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Turkey? >> well, yeah. and i know that the turkey-syria thing is obviously escalating because of what happened with the shootdown of the su-24. but that's a peripheral issue, and i think this president fundamentally has gotten it wrong because he doesn't understand the difference between terrorism and jihadism. that's what is going on there now. we're not talking about a terrorist group and to think of isis in those terms is wrong and misleading. he's getting bad advice there. this has ceased to be an issue about terrorism or jihadism. it's about regional control. >> now, the is the concern th...

Turkey? >> well, yeah. and i know that the turkey-syria thing is obviously escalating because of what happened with the shootdown of the su-24. but that's a peripheral issue, and i think this president fundamentally has gotten it wrong because he doesn't understand the difference between terrorism and jihadism. that's what is going on there now. we're not talking about a terrorist group and to think of isis in those terms is wrong and misleading. he's getting bad advice there. this has ceased to be an issue about terrorism or jihadism. it's about regional control. >> now, the is the concern th...

Global response. what the white house and this administration decides to do now, is there a yes/no factor for making the oil problem better or could it go either way? >> here's a funny thing, not funny ah-ha about markets. sometimes when governments respond it makes it worse because you think it is so bad there is a u.s. response or if the u.s. response were to be complicated in some way, that could mean another spike in oil prices >> you mean a quagmire. >> a quagmire would be very bad for oil prices. >> if you just leave them alone? >> sometimes that's bad, too, because you're watching pictu...

Has had trouble with going too deep. it had trouble with oil or some oil of mechanical problem and now this. it's not exactly filling us with confidence but they don't seem daunted. >> no, you are right. on the surface of it, you can say well, three out of six missions they have had an issue but those running it say this is a highly technical piece of equipment. it is also going down further than it has ever been before, going down 4700 meters. the first time it aborted is because of a fail safe mechanism built in to the software that said when you get to 4500 square meters come back up which ...

Century, to subsidize oil, why would we want to do that after a century to the most profitable industry in the world. further stewart i came to america 40 years ago after the oil problem in 1973 and solar was supposed to take off, it was the energy source of the future. that was 40 years ago. but, today, solar supply is less than 3 percent of america's electricity. now, it is not gone very far in four decades but you want us to keep on putting money, taxpayer money, into it? >>guest: a better question than the one you just asked, why do we keep on putting $10 billion of taxpayer money into the...