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hello, everyone. welcome to a brand-new hour of inside america's news headquarters. >> good to see you. topping the news this hour, the pentagon is bracing for another massive classified document dump by the whistle blower web site, wikileaks. we're going to be getting a live report from washington. >> new revelations about that deadly 2008 terrorist attack in mumbai, india. remember those? whether or not the f.b.i. had crucial information that may
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have been able to help prevent those attacks. >> and a brother's love and loss is helping with ground zero. also give rise to freedom. the incredible story coming up. >> we are america's election headquarters. the campaign trail 17 days to go before the crucial midterm elections. control of congress hangs in the balance and nevada residents there are already casting votes. weighing in on up with of the hottest races right now in our country, that is the senate fight between democratic majority leader harry reid and tea party favorite republican challenger sharron angle. chief political correspondent carl cameron live in the silver state with the very latest. carl, nevada has been having early voting. 35 states actually have it now. how is it going today? >> very busy, surprisingly so. if you were to compare the number of people who take part
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in early voting in a state like nevada to the favorability of the candidates, early voting is more popular than the people they're costing the ballots for. half of the votes will be cast before election day. there has been a steady run in here at virtually no time today have these voting stations behind me been empty. a steady run all the way through. this is only the first day and there is usually a big rise, but it's also an indication of the energy and urgency in what is arguely the most interesting race in the country. it's a toss-up and there is no limit to how much money, how much ground troops and resources and reinforcement either side will commit to trying to win this. early voting has really taken off this year. across the country, two-thirds of the states, including dc, 35 plus the district of columbia, have some form of early voting. whether it is like in nevada where you come in and get to cast your ballot at the actual voting stations, or by mail-in
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ballot, oregon and washington state both have mail-in votes elections and that's really the only way you can do it. it's already underway. and there are another 20, 25 or so states that also have very, very relaxed absentee ballot rules. you don't really have to have an excuse for not showing up at the voting place. you pull an be a septemberee ballot and you can mail that in. but if the race isn't close, the vote may not get counted. it's a risk. >> some problems with absentee ballots across the country. some investigations. tomorrow at 11:00 o'clock here in the fox news channel, we'll have more in-depth on that. in terms of the early voting overall, where you are, any indication in which party can t could benefit? >> well, this is a race that is probably one of the most watched and the voters here are completely saturated with attack ads and mail and phone calls. just listening to the voters as they come in, it's sort of the one thing everybody seems to agree on regardless of how they vote differently is that they're sick and tired of getting the phone calls and watching the attack ads. not a lot of undecided left in
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this race. evenly divided. but a big, big early vote turnout tends to indicate vote railroads motivated and want some sort of change. that would lend itself to the kind of electorate that would support sharron angle. a tea party going up incumbent democrat. on the other hand, sharron angle is a polarizing, controversial figure. she's a bit of a lightning rod and has gotten a lot of attention. there are people who may come out to vote against her. the truth is, both of these candidates have very, very high unfavorable ratings and voters in nevada really aren't satisfied with their choices but they want to make them known. >> the race with the sizzle on saturday and carl cameron. >> all eyes are on nevada. according to a real clear politics polling average, senate majority leader harry reid is in a statistical tie with tea party backed republican challenger sharron angle. in the silver state, folks have a unique option. they can actually, when you go
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to the voting booth, you can vote for none of the above. so could this give one candidate an advantage over the other? which one might it be? here is republican consultant and former press agent to jack kemp, and former press secretary to president clinton. great to have you here. >> hey. >> tony, do you think this will give one candidate an advantage over the other and if so who and why? >> i think the conventional wisdom is clearly none of the above option helps the incumbent, harry reid. i think the bigger story is how pathetic it is that the senate majority leader, the most powerful democrat in the senate and the most powerful senator in the country has to rely on people not want to go vote for anybody in order for him to have his best chance at victory. it really tells the kind of story of what's been happening, which is for the month after month this entire year, you have democrats who went out on the ledge supporting this obama-pelosi and reid agenda and coming home to their districts and they're being met with a lot of resistance. and the fact that harry reid now, a couple weeks from the election is going to hope that
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this none of the above option will put him over the edge, strong how that anti-democratic agenda sentiment is in the country. >> jason, do you think sharron angle's comments might hurt her on election day? you said that to our producers. >> yeah, i think they will. i think frankly in a race this close, i think the republican party has to be nervous that disenfranchised voters will go for the none of the above options given her positions and comments. she has these remarks about belittling autism and talking about how sharia law is spreading across the country. she said controversial positions as a state legislator, including voting against mandatory mammogram treatments for insurers, which turned out voters and on one hand, she has rallied against federal involvement in health care, even though her and her husband both receive health care from the federal government. i think that's why you've seen prominent nevada republicans like the former lieutenant governor sue wagner come out
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against sharron angle. so i think the reality is that none of the above isn't looking to bad if you're in an anti-washington mode. >> tony, you think ballot position will come into play? >> ballot position is interesting 'cause in nevada, you have an alphabetized ballot. you have sharron angle being the first name you see. what you heard electric jason is the talking point of the day when they attack tea parties. republican coming out against sharron angle is no big news. she's capturing the mood of the grassroots in her state. and these polls don't really capture that. that's why what you're going to see on election night is a lot of heat statistically dead heat races actually move significantly toward the republican or tea party like candidate. you saw that with chris christie in new jersey and scott brown. they were statistically tied on election day, but on election day, they turned up wins over their democratic challengers.
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so i think you really are seeing a gelling of support behind angle in spite of the negativetivity we just heard for her. >> nationally the democrats aren't raising as much money as the republicans in this race. what does that say? does that concern you? >> a little bit, but not too much. i think at the end of the day, and i think tony is hitting on this, it's bigger than nevada. i think this is a concern for republicans across the country. i think because there is a real dichotomy with the tee party right now. on one hand, the tea party stands for kind of an anti-incumbent, limited government conservative mantle that a lot of republicans feel that the party has abandoned over the past few years. if you're conservative, that's admiral. but on the other hand, the tea party is fielding candidates that frankly aren't qualified for the positions that they're in and that are really scaring a lot of moderate republicans, business week this week has a cover story coming out about how businesses were moving away from a lot of tea party candidates because of their extremist
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views. it's not a surprise when we see chris see o'donnell dabbling in witchcraft and rand paul, i think it's turning off moderate republicans. i think the issue is less about the money and more about the sentiment going into november 2. >> antibusiness senator of the united states senate is a democratic majority leader from his position on taxes and spending and regulation and financial regulatory reform, from health care, from stimulus, trillion dollars that's not generated any sort of expansion in the jobs, harry reid is the issue in this election. you may be able to make that argument in delaware with christine o'donnell, who is a much more marginally important seat. but democratic majority leader, it really doesn't matter who is running against him. he's unpopular across the board and i think you'll see him lose. if i have to be in vegas, i would bet on sharron angle. >> i think regardless of what you think of harry reid, it's hard to make an argument that he hasn't done a lot for nevada in a difficult economy. he supported the stimulus,
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which has provided thousands of jobs for people there and the 95% tax cut which supported americans and nevadans and the other side said he has a lot of policy making and nuance legislative experience and i think as we get closer to november 2, a lot of voters will look past and say, who are the candidates that i really want to have actually sitting in office kind of running the solutions that we need? >> his own son, running for governor of nevada, actually came out in a debate and said health care was going to be bankrupt nevada based on the medicare entitlements they would have to absorb as a state. reid is the -- shows what people don't want of the expanding the size and scope of the federal government and he'll lose. >> on that note, got to wrap it up. thank you for joining us today..
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>> thanks. >> speaking of the president, he was back on the campaign trail today in massachusetts. he was stumping for his former harvard law school classmate, democratic governor duval patrick. he's in the middle of a hard fought battle to keep his job. trying to fend off republican challenger charlie baker. molly line with more. hi, molly. >> hi. that's right. the president was here and welcomed by thousands of cheering people and supporters to talk about governor duval patrick. his friend and political ally, they do have long ties together, all the way from those law school days and also those ties to chicago as well. so etches here speaking not just as a friend, but also as a person who believes in what the governor has done politically. they're very similar in their political beliefs and their views. some democrats around the country may have shied away from the president and his issues and how he feels on them, governor patrick was not one of those and welcomed the president with open
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arms today. president obama was last here in massachusetts to stump for attorney general martha coakley. she actually lost that election to senator scott brown. democrats are hoping for a different outcome this time around. and president obama called the democrats saying you've got to get to those polls on election day unless you want to see the republicans back in action. here is president obama. >> if they said no even to policies that historically they had agreed to, that historically they had sponsored and adopted. they figured they could ride people easinger and frustration all the way to the ballot box. >> president obama urging democrats to get to the polls and that's why massachusetts democrats wanted to see him here in the state. they need those democrats to show up at the polls and they also need the independents to make a show as well. >> what are the republicans saying about the president bashing the gop? >> governor patrick is in a tight race against the republican challenger charlie
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baker. baker said he believes the president is here because the governor is nervous and needs his support. he thinks that massachusetts voters will be leaning republican as they did in the 16 years prior to governor duval patrick's election for 16 years, we had republican governors on beacon hill. here is charlie baker. >> i think checks and balances argument is real. i've had a lot of people say to me over the course of the campaign that they didn't appreciate balance in government until i didn't have it anymore. >> those independent voters are even more critical to the baker campaign because as a republican here in the state of massachusetts, democrats far outnumber them. there are less than 12% registered republicans. it's the independents that helped scott brown win in january. bake service hoping to pull in those votes and have luck here in a few weeks at the polls. >> molly, see if scott brown has coat tails. thanks. >> president obama and republican congressman mike pence sparring off, accusing each other's party of hurting
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the economy with their approach to taxes. >> republicans in congress fought to keep the loopholes open. republicans in the house voted 11 times to continue rewarding corporations that create jobs and profits overseas. policy that cost taxpayers billions of dollars every year. >> the president and democrats in congress just aren't listening. to add insult to injury, they want to add a tax increase to their failed economic plan. that's right. after months of deficit spending and government takeovers, democrats in washington want to raise taxes in the worst economy in decades. >> pence was referring to the bush era tax cuts that expire at the end of the year. president obama only wants to preserve those for the middle class. >> president clinton, former president, was back on the campaign trail today spending time in california. he is helping to give the hard pressed democratic candidates
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there a boost and they need ahead of the mid terms. now the story from los angeles. >> the most popular democrat in the land comes to the west coast to lend his star power to fellow democrats facing tough election battles. in some cases, letting buy gones be buy gones with formal rivals. >> reelect jerry brown. >> bill clinton in california last night to help fellow democrat jerry brown as he runs for governor. >> i am so grateful that jerry brown, that you know, we're not very far apart in age. we've been doing this a long time. he still cares about your future. that is important. >> the two are no stranger to sharing a stage. >> you ought to be ashamed of yourself for jumping on my wife. >> i tell you something, president clinton. >> the circumstances are much friendlier than they were in the coats when they were competing for the democratic nomination for president.
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>> president bill clinton! governor jerry brown. >> but all differences are being set aside, at least until after the midterm election in november. clinton for his part is crisscrossing the nation, stumping for democrats that face tough election battle. >> you have to vote for harry reid. >> early year in the week, he stopped in nevada to campaign for senate majority leader harry reid, who is in the fight of his life to maintain his seat. all told, clinton will have made almost 80 campaign appearances in the 2010 cycle, nearly double that of president obama. candidates hope clinton's ability to draw a crowd will translate into more votes at the polls. >> i think what bill clinton does is he lends star power on one level. people like to be identified with stars who had a good run. clinton had a good run. clinton is a wonderful debater, orrator, speaker, better than just about anybody out there. >> so how much of a difference can clinton really make?
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analysts say here in the california governor's race, quite a lot. roughly 20% of voters consider themselves to be independent, many of them are undecided. and could be swayed by a personal endorsement from a popular former president. eric, back to you. >> thanks. were they bitter rivals in 1992. you can get all your nonstop updates on the key midterm elections. this is the place. america's election headquarters, that's why they call it that. go on fox news.com, click on the follow fox link at foxnews foxnews.com/politics for the very latest. >> we are calm. the pentagon is now bracing for a new document dump by the whistle blower web site, wikileaks. what effect the last batch of released military secrets may have had on our operations overseas. julyly is following this. what do we expect to be in these anticipated new leaks by
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wikileaks? >> we don't know exactly, but the defense department official told me today the iraq war database, which could be in this new release includes reports on a significant acts on the ground, unit level counties and tactical reports from the field in iraq. the pentagon does not know as well exactly what wikileaks has right now, but it is bracing for another massive leak in the next few days. with the pentagon task force of about 100 people or so, ready to review the leaked documents. that team was set up after the july leak by wikileaks founder of the afghan war logs. the task force looking for names or sensitive information that could compromise or harm people who work with the u.s. or put u.s. soldiers in danger. the new release is reported to include nearly 400,000 pages of classified u.s. army documents on the war in iraq which would make this the single largest
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military leak in u.s. history. >> 400,000 pages. we also heard from another whistle blower today, a former f.b.i. special agent who had good things to say about wikileaks. what's that about? >> you might remember the name kaline rolly, she's a special agent from the f.b.i. minneapolis office who came forward after 9-11 to detail how she and others had connected the dots, so to speak, but weren't listened to a month before the attacks. connecting the dots between the so-called 20th hijacker and the al-qaeda 9-11 plotters. in an op ed piece, she writes that wikileaks could have prevented 9-11 by acting as an outlet or as she puts it, a pressure valve for f.b.i. agents who were worried, she said, about what might happen, fearing an attack like 9-11. a different perspective on wikileaks from her, even as critics of the web site accuse it of hurting the u.s. and breaching u.s. security and braced for another release.
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>> thank you, julie. >> in france, big protests over pensions and the retirement age. you know what? could this be mean big problems for us right here in the united states? >> the french causing problems for us? plus the rebuilding effort at ground zero. we have an amazing story of a man who is oversaying a very big project and there is a major tie to this project.
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>> juliet: welcome back. new concerns that france's main airport could run out of fuel. oil refinery work divorce gone on strike and demonstrators are blocking fuel depots over plans to change pensions. new details in the disappearance of a north carolina girl. police saying zahra baker was seen by someone other than a
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family member as recently as september 25. she was reported missing last week. one of america's original tv moms, barbara billingsley has tide. she played on "leave it to beaver" in the 1950s. eric a big fan of the show. it was watched for decades afterwards by many generations of kids in the world of reruns. she was 94 years old. she was in "airplane." >> eric: she was like america's mom. >> juliet: she was. >> eric: with the beaver and wally and everybody else. to the latest installment of a special series. the rise of freedom. detailing the work that's being done at ground zero. this time we give you the profile of scott thompson, he's responsible for one of the new world trade center office towers and it's an enormous task and one that scott has been
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intensely focused on. but that's not all that motivates this quiet professional. shepard smith has the deeply personal and moving story. a fluke that on the construction, my dad was a paper salesman and i always wanted to, you know, follow your dad, right? >> scott thompson's desire to follow in his father's footsteps didn't survive college. choosing a career in construction finds this long island, new york native working for silverstein properties. his title? project executive for tower 4 of the new world trade center. >> our role here at silver seen is to oversee the construction, make sure all the consultants and engineers and architects are
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pretty much on the same page. >> tower 4 will eventually be 975 feet high. the creation of a building that tall is a complex, high stress, and expensive undertaking. >> there is probably well over 5,000 people involved directly and indirectly with the tower 4 project. at the peak of this job, we'll be putting $30 million a month, a million dollars a day. just think of the amount of work going into one day out there. >> with modern technology, you can see what the finished building will look like. thompson took to us what will be the lobby of tower 4. >> our architect picked this because the reflectivity of it. pure glass and highly bright. >> this lobby will face the september 11 memorial. >> people will walk in, see in the reflection of the memorial and they're going to feel the
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sense of the whole site downtown. >> within the memorial there will be a list of those killed on september 11, 2001. a list that includes scott's brother, glenn. >> still a lot of people in the company don't know. but that's why some of my intensity is raised a little bit because it's a lot of personal out there. the news flash came on and i saw the tower and i said, oh, my brother is in that building. i just watched it. kept watching it. # obviously watched it until the towers came down. didn't really know what to do. >> glenn thompson worked on the 104th floor of the north tower. >> growing up with an older brother is tough. five-year difference when you're growing up is a big difference. as you get older and you are past your brother, your big brother becomes your best friend. that's what i miss the most.
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every day the phone rang, i thought it was going to be him. he was an active guy. he climbed mountains in europe, skier, great skier. he was always active. >> at work, scott thompson is focused on the future, but he will always remember a sentiment he sums up best. >> september 11 was tragic for everybody. 3,000 and all the family members that were affected a lot more. i came to silverstein, i didn't want to be painted as the person who was just going to be here to rebuild just for your brother. i wanted to rebuild this thing, personal as well as nationwide. i held it private just because that's my nature. again, it's all about the sense of accomplishment not only for buildings, but to show that as a
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nation, we can build this up and show our resolve. >> eric: what a poignant story of inspiration and love. you can see photos and renderings of tower 4 and learn more about fox at foxnews.com/freedom. from that side, you can also see our past segments and share them with your family and friends. you can also comment on the stories and please send us your thoughts. you can do that on this site via e-mail. what a special series. >> juliet: it will be interesting to see the reaction of the people who don't know he works with, as he said, they're going to know it now. all right, small businesses are getting hit hard by the economic slow down. but now a major u.s. bank is stepping in to help. >> eric: and the rescue was it captured. the whole world saw it. glued to the tv sets. >> juliet: every single moment. >> eric: but how are their lives going to change now above ground? we'll be coming up talking live
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>> juliet: welcome back. it's the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. a series of bomb blasts rocking the southern afghan city of kandahar. >> eric: there has been an explosion at a coal mine in china. that has trapped 16 workers. rescuers say they'll have to clear tons of coal dust from the shaft to reach them. >> juliet: and another mining incident, this time in ecuador. a cave in trapping four workers. 500 feet below the ground. two bodies have been found so far. but the state of the other two miners is unclear. >> eric: most are home. 31 of the 33 rescued miners in chile now with their families after being released from the hospital. two remain. the men arrived back at home to sleep in their own beds.
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yesterday, as you can see walking through a sea of media cameras and reporters, all hoping to get the first to get the amazing story of survival firsthand. so far the miners have been kind of keeping hush hush about rumors of book and movie deals. adam housley streaming live from copiapo, chile with the latest. do we know when we can read their own words this a book or see the movie? >> yeah. it's going to be quite interesting to see how this plays out. there is people trying to get those first interviews. it's not going to be from hard work or making connections. it's going to be by who opens up their pocketbook. one miner we were talking to through a contact has told us he signed on with a german television station to give an interview. and that miners have had this blood pact they made 2,000 feet underground that they would only give interviews to those who paid and all the money would be put into a pool and they hired
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an accountant to who will equally divide up that money to give to each of them. we know one of the miners wrote at least 30 chapters in a book and that all the miners took part in helping give him ideas. he then tape that had shut and he forgot it when he left the mine, but one of the other miners brought it up. that's apparently in his possession and there is a number of companies that contacted him trying to turn that into a book in multiple language, as well as a movie. you can bet these guys are definitely moving forward when it comes to the business side of things. however, on the health side, there is two things happening here. first of all, their physical health seems to be pretty good. two have any real major issues and one is vertigo and the other has dental issues. they're still being treated. there are psychological issues that continue. maybe a bit more than they expected because a number of these miners are having problems sleeping or waking up at certain times disoriented many times. so it's going to be quite some time before they'll all feel
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norm normal, if they ever did. but they captivated a world and this country and right now, they're expected to get paid and they've get darn quiet, eric. >> eric: it's absolutely amazing. we'll have to see what type of deals they strike. adam, good to see you. adam will be back on geraldo rivera tonight with an in-depth look at the chilean mine rescue. tune in tonight, 10:00 p.m. this evening, special edition of geraldo at large, miracle rescue, the chilean miner story tonight at 10:00 o'clock right here on the fox news channel. >> juliet: we are exactly 17 days from the midterm elections and now brand-new fox news opinion dynamic polls reveal the major issues of the majority of americans say will weigh on their minds come election day. peter doocy has been following this story. he's tapping into the minds of our country and he's in new york reporting on this. >> president obama's approval rating right now is at 43%, which is one point better than it was a few weeks ago.
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but still lower than the 47% who disapprove of the job he's doing and voters aren't just paying attention to the things he does and says by himself. they're looking at who he supports and who he spars with. in these congressional elections, just 31% are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports obama a greater number, 38%, are more likely to support a candidate who opposes obama. 30% say, the 44th president will not be a factor. and when it comes to casting ballots in 17 days, 48%, almost half of likely voters said this week that they would back the republican candidate in their congressional district, just 39% said they would vote for the democrat. so much of the attention this election cycle has been on unconventional things said by candidates on both sides of the aisle. sometimes candidates even put those things in attack ads, but as it turns out, that doesn't really make much of a difference when election day comes around because the majority, 58%, are more likely to vote for a candidate who they agree with
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more, but says whacky things versus someone they agree with less who is conventional. when it comes to what those candidates do once they're elected and take office, 56% of likely voters say the government today is doing too much. they think it's too big. whereas 36% think the government should do more and a tiny 4% think it's just right. also more republicans and democrats are extremely or very interested in midterms, but in the last few weeks, democrats have been closing the gap. now 71% of republicans are psyched for the upcoming mid terms, compared to 64% of democrats. that 64% is a 14% increase over just last month. so you can see both parties are energized here in the home stretch of this election season. >> juliet: that was amazing that you spewed out all that information. all those numbers. peter doocy, thanks very much. you can see a complete list of all of our fox news opinion dynamic poll results on the upcoming midterm elections, log
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on to foxnews.com. >> eric: small businesses happen to be the backbone of the nation's economy. with credit so tight, many of them are having a hard time. the bank of america announced plans to expand small business services. they'll hire bankers who will help with pension plans, credit cards. what else do these small businesses need to get thriving again? gary is the a fox news contributor. always good to see you. >> thank you. >> eric: what can we do and what should be done for small businesses? >> i use two words, certnty and clarity. right now you have neither. i'm talking about taxes, i'm talking about health care. if you notice in the last couple of weeks, you are hearing about premiums going up in many areas of the country because of the health care bill and of course, nothing has been done on extending the bush tax cuts. so people who make the decisions on hiring and let's get this
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clear, these are people making decisions are just sitting and waiting, where are they going to be in 2011 and they don't know and until they know, they're going to sit on their hands and probably not do as much hiring as they probably could. >> eric: you're saying that the down turn in a way, that is artificial because they're sitting waiting 'cause they don't know what the future holds? >> i think demand is still not very strong, but it's definitely gotten better over the last six to nine months. but most companies that i speak to are saying we're going to use the people we have with the amount of demand we have, but we are not going to hire until we are sure that the demand is going to stick and until we are sure of how much money we're going to make. just remember, this is all about companies thinking about their bottom line and if they're not sure about what their cost of goods are and how much they'll spend on employees, they'll wait to hire that next employee. >> eric: this seems like a vicious cycle. about half the jobs in the country are in small business. they've created like two-thirds in the last 15 years. so you're saying we still have
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at least another year, year and a half if not longer before this thing breaks? >> i think so. you said a great word, a vicious cycle. when you don't hire, there is less people spending and it just feeds into itself. if the administration, if the democrats and republicans can get together and come up with some certainty where people know exactly what they're costs will be as a business and as individuals, 'cause these small businesses are run by individuals, i think at that point in time, i think things can change. i don't think the economy is that bad like some people are saying. it's just not that good, not good enough to where businesses are just going to be enthralled to start hiring people left and right. but i think we can cross that bridge once that certainty comes and hopefully somebody is listening. >> finally, talk about somebody listening, you can address them right now. what advice would you have for small business owners right now? >> look, just keep working their tail off.
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eventually things will turn. just concentrate on their business and be the best they can be and once the man really -- demand starts to come back, things will change in a big way. >> eric: gary, thanks so much and hope that advice sticks. >> juliet: if you need to have the latest and greatest gadgets, i still have my blackberry from the turn of the century. like last century. we're going to show awe brand-new smart phone hitting the market. >> eric: that's a taser from star trek. >> juliet: "consumer reports" will tell us if -- it's the android. >> eric: it will make dinner for you? >> juliet: i don't know about that. we have an expert coming up from "consumer reports" and he'll let us know. we'll be right back.
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the senior electronic editor at "consumer reports" gave it a try. he joins us now to explain if it's worth the money. i did notice it is slightly heavier than my blackberry. >> any phone that has a keyboard is going to be a little heavier. they're naturally thicker. this one has a unique keyboard. it's got a hinge. it actually comes out. that helps bring the keyboard up so that the phone is a little flatter. we kind of like that. some people reported that this part is a little flimsy. we haven't seen that on our samples,. >> juliet: it comes unhinged? >> it's a little -- it seems a little loose. again, not on our samples or the models we bought in the store that we tested. >> eric: what are some of the advantages of this one? >> it's got a very nice large screen and it has a keyboard that i found very well spaced. you can see that there. it also boasts these two unique google feature, google voice features. one is google voice which you
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can get on many android phones. that's a web-based service that let's you manage a lot of phone calls, if you get a voice message, it will transcribe the message and give it as an e-mail. you can forward calls. it's very cool. >> juliet: you were saying when you were trying to do a voice recognition type of thing, you called alex. >> that's right. there is another feature, google voice action. most have voice commands, you can program it to call home, call a friend or something. that's not new. this takes it a step further. it launches an application, too, so you can say something like, send a text message to john and start talking, it will take dictation. well, it was a little buggy. but i got it to work a little bit. >> juliet: that's a ringing endorsement. >> the good thing is it's software and software can always be improved. you have to give an a for trying. >> eric: do you think they'll
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get up to the level where you won't have any of these glitches and bugs? >> again, a big part of the functionality of these phones is software and software is always being improved. >> juliet: how much are we talking? >> $200 with a two-year contract after rebate. >> juliet: that's pretty -- >> competitive with most phones. range between 200 to 250. most smart phones in this class. it's a very nice phone. it's about ready to be posted in our ratings. it did very well. it's going to definitely be a recommended model for t mobile customers. we just noticed, the video portion, a lot of these new phones have the ability to shoot hd video or high quality video. didn't do as well there. but still not bad. >> juliet: you said you're going to be coming out with the best models? >> our rating will be updated. >> juliet: what kind of phone do you have? >> i can't tell you. i have all of them.
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i keep trading them in. but i have at least three phones and they all ring and they have spam on them and everything. >> juliet: that sounds fun. thanks, mike. >> eric: good to see you. we can start using those. just last month, folks in tennessee were getting their paychecks again, thank goodness. finally back to work. but guess what? now they're back to square one. we'll tell you why the state says unemployment is up again. >> juliet: and how hollywood legend audrey help burn is still helping children in need long after her death. we'll tell you about that.
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on this. elizabeth, first of all, how did this program work and if it worked, why was it canned it. >> it was only scheduled for 18 months and did may not be a universal solution because it is a temporary program. we know that states like florida, colorado and mississippi have all instituted similar programs and done it after this tennessee program, but they're a little different. the way it works is that it provided employment for 440 employees in perry county for 18 months. this is money from the federal government, stimulus fund. what happened was they were reaching 30% unemployment, listen to what the county mayor told us yesterday when we spoke with him. >> we were experiencing almost 27% unemployment. making almost second highest for unemployment in the nation. during this program, the unemployment was able to be reduced to approximately 13%.
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>> these jobs were private and public sector. so immediately anyone was played from a baker to a bus driver. >> eric: elizabeth, what's it like now that sadly the program has expired? >> unfortunately there is about 300 people who are unemployed. on the other hand, some businesses did see some success. armstrong pie social security a good example. they hired 12 workers when the program began and they've kept all but one employee. they usually produce about 70,000 of these pies annually. this year they sold 700,000. we spoke with one of the owners and she said because they had that payroll taken care of, they were able to focus on their product. take a listen. >> our business could expand because we could get more drivers on the road making more sales, opening more stops and that would create more jobs inside. >> the mayor tells us he continues to talk to the
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