lead. jenna: all right. carl cameron off the road, back on capitol hill. carl, great to see you. thank you so much. reporter: thanks, jenna.jon jon i think they call that job creation, don t they? a jury is back at it, a live report from the federal courthouse next. also, we ve seen the scary ads from those who want to fight global warming, but do they go too far? a brand new documentary that might make you want to see the issue in a whole different way. if you want to get people s attention on a complex issue, you scare the pants off them. if we only listen to worst-case scenarios, we re likely to be spending most of our money on the people who shout the loudest. jon: we are also taking your questions for our town hall usa panel. it s all about the lame duck congress and what you hope they
goingo thee it used to have. i promise first of of all i will not serve 30 years. i think age will catch me before then. but i think that we ll have some events that will give me the kind of impact that i feel connecticut deserve, the expertise and background i bring to this work as someone who has reached across the aisle to form coalitions of attorneys general, to box above my weight, so to speak, in uniting republicans and democrats to fight big tobacco or work for internet safety, causes that li bring to the senate, as well as education reform, and of course, economic recovery. there s no democratic or republican solution to that finding people better jobs and putting america back to work. i think we ought to use the good common sense progress mattic realistic solutions that are available regardless of whether they are republican or democrat. jon: well, let s talk about that a little more, because
like food and clean drinking water and health care. jon: yeah. that was fascinating. you sat a bunch of really smart people down, nobel laureates some of them, and gave them a list of the world s most intractable problems and where did global warming fall on that list in terms of ability to solve it? this. what we said was, you know, where would you spend money first? they told us there s lots of really important things we need to fix. we should also fix global warming, but it was somewhat far down the list on what they have to do smartly. we re not right now. we re actually not tackling it at all. jon: my little daughter came home from school and said, daddy, the polar bears aren t going to have a place to live in ten days. that s not accomplishing anything. are well, it s not even true. listen, polar bears have increased about four times since the 1950s, so we ve seen a quadrupling of their size. even if we accept they re going to have problems with disappearing, what should we d
that. what is the issue with setting up a fund like that? there s no problem with it, except that it takes time to set up and then hire a lawyer and the trial began today. congressman rangel says some lawyers have offered to defend him for free, but that would violate the house ban on gifts so he can t do that. now, a legal defense fund would allow lawyers to be paid a sum of money which would avoid running afoul of the gift ban, rangel argues it isn t fair to go forward without legal representation but the committee chair fired back that rangel has had plenty of tile and advice about how to set up and pay for his legal team, so the committee, as you just saw, is going forward. jenna: a developing story today, molly henneberg, live in d.c., thanks molly. jon: a fox news alert, and the death toll rising now in that terrible skyscraper fire in shanghai, china, a residential building caught fire earlier today. take a look at these pictures. it s a 28-story building, apparently it was un
they re essentially serving as extra eyes and ears of the border patrol agents. they re looking for people attempting to jump the fence and enter this country illegally. also looking for people trying to smuggle drugs into the homeland. u.s. border patrol saying there s no such thing out here as too much help. we assign them to some of our mobile surveillance systems which allowed us to take border patrol agents out of those vehicles and put them out on the border so it enhanced our deployment posture along the border. reporter: now, of course, this is going to be an issue we re monitoring closely for you. this deployment, by the way, expected to last just about a year. jon? this. jon: casey steegal live on the border there, thank you, casey. so in the light of the increasing violence in mexico, would you favor increasing the u.s. military s role along the southern border? you can weigh in on today s you decide and check out our special new section of original fox news stories abou