democrats suggesting crime will go up if the jobs bill ultimately goes down. it looks like it already has gone down but my next guest says all this talk about what happens if that's the case is not a stretch. there will be consequences, congressman, you don't think some of the consequences that joe biden and others allude to are overstated? >> i'm disappointed i get invited to the 15 year anniversary. but the biggest consequences. they lose their homes, their hopes, our country will go further into debt. we need to get people back to work. the administration lowered the crime rate and worked hard on all of the issues important and we see real progress. there's been talk about the solar industry. we have 100 thundershower americans working work 1 -- 1000 people working in solar. the problem is that we have a team on the other side that feels beating the president is more important than getting americans back to work and we need to work hard. pass the jobs bill. >> neil: many of your same colleagues in the senate rejected this and didn't get it over the goal line. are they inviting some of the very things you're saying republicans are? >> here's the newsflash. 26 consecutive months of private sector jobs growth, over 2.6 million new jobs but it's not enough. and we've got 51 democrats that. >> neil: we're down a net 2.5 million jobs. >> but statistics are a challenging thing. >> neil: they're not. they are what they are. you can politicize them but when we're down 2.5 million jobs, this was rejected on the notion this wasn't cutting it, then what? >> 26 months consecutive of private sector job growth. 2.6 million jobs. that's a. >> neil: net net, we're down 2.35 million jobs. i want to ask you this. the jobs bill itself was repudiated by your own party. to threaten there's all about a civil war if we don't repeat the errors, don't you think that's a stretch. >> 51 senators voted. every single republican voted no. you want to focus on the handful of democrats that voted no and i want to focus on not one republican thought we should do anything. >> neil: they thought maybe -- as well as some democrats thought repeating sins of the past means we should seek alternatives. blue dog democrats have an alternative for jobs, remove the onerous tax on the money kept abroad. would you be open to that, open to those who say the president's efforts, the things you lake, like, sir, aren't getting it done so let's try something else. >> i'm willing to try almost anything. but let me say this, the american public supports the president's jobs bill two out of three and support the way he wants to pay for it. there's no other bill before congress. i go with eric cantor, it's congress's job to introduce bills and get them passed and president signs them or not signs them. let's have the republican leadership come forward and say this is our jobs bill. >> neil: we can go back and forth and saying it's the republicans and i could talk about democrats and two years without submitting a budget when you were running the show. we can play this forever. >> i'm asking for an offering. >> neil: would you be open for an alternative, get past this jobs bill stuff that doesn't seem to bear results or adequate proof and cut taxes or do something to bring the 1.5 to $2 trillion the companies are keeping abroad with the hope once you bring it, jobs materialize. would you be open to that if your blue dog democrat colleagues are? >> i am willing to work towards that if the significant percentage are invested in manufacturing improvements in america. not just a one-time cash out for people who get the money but investing in small manufacturing, medium size manufacturing. we can work an accommodation that meets the interests of those companies and bring that moneyoff shore back onshore and we can work together. the president put a bill forward, the republicans put a bill forward and you can look at both. >> neil: your colleagues, in the one place where you had a shot, it was shot down. it's fair to say, especially when your colleagues pick it apart, the bill itself is dead, gone. >> 51 senators out of 100 voted for it. 63% of the country is for it. >> neil: it didn't go anywhere. there was a time when i wanted to be an as astronaut growing up. i was a fat kid and realized i couldn't fit in a capsule so i moved on to journalism. my point is, you have to realize the numbers what they are. this failed in the senate. it's time to move on. >> here's the deal, right? what we need to do is understanding this is not a computation between republicans and democrats. we're competing against the world, india and china. we have to get our country back. >> neil: so cut taxes. how about cutting taxes? we're at a disadvantage. >> you might have missed this but for eight years under bush we cut taxes and ended up with no net jobs. zero over eight years. >> neil: wait a minute, wait. events we had in the interim, 9/11, a recession, i'm not here to go back in time but since you did, you will not knowledge there were other factors there? >> i would knowledge every time the president says there was a earthquake and a tsunami in japan you and other republicans say that's just a poor excuse. if we -- if bush can have a excuse for why he had no new jobs and our president has put forward a program that would put americans to work, let's have a fair discussion. >> neil: it's always good having you. >> i wasn't invited to the 5th 5th anniversary. >> neil: they didn't even invite me. i have no idea. >> i saw your show. it was a great show. >> neil: thank you. fair and balanced. jack kingston of georgia serves on the appropriations committee. it sounds like the president's jobs bill is dead. some thing congressional is talking about i would imagine are not appealing to you. where does this go? >> neil, we're making progress. we can get things done and i'm going to -- >> neil: on what? >> i'll give you small business depreciation, it fits in the president's package and republicans agree. contractorrings doing business. the president agrees it should be eliminated. reform of unemployment insurance, the president has it in his package. we agree with it. yesterday we passed three free trade agreements which the president talked about in the state of union address as a jobs creation measure, we're making progress. >> neil: some of the measures in the jobs bill, tax incentives and some of the things that appeal to you are alive and well and likely to be supported by republicans but to say as far as resurrecting the $447 billion package itself, that is gone, dead, right? >> yes. let me say this, we don't have one democrat co sponsor of that. john larson, one of the democrat leaders, introduced the bill, hr12. nancy pelosi has not cosponsored it. in the house you would think there would be 100 democrats that cosigned. that's not taken place. there are no cosponsors. >> the republicans are being cast as the blocker. every time democrats want to offer something, you reject it. now you have joe biden and others adding to the possibility of almost a civil war because of your republicans. how do you feel about that that you are being painted as obstructionists and not better? >> i think the jobs bill was a political jobs creation bill for people running for the president. the approximately -- president wanted to kick off his campaign but not bundle -- it's not a serious proposal. it's a rhetorical bill and the president wanted to say we're creating green jobs. there are areas in which we agree we can pass and we will pass and we proved it yesterday. >> neil: on the tax issues, removing the burdens, the payroll taxes, you're for that but new spending you're not for. >> we don't think more government stimulus, more packages we're seen failed -- and also under bush, he had a stimulus package in may of '08 and it did not create jobs. we tried it out and it doesn't roll. >> neil: good seeing you. support for a plan to create jobs and it is not, not, the president's. what's going on here? hey, whats up guys? this is not how witness protection works! when we set you up with that little hardware store we didn't intend for your face to be everywhere. but fedex office makes it so easy. not only do they ship stuff, they print flyers, brochures -- everything i need to get my ne out there. that's the problem. now we need to give you a third identity. you're paul matheson. and you're gonna run your business into the ground. erik gustafson would never do that! there is no erik gustafson. hey that's erik gustafson!!! there is no erik gustafson!!!!! [ male announcer ] small business solutions. fedex. solutions that matter. >> neil: i hinted but who says republicans are the only ones pushing for big tax cuts. blue dog democrats are backing what the president shot down jobs bill cannot. utah congressman jim mathison is cosponsoring a bill for a tax holiday to bring back $1.5 trillion they hold offassess. how would this work. >> the u.s. is one of five countries that treats the companies this way. that's crazy. our current tax code tells u.s. companies keep your money offshore. we don't want to do that. the overall tax code, in the interim, let's do this bill, one year where companies can bring their money onshore as a nominal rate. >> what rate. >> 5.4%. >> we have 1.5 trillion offshore. several hundred billion will come back. >> neil: i talked to one of your colleagues who told me he would be open to this. i don't want to mischaracterize what he said but as long as there was a stipulation that would provide or call on these companies to hire people, in other words, provide jobs with that dough, what do you think? >> i think we can't be that prescription active with -- if we do nothing the money stays offshore. if it comes back we get several hundred billion dollars private sector money back. that's the level of discussion we ought to have about whether you pass this bill or not. i think we ought to pass it. >> neil: any word from the president? former president bill clinton said such an idea would be welcome. i haven't heard much from president obama on this. what have you heard? >> i haven't heard much of the administration either but this is a no-brainer. it's not new spending, it brings money back into the treasury and why in the world would we have u.s. -- we love that we sell product offshore and want the profits coming back here. not that we're trying to be industry specific but a lot of this is the tech industry, where america leads with invasion. tech companies are in the u.s. do we want them to invest offshore and move the base of operations away? that's the argument why we ought to do this. >> neil: what about nancy pelosi, is she indicating support? >> i haven't heard any indication from nancy pelosi on this issue. i know there's a bipartisan group supporting it. the original bill was introduced by me as a democrat and kevin brady as a republican. if you brought this up for a a vote, you would find a bipartisan support. >> neil: a majority in the house? >> absolutely. >> neil: in the senate? >> i can't speak for the senate. we never know what they're doing. >> neil: you should hear what they say about you. bottom line, you think this would be a step in the right direction and the president's jobs bill, rejected in the senate, is pretty much dead so time to move on? >> i think it's time to move on. here's a way to bring a bunch of private sector capital in, what's not right? this is a no bringer. we ought to do it. >> neil: thank you very much. >> thank you, neil. >> neil: to hear rick santorum tell it, herman cain's 9-9-9 plan needs to call 911. >> how many people here are for sales tax in new hampshire? there you go, her herman. with advanced power, the verizon 4g lte network makes your business run faster: smartphones, laptops, tablets, mobile hotspots. but not all 4g is created equal. among the major carriers, only verizon's 4g network is 100% lte, the gold standard of wireless technology. and while other carriers may have limited lte coverage, verizon is the largest lte network in america and ever-growing. with verizon 4g lte, you can invent new ways to upgrade your business using real-time group meetings from remote locations, video conferencing, mobile credit-card payments, lightning-fast downloads, and access to thousands of business apps. plus, verizon has the largest selection of 4g lte devices and the most 4g lte coverage for your business. all on america's fastest, most reliable 4g network. no wonder more businesses choose verizon wireless than any other wireless carrier. verizon. >> neil: president obama wreaking in the big bucks last quarter. donors forked over $70 million for the campaign and enough to win over crucial swing states. we have insight into this. obviously that's a lot of money regardless of your popularity or lack lack thereof to wage a campaign. >> 70 million-dollar, he's down 19% from the previous quarter but this quarter had the summer months. bottom line, it's an incredible amount of money. although it pales in what will be spent next year. we're estimating $3 billion will be spent ben the democratic, republican, super packs, third parties so a lot of money will be on the table. >> neil: his amount -- the amount of money the president raised dwarfs anything approaching what the republicans raised, even combined. so what does that mean for him, then, since he's at least at this juncture running unopposed for the nomination. he has a lot of money to sit on for the fall campaign. >> he needs to. he's in a must-win situation in a lot of swing states. he needs to raise the money he's raising to have a shot at this. consider that in 2008, he had a $665 million advantage over john mccain because john mccain opted into the public financing. he will have an advantage but it might be a lot closer than $665 million. >> neil: do we note where this money -- know where this money is coming from, who is giving to the president? >> 98% of the last quarter i believe were $250 donors or less so that suggests it's broad-based and there are a lot of low donors in play and he's using the internet platform he used last time to set up having more cash on hand going into next year. >> neil: interesting. thank you very much. good seeing you again. >> likewise. >> neil: the keystone state, given the choice between a government bailout or bankruptcy, pennsylvania state capitol is going with bankruptcy. rick santorum joins us. what do you think of what they're couldn't plaining? it's a dysfunctional situation with the mayor and council and the state has tried to work with them and tried to help manage what is, again, a dysfunctional situation with respect to the local government and the local government decided to skew any help and support and manage this on their own. i wish them luck but i'm not optimistic, given the quality of leadership we see. >> neil: so you would be against a bankruptcy filing? >> well, i'm not against the bankruptcy filing. i don't think the people involved in this process are particularly competent dealing with the problems the city has, obviously they wouldn't northbound this situation. >> neil: the reason some in the party find it intriguing, senator, is that obviously you file four bankruptcy, it negates all contracts and it might be tempting for other cities and states to follow suit. in other words, if they can't get the money, failing for bankruptcy is an option. >> yeah. it's an option. obviously it creates a very difficult climb to come back out and their ability to go forward and to get people to contract with them, given that historical precedent. it will be difficult to come back. but what we have seen is a political dynamic that's not beneficial to the people of harrisburg. >> neil: you're right about that. switching gears, you have been sort of upping the ante against herman cain, who emerged as the frontrunner depending on the poll for the republican nomination. this is from a couple days ago. i want you to follow up on this. >> we need to do that with the agenda i outlined, which unlike herman's plan, which would not pass. how many people are for sales tax in new hampshire? there you go. that's how many votes you would get in new hampshire. >> neil: you were going against the 999 plan including a 9% sales tax and 9% income and corporate tax but you say it won't fly. >> it won't fly because it's a 9% sales tax and you're giving children like harry read and nancy pelosi guns by which to use against the american public. i don't know of a republican that have vote for a new national sales tax to the federal government. number two, his corporate tax is value added tax. we're talking about an 18% vat or sales tax imposed by herman cain, the regressivity of that will earn no support among democrats. the working class will pay for taxes under this 999 plan. plus it doesn't wash. it doesn't raise the money that is being suggested and it has no exemption, no ex clues, it's a regressive tax, a tax -- it's bold. i could pick any plan out of the air and say it's bold but it has to be effective and good for the economy. it eliminates mortgage deductions. >> neil: if the overall rate is so low that -- you're right, with sales tax you enter a level, a lot of your former colleagues would relish the opportunity to increase it but it's different from what you and your colleagues are talking about and a new he did is of math and new way of going about what is a flawed, broken tax system. >> i agreed. i just don't think it's the right approach. look, i'm going to put forward a plan that focuses in -- i call it in jest, in responding to herman's plan, the zero zero zero plan that focuses on job losses, the manufacturing. we've gone from 21% employment in manufacturing to 9% of the public employed in manufacturing. and those jobs have been shipped off-- overseas and i believe we can get them back if we allow america to be competitive with those countries. >> neil: he would grew and -- argue and some voters are responding, in the latest polls, he is saying this is a way to get us off the economic mat. you disagree. >> i absolutely disagree and this is not -- it's not an economic plan. it's revision of the tax code that dramatically shifts the burden to working americans away from higher income people and it will not stay. one of the other questions i asked, how many people think the income tax rate will stay 9%. he's not going to be president forever. >> neil: wouldn't you prefer to start at a lower level than the high level we have now? it's easyier -- you're right but i would rather be in a position of moving up from a lower level than where they are. >> i wouldn't if you're giving the ability of the government to tax you coming and going, your income and purchases. now they can only tax your income. even those for value added tax that want to eliminate the income tax and replace it and not give the government a chance to tax you both ways. i don't think people understand how much it creates a ability for government to take more money, particularly from working families. >> neil: do you worry, regardless of what you think of other colleague's plans is republicans are tripping over yourself and you have to be revenue neutral and what republicans are risking and may be serving on a silver platter for the president is a potential for deficits to get much worse in the near term, until whatever kick you get from this. >> that's why i looked at the -- the plan i put forward is not bold in the sense it will dramatically reduce revenues, which according to the studies on herman's plan will reduce revenues and put us in a worse deficit situation, which is a boon to president obama. we have a plan that focuses on creating manufacturing jobs, cutting corporate tax on manufacturers and processors. think of the new manufacturing jobs. the other 0 in the 000 plan is 0 out the excise tax on corporate profits made on overseas operations. $1.2 trillion overseas that can come back and invest in plant and equipment and you'll pay no taxes. the final 0 is zeroing out the president's regulations that exceeded a cost of business over $100 million. that unleashes the regulatory burden that's put on businesses so with the regulatory burden, capital availability and a profit motive with no corporate tax, you've created an atmosphere for the most important multiplier effect section of the economy to grow and allow for income mobility, which is a great way to sell this plan in ohio, michigan, indiana, pennsylvania and the like. >> neil: we shall see. very good seeing you. >> thank you. >> neil: tomorrow, since we're doing a lot of yapping about him, we have herman cain. solyndra's c.e.o. is toast and treasury in the hot seat. the guy doing the questioning is here and only here. 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>> neil: we're in the middle of a fresh earning quarter season and google searches for a profit and boy they found it. beating the streets on earnings and revenues or sales. shares of google jumping higher in afterhours trading up more than 5% as we speak. this company took on china and said you're censoring what we're doing so we're pulling out. >> treasury officials to testify tomorrow on solyndra. the next guest helping up heading up the hearing, cliff stearns is chairman of the investigation subcommittee. very good to have you with us. >> thank you, neil. >> neil: what is interesting is this grows and grows beyond other companies that might be just as suspect or at least whose financials might be as worrisome yet it goes on and on. what do you hope to get out of solyndra tomorrow? >> as you know we're having a hearing at 9:30 tomorrow. we have two people, gary gripo, the assistant secretary of financial affairs and gary burner, the chief financial officer there at treasury. they're going to testify mary miller's email, dropped last friday by the white house, in which the treasury told the department of energy as well as omb that they should not subordinate the loan for these two private hedge funds. they were clear in their email that they should seek the justice department ruling before they did it and they did this in 2010. we have both cases where mary miller told them to do it with email. so we're going to ask these two from the department of treasury why they allowed this to go ahead and is it possible there's any -- you can allow them to. >> neil: wouldn't be first time we offended corporate law, even in the rescue of the auto companies where the bondholders were moved to the back of the line. given the fact solyndra executives pleaded the 5th and i can't imagine the treasury officials will be forthcoming on all your questions, they might just kick it and say -- what have you. what does it hearing hope to produce? >> i think it's going to show pretty much to the american taxpayers their money should not be subordinated because the treasury department will agree with us, their interception of the energy policy act of 2005 is you can't subordinate it. they're going to agree and we'll establish it pretty clear throughout the loan guarantees, taxpayers cannot be subordinated. i don't think there's a case of any case where you can subordinate taxpayers to these hedge funds like they did. if that's established it's up to the secretary to explain why he did it and why his council advised him to do it. >> neil: or why his council or himself ignored the warnings. if proven, the issue becomes who in the white house was aware of these conflicts and when were they aware of it? because we're getting different reads on that. how big is this potential scandal and the fact that now another company whose finances are called in question. how big do you suspect this is? >> i don't know, neil, but i can tell you that secretary choo will have a hard time explaining why he didn't follow the recommendation of the secretary of treasury in getting a reading from the department of justice and the question which you allude to, is there somebody at the white house, including the president, the inner circle of the west wing, that pushed the secretary choo to go ahead with the reinterception of the energy policy act and sign these documents. >> neil: bottom line, do you think it was rush, rush, get it out. >> z i think it was that and incompetence. but i think it's fundamental. all those documents we saw from last friday show a prevalence of large, wealthy donors and people who bundle money for the administration as part of the communication with the inner circle of the west wing and also it looks like there's this contamination of these wealthy donors involved with all these solyndra, with these other loan guarantees. it's sort of intermingled, all these people with access and investors in the hedge fund, the investor in so lynn drank and down the line, you see this intermingling and prevalent of wealthy donors and bundlers. >> neil: we'll be watching. thank you. >> another guy who does not want benefits extended. what he says will get people back to work and it's not what's his name. . motorcycles, boats, even rv's. nobody knows where he got his love for racing. all we know is, it started early. casey mears, driver of the number thirteen geico toyota camry. geico, saving people money on more than just car insurance. >> neil: jobless claims were barely budging today but over 400,000 today as president obama pushes benefits. an unemployed guy says it's time to curb the regulating. he's been jobless two years. dan, good to have you. >> thanks, i'm glad to be here. >> neil: you're out of the -- out of wiggle room. the benefits will stop. and you're okay with them stopping? what are you going to do if they do? >> i'll have to rely on private charity but i hope the country will come to its senses and reduce the regulations smothering the economy. you realize we're coming to a fork in the road in this nation's history. we've got to go one way or the other. one way, the government gets bigger. the economy gets smaller. the other way, the government gets smaller. we shrink the government and the economy has a chance to grow. >> neil: you think if companies had regulations curtailed, you would be hireable? they would look for you? >> i think so. i think they would be looking for a lot of people. >> neil: what's your expertise? >> i have a liberal arts degree in politics, a ph.d., i plan to be a college professor but that didn't work so i had to find something else. >> neil: okay. so what happens if they don't cut back on the regulations? are they different in academia or even more so in the college world that makes it tough for guys like you to get a job? >> are they more so? well, i'm not even worried about working in academia any longer. what i'm worried about is allowing this economy to grow. that's what it's going to take for people to find jobs. >> neil: i had a democratic -- the reason i ask, i had a democratic congressman on at the top of the show that said we're not regulated enough, businesses have created this mess and hence you have the wall street protests and they need to be clamped down on more, not less. >> police, if you do a -- please, if you do a study of regulations during the obama administration and look how they affect different sectors in the economy, you could show them, you could show if we took those regulations off, we would be better off. the economy would be growing and i would have a job. >> neil: you really think a couple years ago when you were first let go, that had the regulations been eased then, you would still be employed now? >> possibly. depends which regulations. there's a number of factors there. the bailouts, i -- the federal reserve doubled the money supply in 2008. you are that. >> neil: sure. >> we haven't yet seen the effect of that inflation of the currency in price inflation. it takes -- there's a time lag, two to four years. it's three years since 2008 and we're about to see the tsunami of price inflation that's coming because of that doubling of the money supply. they haven't stopped inflating the currency since 2008. >> neil: we'll watch closely. i wish you well. you're a gut cityicy guy. i hope it works out. thank you, sir. good seeing you. >> thank you, mr. cavuto. >> neil: i should have him back because he calls me mr. cavuto. >> this wall street guy is going to do hard time so why are these guys giving wall street a hard time? finishes >> neil: forget occupying wall street. how about frying wall street. roger ottman getting eleven years behind bars. the billionaire and one of the biggest insider trading cases in history. charlie, this is i would assume the kind of thing they love to see, the fat cats behind bars for a long time. >> i don't think they paid much attention. they have broader -- i'm tying to -- pulling more out of this than they're saying. it's hard to figure out what they want but they want broader, systemic economic change. they almost want a revolution if you listen to -- >> neil: not almost. some are calling for one. >> we're talking about more than putting a guy in jail. they're calling for the end of the capital system when you listen to them. >> neil: why are they worried about them, capitalism is gone by the wayside. >> they want more, they don't want 50/50, they're looking for 100%. that's the message. >> neil: how are you treated when talk to them? you've become a cult subject. >> it's weird, they don't like me because i've written about this and been on your show and i get comments on blogs and -- >> neil: that's just the stuff we wrote. >> what you planted. right. and what shows how inane they are is that they don't realize i'm the one reporter that has been beating the hell out of wall street many years. where i disagree with them is i'm not going to throw out the capitalist system. they're talking about blowing up the system. capitolcapitalism works. wall street needs to be put under the hammer of capitalism. that's the problem. wall street needs to be more capitol hillist. >> neil: a lot of these guys say where is the 99%. one -- maybe you were the guy asking. if one of those bankers came out and said i'll hire you, what would you do? they said i wouldn't work for the sob. >> they refuse to work. the real question is a media question. are we giving them too much credence. >> they say we're giving the tea party credence. >> why are they equal? >> neil: let me ask the questions go i'm being rhetorical. i don't believe they're equal. the tea party, there was a movement, there were quote/unquote protests, they weren't violent. then they started working within the system. there are tea party members of congress. there are people working within the system to affect change in the republican party. by the way, they affected change in the democratic party and moved a lot of democrats to the right in terms of fiscal issues. are these guys working? >> neil: how long will it last? >> well, the mayor is looking to clean up the place. >> neil: they say they're not going to leave. >> when do individual rights of living down there conflict with their right to protest? that's what i want to know. >> neil: very good point. >> that place has turned into a sewer. >> neil: charlie, good to see you. >> gone a week and they're calling cain all about insane. says who? 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