>> you did that. 3:00 a.m. melissa: cut through all of it. really. not today. you guys are all stars. that's all we have to you today. it "the willis report" is up next. >> tonight, 13 days to go the candidates are on a campaign blitz. how will the undecided decide this election? and the government back to green companies went bust. as the stopping executives from looking for more green. guess what. they might get them. upton said "the willis report." hi, everyone. i'm tracy byrnes. thank you for joining us. gerri willis has the night off. concerns over the health of our

nation's economy and doubling fiscal cliff. the headlineein today's financial times read you as third quarter results raise fresh economic fears. shares of companies warn of a global demand. the dow jones industrial average plummeting 2% over the past week, the worst drop since june. commodities taking a hit. gold falling below $1,700 an ounce. the price of oil has dropped almost 7 percent since last week. of course, the fed. today said it will leave interest rates unchanged and will continue qe3, pumping money or air, wherever you want to college, into the economy. joining us on what he makes all this harvard economist jeff myers. thank you for being here. they did basically change nothing in the fed report today it except for two things. change in language in the inflation. they said that the inflation has ticked up because of energy prices and the one that the global markets pose some downside risk. what do you make of all that?

>> i think on the inflation they also tried to emphasize that core inflation has not picked up yet. they don't seem to be particularly worried about inflation yet. that is one reason why they think that they should be continuing the economy and why there is not much risk to keeping interest rates low. on the global demand, that is clearly an issue. u.s. companies have earnings down, as you just mentioned. europe is clearly in recession. the prospects are is probably going to get worse for three, six months, a year. that affects the demand for u.s. goods and services which will also contribute to a slow-growth. continued slow growth. tracy: does that make a case for the qe basically invented the? in a statement they said even when the economy turns around they will continue to keep buying assets. >> you know, in the standard model the keynesian framework, as long as you're not seeing inflation pick up, as long as you see employment above what is regarded as full employment, something like 6 percent, yes,

there is a standard argument for why you should continue to use monetary policy to try to improve the economy. what we don't really know because we don't have great experience is whether at the point that we have gotten to me print,are pumping so muchin i whether there are additional risks that at some point expectation of inflation will get out of control or the fed ability to undo its monetary stimulus will be difficult or constrained by political factors. and so we are not. it might be quite risky. tracy: we have heard from numerous companies. all they do is complain about uncertainty. ups, dow chemical, xerox. "from the ceo, she says xerox has been hit by widespread economic uncertainty. especially in the u.s. that is global, but that is political uncertainty as well. our companies can figure out a way to go forward until someone makes a decision. >> i think that is right.

i don't think the fed is the main reason for the uncertainty. it is probably contributing to some degree, but it is the fiscal issues that most people are aware that under current projections are debt is getting bigger and bigger to a point that is not sustainable. there is no political agreement on whether we should raise taxes or cut spending, such as medicare or defense in order to try to deal with that, and so there is huge uncertainty. people also facing something that they may be too certain, the notion that taxes are going to go up which will discourage things. tracy: the fiscal cliff hitting home. we are seeing an analyst's report, company reports. everyone talking about this fiscal cliff. yet the president at one point said he has no problem seeing as go over it. what happens if we actually do get to that point where we are, you know, jumping over it like thelma and louise? >> there are two sides to the fiscal cliff. tax hikes and spending cuts. my judgment is the spending cuts are mainly a good thing.

the u.s. is spending too much money and a lot of the we are spending it on his whistle. so most of the spending cuts i would be perfectly happy with an adult think that they will do much to slow down the economy. tax hikes are a different story. clearly terrible idea. to some extent we may already be seen as a tax. the current slow-growth is partially anticipation, so we are not necessarily going to be falling off a cliff on january january 1. we are already sort of going down that the slowly because of the anticipation of those tax hikes. tracy: and you know what, nine times out of ten they make things retroactive anyway, so if we fall off the cliff will bounce right back over to the other side come january. thank you for your insights. >> my pleasure. thank you. tracy: it is not just economic policy. newly released e-mails showing the white house and the state department knew a terrorist affiliated group claimed responsibility for the libyan attack that killed four americans, including a u.s.

ambassador. leaving the obama administration totally on defense. for more on this john bolton, former united nations ambassador and fox news contributor with us now. i'm so glad you're with us because this is getting complicated. you know, at first they said it was not an act of terror, and then apparently it seems that they knew it was all along. where are we on this? >> i think these e-mails are very significant. my sense is just the few that have become public by the tip of the iceberg. at one level they confirm what we already knew which is in real time because of cellphone communications from diplomatic security personnel at the council in benghazi, it was clear this is not a demonstration that had gotten a little bit out of hand. this was an armed attack undoubtedly by terrorists that are quite common in eastern libya and benghazi specifically. what is significant about these e-mails, i think, is that they make it unmistakably clear that

at the highest levels in the white house, the state department, the defense department, the intelligence community, people knew what was going on in real time, and it was only late afternoon, early evening washington time. obviously six or seven hours later in libya, but this was during the working day. the notion that somehow it was unclear what was happening is just not sustainable. tracy: yet secretary henry clinton downplayed it. we had susan rice on air talking to jay carney basically saying, again, this was not -- this was all because of a video. why are they hiding this? there is a terrorist attack. if there is say it. >> well, i think they were trying to avoid the implication that the administration's narrative about the war and terror was just completely wrong. the demonstration saying the war and terror is over. defeated. the arab spring is going to bring democracy in libya, and

this tragedy refutes all of those approaches. so it was either cover-up for the president's own ideology preventing him from processing reality breton front of him, but here is where these e-mails also bring us to a new level because they show the passivity in the white house as the attack was underway. they were not taking steps. they did not go to all hands on deck red alert what are we going to do to protect our people. by the way, what are we going to do about the risk of attacks against the embassy in tripoli and other embassies in the region? and i think that is an even worse problem for the administration than the fact that they were resorting to an explanation that had no relation to reality. tracy: right. we did not react fast enough. it could happen right here. it most recently did down at the federal reserve building here in manhattan. we heard in the foreign policy debate the other night both

sides. i think a lot of people still feel like we don't have solid plans from either of them. >> governor romney had to overcome the hurdle that every challenger to an incumbent president has. ronald reagan added in 1980. that is to show that against an incumbent president who has been there for three and a half years the challenger has what it takes to sit behind the big desk at the white house and make some hard decisions. so i think that was the strategy, to show that he had, gravitas, resolved, he had a grasp of the issues, not to get into the nitty gritty of current disputes, but to show the voting public that he has the capacity to handle challenges and threats. we don't even know about it at this time because they have not occurred yet. there is something in the future, and the citizens have to believe that they can put his trust and delegate this enormous

responsibility to a challenger who they have not seen him perform the functions of commander in chief, so i think that is what the governor had to do, and i think in my completely unbiased opinion, that is exactly what he did. tracy: i guess it is very hard to stay in front of all this. ambassador bolton, thank you. >> thank you, tracy. tracy: all right. if you are fired up about this or any issue on the program, drop us an e-mail. gerriwillis.com. ♪ >> coming up on "the willis report", will the obama bank bankrupt electric car battery bonuses to top execs. we will cover the shocking new details. and only 13 days left until election day. >> i have a plan that will actually create jobs. >> can you afford four more years with 23 million americans looking for a good job? >> which canada will be able to sway undecided voters? our political panel battles it out later. also, wall street hitting that

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if he can't, no one can. that's why ly has a raise your rate cd. ally bank. youroney needs an ally. tracy: well, it was not too long ago president obama blasted wall street fat cats and a shameful bonus. >> you guys are drawing down ten, $20 million bonuses after america went through the worst economic year that it has gone through in decades. there will be time for them to make profits and there will be time for them to get bonuses. now is not that time. tracy: seems to be a very different story from one of his failed green energy debts. a handful of drive electric car battery maker a one foxbusiness.com systems into the ground and now wants over

$4 million or the bonuses. this despite some $280 million in government grants the already wasted. here to break it all down, associate fellow at the national legal and policy center. paul, an egregious is putting it lightly if you ask me, but we have to set this up. a one to three got $249 million grant from the apartment of energy in 2009 and then failed and file for bankruptcy. >> right. they've got this grant to refurbish two plants in michigan . they hired -- i don't know, a few hundred people, laid off a few hundred people. they have been a failure ever since. to recalls which have affected other stimulus recipients like this for automotive, some electric vehicles. so it has been a domino effect. and these executives have run the company into the ground. they have taken beyond the 249 million for those two plants , 30 million for another

stimulus project in a couple other smaller ones. and what have they done with the money? you know, they have run the company into the ground. it has been a big failure. tracy: now, this stock was at 25 and is now trading at $0.11 and is about to be delisted by the nasdaq, but they have been giving bonuses for a bunch of years now. the president, ceo, licking and $60,000 bonuses, $25,000 bonus for the cfo. they are still looking for more money, are they? >> what happens, you know, i believe it was after the first recall, they started having -- seeing stock dropped precipitously early this year. an ipo back in a ninth. wind up as high as $26 has been downward ever since. and what -- it looks like an emergency meeting of the executives and they boosted their parachutes from payouts of 12 months what the salary to 18

months with the salary and getting the bonuses immediately paid out if the company changed hands, which is on the verge of happening with this bankruptcy filing, probably draw some controls ticking of the company. tracy: totally premeditated. these guys are basically milking the company from the they can until it goes down to the ground taxpayer dollars the their milking. >> yeah. these are -- every one of these companies, they are in business because of government tax payer health. what wind energy companies, they are saying that they cannot exist without the wind production tax credit. their lobbying hard for it, but we are glad that the electric vehicle companies, you know, a detroit free press a few months ago reported that the battery industry was overstimuuated, even with the cars that were coming out. the cars are not selling. the batteries are not needed. and so you have companies, another one like algae can wear the employees sit around playing cards instead of working on

manufacturing batteries. tracy: and even this got a hundred and 18 million in grants from the department of energy and file for bankruptcy as well. what does this mean for the very hard for these companies to compete with china. we continue to subsidize. they're never going to make it on their own. >> you know, china is an excuse. if this company, a one foxbusiness.com could not have made on the hundreds of millions of dollars that was given to them and also helps attract private investment, you know, that is there problem. now there are looking to china. a chinese company that wanted to buy as well. you know, it is obvious. it is not going to work, especially with electric vehicles. the volt is not selling. the battery companies are suffering. all these employees to have been given new hope they used to work

in the auto industry and have moved over here with hope that they would have jobs for the foreseeable future are being left disappointed. it is released, really sad actually, the result of all this 56 until you find me a place to plug the thing and i will be the overnight at home which means i don't have a car in the morning. >> don't worry. they will subsidize the charges for you. tracy: i'm sure. the national legal and policy center. busy fellow. thank you for sharing with us. >> three to be with you 56 we want to know what you think. here is our question tonight. jones giggled. log onto gerriwillis.com and vote on the right hand side of the screen and we will share results at the end of tonight's show. coming up at the bottom of the hour, the war of words is heating up between the candidates with days to go before the election. or political panel will weigh in, and one of the country's largest bookstores gets hacked.

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♪ tracy: you probably do it if you permit times a day without even thinking about it, swipe your credit or debit card and just how safe is it? adam shapiro joins us with a funny look on his face. the latest.

it is -- >> it's still not after hours. let's get back to the story. when you swipe things, not talking about swiping things that don't belong to you, swiping credit cards. here is what happens. tracy: the little thing when i go to the food stored. >> just given everybody. did you see that? the sound effect. so apparently barnes and noble has 7,000 of these and other stores nationwide, but they discovered as of september september 14th that somebody, we'll call them the bad people, maybe one person, may be lots of persons had programmed 63 of these devices to of record, take, transmit to them your credit card number. and so they were able to execute fraudulent purchases after swiping your personal number from the pin pad. so what barnes and noble did

upon discovering this, remove all of them, 7,000, from their stores. now we have a map to show you the nine states where this took place, connecticut, california, illinois, pennsylvania, new york, new jersey. you can see that right there. if you want to find out if it was a store that you shot that, you can go online to foxbusiness.com. we have a link. to show you a list of stores, only 63 had a 700. the safest way to figure out if you were compromised, if you shop at barnes and noble in the last couple of months, check your credit or debit card statement. he sees something that you did not buy, call the bank. tracy: barnes and noble took them all away. what are they doing? putting new ones back in? >> they have not said it will put new ones back again. it will be interesting to see if they're is a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the hacker or the pants. keep in mind that they notified the fbi and the fbi is investigating.

it is not as if these were compromised, whether it was from construction to delivery, but he was there official statement. purchases online were not affected. the member database was also not affected. tracy: scary because use my credit card everywhere. >> you do it often. tracy: feel better. okay. now, we wanted to bring you the latest developments in a story we have been covering. a former goldman board member has been sentenced to two years in prison for feeding inside information's to now jailed billionaire hedge fund owner who was his friend. sentenced today in order to pay a $5 million fine. he was convicted of giving his friend stock picks allowing him to make more than $11 million in illegal profits. serving an 11 year prison sentence after his conviction last year. now, his arrest is one of the

biggest yet for the federal government crackdown on insider trading that has thus far resulted in about 69 convictions. so two years in prison. i don't know. all right. coming up later in the show, congressional staffers taking on the private sector. they say they work harder and longer than we do. stop whining. we have the results of a new survey next. president obama and mitt romney hitting the road like never before with less than two weeks before election date. what should we expect over the next 13 days? a lot of pictures of this. we will have answers next. ♪ for many, xium helps relieve

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and if -- is a campaign blitz to reach the unlucky ones are the to vote for. president obama traveling 5300 miles today hitting campaign events in iowa, colorado, quick appearance on the tonight show in california and back on the campaign trail in vegas. he heads to florida overnight. mitt romney is not slowing down overnight ended. campaigning in nevada and i will before swinging on average ohio tomorrow. so, what are undecided voters looking for? let's ask. you know, it is really interesting because at this point it just changes on these undecided voters. they know they hold the strings right now. right? what are we looking for, brad? what is it that they want to hear? at this point will the to stay home? >> but they will come home. they're looking for a validation that the vote affirmatively for

mitt romney, and i think he is providing that not only in the economy, but also in the third debate on foreign policy. independence to have come our way prior to the foreign policy debate because they like mitt romney on the economy and now they're coming our way because they have been assured now with a foreign policy debate that he is capable of not only leading our troops as the commander-in-chief, but also the architect of foreign policy going forward. tracy: you do have those undecided folks who are a little bit disappointed in hope and change and did not get what they were looking for. sort of feel like i don't want to cheat on the party and may stay home altogether. >> that is true. some undecided voters. at this point especially if you live in a battleground state given all the advertising and campaigning, if you're undecided there is a good chance he may stay at home turf. for the rest of them, the majority are women. look at the calculation, the more women who vote the more likely it is barack obama will win. for mitt romney the more when he

can pick up the more likely it is that he will win. for all of then this comes down to one thing in every presidential campaign, trust. who died trust more? barack obama's record of accomplishment where he has made promises and get them for mitt romney's revisionist history except to the point that we saw all night long in the foreign policy debate were of a sudden he was for sanctions in a rock and iran rather and was all about bringing home the troops by 2014. [talking over each other] tracy: benghazi because i don't know what the heck is going on there. but brad, let's go back to this whole so-called off the record qaeda out interview that he had agreed basically came out and said, look, it's not my fault. mitch mcconnell is keeping congress, totally roadblocks. >> this is all the obama 3d strategy, distract, divide, and disrupt. and it is never obama's fault. he never takes responsibility.

the american people are fed up with it. the president has a record that is indefensible, whether it is on the economy, employment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, energy office. this president does not have a record either in the last four years and now he is finally coming out with his 20 page pamphlet, too little too late. and it came out because his base was demanding he tell them what the next four years with the plight. tracy: too little too late to long. we don't want to read 140 characters on twitter, let alone 20 pages of any kind of economic policy. but let's talk about this health care plan because he said he has no regrets about that. yet we have seen time and time again that it is costing small businesses, large business is way more money than anticipated. >> but that is one of the promises that he made, that he would reform health care and he did. tracy: but it --

>> well, in massachusetts. we have had the romney care for years. it works. 99 percent of everyone is covered. costs are coming down. that is so it works. when you talk about a record, the reason people trust barack obama more is he has kept many of his promises, not all of them because he has not been able to get the republicans to go along with them. that is why he needs a second term and four more years to finish the job. [talking over each other] tracy: we still have a lot of people unemployed. we still have workers making not enough money. we still have people who don't have enough money in their wallets to buy things. as a result the economy is completely stalled. mitt romney is on a serious toward these next 13 days. what do you want him to say to those undecided voters to sway them? >> what i wanted to say is what he has been saying which is there are two different ideologies.

barack obama, trust me. the government is the answer to all that ails us. the robin hood theory of economics. take from the rich and give to the poor and everything will be okay. romney says the powers in the hands of the individuals below regulation, lower taxes, unleash creativity and ingenuity and entrepreneurship and get this economy moving. tracy: i have to give you 18 seconds shot at this. what do you want president obama to say to the undecideds? >> exactly what he is saying right now. and the only candidate who can bring peace and prosperity back to the united states. that is why i deserve a second term. mitt romney does not have the record on either count in his private business life as governor or in this campaign. tracy: i don't know if a 20 page brochure will do it. >> fifty-nine page one. tracy: and not going to read anything at this point. thank you both so much. >> thank you. tracy: all right. well, women have become a huge issue to this campaign with a

left harping on romney's binders of women, and and the right pointing out unemployment among women has soared under obama. another big issue, equal pay. a report out by the american association of university women says full-time working women earn an average 82 percent of what their male peers are. what? now, it comes to the gender gap worldwide. according to the world economic forum the united states ranks 22nd in the world. dear lord. down from 17th last year. who ranked the highest? is tonight's top five. number five. ireland, believe the not. this country scored big when it comes to political empowerment for women. number four, sweden, the bonds, scandinavian nations always drink analyst. number three, norway has high marks for economic participation opportunity for women. number two, finland, again with the blonds ranking number one in health and survival of women living them up a spot on the

list from last year. the number one best country for women is, and no i'm not going, iceland. they held the top spot since 2008 and ranked number one in political emmowerment as well as educational attainment. is it because nobody lives there? women there? the u.s. also tied for number one in that category. all right. well, still to come, why facebook had its best day ever on wall street, and bosses seemed hardly ever be at work, but congressional staffers say they were above -- more than most americans. the results of a shocking new study next. ♪ bob...

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♪ tracy: well, it may be hard to believe, but government workers say they outworked you. 56 percent of congressional staffers say they logged more hours than the private sector counterparts. first of its kind. joining as now, president and ceo of the congressional management foundation.

what we need to do this study? >> the study in the purpose behind it was trying to put a window on the congress but help management on capitol hill look at the work balance issues the staffers are facing, and the reason this is important is we know from research partners that work place that has more plush policies is more productive, more effective and in general the american taxpayer wants a more effective work force. tracy: anybody who is at the bottom of the totem pole in any job works around the clock, has to go good coffee. we have all worked around the clock. i feel like i still am. but other whining about? >> i would not call it whining. having said that, you have to look at them in comparison to other jobs, one of the interesting findings that we came out of the survey of congressional staaf, 40%. it would say they would leave capitol hill to have a better work life balance.

the reason, that is important to , high turnover, losing institutional memory, that makes individual offices and the institution less efficient and effective. tracy: because many of us rely on the staffers to go back and read the bills that are congressman bill read themselves. i was an auditor. i know people who are investment bankers. we worked 24 / seven during odysseys income tax season. we all worked really, really hard. and not sure what the are trying to prove here. >> if you look at research from the bureau of labor statistics, the average of a congressional staffer when the congress is in session is 31560 hours a week. in the 40's. so they are barking harder. they are also dedicated in response o one of the questions. a very important factor. it confirms that this is a dedicated work force.

they're often sacrificing their home life for their career. tracy: i'm with you on that. you don't go into politics when you are young and fresh of college for the money. it's like going into journalism. at the same time, to compare these kids to small business owners, to compare these congressional staffers to small business owners, which i think is what part of the survey did, that is a tough thing to swallow because small business owners don't get nearly the perks that the staffers are getting when they follow congress leaders around. >> i'm a pretty good comparison. when it comes to a perch on capitol hill, staffers don't get any lesser talking about working next answering the mail, tell people find their social security checks. there's not a lot of perks.

working for your government, working for a member of congress. in this study and future studies you will see and hear from them in a lot more loud weighs about how proud they are of what they do. tracy: i do hope someone listens to all of this because we need people like that you are just in it for the love of it to fix the system. 13 percent approval rating of congress, not so good. thank you for sharing the results. >> thank you. tracy: coming up, happy days are here again for facebook as the social media site has its best day ever. it is the start of a resurgence in the stock. details next.

tracy: facebook stock surging following a stronger than expected earnings report. buy, sell, or hold.

♪ tracy: in focus tonight, facebook stock surging today. the social media site posting its biggest single-day gain in the company history with shares trading above $24 for the first time since july before settling at $23.23. so, you have to ask. is it time to buy, sell, or hold? scott martin, chief market strategist of united. i'm so glad you're here. facebook. all the issues we had with them, the biggest was there ad revenue and apparently they were able to find some discord. >> yes. more than some. about 500 million if you annualize it. pretty good considering there is about 150 1/4 go. almost zero.

500 million which is great news, but you made a good point. at the start, time to buy. of tell you what's been going on short-covering. about 75 million shares of facebook out there that are short. the average volume is 80 million. of course more shares outstanding, but that is a huge amount of people that were betting against the stock going into today before the earnings report. tracy: and so people understand, people short the stock. they think it will go down. when it starts to go up they have to go back into the market and buy it back. you know, i was looking at the numbers. even soccer byrd himself said no one is giving us enough credit for the opportunity we said -- had with all these ad revenues which is coming. should we have a little bit more patients with the stock? >> listen, if you own it you certainly have to. they kind of turned the corner. you are right. mobil ad revenue, when it looks as a company perspective is

about 15% of business. a huge growth. the mobile users. the 70 percent of the second mobley every day. the ad revenues that will come from that, it's going to see beneficial to facebook because the ad revenue alone that you get on mobile trade, growing at about 10% year-over-year. tracy: the rise of the tablet market is only going to help facebook. no one knows how to get to the ads on their phone, but more and more people have tablets. much easier to click in. >> absolutely. that is where i think the benefit is to advertisers. gone are the desktop type ads off to the side of the screen that people don't click on. if you want to look at ancillary effects, some of the other stocks, kinda similar to facebook. some of the other companies that are out there that our customers are partners with facebook.

tracy: you brought up to grade mornings. two times coming up, a lot of insiders will be able to sell. it is expensive. so with all of that to you buy it here? >> i don't. i wait. i think facebook is growing up. no longer read teenager, but it still needs to mature. there is a huge block of coming up in november. let's give these guys another couple quarters to make sure revenue growth is sustainable. tracy: you have to pay attention and make sure kids are still using it. you do. thank you. all right. a fox business alert for you now. gas prices continued their rapid decline. the national average for a gallon of gas is $0.13 in the past week to $3.63 a gallon. not at my gas station.

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taxpayer. anthony agrees, why would you award failure? we also asked on gerriwillis.com. 98% said no come 2% said yes. be sure to log on gerriwillis.com for online question every weekday. here are some of your e-mails. everyone is insisting on the romney plan to give out more details about their plan for debt reduction. raise taxes on those making more than 250,000. in addition come to want to spend money on teachers and infrastructure. no debt reduction. the reason why they would want to raise these monies for private pensions, is that would be a nice science lesson for politicians. they may say it may not go into the general fund or mixed with the government union employee pensions, but it that they can take their hands off. finally, chris says what kind of government are rehabbing.

why should the poor get more stuff for free. like the saying goes, there is no such thing as a free lunch. the middle class will have to pay for. i don't think so. if you can't afford the phone, don't get the phone. finally, tonight? do you like your job? i do. i love mine. according to a new study. american workers are burnt out. showing up to work is the hardest thing about their job. not performing well, not moving up the corporate ladder, just showing up. only one third of workers like their job and are satisfied with their workload. we have all been there. at the jobs that make you want to cry in the morning. the ones we feel like you'll be stuck up forever. the economy is not doing anything to help the situation. finding a job of any kind is so tough right now. things need to change and we need to get people back to work. those that are already working, make them happy again. that's my 2 cents more. that's it for tonight "willis