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the president's mental condition, this is an extraordinary moment. >> but i think a lot of people have come to the conclusion that joe biden has not been running the country up to this point so it's just theater to them. >> i don't think it matters who the democrats put up because you can't change the facts. i don't care if it's harris, biden, newsom, i don't think it matters because the facts remain the same and the american people understand that. >> owe biden was never in charge of his administration. this was obama 3.0 running the shots. >> the people that helped perpetuate the coverup of the senility and mental frailty of the president of the united states are those that stand to benefit. kamala harris took part in the coverup and now she gets to reap the rewards.

>> thank you, next. not quite sure about that. thank you, mr. biden. next up, harris. look, sixth avenue. that's deserted. lauren: it's been like that for the past four years. stuart: oh, okay. lauren: since covid. who's going into the office? stuart: what was that about the stock market? selling in may and go away. lauren: yes. stuart: it's 11:00 on the east coast of these here united states and it's july 22. the market is up. look at that, dow is up 160, nasdaq up 229. a nice bounce back from last friday. show me big tech, please. it's been something of a mixed picture but right now, they're all up: alphabet, meta, microsoft, apple, amazon all to the upside. yield on 10-year treasury coming down just a little and up 1.5 basis points but below 4.25%, 4.22. in politics, the most important question is: can your candidate

win? that was the question democrats asked of president biden and when the answer was no, he can't win, he was forced out by party leaders. next question: can kamala harris win? it seems shall we say unlikely. she does not do well in the polls, and has a miserable track record after three and a half years in the vice presidency. she's on the progressive wing of the party, which is not popular nationally. but what really sets her back, this is my opinion, is her demeanor. on television and in those short video clips that pop up in your news feed, she's all too often laughing at inappropriate moments saying stuff that nobody understands. she didn't win a single delegate four years ago and only got her place because of her identity. the image you present in a presidential election is very important, and she does not have the appearance or demeanor of a serious candidate. that's just my opinion. so follow the money. big donors will not pony up the cash if they think she can't

win. one megadonor john morgan closed his wallet. there's one serious problem for kamala's candidacy, her silence while the president was suffering serious cognitive decline. she has lunch with the president every tuesday and work withs him in the white house complex. she must surely have known his condition but said nothing. she's part of the mess. she'll give her first public speech later this morning and everybody will watching and asking that question: can she win? third hour of varney starts now. stuart: mark thiesson joining me now. can kamala win? >> i don't know. joe biden was the most unpopular president in the history of international polling and the margin of error and he was losing in them all and it'll be

a close election and it will be with her. i don't think that she's going to get challenged because i don't think -- look, i don't think there's a white male in the democratic party that hopes to be president one day that will knock the first black woman to ever be a major party nominee off the ticket and think they're going to survive. they're not going to get cross wise as a con depressional black caucus -- congressional black caucus and james thigh burn and all of them -- james clyburn and all of them. if trump wins, 2028 it's an open seat and he can only serve for four years and most of the democrats think they're going to lose this election and she's a perfect sacrificial lamb to go up and represent them in this then she's finished and they can move on from this sorry spectacle and then win the open seat four years from now. stuart: have you ever seen a democrat party as split as this: obama and pelosi and schumer on one side and clinton and biden folks on the other. ever seen a split like this?

>> it's a mess. it's a kind of civil war in a way in the democratic party and, look, she's taking the nomination without having ever won a single primary vote in her entire life. because as you pointed out in your opening, which was terrific, the -- she didn't get to the iowa caucuses and had no delegates or votes in 2020 and wasn't on the vote in 2024 so she's got no primary votes. know who has more primary votes than her? dean phillips, marion williamson, uncommitted. they all very delegates and more primary votes than kamala harris but she's going to be the nominee. stuart: with a track record like that, marc, why do you think that a trump kamala harris matchup would any way go to kamala harris? >> i don't think it's likely to go to kamala harris but not impossible just like i don't think a trump biden matchup was likely to go to joe biden but it

was possible. he wasn't out of it. until the assassination, trump wasn't out of the margin of error in the swing states except for three of them. he was leading consistently and presume he was ahead because almost every single poll showed him ahead, but in most of the states by 2, 3 po points and ony three state where is he was clearly outside the margin of error so this is going to be a close election because there are a lot of people, and i'm going to break news here, there's a lot of amer americans that don'e donald trump. john fetterman had a worse debate than joe biden and won his election because people didn't like the alternative. if you don't like the alternative, they'll vote for somebody they don't like. stuart: something that concerns a lot of people, biden dropped out of the race by writing a letter. a monumental political movement with a letter. there's no picture of him signing the letter. nothing like that at all. and i want to see and hear from the president doesn't he need to

physically speak out and explain why he's leaving? >> of course and why he's citying in the office. if he's not up to being the nominee and running for four more years, why is he still in the presidency? the thing also i'm hearing, all the people are praising joe biden as a modern day george washington and did the patriotic thing and stood aside for his country. yeah, he's like george washington if george washington hid his senility from the american people and hounded out of office by the other founding fathers then like george washington. they engaged in a massive coverup and not like he had a stroke or had a sudden illness. they've known for years that he was in this situation, and they would be backing him to this moment if it wasn't for that debate and the fact their coverup was exposed for the american people for all to see. there's no george washington here. stuart: and they realized he couldn't win and he's out.

that's the way it is. marc thiesson, you're having too much fun. >> cause i'm on with you, stu. stuart: you're all right, we'll see you again real soon. back to the markets, please. first chance investors have to comment on the events of the weekend and dow up 170 and nasdaq up 250 points and jason katz with us on the market. how is biden's decision to leave the race affecting the markets? >> apparently it's not a trump train rally. for a second think, republican strategist since that debate were gaming in out. this is not a surprise. now, her chances of winning are higher albeit at a nominal margin relative to before, so you may see a reprieve in this trump train and if we get that, i'd certainly use it as a opportunity to take advantage. take advantage of industries like financials, like industrials, like healthcare.

those trump trades are very much alive and well. stuart: i want to talk about big tech. over the next ten days, big tech companies will be reporting their quarterly earnings. i'm told they're going to be spectacularly good, that good? >> i have no doubt the earnings will beat. 85% of the companies beat by an 8% margin at least and i expect the same. interestingly last week, we saw the s&p 493 do much better than the mag seven and everyone thinks you have to have this rotation where money moves from your left to your right pocket. i'll tell you that i think you're going to see the mag 7 hold in there and earnings catch up to them. a catch up of 493 doesn't mean a catch down for mag 7. you have to remain long in those names. stuart: i am. and staying long on those names. >> microsoft. stuart: there we go. paying for vacations and

retirement and college and everything else. thank you, jason. lauren is looking at movers that include on semi. lauren: up 5% and automotive chip supplier and in a new deal with volkswagen that will help the evs go further on a single charge. range is major reason why ev sales aren't greater. stuart: wendy's? lauren: wendy's is down and owner of burger king and both down 1, 2%. mcdonalds is extending their $5 value meal by another month. it was supposed to be a one month promotion over in august and now extending into august. it was successful. brought in traffic. stuart: disney. lauren: teamsters at disneyland in california voted by overwhelming 99% to authorize the strike and stock down 1.8%. in california, 6,000 of the 13,000 cast members are teamsters. stuart: got it. lauren, thanks very much. coming up, biden's economic policies have been accused of being far left. now there are concerns that a harris administration will push

it even further to the left. we have a report on that. donald trump says the republican party should be reimbursed for all the money they spent on ads targeting biden. he says everybody connected to biden committed fraud. we'll dig into it. how does biden's exit make us look on the world stage? kt mcfarland on that next. ♪ ameritrade is now part of schwab. bringing you an elevated experience, tailor-made for trader minds. ♪ go deeper with thinkorswim: our award-wining trading platforms ♪ unlock support from the schwab trade desk— our team of passionate traders who live and breathe trading. ♪ and sharpen your skills with an immersive online education crafted just for traders. ♪ all so you can trade brilliantly. ♪

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the moment i met him i knew he was my soulmate. "soulmates." soulmate! [giggles] why do you need me? [laughs sarcastically] but then we switched to t-mobile 5g home internet. and now his attention is spent elsewhere. but i'm thinking of her the whole time. that's so much worse. why is that thing in bed with you? this is where it gets the best signal from the cell tower! i've tried everywhere else in the house! there's always a new excuse. well if we got xfinity you wouldn't have to mess around with the connection. therapy's tough, huh? -mmm. it's like a lot about me. [laughs] a home router should never be a home wrecker. oo this is a good book title. stuart: president biden dropped out of the race and world leaders are reacting to the news. the leader of nato ask current chancellor of germany said my friend joe biden achieved a lot

for my country and the world and his decision not to run should be respected. canada justin trudeau said i've known biden for years and he's a great man and everything he does is guided by the love for his country. kt mcfarland joining me now. what does the rest of the world really feel about america's political predicament? >> let's all say nice things in public and in private what's happening is our allies are all holding their breath. what's next? you know, is biden going to be president next week, is he going to resign? is kamala harris going to be president or the nominee? who knows. it's on open convention and look at washington and say complete chaos in the white house and in the democrat party so they're holding their breath. they don't know what's next. the enemies however, and that's the guys you have to worry about, they see this as a opportunity of a lifetime. they have a washington that's complete chaos as i've just said, who knows who's the nominee or the president or making the decisions, and this is their ghost signal. this is when they're going to

start taking advantage of the chaos in washington dc and make their moves because almost all of them feel that donald trump will be elected in january and they all know that the sheriff is back in town. so whether it's iran or russia or china or north korea, they know they've got a wide open window now but it'll close very quickly. stuart: getting a little closer look at kamala harris. remember her very weak explanation of the war in ukraine? roll it please. >> so, ukraine is a country in europe. it exists next to another country called russia. russia is a bigger country, russia is a powerful country. russia decided to invade a smaller country called ukraine. so basically that's wrong. and it goes against everything that we stand for stuart: kt, that does not inspire much confident in me, how about you?

>> no, the critics will have a field day. look, everybody sort of rallying around kamala harris right now. she's going to be a great candidate, very enthusiastic. she's not going to wear well at all and she's not necessarily the candidate. the senior people haven't endorsed her and not throwing their weight behind her and that ukraine quote, it's a country and russia is a bigger country and they're all in europe together. they're going to be dozens of those. the more she talks and less anybody likes her. stuart: does all this election chaos have any effect on the war in israel? >> just a minute away from a ceasefire in gaza.

no, you're not. houthis and hezbollah and iran big time against israel and there's no ceasefire in the making, and if joe biden walks away from israel because he's worried about the muslim vote in minnesota and bet your bottom dollar kamala will walk away from israel and adopt a more maybe not pro hamas but certainly not pro israel position. stuart: really? you think that is a possibility that kamala harris would walk at least a bit away from israel, a little bit towards hamas? seems so outrageous to me. i can't see it. >> they don't walk -- of course it's outrageous but they care about the tuesday solution, minnesota and michigan. they don't care about the middle east. they're showing you, there's a lot of american people and the entire world for a couple of years because they're clinging to power. they'll do anything to cling to power and whether it's peace in the middle east, no peace in the middle east, walking away from israel, that's chump change for

these guys. stuart: any democrat that you can think of that could take the nomination, win the election in november, and be respected by the rest of the world? >> no, i mean, maybe michelle obama but it's pretty clear she's not at all interested. the problem with the democrats is not joe biden with dementia or kamala harris with her cackle. the problem is their policies. 20% inflation. the world is on fire and we could have three major wars at any point in time and then not to mention the open border, the other problems that they've brought and it's not just the people but it's the policies. stuart: kt mcgarland, right again. we'll see you -- kt mcfarland. right again. we'll see you again soon. interesting times. thank you. i want to get back to the possible ceasefire idea. secretary of state blinken suggested the ceasefire in gaza could be coming soon. let's get back to that . ashley, we've heard this before, how close to an agreement really are we?

ashley: well, as kt just said, probably not but blinken suggested that a ceasefire is within "the ten yard line driving towards the goal line". speaking at a security forum in aspen, blinken said the issue is what happens once a ceasefire is agreed. either hamas comes back, which sun acceptable, israel prolongs its occupation, which sun acceptable, or there's just a vacuum filled by lawlessness. it's been nearly two months since the biden administration released a three-part peace proposal that outlines a permanent ceasefire in gaza and the release of the more than 120 hostages still believed to be held by hamas. the hopes of a deal have faded pretty quickly after israel's legislature passed a resolution rejecting palestinian state hood, which by the way is one of the key parts of biden's plan. don't hold your breath. stu. stuart: thanks, ash. now this, israeli military has

draft orders for 1,000 men. now, they're calling this draft historic. what's that about? lauren: involves ultra orthodox jews that have resisted service citing re-ledge yous beliefs and three -- religious beliefs and three waves of thornhill tore these orders going out with 3,000 orthodox men in total. men with driver's licenses, college degrees and mostly single. they want them enlisted as soon as possible, in 45 days and the war is in the ninth month. stuart: thanks, lauren. let's take a look at the biggest winners of the day on the nasdaq thus far headed by on semi. lamb research, applied re-much and sml a and keeping an eye on gold and it's set a series of record highs and off the highs at the moment. you're down $11 but still at $2,434 per ounce. coming up, barstool sports guy dave portnoy weighing in on

biden dropping out. watch this. >> the right move not to run, it's not for the right reasons. how they waited this long is insanity and they're trying to hijack democracy. stuart: portnoy will have more. the democrat party turning towards kamala harris and break down their new strategy next. ♪

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stuart: let's look at the markets. it's the first opportunity investors have to comment on the events of the weekend and nasdaq holding onto 150 point gain and dow up 70. take a look at verizon reporting early this morning and stock way down. lauren: 60% to the downside and dow stock and pulling at&t and t-mobile down also and they've reported earning ands profit fell 5% and price conscious customers holding onto phones

longer and not upgrading and that's hurting them. all though i will say with the new apple ai iphone coming out, it might change things but right now it's a bad day. jacstuart: netflix? lauren: stock up 244 and this reflects netflix maintaining global leadership in streaming video. stuart: trump campaign is ripping up total for the election and danamarie mcnichols is in florida. what's the strategy? reporter: they're remaining confident and focusing on the policies rather than who the nominee will be. right now former president trump is here at mar-a-lago and arrived on saturday night after that rally at michigan. now, he has not addressed the country on camera after the breaking news, but he's been very active posting on truth social calling president joe biden a threat to democracy even

bringing up the debate scheduled on abc this september with joe biden calling for it to be held on fox news. he's also making it very clear how he feels stating president joe biden was not fit to run for president or even currently serve. he's questioning who is running our country right now. many of former president donald trump's truth social posts share rhetoric we've seen on the campaign trail calling out the lies of democratic party has kept around president biden's cognitive ability. he does show confidence as i mentioned before in the election no matter the nominee. >> i wouldn't be worried about any of them. look, they have bad policies, forget about the people. they have an open border policy, they have a high tax policy, they have a bad military policy, the whole world is going woke -- their world is going woke. reporter: we have eyes on his motorcade behind he and the

sheriff's department is patrolling the waters. he has nothing on his schedule for today, but of course we're going to be monitoring his movements as well as if he plans to address the nation on camera. back to you. stuart: danamarie, thank you very much indeed. joining me is jon levine. jon, harris is biden's endorsement but is she really who the democrats want to represent them in this election? >> i guess we'll see. obviously all i can remember is her 2020 presidential campaign where she famously was among the front runners and dropped out in 2019 before a single vote was cast and she was on her way to losing her home state of california. she didn't want to be humiliate there had and then she's been vice president, i can't help but notice how she's been bedeviled by staff turnover and there's a new chief of staff every week and spokesman contrast to biden that's famously had people for 20, 30, 40 people around him and inspires intense loyalty. just what we've seen from an

evidentiary standpoint, she doesn't have a lot of support within the democratic party. she's obviously been vice president, obviously president biden has endorsed her but as i think you pointed out and others have pointed out, president obama declined to endorse her and nancy pelosi declined to endorse her and major democratic power brokers and shoved joe biden off the race and they need to be taken seriously and whether she's expecting a coronation, she want as coronation and hoping for a coronation, but i don't know that it's going to be a sounding the alarm of a road as she's -- smooth of a road as she's hoping. stuart: any idea who harry would choose as -- harris would choose for her running mate? >> looking at governors and the consensus is they need to pick a white handout to balance the ticket so you've got people like andy beshear in kentucky, senator mark kelly in arizona, you've got josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania and these are all states she has to win or would be in play and they're all very popular in their states and those are all among the candidates she's

considering. stuart: i wonder if they'd want to be her running mate? >> this is not an optimal situation for her and inherit ago kansas city chiefs toosh fio and -- catastrophe and what does president biden do when kamala is on the campaign trail. do they make him go to the swing states and campaign and tell crowds of people she's the best candidate? stuart: that's a good question. i never thought of that. >> 2020 was the basement strategy, 2024 is the debasement strategy. what they're going to do to that poor man, sad. stuart: what we don't know his true condition and he's not appeared on camera since late last week. >> he promised to speak to the person people about this this week and see if that happens. stuart: yeah. have you ever seen a party, the democrat party, as divided split as this one is? you've got obama and pelosi on one side with schumer versus biden and the clintons on the other side. how on earth do you bring those two together? >> i haven't seen it but some

viewers around for 1968 probably can recall that. stuart: i was around. >> with lyndon johnson and -- no one went to lyndon johnson and said you need to leave but he saw the writing on the wall and said i'm getting out of this race. lauren: before the convention. >> 1968 was a terribly divided convention in chicago as well i might add, the same place the convention is happening in time around .x they had mayor daily of chicago to protect this. they don't have mayor daly this time around to protect them and it's going to be wild. on top of the palestine gaza people that will be there as well. there's going to be a lot of fireworks. stuart: i've been asking all our guests this morning. where were you and what were you doing when you found out biden was out? >> i was having lunch at the beach cafe on the upper east side. i actually didn't get an alert on my phone and choke on my food. it was the table next to me that was like blal! we turned and lo looked and said biden out. then everyone starts googling and it is what it is. stuart: within a couple of minutes, everybody who has

anything to do with politics knew what was going on right there. around the world. >> the second shed, i just knew. i didn't know what the scream was about and i knew. they'd been talking about maybe it'll happen sunday, maybe monday. i knew. stuart: where were you and what were you doing when the attempted assassination of donald trump? >> this is so embarrassing, i was having a nap. i was sleeping. i work early on saturday and so i was done and i was napping and i woke up and had 500 messages. stuart: you're on honest man. >> i'm an honest man. stuart: thank you, come back soon and wake up. campaign officials repeatedly told us president biden was in the race and staying in the race, were they lying or were they misled? jason rantz will take it on. in the hours after biden dropped out, kamala harris raised nearly $50 million. a sizable haul in a short time frame. steve forbes responds to that next. ♪

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stuart: on the markets, we're seeing the same pattern, strong gain for the nasdaq and technology stocks pretty much across the board. minor loss for the dow up two points. a look at chip makers and they're recovering nicely this morning, nvidia, amd, qualcomm, taiwan semi, monolithic power, they're all up. cryptos are rallying, not so much ethereum but bitcoin up $67,000. tram subpoena a crypto kind of guy. he -- trump is a crypto kind of guy and looking positive in the election, bitcoin goes up and it's up now.

biden withdraw is big chains from the economic platform. ashley, what kind of changes? ashley: interesting, it could reignite between progressives and what they call more centrist liberals and four years ago biden campaigned on a relatively liberal extreme plans favored by progressive candidates like bernie sanders bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. now, in the past kamala harris promoted positions that went further left than biden on issues such as raising taxes and favoring sweeping medicare for all star reforms to the healthcare system. increasing the corporate tax rate from 21% to 35% according to harris and she wanted to reverse most of the trump tax cuts and replace them with a $3,000 refundable tax credit for the middle class, but that said the democrat national committee

says much of the party's focus will be unchanged and we'll see. stu. stuart: only time will tell. not supposed to say that but only time. thanks, ash. vice president harris raised $49.6 million in grassroots donations in the hours after biden left the race. meantime donald trump thinks the republican party should be reimbursed for the money they spent campaigning against biden. we're forced to spend time and money on fighting crooked joe biden and now we have to start all over again. shouldn't the republican party be reimbursed in the fraud and everybody around joe including doctors and fake news media knew it was not capable of running for or being president. well look who's here, steve forbes joining us this morning. you know how much money goes into campaigning. should the republicans be reimbursed? it's a novel theory. >> it's very novel but not going to happen, but does underscore one of the big scandals in american history that they knew

this man was deteriorating and couldn't do the rigors of the job, and they covered it up. the political reporters covered it up and democratic party covered it up. con depressional members covered it up and all turn their heads and only when the polls started turning south for joe biden is did that disastrous debate saying we'll have to do a change. it was almost criminal and good for the republicans to emphasize and kamala harper lanes is has to answer -- harris answers questions what did she know and do about it? we know, zip. stuart: i'm wondering if there's a coverup continuing and we've not seen the president of the united states since late last week going down to his beach house. i think he should be on camera. i think his doctor should be on camera with a full report. that could be some kind of coverup. >> well, the doctor should be out there giving a real update on the physical condition and

when biden recovers from covid in the next few days, he should be out there telling the american people what's happening and why he did what he did, what does that say about his cape abilities of doing the next -- capabilities about the next six months and has to answer that directly. i wouldn't be surprised, sounds farfetched now but we've had so many farfetched things happen, is that if it looks like they say a michelle obama challenges kamala harris, and looks like she gets traction, don't be surprised if biden steps down and makes kamala the 47th of the utes. there's no way democratic convention would go against an incumbent. farfetched right now but after what's happened recently, can't rule anythingous. stuart: ever seen a week like we've just done through, steve forbes. thanks for joining us. you may be interested in what's going on on the left hand side of your screen. vice president harris is about to speak for the first time since biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her. she's speaking to the ncaa

championship teams. we're also just learning that harris will head down to wilmington, delaware, today and she'll say hello to campaign staff there. we'll monitor it all and bring you any headlines as soon as they happen. now this, the creator of the tv drama west wing and think the democrat party should nominate a republican. lauren: mitt romney and he says this election isn't about what our elections are usually about. they're about stopping a deranged man from taking power. in other words about stopping trump. look, no candidate polls better than trump for the democrats. biden's favorability rating is at 39 and for kamala it's at 38. so he's saying make romney the democratic candidate. i want to point out he's retracted that and sorkin publicly endorsed kamala harris stuart: it's another bizarre

scenario like steve was mentioned. lauren: he writes bizarre scenarios and that's how i'd screen play this. stuart: fascinating. thank you, lauren. come back in, ashley webster, please. how do biden tell his aids he was dropping out? ashley: he didn't to a lot of them. they reportedly learned about it on the social media platform x. surprise. politico reported that a sign of the abruptness was that biden's campaign sent out a fundraising e-mail for joe and kamala just eight minutes after biden shared his decision to bow out. the new york times report that campaign staff were still calling delegates 30 minutes before the biden announcement pushing them to declare their support for joe biden. the times also reported that biden worked on his announcement with advisers from saturday afternoon into the evening, but didn't tell most of his staff of his decision until a minute before the letter was posted to x and many of those didn't even get that heads up.

they read about it on the social media platform. oh dear. stuart: what a week we've had, ashley. stuart: what a week. stuart: i tell ya. show me the dow 30, please. i want to get a sense of the markets. even split frankly. down 21 points, 21,465 and same number of losers as winners on the big board. members of congress and the media breaking down in tears after president biden announced he'd not seek reelection. listen to this. >> you finally get the keys back, and then you just cry because this is somebody that you love. >> this family and in our state -- excuse me. i'm sorry. this was a very difficult decision. stuart: i say that's a little dramatic. jason rantz is going to be here to take it on. jason is next. ♪

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stuart: vice president harris is now speaking for the first time since biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her. harris said that biden is feeling much better. she said biden's accomplishments over the past three years are unmatched in modern history. there you have it. right now at the white house with the ncaa. cnn van jones and delaware senator chris coons cried after biden announced he was dropping out of the race. we played it once but play it again. roll it. >> it's like when your grandpa, you got to take the keys and everybody saying you've got to take his keys and finally get the keys back and just cry because this is somebody that you love. you're a young person watches this, this is leadership. this is patriotism. >> joe biden is grounded, grounded in his faith, his family and our state. excuse me. i'm sorry. this was a very difficult

decision. stuart: jason rantz joins us this morning. jason, i think that's overemotional but am i just cold hearted? >> i mean both can be true i suppose, but i mean i'm kind of with you in that it did seem a little bit overly dramatic. we didn't really need to get that from van jones in particular especially because he's been one of the leading voices saying joe biden has to step aside and not run. he's the one who helped start the whole back stabbing thing so this idea that now all of a sudden he's crying and saying it's like telling grandma we have to take the keys away. he's still the president so can we actually take the keys away? if you believe this is the equivalent of telling grandpa it's too dangerous to drive anymore, then it's too dangerous to be the leader of the free world. stuart: we've covered this is lot in the last three hours, but we should see the president and he should be on camera and kamala harris said he's getting

better. i want to see him getting better otherwise i don't really know if he can conduct the business of the presidency. what do you say? >> yeah, the longer that he is out of the public view i think the larger the conspiracies are going to become. but it's reasonable to ask the question you're asking which is simply, i mean, is he okay? is he actually still in charge? it's very unusual obviously for this kind of major announcement to come out and we don't even hear from the person making the announcement and instead we hear from the vice president who's now the presumed nominee. i think that this is a problem from an optics perspective that obviously raises a lot of questions that are very fair to ask. they should be answering them but they're not unfortunately. stuart: jason, i'm sorry we cut it so short this morning but one of those news-packed days and you'll be back soon i promise. jason rantz, everyone. thank you. barstool sports and dave portnoy, he responded to biden pulling out of the race.

what does he make of it? lauren: on a boat in nantucket. dave portnoy said it's about time and the process with which democrats did it is completely undemocratic. >> the right move he shouldn't run. not for the right reasons, like he has been this way for years and the democrats have been hiding it. then they're like well, he probably can't beat trump so we've got to get somebody else in there. how they waited this long is insanity, and they're trying to hijack basically democracy. they're not letting people vote. lauren: trump came on on saturday at his michigan rally. i took a bullet for democracy. so who is the candidate for democracy after seeing all of this unfold? stuart: well voters will decide. they'll figure that one out i think. thanks, lauren. now it's time for the monday trivia question. here we go again. how many states does the appalachian trail go through? 8, 10, 12, 14? the answer when we come back.

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rush. my interpretation of that, he wants an open convention. now this, before the break we asked how many states does the appalachian trail go through. the choices eight, ten, 12 or 14. ashley is back, you go first. >> i miss this i think it's 12 or 14 but i'm going to go in 12, number three. >> four of the five days last week i was right, i'm going with number ten. i'm going with ten as well. the answer is 14, the trail stretches, if you look on a map maine down to georgia, we can see him 14 states could involve, that is it for "varney & company", great to have you back, we will see you again tomorrow, "coast to coast" starts in five seconds three seconds. thank you for the buildup, we are following the same thing, di