ben ferguson, let me try to get my head around this. the president has tried to bring in millions more americans who wouldn't have qualified for health insurance into the health insurance gain. what's wrong with that? >> there is nothing wrong with that. the problem is obamacare tried to fix a system people didn't need to fix. it's too big. it's too costly t. congressional budget office says it can be upwards of 80% more than we were told when it was passed. the other issue is, look at nancy pelosi, one of the best things she said in her entire career, we won't know what's in it until we pass it. after it was passed, she wasn't lying. we found out a lot of things. we found hospital, vanderbilt hospital are laying off a thousand people directly bus of obamacare. that's a hospital. if a hospital is having to do that, there is a pretty god sign this bill is not exactly that great for everyone. that's the point that he's making tonight i think on the floor of the senate. >> this has been a total disaster, according to ben ferguson. >> first

elyse, i'm joined by elyse jordan, van jones, ben ferguson and colonel rick francona.e president arrives home from this trip, does he arrive home in a better position than when he left on the issue of syria? >> i think he's in absolutely a worse position because the public has shown in their most recent gallop poll that they are really opposed to any intervention in syria. so now he has to make his case and he is waiting until tuesday night to do that. and it looks like it's going to be too late to get -- constituents have had such an outcry this week. the marshmallow incident with mccain you just showed onscreen. so there are some very passionate anti-war feelings there. >> bad enough to be called the marshmallow incident. van, you're a democrat. you support the president here with a lot of caveats. what do you want to hear from his address on tuesday night? what will convince democrats who are on the fence or maybe even opposed to military action at this point to support him? >> well, let's be clear. i'm actually a dove on this. i don't want us to go into syria. i do

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ben ferguson, ruth marcus, archer davis, thank you.>> sotu for analysis and if you missed any part of today's show, find us on itunes, just search state of the union. national security adviser susan rice is next for our viewers here in the united states. >>> this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. we have a very important show with two presidents and iran's only jewish member of parliament. we'll start with an exclusive interview with the national security adviser, susan rice, on iran, syria, the middle east and more. >>> then the terror attack in kenya, somalia terror-based group carried it out. i'll talk to that country's president who says al

elyse, i'm joined by elyse jordan, van jones, ben ferguson and colonel rick francona.president arrives home from this trip, does he arrive home in a better position than when he left on the issue of syria? >> i think he's in absolutely a worse position because the public has shown in their most recent gallop poll that they are really opposed to any intervention in syria. so now he has to make his case and he is waiting until tuesday night to do that. and it looks like it's going to be too late to get -- constituents have had such an outcry this week. the marshmallow incident with mccain you just showed onscreen. so there are some very passionate anti-war feelings there. >> bad enough to be called the marshmallow incident. van, you're a democrat. you support the president here with a lot of caveats. what do you want to hear from his address on tuesday night? what will convince democrats who are on the fence or maybe even opposed to military action at this point to support him? >> well, let's be clear. i'm actually a dove on this. i don't want us to go into syria. i don'

let's talk about it with ben ferguson, a cnn political commentator and maria, a democratic strategistolitical commentator. we are accustom to the two of you disagreeing, but i'm told you both agree on this. ben, let's start with you. is it a good thing? >> i think it is because the background of this new president of iran. first of all, he walked away from his position in government when ahmadinejad was elected. they were not tight. they were not close. he ran on a different agenda than ahmadinejad. we have been hurt, our economy has been hurt. it's part of the isolation of the world because of our nuclear program. in iran, he openly said, i'm going to get the west and the other countries and the eu3 as he referred to it, the uk, france and germany. he tried to negotiate a nuclear weapons early on in his career. i think it can't hurt for us to sit down and maybe try to start anew. at the same time, you have to realize you are dealing with iran and not say we are going to give you more time to work on things or hit the pause button because they have been pushing toward nuclear weapons.

radio host ben ferguson and political commentator. maria, i realize obama care is law.s very unpopular. 57% of americans now oppose all of or most of obama care. the more they learn, the less they like it. should the president be more receptive to proposed changes to the law? >> first of all, don, let's be clear that in all the polls that show the american people don't like obama care, 15% to 20% of those polled say they don't like it because they are liberal and progressive and don't think it goes far enough. the polls are not to be believed on their face. they don't like it because they think it should go further than it does. number two, if you look at polls done state by state where benefits of obama care have been implemented, the majority of them want to give it a chance to work. they don't want it repealed. they want it to have a chance to work. they want leaders to work together if there are things about it to be fixed. the president said clearly, he is open to republicans ideas if they have any on how to better implement the affordable care act, but they should

. >> john lawton -- ben ferguson -- john lawton, please, one moment.rguson, aurora was the single biggest shooting in america by one shooter in terms of the number of people he hit, by 70 people. sandy hook became a few months later -- >> gun free zone. >> we've now seen the second worst military base shooting in modern american history. all three were committed by people --. well, they're not gun-free zones, are they, john lawton. >> in aurora, colorado -- >> let me say this. let me say this. piers, piers, let me say this, because this is important for us to look at today. hold on everybody, just give me a second, okay? you look at what happened today. and there are two ways to look at this. you want to blame the ar-15, and you think that if we ban this ar-15, federally ban it, somehow it is going to fix the issue. i look at it differently, piers, and i look at it from this perspective, when you allow these places to go, where the only people there that can protect those individuals are those at the gate, at the front door, with the gun, the mps that

ben ferguson, do you first.with folks like senator feinstein saying they're willing to buck the will, the opinions of their on constituents, on a matter of war and peace? >> i don't have a problem with it except for the fact that i think her issue is, she's having a really hard time selling it. it shouldn't be so hard to sell this. just saying to your constituents, well i know more than you know, to me seems a little out of touch. if your constituents are this concerned, and they're calling you, you'd better do a better job explaining your viewpoint than saying, i'm smarter than you are. and i think that's going to get a lot of people in trouble if that's their game plan on both sides of the aisle. whether you're republican or democrat. she should know better since she says with all her experience. that answer apparently is not good enough for the american people right now. >> chris, what do you think? >> i think there's a lot of truth to that. i could tell you about one office, my old office, you know, senator

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i'll go head-to-head with ben ferguson. i can promise you this will get very, very lively mr.guson because your idea is ridiculous. >>> i can't imagine in that situation not being able to see and then the state telling you you have no right to be able to protect yourself in your home with a firearm. >> that's ben ferguson on cnn's "new day" defending the permit for people who are blind. let me say that again, gun permits for people that are glienld. you cannot be serious? [ laughter ] >> i am serious and i'm not talking about them walking around and have a permit to carry but defend themselves in their home, and the majority of people in this country, 14.3 million adults, that doesn't count anybody under the age of 18 are declared legally blind by america's standards. the majority of those people can see and are able to drive with certain restrictions. you clarified that you meant even for people who are totally blind, not partially blind -- >> absolutely. >> vision impaired. let talk about people who are totally blind. people who would be prohibited from driving a car, flying

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now to our cnn political commentator and democratic strategist maria cardona and also there is ben fergusonan people through all of this if it's all for naught? >> because we don't have a dictatorship in this country. barack obama said when he ran for president the first and the second time that his job was to find consensus and compromise. then this week he says i refuse to negotiate with the republicans. and then to make sure that everyone knows he refuses to negotiate, he goes and plays golf today while the government's about to shut down. >> ben, ben -- >> yes. >> -- answer my question, come on, if it's all for naught why put the american people through this? answer the question. >> because, again, when you're the president of the united states of america, you're supposed to work with congress. and when harry reid and when dan pfeiffer at the white house says that the republicans are acting like terrorists that have bombs strapped to their bodies like some sort of suicide bomber that's not being in the spirit of compromise and the majority of the american people -- >> ben -- >> let me s

really means, this 21 hours and 18 minutes of talking, patricia murphy, and political commentator, ben fergusongs and ham and duck dynasty aside, some of the tea party base look at ted cruz as a hero, but he only did this after those in his own party called him a fraud, wacko bird, wall street journal calling his campaign kamikaze. does it matter really what inspired him to do this? >> i think what inspired him is when he ran for office, he said, i'm not going to be your normal junior senator that so many republicans like john mccain and lindsey graham have been mocking him as being, some freshman that doesn't know how the real senate rules work. he said, i'm going to washington. i'm going to do everything i can to defund obama care and then talk about it and make sure every american knows what's in this bill. so from that perspective, i think he was brilliant. and i think that the fact that you have barack obama using the clintons yesterday to go out and defend the bill that has already been passed a couple years ago, tells you how much of an impact he's having to let people know the details o

>> let's talk about this with conservative radio talk show host and cnn political commentator ben fergusonand chris kofinis. i didn't get enough yesterday. it was just a couple days ago. leaders from both parties standing behind the president's move for military action. now we're having these marshmallow moments. this is backlash from, you know, constituents. chris, let me just begin with you. we know the president addresses the nation tuesday. that came out today. it appears his momentum has stalled. how does he get it back? >> well, i mean, i'm not sure stalled is the right way to put it. i think to some extent it's gotten worse. at least with public opinion. i mean, i'll just give you one example. senator man chin's office right now, for and against, against it's 100-1. i don't think his office is any kind of rare example. there's a lot of concern in this country about this. i think you're seeing that in those town halls. there are going to be a lot of members that go back to their districts, their states this weekend, they're going to see it again. i think the president in that address

ruth marcus is a columnist for "the washington post" and ben ferguson is a cnn commentator and syndicatedning me. let's start with the poll numbers and whether or not they affect the president's hand as we watch both this budget fight and the possible government shutdown and the debt ceiling fight. go ahead. >> we're all too polite. i would say i actually really wonder whether they do. because he doesn't have to worry about running for re-election. who is it? who is going in the republican party who is going to feel compelled to support him or less compelled to oppose him because his poll numbers are low? we're so divided and so factu factualiz factualized. look, you want to have stronger poll numbers but his party is essentially with him on keeping obama care, keeping the government running, avoiding the dead ceiling. and the other part is in a different position. >> see, i think obama just doesn't care. it's pretty obvious. he's playing golf yesterday as a sign i think really i'm not going to negotiate with you. i'll negotiate with tehran. i'll negotiate with assad and chemical weapons

. >> so ben ferguson was the sound bite we heard going into this.ean blind. don't we have an americans with disabilities act that should protect people who, let me put it to you this way, they're in their own home, they hear something go bump in the night and they can't have something -- >> what if that thing that goes bump in the night is a grand child. >> i could make that mistake. >> the right to bear arms is not absolute. right? you have to obtain a gun permit. in the word is permit. you are permitted to carry a gun or concealed weapon if you pass certain tests, right? that essentially is what the statute says in iowa. even those considered legally blind still have to go through the process of taking a test and being certified in order to obtain the permit. so this idea, this notion that anyone can carry a gun at any time whenever they feel like it is actually incorrect. you still have to get a permit. >> i have to say, stevie wonder was on piers morgan and he said, imagine me with a gun, it's just crazy. >> if you watch that video with him shoo

ben ferguson is with us. thank you very much. >> good morning. >> let's start in colorado. gun theory and gun debate or is the clue, in columbine and aurora, not so much about politics? what happened there. >> i think in the end this had everything to do with politics. a lot of people that may not have gone to the polls and vote and recall these people or vote in the election normally showed is up. a lot of it is because they felt like there was too much outside influence in this election. when you have bloomberg as an individual coming in to colorado where he's not a resident, where he has no jurisdiction, where he's never been elected and spends $300,000 plus of his own money to interfere as many people looked at it, as a local state election, this is not running for u.s. congress. and a lot of people, i think it was a reprimand on him as much as it was on the issue of guns, because they're sitting there going why are you coming in, trying to tell us what we should do? we can decide this on our own. >> right. this isn't a referendum necessarily on how they feel about what

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let's mull all of this over with errol louis, political anchor at new york one news and ben ferguson,come to you both. ben, i'm going to give you the first at-bat, beginning with colorado. reading in this story, might there be -- i just wanted to broaden it out, bigger picture, a national message in what we just saw happen with the recall. when you have bloomberg spending more than $300,000 in a state race in colorado, i mean, you're talking about a very small area where these people are fighting for a legislature seat at the state level and you see the nra spending almost the exact same amount of money in these two races, this had much more to do with the overall conversation of we can recall people if you go outside the scope. i think a lot of people in colorado were making the argument early on in this recall is that the theater where all of this started was a gun-free zone. and that gun-free zone did not work. and so when you pass these laws and you don't listen to us as hunters and others, we're going to recall you, and it cost two people their seat, which is honestly exactly wha

david serota is a syndicated columnist and radio host and conservative cnn commentator ben ferguson joiningor gun control. but given all the stories that i just rattled off, isn't the other side winning the debate la lately? >> i think that at the polls, the other side is winning the argument. although i would say when it comes to colorado, there was a low turnout election, so that wasn't really indicative of public will when you look at the polls here in colorado. i think you're right. when you look at the policy victories, certainly, the gun lobby has won the policy victories. and i think with the help of the courts, as you mentioned, what's interesting in this dynamic and i would say troubling is that the courts are helping usurp lo local municipalities power. they're taking an anti-federalist position. the power of huge government to force municipalities to do what the court wants, that's dictating, as you mentioned, the situation in chicago and in a lot of other cities. >> ben, what do you think? >> or the courts are actually looking at the constitution and the right to bear arms and r

ferguson. tracy: where does ben bernanke play with this? and say, oh, i've got to write a book? >> the president can't give him one year. the president has to give him another term. depends on how comfortable the president is with whatever agreement and whether bernanke wants to forestall makeing a lot of money in the next year or so if he is willing to wait a year to do that. tracy: that would be serious philanthropic giveback if he did, right? drew, thank you for come on, sir. >> thank you. ashley: we have breaking news for you. we've been following a options trading halt on the nasdaq. dow jones saying omx, phls will begin options trading 2:10 eastern time which is right about now. the sec is monitoring developments following options trading halt due to what we're told is a systems glitch. so the phlx will resume right now. trading on options market and bx will rye assume 2:15, that is according to thomson reuters. between now and next five minutes they should be back online. we'll continue to follow it. >>> today's stock rally losing st

host: we are also saying mentioned in the financial times today, roger ferguson, tim geithner and ben bernanke. guest: ben bernanke would be a good choice, but all of these people have in common some affinity towards the federal reserve and experience with the federal reserve. understanding of the economy and how it works. let me just mention that the federal reserve operation is not merely to help banks. it is also for job creation. the idea is that you keep interest late throw, firms income these will start investing in the economy and that will create jobs. that is the idea. the execution and actual success of the idea, is debatable. the fed only has a couple of tools and its toolbox and what it has tried to do is keep a very low interest rates -- rate environment that will lead to job creation on walter. -- on wall street. host: democratic line, margot. caller: i never could figure out why they dropped the glass- steagall act. it seemed like it was a way to protect from the bad. explain it to us because i do not quite figured out. i don't know why they dropped it. guest: in all ac

ben bernanke at the fed. janet yellen is the leading candidate, front-runner. donald kohn, timothy geithner, is reportedly not interested. and roger ferguson. the names on the faces president obama is considering to replace ben bernanke at the home of the federal reserve. "the wall street journal" reports this. janet yellen who garnered substantial report from democrats in congress and among economists but the public lobbying on her behalf appears to have annoyed the president, say insiders, and may lead him to look elsewhere. it also says dark horse candidates and include stanley fischer, an american citizen who recently stepped down as governor of the bank of israel, and roger ferguson, another former fed vice chairman and now chief executive of the aggressor ff, a nonprofit pension company. financial times" has the story about larry summers on the front page. the lead story -- "summers out of fed race." what do you think question mark national one, new hampshire. bill, what is it like up there? -- what do you think? nashua, new hampshire? caller: it will be nice appear, for a change. the economy is stagnant. which is not real surprising

might also be looking at his predecessor, roger ferguson and, of course, there is some chatter about a remote, remote possibility that the president could ask bennanke to stay at the fed a bit longer or maybe for another term. now, we talked to summers critic and yellen supporter democratic senate elizabeth warren this morning about all of this. she is a member of the senate banking committee which will hold the confirmation hearings for this position. >> the president knows how important this is. he's taking his time on this decision, he's consulting with a lot of people, and i think the president's doing exactly the right thing. we're just, we've got to play this one out. we've got a little time on it. >> reporter: now, warren declined to comment on whether she would oppose anyone but yellen who, warren said, is has a strong resumÉ, good judgment and works by building consensus. liz? liz: okay. well, as long as you listen to other people's opinions, that sometimes definitely helps in that job. let's get to nicole pet lee d.c. on floor of the new york stock exchange. as soon as people started to hear larry summers was out, you sort of watch th

i think "the financial times" list four other folks, alan blinder, roger ferguson and ben bernanke.st: i think ben bernanke would be a good choice. some have an affinity toward the federal reserve, experience with the federal reserve, an understanding of the economy and how it works. and let me just mention, the federal reserve operations is not merely to help banks. i think that's a misconception that i'm hearing. it's also for job creation. the idea is that if you keep interest rates low, firms and companies will start investing in the economy and that will create jobs. that is the idea. now, the execution of the idea and the actual success of the idea i think is debatable. but the fed only has a couple of tools in its toolbox and what it has tried to do was keep a very low interest rate environment that will lead to job creation on wall street. . 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or on which the vote incurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. recorded votes on postponed