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Vladmir putin, good friend with some of the oligarches, he is not happy. heather: we're here in the good ol' u.s. of a, so any impact on us here? >> yes. minor leagues but we're breathing a sigh of relief. when the stock market opened this monday morning even though it followed a series of all-time record highs you will probably see stocks go up a little bit more at opening bell this morning because of a bailout of cyprus. heather: stu varney, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. you've been busy. >> yep. bill: detroit is taking a big step to solve its financial issues. the new emergency f...

Know this. i mean, o'reilly, it's very clear, i don't think bill o'reilly knows who ezra klein is. i don't think he consumes any of the news that comes out of here, obviously. and just doesn't consume anything outside of that bubble. >> yeah, and i think what's interesting in watching it, first of all, it never gets less awkward watching bill o'reilly literally losing his mind and screaming at him. but republicans don't understand the terms of the debate. to your term, they don't really understand the budget. i think jared bernstein will back me up on this. if you look at the budget of the uni...

Tea party members. >> getting to the next story, conservative gasser the in cpac, they do that three weeks from now and they didn't invite chris christie. >> why should they? the guy has 74% approval rating. he stood up to powerful union bosses. he made the pension programs -- >> my goodness, look at his approval rating. who wants that! >> he actually has cut spending in real dollars. >> ew. >> this year's budget compared to 2008 budget. he's cut corporate tax rates. >> good lord. >> he's grown the economy by over 100,000 jobs over the past couple of years. >> don't want that. >> in his state....

Unfortunately it's not the right way to go, i don't think anyone wants to bail out detroit for mismanagement. >> brenda: julian, what say you. >> i think we have to define the terms, quid pro quo and bailout are unfortunate terms. i think that jonas made the right point. you have to separate long-term and short-term issues. long-term, the same way that the government reformed entitlement, the state has to reform pension programs. and many states and governments are doing that. in the short-term, however, it's another question when you're in an economically very difficult time, if the states an...

Has been the center arguably of this debate about what is the relationship between government and the people. >> well, and more specifically, how does government deal with budget problems? and how does it bring its budget deficit to heel? that's what a lot of states are facing, including wisconsin. and scott walker took on public unions, took on the pension programs, and was willing to break a lot of china. and ultimately prevailed and withstood a recall effort. so that's the state from which paul ryan comes. the immediate question on the presidential level is whether, on the battleground map,...