the airline, maybe it isn't what it was back at that time when i was there but is still pretty good and a nice place to work, a lot of good people and dedicated people whether flight attendants were the pilots, the baggage handlers, i'm shocked she did not have 70 helper. why she up there by herself. aren't there big strong men that could've picked up a few bags, i don't know. >> i agree with cheryl, where was everybody else, the strange story, i would've thought the customers would've pitched in and helped him, it's great to see a work ethic, we talk a lot in this country about the absence of work ethic and people really wanting to do a good job, this is a great story for that reason. maria: it's nice to see, 30 minutes before the opening bell, let's check markets, going into another day of earnings and economic data for the week, the dow industrial pointed to 16, nasdaq at 90 and s&p hundred higher by 16, mark tepper, liz peek and cheryl casone, have a

great day we will see you right here same time same place. "varney & company" is up next. >> and marty maria and everyone. plenty of action and politics as you might expect the day before the new hampshire primary, here is the latest ron desantis has dropped out of the race. he immediately endorsed donald trump, a monmouth bull out today shows trump expanding his lead, 18 points ahead of nikki haley, she insist she will continue, however, if she loses in south carolina, her home state were trump already has a commanding lead, it's hard to see the path to the nomination. in other words donald trump is close to locking this thing up, that is my opinion. to the marketeers how your money is doing, we have some green right there, dow up 100 points, and i stay for the nasdaq, up 88. big tech rolling higher again today. interest rates, the ten year, 4.08%, coming down that yield in the two-year, were the kid

around 437, that yield is down, that helps the nasdaq. bitcoin of 40000 level, 40900 right now, gas down one set $3.7 a national average, diesel down 1 cent to a national average of $3.90. politics, donald trump appears on "fox & friends" with lawrence jones, relax, engaging and funny, hit the first thing you will do as president is close the border in drill for oil, you hear more from the interview throughout the show. iran's proxy forces attacked the base in iraq the houston american troops, some missiles got through the paragon reports at your magic brain injuries, not good. on the show today another milestone for nvidia, $600 a share. microsoft crosses $400 a share, still edging out apple as the world's most valuable company. consider this, december marked the 53rd month when gun sales topped a million, that is what happens when gun control makes

headlines. it is monday january the 22nd 2024. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ ♪. stuart: just the two of us, an interesting play on trump and nikki haley, not bad. a bit more traffic on sixth avenue but not that much. let's kick off the week with topics this is a big political year, we love it were down to two republican candidates for president, good morning lauren, desantis is out. >> out before the nation primary tomorrow, he endorses trump and dings nikki haley. >> i am today suspending my campaign, it's clear that a

majority of republican primary voters want to give donald trump another chance. i signed a pledge to support the republican nominee and i will honor that pledge. he has my endorsement because we cannot go back to the old republican guard of yesteryear, repackaged forms of warm over corporatism that nikki haley represents. >> the polls suggest 60% of desantis voters would give trump their vote, not nikki haley, here's a former president. >> i endorsed him, i didn't know as well as you might think but i did endorse him and i had some fun with it because i watch somebody who is not in the race and all of a sudden he was in the race and then he did a good job as governor. i was happy with that. but i was disappointed when they asked him whether not he would run and he said he had no comment. when you say you have no comment that means you're running. and i think i took it quite seriously and it doesn't matter now because he got out. >> he set a cabinet position for desantis and a potential trump presidency is unlikely.

i think the relationship might be thawing, one relationship that is not for either man is that would nikki haley. >> this is what we were waiting on reset is a two-person race and now it is a two-person race. we think we have a country to save. >> i think his supporters are up for grabs, his supporters love america and they want a new generational leader. we give them that. i think this is how we go on a conservative direction but do it in a way that is younger, it's not the names of the past but it's going forward with new solutions for the future, people want that they're tired of the same old thing. >> problem new hampshire is make or break for nikki haley and she's down to double digits. >> yes she is, what happens if the polls are right in south carolina and she loses south carolina and her home state. >> then we have our nominee. charlie hurt joined me now how is this summing up. >> if you look at the polls here in new hampshire is certainly does look like that.

but of course it's important to remember that we have elections for reason and the great thing about having elections on a single day is not a single person in new hampshire has voted yet, we have no idea where this thing goes and obviously new hampshire likes to throw curveballs in our primaries, you 40% of the electorate is independent in many of them are democrat voters in many of them are going to play in this republican primary because they don't feel like they have important primary on the democrat side and they want to play games. i cautioned everybody that we don't know what's can happen here. however, if the republican electorate speaks the way the elelectorate is speaking of pollsters, trump is going to swamp nikki haley in a one-on-one matchup and i agree, i think it'll be over, maybe she limps onto south carolina where

she will probably humiliated in her home state but for all intensive pursuit under purposes it'll be over here. stuart: atop biden campaign official says the election will not be about the president's age. watch this. >> when it comes to the president's age we have a simple formula its results, age equals wisdom equals resulting experience, the selection is awkward to be about age, this is about freedom and democracy and the fact that democrats under president biden's leadership believe that people deserve more freedom, not less and republicans want to roll that back and rip it away. stuart: i think the gentleman has a tough role. i don't think voters feel the same way, do they? >> no they do not. it's an important time to remind everybody that shamelessness is a gift and a virtue and politics. it is truly amazing the 70 can make this argument. it's also amusing, the biden

campaign did everything that they could to make 2020 election about donald trump. for them to complain now that the 2024 election is good to be very much about joe biden, i don't want to hear any whining. more importantly it's good to be about the issues and the issues that joe biden has embraced in the issues that have done so much to hurt normal americans in the united states and those on issues that could be tied directly to this man's policies and if the selection is on the issues, donald trump will win and a walk. stuart: i cannot get over the contract this past weekend. the president is at his beach house and he doesn't get back to the white house until lunchtime today, trump on the other hand is been aren't storming the state all over the place. another thing, biden is not on the ballot, there is a democrat primary tomorrow and he is not on the ballot what a contrast between the two, last word to

you. >> because joe biden canceled the democrat primary in new hampshire because he did not like the way the new hampshire voters voted last time, they are running a fake election in the results of the democrat primary in new hampshire tomorrow will not be counted. that tells you all you need to know about what these people think about elections. stuart: charlie hurt, always good on a monday morning. we will see you soon. we better have a look at the market, we think we will like what you see. we start out in the green the dow up a hundred, nasdaq up 80 points, interest-rate tenure to your treasury coming down just a little. jeff sica with us this morning. we have a tech rally again. how strong is the and where is it going. >> this is like aerosmith same old song and dance, 2023 continued, i think we're going to begin to see, we will see continued hype over a.i., that's

what this is all about hype over a.i. in the anticipation over and interest-rate cut, three interest-rate cuts from the fed next year. stuart: do you think it's hype over a.i.? you think you typed? we are in earnings season this weekend next week, we're going to see if a.i. is contributed in "the bottom line" as some of the a.i. companies, that's not type. >> into transformative technology but is a transformative technology that has yet to justify the valuations, the monetization of a.i. has yet to unfold. what i'm seeing and what we saw from meta where they're investing billions and billions of dollars in a.i. technology, the capital spending among tech and a.i. is going to be big, when you look at him not to get inf evaluations, this group of stocks is more

expensive than just about any other group of the history in the stock market which is concerning. stuart: that is true, talk to me about tesla, they report on wednesday. i think you own it and i think talking about selling it, is accurate. >> i own it because you and lauren on one of the shows i said i would buy it and i bought it at 107 because i committed so i owe you a fruit basket or something. now tesla is becoming so worthless i might just give you one, that's coming from someone, i love elon musk and i think is a great person but use all the pictures last week, you saw tesla graveyard up in chicago where they set up the supercharger stations and people could not charge their tesla's so you had people abandoning them, not only do the ev's not run well in cold weather, they do not run well in hot weather. the only people that'll be

driving ev's are californians because they are the only one that had the weather for it and strange enough to drive. stuart: answer the question, you bought it at 107 it's trading at 211 are you going to sell and pay capital gains? a yes no answer. >> i hate capital gains. >> are you going to sell? >> i'm so close i sit there with my hand on the button every day but i'm holding and i'm going to hold it and i'm not buying anymore, i wouldn't use your money to buy more, i'm going to hold it, i might surprise you and say i bit the bullet and i'm going to pay the taxes. stuart: surprise me. jeff sica, he's alright. nikki haley question trumps mental fitness after he seemed to confuse her with nancy pelosi, watch this. >> he says on the weather kept security from the capital on january 6. i was nowhere near the capital

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the alarm on taxpayer dollars to united nations agency with alleged ties to hamas, hilary vaughn on capitol hill. which agency and what more do we know about this. >> we know the u.s. is the largest donor to this agency the un relief and works agency for palestinian refugees in the near east and they'll have the best track record. hamas terrorist are accused of stealing food and supplies meant for the palestinian people and hoarding it for themselves so lawmakers on capitol hill want the head of the agency to testify congressman brian mast saying this the ongoing war in israel has exposed a troubling history of un rwa aiding palestinian terrorist and jihadist. house republicans will demand answers for you when rwa and make sure our tax dollars do not go into the hands of hamas terrorist to be used against her ally israel, even though the u.s.a. id inspector general issued a fraud alert for the un

aid effort, the biden of administration is continuing to lobby congress for more cash to deliver him unitarian assistance to gaza. >> we've been quite clear there needs to be more humanitarian assistance going into gaza, they've taken some steps that have constructed crossing israel into gaza directly and they announced in recent days they will allow flour to be delivered to israeli port in ashdod and brought into gaza. these are small but consequential steps, they're not enough. we're going to put the pressure on. >> they'd given the agency more than 730 million under his administration after former president trump off undated 2018 question in the legitimacy of the agency. stuart: thank you. a u.s. base in iraq was attacked on saturday by another brand back militia. treated for traumatic brain injuries. retired lieutenant colonel james carafano joined me. traumatic brain injuries doesn't that amount to an act of war? >> there's no question that

american soldiers are being injured by surrogates of iran and we had two navy seals that died because they were out in the ocean countering operations against iranian's arrogance, the question is if americans are being injured and dying as a result of actions by iran, the answer is absolutely yes, it is happening as we speak. stuart: what should we do? >> a lot of people, if you say don't let the enemy cross the bridge, what a civilian is good to do rundown and stand in the middle of the bridge. what a marine is going to do blow up the bridge, what a smart guy is going to do he's going to stand on the hill over the bridge so he can command the seat. all of the things that we just talked about, the problem is not the syrians or the houthis, the problem is iran is behind all of this in the number one reason why iran can pull the triggers

is because they're flooded with cash. the reason all these conditions happen is because of our policies to enable and engage iran. the simple answer is we have to reverse all of those policies and put enormous pressure on iran to limit their capability and will to do these things and then they will stop. stuart: 's market happen for a long time, if you did take action against iranian oil, the price of oil goes straight up and biden does not look good. >> all of these things are connected there is a reason why we had a strategy which is not only about hardening seriously containing iran and starving them for cash political and military influence around the world. with a strategy of ensuring america was an energy superpower in only energy independent but a dominant market player.

when you. those together iran was stuck in a sm dangerous. >> now that we unleash them. here's the thing that i worry about everything today. iran will use the chaos in the region to justify declaring nuclear status. while biden is running for election, knowing that he won't do anything and then when we come to a new term of somebody in january, the iranians will sit there and say were nuclear power what he going to do, that will send ripples not throughout the region but throughout the world. stuart: that worries you on a daily basis and the rest of the world two. thank you for joining us this morning, tense times were on the brink of war, come and see us again real soon. thank you. now this is really forces uncover a tunnel inside of gaza which held 20 hostages. what more do we know about this. >> one of the hostages was five

years old and they showed us her drawings. the rooms were caged like prisons, dirty mattresses on the floor, one mattress per cell, the air was dense, it was humid and difficult to breathe in the tunnel was booby-trapped. 130 hostages remained likely and tunnels like these, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu rejected the hostage release terms, he said with a left hamas in power but is facing growing pressure even inside of israel to get the hostages out almost four months since they were taken. stuart: regrettably hostagetaking is a strategy that happens to work. it's a terrible thing. stuart: can you imagine four months in conditions like those for the ones that are still alive. stuart: i certainly can't. thank you checked the markets, here's how we start the week on the upside, the dow up 100, the nasdaq up 80. the opening bell is next. ♪

stuart: i see green on the

left-hand side, the dow up 120, nasdaq up 87. keith fitz with us, another tech rally, i will look specifically at nvidia, amd and crowdstrike all three are up over 150% over the past 12 months. in your opinion is there room for these three to run somewhere? >> thank you for asking, there is absolutely room for them to run more there is not to be a straight line people need to get that out of their minds a lot of geopolitical concerns, it's an undeniable trend, a.i. is not going away the stocks have room to run. >> are those stocks considered a.i. stocks. >> a lot of people would call them that but i think they're bigger than that i think were looking at a combination of digitalization for our world and were looking at cybercrime and cyber protection and were also looking at bringing people together, when a.i. is fully

mature i'm an optimist i believe it'll be a good case for humidity and those will be the stocks that will help to it. stuart: what about microsoft i was showing the premarket and it was about $400 a share. i think you been on this program before and said it has room to run, say it again that's what do you think. >> your very kind. i marked up $500 in the line in the sand some time ago and i think we will come up on that fairly quickly, this is about you people together every a.i. spin and the crowd will translate to another two or three in a.i. real-time real people and productivity, that is a stock i'm looking for in its going to do well. stuart: how about apple, 192, does that have room to run and. >> the ecosphere apple want your life they don't want devices thinking in terms of iphones they lost the plot along time ago this is a century platform about finance and car keys and digitalization and surrounding entertainment your finance and

money it's going to be great. >> the tech stocks have run up just as we begin earning season, they have been writing about for but the big guys report next week, are these tech stock rallies are they looking forward to earnings expecting strong profit, is that why they are up? >> that's an interesting question, it's a world of high finance investors don't think about. a lot of the big traders have figured out the game and they get to try to run apart into earnings if earnings are good they can orchestrate a short-term rug pull to week money out and do it all over again. you gotta step back and ignore the noise and focus on the great companies of what they're trying to accomplish, not the short-term 24 hour staff. stuart: get advice from keith fitz, thank you for being with us will see you soon. the market opens momentarily were looking for again on the dow, 100 points, as for the nasdaq long-term interest rates come down a bit, that is helping

the nasdaq stocks we should see a nice rally there. press the button stocks open higher, the dow is up 70 wait for it to open new see how high the dow is going to go, 379 is a level and i'm looking at the big board i'm thinking two thirds are up and one third down, the s&p 500 opening higher, what is the percentage. >> of record for the s&p. what you're looking. stuart: intraday high not a closing high. the s&p is up one third of 1%. the market continuing to power ahead. the nasdaq that is up to half a percentage point, 15396, show me big tech i'm pretty sure there on the upside, yes they are, meta $6 higher 1.5%, of about 1%, apple modest gain of under a half percent, microsoft is just shy of $400 a share. a lot of earnings on tech this

week, rented the big names. >> netflix is tomorrow i had to check this a few times, the prophets are to surge more than 1700% from a year ago thanks to the crackdown on password sharing, their expected at 8.8 million new subscribers that is slower growth but they're getting more revenue per user and they have twice as many as disney+, that is the story for netflix. you also see tesla they report on wednesday, how have the price cuts affected the margins of the market share are the numbers strong enough for shareholders to justify giving elon musk more control of the stock as he wants, tesla's profits are expected to fall 38% to a dollar 19 a share. stuart: to ten on tesla. also nine members of the dow. >> verizon procter & gamble, 3m, ibm all opening their books on the quarter this week, the dow intel, visa, caterpillar and if

you flip it to the s&p 50071 of the 500 companies will report. >> next week is a really big one microsoft, that is big tech that's what i'm looking forward to. as macy's in danger of being taken over. >> not at the moment they rejected the unsolicited $5.8 billion private offer from brigade capital, macy's upon percent. basically those companies wanted to inquire all the macy's stock that they did not already own for $21 a share macy's is nearly 18, macy's was not convinced of the term of the financing but the firm says macy's has a real estate valued at $11.6 billion in they say the low share price does not justify that. as you know macy's lasting jobs 2300 and change in closing five stores. stuart: solar edge i know that solar power, another laying off a lot of workers, 16%, that is

not a problem for the stock, what is the problem with the company. >> was the demand for the solar panels that you put on your roof to generate power throughout your house, there is no demand so there/e900 jobs, the stock is up today down 26% january down almost 70% for all of 2023. the problem is let's say you have a 2000 square-foot house, the installation price of the solar panel will be $20000, you could finance up interest rates are high, the savings that you generate would be about $1400 for the entire year so a lot of homeowners are saying it didn't make sense the equation for them. stuart: fascinating numbers, we talked about cybersecurity crowdstrike, there is news on them. >> there raising the sector they see crowdstrike going to 310 from $240 a share, this should be an all-time high for the stock right now, they see big demand and customer retention

for many of the names in the space including zscaler, palo alto they say palo alto is going to 340 as well as doctor. stuart: these firms have to deal with strikes because of a.i., they have a lot more data to protect in a lot more challenges, that's why they're up to 97 crowdstrike. more bad news for boeing. stuart: faa's telling carriers to inspect the door plugs on 490 additional planes but not the 737 max nine which is grounded, these are for the 737900 er, it's an older plane in the same door plug design as the grounded max nine. the difference is this play that were talking about now has flown 11 million hours, there have been no issues and suddenly the carriers are inspecting them on their own and their finding some issues so the faa is saying inspect 500 of them. it is down 60 cents right now but this is a confidence issue

for boeing, the more you look the more you find. stuart: i believe that some stocks linked to trump are on the upside, i guess this is because desantis dropped out and he is a clear shot of the nomination. stuart: look at digital world acquisition, that is the company that would take his social media site truths social up 19%, rumble up 6%, video sharing platform popular with conservatives and fun where the cheap stock but a software developer. stuart: trump stocks up today. check the big board in business for five and half minutes, were up 128 points, 131% on the cusp of hitting 38000 for the dow, the dow winners headed by goldman, salesforce, intel, american express and walt disney is at 94, the s&p 500 winners western digital in phase first solar edge baby hunt and the nasdaq composite winners this far this monday morning in phase

energy, palo alto cybersecurity stock on semi, palo alto networks, the ten year treasury yield on the downside, down to 4.09%. the price of gold well above $2000 but shy of 2,102,043. bitcoin was right on the cusp of $40000. at that 40700 now. the price of oil 72 or $73 a barrel $74 a barrel despite was happy to the mideast, nat gas very cold winter weather is down again and the average price for a gallon of regular is $3.7 and diesel $3.90. coming up doug burgum and jim and vivekramaswamy and ron desae dropped out and endorsed donald trump are they fighting for the vp spot, we will discuss that. many people turning to the carnivore diet, is it good for

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stuart: take a look at microsoft, betta and nvidia they all just touched all-time highs, microsoft and meta report their earnings next week, jetblue and spirit locked merger is the latest in the administration lawsuit against big corporations. lydia hu is with me, who also is the administration going after.

>> we have a long list, these are companies that we know, google, apple, amazon, live nation, unitedhealth, chevron, exxonmobil, jetblue airlines in spirit are all companies that we know that we come in contact with on a daily basis. the decision outcome would reach every one of us, why go after the big businesses, one expert tells me it's an attempt for the body to administration to make his pitch that is representing the american people and standing up for the little guy pushing back of the big business but the experts warned that these moves can hurt consumers. >> the danger is by meddling with the business operations, they are going to harm our everyday lifestyles. when you have the administration try to get how these copies will operate you're going to see fewer of the services available. >> what's happening with jetblue and spirit illustrates the risk, the court sided with the d.o.j. last week saying a merger would

reduce ticket options and drive upstairs, here's the thing after the court block the merger spirits share price plunged, gains were made after the airline announced they would appeal the court's ruling but spirit owes $6.6 billion in d debt. if this deal does not workouts. may have to find another buyer or possibly seek bankruptcy protection, some say the possible worst case scenario and long-term could be that spirit disappears and that too would hurt consumers. stuart: isherwood, not a good situation. treasury secretary janet yellen will speak at the chicago economic club on thursday, she is expected not only to tout the economy under biden but take shots at trump's academy. anthony chan joins me now he's an economist. sorted out which was the best economy, trump or biden. >> the reality you know i'm always nonpartisan i don't take tights but real gdp under both

administration the first three years for trump because i don't think it's fair to count 2020 because of the global pandemic and then i looked at the first three years under biden. what i find under biden you have 910th of 8% higher real gdp then you have under trump and you might think i'm going to say biden did better, no i won't say that because i'm nonpartisan but will i tell you 2020 was so bad that the rebound gave mattel when that right now i'm to be fair and say it's a tossup between both of them. right now everybody is going to be looking at the numbers to try to spend them. one thing people are looking at how come over the last couple of years consumer confidence has been so weak in the united states even though the biden administration has been touting low-end appointment a lot of other things. i just did research in my sub stack.com under the people's economist, anthony chan and what i find, what happens when inflation is high consumer

confidence gets much weaker, now over the last couple of months inflation has been coming down and guess what consumer confidence has jumped since november about 29%, you might think this is great news but there's bad news, my model shows given the level of inflation today we should have t consumer confidence up another seven points, i believe it to your viewers to decide which administration get the seven points. stuart: i have a question we have a market on a monday morning, the day after it became a two-person race in new hampshire and trump looks very likely to be the republican nominee, is that helping the market. >> i think the market doesn't like uncertainty, there's less people in the mix that means a little more certainty who's good to be the eventual person that takes the white house. stuart: does wall street prefer trump's policies in his first term or biden's policies now. >> i think that you know we live in a polarized world there are

some people on wall street that prefer trump and some people that prefer biden. when you look at some of the things that happen under the trump administration like cutting taxes, that was great for business and by the way there is a bipartisan deal in the works where they get a bring back some of the tax cuts that trump proposed in actually executed in the get a bring them back. apparently even the administration is in some sort of an agreement that the tax cuts are good idea bec because f conceding and why are they doing this, they want the child tax credit they're willing to sacrifice allowing the tax cuts to come back in exchange for the child tax credit which is only 8 billion but the lionshare will be the business tax cuts. stuart: thank you very much indeed. elon musk predicted how many humanoid a.i. robots will be on the earth in coming decades. it's good to be a big number. >> a billion remember optimist was announced in the summer of 2021, nowhere near ready for

prime time still musk will acknowledge that but he endorsed what an a.i. expert row on x, we should be expecting a billion humanoid robots on earth in the 2040s and 100 billion alien robots throughout the solar system in the 2060s. my head is spinning. alien robots. probably something like that, this is concerning, provided the foundation of civilization are stable, he is not a huge proponent of a.i. and his morality, less than a year ago he founded his own startup called x a.i., lofty mission to understand the universe and a.i.'s place in it. coming from the man he was giving us an optimist humanoid robot they just posted a video of optimist folding shirts perfectly. >> is a big climate guy, huge climate guy that's why he sells

electric car company. is he looking towards a catastrophe in the future? and a.i. and robots will help us out of it? >> i would say he is trying to prevent a catastrophe and he does not like what he sees. stuart: he is a most interesting corporate executive in the united states is not anywhere in the world. always good for a headline. coming up there are attacks on americans, almost every day in iran is behind them supplying the weapons in the money, when will it stop, that is my take the top of the hour, officially a two-person race for the republican nomination. voters are getting ready to cast the ballot and then after primary tomorrow were on the ground in the granite state with the very latest after this. ♪

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♪ ♪. stuart: a two-person race in new hampshire, ron desantis dropped out and endorsed donald trump. brian llenas is in manchester. it looks like trump has the primary so no, what say you. >> if you believe the polls,

perhaps you would believe this thing is over, this is new hampshire in the biggest voting block are independent voters in this state has a history of surprising folks on primary night. let's take a look at the latest poll, daily tracking poll this is the first one that does not have governor ron desantis who dropped out of the race yesterday it shows former president trump maintaining a 19-point lead over former governor nikki haley with 57% support, haley has 38% that is up to points among likely voters, yesterday not only did desantis drop out of the race he also endorsed former president donald trump and he had a parting shot against haley, listen. >> it is clear that a majority of republican primary voters want to give donald trump another chance, he has my endorsement because we can't go back to the old republican guard of yesteryear a repackaged form of warmed over corporatism that nikki haley represents.

>> former president donald trump's reaction so far to the desantis endorsement and him dropping out has been gracious. listen. >> i was honored that he endorsed me this quickly. it's not easy, he fought hard he spent a lot of money and a lot of people thought he would do well. and i think he did the right thing. i can talk about somebody else's campaign, i didn't see a path and i don't see a path for her at all. >> last night haley had her biggest rally yet new hampshire, 1200 people would judge judy endorsing her, she said she does not believe the polls and haley says she thinks she can win over desantis supporters, listen. >> i think his supporters are up for grabs, they love america and they want a new generational leader, we give them that. i think this is how we go in a conservative direction but do it

in a way that is younger is not the names of the past but going forward with new solutions for the future, people want that they're tired of the same old thing. >> is the haley campaign expectation to win, they say that would be great but they want to finish stronger than they did in iowa, they finished third in iowa and guaranteed a second place finisher no matter whether headed to south carolina. stuart: thank you. check the markets, in particular the dow and s&p have hit all-time record highs, the dow is at 38000 and change in the s&p is at 4866. microsoft, meta, nvidia also hitting all-time highs microsoft pulling back a little. still ahead u.s. troops have been attacked and injured isn't that an act of war, kt mcfarland joins us, charles payne talking to voters out of the primary we will tell you the number one issue he is hearing on the trail, biden amidst the board is not secure, arizona sheriff mark

daniels has a few things to say about that. the 10:00 o'clock hour is next. ♪