there is fear about what happens and we sat down with halliburton and the oil and gas services companies. we understand they have trade secrets. we showed what the ingredients are and it took a six months but we got the environmental defense fund to claim victory and have halliburton claim victory. here is a transparency, set of regulations that will protect the public and settle down all the hysteria and kirk -- furor about fracking. i did it when i was a kid diyala this. how do we get past that fear and uncertainty and create some sort of predictability to business needs? that became a symbol for our issues. to find the appropriate compromise so we can get on to the next problem. >> would you like to bring us up-to-date on california? maybe give us a sneak preview of the may revise briefly. >> where selling bonds and we're not disclosing materials between now and then. we just have to wait. it will be interesting. that i promise you. the basic fact is california increased its production of wealth, the state of 38 million people and all businesses. the economy is somewhat under $2 trill

of halliburton. here's why we didn't think halliburton should have a contract. while he was c.e.o., they paid million offense dollars in fines for providing false information on their company, just like enron and ken lay. they did business with libya and iran, two sworn enemies of the united states. they're now under investigation for having bribed foreign officials during that period of time. not only that, they have a $7.5 billion no-bid contract in iraq and instead of part of their money being withheld, which is the way it's normally done, because they're under investigation, they've continued to get their money. >> mr. vice president. >> i can respond but it's going to take more than 30 seconds. >> well, that's all you've got. >> well, the reason they keep mentioning hall burton is they try to throw up a smokescreen. they know the charges are false. they know if you go, for example, to factcheck.com, an independent website sponsored by the university of pennsylvania, you can get the specific details with respect to halliburton. it's an effort they've made re

fame and halliburton was the leader in the whole fracking thing they don't let this happen in europe are they they have they got it but this is you know this is a toxic waste disposal site basically but to produce as natural gas is a byproduct. you know we're seeing we're actually receiving phone calls from south africa from australia as well as other parts of the united states where people in communities are facing fracking and they're coming to the recognition and the understanding that if we regulate inactivity it's take place like fracking that means we're actually allowing it to come in our communities are saying we understand that fracking is just fundamentally dangerous impacts to our environment and our health and we're simply not going to accept it and so they're understanding that we're trying to regulate something better or even if the e.p.a. were to regulate fracking it still means fracking is coming into our communities and communities are saying we understand that we are not going to allow it here and so we're not going to try to regulate. ourselves we're not going to t

halliburton is a leading fracking company, and the loophole was created in 2005 under vice presidentick cheney, who used to be halliburton's ceo. >> the 2005 energy bill completely exempted the natural gas industry and fracking technology from any regulation under the safe drinking water act. it's an outrage. >> did the vice president put that in there? >> the vice president advocated for it, and he pushed congress to insert it into the language. >> part of the fracturing process involves you pouring down some pretty nasty chemicals. what happens if they spill all over the place? >> okay, let's define "nasty chemicals." nasty chemicals are underneath your sink. reality is, you don't drink drano for a reason, but you have drano in your house. if you want to define what's nasty, go ahead. >> there are nasty chemicals that affect your liver, that cause cancer, that shut down your system. >> yeah, you don't want to drink frack fluid. if you take away nothing from this interview-- >> no, but isn't there a possibility that you go down, and something seeps, and it gets into the water supply

halliburton not okay. there's a lot that's not okay. the market continues to run with earnings that aren't so great. at this point, you have to just kind of ride it. i would take profits. >> let's bring in longtime tech investor dan niles of alpha one capital partners to find out what he thinks about the latest earnings numbers and technology in general. dan, welcome back to halftime. it's good to have you on the show. >> thanks, scott. appreciate it. >> are you worried this morning? are the alarm bells going off there's a real problem building in technology? >> i think you have to look back and separate out fundamentals from the stock market. those are two different things. if you look at ibm, everybody is looking like it's a big shock. you have to remember, this is a fifth quarter in a row that bim's missed their top line revenue. this happens to be the worst miss out of the five, and it's the biggest miss since q1 of '09. they haven't been making the top line for over a year now. >> if the bottom line is getting worse should we be mo

of halliburton. here's why we didn't think halliburton should have a contract. while he was c.e.o., they paid million offense dollars in fines for providing false information on their company, just like enron and ken lay. they did business with libya and iran, two sworn enemies of the united states. they're now under investigation for having bribed foreign officials during that period of time. not only that, they have a $7.5 billion no-bid contract in iraq and instead of part of their money being withheld, which is the way it's normally done, because they're under investigation, they've continued to get their money. >> mr. vice president. >> i can respond but it's going to take more than 30 seconds. >> well, that's all you've got. >> well, the reason they keep mentioning hall burton is they try to throw up a smokescreen. they know the charges are false. they know if you go, for example, to factcheck.com, an independent website sponsored by the university of pennsylvania, you can get the specific details with respect to halliburton. it's an effort they've made re

and that companies like halliburton and southwestern are doing this on their own. so why aren't more companies especially google doing this on their own? what's holding them back? >> it is very surprising that google isn't doing it on its own. you would expect that a company like southwest and halliburton can do this on their own, that google would. i mean, geez, look at what they do for a living. right? two seem like a very easy thing for them to handle. it is not really clear to my why google wasn't doing it on its own but i can bet that they're likely to do it on their own going forward. >> there are lots of people i could ask this question. maybe everybody's got a thought on it. i would really like to know what happens here in terms of investor resource. i would imagine there are a lot of people out at lunch and they come back and they're like, oh, my god, look what happened, google came out, it was a big earnings miss, i completely missed it. is there any liability in terms of investor losses here and is there any resource? jim, do you want to jump in on this

you want to drill in federal lands, get that through, that's what halliburton, they report next week,be in. smack in the middle of a bad quarter thinking listen he's saying drill, halliburton is the winner because they do domestic drilling. that's a tougher one. defense is interesting. these guys don't have a lot of control over defense budget. say you want to have -- i want more nuclear submarines i will give a big contract. those things cost a fortune. we don't have that money anymore. >> romney has called for five subs. >> you buy general dynamics and short it under obama because he' bringing up the private jet thing again. you and i want a gulfstream. and that's the only fol crumb name. the president did bash private jets. that's like the good old days. but yes, electric boat gets those contracts. they know how to make the best submarines in the world. >> you look at this as a mercenary, find ways to see what's going to happen no matter what happens. >> it's not about friends. look, take chesapeake, chesapeake is a company that wants to drill everywhere, second largest driller for

can you imagine halliburton doing it? we took the day off. >> exactly. >> bill: because it's raining. arnold, our rowing ambassador down in greensboro, north carolina. what do you say? >> good morning bill. i'm happy to talk about that. where that storm landed, they shouldn't call it sandy. they should call it slicky. this guy in virginia, the governor mcdonnell man, he lost his campaign when he came into office, he's saying i'm so tired of the federal government putting their nose into everything and he was -- he declared 21 counties -- i mean way ahead of time. >> bill: i know. >> caller: disaster areas. >> bill: arnold, they're the first ones to have their hand out. >> gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme. >> bill: first ones to have their hand out. >> caller: i tell you he signed legislation to keep the government off his back but his daughter got pregnant by rape, he wants to -- big government in her womb and stuff. what's going on with these people? >> bill: they preach one thing and practice another arnold is the short an

technologies falling 4.3%, energy services company halliburton was down 3.1%, and chevron fell 1.5%. chevron remains less than a dollar below its most recent 52 week high set last month. three of the five most actively traded exchange traded products made small gains. the nasdaq 100 tracking fund put in the biggest gain, up 0.3%. and that's tonight's "market focus." economy, earnings, election, tonight's street critique guest is mark watson of keel management. always great to see you. what is the shape of the economy? is this an economy you really want to take investment risk in? >> we actually think this is the time to start absorbing more risk. you see that even in some of the style indices, contrarian strategies are just now starting to do better because of the liquidity that we're awash in and also the fact that i think we are getting job growth, albeit slowly. things are improving. >> tom: that's the economy. the earnings play here is pet >> tom: that's the economy. the earnings play here is pet smarlx a nice rally and gained momentum back in late may when it raised its financia

halliburton down on a slowdown in u.s. drilling. right now halliburton stock is down at 34. and more on the drilling slowdown in the next hour by the way. much expected, better than expected-- much better, better than-- much better than expected report on september housing sales, and building permits. here is a look at the shares of the home builder pulte. it's up. i got it right. the dow is down 42. twitter was buzzing during last night's debate. and social media plays a big roll in politics, and millions of tweets. what does the instant reaction say who won. a surprising accurate measure from a teenager who came up with a unique polling system. he'll join us next. [ male announcer ] at scottrade, we believe the more you know, the better you trade. so we have ongoing webinars and interactive learning, plus, in-branch seminars at over 500 locations, where our dedicated support teams help younow more so your money can do more. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven dollar trades are just the start. our teams have the information you want when you need it. it's anothereason more inves

slipped through in the dark of night into law in two thousand and four i think it was his company halliburton which had been almost bankrupt when he became vice president he had run that company into bankruptcy but buying dresser industries which had all these as best as liabilities his company had had to develop this fracking technology so when they wanted to start doing fracking you know cheney cheney promoted and said the clear air act of clean water act provisions don't cover it it doesn't matter so that that's it for your take my take live thank you for all your calls if we didn't get your call tonight tries back next week. is the good the bad of the very very hammer of finally oddly the good fight. patel during a panel discussion yesterday at the john jay college of criminal justice in new york city patel from the brennan center for justice and other criminal justice experts argued that the n.y.p.d. should have an inspector general to examine the conduct of its officers and its tactics the suggestion comes in the wake of a variety of n.y.p.d. scandals including widespread spying on musl

dick cheney left halliburton and was given $32 million. could have given it back. didn't. got into the white house. pretty much had private meetings that no one was allowed into. >> what i really like is the way you led this in because people are not focusing very much on what happened in 2004 with diebold. listen again nobody's ever proven that anything happened. you know what we do know? we know that -- we don't know if it was on purpose or accidental. >> john: in 2004? >> in 2004. >> john: things went wrong with voting machines in 2004. >> it is provable. what we don't know is if it was intentional or not. when we don't know, i will always say we're going to assume it was not intentional. but you know what? when the ceo of the company -- i'm going to do everything i can can -- it is perception. >> john: you're talking about walden o'dell of diebold who said do whatever you can to get this guy elected. these guys here, i -- >> i like that. it was nicely done. >> john: it is very confusing. i've heard so much disinformation about this. the greatest message we can give our

people should have gotten the construction jobs to rebuild after katrina, but instead they went to halliburton. he is make very clear case, again, on the basis of his racial solidarity with this audience, that they are getting shafted by a racist federal government. >> sean: and -- >> unless you can nail that down factually, you cannot say things like that. it's dangerous to say things like ha. >> sean: it's incendiary. and who is the real barack obama? he said that i have no idea -- none whatsoever that reverend jeremiah wright -- i sat in the pews 20 years, he is like family to me. and he is praised in this speech. the timing is interesting because i had interviewed on "hannity and combs," i interviewed reverend jeremiah wright, we had a big battle in march of 2007. wright had been dis-invited to give the invocation at the announcement he was running for president a couple of months earlier. wright is there. this is june, 2007. wright is a controversial figure here. now it's interesting, as this whole thing goes on, he has to give this big speech in philo race. i decided to put the two speec

. >> jennifer: we certainly have seen what a privatized military might look like with halliburton and with blackwater. the real question is if you brought that kind of philosophy here to domestic emergencies you know, do you really think -- does anybody think that americans would tolerate a private company who might as you say profit from really what is the misery of others? who would, in fact, get more money, the more we're hurting. that, i think is fundamentally anti-american. i cannot imagine that occurring. could you? >> well, there are companies like that already payday lenders, repo men bill collectors. some lawyers. none of these people are very popular. so i don't think -- >> jennifer: but they're also not the government contracting for it. now we've got the government. your tax dollars paying for a company that would end up making a profit when you were hurting. that just -- it is wrong. >> absolutely. ultimately, this company isn't going to provide the best possible service to the refugees. that will be obvious the first catastrophe after they would come into existence is th

whether it's the olympics that mitt romney got tons of federal money for or whether it's halliburton getting federal money to go in and rebuild iraq, or whether it's something if you privatize the function of disaster relief, the money would still come from government. >> yeah. donald trump is probably out there somewhere saying the president is doing a rain dance or something. look, they're going to have some weird excuse for this. if the president looks good handle this, they will come up with something. don't put it past them. >> some secret weather machine autop. there's an issue, do you what ryan and romney want to do, you won't have money for noaa, for weather research, for climate research. >> you know the federal government and so does joy. the governor gets on the phone. who does he call? >> he calls the president. >> and he asks for can you get me some help from knee fema. then i was working on this project back in the carter administration when we created fema. do you know why we created it? so this would be handled by one federal unit. along the way, joy, this is purely p

of stocks in the energy sector, particularly some of the big driller and oil service names like halliburtonnd baker hughes. we have a particular sector of the hardware group, technology hardware group. hewlett-packard on its lower earnings guidance. dell's at a new low. all multi-year lows. advanced micro, a supplier, also moving down. that stock's been a terrible performer for years. >> my ferret iavorite indicator transportation index. >> it has a long way to get parodied to the dow industrials. >> i'll give that you certainly. >>> to the nasdaq and bertha coombs is following the big moves. >> tech is front and center but so is food. kraft foods today trading as two separate companies. shares flat. that's the snack food side. then there is a kraft food side. this today has raised a lot of concern. take a look at the screen grab from the trade at the beginning of the day. some rogue trades apparently done by algorithms. sent that stock above $57. nasdaq has since canceled those trade. those trades happened on the nasdaq platform, or arka and other platforms. people are saying maybe they sh

some companies like halliburton and southwest airlines file on their own. irony of course is why is a company like google not filing on its own. if you are looking at r.r. donnelly, is this business that could go away? >> right. indeed. herb, thank you very much. >>> i want to bring back in john, scott, we were talking during the break about what happens to some of these trades. there were probably a lot of people in there who had their stop loss orders in. obviously those probably would have triggered immediately but what happens when the stock opens again? are we going to have some trades that are broken or requested to be broken? >> that will remain to be seen. there is probably not a reason that we would see trades broken, sue, because thus far anyway, it seems like just a mistake with the release by r.r. donnelly, not with google, with this release. but your point about stop orders -- that's why i don't like stop orders, i like a put option because that stop order becomes a market order or an order to sell at a limit price if that's what you've created

romney has tobacco, coal and oil stocks such as philip morris, halliburton and arch coal. >>> it washat our wealth editor robert frank -- we called him swanky franky -- brought to you first a couple of days ago here on "power lunch." millionaires and billionaires, the swanky, getting massive tax breaks for moving into a swanky condo building in new york. we said it would cause outrage, and indeed it has. robert is here with new developments. >> just to continue the rhymes, it's made some people cranky! well, city officials are now taking a closer look at those tax breaks that are given to new york's tallest and most glamorous condo tower. the tower is called 157 and at least two billionaires have shelled out more than $90 million for penthouses in that building. but along with great views they're also getting sky high tax breaks of up to $200,000 a year, each. it is part of a program designed to encourage low-income housing. now city councilman brad lander told me that the tax breaks are "an outrageous giveaway." he says it is costing the city millions of dollars as a time of austeri

and guys, we also have this week stocks like halliburton reporting. we're going to look at the energy environment. also ebay will be reporting. so some of those internet companies and lastly general electric. dagen and connell, we have so many companies reporting earnings this week. next hour we will preview a couple of them for you. gives you a sense of that peak week that we're talking about here. this could be that sort of make-or-break scenario as far as setting the overall tone. connell: thanks, sandra. dagen: do you want to know who won a car race? connell: not even a passing interest in whh won the car race this week or any week. dagen: the national association of business economists predicting that congress will avoid the fiscal cliff, and that will help the economy grow at a faster rate. connell: cheryl and dennis coming up on markets now. look, if you have copd like me, you know ican be hard to breat. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open for 24 hours. plus, it reduc

to save for halliburton the spoils of the war, they actually issued a memorandum from the defense department saying, "if you weren't with us in the war, don't bother applying for any construction." that's not a way to invite people. >> ninety seconds. >> that's totally absurd. of course, the u.n. was invited in. and we support the u.n. efforts there. they pulled out after sergio de mello got killed. but they're now back in helping with elections. my opponent says we didn't have any allies in this war. what's he say to tony blair? what's he say to alexander kwasniewski of poland? you can't expect to build an alliance when you denigrate the contributions of those who are serving side by side with american troops in iraq. plus, he says the cornerstone of his plan to succeed in iraq is to call upon nations to serve. so what's the message going to be, "please join us in iraq. for a grand diversion. join us for a war that is the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time?" i know how these people think. i deal with them all the time. i sit down with the world leaders frequently and talk to the

the reason why they want to attack halliburton is because they want to obscure their own record.e missed 33 out of 36 meetings. 70% of the meetings in the intelligence committee. you have missed a lot of key votes on tax policy, energy, medicare reform. her hometown newspaper has taken to calling you senator gone. in my capacity as vice president, i'm the president of the senate. the first time i ever met he was when you walked onto the stage tonight. with respect to israel and palestine, the suicide bombers were generated by saddam hussein. they paid $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers. one of the reasons we do not have as many suicide attacks state in israel as we had in the past is because he is no longer in business. we have been strong supporters of israel. the president stepped forward and put in place a policy that said we will support the establishment of two states. the first president to seven will support a palestinian state. -- who said we will support a palestinian state. >> senator edwards? >> that was a complete distortion of my record. i'm surprised to hear

we need to make sure we're not sending things to halliburton and places like that. the defense department should be able to support itself. they do not need help from all the contractors. these are people that contribute to his campaign. that's one reason why we have the spending problem. >> then the respond to that. you heard mr. powell say he is not for the sequester and now he is for defense cuts. that sequester will take is to a point where we have to rethink whether we're a global power. we'll have the smallest ground force since 1940. the smallest navy since world war i. and the smallest tactical fighter force in the history of our country. that is what the sequester would do. how do we manage down the debt and deficit so we can pay more of the tax dollars to the interest burden? mr. pell wants to raise taxes -- mr. powell wants to raise taxes. we have a terrible economy. how do you help them? by creating more jobs and opportunities. get government out of the business of making it so difficult. allow for small business people to start to invest again. we want

the reason they keep trying to attack halliburton is they want to obscure their own recor senate record that's not very distinguished. almost 70% of the meetings with the intelligence committee you have missed. you've missed many key votes on tax policy, medicare reform. if your home town newspaper has taken to calling g you toone. you've got one of the worst attendance records in the u.s. senate. i am the president of the senate and the presiding officer. i am in the senate most times when they are in session. the first time i met you was when you walk on the stage tonight. with respect to israel and palestine, the suicide bombers and partly generated by sadaam hussein, paid $25,000 to the families of the suicide bombers. one of the reasons we don't have as many suicide attacks today in israel as in the past is because he is no longer in business. we have been strong supporters of'the israeli s -- israeli president and put it in place a policy that is said we would establish and support a palestinian state. first there has to be a plan and there has to be reform in the palestinian syst

halliburton, i heard that they had four and a vulture funds. who is really getting this money?ow many vultures are out there, like gold finger? i really think we should bring our troops back. what did japan say when we went after them for pearl harbor? we woke the sleeping giant? we need to get back to the sleeping giant part. i will listen for your comments on the tv. host: joseph ramirez rights in on twitter about the mitt romney speech -- host: a foreign policy issue that we want to update you on, a reuters story today, "skirmish with turkey shows no let up." host: we are turning to west florida on the republican line. bill, thank you for calling in this morning. caller: i would like to hear mitt romney reassert his rejection of the two-stage solution for israel. i think that that would greatly undermine the israeli ability to defend itself and would provoke another major war, if you like throwing blood into a pit of sharks. they are surrounded by enemies. any perception of them getting weaker will provoke another war. i would like mitt romney to call out all the muslim nati

invade afghanistan and iraq because cheney wanted to help out his buddies at brown and root and halliburtonlayed great courage and great intelligence. what more do you want for a country that not an encouraging that kind of intelligence? >> our final offer a genetic test to's favorite sycophant or like to call them can make you go seanez favorite display. if you are sean penn -- look, if you are sean penn and if something really asinine you have to get out there, where you go? that's right, piers morgan. on october 14 to mr. penn delivered one of the most asinine comments every national television. can we call cnn national television anymore? and even worse, he insisted that we know this -- she insisted we note this is his original thought. he came up with it. >> he has what i call get the word out of the white house. at the end of the day there is a big couple saying, can we just luncheon? >> he's so charming. how do you decide a winner here? the winner of the 2012 barbra streisand political i.q. award for political activity goes to bbq go, sean penn. ♪ >> he has what i call it the and wor

the reason that he tried to attack halliburton is they want to obscure their own record. your record is not very distinguished. you missed almost 70% of the meetings in the intelligence committee, meetings and tax policy, energy, energy reform. your newspaper has called you senator gone. in my capacity as vice president and the president of the senate and providing -- presiding officer. i am up their most tuesdays when they're in session. the first time i ever met you was when you walked onto the stage tonight. with respect to israel and palestine, suicide bombers were funded by saddam hussein. i think one reason why we do not have as many suicide attacks today in israel as we had in the past is because saddam hussain is no longer in business. we have put in forward replace a policy that said we will -- in place a policy that said we will support the establishment of the two states, but first there yesterday trust, and we do not have that, and we need to have that. >> your turn for a response to >> that was a complete distortion of my record. i am surprised to hear him ta

her own we invaded afghanistan and we invaded iraq because cheney want to help out his buddies at halliburtonent soft on the project because they were worried about upsetting the saudi arabian royalty buddies. so now, osama bin laden is finally gunned down by barack obama, displaying great courage and great intelligence. what more do you want to lead your country and that kind of courage and that kind of intelligence? >> our final offering tonight comes from hugo chavez i like to come hugo chavez's favorite is would. if your sean penn, you have something really, really asinine you want to get out there, where do you go? that's right, piers morgan. >> on october 14, mr. candon of one of the most asinine comments ever on national television. can we call cnn national television anymore? and even worse, he insisted that we know that this was coming assisted we note this is an original thought. he came up with it. >> we have what i can't get the in word out of the white house party, the tea party. at the end of the day there's a big bubble coming out of their heads saying can we just lynch him? >>

afghanistan and invade iraq because cheney wanted to help out his buddies at brown and root and halliburtonhe saudi arabia royalty money. laughter kirsanow osama bin laden finally is gunned down by barack obama displaying great courage and intelligence. what more do you want to leave your country than that kind of courage and that kind of intelligence? [applause] >> our final offering tonight comes from hugo chavez's say the debate could favorite sycophant or as i like to call with his favorite busboy. if you are sean penn and you have something really asinine and you want to get out there, where do you go? that's right, piers morgan. mr. penn delivered one of the most asinine comments ever on television. can we call cnn national television any more? and even worse, she insisted that we know that this was -- ki insisted that we know that this is his original thought. he came up with. >> he has what i call the get the n-word out of the white house tea party. at the end of the day there is a big bubble coming out of their head saying can be just lynch him. >> he's so charming. how did you dec

my opponent has taken large checks from halliburton, and exxonmobil.campaign refuses to do that. i also would emphasize my independence that i put country first. i defeated the democratic party in the primary, i was not the hand picked candidates of the dccc we had different experiences with regard to the primary. i was selected in a prosets that involved 31,000 voters going out to select a candidate. my opponent was hand picked by 14 party inside who signed a agreement after date in may. and so i at the age of 6 i discovered a passion within my heard for serving my fellow man and women. i decided to be a doctor. and the same passion that drives me to take the seat in washington. i watch people suffer and die needlessly within our health care system because of the we have far too many corporate funded politician in washington from both parties. i think we need to push back begins it. and have people who come from ordinary walks of life and only answer to the ordinary men and women who make up the district. >> congressman davis? well, fist of all, it's

to save for halliburton the spoils of the war, they actually issued a memorandum from the defense departmentg, "if you weren't with us in the war, don't bother applying for any construction." that's not a way to invite people. >> ninety seconds. >> that's totally absurd. of course, the u.n. was invited in. and we support the u.n. efforts there. they pulled out after sergio de mello got killed. but they're now back in helping with elections. my opponent says we didn't have any allies in this war. what's he say to tony blair? what's he say to alexander kwasniewski of poland? you can't expect to build an alliance when you denigrate the contributions of those who are serving side by side with american troops in iraq. plus, he says the cornerstone of his plan to succeed in iraq is to call upon nations to serve. so what's the message going to be, "please join us in iraq. for a grand diversion. join us for a war that is the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time?" i know how these people think. i deal with them all the time. i sit down with the world leaders frequently and talk to them on t

>> that's exactly what halliburton would do.g in halliburton to do all of this cleanup. >> i think it is called insurance. you pay -- they already have that. nobody nobody can afford it. >> exactly because it keeps going up and up and up. >> stephanie: governor, you've been asked 14 times why are you retuesday fog answer the -- refusing to answer the question that he would abolish fema in a debate just a few months ago. he won't answer that. >> disaster in the cayman islands. >> stephanie: 29 minutes after the hour. right back with elvira on "the stephanie miller show." to miss my show is if that's the only time you can get to a polling place. make sure that voting is your highest priority on election day. besides, you can always dvr my show. you really cant' dvr the future of the country. to help you make informed decisions, watch current tv's politically direct lineup. only on current tv. so vote and vote smart. >> every halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: it is "the stephanie miller show

we're the ones who paid for all of these overpriced contracts the blackwater and halliburton.he rich. >> john: you're right. >> caller: they pay, as a percentage of their income, compared to what middle class -- they pay nothing. >> john: we don't have a deficit problem. we have a revenue problem. >> caller: romney is so out of touch with reality, he would tell you credence clearwater was better when you were with him. >> john: i almost get the credence clearwater joke. i think you're right about the tax cuts. how can this guy claim he wants to cut taxes 20% across the board and still balance a budget with a fiscal cliff looming. if you're mitt romney and you decide i want to buy another yacht and you buy a yacht and then you decide i like my yacht so much, i want to have all of my free time so i'm going to quit my job at bain bain capital and live on my yacht, you have to pay for the damn thing. if you have the money going out to pay for the yacht but no income coming in you can't afford your yacht. mitt romney wants you to buy a yacht and quit your job. it is not responsible