kennedy: john stossel, host of "stossel." you look amazing.hought they would wheel you in an iron lung and you would be 50 pound lighter. >> it's modern technology. they go in with these tiny things and back on my feet in a few days. kennedy: what did you expect when you heard you had lung cancer? john: that it was tiny and they would cut it out. you women want your husbands to get tested all the time. my wife said you are coughing, go bet tested. and she saved my life. kennedy: were you ever a smoker? >> no, not tobacco. kennedy: were you surprised at the healthcare system and how they treated you? >> when i was recovering and i got more and more annoyed, i started to type. and people got mad saying they saved your life, be grateful. kennedy: that's the threshold? be grateful you didn't die? >> the point of competition is mcdonald's lets you have it your way, too. obamacare made it worse. nobody pays directly. you are not the customer. the government or the private insurance company is the customer. so they don't have an incentive. the custom

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john stossel would appreciate this.nder of paypal and a very act if libertarian conservative has endorsed trump and he will be joining us on the delegation. i think that there is growing support for trial. two former republican chairman. the congressmen are falling in line. i think that they will have to think twice about california. >> how may times have i said there is no way that california ever goes to the republicans. you are saying that there is at least a remote possibility that this is the year. >> there is definitely that hope. >> thank you. at 11:00 o'clock eastern time this morning, about 10 minutes from now, wendy's response to the fight for a $15 minimum wage. what is their answer? automation. they will introduce 6000 self serving kiosks. take your order by computer. we will cover that at 11:00 o'clock. liking donald trump. you know that that does not go over well in beverly hills. "varney & company." some of those answers may really surprise you. >> he says women shop, then by. >> no, no, no. women spend.

. >> announcer: now john stossel. john: this year will set another record for political spending. people get upset that money is such a big part of politics. but what do you expect? since government has gotten so big it's moved into every cranny of our lives, it's no surprise some people will spend a lot to help influence it. they want to get their hands on some of the trillions of dollars the fed hand out. if i give you campaign money will i get access to you so i can lobby you so you won't regulate me out of existence? $billion i a lot of money, but it's less than americans spend on potato chips. i'm surprised they don't spend more. now the nominees have been picked. they have, don't believe the pundits saying bernie has a chance. it's really dubious if you look at the betting odd. it's just about certain clinton will get the democratic nomination, trump the republican nomination. now the political spending will increase more, and most of the money will be spent on tv ad. though this year you have to won dire why do they bother? in the republican primary donald trump's supporter

. >> announcer: now john stossel. john: i have reported on american healthcare for decade but now it's more personal. several week ago a surgeon cut a small malignant tumor out my lung. i picked that hospital -- i didn't pick it, my doctors recommended a surgeon there, and what do i know about the best place to go? i spent more time researching which cell phone to buy. it's rated best in new york. >> named the number one hospital in tampa bay. john: good for them. but what does that mean? are the ratings accurate? do they help people shop for the best healthcare? we rarely have as much information about hospitals as i had shopping for this phone. how should we shop for healthcare? let's talk to people who think about that. david gold hill is ceo of a grape show network. when a hospital killed his father he wrote this book about how to fix american healthcare. an american hospital killed your father. >> he died of an infection acquired in the hospital that was preventable. estimates of errors are 250,000 a year. and the

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. >> it's john stossel coming here to get a license -- >> for you it was 9:00 in me morning until 2:00get at the permit? >> no. >> their attitude is people don't need guns. we're the police. >> the police can't get there you have a better shot at hitting the lottery than getting a cop on your street exactly the same time you get in a problem. >> the process itself was set up to be an ordeal. >> glen runs this web site which advises people on navigating the regulation. >> if you're this expert, i would think it would be easy for you to get people guns. >> it's still an ordeal. it's being used as a weapon. to deter people from following through the process, which can take as long as a year. >> for me it took eight and a half months. first they told me i had to return to police headquarters for another in-person interview. this time they demanded i prove an accusation against me had been trop. they said this headline was not enough. i was supposed to produce the original court document. they also told me i had the documents threats against me. fortunately i could show them things like thi

stossel: he could shoot someone? monica crowley covers politics for fox and you would vote for donald trump over hillary? >> hi john. if donald trump is the nominee absolutely will vote for him. stossel: he doesn't believe he could shoot someone and not lose voters? >> afterwards he said that was just hyperbole but there's no point in point. the presidency is a personification of how most of the american people want the country to act at home and abroad and every presidential election is a direct result of the presidency became the force i think what you are seeing with donald trump is less about him per se and more about what he represents and his style is flamboyant and tough but it acts with strength and authority. after eight years of barack obama who has largely been perceived as relative home and abroad people want someone who's going to lead and restore america and make america great again. there's a reason why it has such a great president he had. stossel: i don't want to be led. we are not sheep and this talk of strength frightens me. strength often means tyrants. >> do you want a strong president who is g

stick around for john stossel focusing on free market medicine. that is 9:00 p.m.astern all here of course on fox business. >>> presumptive republican nominee donald trump has vowed to build a wall along the southern border and make mexico pay for it. we heard him say it many times. trump says, if need be he will stop the flow of money being sent by immigrant back to mexico. mexico says such a move will create even bigger problems. liz claman is with the former president of mexico, felipe calderon at the salt conference in las vegas, nevada. >> we're with former mexican president felipe calderon one of the most sought-after participants. not to mings the elephant in the room, on gop side, donald trump. thank you, mr. president for being here. >> thank you. liz: this is hypothetical. it is january of 2017. we are looking at president donald trump being sworn in, again a hypothetical. and in one of his first moves he picks up the phone to call you, perhaps the current president, to offer olive branch to have discussion about u.s.-mexico relations. would you take the

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many of you probably nodding your head thinking been there, done that comes on the heels of john stossellast week after receiving treatment for lung cancer. stossel looks good. i hear him say he feels good. it's been rough. as for gerry, not sitting back. she is going to fight this cancer head on. with all the wonders of american medicine and her determination, i'm confident she will win. in the meantime, there is no doubt about it, it is rotten because cancer treatment, while effective, is often tough to endure, even scary. while i hate the news about gerri, i really hate to hear it i hate to see anyone get that news, i'm confident she will beat this. she is tough. as always though, news like this stops me in my tracks. maybe you, too. remind me to put things in perspective. remind myself what really matters in life. it's not the stupid little annoying stuff and there is lot of that and i sometimes fuss about it and maybe you do, too. but what matters is the big stuff. that's each other. and so tonight, gerri, you go, girl. you beat this. and that's my off-the-record comment tonight. th

proud libertarian john stossel is here. what are you smiling about?take votes away from trump or anybody else or we will end up with hillary clinton as the president because you want to and i do not get my tax cut. i get a tax increase. >> read your own taxable. a% from democrats. a present from republicans. he is not even nominated yet. that comes next week. stuart: entirely accurate. [laughter] i understand where you get 10% of the vote. i happen to believe that he is likely to take more from trump finnie is from hillary. >> i happen to believe the poll numbers more. even then i believe we are in the vetting. way ahead. stuart: we use a applies, though, 10% support. >> a lot of people when they say i hate this person, i hate that person, i don't even know 10% will go that way. whoever the libertarian party nominee is, we will win. we will beat you republicans and democrats. stuart: really? you expect to come on this program again? >> i was hoping. take a look at this picture. stuart: there's some outrage. a home depot employee wearing what looks lik

and stick around afterward for stossel tonight. john's new time, 9 p.m.> one industry seeing a -- snapping a losing streak. oil rigs for the first time in nine weeks, the rig count did not fall. they've been shutting down rigs right and left because there's just been oversupply and overpumping. well, this is happening as oil heads for its second weekly gain due to supply disruptions in nigeria and canada. looking ahead to next week, what'll matter more: fed fears, economic uncertainty or outright data? let's get to the traders. jeff, at the nymex oil has held a leash to the equity world at this point, and now you start to see the rig go up because we saw temporary supply restrictions in nigeria. let me stress temporary. won't we continue to see this march of too much supply and once again a mistake when it comes to oil guessing? >> well, i don't see that really. i think we're, again, this market is behaving very, very well here. i think, again, with that rig count a very number that you can't really count on that much. it is showing a trend that maybe now

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the stossel show plans to hold a forum for the four leading candidates. gary johnson, austin peterson, and software entrepreneur johnent. all of them would be better than the current frontrunners hillary and donald. but third party candidate haven't done well in american presidential elects. as a thought experiment, let me ask you, if you have to vote for one of the current democratic or republican candidates, who would you vote for? wouldn't vote? you have to vote. i'll list the candidates in the order of how they are doing on election betting odd. that's the best prediction market that gives the best forecasts of what happened in elections. the frontrunner right now is hillary. will anyone here vote for hillary? yes, we have got one. anybody vote for trump. bernie sanders? marco rubio? okay, ted cruz? we got some cruz and rubio. how many say no one because they are all awful? they are all status. the good news is that we are a government of checks and balances. so there is a limit to what bad things these politicians can do to us. maybe our semi free market will allow american entrepreneurs to grow the economy mor