buckley fellow at the national review institute and francis fox pavan she is a distinguished professor of sociology and political science at city university of new york graduate center all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first is this movement actually going anywhere i think that's the main question right now is that over the two months that the occupy wall street movement has existed it's turned into a juggernaut of civil disobedience that has plowed places across the world but just as the movement is growing in scale and scope it is also grappling with more and more criticism crackdowns and facing growing questions about its tactics and strategy the movements as they can still insist that occupy is an important voice for public frustration that's the succeeded in raising awareness of staggering income and wealth inequality. there is a movement brewing in america not just the occupy wall street but the two thousand encampments occupy around america and also the sense that suddenly the ninety nine perce

national review. i thought was interesting but i have a few questions. you say we should institute merit pay. i was curious about the metrics of doing that. guest: i will be the first to admit i am not an expert in how you would institute merit pay. this came out and make comments that the former dc school counselor michelle rhee said. she said the average teacher's salary is $55,000 bid isn't a great teacher were $55,000? the average pay as closer to $110,000 because the benefits are about equal to the salary. it is not just a great teacher getting neck, it is sort of a good teacher and a poor teacher and a teacher who should not be in the classroom at all getting bad. there's not much differentiation in pay between the best teachers and the not so good teachers. the folks across the educational spectrum who may disagree with our findings often argue that we need to have some institution of merit pay. it cannot simply be based on how well your students are doing. some students come to school better prepared and others to learn. we cannot simply say that all teachers have to be assumed to be

have a true evaluation you need to have something like the national institutes of health or something like that where you have a peer-reviewed at all at the department of energy. that was run by partisans at the top. >> reporter: it goes without saying, jon we are likely to hear a lot more about how the loan guarantee decisions were made when energy secretary steven chu testifies before the house and commerce committee. jon: there will be some firework at that one i have a feeling. you'll be there to watch it. thank you. jenna: there is an arrest in the death of a one-year-old boy who police have in custody for his murder, we'll have that update for you. rick is over at the web wall happening what is happening today. rick. >> reporter: every day we like to give you at home a little job to do during the show. you can go to the "happening now" home page of foxnews.com. we always have some polls. here are today's and some of the results. will foamer massachusetts governor mitt romney get the gop nomination? almost 62% of you say huh-uh, not going to happen. and then which would you prefer for the u.s. economy, a bipartisan deal

captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> secretary panetta says that he has asked for an independent review for what happened at dover air force base. all six members of the joint chiefs of staff, including general dempsey, were on capitol hill talking about adding a seat to the panel. during the hearing, a member of the committee talked about the practice at the dover mortuary, of disposing the portion of troops remains by cremating them and putting them into a landfill. >> i want to for a minute go to the situation at the dover. i do not want to dwell on how hard this must be for you and the leadership at the air force. no one needs to convince me that you want to get this right at dover. those who understand what the office of special council is, it is the prosecution-oriented agency whose primary occupation is to protect whistle-blowers. what i am concerned about is their investigation into what the ear force did in response to the whistle-blowers. specifically, the fact that the ig of the air force failed to admit wrongdoing in their report. while i and stand people have been moved aro

national review. i thought was interesting but i have a few questions. you say we should institute merit pay.as curious about the metrics of doing that. guest: i will be the first to admit i am not an expert in how you would institute merit pay. this came out and make comments that the former dc school counselor michelle rhee said. she said the average teacher's salary is $55,000 bid isn't a great teacher were $55,000? the average pay as closer to $110,000 because the benefits are about equal to the salary. it is not just a great teacher getting neck, it is sort of a good teacher and a poor teacher and a teacher who should not be in the classroom at all getting bad. there's not much differentiation in pay between the best teachers and the not so good teachers. the folks across the educational spectrum who may disagree with our findings often argue that we need to have some institution of merit pay. it cannot simply be based on how well your students are doing. some students come to school better prepared and others to learn. we cannot simply say that all teachers have to be assumed to be the

nation magazine, new republic and the london review of books. thanks for being with us. and darcy allison also our host as the president and c.e.o. of the goldwater institute. she previously served as the director of education policy in washington, d.c. she has appeared in the "wall street journal" and the national review. and bill mchill who served two terms in the state legislator, including one term in the arizona senate. he has produced nine documentaries, including "barry goldwater, an american life." in your book and in his campaign he called himself a different kind of a candidate for a different kind of election year. how so? >> i think that the thing that made him most different as a presidential candidate was that he was a reluctant presidential candidate. if you think of all the people running for president in 2012, we can't say any of them are reluctant. it's a full-time job. ever since 1960 when the first group of people came to barry goldwater and tried to draft him and said we want you to be a presidential candidate, he would also say one thing, that's the last thing on my mind. i don't want to run for president. once he even told the "chica