hello, everybody. and what a great audience we have here today and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. here is a confession we want to make to start the show. i am really, really glad that the political conventions are over! look, it is not that i am unhappy or don t care about politics, i do. unlike some people who eat it up in the way a spectator or overweight man in the man cave in front of the big screen tv and cheatos watching nfl. i like politics and i know what it is like to be on the field, but i have to tell you my favorite moment of all of the political conventions was this. now to get this convention was adjourned. and i am just glad it is over. two weeks. back to back i am burned out. in case you missed either of the political conventions or if you saw every minute, i want to give you a taste of the memorable moments with the added attraction of my never very objective and highly opinionated view of the moments. early in the week we
to settle the account. reporter: now, wolf, this is part of a pattern that israeli officials say of iran targeting israeli targets. this year they ve twharted attempts on israeli targets in georgia, cypress, kenya. and if you remember in february three iranians were arrested in bangkok for setting off explosives. and the bangkok and thai authorities said they were trying to target israeli diplomats. you have this asymmetric war going on between israel and iran, israel saying iran is buildsing a nuclear weapon. and iran saying israel is going after their nuclear scientists. it s really ratcheting up a lot of concern obviously here in israel that there could be future attacks. israeli officials telling me we have been able to twhard a lot but this one unfortunately weren t able to. tensions are at a fever pitch. we heard the defense minister saying israel will settle the account and the prime minister netanyahu saying israel would respond with force to what he called iran
to talk about chief business correspondent ali velshi, also steven moore, a senior fellow at the kato institute. also here robert reich at the university of california at berkeley and author of aftershock, which is now out in paperback. ali, what happened today? a lot of things happened here. we had a situation where it s not just fear we ve been talking about. this was actual fact. we had we started this morning with with slow bad markets out of europe, then before the markets opened, we got this report from morgan stanley which talked about slow growth around the world telling us things we already knew. but they said we re on the precipice. they didn t say we were there, they didn t say it s the base case, but they said we re dangerously close. also cited errors in policymaking here in the united states and in europe. and they said it s likely that the european central bank and the fed would have to get further involved in this economy. now, you know all week we ve