. >> iowa senator chuck grassley.tweets sometimes just bizarre and baffling observations, it raises more questions than answered or garbledsyntax. this tweet came up from chuck grassley's official "and said we hit a deer. then we continued to farm. assume deer dead. what? >> we've all been there. >> this is classic. everybody is talk. of course what happens on twitter when a politician does that we got the grassly's dead deer started his own twitter page and asked in all caps why did you kill me? i will haunt usual dreams. and to give you, keep going, one more chuck grassly. i could do these all day. this is classic. this is from about a year and a half ago. tell me if you can make any sense. itc of cedar rapids had their employees around iowa come to headquarters for town meet. large number. lots of issues. nerg big. >> energy big. >> toure can translate. >> thought he was sending a signal. >> he speaks grassly. >> i guess the question i ask is, is chuck grassley on to something here where a key for a politician to u

republican senator chuck grassley of iowa turning up the heat on tim geithner. asparino reports that the senator wants to know what tim geithner knew about manipulations and when he knew it. grassley is asking tim geithner if he defends not telling congress about manipulation in 2008. u.s. automakers reporting mixed september sales numbers. general motors posting the best september since 2008. ford sales stalled last month and chrysler reported better than expected 12% increase over last year. imaginative home prices jumped 4% in august compared to year ago according to a private real-estate data provider core logic. largest your rear increase in six years. that is the latest from the fox business network giving you the power to prosper. dagen: every 15 minutes stocks, a guest looking at top 50 brands of the year. nicole: interesting one because a lot of top stocks and global brands you recognize are publicly traded companies. we are happy to have the judge fran and global brands ceo, what we're looking at are the top five brands. i will say coca-cola, apple and

assume deer dead. [ laughter ] >> so that's how chuck grassley spent his night last night. >> bill: couldn'tre is a pretty clear way to know. but where to begin with that. >> bill: i know. >> we continue to farm. i don't know if they continued on to a farm -- >> stephanie: but who is fred? >> yeah right. i have no idea. no idea. [ laughter ] >> bill: and was he on horseback or -- >> yeah, right. >> bill: all right. peter will be following your tweets maybe on more serious topics this morning. >> @bpshow. >> bill: mitt romney refusing yesterday to stand up and repudiate richard mourdock. still the controversy over what richard mourdock said a few nights ago in a debate with joe donnelly. where he said his faith told him that he could not make an exception in the case -- with abortion -- not even in the case of rape, because he said even rape is part of god's plan and if you get pregnant that is something that god intended. the outrage of that, at first even john mccain came up and said no, this is not what the republican party is all about. but yesterday, there were more republicans who stood

let me get you republican senator chuck grassley.anding geithner come clean about the libor and all. the senate are calling on regulators to create a new "american based index to replace the london bank offer rate." you name it, and a lot of people look at libor and base their interest rates on that. charles gasparino. charles: kind of an interesting low in this whole libor investigation. closed the dismissal of bob diamond. one of the principal players. remember how libor is created. it is a bunch of banks submitting what they think libor should be in a kind of blended together. that becomes the interest rate. it is obviously right for manipulation. you can submit much lower one third that is what they are talking about now. they were low and that investigation. incomes grassley taking on geithner specifically. the president of the new york fed, he knew about this manipulation. guess what, he wrote a little letter to some guy, and e-mail to another guy, did not do much about it. liz: is regulated by london bank. charlie: it is regul

we're looking at senator chuck grassley of iowa introducing mitt romney during this campaign.onomy. whether or not there will be any new details is another matter. we're getting some insights from our political team here, and what we think is the highlights. i want to bring in our ali velshi to talk about comparing these two visions here. the role of government from mitt romney's perspective and president obama's perspective. they have this five-point plan that romney lays out. it's very generic. energy independence, providing americans with kills skills to succeed, trade that works for america, cutting the deficit, ask championing small businesses. you have the obama plan that talks about very similar ushz. providing american manufacturing, energy made in america, growing small businesses, quality education, cutting the deficit by more than $4 trillion, and, of course, that the whole obama care putting you in charge of your health care, protecting retirement, security. these are all kind of generic talking points. give me the specifics in terms of what is the difference betwe

senator chuck grassley he reported today and he is questioning why medicaid and medicare continue tong drugs that are not approved by the f.d.a. authorities are investigating if the necc illegally acted as drug manufacturers when they their licensing doesn't necessarily allow that grassley says the centers for medicare and medicaid services own rules show that they can cut off funding in cases like this. he went on to say, cms and the fda should explain where weather they used this step and if not, why not. every avenue for explaining how this health crisis occurred in preventing others like it needs exploration. senator grassley pointed to a 2006 case where funding was cut off for compounding inhalers where safety was a concern. shep? >> shepard: elizabeth prann live tonight in atlanta. more fallout from the attack in libya. house republicans are just released new documents that show the u.s. ambassador there chris stevens warned of weak security across that country. and he did so the day of the deadly attack in benghazi. it's new, fox news information. we'll have the details next.

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. >> senator chuck grassley said this. this point how the agent was killed but because of operation fast and furious, we'll wonder for years if the guns used in any killing along the border were part of an ill-advised gun-walking strategy sanctioned by the federal government. he said that on tuesday. do you think, in fact, there is a good chance that the gun that was used to kill this border agent were walked across the border, in fact, or is he just guessing? >> well, i can't eliminate the possibility. but at this point, it would simply be speculation. >> what happens next in your investigation? when will you be able to give everyone a detailed and defined description of what happened that night? >> well, the crime scene itself is still being processed. they hope to finish that later on today. once we are able to gather all the information gathered at the crime scene and compare that with the interviews of the agents, we may have a better picture of exactly what occurred. >> what a terrible tragedy, certainly, for border

we're at an event in van meter, iowa, chuck grassley is on stage getting the crowd warmed up to hearnee. and just before that, josh romney was at the podium and he said what a lot of romney family members and even romney himself has been saying out on the campaign trail, and that is how about that debate last week. they do feel that that debate has energized voters, has also given undecided voters who were sort of looking at both candidates sort of a different look, a new look at mitt romney and they think that isle also a reason why the poll numbers are moving his direction. but we had a chance to listen to a senior romney adviser on the campaign plane heading in to iowa. kevin madden was talking to reporters. and we asked him what do you think about the new polls. and he said this is campaign that doesn't get it too high on good days and doesn't get take low on bad days. and so the translation is that they are they're going to ride it out. they're of course happy and they're energized by what they're seeing out here, but they know that they also have to be cautious about this. i ta

frankly like to work really hard to make sure that i provide the kind of constituency services that chuck grassley the people of the state, and i would like to go talk to him and his staff about how they do that. congressman king doesn't work in a bipartisan manner not with people in congress and not even with people in the delegation to the defeated, he would have gone and signed the petition for the farm bill. he instead brought to the floor 43 repeals for the act when he could have been working in a bipartisan fashion and he just wasn't capable of doing it. [applause] [applause] >> , the plan to be bipartisan mrs. vilsack doesn't believe it is the case. how do you respond? king: i wrote the repeal bill to repeal obamacare. [applause] [cheering] and it was bipartisan when we voted on it and passed it in the house and it went over into the senate and i will say every republican in the house and the senate voted for my repeal bill. we needed to get that done and then we could have a bipartisan solution going forward. i'm working on this missouri river bill and i would like to know where she stands

two republican senators chuck grassley from iowa and john thune of south dakota say they want more informationis company, a-123 systems was chosen to receive this stimulus money, whether or not there were signs it was struggling, whether they did due diligence before granting this money. we have a statement from the romney campaign saying that the -- at a town hall debate four years ago, then senator obama promised to easily create 5 million green jobs. a-123's bankruptcy is another failure for the president's disastrous strategy of gambling away billions of taxpayer dollars on a strategy of government led growth that simply does not work. while the president said he would double down in the second term, governor romney will return the federal government's focus to its proper role of supporting research and creating an environment where private sector innovation can thrive. i should mention, brooke, this is not a poster child for these republican critics. after all, this firm, a-123 systems, it started with $100,000 in seed money from the government under bush's -- george w. bush's term and al

even chuck grassley said he is carrying water for wall street. that has to stop. >> i would ask -- the question when to the priority. we have so many pressing issues. to put a bill to rack up the deficit and to impose new taxes to fund political campaigns. thinkm not for that and i that is wrongheaded. what does that have to do with creating jobs or educating children? listen to what each of us is saying. there is nothing but insistence that everything is wrong but no prescription on how to fix it from mr. powell. we have to help small businesses by lowering their taxes. we have to make sure regulation to talk overtake the launch but our spirits -- the entrepreneur spirit. make sure that others can have access to health care. we want to make sure that is replaced so that businesses are nerousrdened by that owners la law. >> maybe you would have voted with medicare part d so that medicare people could negotiate the prices for medicare prescription cost instead of keeping that large going to pharmaceutical companies. that increased our deficit by a

even chuck grassley from his own party says that he is carrying the water kowalski and that has to stop. >> moderator: congressman cantor. cantor: you know, first of all, we have so many pressing issues. why in the world would somebody say that that is a priority for the first day in office, to put people into rack up the deficits of more and or impose new taxes to fund political campaigns. using your tax dollars to pay for political campaigns. no, i am not for that, and i think that is wrongheaded. i would also ask, what does that have to do with creating jobs or educating children? that has nothing to do with that. i would ask you again, in the audience, to listen to what each of us is saying. there is nothing but insistence that everything is wrong, but no prescription on how to fix it comes from mr. powell. what i want to say that we need to help small businesses by lowering the taxes, make sure that regulation does not overtake the entrepreneurial spirit, the backlog of this country, and we have not gone to the discussion of obamacare yet, but that is of the utmost importance if we

. >> rockport and aunt charring cross and i passed a reform that -- portman and chuck grassley i passed reform that gave a tremendous amount of power to deal with the irs could remember the cinderella story it with the glass slipper? fischer has created this glass slipper with a pledge to grover norquist did all the things she talks about, you cannot get it in there. that is the problem with her plan. >> senator fischer, 30 seconds. >> i think we were talking about reforming the tax code, and that has to happen, and there is bipartisan support for it. as a visit with business people all across the state, and they welcome that. they understand the complications. what they want to see is certainty. there is so much risk out there for businesses right now. when you have a tax code that is changing, constantly changing, it is hard to make business decisions. i talk to business people who want to hire, create jobs, hire new employees. but because of the uncertainty we are facing with the fiscal cliff, with the tax code that changes constantly, they are concerned. >> as we wind down our time

even chuck grassley from the own party says he's carrying a water for wall street. that has to stop. [applause] >> moderator: congressman cantor? cantor: you know, first of all, i would ask the question went to the priority. again, we have so many pressing issues, why in the world would someone say that is a prior toty for the figs day in office is to put a bill in to rack up the deficit more to impose new taxes to fund political campaigns. using your tax dollars to pay for political campaigns. i'm not for that. i think that is wrong. and i also would ask what cousin it have to to create jobs or effecting children. it has nothing to do with that. i would ask you in the audience to listen to what each of us is saying. there is nothing but insistence that everything is wrong but no prescription how to fix it come from mr. powell. i want to continue to say we have to start helping small business by lowering their taxes and make sure that regulation does not take over entrepreneurial spirit. we haven't got ton the discussion of obamacare. it's the outed most importance

i want to provide con stitch went service that chuck grassley provides, and i want to talk to his staffn how they do that. congressman king does not work on a by partisan matter, and if he did, he would have signed the farm bill. he, instead, brought to the floor 33 repeal votes for the affordable care act when he could have been working in a bipartisan fashion on the farm bill. he was not capable of doing it. [applause] >> moderator: congressman, your claim to be bipartisan. she doesn't believe it's the case. how do you respond? king king i wrote the repeal bill to repeal obamacare. [cheers and applause] and it was bipartisan when we voted and passed it in the house, and it went over into the senate, and i will tell you every republican in the house and senate voted for my repeal bill. that needed to be tone to have a bipartisan solution coming forward. i'm working on the missouri river bill, and i want to know where she stands on that and where the secretary of agriculture stands on the bill. >> moderator: thank you, that's your time. mrs. vilsack. you have 0 -- 30 seconds to respond.