>> karine jean-pierre goes to the podium, she says everyone can see this president. and, karine, that's the problem, we can. we're not stupid. >> i think the less money that

is invested in china, the better. the less money that we as consumers send to china, the better. they're building up their military at an alarming rate. >> we do not have to choose between a growing economy and improved environmental outcomes so long as you focus on tangible improvements that make a difference. and you get away from the fear-mongering, you get away from the rhetoric, and you get away from overregulation. >> nobody wants kamala harris, and i don't just mean, you know, regular voters, i mean democrats you talk to. they know that a kamala harris has performed disastrously in the vice presidency, and they do not see any prospect of her winning the presidential election. ♪ oh, i'll be working from 9 to 5 a -- ♪ to buy you things that keep you satisfied ♪ ♪ stuart: that's new york city on a know by, cold, gray -- snowy, cold, gray day. 11:00 eastern, tuesday, february the 13th. quick check of the markets because the selloff continues. not quite as a bad, the dow's

down nearly 500, nasdaq's down just over 200, and the s&p is down 61 points. show me big tech. previously, all of them were down. they're still all down. meta, off $3 at 465. apple, 185. alpa9 bet at 146. amazon, 170. microsoft, 408. here is the big problem, the yield on the 10-year treasury are. we had an uptick in inflation if reported earlier this morning, and now we've got a big rise in interest rates. that 10-year yield of 4.28% suggests that mortgage rates are going to go back more towards 7% than 6%. that's the markets, and now this. the greens, they want to control every aspect of your life including buying flowers for valentine's day, especially red roses. this appeared in today washington post: while giving roses on valentine's day or any day is a really bad idea.

amanda write it's the rates to hip them to america that's bad, not the flowers themselves. in ecuador and colombia they are cut can and chilled to keep them dormant. that consumes fossil fuel energy, that's bad. they're shipped in refrigerated trucks, that's bad, flown to miami, that's bad. more than 30 planeloads a day come into florida. oh, the emissions. and then the flowers go to refrigerated warehouses and trucked around the country, all bad. she calls this romantic commerce which leaves, quote, a massive carbon footprint and, quote, contributes significantly to the destruction of nature itself, end quote. this is going to drive people nuts. in the green world, everything has to change to limit carbon emissions. in the real world, very few people are prepared to upend every as aspect of their life. where does it stop in come on, it doesn't stop. the greens will nebraska leave you loan. -- never leave you alone. biden's green new deal, it's

coming with a whole new raft of rules, regulations, restrictions, inspections, mandates, fines and taxes. you ever heard the expression -- [speaking in native tongue] it's latin for argument to absurdity. and that's what the moroses on valentine's day argument really is, an absurd extreme. third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ ♪ stuart: jim bifailla's with us, thank goodness -- jimmy failla. do you give red roses to your one and only in. >> i'm actually in a a weird position, so i'm a trophy husband, most of the gift come my way. [laughter] as a you'd imagine p can key, but whatever the scam writing is right here did just give a lot of forgetful guys a hell of an excuse -- [laughter] stuart stuart exactly. >> babe, i was just look out for the planet.

what's the sense of being in love if we're not going to be able to survive this thing, you dig? i don't know. what i think they do on the climate side because nobody cares about climate change, what i mean is climate change always needs a cosigner. it's not an issue at top of mind for the average person, so they always tether to something else like the inflation reduction act. they couldn't pass it at a climate bill, they had to pass it on the trojan horse back of inflation. and they go after meat, first of all, you've got to eat bugs. they're not eating bugs, as you know, but the lightbulb, the stove, the hot water hereto, okay? they need to force this agenda on you or you're not going to pay attention to it because none of us have a luxury e at a time when 76% of americans think the country's headed in the wrong direction of worrying about what the weather will do in 50 a years. nobody cares. >> i think you're right, actually. jon stewart, he's back at the daily show after stepping away i think it was for nine years.

>> yeah. stuart: he wasted no time a mocking president biden. let's deal with that first. roll tape. >> allow me to present to you a one-man show -- after laugh about what joe biden's advisers were doing when he turned around and went back to the podium. [laughter] the show is called -- no! [laughter] do not go finish. [laughter] please. but with he went back. biden was referring to sisi, the president of egypt, not mexico. [laughter] unless it was even worse than that and he thinks the president of mexico is named si, si. [laughter] stuart were you surprised that he made fun of -- >> no. jon stewart, to his credit, is what i call an honest comedian. he clearly leans to the left, but i feel like he's going to force the hand of the white house by coming back to the daily show in that he won't let them not acknowledge what the rest of the country knows to be

true. meaning, when we read that special counsel report last wreak -- last week, it wasn't news to anyone. jon stewart knows in order to be credible with an audience, he can't pretend this biden thing isn't happening. so i think in the long run although he's clearly an ally to liberals, he'll hurt them if biden winds up being nominee. toure tooth that clip was funny. >> i 4r56ed. i thought it was great, and clearly, other comedy shows feel the heat of e fox news saturday night with jimmy failla. stuart: that's my cue. >> thank you. stuart: 10 is p.m. eastern on fox news channel. thanks very much, indeed. >> my man. stuart: check the markets. the selloff continues. it's not quite as bad as a it was but still pretty bad. dow's down 450. let's look at the oil market. 450 down for the dow, 180 down for the nasdaq. coming back just a little. mike purr my with me for the entire hour. inflation came in a little

hotter than expected today, 3.1%. not under 3%. is that that what's doing the damage? >> it is. i think the story is now, stuart, looking at the fed, when will they cut rates. i think whether they do it in march, in june or october as long as heir doing it at some point this year, i think this market rally is intact. i wouldn't be too worried. we're up for five weeks. we started the beginning of the year with a 5.5% rally. you're going to have some cause for some selloff along the way. stuart: you said on the show before you were expecting the market to take a breather at some point. that's all it is, it's just a breather. >> thanks for pointing that that out. yes, we need a breather. we need some selling to come in. we can't just have erratic exuberance, euphoria. there's are going to be ebbs and flows, but we're in a very good place. tooth my trouble is i'd like to buy more big tech, and i think maybe this selloff is an opportunity do i have the guts to get back in and buy some more microsoft or whatever it is? >> the public wants to know, do you?

if. [laughter] stuart: well, i'll tell them, i guess. i don't think the selloff is over at this point. i think you might get a little further down, but i don't want to time the bottom. >> exactly. you know what they say about picking bottoms. stuart: go ahead, what do they say? >> you get smelly figures. [laughter] look, the -- whether you buy microsoft here or in a week or two weeks, it doesn't make a difference. you're not buying it for a trade, you're not buying it for an 8 or 10-point rally. you're buying it because long term you think it's going to create value, so i would say you can go in at any point. stuart: looking at the movers, lauren, home depot. lauren: housing market play, right in it is one of the largest dekleins on the dow jones right now. rate cut hopes were dashed on the latest inflation if data, the cpi. this is not good for mortgage rates and the housing market in general. dr hour month down 4%, lennar down 4%. the housing-related sector is selling off. stuart: but there is one stock that's going up again, and that is nvidia.

lauren: price target raised to 825. they see, quote, substantial a.i. upside for nvidia. this month at least five brokerages have increased their price target, ubs at 850. this is ahead of nvidia reporting earnings next week, on the 321st. how much higher -- 21st. how much higher can this thing go? >> i think it can go a lot higher. you know, if they continue to hit their numbers, there's a lot of upside here. they seem to be the ones who are getting the most bang for the buck on the a.i. move, so i think when they announce, people are trying to position now. so if it sells -- if they miss, obviously, the stock's going to sell off, but i think nvidia has room to run here. stuart: lawyer lauren they're it's up 230 percent in the past year. stuart: kroger. lauren: they're pushing for the ftc to approve their merger with albertson's. they say they will lower prices and -- stuart: they will lower prices? lauren: yeah.

well, that's one of the concerns from the regulators, that if you have more consolidation, the big, bad supermarkets are going to keep gouging you. so kroger or's is coming out and saying we're not going to do that. in fact, we're going to use our merger to lower prices so we can compete with walmart which is the biggest grocery store. stuart: coming up, a new study out of new zealand claims eating a kiwi a day could improve your mental health in just four days. is dr. marty papa carry convinced, or is this just another fad? we'll discuss. this time inviting a speaker who tried to justify the october 7th terrorist attacks on israel. we'll bring you full story. nearly 14,000 migrants were apprehended in arizona -- actually, just in the tucson area -- in just the last week of january. has the state become the epicenter of the my garth grant my kris? i'll put that to sheriff mark lamb. he's next.

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stuart: dow's down 430, nasdaq's down 185. look at the home builders. interest rates are moving up, that suggests that mortgage rates will move. this group is some of the biggest losers of all the groups on wall street. all of them down. check the border. a small island once used by mexican cartels to smuggle drugs and migrants is now locked down by the section national guard. casey stegall is in eagle pass for us. what happened on the island, casey? >> reporter: well, stuart, quite a lot. it's actually known as a fronten island. it is a 170-acre piece of

property down in star county about 150 miles south of where we are. late last year we showed you video on fox news and fox business provided to us by texas dps showing some pretty dramatic pictures, a gun battle between cartel members on the mexican side of the river across from fronten, texas, even using improvised explosive devices. it had turned into a major hot spot for drug smuggling and human trafficking. then the texas land commissioner deemed the property belonged to the state, so dps and national garden troops have now cleared the land, put up more than a mile of razor wire and retaken control. law enforcement now frequently patrols and operates on fronton island as part of operation lone star, and yesterday the land commissioner visited the area to track the its progress. getting a look at the island by a air and telling reporters that their work has paid off.

>> as long as the federal government in that faraway capital continues to fail their citizens, rest assured that texas will use every tool at our disposal to keep your families safe. >> reporter: meantime, yesterday here in shelby park the fox flight team drone flew over or a small group of about 88 migrants waiting in the -- 8 migrants waiting in the river but not able to get across due to all of the razor wire. last week in this very sector border patrol reports more than 3600 migrant apprehensions, that includes more than 450 gotaways. and off the number apprehended, at least 13 were considered dangerous criminals. but, stuart, as we know at time here in eagle pass we've reported several thousand encounters in a single day, so several thousand over the course of a week means at least for now things here are slowing. stuart: how about that? case i, thanks very much, indeed. still on the border crisis, in

arizona nearly 14,000 migrants were detained in the tucson sector in just the last week of january. sheriff mark lamb join me. is arizona now the end epicenter of the border crisis, and if so, why? >> hey, good morning, stuart. this has not changed for a long time for us. if you go back to august, september, we were still hitting between 10-15,000 a week, and we had a high up to 19,000, i think, in december. so this has always been the case for arizona. and what people are are not talking about anymore are the gotaways. arizona, tucson sector, has always a led the way in gotaways, and those numbers have not diminished either: so while we have always considered ourselves the end center, those numbers -- epicenter, those numbers continue to be consistent for us over the last several months. stuart stuart we got a rancher in arizona sounding the alarm about the possibility of terrorists exploiting our border. roll that tape, please. >> i have filmed evidence of

3,050 people coming across my ranch. now, these aren't dressed in street clothes, these are in camouflage, they have carpet shoes and they're entering our country unseen, and they could be terrorists. i'm really concerned that if our adversaries around the world want to bring terrorists into our country, this is a route. stuart: sheriff lamb, have you seen -- is this common? have you seen that kind of video before. >> oh, absolutely. this is what we deal with every day. look, these are not talking points, stuart. this is what we live every day. the men and women in camouflage clothes, predominantly military-aged men in camouflage clothes coming through my desert, just yesterday my helicopters were down picking a dead body out of the mountains. this is what my people deal with

every day, and it's the consequences of this open border policies of this administration. that's the reality of what we deal with. so the fact that you would think that there are not terrorists in that a grape would make can be in that group would make somebody naive. of course there are people that don't love america mixed in, and they're all too willing to pay the cartel to come across as one of those gotaways, unknown, undetected. stuart: with this going on, sheriff, i would have thought that arizona would be a huge red state. maybe a couple of patches of blue here and there, but mostly a red state. is it? >> well, we are a red state. we're a little bit broken as a republican party. i think we've been broken across the country a little bit as a republican party, but we're looking to take that back. look, that's why i'm running u.s. senate. we have more republicans in ads, and people are fed up with the border issue and the economy and crime, and this is going to be the election where we see red come back into ads, and we're -- into arizona, and we're going to a take our border back when we

do that. stuart: sheriff lamb, thanks very much for joining us. see you soon. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: new report reveals what the biden white house really thinks about as kamala harris' job as a border or czar. ashley, what exactly are they saying? if. ashley: pretty much what everyone else is. critics within the biden administration say vp harris, who's supposed to be the border czar, has frank thely been a dud. as one former senior official told ax a owes with, quote, she's been at best ineffective, and at a worst, sporadically engaged. it was her responsibility. it's an opportunity for her, and she just didn't fill the breach. now, harris maintains is to identify the factors that are driving people to leave guatemala, honduras and el el salvador. but the in-fighting over border policy and and migrant services goes back several years. axios quoting a feud if between then-top biden aide susan rice and hhs secretary xavier becerra, quote, saying for what

was seen as his reluctance to find more space in child migrant shelters which are overseen by hhs according to several sources familiar with the dynamics. rice referred to becerra as a ba which kind of rhymes be itch and bass. and privately called him an idiot. rice disparaged harris for not taking charge and, oh, yes, privately suspected that harris saab a tajed her chances of becoming biden's running mate in 2020. what a mess. stu. toure. stuart: stuart yeah. i've long speculated that susan rice plays outside influence in biden's white house, and i think she does. ashley: yes. i think she does too. stuart: coming up, the white house banned tiktok on federal devices a year ago. now the president is on the app making videos. what changed? we'll bring break it down for you. and look at this op-ed, why america's kids are hip to the

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stuart: on the market this morning, you've still got that the red ink. there it is. inflation ticked up, interest rates ticked up, stocks down. mike murphy with me this morning. you've got your stock picks with you. first off, sofi. >> so sofi, down 20% year to date, so is it hasn't gotten off to a great start, but i i think this company's really working on banking and loans for the younger generation. i think they'll be around for a long time. i really like the management team, so i think down here at this $8 range, a lot of upside for sofi. once it gets above that 10 or 11, i think it can go it up there with the bigger banks in the future -- stuart: that's the big lost the word. the -- what's the word? it's the big dip, and you're buying the big dip in sofi.

>> yes. stuart: thank you. you have to tick around for me to finish the sentence this morning. and then we have celsius. what is that a? >> so it's an energy drink. you know like monster energy was a very big, high flying stock? it's a $60 billion company. this is celsius. they're doing energy drinks in a healthier version, and the stock's had a huge run, and it had a stock split. it's up to a $13 billion market cap now, but i think the all-time high is around 68. it's here at 60, and i expect it to breakthrough that in the near term. stuart thanks very much, indeed. the biden campaign has joined tiktok one year after the white house banned the app on federal devices. kelly o'grady with me. that ban a year ago was all about a chinese security concerns. are they suddenly not concerned about china's security now? what changed? >> reporter: stuart, they're still concerned, they're just trying to win an election. [laughter] that's what's changed. listen, this is a shocking about face for the biden campaign, and i think the headline here is the concerns this is not just

national security issue, but the message if it sends to the american people. now, this, if you call a spade a spade, it's a desperate attempt to reach young voters. in recent polling, 60% of voters 18-29 disapprove of the president's job performance, and the majority of them say, well, they're on tiktok. so this comes as part of a larger push to leverage social media. in fact, there are a number of democratic superpacs that are spending over a million dollars to partner with influencers during this election season, but lawmakers are pushing back urging the campaign to reverse course. >> it's not serious leadership, it's not the move of a series country. if we continue to go down this road, we're going to effectively cede control of our news immediate if ya to a hostile foreign country. that's unacceptable. i urge the president's, you know, gen-z, tiktok-addinged campaign staffers to reverse course. >> reporter: tiktok, of course, is being investigated by the committee on foreign investment in the u.s. since 2019. big reason is it's owned by a

chinese company, and the communist party can legally force them to turn over consumer data at any time. and at yesterday's briefing, even john kirby admitted there are concerns about potential misuse of consumer data. stuart, i talked to a number of sources that used to work at tiktok, and they shared with me they had a lot of concerns about what data's collected, how that's used, so a rot9 of people are perceiving this move as hypocritical at a best and potentially dangerous at worst. stuart: i can understand that. kelly, thank you very much, indeed. take a look at this headline, why america's kids are hip to blm m and lgbt but are failing abc and 12 the 3. rebecca freed friedrich is the author of that piece and joins me now. you were a public schoolteacher for 18 years. why are math and reading schools so low especially in inner city schools? >> well, i actually taught 28 year, and i the -- can tell you the reason why they're low is by design. who designed it? the so-called teacher unions

entered our school system in the late 1800s, and they very quickly worked with their allies to remove phonics from america america's classrooms. so it used to be that americans were the most well educated, really great readers around the world, and all of a sudden a our reading scores started dropping. and teachers were say, hey, whoa, wait a minute, what's going on. the unions and their allies replaced phonics with look-say method. instead of teaching children how to read, they were teaching children to memorize words on a page. this destroyed the education al system in america. so now we have millions and millions of functional illiterates in america, and the way we fix it is bring back phonics, take out the sight words with, take out the look-say method and, sadly, the so-called teacher unions, which most teacher don't agree with this, hay don't know unions are involved in this, a bunch of political activists pushed this on us. they also remove pd, as far as mathematic es is concerned, we

used to memorize the facts, and children had to achieve a certain level before they were moved to the next grade level. well, the unions and their friends removed all of that too, replaced it with common core math which is a disaster, so this is all by design -- stuart: okay. but why are math and reading scores still so much lower in inner city schools? >> well, i think that the issue is in the schools that aren't inner if city, you probably have more parents who are home who are able to help the children after school, maybe the parents are more well educated. so i live in -- stuart: wait. a headline that i read earlier suggests that blm, black lyes matter, and lgbtq, have something to do with this low score. what's the connection? >> yeah, it shul does. well, so that as to do with low scores all over the board. not just inner city, but every level, children in every neighborhood. what's going on in our schools, again thanks to the so-called unions, is that we are focusing now on indoctrinating children

into things like black lives matter and sexual orientation instead of educating them. and all over the country we have so-called teachers who are activists who have been planted in our schools by the unions who are pushing these things on our children. if real teachers would never do this. they're really trying hard to teach a good education to the children, but they're trapped in a corrupt system. and real teachers are bullied all the time, and, you know, they lose their jobs for doing the right thing while these activist es continue to push a political agenda on children instead of educating them in how to read and write. stuart: rebecca, we're going to leave it right there. come back and see us again soon. see you later. harvard has rolled out the welcome mat for united nations official who has just -- who was just banned from israel. ashley, who is it, and why were they banned from israel? ashley: well, yeah. her name is francesca albanese, and she is scheduled to be a featured speaker at a harvard event discussing the israel-hamas conflict. the u.n. official just banned,

to your point, from entering israel for her comments basically justifying hamas' slaughter of more than 1,000 civilians as a response to israel's oppression. that's why she said it happen happened. albanese if also a state that the hamas attack had nothing to do with anti-semitism. okay. harvard's decision to host her comes, of course, as the school is dealing with act a sayingses of rampant anti-semitism on cam campus. harvard also currently facing a lawsuit filed by jewish students that a accuses the school of avoiding protecting ju-ju students from harassment -- jewish students from harassment. israel, meantime, says albanese should be fired permanently by the united nations, but she's due to speak by virtual means at harvard. stuart: thanks, ash. coming up, researchers may have found a new way to treat alzheimer's. it involves using ultrasound. black rifle coffee, they're an american success story, and

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stuart: maybe there's been a little bit of dip buying on the nasdaq, maybe. it's come back. it was down way more than 200 points, now it's down 190. the dow is still off 40points. here's why, the yield on the 10-year going straight the up, you're now at 4.27. next case, black rifle coffee. it's a veteran-owned company, supports vets, active duty military and first responders. the chief executive of black

rifle coffee joins me now. chris, congratulations. you started in 2016 with one store, three employees. now you've got 900 employees, 17 locations, and the last 9 months you've grossed $200 million. what is the secret to your success? >> thanks, stuart. it's fantastic to be here. i don't know that a there's any secret to the success. i think, you know, probably that's the vision that evan and his founding partners had back in 2016 to build a company that has been so dedicated to its mission and staying consistent to that mission. if there is a secret, that's what it is. you know, as we have grown, there's one thing that hasn't wavered at a black rifle coffee, and that's our desire to continue to want to support the are veteran/first responder community. stuart: you're committed the hiring 10,000 veterans. how do you recruit workers? >> we recruit like any other company except that we really do put a very heavy placement on how we go directly to the

services themselves and the first spender community as well. you know, police officers, fire fighters. we're very proud of the fact that we continue, you know, i think evan was op on the show in 2021, and he talked about us being 40 40 -- 40. we have an even higher percentage now of first responders and veterans that are in our work force. stuart: you've, you just -- you have been named, not you with, but black rifle coffee company has been named the official coffee of the uf if c. what does that mean for your company? >> we are really excited about this. the ufc, so evan, matt, myself, evan and matt being the two, you know, or original founders of the company, we had a conversation with dana white probably about a month before we signed the deal, and i have always been a fan of the ufc, many of us have been. it actually trends exceptally well among the veteran, first responder community. but to hear directly from dana his desire to support the veteran community the same way as we do, to have an

organization that not only pushes its athletes to the limit, these are folks that are preparing themselves at a higher level than possibly any other sport on earth, but on top of that an organization that is really dedicated to a very similar mission as as, the support of america, veterans, you know, we with just felt fantastic about that. stuart: you employ veterans. any thoughts on what's going on with our difficulties in military recruitmentment? -- recruitment? >> that's a tough question. i think, you know, that's going to change, right? if i mean, as generations change, the military obviously changes. i will tell you, you know, my daughter, she's a 24-year-old naval officer right now, i'm very proud of her. i think, you know, look, i think every year or every few years maybe they go through these cycles. i stand firm that all of our services are going to be able to continue to recruit the very best. again, i got to see it in my own family. stuart: well, black rifle coffee is a success and congratulations to you.

come back and tell us how well you're doing in the future. we'd love to see you, thank you. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: 25% of business economists say the u.s. will have a recession this year. ashley, what are they most concerned about? ashley: well, they corps -- or worry that the fed is going to keep rates unmessly high despite today's action even though they expect year-over-year inflation also to exceed 2.5%. of course, above the fed's 2% target, but that's certainly not the only thing worrying them. according to a national association of business economic survey, there are concerns about a conflict between china and taiwan with 63% believe whering such an yacht come is at least a mod date -- outcome is at least a moderate possible. 97% chance saying conflict in the middle east will drive oil prices above $90 a barrel and disrupt global shipping. meanwhile, another 85% are worried about political instability in the united states before or after the november presidential election.

but even with all those who believe recession is coming this year, they still believe it will only be of the soft landing variety. for years we've been -- it feels like years -- it's either going to be a hard landing or a soft landing. even those that are concerned say it's not going to be a deep veg, so i guess we'll take comfort from that. stuart: it's the economist dilemma, isn't it? on the one hand, and then on the other -- [laughter] ashley: yes. stuart: 25 of business economists say there's a recession this year. and you say? >> i say, not. i'd also say i'd love to know what percentage of them were predicting a recession last year. i think the big thing, stuart, for the people watching at home, what do you do if you have a portfolio based on what ashley just told us? the answer is, nothing. if you're sitting around at home waiting for china to potentially attack taiwan or for political unrest here, you need to have a plan, you need to execute your plan. and all this stuff -- a recession will come again, for certain, at some point. and when it does, it may be

deep, it may not be deep, it may lead to a soft landing, hard landing, but that's the economy. it's cyclical. we go through these cycles all the time. don't be afraid of it, just embrace it and understand what happens to our history. stuart: all right, more question. show me the dow 30, please. 27 down, 3 up. the dow is off 420 points. that's better than 1%. 38,370. that's where it stands. despite concerns about his mental health, the white house says president biden's cognitive ability does not need to be tested at his annual physical. we'll ask dr. marty makary if that's standard procedure, and that's next. ♪ i don't need no doctor, 'cuz i foe what's ailing me ♪ (♪) we're lucky to have this team working for us.

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stuart: we focused a lot today on the downside move for stocks and the upside move for interest rates. we thought we'd bring you bitcoin. earlier today it was at $50,000 a coin. it's at 48,000 now. it's had quite a week, hasn't it? researchers may have found a way to treat alzheimer's, and it

involves using ultrasound. jonathan serrie is with us. how does it work in. >> reporter: hi there, stuart. well, it is apparently a way that the you can get around the blood/brain barrier. the problem is if you deliver a medication through a standard iv, the brain's protective barrier is so effective that it essentially blocks about 98 of the medication -- 98% of the medication from getting into the brain. that means you have to use larger doses, longer treatments and inevitably more side effects. but researchers at a west virginia university believe that they have found a high-tech solution. the patient enters an mri scanner wearing a helmet that looks like something out of a science fiction movie. inside the helmet approximately 1,000 tiny probes focus ultrasound is waves on a targeted area of the brain where those waves agitate microscopic bubbles that have been injected into the bloodstream. as the bubbles vibrate and expand, they cause a temporary

opening in the blood/brain barrier or allowing the medication into the surrounding brain tissue where it reduces alzheimer's-related plaques. the findings are published in the new england journal of medicine. >> it's a promising results on a few patients, so we need to do more studies because people with alzheimer's need hope, and we need to accelerate the pace in this regard. stuart. >> reporter: and next month the doctor plans to begin another a study using ultrasound to deliver another alzheimer's medication, but he also believes there are applications beyond just alzheimer's. he believes it can be used to treat other brain conditions including parkinson's disease, cancerous tumors in the brain and even the potential of treating the most severe cases of drug ace diction. stuart? stuart: jonathan, thank you very much, indeed. staying on health, the white house insists the president does not need a cognitive test as a

part of his upcoming physical exam. roll tape. >> obviously on his physical which is the president proves every day how he operates, how he thinks, right? by dealing with world leaders, by making really difficult decisions on behalf of the american people whether it's domesticic, whether it's national security. so he shows it every day on how he thinks, how he operates. and so that is how, that is how dr. o'connor sees it, and that's how i'm going to leave it. stuart: okay. dr. marty hama a carry joins me now. biden a's physical will not include a cognitive test. is that normal,. >>? >> no, that's unusual. people can looking at biden's cognitive decline over the past five years, pretty apparent that memory lapses, the slowed speech, the delays and the interval ises of the delays after being asked questions. so i think this is probably an attempt to not look under the hood because the results may not

if be very appealing. stuart: "the washington post" reports that the cdc is planning to drop its 5-day isolation recommendation for covid patients. would you be onboard with that new guidance, doc? >> yes. that's a couple years too late. right now it's embarrassing if you get infected with flu, rsv or any number of a normal common cold pathogens, you don't have to isolate five days. covid is now a common cold-like illness. so people have been wondering, why do we have such a targeted policy with just one of the many respiratory pathogens. cdc's trying to be more consistent. stuart: is anybody taking covid vaccinations anymore if? >> very low uptake of the most recent booster shot despite the cdc putting basically all of its energy in promoting it. it's been very low, less than a quarter of cults who have been eligible. -- adults who have been eligible. stuart: have we learned any profound lessons about a virus or a pandemic of this kind? some.

>> i think it's been really obvious to everybody that we were my myopically focused on just preventing transmission and not talking care of people's health. i think it's very obvious nobody talked about the number one modifiable risk factor of obesity, being outdoors and activity. but people are heavily dug into their position. as a matter of fact, i saw a young, healthy waiter wearing a mask outdoors the other day, and i said, you know, what are you doing ebb? he said, you know, aye got to stand by what i believe in. [laughter] stuart: okay. dr. marty makary, thank you very much for joining us. always appreciate it. now it's time for the tuesday trivia question. really something. on average, how many wedding proposals are on valentine's day? 162, 23 or 450,000? the answer when we return.

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stuart: on average, how many wedding proposals are there on valentine's day, can you know the number of proposals, half the time no one will say this happened. and you are first, ashley

ashley: 310,000. >> happy valentine's day to my wife tracy. >> 150,000 on the ground that marriage is in decline. the average is 220,000. there is an estimated increase, that is terrible. it was a fun day. thanks for staying with me for the hour. happy valentine's day. that is it for us. i've got we 10 seconds left. happy valentine's day in advance. coast-to-coast starts now. david: head en cavuto coast-to-coast, trifecta of storms, no worries about inflatio