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>> think about how many times e joe biden ran for president, stuart. do you think he's going to just walk away now that he is president in no. he's going to have to be the pushed out. >> our agents were overwhelmed just taking people who present themselves at the border because this president opened the border and bringing them n. they don't have the time and the bandwidth, and no amount would give them the bandwidth to go after this massive amount of fentanyl. >> i think that we're looking at a world where the economy continues to grow, but we have to settle for 3% inflation. you say, well, what's wrong with that? well, then bams -- becomes your baseline. >> it's only going to get worse as i think the calendar turns the january and say, well, he's no longer useful. we have to turn to? else. i continue to think it's gavin newsom. you said michelle obama. ♪ ♪ on the boulevard of broken dreams, and i'm never been --
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stuart: okay. this is keith urban. tonight know. i'm looking at, again, lauren, i'm looking at sixth avenue. lauren: i'm wondering if something's happening right outside the building, because with you see a little bit more traffic if you go up two or three -- stuart: that is deserted. lauren: and the train is just one avenue and one block over, right? stuart: rockefeller train. is so where are the people? lauren: our tree's right there. look how pretty it looks. stuart: thursday, december 14th. the dow's now up 100 points, nasdaq up 53. modest rally after yesterday's big rally. show me big tech. mixed picture earlier, right now we've got a very mixed picture, actually. apple's the only winner, close to $2000 a share. amazon, meta-- $200. 368 on microsoft. check the 01-year treasury yiel, down at 3.92% and going down. now this.
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i'm a following several stories that seem to me to epitomize the state of play in america. caution, we're not looking good when stuff like this is going on. michelle wu is the mayor of boston. she sent an invitation to the electeds of color holiday party. that was a mistake. it was only supposed to go out to the city's six black counselors. it went to the white folks too. there was an apology, the invitation to the white folks was rescinded. think of the racial division this shows. and, you know, it's all too common in america these days, isn't it? and there's this from harvard. talk about bad timing, it's the harvard seminar for new presidents. of course, on how to run a college. $9,900 for 6 days. is claudine gay behind this one? one session advises, quote, gain the support of expert if tacklety throughout your -- fact all faculty through the your
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first year. translation, just be a woke socialist, and they'll love you. last one, whoa, this is video taken from a train in mexico heading to our border. all these people on the side are waiting for the train to stop so they can jump onboard and hitch a ride to america. 10,000 day are coming in right now. after all, biden invited them, didn't he? three stories; racial division, clueless colleges, invasion. that, unfortunately, is the state of play in america today. third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ ♪ stuart: all i can say to pete hegseth is, what a mess america is in today. and i suspect he's going to agree with me. go. >> yeah. well, i am, stuart. it's cultural rot. we don't believe, to take your last story, in citizenship, in sovereignty, basic ingredients. to go to your first story on,
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you know, invites going out to the racial group request, it's racism in the name of anti-racism to undo racism of the past. and then you've got harvard training other college president? you know, or this is how the left has captured everything. in the military we talk about training the trainer. well, we may have the principles, but the leftist had the positions. so they have trained teachers, administrators, trey trained -- they've trained presidents under the dei, marxist view get along with the wokesters, be more woke than the next guy, and then no one will touch you based on whatever issue is popular in the last 15 minutes. harvard's not just poisoning the minds of their kids, now they're trying to poison everybody's kids, and you can pay $10,000 to get it. not good. stuart: the house voting to formalize the impeachment inquiry into biden. my question is, and i think i've asked you this before, will democrats use impeachment to ease him out? is this excuse they're looking
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for? >> well, they could. i don't know that -- it depends on what comes out of it. it really does. it depends if on if there is -- we know what we know, and we see all the she can and we've seen the smell companies and the wire transfers. all of that stuff is self-evident. now it's on house republicans to make such a devastating case that even democrats and some members of the media look around and go, this is really bad. but you know who really needs to get the message in joe biden and jill biden. they need to be finish the message needs to be delivered to them because, ultimately, they are hold on, hang on, block as long as they can because they have access to power, and they want to keep it. and if hay don't care who else other people prefer. so it's going to have to be a devastate thing case. but if it is devastating enough, then it could be the offramp for another alternative especially as a polls get more devastating. more polls out this morning showing trump beating biden across swing states. so it's not looking good for them. stuart: i don't think there's
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anything to stop donald trump at the moment. he leads, i think 30 points ahead in iowa, 25 ahead in new hampshire. you've got this latest poll out. this man's, seems to me like he's got the nomination tied down. i don't know what could upset it now. >> i agree. he's had it for hong time. everything else -- a long final. everything else has been for second place, vice president or image boosting or candidate bashing. and, ultimately, that's why these debates have become -- they're fake, because the real front-runner isn't there, and they don't know how to talk about him because they don't want to offend his supporters. and they see his overwhelming lead of 30, 40, 50, 60 points depending on what it looks like, it'll only be interesting to see when comes in second in iowa and by how much. donald trump's pointing to win these early states, and and the pressure's going to be towards other candidates dropping out and realizing we've got our guy. stuart: pete, i think we're in agreement today. the state of play in america is not good. we have, what else do we agree
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on in what else? oh, trump's going to win the nomination at least, and biden will stick in the race because his handlers want to keep their power. are we agreed on this? there you go, lad. i knew i liked him. pete, you're all right. see you again real soon. >> thank you. stuart: let's get to the markets. i love discussing green. dow's up 98, nasdaq's up almost 40 points. lou basenese is here for the hour: the fed didn't raise rates. they're going to, maybe, lower rates next year. so is it time for investors to take a bit more risk? >> i'm afraid to break the news to you because we might not agree. i'm going to tell you, the boring bond trade that you love so much is over. it is over, because i think it's time to take risk. we can see it happening -- stuart: take, you'd buy successes. >> bitcoin 's at, what, $42,000. it was at $25,000 about a month ago. small cap stocks are up about 20% since the lows in october. even the beloved apple, the apple of my if eye, apple stock, i've been a fanboy.
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two months ago we were talking about declining sales and apple's never going to live again. guess what? new all-time highs. you're seeing it even in areas like biotech, so acquisitions, a lot of rallying going on. i think this continues because now we know the fed is done. stuart: it's got legs. >> it does. stuart: definitely got legs. >> there's a lot of cash on the sidelines still, a lot of may jar trottists that were underallocated to equities, so it's time for money to come back into the market. stuart: can you put big tech back on the screen? what's happening to my microsoft? down -- >> someone famously told me you can't watch every move of your favorite stocks. if you look at your long term, you're doing all right, right? [laughter] i mean, it was about 220, 230 maybe 6, 7 months ago. stuart: yes. >> now we're at 367. , so -- stuart: i was buying it that -- 25 years ago. how about that? doing all right. >> i started working 5 years ago, but i won't say anything.
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stuart: the -- [inaudible] capital gains tax. stuart: if democrats have any say, you might have to pay capital gapes tax. stuart don't spoil it. merck is down a fraction -- lauren: they're testing an experimental cancer vaccine with merck's keytruda using moderna's mrna a technology. it's a custom vaccine to treat melanoma. data show that it's halved the chance of getting cancer again or dying from it after three years' time which speaks to the promising durability of the drug. stuart: sounds like progress. >> i think the story underneath the story is merck because keytruda, in studies with come by nation with 15 other drugs. this is now showing with moderna it's helping their vaccine, and that's because of the way it works. it removes the body's defends against attacking cancer,
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somen's keytruda, i think long term this is better for merck than moderna. stuart: you follow this stuff. this is your area. >> this is my area. we talked about q pharma, it's the same thing one. of bristol meyers has one and it essentially takes away the cancer's ability to fend off the drug, and now you bring in almost like a military assault. you take down the outside defenses, and now the special forces can come in and kill the cancer. stuart: i like that. lauren: and no if derna moves past covid, basically. stuart: gm -- lauren: reporting9 that the robo-taxi unit under fire for literally drag a pedestrian on the street. they've laying off 900 workers about a quart of their entire work force. that the -- a quarter of their entire work force. if you look at this unit that was supposed to reasonably compete with uber, right, they are expected to lose $2 billion this year. finish so this is a major reset
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by mary barra. stuart: so they cut it, and the stock goes up nearly 5% because you ain't gonna chuck that money along. thanks, lauren. coming up, the climate crowd now says breathing is contributing to global warming. we've reached a whole new level of crazy isness, haven't we? poison control has seen a 1500% spike in calls about the overdoses of ozempic. what are the symptoms? we'll ask dr. marty makary. democrats finally starting to buckle on the gop's border demands. they're offering to expand my my grant camps and deportations. congressman mike waltz responds next. ♪ ameritrade is now part of schwab. bringing you an elevated experience, tailor-made for trader minds. go deeper with thinkorswim: our award-wining trading platforms. unlock support from the schwab trade desk,
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stuart: white house officials are trying to hammer out a deal on the border that would green light cash for israel and ukraine. they are considering expanding migrant detention camps and deportations. jacqui heinrich at the white house. this is not going over well with progressives, i'm sure. >> reporter: stuart, proifgs are not happy, to say the least. pramila jayapal said the immigration changes on the table would turn the clock back a hundred years. the congressional a hispanic caucus is furious that that they've been left out of conversations, and julian castro, the foreman hud secretary, said on x it would be a huge mistake for democrats to deform our asylum system with policies that won't work. for president biden, this would mark a total abandonment of what he promised, throwing in the towel in the fight for the soul of the nation. but alienating progressives might be the only way biden can secure an 11th hour agreement that will deal critical aid for ukraine and also israel.
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the white house says biden's been heavily involved in trying to hammer out this deal before the end of the year. proposals under discussion, reportedly, include plans to allow homeland security officials to stop migrants from applies for asylum if crossings at the border exceed 5,000 a day, including families with children and more ways to expel migrants who have not claimed asylum or not approved pd, but nothing's been formalized quite yet. >> whether we can land this plane, i don't know. you know, what i'm looking for is the president the acknowledge the border is severely broken and a real danger to the country. sitting there with president zelenskyy didn't do much for me because i'm already there on ukraine. i want him to be talking about the i'm committed to turning around a broken border before it's too late. >> reporter: the senate is set to recess after today until the end of the year, and some republicans are saying that folks need to stick around.
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>> not for one thing, but we should stick around until we get it solved. i don't believe we should leave next week. i think we need to stay here and negotiate it out. >> reporter: biden has not explicitly called on congress to stay in session, but we will see what happens today. stuart. stuart all right, thanks. i want to bring in congressman mike waltz, the great republican from the if great state of florida. [laughter] good morning, congressman. >> morning. stuart: the democrats are considering expanding my grant camps and deportations. do you think that would stop the flow? >> look, stu, i think if the word gets out that you are going to have to sit in detention until eventually years town the road -- town the road, that they actually adjudicate your case versus the current state of things where you get three meals and a hot cot and then you're sent into the interior of america with a please come back in a couple of years, yeah, i do think -- and we, it's not just
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what i think, it's what actually happened just a few years ago. we know once that word questions out, then people stop making that dangerous journey. and the thing i'll always repeat is 40% of young girls are being sexually assaulted and sold into human trafficking that are making this journey. it is a humanitarian crisis. and now it's also a national security crisis with biden's own fbi director wring -- ringing the alarm bell. i think that's one of the reasons he's finally coming to the table. stuart: are the republicans solid on this, stay together, make demands on border security and wait and just let ukraine aid, put that on the side until you get what you want on the border? you solid on this? if. >> oh, i think we're rock solid on it, stu. and, look, this isn't about doing either/or, this is just about priorities. and one of the reasons we're so rock solid is our bosses, the people, are our constituents are giving us this message loud and
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clear. they don't look at just this country or that country. rates, out of control inflation, gas prices. oh, by the way, our border is a total and complete mess and let's take care of that. let's take care of america first, and we can talk about helping our allies. stuart: congress match, hunter biden defied the house subpoena. he opted not to appear for closed door testimony. do you think hunter will ever testify? >> i think he's going to find every which way, but these are pretty clever -- every which way not to, and if these are pretty clever excuses and a pr play. i'll just remind, i'll remind our viewers, don jr. sat for hours and hours and hours with democratic lawmakers, with lawyers, depositions, doj, various committees, you know? this is not unprecedented here. but he's going to, he's going to dodge and weave because at the end of the day, i think it's pretty clear, stu, taxes weren't
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paid, he was acting as a foreign agent unregistered for not just, you know, some country like new zealand. we're talking china, russia and other, and other adversaries. and then finally, what policies did his dad change as a result of all of this? because, clearly, we had comingled accounts, comingled funds. and i don't know any government official that needs 20-plus shell companies. stuart: do you think that the hunter probe and the biden impeachment inquiry is enough to get, get the president off the ballot? >> well, i think the inquiry is going to give us the standing in court to get the tax records, the bank records and the information that we need. and we'll follow the facts, stu, and so far they're pretty damning. stuart: congressman, thanks for joining us. congressman wallet, see you soon. >> happy holidays, merry christmas. stuart yes, sir, thanks a lot. getting back to the border, a large increase in migrants
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arriving from china. ashley, what do we know about this? ashley: well, according to the latest available data, 4,9119 -- 4,199 chinese migrants apprehended in the san diego sector as -- alone. the chinese asylum seekers are apparently leaving their home country due to the political climate and lack of economic prospects. they're showing up all along the southern border between january and september this year, border patrol apprehended a total of 22,187 chinese nationals for illegally crossing the border from mexico. authorities say part of the reason is the processing times in u.s. embassies in china are taking so long, it's getting harder to get a tourist visa, and that is prompting chinese nationals to take separate measures by traveling to mexico or south america to enter the u.s. illegally. what they used to do was get a tourist visa, get to the united
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states, and they'd claim asylum that way. stu. stuart: thanks, ash. coming up, president trump's election interference trial could be delayed until after march of 2024. that means the trial could be after the all-important super tuesday. that sounds like a trump win to me. as the winter season is about to begin, we're seeing a rise in respiratory illnesses like covid, rsv is. should we get the rsv vaccine? dr. marty makary passes judgment on that next. ♪ doctor, doctor, give me the news, i got a bad days of loving you. ♪ no pill's gonna cure my ail. ♪ i got a bad case of loving you ♪
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stuart: on the market we still have a rally. it's a modest rally. dow's up 70, nasdaq up 22. lou basenese still here, ladies and gentlemen. he often brings us interesting company in the biopharma lawyer. that's your specialty. >> a lot of innovation there. stuart: right now we've got imix biopharma if up 7%, and i know you like it. >> yeah, this is a week i have
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to eat a double serving of humble buy. -- pie. i was wrong about the fed. and then last week i came across imax biopharma. they're a better form of car-t -- stuart: what's that? >> novartis, it's the personalized medicine that would attack the cancers and showed good efficacy but only in about 20% of patients. it now has lower toxicity, lower side effects, and they had an overall response rate of 100%, so that means 10 out of the 10 patients showed the tumors regressed at least 30%, and 7 out of 10 had chance -- cancer go away completely, so this is very rare to see in a biotech where 10 out of 10 patients show that response. again, traditional car-t drugs, even keytruda, it only works about 15%, 1.5-2 patients. stuart: you may have moved the market. it was up 7% when you started
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talking, it's up 12% now. tell me about gitlab. >> it's the like crowd sourcing for coding. it brings together a lot of finish it's a software platform that makes coding easier, faster and also more secure. this is a company that is a $10 billion market cap company. no disclosures here, but they just reported quarterly are results, sales were up 32%. the stock's up about 50% since the bottom in october. so this is a momentum play, one worth paying attention to because it's a high margin business. stuart: got it. lou, thank you very much is, indeed. respiratory ill illnesses on the rise across the country. jonathan serrie is with us. this isn't just covid, right? >> reporter: yeah. all the other ones too, flu, rsv. the cdc reports that rsv levels have increased particularly among young children. doctors are also seeing an increase in children and young people coming in with pneumonia, but medical experts say these cases do not have a direct link to similar cases that they're seeing in europe and china.
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>> we don't have any particular clusters or outbreaks or anything at this point, but this is something that happens every year. >> reporter: and an rsv vaccine is available for adults 60 and older as well as some expectant mothers. there's also an antibody treatment for infants to boost up their e immunity against rsv. they are particularly susceptible. and flu shots and vid vaccine ises are recommended for everyone older than six months. while activity is increasing for all three of these viruses, the cdc says covid is causing the highest rate of hospitalizations with 22,513 new covid hospital admissions reported just last week. >> we're seeing more respiratory illnesses and pneumonias in the united states and around the world, but right now we're not seeing anything new or
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unfamiliar in terms of virus or sickness. >> reporter: and, stu, the white house confirmed this morning drug manufacturers will produce an additional 230,000 doses of rsv antibody treatment for infants by next month. back to you. stuart: got it, jon than. thanks very much, indeed. dr. marty makary, we just heard about these respiratory illnesses, rsv, for example. is there the such a thing as an rsv vaccine? >> there is, and it's recommended for people over 60 and for moms in the third trimester of pregnancy. rsv is something that commonly affects really young kids. it's one of the reasons kids go to a neonatal icu, particularly kids who are premature, and that's a lot of kids, about 13 million a year. about 10% of all births are premature kids, so that's probably the target audience where it's highly recommended. stuart: can you tell me what's going on here? virtually everybody i know has a cough that doesn't go away for a
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are long time. i think you may have come across this yourself. what is that cough? is it flu? is it wrong covid or something? rsv? what is it? >> look, people are on edge because we just dealt with a global pandemic. these are the normal seasonal viruses that come around. this is a combination of rsv and rhino if virus and about half a dozen viruses including some covid. covid is disproportionately highly tested for, but it's really not dominating the cold season by any stretch. this is a typical flu season where we are also seeing some immune rebound from all the shell -- sheltering that people were living under for the last three years. stuart: okay. we feel a little relieved now. thank you very much, doctor. a huge jump in poison control calls due to ozempic overdoses. first of all if, what are the symptoms, and how come so many people are overdosing? >> yeah, i saw i this report. so, look, ozempic and man jar row, wegovy, these are mimicking
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hormones normally in your body that slow down the g.i. tract, they slow down the movement of food, so the side effects are naturally going to be vomit ising, nausea. and talk to anyone who is in the process of vomit vomiting, you feel like you're going to die. that's why they're calling poison control. stuart: okay. i think i've gotta that a one. are we in a new era of weight loss drugs? i understand oprah winfrey is using them now. >> look, a lot of people are on them, and a lot of people who are very close to all of us, and we're seeing massive demand right now. the companies, novo novo nordisk and lilly, have announced a lawsuit against come pounding and medical spas that are offering it, but they can't meet the demand out there the right now. novo nordisk just did a partnership with thermo fisher this summer to get them to produce it, and lilly is opening an entire giant factory in north carolina just really to make these drugs. so we're seeing tremendous
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demand. somebody's got to actually say, look, this is a lifelong treatment unless you change your lifetime style. what is the underlying problem here. stuart: and at the moment, you've got to take innexts. there's no such thing as a pill at the moment, is there? >> there is with with wegovy, and this is going to be an oral form of man jar row soon, and that's very technically feasible. stuart: that will be popular. dr. marty makary, always a pleasure. very informative. see you again soon. >> thanks, you too. stuart: scientists say breathing is bad for the environment, okay? ashley, i believe -- does this come from britain? because it sounds like a joke to me. [laughter] ashley: yeah, what was your first clue? hold your breath, as they say. this new study, yes, in the u.k., claims that gases in air exhaled from human lungs adding to global warming. that's a lot of9 hot air. sign terrorists say that methane and nitrous ox side in the air that we exhale makes up 0.1% of
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greenhouse gas emissions, and that doesn't include other bodily functions that i'll leave to your imaginations. the study doesn't say that we should try to find a way to combat the gases from breathing, but it says the impact of the gas releases warrants more rebel, especially the impacts of an aging population and shifting diets. in other words, no more baked beans for me or you, mr. varney. [laughter] stuart: that was a good one, very good. you're a very humorous kauai today. well done,. ashley:. i'm going to get serious for a moment. lou basenese, when you're considering an investment strategy, do you really take into consideration global warming? >> we take it into consideration when we're looking at technologies that can actually impacting it. spending more money on research like this is just a waste of time. there's companies that are developing technologies, one called clear sign combustion, klir, that has a burper -- clir,
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that has a burner that reduces nox. this is a direct impact on the environment is. they can reduce the emissions of nox by 90% if in refinery burners. that is a technology that we should be spending time and resources to get into the market because it's not a cost of compliance, it actually deliver cans a benefit, a profit -- stuart: what was the stock again? >> clear sign combustion. stuart: thanks very much. green energy on your screen. tomorrow's friday, one of the last of the year. we want to know what was your favorite "varney" moment in 2023. send it to varneyviewersfox.com. next, house republicans vowing to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress after refusing to appear at a closed door deposition. tom fitton tells us if hunter will ever sit down to testify. that's next. ♪
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stuart: another big day on the hill for hunter as former doj prosecutor leslie wolf is set to testify today. chad pergram on capitol hill. chad, what could her testimony mean for the president's son? [no audio] stuart: i think we have an audio problem there. let's see if you can open the channel of communication to my good friend chad pergram. he's moving his lips, can you hear me? >> reporter: i hear you now. while leslie wolf was an assistant u.s. attorney for delaware, republicans believe wolf put the chi kibosh on the understood -- hunter biden investigation. she's talking to house investigators now. >> we want to ask her questions about all that, and maybe most importantly why the invest decide -- can invest decided to let the tax years 2024, 2015 when the bulk of the income was
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coming in to hunter biden, why they let the statute of limitations lapse for those years. when you get into burisma, it does, because this is the ukrainian energy company that paid him so much money. >> reporter: expect more depositions in the coming weeks now that the house formalized an impeachment invest. the difference is that moderate gop members who represent swing districts were willing to vote yes. they resisted an impeachment inquiry for months but no more. >> we've got 30 shell companies, specific transactions coming in, we've got suspicious activity reports coming from, you know, over a dozen of them from different banks. we've got indictments coming in to hunter whose only business is selling his dad's name. and we've got specific checks being handed between family members. >> reporter: this likely means the impeachment inquiry drifts into 2024. democrats are watching. they believe impeachment is a stunt to help former president trump and tarnish president biden ahead of the election.
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>> the house republican impeachment inquiry is the definition of unserious. the house should be looking at the senate right now for an example of how both sides can work together in a meaningful way to pass serious legislation to improve the lives of the american people. >> reporter: schumer ducked a question by fox earlier this week on how he'd handle articles of impeachment if they were sent to the senate from the house. stuart? stuart: chad, thanks very much, indeed. i want to bring in judicial watch president tom fitton. i'm just pick up on what senator schumer had to say there. he regards the republican pressure for impeachment unserious. what would you say to that, tom? >> well, in my view, what's unserious is to ignore really the powerful evidence of a racketeering operation that involved then-vice president biden and arguably president biden and bribery. and there's been nothing like it in american history where a president has been so directly implicated in personal and
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public-related criminal activity. and as the moderates, so-called moderates in the are republican party admitting in the house is the evidence is overwhelming, they'd like nothing more than to avoid this, but the facts are what they are. and on top of that,s you know, you have hunter showing up and thumbing his nose at the hill yesterday, going into what looks to be contempt of congress. we find out from politico he talked to his father about that. so, you know, hunter and joe are joined at the hip. and in my view, joe biden and the white house counsel's office that's been in contact with hunter's lawyers about, frankly, it looks like how to obstruct and divert these investigations should be subject to questioning through this impeachment inquiry as well. stuart: will hunter ever testify, and does it matter? >> well, you know, he's under two federal indictment cans now, and i would presume his lawyer
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would probably be -- [laughter] telling him the take the fifth amendment. but it does matter in the sense that there is a law, you know, you have to comply with congressional subpoenas absent a good reason, and you can go to court to try to object to them. but to go into contempt like this puts you potentially in the criminal crosshairs. but hunter, i think, is betting on his father's appointees in the biden justice department to engage in a partisan analysis here and not pursue any contempt charges if they're referred by the house. stuart: as the impeachment inquiry goes forward, they're going to interview witnesses and subpoenaing documents, that kind of thing, is bad stuff going to come out between now and the end of the primary season sufficient to put biden out of the race? what do you think? >> oh,ing well, that's more of a political question. stuart: it is. >> it's unlikely. it's unlikely that we'll get
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more detailed or admissions especially since the money is disguised it looks like as loans and such, and people are going to have to decide whether they credit the explanations that, you know, there are loan repayments from china money and they were legitem argument -- legitimate loan at issue. in response to schumer, i would recommend republicans really accelerate and escalate the impeachment inquiry and not mess around and wait months and weeks to get testimony. they need the push hard. stuart: get on with it. tom fitton, great stuff. thanks very much, indeed, for joining us. see you again real soon. it's that time when we look at all 30 of the dow stocks. i say it every day, give you a sense of the market. well, it's split right now, half up, half down. the dow is up 119 points. look at that, 37,209. the the president of
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♪ stuart: the house passed a resolution condemning anti-semitism on college campuses, and they want the presidents of mit and harvard to resign. bryan llenas with us this morning. 125 democrats voted against this resolution. why? >> reporter: yeah, it's a good if question. and really what they're saying is they were uncomfortable with the part of the resolution that said they wanted harvard and mit's presidents to resign. they were fine with the notion of condemning indiana a semitism on the college campuses, fine with condemning the testimonies from these presidents, but they were not co-- so comfortable with this idea of congress getting involved with private university decisions. listen. >> mr. speaker, are we prepared to become the national academic a appeals panel for college presidents, coaches and professors, or is that perhaps best left to the universities
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themselves? >> we don't need throwaway resolutions, we need effective solutions. >> reporter: yeah, even some democrats said republicans were trying to weaponize anti-semitism with this and politicize the issue. bipartisan sponsors of the bill, they disagree. >> i think it's an important vote. i have a question, when you're calling for the killing of anybody, right, what is the context? >> testimony was the most morally bankrupt testimony in the history of the united states congress. >> reporter: continues to stand by its president claudine ga a y who lit a me nor rah on campus last night amid the allegations of plagiarism are. as for america it's president who is jewish, a letter signed by hundreds of jewish alumni and their allies called her testimony disastrous, and they were pressuring them, perplexed they said in the letter, stuart, as to why they would come out and fully support her right away knowing he was also one of the
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only president of the tree to not come out -- of the three to come out and apologize. stuart: i call it a mess. [laughter] >> reporter: that's a good way of puts -- putting it. stuart: thanks very much, indeed. american university threatening a student after the student exposed anti-semitic vandalism on campus. afternoonly, what's going on here? -- ashley? ashley: the group started support -- students supporting israel held a bring them home now campaign at american university in washington d.c. they hung up photos of hostage a victims. well, the very same i draw, other students calm by, tore -- came by, tore town the posters and replaced them with anti-israel ones. the ssi showed videos, and that's when the group says it was summoned to a disciplinary meeting with school administrators and then threatened with sanctions. now the group claims some student thes even had to show their phones to show they weren't recording the meeting. at the same time, ssi says none
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of the anti-israeli students have been held accountable for their actions. the university has yet to respond to the complaint, but we're hearing about these types of things at universities across the country. stu? stuart: on and on and on. thanks, ashley. lou basenese still with me. it seems like we're going backwards. >> backwards, upside down, inside out. american universities should be a bastion in protection of freedom and speech, i mean, these jewish students were looking for the freedom and the free -- the release of hostages, innocent hostages. and that's going to be taken down, and those people that conducted and committed the vandalism are going if to be protected? it just doesn't make any sense. stuart: where is the more clarity on campus today? i don't see it. anyway, i've got to move on to the trivia question which is perhaps the most ridiculous trivia question we've ever had. what is the further ifest distance a three-toed sloth can travel in one day? 60, 85, 108, 125 feet?
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day? i am sure you know the answer to this one? ashley: i'm a bit of a sloth expert, the four toed sloth can do two miles in a day. i will go with 80 feet, number 2. stuart: you don't know anything about the 4 toed sloth. stuart: i do not. >> one less to can't make a difference, 125 feet. stuart: i'm told the sloths absolutely smell awful. that is why they don't travel very far in any one day, their opponents have plenty of time to get out of the way. i will choose 60 feet. the answer please. got it right. 125 feet, the 3 toed sloth is one of the slowest animals in the world, it crawls around at a pace of one ft. /m. the fastest animal is the cheetah. thanks for being with us for the day. ashley, i am guaranteed to see you to lou -- varney is back
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