let's get to ben stein and charles payne, dagen mcdowell along with adam, charlie gasperino, what do you think? >> we're not in 2008 levels. if we were at 2008 levels, morn stanley would have bn insolvent by today and it's not. they were facing the biggest rumors and their stock went down to december, 2008 levels, credit the default swaps, insurance policies on the debt blew out-- >> you don't think a meltdown is in the offing? >> i'm pretty sure it's not going to happen. i can never guarantee anything, but they withstood that, plenty of capital and a rumor they were exposed to french banks. i spoke with james gorman who-- >> who is james gorman. >> the ceo of morn stanley. >> neil: society general and-- >> and don't share my-- >> okay, bottom line, you don't see it happening? >> net zero exposure it french banks, dagen. >> i'm not worried about the u.s. banks, so much better funded and capitalized than in 2008, but they. >> neil: they've been coughing up blood the last couple of weeks. >> they are, but we're not in any danger, with the liquidity-- coughing up blood means the stocks

i'm neil cavuto, let's he get to it ben stein, charles payne, dagen mcdowell and rounding out our contestant, adam lashinsky and charlie gasperino. what do you knowing. >> evergreen solar costs massachusetts and this solyndra, 535 billion. >> million, rather, and last week, 15 more of the projects trying to ram through before september 30th deadline and this is scary stuff. i mean, not only are they wasting taxpayer money, but smells like political chaos and this stinks so bad, i can't believe that they're still rushing to push more through. >> neil: dagen, the reference to the dash for cash at the grocery store game show, you only have a set time before the end of the month, in the envelope department to use the 10 billion dollars on hand for whatever purpose or it goes away. so, the administration committed billions more t green initiatives, that might have the same same-- >> at least four companies have gotten money from the government since solyndra filed for bankruptcy and you have more than a dozen lined up just by the end of this month. and get more cash, but the problem is, something

here the culture warriors, dagen mcdowell in for margaret hoover and gretchen carlson.lson, we begin with you. this poll is surprising, right? >> the poll on sarah palin? >> bill: yes. >> not really. i'm not that surprised by it because i think that republicans know how much she got beat up in the press the first time around. they think that it's a advice really reaction to her by a lot of people, and so they want to win this election, so they probably are thinking she will not be able to beat president obama, so let's not even get her into the race at all. >> bill: you think, though -- what? >> she's spot on. >> bill: you think so? >> thank you, dagen. >> bill: i mean, many republican voters and democratic voters when she was on the other side, they get angry about the media attacks and say don't let that stop you. if you think you can go and you have a message, go. i don't know if that's really it, that it's all practical politics. >> no, but republican voters see the tabloid fodder out there, that the left would sling. look no further than that ridiculous book, the l