>> i'm bullish on it. when it drops 40. >> brenda: toby? >> yum love kids. >> brenda: john bull or bear? >> i'm going grocery shopping. bear! [ laughter ] >> brenda: neil take it away. ♪ >> neil: do you ever wonder who can you trust? for more americans it ain't the white house. hi, everyone. i'm neil cavuto. watch your back. the government could be watching you. here, there, everywhere. reports that it's monitoring million of verizon customers in america. getting host of internet companies together online information overseas. a poll shows half of americans don't think the president is being truthful with the country on the i.r.s. scandal. even the "new york times," writing this about the scandal. this is updated a little bit. the administration has now lost all credibility on this

issue. that is a big deal. if perception is reality, is the administration in real trouble? daigen mcdowell and julie up stephen. charles payne. >> when the "new york times" says president obama lost all credibility -- >> on this issue. that's how it was in the original draft. >> on this issue. >> he is great on the economy. the headline is the headline. this whole thing about whether it's the patriot act. it's the patriot act on steroids. the internet companies, you know, people have to feel like they have nothing, nothing. the president talked about when he is not president, he wants to protect his privacy. that is why he cares about this now. give me a break. that is lame. are you kidding me? >> neil: i'm sure he does. >> we will fix it in three years? you're snooping through everything from what i

ceremony on goggle and what i say on a telephone. >> neil: very defensive. something is worrying you. what do you make of this? >> i don't have a problem with the national security agency program at all. i don't have expectations of privacy. i freely am -- i will stel up for a patdown at the airport. i find that a bigger invasion of privacy. >> neil: so do i, but i'm lonely. >> the issue is here, what they are doing -- >> neil: you are used to it and this is nothing new. what does that say? >> we live in a police state. we have after 9/11 increasingly. i don't think is purely president obama's issue. i am with daigen. everything i'm doing is monitored. >> neil: you can count on that. >> what is interesting is that the alleged civil libertarians that would go nuts if george bush did this or this happened

in the bush administration, we need -- these are grave national security issues. there is a hypocrisy. >> that is an excellent point. saturday obama against the intrusion that president bush made to allow the stuff we are seeing going on now. but on steroids. it just seems weird. >> there is a big difference. under the bush administration they didn't get court orders. under the obama administration they are getting a court order for the surveillance. >> there is a big difference. >> there is a big difference. >> whether you have judicial supervision. i'm with daigen. i don't think this is a big scandal. you are not talk about the government eavesdropping on the conversation. >> neil: how do you know? we discovered that is indeed what happened and that getting the records was -- >> that is -- >> that is not what we know. >> that's what we know so far.

>> neil: we didn't know this a few day ago, julian. >> if you let me answer i will try to explain. >> neil: go ahead. >> what we know the program allows the government to get me the data, the toll records. originating and terminating phone numbers to try to prevent another 9/11 attack. the other case, the government is following the law in every instance. up in of the complaints made begin to allege that the both is doing anything other that following the law. >> were you for the patriot act? >> yes. >> you were. okay. you're consistent. >> this mystifies me. before you came on i watched president obama talk and say there is no problem. nobody phone's are listened to. if nobody's phones are listened to, then what is the point? what is going on if they are not listening. what is the point. >> there is an easy answer to

that. there is an easy answer to that. >> julian, you are forgetting this is the first step to get the probably cause to listen to your phone. that is the way the f.b.i. work. they get -- >> so why don't we point out that the court orderses are never -- >> [ overtalk ] >> the position that the republicans have taken. if you have us a spected terrorist in yemen, speaking to somebody inside the united states, i want to know the phone number of that person. i wab the court to authorize this -- >> this is not what the president said. what we're talking about here is preventing another 9/11 attack. >> that's what george bush said before -- >> neil: all right. >> we are combining events. here is what i think. maybe you can help me with this. fact of the matter is this is not an isolated incident.

collecting phone records on millions of americans is one thing. saying you are going after conservative groups and then it's more than a few. then a lot more than just groups. it's individuals. expanding this to go after fox. there is a steady, systemic pattern of invading people's privacy to use the full weight and power of the united states government to be a pain. >> there is arrogance. the notion that this is monitoring phone calls from here to yemen, 170 million customers are calling yemen? c'mon. if you want to cross reference after the boston terror event, and you are getting the information for verizon to cross check and cross reference anyone that might have been with him and his brother -- >> i'm with you. now you have the documents.

>> i'm with you. on all of that. that is how you typically gather the information. >> there is contempt and arrogance at play that dismisses the reference to president press conference. dismisses the concerns. >> this is a creep. it goes forward and forward. you have to be crazy not to think they aren't monitoring the phone calls of average americans, people that are probably in the tea party. they believe are right -- >> neil: we don't know that. to julian's point we don't know that. >> if they are going to go for a court order for james rosen's e-mail account, and his father e-mail account, they will get court orders for people to listen to the telephone calls. >> can i say? i have been sitting here quietly, which i usually don't do. the n.s.a. program, if this

had come out by itself, i don't think -- >> neil: exactly. that's exactly right. >> but do we trust the obama administration and the white house to protect us and the information that the n.s.a. is getting with what happens with the i.r.s. and with what has happened with the criminalizing investigate i reporting and not protecting the first amendment in this country? people are in doubt. >> neil: the creepiness -- i guess what i'm asking is what part of custer don't you understand here? you are surrounded and you see one ips dept after another that comes up. it comes to the same issue. privacy invaded or potentially invaded. doing the same thing. there is a pattern. >> if you want to conflate and combine the issues and make the general statements you can do that. i don't think it's a

thoughtful way to approach it. >> neil: think about what i said. >> i don't connect the dots. i don't connect the dots.l: julg you. drop the liberal thing and focus on the reality thing. you have one entity going after american people. department after another doing the same thing. you can call that conflating. p i am telling you there is a pattern. >> i could as easily -- >> neil: i guarantee you if it were george bush doing it you would be all over it. >> that is wrong. that is incorrect. that is -- >> face it. >> go ahead. >> you want me to respond? look, you can't conflate all the issues. you t have to speak about them differently. the case of the i.r.s., targeting is wrong. no connection to the white house. >> he would make a lousy reporter. >> there was no -- no one was criminal sizing the investigative reporting. nobody in the justice department spoke about prosecuting rosen. that was a method to get

subpoena -- >> that is not targeting him. >> neil: i'm not going to get anywhere arguing this point. julian -- [ overtalk ] >> i want to talk facts and you want to make general broadside. >> neil: you are saying nothing and it's offensive. >> neil, speak about it specifically. let's debate the issue. >> neil: why don't you talk back? it's annoying how obnoxious you can be on reality. i'm not going to play this game with you, julian. you played the same game dismissing one -- [over talk ] >> obama hater. you're playing obama hater and not backing it up with facts. >> neil: i want to be clear on this. cut his damn mickism want to be clear to you. ben, is this pattern of behavior you see here, i want to keep politics out of it. i want to keep the nuances out of it. i want to just address a pattern of behavior you have seen, that does or does not worry you. does it? >> it worries me terribly. charlie gasp abrino got it right. it's a police state situation. getting worse and worse all

the time. the fact that mr. obama campaigned against it is really extremely unformnate. now he is defending it. i think, i say the idea that over 100 million phone calls are being made to terrorist groups in yemen are all over the middle east is comical. of course they are listening to the phone conversations. >> they are not listening to the phone conversation. >> how do you know, julian? >> neil: i'm not going to get in a he said/she said thing that is nonsensical stupid point. i'm not going to do it. sorry if a lot of you at home are offended by this and clicking the challenge. we are too knee-deep in this dismissive at any week. we have more after this. we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed much is the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need

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benshaup who was apparently high operating excavator when downtown building collapsed. six people were killed. he has been arrested at least 11 times since 1994. former south african president back in the hospital today. the 94-year-old admitted for recurring lung infection. government spokesperson saying the condition is serious but he is breathing on his own. the third time since december he has been hospitalized. i am jamie colby. send you back to "cavuto on business." >> neil: all right, this is going to have you at a loss. literally. the government selling 30 million more shares of bailed-out general motors continue to pull away from the to rimmal $15 billion investment, which would be our investment. taxpayers, that would be us, still expected to lose

$10 billion on that investment. >> you are not surprised, you expect it. but a huge deal. $10 billion is a lot. i think we went about this the wrong way. free markets could have handled this. they should have gone bankrupt. it was designed to save the unions or to benefit unions. we paid a big price for it i think as miles pe miles per ame. >> ironic that bailed-out bank underwrite bailed-out company ipo or the secondary offering is the best way to put it. ed whitaker, the former ceo put it best. he said they should have drop it all at once. they could have sold out all at once and whitaker's point if they did it the first time, because there was so much demand they could have sold at a profit. tim geithner the treasury secretary would not do it all at once. >> neil: a lot of folks on main street say we are too focused on the wall street side and jobs were saved and company was savedded.

that is far more lucrative gain in the long run than any stock performance. what do you think of that? >> i was in favor of bail-out. i think you are in a tricky situation of trying to sometime a stock sale. at this point, everybody wants and probably the people at g.m. want the government out of the company as well. you got to eat the loss. especially though g.m. is doing extremely well. high sales last month. >> i love the fact they rescued g.m. g.m. is american institution. what is good for america is good for general motors or maybe it was vice versa. i love they saved it and saved the job. i doesn't bother me they are the union jobs. $10 billion is a small price to pay for saving company of that magnitude. >> we are presupposing this is the only way to save them. we could have done a

prepackaged bankruptcy where you would have crammed down unions i'm a union guy. but they extorted so much benefit -- >> neil: you say are you a union guy? are you in a union? >> no, my dad was a union. >> neil: so the reason why you call yourself union guy your dad was in a union. which is great. so was my dad. i am not a union -- >> here is why. we moved from a crummy apartment to a crummy little house because old man was in a union. >> is that why? >> that is one of -- >> my you moved to the house he was in a union? >> they help provide my father with benefits and work ethic. one thing that the unions did, they did extort, if extort. tremendous benefits at a g.m. what should have been done. not against them being bailed out but should have been done through a prepackalled bankruptcy to make the unions -- >> that is what i wonder about.

union guy say it's not realistic option. if you pitch the rescue and the bail-out saying you have to shut down the factories they would have never been approvedded. but what we got, we are the taxpayer finance bail-out. that never would have been counted if they were pitched that way in the first place. >> we talk about the continued reckless behavior. we know anytime it come up again, people say the last one worked. general motors -- >> neil: did it for them. ben stein -- >> we were in a panic situation. >> neil: absolutely. absolutely. i understand. >> i think they had to step in with something more than prepackalled bankruptcy and put the full weight of the federal government behind the rescue. >> i would still choose cadillac over goldman sachs. >> i wouldn't bail out anyone. but that is me. all right. what if the people who are supposed to benefit from the healthcare law don't really want the law? ain't that a kick in the pants? the forbes gang on how all of

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>> neil: coming up, forget about packing a bag on the next trip. would have about packing a lunch? a major hotel getting rid of room service but they have always been willing to pay for

>> neil: quiet in the break. want to bring you up to speed. hilton in midtown manhattan, biggest hotel is ditching room service. turns out the expensive burgers aren't giving them a lot of extra beef. it's coming as the airlines are cutting back on everything from free food to free carry-on. ben, what is going on here?

>> what is going on here is a disaster. those who travel a lot, arrive late at night exhausted. needing to go over the speeches the next morning need room service. we are suffering terribly. it's just almost unspeakable the forture we are going through. [ laughter ] >> when i hear the pain of america streaming on that, first thing it does in fact come to mind is what i will get the chickp wings at 1:00 in the morning delivered to my room. the wings are outrageously priced. average they make on room service is $3 a person. >> not far from us had a tray charge. $15 for the tray. can i keep it? they said no. shocked. i thought we were moving

toward a jetson world but it's moving toward the flintstone's world. you go to the supermarket, self-check-out. what the heck happened. pretty soon you have to change your linen and have the same towel until you check out. you probably won't see a human being at the hotels in a couple of years. >> neil: but they are giving all this up. maybe it's a pay-for-service type of thing. >> brown bag delivery. >> neil: i'm told the hotels with a five star rating must have room service. >> you know what? you are not staying in the right places. if you want room service from the hillton, no offense. it's food out of a box, bag, jar, canister or god knows where it comes from. it all tastes the same. >> neil: are hotels going the airline route? >> my mother would say eat a banana before dinner. so ben, eat a banana. >> neil: good point. >> what is the relevance of that? >> i have no idea. >> you don't need room service in the middle of the night.

it's bad for you. >> you are a health maniac. >> he is. >> i indulge every now and then. >> he jogs more miles than i drive. we have more coming up. another choppy -- i love you, too. another week for the choppy markets. charles and ben have a couple of stead destocks they hope to get you through the ups ands ta downs after this. to lunch in her new volkswag... before her passat had passed over 30 different inspection tests... and before several thousand tennesseans discovered new jobs on volkswagen drive, a cfo and a banker met for lunch. together, we worked with a team that helped finance construction of the world's first leed platinum auto manufacturing plant. that's the impact of global connections. that's bank of america.

>> neil: stocks to weather the storm. >> lincoln, it can be a volatile stock but $250 stock ultimately. >> neil: wow! ben, what do you think of lin linkenin. >> i don't know what charles knows that the market doesn't know but anytime you get warren buffett to do your investing for you, let's do it. join in with him. he is the greatest jeepous ever been in the world of -- genius ever been in world of stock picking. buy in with him.

he charges his salary, like $100,000 a year on the biggest, one of the biggest companies in the world. let's be his partner. >> neil: and never invest in anything charles says. that will do it here. cost of freedom continues now. ♪ fighting back after being singled out by the i.r.s. >> what is intolerable is one set of rule for one side of the political fight and another set of rules for the other. >> since may of 2011, i have been dormant not only out of the inability to raise money but abject fear government had a target on my back. >> i want to protect and preserve the america i grew up in. the america that people cross oceans and risk their lives to become a part of. i'm terrified it's slipping away. leader of conservative groups testifying how the i.r.s. went after them. the agency is supposed to follow the money. and the rule of law. but did the victims just prove the tax man was playing