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And it's also seeming to indicate the $4 a gallon, here we come. it's a big concern. inflation numbers like that. it's so big it catches even the federal reserve's attention. ben bernanke speaking last night and in that speech he made some comments about inflation. he said he thinks inflation is transito transitory. he thinks it's going to go away and come back to normal at some point. he also said this. guys, get this. this is the phrase that the market picked up on, too. if he is wrong as his assumptions, the fed will have to act and act quickly to try and rein in liquidity. those comments m...

Of compelling races going on, that's going to be, could be the big political race to watch. it will become sort of the proxy fight for the right on the left. the national organizations will be pouring money into that fight. also, as it sort of begins the 2012 presidential cycle, republican candidates are going to be flocking to ohio early on. make that a must stop, so they can support governor casic. and so this is really going to be something we're going to be talking ability a lot in the fall. >> absolutely. it is going to be huge, big, it will be the driver of the political discussion for t...

With no intention of backing it up is bad news. we don't have a strategic interest in libya. but we do in bahrain. it's a proxy fight between iran and saudi arabia. what is the key to the region? saudi arabia. alisyn: this week saudi arabia sent in troops. >> the united states should say to saudi arabia, you are next. unless you show your people you are going in that direction you could well be next. you have got to start liberalizing. you have got to bring minorities into your government. you have got some start moving along those trailts. what happens for example if you start seeing saudi ar...

>> they're trying to hand out the goodies. they're looking at bahrain. they have a shi'ite/sunni divide. the sunnis control bahrain. 70% of the population is shi'ite. they have pretty good jobs, but they're protesting, because they want a bigger stake in it. the saudis are saying, why don't we have a similar problem? shi'ites will want a bigger role. who are they? friends of iran. iran, shi'ite and persia. saudi arabia, arab and sunni. so that look at it as a proxy fight. megyn: if those are the stakes, proxy fight, if we see the protests this week and we know that our saudi allies are looking...

Corporations. it's a power grab. it puts unions right at the heart of private enterprise and there's no vote on this. this is just an sec rule change under financial regulatory reform. >> stuart, a rule change. i've spent some time on boards of directors and i can't imagine the situation with the sec called us and says, by the way, put this union guy on your board. then, what is it? >> how does it work? >> it's a change in who can mount a proxy fight. sounds complicated but it's a change in the rules of who can nominate someone to go on the board of directors, a proxy fight. it's now favoring ...