what do you think of this, ben?ink the union movement, even though i belong to it and love my unions, is falling apart. this is a publicity stunt play. i don't know whether it will go anywhere. involves a tiny number of people. the thing that worries me is if the unions decide they want to organize university students themselves the way they do in some european countries. then we have the people of the united states, the cab driver paying the drug-using university student. that's what scares me. >> there is a way to avoid this and allow these kids to share in the loot their schools do get, at least some of it without unionizing, right? >> this union is saying it's not going after pay initially. it's to cover to make sure that their tuition and all their expenses are covered and that their health is taking care of. >> why the steelworkers union? >> exactly. any help that they can get from unions -- but the point is, they're not -- these students are not employees, number one. and playing a college sport is voluntary

what row, ben?ng say, but maybe the fifth row, and marc, if i had a extra ticket, i would have given it to you like a handout. >> and i will believe it when i see it. >> and don lemon, let me bring it to you down there in the boulevard, and who are they picking down there for the big one? >> do not bring me into this mess between the two guys, because it is always a problem. oh, my gosh, they are so loud. this is from the "simpson's" in 2055, the seahawks 14 and the br broncos 19, and i'm going for the broncos, and i want to show you to the score. and who is going to win tomorrow? >> seat isle. >> no, denver, denver. >> and seattle. >> i cannot heard a word that you are saying. i can't hear my own voice, but listen a lot of people are going to the game, and a lot of people are partying toigt nooshgts and some very lucky people, poppy, they are getting to stay in what is called the bud light hotel down on the hudson river, and it used to be a norwegian cruise ship, and they have taken over the entire

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ben stein? >> that is not a suggestion worthy of adam's intellect. but coca-cola. if mr. buffett likes it, i like it. >> you guys are fantastic. >> diet coke. >> the plac to be for business, you know it, fox. >>> let's work together and find common ground. >> we need to work together. >> let's work together. >> yeah, but look what happens when they do work together. the house passing a $956 billion rm bill. a billion for the cotton income protection plan. 51 million for bio energy. and get this, $3 millio to promote christmas trees. i'm not making this up. is it time to go back to the bickering and stophe spending? welcome to "forbes on," i'm david asman. elizabeth mcdonald, rick

i think it's a bad idea. >> ben stein is a lawyer. so you are lumping. i have been in practice for a very long time. >> i think charles payne hit on the big picture issue going on here, first, responsible. it's not a political statement. it's not an anti-obama statement. it's just now if you have a problem, it's not your fault. >> we keep hearing more and more, every week, we talk about the news the common thread is that somehow a person is a victim. >> right. >> people with the minimum wage debate. how does someone get into a position to be an adult and have skills to have minimum wage. what do they do to hurt themselves? >> bravo, bravo. >> this is a political -- >> wait a sec, adam. >> he continues to say stuff li like. this is a political story. the trial bar, these are not like regular old lawyers. these are one of the biggest activist groups in the democratic party. they have been doing this in the securities area. >> they are hitting up the states that have these great big deficits courtesy of escalating medicare costs saying we have found the sol

my name is ben affleck.rector and the founder of the eastern congo initiative, a grant-making advocacy organization working with people in eastern congo. i am to state the obvious not a congo expert. >> i have attended literally hundreds of senate hearings and i have heard hundreds of witnesses at senate hearings with farless expertise on the subject under discussion than ben affleck. ben affleck created the eastern congo initiative with the mission to create opportunities social and economic development there. he travels to the drc regularly and has more and better current information about what's happening in that country than any senator on the foreign relations committee. and the senators know that. and so none of the senators tried to trip up ben affleck or expose gaps in his knowledge of the subject at that hearing because none of them could do that. and they knew they couldn't. here's a typical sample of ben affleck handling the senate's questions today. >> how do you think we can most constructively

comcast nbcuniversal. >>> pope ben de-- benedict brea his silence.allegation surfaced he had been forced to quit. he denied it in a letter to the website vatican insider writing "the only condition for the validity of my resignation is the complete freedom of my decision. speculation regarding its validity is simply absurd." dan browne, you taking notes here? meanwhile, in pope francis' news, he met his mini-me, a very unhappy little boy dressed as him. let's go back to that first story and get some perspective. james barton, editor at large of america magazine and author of "jesus: a pilgrimage." i think some might argue it's a little beneath a pope, even a pope emeritus, to respond to rumors. why write this letter? why dignify the chitchat? >> well, in a sense he's trying to help pope francis, i think, by putting to rest the rumors that he was forced to resign. the pope had actually talked about this a few years before with some of his assistants he felt he was too old to continue so, you know, why not put those rumors to rest and help the pope. >>

today is ben bernanke's last day as federal reserve chairman. we're going to examine how the central bank goes into the future. it is the chinese new year, the year of the horse. i'm going to speak to the man who designed the u.s. postal stamp that celebrates the occasion. we will also talk about groundhog day, and go to the man who knows punxsutawney phil. all that and more coming up in an hour. let's go to headlines with loomer's su keenan. >> disney is said to be close to a program agreement with federal litigation over technology. disney could receive compensation for technology known as auto hop that lets dish -- skipers get commercials and broadcast shows that they recorded. finishing the day down four percent, blame it on barbie. mattel trailed estimates from analysts, while hot wheels declined eight percent. the company reported profits that missed analyst estimates for mastercard. >> i want to go to washington dc where there has been a lot of news today, and i want to bring in our white house correspondent phil mattingly. i want to star

joining me commentators paul begala, ben ferguson and anna navarro. you're all players in the story which is a story about what's going to happen to the republican party. you were called out by name, ben you spoke with ted today. he apologized to you last week. anna speaks uniquely to whether the gop has a chance of being a big tent party or a party increasingly fringed by hate speech liking from people like nugent. ben, today he came on your radio show. you asked him what happened. and you asked him about some of these words he's using. one of the first thing he said to you, the president's a racist. so far as seem concerned, that pledge lasted not even 24 hours. >> i asked him, i said, give me an example why you think he's a racist. he immediately responded with as soon as is he put himself into the trayvon martin case by saying if i had a son, he would look like trayvon martin. he says that's playing the race card. that's what he believes when he says like that. that's why i said can you back it up instead of just being name calling. what's interes

that's all this is about. >> hold on, ben. i wouldn't go that far. >> ben, you're making things up.is true. >> i wouldn't go that far to use her motives in what she was tweeting. what i would point out is that there are lots of beautiful black women in the world, lots in this building at this very moment, and they are not sitting in a one on one interview with piers morgan during primetime on cnn. she was here to discuss the fact that she was born one gender onor one sex as mark would like to say, went through surgery, went through a psychological process but also a physical process to become a female. and we can debate whether or not that is superficial or whether or not that is -- >> that's not the only issue. [ overlapping speakers ] >> let me -- wait wait wait. let me just say this. i think the point mark is making which is a point that janet made is this. there's a difference between sex and gender. that gender identity's incredible important to people who go through the transgender process. >> yes. >> i have learned more about that in the last 24 hours. and i think it's import

ben tracy is there. ben. >> reporter: norah, this is the calm between our two storms, and here in azusa, california, this neighborhood is now under judge the fear is when it starts pouring the hild side will turn into a muddy river. the first storm moved through faster than expected, dropping less than an inch of rain on southern california. that gave the folks who live here time to prepare for round two, which could deliver up to six inches of rain in some places. in azusa, police went door to door, telling people to evacuate. mudslides threatened about 1,000 homes here. wildfires scorched 2,000 acres of hillsides last month, burning the vegetation that keeps the hills from sliding. matt albanese is building barriers to keep the mud out. >> we install these footings that go down three feet with three-inch steel pipe. and so that that was done yesterday. today is actually building the fencing. >> we're going to get more rain in the next 48 hours than we've seen in the past two years. >> reporter: bill pa

institutions but what exactly happened at the conference was a really a paradigm of cooperation dr ben steel the author of the battle of bretton woods argues in his book that the meeting was instead a way for the united states to neuter great britain and cement the importance of the u.s. dollar when the allies met in bretton woods new hampshire in july one thousand nine hundred forty four the second world war was still underway now i asked dr ben steele why the allies were in such a hurry to establish a new monetary system here's what he said. well there were two reasons in particular first and foremost f.d.r. was anxious to use this conference to send a political message to the enemy axis powers that it was the allies in the united states in particular that had the compelling vision for the post-war. he believed that this could actually serve to bring the war to an earlier conclusion sac and the united states leave very passionately that it would be critical to reestablish a semblance of economic and monetary stability very quickly after the war to prevent the world from sinking back

thanks, ben. thanks very much. >>> in other news, a deal has been reached with ukraine that could end the bloody confrontation in kiev. the opposition group comes after several deadly days in the city's independent square. the deal was put together after representatives from russia and the european union went to kiev. joining us now from ukraine is our nick paton walsh, who has been on the scene since these demonstrations developed. so what's in the deal, nick, and is there a part in there that calls for an investigation into the dozens of deaths during these protests? >> reporter: there's a lot of -- a lot of stuff in this deal. but most of all, a timetable that was pretty strict in many ways. first thing, the constitution to reduce the powers of the president. parliament has already pushed that through at this point. we are waiting to see if the prote protesters' obligations, which is to disarm 24 hours from now, they will do that the end of saturday and start clearing out of public places like

>> well, this is the part for you, ben -- >> and i am going to say that the bad part for ben or for theainly governor christie is that drawing out all of the scenarios and the implausible possibilities and as long as we are talking about that, we are not talking about what christie wants which is how he could be president. >> and could be and should be, and let's talk about what is. governor christie is in the spotlight and he had a long press conference and answered all kinds of questions about this, and does he feed to come out again now? we have the statements from the team, and does he need to come out publicly now? >> no, he does not need to do that, but a he has already done it. he did the right thing by saying, all right, media, i'm here, and i will stay here as long as you want me to stay here, and i will answer every ridiculous or serious question, and repeated question, but i don't think that there is any new information and all you have is a disgruntled employee who is angry at this point with no new information. >> and to your point, marc, you think that he should come out,

ben what happened?rter: -- sigh across the city of new orleans, as many people did expect a verdict from the jury. but both sides were here, kind of milling about, the jurors sort of came in, one by one, and then they were missing one juror, even an hour and 15 minutes after they were supposed to be there. so the judge said, look, we're not going to have deliberations today. everybody was expecting a verdict on the 21 counts against ray nagan, but that is on hold now, so we'll have to wait until tomorrow at 9:00. no word on what happened to the juror. we'll have to see tomorrow morning if that person returns. there are four alternates in this case, but yet the judge told the alternates that they could go home if they wanted to. so we're not sure if they are here or will be available tomorrow. >> ben, one of the reasons they were expecting a quick verdict in this case is because there were so many guilty pleas leading up to this case involving some of ray nagan's top aids. if he is found guilty does he f

. >> ben, we are messing with you, because we like ben, and so it is okay. >> that is okay. >> and peopledon't get upset, because i can't believe you said that don lemon, and this is people who like each other, and this is how we like. >> i agree with ben, and this is a racist tweet, and the point is that she does not understand the kcon september of monkees and - the concept of monkeys and bananas, and black people, and so she needs to understand for cultural and social reasons, this is disturbing that it happened. it is a far cry from muhammad ali who lit the torch for us do something like this that is disturbing. >> and this is from the "guardian" newspaper, freedom of speech is freedom of speech, and you should answer for your own hangups, and your reaction to this? >> well, first of all, when you call somebody or something racist, people hang on to the freedom of speech. and nobody is making that argument, but it is offensive and yes, yes, i have a hangup when people call me a monkey, and that is a little thing. >> and isn't it funny, don, how you have a woman in russia where you can

and ben lerer will stay with us. have been reporting that matthew martoma has been found guilty of insider trading. the verdict, another victory for the prosecution in these various cases against sac capital insiders. sheelah kolhatkar has been following the case in lower manhattan outside of the courtroom. tell us about what you have a hearing today. >> in the mood was serious and somber in the courtroom. when the jurors filed in, just around 2:00 p.m., they were all looking at the ground, it was a serious moment, and you could tell they had not come in there to acquit mr. matthew martoma. there are many people that felt the case was very strong against matthew martoma from the a lot of people expected a guilty verdict throughout, the yesterday the jurors were sending out questions, and some of the questions gave the defense reason for optimism. they were expressing hopefulness yesterday. things went south quickly this afternoon, and they found him guilty on all three counts. >> this does not mean that the feds are

i have to get ben n because we may lose ben's satellite and we have let it go on for a long time, buthat i want to ask, and it is odd to me, and listen -- it is odd to me that the players have 1,000 texts between each other, and people that i'm dating, i don't text a thousand times and there is something odd go g ing on here i am not exactly sure. go ahead. >> i don't know if it is odd, but you are dealing with a couple of guys here who are aof of the reservation, and they had obviously, a unique friendship, and with a lot of ups and downs and a lot of testosterone and anger issues. i don't know if we will figure it out any time soon, but it is definitely outside of the norm of a normal locker room, and guys i know who play at the highest level, this is not the normal and the nfl is not going to probably let this happen again, because the p.r. war for them is just too bad. i mean, you look at this and you look at the saints with the money on people for getting them hurt, and they don't need anything else for the next five years to get back to even. >> and ben, you will disappear, so h

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liz: let's talk about the ben bernanke deposition. what will he be asked?> this is what i understand. there was questioning about the legality of these bailouts including a ig. he wanted to be bailed out the same way they bailed out the big banks. they didn't totally wipe out the shareholders but gave the money. liquidity, gave 100% but wiped out shareholders and diluted the shares. i would say white thing out the shareholders which was an unprecedented move. that is unconstitutional. i will give you the cliff notes version and we could argue fine points of law all day. ben bernanke's testimony will be given, paulson's testimony has % been given, the new york fed president became treasury secretary, hank paulson was treasury secretary in 2008 and now it is ben bernanke. when we get these documents will be fascinating reading even though it is after the fact of the financial crisis. liz: you watched my copy of the wolf of wall street. remember when eastern european woman was wrapping money around her body to do the swiss thing? that is in a way coming to pas

joyce and ben both suffer from a severe form of hyperacusis.wo people with such a rare condition find each other? they first bonded on an online support group. it is okay for me to talk this loud? >> yes, uh-huh. >> reporter: joyce, a writer, says her symptoms developed six years ago after prolonged exposure to a loud ventilation system. >> i felt a wave of pressure descend upon my head, and i knew something terrible had happened, but they didn't know what. i was just delirious with pain. >> reporter: ben, a former banking consultant, says decades of going to loud concerts set the stage for his condition -- but the final trigger was a loud, squeaky printer at his office. >> one day, i woke up and everything was a hundred times louder. >> reporter: can you describe what the pain feels like? >> like somebody lathe match and threw it into my ear. >> reporter: their threshold for sound is now incredibly low. imagine the sound of a cat's meow, like a lion's roar. running water, niagara falls. a bird chirping? think "the birds." >> my example was, yo

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>> paul, i've got to say -- >> ben, how many guns do you have? telling me that a democrat is 16 and a republican is five or six. >> paul begala has been known to have some fuzzy math out there. >> when he said that number, i had to ask you. >> come to my house, brother. i'll show you all 20. >> thank you very much, both of you. >>> still to come, a white man fired a gun into an suv full of black teenagers. some think he may have gotten away with murder. tonight, we hear from a juror about what happened in that room. and is kate upton so hot she can defy gravity? jeanne moos has that story. change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. instead of

. >> i will nominate ben hur for chair. >> thank you. >> commissioner ben hur who has served very, very well as a past chair has been nominated. anyone else? i would only second it even though it does not need it. >> all right. any discussion about commissioner hur as chair? >> any public comment on the nominations? >> commissioner ray hartz, director of san francisco open government, and anyone who either here, well there is only two members of the public here, which shows how much interest there is. or members of the public watching on tv, if they wish to contact me, this is my e-mail address. it is sfopen government bsat sbcglobal.net and i would appreciate and i have heard from hundreds of people, and i would appreciate anyone who wishes to provide comment regarding what i say at these meetings that is the address to which to send it. the election for the officers of this body is like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic, it does not seem to matter who is in charge, absolutely nothing gets done, but actually changes the ethical atmosphere of san francisco i have asked before with

is she going to continue down the path that ben bernanke he set in late two thousand and thirteen with her tapering i think that that's a big issue and i think the equity markets are looking at that in great detail in addition we still talk about you know the job market i mean we had a report recently of just over one hundred thousand new jobs created as you know that as of the last month and i think that those numbers are not good enough numbers for us to go forward in the in the u.s. and i think that's going to be something that all institutional and individual investors take a look at as they position their portfolios for two thousand and fourteen now having said that i think the key word here is diversification i think that in order to whether the storm. and we see these huge swings in the equity markets the dow jones just dramatic swings downward in january so you have to be prepared and you have to be patient and think longer term but stay diversified in terms of your investments because if one industry or one set of stocks or mutual funds fall out of favor you have access and al

ben shackter, thanks for joining us. >>>ette the nation's third largest insurer, aetna, said so far customers signing up for the health plans are older and more expensive. senior ceo addressed some of the uncertainties surrounding the affordable care act. >> we need to get the back end accounting systems working properly. we need to understand where we're headed with a number of programs like any willing provider. are we going to require to have a larger network than the ones we have today. secondly, are we going to require to keep people keep what they have for another year or more. all of those questions need to be answered in anticipation of understanding the data we need to know in order to price products properly for 2015. >> the stock missed out on today's rally, falling slightly to 67.92. >>> a lot of attention on linked in after the market closed. investors were disappointed that the company's revenue forecasts for the current quarter and for 2014 were lower than expected. and even those company posted earnings t

she is very different than ben bernanke. in the financial times, it was written every chairman seems to get hit by a crisis in their first year. whatever might blindside janet yellen, she started off with a problem that affected none of her predecessors -- what do you think about that? >> that is true. guidance seems to have gone by the wayside. they spent an awful lot of time saying why they were not paying attention to the 6.5% rate. there are some other things they could do. they are more radical. they have less of a chance of it -- of success. >> let's hope not. we have to leave it there. thank you. do not miss tomorrow. i'm going to be hosting our special coverage of janet yellen's first testimony before congress. by the pimconed managing director bill gross. make sure to tune in. we will be live on capitol hill from 10:00-12:00. , is carl icon backing down -- icahn backing down? the pot industry maybe foraging. now there arson new headwinds facing the state licensed marijuana businesses. we will tell you all about it.

ben, thank you. there is news tonight on the ought otorecall we have been telling you involving more than 1.5 million g.m. cars. a defect in the ignition can cause the engine to cut off. it is linked to 31 crashes and 13 deaths. now, the federal government is investigating whether g.m. dragged its feet on that recall. but jeff glor jeff glor has leae is concerns the government was slow to respond as well. >> i went downstairs and my phone rang. amber had been in an accident, and she-- she didn't make it. >> reporter: on july 29, 2005, laura christian' 16-year-old daughter, amber, dieded in a chevy cobalt. it is the first death linked to g.m.'s faulty ignition recall. >> when you lose your daughter, whether you're the first one or whether you're the last one, she's still gone. and it's still their fault for not fixing the problem. >> reporter: amber had been drinking, but when she crashed, the airbag failed to go off. g.m. was made aware of this. so was the national highway traffic safety administrati

finally, toasted or roasted ben bernanke at his final fed meeting. if there were cheers for him or a wave goodbye, it is not documenting that. >> peter cook joining me in studio. thank you. more on the fed minutes, brian wes perry, former chief economist at the congressional joint economic committee, will join me in about 10 minutes right here. let's show how the equity markets were doing before the fed minutes. the international monetary fund said risks are threatening the global economy here it the s&p and threen about two quarters at 1837. the dow jones industrial average also falling. the nasdaq composite index on this wednesday is down more than one third of one percent. let's get the latest on the ukraine, where their president just granted sweeping powers to the army and police. we are joined on the phone with the latest. of thisthe significance action? >> we are still trying to figure new formerknow the head the navy comes from a region, the premier region, which is very lawyer. -- very loyal. he has not really explain himself on that move. -

and ben wrote to her and said well done, deborah. but he still wouldn't come home. [laughter] and their only daughter got married, and he wrote to her and said make sure the wedding doesn't cost very much money, but he still wouldn't come home. and, finally, she died, deborah died, and ben said, i had to come home now, go home now, he wrote to a friend. because my wife, in his hand out of the care of my fears, has died. so now i will admit that when he got home, he did sign the declaration of independence. so i can't be all that i met at in the there are lots of reason to be mad at him, but he was there in philadelphia, while the men, and it was men, were assembling to decide what to do about the british. because they were feeling more and more that the british were making it hard to be under them, to be their colonists. and some of the men said, well, we can't fight the british. they are our mother country. we have to work with them. but meanwhile, the british had already had battles at lexington and concord, right? remember those? the battles of ludington and conc

ben mentioned it's prototyping property and hotel tax. the property tax is a fancy way of saying the sears is enrolling things at the faster rate and hotel tax is an amazing story of incredibly occupancy rates and on top of that it impresses us what people are paying to stay at hotels. those two items are making up most of the revenue increase. this is the third thing is the transfer tax we're not projecting to be over but we have over thirty million for the year. if you look at the bumps in december we have $67 million in december and that's end out but at this point we're not projecting that the city is over budget and we'll hopefully have more information and update you on that that's a day to day number that can change. ass i'm sure you're aware of and ben touched on that the voter improved take a portion of the revenue growth and send it off to voter uses like libraries and public education and part of parking tax it goes to the mta more. and the requirements is about $2.5 million. so as you kind of get into the department land is a