on our panel right now to discuss what's ahead for us, ben white, josh boke, neil irwin, a cl columnistst," and michael santoly, yahoo!'s finances senior comes. ben, we've got obvious cross currents. the sequester, what's going on in europe on the other. how do you expect the fed will take those two things into account and what does it make the fed more or less likely to do? >> all of them make the fed more likely to be dovish, continue to be incredibly dovish. you won't see any change to the qe-3, the $85 billion in monthly asset purchases. i think they will speak to the fact cyprus is a concern. it's not helpful. sequestration is taking a little bit out of economic growth at this point. maybe washington comes to a deal to eliminate the sequestration hit, maybe it doesn't. maybe we get a debt ceiling fight down the road. washington still hanging on this economy to a great degree, it means the fed -- also nowhere near the unemployment target. there's nothing in the numbers to suggest the fed would be anything but completely dovish. >> sue? >> josh is going to join the conversation now.

i'll ask ben white if politico got this e-mail, too. it's friday, march 1st, 2013. "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. our guest host this hour is zach carabell. also ben white who is politico chief economic correspondent. gentlemen, welcome to both of you. thank you for getting up early. it is a grait great day to have you both with us. we're talking about the wall street situation and washington. we have stocks and the sequester, the s&p coming off its fourth straight month of gains. if you take a look at the markets, highlights over what's been happening as we get ready for the first trading day in march. the dow and the s&p 500 rising more than 1% in february. the dow transports, this was an amazing month up by more than %. the best performing sectors last month were consumer staples, telecom and industrials. and at this hour as we await to see what happens with the sequester situation, the dow futures are indicated lower. they're down by a

joining me right now is david darst and ben white, chief economic strategist with politico. thanks for being here. david, let me kick it off with you. the markets hitting five-year highs this week. amazing of what's going on as the markets flirt with all time highs. the markets doesn't care about sequester. should we be carrying on it? >> it's going to depend on the four ps. profits exceeded forecast for the fourth quarter, as you know. secondly is personal income. "wall street journal" on this past friday talked about the wage growth is anemic. only up 2%. thirdly is production. that's the hiring. the hiring not the wages but the hiring. and that's been relatively anemic, as you know, as well. the fourth "p" is politics and is sequestration. i think one of the things that your investor based and your viewing audience have to be aware of is a potential debt downgrade. another debt downgrade by the united states where we go down maybe to aa, aa, we're aa plus now or aa or a plus. if the profits can continue strong, if the hiring can pick up a little bit, if the wage growth ca

ben white, david darst. at home and abroad due to sequester cuts and what the administrators go through to carry out the doomsday scenario. >>> then he worked with springsteen, whitney, aretha and more. clive davis knows a bestseller when he hears one. look at how the stock market ended the week. back in a moment. >>> beyond washington's debate over the march 1 automatic spending cuts those at the american agencies koing work domestically and internationally must contend with the coming cuts. dr. shah is the administrator of the united states agency for international development. mary sciavo is the former inspector general for the department of transportation. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> raj, under the sequester the state department and u.s. aid should see 2.6 billion in cuts. foreign aid accounts for 1% of the federal budget. what's at stake as you look at the across the board cuts? >> thank you, maria. first i would say my agency's mission is to advance america's national security and economic

managing director at hamilton place strategies and former white house deputy press secretary and ben white, joining us from new york. good morning to you both. ben, first to you there in new york. look, is this all posturing? are we going to get a budget deal out of these two parties? >> no, we're not. there's not going to be any white smoke out of washington on the budget any time soon. they are very, very far apart. these are opening bids that you could have seen two years ago. you've got paul ryan who wants to balance the budget in ten years. 4 trillion in cuts. and the democrats budget today is going to have a trillion dollars in new tax revenue and republicans will accept zero at this point. i think there is such a dikconoy that we'll make deals until the next general election. >> is the whole budget making process dead? if we have been making legislation on a piecemeal basis since 2009, any hope of going back to something more normal? >> i don't think so. i have been saying we need to go back and check some of the founding fathers notes. maybe hamilton and madison have a lost federal

"the washington post's" ezra klein is an msnbc policy analyst and ben white is politico's chief economicorrespondent. gentlemen, while an imperfect measure of the overall u.s. economy, the dow jones is still what many americans look to in order to measure the health of the stock market, and today it reached a new high adding roughly 126 points in trading. it means that since 2009, the low points of the recession, the dow has more than doubled which has surprised many market watchers. ezra, good news for all or just good news for some? >> well, look, it's good news that the dow is coming back. i want to throw some cold water, i want to be a bit of an unfortunate buzz kill. the dow jones is a little weird in that it doesn't adjust for inflation which is how we would always do a calculation like this. if you adjust for calculation which you need to do to see the real value the dow is at a lower point than it was in '09 and in 2000. so this is not great. so there's not quite the huge disparity between the actual economy and the dow that would be implied by the dow hitting a new high. it's lo

it's exactly why we need these white house tours. i agree with ben, though, it's these white house tours that keep the american people in touch with their elected officials. >> it's the american people's house. it's their property. they pay for this. it's not barack obama's personal home. marjorie clifton, it seems to me that -- it looks like the president's chucking toys out here, punishing ordinary americans from seeing this great house, wonderful home of the president, for the sake of, what, 74 grand a week. it's a pointless point-scoring exercise, isn't it? >> well, you know, pretty harsh words about him being mean to children. but we think we have to look at what the sequestration is about. it was about cutting noncritical activities by the federal government. and look, every time any president is in office, there is a lot of scrutiny on both sides of the aisle about what's critical and not critical. and while i like to think peeking at the first lady's china pattern is a critical activity to a lot of people, truly visiting the white house is th

i don't know anybody would -- but there are some people who -- >> ben white. >> and he's talked to a lot of people internally who support jamie dimon, banking officials who support him who say the same thing. thou, i think it's crazy that they would show up, but i can imagine somebody like jamie dimon was probably really ticked off when he reads that. >> it's now a famous quote, he says it's -- to the tea party, right? yes changed his mind when he said that. >> this is turning into a shakespearean drop. >> on the ides of march. >> if i am sitting on the senate committee -- >> are you? >> i am not. >> but i think people are wondering that. >> i would probably not want jamie dimon to testify there. i would want to hear from those actually making the decisions. and jamie has testified in front of these panels, oftentimes the tables have turned. he set the agenda. >> why did ina drew not take a lot of heat in this report? she's mentioned throughout, but she is not the target of this own though this was her group. >> i'm understanding last year she was ill for the bulk of the time this wa

i think there was a note, ben white had it, on a less encouraging note, the march tip on line index of consumers' outlook on the economy plunged, 38.8% -- >> the highest nonmanufacturing number yesterday. >> and what that means. >> yeah. we're seeing new orders in the service, ism pick up. we're seeing employment hold in. so i don't think there's enough data to say that the consumer's rolling over. i was worried about gasoline price that's had a run up at the beginning of the year. they've rolled recently, not much, 1.5% down from the peak. brent's come down a lot. if that can stay down, gasoline should stabilize at a minimum. that at the margin might help the consumer keep going. >> mike, we have the adp report today which could give an indication of the jobs report on friday. is that the most important one of the economic -- >> yeah. it's happening at a light data week. i think there's at least a quiet suspicion that maybe we have one of these blowout weekly -- monthly job numbers. >> way better than expected? >> yeah. i wouldn't be -- i'm not saying i'm betting or estimating it, but

white house. they are looking at the front paul, rand paul, congressman ryan and marco rubio and scott walker, also raising eyebrows, favorite neurosurgeon ben carson who jokingly hinted at a possible white house run himself. >> let's say you magically put me into the white house. [ cheers and applause ] >>> i'm arthel nevil and back with the straw poll results. right now get you back to cavuto on business. see you soon. >> neil: welcome back. demand for oil is going down as america's production of shale oil keeps going up. connection? >> it has yoko saying oh, no and daryl hannah, we are not going to provide an example of yoko's singing. we have dagen here we must can doing something right? >> absolutely. when you have opec mad at you because you are not using enough oil and hollywood mad at you because you are oil, period and producing it it's a perfect world. >> neil: very well put. >> you know what, you only need to talk to the people of north dakota. lowest unemployment rate in the entire country, 3.2%. that is one of the biggest destinations for americans as they are moving around the country. it's because of the shale oil. we end up -

. >> ben, is the white house caving?rry to take a look at the congressional republican numbers. they've been in the tank far few years. >> they have. we're talking about the president. e's protecting his own individual popularity at the expense of his own party. when his popularity starts to slip, you see the shift of the president. >> well, here are the facts. in 2011 during the fiscal talks, the president went behind closed doors the work on a grand bargain. they agreed to it. he couldn't deliver his members, so then the president took a different attack. he went to enlist the support of american people. he can't wave a magic wand and get republicans to pass the policies of the american people voted for on election day, so now he's working on a different set of votes and this is what allowed us to avert the fiscal cliff. hopefully, he will find this common sense caucus within the republican party going around the leadership. >> xhochb sense caucus? they're all common sense. they're looking at a $16 trillion debt and th

white house. the cloud erupted. i have to tell you, dr. benoing to leave the medical field shortly looks like he will seriously consider running for the white house and could be one of the newest faces and one of the most prominent faces of the conservative movement. >> that would be very interesting for 2016. talk about sarah palin, too. she got people talking. she went up to karl rove and even made fun of michael bloomberg and his big drink ban. what was her message? >> well, you know, sarah palin always does well in these conservative forums and she really delivered again today. she did take a poke at mayor bloomberg and pulled out a large sugary drink and took a sip out of it which the room exploded in applause and laughter and sarah palin was very critical of the obama administration. one of the interesting things she did say, the republican party, don, needs to be able to look at each other and while they may not all agree, they have to stay together. a poignant moment that will be overlooked and as they talk about being a big ten party

ben chavez. >> whether you're asian, white, mexican, no matter what, he thinks everyone can do it, and he wille you realize that you can do it, and at the end, you realize that you did it. you're like, okay, you were right. i can do it. >> i love the school. my daughter is doing great at the school. she'd spend the night if the school was a boarding school. >> what do you think about the controversy surrounding the school? >> i think it's a bunch of bs. oakland should really be ashamedded of themselves. this is one of the best schools and one of the best things that happened to oakland, and how is it they are wanting to close our school? john: they are not just capricious, but they are threatened, and chavez did things that might have broken the rules that he made money. >> yeah. there's a lot of accusations. ben may be a deeply flawed map, but the school's work, and that's what the parents are fighting for, and that's what we all want. we want the very best education for the kids, and that's what gets lost in the argument. john: the kids went on to good colleges, berkeley? >> yes, three gradu

ben chavez. >> whether you're asian, white, mexican, no matter what, he thinks everyone can do it, and he willu realize that you can do it, and at the end, you realize that you did it. you're like, okay, you were right. i can do it. >> i love the school. my daughter is doing great at the school. she'd spend the night if the school was a boarding school. >> what do you think about the controversy surrounding the school? >> i think it's a bunch of bs. oakland should really be ashamedded of themselves. this is one of the best schools and one of the best things that happened to oakland, and how is it they are wanting to close our school? john: they are not just capricious, but they are threatened, and chavez did things that might have broken the rules that he made money. >> yeah. there's a lot of accusations. ben may be a deeply flawed map, but the school's work, and that's what the parents are fighting for, and that's what we all want. we want the very best education for the kids, and that's what gets lost in the argument. john: the kids went on to good colleges, berkeley? >> yes, three graduated

why is it armageddon and wasn't just bob who was bullied by the white house. so was ben. >> our deficit is a big problem. think about it. and our national debt, 16-1/2 trillion? you think that's not a lot of money? it's a hawk with night vision goggles. it's marching to the beat of a different drum. and where beauty meets brains. it's big ideas with smaller footprints. and knowing there's always more in the world to see. it's the all-new lincoln mkz. >> neil: it's 4:30 p.m. eastern time. do you know where your pilot is? inside a plane stick flying at airports still operating, featuring security lines still flow, a far cry from last week's dooming and grooming when janet napolitano said the lines would be a nightmare. might still happen but ain't happening yet. to david lee miller with the latest. reporter: neil, the government is still cautioning airline passengers to fasten their seat belt, they're in for a bumpy ride because of the forced budget cuts. here at la guardia, things are moving along at a brisk pace. the security line, only a handful of people waiting, and l

. >> ben, as you sit there waiting for that white smoke, we do hope it take less long than perhaps that second option there. ben, we'll be checking in with you. thanks for that. >>> back here at home most people chased out of their home by a brush fire are back at home this morning. firefighters near daytona beach, florida, say they have it 75% contained. at one point 300 families who had to leave. a stretch of i-95 back open. it was closed because of the thick smoke. so far, no injuries and no reports of any injuries and only a barn and chicken coupe has burned down. >>> authorities say the ground is so unstable that it is too dangerous to look for jeff bush's body. demolition crews will start tearing down the house. >> county officials here say they wish they could have done more but they could not risk any more lives. with that, the official search for jeff bush's body has ended. now, the reality is that no one had been inside that house since thursday when the sinkhole opened up, but what they were doing was around the periphery testing with electronic devices, listening devices, gr

the chimney that sends up those white smoke signals when a pope has been chosen already in place now. our ben wedeman is in vatican city. >> reporter: don, the vatican is in its final preparations for the conclave on tuesday. today they put up the chimney over the sistine chapel where that white smoke or black smoke will be released inside the sistine chapel itself. there are now two stoves. one from the 1930s, which will be used to burn the ballot. another which will be used to burn the chemicals to signal either black or white. a pope has not been elected or a pope has been lengelected. on saturday, the vatican announced they had disfigured the fisherman's ring and seal of pope emeritus, benedict xvi, thereby rendering it invalid. we also learned saturday, the timetable for the conclave, 7:00 on tuesday morning. the cardinals, 115 participating in the conclave, will begin to move into the kasa santa marta, the residence where they will sleep, eat and pray between the votes. at 10:00 in the morning on tuesday, they will hold a special mass for the election of the pope. and at 4:30 in the aft

go through the -- these are all the recent targets, by what i call the new white racist, gawker and daily coast and whatever. bencain, allen west, clarence thomas. who do they have in common other than black and conservative? surgeon, ceo, west is a war hero, and thomas is supreme court. what do they have in common? incredibly successful. the success is proof that their values work. that is the scariest thing for a mod earn, white, left wingrace. they prefer their blacks to be chained to government dependency. all the guys have to find that. it makes them sick. >> eric: can i throw something in here? one of the issues here with dr. carson for me, as a conservative, he is not as conservative as the real conservatives out there would like him to be. issues on the second amendment will be problem mattic if he wants to run for president. end of story. his immigration issues may be a problem as well. he has a tough road. the big question, can the g.o.p. win from the moderate part of the spectrum? >> bob: let me make a point about rand paul. he is now going to iowa, always the first step. he has also hired some very g

his knees becomes the white house hostess but his later -- but is later dismissed as fallout from the scandal. in the next administration, anjelica ben derrin as the white house hostess our father in law the angelica van buren is white house hostess for her father in law. law school ork review and the new york law school racial justice private hosted a series of panel discussions on civil society and the writings of dr. seuss. the popular children's book author. topics included shared interests in society. this is an hour and 25 minutes. >> good morning. >> good morning. my job here is to introduce the first panel. i would like to also welcome you all. anm delighted to be part of event that looks at the relationship between law the popular culture. there is a deep and abiding connection. we gain insights, as we will see today will move back and forth. i will introduce the members of the first panel. starting with anne mcgillivray view is a professor of law at the university of manitoba. come on up. courses include crime, law, and society. she has written a book called "black eyes all the time." she has also written "he would have mad

white house. and -- >> dr. ben carson joins me now. thanks for joining us.ou get asked a lot lately if you're going to run for office. you've gotten pretty good at dodging the question which is the first sign of somebody entering politics. they get good at that. do you have any intention of at least exploring seriously the possibility of running for office? >> it's not my intention to do that. but what i've said is if a year and a half goes by and people are still clamoring for me to do that and there's no other very good candidate i would certainly have to seriously consider it. the likelihood of that is incredibly small. so i'm not really planning on that. >> well, there is some clamoring. rush limbaugh says you've got democrats terrified. listen to him. >> i think dr. benjamin carson probably got everybody in the democrat party scared to death. it's going to be really hard to demonize this guy -- really, really hard -- partially because of his race but not just because he's african-american. it's because you can call this guy all kinds of demonic names. h

ben carson, he said the white house warned him about what he could and could not say at the nationalgot messages from the committee that they would refer that i not say anything that would be construed as, you know, nasty or offensive to the president. stuart: sandra, he didn't listen, did he? sandra: listen, i have a lot of respect for dr. carson. i took part in that hannity special where he was on for an hour. it was my privilege. i really enjoyed listening to him talk. however, isn't that a little bit obvious? i don't want to beat up on the white house too bad for simply saying don't offend the president when he's sitting before you. that might be a little bit assumed. however, if they were trying to direct him to not talk about sensitive issues, that would be a different story. stuart: i think they were trying to talk him out of speaking about politics. sandra: well, that's a problem then. stuart: don't talk politics. sandra: that's a problem, yeah. stuart: obviously the man did talk politics. sandra: he brought up the politically sensitive topics that can rub a lot of people the

chapel on tuesday, followed by four a day until they finally come up with that white smoke declaring we have a pope. >> ben wedeman, before we see that white smoke, though, i know there are people betting on this. we have talked about the sweet sistine. who are some of the favorites for the next pope? >> reporter: brooke, the top two are mark oulette of canada. he would represent the south and american block. scola, more a favorite of the vatican and the european cardinals, but really it is wide open field, certainly compared to 2005, when benedict was the fairly obvious candidate at the time. this time there seems to be a much broader range of choice and a broader range of opinion when it comes to how the vatican is run, which really seems to be the main concern here in rome at the moment. brooke? >> still what an exciting time to be in rome, greatest time, ben wedeman, we'll see you in the coming days and weeks. we appreciate it. now let's talk about osama bin laden's son-in-law. nabbed in jordan in a cloak and dagger escapade, just appeared here in federal court in manhattan. he is suleman abugathe. he

white smoke. >> thank you so much, ben wedeman in rome. >>> here in the u.s., a terrible accident.ix teenagers are kill and two others injured in a single car accident in warner, ohio. police say a honda suv went off the road around 7:00 this morning, hit a guardrail and then rolled of near a pond. divers were called in to help rescue the injured. police say it looked like the car was overloaded and no one was wearing a seat belt. >>> a federal jury has granted one of the largest civil rights ver doikts an ohio man who spent 11 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. david aers was awarded $13.2 million for wrongful prosecution and imprisonment. the 56-year-old former security officer was freed in 2011 after dna tests cleared him in the killing of a 76-year-old woman at the public housing complex where he worked. he talked about what it felt like when he finally got his freedom. >> i was in tear it is. i was just crying because, i mean, my -- you know, i'm finally free after 11 years, for a crime that i was accused of. >> the city attorney in cleveland, which is on the hook t

half-baked that i was used to. >> reporter: the invitation from ben & jerry's, that real-life golden ticket, said it wanted to show white and several other disfied customers, quote, how we use our valuable consumer feedback to make improvements. another complaint, one customer wasn't nuts about what she called overroasted pistachios. on the tour, dressed like everyone's favorite oompa loompa, they got the tour. seeing where the ice cream is made and how they're working to make sure customers aren't left with a sour taste in their mouths. >> it's really about just making sure that our ingredients are always consistent and that we're always giving a top, superior product. so did half-baked make a full recovery? >> it did taste a lot better. >> reporter: before you start churning up your frosty feedback, put a lid on it. because, for now, this opportunity is no s'more. for "good morning america," john schriffen, abc news, new york. >> oh, john. did you get it? i got it. >> we complained, too. here we got. i'm kidding. >> we got our own ice cream. that's what you call damage control. too bad ron isn't here. we love having y

i think the white house talk is probably premature, but you see why somebody like ben carson and ben carson in particular has such mass appeal. people are excited he's saying these things in sort of an uncomplicated straight forward way and there's a lot of, i think, desire for that kind of communication right now. >> gregg: how about basically he was saying look, half the people in america don't pay taxes, income taxes, they have no skin in the game. i mean, that was palblum for the audience. >> and one of the most interesting sections of the speech when he talked about the need for charity and how government, a big government often comes in and takes up the functions of the civil society in a way that's not healthy for the broader society. . >> gregg: all right. steven hayes thank you very very much. appreciate it. >> thanks, guys. >> gregg: my favorite line, economics is not brain surgery. >> heather: yes. >> gregg: of course, he's a neuro brain surgeon. >> heather: he was an exciting speaker, i must say. >> gregg: he wasn't using a teleprompter i don't think. it was amazing and t

trip was dubbed clear skies pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white road now it's a bar mystery and. we've called to visit ben she could be alliance it is a sign of the extraordinary relations between israel and the united states. so extraordinary that the prime minister's office invited the public to choose one of these designs as the trips official emblem but relations between the two leaders are strained and many believe the positive p.r. is nothing more than clever spin there are policy differences. on the palestinian issue on the boards the rise of islamist forces in countries. where do you see from jerusalem neighborhood not what you see from washington. at the distance. from the palestinian street for that matter. a bomber came just to beautify the ugly face that bush left the american government works the same whether the president is a bomber or bush the only difference is that one president smiles while the other does not. this is likely to be the scene for the next three days while a bomb is in town anger frustration and raised in the streets of palestine also full of posters protesting the preside

dpormer white house communications director for george w. bush nicole wallace here is. ben ya minute wallace wells is the lone mail pannist today and politico, the intre tretrepid m haggerman. the white house is taking two aspirin and trying to refocus its blurry vision. "the wall street journal" reports that the president will pivot from the budget issues that have dominated his public appearances for weeks and instead use his microphone to focus on other issues. president obama and the democrats have indicated they will not inject the sequester into upcoming budget negotiations and risk blame for a government shutdown. it is perhaps a sign of recognition that republicans, especially those who may face primary challengers in 2014, have no appetite for anything big, especially anything big that includes revenue. speaker john boehner suggested several times over that rich knew w revenue was no longer on the table. >> january the 1st, the president gets $650 billion of higher taxes on the american people on january the 1st. he got his tax hikes. i'm going to say it one more t

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white house, too. remember his father ron rallied bens the iraq war. can you say that the same about the other republicans that participated? would they have blasted a republican presidential administration over a drone policy? after all, some of the senators agree with the policy. the bush administration had a drone policy, as well. >> it is a matter of principle versus politics. as we mentioned this morning, looking at rand paul, his father, very consistent on this, on libertarianism and economics and coming to foreign policy, not interventionist foreign policy and i think what really struck people were the fact that folks like marco rubio and ted cruz, you know, marco rubio might run for president in 2016. if he's running would he oppose such a drone ing questions and not sure he would come out on that issue. >> we have got some video of the luncheon apparently over involving congressman paul ryan and chris van hollen with the president. looks like they're leaving and the president signing the expanded violence against women act, heavily delayed and

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and at cpac, hinting at a possible run at the white house, i'll ask him about that more, dr. ben carson and the 2013 straw poll is in and with 25% of the vote, kentucky senator rand paul was victorious. and attendees were not only likely impress heed by his remarks on friday, but by his impressive filibuster remarks this month. and senator marco rubio came in a close second. 23%. and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum rounded out the top three. chris christie, governor of new jersey had 7% and former vice-president nominee and wisconsin congressman paul ryan with 6%. here with the reaction the results and the man who came out on top, kentucky senator rand paul. senator, how are you? >> very good, good to be with you, sean. >> sean: does that mean you're running? >> i can tell it you it was invigorating and it was exciting probably 2000 young kids in the audience and standing and chanting and if you want to find some energy for the conservative movement, you see it it there. at cpac, it's one of the biggest convocations of young people you'll see all year long. >> sean: you

. >> gregg: forced budget cuts are having a big impact at the white house or at least for folks hoping to visit there. >> heather: and ben bernanke keeping interest rates low, but who is that helping? could we be looking at new economic bubble and what does that mean for those of us on main street? >> extreme weather alert for i, a coastal catastrophe has more than a dozen ocean front homes are completely destroyed by a series of crashing waves. look at this. all caused by a powerful winter storm that swept through much of the country this week. david lee miller is live with the later on this. >> recent storm that has slammed the midwest wasn't supposed to be a big problem for new england but were they wrong. some 13 inches of snow fell at boston's logan airport and two feet fell on nearby towns. parts of new hampshire and connecticut were digging out under a foot of storm. they were battered by the storms with flooding up to three feet. in some islands, at least two homes were ripped from their foundations, storm damage made others uninhabitable and residents helplessly watched. >> one memo moment we were there and one

. >> ben, his is an intelligence nuanced perspective. what i'm thinking is the whiteouse, they love this news, but doesn't it undercut what the president's been saying about the events of the sequester? >> it certainly does do that. they'll be happy the stock market is doing good, but on the arguments against the sequester that have a terrible negative reaction, that's obviously not happening. the headlines that people are seeing in the newspapers and on tv is that the dow is at record highs, profits are way up. there's not the big headaches that we expected to see with the sequester. it does undercut that argument that the sequester would be this big problem. that we're not at an all-time high not in a nominal sense. a lot of this is driven by the federal reserve. the fed has pumped $3 trillion in money into the economy. and the stimulus helped a little bit early on. right now we're talking about fed stimulus and picking up less risky assets. stock market goes up, happens every time the fed does this. one of the reasons the market went up today was because the chines

ben carson is here to talk about that. but first, is the white house keeping a secret? >> we still have no budget from the president in violation of the law. >> on the fiscal budget, do you guys have a date set? (laughter) >> at least two more times before the end of the week. >> it would have been nice to see his budget on february 4th when it was due. >> and i don't have a fixed date to mark on your calendar. >> it would be nice to see it on march the 4th when it will only be a month late. >> eventually we'll probably have to. >> the president being late on his budget is kind of like issuing your final four picks about april. >> i didn't say we had set a date i said i wasn't going to tell you. >> what's the-- >> we're going to have a plan in process, we're working through it. the week of april 8th. (laughter) >> first tonight, president obama said the sequester would be devastating. weeks later, most americans disagree. according to a new rasmussen poll, 51% of americans say they have felt he no impact and 30% say the impact has been minor, but they go even further. a

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ben carson. >> thank you so much. stuart: thank you, doctor. >> the white house got an advanced copy of the speech.py of the speech at the breakfast, but he did speak. stuart: they wanted to know. what is he going to say. the good doctor said, well, i do not have a script, i just stand up and speak. >> and quoting from the bible. stuart: who would have thought that the national prayer breakfast. [ laughter ] stuart: the governor of nebraska stalls in his push to eliminate income taxes in his state. the man who runs the state south to nebraska, that would be kansas. he is in our studio. ♪ ♪ stuart: yahoo! chief marissa mayer just received a $1 million bonus for her five and a half months on the job. her 6 million -- i am sorry, is that $56 million, yes. it is up 40% since she took the range. facebook announcing a rebalancing of your newsfeed. no other details about the changes. shares of facebook up $0.46. not bad. 27.91. samsung will release its new galaxy next week. a bigger higher definition spree is expected. nebraska's plan to get rid of the income tax. out of sight. the local stuart: the gover

if you just, let me just say you magically put me into the white house -- [ cheers and applause ] >> a very enthusiastic reception for dr. benn yesterday at the cpac conference just outside washington, d.c. conference participants cast their vote for president in a straw poll. rand paul won that poll but newcomer dr. carson finished in seventh place and beat out many well-known republican politicians. joining me dr. ben carson, including i should say sarah palin. >> i wasn't even on the ballot so i don't know how i got any votes. >> i think you were on the ballot but nonetheless, it is surprising, you are well-known in the world of neurosurgery and medicine. it became an internet sensation at the very least after a prayer breakfast in which you openly challenged some of the president's principles as it applies to the economy. so when you look at what's happened to you over the past five weeks, how do you explain it? >> well, i can easily explain it by all the correspondence i've gotten from across the country, particularly from a lot of people who said they had given up and they didn't feel that there was anybody who represe

political white house reporter, carry rudolph brown and buzz beat editor in chief, ben. >> for a moment this morning you might have thought the republican party had finally reached the thing that seems to have eluded them for so very long, the modern era. ohio senator rob portman, once a shoe-in for mitt romney's vp slot came out in favor of gay marriage. >> i'm announcing today a change of heart. on an issue that you know a lot of people feel strongly about. and it has to do with gay couples, opportunity to marry. my son came to jane, my wife and i, told us that he was gay. and that it was not a choice. and that you know, he, that's just part of who he is and he had been that way ever since he could remember. >> what was your reaction when he told you? >> love, support. >> was the gop finally knocking on the door of the 21st century? and, as purveyors of trickle-down everything, with this new-found tolerance trick down to the rest of the party. a party that lost gay americans last year by a margin of 53 points. if cpac is any indication, probably not. >> we cannot hope to limit governm

think it's unfortunate, but i do think one of the other issues here is that for whites on the left to come to the defense of bentell black people what they ought to think gets you into another thorny circumstance. again, i don't, i don't think that it's fair for anyone to be criticizing a man for his beliefs. i think that that, you know, that we can agree that there's diversity in the community, right? and that some blacks are conservative and in fact, socially many more blacks are socially conservative than i think we tend to think about because we think about the way that blacks vote. and again, overwhelmingly, they vote democrat. and there are sort of historic and real reasons for doing that, that then prompt them to respond the way that they are to dr. carson. >> megyn: yeah. >> and it's unfortunate, as i said, but it isn't uncommon and i think that hopefully moving forward, you know, we won't have this circumstance. >> megyn: yeah. i mean, you can't have, like, somebody like that just being dismissed and quote, nadly, the token negro is patently offensive. it's patently offensive. thank you for coming on w