ben stein is in los angeles. ael torpey, and brett larson. you were saying there, mr. stein, before we were so rudely interrupted by the folks at the white house correspondents' dinner, why aren't you there? >> well, they didn't invite me. i'm not cool enough. i've been in the past, but i'm not cool enough anymore. i'm just uncool. i'm a nerdy, uncool person. part of the uncool crowd. >> i don't like to hear you talk about yourself that way, ben. i really don't. >> well, thank you. i wish i were cool. i would give almost anything to be cool. >> i was in l.a. -- >> i think i -- >> i think i need a cooler car. >> like a chevy impala. how cool -- >> or like an electric tesla car. what are we talking here, ben? >> i don't know, i think the bentley convertible. usually the people at cnn are given bentley convertibles s as gift. >> someone has played a cruel joke on my since i ride the subway every day. >> well, i don't know -- go ahead, ben. >> i was going to say, here in l.a., it's different. we don't have a subway at

ben stein, what's going on here. are you worried? >> i'm worried to death.e people that i know pretty well get to fly on private jets. i don't. i fly on commercial planes so i worry about it a lot. >> i don't believe that. >> i fly on commercial jets and commercial planes and i am worried about it and worried about the general level of incompetence of the airlines. >> please. >> it's getting worse. the food worse and worse. >> you are far safer on a commercial jet than on a private jet. the numbers show that out and the cup half full here is that these are near collisions and not collisions. the safety record is excellent. >> i don't want to get near a collision. when they call near misses a lot of times, well, fine. but it was a near collision. >> i'm not happy about it but i'm saying better than a collision. >> who knows better than our former flight attendant on the dangers in the skies. >> and i'm getting on a plane after the show today and i'm going to be going right through george bush in houston and i'm fine with that. to adam's point. you are going t

. >> you know, ben stein, the one that i've seen and you said this in one of the programs when no two people can kind of agree or make sense of this, that probably tells you something and maybe, you know, to add a point, it will be cleared up in short order. i don't know. but the fact of the matter is, a lot of people have no idea what is going on. they know they're being unsettled they know a lot have moved on to something that is very, very different and they're paying a lot more for it. if they have coverage at all, they're confused. generally in that environment you have a lot of ticked off people. >> you have a generally confused administration about everything. confused on how to get us out of the recession and confused on what to do about foreign policy which is a state of confusion. i just don't think they know what they're doing. a group of incompetents that just don't know what they're doing. >>> when we come back charles payne will make a milton berle joke. >>> meanwhile, you think this wage rage is done? think again, it's just starting. could be stopping a lot of new jobs

never. >> ben stein, thank you so much. hope you enjoyed the series.the cnn series "the sixties" tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. i now turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> jake, happening now, seconds from disaster, come very close. we have details on the latest shocking close call. suing or selling? while donald sterling may be ready to strike back at the nba, his wife has received some serious offers for the l.a. clippers. >>> and hackers exposed. cyberspies creating a fake new site using social media to lure u.s. officials. is iran behind this elaborate

i want to speak for ben stein since he is not here. >> you have to do it in his voice. >> can't do it. >> he would say they treat it like it's their money and not the taxpayers' money. >> i would bet you that the savings of obamacare that these jobs, the affect of these jobs and people spending money, that is incorporated in the savings of obamacare. no doubt about that. and that is left wing economics. >> neil, could i add to it? >> real quick. make the point. >> there is some guy running a trucking business because they are board at work and getting away with it, and that guy should be fired. >> all i am doing is running a cold cut business on the side and delivering it. it's very different. >> you think private industry allows this sort of stuff to happen? >> once it's discovered you are out of there. >> the fcc -- i do want to get back to the basic part of this, what amazed me, those that were cited, they were told, look business, keep logging on and refreshing your screen and look like you are doing something. i thought the amount of data, they would be busy enough, but the messa

. >> here's how mezmerizeed adam and ben stein were. no comment.d awe waiting for his big show on monday. >> the u.s. economy shrinking in the first quarter of the year for the first time in three years and what's the government doing about it? spending more tax dollars on more programs. try $1.3 billion on developing manufacturing centers all over the u.s. they say it will help the economy but will spending more on more government backed initiatives hurt and not help? hey everybody. welcome to forbes on fox. let's go into focus with steve forbes, mike, rick, and john. steve who better to start with than the guy that just wrote a book about money. this is au

waiting for ben stein to walk in and be like -- >> visine should be calling this guy.otizing us with his eyeballs. >> okay. >> they sink back into his head. he says he did this for 140 seconds, more than two minute, which crushes the previous record of 53 seconds. they're looking to confirm it. video pretty new. if that was a record, he killed it. >>> that's going to do it for us here at "right this minute." we'll sea you next time. >>> hi, everybody. i'm beth troutman. time for great videos and the stories behind them, "right this minute."> a b rig pulls in for t stop and seconds later -- >> watch what happens. >> the eruption that shook a gas station to its core. >>> a video strike fear in the hearts of social media users. >> it is called murder on snap chat. >> how an innocent game of flirting takes a sinister twist. after a guy is pulled from a river, someone has to go the distance. >> this is a different kind of

. >> here's how mezmerizeed adam and ben stein were. no comment. just stunned awe waiting for his big show on monday. >> the u.s. economy shrinking in the first quarter of the year for the first time in three years and what's the government doing about it? spending more tax dollars on more programs. try $1.3 billion on developing manufacturing centers all over the u.s. they say it will help the economy but will spending more on more government backed initiatives hurt and not help? hey everybody. welcome to forbes on fox. let's go into focus with steve forbes, mike, rick, and john. steve who better to start with than the guy that just wrote a book about money. this is a must read on how to protect the global economy. so is another government directed depending plan going to help? >> no, david. you just asked the question that 1.3 billion who would you rather have the fun in the hands of? bureaucrats of venture capitalists. and they aren't putting that money to work because of regulations, taxation and uncertainly. we would have much more manufacturi

ben stein is telling these guys to emote more when they say i have never been more outraged in my life about this. >> what's interesting about this. let's -- if we took it off the table for a minute that this has to do with sick and dying veterans injured. hurt veterans and it was just another scandal at hud with housing contracts or subsidies or something, you would think six years into a presidency something goes wrong. usually a few things. we now have the irs. we have benghazi and we have there where each time you would expect the administration to learn how to respond better instead of just saying we only find things out in the news. we're not actually minding the store. we don't know how these failures happen. and we're really sorry and we talked about it. >> i will take the last word on this. even take jay carney saying that the american legion was basically fine on it and the american legion said we had a representative on last night that said that's absolutely false. that's a lie. you know, i don't get this administration on this. but i am taking the last word on that. panel,

we talked a little bit last hour about funny versus mean and actor and humorist ben stein, he was onst night. he said some of the jokes were funny but others he thought simply went too far. >> the names that he called christie, the mockery that he inflicted on christie because of his weight is just unbelievable. unbelievably sadistic and mean-spirited. >> all right. katie, so has this dinner taken a new turn away from fun and maybe more a little bit towards some settling some scores? >> well, it certainly depending on whom you ask. essentially with regard to joel mchale, he was perhaps viewed a little more controversially at the dinner. some thought his particularly barbed humor was going too far. kind of the nature of the beast. >> and ben, the celebrities certainly out in force last night as we saw. is the washington media, do you think, is the media crowd maybe a little too impressed when a celebrity walks into the room? what do you make of that relationship? >> i think they always love hanging out with people they don't see in their profession. celebrities don't hang out much wit

on our air on the coverage, ben stein was none too happy with joel mchale's assessment with c chris christiei thought he got mean from actor to actor, the robert de niro line was a gut puncher when he said his agent picks up the phone and says he'll do it because robert de niro is one of the legendary actors but he was an equal opportunity offender. >> one of the people that took a real hit was new jersey governor chris christie in the audience, clearly losing weight but the scandal, the questions surrounding bridgegate and closing the bridges kept getting nailed not only by the president but also by the comedian joel as well, and they hit him on his weight. which didn't really seem fair to me. >> don't you think he knew he was going to get it, though, coming? >> you got to know. in the audience you realize this is a roast. that's what we got. >> he's had a rough year but it was a good night and the crowd was good, the celebrities were out. >> we talked to a lot of them. >> we got our geek on. >> we're going to do it next year. >> exactly, back to you guys. >> certainly looks like a good tim

. >> ben stein, thank you so much. hope you enjoyed the series. you can watch the premier of the cnn series "the sixties" tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. i now turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> jake, happening now, seconds from disaster, come very close. we have details on the latest shocking close call. suing or selling? while donald sterling may be ready to strike back at the nba, his wife has received some serious offers for the l.a. clippers. >>> and hackers exposed. cyberspies creating a fake new site using social media to lure u.s. officials. is iran behind this elaborate scheme? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> triggered from an explosive report inside the veterans affairs, one after another on capitol hill, democrats are now calling for eric shinseki to resign and he's said to be on thin ice over the failures at his agency. cnn's drew griffith who broke this story will be live and i'll speak with congressman jeff miller. let's bring with our senior white house correspondent jim acosta.

we have senior political editor and white house correspondent ben stein. we have so many notes today. are you prepared? >> and the host of "way too early" thomas roberts. and from capitol hill ron fornier. ron, good to have you. >> news on the obama administration? >> what? >> yeah, if you look over, willie, closer at sam's notes, mika and i can see, half of them are chemistry notes. >> oak, okay. >> huge advantage. a.p. calc. the. >> i was going to say, i was never in that class. >> i don't even understand -- what is that? what is going on there? >> forget it. >> a math class i took, seriously, in ninth grade. >> oh, my goodness. >> 1960, they can't have that. >> yep, yep. well, we're counting something. the stage is set for november's midterms. several key primary races now in the books as "usa today" that republicans have enough threats from the tea party on multiple fronts. let's start in kentucky that's the big one where senate leader mitch mcconnell won. mcconnell, he'll now face who you just heard from allison lunder gren grimes who easily won they