of course that is the "wall street journal" steve moore. e, their track record not so good. >> it is pretty dismal. they're not good forecasters all they ben bernanke is looking pretty good right now. the economy is picking up steam, no question about it. we're seeing really good stock market obviously. the one thing that i worry about,hat ben bernanke doesn't worry about, those esther george, the fed chief, that kansas city bank basically said we have to worry a little bit about inflation when we keep putting $80 billion into the economy every month. i agree with that concern. melissa: julia, what do you think about that. he was asked that question directly a number of times t was also in the statement. very mch shrugged it off. he basically said we could use a little bit more inflation right now? >> absolutely. >> he should shrug it off. i completely disagree with that. what the economy needs is employment and employment will lead to wage growth. then we can start worrying about inflation the adpri -- agree with earn about key the bigger r

neil: that is why i argue, steve moore, don't get used to the market highs or this notion that it will keep going, if the smartest guy in the room, in these boardrooms are putting the money they are making to this type of enterprise. and not expanding and not creating more jobs, then that does not telegraph a long lasting bull market for me, i would love to be wrong, but history successions that is not how bull markets ensue. >> true, but i will be optimist, if i may, i will say this, you know, i think that reason that american economy is doing fairly well, not great but not rotten, we're least rotten apple in the world. neil: you are right about that. the tallest pygmy in the room. >> for the moment. neil: very good sabrina, thank you. >> if washington spending is propping the market up, now it has a tax plan that could crash them all down. and get this, i got the idea from europe, what could go wrong? then, financial dating site that has jonathan honing ecstac, find out where his dreamgirl is waiting for him. @@ @ @ @ neil: things going over so well there, why not try the same thing

next guy he just does not flip over the trigger coming from these days, and sabrina shafer and steve moorehare his anst, charles you sound like a party pooper but i can see where you are coming from. >> two things, the fed part of this rally, a lot of people are getting you know, listen. banks have gotten flushed, and a lot of people have stock market is coming back, another party of story that is legit with the corporate earning that is international growth, if you look at stocks that have done well this week, priceline, joy global, monster.com, chicago bridge and iron, after the bell, deckers, domestic sales down 2%, and international sales up 16%, have you -- there is not a direct correlation between the stock market and u.s. economy, what is lacking there is fed is making up. neil: sabrina, what worries me about the larger pictures, charles nicely delynn nated, every time, -- delineated, every time i see a hint of ben bernanke pulling off, and i hear he is back in and relaxed they are buy like crazy. i am reminded of the federal rescue programs they might beknown, and say the end of ca

and steve moore, you were right. yellowstone is delaying the open opening by a couple of weeks? >> i wish this is one i was wrong on. this is going to be something that is going to hurt travelers, especially as we get into the summer months and people want to visit these national treasures like yellowstone and yosemite. i spent some of the afternoon n of going through the interior budget. wasteful things in the budget that could be cut other than cutting access to national parks. did you know there are eight climate change offices at the department of interior. to give you another one. the federal government has spent over hundred million dollars in the last four years purchasing millions of acres of new land. why isn't the federal government selling land rather than purchasing it? >> neil: in the case of yellowstone. affect of travelers. in case of yellowstone, it will still be open but to save money they will delay the opening by two weeks. others might do something more draconian? >> we are if the first two weeks

melissa: steve moore, thank you so much. always so smart. we appreciate your time. >> thank you.rich edson is going to be live in cyprus with the latest action there. he is on his way right now. he will get us the story from the front lines. adam: we rely on rich for quite a bit. we'll take a bit of a breather for pepsi getting a makeover. they're launching a new look for the 20 ounce bottle for the first time in almost 17 years. pepsi's new bottle with have a contoured bottom. the rumors contoured after j.lo or beyonce is not true. melissa: first thing i would thinking about beyonce. adam: it would be a little wider. melissa: you did say that. adam: i did say that. that is not a bad thing. showing more of the drink itself. melissa: if you said my bottom was con toured i wouldn't take it nicely. adam: i would get a back hand. melissa: there you go. >> new design would be a hold, latest in series of promotional moves by pepsi including a multiple deal to sponsor super bowl halftime show and endorsement deal with the music superstar beyonce. melissa: maybe you do want a con toured

we're back with dan henninger and joe and steve moore joins us. , steve, you followed the follies. what were the highlights for you? >> well, first of all, paul, you know how for the last four years we have been urging the united states senate and harry reid to pass a budget? never mind, i kind of liked it better when he they didn't pass a budget. this was just an abomination. you mentioned the trillion dollar tax increase and then of course, you had 100 billion dollars of new stimulus spending and it really polarizes where the house republicans and where the senate democrats are. they could not be more opposite in terms of their numbers. >> paul: there were some interesting votes as part of this it that signaled some interesting political trends. for example, on the keystone pipeline, 62 senators voted, said that the president should approve it. >> yeah, that was one of my favorite ones and then there was actually two votes on the -- on one of my favorite ones, on the carbon tax, something that the environmentalists have been drooling for for year

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here with us is steve moore senior economics writer for the "wall street journal" and also jeffery frankelident clinton's panel of economic advisers. great to have you. what do you think this report says, steve? >> hallelujah, right? this is a very good jobs report and it's about time. this recovery has been about half the pace of normal job growth. we finally got a pretty good number. a lot to really celebrate in this report, not only the 200-plus thousand new jobs, jenna but wages rose last month, you actually had people working longer hours, suggesting the labor force is getting a little tighter, and i love that number about wealth being back up, because that means we finally made up most of the lost ground from that terrible recession we had in 2008. but we are still three and a half million jobs sort of where we were in 2008. the wealth has been made up but not the jobs. jenna: jeff, what about that? people talk a lot about labor force participation. our viewers might hear that if we hat same number of people in the labor force as we did in 2009 unemployment would actually be above 10

steve moore, thank you very much. from the "wall street journal."onnell: president obama calling in a number of ceos to the white house and they are going to talk about the cyber threat. >> some of the vulnerabilities, whether they be states or denies criminal groups, vulnerabilities exist that we need to take care of. connell: with us now to talk more about all of this, former director of the national cyber security center is almost phone with us. >> the financial services is targeted with particularly large u.s. banks. connell: are they doing enough to prepare the banks? >> the banks have been hit so hard repeatedly over these past years that every major bank in the u.s. and most the major banks in the world are working on these issues. it is really tough. connell: what is the difference that you have been seeing over the last however many weeks or month? >> sure. hundreds of thousands of corrupted personal computers. these are coming out of the cloud. enormous network servers. it is through corrupted websites that are being posted within the clou

cofounder and chief investment officer, and steve moore is here with the "wall street journal." steve, i will go to you first. what do you think we will hear tomorrow, and is it a good starting point? >> i don't think this will be significantly different from the budget paul ryan has passed over the last couple of years. melissa: than what is the point of it is the same that things haven't gone through? speak of the problem has been, as you know, paul ryan in the house republicans have done their job of passing a budget out of the house, that is the constitutional responsibility. it has been for years since the senate passed a budget, so that puts more pressure, i think, on the senators. a senate controlled by the democrats to come up with a blueprint so we can start negotiating. melissa: do you agree with that? >> the senate will be releasing their budget on wednesday as well, so we're going to see an opportunity for just what steve wants to occur. for your original question, does the ryan budget feasible, practical or necessary? the answer to all the above is no. melissa: why?

steve moore, last word, what do we need to understand what happens now to change it?is not just california. that is the other piece of bad news. this is happening in illinois. it is happening in new york. it is happening in connecticut and it gets to the basic issue of fairness whether public employees get pensions twice as generous as taxpayers are getting in private sector jobs. >> steve moore, "wall street journal." melissa francis host of "money". >> 5:00, check it out. fbn. >> all about money. bill: thank you both. jamie: guys, thanks. 100,000 limo ride and half a million for a hotel. why the administration is under fire for the travel costs while the white house is still closed for tours. bill: how a group of strangers just out for coffee banded together to help save a man's life. >> i got probably about, oh, six or seven feet from my car, i said, sir, i turned around, sir, would are you making me very nervous, would you please leave. give me my space. i'm leaving. after those words, i saw the knife come out and, he shoved it into me. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] help

steve moore wants to know because the press cutting out white house visits to save money doesn't maken the woman wholines visitor's office is still on the job collecting a $100,000 sal rhythm does raise a good point. >> can i just for one second toot my own horn? i was on the show two weeks ago and i said the sequester cuts would be good for the economy and good for markets, and that's exactly what has happened. up 500 points. i want you to validate i said that because i was right, and there's a lessan here that all the spook stories how this would destroy the economy, it's just the opposite. so were you -- >> neil: copied me right after that. you're absolutely right. >> thank you. >> neil: these cuts that were supposedly prompted by the sequestration seems a little odd to me. i don't know how much you save cutting off white house visits or whether the president can do that. i guess he can even though you had to contact your congressman or senator to arrange a white house tour, so i thought it was in their purview so having said that no white house tours but the white house visitor di

steve moore with the "wall street journal." thanks. jon: i say colorado.rial that has grabbed the country's attention, see what may be jodi arias' last showdown with the pros prosecutor. our legal panel is here with a look. when circus stunts go wrong a90-foot fall caught on tape horrifying the spectators. . .. jenna: "happening now", the latest on the jody arias hurt trial. it will sure look a lot different today when court resumes in the next hour or so. that is because after eight teen days of giving testimony, the accused the, jodi will be absent from the stand. here is arias in a tense confrontation with prosecutor juan martinez, pressing here as he has done repeatedly throughout the trial to explain what happened the night she killed her ex, travis alexander. >> you indicated in, in response to a juror's question, that the shooting happened and he went down, right? >> yes. >> and that you were able to roll away, correct? or get up? >> yes. >> and you stood up and as you're getting up is when he threated, you right? >> yes. that's when he verbally thr

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to steve moore in washington. as to whether we'll ever be able to do that. i have my doubts, steve.hat say you? >> hi, neil. first of all, i'm kind of fascinated with how snails do it. i mean, can you you imagine what the foreplay must be like? it takes 45 minutes for them to get near each other, but you know. > >> neil: i don't want into exploring why that -- i don't want to go into exploring why that house. you're spending a million dollars. they're asexual, and they're spending this money. what makes them try the sexual route now and then? i sort of said company for one. i digress. what do you make of the fact that we do this? now, these are relatively palletry numbers in the -- paltry number in the schemes of things, but they add up and we see them year after year. >> actually these studies on sexual behavior of animals, we've done studies on everything from chimps to honeybees. there's a fascination in washington with sexual behavior. these studies add up in cost. i mean, you just put the number, what was it, $18 billion. that's real money, even for washington. it goes on and o

. >> greta: and former fbi agent steve moore helped the knox family throughout the murder case. if you were to pick one piece of evidence you think is the most favorable piece of evidence to amanda knox to show that she had no responsibility in this murder, what is it? >> well, it's that there is no evidence of her guilt. it's the lack of evidence that she was involved in any way, shape or form. there is nothing. if you say what evidence, you know, exonerates here? the lack of any evidence exonerates her. >> greta: all right, you were in italy when she was first released. tell me, what was she like then? what was your impression of her? >> she was a woman who had spent the years from 20 to 24 in prison for a crime that she did not commit and she was struggling to come to grips with how to deal with that and how to deal with what had happened to her. and the frustration she felt that people would actually believe that she could kill another human being. >> greta: what's she been doing since she got home to seattle? >> i believe she's back in school. that's, from what i've heard.

steve moore has documented in this in his series of books called "rich states/poor states." saw it in the last census where right-to-work states gained congressional seats lost from forced unionization states. so the process is going on, and we can observe it through data. >> i would like to say something about right to work and for a lot of our audience here today i know this is an elementary thing, but i do work with companies and their employees during these campaigns, and there are some wildly-different views about what right to work actually is. so for the audience out there, right to work is this simple: in a right-to-work state, you do not have to be a member of a union as a condition of employment, thus meaning you do not have to pay union

steve moore joins me now, senior economic writer at "the wall street journal." ou know, so here we are. thend the meeting, the first meeting, between these leaders and the president just about to get underway. >> yeah and what this poll seems to be suggesting, martha, americans don't put much trust and confidence that the president and congress can get this done. and therefore, you know, what i read in this poll, americans say this probably isn't the best way to cut the spending but given the composition of congress, and the guy in the white house, this may be the only way to get it done. martha: why does it seem that the lawmakers and the president appear that their hands are tied? we put this in motion. there is no way to change it. yet "the wall street journal" reported that yes, indeed the president did have flexibility to make changes how these cuts were allocated. two, three, different bills were floated in the senate to, you know, sort of find other ways to force these entities themselves to make decisions how the cuts were made. any reasonable person woul

march 27 there will be a speech in georgia from steve moore. i'm sure the last thing he will say is we need to increase taxes. host: where do you see and that they can come together? caller: i have been working in politics 50 years. the republicans have compromised ourselves into a $16 trillion debt. it's time for the democrats. we have got to cut spending. obama is not doing anything accept raising taxes -- except for raising taxes. the rich are the heroes because they create jobs. i'm not against poor people, but they cannot give anybody a job. we need to stop the attacks on the rich. we need to cut spending. i am thinking of changing my name to cut spending. host: here is what steve wrote on twitter -- let's hear from dennis in massachusetts, independent. caller: how are you? i am reacting to the report that the senate plan suggests another quarter billion dollar cut to medicare after the $760 billion cut that the senate democrats have already made. as your reporter just said, but guess you havd, it's doubtful that will not affect medicare b

the "morning joe wts crew will discuss the issues with steve schmidt and author wes moore. >>> when wee back, we'll huddle around the water cooler where "the daily show" offers its take on the president's trip to the holy land. jon stewart is planning to stay. ♪ i am stuck on band-aid brand ♪ ♪ 'cause germs don't stick on me ♪ [ female announcer ] band-aid brand has quiltvent technology with air channels to let boo boos breathe. [ giggles ] [ female announcer ] quiltvent technology, only from band-aid brand. use with neosporin first aid antibiotic. mommy's having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings in every little bottle. >>> enough are the real news. let's gather around the water cooler. i still can't find my friend lewis. to watch one of the least surprising things you'd expect tim tebow to do. on sunday, a plane carrying the jets quarterback stopped at a airport to refuel. arriving at the same airport, the wichita state men's basketball team. fresh off its win over top-s

now an msnbc political analyst steve schmidt and combat veteran of the united states army captain wes moore's a decidedly game changy feel at this table. >> haleprin's not even here. >> he'll be in game change 2020, i predict. the big news of the day, of course, is that mike barnicle's wearing a tie. it's a tie with watermelons on it. >> thank you. >> what's the occasion? >> the occasion is a phone call from my wife last night who told me to stop dressing like someone waiting for a bus to an assisted living facility. wear a tie, tuck in your shirt and act your age. >> she wins the day again. >> yes, she did. >> by the way, i wanted to say that this morning. >> i did not -- yesterday. in one of the news reports -- >> kathleen parker wrote a wonderful op-ed yesterday. >> yeah. >> that i confessed to not having read ahead of time and it was in the script. it snuck up on me on the prompter and i said something that doesn't represent -- >> what you said was deuce machine. >> it wasn't that bad, but it was close. >> and i didn't want to embarrass him. >> i'm stunned you didn't humiliate me. >> we

steve: you we're furious. >> jimmy: i know. [ light laughter ] but, that's not all. we have more show for you guys. we have great, great music from the one and only kip mooreu guys! [ cheers and applause ] and it's our 800th show. >> steve: yeah. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: that means 800 hours of television that we've done. >> steve: wow. >> jimmy: and yeah, not counting the work that goes into the show. 815 hours? >> steve: 815? [ laughter ] 816? >> jimmy: 816. >> steve: that's a lot. >> jimmy: yeah, a lot of hours. you guys, spring is just around the corner. i know it doesn't feel like it, but it is. i say it's like, about a week away. two weeks away. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: you know what that means? with spring comes spring cleaning. i actually can't wait to get rid of all the terrible books that i have. i have so many bad books that, as a service to you guys, i'm going to show them to you so you can avoid them at all costs. that's right. it's time for my latest installment of my "do not read list." here we go. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ do not read do not read do not read these books these books ♪ >> jimmy: before we start, i just want you al

steve: time for quick headlines. the bare foot banner making friends in high places. colton moore a stealing spree and crashed an airplane in the bahamas. he is now being tutored by a boeing project manager. and john started visiting the bandit in jail last spring to teach him aviation. the project manager says he was given a second chance after busted with drugs while in the navy. says harris moore will have to pay the favor forward. >>> rick springfield will reprise his role as dr. drake on general hospital for several episodes next month as part of the show's 50th anniversary. ali? >>alisyn: fantastic. parents at an ipswich massachusetts school are not happy with a decision to cancel honor roll night. officials say it makes others feel bad. joining us is a father of one of the honor roll students. hi, david. >> good morning, alisyn. how are you? >>alisyn: doing well. what did you think when you heard of the principal's decision to cancel traditional honor roll night? and what did your kids think? >> after we received the e-mail, my wife susan and i spoke with numerous other par

moore a senior writer, and matt mccall. president of penn. this is a big american city that has fallen on incredible tough times, steve. >> you mentioned the populationlast decade, it's down by more than half over the last 25, 30 years. this was once one of the five biggest seattles in america. i would make the case for you martha, remember this is what happened to new york city back in the 1970s when it couldn't pay its bills. this might be the right solution. what is really bang rupgt the city right now is those outrageous lee inflated pension and healthcare benefits to retired workers from the city that aren't even working any more, rant providing city services. martha: there's about 50 unions that have hold over various parts of the economy in detroit, and a lot of people are pointing at that as one of the biggest problems, matt, because they have promised way more than they can ever afford to pay. that is the basic math of it, isn't it? >> absolutely. you come up with one reason why detroit is in and, it's the unions. it's clear and similar tell. the unions are destroying detroit and many other industries. this ties into the autoindustry. what w

. >> steve: we've heard a lot about drones, but now hot air balloons are causing problems because apparently they can be moored cloud or 500 feet of the surface of the air. who is going measure that? >> that would be the faa. when we think about sequestration they are trying to close down air traffic controllers but there are bureaucrats with super long measuring tapes that is looking 500 feet off the ground. >> steve: there are actually government lied guidance on mini golf? >> under the americans disability act, i was looking at this, it can't be more than one to four for no greater an four-inch rise. this is back to high school geometry but these are grandfathered in. it gets far more complex if the hole so a rise there is whole other calculation and 1 to 20 and for your wheelchair to be able to turn around, it's out of control. >> steve: all about putt-putt golf but there are so many crazy rules out there, why? >> there are bureaucrats, this is their job. there are guys that walk around with measuring tape. there are people that have to enforce these rules. there is a lot of money. these are not the front