points. i will see you on sunday for sunday morning futures. we're going to talk with bill broader this sunday, he says that putin and his counterparts in russia murdered his lawyer. he will join me in an an exclusive on sunday. tom sullivan's in for stuart right now, and i hope you all have a great weekend. tom: thanks, maria, very much. looks like we did indeed get a solid jobs report. i'm tom sullivan in for stuart, and here is the big story 257,000 jobs created in january. unemployment ticks up, many more people entered the work force and looking for work that's good, but as we say every month dig deep. labor participation rates still not seen since the days of jimmy carter. more than half of the jobs created under president obama are part-time or in the food service or health care industries not exactly high paying jobs. and the middle class? it's shrinking. the lower class getting bigger, that according to i pew, not exactly a right-wing

organization. get ready for the real story on jobs and the economy like you've come to expect ever day. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ 34ubg. ♪ ♪ tom: let's check the big board right now. not too far away from dow 18,000. the dow on pace for its best week in three years, and look at that? less than 100 points away from the 18,000 mark. let's take a look at twitter. user growth slowing, but results were still better than expected in this result -- and as a result, that stock is moving higher up 16%. meantime gopro is forecasting a current quarter profit that could miss wall street expectations, and they also have said their chief operating officer is resigning. the stock is down on that news down 10% at gopro. and linkedin is a winner after reporting strong numbers.

stock hit a new high 271. we're just a penny under that right now. looks like the jobs report 257,000 createssed last month. and -- created last month. a lot of those are low paying jobs. and the labor force that participation rate we talk about, is still hovering around a three decade low 62.9%. and that is one of the main numbers we look at because we're critical of the jobs report every month. take a look. >> 142,000 jobs created in august. not nearly enough and that is the slowest pace of the year thus far. a participation rate of 62.8% that is at a generation aloe. and here's the middle class squeeze. the average hourly wage up just .2% last month, up only 2% in the last year. you look at the headlines, you see a lot of spin. everything's fine and rosy but when you get right down there, middle america is suffering. the president trumpets the

economy. however, a record 92 million people are not in the labor force. >> the labor participation rate guys 62.8% edged up ever so slightly, but we're still talking about the lowest levels since the late 1970s. stuart: the headline number looks encouraging. it looks encouraging. >> yeah. stuart: lots of new jobs, hourly wages up, real unemployment rate came down. what's troubling? >> wages aren't really taking off and accelerating. the labor participation rate that number we've looked at so closeically, still at 1970s levels. tom: let's bring in paul conway former labor department chief of staff under george w. bush and, paul you're our resident skeptic. [laughter] what do you make of this latest report? >> well, i like to be an optimist sometimes, but not a lot of optimism in this report. you need 150,000 jobs minimum every month created just to bring on new workers coming into the work force. so i think that the direction is great, but you folks have drilled into the details which is where the story's at, and you

have soft jobs being created in the retail sector and other things that are like that and you have a lot of people still stuck in part-time jobs. part-time job number, those who are stuck in part-time jobs for economic reasons, is a 35-year high. and for the first time last year, we exceeded the number of business deaths small business deaths versus the births of small business. and that's where at least 50% of the new jobs created every year are created or should be created for this economy. tom: yeah. and that is a critical number. that's, in fact, the gallup ceo brought that up, about the fact that you got more business deaths than births, and that is a flip that is very, very dangerous because we all know the small

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which is their true policy agenda. then7 agenda shodw be what puts americans back to work and that's hundreds ofgu0s thousands of jobs per month areg:jd now. tom: yeah. paulm ñ good to get your take, thank you so much for joining us. >> you're welcome. tom: more numbers that give us a.[ l'l,f clearer picture of the economy according to pew research the share of americans who are part ofk'5ay

>> yeah, but that's natural. i mean, we've had such a step change in energy production many this company -- country because of innovation that over the longer term, you know energy has been a net contributor. yes, they're laying off now because the oil price is going down, they're not going to invest. that's short term.

tom: i don't disagree with you it's just i'm going -- the report this morning from the labor department did not include -- did they forget? that's all zero head is asking, and i think it's a good question. anyway, we have some breaking news for you right now. no filing your state taxes online with turbotax. company is halting e-filing nationwide over fraud concerns. intuit, who's the maker of turbotax, they made the announcement this morning. they say that they are working with state agencies to address the problem. however, they say it does not affect the filing of your federal income tax returns. again, turbotax suspending e-filing for state returns over some fraud concerns that they have. the stock is down on that news. meantime, we've got some headlines on terror to tell you about with lauren simonetti. hi lauren. >> reporter: good morning tom. jordanians take to the street to rally in support of the family of the fighter pilot that isis burned alive, this as jordan retaliates with more airstrikes,

also releasing a slick hi-produced -- slickly-produced video complete with pictures and people writing messages to isis on the bombs to be used. also today president obama is expected to call on congress to authorize military force against isis even though passing legislation and figuring out how to pay for it would be a challenge. and check this out, republican senator tom cotton of arkansas grilled the pentagon official about the rationale behind the white house's decision to close a guantanamo bay prison camp. >> as far as i'm concerned every last one of 'em can rot in hell. but as long as they don't do that, they can rot in guantanamo bay. >> reporter: the young senator adding the only problem with taliban tan mow bay is there are too many -- guantanamo bay is there are too many empty cells. tom? is. tom: thank you very much lauren simonetti. al sharpton's tax problems they're not going away. we're keeping it front and center on "varney & company." the question is why do some big name have beenties end up in

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tom: checking the big board, look at that the dow is up 42 points. we were a little closer to 18,000 earlier but we're still this that same neighborhood. oil is moving higher again as well another nice pop for oil up more than 2%, $51.55 for a barrel. gas up another we penny overnight, $2.16, and that's up more than a dime over the last three days. the $1 club shrinks, now we're down to eight states where the state average for regular is below $2 a gallon. we were up to, what was it, 20, i think. as for the cheapest gas in the land maverick in cored lain,

idaho, you get nice scenery and some cheap gas. and the credibility crisis continues for anchor brian williams. this week he admitted he was not aboard a helicopter that was thit and forced down during an invasion of iraq in 2004. okay, we got that. but now "stars and stripes," and that's the armed forces newspaper that first broke this story, reported that brian williams was actually flying with a different helicopter company altogether in a different direction and was only linked to the attack unit by radio. so nbc has not said yet whether or not he would face any sort of disciplinary action. mary, this story is getting bigger. it's not going away. >> that's right. and, you know what's surprising to me is that it took this can for this lie to be -- this long for this lie to be uncovered. it happened more than ten years ago. you know, when you think about the big journalist scandals --

jason blair at "the new york times" or stephen glass at the new republic -- you know people believed them because they were writing stories that played into, you know the popular conception. so, you know, i've got to wonder tom, do people not question the story because brian williams was reporting that the iraq war was really dangerous and bad and, you know many of the mainstream networks didn't like george w. bush and what we were doing over there? you know? you have to ask. tom: i think it's bad for all of the media, because a lot of people that don't have a lot of trust in the media are going to have less now so it really is a broad swipe. >> maybe less troop -- trust in nbc news, but not in fox. tom: well, people i don't think distinguish as carefully maybe for us. i'd like to think they do but politicians out there like the

former attorney general of connecticut, richard -- oh boy. >> blumenthal. tom: yeah blumenthal that was in vietnam when he never went to vietnam, they make these stories up. i don't know what it is. >> well, look the good thing about the media today is you you can't get away with it forever because of social media, because of blog, because of other reporters. it's much more difficult to keep a lie concealed but again you've got to wonder why this one took so long to come out. tom: and he kept telling the story for years. >> now there are questions about his reporting from new orleans during katrina. but then, again, same theme, right? mishandled -- quote-unquote, mishandled by the bush administration. nobody questions what he said. tom: there's one thing for us to make a mistake in the media and report something and then have to make a correction. everybody has ebb done that. everybody has done that. this isn't a mistake -- >> no, it's an embellishment. it's a lie.

tom: thank you. meantime speaking of trouble now this. big tax troubles for msnbc host al sharpton. he reportedly owes more than $3 million in federal taxes and liz macdonald tells us other people from chuck berry to leona hemsley have gone to jail for owing less to uncle sam. what's this -- leona hemsley chuck berry -- >> right. let's set up the story. so, you know, according to news reports -- and i've looked at al sharpton's, you know profit filings as well -- he personally owes reportedly $3 million in federal back taxes, another $778,000 in the state taxes. you know, his two for-profit businesses tom, owe roughly $800,000. so -- and his nonprofit national action network also has owed money, a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars in his operation. some of this involves fail to even file tax returns.

but we know now and i've dug into tax records i've talked to awe to haves, chuck berry went to prison for $200,000 pete rose went for owing $300,000. less amounts be i they ended up in -- but they ended up in prison. even leona hemsley for owing $1.7 million in back taxes. tom: right. so the big question is why isn't sharpton behind the clink? >> well that's the question and that's what people are asking. it's an open secret that the irs operates in a decentralized kind of business model meaning they have different district offices that handle tax investigations and probes. but the irs doesn't -- i know this for a fact having talked to them, they don't like to be criticized, they don't like to be second guessed. these guys like to have their decision, and they feel like they adhere to the law into the directives and the rules. but, you know federal appeals courts have said, you know the

rules are not generally consistently applied to taxpayers, they're not strictly you know adhered to evenly across the board. so you've got to wonder why hasn't al sharpton had the book thrown at him? we know that he has tax liens filed against him, and the irs is acting and the state is acting, but others have really had the book thrown at them -- >> how can we not discuss this story without talking about the irs' targeting of conservatives? this is a politicized institution, we know it, and now we have evidence to prove it after all the congressional hearings and reports that have come out over the last coup couple of years. tom: i presume, and maybe liz you can answer this, is there somebody at the irs who has to call up, send a file over to the u.s. attorney or -- >> yeah that does happen. that does go on. top tom because i would think the u.s. attorney -- well, they're political too. they're politically appointed too. but you would think they would go after, and especially a federal judge if it ever got to that would treat him the same.

>> you know, that's an interesting point tom. and the other thing, too, is al sharpton in his response to this whole issue to "the new york times," the national review, he is making it political. he's saying, you know every time that there's a ferguson that comes up, they go through my taxes. people don't like president obama, they don't like mayor de blasio. he's saying he's paying it off but liens are still out there, and this has been a chronic problem for him dating back to the early 't -- '90s. tom: long before ferguson or anything else. >> yeah, that's right. tom: liz, thank you very much. amy pascal is stepping down as the head of sony pictures and some nasty e-mails revealed during that hack. has hollywood learned its lesson? i doubt it. ♪ ♪ at ally bank no branches equals great rates.

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jeremy gerard joins us, executive editor of deadline.com. is this quick to change everything or -- is this going to change anything? >> well, cleanup, i don't know what we mean by cleanup. the shuffling has just begun. we are all speculating about who might replace amy pascal or if anyone will replace amy pascal in the job that she had. there's a lot of mixed feelings in hollywood about her record mixed feelings about what the consequences of the sony hack really were and how behavior may or may not change in hollywood in the way films are made. there's a lot going on in the industry -- tom: listen i think actors and producers, you can't put 'em all under, you know, one broad brush, but there's a lot of egos, and she damaged a lot of egos, she basically called them out on a lot of their behavior as well. in her opinion. so is she, she's going to have this production company, what --

who's going to want to work for her? who's going to want to produce or act for her? >> oh, i think anybody who's looking to make a movie and needs financing is going to want to work for her. she's got a lot of money at her disposal, and she's got an extraordinary track record with creative people. let me bring up one, i think classic amy pascal story that predates the hack and the, all the bruhaha about the interview and that goes to a movie called "moneyball." she green lit that movie. it was a movie about billy bean the oakland a manager who -- as manager who was told to cut his budget and raise his game. and he brought in a statistician and started looking at baseball in a way completely different from anybody else. when the movie was about to go into production, she pulled it to a halt because she didn't like the rewrite and she sent it over to bennett miller who ended up directing it.

it was produced by miketydeluca who is one of the possible successors to her. they took a long time making this movie happen. it cost $50 million, it took in $75 million at the box -- at the u.s. box office. not the hugest hit, but it made its money and it got six oscar nominations. now, if i'm a film maker and i look at that, i look at this movie that is not just about blowing up buildings, it is not -- i mean, she's also got spider-man she's also got the james bond movies. tom: right. >> so her record is hardly black and white. tom: but she lost the steve jobs movie. >> she did. that's one movie. that's how hollywood works. >> she did. and when he say she was punished for bruising egos, let's remember she also bruised the presidential ego. isn't that the real reason why she was so embarrassed at being push 3 deny pushed out here? it's the fact they were making fun of the president. >> the truth is nobody wants their e-mails out there on the

front page of the new york post or the new york times or deadline.com, and there's no question that this was a bruising bruising episode not only for amy pascal, but really for all of hollywood because everyone was afraid who's going to be next. >> i'm not sure -- not everybody sends e-mails like that. tom: i love your answer. in other words, you can insult me and i can have my feelings bruised, but if you've got the money for my next project i'm going to do business you. [laughter] >> that's how hollywood works. tom: perfect. deadline dom jeremy gerard. breaking bad prequel "better call saul" premieres this sunday on amc. here's the co-creator peter gould first on fox business last friday. roll the tape. >> saul was a character who we thought would be around maybe for a couple of episodes, but once we saw bob odekirk playing this character and wrote a little bit more with him, we started, you know falling in love with the guy. when "breaking bad" ended i was

constantly worried we were going to end up killing the guy off and we would have if it had been the right thing for "breaking bad." but he survived, and because he survived we decided there was more to say about this guy. tom: so we've got our favorite lawyer joining us on monday to review the show. you adopt want to miss that -- don't want to miss that. meantime happy birthday, president ronald reagan. today the great communicator would have been 104 years old. what advice would he give to president obama? >> well, wouldn't it be nice to hear a little more about the forgotten heroes of america, those who create most of our new jobs like the owners of stores down the street, the faith portfolios who support our -- faithfuls who support our churches synagogues schools and communities, the brave men and women everywhere to produce our goods, feed a hungry world and keep our families warm while they invest in the future to build a better america?

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we were off almost 17, so quite a ways back over the last week. gopro forecasting a current quarter profit that could miss wall street expectations, and they also said their chief operating officer's resigning. the stock taking a hit on that news down 10%. and you know how we like to give gopro free advertising on this show? take a look at this amazing video from a snowboarder caught in an avalanche. you've probably seen videos like this on go pro's new channel, roku. that's amazing where the cameras are today. we have this breaking news for you, fox news reporting the u.s. army has decided to award the purple heart to the victims of fort hood shooting. 13 were kill inside that massacre and the president and his administration referred to it as a workplace shooting, and mary kissel, you're giving this a thumbs up. >> yeah two thumbs up. these people were victims of a

terrorist attack. remember major nidal hasan yelleddal what act bar and there were a lot of heroes that day, thank god, but this is the right thing to do. tom: i agree with you. all right,. [inaudible] security adviser susan rice, she's going to present the president's national security strategy at an event in d.c. later today. rich edson joins us with more on what we can expect to hear. >> reporter: the white house is offering a broad preview claiming through president obama's strategy the united states will lead with purpose, focus on asia and build pickups to address -- build partnerships to address local challenges. lawmakers want to know if the administration will offer defensive weapons to the ukrainian government and how the white house will assist jordan in its fight against isis. to that, the administration is offering few specifics. >> if that means insuring that they're getting the security

assistance that they were promised, they can count on the president of the united states being a strong advocate for making sure that they get that assistance that they need. >> reporter: the administration's opponents are already reacting to the president's principles. senator lindsey graham -- a possible candidate for president -- says in a statement that quote, i doubt isil, the iranian mullahs or vladimir putin will be intimidated by president obama's strategy of strategic patience. from their point of view the more patient president obama practices, the stronger they become. tom? tom: all right. rich edson in washington, thank you. meantime speaking of leadership, today is ronald reagan's 104th birthday, and here's what he said in the face of communism. roll the tape. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall! [cheers and applause] tom: joining us is presidential historian and ray gone biographer craig shirley, the author of "rendezvous with destiny," and he joining us from washington. craig, i can only imagine how

ronald reagan would deal with the threats that we're facing in the middle easts. what do you say? >> well, i think it would be a concentrated effort. you know ronald reagan was a conservative, he believed in limited central authority but he also recognized the soviet threat in the late '70s and into his presidency was the greatest threat to america going forward. so you need a thoughtful but coordinated and concentrated effort to, in organizing international coalitions to defeat it as he did with the soviet union in the 1980s. tom: he was able to communicate so well. he's called the great communicator. and is that the secret sauce here, is that what the president says to us and how he says it? because the president that we have today gets a lot of grief about the fact that you heard lindsey graham's statement, you know, people look at it and say the others are going to feel more empowered. not with ronald reagan. >> yeah. he said, tom, in his farewell

address in january of 1989, he somewhat rejected the label of the great communicator and said that what he communicated instead were great ideas. and they had been ideas that had been missing from the national political debate from the time of the new deal forward. the two parties had become basically, representing big government, and it became a discussion over who was best able to manage government or grow government but there was never a discussion about whether or not government had too much power and whether or not it should be reassigned back to the states and localities and, ultimately, the individuals the way the framers intended. that was what made the 1980 campaign so radical. tom: well maybe that's what the wannabe candidates who are out there maybe could take a few notes from that as they run for succeeding president obama. >> absolutely, yes. because, you know, the time when i was high school physics, the part of high school physics i didn't sleep through i remember the teacher saying the power cannot be destroyed or created it can only be shifted around.

and from 1932 up until 1980 power had been moving inexorably away from the individual and localities to the national government. reagan wanted to push it back. i think that that is a debate that is absent in much -- certainly absent in the democratic party because they are the party of big government. i think everybody would agree to that. the republican party is more schizophrenic because you have there's a big government republican element, and there's also the tea party populist reagan element and they're often in conflict with each other. tom: they certainly are. craig shirley, thank you so much for joining us on this president reagan's 104% birthday. thank you so much. >> you bet. thank you. tom: president obama's student loan forgiveness program remember that? guess what it's going to cost us the taxpayer? $21 billion. are you ready to pay up for that? ♪ ♪

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tom: first out of the break, we have got some sign of the times headlines. here's lauren simonetti. >> reporter: after 94 years in business, radioshack files for bankruptcy protection and has struck a deal to sell about 1700 of its stores to wireless company sprint. in the new stores customers will be able to buy sprint's gadgets and plans but also radioshack's electronics. the rest of the company's locations are expected to close. verizon communications is selling about a quarter of its wireline telephone and internet operations in two separate deals valued at a total of $15.6 billion, this as verizon takes a step back from its slower, -- slower growing, highly-regulated businesses and focuses more on wireless. it will pay down debt and buy back stock. and this is why you should take your eyes off your cell phone from time to time.

a photographer captured this picture of a man sitting on a boat off the coast of california completely engrossed in his phone, tom. as a big humpback whale swim withs past him, 2 feet away. he didn't notice. he didn't even notice the people around him taking pictures of this. we call those stories, tom, signs of the times. and pick your head up from that phone. [laughter] tom: what'd you say? thanks, lauren, very much. all right, now this: politico reporting that the obama administration, they have revealed a $21.8 billion shortfall in the student loan program, and that money will just be tacked onto the federal deficit. young america's foundation, ashley pratt is with us. ashley, this also was a number that was kind of buried in there, because they didn't want any of us to know but especially young americans who are going to be paying this bill. >> very true tom. just like the free community college plan and all these other idealistic things. they're sure soon to fade, and

that's exactly what we've seen here. while we can debate the merits of whether or not we should give forgiveness in repayment programs to borrowers, we have to look at the real cost for taxpayers. by tacking this onto our federal deficit, we're just expanding our debt we're currently in. and the fact that the obama administration didn't release this information publicly, how much his program was actually costing taxpayers i think, is atrocious. it's irresponsible governance, and it's not very transparent and i'm thinking that he did pledge transparency a while back, and he's not really upholding that promise either. tom: ashley it seems as though this is a sign that the trillion plus student debt that's out there is not going to be paid back because people are already defaulting, and we're in -- this is just the tip of the iceberg it looks like. >> right. and we have more borrowers now more than ever because as a result of making these loans more accessible and making a college education more accessible, we now have more

borrowers which tends to make sense if you deduce that logically. and as a result we're now seeing this high deficit increase. and this program alone has increased our deficit by 5% and i think that's, you know a pretty staggering statistic there, and it needs to be addressed by this administration. we can't just keep allowing students to borrow without them actually feeling the need to pay it back. but then again if we're not creating jobs students don't have the ability to pay these back and that's why they default and/or need these forgiveness programs. is this the way the to address it? obviously not, but this administration doesn't seem to have any other ideas except for bailing out programs like this when they create them. >> ashley, when you say make loans more accessible let's be clear here. the administration nationalized the student loan market -- >> correct. >> -- then reduced the rates to pull in young americans, to entice them to take out more loans than they could handle. >> yep, just like he did. >> do is that the root of the problem?

>> it's just like health care where he says i'm going to make it more accessible, more affordable and look what happened? for young males at the age of 23, their premium increases have gone up 58% or higher. for young women, 43% or higher. so he wants you to buy into this knowing full well that we can't afford it or we can't pay it back. so when we have these loans that are, again yes more accessible as you're saying, what ends up happening is there's less responsibility to pay them back because we assume it will be paid for, and that's the problem. tom: well, the 21 billion represents a lot of people who can't pay it back, and if they think they're having trouble finding a job now, wait until the employer looks at their credit record -- >> no kidding. tom: and they're toast for a long time. >> that's the problem, no accountability. >> they're going to get rid of that anyway tom. they're going to outlaw -- tom: they probably will. ashley pratt, thank you. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. tom: all right how's this for an idea? self-destructing messages for social media web sites like facebook and twitter.

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tom: our next guest says there is a way to share messages on facebook and twitter, messages that will eventually self-destruct. can't copy 'em can't forward them. the method is billed as a way to keep your social media messages private. nathan from destruct is here. nathan, i'm sure you hear this a lot, this sounds like snapchat for my social media. >> well, in some ways it is, actually. snapchat limits you to sharing things within the snapchat app. destruct allows you to share it throughout your social media regardless of where it is. tom: but can i do that now if i post something on my facebook page and i want to delete it, i can delete it? >> but the recipients that you share it with and those who saw it may have taken a screen shot of it, they may have down loded it. when -- downloaded it. you're preventing all that from happening. >> hang on. so you're saying if i screen shotted a tweet, your program is

going to blow up my screen shot? >> if you sent it via destructs, your screen shot will be prohibited, and you will no longer have access to that tweet. that's exactly what i'm saying. tom: so you've solved the problem of that once it's out there, you can get it back and destroy it. >> that's our goal. we solved the problem of social media being permanent. and everything that we hear about that, all those things that come back to haunt us later -- tom: yes. >> -- the fact that everything's out on the web forever. if you use destructs to share these things, they are only there temporarily. tom: but that's got to be done for example if i'm the college kid at the party pouring beer over my head and i want to get a job a couple of years after getting out of school, i better have used this product -- >> exactly. tom: -- when i took the photo of me. >> not when you took the photo but when you shared it. you can take a picture on your cell phone as long as you share it via destructs when you regret it later, you can make it go away. of that's a great use case,

actually, because we hear so many stories of potential employers looking at your social media profile, and they see your life. let's make some of those things go away. tom: how do people -- is it an app? how do people find it? >> we're both on the web and on apple, ios and android. it's a free app at the moment. you can download it, use it, it's really very cool. tom: dstrux. well, i've got the tell you -- to tell you, i think there's going to be a big business for that. thank you, nathan, very much. appreciate you coming in. >> thank you for having me. tom: how does president obama address radical islam? not by calling it that. instead, he says christians are just as bad, and he cites the crusades. that's new at noon. plus, a "varney & company" exclusive, mitt romney may not be done with presidential politics after all. charlie gasparino has the details when hour two gets underway in two minutes.

tom: just when you think the word genes from the white house could get more outrageous the president gives us a history lecture. he refuses to refer to isis and al qaeda as radical islamists. his press secretary won't call the taliban and terror group. now the president stood in front of a group of clergy and compared the war's end outrages perpetuated by isis, most recently the burning of the jordanian pilot, he compares it to the crusades. christians are just as bad because of something that happened hundreds of years ago. every religion has blood on its hands. the president goes overseas, bashes america, standing and the clergy from all faiths and batches christianity, the great you nigerian deep. that is how we begin our two. ♪

>> we get to the president and the crusades in a moment. first breaking news several reports saying isis claims the american hostage caleb was killed due to a jordanian air strike. mueller is a humanitarian worker, fox news has not confirm those reports. what is -- what are you hearing about the jordanian air strike? >> having trouble hearing you but the reports are troubling. what we are seeing is isis this week this month doing as much as they can to go after western ideals. they're saying a jordanian missile work a jordanian rock that or the jordanians killed this individual. obviously is just a pr move.

they wanted to kill these hostages, they have killed hostages. they are just upset they haven't filmed it for pr purposes. i don't believe the jordanians are responsible for this. the jordanians are trying to stop this activity. tom: it seems one of those where a lot of people will say sure. it looks like they don't have any problem killing their hostages brutally and a lot of people were wondering what was going to happen to her and this obviously has answered that question. >> i am not sure we can assume she was just killed today. after all, what we saw, the facts come out about the jordanian pilot, he was killed last month and despite the fact that isis was filming this brutal burning of an individual as they did this and then after

they covered it up basically in order to tell the jordanians that they want a hostage swap, they were negotiating for a hostage swap even though the person they were talking about had already been burned alive and put on video so the fact that they saved this video and did it when the jordanian king was in the white house really shows that they are all about pr move they are extremely savvy when it comes to communications and that means we have to call them out even more. is one of the reasons i think at the prayer breakfast when we had the president again dancing around this moral equivalency argument, not able to say radical islam but really being able to bring up something that happened 700 years ago it looks to me -- tom: let's play the sound bite from the prayer breakfast.

this is the president addressing radical islam in the history of religion. roll the tape. >> unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place remember that during the crusades and the inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of christ. tom: you christians that are on your high horse i got to tell you the crusades, we are no better than isis isis is no better than us. that is what i got from that. >> what it means is you all committed these atrocities 700 years ago. certainly should not be condemning actions this week. it seems not only tone deaf but it seems the president is struggling to create this moral equivalency. he is doing back flips in order to and not call out isis. there is the real concern that

you could say christianity has done atrocities in the past, a great point. you shouldn't do of the week isis burns someone alive and he should take a page from president bush who always condemned radical islam but always also went above and beyond and said these people are distorting islam because we know the majority of muslims don't want this type of action to happen and they need to speak. tom: here is the problem i see with this. this is a gold mine. you talked about isis having a pr team that is excellent, this now will show up as we are just the same, there will be a pr gold mine for they got the president of the united states making their argument for them. >> you have to remember this is playhouse, susan rice the national security adviser constantly telling us putting prisoners in gitmo is a

recruiting tool somehow by punishing this type of terrorism putting them in prison, that is a recruiting tool for radical islam but i think the president want to look in the mirror and see that his comments condemning christians 700 years ago is an incredible recruiting tool. tom: if you go back in history we were hit by radical islamists long before gitmo was even there. you can go back to tehran, the bombing of the world trade center in 93. tom: in africa, nairobi and tanzania, where level. the uss cole attack, president clinton before gitmo. tom: thanks for your expertise. thank you for coming on. a couple stories we broke over the last hour no filing your state taxes on line with turbo tax. the company is halting each

filing nationwide over fraud concerns. into it with jones turbo tax says it does not affect filing of federal income tax returns the turbo tax suspending the filing for state tax returns over fraud concerns. stock is the fifth biggest loser in the s&p 500 today. we have this from fox news, the u.s. army says it will with the purple heart to the victims of the fort hood massacre, 13 killed, 30 wounded. attorney general eric holder referred to this massacre as a workplace shooting, not a terrorist attack. the army thinks otherwise. the purple heart was awarded to those wounded in combat, that is important to know. that is good for the u.s. army. let's bring in john rayfield, we have some big tech names to run through, let's start with twitter because they beat the st. way up on the news.

>> you got to see how they're monetizing. twitter has done a phenomenal job getting -- they are starting to affect live television nielsen trying to incorporate twitter in to what they do but they are not good yet at monetizing that content. once you start seeing that that is the time to buy. tom: go pro is a twist because they came out with their earnings, pretty good numbers and stock started to rally and then they say are chief operating officer is out the door. it is having a down day. we have a saw assail going today. >> i errant it. i never thought i would see anything as crazy as the super bowl where you get the best running back in the league and give the game away. that is what go pro did on the conference call i said before christmas that the numbers were too low. channel check showed the full through on a product that was

true so they show a band instead of striking the football, as good as the earnings were the conference call was bad they announce the ceo was leaving february 17th, they had a 70 million lockhart and they did a terrible job communicating in that conference call and was complete unforced error. stock should be up on earnings. tom: linkedin hitting a new high. is that on your buy list? >> yes it is. as bad as the go pro conference call was linkedin was as good. they are up 41% but the rest of the market solutions are 44%. they are hitting on all cylinders, 300 million people are on linkedin. a great well-run company. tom: good to talk to you.

mitt romney is not running for president but charlie gasparino still thinks he may have left the door open. what is going on? >> this is what he is telling people. i think it is a slim chance, mitt romney the big gop donors know it is a slim chance but let me run through these headlines. mitt romney is clearly pointing to giambi operatives opening to leave the door open to possible 2016 run. here is what mitt romney told one supporter last week to focus on the word unlikely in his recent remarks about presidential ambitions. he said it was unlikely that he was going to run. tom: he did not say won't. >> a supporter went up to him and said i am a big supporter i wish you would run but i did notice unlikely he said you noticed that. mitt romney is leaving the door that much open for possible 2016 run with these folks saying -- we can hash it out.

here is the way it happens. is a very crowded field so far, you have chris christie and jeb bush, a bunch of midwestern governors out there fighting for that segment, you have ted cruz possibly in it rand paul in it, mike huckabee in it. this is a crowded field. when he gets in is through a broken convention if there's no real front runner which people are talking about. that doesn't mean it will happen. tom: is that what he is banking on? that primaries will come of with no answer and he will save the day? >> he is telling people be aware of the word unlikely in my speech last week. is unlikely. if you think he closed the door he is indicated to be -- i would bet with neil cavuto if he

didn't run i think he is going to run, he knows me a nice steak dinner and we have to postpone that a little bit. tom: 9 like the word unlikely. >> he said unlikely but the funny thing is when he pointed out to somebody, this happened last week at a conference in washington, i saba were unlikely, you saw that, didn't you. you notice that. tom: always great, good information. lauren simonetti here with a news update. the pulse of america story. >> a random act of kindness may help one young man get a job. a young man looking for a tie for job interview. he wanted a tie the store only told regular ones. very helpful target worker showed him how to tie a tie, that a firm handshake and the worker went over interview questions with him. take a look at this. a georgia barber is offering

haircuts to kids who maybe too big for their britches. a 12-year-old son making bad grades in school, asking two grown up so he made this look apart. at their parents of come into this shop, to teach them a lesson. look at that hair cut in the middle. it pays to be a winner. patriots quarterback tom brady about to pay a major tax bill to the irs. the money he earned, if you wants to give the chevy truck the one he wants, a star player malcolm butler it is going to cost brady another $20,000 in taxes and those are your quirky headlines. tom: the tax man is always there. after the break mcdonald's's new ad campaign, someone says it is not going to work. mcdonald's will start from square one. more on this next.

>> telling me what you love about yourself. >> for other people, compassion.

tom: the cia is confirming to fox news is investigating claims by isis that american hostage klm your was killed as a result of a jordanian air strikes. several news outlets are reporting she has been killed. fox news has not confirm that but the cia is looking into those claims. back to the markets, we have the big board, the dow hanging in there up 39, close to 18,000 on the dow. best week in three years, different story for expedia down big after profits fell 30% from a year ago well below what the street was expecting getting hurt by the stronger dollar and stiff competition from china's 11% drop, look at comcast, in

hot water again, changing customers' names in their computer systems and these are not flattering names. what is going on? cheryl: some of it cannot be said on television. in the chicago area, mary bauer get her comcast bill, but instead of it being to marry it was to, quote superbitch power. she opened the bill, if you want to send me a bill send it to my correct name. tom: calling people swearwords and everything else. >> this is what is happening. she was very upset and then she tries to call and is thrown off and nobody is helping her, basically she quits calling and they're going after her. >> that is the experience we all had with the cable company.

somebody at comcast is a devilish. >> now they want to merge with tumwater to deliver and they are our real treat. the fun will continue. >> can't wait for what they call me. mcdonald's thinks it has found a way to get you into these boards. roll the tape. >> tell me what you love about this. >> i love compassion for others. >> something on you. [applause] >> for someone who witnessed this campaign for a stand, wall street journal op-ed editor, you went to mcdonald's and got a little free meal, a little loving or something?

>> travelling to washington d.c. stopped in for good mcdonald's breakfast and i was surprised when they said you don't have to pay, there was some cheering and instead i had to dance for my mcdonald's breakfast. i did dance a little bit, i stood for a second so confused, i hadn't seen the ad. the cashiers joined me and it was a little bit awkward. but i got through it okay. >> i am fascinated by this because i think it is a very awkward campaigner and sounds awkward for you but there was one where they said call your mom and tell her you love her, for people like me my mother passed away. that is kind of -- you don't know people's personal situation. >> big potential for ordnance. they are trying to draw some

attention, there a new hip brand. that is a mistake. liz: they are doing this because millennials turned their back on mcdonald's your a financial journalist, it has been plummeting. not so much globally but in the u.s.. we are talking about it and that is helping a little bit. tom: let me ask you a question. the story is your generation is smocking this because of get some love in at mcdonald's and people are going is that how you took it? >> nobody is important when you are in a conference room talking about an idea be sure you know how everyone will take it. i am a millennial and i am not going to be persuaded to go back to mcdonald's i invented new slogans. i will be persuaded by good food. that is how they can improve.

a mcmuffins are good. that is not the problem. tom: you were willing to fork over two bucks. >> they should get back to executing a high standard, making their fries top, making customer service and good. that would be away. tom: interesting it through you for a loop. thank you. freezing temperatures across the country, negative wind chills in the north freezing in the south. what does the epa do? it goes after your wood burning stove. we will explain next. ♪ ♪ is it the insightful strategies

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to eat your home millions of americans will soon be forced to buy more expensive wood fire stoves and you won't believe the reason why but cheryl casone has the reason. cheryl: the epa does amaze me sometimes, the issues they go after when it comes to things we use and depend on. now it is wood burning stoves. imagine all these people in frankly world counties that use wood burning stoves, they depend on this for heat 344 page rule epa comes out with, they say that it is for the environment. we are talking 2.4 million households use wood burning stoves. here is the reasoning, why are they doing this? that it would be more environmentally friendly, that there will be fewer deaths in this country because of asthma related to the emissions. it will only cost $45 million but in particular wisconsin, one republican lawmaker said you got to be kidding me. you know what this will do to

pour families? they will be calling me in wisconsin, and they're up in arms with the epa in this role. tom: not only is it charming and romantic and all the other things, functional. >> keeps you warm, talking about trees, not chemicals the trees. >> they're bad for the environment. >> having a hard time with that one. another measles outbreak, coming down with the chicago, we will discuss that next. we will discuss that with the doctor. >> we have gotten rid of measles by the year 2000 by vaccination campaign and certain parents not having their children

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tom: the big board not far from

dow 18,000, up 46 points. we have been flirting around this area for a couple hours. not much positive move, look at twitter because user growth has slowed but results better than expected so that stock is doing well 17% gain for the twitter co. on their stock. shares of pandora touching a new lower 14 earlier after reporting disappointing sales numbers. at stock is at $15.26. oil getting a nice move today $52.40. we were in the mid 40s west weekend gas up another penny to $2.16, up more than a dime a previous days. gas prices to government political reporting the obama administration revealing $21.8 billion shortfall, that money is tacked on to the

federal deficit. remember what ronald reagan said about big government. let's roll the tape. >> government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. tom: classic reagan. who better to ask about this than mr. small business, john stossel is here and this ties in with your program on the fox business network, the parasite economy. what is a parasite economy? john: the beauty of the free market is the only way you get rich is sell people stuff that they want what they voluntarily pay for. parasite economy is all the people like the colleges you told about go to government and use force, government is force and they use force to get your money and there's plenty, green energy companies the whole college industry the banks getting there bailouts, too big to fail me in some big banks are

parasites. tom: the government is going to squeeze out the private sector? john: it is a constant battle. the beauty of the private sector is it managed to grow as fast as government so far. as we age and medicare eats everything else we are past the tipping point and parasite state will suck the life out of most everything. tom: the next generation has to see how this works in the capitalistic form. but we become more -- the socialism creek, you can see it coming. >> kids below 30, the like socialism? 49%. some don't know what it means that we need government to keep the peace for some environmental rules for the epa should stand for enough protection already to run the courts and that is about

it. three people did the rest. tom: your next guest, fox business tonight at 9:00. john stossel. next up is exactly what we are talking about the measles outbreak 102 people in 14 states reported to have the measles and the latest cases, this is a tough one five little babies, infants attending that kinder-care learning center in illinois, but that is not it. turns out there are 17 states where the vaccination rate kids is below 90%. let's bring in dr. henry bernstein. these little children are too young for the vaccinations though somebody with that basically infected these kids. >> absolutely. they were exposed. it is an extremely contagious disease and we want to respect -- protect as many people as we

can. yum children under a year of age can't get it so we expect their family members, caregivers, people they are exposed to will have the vaccine because it is incredibly effective. tom: ended the age of 10? >> under the age of the year. tom: you give those shot when the babies are pretty young. >> we do but when we give them, measles vaccine is part of the m m r did children under a year of age. they may not respond as well until their first birthday. we do recommend because the world is a smaller place, people are traveling a lot, people coming to the u.s. people from the u.s. are traveling abroad, so the risk of being exposed to measles is a huge. there are 20 million cases of measles every year around the world and 122,000 deaths. >> do you think the media is overblowing the story?

that is the criticism of the general media, we are making a big deal of it. >> this is a huge deal. this disease was eliminated from the united states in the year 2000 and we use to get only maybe 50 cases a year most of them imported from other countries. now last year there were 644 cases. we have already had over 100 cases in the first month of the year. tom: it is essentially eradicated, we go measles is not a big deal, you get a little sick. there are some serious problems with measles and it can kill. are you seeing any change at all? are parents calling the office and saying i told you didn't want vaccines? i am coming in. >> it works on a spectrum. certainly we recommend a vaccine for everyone including adults. people need to look and see if they had the vaccine especially

those that are traveling abroad especially those that work in the health-care sector and college students. tom: i don't remember if i had measles or a shot but i have been told you can do a blood test and find out if i have my facts team. >> in order to know that there are . >> in order to know that there arevaccine . >> in order to know that there are. >> in order to know that there are ways to do that. you can produce documentation or have a blood test and it is important. if you were born before 1957 and i am not asking but if you were born before 1957 you are considered immune. tom: i've probably had measles when i was a kid. thank you so much. >> let us get as many children and adults immunized against measles. the only way to have heard in unity is if in fact we get at least 94% of the public

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tom: tiger woods and withdrawing from the insurance classic after 11 holes. apparently his back is still bothering him, still injured, first time in the last nine tournaments he has withdrawn

from competition. caddy is suing the pga, forced to wear bids with company logos on them and the p g a makes millions of dollars of that revenue from using them as human billboard and they are not seeing a dime of it. we got one of the caddy's involved in the lawsuit, he caddy's for kevin na and joins us now. on this lawsuit you are part of the lawsuit. is that correct? >> that is correct. i one of the lead plaintiff's. tom: tell us how this works. you get a piece of what the golfer gets, but why not a piece of -- does the golfer get money for wearing the logo? i assume so. >> the golfers in contact with their own sponsors and get paid. we where for the pga tour, nothing to do with the players it is part of what they require

us to wear if we don't wear the bid we cannot caddy. we have learned through certain sponsors that the tour is getting $1 million of advertising each week out of the caddies and we are not seeing any of that income. tom: why isn't your beef with the golfer instead of the pga. why don't you say for cover some of the endorsement money? >> it has nothing to do with me. i am wearing a bid for the pga tour, millions of dollars of advertising we are not seeing part of that. if you think about it, fundamental and capitalism in the american way, controlling your own body in like this. we should be able to control at

and share in profits. tom: have you approached the pga or had consultation with them or said anything about them and they said what? >> we met a year ago in san diego and asked for a small portion of the big book which would control which would make enough money for our health care retirement for all the caddy's on tour and they shot us down and said absolutely not. about three months later, in tampa, i explained to him, this is the only way to take care of these caddy's that can't afford health care can't afford retirement. look at the guys making all the money, the guys that are not making money. tom: take off the big. >> that is not an option. we have been told numerous times

if we don't where the big weekend not caddy. if you recall when steve williams was working for adam scott and taking the big off on the eighteenth hole, show his sponsors. he had sponsors on his shirt that was being covered the whole round so he would take his bib off in the eighteenth hole so the caddy's would be it, the sponsors would be able to see their logos. they don't get to see their logos during a hole so the tour came up to adam scott, you have to keep on that bill but until you get done with scoring coin. another time we met. tom: i have got to run. mark lanier is representing the caddies, the attorneys on monday. we will get more on this very subject. we wish you well. when you dig into the numbers the jobs report not as bad as

headlines make it out to be. former economic adviser is next. tom: and look at the headline and see a lot of spin. stuart: when you get down there, middle america is suffering. tom: the president from this economy. stuart: however record 92 million people are not in the labour force.

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tom: an update on reports that isis is claiming an american hostage was killed as a result of jordanian air strikes and fox news now reporting the jordanian government is highly suspicious of those reports but the jordanians admit it is impossible to verify them. they don't know what the hostage would have been doing in that area where the air strikes occurred. back to that jobs report let's bring in president obama's former economic advisor austan goolsbee. you have always looked to the numbers carefully. you like to dig into the weeds. the headlines are amazing but when i look at this and see that they revised way up in november which is a good report anyway but the november numbers were higher than the december numbers which were good, it seems like

this is where most of the hirings it comes down. >> hard to sustain numbers of what november was. it is slowing down and still a strong number. i am more conservative than i should have been these numbers in thinking how the job gains were going to be temporary. a lot of it had to do with the come back from the weather. if we get several months like this, several months in a row. i think people will legitimately say the job market is approaching anything like normal. tom: we are short on time. i apologize but average hourly earnings were up 1/2% in one month. that is huge. what happened in january to make

that number pop? >> you don't know except in the previous month they were down so you want to average out over it. for the year over year it is of 2% so that is finally some progress but not that dramatic. tom: will we get wage growth sustainability? that is what we need and i don't see it from this. this is one big pot. >> that is what we need. we don't know if it will be sustained. we should be happy with that but we are long way with what we are flying on our own. tom: always good to talk to you. thanks for coming on. appreciate your time. we have more tom: right after this.

tom: the white house now saying it has not seen any evidence corroborating claims that an american hostage was killed by jordanian airstrikes, but a spokesman does say they're

deeply concerned about the reports. much more on this as the story develops but now let's go to deirdre bolton. deirdre: happy friday. one of silicon valley's most-followed investors making millions in tech, he is going to tell us why he is all in on drones. in honor of jobs day, we're going to give you the short list on which tech positions pay the most. and it is a huge event for the music business predictions for the grammys from our special guest who wears three hats; musician producer and label exec. well, twitter beat estimates on the top and the bottom line revenue nearly doubling from the prior year. ad revenue a big contributor, 97% year-on-year growth. jeff is the founder of soft tech one of the most blood pressured capital venture firms but we're going to start with "the wall street journal"'s scott austin. for better or worse, the