. ♪ ♪ >> now it's time for john stossel. john: ideas can change the world. most of human history people suffered in human history. mainly because no one had thought of better ways to do things. then in the last few hundred years, some new ideas made life better. things like running water and the printing press and the steam engine and electricity. as well as the internet who want people to be coming up with new ideas and there is a problem. maybe they make money and you do not. >> this man needs to cover not just the manufacturing cost of inventing the thing in the first place. let's say that a competitor manufactures a competing copy. the competitor doesn't need to cover those costs. original creations cannot compete with the costs of reproductions. john: its original creations cannot compete with copies, and vent your things. what could be done to address that unfair imbalance? >> in the united states, the introduction of copyrights and patents was attended to address this in balance. both aim to encourage the creation and the proliferation of new ideas by

welcome to 20/20, i'm john stossel. >> i'm john stossel. nobody move! get on the floor!omething! oh i'm not a security guard, i'm a security monitor. i only notify people if there is a robbery. there's a robbery. why monitor a problem if you don't fix it? that's why lifelock does more than free credit monitoring to protect you from identity theft. we not only alert you to identity threats, if you have a problem, we'll spend up to a million dollars on lawyers and experts to fix it. lifelock. join starting at $9.99 a month. . john: have you heard this joke? why is six afraid of seven? because seven eight nine. get it? seven ate nine. does that make me a joke stealer? i think so, what does that mean for professional comedians, what do they do if someone steals their jokes. comedian doug stanhope says comedians work this out. i asked him about this because he's a libertarian. here's a sample of his work. >> they say if you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. if you teach a man to fish, then he's got to get a fishing license, and you couldn't even cook the fish because yo

. ♪ ♪ >> now it's time for john stossel. john: ideas can change the world. most of human history people suffered in human history. mainly because no one had thought of better ways to do things. then in the last few hundred years, some new ideas made life better. things like running water and the printing press and the steam engine and electricity. as well as the internet who want people to be coming up with new ideas and there is a problem. maybe they make money and you do not. >> this man needs to cover not just the manufacturing cost of inventing the thing in the first place. let's say that a competitor manufactures a competing copy. the competitor doesn't need to cover those costs. original creations cannot compete with the costs of reproductions. john: its original creations cannot compete with copies, and vent your things. what could be done to address that unfair imbalance? >> in the united states, the introduction of copyrights and patents was attended to address this in balance. both aim to encourage the creation and the proliferation of new ideas by

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i'm john stossel. thanks for watching. join us monday. have a good weekend. good night from new york. colonel sanders failed until he was 65 years old. john. john: charlie brown ever learn from his failures. but we can learn from failure. try and try again. that's our show tonight. ♪ >> and now jon stossel. john: i'm a big failure. i started facebook and it failed really? well sorted. when i was in college i published a guidebook for guys that included a fresh picture girls from neighboring all-girls schools. clearly this was the first facebook. unfortunately al gore has suspended the internet so my facebook was an interactive and useful and also to the girls i was about to get publicity. 60s protests erupted stealing all the attention. my facebook had no publicity. years later mark zuckerberg tried again improving on my idea and now he has $40 billion i don't. but i tried again. i became a tv reporter and that worked out. turns out lots of successful people fail at first. oprah winfrey, steve jobs come the author of dr. seuss. some argue that they were fueled

i'm john stossel. thanks for watching. join us monday. have a good weekend. ight from new york. colonel sanders failed until he was 65 years old. john. john: charlie brown ever learn from his failures. but we can learn from failure. try and try again. that's our s

. >> announcer: and now john stossel. john: the next big presidential primary vote is in new hampshire tuesday. the new hampshire state mott tow is live free or die. that sounds libertarian. so will new hampshire voters pick three loving candidates? who might win in new hampshire and who should win? rich lowry is an editor. national review. and new hampshire is the live free or die state. >> if you live free you have might die. if you look at the polling they may have that libertarian motto, but they want to increase spending on education, healthcare, and background checks on guns. they are much more for those establishment conservatives. that's why you see trump leading in the polls and jeb bush appearing in the polls. >> trump has been strong there all along. we'll see whether he experiences a downdraft after iowa. but many things you can say of donald trump pro and con, liberty candidate is not one of them. this is a guy who never talks about liquor i. he rarely talks about the constitution and represents an aconstituti

. ♪ ♪ >> now it's time for john stossel. john: changing faster than ever. struggling to keep up.some ways the changes are clearly good. robots like this are definitely helping to grow jobs much more quickly. >> they take away the backbreaking tasks and that allows the workers to do all of the high-end jobs. that is if they find high-end jobs. but what if most jobs disappear? >> companies planning to replace human jobs with machines is growing. >> human instinct tells us that would be better if no one ever lost a job. politicians often demand that unions be protective, but americans would not be better off if telephone operators and clerks had their jobs protected by a compassionate law. those workers lost jobs because now money once paid by them is put to better use. in the media we almost never tell such a story. it's partly because we can only report on what we easily see and we can only see the people that get fired or take pictures as they leave their jobs on that last day when the factory closes and they have new things they may find. the exciting product that they will prod

fox business host john stossel said the key is data analytics. hampshire? we'll find out about that tonight on his show. but stossel takes viewers behind the scenes on his show to find out how the cruz campaign went high-tech and you join us right now. that's pretty cool. >> well, it's cool and creepy. but obama won many say because his tech op was superior -- >> microtargeting. >> microtargeting. you pick people who might vote for you and just focus on getting them to the polls and they find out about that by buying lists of data from stores and all these lists are for sale. they can tell from who your friends are, the kind of things you buy if you buy arugula you're more likely to be democratic. and target them and get them to the polls. >> through social media, you target them that way. >> and the producer talked me into putting this on the phone and they crawl thousand the phone and they find those who might vote for cruz and it was the conservatives on my phone. the best persuaders if you can get people to e-mail or facebook their friends. >

. >>> and now john stossel. >> we need some rules. rules headache life safer, more predictable, but when rules multiply, if they have, we are better off when some people break rules. show us new ways to do things. the wright brothers did that when they built an airplane, henry ford when he created the assembly line, jeff bee zeros, now airbnb break the rules. mic decided to honor violators by creating what he calls rule breaker awards. every year he gives awards to whom? well, we recognize the greatest people this can country has to offer, rule breakers. these are people that are changing the industry rules for their industry, they find us online, they apply and we recognize the whippers, the best of the best. >> all right. well, mike gave an award to the creators of a company called rent billow. it is a website that let's you rent stuff $15 to rent this fishing pole for a day, $5 for a power drill and of course the other side of that is that they allow people to use stuff without having to pay big bucks to buy it. >> this seems to ob

john stossel will talks with me about the lure of socialism. >> yep, we're going to raise the minimumn hour. [cheers and applause] we must strengthen and expand social security. [cash register ringing] [cash register ringing] i believe in a medicare for all, single-payer program. [cash register ringing] greater risk of stroke - they can pool together in the heart, forming a clot that can break free, and travel upstream to the brain where it can block blood flow and cause a stroke. but if you have afib that's not caused by a heart valve problem, pradaxa can help stop clots from forming. pradaxa was even proven superior to warfarin at reducing the risk of stroke, in a clinical trial - without the need for regular blood tests. and, in the rare event of an emergency, pradaxa is the only oral blood thinner other than warfarin with a specific reversal treatment to help your body clot normally again. pradaxa is not for people who have had a heart valve replacement. don't stop taking pradaxa without talking to your doctor. stopping increases your risk of stroke or blood clots. ask your doctor

john stossel will be taking a deep dive into the remaining republican field win owing out his winnersrs. trump may have more to say about the pope. we are going to bring you his events live as soon as he starts speaking. also president obama's record-setting $4 trillion budget. general ma. >> 2016 is a you wil you will ie year for us. the signs are out there. they are flashing red. i don't understand why the president went from $600 million down to $330 million even though he put $12 million other programs. that money is to focus on cities like new york city, particularly new york which is our most vulnerable city. i can't understand it. deirdre: finds out which programs new york city's police commissioner says will be cut and decrease safety in the big apple. another freed guantanamo bay detainee is back pat work. he's featured in a new terror video. >> we assume they are going to be out of 400 or 500 or 600 people that get released, there will be some who are i am by the -- who are imbittered and trying to link up with their old organizations. >> what we saw from the president was b

if football isn't your cup of tea john stossel has a brand-new special on the tech revolution tonightd 11:00 p.m. eastern. >> they look happy but these smurfs are feeling blue today. we're going to tell you after the break. and carnivale is under way in brazil. but will vega shut it down? on "america's news headquarters." they're not worried. >> they're not that concerned. ♪ we were below the 88th southern parallel. we had traveled for over 850 miles. my men driven nearly mad from starvation and frostbite. today we make history. >>bienvenidos! welcome to the south pole! if you're dora the explorer, you explore. it's what you do. >>what took you so long? if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. >>you did it, yay! ♪ >>> according to what you just saw, there ain't no party like a smurf party. more than 2,000 gnome enthusiasts came out in germany. papa smurf and smurfettes partied together to break the record. but despite the effort, which appears to be considerable, they failed. >> oh. >> the little gremlins fell short by just 3

it will be john stossel. who's with me?> yeah, not surprised that liberals watch that. >> what difference does that make? >> it tells you things like if you want to reach an independent swing woman voter, buy the house and garden channel. if you want to reach a republican-leaning but less likely to vote independent swing man, go buy the golf channel. >> rove did research on blacks who might vote for bush and found many are christians who watch these tv preachers. >> now in the name of jesus, i command this debt out of my life. >> so rove placed advertisements there. >> in ohio, in 2000, bush got 2% of the african american vote. in 2004, he got 16%. we were able to identify a group of african american voters who, though, their history was overwhelming democrat, we had clues that gave us a sense they might be reachable. >> this year consultants want to reach not just swing voters, but swing voters in these 10 states. >> you take a map of the united states, and you just cross out states. just cross them out. say we can't win h

she wins that award. >> she will win the presidency too and pandering works. >> john stossel great tors sunday night at 7:00 and 11:00 p.m. where he's handing out more of his stoscars. >> a rescue at sea caught on camera by a pittsburgh steelers. >>> and should hillary clinton focus on super tuesday first after her big win last night? good morning. i tried depend last weekend. it really made the difference between a morning around the house and getting a little exercise. only depend underwear has new confidence core technology for fast absorption and the smooth, comfortable fit of fit-flex™ protection. get a coupon at depend.com when they thought they should westart saving for retirement.le then we asked some older people when they actually did start saving. this gap between when we should start saving and when we actually do is one of the reasons why too many of us aren't prepared for retirement. just start as early as you can. it's going to pay off in the future. if we all start saving a little more today, we'll all be better prepared tomorrow. prudential. bring your challenges. my

john stossel. a libertarian. he is on apple site as well.. ♪ stuart: the big names of silicon valley and the fbi continued their fight. unlocking the iphone of the terrorist in san bernardino. there is some kind of legislation. >> not criminal penalties that these companies do not cooperate. basically unlocking these eve ices. 1994. let law enforcement wiretap if they have a court order. now, it could rope in devices sold by silicon valley. we also have families coming out and saying, him up the phone. the phone is owned by the county health apartment. it is not -- that is what the law enforcement is saying. stuart: it is a united front. and a lot of the big names are now standing behind apple. microsoft, google, facebook, twitter. john stossel is with us. he is a libertarian. no, do not unlock the iphone. am i correct? >> yes. if they can am not just one, they can unlock everybody's. they have already given them the data that was on the cloud. i can see why you want to find out who this guy called. the only way to get that information is to

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john: and my nephew, kept his problem a secret. >> from uncle stossel. john: he jokes about his problem with steven colbert. we get help with experiments and treatments, which ones work. >> we just have to try things. john: let us experiment, that is our show tonight. john: this tv show is about ideas. but tonight i will bother with you my personal problem, my own life taught me a lesson about benefits of limited government. without so many rules, that does not prevent you from trying experiments. i can stand up right now, because, i have tried some experiments i can speak to you because i tried dozens of experiments. i'll conservative speaking first, i am a stut erica olsen, er. when i was a kid in school i i would stay silence in class, and avoid parties. i would hang up on the phone. now because of caller i.d., stutterers cannot do, that i got a job at a tv station, i never expected to go on tv when i did, i stuttered so badly i wanted to quit, i tried all kinds of therapies. all these experts said they could cure me, but they couldn't, until i got hel

john stossel is here.declaration of independence. >> i knew that. lots of people get this confused. >> the bill of rights. i think that by raising that, i think we are being a little knit picking. [laughter] wait a minute, there is a double standard here. ben carson made a somewhat similar mistake. >> taken to the cleaners by the media. helping to write the constitution. the declaration of independence. of course they were more alarmed by this. >> 30,000 words a day. making a mistake. >> you and i have the shortly made the error. >> now, your show tonight, you will present the political oscars. >> we will give out awards to those actors that we call politicians. >> what kind of an award do you have? >> carrying that one years ago. [laughter] all the candidates for the nominees. >> we will give out a dozen awards. >> give us a little preview. >> we have to watch your show. >> oscars. 8:00 o'clock. whose network? >> fbn. i will watch that. >> good stuff. doubling down. using the f word on fox business. this

stuart: i want to bring you john stossel. his show is called the free or die.. a socialist leads the pack among democrats in new hampshire. >> it is a 100 euros logan and they no longer believe that. they support obamacare, want to increase the minimum wage, went to increase background checks to buy a gun. this is not a libertarian conservative city. stuart: i don't think they've got a state sales tax either. >> adults can drive and they don't have to wear a seatbelt and you don't have to wear motorcycle helmet. it is bernie sanders. stuart: it is a lot of people who go into southern new hampshire and say, you know, i like this live free or die stuff, but i really, really like no taxes. >> but there's this free state project were libertarian civic get 20,000 people to agree to move there. we can change the politics in a just regard. stuart: they wanted, don't they? >> these are libertarians. they want to move there and have enough of us to say let's get rid of these rules and we will show the rest of the country in the world how good government can work. stuart

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they will be face the nation anchor john dickerson, cbs white house correspondent major garrett, and conservative columnist kimberly stossel. >>> the democratic primary will be february 27. former president bill clinton will be in columbia this weak campaigning for his life. university. democratic members of the south carolina general assembly. >>> president obama has issued a 40th presidential month. the first was issued by ford in 1976 after the association of the study of african-american life and history expanded black history week. obama says americans should not only reflect on the sacrifices and contributions made by generations of african-americans, but also address the inequalities and injustices that linger. >>> michigan -- department of environmental quality is proposing a five-part strategy to determine whether the water in flint is safe to drink. the department director says the agency will outline plans, which includes water testing at home, schools, food services and restaurants, and blood testing. the flint water became contaminated with lead after system in 2014 to save money. >>> a second virginia tech st

be sure to tune in for a special stossel tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. john asks the question. merica really on the road to socialism? and what is socialism anyway? is there a new version of it? watch stossel -- it's on every friday on the fox business network. closing bell about 49 minutes away. take a look at what we call the dow auto heat map. it looks so green today. the tack guy would be thrilled if every single name is gregg green. the leader here is jp morgan chase, boy, do we have a story of why that's the case. but up next can you really call it a cease-fire? aid is headed to that area but to what? to whom? look at these pictures. syrian towns devastated by the five-year-old civil war. is there anything left to aid or bomb? is syria really on the verge of peace after that? major general bob scales says there's one winner in the deal that has apparently been struck and here's a hint. it's not us or any middle eastern country. he joins us next on countdown you both have a perfect driving record. >>perfect. no tickets. no accidents... >>that is until one of you clips a foo

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