dr. stein evaluates his price control experience. it's something to be avoided like the plague.probably gave us more inflation than we would have had if we hadn't done this. if you put them on in peacetime they're very difficult to get rid of. if they last for a long time, they're terribly destructive. economists now agree that price controls didn't work back in 1973. why would it have been better to let the market set prices? economic analyst richard gill explains. we have to understand a little about the price system itself. in this connection economists usually make some assumptions about human behavior-- namely, that people generally tend to act in their own self-interest. consumers might want all the goods they could get but most of them have limited budgets. they must choose one good over another. in making these choices, they try to maximize their own welfare. the same is true of producers. they try to maximize their firm's profits. it will be in their own self-interest they will maximize their profits, if they use more efficient productive methods and produce goods that

dr. wein stein. and that is a difficult one for the family. it is a difficult policyine just for the average human being. but the analysis to engage in the practice to secure the risk of innocent americans would only put more at risk. >> you will not tell us if they were droeb strikes. >> john despite the information i am able to provide, i cannot discuss how it was carried out. you can tell us adam gadan and a chman was not targets. does the president regret it. >> no. they had prominent positions in the al-qaeda. one was a leader of a qis. and al-qaeda in the indian subcontinent and playing a prominant role in leading that network's operation and planning in that region of the world. mr. gadon, had styled himself as a prominent spokesperson for al-qaeda. and it is for that and other reasons that he was indicted by the u.s. government for treason. >> and the justification for killing of american citizens they represented the imminent threat and capture was not feasible. are you saying they represented an imminent threat of a violent attack. t

dr. wine stein was held prisoner for more than three years. he was kidnapped from his home in pakistan days before he was supposed to return to the u.s. his widow said therm devastated by his death. lisa stark has more. >> like rings on the tree the yellow ribbons on the map am at the winestein home marked time more than three years in captivity. now in rockville, maryland they're mourning the death of their neighbor. >> i always wondered how he could be in a place like pakistan. he wanted to help those people and cost him his life. >> warren winestein was a husband, a father a grandfather. he spent decades traveling the world as an aid worker in 2004 ending up in pakistan as a contractor for the u.s. agency for international development. he was helping small businesses. >> please make as many contacts as you can. >> aat age 70 days before he was supposed to return to his family al qaeda kidnapped winestein from his home in pakistan. >> he just thrived on helping people. >> wife elaine and daughter jennifer coakley spoke to me last summer frus

dr. jill stein, harvard grad on the green party. >> now to your book, it's about more than what, 100 unansweredts president obama and president george w. bush. and in one of those letters, you wrote this -- this is about syria and to president obama. you say, little did your fellow harvard law review editors who elected you to lead that venable journal imagine that you could be a president who chronically violates the constitution. federal statutes, international treaties, and the separation of powers at depths equal to or beyond the george w. bush regime. what kind of response did you want from president obama? >> i wanted a legal response. what is a legal authority of the president to overthrow the rumors in libya, to send drones anywhere in the world, crossing national bore terseders-- boreders where they're not supposed to be. battling dictators with hundred tabular bill crates shipped by the froerve places like kandahar. it's a total anarchy and side steps congress seriously. this book focuses a lot on the proper separations of powers that our founders envision. it's just being destroyed.

dr. wean stein and giovanni lo porto.oshua katz we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> up next, new information on the arrest and death of freddie gray in baltimore. >>> also ahead michael brown's family files suit against the city of ferguson. keep it here on msnbc live. making a fist something we do to show resolve. to defend ourselves. to declare victory. so cvs health provides expert support and vital medicines. make a fist for me. at our infusion centers or in patients homes. we help them fight the good fight. cvs health, because health is everything. [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we know in the cyber world, threats are always evolving. at first we were protecting networks. then, we were protecting the transfer of data. and today it's evolved to infrastructure... ♪ ♪ ...finance... and military missions. we're constantly innovating to advance the front line in the cyber battle, wherever it takes us. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. when the moment's spontaneous, why pause to take a pill

the stock market while most -- >> i'm all in -- >> according to -- >> ben stein you were saying at the outset disagreeing with dr. gasparino saying the economy is doing a lot better than he's saying. >> the economy is doing incredibly better. we have 1% or % this quarter. >> sir with all due respect compared to when mr. obama took office we're in the wils of swiles of properity. >> david retail sales are down in part because gasoline is a component of retail sales. revenues are going down. the main problem is shortage of workers. >> it's not just gasoline sales that have been hurting with spending ben and to correct myself, retail sales ohm up for the if time in four months. >> i just want to make this one point, we're doing better than we were in 1935. i bet you. >> i think you're a hater. >> i think we're doing a lot better. >> what is clintonhillary clinton going to run on the economy was going to craptown back in 2008. it's better than that now. >> just a little better [ bleep ] now. >> all you need is a point of comparison where ben stein was right. where were you eight years ago and where are you now. >> h