world communicates. it turns seven today. i was a late comer to twitter. it wasn't until february 20610 i said okay, fine. i'll try it. >> kimberly: you dominated twitter. >> dana: i don

people like to criticize ben bernanke. the fed is doing the best they can. the two parents are monetary policy and fiscal policy. one parent is exceedingly lenient and generous with gifts of candy and toys and the other one is extremely stingy. >> that's congress and the president. isn't the fed bailing out the policymakers? >> at this point they are. and ben bernanke has said this in all of his testimony, can you, congress, please deal with your fiscal situation a little bit better than you are? and he doesn't want to see the austerity the way it's applied through sequestration. he made that clear through his testimony. he would like to see long-term deficit reduction, addresses social security and medicare which crushes us when the baby boom retires. but he doesn't want to see a lot of money come out it right now. >> in the face of all of this, david, what should we do with our money today? >> wow want to find places in this great big world of ours where the is being released. you want to own some japanese equities. secondly, is you want to look at mexico.

ben gelfand. oh, well i'm an intern. hey, stop kidding, ben. he's a doctor. he's a ve-ry good doctor. carlito's just passed out! can anyone help? well, there's a doctor right here! no! there's not. can't you at least tell them what to do? like what? shouldn't he elevate his legs? right. elevate your legs! i hope carlito feels better. ben really wishes he could have helped. i thought he was a doctor. i--i call him doctor. george. of course... absolute zero! what? what is with all these books? i stopped having sex. all right, i'll see you, phil. all right, i've got room for 2 but the only thing i have is in the nonfiltered section. hey, hey how ya doin'? what do you got, a smokers' lounge in there? oh, yeah. people really seem to be enjoying themselves. you know they come in once, it's like they're addicted. jerry, oh, there you are. you didn't answer your phone. i was out. oh. jerry, great news. i got you... an assembly. an assembly? 2 hours in front of the entire junior high. grades 6-8. that sixth grade seventh grade-- i understand. but what am i going to ta

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i'm not in the minority, but a lot of us have been -- >> ben, ben, actually, you are in the minority, because the latest polls show that over 50% of americans now support same-sex marriage. you are, whether you like it or not, in an increasing and very rapidly moving minority. >> and i think -- >> and piers, i would say this -- >> okay, ben -- your point first. >> if somebody calls you as a pollster and asks you a question about gay marriage, you do not want to be a bigot or offend somebody over the phone. but when people walk into a voting booth and they can vote their conscience, including california -- they overwhelmingly have supported, in 43 states, marriage being defined between one man and one woman. and that's the truth. >> let me bring in marjorie. >> ben brings up an important thing, i want to uphold history. unfortunately, what will happen, you'll be on the wrong side of history. because there is -- what a lot of people are talking about the inevitability of this. and i was on capitol hill yesterday walking in front of the supreme court, and i have to tell you, if you just

ben pace, first to you. what's your take on today's decline? >> i think a lot of us have been waiting for a correction. the cyprus situation looked like it was somewhat resolved and then parliament voted it down. that could be one reason. but every time this market corrects even slightly on this negative news, the powerful combination of better economic statistics in the u.s., and the never-ending fed ease kind of brings buyers back in. i would like to buy on lower levels, me and a lot of other market participants, but we'll see if this is the one that et gets the 5 to 7% correction that a lot of us have been waiting for. >> you think this would be a buy on the dip mentality, but it could be a little while before we see that? >> i think so. >> greg, in his conference yesterday, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke answered a question about the stock market. we want to get your take on what he said. listen to this. >> sure. >> in the stock market, you know, we don't see at this point anything that's out of line with historical patterns. in part

ben thanks for joining us.ben, you sort of outline your argument for the fact that the time is now for a two-state solution. despite the title of the story. and among the things you outlined, you say the majority of israelis and palestinians support a two-state solution. that the majority of the settlements they can still be doern down and that abbas remains in office and he's probably the best partner there may be for a two-state solution. tell us more about this thesis? >>. >> sure, what i would say is that to have a two-state solution, as opposed to just a two-state reality, which theoretically israel could create unilaterally. but an actual deal signed by leaders on both sides that does formally end the conflict, you really need four categories of things. you need first and foremost for a solution to be doable on the ground. you need to be able to draw a border between the two states that would satisfy the political needs of both sides. you need to be able to create a palestinian capital in east jerusalem a

ben carson. don't know if anyone asked you this yet, what was the president's reaction personally to your speech? did you talk to him? >> i talked to him afterwards and he came over. he was very gracious. he said, you know, thank you for your speech. he didn't say he enjoyed it, but he did say. [laughter] >> and he said he admired me >> i suspect you might have known that going in. let me play -- you said something, in talking about the economy, that really hit home with me. and that's about the deficit. $16.5 trillion we have. >> that is a number that is so mind-boggling. that's why i said if you counted one number, one number per second, it would take you 507,000 years. more than half a million years. it's a number that's just staggering and it's continuing to grow. you know, we sit around and we talk about maybe we can keep it from growing further. we need to reduce it. and the way to reduce it obviously is to get the economy growing again. you know, it doesn't really do any good to keep takin

. >> ben, what do you think? >> i think universal healthcare is moral requirement. mr. mix on ordered we tried to get it three and senator kennedy killed it. the people elect their democratic congress, big mistake so we got obamacare. so we got obamacare and now we have to live by the law. the law requires that we pay these taxes. law requires that we not and if you don't we go to prison. it's stacked against us unless we can rally ourselves to elect a republican president. then we'll get fixed. >> hopefully. maybe. government always gets there. i've worked hard you took money out of my check, i'm waiting to get it back. >> i think it is great. >> what part is great? >> i think it's great that people are paying higher taxes for this thing. this does not come for free. you are going to elect barack obama as your president, do what ben said in a elected democratic congress to pass through this nonsense. you have to pay for it. i would say what is not great about this is how the media is handling it. sort of notion that the president, when you say they, it's really the pre

and we have today with us ben latimer.ou for joining us. >> my pleasure, good to see you. >> we're going to talk about things that you might do ... >> hi, i'm with building san francisco. and we have a special program of stay safe today where we're going to talk about what you can do to your home after an earthquake to make it waterproof and to be more comfortable. we're here at spur in san francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. and this is an example of what your home might be like after an earthquake. and we have today with us ben latimer from tvan. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we'll talk about things you can do you don't have to be a professional contractor to make your home more livable after an earthquake. >> i want to talk about things a homeowner can do. we have comfort and we have things like a little bit of maybe safety if your front door is ajar and waterproofing if you have a leak in your roof, or if you have broken glass on the window. >> so unr, one of the most important fib us

that's for you, ben. >> no, i don't think so.debate is. and i talked about that this week and it's amazing how he brings up a legitimate question and so did the supreme court justice he when she said is this going to open the door? and many people that want to defend marriage like myself and dr. carson were saying is this, once you redefine marriage when precedent is everything at the supreme court, who are we to decide that the next group of people that want to expand marriage yet again, are then denied their quote, unquote rights and i think what you're looking at here is looking at eight students who claim he they want tolerance. >> megyn: an important point, it's eight. >> only eight and they're totally intolerant to anyone else's viewpoints, i mean, if i say i support traditional marriage i'm automatically called a bigot, i'm called a homophobe, the equivalent of a racist because i don't want to redefine marriage outside of one man and one woman. the supreme court and sotomayor was saying the same thing. if we decide that we

>> what about that end of the day imbalance, ben?seeing as we approach the close here? >> right now it's -- it's not a factor, so i'm actually concerned, but i -- i don't have a good feeling about how the market goes out right now, but being as alan said earlier, it's a -- it's the first day of the trading month. you usually see inflows so i would suspect it would stay slightly to the buy side. >> what do you expect to be happening here? >> well, one of the first things i would look at is how march is going to set the table, and without question there's a lot of successful long positions in the stock market that are looking for nothing more than that last push higher to take profits and reassess. it's been a successful trade. that being said in march i think the tone is going to be a stronger dollar, and these being prefaced by the way the british pound came off today off the fundamental news and more importantly the euro breaking down above 130. that's the story and it will come right back into crude oil. watch the dollar. >> a stro

first it was marco rubio, then it was ben carson.hat does this tell you about the state of the republican party today? >> beyond that it's schizophrenic, jonathan? i don't know. it really is demonstrating, again, how totally discombobulated they are, how divided they are. we continue to see that with the challenges not only in their messaging but as we talk about all the time when you're not in the big chair that they have a huge problem with the policies that they continue to push. and most importantly, with this particular situation, the namesake of the school, johns hopkins, who was an abolitionist, a quaker and a philanthropist, would probably have a bone to pick with dr. carson on this point right here. >> and with that, we have to go. thanks to angela rye anded to t shepard. >>> coming up, rand paul's philosophy on gun safety? why bother? stay with us. >> we have laws against murder and we should have laws against murder, but that doesn't seem to be deterring these people. i've always had to keep my eye on her... but, i didn't

ben carson.on't know if anyone asked you this yet, what was the president's reaction personally to your speech? did you talk to him? >> i talked to him afterwards and he came over. he was very gracious. he said, you know, thank you for your speech. he didn't say he enjoyed it, but he did say. [laughter] >> and he said he admired me >> i suspect you might have known that going in. let me play -- you said something, in talking about the economy, that really hit home with me. and that's about the deficit. $16.5 trillion we have. >> that is a number that is so mind-boggling. that's why i said if you counted one number, one number per second, it would take you 507,000 years. more than half a million years. it's a number that's just staggering and it's continuing to grow. you know, we sit around and we talk about maybe we can keep it from growing further. we need to reduce it. and the way to reduce it obviously is to get the economy growing again. you know, it doesn't really do any good to keep taking

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ben carson. all right, thanks for watching our coverage of the conservative political action conference. >> heather: and now to bulls and bears that starts right now. >> conservatives at cpac calling for tax cuts, but the president telling republicans, they can hike them or take a hike in budget cuts . senate democrats are on his side, pushing one trillion in new taxings. is this why 7 out of 10 bosses are not hiring. this is bums and bears we'll get right to it. the bums and bears, to bin and jonas and john back from his mountain climb and jamull green. >> democrats are still pushing tax hikings. is that why the companies are not hiring? >> absolutely. alm they -- all they have to do is look at history or the state nearby. on the state lemp, - level. the states that grow the most jobs are the ones without income tax. we have had this discussion many times. every time we cut taxes, the economy has grown whether on the left with president kennedy or left with reagan. the left said clinton raised t

ben steel, you're great. best on the book. art hogan, david malpass, thank you. >>> up next on kudlow, he survived the recall last year, and stood up to the state's public sector unions. but is conservative superstar governor scott walker actually making his move for an even higher office? >>> wisconsin republican governor scott walker has become something of a conservative rock star for his high-profile class with organized labor. he is now teaming up with the former bush speech writer for a new book. that will be due out later this year. question, is this a prelude to 2016? well here now is the guy who broke that story, cnbc contributor robert costa, washington editor for "the national review." and with us for the remainder of the hour, democratic strategist, can i have co phonis and guy benson from townhall.com. all right, mr. costa, so he's writing a book. what's so important about that? >> sure, larry. it's years before the republican presidential primary actually starts. but we're in a period right now that i like to cal

ben carson.or being with us today. >>> as we speak, president obama is on the podium in miami, let's listen. >>ky hear her without a mike from far away. now before we get started. i've got to get into a sticky subject right off the bat. i know you guys aren't happy with my chicago bulls. but i just want you to know the heat are going to be just fine. they're going to be okay. they are playing basketball the right way. the hurricanes, they had a great season, no, no, they deserve a big round of applause. tonight you've got florida and florida gulf coast going at it. one of them will go to the elite eight. so let's face it, florida is the center of basketball right now. but i'm not here to talk about hoops. i'm here to talk about one of the plans that i put forwards in my state of the union address. a plan to put people back to work rebuilding america. i've come to port miami today, because there are few more important things we can do to create jobs right now and strengthen our economy over the lo

ben, what kind of start was that?> how did i know you were going to come to me first on this one, right? >> oh, come on. it's obvious. you're the -- go ahead. you're the guy who said you would be on the cover of "out" magazine with me. >> side by side, exactly. i think what is interesting about this is how many times senators get asked the same question. obviously this is not the pc way to answer the question. i think we can all agree with that. but it is also, if you're a journalist student out there, don't ask stupid questions of people. if you know what the answer is going to be, and i think that was his point. it was poorly worded. don't get me wrong. it was not a sfatatement that would make more people want to become conservative, shame on him for that. but at the same time, he's been very blunt about his stance on gay marriage, and i think that's the reason why he got a little irritated and answered the way he did. >> there are also reaching out to african-americans and this, i don't know, maybe there will be so