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john: should there be any regulations? >> no. john: none?rs ago pew asked, when someone is run by the government is it efficient. 42 percent agreed. this year the same question. >> 66%. we asked this question with same wording in 2009. there is an surge in this perception that government is wasteful, now millennials reflect older americans on this issue, thank you emily, next more from freedomfest on big brother, and the nanny state. yeah. shingles affected me tremendously as a pilot. the blisters and the pain in my scalp area and down the back of my neck was intense. it would have been virtually impossible in that confined space with the rash to move to change radio frequencies. i would just stop and literally freeze up. i mean it hurt. i couldn't even get up and drive let alone teach somebody and be responsible in an airplane. when my doctor told me that shingles came from the chickenpox virus i was very surprised. for two weeks i sat up in bed because i couldn't lay down. i had the scabs all throughout the side of my head and into the upp

john: thank you, dr.ampbell. >>> next, this commentator from the national rifle association on why these are the good new days for people like him? when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. . >> the final battle is about to begin. john: this clip's from a history channel tv show where marksmen compete. >> chris cheng. john: shoot cross bows, rifles, grenade launchers. >> chris! >> you have earned the title of history's top shot. chris cheng, after that show, quit his job and now works at the nra, he makes speeches about guns and gun culture, and yet tha

john: should there be any regulations? >> no. john: none?ears ago pew asked, when someone is run by the government is it efficient. 42 percent agreed. this year the same question. >> 66%. we asked this question with same wording in 2009. there is an surge in this perception that government is wasteful, now millennials reflect older americans on this issue, thank you emily, next more from freedomfest on big brother, and the nanny state. yeah. you know what i love america? fine barbecue, good times and zero heart burn. and that's why i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heart burn because it gives me zero heart burn. prilosec otc the number one dr. recomended frequent heart burn medicine for nine straight years. you can beat zero herat burn prilosec otc one pill each morning 24hrs, zero heart burn free market society, we don't. people are getting put in jail in u.s. all of the time for nothing, victimless crimes, idea that government should make our choices for us, is one that a lot of people prefer. john: those are clips from a ne

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john: should there be any regulations? >> no. john: none? >> no. >> 5 years ago pew asked, when someone is run by the government is it efficient. 42 percent agreed. this year the same question. >> 66%. we asked this question with same wording in 2009. there is an surge in this perception that government is wasteful, now millennials reflect older americans on this issue, thank you emily, next more from freedomfest on big brother, and the nanny state. yeah. >> people think we live in a free market society, we don't. people are getting put in jail in u.s. all of the time for nothing, victimless crimes, idea that government should make our choices for us, is one that a lot of people prefer. john: those are clips from a new movie about the american nanny state, that will be released tomorrow, the guy who made is tim dell mast re. your points is freedom from choice. >> i came up with that title i would have thought that people would like freedom of choice, whether it is -- >> i do. >> you would think that everyone does, but, when you look into it

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john: what can you do?y to our politicians, don't give us more criminal laws unless you can show what the impact will be, what benefit we will get, what the cost will be of enforcing it. it is up to the people now to say enough. john: yes. >> i was wondering how many laws there are an american, like overall? >> too many. [laughter] john: nobody knows. they cannot even count the criminal law, right? >> right. that's right. john: yes, sir. >> hello. nick ricci from connecticut. my question is for stock in the metal. why are laws so and pier? you have one lawyer tell you one thing and one tell you something else. >> laws should be as clear and simple as they possibly can be. if we stuck to a simple rules and abided by the constitution as well, which is very long even though it is such a great document, we would have a much more free society. john: yes, sir. >> this is for norman. earlier we talked about hillary clinton getting a child rapist acquitted. couldn't she have -- for any defense lawyer -- look at the

john: and that is our show tonight. ♪ ♪ >> now it is time for john stossel.n: some will be more successful than others. maybe they are smarter or they work harder or they are just luckier. whatever the reason in the global economy, that success kids magnified. michael jordan has made much more money because he could do things like sell these t-shirts in china. because of the free market, globalization and new technology, a result is growing inequality. it has been viewed at least 13 million times. >> the poorest americans don't even register in it they are down to pocket change. the top two to 5% are actually off the chart. the income inequality has gotten worse and the reason is a ceo makes 400 times what the average worker makes. and what you are talking about, when it comes to corporations whether it's wal-mart or mcdonald's down the list, the top echelon of the corporate world makes it exceedingly larger amount of money than workers do. and microsoft made it a good wage. and you have been doing all the business with china all the time,. john: it is true t

>> he has good reason not to be exchanged as a john. we find he's a kindergarten teacher across the bay in berkeley. not only has he had previous arrests for solicitation but he's married and has a wife. >> look at the camera. thank you. >> because he made a deal for oral sex on a different day, he'll be charged with loitering instead of solicitation. >> everything i explained to you, you're going to get a copy of, okay? >> okay. >> instead of going to jail today, you're going to get a ticket. you're getting a ticket for loitering for the purpose of prostitution. >> his arrest serves as a stark reminder that men who engage in any kind of talk of cash for sex are committing a criminal offense. >> without admitting guilt, i need you to sign your name. >> while he faces a misdemeanor charge, the social consequences to work and family can be serious and long lasting. >> you have everything? you're free to go. >> after hundreds of johns arrests, the inspector offers insight why so many married men seek sex from the streets. >> they have need

that according to john dean -- i think john dean knows that that tape is going to be made public. at the president knew about this ordered audits. the president made some derogatory remarks about secretary scholz, and call them something like a candy asks. to contactas told the president. if there is anything that is going to affect adversely our democracy, our individual freedoms, it's the misuse of a sensitive agency like the irs or the fbi, or the cia. let me tell you a little bit about watergate. what concerns me about the watergate cover-up. on august 29, the president held a news conference, where he theed that he had had department of justice, the fbi, the gao, he referred to the banking and currency committee, and he said he had directed his own counsel, john dean, to investigate the watergate to determine if there was any white house involvement. as truth of the matter is, far as we know it, the evidence -- john dean has never reported to him. had never been with the president. the white house logs show that. john dean's testimony is to be affect that he didn't even know

john adams, that is john quincy's son, and the young lady became intimate and married. >> you write in your book, this is again a personal thing, about john quincy adams'daily walked onto the potomac river, swimming in the new? >> it is hard to say, because it seems likely that he was either in the neuter almost nude. -- in the nude or almost nude. he is an early riser. he came during the summer months when he was still here and he wasn't at home in massachusetts, he became -- he went to the potomac for regular early morning refreshment, often accompanied by someone, but sometimes alone. he would swim in the river and sometimes got into trouble, got swept away by the tide once and almost drowned. there is a wonderful episode in the memoir, the autobiography, that a make use of john quincy adams. in which for the last time he goes to swim in the river and there are some young men there who are also swimming who sort of recognize him. i wondered what an extraordinary experience for these young men, can you just imagine seeing our president swimming either naked or just in some small garm

have done a lot on john quincy adams and charles francis adams. want to show you video of jqa and the show we did on first ladies. >> for the first 10 years of their married life, john and abigail lived at home. is where they raise their children. this is the birthplace of their second child who became the sixth president of the united states. is important because the link between she and john adams would be letter writing and he was provided a window to what was happening back in the colony of massachusetts during the revolutionary war. abigail would report to john during the battle of bunker hill june 17, 1775. she took her son and would watch the battle of bunker hill with her son and report to john adams of the fires. she was literally the eyes of the revolution and john adams was at the second continental congress in philadelphia. a list of his life after he saw the bunker hill battle. begin the discussion about john quincy adams and look at all of the jobs, including being state,nt, secretary of minister to england, russia, senator,united st

for john quincy. and she did write a little about women and education, and i think this is where she crosses a little bit with sergeant murray, who she finally met later briefly. but she believed women should be more educated, that they should have the same opportunity as men. she did not believe that -- she couldn't imagine that they would go on and have what we have today, anything like jobs and professions. so education for all these women was very important, and we have to remember these were all women from, you know, the upper classes of colonial and revolutionary america. and most women, if they were lucky, could barely read enough to read the bible and just cipher enough to keep household accounts. judith? >> well, education was -- for girls and women was her huge passion. and there had been a family story passed on for generations that she was also tutored, along with her brother, who then went to harvard. but i know from reading her books that this was absolutely not the case. she had wonderf

john huston spent decades trying to get it shown. finally, thanks to the intervention of walter mondale. he succeeded. >> the censorship he faced, was that unusual for directors ? >> it was the only movie to be suppressed over a long-term. while they were making films for the army, these directors constantly battled restrictions, accusations from the war department that they were going off message, that they could not include footage of american bodies. they had to show soldiers as brave and confident. very rarely -- those fights often resulted in changes. very rarely did they result in the movie being suppressed altogether. >> we will show the film, "the battle of san pietro." what can you tell us about this one? >> "the battle of san pietro" was shot by john huston in italy. it was intended to be at the documentary commissioned by frank capra told john huston to -- of the u.s. effort to free a small ancient italian village. frank capra told john huston to go to italy in search of a town that the bride images of things like joyful a

john is the fifth child in john senior and marguerite's blended family.young john went off to boarding school in montrÉal at the age of eight when his family left for fort vancouver. john bounced from school to school, expelled for transgressions like "boiling his breeches" and "corrupting the morals of other boys" and beating them with canes, according to letters from his distraught headmaster to his father. after being kicked out of a lot of schools, young john gets sent to paris to live with his uncle david, who was a successful medical doctor, and john came to be much better away from canada, and he began training for the medical profession. then, in 1834 at the age of 22, john did something so serious that his uncle david sent him immediately back to canada with no explanation. the entire family expresses their frustration at not knowing what it is. it is always capitalized in john mcloughlin senior's letters. young john tried to apologize, but as mcloughlin senior says, you write an apology for his conduct but does not write what it is. whatever it

the johns they're preying on these here women.hen you have the sexual assault suspects out here preying on these girls. you have the pimps preying on these girls. in that perspective, the prostitute is a victim. and these guys are the suspects. >>> i don't beat around the bush when it comes to the racist term. i'm absolutely a racist. >> inmates find themselves in racial conflict. >> he and two white offenders were involved with assaulting a black offender. >> anything can pop off from this situation, you know? you've got haters everywhere you go. >> but some seek conflict elsewhere. >> child molesters are the crap on the bottom of my boot if i were out tending stalls.

and the johns will approach her. if she gets all the elements of solicitation, they'll be arrested for soliciting prostitution. >> this san francisco police officer is an undercover decoy who has worked this corner many times. >> this corner is known for transgender and for female prostitutes. a lot of times i will get men who ask me if i'm male or female. >> drug dealers, muggers and sex traffickers also roam the tenderloin so the undercover's safety is a primary concern. >> you never who know the person is pulling up. there's a lot of predators out there, sex offenders, pimps, we have a an undercover officer in close proximity. the safety aspects of things are in our favor. >> is the wire still good? >> copy. >> as soon as the team assembles at the corner, there is a problem. two regulars have already set up shop and are open for business. >> made contact with them and asked them to leave. >> steve wants the stroll completely clear for the undercover. as soon as the competition moves to another corner, the decoy im

the johns they're preying on these here women.ult suspects out here preying on these girls. you have the pimps preying on these girls. in that perspective, the prostitute is a victim. and these guys are the suspects. >>> right now we're going to call the sergeant, let them know what's going on. and there's urine coming up the floor. >> recently sentenced to prison, a troubled, young inmate attempts to make a fin

sherman to john bell hood. dear general, my family is all in the allagheny mountains and i am here for breakfast a hotel nearby. even yet hours have passed i cannot help thinking of that wonderful and beautiful group of children you paraded before me last winter at your home in new orleans. so they did meet. and that you took my daughters lizzy and ellie up to see mrs. hood who was sick in her bed. i cannot banish the sight from my mind. and now write you the simple note to tell you that here in washington there is one that thinks of you and your bereavement and of those motherless children. i assure you safe and believe she will write you words of consolation at a loss that touches the heart more than a loss of a father. accept the assurance of my heart felt sympathy and great respect. truly your friend, william t. sherman. quite interesting. the sad thing is that hood never got it. he died on august 29. never got the letter of condolens. next to last one. of hood's 11 children, the youngest was anni. she was

that night, john's immediate boss, mike mctighe, a former marine, asked john to dinner. >> riordan: andmy steak arrived, and i was picking up my knife and fork and he's making small talk, and then he suddenly... he says, "you know, john, one of us has to go back." and i put down my... >> stahl: oh! >> riordan: ...knife and fork and pushed that steak back, and i can feel tears coming out of my eyes. and he said, "would you go back?" >> stahl: go back, even though it meant losing his job, possibly losing his life. and yet, 11 days before saigon would fall, the mild-mannered banker defied his bank and better judgment, caught the very last commercial flight into saigon, and walked into the branch. >> riordan: and everybody comes running around me and said, "what do we do? what do we do? how are we going to get out of here?" and everything. >> stahl: but you're there under the authority of who? you're not working for citibank. >> riordan: no one. no one. on my own. >> stahl: on his own authority, john moved them, with their families-- all 105 of them-- into his villa and another one nearby s

both sides of the ail are complicit in this, john.ack obama, obviously, made a total p r blunder by not going down to the border. his entire message would have resonated far more deeply had it done it from a theatre stage like that, whether he denies it or not. however, whoo what we have to consider is he's actually now said to the congress, discretely, two weeks ago, he's open to changing the legal structure right now, to give his departments the power to kick illegal immigrants out, more easily. particularly from honduras and guatemala and he's kibd it over to the republicans and congress, right now, they're arguing about whether or not to fund the very initiatives that rick perry is ask ing for. so both sides are complicit in this. >> hold on. okay. the pay out. the president has asked congress for 3.7 billion dollars to deal with the texas crisis. here's the money break down. 1.8 billion for child care. food shelter and medicine. by the department of health and human services. 1.1 billion for the immigration ask customs enforcemen

john hamilton, was an obstetrician. susan ran his medical clinic. >> susan hamilton was the proverbial trophy wife. by all accounts, she was a star, and he was indeed a very fortunate man to have her. >> but susan never left the house that day. dr. hamilton was performing surgery all morning. when he finished, he stopped home on his way from his office to give susan some flowers for valentine's day. once there, he found the back door wide open. upstairs in the master bathroom was his wife, unconscious. >> i think that my wife is dead. please hurry. my wife is bleeding all over the place. >> dr. hamilton tried to revive her, but it was too late. >> in this case, the attacker was in complete control. it's unfortunate, but i don't think mrs. hamilton really stood a chance. >> the killer apparently escaped through the hamiltons' back door. none of the neighbors saw anyone leaving the home. >> we were suspicious of the fact that maybe a burglar could have came in, and possibly attacked this woman, and tried to steal some jew

sherman to john bell hood.all general, my family is alone in the allegheny mountains and i am here at the home of her friend. a friend read aloud the notice of death of mrs. general hood. i cannot help thinking about that wonderful and beautiful group of children you paraded before me last winter at your home in new orleans. so they did me. meet. and you took my daughters lizzie and ellie to see mrs. hood, who was sick in her bed. i cannot vanish the site from a mind and now write you this simple note to let you know that here in washington, there is one who thinks of you in your per easement and of those motherless children. your letter to my daughter lizzie, to whom you entrusted your work papers. -- ine closes it out assurance of my heartfelt sympathy and great respect, truly your true friend, william shermanan -- william t. . and the sad thing is, hood never got it. on august 27. never got the letter of condolence. i think my time is ok? we can do this next one. all could's 11 children, the youngest was ann

our anchor, john seigenthaler's father, john seigenthaler senior, passed away today surrounded by familynd friends. tonight he is being remembered for his legendry career in journalism and devotion to human rights and social justice. paul beban looks back on his life. >> reporter: champion for civil rights, relentless defender of freedom of the press. advisor to the kennedy, and mentor to a young al gore. john seigenthaler senior was a journalist, confidante and witness to watershed moments in our nation's history. born in nashville in 1922nd, john seigenthaler was a readers, chasing stories at an early age, becoming editor-in-chief of his high school paper. after serving in the air force and marrying, john seigenthaler landed a job in 1949. he became editor. under john seigenthaler, the paper was fearless whether uncovering corruption, exposing the ku klux klan or a fight to end segregation. he had a love for news and politics. he was part of the kennedy family's inner circle, taking time off from journalism to work in washington and on the campaign trail. his bond with the family survi

poppy and john? >> thanks for that. >>> fierce fighting near the wreckage of flight 17 forcing a team of investigators to abandon their efforts to reach the crash site. a spoxman says we are sick and tired of being delayed. a missile did indeed take the jet liner down. dutch officials will release their official findings on friday. i want to bring in nick paton walsh live on the phone. nick, these investigators what is their plan for today? will they keep trying to get back to that crash site? >> caller: they will keep trying. there are intense preparations to arrange another visit. they made a move about an hour ago toward the site in coordination with the separatists and turned back. they have not made a move as of yet. that situation is complex. we know there are talks going out obtaining access to that area. this whole area is a scene of intensive -- mostly seen by ukraine but to the north they have been moving south very fast. we heard last night, artillery, loud explosions and small -- that sug

>> well, i agree with john, but most companies and unions should go with 401(k)s.s warren buffett says, the best plan is dollar cost average into a broad s&p 500 index and outperform the professional managers 8 out of 10 times. >> rick, corporate pension plans are the back stop, it is funded by insurance premiums that companies pay. i think mike probably agrees, but still, taxpayers could be on the hook for it. >> i have to say, carrie made a good point. the concept of a defined benefit plan worked better in a manufacturing based society. the thing i have concern over is i think you can't go to people that have based their retirement coming up over all these years on a defined benefit and switch it. going forward, think she might have a good point. >> i think it should be a gradual process. but i want to disagree with john. >> can we come back, we have to get mike in on this, i'm sorry. here's the thing. we are in bailout crazy land now. it is ironic the first modern era bailout, excuse me, the airline industry after 9/11, now the big airlines want more federal tax

want to thank michael harvey, of course john. i want to recommend you pick up john spoke. do not wait for the movie version because they will screw it up. again, i want to thank you all and thank our panelists. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]