>> we now have a biden record the look at, and it's not a good one. so just saying, you know, vote for me to block this guy, he's terrible, is in the something that can really be done. >> whether it's appeasing dictators in iran, terrorists, by the way, in iran or kowtowing to chinese dictators, everywhere john kerry goes, he undermines american interests. >> at first i didn't think women should boycott because i didn't think it's us who should have to compromise. i was waiting for the people in the position to make changes to do the right thing. but that's, that's a naive thought. but now i do believe women should boycott these events where men are competing trillion. the fact that women's groups have not come out loudly condemning everything that went on is shocking but not that surprising. ♪ ♪ ♪ stuart: oh, playing a little rolling stones at 11:00 eastern

time. why not? put it up on the screen, it's ain't too proud to beg. [laughter] well -- [laughter] i'm going to move on. it is 11:00 eastern time on this wednesday, december the 6th. on the markets, a little bit of green but not that much. dow up 50, nasdaq is up 41 points. show me big tech. earlier today they were all up, now it's sort of a mixed picture. meta, alphabet up. moth, amazon, apple down -- moth, amazon, apple down. the 10-year treasury is at 4.12. i'm surprised that has not helped nasdaq a bit more. all right, now this. the border is fast becoming the big issue for the election. okay, yes, i know that the economy is traditionally the main driver, but, you know, we're being invaded. everybody knows it, everybody feels it, and biden is rightfully getting the blame. tuesday fox reporter bill melugin 40 showed us stunning

video, 10,000 migrants crossed the border in 24 hours. the word is out. trump could win, and as he told sean hannity last night on day one of his presidency he would close the border. that message went out to the world, better get in quick while biden is still giving you a chance. tuesday afternoon the border issue exploded in the united states senate. chuck schumer was trying to force through a national security package which included aid to ukraine. he threw the republicans a bone, approve the aid, he said, and you can craft an amendment on immigration. republicans were having none of it. senator tom cotton confronted schumer telling him it was all just political maneuvering, and so it is. then we heard from fbi director christopher wray. he told the senate he had never seen a time when all the terror threats are all elevated like they are now. that includes the terror suspects when came into this country through our open southern border. when donald trump was president, illegal migration slowed to a trickle. the flood began when joe biden

walked into the oval office. now it's a tidal wave. 10,000 in one day, another million will come in before biden leaves office. the economy, claim, inflation, yes, they're all negatives for democrats. but you're going to be seeing scenes like this for the next year, and this may be the biggest negative of all. if third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ stuart: martha maccallum joins us this wednesday morning. do you think the border is becoming the top election issue? >> i think it's, i think it's so deeply unsettling for americans to watch what's happening, and when you see the numbers of people coming from other countries, 26,000 from china, 15,000 from afghanistan, places all over the world, so this has become -- [laughter] it's like another border checkpoint. you just is, you know, it's like coming in through an airport or

coming in -- this is one way the get into the country if you don't have the proper papers. and in most cases, you will be free to go, right in and i love, i love -- i mean, i hate, but i love the image of that young man in, by the way, his down jacket and his nice hat with his cell phone. >> is rugging like, see ya, see ya, i'm in, right? and we know that there are extensive benefits that people, that are available to people once they get in. there's reporting about the veterans affairs agency and some of the medical services that they're supplying to some of these individuals that is an interesting thing to keep an eye on. but, you know, it's -- look at a chicago. look at the people who are outraged in chicago who are protesting against what is happening in their city, seeing we need these services. and some of them coming before the cameras and saying no more, joe biden. this is our state and our city are falling a apart because we, the taxpayers, can't support our

own needs much less all of the needs of other people. and the message is so clear, you know, just a final thought. biden got on the debate stage, and he said you should come. you should come. you should come. and that's what they did. and you heard president trump last night say to sean hannity, day one it would close. stuart: yeah. what do you make of this from mr. biden? he says he might not have run for reif trump wasn't running -- re-election if trump wasn't running? what do you think of that? >> he's hinted at this before, but he says we cannot met him win, right? so now it's become all about, as i saw ben domenech say in one of your sound bite withs earlier, the biden campaign again, four years later, is based on not trump, okay? it's not based on all the amazing things i did over the last four years. it's just, like, if you don't pick me, you're going to get him. and so he's trying to use that as a motivating factor. i also thought it was interesting, i looked back to march of 2020 because this is

this is another refrain that rings in my ears from joe biden, and it was him saying i'm just a bridge to the future. he was saying vote for me me in the heat of the pandemic, march of 20 to -- 2020, he basically said to voters, vote for me, i'm a bridge to the future. let me just give with you four years of healing and bringing people together. and he was on stage at that moment when he said that with kamala harris, cory booker, gretchen whiter in and pete buttigieg. he's, like, look at all this talent behind me. so, obviously, he's not feeling that way now, stuart. stuart: obviously not. the fourth republican debate is tonight. are voters paying attention, do you think? trump is so far ahead, does this debate matter? >> i feel like it's, i feel like iowa and the time heading iowa are going to be the biggest next moment for these candidates. we are seeing movement. you see some movement with nikki haley, so watching what happens in iowa, i think, is going to be very important.

of course, we want to see what they lay out tonight, but i think the next big shift, game-changer comes right after christmas and heading into iowa. stuart january the 15th is iowa, i believe, and soon after new hampshire. >> right around the corp.eder. stuart: more important than the debate tonight, i suspect. we will be watching you at 3 p.m. eastern right here on "the story" on fox news. thank you, martha. back to the markets. tepper is here, he's going to stay for the hour, i'm told. i read your stuff, you know that. >> good, i'm glad. i appreciate it. [laughter] stuart: you say that we are ignoring a second wave of inflation. i've not seen any second wave. >> well, yeah, not yet. if you go back through history globally, not just here in the u.s., but globally, 87% of the times historically when a country has seen higher than average inflation, the inflation will come back down and then the there's a second wave. is what we're seeing right now, to your point, is inflation's moderating. it's definitely coming back down. so we're seeing that, you know,

monetary policy does act with a lag. i mean, it's done a pretty decent job of getting us down around the 3% level pretty quickly. but at the same point many time, it's hurting economic growth. we had 5.2% gdp in the thursday kuwait, fourth quarter is expected to be 11.2% according to -- 1.2%, so it's coming down quite a bit. stuart: the jobs report yesterday -- >> that's pretty wild. we're at 8.5 million now, 9.5 million a month ago, 12 million at the peak in the spring of 2022. what's that, what that's telling me, and we've been saying this, you know, for a long time now, that the fed's policy was going to dow job openings first -- destroy job openings first, then it will begin to put a dent in the jobs picture. we've seen the unemployment number already go from 3.4 to 3.9. 3.9 is still a fantastic number, but it's starting to creep up, and we're seeing from a jobs opening standpoint, they're kind of disappearing.

stuart: i would have thought this was good for the moment interest rates areing down, we're slowing the economy. that's what the fed wants. >> yeah, it should be good for the market, but at the same point in time, what does this mean from, let's say, a small business standpoint? if small buzzes employ 5% of thk force. all of a sudden they're taking down can job postings and talking about letting people go -- stuart: i just went out and bought a opportunity of stock yesterday. >> keep doing it. stocks only go up, right? stuart: sarcasm is a low form of wit. [laughter] you're going to stay with me for the hour? >> love to. stuart: all right. we've got to look at the movers, please, and i want you the look at disney which is up -- lauren: yeah. the hollywood strike is over. the actors ' union officially approved a 3-year contract with the major is studios last night, 78% voting to ratify. it's about a billion dollars in the coupe union over three years.

stuart: diamondback energy if. lauren: oil is down, and specifically jpmorgan cut the price target to 173 from 180 on this stock. we do get the inventory report from the government, crude inventories actually fell not as much as a expected, but other sorts of inventories built, so the bottom line is there's little demand for fuel. stuart: oil looks like it could crack below $70 a barrel, and if that happens, gas prices keep coming down too. delta, what's their story? lauren: lower jet fuel prices help. delta's up almost 4%, leading the pack here. they have reaffirmed their profit and revenue outlook for this year. they didn't raise it, they reaffirmed it. why are investors cheering? record demand isn't softening, so they'll take the reaffirmation, if you will. tell that has outperformed its peers minus hawaiian because of the deal so far this year. stuart: one group of stocks i will never invest in, and that is airlines -- lauren: i thought it was just krauses? >> -- cruises?

from an air a line standpoint, a couple weeks ago barron's had an article that talked about a resurgence in demand for business class travel, which i think would be great, and that specifically would benefit the deltas and united of the world. international has been a big tailwind and hopefully now business travel as a well. stuart: we'll see. coming up, speaker johnson says he wants a plan in place to secure our border before he agrees to more funding for ukraine. we'll ask texas congressman tony gonzalez if he agrees with the speaker's demands. university of minnesota claims racism is a public health emergency. now they're making students sit through an anti-racism 101 course. we'll tell you exactly what that entails. some schools racking down on cell phone use. they're having kids put their phones away many a cubby. a smart move? what do you think? karol markowitz takes it on next. ♪ -- didn't know i was lost. ♪ so wake me up when it's all over. ♪ when i'm wiser and i'm older.

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weingarten blames remote learning and, yes, covid. it was her that pushed to keep the schools closed. lauren: yeah. and we pulled up the receipts, or you're going to hear randy wipe garth edge -- randi weingarten in 2020. >> even a situation like florida where it was pretty clear that schools should not reopen -- we rushed to reopen, and now we cannot be reckless with either children's lives or teachers' lives. nothing is off the table. at add a slow cat i or protests, negotiations, dwreecheses or lawsuits or, if necessary and authorized as a local union as a last resort, safety strikes. lauren: strikes. she didn't care about the students, she wanted to keep the schools closed. and now students are score singing business malley in math. on an international exam given for the first time since 2018,

american students scored a 465, down 13 points from the last time this test was given 4 years ago and one of the lowest scores ever measured. look at who randy wine garthen blames. pull up the quote. the data reconfirmed what we have always known if, in-person learning is where student the d. beginning back in april of 2020. really? her union, the american federation of teachers, donated $99-- 99.6% of their money to democrats in 2020, again in '22 and so far this year for '24 again. her union is a poster child for learning loss in local and national politics. more than a million students left the public school system during the pan dem dick -- pandemic, and those math scores are proving parents made the right decision. stuart: she's made some terrible

decisions. i want to bring in karol markowitz on this. you went to florida from new york because of the quality of the public schools. will there ever be any accountability for weingarten? >> well, 24 won't be because where are the republicans? why aren't they tying this randi weingarten who kept schools closed through 2020 but also tried to keep them closed for school year 2021, that's a fact, why aren't they saying anything about this? where is the party? i understand that a democrats want to pretend that none of this happened, but how are republicans letting them get away with this? the thing is that, yes, or randi weingarten wanted to hurt donald trump, and that is why she tried to keep schools closed for as long as she did. then joe biden becomes president in january to 21, and he lets her rewrite health care policy to keep schools closed even longer. she tried to make schools in florida stay closed for the 2021 school year and, of course, governor desantis didn't let her. so we have this situation where this is a political player, this is a special interest group, and

republicans should be calling this out at every opportunity. they have such a layup here. she destroyed the lives of children. she specifically targeted poor if children who couldn't exit the school system. those people who could get their kids out got their kid out, but the poor kids were stuck, and it was all because of her. stuart: got it. now, some schools are starting to crack down on cell phones. there are some schools where children walk in, and they put hair phones in a cubby before the school day starts. how do you feel about that? >> i quite like it. you know, i, i'm sort of mixed on it because i do enjoy texting with my 13-year-old daughter during the day like, hey, don't forget this or i'm downing this, but ultimately, i think that phones are a distraction. i like being kind of the last generation who went to school without phones. not everything i did in my life was recorded, none of my foibles from high school are on the internet today. so i quite like the idea of limiting phone use for kids even if it does have some, you know, benefits to make things easier

in our lives. stuart: some people raise the issue of safety. i mean, you might want -- in an emergency, for example, you might want to get in touch with your child and you can't because the phone's in a cubby. what do you say to that? >> well, we used to have this thing where you could with your landline the office -- [laughter] and they got the message to your child. so, i mean, in the situation of emergencies, why don't we just pretend, you know, it's 1990 and do what we did then? stuart: you have children and you live in florida. is there any move to keep cell phones out of schools in florida that you know of? if. >> with i haven't seen it. i think in public schools -- i don't think my sons can have cell phones in their classroom, but they're pretty young, so i don't know that that's the case yet. i think high school they're allowed to have it. stuart: i'm basically in favor of it, but then again i'm an old guy. i don't understand newfangled technology, simple as that. >> you and me both. stuart: you're not even close. don't even say that. come back soon, however, we'll

put you on the air again about all kinds of education stuff. >> thank you so much. stuart: mark, are you in favor of this? if keep them out of the classes? what say you? >> i agree with you. first of all, it's certainly a distraction from the kids' learning in school, but beyond that, i mean, kids are learning to communicate with each other via their thumbs, and that's a problem. we have to get back to encouraging kids to look each other in the eye and have actual conversations where you can watch someone's body language, hear the tone of their voice and what they're saying because the only thing you get via text when you're using your thumbs back and forth, you get the content, you don't have the tone or body language to go with it, and those are all big parts of communication, the nonverbal stuff. stuart: they did -- oh, i'm sorry, we haven't got time. [laughter] there you go. lauren: give us a story. stuart: the university of minnesota is instructing students on how to be anti-race rahists. come back in again, ashley are, and tell us what is going on here. ashley: public university there

putting students through anti-racism 101, describing racism as a combination of prejudice with power and a system of advantages based on ace. it also states there are -- race. it also states there are four types including internalized, interpersonal, systemic and institutional. now, the class hay offer or say that the students should take also includes a video on what they call white fragility. it claims that racism is the status quo of all-white settler colonialist societies. it also features crt theories on white racial control. this is the same university, the university of minnesota, that was hit with a civil rights complaint earlier this year over a multicultural research program that offered applicants a $6,000 stipend and was open only to those who identify as a student of color or native american but not white students. stuart. stuart: the world turned upside down, ain't it? thanks, ash.

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stuart: on the markets this morning, we've still got a little bit of green left. dow up 50, nasdaq up 28 points. mark tepper with me for the hour, and you've got stock pix. you're going to trim, you're going to sell some positions in the eli lillys and the novo nordisk, the weight loss drugs? >> yes. stuart: why? >> first of all, no one's ever gone broke take a profit. you want to trim when things have done well. these stocks are up 50, 60% this year. one of the issues i have with these -- look, i do believe ozempic is a game-changer, but you can already find generic visions -- versions of this stuff. it's available in all these compounding pharmacies across the country -- stuart suit

really? >> available without a prescription, so there's not as much moat as you'd expect, so i would be trimming and taking profits there. stuart: where would you put the money? if medtronic? >> yes, a company like medtronic, which is up about 11th year to date. -- 1% year to date. i think ozempic is causing investors to believe the need for heart valves and things like that are no longer necessary. med terror thetic plays in that space, i think they're going to rebound next year. stuart: yeah. it'd be strange to walk away from heart problems. >> yeah. it's not going to cure all that. stuart no, it's not. goldman sachs and legal zoom. >> goldman sachs and lazard, actually, those are two companies that are heavy in m&a, mergers and acquisitions. it's been an absolute graveyard this year, it's been a really bad place. next year it's going to rebound, in our opinion, because all of a sudden these companies will have visibility as the what interest rates are going to look like again, and you can't buy a

business when you don't know what the cost of capital is going to be on the opposite side of the transaction. stuart so investment banks, basically. >> yes. stuart: in one 24-hour period this week, over 10,000 migrants came into this country, and there is no sign that the surge is slowing. bill melugin at the border in lukeville, arizona. bill, what are you seeing today? >> reporter: stuart, good morning to you. we are seeing more mass illegal crossings. cbp sources telling me border patrol apprehended more than 10,000 illegal immigrants yesterday. that is thest number since at least the late '90s, early 2000s. you see the situation here in lukeville, we also have a situation showing eagle pass, texas, as these mass crossings are taking place all over the southern border. you can see the demographics, all single adult men, large numbers from africa, from the middle east. there's a group of syrians towards the front of this line right now, and they are coming in nonstop. border patrol struggling to keep up with them.

then we'll take you to eagle pass. you can see on the other side of your screen a massive group has also crossed illegal ally. cbp sources telling me illegally more than 3,300 people have crossed illegally into the del rio sector which includes eagle pass. this is happening all over our southern border. back here to lukeville, take a look at this video we shot here showing a breach in the border wall, large numbers of illegal immigrants pouring through that breach, trying to take advantage of the situation happening in front of border patrol. this is where a smuggler had cut a hole into the wall, and then at the end you'll see a human smuggler dressed in black on the other side of the wall, he gives us a mocking salute are as he walks away. florida governor and gop presidential candidate ron desantis saw that video and reacted to it, posting on x, quote: the cartels are laughing at us now, but they won't be when i'm commander in chief. any cartel operative caught cutting through the border wall

will be left stone cold dead. that has been one of his campaign programses, he will authorize the use of deadly force for fentanyl smugglers and anybody trying to cut the border wall. the finish off, cbp sources tell me as of this morning they currently have other 22,000 migrants in federal custody. send it back to you. stuart: bill melugin, great stuff. thank you very much, indis'd. -- indeed. and we're going to stay on the border here. speaker mike jobson says -- johnson says ukraine funding is dependent on formative change at the border for security. roll tape. >> there are two essential and, i think, iming innocently reasonable prerequisites, and that is that we must secure our border, we need substance ty changes there. there's bipartisan concern and agreement on that. stuart: republican congressman from texas tony gonzalez joins me now. congressman, do you approve of holding up aid to ukraine to get action on the border? >> it's all -- yes, stu.

it's all tied together. thank you for having me. this is about national security, and we should focus on national security starting with our own border. we need to protect our border. we also need to help our allies, israel that's fighting a war right now, ukraine that's fighting a war that they didn't ask for. but you cannot solve this problem by throwing money at it. there has to be policy changes as well. i i just got off the phone with the mayor of eagle pass and he tells me, tony, i've nebraska seen it this bad. -- never seen it this bad. over 3,000 people coming over illegally. they're at capacity. they're now sending people to la i ray doe. that means this crisis is spreading, so there's an opportunity where congress needs to get off dead center and focus on national security and protect our southern border: stuart do you think that the migrant crisis is becoming the key issue in next year's election? i know it's supposed to be the economy. i've always heard that. but this seems to be such a crisis and things are so bad that maybe this is the key issue. what do you think?

>> i agree with you. i think that there is no doubt in my mind that this crisis is has impacted everybody. republicans have been talking about it for months, but it's very clear if joe biden continues to do nothing on this situation, he will no longer be president. and house democrats will lose terribly in 2024. but i'd also say house republicans, we need to get off our butts. we need to impeach mayorkas. we failed to do that a couple weeks ago. i've been urging, let's bring it to the floor every single day until we impeach mayorkas, and we also a need to be the party of solutions, not just rhetoric. now is an opportunity for us to talk about national security and have meaningful border solutions. republicans have to do something. stuart: on that note about national security, f if bi director chris wray, he says terror threats have elevated to an all-time high since octoberth, and the border is involved in this. roll tape. >> i've never seen a time where all the threats are so many of the threats are all elevated all

at exactly the same time. >> is blinking red rights an ay about 9/11, all the rights before blinking red before 9/11 apparently, obviously, all of us missed it. would you say that there's multiple if plunking red lights out there? >> i see blinking lights everywhere i turn. stuart: congressman, you're on the homeland security committee. doesn't the administration if realize the border is a terror threat? >> they do realize it, stu. and a lot of the conversations that i've had with secretaries and directors, they agree with some of the solutions, raising credible fear, deporting people that do not qualify for asylum. but they're scared about the politics in it. they're scared that they're going to be pushed back from the left. but i agree with director wray, right now is not the time to play politics. we're under a national security threat. you can see the train wreck coming. we have to put politics aside, and we have to have this crisis come to an end. we know it's happening with

fentanyl, with the people that are coming over. stu, i spent 20 years in the military. there are people in this world that hate us. all we have to think back to is what happened on october 7th in israel. stuart: congressman, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, sir. stuart: i've got to break with away to some news, congressman kevin mccarthy says he will resign from congress at the end of the year. that's, what, three or four weeks ago. the former house speaker writing this in an op-ed ed just published by "the wall street journal," and i'm quoting: i'm leaving the house but not the fight. my work is only getting started in my next chapter, end quote. he's leaving congress by tend of this year. still ahead, elon musk looking to raise cash for his new a.i. company. we'll tell you how much he's looking for. question: can artificial intelligence help you with buying or redesigning your home? the answer is yes. we have the full story on how a.i. is becoming a bigger part of the housing industry, and that's next. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> i love this one, are you a fan? stuart: i aming indeed. we're playing the song because taylor swift was just maimed "time" magazine's person of the year. she dominated headlines with her record-breaking eras tour and her love story with travis kelce. she beat out a wide-ranging pool of finalists which included barbie and king charles iii. ashley, come into this, please. "time" also a named the ceo of the year. who is it? ashley: well, it's not barbie. sam altman.

the 38-year-old ceo of openai who, as we know, was fired by the board then reinstated in the span of five chaotic days. "time" cites opena a i's chatgpt calling it the most rapidly adopted product ever and calling its impact transformative both for the company and the world with. "time" goes if on to say that openai became an $80 billion rocket ship with altman emerging as one of the most powerful and venerated executives in the world. the public face of leading profit, it says, of a technological revolution. in other words, silicon valley royalty. and now "time"'s ceo of the year. stu. stuart: thanks, ash. elon musk, he's raising money for his artificial intelligence company, his xai. how much is he trying to raise, ash? ashley: he's looking to raise $1 billion in funding from equity investors according to a new fueling, and documents fileded with the sec show musk has

raised nearly $135 million. he created xai earlier this year to try and compete with other generative a.i. companies including, of course, openai where musk was a cofinder. the company has already -- find founder. the company has debuted a chat bot that's tied to network data from x. it's designed the answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak. in other words, just like elon musk. [laughter] stawt institute good point. mark tepper, would you put money into xai? >> i would 100% bet on elon musk. right now know about how successful all of his moves have been along the way. despite the fact that he's rolling out this, you know, funny, star cast aic, snarky, you know, chatgpt model, you know, he is still concerned, he's expressed concern about the future of a.i., the dangers of

a.i., making sure that there's guardrails on it and things like that. and there has been speculation, ashley just talked about a sam altman from openai who was fired and then rehired. there's been some speculation that he was fired because he may have stumbled across q star which may be smarter than humans, okay? which presents, obviously, a potential teenager from an a.i. standpoint if -- danger. stuart: that's a kind of a rumor in the background. >> it is, yeah. no one's cop firmed i it but, yeah, that's kind of the speculation. stuart: we need some investigative reporting. >> i know. stuart: thanks very much, indeed. by the way, it is a.i. week at a fox business, and today we're looking at how artificial intelligence has reached the housing industry. jer by lille -- jer by will -- gerri willis is here. >> reporter: stuart, you can use it to design your entire house, or you can use it to design the interior. we're here today to talk about an apartment that's been designed that way. the fit and the finishes, this

beautiful stone here, all from an a.i. company called deckorilla. what do they do? they're able to reduce the cost as much as 80% by using a.i. now, they don't lose the human touch, they have some 350 design experts on staff to answer your questions, help you out. listen to this. >> i wanted my house to be designed in a style and i received three proposals in luxury style, and i loved all of them. the whole experience of choosing one saved a lot of time. basically i'm just seeing my house when this whole thing got decorated in no time. >> reporter: so it all starts out with a q&a with the customer to find out what they like and then two designers compete for your business creating mood boards that include furniture and palettes and all kinds of finishes. and then they load this all into 3-d technology, they give a

virtual 3-d tour. you can see all these elements in your home, see yo few like them before you guy -- if you like them before you buy them. $495 is the north korea for basically designing a massive entry hallway, $1699 for an entire room. but the other thing you save which is important, let's face it, is your time because you're not making appointments with designers when come to your house, take measurements, interview you. you're doing it all virtual virtually and online. instead of a process that takes one week, you know, three months, four months, five months, it may take a few weeks or days. stuart. stuart: got it. very interesting. a.i. is everywhere. it's affecting us all. gerri, thank you very much, indeed. i want to get back to the markets for a moment. the standout on the market this morning has been bit coyne. it's at $43,8 right now. just an hour or two ago it was at $44,000. it had an extraordinary rally. you're not in it, are you?

>> no. no, i sold, you know, back around the last peak. i mean, it had already dropped a good 20-30%. no, i don't own any of this. all of a sudden there is a lot of demand from investors to actually have conversations about it again, so it's made such a good move this year that investors are now requesting information on it, wanting to talk about it. last year it was left for dead. nobody wanted to talk about it, so -- stuart: and now clients are asking you about it. >> without a doubt. stuart: all right, mark, thank you. show me the dow 30, please, get a sense of the market as we always say. here we go. please. [laughter] we're back to bitcoin. can we see the dow 30? yes, we can. right-hand side of the screen. it's an even splitter. ups and downs, even split for the dow 30. the dow is up 19 points. not much movement in the nasdaq and the s&p 500 now. next, the president of harvard was asked point-blank if death threats against black students would be allowed on her

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stuart: the president of harvard grilled on capitol hill yesterday over anti-israel protests on her campus. roll that tape again, please. >> dr. ga a y, a hard saturday student calling for the mass murder of african-americans is not protected free speech at harvard, correct? if. >> our commitment to -- >> it's a yes or no question. is that corrected? is that okay, for students to call for the mass murder of african-americans at harvard? is that protected free speech? >> our commitment to free speec- >> it's a yes or no question. stuart: got kind of heavy, didn't it? jon levine is a political analyst at "the new york post" and joins me now. that, to me, was a clear double standard.

what say you? >> obviously, you can't call for the deaths of african-americans on campus. and if that actually ever happened, it would be put down immediately. there'd be a massive federal response as well. but obviously when it's jews, everyone can equivocate suddenly it's free speech. let me tell you something, they're all for free peach when a terrorist wants to crease the school, but if you misuse a noun, you're out of there. it's only free speech in one direction, and it's about power and ideology. at a minimum, these college presidents need to be removed from their posts -- stuart: at a minimum. >> and frankly, stuart, i'll tell you in the 1950s in this country when we were integrate aring black students, they faced similar calls and chants from students and professor, and president eisenhower sent in the 101st airborne into arkansas to do so. and i don't -- i think we are approaching a time in this country where a is similar federal response could be justified at places like harvard, yale, mit and u-penn. stuart: okay. will you take this one on,

please? listen to this, teachers in oakland, california, planning a pro-palestinian teach-in today. one part of the curriculum asks children to -- this is elementary school kids -- draw what a zionist leader looks like and define a massacre. this is elementary school kids. >> it's always a, they always -- you know it's the most insidious stuff when they go after the children. if you look at the polling, the people who are most lost on this issue, the most likely to support hamas and terrorism, are young people coming out of this education system. and it's exactly the same kind of thickness, the pathology that we see at harvard, at this stool in -- school in oakland. and i've looked at some of the children's books, my child's first inti intifada, it's suck. it's disgusting. there's no negotiating with it, you have to totally root it out of the system. stuart: glad you're on the show. jon levine, appreciate it. it's time for the wednesday trivia question. that's e a good segway, isn't it? [laughter] what's the maximum depth of lake superior or?

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stuart: this was a fun trivia question, how anybody would know this i can't imagine. what's the maximum depth of lake superior. you have the honor of always being first. ashley: not a clue. 1332, number 3. >> sure they number 4. stuart: mark tepper. >> 1266 is a nice number. stuart: you are all wrong. it is 1110 feet. number 3, it is the deepest of the great lakes. thanks for playing along. ashley, we will no doubt see you tomorrow. 10 seconds left before i pitch to coast-to-coast, any time now. coast to coast starts now.