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stuart: that's the second time we've used that shot of miami where it's still 80 degrees, and that is brothers osbourne. don't though them. good morning, everyone. 10:00 eastern. let's get to the money. you might like what you see here. oh, i'm sorry, the dow has lost its 100-point gain, now it's the up just 9. nasdaq holding on to a 38-point gain at stage. where's the 10-year treasury yield? it's been popping a little higher recently, you're now at 4.52. the price of oil, earlier today the we had it at $can 77, thousand it's $76 a barrel. bitcoin, that's the story on the markets, $37,900. it's been rallying recently. all right, how this. last night's debate will be remembered for nikki haley calling vivek ramaswamy scum and ramaswamy calling haley dick cheney in 3-incher heels.

oh, carry. -- oh, dear. the candidates of could have offer clarity the on abortion. democrats seized on that issue week and won big. republicans for 50 years have opposed abortion, but now that it's no longer a right, they don't know what to do. a 6-week ban, a 15-week ban welcome back, a total ban, haley said it's crucial to be honest with the public. there's still no real clarity there. the candidates could have taken on trump, but the discussion was tepid. it was lukewarm. apart from chris christie who bases his campaign on posing trump, the other candidates walked away from sharp-edged attacks except on each other. trump wasn't there. he was a few miles down the road holding his own rally. he said the republican establishment should stop wasting time and resources pushing weak and ineffective rinos, his words. the point is, trump gets more support than all five candidates combined, and after last night that is not likely to change. it's become a race to be second.

and then there's this, senator scott brought his girlfriend onto the stage. the senator and mindy have been together for about a year. it was the first time they've been photographed together and there her. second hour of "varney" just getting started. ♪ ♪ stuart: david avella, gentleman on the right-hand side of the screen. these candidates still trail trump by a wide margin. do you think it's become really a race to be second? >> well, your comment and your opening take there, stuart, was quite insightful. trump was not there, and these debates certainly lose some value with him not being there. ultimately, one of these candidates have to make this a one-on-one race with president trump if they're going to ultimately overtake him. and it's the interesting to see

the strategy of these campaigns attacking one another particularly in this their paid advertising, the limited dollars they do have, when, in fact, what they want republican voters to see is they are the best alternative to president trump meaning hair focus should be on a message that contrasts them with president trump. but you don't see that the very much as you noted in your opening. there was some tepidness around the former president and their attacks. but this race is about donald trump and someone beating him. and a pat between them going back -- spat between them going back and forth doesn't get anybody where they need to be to be the nominee. stuart: trump rallied just miles away from the debate site last night. watch this, please. >> so it's 61% for your favorite president, me -- [cheers and applause] and 10% for ron desanctimonious and 7% for bird brain.

our nation is in very serious trouble, and it's time for the republican establishment to stop wasting time and resources trying to push weak and ineffective rinos and never trumpers that nobody wants and nobody's going to vote for. stuart: all right, david, is it too late for min to break out and catch trump -- for anyone to break out and catch trump? >> there is still a segment of voters who are willing to consider someone else, and believe it or not, many republican primary voters believe this process is just getting star to thed9 concern started. but let there be no mistake, this race for the nomination will be less decided about debates if president trump doesn't participate than what happens in the courtroom. and if president trump is convicted, will there be enough voters who say they want to go a different direction. that's really where this race today is shaping up to be. the other thing i would also note, stuart, particularly

developments of this last week is that one of the arguments that some of trump's opponents have been making is that he can't win the general election. and the polling continues to point to that donald trump can win. and it will further push democrats to headache sure -- i mean, you now have president obama openly talking and david axlerod openly talking in their ways about him needing to be replaced. the question is, is when does biden get pushed out as the democratic nominee. stuart: and how do the they do it. real estate tycoon robert bigelow is the largest donor to the desantis the campaign. now he's saying he might back trump. that's a big blow to desantis, right? >> americans like winners, stuart, and they're ultimately going to move to who they believe is going to be the winner. and as you noted this in your opening and in your first question, the president has a commanding lead. and millions someone with --

unless someone can pierce that and make this a race where they can overcome trump, the money and the votes are going to continue to go towards donald trump in this nomination. stuart: sure looks like it. david avella, see to you again soon. lauren, i want to know what the latest polls are saying about the '24 race. lauren: it is very close. let's start with georgia, and that is a state that biden barrelly won back in 2020. -- barrelly won. you can see -- barely won. both donald trump and haley rebeating him there. nikki haley beats biden by a lot in wisconsin, desantis beats biden. biden beats trump by 2 points, the exact same results came from "the new york times" poll that said i we've was the only state that -- wisconsin was the only ate the president could win. some analysts are saying it all comes down to the state of wisconsin next year. that's where the rnc is having their nominating convention. the dnc is in chicago, both

midwest. the midwest is important. and i started to think about abortion. do you remember the state supreme court race many wisconsin last year in it was the most expensive judicial race ever, $40 million went many. and the candidate that won for the supreme court explicitly ran on her position to enshrine the right to an abortion. stuart: it's outrageous. lawyer lauren he won. she flipped that seat. stuart: that was outrageous, to say i'm going to do in campaigning for a supreme court seat in wisconsin, you don't do that. lauren: again, a very important state, even more so than many people think. stuart: i believe airbnb is making some response to ramaswamy after he claimed the company provides user data to the chinese communist party. lauren: it's a flat-out denial of what ramaswamy said. we do not provide u.s. user data to the chinese government, we

have no listings many china and accept no boobings. okay, so -- bookings. so so what is vivek ramaswamy talking about? i think he was referring to this "wall street journal" report a few years ago when there was an airbnb executive who actually had an fbi background. he resigned from the company after he saw the data that he said airbnb shared with the chinese communist party. i think that's what vivek was responding to. but i also think it's a little bit off for him. he's trying to make air bn if b the new tiktok, and he's slamming nikki haley saying you're part of the older generation, well, air airbnb is a young company too -- the. stuart: no comparison really. doesn't work, does it? lauren: agreed. it didn't work. stuart: let's bring in gary cu kaltbaum. gary can, how come you've been avoiding the markets? have is you missed the big rally? >> no. and last, matter of fact, we stayed out since july and last

thursday we got back in right at the right time. we even put out the note to you and to everybody else with the title things change, and we're back in right now. but we don't think we're off to the racings. we're -- races. we're picking selectively. every time i'm buying some mega-cap tech, and and we're right now looking at the semiconductor group. that's starting to act better again and hopefully we get more of this to the upside. but i have all kinds of worries going forward. you know, we had the debate last night, and the one thing that wasn't brought up is $33 trillion of debt heading to $50 trillion fast which probably causes interest rates to keep skyrocketing. and if that occurs, the market's probably going to hit a wall on any rally. so something to watch closely. but we're this in right now and fingers crossed. stuart: at this moment apple is worth $2.84 trillion, microsoft is worth $2.69 trillion. they're $15 billion apart.

do you think microsoft will discover take the apple soon? >> 1100% -- 100%, i believe, unless apple comes out with a new phone that does miracle things like you touch -- if you're bald, you touch your head and hairs start growing. [laughter] microsoft's growth rate is right now in the 15% range. apple is a big, fat, juicy 0. and growth is what defines, you know, stock prices going forward. so i think apple, i think one of the greatest companies of all time, but they've hit a wall on growth. they're going to have to come up with something new. microsoft if did come up with something new, and that's the cloud business and the a a.i. business and they're cooking right now. it's the one big name i don't own just yet, i should have bought last week, but i'm raring to go. stuart: wait a minute, microsoft is the one big tech you don't own in. >> i haven't bought it yet. i've been waiting on it, and

every day it goes a little higher which does not headache me happy, but -- make me happy, or but pullbacks i will own. if it goes through the all-time highs, which it's getting close, i will definitively own it at that point in time because that means everybody's in profit, nobody wants to sell, and it'll get going even further. stuart: got it. gary kaltbaum, see you soon. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: looking at the movers, disney is up 6%. lauren: streaming is on a path to profitability, period. dissmy +-- disney+ streaming, 150 million subscribers, and bob iger had an announcement and a time for espn. you can get a full streaming option for espn by the year 2025. so is bob iger's imagine ec back? right now, yes, but it's going to require two more years to get the job done. stuart: i think today they're getting help because of the news that the hollywood strike is over. lauren: more content to the. on streaming. stuart: that's what they're all

about. virgin galactic, investors cheering job cuts, stock is up. lauren: 18%. and they put out a fourth quarter forecast for revenue two times what wall street was expecting. stuart: okay. so they're up 29 cents -- lauren: well, they want to ship a lot of people to the edging of space, and they're making the the ships to do so. a. stuart: okay. amc down on -- what's this in. lauren: the stock is lower because they filed a perspective to offer $350 million of common stock. that reversed the stock. the stock had been up so much on earnings. barbie and oppenheimer, that was a win for them in the third quarter. and then they came out and said, well, we've got all of taye already swift's -- taylor swift's outfit changes, the concert movie, mt. fourth quarter. and the beyonce concert movie is coming up, and all that was great, yet the stock was i down over 9%. stuart: they're diluting shareholder value. lauren: exactly. stuart: thanks, lauren.

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stuart: okay, i'm checking stocks for you, first of all. dow down 80 points and the nasdaq is up 6. okay, now i want you to look at bitcoin. that thing's been on a tear recently. it is the now at $37,699 1, up $800 today. that is a rally in cryptos. today the lawmakers on capitol hill will hear from jewish student, faculty and education experts on the surgery of anti-semitism on campuses. rich edson in washington. rich, what is the administration doing to safeguard these students? >> reporter: well, stuart or, they're reminding schools they're legally obligated to protect students from discrimination, and reportedly threatening to withhold federal funding if schools fail to act. education secretary miguel car cardona write, quote, the rise in reports of hate incidents on our college campuses is deeply traumatic for students and should be alarming to all americans. anti-semitism, islamophobia and all other forms of hatred go

against everything we stand for as a nation. and in a capitol hill hearing, a round table is examining how colleges and the government can protect students after repeated anti-semitic incidents on campuses. senator bill cassidy is hosting it, top republican on the senate health committee. they have jurisdiction over education. across the country there are reports in the rise in these incidents. >> when you have this kind of a nationwide social phenomenon, you have to ask, my god, how kid we get to this? what have we done to turn our great universities into institutions at which people are coming out supporting there are therist organizations -- terrorist organizations and their slaughter? >> reporter: so this is just a round table. republicans on the health committee are urging committee chair bernie sanders to hold a full hearing on anti-semitism the on college campuses. sanders has asked a classified briefing from the fbi bi -- fbi

on the rising incidences of anti-semitism, islamophobia and racism at schools across the country. stuart: thanks very much, indeed. students at more than a hundred schools across new york city are planning a walkout today, demanding -- rabbi, where does this walkout leave jewish students? >> it leaves us in a very precarious situation. we are very alarmed by the rising antisemithem on college campuses, and and now it seems like it's seeping into the public schools as well. and it's very frightening to consider the possibility that a jewish students, even younger -- not just college age, but adolescents -- will peel alienated, will feel that they're in danger. stuart: of course. it's outraw -- outrageous that this should be in our public schools with the teachers actively taking part.

what can we do about that? >> so what we have done as a school at least at the college campus level is made it very clear that unless we have commitments, this was a letter that was sent to the parents and is students, and we'll follow it up with universities that try to recruit our students in our high school to make sure they understand that they need to demonstrate in writing the plan they have to protect jewish students and to restore the american ideal of higher education, to respect differences in opinion, to respect free speech and not to enter into agitation, alienation or threats of violence against jewish students. stuart: indeed. rabbi, anti-israel protesters interrupted jewish students who testified on capitol hill yesterday. they were discussing the rise of anti-semitism. they were interrupted. watch this. >> ceasefire now, ceasefire now! >> palestinian students did not

need censored. you want to talk about putting money where your mouth is, there are 10,000, over 10,000 gazans dead. stuart this is really shocking. rabbi, the protesters never mentioned the butcherly of jews on october the 7th. i think that's an a absolute disgrace. last word to you. >> yes, i think it is an absolute disgrace, stuart. thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to respond to that. i would say the following: it is not about silencing, it is about civil discourse. it's about airing differences in civilized fashion, but this is a point at which they are turning some very frightening anti-semitism slogans in which the jewish people have suffered such as an accusation that israel is committing general side which is far -- genocide which is far from any israeli or jewish ideal which places peace if at the last blessing every

day, three times a day when we issue our prayers to god. peace is the ideal, civil discourse is the ideal, and the words hard being used are so foreign to american civilized discourse because it's about hate, it's about threatening and it's about not just justifying atrocities that were committed against israelis of all backgrounds, european israelis, americans as well who lived in israel in the south and were butchered. 1400 jews were butchered. the atrocities are almost unname bl. we have even told our own students, don't watch those videos of the butchery and savagery, this is not a battle wean israel and palestinians or between jews and muslims, this is a battle between universal standards of moral clarity and decency and butchery, savagery and terrorism. we are pained by civilian deaths

in the palestinian areas, but we also need everyone to understand hamas' responsibility for using humans, using palestinians as human shields and keeping, withholding from them the fuel, the food that the international community needs those palestinian civilians to have access to. stuart: well said, rabbi. thanks very much for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: yes, sir. more than a hundred congressional staffers are also calling for a ceasefire in gaza. morning, ashley. what are they doing about it? ashley: good morning, stu. the bipartisan group took part in a vigil in front of the capitol building calling on members of congress to support a ceasefire. the vigil's organizing group read a statement during the vigil that said in part, our constituents are pleading for a ceasefire, and we are the staffers answering their calls. most of our bosses on capitol

hill are not listening to the people they represent. that was just part of the statement. as you say, more than a hundred staffers from if more than 40-50 offices attended the vigil that was organized with to outside groups and, by the way, maybe you'll be able to see in the video flowers on the ground, more than 10,000 flowers were part of the event, organizers say, to create a visual representation of the number of human lives lost so far in the war. stu. stuart: thank, ashley. a migrant with caravan more than 7,000 strong making its way toward the u.s. homeland security secretary mayorkas doesn't think a wall would prevent them from coming in. roll it. >> you believe that a border wall is part of the answer, yes or no. >> no. >> the situation at the border, you're saying, is not a disaster. >> that is correct. stuart: senator mike braun will respond to that testimony in or how next hour. industry regulators say more than half the country's at risk of losing power this winter.

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lauren: agreed. stuart: heir than digital. lauren: you were say -- marathon digital. bitcoin is helping, they reported earnings, revenue surged by 670% in the quarter simply because heir mining more bitcoin -- they're the mining more bitcoin. stuart: that's a surge. christy creme. lauren: -- krispy kreme. >> it's a double miss. they're ebbs e banding their partnership with mcdonald's. not helping the stock. i'm also going to tell you that eli lilly's diabetes drug is now approved for weight loss. stuart: you're back to that? you think krispy kreme is down -- you realize we're going to agree to differ on this. lauren: continually. stuart: totally. lauren: okay. stuart: thanks, lauren. [laughter] an energy watchdog group warns biden's green agenda is one of the biggest threats facing the power grid. are we talking the blackouts?

>> blackouts, rolling brownout, ultimately, possibly, higher prices, of course. that kind of goes with all of that. watch for electricity blackouts this winter warns a power grid watchdog which cites the nation's energy policies as a key factor in the cold weather power disruptions. for the first time in 55 years, the north american electric reliability corp. can is blaming green energy policies that are shutting coal and gas-fired power plants as one of the biggest threats to the power grid. it's all part of the epa's effort to the slash plant emissions by 2035. listen. >> energy policy at times is encouraging plants to be hut down before the end of their useful life. that makes no sense. this report shows we're at risk of having reliability problems and blackouts. we shouldn't have policies encouraging the shutdown of always available power plants. >> reporter: most of the u.s.,

more than half, is at an elevated risk of energy brownouts and blackouts this winter, prolonged cold snaps threaten the reliable performance of generation. now, in a a response, the epa saying it's working with 23 grid operators to the develop rules that, quote, safeguard public health, our climate and grid integrity, in that order. i just have to say before i go here, winter 2024 won't be the first with power interruptions. last winter nine states experienced rolling blackouts, so this is a problem that is only getting worse. stuart: gerri willis, thank you very much, indeed. look at this headline in "the new york times" it's related to gerri's story. wind power, key to democrats' climate change goals, faces a crisis. art laffer, former economic adviser to president reagan, is with us this morning. question, art, are biden's green policies failing, and if they are, what's the result of that? >> well, they are failing. they're failing badly because they aren't simple, they aren't

direct. what they should do if they do believe there's a climate rob, and i'm not sure whether there is one or not, i'm not an expert there, they should have a carbon tax matched by an income tax rate reduction so it's revenue neutral and let markets decide that. no, no, no, these people who don't though how to run anything, as you can see by watching politics, they try to run green energy, and it fails every time. and now we're coming into this problem with the brown withouts and blackouts. i can remember when we had that with gray davis california, stuart, and it's a disaster when government tries to micromanage this world. it always fails. stuart: now, pride ifen is going to meet with the oil workers' -- autoworkers union president shawn fein today. he's going to tout stellantis' reopening of their assembly plan. but in my opinion, it's biden's green policies that are killing the auto industry. what do you say to that? >> i agree with you totally to. it's 100% correct, they are killing it. andst it's not only killing it, it's killing it specifically in

michigan and in ohio and in illinois. we here in tennessee, which have a zero income tax state, we're getting all these companies coming into our state, and it's boosting our economy. so these guys are not only killing the auto industry, but they're e killing michigan, illinois and ohio which are key battleground states for them, i would think. but there's just, you know, stuart, it's an old country phrase, there ain't no lesson learned from the sect kick of a mule -- second kick of a mule, and that is exactly what's happening right now. there are straightforward solutions that can be done, but it gets the government out of making the specific micro decisions. stuart: we're not going to change. >> they should stop that, and that's goes with the auto industry as well. sure suiter we're just not going to change. biden ooh's not going to reverse course. >> he hasn't. and the rabbi you had on before, there's another simple solution, we have given special tax advantages to these 501(c)(3) universities, they don't pay taxes, ask is all of their

contributions are very tax do deductible for the major donors, so they are held unaccountable. they don't give a darn what people think, they're going to let these kids go rampant. we need to remove the special tax status the for 501(c)(3)s both on how they pay taxes on their ebb dowments, their property taxes which they don't pay and also you don't get tax deductions for giving to them, and that would headache these institutions accountable -- make these institutions accountable. they just plain aren't, institute, and it's the strategic. stuart: it is. avert laugher, thanks for being with us. >> thank you it's a pleasure, stuart. stuart: good to have you back. airlines, some of them, are adding more flutes to keep up with winter demand can. ashley, i want to know where. i think i mow where, but where are they headed? i think i know. [laughter] ashley: i think you do. united airlines is expanding its florida schedule. that's where you were thinking, but nearly 20% by adding flights to popular destinations, miami, tampa, orlando, naples maybe,

mr. varney, while using larger aircraft. meanwhile, american airlines is adding flights to its most popular destinations including florida and international markets, mexico, the caribbean and latin america. by the way, the latest data shows that the tuesday and and wednesday before thanksgiving this year are projected to be the busiest days of the hold aty week with more than 3.6 million passengers expected. that's up 15% from last year. so the demand is this. 24.5 million passengers expected travel this year between december 21st and the 27th. that's about an 11% increase from the same period last year. the best advice, and i give this every year, stu, have the family come to you. avoid the airports at all costs. stuart: i like that idea with. very smart. [laughter] lauren's pulling a face, the idea of having the family come to her. lauren: huh-uh. [laughter] and if you come, don't stay. can i just say that on

television? if i did. stuart: i've got to the transition to a different story. [laughter] it might be a little lift, but here we go. abortion beat crime, the border, inflation, school choice and the war in state and local elections on tuesday. it's the democrats' only winning issue, that's my opinion. so how will republicans counter it? we'll cover it. samny said -- vivek ramaswamy said it's time for new leadership. rnc chair ronna mcdaniel responds to vivek's remarks after this. ♪ ♪

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highlights, will you? >> reporter: stuart, good morning. sure thing. look, last night there were discussions about tiktok and foreign policy, and while discussing that, vivek ramaswamy hurled personal attacks at former ambassador nikki haley, talking about her daughter and her heels. if. >> she made fun of me for actually joining tiktok while her own daughter was actually using the app for a long time, so you might i want to take care of your family first -- >> leave my daughter out of your voice is. you're just scum. >> do you want a leader from a different generation who's pointing to pick this country first, or do you want dick cheney this 3-inch heels? >> they're 5-inch heels, and i don't wear 'em unless you can run in 'em. >> reporter: the top candidates vying to be the alternative choice to former president trump sparredded on the issues of fracking and on china. >> we will go and end all formal trade relations with china until they stop murdering americans

from fentanyl, something ron has yet to say he's going to do. >> ambassador haley said somehow i wasn't doing -- she welcomed them into south carolina, gave them land near a military base, with wrote the chinese ambassador a love letter saying what a great friend they are. >> reporter: trump held a rally some 10 is miles away from the debate stage where he took his own shots primarily at florida's governor. finish. >> unlike ron desanctimonious, i will always protect social security and medicare. he did not protect it. he wanted to do bad things to it for our great senior citizens. everyone said, oh, he did so well with. he did well because i endorsed him. >> reporter: trump called the debate unwatchable, and his campaign says he will not participate mt. fourth debate adding the caveat until he is. stuart? [laughter] stuart: bryan, got you. you were about to say something else, i got you. all done. thanks so much, bryan. vivek ramaswamy went after rnc

chair ronna mcdaniel last night. watch this. >> let's speak the truth. i mean, since ron that healthcare daniel took over in 2017, we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022 no red wave that never came. we got trounced last night in 2023. and i think that we have to have accountability many our party. for that matter, ronna, if you want to come on stage tonight and look the gop voters in the eye, i will turn over, yield my time to you. stuart: well, ronna mcdaniel, the aforementioned, joins us now. we saw you right at the end of the debate and address vivek ramaswamy directly. may we ask what you said to the him? >> do you know what? that wasn't me actually, stuart. there must have been a lookalike. i heard this reporting. i didn't speak to vivek, i have not spoken to him -- stuart: my apologies. >> you know, listen, he's at 4%, he needs a headline.

i'm going to say what i've been saying to the republicans all along, our headlines should be about joe biden, fentanyl, the border, crime, terrible things that are happening in this country that the american people are looking to our party for solutions, but i also will stand by my record as rnc chair. stuart: he said -- >> i am the one who delivered michigan for the first time in 30 years when i was michigan chair. he -- we just won back the house under my leadership, and in 20 20222, the rnc turned out more republicans. we don't do the messaging, that's a pact, and our candidates have lost their messaging on abortion. in virginia the democrats spent $16 million on abortion as republicans did not respond. many kentucky dem the -- in kentucky democrats spent millions and millions on abortion ads. now, the rc -- rmc wasn't involved in those races, i know

vivek's newer to the party, he may not know that, but this is something we're going to have to get right. you cannot allow democrats to the define us and say we won't give life saving care for miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies and then let it go unansweredded because then those lies become the truth. we are heating the -- leading the way on how to message if on in this issue. we saw great messaging from many of the candidates on the stage last night, and we're going to have to do this if we're going to the win in 2024. stuart: there have been reports that the you have trouble with candidates, that they don't always, don't exactly tow the line or but they don't always take your add advice or direction. is that accurate? >> they have pollsters, they have their campaign managers, and the candidates craft their own message. but the rnc, the suburban woman who runs the party in 20222 before the election sent a memo to candidates, me and kellyanne conway, and we called candidates

and said this is the a huge issue for our party. we have to talk about better care for adoption and pregnancy crisis centers, and we have to take this issue head on. and if we put our heads in the sand and pretend it's not will, we're going to lose because democrats will define us. and democrats are extreme on issue. they do believe in abortion up until the date of birth. they do believe what china and they does in gender selection abortions. so we can't talk about this issue and we row them to the define us -- allow them to device us, that that's what they're going to do, because they can't run on crime or the border or fentanyl or national security or inflation. so they're putting all hair money in this basket. and what tuesday night taught us is republicans have to respond. stuart: ronna mcdaniel, the longest serving rnc chair since the civil war, thanks very much -- >> and i've been elected four times, unlike somebody else who came after me last night. got it.

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stuart: my next guest is a military widow. her late husband suffered a traumatic brain injury and p, sd after he served in afghanistan. he had difficulty getting the help he needed and, ultimately, took his own life. danica thomas joins me now. please, tell us about this program, operation resiliency. i take it it's all about health? >> it is. it was born at a funeral, one that we never should have had. it started with my late husband and when we buried another one of his army buddies a couple years later, the ceo of the independent -- [inaudible] overheard someone saying i'll

see you at the next one. and she came up with this innovative ram called operation resiliency which reunites heavy-hit combat units, companies, teams back together for four days. they do workshops, they work on connectivity, the bond of brotherhood, reuniting and really working through a lot of the issues that they had seen overseas -- stuart: forgive me for interrupting, but that's a very interesting idea. bring back the people who fought together, who went through the emotion and the stress, bring them all together again for a 4-day period. i thought you were going to say let's have more mental health, let's spend more hundred on that, but, man, that's a great idea. i'm sorry i interrupted you, please go on. >> it's okay. yeah, the idea is for hem to be able to work on it. certainly, we have clinicians there on site, but the idea is for them to really talk through

the things that they had seen and the issues that they have faced also at a home. at home. and really what we've seen is remarkable connectivitied and the bond of brotherhood, sisterhood continues. so we reunite them, but really they get to take the path on themselves so when they leave operate resiliency, they have the call rosters, they have the connectivity, they have the means to connect outside of the program. and so this veterans' day we have the absolute blessing to be able to reunite almost 100 paratroopers. so we will be hosting the welcome dinner tonight -- stuart: that's a fine thing. danica, that is a fine thing, indeed. thank you very much for being on the program and telling us all about it. much appreciated. >> yeah, of course. thank you. stuart: more "varney" after this.

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>> the republican party, we need to define who we are and what we stand for. i'm from a different generation. the moral obligation of the u.s. president is exclusively to u.s. citizens here at home. there needs to be accountability. we can't have five elections and lose without a change in leadership. >> the only people in my view that take an