and charlie gasperino, dagen mcdowell and dr. payne. >> if that was, communist russia would be the most powerful in the country. >> a lot floating around d.c. these days. >> might want to be careful-- >> and to express this little faith in american citizens, they go out and knock ambition and denigrate success, it's ridiculous. >> i thought the audience was stepford audience. >> neil: look at the crowd behind him they look delighted to be there. adam, you're looking this, hearing this, watching this, i mean, you must even be saying, come on, enough of this? >> well, neil, i'm delighted to be here, just to say, just to get that out here. no, i understand your point, but i don't agree at all. i mean, i listen to what he said. i read what he said. all of what he said, by the way and i think, first of all, this is politics. he's hitting the private equity crowd and hit being mitt romney. i don't agree with all the criticisms of private equity pt what he's saying the so-called job creators, that's true. they are interested in doing wh

charlie gasperino has his doubts. what are you nervous about here?nervous, this is just baloney. and let's be honest here. the six big banks control in the u.s., they control something like, you know, 60% of the financial assets and i think, i think that's globally. and are we really, there's, i believe, it's impossible to create an orderly wind down of citigroup, which has 800 billion dollars of customer deposits that by the way are insured. i think jp morgan has had a trillion dollars of customer-- >> and i say meltdown, to bring people up to speed. if everything hits the fan, there's an orderly way it sell off assets, that would assume there's buyers for the assets, in a meltdown it's like catching a falling knife and that begs the question, that's a disaster so we have to bail them out, right? >> unfortunately, that's where we are, and i'm nervous, but probably more angry, we did the tarp thing and hearing how great it was and here we are at the same banks are larger, more threatening to our economy, they're not lending, they're still marketing s

develop phiing it, and celebrating it, and have him back, charles payne, adam lashinsky and charlie gasperino. >> i'm not surprised by this poll, although four out of five. it used to be five out of five. people want it to be rich or-- >> and some would have people right now, and angry and bitter. >> listen, in america we know that success is byproduct, it's a byproduct of hard work, sacrifice and smarts, we respect that, we really do respect that despite this massive pr campaign against it and i still hope it back fires. >> neil: ben stein, what do you think. >> the hypocrisy on the part of the democrats is beyond believe. the greatest was fdr, the family eight off gold plates and john f. kennedy, and unbelievable decadent luxury. lbj one of the richest men ever to serve in congress and big democratic era, and kerry one of the richest men in the united states. what are we talking about here? i don't get it the hypocrisy here blows the top of my brain right up. i'm with you, neil, who is the one in four, assume it does make a difference. why would it make any difference at all? i'm looking at

and charlie gasperino, dagen mcdowell and dr.ne. >> if that was, communist russia would be the most powerful in the country. >> a lot floating around d.c.

to ben stein and dagen mcdowell, adam lashinsky and charlie gasperino, what do you think, dagen? >> i think it goes back to the argument a we've been talking about for several years now, what role does government play in our lives? who makes the country great? is it the government or the private citizen snz and i think we are right now at a pivotal moment in our country's history where we're in danger of becoming, as a nation, so dependent on not only government money, but the government making decisions for us as individuals that either we stop it in its tracks or we are going the way of europe and i'm talking about not just food stamps and government assistance and i'm talking about medicare and all of the above. >> you know, ben stein, i've suspected that government is the reason why you're the success you are, now we know why. >> well, when my parents got out of graduate school, they both worked for the government. my father went through world war ii in the navy and in a way they are. but government is incredibly important, let's not sell that short and let's not sell short t

this adding up to, to ben stein, charles payne, dagen mcdowell, along with julian epstein and charlie gasperinorong with in the money category. when obama was raising more money than hillary, who, what, how. they're saying it's bush's fault, tsunami's fault. did you know that tom cruise and katie holmes broke up? and everything under the sun and they're not buying it. >> you know, if not for obama, that marriage would be okay. what do you make of that, ben stein, not the katie holmes-- >> i studied a lot of years at universities, i had no idea na tom cruise had an affect on the stock market. i want to thank charles for that. i think it's a close race and i don't think that romney is a particularly exciting candidate, but people are disgusted with the fact that mr. obama promised so much and delivered nothing, nothing. >> julian, the

this adding up to, to ben stein, charles payne, dagen mcdowell, along with julian epstein and charlie gasperino>> mitt is start to go come on strong with in the money category. when obama was raising more money than hillary, who, what, how. they're saying it's bush's fault, tsunami's fault. did you know that tom cruise and katie holmes broke up? and everything under the sun and they're not buying it. >> you know, if not for obama, that marriage would be okay. what do you make of that, ben stein, not the katie holmes-- >> i studied a lot of years at universities, i had no idea na tom cruise had an affect on the stock market. i want to thank charles for that. i think it's a close race and i don't think that romney is a particularly exciting candidate, but people are disgusted with the fact that mr. obama promised so much and delivered nothing, nothing. >> julian, the political, the polls have been close, and tight ones and carter reagan comes to mind and then we know they broke loose for reagan, right, almost the day before the election. can you see a phenomena like that for either candidate? >>

to ben stein and dagen mcdowell, adam lashinsky and charlie gasperino, what do you think, dagen?> i think it goes back to the argument a we've been talking about for several years now, what role does government play in our lives? who makes the country great? is it the government or the private citizen snz and i think we are right now at a pivotal moment in our country's history where we're in danger of becoming, as a nation, so dependent on not only government money, but the government making decisions for us as individuals that either we stop it in its tracks or we are going the way of europe and i'm talking about not just food stamps and government assistance and i'm talking about medicare and all of the above. >> you know, ben stein, i've suspected that government is the reason why you're the success you are, now we know why. >> well, when my parents got out of graduate school, they both worked for the goveren

develop phiing it, and celebrating it, and have him back, charles payne, adam lashinsky and charlie gasperino. >> i'm not surprised by this poll, although four out of five. it used to be five out of five. people want it to be rich or-- >> and some would have people right now, and angry and bitter. >> listen, in america we know that success is byproduct, it's a byproduct of hard work, sacrifice and smarts, we respect that, we really do respect that despite this massive pr campaign against it and i still hope it back fires. >> neil: ben stein, what do you think. >> the hypocrisy on the part of the democrats is beyond believe. the greatest was fdr, the family eight off gold plates and john f. kennedy, and unbelievable decadent luxury. lbj one of the richest men