mort zuckerman is one of the wealthiest americans and editor in chief of "u.s. he was unapologetic supporter of then senator obama. in the president's first term, mr. zuckerman has done a sharp aboutface, going so far to admit it was a mistake to vote for him in the first place. his criticism is intensifying. we get to op-ed he wrote in a moment. but first here he is on hannity last night. >> they know what is going on and they know the job market is worse than what you read in the headline of 8.1%, which is misleading number unfortunately. the real problems are greater than that. one thing that is interesting is the quit rate. what that is, is people willing to quit their job because they can find other jobs. that may have been a record low. snob willing to cut the jobs, quit their job because they know they won't find another job. >> andrea: he goes on to explain in the editorial that is a reason we saw. >> greg: two things he mentioned, the quit rate is a real bright spot for jerks like alec baldwin and naomi campbell. none of their assistants will ever leave

businessman mort zuckerman answers that question. we'll hear from him next in our fox business exclusive. more of the best of "money" coming right up. melissa: mort zuckerman, ceo of boston properties, knows a thing or two about running a successful economy and he says in this climate today taxes are his number one concern. the good news? he has plans to solve the problem. here is what he told me in our exclusive interview. >> i do think we have to absolutely must find a way to completely revamp the tax code which would broaden the base of taxes and lower the tax rates. no doubt a number of different industries have gotten special privileges, no matter how they got them, some them good, some of them not so good. that affects rates at other companies. we have to make up the loss of revenue the special privileges have granted. i would eliminate the vast bulge of them. i would broad the tax rates and lower the rates. let everybody be more competitive. think it would stimulate the economy. not only corporate america but stimulate individ

joining us now is more zuckerman. good to have you with us. >> that the trail is a big word.s it a bit of a betrayal? do think that we are only now starting to hear some energy and the president's voice when he talks about job creation and economic growth? >> i think it is the obvious subject. you have the largest crisis facing this country. i don't know that it's fair to call it a betrayal on any level to we are in an economic turn down, therefore, it is unpredictable. we have not yet mastered the way of responding to it. i was very critical of the fiscal policy because i thought way too much when jews shall we say, the congress who basically got the kind of kick from it that we would have liked. but we are still faced with a tough economic situation. >> a top economic situation. 25 million folks. those who are unemployed or underemployed. >> that is right. lou: the one as you wrote about in your most recent op-ed. to me, these are the forgotten people right now in america. and to me it is crazy that broadcasters, writers in various publications, business leaders, are accept

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more zuckerman and the netanyahu and obama 4g lte has the fastest speeds. so let's talk about coverage. based on this chart, who would you choose ? wow. you guys take a minute. zon, hands down. i'm going to show you guys another chart. pretty obvious. i don't think color matters. pretty obvious. what'sretty obvious about it ? that verizon has the coverage. verin. verizon. we're going to go to another chart. it doesn't really matter how you present it. it doesn't matter how you present it. verizon. more 4g lte coverage than all other networks combined. lou: in tonight's tech connect, apple shares hitting a record high. apple shares up more than 2%. a good day across the board. apple having a very good day. $683. goldman lifting its price target to 810, ways to go. the upgrade based on faster than expected rollout for the new iphone five, built on sales that will be in 22 countries, if you can imagine, by the end of the month. apple the only stock riding high. stocks saved a huge rally after the fed took aggressive action. stocks hitting multi- year's highs,

mortmort zuckerman? >> i think he had to have a platform on which he could appeal to the american public and i think by and large that worked. i think he was often trying to appeal to women and there were a number of things said and done that would i think haven deared him to the voters who are women. and finally, he did a very good job, it seems to me, without being nasty about it, about saying look, the obama administration has been a failure and failure is not an orphan. there is a father for failure and that is the president. that is the way our system works. we deserveber. we have the weakest economy we have had since the great depression and after $5 trillion by the standards set by the obama administration when they said the unemployment with never get above 8% and it would get below 6%, it's been a failure in that sense. it does give the republicans ammunition and they handled that i thought very well. >>> in the television age the more likable candidate always wins. i think that governor romney

clare tweeted to say, thanks to you and mark zuckerman for discussing the real unemployment numbers on yesterday's show. close to 19%. simp on fox. only with the. tomorrow. >> i accept the nomination. >> who are you voting for in november? why are the choices we will hear from the other candidate. does he have good ideas if we go down the obama path we will be so far down the path we may not recover. >> >> stuart alexander president of the united states. fighting to abolish the irs. >> better than romney o or obama's? party crashers. and that is our show. john: a sporting events. two candidates competing there are other people in the ring they have better ideas that obama or mitt romney? why should we even care? they probably will not win. matt welch says we should care because, i will let them explain. declaration of independence sing it can fix what is wrong and also running the candidate for ralph nader and author of "grand illusion." >> the two parties ask stack the deck against independent candidates starting with the ballot to laws which is the number one problem. how do i get of

clare tweeted to say, thanks to you and mark zuckerman for discussing the real unemployment numbers on yesterday's show. close to 19%. simp gerri: smacks the government pays out a record amount of money in social security and disability checks. and pumping billions of dollars into the economy will affect you. welcome to "the willis report." hello, everybody, i am gerri willis. the fallen heroes in the consulate attack brought back on u.s. soil tonight. here are the pictures as violent and now to the american protesters sweeping across middle east and north africa, government across the region including ours containing the crisis which only seems to be growing. with more on this, republican strategist and fox news contributor. fox news middle east analyst and author of the coming revolution. a former staff member on the senate committee, well, all. this thing seems to be spreading, going everywhere tonight. reports of attacks on a base of british and american forces coming under attack tonight. and we're seeing these protests go everywhere now. what do you make of this? little internet

mark zuckerman presided over the ipo.acebook supposed to be a poster child fr a big silicon valley resurge jens but the stock has been a dud closing today at yet another record low. and that is a loss of over $50 billion in value. "new york times" and "forbes" are doing finger pointing. "forks" blames ceo, zuckerberg. and facebook declined a request from abc 7 news to comment for this story, which the forbes san francisco bureau chief says under scores a critical issue. >> the fact the company has not been particularly communicative with investors in the post ipo period about what is going on. where are their issues and stepping up to defend the company stock just hasn't happened. >> what does facebook have besides data? i'm not convinced they've figured out how to monday ties that information they have. >> i think it's losing it's luster. but i doubt that currently at in with the stock is going to determine the user. >> and the blame game is in high gear. >> i'm not an expert but i would say it's probably both. >> and fa

join us as mark zuckerman joins us. former obama economic adviser austan goolsbee and peter fisher. to give us their perspective and outlook on our markets and this economy. coming up next >> to be a choice between different paths for america. the choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future. ours is a fight to restore the values that built the largest middle class and strongest economy in world has ever known. lou: president obama at the convention last week. something of a late discovery this nation is founded on our middle class. he spends a lot of time talking about minority interest, but there is little on the working men and women of our middle class. 95% of all americans consider themselves in the middle class. according to the census bureau, median household income fell 1.5% to just over $50,000. 1.5% in one year. but that isn't all. the second straight decline in a row, at 15% as of last year. from the census bureau. it is a very high number for a superpower, don't you think? that is statistically unchanged as well from the previous year. talking roughl

world news, mort zuckerman. do you think people get labor participation rate? don't understand it. the people that are underemployed and people have given up a job, they have spouses and friends and they have children. they know what is going on they know the job market is much worse than the headline number which is misleading number unfortunately because the real problems are much greater than that. >> sean: if the labor participation rate was the same as obama took office, it would be 11.2%. should romney be using that figure in his battle against obama or is it too complicated? >> i don't think it's too complicated. he should find some reasonable way to express what the real unemployment numbers are. as i say, they'll be a resonance out there in the country. one of the things that are interesting is called the quit rate. people are willing to quit their job because they can find their jobs. nobody is willing to quit that job because they now they won't find another job. people will understand, even if they are working that the job market is terrible. >> sea

and mort zuckerman. melissa: my favorite. lori: they just killed that. mort zuckerman, influential.d stuff. >> we'll talk with peter fisher. it will be terrific to got a real good idea what will happen to the markets and this economy. great to be with you. lori: rising tensions overseas are they going to lead to rising pricewaterhousecooperses over here at home in gas? liz macdonald looks compared to 1979 and what is happening now. melissa: as we go to break look at winners and losers. you can see monster beverage corp. up today higher 6%. we'll be right back. >> breaking news coming to us from our friends at "the wall street journal" attorney general eric holder is cutting short his trip to qatar to oversee a federal probe on the embassy attack in libya. that news coming in right now. >> all of this as gasoline prices rising, tensions in the arab world harkens back to 1979. emac is here with emac's bottom line. >> about speed of increasing gas prices. we're seeing gas prices rise by a nickel. 17 cents versus a month ago. almost a quarter from a year ago. economists on wall street a

clare tweeted to say, thanks to you and mark zuckerman for discussing the real unemployment numbers on yesterday's show. close to 19%. simple. that is it for us. have a great weekend. good night from new york. neil: well, i think we already got our october surprise in september. i'm not talking about the middle east. i am talking about ben bernanke moving to fix this economic mess the middle east is still the bomb. that is the biggest surprise, not that the president, but that he was so obvious about it and so blatant about it. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. hell hath no fury like an academic scorned. mitt romney is finding that the hard way because ever since mitt romney ripped ben bernanke and new one and said that the fed monetary policies were disastrous and if he had his druthers he would never reappoint bernanke, i always thought to myself, man, if i were bin i sure don't want that guy to ever be my boss, even though republican president first appointed me, i find a much more kindred spirit in the democratic president to at least is not trashing me this week. just more blat

news and world report" and "new york daily news" mort zuckerman. it is 1980 all over again. that is if you ask the romney/ryan ticket. vp candidate paul ryan is reviving this famous line from the final reagan/carter debates. >> it might be well if you would ask yourself are you better off than you were four years ago? >> here is congressman ryan's take. >> i would ask the 23 million people today in america who are struggling to find work if they feel like they're better off. we're not better off than we were four years ago. >> every president since the great depression who asked americans to send them into a second term could say that you were better off today than you were four years ago except for jimmy carter and for president barack obama. >> we're not better off. we're worse off. >> today, the romney campaign is pushing the reagan strategy one step further by holding a we can do better press conference in charlotte. but in traditional romney fashion, the candidate himself hasn't always been so sure about his convictions. according to his personal testimony in 1994, mitt

neil: mort zuckerman, so great to have you. all right, john kerry, wrapping up his feature.ctor fine. i do want to make sure that i do exactly what we do, fair and balanced down to the second with a republican counterpart so that you can caucus in seattle. we will be hearing from vice president joe biden. up next, we will be hearing from sarah kalin, the woman who debated and did a pretty good job. that was then red with us now in a minute you see us, at the start of the day. on the company phone list that's a few names longer. you see us bank on busier highways. on once empty fields. everyday you see all the ways all of us at us bank are helping grow our economy. lending more so companies and communities can expand, grow stronger and get back to work. everyday you see all of us serving you, around the country, around the corner. us bank. has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! wow. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. neil: i think it's fair to say there are fewer