the. >> ifill: ron bonjean, jim manley.nk you both. >> thank you. >> woodruff: for the first time in more than 30 years, the most senior diplomats of the united states and iran are talking face to face. secretary of state john kerry and foreign minister mohammad javad zarif, plus other foreign ministers iran's nuclear program and international sanctions against the country. iran's president hassan rouhani says he wants to reach an agreement in three to six months. and this morning at the u.n., he called on israel to join the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and on all nations to abandon nuclear arms. >> ( translated ): a peaceful and secure world remains a shared ideal for us all. the horrors of hiroshima and nagasaki deepened our resolve to prevent the occurrence of such unspeakable death and destruction. no nation should possess nuclear weapons. since there are no right hands for these wrong weapons, the only absolute guarantee is their total elimination. >> woodruff: given the outreach, how should the u.s. proceed? we ge

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jim pethokoukis, let's keep it on the table. john is referring to wayne angell and manley johnson. they used monetaarket pricing t guide monetary policy. they looked at gold, at commodity indexing, the spread between long-term and short-term bonds. it worked well until greenspan stopped using it. >> they work well until they don't. if you want know is monetary policiicy too tight or too loos? look at what gdp is doing. it's also explainable. we're talking about communication. bernanke is trying to be a better communicator. this is an explainable, transparent rule. i'd like to ask professor taylor, i heard he said that jan yet ye-- janet yellen might be okay pick. is that right? >> one of your blogs suggested that janet yellen use as modified taylor rule. i just want to add anything, any rules, virtually any rules, virtually any modified rules is going to be better than that literal helter skelter we have seen in recent years. but is janet yellen a rule-based person, john taylor? >> she can be. she now argues off the rules because it's special times and i disagreed with her about th

jim from greenville, south carolina, republican, what's on your mind? caller: i have two quick points for mr. manleye last time we lost the election in 1997 -- 1998, bill clinton and that congress repealed glass-steagall and they did a whole revamping of the financial bill which led to the near catastrophe in the housing market and the banking sector. you mentioned the republicans are the far right are not living in reality but it is also the far left not reliving in reality. i watched c-span all the time and there is always left people from the house saying that everyone should have mental health care and everybody should receive that. there is not enough mental health counselors qualified to even give everyone in this country unlimited health care for mental needs. what you guys would do and what the far left wants to do is basically tell the people who it -- the people that can afford it that you get to only go for half an hour instead of an hour in counseling because we will ratify healthcare. on point number one, agreed, that was the result of president clinton's time in office. on point number

jim from greenville, south carolina, republican, what's on your mind? caller: i have two quick points for mr. manley. the last time we lost the election in 1997 -- 1998, bill clinton and that congress repealed glass-steagall and they did a whole revamping of the financial bill which led to the near catastrophe in the housing market and the banking sector. you mentioned the republicans are the far right are not living in reality but it is also the far left not reliving in reality. i watched c-span all the time and there is always left people from the house saying that everyone should have mental health care and everybody should receive that. there is not enough mental health counselors qualified to even give everyone in this country unlimited health care for mental needs. what you guys would do and what the far left wants to do is basically tell the people who cannot afford it -- the people that can afford it that you get to only go for half an hour instead of an hour in counseling because we will ratify healthcare. guest: on point number one, agreed, that was the result of president clinton's time i