and ben stein. what do you think of all of this?cery shopping in my family, and i am embarrassed as a jew to say i buy a lot of ham products, but the prices are astronomical. if the government doesn't realize that the food prices are insane, they're insane, it's a discouraging situation to see how many of your friends are unemployed, homes are underwater and the prices are absolutely out of control. >> neil: dagen. >> i like to think i know more about hogs than the actual kind that you eat, not the kind of date than anybody on this program. but, one thing that's going on, it's the government's fault that a lot of prices are higher. there are sugar support that keeps them higher and hogs, grain prices going up. corn going up because of the ethanol subsidies, point the finger at the government if you're not happy about paying more for ham. >> neil: bottom line, we're paying more for ham. >> listen, the consequence of a ridiculous fiscal policy, obama administration is monetary policy, we have to keep interest rates at zero and pump mo

period. >> ben stein? >> well, at least it's a start. i mean, something has to be done. why not start with that $47 billion? $47 billion is, i agree, not a lot in the context of federal spending but it's a start. we'll have to raise taxes even more. we're going to have to cut spending a la -- >> extend their hand. >> it's easier for us to raise taxes on the rich than certainly cut any of them? >> they're going to do anything. we are heading towards national default. that is a very unfortunate place to wind up and it's a place you don't want to be in. you'll have to raise taxes on the rich much more than that and raise taxes on the middle class. >> hold up, charlie. >> it's going to be drastic. >> go ahead, adam. >> where i think -- where i think we're on completely the wrong track here is to suggest that the administration is not interested in the deficit and is not interested in the debt because that's what -- that's how charles framed this. they are -- >> adam, add many, just to be fair here, just checking their prior transcripts and what they said when they talked abo

we also recruited ben stein as a writer, hired ben stein. i'm not sure that ray was still in charge at that point. but ben was a -- ben eventually worked with me, and he had two requirements when he came. ben was herb stein's son, chief economist, wonderful man. ben was a -- taught drama out at santa barbara or some place in california, also was a lawyer, of course, worked at the federal trade commission. i think he was somewhere in california when he came to us. i think it was the ftc. he said i've got two requirements if i come here as a speech writer, and that is -- the first one is -- this was an appeal to me, that i'd be given a television set and a couch. i said okay, that's easy. the second one is i want to be able to lie down at my coach every day at lunchtime and watch the soap operas and i don't want anybody to question me. i said, why in the hell should we do that? he said the soap operas, david, is where you get a true understanding of where american culture is at the moment. if you understand where culture is you can talk to peo

what do you think, ben stein?i think making a serious mistake by threatening the supreme court and warning them. i think he can say what he hopes for. i think he can say the law is constitutional otherwise he wouldn't have proposed it in the first place. anything that has the slightest ting is is not a good thing in american politics. it scares me that he was a professor of constitutional law because he doesn't seem -- >> juan: scares a lot of people. >> he doesn't know it that well. >> juan: up next, o'reilly talks to the most cleric in the country. later, bill squares off with jon stewart over, of all things, a $4 piece of shrimp. backhan winning. #% ♪ sent iíwn to us #]from somewhere up(above ♪r2 #o♪hey come to you and me ♪ i don't remember who won the ra that day...r2 ♪ to show usfr how to live, ♪ ... bui'll(never forget how i felt. ♪ to teach us f:how to give ♪ to guide us with the light of love. ♪ >> juan: in the factor flashback segment tonight, a good friday encore of bill's interview with the most powerfu

what do you think, ben stein?y threatening the supreme court and warning them. i think he can say what he hopes for. i think he can say the law is constitutional otherwise he wouldn't have proposed it in the first place. anything that has the slightest ting is is not a good thing in american politics. it scares me that he was a professor of constitutional law because he doesn't seem -- >> juan: scares a lot of people. >> he doesn't know it that well. >> juan: up next, o'reilly talks to the most cleric in the country. later, bill squares off with jon stewart over, of all things, a $4 piece of shrimp. back copd makes it hard to breathe, so i wasn't playing much of a role in my own life, but with advair, i'm breathing better so now i can take the lead on a science adventure. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator, workintogether to help improve ur lung function all day. advair won

what do you think, ben stein?g the supreme court and warning them. i think he can say what he hopes for. i think he can say the law is constitutional otherwise he wouldn't have proposed it in the first place. anything that has the slightest ting is is not a good thing in american politics. it scares me that he was a professor of constitutional law because he doesn't seem -- >> juan: scares a lot of people. >> he doesn't know it that well. >> juan: up next, o'reilly talks to the most cleric in the country. later, bill squares off with jon stewart over, of all things, a $4 piece of shrimp. back in a moment. [ male announcer ] fighting pepperoni heartburn and pepperoni breath? fight both fast with new tums freshers! concentrated relief that goes to work in seconds and freshens breath. new tums freshers. ♪ tum...tum...tum...tum... tums! ♪ [ male announcer ] fast relief, fresh breath, all in a pocket sized pack. >> juan: in the factor flashback segment tonight, a good friday encore of bill's interview with the most pow

we're also joined by ben stein, dagen mcdowell, adam lashinsky and charlie gasperi gasperino. >> it's simple. the power grab, one-two combination and crush corporate profits and instill noncompetitive rules in the work place and keep the mediocre workers and it's going to be a catastrophe, look at them. and the automakers, we see what happens there, and the airlines see what happens there and public government see what happens there. it's a no brain, a fantastic week and you didn't mention boeing, they shoo shook down boeing and unions, great weeks for them. >> because i forgot boeing, it doesn't have to reminds me. >> and you know what, and it's-- (laughter) >> a little over yourself, here, okay? and the show is for now-- >> and the unions, but not cavuto. >> exactly. but, adam what do you make of not only the broadside here, but on this issue, a good week for unions, we were flexing them big time. >> well, i think this is what journalists call a dog bites man story. this is exactly what it is next, it's not a surprise that the president is close with labor unions, and nor is it towa

ben stein, i can't hear the president called a socialist in enough different ways. >> the oil companies new york approach to all economic questions. he probably still think the rockefellers own the oil companies. >> a 1937 socialist view of things. >> wow. >> i didn't realize exxon and others were in just dire straights. they literally cannot even count their profits, which is in the quarterly tens of billions. >> that was a sense from the poor oil companies. which was heart wrenching. >> this is the most important election in my lifetime. for the first time in my life, i never felt this way. i wonder what life will be like? i don't know that we'll have the same freedoms that you were born into. regardless of who it is elected that's what this matters. >> wow. >> and the black guy caused it all. >> going all "brave heart" >> they will never take our freedom! >> yeah, i don't even get what that means. we're going to lose our freedom. what? >> well, you know, when obama was elected, he was going to take our guns and now he is waging a war on religion and they con cock all sorts of things.

some thoughts from our contributor ben stein. >> reporter: it's passover.sh holiday that marks what the bible cites as miraculous salvation of the jewish people from enemies bent on exterminating them. and many services in people's homes and in synagogues prayers will be recited which proclaim in every generation enemies of the jews arise kill the jews but god always saves the jews in the end. sadly this is now obsolete. about 75 years ago enemies of the jewish people rose up in the form of the nazis in europe and their many eager helpers from france to russia. their hands were not stayed. the cruelest imaginable ways they basically wiped out the jews of europe. a staggering six million men, women and children. that was roughly half the jews on earth. basically the world did nothing to save them. so the jews of this world know, as only a few other groups can know, that the absolute worst can happen. they also know that the mere words of the world mean very little in terms of actual salvation except perhaps for the word of the united states of america, the o

helping make change happen joining me now is ben mann skitt tourney and democracy advocate and campaign manager for green party presidential candidate joel stein and poor ben welcome to even tell me about the american spring well what you're seeing is that there's a lot of different sectors of the movement that are mobilizing right now so the a.f.l.-cio is doing something unusual you see the steelworkers and a whole constellation of organizations that are holding trainings around the country there's also american spring that's happening here in d.c. with the now d.c. coalition that's actually why i'm here in town is doing the number of sessions about the move to amend and continuing to build this long term movement to overturn citizens united but also to bring democracy into our constitution and you're seeing that movement is moving forward in fact in my home state of wisconsin just last night west allis wisconsin which went fifty five percent for scott walker in two thousand and ten voted seventy percent for a constitutional amendment resolution and their constitutional in a resolution is it makes clear the corporations don't have constitutio