years to come. elizabeth, welcome. don't forget "fox and friends" starting every morning, really all 5, on the fox news channel. that is all the time we have left. as always, thank you for being here, let not your heart be troubled. greta, standing by, take it away. >> you can't talk about increasing the debt limit unless you're willing to make changes and reforms that begin to solve the spending problem that washington has. >> what i have not been willing to negotiate and i will not negotiate is on the debt ceiling. >> the budget is on an unsustainable path. >> when you want to borrow more money, we're going to have some government. >> we think that the treasury will probably run out of cash sometime between the end of october and mid-november. >> we can't negotiate it over the debt ceiling. and we can't be irresponsible in shutting down the government. >> the president is the individual that is talking about shutting down the government. the democrats in the house and senate are the individuals

talking about shutting down the government. >> we had a form on the fourth floor, a male with a shotgun. >> the warning signs were there all along, sources telling the associated press the gunman who allegedly killed 12 is being treated for serious mental illness, including hearing voices in his head. >> you like drinking, you like to go out and talk to people? >> i never thought anything of this magnitude. i mean, nothing makes sense right now. >> fox news has learned exclusively that he was punished by the navy during his time as a naval reservist. he had his rank busted after he was arrested and thrown in jail in 2008 for disorderly behavior. >> a six-foot wall of water erupted through the town. >> more than 19,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed. >> i was just in shock to see that i'll never get my things in

my home. >> everything is destroyed, just washed away. >> the anticipation is that there will be much more loss and possibly much more loss of life. >> first, tonight, brace yourself. another stunning statistic. the typical american family now making less than it did in 1989. former congressman alan west joins us, good evening, sir. >> good evening, how are you doing, greta. >> these are stunning numbers, less if you're the average american family. >> that is absolutely right, you have seen a 4 or 5% depression of these levels in just the obama administration. but the other thing we're looking at, you know, we're still at 15% of the united states being in poverty. and as a matter of fact, we have gone at the beginning of the obama administration, 39%, to 1.9 million in poverty.

we're going in the wrong direction, depress iing wages. we know we have more americans going on part-time employment than full-time employment, even the people on full-time employment see all kinds of ways to cut back. plus, we have a monetary policy that is printing more money, meaning we're devaluing our money and currency. and think about what just came out. a thousand days that we have gone without 3-plus gasoline in the united states. >> if president obama were here, or some of the democratic leadership would say the rich are doing quite well, probably better than 1989. so their solution would be to crank up the tax a little bit on the rich to try to sort of create whether it is a stimulus program to help the middle class, or an entitlement program to help those who are very needy at the bottom of the income chain. what do you say? >> well, i would say this, according to their stimulus

package numbers in august of 2013, the unemployment rate is supposed to be 6.5%, it is 7.1%, it is at an all-time low since the carter administration. so you can talk about this sense of income redistribution. but that is not what is going to help the middle income families to be able to survive. where are we getting the right type of economic stimulus? it should be out there with small business owners. but if you're talking about raising those personal income tax rates that affects your sub-chapter s and llcs, and that is 75 to 80% of our economy, the small business owners. the argument they have has failed. we've spent a trillion dollars and haven't seen improvement. >> as we sort of look ahead, though, what is going to be the solution to this? we have the republicans and democrats basically at each other's throats on capitol hill. we have the continued resolution that you know, is expiring at the end of september. they have to come up with

something else. we have got the middle class who are doing worse today than they were doing in 1989. we have the entitlement -- those who were getting entitlements, that is growing. it seems rather catalclysmic. i don't see any light at the end of the tunnel. >> the problem is the american people have to make a decision. what we see happening in the expansion of government progr programs, the expansion of the entitlement class. the expansion of the dependent society is not working. so when we have a federal government that right now is 25% of our gdp as far as spending, when historically our federal government has been 18 to 20%. we're going in the wrong direction, we have to trust the people out there in america to create the jobs. and we have to have the right type of policies, tax policies and regulatory policies that get america back to work. >> lbj started the war on poverty in the '60s. >> it has not gotten better.

>> actually, it seems to have gotten worse. the number of people who are living under -- living in poverty has grown. and yet, we only have 30 seconds left in this, but that war, we lost. we have to change our strategy on this, but i don't know the answer. >> i think mainly on the republican side, we have to make a connection. the democrats have been able to make that connection saying we're going to take care of you, provide for you, from all of this largesse from the treasury, it doesn't work,fact it depress >> they are looked at as cold, critical a cruel and don't care about the other side. >> you know, we get back to the fundamental principles, the blocking and tackling of a successful economy, and i think it will work. >> congressman, we also want to talk to you about another report. it says that while the white house is still closed to tours,

the white house remains open to lobbyists, the analysis shows that 200 lobbyists visited the white house, 300 times between march and may. that is when the white house tours have been shut down. what are your thoughts? >> well, i thought the white house belonged to the people, it is a republican, not a monarchy, i thought it was controlling, where they control who the types of people are that come in. and it is interesting, the democrats say they're out there for the poor and people in poverty, yet they're out there contributing to the corporate and people in big business. >> the research, president obama back in 2000 and 2007, 2008 in a debate with senator mccain, says that -- he talks about the culture in washington about lobbyists, does the same thing in a speech in des moines.

he says that lobbyists have not funded my campaign and will not run the white house, will not drown the voice of the people when i am president. you go through all the campaigning, lobbyists have nothing to do with the campaigning. yet today, the lobbyists, every administration has done it. it is just the president said he was not going to. >> yes, the hypocrisy. i believe now if you cut a check for half a million dollars you can get quarterly visits with the president. so what does it say to the american people? but the most important thing, greta, where does the media and some important venues start to call the president to task on some of this? >> well, at some point, always lobbyists had access to the white house. but what makes this particularly painful is that americans want to come and visit the white house. i see the kids standing and looking through the gate, wanting to look in there.

and for the life of me, i can't figure out the, you can't find enough money to open a white house tour so that kids can go through and see the white house. and we want to inspire them. that is the problem. not so much like the president is like every other president with lobbyists, although he said he was not going to. you know, it is figure it out. >> well, capitol hill is open for visitors, so if they can figure it out for the capitol and the senate, maybe we shouldn't be so anxious to spend a million on a tomahawk cruise missile -- >> i would like to see the white house open to the american people. i think they deserve that. >> they do deserve it. >> so figure it out, right? it is your job. congressman, always nice to see you. >> pleasure, thank you. and more tonight, an urgent warning from the congressional budget office, the nonpartisan

ceo says that the nation's debt is on an unsustainable path. good to see you, sir. >> nice to see you, greta, congratulations on the time slot. >> thank you very much, we're very excited about it. >> i hope i didn't break the news there but -- >> you were hoping less coffee would be served here. unsustainable path, that is one of the worst things, you can't paint a good picture on that one. >> right, i think what the president and his policies are doing is making that much, much worse. but the cbo said half the increase in the health care spending over the next ten years would be because of obama care. and if you look at what is happening to the federal debt and the time the president has been in office in the last five years, it has doubled. it took the president years to pile up the first 6.3 trillion

in debt, and this president in the first four years almost doubled that amount. so it is a massive amount of spending. and of course, their solution for dealing with the deficit is to raise taxes which is the worst thing you can do. because that will stunt the economy. and we need economic growth to get to a place where these deficits are smaller, relative to the economy. >> and your party says that the way -- you know, you don't want to raise taxes. you want to cut spending. but for the life of me, the democrats want to raise taxes. the republicans want to cut spending. i don't hear anybody going out there looking at the enormous amount of waste in the government. i bet you could go out and collect enough money so we don't have to raise taxes and cut spending. i bet you could go out, talk to senator mccaskill, and senator tom coburn, you know, we're drowning in ways in this city. >> you know, any government budget there is a lot of waste and inefficiency. but as you mentioned, we have

had some of my colleagues, senator coburn and mccaskill -- >> but where do you get it? i mean it is staggering, these numbers, why doesn't somebody actually go after it and get that money and stop it? >> well, i think you have got to through the budget process. you have to make the hard decisions. obviously, we haven't passed a budget for what, five years now in the congress? the house of representatives has passed a budget. they passed a budget that is balanced, making hard decisions about spending and debt. but we can't get one through the senate and you have a president who i think is very much an advocate of liberal tax and spend policies. but you have to make those hard decisions. and so far there has not been the political will to do that. but one other point, you talked about reducing in spending, the conservatives believe we ought to do it. democrats want to raise taxes. but the other thing you have to do is grow and expand the economy. when the economy is expanding and growing, people are making money, investing, paying more

taxes. you want to get government revenues up and make deficits by comparison. you want to get the economy growing again and we are not putting the right policies in place in order to do that. >> i know i harp on this a lot. but i think most americans would be more inspired to pay their taxes and build their businesses if they saw any good example coming from washington. you know, the midwestern values, people don't like waste in the midwest. and they sit here and listen to all the discussions night after night after night here of the billions in waste. and they must think what in the world are y'all doing? >> and i think there is a reason why there is such low approval ratings. and you're right, when you come from an area like the midwest. we have a balanced budget amendment. >> that -- >> i am saying that there is an ethic that you can't spend money you don't have. you have to live within your means. and i think that is sort of a

common sense thing that most people around the country get. and they're at a loss as to why washington, d.c. doesn't get it. >> but not spending money you don't have, you don't give defense contracts out to defense contractors where you give an open checkbook and the sky is the limit. i mean, there is some sort of discipline in contracting. i'm talking about billions and billions, not even saying you don't need the stuff. but when you give them an open checkbook, let them do cost overruns, no accountability. that is not the way people do business at home. >> it sure is not. and the way we look at the debt, 650 billion, trillion dollar deficits for the last several years. that is why we got an almost $17 trillion debt. i think the american people are fed up with it. i think we are mortgaging our children's future and i think it is time to be transparent and level with them. and i have a bill that i think -- we have for too long put

policies, launched them, without the consideration -- >> a bipartisan bill, which i like. >> it is. yeah, we got actually almost a thousand economists that endorse his it. 14 nobel laureates, i have daughters in their 20s. we're going to have a lower standard of living. a lower quality of life. you heard congressman west think about it. and as a result of the -- runaway spending here in washington. and so we need to get that under control and put policies in place that will enable our economy to grow, and increase the number of jobs, the take-home pay for middle class americans. that will generate revenue, not make less, that is something that is not happening today. we have a president and a lot of people who think that expanding the government is the solution. it is not, expanding the economy is the answer. >> and i think that you and senator mccain working across

the aisle give american people hope. i think they like to see it. it seems more of an effort and solution rather than a fight. >> absolutely, i think we can get more support for it. >> great to see you, thank you. now, do you think it is right during this time of sequester for lobbyists to have access to the white house but not the american public? yes, or no, go to our poll and vote. and now, uncovering more than a billion in waste by a government agency least able to afford it. that is next. also, a mystery surrounding the naval yard killer. there is new information surrounding aaron alexis. more coming up. and is one of these brothers getting into politics? which one, eli payton, what is he doing? you don't want to miss this. (vo) you are a business pro.

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well, your government just won't stop doing this to you. and tonight, there is disturbing new evidence of explosive numbers in new government waste. this time, the social security administration, congressional investigators uncovering -- ready for this? 1.3 billion in potentially faulty disability payments, payments to people who claim they were unable to work. nice to see you. >> hey. >> is this really $1.29 billion? is guess this is an estimate, what is this? >> so they found people were working and receiving disability payments, which is against federal law. the reason they think it is happening because the disability program has a five-month waiting period where you're not supposed to be working in order to prove you have a long-term type of disability. and the administration was not really looking at all the five

months to see if people were holding down jobs or not. as a matter of fact, people were working within the five months and they continued to get checks in the period of five years, which equalled about a billion dollars. >> this is five months, in the sixth month, are they still drawing disability and not working? >> at that point they were not working, but within the first five months they were not supposed to be working. so it is kind of a crazy situation. they were not looking at the trial period, which is so important in determining eligibility for the program. >> all right, $1.29 billion is so much money, but we're so used to these numbers, a billion here, a trillion there. $1.29 billion is an incredible amount of money for social security. they don't have a lot of money, i take it. >> it will be insolvent in -- >> is that the disability portion o-- >> that is the retirement portion, the disability portion will be much earlier. what we've seen since the

recession, the rolls for disability are skyrocketing. about a million people are on disability and are not working. >> how many have they estimated that received disability payments who is should not? >> i mean, it is hundreds of thousands. >> i mean, how did this happen? did they say this is not a good idea? or no one blew the whistle or checked it? >> well, the interesting thing for me, this report is an echo of a previous report that found very similar findings. and so lawmakers attacked that one, there was a lot of hubbub about it in the past, and nothing happened. so i'm curious how they will respond to it. >> will tom coburn -- >> you know better than me. >> this is so appalling, it echos another report, now we're in the second stage, $1.29 billion and nothing is done to correct it when they had notice of it.

it is just stunning, we wonder why the republicans want to cut spending. the democrats want to raise taxes. when we've got $1.29 billion just sitting there. >> well, what it is going to take is congressional action, because in other federal programs, the anti-fraud and anti-improper payments are more aggressive. there are these contractors who are paid based on the number of improper payments that they find. and they found it uncovered fraud in the medicare payment. so they found they will save money instability and insurance. >> and meanwhile, we pay and pay and pay. it is just stunning, isn't it? >> i'm not surprised. i know you are not either. >> you know that is horrible, the american people that work hard every day raise their families, to put food on the table, and hear these stories of mismanagement. >> well, the lawmakers are in trouble, and unless they do something to get together and

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power has been cut off, just to show them how bad things really are. really just to convince them that it is time to get out. because here is what is going to happen. the cold months are coming, especially in the mountain communities and that will be particularly dangerous. because the roads washed out by flood waters will still be in need of repairs. that will take months. that is what the colorado department of transportation is saying. so they're trying to get folks to get out now, so this doesn't become a secondary situation. so that is what is going on. and one community i'm standing in, in evans, colorado, this is a place where the flood waters are headed. to the north of here, they're now headed toward the eastern part of the state. and they're inundating homes and businesses there. the people of evans are very frustrated right now because they can't use their showers. they're told not to flush their toilets. they can't wash their hands. they have to boil any water that is there until things are back up and running. because this whole area of the

state, where we're standing, was hit earlier. and next is nebraska, there are areas of that state that are being hit. but again, back to the rescue operation, a very dangerous situation. because this is not over. they will continue. and the rescue helicopters that we have been seeing are going to go away. and the counties are being left with the folks who are stuck in areas that don't really have the infrastructure to support them to try to get out later on. greta? >> alicia, thank you. as you can see the recovery effort is far from over, they are happy to be alive but devastated by the destruction. >> my car, i couldn't get it out. there was knee-deep water all around me, thankfully it was uphill. >> was it frightening when this happened? >> oh, very frightening, never seen anything like it. >> just advise everybody to stay clear of the water and stay out. it is the best, wait for the water to recede. >> we're going down and marking

a point for each house we searched in order to give us an accurate idea. >> he is the emergency management director in boulder. he joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta, how are you doing? >> well, i'm doing better than a lot of people out there. just in your words, how bad is it for people in colorado? >> well, unprecedented flooding, obviously, put many residents in our state in a bad way. when this flooding started we had never seen anything on this scale or level. the rainfall amount in the last 24 hours when it first started was never recorded. so it really has created devastating flood environments. but as alicia said, passing through the state, here in boulder county we have continued our rescue operations. and we're kind of getting some traction. not just on the rescue of our residents but also trying to anchor them into recovery. >> well, it is sort of

terrifying. you're still rescuing people from life-threatening situations. and we haven't even gotten to the situation where you're trying to restore power or rebuild their houses or anything. this is a horrible crisis. what do you need? are you getting everything you need from the federal government from people to help? >> we are, we're tied in very closely with the state of colorado. the office of emergency management, homeland security. we also have fema representatives on the ground. they have been here for days and supporting us and helping us kind of steer towards a longer term recovery operation. we are still focused on that initial rescue of our residents. we're not letting our guard down. everything is going on, on trying to protect them. we are also simultaneously initiating a recovery operation, the other towns around, and boulder county have already started to initiate the discussions and strategic planning so that we can get the critical infrastructure elements repaired as close as possible.

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how did he get it and keep it? >> well, i think it is obvious, gret acceleration when you have for-profit investors in a company, and the investors in the for-profit company, kind of bad things happen. they're paid for investigations, not failed ones or ones that take too long. i suspect that these incidents, although they were known and because they were not prosecuted, there was no trial or conviction. but i offer this up, let's use some common sense, this guy couldn't get a job at disney land for the arrests of the use of this gun. >> and i don't know if these officers have immunity from these laws, when they do private screening for the government. i tell you, mark, i know you're not a big fan of lawyers. but one successful lawsuit where

someone has really failed and has a civil liability, and people have died. i tell you, that will put an end really fast to terrible security checks where they are not thorough. and people don't use common sense. that would end it. >> no, i agree, greta. and i think that that suit should come. and i think the people should be held responsible monetarily, if nothing else. but you look at this, this man applies for any police department, usa, and in the background he has two arrests but no convictions for shooting. and then the investigation, the background investigation should take its natural course. you call seattle police department. you talk to the officer that arrested him. did he say anything? what was his actions? what was the circumstances that is not on the report. that is a background investigation. he would have said, he told me he blacked out. so you got a guy that blacks out with a gun and shoots at a civilian's vehicle.

this guy shouldn't have a job anywhere. >> how about the latest one, the latest report that we're hearing is that he was hearing voices, vibrations. boy, if that is not a disqualifier that you're hearing voices, for a security clearance for the government, i don't know what is. >> well, yeah, greta, and then you look at it. did the people that he actually offer that comment up, or that they overheard him saying it. did that a just happen yesterday, did it happen the day before, the week, the month? you know, there needs to be a little courage with family and friends, and associates, administrators, bosses, to step forward and say this guy is not right. he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. there is something going side ways with him. you have to be able to say that. everybody is afraid of being sued or reprimanded because they do their job. and that is the biggest problem right there. no leadership. >> i tell you another thing, know, if you have been listening

to the show tonight about all the government contracts, where cost over-runs, how much money is wasted. i mean, there is a lot of racket, there is a big racket. and when you see products where you have someone like aaron alexis with a security clearance. if it was a contractor, sub-contracted to someone else to do this. you know, someone has got to clean up this government contract business some place, some time. >> absolutely, greta. and if this guy slipped through with all of these red flags, two arrests with the gun. he has got mthe mental issues ad expressed ptsd, and has naval discharge issues. if he gets a security clearance, who do they refuse? really, who do they refuse? people that are in prison? i just don't know. this guy was primed to be refused with a security

clearance, in fact, hewlitt packard should be sued. and should be the source of the suit. once you knew this, why did you hire this guy and even offer him up for a security clearance? >> unbelievable, mark, always nice to see you. thanks, greta. friends of aaron alexis say they were shocked by his killing spree. but were there other tell-tale signs. >> reporter: this is the restaurant where aaron alexis worked and actually lived for a time with the owners, a husband and wife team whom we spoke with inside. >> i met him, at the temple. we had become friends. and i asked him to come help me out at the restaurant. at the time, unemployment, i just asked him, hey, want to come stay with me. you don't have to pay rent. just pay the electric bill. he always told me to go get a gun. we worked with the restaurant, with money, sometimes you have

money and sometimes you make a delivery. you know, who knows? some day, somehow, you might get robbed. >> would he carry the gun when he was working here in the restaurant? >> no, he -- a couple of times i told him not to do that. that is why he stopped doing it. >> he carried it? >> yeah, he carried it. >> like he would lift his arm -- >> yeah, that is why i said, hey, aaron, when you try to reach something on top, i can see the gun right there. put the gun right here. >> now, did the guns make you nervous? >> guns don't make me nervous at all. guns don't kill people, people kill people. >> so he was a heavy drinker. >> yeah, he can start drinking from 9:30 in the morning to the end of the day. if he wants to drink, you know, i always told him hey, you seem like you're an alcoholic right now. i always told him you're going to become an alcoholic, if you keep doing that. >> sort of a friend of the

family, a handyman, aaron was part of their family. they took him under their wing. he played violent video games all the time. that was one of the things he liked to do. i tried to discourage him from it. sometimes it took up more of his time even more so than adults. i have had people comment he was more like a kid playing those games. and i agreed with him. >> after catching up with his friends, "on the record" went to his former apartment, where he had a brush with the law. this is the apartment in september of 2010, on the second floor, apartment 2023, aaron alexis lived and the police came because he had shot through the floor. a woman described as june in the police report who lived there in 2013 said she felt he shot on purpose through the floor. she said she felt threatened by alexis, but after police arrested him he told the authorities that he was cleaning his gun and misfired. no charges were brought. >> now to another texas friend of the navy yard killer.

kevin mcdaniels said he never showed interest in guns but did wear military clothing. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> so when is the last time you saw aaron alexis? >> it was the day before he left to go up to d.c., he came up to me because i own a furniture store. and he said he wanted to sell his furniture so he wouldn't have to put it in storage and pay storage fees and such. and he was excited, happy, outgoing. just as i remember him always. and at the time i just took a break to go look at it and get it to the store for him. so he said that is fine, i'll do something else with it. and i wished him well. and same thing, he wished me well. everything was fine and he went on his way. >> did you ever notice him say anything about hearing voices? anything unusual like that? >> absolutely not. i mean, we talked politics. and talked current events. things like that. and he always had a comment to say. but nothing out of the ordinary.

it was just -- i mean, he was always waving -- when i would pull into the store to get ready for work he would wave at me, say hello, i would do the same thing back. and we just had general, friendly-type conversations for the two and a half, three years i knew him. >> what would he say his job was going to be in washington? why did he go there? >> he didn't really say why he went there. i knew he had worked with computer systems before, i.t. set-ups. so it was just my assumption that was what he was going to do, and like i say, he was excited about it. >> when you heard he went to virginia, bought a gun and then went into this 197 building at the naval yard, and you found out who it was, what did you think? >> well, what happened i was at the bank the day of the shooting doing some business. and one of the tellers said that the man that was the shooter was from ft. worth. and i thought well, ft. worth is a pretty good sized city. it is a shame something like

that happened like that to ft. worth. because we still have hometown values somewhat in ft. worth. and when i get back to the store, a customer talking with one of my employees said he was aaron from next door. and my knees buckled. my stomach flipped. i had to have a seat. it literally made me sick at my stomach. i could not believe it. >> so this is not the guy you knew? >> absolutely, even the pictures i see him in the news without a smile is not normally him. he usually always had a big toothy smile and was just usually happy and outgoing any time i spoke with him or had discussions with him. he was just a friendly, outgoing person. >> kevin, thank you, sir. >> thank you, greta. >> and here is a question, peyton or eli, which one of the brothers is now tackling

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we'll see you again tomorrow night. don't forget, october 7th, 7:00 p.m. eastern, big news we'll have a great show. good night from washington. the factor begins right now. the factor is on tonight. >> there is something evil in our society that we as americans have to work to try and eradicate. >> 12 more americans shot dead by one of their fellow citizens. is this on going violence harming the nation's image throughout the world? we'll have the latest on the navy yard massacre and charles kradhammer will weigh in. >> i don't think that mr. putin has the same values we do. >> the russians openly mocking the usa because of the navy yard killings and saying we are not an exceptional country. we'll deal with that.