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. >> josh barrow, the socialist accusation -- how do you deal with that? >> you know?n george bush was president. the top income tax trarate, if owe $3, you have to fork $1 to the government. your uncle should look broadly. surrounded by all political parties. trying to use the government to take people's money away and spent on things they think the government should spend the money on. >> let's imagine, sitting beside bill o'reilly, at thanksgiving dinner and he says this. >> if health care is a constitutional right, then everything associated with good health would fall into the civil rights category. your environment would all have to be paid for by the state. if you could not afford it. that's a form of communism. no country could afford the payments without seizing the assets of everybody else. it's impos bsible. >> bill ups the ante to communism. what do you say? >> i say pass the stuffing. listen, you know -- i am still thinkin ing ing about uncle mor. i see you getting around pretty well today. the new help you have. medicare. what is medicare? other than taxi

and hysterical josh barrow of business insider. josh, i mean, what do you make of rob ford? he smoked crack, he lies about it, he is still the mayor. only in america, only he's in canada. >> not only is he still the mayor, a poll came out on wednesday that says he has a 40% approval rating. he's as popular in toronto as barack obama is the united states. it's this crazy thing. and i think part of it is, you know, rob ford has always been kind of a buffoon. we didn't know he smoked crack three years ago, but it was that he still won despite this persona. and he really does connect with people out in the working class suburbs that are part of the city of toronto. he's a real populist, a man of the people. he doesn't have good judgment so the people includes crack gangs. he'll hang out with anybody. but there is still something kind of magical about rob ford allowing him to cling to a certain degree of popularity, even while everybody hates him. >> and john, to josh's point. there was once a mayor of a major u.s. city caught on tape smoking crack, marion berry. how come he had

joining me now, josh barrow with business insider. i want to pick up a point that the congressman just made. he's talking abouts the message discipline of terry mcauliffe. this was terry mcauliffe talking about the tea party and his opposition this week. >> we are proud to be democrats, folks. >> but we are also proud that we are in the mainstream of virginia. the tea party is going to spend their time trying to make this election about personal attacks on me instead of policy differences. they know that this election, if it is about the issues that matter to virginians, they can't win. >> so what strikes me about that is traditionally you look at virginia as a state for democrats to win in virginia. the model we're all sort of used to, you've got to get the gun guys, got to be culturally conservative, show them you're tough on death penalty, tim kaine went through this whole thing in 2005. and the message of the mcauliffe campaign has really been, no, it's ken cuccinelli who's out of step, he's too conservative, especially on these c

joining me politics editor business insider josh barrow, senior reporter at "politico," impact strategies angela ri and "washington post" political reporter aaron blake. before we get to you guys, joining me live in london is nbc foreign news correspondent ayman mohyeldin. walk us through how this works, how optimistic people in the united states should be. >> they should certainly approach it with a little bit of scepticism, perhaps cautious optimism. the significant of this deal is two-fold. one, when it concerns the iranian news program there are issues agreed to as you mentioned in that introduction. that is going to have some affect on the ground if, in fact, there is complete compliance from both sides on the ground there is a larger issue at stake, a confidence measure between iran and united states that we've seen as unprecedented level since president rouhani has come into office despite criticism from israel and others, the fact u.s. had been holding secret negotiations, high-level meetings. more importantly the conversation between president obama and president rouhani, these a

now, a pair of new yorkers, sally cohen, columnist and activist, and who is in studio with me and josh barrowfor business insider, in miami's warmer weather this afternoon. i know that studio you're in, josh. i'm not -- >> yeah. >> i have nothing else to say to you. sally, let's talk about the win, first. it was the biggest margin of victory since ed koch's re-election in 1985, almost three in four new yorkers chose de blasio. so is this a victory for kenyan socialism, or perhaps is this a race a little more nuanced than de blasio's republican opponent, joe lhota let on? >> if de blasio would be the tallest, whitest, kenyan socialist i've met in my life. this is definitely a shift and interesting shift, both here in new york and interesting shift nationally, where we're seeing younger voters, more diverse voters, the future of the american electorate say, look, we don't want just candidates who are going to worry about the 1% as traditionally both the democratic party and republican party have. we want candidates who are going to be representatives for all americans, for all new yorkers. cand

and josh barrow. krystal, at the end of this week, we have an unexpected surge in jobs numbers. why exactly then is the president expected to flaj late himself and beat himself to a pulp? >> you know, i actually appreciate the president's willingness to come out and say i didn't say this exactly right and i understand that people are suffering. i can -- i'm hearing the stories, i hear and you i'm sorry for that. i appreciate this president's willingness to say those words, especially given the fact that the last president wasn't willing to go in that direction. at you will all. and he's also open to let's try to fix the problems that are here, if people are unhappy with the direction that the law is going and if they're getting worse options under the law than before, let's see if we can fix that. now, on the flip side of this, republicans are claiming that they knew all along that this was going to be a problem. right? so i would ask them, instead of voting to repeal the law 40 times or whatever they did -- >> 43 times. >> why didn't they propose a fix to this glaring problem t

joining me now, josh barrow, politics editor for business insider and john avlon, cnn political analysthe news week daily beast. josh, i have to begin with you because we're all talking about the piece you wrote. here's the thing. you say, the crux of your message is he doesn't need to apologize to his constituents, doesn't need to apologize to americans. but this is an elected member. he tried buying this illegal drug. why doesn't he need to apologize and then some? >> who did he harm? we haven't seen any evidence that his cocaine use or outside negative hobbies have affected his job performance. i think you could look at someone like rob ford, who clearly has a substance abuse problem. >> wouldn't you have issues with your job if you were caught doing this. i'm say saying? >> i think that would be between me and my employer. i don't care about my public officials, what they do in the off time, so long as it doesn't affect their job performance. >> john, the bigger question to you, are we a forgiving constituency when it comes to say somebody's behavior when it comes to sex, think of b

. >> let's bring in josh barrow, politics editor at business insider. josh, obviously the president trying to focus on something other than health care. yesterday focuses on immigration, today a little bit of immigration, lot on the economy. do you think american people will be able to focus on anything other than health care until the implementation goes a bit more smoothly? >> i think health care will remain the dominant political issue domesticically until we get into december and january when the continuing resolution that's keeping the government open runs out on january 15th. >> fun, fun, fun. >> so, we're hearing from republican leaders in congress that they don't want another shutdown, they don't think we're going to have one. they said that before the last shutdown. it's possible that will draw attention. before that, health care is the most important economic issue that the president really has a lot of direct control over. there are other important issues in the economy but the president can give speeches, can't do a lot day to day that affect

editor of the magazine, politics business insider josh barrow and co-host of nbc's the cycle ari melber. joining me from d.c. the white house reporter julia halperin. congratulations on a big story who reads in many ways like whodoneit. heartbreaking if you're a fan of in insuring millions of uninsured americans. one thing i noticed throughout the piece that you guys ran this weekend was the fact that the president from the very moment this law was passed said and prioritized the development of the website. as you write, hours after the bill had been enacted, the president stood on truman balcony with champagne toast with his weary staff and put them on notice, they needed to get started carrying out the law the very next morning. given that, his attention and focus and reiteration of the importance of the website, how come this was -- the problems with it were never run up the chain of command? >> it's a good question. one thing i would clarify, i think it was very focused on implementation the moment after it passed. in terms of the website, the president's focus from what we understa

for more on twitter in 140 characters or less is business insider josh barrow. i'm joking about the 140 characters. that's only for ari. >> i'm up for a challenge. >> we know you are. but seriously, we need you to fill more time. >> twitter's ipo has seen a huge price hike. some might call that doing business in the open market. others are a bit more skeptical, including yourself. this is what you tweeted when an ipo is drastically mispriced like this, why don't the investment bankers involved in the pricing all get fired? josh, what's going on here? >> well, so the twitter ipo is priced at $26 a share, which is the price the insiders who got early access to the shares paid. all of the sudden today it's trading around $45 a share. that means the insiders at twitter who sold about 10% of the company got $1.8 billion for something the stock market is now saying is worth more than $3 billion. that's $1 billion that the people who own twitter just lost. these ipos are supposed to be set up so that the price pops a little bit on the day that the stock is introduced.

dana laesh is a conservative radio host and josh barrow is from business insider. welcome. this may be my favorite sampling from the day. if we can get this sound bite of nancy pelosi and president obama both speaking about whether the president's promise was accurate or not, watch this. >> as far as the affordable care act is concerned, what the president said was completely accurate. >> there is no doubt that the way i put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate. >> it's embarrassing really. is it not embarrassing, dana? hello. it's reality knocking. it's already been admitted, ms. pelosi, by the president. >> i have never heard anybody take so many words to use to say that i lied. you can cut it all out and say, i lied instead of having to say this other stuff. >> she can't even admit it. he wouldn't say i lied but he said it wasn't accurate. she comes out and says, he didn't say anything inaccurate. >> exactly. i'm going to cover for him. he didn't lie. the bottom line is they knew what was going to happen. as far back as 2010. that's why you had democrat

in new york, we have josh barrow, who opposes the government imposing this ban. do not. in all of my restaurants, i don't use it at all. we work with farmers, do local sourcing, work with seasonality. we haven't used it ever. we make everything from scratch, everything fresh, and even if we wanted to preserve stuff, we do more of a classic style, preserving, pickling, smoking, curing. but no, we don't use it at all. i'm definitely not planning on ever using it. >> but of course, you are a chef at some fancy restaurants in which food is fed immediately. these transfats can help preserve food on the shelf. you see these things are all in boxes, they're not fresh plates. so why would you not support a ban? >> i also have a fast casual restaurant, a sandwich shop, and we have cakes and things like that. sugar is also a natural preservative, butter is a fat, a natural preservative. a lot of that stuff we're using in the foods is natural preservatives that will keep the products longer. if you know how to work with it and use it, you don't need to use something synthet

y gore voluntarily ski of think progress.org and josh barrow.at montage, the difference between now and 2003 is that the public is four square on the side of liberal internationalists this time. really no constituency for this idea of attacking iran. why do you suppose the neocons are going whole hog in that direction, anyway? >> i mean, you're right. they're like that crazy uncle at the thanksgiving table, where as after 9/11, you had the entire intelligencia, the media, parroting this view of intervention and that's a way to bring peace around the world and expand american presence. yes, the entire mind-set has changed, we're on a different world. americans are in a different place. and the truth is that if this deal with iran succeeds, it really proves the failure that their vision has been. that if you can get at this diplomatically and solve this in a way they were never able to during the eight years of bush, it proves that they were wrong. and that's exactly why they're so scared. and why you hear all this over the top rhetoric. >> angela

let me bring in our company, josh barrow, politics editor for the business insider and neeya malika henderson. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> so we know the senate is not back in until december 9th and we know if new sanctions are imposed on iran it could torpedo this deal. how's this going to play out? >> chuck schumer has come out and spoken very pointedly about this saying that he wants to see new sanctions, that the senate will vote. they have got about eight legislative days come tess and so you have heard them seemingly be poised to scuttle this deal that the president was able to broker with kerry and the p-5 plus 1 countries. i think you've also heard from the arab world, places like saudi arabia haven't commented at all and that is certainly troubling too as well for this deal and for this president. of course he had those conversations with netanyahu who has called this an historic mistake so you could have a situation where you have democrats, typically allies of this president on foreign policy and republicans united in trying to push for some new sanctions. >> i

joining us, anna navarro as well as politic editor of business insider, josh barrow. >> if the pope can do it, anybody can do it. >> right. >> pope approved. let's talk about the cheneys. very unpope-like. it should be, i would argue, a private family matter that has become very public. all of their own doing. what do you make of it? >> i think they would argue the same thing. i think it's painful. we all have either been part of or know of family feuds, they're painful enough in private. i think it's that much more painful when it's in public. it's rather sad. this is an internal battle playing out all over america where there are gay relatives, gay friends. people who want to say i love them but having a hard time accepting their lifestyle. it's hard to reconcile. i love your family and your kids but i don't accept the structure of marriage that you are engaged in. >> what do you think about this? it has to be a calculation of vice president cheney coming out defending liz cheney on this. >> i think the former vice president's statement was carefully worded. it was