the border. are they going to bring up the wide open border and the murders at the hands of migrants. >> probably not. and to todd's earlier point, if trump sticks to the facts and the issue, i don't see any way he can lose. however, if he results to throwing haymakers, all bets are off because all the facts point towards everything whether it's the economy or the border being so much better under trump's leadership than it is today under biden. maria: well, biden's going to say the economy's great, you know that. >> they don't even own bidenomics.com. [laughter] this administration if has screwed up everything they've ever put their hands on. maria: all right. well, look, we're 30 minutes away from the opening bell for a thursday. markets are lower across the board. i want to thank mark tepper, todd piro, caroline downey. great show. great to be with you all. we'll see you tomorrow with reaction to the big showdown. "varney & company" is up next. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, everyone. i'm sure everybody knows by now

the cnn presidential debate is tonight, 12 hours to go. ground rules, here they are. two commercial breaks. no contact between candidate and and staff. biden on the right, trump on the left. mics muted outside speaking time, that is, no notes, no props, no crowd. there you have it. that's what you're going to be seeing. a new poll shows more than half of americans think this faceoff is extremely or very important. more than half. 16% may change their vote depending on what they see tonight. over 100 million may tune in. may i offer my opinion in it's trump's to lose. let's get to the markets which could be affected by what's said tonight. the analysts were disappointed that micron didn't come out with quite the blockbuster report they wanted. the stock's down sharply, looking at a 4.5% loss. that is affecting the rest of the tech sector. look at the market overall for a second. the dow industrials, this is premarket, showing some red ink,

down 74. the nasdaq down just so -- 10 points. interest rates keep edging higher. look at the 10-year now at 4.30. and the 2-year is at 4.75% or thereabouts, 4.73% right now. bitcoin, not much change, $61,200. oil, $81 a barrel, 81.61. regular gas up one cent reaching $3.50 per gone. that's nationwide. diesel, no change, $3.81. all right, politics. yes, it's debate day. some very interesting polls. "the washington post" says voters or in six swing states believe trump is best handling the threats to democracy. that's -- okay, 33 to -- okay. that's a different poll. that's a blow to biden. he's basing much of his campaign on saying trump is a threat to to democracy. all right, here's another blow. political analyst nate silver gives trump a 66% chance of winning the election. he says it is no longer a

toss-up. on the show today, the migrant terror threat, the tata week stand-isis connection. trump's vice presidential pick, he's toying with us. you will hear from senator tim scott and his fiance, mindy knoss. it is thursday, june 27th, 2024, "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> y'all ready for this? ♪ stuart: get ready for this. okay, now -- you know what we're talking about today. the presidential debate. tonight trump and biden faceoff, it's the first time since 2020. all right, lawrence jones is at

ruth ann's restaurant in columbus, georgia. lawrence, i've been watching you all morning, and i'm watching what the people are saying. those people there in that restaurant, they really like tim scott for vice president, don't they? >> the people of georgia, first, great people, they're just fired up. they do like tim scott. you know, it's interesting because we've been doing this series. yesterday with i did j.d. vance, ainsley did tim scott. brian is set to go with with burgum if the former president doesn't announce his pick and then, of course, steve was supposed to be marco rubio, but he declined our request. but when i asked the folks in georgia about who they wanted to be vice president, a lot of applause for tim scott. stuart: what's the top issue amongst those people in that restaurant? is it immigration or inflation? >> you know, yeah -- well, it's interesting because when you talk to some of the people here, they say the economy. the second issue is definitely

immigration. there are so many people in georgia that are ticked off about the border. i mean, when you see innocent young americans, especially in my home state of texas where a 12-year-old was raped brutally and then murdered by two guys, and then one of them said, oh, i told the other guy to stop, okay? so we're dealing with people that are criminal, were criminals in their own country. remember, people said with donald trump they said he was make it up when he said venezuela was emptying their prisons. we know that to be true now, because they're coming here to commit crimes. stuart: got it. lawrence, good man, see you again later. [laughter] thanks very much. president biden has repeatedly called donald trump a threat to democracy. watch this. >> the defeated former president has made no secret of his attack on our democracy. he said he wants to be a dick today for to have on day one. >> what, in your view, constitutes the primary threat to freedom and democracy at

home? >> donald trump. donald trump uses phrases like he's going to be a dictator on day one. donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this country. he's willing to sacrifice our democracy. stuart: however, a new poll finds voters in key swing states actually trust the trump more than biden to handle threats to democracy. mary katharine ham joins me now. is there really a threat to america's democracy? and if there is, is it from trump or biden? if. >> well, look, this is the problem for them, that many people view this many different ways, right? when you're talking about the left are, they view the threats as trump and his unor the docks way of governor -- unorthodox way of governing. when you talk about right-leaning, you look at the way joe biden is saying explicitly look how i've ignored the courts by forgiving everybody's college debt or look at the ways i'm proud we've

strong-armed the judicial system and gone after our opponent, and that seems like a threat to democracy to us, right? but i think the larger issue is threat to democracy is a rather abstract idea, and people are dealing with inflation, they are dealing with economy concerns, they are dealing with crime in their cities to some extent that is increasing in various places. they look at joe biden and they go, or hey, you promised us a steady hand on the wheel. independent voters broke his way for that reason. okay, we're going to go out of the chaos and into this. and then they look around at the economy, at his policies, they look around at riots in lafayette park right across9 from the white house on behalf of hamas, and they go, uh, is this what i ordered? i do not think it is. so i think trump's challenge tonight is to appear to be the steadier hand on the wheel. i know he's, he's bombastic, he can be unpredictable, but i think a temp rate performance would do him well tonight because if he needs to look like

the option that people can turn to when they've decided that biden is not giving them the steady hand on the wheel. in fact if, he's giving them chaos with. [laughter] stuart: got it. mary katherine, election guru nate silver just released his highly anticipated forecasting model for the election. not the debate, the election. he says trump has a 66% chance of winning. it's no longer a toss-up, says nate silver. do you think the election might be decided tonight, march key rath -- mary katherine in. >> i think it's a very big deal. the news cycle moves so fast, a week from now we might not think it's a big deal. but the risk for a catastrophic glitch for a candidate like biden is pretty high, higher than we've seen for most candidates in the past, and if something like that happened, it could make a huge difference, and democrats would get really panicked about the fact that he's on top of the ticket. "the new york times"/sienna poll has 68 of voters thinking he's

too old. the flip side, if he does well for 30 minutes, everybody will be like, oh, look at this success. i think that's a challenge for trump as well. the expectations are, rightly, quite low for joe biden. stuart: set the bar low, and if he jumps over it, he's in. at least it's a success, put it like that. mary katharine ham, see you again soon. tonight, the fox news democratic 2024 special, the cnn presidential debate simulcast on fox. please watch on fox. if. all right, let's turn to the markets and and check futures. this is debate day, the morning of. down 90 on the dow, down about 11 on the nasdaq. adam johnson with with me this morning. >> sir. stuart: are stocks overextended? >> they're getting there. and i'm saying that as someone who is fully invested, so i'm keenly aware. i tell you why i say this, the s&p 500 is trading at 21 times earnings. for context, typically 17-20 is kind of where you want to see a

bull market, so 21 it's pushing up. and yet if you look back at the tops from 2008 back in 2000, the s&p went up to 28-30 times. that that's bubble territory. we're nowhere near there, again, we're at 21. but do i think we're overextended? that's why i say we're getting there. we're on the upper edge of where you like to see the range. stuart: what do you make of the betting odds which i do follow occasionally which show trump a 51 to biden 35, favoring trump for the election? >> yeah. very different from the polls, right? stuart: yeah, they're close. >> i think that reflects the electoral college, and i say that because if you consider the fact that mr. trump is winning in all seven of the battleground states, then all those electoral votes go to him. and, actually, if you go to the real clear politics map, what you would find is mr. trump, were the election held today, would be at 323 and mr. biden would be at about 220. you need 2700 to win. that would be a landslide for

many trump. and yet the popular vote tells a different story. stuart: what about the misery index? i remember that from 40 years ago. >> yeah, right. so the misery index basically adds the inflation rate, right now 3.3, with the unemployment rate, right now 4. so 3.3 plus 4, 7.3. that is exactly the tipping point historically since world war ii when the misery index has been 73 or higher, the in-- can 7.3 or higher, the incumbent loses. stuart: really? >> yes. just like everything else in this election, it's right at knife's edge. stuart: you're with me for the hour. >> okay. stuart: an urgent new warning if you use the self-checkout line at the supermarket, thieves have a new scam that goes completely unnoseed. -- unnoticed. a judge is blaming donald trump, a judge blaming trump for the killing of a 12-year-old girl in texas. you've got to watch this. roll it. >> it hurts even more that they're being used as pawns in this fight over immigration that

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♪ stuart: it's the fist time in four years that donald trump and president biden will face off. jacqui heinrich outside the white house for us.

just take us through the day, will you? >> reporter: sure is. well, stuart, according to a new quinnipiac poll or, 73% of voter, a majority, say they're going to be watching this debate tonight, and 16% city they're open to changing -- say they're open to changing their choice for president based on how it goes. former president trump say he got good reviews last cycle when he had a more temper rate rapport, is so president biden has been trying to find ways to get him ang i and throw it out. the dnc has put up billboards welcoming trump back to the peach state as a convicted front. the biden campaign's been trying to figure out what gets under his skin, drafting jabs for biden related the january 6th and biden's 2020 -- excuse me, trump's 2020 election laws. but bidens also is trying to appear as the adult in the room. is so tonight he might also need to mind his own temper.

>> -- radical left -- >> you shut up, man? [inaudible conversations] >> no, no, we have ended the segment, we're going to move on to the second segment. >> that was really a productive segment, wasn't it? [laughter] keep yapping, man. >> reporter: trump has has shunned formal a debate preps, opting for policy talks and the campaign trail. he called into a black business lead's' round table and predicted the moderators tonight will help his opponent. >> yeah, probably, but it would be great news -- cnn has had a lot of ratings problems. in terms of its credibility. if. >> reporter: trump's campaign said they expect biden to benefit from his week-long study session and 50 years in politic, but they also suggested he might get some help from performance-enhancing drugs, an accusation team bind sees as a vulnerable. >> they like to complain about debates, sometimes they skip out. the president will be there tonight, we still assume donald

trump will be there as well. the fact of the matter is they play these games because they know on the issues that matter most to the american people, donald trump is a loser, right? >> reporter: biden heads to atlanta around noon today, and when we see him, it'll be the first time since the 20th, stuart. stuart: some time has passed, i think. thank you very much, indeed. andrew cherkasky is with us, joining us now, a former federal prosecutor. judge merchan has partially lifted the gag order against trump in the criminal trial. should trump talk about the trial tonight now that he's free to? >> well, lifting that gag order is a day late and a dollar short. the gag order, interestingly, does not prevent -- or does not allow donald trump to talk about the judge's daughter still, and that's one of the most troubling issues in this entire trial -- stuart: really? he -- wait a minute, he can't talk about that? >> he cannot. paragraphs do -- stuart: that's outrageous. >> -- were lifted which is the jurors and the witnesses, but the court staff and the prosecutors, that part of the

gag order still not lifted. so so one of the biggest problems in this trail was the fairness of judge merchan and the connection he has to a daughter who's raising millions and millions of dollars for the democratic party and profiting off of this trial. he still can't talk about that. stuart: isn't that prohibited umped the statutes of how they govern trials in american courts? >> i think it's a blatant violation of the first amendment. i'm so disappointed with the new york courts. there's so much i could talk about with that, but the idea of the first amendment being stripped from the front-running president, for the upcoming campaign, it's outrageous. stuart: got it. now, president biden's team, they've been referring to trump as a convicted felon. frequently, a convicted felon, hammering him on that. that's an aggressive attack. do you think it works tonight? >> well, you can call him a convicted felon, but you're going to have to define what he did that was wrong because, remember, donald trump paid his

lawyer, put it in his books as a legal expense. i've talked to so many business folks, they can't tell me what they would have booked that expense as otherwise. so if biden's going to attack on that, he's gown to have to be ready for trump to come back on him for all of the things which he's done for which he's an unconvicted felon, things like the untimely and reckless withdrawal from afghanistan, things like his own classified document mishandling. he's going to have to answer potentially for his son's conduct that he has endorsed over all this time. he's got a lot to answer for if he's to going to attack donald trump on criminality. stuart: it's a must-see tv event, isn't it? [laughter] there's no way around it. i might even stay up late to watch this thing. check futures real fast. i see some red ink for the dow. you're down about 800 -- sorry, 108: nasdaq down, red red ink. the federal reserve just released the results of its annual stress test for banks. how did they do, lauren?

lauren: all 31, cleared. they can withstand a severe recession which assumes 10% unemployment and housing prices that a fall around 40%. they were able in those circumstances to maintain enough capital. one caveat, the results were fine, a little bit worse than last year because the banks are holding more credit card loans and debt. stuart: adam johnson, what's your feelings? they passed the stress test. so what? >> of course they passed the stress test because they have twice as much capital set aside. so, yes, that's wonderful. that's the lesson and the legacy of 2008, they passed the stress test, everybody knows it. they're well capitalized so onwards. stuart: got it. we'll take it. >> yeah. stuart: thanks very much, adam. all right. let's check futures quickly. 114 down for the dow. the opening bell is next. ♪ ♪ everybody dance now ♪

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stuart: on the markets this morning, cow's going to open -- dow's going to open with a loss of about 1000 points. d10 -- 100 points. d.r. barton. do you think this debate might

make a difference the day after? >> i think it might be, stuart. i think it might solidify some things people out there are already thinking about either candidate, and they can vote their minds, consciences and hearts clearly after tonight. i think that's going to happen. we look looked back at the data all the a way back to nixon-kennedy debates and looked at what happened one day, five day, ten days after. you're right, not much difference after ten days, a little bit of a pop. but the day after, about a 58% chance the market being up. stuart: okay. let's move on to your stock the picks starting with intel. okay, you like 'em. if. >> well, i do like them. and i hope adam's not snickering next to you in the chair a, but here's why -- [laughter] all of that chip money that's flowing in, the support money for u.s. chip makers, a lion's share has gone to intel.

i believe intel showed in the first quarter a tiny sign of life for a.i. networking in the future, for doing some really better work hand they've been doing. and i -- than they've been doing. and i think they've been down for is so long that their baseline business in pcs is going to sustain them until they play a little bit of catch-up with the help of some of our money on the a.e. side. -- a.i. side. stuart: now, there was a time not too long ago when you were on the show and you said you were waiting -- this was after the nvidia stock split. i said, i asked would you buy it, and you said, yeah, i'm waiting for the dip. well, we got a dip. it was down 13%. did you buy it? if. >> we did buy a little more. we add added to the position, stuart. we like nvidia long, long term. and i think dips are to be bought in that behemoth until somebody else can come in and

challenge them at that highest end a.i. application, hardware and support services data. there's nobody else that's going to, that's going to challenge them in the near term. stuart: all right. d.r. barton, thanks very much, indeed. we will see you again real soon. adam johnson with me. we've got, what, 90 seconds before the market opens, that's just time for you to tell us why you like builders first source. >> oh, yeah. it's such a weird name except they are the first source for builders who are building homes and buildings. in fact, number one in the country. absolutely wonderful company. stuart, there is a housing shortage. freddie mac says we are short by about 3.1 million home, right? because population growth, and the builders stopped building. we need to catch up as rates come down, that makes us -- can it more expense -- more reasonable to build. this is very good for builders first source trading at 111 time earnings, it's cheap -- 111

times earnings. >> you own it. g, and o logistics. >> wonderful company that was a spinout from xpo which is a big are truck operator that a lot of people know, follow and love. and gxo basically turns warehouses into robotic warehouses. and they're in the news this week because they are now using a new robot. it looks like -- remember c3po from star "star wars"? stuart: i do. >> it's about a 5 feet high, and it can carry 55-pound boxes, and it walks around the warehouse. it's a little weird, but it walks around the warehouse like a human, like c3po. stuart: they make these robots -- >> they make them, yep, and they are, by the way, growing 17% this year and trade at a 17 times. that's historically cheap. stuart: gxo, we shall remember it and follow it. >> i own it as do my clients. stuart: the market has just opened and away we go.

the dow opening with a very small loss, down 50 points. as you can see from the dow 30, it's a fairly even split on the market. there's not that much price movement if so far. the s&p 500, how has that opened up? slightly lower, a fraction, down 3 points, that's it. and the nasdaq composite, something similar, it's up 3 points on a 17,80000 index. no change. big tech, where are we? all of them on the upside is. not by much, but they're all in the green. let's have a look at micron. way down after they reported earnings yesterday. they're down 5% now. lauren, what's the big problem? lauren: they're not growing at the same rate as a nvidia, that's the problem. that's a are red flag for some investors. so what micron does is they sell these really high bandwidth memory chips, and they're sold out for all of this year, all of next year. but with their outlook for this quarter was largely in line with what the street wanted to see,

and that'ses disappointing. they wanted a much stronger forecast. also the stock might have been a little bit extended coming into the report card. it was up 13% this month. stuart: 13% this month, yeah, due for a little profit taking you might say. amazon, put it up on the screen. yeah, it's in the green. it's gaining .8. they're planning to launch a new discount store. that's big news to me. lauren: according to reports. they're a launching a discount store as a way for chinese sellers to ship their cheap stuff directly to the u.s. this is china policy because shein and temu, they get expedited clearance. they sell cheap. stuff. it costs under $800, so it can blow past customs duties. would amazon get that same treatment? one would assume. we don't know that. so they're trying to do the shipping between 9-11 days. a lot of americans that use tem

if u, for instance, have to wait forever. can amazon do it in under two weeks? that's the question. one more thing on amazon, fifth company to pass $2 trillion market value. the average a price target, it's at $195 now, it's 220. so they've got room to grow. stuart stuart they do, indis'd. have a look at nvidia, put it on the screen, please. 124 is the price. their ceo is going to address the competition, or he has addressed it. lauren: yeah. it was the first annual shareholder meeting. jensen huang's not worried about the competition, and he laid out strategy to maintain their dominant if position. nvidia chips are available on every cloud service is, on every computer maker, and they're looking for markets they might not have touched like industrial robotics. so different ways to grow. stuart: okay. next one is uber. e own a thin sliver of this thing, and i know they just lost their appeal to the gig work

law. lauren: yeah. stuart: the stock is actually up a fraction, but what does this no gig law mean? lauren: it that has to provide its drivers and delivery workers because it owns them -- employment rights in california. problem is, those are really expensive. studies show it can cost company up to 30% more than independent contractors. uber is also, don't forget, a very green company. they're now giving $1,000 in credits if you can ditch your car for phi weeks this summer. -- five weeks. say no to the car, get the credits. rent a car or take public transportation. stuart: i just can't believe, california is supposed to be the place of ongoing, new things. along comes uber, and they clam- lauren: they're disrupting the disruptive company. stuart: that's california, isn't it? >> i'll tell you what's going if on, california's trying to turn every gig job, working at a fast food restaurant, into a full-time, legitimate career.

no, these are gig job, for crying out loud. california, get out of the way. stuart: please. next case is walgreens. now, they're down big today -- lauren: wow. stuart: down 20%. lauren: off the top of my head, this is the worse drop -- worst drop in 27 years. >> i think you're right. lauren: this is awful. so what happened? they cut their full-year forecast, and they said they're closing store. they didn't say how many, but they're focusing on a quarter of their locations. they have 8700 stores. that's a big number. what did they just do? a few weeks ago a came out and said we're cutting prices on 13 if 0 -- 1300 different items because we know the consumer is under pressure. what does the consumer do? they buy it at the dollar store or at amazon.com -- stuart: if it's locked up at walgreens, they're all a locked up. you go to amazon. you don't go to walgreens, you go to amazon. that's what's happening here. lauren: a year ago walgreens

said shrink would reduce their profitability by $5000 million. i do not have an update, but they started this idea of a concept store with fewer aisles that house the stuff that was easy to sell -- to steal, rather. stuart: it's come to that. all right, novo nordisk. they're going to limit the launch of their weight loss drug we geoff with i have in china -- wegovy. why would they do that? lauren lauren because there's a lot of obese people in china, literally, they have the world's largest -- they won't be able to meet demand. and let's say they can give all of the people who want it in china a couple of doses. can they keep fulfilling those doses and also the balancing act, right? what about supply for folks in other countries? a final point. there are -- there's generic competition in china bigtime for wegovy. their patent expires in 2026 which is much sooner than in other countries. so maybe they want to get it out faster before the generics come online. i'm not sure.

stuart: will chinese consumers sent chinese-made weight loss drugs as opposed to the foreign-made novo -- lauren: they have to pay out of pocket. under no circumstances will chinese health care companies pay for this. stuart: i can see it coming. levis, down 16%. what's the -- lauren: i don't get it. denim is so in right now. i'll say all the things you don't know like denim skirts, especially long wings, cargo jeans. levis have got all of it, i guess they're just not popular. revenue rose about 8%, but it was the miss. they even increased their dividend by 8, but the customer's cautious, so says management, and they're holding back -- stuart: all the things i did not know, you're quite right -- lauren: loose-fitting denim skirts. [laughter] stuart: bill maher says people are aggressive left-wing politics are turning voters to trump. roll it.

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♪ stuart: alejandro mayorkas took a victory lap at the border. he credited biden's executive orders for a 40% decrease in migrant encounters. matt finn is at the border in arizona for us. what are border agents saying about that? >> reporter: well, stu, we've been talking to border agents this morning who are patrolling this wall behind us right now. that's mexico on the opposite side. they say a lot of migrants do illegally climb over this wall. we're keeping our eyes on the lookout to. yesterday dhs secretary mayorkas insisted it's president biden's executive orders that have led to that 40% plummet in illegal migrant encounters. >> we are imposing stricter consequences for those who cross the border without authorization. these actions are changing the calculus for those considering

crossing our border. >> reporter: however, before mayorkas' arrival here in arizona, a border patrol agent told us on the record that it's just too early to tell whether president biden's executive orders can be attributed to that decrease in illegal migrant encounters. >> for us, it's just too soon to attribute the decrease to the executive order alone when before that the numbers had already been decreasing. so i just can't make that determination, it's just too soon. >> reporter: now, legal migrant encounters have plummeted. however, the number of known gotaways, those are the people evading authorities, that still sits at about 475 a day. we got to shadow border patrol as they strategically try to track down those gotaways. we're in a hot spot for illegal crossing activity in nogales, arizona. this valley right now is being stationed by border patrol agents in cars.

they're also using atvs and horses, binoculars, basically playing a game of cat and mouse trying to track down the runners. and just a staggering figure for you, u.s. customs and border protection says it intercepted 2 million fentanyl pills here at the nogales legal point of entry this month alone. back to you. stuart: 2 million, good lord. all right, matt, thank you very much, indeed. that's a staggering number, indeed. today in texas, jocelyn nungaray will be laid to rest. two illegal migrants are accused of murdering the 12-year-old and dumping her body. now listen to a judge in texas blaming trump for her death. watch this. >> it hurts even more that they're being used as a pawns in this fight over immigration that doesn't even exist because biden and mcconnell agree, it's just that trump won't let 'em move it forward.

>> aren't you politicizing it? >> i think i answered, i think i answered the questions. >> are you politicizing this? by pointing the finger at republicans and saying it's their fault, not the fault of the biden administration that lifted the remain in mexico policies? >> again, the biden administration reached an agreement with leader mcconnell to address this. but this is not about immigration. i'm not going to feed into that. stuart: frankly, i find that incredible. a judge on the bench overtly political and taking sides. congressman tony gonzalez is here. do you agree with me? that's outrageous. >> i agree with you and she should resign. i'm tired of politicians blaming somebody else for the problems that are here, and we can debate on why they're here or who got us here, but how do we just get out of here? how do we fix these problems and how do we stop having innocent americans killed? and, yes, we're tragically hearing about the story of this

young 12-year-old girl that was murdered in the most horrific way, but what about all the stories we aren't hearing, stu the? -- stu? all the communities of people that are being abused and getting robbed and getting assaulted and all these other things? it is very clear that this open border has made americans less safe. is so let's stop pointing fingers and using political talking points. how about we just solve the damn problem and make americans safe again? stuart: well, we're not going to just solve it very quickly, that's for sure. got to wait for the election if we're really going to do some interesting stuff. migrant crime, that's emerging as a huge issue in the debate tonight and in the election. it's almost the biggest issue. if. >> absolutely, stu. and i'd say joe biden has already lost this debate before it even started because he has failed the american people on legal immigration. legal immigration, people want to come in to work legally, that's good for our economy. he's failed at that. and he's also failed at illegal

immigration, people coming over and draining our resources and taking away if our communities is bad for our economies. he has already failed from day one, and he can't hide behind somebody else's policies. these are his policy for years now. so joe biden has already lost this debate before it started, and i think the american public are going to see that firsthand tonight. stuart: how many people agree with the judge that we showed a moment ago, that it's trump's fault? >> i'd say that's the minority. the bulk of people in texas are furious. i mean, just ask these families. i mean, everybody, regardless of political affiliation, we are tired, we're done with it all. we're tired of our kids being killed, we're tired of being unsafe, we're tired of our property being damaged, and we're tired of our local resources going to people that aren't even from from here. what about us? if what about our communities? so people are outraged. i can't believe she said that. stuart: we hear it. republican congressman tony gonzales, that longs for joining us. >> thank you, stu.

stuart: biden's open border could be leaving us vulnerable a major terror attack. this is a ticking time bomb, and the terrorists know it. that's my take, top of the hour. farmers turning to a.i. for help with the shortage of human workers. we sent kelly saberi to a farm in kansas to see how this works. kelly is next. ♪ she thinks my tractor's sexy -- ♪ it really turns her on. ♪ she's always stare ising at mm chugging along ♪

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stuart: farmers are turning to a.i. to help with a shortage of human workers. how about that? kelly saberi's at a farm in salina, kansas. which jobs are they replacing with a.i.some. >> reporter: stuart, that's a great question. i think the answer is really that it's not a replacement for any jobs. there's a lack of labor in the farming industry, we know between 2017 and 2022 that america lost 15% of its farms because of that labor shortage. i have ag co. ceo here with us, and i'm able to have my hands off the wheel because usually nobody would be in here. tell us what we're doing today, what people are going to see. >> yeah. this is our fourth annual field tech days, it's essentially an

opportunity to bring media and analysts, investors to the field and have them see what our latest innovations are to help farmers with tough problems. this is an autonomous green carter working with our combine. during harvest it's a super intense time in high-yielding corn. that combine will harvest enough grain to fill a semi every 10 minutes. so there's a lot of need for labor at that time. farmers just can't find that a labor. so we've created an autonomous kit here to have all this happen without an operator in the cab. it's just one of our solutions to automate an entire cycle. we expect a full suite of solutions by 2030. >> reporter: wow. what are farmers telling you when you out here -- you're out here in these states that are a heavily dependent on farming? i know you talk to them day in and day out. >> farmers are under a prosecut. they need to increase the amount of grain that's grown, we call that yield, but at the same time

use fewer inpulses and be more -- inputs and be more sustainable. so we're making our machines smarter and smarter, putting sensor ises on them that can measure the variation in the crop or the soil and then have the machine do onboard calculations to automate how it's run, optimize how it's performing. >> thank you, eric. stuart, very cool, the fact that we don't have our hands on the wheel. you see it here. i'll send it back to you. stuart: i'll take it. kelly, thanks very much, indeed. adam i don't mean son, is there a concern across all a kinds of industries that a.i. replaces humans? >> i don't think it's a concern, i think it's a relief, stuart. stuart: do you? >> yeah. what if the pa machine does a better john -- job than i do? it should get the job, not me. and i think's the way we need to approach this. stuart: wait, wait, if that goes on on a mass scale, you've got a human problem. >> that's why so many people are worried, robot took my job with. stuart: could they replace you? >> maybe.

stuart: still sticking by a.i.? >> well, you know, that's -- i get calls every -- okay, not every day, but i get calls at least once a week from firms that say, hey, i've got an a.i. platform that might supplement your stock picking. and i take a look but, honestly, i like doing the work, and i trust myself better than i trust someone else or a machine. where i will use a machine is something i've already been doing, and that's screening. show me all the companies that are growing at least 15%, show me all the companies half low debt, right? if etc. you use a computer to narrow it down, then you've got to do the work yourself. i'm okay with my job, but there are going to be jobs -- right? [laughter] stuart: to i'm okay? we're out of time. >> okay. stuart tour thanks for being with us. nice contribution to the show. still ahead, deroy murdock on a pro-israel group looking to unseat a second member of the squad. brian kilmeade will tell us who he thinks will win tonight. kevin o'leary breaking down trump and biden's economic

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