we have some libertarians leadin this historian, carl richard, and matt kibbe fights the government. matt, are we becoming rome? >> i think that we are. i think that the parallels are quite ominous. the expansion of foreign policy, the arrogance of executive power taking over our country. but i do think we have a chance to stop it. i believe that their similarities with the fall of rome and the republic they are in engagement of political leaders and so on. i see some of that. john: corruption, etc.? >> it is sort of under the table corruption. but it doesn't bother me a much as the over things. for instance, the roman constitution had a to permit limited to one year and people just kept voting for this unconstitutional leader. john: now we have congress passing laws that haven't read. >> that's right, we had presidents of both parties saying that i am not for certain about these laws. taking property, selling it to someone else, and yet you can always find parallels. but the fact that we are meeting come i think it shows the antidote is coming about. we, the people, we have not gone

historian, carl richard is the next expert on rome. matt, you first. >> i think we are. i think the parallels are quite ominous. the debt, the expansion ofe foreign policy, the arrogance o executive power taking over ourl country. but i do think we have a chance to stop it.f >> carl? >> i think there are similarities not only with thepi fall of the empire, which is what most people talk about when they talk about the fall of rome, but also the fall of the republic, which was 500 years earlier. there i see romans engaging in unconstitutional acts, political leaders and so on and i see some of that. >> unconstitutional acts like stuffing ballot boxes, corruption? t >> that did happen, sort of, ani that's bad obviously. but it doesn't bother me as much as the overt things. for instance, mayorious was collected counsel six years in a row, even though under the constitution, it was term limited to one year. and people just kept voting fora him, they knew it was unconstitutional. that kind oft stuff. >> now we have congress passingu laws they haven't read? >> right. and we hav

richard. >> thanks for having me. carl, back to you, guys. >> thanks very much. >> now we want to just bring open for debate real quick, robert frank, you've been covering this issue of income inequality. it's a huge focus for people both in washington and on wall street. yet, it almost seemed like the president was burying the lead, if that was the lead of his speech. >> i think he treaded lightly on the issue. i think inequality was really the undercurrent of the speech, but he didn't hit it head on. he did importantly say, you know, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices are at an all-time high. the wealthy have never done better. but if you look at what he actually row proposed, there's really nothing in here that would change the trajectory of inequality that would materially change this big divide between the top and the bottom. i'm not saying there should be an initiative. i'm not saying he should have proposed something or that it would work. i'm just saying for those thatmented him

carl lewis. what do you think as an athlete, who has been at the very, very top of your game for a very long time. when you saw richard sherman go off like that, did you empathize? did you understand what he was doing? >> well, you know, it's really interesting. because people are quick to judge and they don't know the back story. so obviously, there was something between he and crabtree that went back a while. number one. number two, this is a very intelligent, articulate guy who does a lot of things and understands what he's doing. i've been in that situation where you make a play like that for the super bowl. the super bowl is something you only have one shot at. and understanding the olympics, i get it. so the emotion of that moment i think overtook him. and i think it was emotion. >> yeah, completely agree. let's move quickly carl, to the very reason we've got you on tonight. chris christie still engulfed in this bridgegate scandal, and you were loosely caught up in a battle with his administration. tell me in very brief terms exactly what happened with you, and why you think it was wrong. >> well, what happened

richard bernstein advisers. rich, rebecca, thank you for being with us. rough couple daze, rough week in general, how concerned should we be? >> no more than normal, carl. we have to be careful, extrapolating two, three days into a long term trend. there are some real problems in emerging markets. here in the united states, things continue to improve. i think the economy is reasonably good. not strong. but reasonably good. and the earnings season is going to turn out to be reasonably good. >> rebecca, how long can we or should we be looking past some international phenomenon? rich is referring to? >> when it comes to emerging market pressures we are seeing now. the thing to worry about. if you have money managers out there who have to cover losses, getting on emerging market positions they may sell profitable positions in liquid markets like the u.s. i worry about the contagion risk. $50 billion into the debt. $3 billion came out. a lot of people with emerging market exposure out there if things escalated. that could become a problem. >> we did have people who, were looking for yield outside of the country. that's, you sort of live or die by the sword?

richard sherman explains all, exclusively to cnn. >>> also the olympic gold medalist who says chris christie wanted him out of new jersey's senate race. carlo explain. >>> and olympic-sized security scares for the winter games in sochi. president obama talked to vladimir putin about it today. i'll talk to meredith vieira tonight. she is headed there in a few days.

richard sherman explains all, exclusively to cnn. >>> also the olympic gold medalist who says chris christie wanted him out of new jersey's senate race. carlolympic-sized security scares for the winter games in sochi. president obama talked to vladimir putin about it today. i'll talk to meredith vieira tonight. she is headed there in a few da

carl, back you. >>> the rant heard around the world, part ii. james cramer channelling the seahawks' richardvine. >> i'm the best quarter in the game. don't open your mouth. i'm going to shove you real quick. >> six seconds of madness, vined on friday? >> within a few minutes after richard sherman did retweet and said i had, frankly, i i'll quo him, he's the best in the game, ha, ha, that's awesome. great execution. multiple, multiple imitations. many hundreds of thousands and i was honored he selected mine as being the great execution. a great back story. >> could be a argument made he chose his execution from your previous executions. >> that could be. >> which came first? the sherman or the cramer. >> familiar with that kind of -- >> we have a similar temperament. i will be dough naturii donatin charitable trust fund, about what he does to be able to -- this is a special man. 4.2 at his high school, had been to his high school when i was a reporter covering homicide. and very high gpa. >> you like the seahawks, don't you? >> very much. the money's going the other way. i really do. i like