today's "closing bell" panel joining me now is harold ford jr.morgan stanley, ylan moy from the "washington post," kayla tausche and dominic chu, fighting some traffic problems, importantly, dom. and with us from the nasdaq to wrap up today's market action is "fast money" trader tim seymour. tim, want to start with you before we get to the markets. generally, what happened in gold today? >> a lot of technicals are working against gold, too. you have some technicals on the chart which pushed things back from the intradays on friday. you also had gold funds taking effectively record amounts, 0.7% of assets came in. so, overbought conditions in gold. i think some of the geopolitical hotspots, the fact that global growth looks better, i would always say that bear markets in gold can be very, very dangerous and deceiving. this was a bear market -- excuse me, a bull market in a bear market gulp, to be clear. >> that's exactly what i was going to ask, because i remember jim grant several weeks ago making it at that point a contrarian call for gold in th

msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, harold ford jr. where he is? he apparently had trouble waking up this morning. >> my imaginary friend, harold. what time did you wake up? >> show that empty chair. are you serious? >> good morning, harold. you're looking really well. i like the tie. >> you're late for class. >> i got started early. >> we started early, harold. >> even joe is ready to go. that's bad. don't do that. how are you? >> i apologize. good morning. >> make it the excuse that it was the baby. >> exactly. >> you have a picture for me? all right. we also have former treasury official and "morning joe" economic analyst steve rattner. you had trouble waking up this morning? >> i woke up too early this morning. >> oh, it was me? >> everybody has a different problem this morning. >> i could not wake up! in washington "the new york times" reporter jeremy peters who is always perfect and never has trouble waking up. >> i barely made it myself, actually. >> oh, really? there we go. we have got a lot to cover this morning. we have got all of our duc

msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, harold ford jr. where he is? had trouble waking up this morning. >> my imaginary friend, harold. what time did you wake up? >> show that empty chair. are you serious? >> good morning, harold. you're looking really well. i like the tie. >> you're late for class. >> i got started early. >> we started early, harold. >> even joe is ready to go. that's bad.

i don't think they're about to do that. >> good morning, this is harold ford.ion in the u.s. amongst some influentials that perhaps a u.s. involvement in trying to resolve this matter, we can't make the impact or we don't have the impact we'd like. from your standpoint is a sustained u.s. involvement in trying to broker not only a ceasefire, but some kind of sustained peace and quiet that you spoke of for the israelis, do you envision and believe our involvement is useful, is helpful, is impactful in a positive way going forward? >> never, harold, underestimate the weight of u.s. diplomatic power. since this crisis started, president obama, secretary kerry, have been crystal clear that hamas is to be condemned for shooting those rockets into israel, that hamas is to be condemned for rejecting the ceasefire proposals and israel has a right to defend itself. the united states is lining up behind the egyptian proposed ceasefire, and that's very important because we think that's the only game in town. i also want to take this opportunity to say thank you to the ame

>> that is harold ford money, man! >> i wish. i totally wish. >> "the washington post" reports a public university, suny buffalo. >> it's a state. >> she represented new york state too. >> but she actually did -- >> going back to see the kids. hey, kids, i'm back. your senator is back. i love you! how you kids doing four years later, right? >> for an hour -- >> i'm going to do this for free. brown bag lunches, in the day people would come in and take up their time and give a talk. these brown bag lunches and you're like, so great. like this former retired senator from the state of tennessee, vandy, right? >> lamar alexandra would come in and brown bag it. >> they give the money back to the school. that's nice and would make sense because it's a public university. why would you take money? >> we have so many negative stories, gene. i think we are about hear a feel good story about a politician. >> doing the right thing. for an hour, they paid her a fee. there was a contract that was obtained through a freedom of information. they

harold ford and ed rendell mentality. being president is a cool job, mr. president.there is no better job in america. >> no. you were on the road there. you might be back on the road again. coming up, the new frontier in the fight for the right to vote. the young college students are arguing out there that north carolina's voter i.d. laws are specifically designed to keep the young college age people from voting. they are afraid they will vote democrat. also the lawsuit john boehner is pursuing against president obama over executive orders? boehner hasn't named one action he thinks is unconstitutional. some on the right think it's a stunt, a gimmick that could hurt republicans down the road. >> what does an urban black republican have are in common with a white are you able from utah? they are working together to get something, anything done. elijah cummings, a big friend of the show and jason chaffetz join us tonight. when dorothy came back to kansas she said, there is no place like home. try telling that to pat roberts of kansas. he hasn't been home much. this is "

msnbc political analyst and visiting professor, former democratic congressman harold ford, junior andrs correspondent andrea mitchell and host of "the daily rundown" chuck todd. we have a lot going on this block. a lot of political news coming up in just a moment. but first, russia is facing tough new rounds of sanctions this morning that target everything from its energy industry to its state-owned banks. both the u.s. and eu hit moscow with new economic punishments over its on going support of the rebellion in eastern ukraine. the new sanctions include an arms embargo, limits on capital for state-owned banks, the oil industry and restrictions on defense companies. it's seen as a serious move from the european countries, many of whom have had close economic relationships with russia. still the russian energy giant gazprom was largely left off the hook. president obama was asked yesterday if the international pressure ton kremlin represents a throwback to the '50s? >> is this a new cold war, sir? >> no. it's not a new cold war. what it is is a very specific issue related to russia's u