and senior fellow of kato institute. and on skype, senior congressional reporter for "politico."nks to all of you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> david brat a virtual unknown, eric cantor positioned to probably be speaker of the house. war chest eight to ten times that of brat. what did this race demonstrate? >> well, it demonstrates that there was a lot of discontent of cantors leadership in his home district. you had exceptionally high turnout, and when you have an engaged electorate like that, that matters a lot. you have to look at the power of talk radio, and other sources as part of that. you have two paid staffers, one of whom ran the whole show, and they were able to produce a lot of original content which was able to be used by those outlets. and i think the libertarian message clearly was effective. >> alex mentioned bright bart, and talk radio, but i think when people hear those names, they think g.o.p., they think republican, but really it has become quite siloed, hasn't it? this >> i think the g.o.p. -- you know, we're a big family, and there are a lot of

mark, director of financial regulation studies at the kato institute. and from new york, business reporter for buzz feed. professor, let's start with you. have things significantly changed since before the great recession? in terms of banking practices and what is happening? >> it is disturbing how little has changed really. we're talking about lots of things, but when you look at the bottom line of everything it's really disturbing how much the same everything is. >> mark, do you agree? >> i largely agree. by and large--i would even go as far as saying in some areas things are worse. >> yes. >> things are worse than before the crisis? >> why? >> certainly if you look at markets and what didn't seem like in 2007 saying that these big banks were given that much of an advantage. during the crisis that expanded. it's contracted a little bit, and all indicators are that it's driven by a perception of being bailed out. and i think quite frankly dodd frank i don't think anybody would let it happen today. >> not just in the economy but in the banks themselves,

michael cannon of the kato institute and jonathan adler, law professor at case western, two guys whonely case who were laughed at are now enjoys the last laugh. and loser is john walsh in montana to got caught cribbing other people's work. i don't think it looks very good for him. >> winner michael bloomberg, flew in on a commercial airliner into tel aviv to defy the u.s. government ban on flying. and which airport in the world does the u.s. shut down on the basis of safety? tel aviv. loser of the week, hillary clinton for saying the reset with russia was a success. try saying that in ukrainian. >> also, the congress for tying the -- the administration apparently wants to tie the money to replenish -- israel is running low to the set element of the immigration issue, which is a huge mistake and opposes a bipartisan support that israel has for this. >> i give you a double lose they are week. that's it for the panel. stay tuned to see how one governor could give robert de niro a run for his money. if energy could come from anything?. or if power could go anywhere? or if light could see

. >> can i had with syria at the polling from kato institute wrote an article about the talk shows inwashington, eight out of 10 of the speakers who took a position wanted them to attack syria when 75 percent of that population opposed it they had a vast structure that favors mores any time that will bring on mccain or any spokesmen to wants to start a war american people have not supported these there is a choice and abominate people of such wastes vote for it then they would back off and chicken out so washington is separate from the rest of the country. >> one thing that professor raised is the natural instinct with that invasion but it is usually seen from foreign invasion and secondly almost every war is popular if you win if you lose there very unpopular the american revolution is not very popular in england. [laughter] >> some response i don't believe terminate surrendered as the allies take as a surrender with that arms race with imperialism and one final promoter with the causes of world war i. >> we don't need the imperial overlord particularly in a free country like america