. >> you can't talk about the increase on the debt limit if you're not willing to negotiate the problems washington has. >> i will not negotiate on the debt ceiling. >> when you want to borrow more money, we have to have government. >> we think we will run out of cash between october and mid-november. >> we can't negotiate over the debt ceiling and we can't be responsible for shutting down the government. >> the president is this individual talking about shutting down the government.

the individuals in the house and senate are the individuals talking about shutting down the government. >> the warning signs were there all along. telling "associated press" he was being treated for mental illness like hearing voices in his head. >> did he like to go out? >> i never thought anything of this magnitude. nothing makes sense right now. >> fox news learns exclusively he was punished during his time as a naval reservist, arrested and thrown in jail in 2008 for disorderly behavior. a 6 foot wall of water on the town. >> i'm in shock that i can't get the things i own.

>> everything is destroyed and washed away. >> the anticipation is there will be much more loss and possibly much more loss of life. >> first tonight, brace yourselves, another stunning statistic. the typical american family now ma making less than it did in 1989. former congressman allen west joins us, how are you doing? >> doing great. how are you? >> i am doing great. stunning numbers j. $600 less today than in 1989 for the average family. >> you have seen 4-5% depression of these wages for middle income in just the obama administration. we're still at 15% of the united states being in poverty. we have gone from the beginning of the obama administration, 39.8 million to now 49.1 million in poverty. we're going in the wrong direction, we're depressing

wages. we know we have more americans going on part-time employment than full-time employment and even those people on full time employment they're seeing all kinds of ways to get their hours cut back. we're not doing anything to help the american people plus we have a monetary policy that is printing more money. that means we're devaluing our american dollar and currency. think about what just came out today also. 1,000 days we've gone with 3 dollar plus gasoline in the united states. >> if president obama were here or democratic leadership they would say the rich are doing quite well, probably doing better than they were in 1989. their solution to crank up the taxes a little bit on the rich to try to create whether a stimulus program to help the middle class or entitlement program to help those very needy at the bottom of the income chain. what do you say? >> i would tell you this. according to their stimulus package numbers, in august of 2013, the unemployment rate is supposed to be 5.6%.

it's 7.3%. furthermore, when you look at the workforce participation rate, it's at an all time low since the carter administration. you can talk about this sense of distribution, that is not what is going to help the middle income families to be able to survive. where are we getting the right ti type of economic stimulus? it should be with small business owners. if you're talking about personal income tax rates that afektsz your llcs and sole proprietorships and that is 85% of our economy, the small business owner. that argument they had has failed. we spent a trillion and we haven't seen any improvement. >> as we look ahead, though, what is going to be the solution to this? we have republicans and democrats at each other's throat on capitol hill. the resolution expiring at the end of september and we have to

come up with something else. the middle class is doing worse than in 1989. those getting entitlements, that's ballooning and growing. it seems rather cataclysmic. i don't see any light at the end of the tunnel. >> the problem is the american people have to make a philosophical decision. because what we see happening, expansion of government programs, expansion of the entitlement class, expansion of the society is not working. when we have a federal government right now is about 25% of our gdp as far as spending when historically the federal government has been 18-20% 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 tax policies and regulatory policies to get people back to work. >> l.b.j. started the war on poverty in the mid 1960s. >> it hasn't gotten better.

>> it seems to have gotten worse the number of people living under -- living under the poverty level. we only have 30 seconds left on this. that war we lost. we need to change our strategy. i agree on that. i don't know the answer. >> i think first and foremost on the republican side we have to make more of an emotional connection. right now, the democrats have been able to make that connection saying we will take care of you and provide you this lar largess from the public charities. it doesn't work and depressed their wages and created an environment that they can't do it. >> and republicans are defined as cold and cruel. >> they're being defined by the other side. >> because the republicans have not demonstrated or convinced. >> absolutely. we get back to fundamental prestigious of a successful economy, i think it will work. >> congressman, we want to talk to you about another report. while the white house is still closed to tours to regular

americans, its doors remain open to hundreds of lobbyists. 200 lobbyists visited the white house 244 times between march and may when the white house tours have been shut down. your thoughts? >> i thought the white house belonged to the people, this is a republican, not a monarchy. i think some people see the white house as the palace of versailles, where they are controlling the type of people and who they want to come in. isn't it interesting we just talked about the fact the democrats say we're out there for the poor and impoverished yet they're opening up the white house for the people out there talking about the big business of corporate interests. tell you what annoys me. i did research done for me, president obama back in 2007, '08, in a debate with senator mccain says that -- he talks about the culture in washington and lobbyists. he does the same thing in a speech in des moines, 2007, said

lobbyists have not funded my campaign and will not run my white house and not drown out the voice of the people when i'm president. you go through his campaign, lobbyists will not have anything to do with his campaign. yet today -- every administration has done it just that the president said he wasn't going to. >> it's the hypocrisy of it, 119 members of his administration were previously lobbyists, i believe with organizers for america you cut a check for half a million dollars, you can get quarterly visits with the president. what does that say to the american people. the most important where does the very complicit media in some venues going to start calling the president to task on that? >> i get the opinion at some point the fact that lobbyists -- always been lobbyists have had access to the white house. what makes this particularly painful, americans want to visit the white house. talk about it being the people's house, i see the kids standing and looking through the gate wanting to look in there, for

the life of me i can't figure out you can't find enough money to open a white house tour so that kids can go through and see the white house? we want to inspire them? that has the promise not so much the president is like every other president with lobbyist s even though he said he wasn't going to. figure it out. >> capitol hill is open for visitors, if they can figure it out for the house and senate, why can't the president figure it out as well. maybe we shouldn't be so anxious to spend $1.5 million on a tomahawk cruise missile if we can't allow the american people to come see the white house. >> the president said that had to do with national security and syria, whether you buy it or not. >> i don't. >> i know you don't indeed. i'd like to see the white house open to the american people. i think they deserve that. >> they do that. >> figure it out, right? >> figure it out. >> congressman, always nice to see you. >> pleasure, thank you. >> more tonight, urgent warning from the congressional budget office, the nonpartisan ceo saying the nation's debt is on

an unsustainable path. on the budget and finance committee, joining us. >> congratulations on the new time slot. >> yes. we will be telling the viewers about it. >> i hope i didn't spill anything. >> no. >> we will be less sleepily and less coffee served here. unsustainable path. you can't paint a good picture on that one. >> i think what the president and his policies are doing is making that much much worse. what the cbo said is half the increase in health care spending over the next decade would be because of obamacare. you look at what's happening in the federal debt in this time the president has been in office the past five years it literally doubled. it took 43 presidents 205 years to pile up the first $3 trillion in debt and this president in the past four or five years has

almost doubled that amount. their solution for dealing with the deficit is to raise taxes, 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. >> your party says you don't want to raise taxes, you want to cut spending, for the life of me, democrats want to raise taxes, republicans want to cut spending, i don't hear anybody going out there looking at the enormous amount of waste in this government. it's like -- i bet you could collect enough money we don't have to raise taxes or cut spending, you go over to the defense department and see how much money they're spending, talk to senator claire mccast skill what goes on over there or senator tom cobourne, we're drowning in waste in the city. >> absolutely. a 3$3.5 trillion budget, in any government budget there's a lot of waste and inefficiency. as you mentioned, some of my

colleagues, senator cobourne and ca cass skill has identified areas you can save millions and millions of dollars. >> why doesn't somebody go after it and get that money and stop it? >> i think you've got to through the budget process, you have to make the hard decisions. we haven't passed a budget for five years in the congress. the house of representatives have passed a budget that's balanced and made hard decisions about spending and debt and we can't get one through the senate. you have a president i think is very much an advocate of liberal tax and spend policies. you have to make those hard decisions, so far, there hasn't been the political will to do that. i want to make one other point about you talked about reducing spending something all republicans conservatives want to do. democrats want to raise taxes. you have to grow and expand the economy. when the economy is expanding and growing, people are making money and investing and they're paying more taxes.

you want to get government revenues up and make deficits look smaller by comparison. reduce spending and get the economy growing again. we aren't putting the right policies in place to do that. >> i know i harp on this a lot, i think most americans would feel more inspired to pay their taxes, more inspired to build their businesses if they saw any good example coming from washington. midwestern values, was waste -- people don't like waste in the midwest and sit here tonight and listen to all the discussions night after night here of the billions of dollars of waste, they must think what are you doing? >> i think that's why one of the reason this is such low approval ratings from the public. when you're from the west and we have a balanced budget- >> not to criticize everybody else in the country. >> i'm not saying that. is there an ethic you don't spend what you don't have and have to live within your means. it's a common sense thing most people around the country get.

they're at a loss as to why washington d.c. doesn't get it. >> not like don't spend money you don't have is that you don't give contracts out to defense contractors where you give an open checkbook and the sky's the limit. there's some sort of discipline in contracting. i'm talking billions and billions of dollars how we do defense contracting. not saying we don't need this stuff. when you give someone an open checkbook and let them do cost overruns and no accountability, that's not how people do business back home. >> it sure isn't. you look at the debt we're running up, $650 billion this year why we had trillion dollar deficits the last years and why we have almost a $16 trillion debt. i think american people are fed up with it and we are mortgaging our children's future and time to be transparent and level with them. i have a bill that does that. we have for too long put policies, launched new programs that without consideration what

it will do to current and future generations. >> a bipartisan bill? >> it is. we have almost a thousand dm economists that have endorsed it and 14 laureates and we can't not be honest with future generations. i have daughters in their 20s. they will have a lower standard of living and lower quality of life. you heard congressman west speaking of that earlier as a result of the run away spending here in washington. we need to get that under control and also need to put policy in place that will enable our economy to grow and expand in a way that will increase the number of jobs out there and take home pay for middle class americans and that will generate more tax revenue not less. that's something not happening today. we have a president and a lot of people in congress think expanding government is the solution. it's not. expanding the economy is the answer. >> you and senator mccain working across the aisle gives some people more hope.

i think the american people like to see that. it's likely to be an effort and solution rather than a fight. >> absolutely. i hope we can get a lot of support on this. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> for the hot button issue on g gretawire.com. do you think it's hypocrisy for the lobbyists to have access to the white house and not you. uncovering more than a billion dollars in waste by the government agency least able to afford it. and the navy yard killer starting to unravel. new information about aaron alexis. here to talk about him coming up. is one of the manning brothers fi philanthropic? which one? eli peyton. what's he doing. don't want to miss this. why do people count on sunsweet prune juice to stay fit on the inside?

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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 i ion? 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

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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

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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, you 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 . 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. >> thank you, greta. >> and here is a you really love, what would you do?" ♪ [ woman ] i'd be a writer. [ man ] i'd be a baker.

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night. don't forget, october 7th, 7:00 p.m. eastern, big news we'll have a great show. good night from washington. hello, everyone. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." we are learning today more about the gunman who opened fire tea washington navy yard yesterday and about the 12 victims that he killed. the victims range in age from 50 to 73. earlier the fbi and d.c. authorities gave a new update on the shooting. they say that 34-year-old former navy reservist aaron alexis acted alone and the investigation is now focused on evidence recovery and information gathering. many questions remain unanswered. take a listen. >> as