barbara: i want to recognize jim moody, whose brilliant idea it was to invite senator -- congressmanlattery come up. i am sorry that you did not hear the earlier conversation, but he has been as good as predicted. the lady here had a question. >> i have been talking to immigrants to the u.s. who still go back to visit. i spoke to a lady and said they wanted to be able to travel to disney world. i went to leningrad during the court -- during the cold war and they wanted to see the magazines. there is just so much about this issue, who is really speaking out? speaking out for the moderates? congressman slattery: in iran? barbara: how about the general population? they did a poll in 1999 asking what percentage wanted normal diplomatic relationships with united states, they put the pollster imprisoned and they had radically change their views over the years from the time of the revolution. what do you experience within the border of passport control? congressman slattery: let me strike a balance. the team around run honey -- will honey --rohani -- rohani , if we fail we are likely to see

opportunity exists and should be pursued >> before we continue i want to recognize former congressman jim moody'slliant idea it was to invite congressman flattery to come and talk to us about his trip as good as he predicted. i want to acknowledge that. >> i have been talking to iranian immigrants to the us will have relatives. and i talked to a lady and said, what do the average people want? she said, they want to be able to travel to disney world. abcaseven and it just blew me away. in the 80s i want to leningrad and they wanted lipstick from l'oreal, cover girl, cosmopolitan magazine. there is just so much about this issue and it is always focused at the radicals. who is speaking out for the moderates? >> and iran? >> how about just the general population? they did a poll back in 1999 and it was about 70 percent at the time. the government was so upset that it but the poster in prison but the poster was a former hostage holder. so what you experienced with the people at passport control and so on is certainly more common than the death to america that we usually hear about. >> you know let me

. >> before we continue i just want to recognize also former congressman jim moody who's brilliant ideait was to invite congressman slattery to come and talk to us about his trip to teheran. and i'm sorry you weren't here in the earlier part of the conversation. but he has been as good as predicted. thank you very much. >> and i've been talkings to iranian imgrants to the u.s. who have relatives and they still go back to iran to visit. and i talked to a lady and i said what are the average people in iran want? and she said they want to be able to travel to disney world. [ laughter ] and it just blew me away. because in the 80s i went to lenin grad during the cold war and they wanted lipstick from lor lore lore loreal and koz mow magazines. who is speaking out for the moderates. >> they did a poll back in i think 1999 asking what percentage wanted a normal diplomatic relationship with the united states? and it was about 70% at the time. the government was so upset that it put the pollster in prison. the pollster by the way was a former hostage holder named abbas abdi who radically change

. >> first call from mark zandy chief economist at moody's. jim is a democrat. good morning. >> yes, good morning. thank you for taking my call. >> sure. >> i would like to ask when the sequester kicked in and the federal reserve brought the interest rates almost down to zero for lending out money to all the banks would it have also been a good idea to suspend the interest rate on the national debt at the same time and had that run alongside with the sequester? wouldn't that have even put us in better shape than we're in right now with the debt? and on top of that, could this have been an executive order that could have been done? thank you. >> thanks jim. >> mr. zandy in new york. >> no, i don't think that would have been good policy. there's a lot of investors global, investors that have bought our treasury bonds. and it's as well most, many of us own treasury bonds through -- in some form or another in our mutual funds, insurance companies that invest on our behalf. and, of course, we have a lot of global investors that have purchased our bonds. if we suspend

jim, matt and hillary. and we're also joined by dominic, president of diversified private wealth advisers. and john lonski, moody's chief e economist. let's dig into the first real, real deal. we had a real strong close in the market on friday. i do think we're poised to go much, much higher here. buying begets buying. you're going to get feeling the train is leaving the station, so what do we expect from here, josh? what are you looking for? >> i think it's going to be choppy. we have to brace yourselves for that inevitable fed rate hike, just the expectation of it could put downward pressure on stocks, and moreover, if economy weakens concern. charles: john, there's going to be a day when we get some fed news that's going to say the hike is coming sooner than later, and the market may be up that day. would that be a clear cut buy signal or do we have to ride this thing out? >> i think we have to ride it out. there's no denying the fact this economic recovery is getting older. we're not going to see the same type of profits growth as we saw a few years ago. you're not going to see those big gains. the important t

jim, matt and hillary. and we're also joined by dominic, president of diversified private wealth advisers. and john lonski, moody'sst