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And read my washington post column this week and let's get started. you just heard my take, let's see what my panel thinks. in london, the editor in chief of "the economist" and the next war, the growing threat of conflict in today's world. ronna is a global business co columnist for the ft and with me here in new york is ian bremer, the president of the racial group. let me ask you, you were at davos, i saw you there. the mood was buoyant because of the growth. do the leaders deserve the credit for this global growth? are they right? >> well, collectively, they do

The sense of growth. do the leaders deserve credit for this synchronous global growth? are they right? >> well, collectively, they do deserve some credit. i'm not sure donald trump deserves quite as much credit as he was taking but yes, the global economy is absolutely buoyant and going to grow and as a result, there isn't a short term, a lot of sense of euphoria. underneath that i think there are deep concerns. you highlighted some of them. people breathed the sigh of relief that donald trump there was trump on best behavior, trump with the teleprompter and that reinforced the relief and euph...

Hampshire this month. >> 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. ...