here now is fox business anchor john stossel and you say?ese are sad things when they happen. but the law is worse. and you are exaggerating these problems. >> how can i exaggerate iran study i didn't do the study. chronic use of marijuana three or more times a week that's the definition. up 84% in america. and the weed is about 10 times stronger than it was when you were smoking pot with your little friends in the 1960's, early 1970s, okay? so are you telling me that this data, this fact, is hyped? i'm saying it goes up and down. in 1979, it was even higher. and i think it's four times a week on their study. yes the stuff is stronger. >> a lot stronger. >> some people take three puffs instead of smoking the whole joint. >> sure they do. >> doesn't mean they are getting hurt. >> moderation. >> these things bother me but you are irresponsible scare amonger. >> i'm not scare mongering, i'm telling the truth. everything i told the folks are the truth. the truth. >> the poison control center. >> yes. >> sharp increase up to 70. >> 70 what? >> 70

so, why would john stossel be on facebook, for what reason? >> 300,000 people receive notes from me about liberty on my john stossel page and then i have a personal page with my secret name for my volleyball games. this is how we arrange them. and it's wonderful. get to know people. >> can't pick up the phone and call your volleyball pinheads. >> not 100 people at once. >> 100 people on your team. >> no. i want four people. who can show up at central park 4:00 p.m. today. >> use it for two reasons to blast people with your annoying musings and organize your dopey volleyball game. >> that's correct. >> you have to do it on facebook? no other private way of doing it. >> i like doing it. enhances our life. you don't even use email, right? >> no. i use email sometimes. but not a lot. i don't have a lot of time for that. because i have to think, stossel. i have to think about the world and the country and come up with solutions to vexing problems. i'm not into dopey volleyball at 3:00 a.m. in central park. >> beyond volleyball. just the interaction

the new john stossel. >> i didn't want to get in any one's face.sat on the sidewalks. i tried the homeless and cold anything will help sign. >> after half an hour i switched to this sign. can i get a beer? >> i have seen beggars trying this more honest funny approach. >> i begged for hurn. i did well. if i did this for an 8 hour day i would have made 90 bucks. 23,000 per year. tax free. >> what were you trying to get across in that report? >> i wasn't saying you could make a good living begging i was trying to illustrate how everybody who works for the homeless don't give them money they are almost all if not all scams. you are an enabler you are helping a guy with a drug problem or alcohol problem guy more intoxicants. >> americans, were you saying they are basically a generous people? >> all of the studies show we are a charitable people. >> it is interesting the bottom earners give more proportionately than the top. they are addicted to material things. it is a complicated world in which they live. charity navigators where i go. when give money

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. ♪ ♪ >> now it is time for john stossel. john: i like to gamble.want to bet on whether hillary clinton will become president with the stock market will go up on thursday? i will take any bet as long as the odds seem fair. supposedly more than 100 million americans filled out march madness brackets. totaling about 12 elion, that's more than the super bowl. and according to our new reading of federal and state law, betting on those brackets is illegal. it is illegal in nevada and montana because of an old law and a smalltime pool among friends that are allowed in vermont and connecticut. otherwise betting on march madness is a we illegal. so why even have a? because it makes some people feel good? >> should betting on sports be allowed? >> never. >> it encourages people to spend money. >> i really think that this is a fundamental moral issue and you have to make a stand here, even as i am standing now. >> it causes people to lose control. patrick basham says chill out. he says gambling is a healthy bad. what do you mean? >> it's good for emotional he

. >> and now john stossel. john: tuesday's earth day. this is a holiday that brings out stupidity in people! we will hear all kinds of bizarre things this week, some on this program. the premise is noble, we all want to protect the environment, but there's this religious-like satisfaction people get by thinking that they can save the planet for man's extravagance. you get a taste of that in the movie "noah's ark." >> my father said one day man would continue in his ways, his plan would annihilate the world. john: i misspoke, it's just "noah" about noah's ark. environmental annihilation is coming because we've been evil. we pollute, frack, cut down trees, overconsume. cheer up. we can save ourselves, we face a fork in the road. >> we can continue on our current path, where we rely on outdated electricity grids, inefficient buildings and dirty power plants that contaminate our air. or we can change. we can create greener cities where solar panels and winter powers our homes. this cleaner, more sustainable future is within our grasp. john:

. >> and now john stossel. john: tuesday's earth day. . >>> tuesday's earth day.ay that brings out stupidity in people. we will hear all kinds of bizarre things this week, some on this program. the premise is noble. we all want to protect the environment but there's this religious-like satisfaction some people get by thinking that they can save the planet from man's extravagance. you get a taste of that from the new movie "noah's arc." >> my father said one day if man continued in his way, it would annihilate this world. >> i misspoke. it's just called "noah." but that's what i've been hearing, annihilation is coming because we've been evil, we frack, we cut down trees, we burn. but we can still save ourselves. >> we can continue on our current path where we rely on outdated electricity grids or we can change and create greener cities where solar panels and this cleaner, more sustainable future is within our grasp. >> it's within our grasp. greener cities with solar panels and wind power. our president has a plan, too. he says -- >> we can break our dependence on

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>>> oo now, john stossel. >> i would like to gamble i bet on anything. want to bet on whether hillary clinton will become president? wh whether the stock market will go up? i will take any bet if there's no casino or book key or government taking a cut. more than 100 million americans filled out march madness brackets. they sold 12 million more than the super bowl. yet according to our reading of federal and state laws betting on the brackets is illegal. it is legal in nevada and montana. small time fools among friends are with vermont and connecticut. otherwise betting on march madness is illegal. many of you broke the law. fortunately the law is really enforced and shouldn't be. why have it? it makes people feel good. >> it encourages people, poor people to spend money. >> this is a fundamental issue. i sound like some victorian nag. >> yes, rich, you are. gambling hurts some people. a group called stop predator regambling said it increases inequality causes people to lose control. patrick bash i am says chill out. he's the author of gambling a healthy

it's the new john stossel. i hit the streets and started begging.et in anyone's face so i didn't beg aggressively. at first i tried to basic homeless and cold, anything will help sign. it worked. after half an hour, i switched to this sign. >> can i get a beer? >> i had seen beggars trying this more honest, or you might say funny, approach. >> i just begged for an hour and i did well. 23,000 for a year, tax free. >> what were you trying to get across in that report? >> i wasn't saying you could make a good living begging. i was trying to illustrate why all the people who work with the homeless say don't give them minute, they're almost all scams. you're an enabler. you're just helping a guy with a drug problem or alcohol problem by more intoxicant. >> americans, would you say basically we're generally a generous people. >> yes, much more than any other country. >> we are a very charitable people. the bottom earners give more proporti proportionally than the top because they get addicted to material things. charity navigators where i go, when i give

from new york here is john stossel. >> enemy of the state. it conjures up the soviet union where an all powerful government crushes any individual who stands up against him. in truth even in a representative democracy such as ours if the government goes after you it could be a nightmare. we are going to show you several alarming stories in which government officials decide to take on private citizens. these people who didn't and still do believe they were breaking any rules were suddenly in the fight of their lives. the full force of the government bearing down on them. that's what makes it so carry if it happens to them it could happen to any one. >> they found their very way of life under attackment >> the western range scenic and battle ground for what became known as the sagebrush rebellion a fight that began decades ago between the federal government and ranchers. >> ranchers are complaining the bureau of land management blm doesn't identify with ranching problems. >> wayne sr. didn't plan to be the start of the rewell on. >> when did th

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. >> and now, john stossel. >> do you have a facebook account?o you post pictures on instagram or personal things on twitter or linkedin? you probably do. most americans now do. it's how we connect with friends, share pictures, give updates about our lives. i love facebook. this page helps me understand what you think and you give me feedback that makes me smarter. i also have a personal facebook page that helps me stay in touch with friends, arrange volleyball games. my life is infinitely better because of facebook. but there's a down side. loss of privacy. more of a loss of privacy than i realized before i researched this program. recently a comedian freaked out random people by demonstrating how much he could learn about them. >> i wanted to see how easy it could be to get personal information from complete strangers. >> first he checked this app that showed him social media users near him. then he checked sites like twitter and instagram to learn things about them. >> is your name jessica. >> yeah. >> hi, nice to meet you. >> how do you know

you're creative and daring you can still make it according to john stossel. >> the internet reduced barriers go around the establishment. >> why does the left say the dream is dead. >> they want government to come in and take care of everyone. >> restore the dream. >> restore the dream by giving you money. >> same old stuff. independent people want to do it on their own and left wing people want the government to be in charge of the dream. >> and the natural process regulators always adding more rules makes it tougher. >> i agree with that. you got to be persistent and smart to be an entrepreneur these days. now stossel has mentioned a brilliant internet guy and spends most of his time out there when he's not playing volleyball. recently he went to the grand central station with the google glass. go. >> i can go like this, okay glass and take your picture. >> i don't like it. i feel like that's too much exposure. >> i don't know how i feel about that. that's a little scary. it freaks me out you could know my name before i talk to you. >> so should the government do something from text us? >>

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stuart: here is the host of john stossel, his name is john and he says you shouldn't be ashamed of putting >> i find it very useful. i can understand people like bill reilly who rail against it. if i am ashamed i don't put that -- stuart: let's tell the audience of the truth. during the commercial break you were telling me about instances of where someone was on facebook and target inferred that this woman was pregnant and started sending her all kinds of coupons for stuff. her father saw this. that seems to me a little predictive and intrusiveness. >> york and fleeting two things from a broader store. social media is creating new privacy invading things. hanging around checking out baby stuff, buying related stuff, then they sent her coupons, facebook supposedly knows when you will break up with your girlfriend before your friends do and maybe before you do based on big date on your patterns. talking to other people, certain words you use. i don't know how they'd do it but information they are gleaning is enormous. stuart: they infer that a couple is breaking up because of the language th

>> john stossel, who apparently made bail, joins us live.e state lottery is the worst odds of all the games. they took over the numbers racket. we have to protect you from those criminals, but i know, we'll run it and that will put the bookies out of business. so they run it. they offer worse odds and now they advertise it. and they disparage work here in new york state. they run ads saying, quit your job. win the jackpot. it's disgusting. 10% of the money goes for education. >> right. >> when it comes to sports, what's your feeling on that? all the brackets. >> okay. $12 billion supposedly was spent on march madness. one in three americans put money into one of those brackets. it's illegal in half the states. isn't that hypocritical? >> not enforced? >> it's not enforced. but that's dangerous when the authorities can enforce people they don't like. >> do you agree that there is a lot of people get addicted to gambling? so we need a society to protect us from betting everything. steve's lunch money. if he was gambling that away, that could h

if you tune into john stossel's show, he deconstructs all of these government programs and mostly the attitude that people turn to government first. it's like a religious cult, juan. that no matter the proof that the belief is incorrect, physical proof, people continue to believe in it. and i think government is replaced god. we used to turn to god. now we turn to government as our god. >> host: you say liberals turn to government even though clinton said, era of big government is over. >> guest: he said that. >> host: and you hear obama saying, we have to do more in terms of building up family and individual responsibility. >> guest: i'm all for that. talk is cheap. >> host: i'm just saying you don't -- in other words, the niche audience is the conservative, hard right, maybe as you experience evangelical audience. >> guest: i dent see myself as hard right. we're using labels here. you want to ask me one of my favorite writers? frank rich, who wrote brilliant column for the anytime anytime did i -- for "the new york times." i think he's one hoff my favorite columnists. i like to say

john stossel's excellent show as a libertarian and goes for i would did he deconstructs government programs and the attitude that people turned government first is like a religious cult that no matter the proof, the belief is incorrect, physical proof, people continue to believe in it. government has replaced god. now return to government and they wonder why it's not working. >> host: you say liberals are the ones who turned to government. and you hear obama saying we have to do more in terms of building a family and individual responsibilities. >> host: i'm all for that. talk is cheap. >> host: the niche arguments is the conservative hard right, the evangelical audience. >> guest: i would see myself as hard right. recent labels here. one of my favorite writers of all time is frank rich about brilliant columns for "the new york times." did i agree with everything? of course not. that doesn't mean his skills and ability. he's one of my favorite columnists of all time. i like to say every two things every day. my bible and "the new york times" so i know what each side is doing. i'm friendly.

john stossel, from the "fox business" network, is here to explain.y, can lift themselves out of poverty because the other stuff isn't good enough. >> the symbolism without solution, right? >> mostly, yeah. and scares without solution. you get the scientists who -- headline writers say they're all going to die! >> in the '70s we were hearing the skies are dirty. the ground water is a mess. we're never going to be able to drink clean water again. what ends up happening? >> that was true. and god bless government, government came in and cleaned the air and cleaned the water. it used to be awful. but they should have then said, stick a fork in it, it's done. instead, give us more control. >> the headline writers these days are talk being how there is global warming. although it's curious because the head writer of greenpeace came out a couple weeks ago and -- okay. the world is getting warm, but there is no evidence that man is connected to the global warming. >> for 17 years it hasn't warmed one -- one of the founders of greenpeace is a skeptic. there i

>> no, but john stossel does. he's here to explain.not giving it up. i like facebook and twitter and all this stuff. the people who are all upset about this. people are always worried about something. yes, some people get hacked. it used to be a virus was malware to wreck your computer. now overwhelming odds, it's something trying to steal your credit card information, social security. but it's handleable. you can buy the antivirus software and this stuff reaps benefits. >> don't you worry that somebody, aside from the nsa, is looking over your shoulder, they're watching everything you type in? >> especially you, john. >> yes, i worry that my political enemies are out there stealing my e-mails and twisting them out of shape. so i'm careful about what i write. >> yet, you say it's worth the risk. >> totally. it enhances my life. i get to know people better on facebook. >> you barter. i'm getting so much from this, i benefit. >> life is filled with trade-offs. yet about 7% of the people get hacked every year. but it's not the end of the

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