tonight. we'll see you tomorrow. >> how incentive and cold can you get? >> that is what i hea i how insensitive and cold can you get. we're talking about people that we ought to be rushing to try to help. >> so america does, the needy get ebt credit cards, free stuff for victims. bill o'reilly gets this one right. >> no matter what the evidence, no matter what facts are presented, the liberal line will be the same. it's society's fault. >> taylor blames her parents for her bad attitude. the back street boys nick carter

blames his drunk binges on paris hilton. outside a welfare office, these people say they can't find work. >> is it possible they're not really trying? >> a lot of them are not. >> this woman works for the welfare office. >> do you think you in human resources encourage people to be dependent? >> yes, we do. >> what should be done? >> i don't know. i guess stop giving away the money and they will get a job. >> selling victim hood, that's our show tonight. and now, john stossel. are you a victim? i won 19 emmy awards for protected victims, protecting them by exploezing sleazy companies like the ones selling these solar powered clothes dry

drirs. just 50 bucks. what does they get? a clothe line. this machine supposedly used chemical sprays to make people feel younger. or you could buy this. supposed to cure ugly facial slag. that was my job. i should warn you about scams. nothing wrong with consumer reporting. but the media almost go overboard. and at 20/20, we did. >> faulty coffee makers may have started thousands of fires. john stossel with the facts should you know. >> did you happen to catch this so-called news story? >> investigative reporter went undercover to see first happened how this underground world works. >> eight people sharing a meal in a stranger's home. clan decemb dinner parties like these are completely unregulated. p. >> oh, my goodness, unregulated dinner parties.

gavin mcginnis is a media cri c critic. what gets in their heads? >> they're just out 6 touch with the average american and they think that they need to get in there and regulate us all. because i feel like they never built a business, they have a liberal arts degree, journalism degree. they don't run the numbers. >> that's a good point. anybody who has tried to build something, a building or a business, they wake up to regulation. reporters most have never built anything. >> i notice they took the comment section down from the web page at that news station. you call the reporter up and gave her some heat, i hope, and she said -- >> she seemed dubious. my questions, she returned more questions. i mean, these people, she wouldn't answer the question -- she wanted to know what my thine

scared of being exposed. they're less likely to go on the witch hunts when you call their name. >> so undercover dinner parties. on to another scare, julia roberts won ap-oscar portraying erin brockovich. >> it could be harmful. >> so it kills people. >> they dream about being al to watch their kids swim in a pool without worrying that they will have to have a hysterectomy at the age of 20. >> this was about a chemical leaked from a california power plant that was supposedly causing cancer. but it turned out it probably wasn't causing cancer. the registry studied cancer rates and found no cancer in excess. people fall for this because it's intuitive to think being near a power plant is probably bad. or all this pollution and burning plastic is probably bad, or being stressed must lead to cancer. but when you talk to experts in the field, you go really smoking

is the only thing you can do to change your genetic makeup. you h. otherwise li otherwise live wherever you want. >> lawyers made $100 million off of it despite no evidence. but i give the real eric brockovich credit. she and her lawyer boss called me an idiot at a corporate chill, but i invited her on this program and she came. californians have to pay more for electricity to pay off all these lawyers. it looks like a scam to me. >> it was definitely not a scam. i have to tell you in this instance with pacific gas and electric and being in the process from the agabeginning t the ended, it was a willful egregious intentional conduct on their part. they knew that chemical was a poise on that. >> the chemical is a poison, but for the record, they studied 50,000 people who worked at the power plant who were exposed more, and they were healthier

than average. so the lawyers get rich, everybody pays more for electricity. >> color rehlorine is a poison swim in it all the time. it's great. >> you wrote recently about the myth america pageant. what's that about? >> what's happening in media is they have become story tellers. they find a villain and they set it up, this sort of princess in the castle story. and then they work backwards and get the evidence from there. now, the evidence is rarely there. so they started relying on twitter to prove their theory. now, with the miss america pageant, they found a bunch of teams who said things like she looks like a terrorist. twister is the same place where people say this house not zombie proof. >> but there was backlash. >> from kids. you check their follower, there was no back slash but it fit their narrative, so they crow

bar it in. >> here is a sample of the media freakout. >> the new winner is facing fierce backlash. some people calling her a foreigner, even a terrorist. >> she is coming face to face with racism. >> racist comments began flooding the internet. one person tweeting, great, miss america is a terrorist. >> fierce backlash. >> i looked that woman up, she has zero followers. she's a little kid. if you look up i hate babies, you'll find dozens of kids just saying that. twitter is full of rhetoric. >> so why does the media do this? >> there is a million theories, but i think that culpability is not sexy on tv. >> saying you're responsible. >> and even though it's what made our culture great, it's who we are as a nation, it makes people feel better to say it's not their fault, they're a victim of circumstance. >> one last example of media people wringing their hands about victims is the recent concern over kids being bullied.

>> this kind of bullying on is on the rise. by one count as many as one this three kids is being victimized. >> cyber bullying has become a growing epidemic. >> it's on the rise, a growing epidemic? i assumed there was more bullying when i was a kid because nobody thought about it that i was bullied. i assume it was just part of school. now at least there is awareness. i bet there is less bullying. but this former teacher says this is aen example of the media doing something right. you like this reporting. >> doi do because i saw cases o bullying. elementary school, high school, college. it is a real problem. on occasion you have kids who not only their grades suffer, but they contemplate the idea of hurting themselves. we've seen stories where kids ultimately commit suicide as a result. so when it comes to legitimate cases of bullying, i think the media personalities can highlight those cases and say for example there was a girl in

queens in may i read a story about a girl who did commit suicide as a result of bullying going on in her school. it turned out the administration was not doing proper follow up, the parents had tried to reach the administration and alert them to the problem. that's the kind of journalist tiic coverage that can help the issue and cause parents to say hold on, let me ask my kids some key questions. >> what about the media saying it's on the increase. they don't know. >> look, i think in some cases the media can create victims and sort of label things as bullying and label things as really serious bullying that aren't necessarily. but there are cases where it is serious. and particularly now with the internet age where we have facebook and twitter and you have cyber bullying, schools do have a responsibility. >> an overweight tv anchor was praised by the media, she got on the "today" show, because after she got a letter from a viewer who said you're a bad example

for kids, should you take care of yourself, she complained about his bullying. >> there are children who don't know better, who get e-mails as critical as the one i received or in many cases even worse each and every day. the internet has become a weapon. >> come on, she's a hero? the guy just said should you take care of yourself. you're not a good example. >> this is an example in my opinion of hypersensitivity. >> this keeps happening. we declare epidemics without running the numbers. yes, it's tragic that a kid killed himself or herself. but compare to bee stinstings. >> but hundreds of americans are killed running into deer. >> that is true. >> let's quantity guy the people who weren't bullied. when you put a protective layer around them and you coddle them, they're not prepared for the real world. >> but now we have the internet

and anonymity let people bully you more. >> inevitably when you're arguing with someone like this guy who call her fat -- which she is ---sfwhe. >> he didn't even call her fat. >> but sorry, you're not healthy. >> we're way beyond balance it in our media culture. >> the media as an agenda. we all know that. >> if you'd like to keep the conversation going, go to facebook and twitter and use that #victimhood to let people know what you think. coming up -- >> cupcakes for sale. >> a racist bake sale. >> that's not right. >> you're out of your mind. >> also today, what does it mean to be poor in america? >> i have a tv. >> yeah, i have a television. >> do you have air conditioning? >> yes. >> cable tv? >> yeah.

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$7.25 an hour, that's the federal minuimum wage. could you live on that, have you? what amount of pay is reasonable and at what point is it so low that if you work for that, you're a victim? >> people got bills. you know, house payments, car insurance, all the utilities. and you know, that doesn't -- minimum wage doesn't cover it. >> it on whiften doesn't and la there have been protests complaining about low pay and they have had an effect p. california just passed a bill to raise that state's minute him wa minimum became to $10 an hour. i live in manhattan. most people around me say $10 isn't enough and the government must step into guarantee those victims of greedy employers more money, a living wage.

brooke is president of the ira ran institute. >> i'm advocating self interest that many people out there who are interested in work for these rates and indeed what happens when we set the minimum wage so high at ten bucks an hour or whatever the rate happens to be, $7.25, what happens to those people who don't produce at $10 an hour or don't produce at $7.25. what we create is a whole has of people who will never find a job. who are those people? young, inexperienced teenage, innercity youth who are now exploded completely from the workforce. they will never learn the skills, they will never get the experience necessary for making $100 an hour. >> how are they excluded? >> because if they can only produce $5 an hour, nobody will employ them at 10 bucks an hour. nobody will lose on the employees that they hire.

>> and the restaurant lobbyist ran this ad, why robots could soon replace fast food workers demanding a higher minimum wage. >> if you drive up the costs, restaurants still need to make that profit, they still keep the price of their product cheap. they will replace people with technology. >> mcdonald's response was interesting, they came out with a sample budget. a free comprehensive money management tool to provide an outline of what an individual budget may look like. and they show that a person could work for minimum wage. and still save $100 a month. however, it included working two jobs and they took a lot of heat for that. >> it's a little big brotherly to mcdonald's to tell employees here's what you ccan do. but people are living all over the country making this kind of money. when people came to this country 100 years ago, people lived on

much less than this and they sent their kids and got an education. and they rose up. you -- >> people do it around the world p. >> people around the world live on much, much less. government has no role in, you know, dictating -- >> our government has decided it does have a role. >> it sure has. and as a consequence, you're seeing youth unemployment in this country close to 20%. everywhere government steps in to raise minimum wages, what you see a massive unemployment among those who can least afford it. >> think progress says he have facet of the budget is basically unachievable. >> many people achieve it. we all started somewhere. i make a lot of money today, but i was a foreign student working in graduate school making probably less than this. and with two kids, you manage. it's wrong to force people to pay a particular wage, a particular form of income.

this should be left for the marketplace. >> as i watch the protesters, there a spring in their step. >> we got the power. >> who got the power. >> we got the power. >> they don't apgt lict like vi tims. >> i don't see any one of them looking like starving people. as we increase the minimum wage, what we're doing is not just violating their rights and reducing their profit and anything that has to do economically with that, but we're also denying jobs from people who can't afford to be denied those jobs. we create unemployment. >> bl . >> listen to this more serious protester. >> some people work 80 hours a week and they can't make ends meet. or they have no time for anything else. all they do is work all week. p. >> all they do is work all week. >> nobody owes them anything.

the idea that -- the whole idea of -- >> we're a rich country. don't we owe the poor something? as an individual, i feel i owe them something. >> then you as an individual can help them out. they're not trying to negotiate a better salary with their boss. what they're asking is for the state to bring its power and force you to help them. force the employers to help them. >> thank you, huron brook. coming up, are black people victims in america some do i victimize them further if i run this racist bake sale? we have different prices here. if you're asian, $1.50. if you're white, $1. if you're la tino or black, 50 crepts. begins with knee pain, when... [ man ] hey, brad, want to trade the all-day relief of two aleve for six tylenol? what's the catch? there's no catch. you want me to give up my two aleve for six tylenol? no. for my knee pain, nothing beats my aleve.

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♪ john: if any people have the right to label themselve if any people have the right to label themselves victims, it's american blacks.

first we had slavery. then state required segregation. then stepping racial discrimination. but the author of blacklash argues that this focus on the past is terrible for blacks. she says blacks sthould stand u against destructive tie rapts. >> they're harming the black community. our failing public schools unemployment is over 13%. over 40% among young black individuals. >> they're victims. >> stand up to the progressive policies that are not working. i don't see them as victims. they're not victims. that's the narrative that the left uses all the time to promote their big governmented a jen today. they don't want to promote liberty, personal responsibility. they promote bigger government. they think government is the answer. >> you went to the naacp annual meeting this summer, you heard a lot about victimhood. >> throughout the entire

meeting. >> every speech? >> listen, what i heard when i was there, it was an us versus them mentality. i didn't hear any solutions. i heard a lot of victimization, a lot of race card. the voter i.d. is raesicist. if you were black being you don't stand a chance. >> and at that same conference where you were not allowed to speak i should point out, al sharpton mocked people who say the election of president obama means that america's past racism. >> those that were saying that never was profiled in the department store. those that was saying that was never pulled over on a highway. >> he has a point. a black man is more likely to be pulled over on the highway, profiled. >> racism is not prevalent across our country. there are indians out there who may be racist, but clearly look at individuals in politics, in business, sports, entertainment.

myself. and i implore all freedom loving americans to stand up and push back on this narrative. don't be afraid to be called a racist or sellout, all the different names i'm called. if you believe in liberty and you want to advance our country forward, i implore all americans to speak out. >> let's talk about the killing of trayvon martin. the president said this could have been my son. could have been his son. >> and he injected himself into this and made it about a racial issue when in fact it had nothing to do with race. >> we don't know it had nothing to do about race. >> the fbi investigation concluded that. and zimmerman was not convicted. and so clearly it wasn't about race. unfortunately early on we had people who promoted it about race and that's what dom neared the headlines. >> and a producer at nbc clearly at black victimhood in mind when

he edited the call 20to 911. here is the actual call. >> it guy is up to no good. he's on drugs or something. it's raining and he's just wandering around. he looks black. >> the editor took out is he white, black, hispanic. which left just this. >> this guy looks like he's up to no good. he looks black. >> now, look, in television, you're looking to save time. maybe he was just -- >> no, that was just very inappropriate and the wrong thing to do. and anything about race is emotional and it drives the headlines. and early on with this case with this investigation, it was always about race when in fact it wasn't. >> haven't blacks been victims in america? >> years ago, john, black individuals did not have access to education, housing, jobs. times have changed. and we don't live in that era

anymore. >> let's talk about affirmative action. given america's history of discrimination, seems reasonable that white shos should try to m amendments, give a break to minorities that maybe didn't have the breaks that i had. so what's wrong with that? and before you answer, let's bring in 00 white people who opposes affirmative action, jennifer gratz. she was denied admission to the university of michigan you say because you are white. how do you know it was because of your race? >> well, the university of michigan and universities across the country are very proud of the fact that they use race in a admissions to help some people and to hurt others. at the university of michigan when i applied -- >> they're not proud they hurt others. they just say they help some. >> yes. when i applied to the university of michigan, you need $100 po10s to be accepted. a perfect act or sat earned 12

points. outstanding essay earned one point. if you were black or hispanic or native american, you already had 20 points. more than a perfect s.a.t. or a.c.t. score. >> and so you sued and took it all the way to the supreme court and you won. >> i did. >> but affirmative action still lives at most colleges. >> yes, it was a mixed decision where the supreme court said that race preferences could not be used in a mechanical way, so there could not an point system anymore. but race still could be used as a factor for about another 25 years. >> if i goet a job application capital, whi applicant and whit black and they are equal, i would probably pick the black person. what's wrong with that? >> i think our decision making should be color blind. >> what about the history of

discrimination and special privileges for us whites? >> i don't know of any special privileges that i have. there are three unintended victims. there are the people who get a preference to get into college and don't need it and so -- or to get a job and don't need it and their credentials are then questioned. >> let's talk about that. because you sent us this video of a conversation with a 16-year-old girl. she has top grades, perfect s.a.t. scores. and she's against affirmative action. >> this causes racial tension and racial division because then the white people are going to say, oh, but we don't get preferences, we don't get advantages. and so they will resent the minorities. i'm going to get points because of what i look like. and i resethat because i don't want people saying she just got it because of what she look like and not because she's qualified. >> i've heard that before. how you can ever trust that this why deserves to be a doctor. >> if these policiecan you evers

why deserves to be a doctor. >> if these policies didn't exist, we would know they're there because of their merit. >> other victims are people who get the preferences and don't do well in school. >> correct. people who are qualified to get into maybe second tier school, then are bumped up because of preferential treatment and they get into a top tier school. and then they don't do well. and they end up with a considerable amount of debt and student loans and oftentimes they drop out. so now they have debt, they don't have a degree and they feel horrible, they don't feel successful. and we would be much better off having kids go where they're prepared to go, where their qualifications say they're ready to go and graduate and get a degree and fell likeel like a s. >> and the third category. if you're told that you're a victim, you start to act like a victim. >> exactly.

you act like a victim. you become a victim. and it becomes an us versus them tine of mentality. >> and to raise people's consciousness about affirmative action, i once ran a racist bake sale. >> cupcakes for sale. my price list said asians thatted to pay $1.50. whites, $1. latinos and blacks, just 50 cents. >> that's not right. >> you have to be out of your mind. >> that's stereotyping. that's not right. >> but it is the he wiprinciple? >> you got their attention. >> and i should say once we had a conversation, people were saying i hadn't thought of it that way. >> frederick douglas was born a swl slave. he self educated, he was involved in politics, he was an adviser to presidents.

he disdained affirmative action. so if he can do it, anyone can do it with hard work. >> you can't be for public contracting, public jobs and then call what you does outrageous. >> thank you, jennifer and denine. more on so-called victimhood coming up. ♪ twins. i didn't see them cing. i need a new investment pn. i need to rethink the core of my portfolio. ishares core etfs are low-cost funds. so you can keep more of what you earn. get started with the new ishares core builder. design a personalized plan that can help you achieve your investment goals. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospectus, which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. read and consider it carefully before investing. risk includes possible loss of principal.

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♪ john: welfare is supposed to help people in need, welfare people this need, give destitute people a chance to get back on their feet. but that's not what usually happens says star parker. what do you mean?

>> i think what has happened is the poor have been conditioned to adopt a slave mentality. i don't own myself, i am not free. and it's very sad in a free country that we are even calling ourselves poor. i got caught up in it and a lot more people are getting caught up in it today because the goodies are getting much broader and much more expensive to the taxpayers. >> people who get government aid say the solution is more government aid. here's what i was told outside a food kitchen in harlem. >> poverty stinks. >> give us more jobs. create more jobs. >> more food stamps? >> more food stamps, more welfare. >> and on and on. it's this impression that goods come from government. >> right. well, that's the disconnection. i never thought about it when i lived on welfare. and the reason i say better is because we've also taken the shame out. so you can live tax sdsh payer dependent and no one will even know it.

housing for the poor has improved when it comes to what they look like. you can't even tell that it's government paid for. >> but you say you livedu were . >> it's a mentality. this is the problem. people are not connecting on their own lives or their own well,. it's give me something. and then you'll make do. it's similar to slavery where you make do if you're owned by somebody else. liberals have put up all these barriers around their live so is that can't live free, so you move from one benefit to the next. >> check out this video of a california surfer dude who skron roberts interviewed who uses his food stamp card to buy lobster and sushi. >> $200 a month and you just go like -- >> thank you for shopping with us. >> all paid for by our wonderful tax dollars. >> he said he had no interest in getting a job. >> just not something that appeals to you? >> not whatsoever. >> and you worked the sam when you collected. >> why not just hang out at

venice beach. i did it for a long time and it wasn't until a christian conversion that i changed my life. that's why we don't want to reward ill behavior. >> bureaucrats usually claim they're saving people. but once outside a welfare office, i was surprised to find one that admitted that what she does leads people to not to bother to look for work. >> do you think you in human resources enscourcourage peoplee dependent? >> yes, we do. >> what should be done about that? >> i don't really know. i guess stop giving away the money and then they will get a job. >> and you work for the government. >> that's right. >> that's a pretty unusual reaction. >> it is. don't work, don't save, don't get married. that he anothh's the rules of o.

>> but they don't usually admit it. >> my caseworker said if she ever came to my house, just pre-extepre pretend that i did because she wanted to go to lunch with her girlfriends. >> one aspiring actress made this video mobbing the welfare system. ♪ >> we bleeped obviously was a word for sexual intercourse. her point is that having more babies wins you benefits. >> it's true. you get pregnant, you get a check. and before welfare reform, you get pregnant even at 14, 15, 16, not only do you get a check, you get a housing voucher to move

out of your parents' setting. it's sad. >> but do you think a 14-year-old girl says i'm going to get pregnant because i'm going to get this monthly check? >> i think that what we've done is in-september advint advised be may have. they have been conditioned to believe that they hahave victim. when you are 14, and you look at your options, a broken environment, yes, you could say why not just live for today. the next thing you know, you're pregnant and the next they think you know you're in that same cycle of depend inside city. >> and yet if a politician suggests cutting benefits, the meet i can't a media and the left, are they the same thing, they act outraged. >> there are other things that could be on the tail. >> how insensitive and cold can you get. >> and star, how insensitive and

cold you must you been to suggest these cuts. >>. >> it's the best medicine ever. it's a cancer in our society. and the people that are promote to go keep the status quo are the very part of the system that's not working. we declare a war a poverty and trillions of dollars later, we have a collapse of marriage, communities in total ruin and yet you have the likes of those voices we just heard that keep insisting that we continue this madness. >> thank you, star parker. we do seem to continue the madness. coming up -- the truly helpless deserve assistance, but government assistance? it creates more victims. their c. ted is trying to get a hold of his insurance agent. maxwell is not. he's on geico.com setting up an appointment with an adjuster. ted is now on hold with his insurance company. maxwell is not and just confirmed a 5:30 time for tuesday. ted, is still waiting.

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♪ john: are you isabled? so are you disabled, so disabled you can't find work? i'm a stutterer and today's disability laws existed when i began work, would i have overcome my stuttering problem or maybe i would have just given up, collected a government check. so i'm glad today's disability laws didn't exist then because without them, i struggled and i'm here. but the laws do exist now and

company inside accide coincidently, more americans conversation between two women and i hear the one woman say to the other i can take the pay cut or i could just go for disability. really it struck me as an analyst who delves into various government programs she spoke it as an either or. the numbers have exploded. when you look at the program we're not more disabled, we're not a blue collar economy any more -- >> more people are working at home. less manual labor. >> exactly. how could we be spending all this more money for disability, have all these people applying for disability. >> when you say all these people applying you have the cato chart that shows the money spent the last 50 years.

people say oh, when the economy gets better then it goes down but it barely went down in the '80s when the economy improved a bit. basically it's gone steadily up. >> you had a liberalization eligibility going back to the '80s. you have parents trying to get their kids on psychotropic medications in the hopes they wilber increase their odds of qualifying for a check that goes to dad and mom. so, you're -- >> your neighbor gets it you feel like a stucker if you don't. >> look at the message being sent. i'm disabled. they are becoming labelled. as they become adults what's the first thing they are being taught, don't work. first thing they think disadvantaged. >> disabled used to mean you were paralyzed perhaps. you had a severe injury. now it means what? depression. back pain. stress. >> it's like any other government program you start off with good intentions and then it

becomes something it never was supposed to be. the original disability insurance program was supposed to support those ages 50 to 64 as transition into regular retirement. since the 1980s we've seen 300% increase in awards for what back pain, mental issues, what they call non-exertional. there's a good chance i could qualify. >> used to be that they were paralyzed. today most of the claims are things like anxiety, stress, back pain, nebulous diagnosis? >> very subjective. >> another reason lawyers make big bucks promoting them. >> if you're disabled and can't work you need social securitible disability benefits.

don't try to get them on your own. >> it's important you act now. >> call 1-800 -- >> my law firm has collected over a third of billion dollars for injured people. >> third of a billion dollars. >> yes. sometimes when i'm at the gym and i notice program after program contains these commercials for these folks. they don't make a ton of money, especially specialty law firms. >> binder and binder made $80 million in one year. >> about a decade ago government made it easier for nonlawyers to represent people in appealing a claim. so, they hire a bunch of cheap nonlawyers and such and they rush people through the system. they figure out the system. they collect little bits of money. it adds up if you get enough people on. >> and you pay. thank you, ted. coming up, a doctor composing rap music to try to fight

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working a fast track er. a lot of the kids would come in with problems, teen pregnant circumstance stds, drugs, guns, things of that nature. we developed a bond. i started talking to them. >> you would say to these kids why do you live like this. >> they were straight up with me. sometimes they didn't have a way to go. so i decided to use the rap music the way they use it to teach and educate, and that's what we do. >> in response to teen pregnant circumstance let's play a clip from your song titled "what if." >> thank you. ♪ >> and do you think this will make a difference? it's hard to think music, your music could make a difference. >> this is new. this is medicine and music. and, yes, given the chance i guarantee you it will make a

difference. some of the kids will come back after certain shows and say doc i'm so glad you spoke to us this way. you keep it real and straight with us. we love it. >> thank you, dr. atkins. his songs are directed to the black community but i should clear this show isn't singling out minorities. america are white people and many are affluent. caroline biden, joe biden's niece was arrested for throwing a punch at the cop. the "new york post" said she was addicted to alcohol and pills but rather than take responsibility for her actions, she blamed them on the pressure she faces because her uncle is the vice president. the give me a break! america succeeded because it was founded by people who were the opposite of victims. people with grit, overcoming obstacles is the root to prosperity and happiness too. so three cheers for dr. atkins

and for all of you fighting to be anything but victims. that's our show. see you next week. hello, everybody i'm greg jarrett. welcome to a brand new hour inside america's news headquarters. >> i'm arthel neville. no deal. the senate blocking another effort to end the government shutdown. what this could mean for the nation's looming debt crises. >> the grand canyon reopens for business. coming up we'll show you how individual states are now taking matters into their own hands by opening this and other national monuments at their own expense. >> also it was