john: that is our show, tonight. our show. tonight. john >> and now, john stossel. john: hollywood has undergone mission creep. actors don't just want to entertain us, many now want to fix the world. if an actor can use his fame to help the world, why not. the world needs fixing. box office is nice but world office is more important. so actors do so-called, public service commercials. after yasser arafat died, richard gere did this get-out-the-vote video for an advocacy group which ran it in gaza and the west bank or palestine as leftists call it. >> hi, i'm richard gere and i'm speaking for the entire world. john: he is speaks for the entire world? seems pretty arrogant. he is an actor. popular one, yes, but what gives an actor the right to speak for the entire world? maybe because they're often portrayed as god-like? >> for centuries the people had nowhere to turn. no one to look to for help. until --, he arrived. as long as there were people crying for help, there was one man who would never rest. hercules. john: he's here in our studio. actually, it is actor kev

and john d.e who vilify them. they did some charity work. they were evil robbers. >> they fundamentally transformed the lives of americans and raising living standards. rockefeller brought us well and made profits. by the way, he probably is also responsible for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil it was no longer profitable to how best to extinction henry ford makes jeep automobiles. it does not matter that is motive was profits. he made automobiles affordable for the average middle-class american. the same is true of most of these so-called robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century. john: thank you. up next, if i put on a fake beard and chemistry of people beard and chemistry of people give me mon what about jobs? no? now try your closet. still no jobs? just more... stuff? well, you really have both. see, "stuff" is defined as "household articles considered as a group". sometimes this stuff is no longer needed. wait, no longer needed? that can't be right. becau

john d.vilify them. they did some charity work. they were evil robbers. >> they fundamentally transformed the lives of americansnd raising living stanrds. rockefeller brought us well and made profits. by the way, he probably is also responsible for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil it was no longer profitable to how best to extinction henry ford makes jeep automobiles. it does not matter that is motive was profits. he made automobiles affordable for the average middlclass american. the same is true of most of ese so-called robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century. john: thank you. up next, if i put on a fake beard and chemistry of people beard and chemistry of people give me mon ju by talking to a helmet. it grabbed the patient's record before we even cked himp. it found out the doctor we needed was at st. anne's wiggle your toes. [ driver ] and it got his okay on treatme from miles away. it even pulled strings with the stoplights. my ambulance talks with

and john d.e who vilify them. they did some charity work. they were evil robbers. >> they fundamentally transformed the lives of americans and raising living standards. rockefeller brought us well and made profits. by the way, he probably is also responsible for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil it was no longer profitable to how best to extinction henry ford makes jeep automobiles. it does not matter that is motive was profits. he made automobiles affordable for the average middle-class american. the same is true of most of these so-called robber barons of the late th and early 20th century. john: thank you. up next, if i put on a fake beard and chemistry of people beard and chemistry of people give me monúp@@xcçx who you are or what you do arthritis does not discrimite i thought it was an old person's disease, then it happened to me i was dinosed with arthritis when i was four years old. i was two i had just turned 50 i am one i am one of over 50 million ame

john lennon. i was totally shocked. i threw him up against the wall. i said you did what? >> former beatle john lennon has been shot with .38 caliber bullets at short range. police rush him to roosevelt hospital but it's too late. he was pronounced dead. >> john lennon was gunned down as he entered -- >> john lennon, shot and killed in the dakota apartment building. >> it was really shocking. 40 years old, john lennon of the beatles. how could he be dead? how could this have happened? the city was in shock, not just people, my jegeneration that gr up listening to their music in the '60s. i think just about everybody felt on so many levels it was wrong. >> it was terrible, so many people didn't even know john. it hit me so much more because he befriended me and he didn't have to befriend me. >> laura came up with new facts about john lennon's killer. >> killer was identified as mark david chapman, a 25-year-old fan and drifter from hawaii. >> nothing from his background set off or would have caused

john: so what?to use, for dan to use the public land for running a private business or rent apart where all year round there is commercial revenue from renting in up to businesses. he keeps all that money. people don't realize that. i was in the park yesterday. i walked around and did a survey i asked 20 people if they thought this money was going to the city, and they'll think it is. so. john: so what if they think it's going to mars. the park is nice. >> it would not have the taxes. we have the money left over. the park could be just as good. john: well, it certainly is true that the park is very commercial these days. but buying and selling going on. holiday gifts. very commercial. on the other hand, the public seems fine with that. >> its and look very nice. a different story. >> a lot of the things that they should be doing. you should -- john: some money. >> that's right. you will study. if everyone would feel just as good. >> is a very public. nobody has viewed it as privatized, and the final

john: you said that? [laughter] to george clooney. >> he says raise taxes. >> to drive a toyota petraeus to the ms -- jemmies but they have a private airplane and i wish i had a private airplane. >> many advocate to raise taxes but well-connected celebrities are quick to use your tax dodges. >> owning acres of land in new jersey but pays only $100 of state property tax because he raises honeybees' he qualifies for the honeybee subsidy. bruce springsteen owns hundreds of acres of land but pays little tax because a an organic farmer works his land his pour neighbors pay more. >> i don't get anybody trying to lower taxes but bonn jovi and springsteen publicly supporting for obama holding rallies but then cry tax cuts for their riches and they robbed of poverty programs and a social contract with america being destroyed the middle-class is harmed but then you rob those anti-poverty programs by calling yourself a former? that is the hypocrisy that is frustrating to see why i wrote the book calling of these peo

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john: thank you.nguage from now on. free-market our free-market. capitalism can be government politically managed. coming up, lessons about capitalism from an 11 year-old. [beep] [indistinct chatter] [kids talking at once] [speaking foreign language] [heart beating] [heartbeat continues] [faint singing] [heartbeat, music playing louder] ♪ i'm feeling better since you know me ♪ ♪ i was a lonely soul, but that's the old me... ♪ annouer: this song was created with heartbeats of children in need. find out how it can help frontline health workers bring hope to millions of children at everybeatmatters.org. ♪ john: lemonade for sale. $0.50. outside the studio i once tried selling lemonade legally. i found that the new york laws make that nearly impossible. i found it nearly impossible to try to understand the rules. i need an assistant. the government said i had to take a 15 hour food protection class. bicycle injuries. i don't have bicycles. when i was a kid, selling lemonade was how you learned about capit

john: thank you.language from now on. free-market our free-market. capitalism can be government politically managed. coming up, lessons about capitalism from an 11 year-old. >> of people want to work, let them mark. ♪ ♪ john: lemonade for sale. $0.50. outside the studio i once tried selling lemonade legally. i found that the new york laws make that nearly impossible. i found it nearly impossible to try to understand the rules. i need an assistant. the government said i had to take a 15 hour food protection class. bicycle injuries. i don't have bicycles. when i was a kid, selling lemonade was how you learned about capitalism, but i cannot now legally sell it in my town. it is not just new york. this month in oregon and a 11 year-old plant trees to pick mistletoe. she then tried to sell the mistletoe so she could help pay for her braces. authorities told her, you may not sell it to people on the streets. it is illegal. the authorities then told her, you can bank. that is legal. her father then sent us t

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and john d.e who vilify them. they did some charity work. they were evil robbers. >> they fundamentally transformed the lives of americans and raising living standards. rockefeller brought us well and made profits. by the way, he probably is also responsible for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil it was no longer profitae to how best to extinction henry ford makes jeep automobiles. it does not matter that is motive was profits. he mad automobiles affordable for the average middle-class american. the same is true of most of these so-called robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century. john: thank you. up next, if i put on a fake beard and chemistry of people give me mon this is the quicksilver cash back card from capital one. it's not the "fumbling around with rotating categories" card. it's not the etting blindsided by limits" card. it's the no-game-playing, noarning-limit-having, deep-bomb-throwing, give-me-the-ball-and-i'll-take- it-to-the-house, cash back card.

and john d. people who vilify them. they did some charity work. they were evil robbers. >> they fundamentally transformed the lives of americans and raising livg standards. rockefeller brought us well and made profits. the way, he probably is also responsible for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil it was no longer profitable to how best to extinction henryord makes jeep automobiles. it does not matter that is motive was profits. he made automobiles affordable for the average middle-class american. the same is true of most of these so-called robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century. john: thank you. up next, if i put on a fake beard nd chemistry of people give me mon [ male announcer ] this store knows how to handle a saturday crowd. ♪ [ male announcer ] the parking lot helps by letting us know who's coming. the carts keep everyone on the right track. the power tools iroduce themselves. all the bits and bulbs keep themselves stocked. and the doors even handle th

john: no more cuts?spend more than 3 trillion and that is why it puzzles me that the president says over the past two years he will reduce deficits that more than $2.5 trillion. more than two thirds of it through spending cuts. john: spending cuts? no, they didn't cut much of anything. the deficit decreased because of the blowup stimulus. and the president proposed increasing spending by less than he wanted to. it's not a cut. and also this being said about obamacare. >> every time they have predicted something not working, it has worked ♪ ♪ john: hardly. they applaud, but it didn't work and that's when they postponed a mandate. the problem is that we have a government that is so big and so powerful and so expensive and fast that cannot adequately be supervised. >> and senator mike lee is on my nice list for pointing that out and david axelrod agreed with him this year. so he is on the nice side of this as well. along with rand paul, because he demanded that the president come clean about drone strikes.

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john: many say it is that inteally. but john mccain said this. needs to do more than firing up libertarian kids and their college dorms. >> it did fire up libertarian kids. i thought that was great. stand with him on twitter, it's about. but you worked with senator john mccain. how is that ing? >> we have a good personal relationship and i respect him as a wr hero. it doesn't mean it is always right, but he deserves our respect and others for his time spent as a prisoner of war. but one of point of view is that if you are deemed to be dangerous, of course we can't incarcerate you with no trial d no attorneand no harges. in my response to that is that it begs the question. who gets todetermine whether or not you are guilty you of something? the government has critea that says that you ar susicious if you like to pay cash atthe ore. if you have missing fingers, stains on her clothing, or have changed the color of your hair. and that might include quite a few people in our country. you don't have to build back very far to see the government abusing

john: why do you care? want to do what i want to do as long as i do harm another person and i found out through google's. >> you were a conservative. >> neo-conservative by m embarrassed about that. john: through the internet you read about libertarianism and i want to help spread the movement? >> so many are politically apathetic there are so many conservative people talk about big government, the war, and morality have in taxes and spending i want young people to know that i am a libertarian. john: and use that i can do that? >> i started a channel in my bedroom by myself i did not know much about tecology i just put up a you to channel john: a few people would watch and then a few more? >> has gone up pretty slow but now lot of people watching at. john: i will show you another sample of her works they're not angry of the nsa spying so here is part of a video that has more than 100,000 views. >> when did the government become the jealous girlfriend? i note need to know who you're talking to all times but

and to my father left we have john taliaferro -- to my farther left we have john taliaferro and his book is called content about the statesman john hay. so i thought what we could do is start by asking each of our authors starting with h. w. about his subject and why they wanted to write it right now. h.e.w.? >> yeah, thanks, erica. thanks all for coming. i wrote a book about ulysses s. grant because i had music that he said i was going to write a history of the united states through biographies. i had written my way up to the middle of the 19th century. then i had a gap and i picked it up again at the end the 19th century and i'd been avoiding the civil war for a while for a number of reasons. one is there's lots of subjects about the civil war. secondly, there was a lincoln bicentennial that was coming and it was pretty clear, it was 2009 and it was pretty clear stuff on lincoln was going to suck the air out of all the rooms on the general subjects i wanted to give it some clearance. when i eventually came back to it i wanted to write about someone -- i had a very specific need. i need

john: you said that? [laughter] to george clooney. >> he says raise taxes. >> to drive a toyota petraeus to the m -- jemmies but they have a private airplane and i wish i had a private airplane. >> many advocate to rse taxes but well-connected celebrities are quick to use your tax dodges. >>wning acres of land in new jersey but pays only $100 of state property tax because he raises honeybees' he qualifies for the honeybee subsidy. bruce springsteen owns hundreds of acres of land but pays little tax because a an organic farmer works his land his pour neighbors pay more. >> i don't get anybody trying to lower taxes but bonn jovi and springsteen publicly supporting for obama holding rallies but then cry tax cuts for their riches and they robbed of poverty programs and a social contract with america being destroyed the middle-class is harmed but then you rob those anti-poverty programs by calling yourself a former? that is the hypocrisy that is frustrating to see why i wrote the book calling of these people o

i'm john roberts.ks for watching fox where more news and proposals are always on the way. >>> i'm chris ren old. observe obamacare goes into effect on january 1st. but more problems with the website could bring a chaotic beginning to the new year. >> there probably will be glitches. there have been glitches before and there probably will be glitches moving forward. >> we'll discuss obamacare in 2014 with former governor howard dean, and dr. scott gottlieb of the american enterprise institute. then nsa leaker edward snowden releases a christmas message with more warnings about government surveillance. >> a child born today will grow

john: thank you.r language from now on. free-market our free-market. capitalism can be government politically managed. coming up, lessons about capitalism from an 11 year-old. ♪ john: lemonade for sale. $0.50. outside the studio i once tried selling lemonade legally. i found that the new york laws make that nearly impossible. i found it nearly impossible to try to understand the rules. i need an assistant. the government said i had to take a 15 hour food protection class. bicycle injuries. i don't have bicycles. when i was a kid, selling lemonade was how you learned about capitalism, but i cannot now legally sell it in my town. it is not just new york. this month in oregon and a 11 ar-old plant trees to pick mistletoe. she then tried to sell the mistletoe so she could help pay for her braces. authorities told her, you may not sell it to people on the streets. it is illegal. the authorities then told her, you can bank. that is legal. her father then sent us this videotape. >> if people want to work alo

john: thank you., sab reason adavid, com, sr rand paul. ♪ grew up in a small town and when the rain wod fall down ♪ ♪ i'd just stare out my window ♪ ♪ dreaming of what could be and if i'd end up happy ♪ ♪ i would pray i could breakaway ♪ ♪ i'll spread my wings and i'll learn how to fly ♪ i'll do what it takes till i touch the sky ♪ ♪ i gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away ♪ ♪ wanna feel the warm breeze, sleep under a palm tree ♪ ♪ feel the rush of the ocean ♪ ♪ get on board a fast train, travel on a jet plane far away ♪ ♪ and break away ♪ out of the darkness and into the sun ♪ ♪ but i won't forget the place i come from ♪ ♪ i gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away ♪ john: in 2013 our rulers added to this pile of rules we muftz must ebamustobecause. together the strong else life. i was delighted when a lawyer i barely knew, sudnly erupted with statements like this one. >> this is an agenda of control for its own sake. that is why regulators do what the

john: no mmore cuts?is why it puzzles me that the president say over the past two years he will reduce deficits that more than .5 trillion. more than two thirds of it through spending cuts. john: spending cuts? no, they didn't cut much of anything. the deficit decreased because of the blowup stimulus. and the president proposed increasing spending by less than he wanted to. it's not a cut. and also thisbeing said about obamacare. >> every time they have predicted something not working, it has worked ♪ ♪ john: hardly. they applaud but it didn't work and that's when they postponed a mandate. the problem is that we hav a governme that is so big and so powerful and so expensive and fast that cannot adequately be supervised. >> and senator mike lee is on my nice list for pointing that out and david axelrod agreed with him this year. so he is on the nice side of this as well. along with rand paul, because he demanded that the president come clean about drone strikes. >> i cannot sit at my desk quietly and let t

>> father john bernard feit. >> father john feit. back then, a catholic priest. no evidence in this case right now points us in any other direction. >> so why is he still a free man? by all accounts, irene garza was a remarkable young woman. >> she kind of broke the mold. >> irene's younger cousin, noemi sigler. >> at that time, hispanics stayed on one side of town, anglos lived on another side, and she kind of transcended that. >> she was gentle and sweet and beautiful. >> lynda de la vina is another cousin. >> she was really a role model, and to see how she had gone through college, was a teacher, was a beauty queen and yet was just a very sweet and simple person to us as children. >> but in 1960, the body of this inspiring woman was found face down in this canal. she was 25, the age for thinking about getting married and raising a family. >> she didn't have a life. irene never had that chance. >> irene garza lived in this house in what was a very nice neighborhood near downtown mcallen and remains so today. she lived here with her sister and parents. on the sa

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. sex offenders, pimps, we have a an undercover officer. >> 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 immediately makes her first date. >> let me know what verbiage you hear coming out. they quickly close in on

john brown. >> john brown? wow. tavis: dick gregory said to me he thought john brown was the coldest cat, the coldest american this country has ever produced, and he went into this soliloquy about john brown. so obviously, that brings me to "the good lord bird," because john brown is a major character here. tell me, and for those who've never heard the name john brown, give us a little history lesson about john brown. well, john brown was a white man who in 1856 decided that slavery was wrong, and he conducted a one-man war against slavery. he went out to kansas, because kansas territory was where slavery -- they were trying to decide whether kansas, when it was being settled, whether there should be slavery -- slavery should be allowed or not. so the pro-slavers, people who were for slavery, came into kansas and they attacked the yankees, who were coming from boston and new york and philly and so forth. john brown went out there with a wagonload of guns, and he got busy. he started kicking the pro- slavers around.

john -- john got his own show on hbo which is long overdue and we're excited for him but this is unfortunately his last night with us. [audience awwwws] i went through a charade of writing this royal nut bit. >> we're to the doing the (bleep) bit. >> jon: of course not. what do you think we're doing here. >> i thought you cared about the queen. >> jon: i don't care. there's only one british royal i care about tonight and his name is prince john oliver. [cheers and applause] here is what i want to talk about a little bit. you came to us from -- i think you came from he he ellsbury on rightly. muffin on puffin stuff. >> that's offensive but fine. >> jon: it should be. but what john brought to social security a broad range of characters from different backgrounds. jond from london by the daily show's correspondent. >> hello jon, how are you? hello mr. stewart fine and dandy if i may say. have no fear england is here to make you feel a little better. can we have some more. it be christmas day, sir. india there's a land worth sunday sub gating. i can't meet the royal baby with peach fuz. what if he

and into the hands of johns.s tends to stop them and it removes the kind of social invisibility that johns have. >>> how old are you, sir? >> 78. >> he might have been a young guy when he started doing it and he can't stop. sort of addicted to it. radition. [ woman 3 ] to come together even when we're apart. [ male announcer ] in stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and more, swanson makes holiday dishes delicious. >>> turn off your engine. put it in park. put the brake on, please. >> in sfreenan francisco, it's beware for those who prowl the streets looking for sex on the go. >> you're not going to arrest me? >> police are cracking down hard on the johns who fuel the black market sale of women. >> turn around. put your hands behind your back. >> the unit's first catch of the day is identified as a real esta estate, huddelson. >> he said, not again. what does that mean? i got picked up about six years ago. what happened then? i when to john school. did you learn anything from that? he goes, obviously not. >> why do t

john, thank you for being here. what an incredible story. >> john, that story is amazing. , not so much that john beale did it, but i think maybe that he got away with with it. >> jon: right. >> the key question here is: how on earth did all those people fall for all this c.i.a. bull [bleeped]. >> jon: i have no idea, no idea. >> how could he possibly have been a covert operative in pakistan, jon, when his native american background expressly forbids him from being deceptive or crossing big water. [laughter] >> jon: wait, what? no. native americans can cross... he's not native american. >> whoa, whoa, whoa, he's not native american? jon, he's the great, great grandson of sitting bull. >> jon: john, that sounds like another lie. >> really, jon? if that's a lie, then this is probably just some cheap costume from halloween shop and not a priceless tribal heirloom that beale gave to me out of the kindness of his cherokee heart. >> jon: first of all... sitting bull... >> i guess it's all a lie to you, isn't it? >> jon: s

hinckley jr. >>> in this hour john hinckley jr.ads not guilty to charges he tried to kill president reagan and both he and his lawyer agree he is competent to stand trial. >> from the moment he was arrested the issue of sanity became paramount to the legal teams assigned to prosecute and defend john hinckley. >> facing a judge for the first time, hinckley stood while the clerk read the 13 count indictment. among the spectators were hinckley's parents. they watched intently as the clerk asked their son, how do you plead? in a clear, loud voice, the 26-year-old hinckley answered, not guilty. >> you know, hinckley is an interesting person, but not interesting at the same time. >> there didn't seem to be much there. you could not form a rapport with him. he seemed to have little expression of emotion. >> dr. will carpenter, a research psychologist at the university of maryland was hired to give an expert opinion in hinckley's defense. >> i believed that i spent about 44 hours evaluating him. most of that would have been in interviews w

. >> next on booktv, john shaw recounts john f. kennedy's tenure in the u.s. senate serving in the 1953-1960 where he engaged in the debates of the day and developed the political acumen that served him during his presidency. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> my, it's great to be around this table once again today, because we've had some wonderful breakfasts with ambassadors from all over the world. i think in due course we will have a chance to visit with all of them. the conversations go beyond breakfast, they continue on until everything going on in the world and how, in fact, diplomacy might better interact with our congress, with our administration, with others in washington, our leadership. i'm excited about this idea, and, of course, it really follows through with work that my friend john shaw has done. he's inspired me really to have a new chapter in my life after the senate, continuing to think about the rest of the world, think about ways in which those who wish to offer service might be more effective. and more humane. let me just