now, back to john stossel and "stupid in america." >>> as we see, education in america is a mess.t will fix it? who might fix it? >> somebody needs to fix this! you you can do it! >> oprah thinks this woman can fix it. >> thank you, michelle. i'm rooting for you. >> michelle is michelle reid. >> michelle reid acting chancellor. >> five years ago, the mayor picked her to manage d.c. schools. >> you would never run a school system before. >> i had never run a school before. and that is why people thought that adrian was nuts. i was a 37-year-old girl from toledo, ohio. >> and people said what? who? >> yeah. people said he's lost his mind. >> her friends said she had lost hers. >> i have two kids. two daughters, 9 and 12 and they -- i put them in the d.c. public schools. >> the schools were a disaster. test results among the worst in america. chancellor reid quickly learnd that although only 8% of the kids were on grade level, there was something odd about how the teachers were ranked. >> when i looked at the performance evaluations of the adults in the system. >> how good is the adu

megyn: well, john stossel is host of "stossel" on the fox business network.at the case, where there's less regulation like hong kong it's like that and the unemployment rate is lower? >> you bet. much lower in australia, singapore, hong kong where they make it easy to be a entrepreneur. megyn: why is it so difficult here, the lawyers? >> yes, you lawyers. no, that's not fair -- megyn: i've been out of that business for seven, eight years now. >> but it's intuitive to think that, well, we've got to make sure that they're okay, they don't cheat people. we like licensing, it sounds good. we license drivers, we license dogs. and it's always intuitive to add a little more. oh, there's a problem? pass a law, there ought to be a law. we keep adding it on. hence, regulation nation is a good slogan. we added 80,000 pages of new rules last year. megyn: government thinks it's helping, we have heard politicians talk about how government has helped create this number of jobs, and a lot of americans want government to create jobs. is that not its role? is. >> no. and gover

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john stossel in the street john stossel here. >> where are the jobs? you got them? are you hiding the jobs? >> bill: those reports after these messages. >> bill: the republican debate tomorrow night in orlando, florida. fox news anchor bret baier, megyn kelly and chris wallace will be handling the questioning. some believe the anti-obama theme might be stepped up tomorrow night in light of a new campaign ad from rick perry. >> i love these folks who say economy. that's fine. give it to me. >> zero jobs. not a single jobs being added. >> no jobs created. zero. >> people are demoralized. >> what has happened. >> zero new jobs. >> zero. >> change has come to america. >> president zero. >> 21 in six americans living in poverty. >> all time low. >> we're pointed in the ride direction. >> headed in the wrong direction. >> change direction here. >> i'm just getting started. >> it's time to get america working again. we don't need a president who apologizes for america. i believe in america. i believe in a purpose and a promise. i believe her best days have not yet been liv

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john stossel is investigating. rnie goldberg on a new survey showing most americans do not trust the media. i hope that doesn't include bernie and myself. we hope you stay tuned for those reports. >> bill: stossel matters segment, howard dean controversial guy, no question. now the web site reporting that dean was paid by an iranian militant group to improve their image in the usa. here is the problem. i'll let stossel tell you the problem. he's been investigating. i got ahead of myself because i am outraged about this if it's true. i want to be fair it dean even though he's not fair to us. we rise above him. is he doing anything wrong? >> no, i don't think so. it's odd to, after that intro to defend him. this group has been labeled a terror group. but rudy guiliani has spoken for him, andy card. there is a lot of people who say it shouldn't be labeled a terrorist group is. >> bill: what do they do? it's based in iran, right? >> originally in iran. now they've been exiled, libertarian friend says the communist cult

john stossel in the street john stossel here. >> where are the jobs? you got them? are you hiding the jobs? >> bill: those reports after these messages. o0 c1 2 o0 [ telephone rings ] aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa auto repair. gary... he hung up. ...why do we have so many a's in our name? so we're listed first in the phone book. ya know, gives us an edge. you know fedex can, give us an edge. how? well, fedex ships auto parts from factories around the world, they clear em through customs, anthat'll help us fix cars faster. great idea. you know you got a bright future here at aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... [ male announcer ] supply chain solutions. fedex. solutions that matter. >> bill: the republican debate tomorrow night in orlando, florida. fox news anchor bret baier, megyn kelly and chris wallace will be handling the questioning. some believe the anti-obama theme might be stepped up tomorrow night in light of a new campaign ad from rick perry. >> i love these folks who say economy. that's fine. give it to me. >> zero jobs. not a single jobs being added. >> no jobs created. zero.

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really over time became a dump site of agent orange and now thirdly we put chemical weapons on john stossel this national wildlife refuge under the fish and wildlife department has really been used and abused by the military over the ages. for. only a few hours upon it was wiped out and all she knows efficient little accounting for now. and it had made before you what to do in such as shelters the people calmly waited all unaware that all that it is sending up on them was the atom bomb. when it was all about four and a half square miles of it also a moment but on monday lasted through extinction and all shattering devastation in which was born that tommy gage. radiation affects what has to be imprinted on bones in front of john like present shadow and that outlined on a building the design of a dress left on the body of a woman who would die in a few days in. office of. members of the so cold nuclear club states known detonated nuclear weapons give their best to the foreign soil among them at least two thousand deaths have been conducted disappear under water underground and in space. we're

to free market ideas by john stossel, now on fox business. the road to serfdom is a very timely warning to us about how encroachment of government regulation, through a larger state control of our lives puts us on a path toward the road to serfdom, totalitarianism or fascism or socialism. hy will pass out a reading list i prepared. it is also on our web site if you want to go to our web site, www.tf www.tfas.org/books. there are a list of recommendations of books and films that i think are great at conveying our ideas. i have recommendations of books about the movement. you can read about the history of this. wayne for burn wrote a book on the american foundation's board just a year ago. degeneration awakes. americans for freedom and creation of the conservative movement. there is a book called upstream which is excellent. brian doherty's radicals for capitalism is an excellent book about the history of the movement for freedom particularly touching on various strains of the libertarian movement. biographies. very few better than witness by w

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john stossel, we thank you very much. john joins us from the "fox business" network.btained documents that show our government not only approved the fast and furious program, it used taxpayer money to buy the weapons. that story is next. and then a major mix-up at the morgue. a daughter shows up to identify her dead mother. one problem. mom wasn't dead. >> steve: allall right. we got quick headlines. new video from italy where amanda knox just entered the courtroom in her murder appeal. her attorneys are giving their closing arguments a day after prosecutors gave theirs, calling knox a demonic she devil and showing graphic pictures of her dead roommate. a woman in brazil gets the shock of her life. she goes to the morgue sadly to identify her dead mom. when the body bag is opened, she realizes, wait a minute, my mother is breathing. her mom was rushed back to the hospital where she's now in the intensive care unit. the doctor who pronounced her dead has resigned. gretch? >> gretchen: the fast and furious operation creating more controversy. shocking documents show not

. >> some provocative discussion and that's our own john stossel talking with the president of the washington america". you can catch it tonight at 10 p.m. eastern. and as we reported earlier, elinore mondale has died at age of 51, her father, former vice-president mondale and wife joan issued the statement. joan and i must report that our wonderful daughter, after her long and gutsy battle against cancer went up to heaven last night to be with her angel. and thank you for all, for your friendship, she loved you. you will hear more about plans to celebrate her life in a short period, but we wanted you to know as quickly as possible. send all of our love. and of course, our hearts go out to the mondale family as well. we love hearing from you at home. should parents be required to vaccinate their daughters against hpv, that's a big question that we are asking everybody. and here are some of your responses that we've got just a short time ago. we have jennie says responsible parents teach their children about sex and should take the opportunity to protect them from this disease. and becky is sa

we'll tell you what happened live when john stossel did the same thing. >> cupcakes for sale. >> that i'm latino and black. >> should i not do this because it hurts peoples' feeling? >> you shouldn't do it out of respect. >> it's very hurtful, very demeanorring. megyn: new backlash over a bake sale? college republicans at u.c. berkeley trying to make a point about affirmative action, leaving critics with a sour taste by charging different prices for cupcakes depending upon race orgenner, asking white students to pay $2 a cupcake, asians, 1.50, african-americans, 75 cents, native americans asked to pay 25 cents. and women, they get a 25 percent discount across the board. sean lewis is president of the berkeley college republicans, michelle ulamb is with associated students of u.c. berkeley and you two do not see eye to eye on this at all but we appreciate you both coming on to give your view. sean, you are the folks puting this bake sale on, in california right now, there is the law, as was passed under proposition 209, years ago, says no affirmative action at colleges. but now, there'

john stossel would only come up with that title.: it's stupid that we let a monopoly educate our kids. government ma tphop lease don't do anything very well. they have been in charge with the kids. there is cool stuff happening, that is the good news. i've been in classrooms where kids are excited about learning. are schools boring? they say, no eyes not. these are fourth graders from inner-city schools where traditionally they became bored and dropped out. bill: did you come away from this more optimistic or pessimistic. >> reporter: more optimistic. i did a stupid 20-20 show and everybody was a prisoner of the system unless you had enough money, as i do to pay for private school. now there are free charter schools, experimental schools. not awful them are great, but the beauty is when they are not good the parents don't choose them and they are out of good. when they are good they are there forever. bill: there are a lot of good teachers out there that will tune in what you have to say. >> reporter: they are teaching now, it's fri

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here is john stossel. now the fbi is investigating. do you know what that is about? >> i don't. they won't say. they have gone to three of the executives' homes and taken computer information. i assume they are looking for bribery. >> they actually raid the the suit tis's homes, warrants, took their computer software out and raided the headquarters in fremont, california, outside of san francisco. so while the obama administration touted this, the obama administration justice department, we have to be fair, is now launching an investigation what the heck happened here. >> but i think it misses the point. the point isn't what may be illegal, the point is what is legal. the the conceit, to say we know how to invest your money we can pick this solar technology. >> that's interesting. but isn't it the responsibility of the government to investor to help businesses invest in technology -- >> no. >> -- in technology that will help the nation. energy department will find it. >> you are saying so government loan should go to any of these companies, and also the bush administration start

in new special john stossel looks at innovation in education and what may be holding it back. >> city schools are terrible because of unions like yours i wanted disagree. we have progressed because of unions. >> save our schools. >> three days before the protest march about plans to pay teachers based on how well their students do on tests. the protesters even composed an anti-protest song ♪ work on matt ut math and english >> there is a motive behind all of this extra testing. >> we need to get the corporations out of the schools. the unions says school choice would enrich corporations but further impoverish school teachers ♪ overgreeding teachers and the wages that they earn. >> teacher paid enough. >> no. >> some teachers making over $100,000 and they're not making enough. >> matt damon agrees with that his mom is a teacher. >> a teacher wants to teach. why else would you take a [bleep] salary and really long hours and do that job unless you really love to do it. >> teachers make a [bleep] salary. maybeo matt damon. teachers make more per hour than accountants, nurses, act architec

john stossel joins us. he has a new documentary called, stupid in america.. >> did a show like this five years ago. how the kids were not getting anything good from the schools. five years later, school stuff is happening. i was in a 4th grade class i would say to kids school is boring. and they would say, no it is not. >> greta: what is the difference, why? >> a market has developed. tiny market not enough yet but some schools to attract parents are trying new things. and the ones that fail the charters that aren't good go out of business. some are good. like everything else in america where there is a market it gets better. these schools are cool. >> greta: watching your special i'm going to feel good, there's a chance and things are turning around? >> right. it is good at the top. misery with the teachers wrong in the middle and excitement at the end. >> greta: i don't want to go to the dreary. what did happen? why did we go south? >> because government monopolys produce nothing that ever improves. that -- that's why the soviet union fail. and that's what

john stossel on that coming up next.allum who joins us at the top of the hour. >> hey there, steve. good morning, everybody. so what is really going on behind the scenes in this unbelievable battle between the president and john boehner? we have who better than newt gingrich to weigh in on this this morning. also we'll talk about his plans for the 2012 race coming up. we've got a packed show, everybody. join us at the top of the hour. bill and i will be here. we hope you will, too. announce] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. there's another way litter box dust:e purina tidy cats. tidy cats premium line of litters now works harder on dust. and our improved formulas neutralize odors better than ever in multiple-cat homes. so it's easier to keep your house smelling just the way you want it. purina tidy