think that's bad, and these younger people are -- they're just saying we're angry. maybe we should try and find people that have a better idea, but i think the anger is the problem. >> i've got an idea. this is a fox news alert. a major development in the solyndra scandal. a member of president obama's cabinet, energy secretary stephen chu, has agreed to testify before congress. he would testify before a house subcommittee investigating the government's half billion loan to the now bankrupt solyndra. cliff sterns said he hopes secretary chu will provide answers as to why the energy department granted that loan despite warnings that solyndra was doomed to fail and, in fact, did fail. secretary chu is scheduled to testify on november 16th. we'll continue to bring you all the latest developments in the solyndra investigation. but tonight, governor perry drops the s bomb. he says he may skip some

debates. skip, really? leave all the other candidates on the stage to grab the spotlight and dazzle the voters? what happened, was he scared off or was it a political shrewd move. dick morris joins us. >> he got the s word right. not shrewd, stupid, because when everybody knows the reason he's skipping the debates is because he got clobbered in the last four debates. first of all, if you're not in the debate, you're not in the race. these debates are making the race. nobody cares how many babies they kiss in iowa. they look at the debates and decide who to vote for. secondly, everybody knows the reason he's not debating is because he's afraid he'll mess it up again. these debates are really an audition. we're asking them all to audition for the role of the guy who debates obama. if you say you can't cut it, you're not going to get no,

ma'anominated. >> he's getting clobbered by speaker gingrich and former senator santorum who said it's a sign of weakness that he may not do it the gingrich said, quote, it's an enormous mistake. not only is he going to get clobbered by his absence should he decide not to show up, but he's already getting clobbered. >> yep. absolutely. it's a stupid move. what i think is incredible, greta, is the incredible surge of herman cain that's going on. people have dismissed him as the flavor of the month and all of that. that's neither true nor fair. he's put forward a program that americans and particularly republicans really can believe in, that by cutting the tax rate essentially in half, in reality in half, you're going to have tremendous burst of job growth in the united states just like reagan did when he cut the rate dramatically. and i think people are really embracing it.

perry's solution, the flat tax, isn't a reform. it's just a a simplification. it doesn't lower the tack at all. it says this is a simpler way to pay it, and that's fine. herman cain's 9-9-9 is terrific. >> i don't understand how governor perry's policy possibly survives. it's an alternative, and you could either do the flat tax or you could go back to the old method, and i assume that people who will -- who get their taxes lowered would rather have the flat tax. i think there would be a revenue issue with his. you talk about mr. herman cain's popularity surge. a few moments ago public policy polling released a poll. in the great state of wisconsin he has now a double digit lead over governor romney. he's at 30% to governor romney's 18%. governor perry and speaker gingrich are at 12. in the state of nevada, he's also surging or at least going up. he's only a point behind

governor romney. he's at 28%. that must be scaring the living details out odaylights out of gr romney. >> it's not. i don't think if he drink. if he does, he's celebrating it. romney's goal in life is not to run against perry in the final two. he doesn't want 17 million bucks coming at him. he knows he has to have an opponent in round two. he knows it has to go down to a two-way race, and the guy who he thinks he can beat is herman cain. now, romney may be wrong because all the politicians underestimate an outsider like cain, but i'll bet the romney camp is happy as anything by perry's demise. >> but that's what i don't understand. governor romney has been rather constant or flat or there seems to be a ceiling. he got no bounce i when governor christie got out of the race. he got no bounce when governor christie endorsed him. he got no bounce when everyone said he did a really good job at

a debate. he's sort of stuck at a point and he can't seem to move upward. >> there was a bounce from the last debate. if you take the three polls before an the three polls after, he moved up from an average of 23 to 28. there were some well publicized polls that had him behind cain after that, and it is possible that in the last few days he's slipped behind cain again. but he did get a bounce, and the important thing about romney is that no matter who you throw at the guy, he still is up there and he's in either first place or a close second, whether it's daniels or trump or huckabee or christie or bachmann or perry or cain. he's still up there, and that is enormous staying power. >> it's interesting, too, that while we're focused pretty much on perry, cain, and romney, it's sort of sneaking up the back side is former speaker of the house news gingrich.

his numbers are getting better and he's getting more traction. >> well, what newt needs to do is he needs to stop going on television and telling people i have this detailed program i've been working on for a year and a half, and you can go to my website and i'll announce it next week. he's gotta put it into bite sized 30-second segments like herman cain does with 999. >> which would you prefer, to do really well at debates and everyone says you're a great debater or right now have a great ground game in iowa? >> oh, the debate. the ground game doesn't matter much and money doesn't matter much. these debates are structuring everything. >> even to the point, even like -- i asked you this because it seems to me you've got to get people to the caucus. you've got to get your people to the caucus. you've got to get them to take off work. you need an organization in iowa that you don't need other places. >> that can buy you some extra

points, but the main thing is enthusiasm. huckabee didn't have a great ground game and he won iowa because people were enthusiastic about him. i think that's why cain is in very strong shape there. but before we go, greta, there's been a horrible thing that's happened that other shows are not covering and i know you want to. the medicare advisory board that sets the way they're going to cut medicare has voted, has ordered a 50% pay cut for specialists in medicine and a one-third pay cut for gps over the next ten ten years. they specified that specialists have to have their incomes cut by 6% a year for three years, and then frozen despite inflation for seven years, and general practitioners have to have a ten-year freeze. we've discussed obama care so often on your show, greta, and you know i've always said that it will drive people out of medicine. it will create a huge doctor shortage, and you won't be able to get an oncologist or

cardiologist on medicare. this is the beginning of that process. on my website, dickmorris.com, i've got a pegs to congress to override this. the decision is just 48 hours old. it should be the lead article in all the media. >> i'll tell you what. >> it's not. >> you're ahead of me. i'll have to research. you caught me cold. i didn't know that. i will take a look at it because -- >> it's absolutely vital. >> i like my doctors to feel like they're compensated fairly. one thing you said before, you said enthusiasm. i wrote down enthusiasm matters. there's a solid group backing him, but i don't see that groundswell enthusiasm that you see, for instance, for actually i guess herman cain has the enthusiasm. >> he doesn't have the bells and whistles, but it's quite an accomplishment to be in first place no matter who else he's

running against. i don't think romney is probably going to win iowa. my bet at this point is cain probably wins it. myocardiamy best is romney winsw hampshire where he's way ahead because he's from there. >> double digits ahead. >> my bet is they fight it out in south carolina. i bet romney wins nevada. i bet cain wins south carolina, and the two of them go at it all the way down the stretch unless newt gets his act together. >> we'll be watching very closely as we do every single night. dick, thank you. i'll take a look at that iryou raised about medicare. >> it's so important. >> i'll take a look at it. thank you, dick. any chance the race to the white house is going to get more crowded? is donald trump going to jump in the race as a third party candidate? listen carefully. >> if we choose the right person, i am all for it and i will be the happiest guy in the world and i intend to endorse somebody, i believe, but if we don't, if we choose somebody

that's not right, and if the economy continues to be bad which i think it will because we have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing, i would certainly consider running as an independent. >> okay. that's a couple days ago. now there's more. just last night congressman ron paul told our own bret baer that while he did not intend to run as a third party candidate, he would not rule it out. meanwhile, some tea party activists are real disappointed with governor sarah palin. did she really say she's not running? listen carefully. this was her statement. >> after much prayer and serious consideration, i have decided that i will not be seeking the 2012 gop nomination for president of the united states. now, did you listen carefully to what i read? she limited it to the g.o.p. nomination, so is that leaving the door open? natthat's not all. wait until you hear what else may be brewing. byron york is joining us. we have sort of the virtual

third party. tell me what that is. >> it's a group called america elects, and all you need, really, for a third party is a lot of voter dissatisfaction and one really rich guy, and there's man named peter acker man, a former investment banker funding this. they say they'll have a virtual convention on the internet, and people will nominate candidates and presumably come behind some sort of candidate. i don't know, michael bloomberg, evan bayh. somehow it's all coming out of the internet. unclear how it's going to really happen. >> are they going to be able to get these people? they have this virtual nominating convention on the internet and they have a candidate. can they get their candidate on the ballot? >> they could if they did it quick enough. i mean, you have to do it months and months in advance, but i mean, the deal is who is going to run? who has the sort of ca ris ma that can pull off a third party run? third parties are really

important in the past 20 or so years. many 30 years. john anderson ran against jimmy carter. jimmy carter lost his bid for reelection. ross perot ran in 1992. george h.w. bush lost his bid for reelection. bill:bill clinton won the presiy with 43% of the vote. do not forget ralph nay de nadeo didn't score very high in the 2000 election but it was enough to mess up the florida count. if nader had not been in florida, it's likely al gore would have won florida an the presidency. >> it seems they're in many ways the spoilers. >> exactly. they can't do anything but mischief. i don't think anyone can conceive of a third party candidate coming to win the presidency in 2012, but if you did have one, and it was a very close race between barack obama and the republican nominee, it's possible that they could take enougenough votes off one or the other to change the outcome.

>> you know what's so interesting, i guess if someone's really powerful enough, you could throw it into the house of representatives, a real serious third party candidate. its hard to think of that happening, but it is theoretically and numerically possible to throw the race. >> absolutely. it's what probably should have happened in 2000, and it could have -- you certainly could have had that race taken to the house and then it would have been decided there in a more constitutional fashion. i think for everybody who lived through the year 2000, that's an exhausting prospect, but it could happen. >> led talk about this internet nominating thing. it seems to me so unlikely, almost preposterous. at some point things will change. i remember thinking back in 2008 when we were just getting started i really did believe that secretary of state hillary clinton would beat president obama and everybody else for the nomination. he was a junior senator. he had been state senator of short duration in illinois. i never thought in the beginning

he had a shot. i'm always reluctant to sort of say well, this is never going to happen. >> internet activism is probably not going to create a third party winning candidate. go to moveon.org an the roll it played during the impeachment battle. the way the obama campaign really managed to harness a lot of that activism in 2008. they raised an enormous amount of money. they got people tocchet. howard dean pioneered that as well in 2004. the internet and politics gets bigger every year. it will probably be bigger next year. >> i suppose this might be a bigger leap. it seems preposterous to me, but i'm reluctant to do any predictions or guesses. >> it's one thing to be an importanimportant component in f the major campaigns. it's another thing entirely to say they're going to find a third party candidate, nominate them, get them on all the

ballots and somehow win the presidency. that just ain't gonna happen. >> dick morris said moments ago he thought governor mitt romney would like to see herman cain be the one he's competing with and not rick perry. do you agree with that? >> i think if you talk to the romney camp, they say rick perry is not going to come back. they think he's so far down in the polls, he doesn't have a recovery scenario, and they don't believe herman cain is going to last. not exactly a flash in the pan, but they see him fading at some point. they believe the gaffes an the misstatements he's made will catch up with him. >> that's sort of the thinking of secretary of state hillary clinton's campaign, that he would never make it. the gaffe is the abortion thing, but you've got governor romney having the sort of squishy things on the unions in ohio. it's not as though romney is without sin in that area. >> the romney thing was just a huge unforced error, what happened in ohio, and you're

right. what it did was when, you know, he comes to take part in the phone bank to support governor ckasich's bargaining rules. he won't support it. it feeds the narrative of mitt romney flip flopping or trying to avoid taking a position on something that's important. and then after he just caught a lot of criticism in the conservative blog sphere, he turns around the next day and says he supports it entirely. >> i guess that's why i think the romney campaign better be careful, arrogant that they are. we'll be watching carefully. thank you, byron. >> good to be here. >> straight ahead, frenzy on wall street. is it the protesters again? not exactly. it might be you. dennis neal is here and he'll give you the inside story. also, you have heard a lot about 999, right. well, tonight you're going to hear about just 9, a different 9, and it's a really rotten 9

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>> greta: holy smokes, wall street is on fire. no, we're not talking about those protest protesters. we're talking about the stock market. did you see what happened today? the dow shot up 339 points. do we dare ask what happened? fox business network senior correspondent dennis neal joins us. great news, huh? >> just when you were about to give up hope and you thought it was nothing but a sham and a bunch of shills and a gambling pit, my goodness. let's go back to the start of august. stocks fall 12% in only two months to the start of october. oh, my gosh. this is the start of even worse. are we going to have a huge meltdown? >> then in 19 days of trading stocks roar back 14%. oh, my goodness. in these days of interconnected trading and day traders and the internet, stock falls faster, farther, but they come back

faster, and that's one of the lessons we know. the do you is at 12,222. we haven't been at 12,000 since august 1st. you want to hear my spin on what it means? >> yeah. i want to know why it happened, too. >> okay. so three short-term things. the first thing we know is it means recession, had a. the big boogie man. gdp not great. 3% to start creating new jobs but at least it's not terrible. a european melt down, contained. the chinese are going to come in, and they're going to give money. the japanese, new reports out just moments ago saying they may get an occupy wall street. >> greta: let me stop you right there. the chinese are going to help in the bailout in europe, right, help the banks? >> they're going to bail out their own customers. they need the economy buying their stuff. >> greta: wait a second. there's an article i read in the financial times that i brought just for you in which it says that china could play a role in the eu rescue, but it said that

beijing might also ask european leaders to refrain from criticizing china's currency policy, a frequent source of tension with trade partners. basically they're willing to help out europe as long as europe doesn't trash them for manipulating their currency like we are and like congress is now going to battle over. >> you can see, greta, how much our criticism and job owning has really done to bring those chinese. it doesn't matter. they're not going to respond. >> greta: we got under their skin. the chinese care enough about it they're obviously paying attention to us criticizing them here in the united states. they know we're not going to give them money. stop talking about us. >> you know what? it would be rude to criticize the benefactor who just bailed you out. i mean, i'm just talking civility. we're diverting away from the more important extraordinary thing going on in the market today. it says for occupy wall street, hey, occupy this. stocks are up since you started

whining. longer term meaning, greta, investors should remember this for the next time around. number one, it's never as bad as the fraidy cats fear. number two, the markets fall faster but they recover faster so sit tight. number three, greta, don't sell in a slaughter. if you can muster the courage, buy a little built. the two boogie men, europe an the recession, seem to be off the table. >> greta: you're gloating pretty much about what happened today. i don't know. i've seen so much gyration in the market in the last 60 days in particular that i'm a little cautious before i start doing the dance on the set here. tomorrow night, you know, there could be a lot of moaning and groaning, a lot of whim perking. >> asia is trading, they're already up 2% this morning. stocks in the u.s., i'll bet you the dow drops 150 at least tomorrow. if you're a trader and you're up four out of five days, you go in the weekend with your bets on

the table? no. you take some profit and you're a little afraid. overall, the economic numbers today on gdp showing we're not going into recession, that was a surprise. i think there's room for hope here. i think we could be looking at rally up through the enof the year here. >> you say we're not going into a recession? >> we are not. >> greta: well, i'll tell you. that's just dave anything else of a bunch of economists. >> i talked to you about this. >> greta: if you don't know, dennis, if you don't have a job or if you're worried about your mortgage and a bunch of economists say oh, we're not in a recession and you're worried about meeting your mortgage or your house is underwater. >> but 130 million people do have jobs, do spend money. let's not forget that, and i worry that we could talk ourselves into a recession. now, look at what the market did today. look at what gdp showed today but look at consumer confidence which plunged to all time lows just in the past month, according to new data out yesterday. >> that's bad.

>> stop being so depressed and take some prozac. it's going to be okay, guys. >> greta: well, we'll i if the s go up, we like today. dennis, thank you. >> i'll take it. thanks. >> greta: coming up, a long time congressman called congress incompetent. what's that about? we have it all on tape. you'll see it here. don't go away. also, it's not what you would expect, another governor takes on state workers and their unions, but get this. the governor is not a republican. he's a democrat, and a very famous democrat, a democrat going to war with the unions? well, that's coming up. [ malannouncer ] imagine facing the day with less chronic low back pain. imagine living your life with less chronic osteoarthritis pain.

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of the job they're doing. the mood on capitol hill, well, it's pretty similar to the weather today, dark and gloomy. congressman, new cbs news/new york times poll has you guys at 9%, all-time low.

what do you make of it? >> people are hurting. you know, we're at a tough time in american history right now with reference to high unemployment rate, the debt that we have. people are not understanding whether or not their children will be able to live the way they're living. so they're looking and turning toward congress to say, help us get out of this rut. what are you doing about it? i think as a result it's just a reflection of the mood of the country right now. >> it's disappointing. looks like we have a lot of work to do to get our message across here. we really are working very hard to solve some of these problems. >> i think it's a reflection of the fact that the public wants bipartisanship, wants to see compromise, wants us to find common ground. unfortunately with the elections we had last november, there are actually fewer of us of that mind-set than there were before. so hopefully the leadership here

in the congress will heed what the poll is telling them. >> congressman, 9%, all-time low approval rating for you guys, what do you make of it? >> i make it that we have to work harder. i'm happy to do so. particularly in the district i represent, i'm available to the people, i'm accountable, accessible. i think it's incumbent on each one of us to indicate our level of dedication. on the issue that's most crucial to everyone, and that's job. >> congresswoman, new poll out. congress' approval rating at 9%. what do you make of it? >> certainly republicans are in charge of the house, and obviously they are obstructing in the united states senate, but i clearly believe that our colleagues love america and that we are all working for our constituents, but our constituents short of our family, friends and relatives who probably make up that 9%, really want us to get something done. i do believe they want us to get

a jobs agenda done for the american people. >> congressman, did you see the new cbs news/new york times poll has you at a 9% approval rating? >> i don't want to look at i. we're not accomplishing a great deal because of the loggerheads we're at right now, i can understand the american people's frustration. they should expect more out of congress, and it's not happening. >> the frustration that the american people have with leadership overall, with congress in particularly, and frankly i think that it might be a little inflated. >> i wonder who those 9% are. it's got to be friends and family. who else is happy with what we're doing? we're trying to stimulate the economy, jobs. we've passed bills. it's the forgotten 14, the forgotten 15. pretty soon the forgotten 16.

we've passed pro-job creation bills only to see them die a slow and lingering death in the senate. if the senate would work with us we could have americans back at work because private sector jobs are what are needed, not more democracy, not the son of stimulus 2. not producing jobs is not good for america. >> we weren't drafted for this job. we volunteered for this job. whether we consider ourselves the good guys or bad guys, that's not nearly as important as we are part of government, part of congress, and if they're mad they have every right to be. >> were you shocked to see an actual 9% owe i mean that essentially says 9 out of 10 americans don't approve of the job the entire congress is doing. >> do you ever think about how difficult it is to get a

favorable rating when what we say about each other is so derogatory, so painful, so unprofessional, so childish. if you heard both sides, how could you walk away and believe that they don't deserve to be in congress? it doesn't mean that we're just bad people, it means that we are incompetent, because we cannot bring democrats and republicans together. >> what i believe is america has gone through a lot in the past. we've always rebounded. we've always had, you know, good and bad days, but more good days than bad days. that's what america is all about. that's what life is all about. we're down right now. we're going to get up. we'll get up and do what we have to do for the american people. poll numbers will go up and the mood of the country will go up. this is a great country, a resilient country. that's what i know will happen, because we've seen worse, i think, in the past, but we've always bounced back.

we'll bounce back now. >> here's a look at what's coming up on the show after "the o'reilly factor." >> louis farrakhan viciously attacking president obama coming up. >> that's 11:00 p.m. eastern time. coming up, what is wrong with our government? always seems like the government is going out of its way to make job searching harder. what now? we'll show you. plus, one more thing, the government is using your money. that is coming up. plus, it's a semester at sea. well, almost. see why some college students are trading in their dorm rooms for ship cabins. stay tuned. endless shrimp is ourn at red lobster. there's so many choices. the guests love it. [ male announcer ] it's endless hrimp today at red lobster. amuch as you like ny way you like, like new sweet and spicy shrimp, all for $15.99. my name is angela trapp, and i sea food differently.

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>> the u.n. security council voting today to lift the no-fly zone over libya on monday. it was put in place on march 17th in an effort to stop libya's former leader muammar

gadhafi's military from advancing against the rebels. the nato bombing campaign that followed helped oust gadhafi's regime in august. he was killed himself a week ago shortly after being captured by the rentals. a former ohio schoolteacher has been sentenced to four years in prison for having sex with multiple students at her home. the 33-year-old was convicted of sexual battery thursday this after five teenage boys testified they had sexual encounters with the health and gym teacher last year. schuller pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. she'll be eligible for parole in about six months. now back to "on the record." you're watching the most powerful name in news, fox news channel. >> greta: now, if you thought it was only republican governors, wrong. now it's a democratic governor taking on state workers, and it's no ordinary state nor

ordinary governor. it's california, and it's governor jerry brown, and much like wisconsin republican governor scott walker, governor brown is proposing sweeping changes to the state's public employee pension system. so how bad is the backlash for governor brown? is governor brown catching heat like governor walker, and will protesters storm their state capitol. we've watched what goes on with democratic governor jerry brown. now he's taking on the public workers, is that right? >> that's right. i mean, i think it's fair to say that this is a pretty sweeping proposal, particularly from a democrat. he's looking at raising the retirement age to 67, and increasing the contributions employees pay, going to partial 401k type hybrid system. you'll see some push back, although interestingly the state's largest employee union was a little more cautious today. they said they're open to working with the governor, so i think there's maybe a little more willingness to talk, at

least come to the table that be there would be with a republican governor. >> greta: it's interesting because you have with governor mitch daniels in indiana dealing with an executive order that was done sort of very quietly, no protest. governor scott walker, a republican did it, and the protesters were firefighters, police, teachers were storming the capitol for days, and now, i mean, i would think that the unions would be particularly offended because it's a democratic governor in california. i'm surprised that they aren't raining all over his parade tonight. >> well, it's not to say that everybody is supportive and we definitely saw some very quick negative reaction. however, i think that there's a sense here that something's gotta give. i mean, there's a huge unfunded liability in the state's pension system. the unions knew this was coming. this was not a surprise. i think the big challenge for him, i mean, these are changes that are going to not only have to go through the state legislature which is dominated by democrats, but go before voters, and so the challenge is going to be getting the democrats in the legislature to sign on, and then hopefully for

him, getting the unions to not fight it at the ballot box. >> greta: well, you make it sound like it's going to be an easy process. >> i'm not saying that. >> greta: okay. i mean, when you think of raising the retirement age from 55 to 67 and he wants to do away with what they call the spiking where your pension is determined by your last year and people do a lot of overtime so that they get a higher retirement pension, he wants to do away with that. so many of the workers have enjoyed this as part of their job, i mean, it really is an extensive change in the system. >> it is, and i'm not saying it's going to be easy. i think you're going to see that there's going to be a lost push back, like i said, particularlily from democrats. i think he has more political capitol with the unions than you would see with the republicans or democrats. >democrats. >> greta: why? if a republican governor were proposing this in the state, would it be different? >> oh, definitely. these th guys got him elected.

they feel like they can trust him more, but no. this is not going to be an easy fight for him, and i think what you're going to see is a lost behind the scenes maneuvering and a long drawn out process. what ultimately gets passed might not look like this. you never know. >> greta: it's so interesting because they got him elected, they might even be more resentful he's doing that to them. let me repeat again. you live there, i don't. you cover this, i don't know. it surprises me. >> well, i just think that, like i said, everyone knows this was coming. we're seeing in san francisco, a very liberal city dueling pension reform measures. the right and the left in california know they have to deal with it or there's not going to be money for anything else, schools, public safety, anything, and so you know, one of the other interesting things is that the 12-point plan, we mentioned the big talker points. the other interesting thing is he wants to bar employers and employees from taking these pension holidays where during the big like dot com boom years,

cities around the state took a holiday from even paying into their funds because they were seeing such huge returns. it will be interesting to see how local governments react to this. he's really stepping in and saying this isn't just state workers. he wants this to apply to all public workers in the whole state of california. >> marias, thank you. we'll be watching. to the desperate search for jobs in this country. job seekers are facing new frustration tonight. the federal government's brand new jobs board is supposed to make the search faster and easier. so is it? so what is this job website? >> well, the federal government is still hiring, and if you want to get a job to get a federal job, most people have to go to this site called usa jobs. usajobs.gov. the site was contracted out to monster, the big private company that has job boards. it has one of the largest private job boards in the country, and the office of personnel management decided that it was clunky, it was

sometimes hard, it is sometimes hard to get the search engine isn't that great. it's hard to get feedback on where your applications stand. it's hard to get geographic information if you want a job, to look for a job within 5 miles of your home, so the government brought it inside and they said to monster we're going to build our own site. the new site launched after 18 months. it launched 16 days ago, and it's been a real problem. it's been a mess, actually, for job seekers. >> greta: i heard you put in delaware and you could get a job in germany. it's such a mess, a frightful mess. >> people got error messages when logging in. >> greta: that's one of my favorites. >> some of the problems have definitely been solved. what the office of personnel management said is that they had a huge volume of people going on the site. could it be new applicants, it could have been old applicants who were logging in to see if their resumes were still on

there. in a lost cases the resumés disappeared into cyberspace, incredible glitches. people had trouble searching, as you said. a lot of problems have been solved. if you go on facebook, usajobs is on facebook. opm has a site. it's exploding. every five minutes there's somebody else, a frustrated candidate who is just, you know, tearing their hair out. >> greta: so who is in charge? who is overseeing this? >> so the federal government's personnel agency is called the office of personnel management. >> greta: it's just stunning, isn't it? if you think about it, it's like they should have kept the old system up before they got the new one and try to run the bugs on this one before they launched it. >> well, they did extensive testing. in fact, they're still paying monster about $6 million a year while they get the new site up and running. >> greta: what did this new one cost us? >> they've allocated $20 million

but that's partly to pay monster. >> greta: the 6 million for nothing. >> i don't know if it's for nothing, but it's definitely been an embarrassment to the administration. >> greta: it's other people's money. taxpayers money. >> they're working really hard to fix the problems. that i will say. they're working hard, but it's going to be a while before they're solved. >> greta: lisa, thank you. and straight ahead, life imitates art in india. there's a new real slum dog millionaire. don't believe us? you will. college students are about to cruise through the semester. no, their exams weren't cancelled, but the entire staff of on the record is jealous of these students. these students. you're going to find in america, we believe in a future

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