But lots of people like trump. They say hes authentic. And authenticity was big this year. I talked about it with rebecca burg of real clear politics and david greenberg, author of republic of spin. This concern of authenticity goes way back. In the 20s this was the age of baa, bally who, they wanted to show themselves human. Hoover was out there fly fishing. Warren harding do all kinds of posing on the white house lawn with Albert Einstein and helen keller and whoever they could get to do a photo op. Rebecca. Well, i see a lot of parallels between those historical examples and today. I think of scott walker riding his motorcycle around New Hampshire wearing his motorcycle boots to the first republican debate. Obviously it didnt pan out very well for his campaign, but thats what he was trying to get at there. And it works . It does. So what we see in polling is that voters actually do care about authenticity and their president ial candidates. There has been polling shown voters care most about honesty. Oftentimes we look at that as a proxy for authenticity in candidates. Honesty over compassion, over intelligence. Yes. This is a specific poll from New York Times a number of years ago. And a third of people in that poll said honesty is the most important to them. And then it went down from there to intelligence and compassion. Is honesty the same as authenticity . Its not. So the trouble we have in politics and especially president ial politics is we talk a lot about authenticity. We dont have any data really to show how much voters care because its such a liquid idea what is authenticity. To some people it means ideological consistency, to others it means honesty, to others who do you like. George bush a lot of conservatives felt he was authentic, felt he was someone you could relate to and liberals would say, oh, that texas ranch he just bought that in 1999 before he was running for president. Bill clinton struck a lot of democrats as authentic. You really saw what you were getting. Republicans called him slick willy. So there often is a partisan dimension in how we perceive people to be authentic as well. Lots of people must view hillary as authentic, though i dont see why. She is the clear favorite however in the current election betting. And by the way, this website which gives the result of the british prediction markets, such markets are banned in america, is updated every five minutes on my website at johnstossel. Com. How does hillary stay the favorite when shes so inauthentic if not dishonest . She just gets away with deceit after deceit. U. S. Officials are investigating whether or noted attack on the consulate in libya was an organized terrorist attack. Did somebody get advanced warning of this attack . Secretary of state clinton first blamed the attack on a Youtube Video even though the state department had information about it being terrorism. When confronted about that she said i take responsibility. People like it when politicians say that. Then comes the excuse. In the fog of war theres always going to be confusion. Then deflect the question by saying, i dont really want to be partisan when were talking about something important. What i want to avoid is some kind of political gotcha or blame game going on because that does a disservice to the thousands and thousands of americans and what does it matter anyway . The difference between getting it rong and committing wrong. Now, in benghazi we had the fog of war, but what about hillarys other misstatements . She said she used one mobile device to keep things simple. It would have been better for me to use two separate phones and two email accounts. I thought using one device would be simpler. Except it turned out she used two devices. Iphone or android . [ laughter ] iphone. Okay. In full disclosure blackberry. And a blackberry. She just lied. And what was in those emails . I took the unprecedented step of asking that the state department make all my workrelated emails public for everyone to see. But that wasnt true either. She turned over only emails she said were relevant. The rest she tried to wipe clean from her home server. One way politicians get away with misleading us is by using their words carefully. I talk eed about that with mark hannah who worked on the obama and john kerry campaigns. Lets break down some specific words. Welfare people dont like. Sure. Safety net they do like. Right. Because they see themselves as potentially some day needing a safety net but never identify with the kind of welfare queens that reagan, you know, criticized in the 80s. The debate used to be proabortion or antiabortion. Oh, no, you cant say those words, john. Choice sounds a lot better than abortion because abortions awful choice. Okay, life sounds better than death. Lets go onto another word. Well, i would just say progay marriage versus pro traditional marriage. Progay marriage seems to morph into marriage equality, which i think is a very clever turn of phrase. Traditional marriage once upon a time meant marrying within your race too, lets not forget that. I think thats maybe a little bit of a cheap shot. No, specialize in cheap shots on this show. Thats fine. Lets close with these slogans that these candidates use. Marco rubio. A new american century. Rand paul, defeat the washington machine. I like that. But then goes onto unleash the American Dream. Hillary clinton, ready for change, ready to lead. Does this make a difference . I think rubios is tricky because using the phrase new in his slogan is going to bring attention to the fact to his weakness hes a new candidate. Hes new to the senate. Hes relatively inexperienced. Im surprised he went with that. I do think that the first part of rand pauls slogan is smart, defeat the washington machine. Everyone hates washington, d. C. Everyone hates, you know, the system as it exists for different reasons, but running against washington is smart. President obama won big with, yes, we can. Yes, we can. That means nothing. It means, yes, we can anything. Or i think it meant, yes, government can. Thats why i wrote this book pointing out that, no, they cant. Not when they means government. But individuals cant. And there is one president ial candidate who i think understands that. And thats senator rand paul. But lots of others dont seem to get that. I discussed the candidates with matt welch of reason, Mary Kathrine ham of hot air and news day columnist alice hannock. Rand paul by far to me is the most serious libertarian running or having a serious chance at winning the nomination in generations. The worst for me by far is donald trump who i think is someone who cant open his mouth without saying something that isnt true. He lacks the temperament. Like what . That Mexican Government is engaging in a boat lift style emptying of its prisons into the United States of america. On and on. Every single day he says things that are demonstrate bli untrue. The best to me is rand paul. As a libertarian that means hes going to be right about half the time, right . So on the no, not right. But from your democratic point of view. Exactly. So he wants to avoid some of the same oppressions that i would like to avoid including an interventionist policy, International Drug laws. So i say you go rand. The worst though im afraid im going to have to join you on trump. He doesnt seem to have any idea what hes talking about. He has hugely confident opinions about things many which hes wrong on. He sounds like he knows what hes talking about. The number one qualification for running for president is think youre alpha enough to be president. Hes got that. Pass personalities on to the issues. To me the biggest is the deficit spending and the growth of government. America is going broke because current and previous politicians spent so much and promised so much. Todays candidates all say ill be responsible. We balanced the budget. Jobs and balance budgets. We cut taxes, we balanced budgets. They called me veto corlioni because i vetoed 50 separate line items in the budget. The governors running have actual spending records we can compare. So we did. And they show that governor bush did make cuts. In fact, he cut the most of any governor. He reduced floridas spending by more than a percent per year. My colleague Mike Huckabee when he was governor of arkansas increased spending by 3 a year. Now, i should point out that some of the governors were in office during the sessions and states have to cut spending then, so we adjusted for that. And this chart shows how well candidates did compared to other governors during the time when they were in office. Jeb bush still wins. In fact, he does even better. He cuts 3 more than the average governor and much more than any other candidate. The other big political issue this year was immigration. Immigrants build america, but now many republicans say stop. Donald trump says no muslims. Anne colter went further and said we should only let in europeans because the dark immigrants will turn america into a hell hole. And she says the left lies to us about immigration. How does the left lie about immigration . Well, the original lie was the 1965 immigration act pushed by teddy kennedy, supported by Bobby Kennedy and the Washington Post and all of them swore up and down this Immigration Law will not change the basic demographics of america. The same countries that have traditionally populated america will continue to pop late it. Demographics will not change. That turned out to be a massive, enormous lie. But now if anyone calls them on it, its racist. Clearly the demographics changed, but not that much. Oh, yes, that much. From the beginning of america until 1970 the country was always about 80 to 90 white, 10 to 20 black. Thats what america was. And you want to keep it that way . I think the American People should have been thats what they say now. I think the American People should have been asked about it. But, no, they were lied to. And now if you say, hey, you guys lied to us, the answer is youre racist. How many of you agree with her on this . A few. Okay. They dont want to be called racist. Thats the trick. Lets just change the population and then accuse anyone who disagrees with what weve done to the country, call them racist. I notice none of you immigrated to mexico. So im thinking that a lot more of you agree with me than are claiming to right now for fear of being called racist. If this continues, it is not going to be america. Why isnt it america if there are more people from latin america and from asia . Because these are very, very different cultures. Very different cultures. What determines the least corrupt countries is number of years of british rule and protestantism. This is from the cbo. More immigrants would lower the deficit thats nonsense. They pay into the Social Security system. No they dont. But they often dont take it out, especially if theyre illegal. Yes the National Research council, the typical immigrant imposes a net fiscal cost of 3,000. Thats what youre talking about. But the descendants of the immigrant have a positive contribution of 83,000. No, no, no. This is absolutely ludicrous. The National Research council, theyre smarter than you. No, they arent. Theyre liars. Theyre bigger liars. Anne coulter, always refreshing even when shes wrong. Coming up, isis and crime, how do we fight both . I built my business with passion. But i keep it growing by making every dollar count. Thats why i have the spark cash card from capital one. I earn unlimited 2 cash back on everything i buy for my studio. 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So maybe we should consider private alternatives to government when were at war. Earlier this year i learned thats already happening. Matthew van dyke runs one such group called sons of liberty. What do you do . Well, we are a Security Firm that provides free military advising and training to forces that are fighting isis. And we do it funded entirely from contributions from the public. And we put that money to good efficient use Training Forces to fight against isis. But we already have government doing that. The United States has more than 3,000 advisers, trainers, support personnel in iraq. You dont have government doing it very well. The iraqi forces have shown theyre pretty good runners, not such good fighters. You also have the iraqi army only fighting for certain areas and the peshmerga only fighting for certain areas. And were Training Forces that the government has not been helping, which are Iraqi Christians whove been completely overlooked, who have remained defenseless and who have suffered greatly over the years and will continue to suffer greatly both at the hands of isis and after the conflict. And you trained iraqis for less than 50,000. The government has a 250 million program. And trained fewer iraqis . Yes. There must be some overhead somewhere. We do efficiently and well. We have some of the best trainers in the world. Former u. S. Military veterans, former green berets have applied, former navy s. E. A. L. S. Nearly 1,000 applications are sitting in our database. Youll take all of them . No, we take less than 1 . We take the best of the best. Our screening process is quite intensive. Even more intensive than what the u. S. Military does when they screen. Private armies, what a concept. And in america where people are frightened about crime, private Security Companies employs more people now than Government Police forces. People hire the private security because theyre scared, but should we be so scared . Is crime up . Yes. Definitely. Were always told crime is increasing. And it would be scary if it were, but its not. The fbi just released the most recent crime data. Crime had been dropping for years, and despite the recent claim that crimes up because the police are backing off due to a war on the police, crimes continued to fall. But the public doesnt know the truth says criminologist james alan fox. It really is true and people dont know. Absolutely. People get their perceptions of whats going on with crime based on the latest grisly story, the latest shooting or something on the 11 00 news. But the statistics which people dont pay much attention to say otherwise. We are safe as we have been for almost 40, 50 years. And we hear these stories, crime is up this year in baltimore, sharply up. Yeah, well, there are spikes but only because but only because crime levels were so low. Its like becoming a victim of your own success. Take new york city, homicides up 8 this year. But its 35 lower than five years ago. Every murder is horrible and its our job in the News Business to tell you about bad things that happen. But lets keep it in perspective. Crime is trending down. Enjoy the good news. Next, bad news. Communism is still seen by some as cool. Feel a cold coming on . New zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45 . Shorten your cold with a snap, with zicam. You owned your car you named it brad. S, you loved brad. And then you totaled him. You two had been through everything together. Two boyfriends, three jobs. Youre like nothing can replace brad. Then Liberty Mutual calls, and you break into your happy dance. 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And you see people like carlos santana, the musician, going to an award show not realizing the most basic thing its just that hes good looking. He was a handsome guy, but he also banned music that was considered capitalist and decadent like the beatles in cuba in the early 1960s. So these people have no idea what theyre talking about. And they say, well, hes a revolutiona revolutionary, he fought for poor people. No, he actually required by his ideological fanaticism that a country like cuba remained poor from 1959 to today. The reason there are cute old cars there is because the country is bankrupt. Internet access. Not polluted by twitter and all this stuff. They dont have access communism is popular in hollywood. Youve got in peru cameron diaz had carried a bag with a slogan on it, killed 70,000 people. Yeah. Look, i would say im going to cut cameron diaz a tiny bit of slack. I chock most of this up to ignorance. Its also the concept of commune. Were all in this together. Yeah, well, it is. The idea of communism is a very simp