in spite of them. >> there would be a lot of winning. are you tired of the winning yet, you. ♪ >> from queens college, city university of new york. >> university of virginia. >> university of texas at austin. >> guatemala. >> unc charlotte. >> vanderbilt university. >> university of queensland, brisbane, australia. >> university of maryland. >> are you republican? >> no. >> are you democrats? no. john: what are you? [shouting] [applause] >> and now, john stossel. [applause] john: i'm in washington, d.c.

this is the place that could use a lesson in liberty. we'll try to give them one because, i'm surrounded by students here, more than a thousand of them who traveled to join a conference called, students for liberty. because here in washington life is dominated by democrats, who want to take away our economic liberty, republicans who often want to take away our pennal liberty. there are a couple exceptions to that. one is congressman justin amash from mesh ban. [cheers and applause] -- michigan. he is unusual because he has an economics degree. he worries a lot about america's coming bankruptcy. we are probably going bankrupt. how many of you students think, when you're my age medicare will be here to pay for your heart problem? >> no. john: you're wise, i'm sorry. we will have spent all the

money. but republicans are not talking about fixing it. a little bit, but not much. >> not enough. and there is a problem we face as a country. young people don't believe they're going to receive these benefits they have been promise. so i am a strong believer, we have to deal with these issues now. for people who are younger we have to change the system or the system will go bankrupt. john: a simpler one, export-import bank. corporate welfare. special gifts to certain companies. you want to get rid of this? >> absolutely, we should get rid of it. republicans should be against it. there are a lot more republicans against corporate welfare export-import bank. unfortunately we've to then pushback from the white house and received pushback from some republican and democratic leaders. >> nancy pelosi says, it is an essential tool, enabling american manufacture us. competitor nations all have ex-im banks. chairman of ge crucial for u.s.

companies. >> transfer of money from regular americans, from young people, those paying taxes to rich people. corporate welfare should be done away with. [cheers and applause] john: justin amash is also an unusual congressman because he explains his votes. he does it on social media. when congress finally voted to approve the keystone pipeline amash was only republican to vote no? why? the pipeline is good -- what is with you people? i want the oil. pipeline is a good thing. >> but the way the bills have been written, are such that one company is receiving a special benefit from the government. if you're going to improve the approval process you have to approve it for every company. you can't just decide that one company is going to be exempt and every other company has to follow the laws. john: that why is hayak firmly bense, hayak, one of my heroes.

[applause] john: you stated your reasons on facebook. why? >> well i think it is important for people at home to know why we're voting on things and what we're voting on. we have to hold congress accountable. the only way to hold us accountable to hear from us what we're doing. i think it should be expectation of members of congress they explain themselves. they don't have to do it through facebook. they could use other methods. should tell the public tell them why they voted way they did on every single vote. [applause] john: let's just take one issue before we go to questions. the patriot act is coming up for renewal, or parts of it. one part is the nsa big data collection. >> that's right. john: you have opposed this. and i have taken heat from libertarians because i say, what obama says. it is just he metadata it is not

your personal phone call and it might stop terrorism. [booing] educate me. >> the government's collection of metadata is just as dangerous as its collection of content. if the government were collecting content i would think that that's a bad thing but metadata is actually bad. people need to understand with metadata they can figure out what you're doing throughout your life. they can figure out who you're calling. figure out whether you have a medical condition. think about all the phone records that you have and all of the ways in which the government can decipher based on who you're calling, when you're calling them and how long you're talking to them, what you're doing each day. john: fellow republican, former house intelligence committee chairman, said, this program is used to stop a terrorist attack in the last few years. people do want to kill us. >> there are people on the intelligence committee who will say just the opposite. who say that this program hasn't

been effective. it is not useful. even setting all that aside, even if it were effective once in a while, we have a constitution we have to follow. [cheers and applause] john: one just one more question. you are personally an orthodox christian. >> that's right. john: many people with whom you worship, they oppose gay marriage. they oppose legal drugs. a lot of things people, libertarians say should be left free to people. your position? >> well my position is that the federal government should get out of these areas and leave it to the private workings of society. my church has its own beliefs on marriage. and federal government shouldn't tell me whether that is right or wrong. so i don't think there should be -- [cheers and applause] john: students. you have questions for congressman amash? come on up to the microphone. >> my name is grace charlton.

i go to university of virginia. congressman amash, likes liberty enough to elect you. how do we get more people like you elected? [cheers and applause] >> well, thank you, first of all you can encourage people in your district to run. if you stay true to your principles and if you explain yourself to the public, people are very accepting of members congress who maybe have a different perspective. they want a member congress who has an independent outlook. john: they do? >> absolutely. when i go home i hear from democrats and republicans who say, thank you for what you're doing. i might not agree with you on every vote at least you're explaining yourself and at least you're thinking for yourself. [applause] >> thank you. >> hi, my name is zack silverman. i go to clemson university. last night we had edward snowden speak to us via skype. my question, how think edward snowden's actions would be

judged differently by media, especially if he had exposed same level of corruption and lawlessness from within a corporation rather than from within the government? [applause] >> i think it might be treated differently. john: some conservatives say he committed treason. people putting their lives on the line for america may die because of what he revealed. >> well i think he broke the law. i think he should pay for breaking the law. i think that is requirement under our system, that people take responsibility for breaking the law. but i also think that the law is bad the way it is written. the law should be changed. we need to allow people inside whistle-blowers come to people on the outside, like member congress. for example, snowden and others like him can not come to regular member about congress like me. they have to go through the intelligence committee. that is outrageous. they should be able to go to anyone in congress.

we all have clearance, tell us about the problems so we can address it. [applause] >> hi, my name is crystal. i'm from salem college, in north carolina. we recently spoke about how we financing social security, and other things we are voting to spends in the budget all this money on nsa how do basically other congressman and yourself justify voting for the nsa, putting it in the budget when we're not funding things we already promised to people? >> we're spending way too much as a government. we need to cut -- john: to be clear, you didn't cut all the nsa and half defense and you wouldn't touch entitlement problem. >> the problem of course is that the largest areas of government are social security, military spending which is a very large area, medicare and medicaid. you have to address those four areas to really put a dent into the budget problem that we have.

i think there are members of congress committed to doing that but unfortunately the people who run congress right now have been not very committed to it. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello. i'm dan. i'm from new york city and i go to school at binghamton. i was wondering when you talking to our colleagues trying to persuade them to take more liberty friendly stand do they debate you or brush you off? >> my colleagues are great. they are nice people. we have great discussions with some exceptions. there are a couple that are a little nasty but, most of them are very nice people. we have excellent discussions and, you would be surprised how receptive they are to liberty ideas. a lot of times there are political pressures put on them. so, i think just a matter of gaining more courage. i'm hopeful that my last election gave them a little bit

of courage. >> thanks so much. [applause] >> i'm like really star-struck right now. my name's emily. i go to york college in pennsylvania and my question was, in terms medicare and medicaid reform, do you think it might have been, might be easier to reform those policies if there were more younger people voting because since it is older generations are not going going to vote for somebody who is going to cut all of their health care, and -- john: we vote. you don't. >> politicians have no incentive to say that they're going to reform it if they're not getting voted for. >> it is true young people don't vote at high enough rate. it would make a difference. it would make an impact, if young people got out and voted. i especially would like to see that because young people are more libertarian. and -- john: wait a second. they're also more liberal and sometimes stupider.

would you really want all your college friends to vote? >> these, these are smart, young people and they understand that liberty is the future. [applause] >> hi, my name is gail. i attend university of michigan, go blue. >> bo blue. >> has there been any animosity with your peers in congress with your extreme popularity on social media, especially with your heated re-election campaign? can you speak towards that? >> that is great question. some people don't like it, it is true. i received pushback from leadership at times complaining about my vote explanations. the reason they don't like it because if my vote explanation contradicts something they are pushing as leadership team, it makes them look bad. nonetheless i think it is important that people do it. i think it is important people explain themselves and, leadership doesn't like that because they want to control the whole process.

john: thank you, justin amash. [applause] >> thank you. john: for you to join the conversation, follow me on twitter@fbn stossel. use ifslc15. which is horrible hashtag, who can remember that. stands for international students for liberty conference in 2015. or more simply, like my facebook page and post on my wall. next, students fight for freedom outside america too. in this country marxists prevented students from going to class. [applause]

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[cheers and applause] john: we're back in washington at the students for liberty conference. more than a thousand students came here to advocate for a free society. economic freedom, personal freedom, and intellectual freedom. they're members after group called students for liberty. it was founded seven years ago by alexander mcoven. today students for liberty includes more than 1300 groups around the world.

jorge start ad group in honduras. jorge, how did you find out about students for liberty. >> all started in 2009 when my country went through a deep crisis. it was under those circumstances i was trying to understand everything going on in my country i started to get interested in political science and economic science. john: he went to youtube, you put in how does the economy work? >> that is right. i how does the economy work. i found milton friedman videos from liberty and a liberty videos from the institute for human studies. john: learn liberty, four ways economists think we're all wrong. why 1% of history have 90% of the wealth. sexonomics, what not to do on tinder. from this you learned that we know what makes a country prosper. they weren't doing it in honduras. >> they weren't doing it.

i'm also a law student. when i read legislation of my country i started to get what was wrong. and i thought, it had to change. and there was nobody like presenting these ideas. the ideas of liberty that have actually a lot of evidence that the countries implement these ideas get prosperity, peaceful coexistence and human dignity. which is what i think my country needs. john: and, alex, this is one country, 1300 similar groups? >> all six inhabbed continents. we're organizing 50 conferences for 10,000 students around the world this academic world. john: none of this existed. college republicans, democrats. this is it. >> this is very different. students learn about libertarianism through internet and peers study ideas and through events like this unavailable a decade ago. john: jorge, marxist, tried to stop you from going to law

school. >> this happens john, everywhere in latin america. there is a lot of marxist student groups that usually take over the national universities as a means of protest. when i say they take it over, they usually like get students out of their classrooms either by violence or threat of violence. john: they marched into your classes? >> they marched into those classes and took the students out. there were several -- john: told them get out or physically removed them? >> both ways. some people obeyed. some others didn't. it got more violent. john: this time something different happened. now you had ha libertarian group who spoke up. >> that is right. we managed to rally over 200 students who bravely opposed the takeover and -- john: saying we want to go to class? >> that's right. they started chanting at assembly, they wanted to go to classes. marxist students didn't know what was going on because they

weren't opposed. john: they called you a terrorist. >> right-wing fascist and threats to them with bombs. >> unfortunately this experience is becoming all too common seeing in student for liberty. last year in venezuela during student protests against the regime we took threats against our student leaders so seriously we helped evacuate them to neighboring country to protect them but more recently we've seen nazis break into students for liberty events in serbia and assault some of our students to try to shut down conversations. we've seen our students arrested in the gambia. we actually just learned about one of our students being beaten up by police in ethiopia, just a couple weeks ago. simply for holding an event to discuss these ideas. but, inspiring thing is that, students like jorge and others are not backing down in the face of these thugs. they're continuing on. john: fortunately most of you are from america. you haven't had this happen. you have questions for alexander

or jorge, come up to the microphone. >> john, i'm from bristol, virginia, go to university of virginia. my question for who are say. i had cousin not recently, last year was protested in venezuela put in jail. what do you think the future for central and south america is moving forward? john: south america has the same resources we have but it stayed poor when north america got rich. do people have a sense it was government that did that? >> i don't think they did. all the history and sociology teachers give a marxist view of history and tell us how america became rich by exploiting latin america which makes no sense at all. >> hi, my name is sally. i go to the university of waterloo in canada, ontario. >> whoo! >> i want to know what was going through your mind when you were taken hostage? >> of course we were a little afraid but we actually had more

support than we thought we had. but, when the chanting started, when all the students started chanting we want classes, then that's when i found out how broad our support was. i saw how they were probably even more afraid that we were. a week later when they tried to take over the university again, for security reasons, as they decided not to participate, but the students from state university, they, stood up by themselves and didn't let marxist students take the university. [applause] >> hi, my name is jack gordon, from sioux falls, south dakota but i attend the university of iowa. what will it take to get momentum we need to start a real revolution in this country? [applause] >> going to take you and everyone else in this room to take personal responsibility for making this country a freer

place. joining us with leadership programs. organizing more events like this. making liberty one of your life projects. changing society to support freedom more broadly. remember what jorge said more people supported the anti-shutdown movement than supported it. people that supported the shutdown. same case with what you're doing. more people agree with principles of liberty and support our ideas that we really know. john: thank you, alexander, and jorge. coming up, students with guns. [cheers and applause] so new touch screens... and biometrics. in 574 branches. all done by... yesterday.

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[cheers and applause] john: we're back at the students for liberty conference and i want to ask you, how many of you are carrying a gun now? yeah, you're in washington, d.c. you would be jailed if you carried a gun but, should you be allowed to carry a gun on your

campus? [cheers and applause] john: really? you are college students and you are known for getting wasted and doing stupid things. and you want guns? >> yeah! john: all right. we have group for students for concealed carry says it is important that students be allowed to have guns and, conceal them. why? >> first of all, students are still people. we still have rights. [cheers and applause] creating a gun-free zone is, it is effectually impossible. john: that is what colleges do. this is gun-free zone. >> a smart thing a smart criminal will do find someone who is not able to fight back. you create an entire population of vulnerable students when you tell them that they can't, with a license even, carry a firearm

for self-protection. john: you're not saying all students. you're saying obey state age laws. some students are quite young. whatever the age of majority. what about my point about all people getting drunk? >> already illegal to carry while you're drinking, the whole mixing guns and alcohol argument that is already illegal. the whole argument is that criminals are not following laws. people who are following laws, need to be able to protect themselves. john: a few universities do allow concealed carry. colorado state began allowing it in 2003. violent crime there is down 60%. colorado university kept its carry ban. violent crime is up 35%. >> when you create a victim-rich environment, a gun-free zone, it just attracts criminals. it is a natural response. >> and, we cherry-pick colorado but there is data, in 27 years, study of all states, no state showed a increase in gun

violence as a result of legalizing concealed carry. more places are legalizing it now. >> even illinois has permits now. so, like, i think -- john: even illinois, illinois is really backward state? >> not so that much they're backwards, it is you know, they're learning. [laughter] [applause] the. john: we have questions for kraley come up. >> i'm eric. originally from california but i go to school in d.c., two places not very friendly to guns. >> i'm sorry. >> i was wondering, what kind of education programs, or what kind of message have you given to get people over the stigma that guns have, that guns are bad and they kill people? what has been effective. john: guns do kill people. >> people kill people. people kill people. [applause]

i'm really glad you brought that up. one of the things we found is, giving people exposure to firearms, a lot of people have never held one in their life. they have been misled by hollywood or certain senators who think that things like ghost guns exist or that there are, that you know, a regular five by six round is heat-seeking bullet. one thing we'll do, we'll raffle gun safety courses, have a live fire portion, or we'll just have people come in who are students, just like they are, who have had a different experience and it is, it is contact with firearms and with people who carry firearms. you realize they're not crazy. they're not violent. people who carry firearms generally have a great sense of responsibility because you're raised with it. [cheers and applause] >> hi, my name is sara. i used to attend simmons in

boston, small woman's college necklace one of the highest race areas in major city. in our school we were not allowed to carry pepper spray. i lived on campus i had no forms of defense. what i asked major heads security, what i do defend myself. she recommended i carry hairspray because it stings someone in the eyes. what would you recommend i do in that situation. i don't feel safe. >> i heard many stories like yours. i feel it is terrible. university is not your parents. they're not in charge of you. they can't tell you what measures you can or can't take to protect themselves. john: to be clear you are winning the war. idaho recently legalized concealed carry, kansas, mississippi, oregon, utah, wisconsin. on campus. >> take self-defense class. might be lobby for university to get one of those than a gun course or to allow carry. john: thank you. next, we play a game of, real or

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♪ [cheers and applause] john: i hear that on campuses political correctness is now so out of control, someone saying people can't even tell what is real or what's fake. let's test this with you in the audience. some of you have these signs. a college president recently said, all lives matter. and then apologized for saying that. so is that real or fake? >> real. john: some of you knew, yes, smith college president, said, i shouldn't have said all lives. this distracts attention from the black lives matter protest. and so it was wrong what i said. two, a college professor apologized for saying, i feel

some kinship with stalin. real or fake? john: yeah, you're pretty split on that. it is fake. month claire university professor did not apologize. stalin maybe killed 30 million people. he said stalin never committed a crime. [laughing] finally one more, a college student wrote a school newspaper column making fun of micro aggressions. students vandalized his dorm room. true or false. you know about that? that that is good. that student is here with us. omar is here along with greg, who follows cases like these. omar, what did you write about micro aggressions? >> it was really tame satire. my dad, who might disagree with me politically said, that was classy. so these people, the fact that what they, that they reacted so

intoably what i wrote serves ironically. john: how knows what a micro aggression is. explain what is going on. >> micro aggression is paper cut. someone might look at you strangely. someone might mispronounce your name. you're trying hard to do that. point it can be anything. can be anything the princeton started something, tiger micro aggressions. no one is allowed to tell anyone else what is micro aggression, and what isn't. if you're oaf phonedded you play the victim card and certain power. john: this is glowing movement? >> you have a right not to be offended ad confirmed in every possible way. we made it very difficult to talk about anything on college campuses. we come up with theory after theory to actually shut down, rather than facilitate debate. john: omar, in your article you have fix tick r tissues -- fictitious character who false downstairs and refuses help when

a white man. i thought it was manifestation of patriarchy patronizing me. >> your moustache is it another instance patriarchy. [applause] john: you write this article. what happened? >> well, i was fired from the campus newspaper for creating a hostile environment. where i drew, well, i had negated people's existence i was told. where i drew the line, when they told me i have to apologize public toy people who don't even want to tell me who they are. come on, have the guts, have the dignity to come and talk to me like a mature adult what i wrote. john: after omar's article was published, some students sneaked into his apartment building, vandalized some things. don't even go here, leave along with expletives. >> plenty of expletives. >> people argue with you in person or in, really not? >> no. this is all behind closed doors.

i sent these perpetrators four texts in december. they refused to apply. john: you're beyond the pale. >> they do not want dialogue. >> it is a theme throughout what they do, they tried to invoke harrassment law say you can't write this incredibly, i would call his satire cute. it was sweet. they tried to say that is hostile environment so we have to fire you. you see harrassment rationales build up. giant cannon of title ix harrassment. we had a case, incident at city university of new york system where they told students that they couldn't, or employees that they couldn't use mr. or ms. on campus because it would violate title ix. they pull this out for everything. john: at marquette university. it was decided forbidden to even question gay marriage? >> part one, professor in a class tell as student we can't really debate gay marriage in class, that would be offensive and wrong. john: no talking about it. >> so another professor, blogs about this and they're now trying to fire the professor who blogged about it.

>> and, students don't getup set about this. >> sometimes they do. the students in this room are terrific students. students for liberty has consistently been on the side of free speech and open dialogue. [applause] is. john: omar, how has this ended for you. >> it ended well. i'm on "stossel." [applause] john: on that note, thank you, omar. greg. coming up an american a day. poll shows between socialism and capitalism, young people actually prefer socialism. [booing]

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[applause] john: when i went to college, my professors were pretty clear. it was simple. good people go into public service. greedy selfish people try to make money. so, how many of you heard that message from your professors in school? some, i'm happy not so many. a recent survey of young people asked, which is better, socialism or capitalism? slightly more picked socialism. i think -- are they crazy?

socialism eats freedom an opportunity. brian teaches economics at kings college in manhattan. one student came into your office said, is it okay if i go into business? >> yeah, it was sort of like she was admitting that she had cheated on an exam or something. put her head down, said, is it all right if i want to go into business? i thought to myself, is this state of our situation now among young people? we have to sort of apologize for interest in going into the marketplace? if that is good news. john: the king's college, is place more symphony think tech tan most. >> it is so surprising about it. but our students feel this urge to go into the non-profit space, they have their sense look ahead in the future, a fork in the road. go into the for-profit sector make money and non-profit sector do good but the worlds don't overlap. john: only way to make money in the for-profit sector give something customers really need or want. >> just about half of millenials

surveyed in the poll, the way the rich gets rich at somebody's else expense. they're systematically looking away from the private sector and looking toward non-profit, social enterprise, ngo sector. they're cutting off some opportunities for themselves. john: in countries where there isn't much of a capitalist sector, like, nigeria, turkey, china, vietnam, people have a higher view of the marketplace than america. >> yeah they have, they have eyes to see what we enjoy. john: i should be clear, that the people who said they prefer socialism to capitalism were just people your age, younger than age 30. and it was a very narrow difference. it may be that they just don't know what socialism means? >> i think that is actually true. when you ask the question slightly differently, hey, who do you want controlling your life, private sector interactions or government interactions, most say i want the private sector to be determining factor in my life. john: critics say we libertarians talk, we're

selfish, don't care other people that is why we support business. >> one we tend not to be as good at pointing out some other aspects of the market that antimarket folks have claimed, like community or justice or relationships or inclusiveness. these are things that the market actually fosters. almost nobody in this room would say i love markets because they foster justice. i love markets because they build community. john: they build community because they bring people together. how do they foster justice. >> because we, everybody has a shot to go into the marketplace to serve somebody. markets create that opportunity for them. we should be talking about things like justice. john: students, do you have questions for brian? >> hi, my name is cory. i live in florida and go to seminole state college. i agree that in perfectly free market with competition that truly only way to make a profit is to serve customers. but given that the way our current economy works, tends to be very corporatist, like you mentioned before, export-import bank or federal reserve,

intellectual property and licensing restrictions things like that. don't you think a lot of rich people today are getting rich at expense of others? half of congress are millionaires. do you really think they got rich by serving customers? >> we tend to pay attention where markets break down. market pope opponents love to pay attention to cases where markets break down. 99.9% of the market transactions are every day where it is working well for both people. i would love to see us get better telling that story, telling that narrative. using some language that has been co-opted by antimarket forces to start bringing that back into the fold. i think it is actually ours to begin with. [applause] >> hi, i'm hunter. i go to university of north carolina at chapel hill. i love capitalism but there are a lot of people out there that associate it with negative things such as imperialism, or, corporatism. >> the rest of your peer group will hear that and say, another

guy who loves capitalism. what is capital to begin with? i don't even know what capital is. we need to think about changing way we talk about. hey, i'm so-and-so i love justice. i'm so-and-so i love inclusiveness, and community formation that is why i'm a fan of capitalism or free markets. [applause] >> hi, my name is patrick. i'm from lakewood, colorado, but i go to school here at american university. which if you know is one of the most liberal campuses in america. i was wondering if you think it would be a good idea to promote free market ideas and capitalism through evidence of markets that many of these liberals support such as, medicinal marijuana, pro-choice like abortion clinics? >> the vast swath of americans aren't there not convinced about markets will get distracted by high-profile controversial nature of those issues.

not thinking about markets or think about marijuana or abortion. that is really not where you want to lead them. start with stuff nobody disagrees it is good, happening not because you have a designer, not because of central planner, happening because people in community are spontaneously working together to serve one another. those are stories actually think move people and don't distract people. >> thank you. [applause] john: thank you, brian. thank you, students. coming up, you people here are obviously brilliant because you get it. you're here because you understand the benefits of individual liberties. so, how did they get it? we learn that, when we come back. [applause] about every 3 minutes, someone in america is diagnosed with a blood cancer. when you or someone you love hear the words, 'you have cancer,' it's one of the darkest days of your life.

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[ applause ] . john: 1500 students from around the world gather here to debate what makes for a free society? but i got to wonder why are you all here? it's a weekend. you're giving up party time. why do you care? did your parents teach you this? how many of you got it from your parents. [ cheers ] . john: not many, did you read a book, instead of the statue of liberty, she holds three books, free to shrug, free to choose

and the constitution of liberty. how many of you woke up because of one of those books. how many atlas shrug. the constitution of liberty. [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause ] . john: really? it's a tough book. economics in one easy lesson. [ cheers ] . john: milton friedman? how many of you woke up because of a college course? very few. how many of you got it from ron paul? [ cheers and applause ] . john: quite a lot. and finally how many of you got it because when you were in high school, one of your teachers played one of my stossel in the classroom tv shows, and you had a discussion about it. [ cheers and applause ] . john: all right! we have these videos, and people do learn some of these ideas in high school.

earlier i asked some of you about this individually. what got you interested in liberty? >> i had a professor who taught paul krugman and milton friedman and i liked friedman better. >> watching ron paul got me interested. >> i came across ron paul. >> ron paul. >> youtube videos on friedman. john: where did you find them? >> i typed it in the search box, and milton friedman came up and i've been hooked. >> i heard about libertarian from you, on fox news. >> my economics and government teacher in high school played your public choice video. these are not the kind of ideas showing up in textbooks that are written nowadays. >> i'm originally from russia, and moving to the united states, i saw that there is such thing as liberty. john: right! the young people sure know more about liberty and life than i did when i was their age. that's good news, that's our show. from the students for liberty

conference, see you next week for another new episode in our new time slot, friday on fbn. good night! re on fox business. good night from new york. >> announcer: from fox business headquarters in new york city, "wall street week." maria: welcome to "wall street week." i'm maria bartiromo. thanks for joining us. coming up, former federal reserve chairman alan greenspan my special guest. here are some of the headlines. a week of big swings as the markets end the month, the square and the first half of the year. for the week all three indices found themselves in the red. apple marking the tenth anniversary of the iphone but it was not a good week for apple