ben stein. i'm wondering which world is more out of touch with reality, ben? world is in very close touch with reality but i think these guys got it right. i think we need government interference in the economy. we need government to stablize the economy. we need government to be rescuer of last resort in the economy. we need government to be there, to be bailer outer a name i made up in government in crisis. we've had terrible, terrible, recessions and depressions in this country, long before the deoperation of late '20s and early '30s, all through the '30s, the government was not there to help. when government is there to help, government is there to stablize the economy the runs much more smoothly. david: i don't know. >> we need free market economy, sorry. david: specifically want to talk about what these two economists were basing their work on. this is what they won the award for, their work on pollution controls, specifically with regard to climate change. free market economists like yourself respect externalities, where you have government stop polluti

let's take it up with economist ben stein.k voters will react to this -- what's going on in the streets? how do you think they will react in the mid-terms? >> they hate and i think they correctly blame it largely on the democrats. we saw it happening during the kavanaugh hearings when the pro kill kavanaugh group was backing republican senators into elevators and corners and yelling at hem and screaming and threatening them. that was menacing mrs. kavanaugh and her children. i don't think it plays out well for the democrats. i would like have much to see mrs. clinton whoever is the real head of the democrat party. i think it's outrageous. liz: do any of the democrats say stop it? >> i imagine mr. manchin has. he seems to be a man who has a pair, if i may use such a crude expression. you saw the proud boys in new york. that's a few of them. but the antifa people are practically running portland, oregon. they are a scary bunch it's reminiscent of news reals of the sa, hitler storm troopers beating up on opponents of the would-be

elizabeth: joining me now is economist ben stein. then come you are the complaints.an you take the fun? >> guess i can. what i can say is the democrats have a big lie, which is the workers pay is not keeping up with prosperity. that is because the democrat economists are not counting fringe benefits and all kind of what you mentioned, which go into a person's net take-home pay in net benefits and that will be. this also goes to the big, big issue of inequality in the society and the democrat claim are growing to be a bigger graphic -- a gap between wealthy and poor in this country. that is also not true. it is only true if you don't count fringe benefits, all kinds of government benefits. if you've got total benefits and total worker compensation come at the gap between the wealthy and the less wealthy has shrunk not grown. that is a very good thing for the workers. by the way, the workers are free to buy stock in their own companies. why don't they take a chance? elizabeth: say i'm not for a second because often this analysis relies on irs tax returns they don't rep

to economist ben stein on all of that. what do you make of that?her that's a good thing for him to be doing, the president to be doing. what do you think? >> i think the federal reserve is not a sacred cow, it is not above criticism, that people are allowed to criticize it, but what else can the federal reserve do when inflation starts rearing its head, to be sure in a modest way at this point, what else can they do but raise interest rates and try to cut down their balance sheet a little bit? they've got to do something. if they don't do anything, and inflation gets out of control, then people are going to come along wanting to kill them. neil: it is a pavlovian response, though. economic activity picks up with the president saying all right, he gets that. i think what he's saying is we are overdoing it. do you think as a top notch economist, lawyer, are we overdoing it? >> we don't know that. that's the kind of thing, my old dad who was quite a famous economist, much greater economist than i was, said something very basic. he said we just don't k

ben and arlene scheib were his patients. >> every wonderful word that's been spoken about dr. rabinowitz, absolutely true. >> i don't know if we'll ever find a doctor like that again. >> funerals were also held for daniel stein and brothers cecil and david rosenthal. >> there's a lot of people here have no connection with the rosenthal family, and it's just -- it's a sad day for pittsburgh, but it's a great day for pittsburgh too. >> shortly after the funerals, president trump and the first lady came to squirrel hill neighborhood. . they placed visitation stones ou tree of life ouomacr of david synagogue. not far away, hundreds lined the streets to protest the president's visit. >> president trump, you are not welcome in pittsburgh until you fully renounce white nationalism. >> the president also visited a first responder at the hospital and last night injured officers anthony burke and mike smidga joined the pittsburgh penguins in a ceremonial puck drop. prosecutors say the suspected gunman, robert bowers, was a rabid antisemite whose hatred drove him to kill. he could face the death penalty if convicted. >> thanks a lot, laura. >>> a former boston crime boss james whitey bulger was reportedly beat to death