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. >> tim, when i read this piece it seems like it comes from the stuff of nightmares from tim carney. whole establishment base may be moderate in terms of politics but it is actually just this corrupt corporate entity. when you look at something like the tenet thing, how does it purport in the primary -- >> as michael pointed out it sounds like jeb did not support the law. but still it hurt newt gingrich that he had a lobbying career when he was running in 2012. he had a lobbying career, although he didn't register he was basically lobbying for freddie mac, for ethanol companies and companies back during the expansion of medicare. it hurt tommy thompson, he only ended up getting a third of the vote because he had been on health care companies supporting obamacare before. there is a significant portion of the republican base that figured out that big business, big government are friends and that they're not friends of the conservative base. so in any primary that is not going to be the majority of the base, but it will be a considerable chunk. and i think it will hurt jeb bush in the p

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here is more is aei senior fellow and senior political columnist for the "washington examiner" tim carneyhow close are these guys to congress and what is going on? >> well if you've been following the news, particularly if you're following political corruption news you already know the name of the biggest medicare recipient as far as doctors go, solomon melgen who got caught up with corruption scandals related to democratic senator from new jersey, robert menendez. he is eye in florida and got in trouble for overbilling medicare and in fact had to pay back millions of dollars. still after money paid back he is number one recipient of medicare money and given over $700,000, i think over a million, i will have to double-check numbers to democratic politicians and super pacs. this guy is going ahead and bankrolling democrats, possibly fleecing medicare, and then pocketing millions of taxpayer dime. gerri: the reports i have read, is that a lot of that money you described, 700,000, going to super pac that donated to senator menendez, who spoke to the feds on his behalf about this money. >> on

stoddard, associate editor and columnist at the hill, and tim carney with the washington examiner botha.b., let me start with youat dn for the democrats in november? >> well, if the election were held tomorrow, it doesn't, it is not -- it's looking very grim. there's actually a new poll out today from pew saying that the people who feel the most intensely about the law and are most, you know, motivated to vote are actually people who do not like the way that the law has turned out for them. and that's what people have to remember. it's one thing for the president to get up and say we've reached this great goal of seven million enrollees by march 31 plus more with the extended deadline, we're covering all these people and all these problems. health care's still personal. so if you're someone who got your insurance policy canceled, those estimates are somewhere between four and nine million, and you're newly insured under the program doesn't mean you're amendment. happy. insurance officials are set to raids prices for 2015. those are going to be announced by mid summer or october. if pri

the ruble continues to rumble and tumble time the states face of another currency war tim carney continues with his theory that the phrase to trading i say to you to find out what is the most popular chocolate easter egg but so far western sanctions against russia have been targeted at a select group of russian individuals one of the people chosen by u.s. officials for the u.s. sanctions this is the head of russia runaways demand kiran it when she captures produce. she calls out was missing you created him in paris for his reaction to the u.s. blacklisting to put the use the person just because of the consumer is a friend of the president of russian federation creature this is not politics the. career of the political management. and to my mind to my mind it is damn all new to introduce we are so strong we can name you we could name him to be the enemy of america and there let him course a very severe life here not at all you know i enjoy i enjoy life and will enjoy the job i enjoy a good relations with the people and you know the only thing i am not enjoying you know i don't see any popul

i'm tim carney, i'm a visiting fellow here as well as a senior political columnist at the examiner. what i do here is the two programs, one is called the culture of competition where we talk about competition, we talk about things like subsidies and crony capitalism and when competition yields good fruits and when it might not yield good fruits. the other thing i work on is called the program on human flourishing where we talk about happiness. and both of those topics are addressed in our book we'll be discussing today which is "the up side of down: why failing well is the key to success." here to talk about this we have the author, megan mcardle. meg began is -- megan is economics writer at bloomberg. she's written at the atlantic, the economist, "newsweek" in addition to writing this, her first book. our respondent is tyler cowen from george mason university and the her cay that center. you might know him from his broking and his recent books. a couple quick comments before we begin. first, if you've got a cell phone, just turn it off. feel free if you want to do twittering stuff