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Managing editor and cnn's global economics analyst and in london is zani meadows, editor-in-chief of the economist. zanny, the economist has a lead editorial saying to stay in the eurozone can greece's prime minister will the have to jettisoned almost every promise he made to his voters. can you hear me? >> fareed i'm sorry i can't hear you. >> we'll go to rona and ken while they're fixing the mic issues. ronna, it always seemed as those germany at the end of the day was willing to bay out greece that it pushed hard. it did -- it really made it look like it was trying its damndest. but every t...

Second. let's bring in ronna, that may be unrelated to the china issue but amazing nonetheless. this has happened before. >> it could be a flash crash. we don't know. interesting it's happening at the same time you're seeing this free fall in china. markets there in the last few days have been down a total of 35%. >> let's talk about this. we'll keep monitoring what's going on at the u.s. stock exchange. alison be get back to us when we learn more about this. but let's focus on what is a free fall in china. markets down 30%-plus in three weeks. what would that look like here? >> it would look ...

The nyse putting a halt. it could be a technology glitch. interesting because the new york stock exchange prides itself on technology. you think about how the trading has changed here at the stock exchange. it's gone from more than 1,000, if not 1,500 many more on the floor in the old days, now much of the trading that goes on here at the new york stock exchange is purely electronic. it goes through these algorithms and the people on the floor here -- the number has certainly diminished as time has gone on. the new york stock exchange, once again, has gone through a series of new owners as wel...

I'm eve going to cut your benefits and i'm going to cut taxes for rich people, you're not cutting it with average people. that to me is the real missing link here pope francis hasn't changed one doctrine of the cath lib church, but he's communicating to the average person. those people, average working americans are feeling completely disconnected with this president. they don't think we care about them. that's the big challenge. >> i want to ask you one other quick question before we move over to ronna. your reaction of the straw poll where you finished fifth. how serious are you about runnin...

>> for vacation. >> yes. >> as we said, rand paul is kind to hit a kind of sweet spot here where he pushes a conservative agenda on a lot of the traditional government spending, taxes issues. but he also is pushing libertarian ideas when it comes to things like government spying and to limits on criminal penalties. ronna, does he have the right idea, rand paul, about how to build a bigger tent for republicans? >> i'm not sure he does. i would like to have heard a lot more economic talk for him and a lot more solutions on that front. it's interesting you mention the pope. "time" made the pope t...