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>> the problem ma i have is i don't think it can get worse from a presentation perspective for joe biden. all this absence is doing is raising questions. >> somebody has been running this government for three of and a half years, and we're not sure know who it isn't, but we don't know and we can't put our finger on who it is. >> if it is more progressive, that means more government spending, higher inflation and eventually fewer jobs, unfortunately. >> i think a lot of people are just relieved that joe's not going to be the candidate, because they realize that, you know, his car had run out of gas. or in his case, had run out of electricity. >> that is why it's going to be a problem. we can't comprehend it, so we're not doing anything about it, but at some point in time, it's going to be in our face probably within the next two to three years. ♪ everybody's talking about the new -- ♪ stuart: what's this? new kid in town. is that a reference to kamala

harris, perhaps? [laughter] >> the eagles. stuart: keep trying, producers. oh, yeah, the eagles, i remember them. 11:00 eastern time. it is tuesday, july the 23rd. look at the markets. dow down 25, nasdaq up 35. not much change. show me big tech, please. across the board we have -- winning. amazon, microsoft, apple, meta platforms, alphabet all up. we're about to start the season of big tech earnings reports. they're all up in advance of that. the 30 -- the 10-year treasury yield at this moment is below 4.25%, 4.323. and now this. 4.23. politically, kamala harris has led a charmed life. she has just floated to the top, helped by connections, identity and california's one-party politics. allysia finley in the "wall street journal" calls it another coronation for kamala. so what has she stood for on her

glide ride to the top? well, she's a classic california liberal. her list of issues reads like the socialist playbook of bernie sanders. guaranteed income programs, rent controls, taxpayer-funded public college for families making up to $125,000 a year. wait, there's more, much more. she supports medicare for all. and in the 2019 debate, she supported the abolition of private health insurance. essentially, she wants government control of all health care. she has vocally opposedded oil and gas fracking. how that's -- how's that going to play in pennsylvania? how about mass migration? well, she says the root causes are not border policy. oh, no, it's corruption, violence and poverty in developing countries plus, of course, lack of climate adaptation if and climate resilience. support israel? huh-uh, not in public. she will not be there tomorrow when prime minister netanyahu addresses congress. she's with the pro-hamas if

brigade that will boycott. america's principal ally in the mideast will only get a private meeting with harris. no wonder "the new york times" carries an article today saying the harris economy could prove more progressive than bidenomics. don't say we weren't warned. third hour of "varney" starts now. stuart: look who's here, jimmy failla joining us this morning. kamala's got a far-left agenda. i don't think voters will buy it, the do you? >> voters have never bought anything she's done including this coronation that was just handed to her. kamala clinches the delegate threshold last night with zero voter input. democrats have gone to dem crease's on it own. you do your own thing. but you're misunderestimating the appeal of kamala harris to the democratic party. she's fund raising well because in her speeches they charge

people to get out. [laughter] and that's a totally different threshold now. money is being made. but at a policy level, she is beyond biden. she ran to the left of biden, if you remember, in 2020. and i want this said for the view's -- viewers, okay? when we don't vote for her, we are going to be characterized as racists and misogynysts by the same democrats who didn't vote for her, okay? she was polling at 11 percent. she was be-- 1%. she was behind the milk i drank this morning, which is 2 percent, okay? if this idea that she's just going to catapult to the forefront of the nation and everything's going to be fine is a farce put upon us by the same people who were telling us biden was fine. they sold us on the idea that a biden was fit for office for three years. now they've shoved him out of the way, reclaimed some credibility, and they're going back into propaganda mode on somebody else who's not fit to be in office. stuart: she'll get a bump to start with. i don't think it lasts. >> no, not at all.

stuart: the harris campaign is embracing a new trend -- we're really training thing -- changing the subject -- called brat to try and win over gen-z voters. try to explain the campaign's brat rebound. roll it. >> charlie, and cx who i do know, quote, brat. you're just that girl who is a little messy can and likes to party and maybe says some dumb things sometimes. end quote. >> so the idea that we're all kind of brat and vice president harris is brat? i don't -- >> well, i'm not sure. >> right. two of us -- right. >> -- become brat. >> oh, okay. [laughter] >> you have to try. >> you have to work at it. stuart: look, jimmy, at my age, it's very difficult to understand those brand new concepts. >> first of all, when you're as up popular as she is, you need brats, jerks, dirt bags,

whatever slang they want to attribute to being support biof kamala, she's going to the embrace. what brat means, it's like you're a girl boss. you're a mess, you don't really say the right things all the a time, you don't always show up on time, but you're a likable mess, okay? let's be very clear, we don't need a brat at this moment, we need a parent, okay? the border's open, inflation's through the roof, price of gas thats doubled. brats did this, a brat attitude of, like, i'll get to it when i get to it, we're just here living our truth. there's the truth as you know and the truth that the country's a mess -- stuart: wait, wait, wait, hold on finish. >> it's supposed to be a sell, that she's considered sort of incompetent. stuart: they're trying the make -- i'm lost. they're trying to suggest that harris is a brat? if or behaves in a brattish flag? >> yeah. brat is a shang term to basically say, you know, i'm cool because i'm not always on top of things, okay? sometimes the i get things wrong, sometimes i say the wrong

thing. but we all know that's just me being cool. so they're basically trying to sell you kamala's flaws as endearing traits. okay? if lauren lauren wow. >> is so she's a mess, but it's all going to be final i'm telling you, we don't need a brat, we need a babysitter. a babysitter or a parent. i'm take the it. maybe a very cool aunt. stuart: you're doing a good job -- stuart. >> i'm trying, stu. stuart we'll sure to watch you on "fox news saturday night," every saturday, 10 p.m. eastern. >> let's get 'em. stuart: thanks for being with us, always good. check those markets, please. interesting market, down 101 -- 11 on the dow, up 49 on the nasdaq. mike murphy's with me this morning. i want to talk big tech. i've seen some predictions of the big tech earnings reports that are about to come out, that they will be speck lack a tar -- spectacular. therefore, if you own some big tech, you can keep owning it on

the grounds that you're solid, it's stable, you don't have any risk with it. what do you say to that? [laughter] >> well -- stuart: sign up for five years. >> or more. or what, sell it? like, you know, you looked at these company. we're going to hear from tesla and alphabet today. we're going to hear about innovation, about growth, about different levers they're pulling to continue to generate profits. i don't know if the stocks are going to trade higher on that. tesla, for one, has rallied 90 points in the last month p. it may go up on the news, it may not go occupy -- up on the news. but people watching at home, stuart, i don't think they want to be handicapping or trading individual earnings reports. but if you own tesla or you own alphabet, you shouldn't be selling them unless something drastically changes. or apple, put that on big tech across the board. you've taken this ride so far, it's generated so much wealth for you. now's not the time to sell. stuart: i can see that. it gives you form of stability

because, i mean, take microsoft, for example. i've owned it for years, it's now at $440 a share, made money on this thing. i don't think there's any danger that it drops all the way back to $100 0 to a share. that's not going to happen a. >> it definitely is not going to happen. and you have a lot of time to react if something were to change. if microsoft said we're going to start doing this now or nobody's using our products anymore or we've had huge misses on top and bottom line revenue for two quarters now. okay, maybe you need to rethink your position. this that time comes, don't -- until that time comes, don't make it complicated. you're in microsoft, you've got a great run, leave it alone are. stuart: i think you have been saying this exactly for five years, is it six? >> i try to swch it up to not -- switch it up, but it's having a game plan and stick to it. stuart: you've been right. if you stick with big tech the last four, five, six years, you've made some serious money. >> absolutely. and that's going to continue.

and for all the times people said rotate out, go to energy, go to cyclicals or go -- it's, most people can't do that, and there's no reason to do that. if puff a game plan for your portfolio -- if you have a game plan, and you stick with it, it works. stuart: you've got another 50 minutes to sit there, can you handle it? >> i got it. stuart: lauren's looking at a very interesting story the emerging about ups. lauren: it's down 13. so their new customers are picking slower delivery because if it's cheaper. ups said that two new, unnamed customers if flooded its network. they went to less expensive ground sometimes with the option that the post office did the final delivery. who are those customers in high volume customers. likely, although ups did not say this, shein and temu from china. >> if i could just throw in there, ups was trading around $150 toor 160 a share a few

months ago and announced they were going to have their huge raises for their drivers. we talked about it and said that's great for the drivers -- lauren: 170k a year. >> -- not so great for the company because profits are going to get hit. stuart: they got hit. nxp semiconductor. lauren: their wig e business concern biggest business is their autototemy chip. china, wildcard with instructionses -- restrictions, right? this is the worst quarterly revenue if decline and stock performance in four years. stuart: okay. that's nxp if semiconductor on really bad news. lockheed martin? lauren: we need a winner. it's up 2.5% at 486. they left -- lifted their annual sales target thanks to strong demand for the f-35 if is being delivered again after software upgrades, and that's responsible for 30 of revenue. stuart: coming up, kamala harris wants to make her campaign all

about a prosecutor versus a felon. but in 2020 she supported a bail fund that was responsible for releasing alleged criminals. and then we have karine jean-pierre if on "the view" today. she wouldn't hold a press briefing yesterday. is she auditioning for a new role when it's all over? if donald trump told jesse city watters about a his meeting with secret service director kimberly cheatle. listen to this. >> i thought she was very nice but, you know, you have to answer why couldn't i have stayed off the stage for 5 minutes while they do their work. stuart: by the way, an hour ago kim cheatle resigned. congressman russell fry will pick up on that and respond after this.

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stuart: lots of news coming at us including this: president biden will give an oval office address to the nation tomorrow night if at a 8 p.m. eastern. he'll be talking about withdrawing from the presidential race. we'll bring you more information as we get it. this is coming at as as a well this morning, secret service director kimberly cheatle has resigned. aishah has any joins us from capitol hill. what happens now, aishah? >> reporter: well, the real work begins, stuart. good morning to you. of course, there's a bipartisan task force now here on capitol hill that's going to look into that assassination attempt of former president trump. but we were inside this house homeland security hearing, a hearing that director cheatle was supposed to be at, she was invited to show up today and decided not to, declined that invitation. if we were inside talking about the trump assassination when i noticed that lawmakers were looking at their cell phones and

there you had it, the news came out that she had, indeed, resigned. take a look at this, fox has obtained a letter which appears to be a good-bye letter of sort ors to secret service staff written by kim cheatle. and in it i'll just read a little bit of it. as i stated in the hearing yesterday, talking about the oversight hearing yesterday, all of you are worthy of and can have. you deserve the nation's support in carrying our critical mission. now, cheatle resigned after that disastrous performance yesterday in front of the oversight committee. she was unable to answer really the most basic questions about this investigation. she kept deferring to report that doesn't come out until 600 days from now. -- 60 days from now. during the hearing we kept hearing more and more calls for her to step down from both sides of the aisle. here's speaker johnson just moments after learning the news and calling for her resignation this morning. watch. >> i'm happy to see that. i'm happy to see that she has

heeded the call of both republicans and democrats. now we have to pick if up the pieces. we have to rebuild the american people's faith and trust in the secret service as an agency. >> reporter: and, stuart, you asked me at the top what happens next? well, president biden has come out with his own statement saying that he will now choose another director of this agency. i want to also read quickly to you, just got it here, former president trump just released a statement of, of course, he met with cheatle at the rnc last week, and he came out with this to fox digital. he writes, she never gave me proper protection, so i ended up having the take a bullet for democracy. the former president continues, many requests were made by on-site secret service for more people, always with a turndown or no response. i have the biggest crowds in history, and they should be treated accordingly. big improvements have been made over the last week. that's from the former president, reacting to this

breaking news that thes secret service director has now officially resigned. stuart? stuart: aishah, thank you very much, indeed. more from president biden now. she -- he just responded to kimberly cheatle's resignation. as a leader, it takes courage d it takes honor, courage and incredible integrity to take full responsibility for an organization taxed with one of the most challenging jobs in public is service. the independent review to get to the bottom of what happened on july the 13th continues, and i look forward to assessing its conclusions. we all know what happened that day never happen again. i will plan to appoint a in director soon. congressman russell fry joins me now. republican from south carolina. congressman, what a reforms do you want to see put in place for the secret service now that the director is out? >> well, some of the questions that we actually got answers to yesterday, which wasn't many. there was indications that that requests were made. obviously, there's been a dispute, she disputes it, but when requests are made, they should be fulfilled, that you

shift people around. i think the secret service, largely do they do protectee services, but they also two traditional finish do do traditional investigations into other crimes. if they're going to be tasked with this, they need to be focused on that, getting back to the core mission of what the secret service is supposed to do. these are simple reforms, in my mind, that will go a long way to making sure this never happens again. stuart: there is a suspicion that cheatle got her job because she was in the secret service detail guarding the first lady, and the first lady put her up for job as director of the whole secret service because she's a woman. any comment? >> i don't know the validity of that. what i will say is that this is not the first time, unfortunately, that director cheatle has had an issue. jake sullivan's home, he's got protectee status, was invaded in the middle of the night within the last year. there have been multiple instances of lapses in protection if you should her watch. and so i'm glad that she resigned. that's why i called for it

yesterday, for her to either voluntarily resign or be fired. and so let's start fresh, let's make sure that this never happens again. stuart: congressman, it's been nearly a week since we've seen president biden in public. it leads the question, who's running the government right now in is it joe biden? >> we don't know. we have not if seen him since, i think, around the time of the assassination attempt when he flew back home to delaware. we haven't heard from him. we've seen purported a -- purportedly a statement that he's not going to run for president again, but we've had no mention of him for over a week at this point, and it's alarming. to your point, who is actually running the government? this has been a concern of mine and many house republicans, who's actually running the the show? we know his mental a fact faculties are not as a sharp as they once were, so it begs the question, who's pulling the strings? stuart: we simply don't know. congressman, thanks very much

for joining us. appreciate it. let's have a look at a big tech this morning because we're about to start the big tech reporting season over the next eight, nine days. we're going to get all the big guys reporting. amazon is up $6, apple too. meta and fall bet. as we walk up to earnings season for big tech, they're all moving slightly higher. coming up, people can now invest in etherium, the crypto, through spot etfs. gray scale says their mini if -- mini e either fund will cost you less than a big mac to buy into. why haven't we seen president biden for a week? if bill hemmer is here to take that on. he's next. ♪ where are you and i'm so sorry. ♪ if i cannot see, i cannot dream tonight. ♪ if ♪ if. ♪ ♪

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this one will never see the light of day. all right. stuart: on the markets this morning, we have a lot of green. the nasdaq's up 100 points, dow's up just 35. mike murphy is coming through with his stock picks, and he likes google. >> i do. i love google. we've owned it for a very long time.

but not for people to go out and trade these earnings tonight. that's not the goal here. the goal is for long-term growth, for long-term innovation is. you look at a company like alphabet, they have -- they're doing so many different things, and there's so many different ways they can continue to innovate and generate increased profits. that is a company you want to own. stuart: is it the same story with tesla? that's kind of a big tech stock in many ways. >> it is. but simply, tesla's had such a big run recently. it sold off a, and in the last three months tesla's up over 70%. we're going to hear from elon musk who not too long ago was a villain many a lot of people's eyes, now i think he's a hero in a lot of people's eyes. look at how tesla's continuing to innovate is, how they're moving production into the u.s. of both cars and batteries. i think it's a great long-term story, and i think both of these company are companies you can own for the foreseeable future. stuart: elon musk would like to have some influence in a future

trump administration, wouldn't he? >> well, he would, for sure, but i think heernsed that influence. i think it's tough to argue it, and look between tesla, spacex, boring company, there's so many things he's doing, he's earned it. stuart: remarkable. thanks, mike. the public has not seen joe biden, the president, in nearly a week with. jacqui heinrich joins me. the president's going to address the nation tomorrow i believe at a 8 p.m. eastern. we want to know why did he step away from the campaign. is that what he's going to tell us? >> reporter: it is. and he's the only person who really can explain it, stuart, because we've heard all of the reason behind the push to him coming from heavyweight democrats, but we haven't heard it from the president's mouth himself. so a lot of eyes are going to be on that tomorrow. note notably, a lot of those people who pushed widen to exit the race like obama, hakeem jeffries, chuck schumer, have not publicly thrown their weight behind vice president haste.

but -- vice president harris. but it turns out nancy pelosi swung, her support to harris who then rapidly locked up the nomination, effect effectively. 300 delegates from if california tipped harris off the for preponderance finish line in a zoom call where moses reportedly glows about the party's prospects. party leaders warned against crowning kamala without a primary contest replacing the decisions of millions of primary voters. >> there's no coronation. there's going to be a process. but, look, part of the process is getting the delegates, right? she's working on that. first of all, in order to have a process, you have to have a challenger, and so far no one has stepped up to challenge her except to say, oh, we need a process. no one else is throwing their name in the hat, so -- >> reporter: now former attorney general eric holder is wetting six -- vetting six governors as a potential vp picks, and we're hearing a lot of this -- >> look, i love being the golf

of the state of illinois, and i've been out on the campaign trail fighting hard for democrats to win. >> i love serving the people of kentucky, and the only way i would consider something other than this curve job is if i believed -- this current job job is if i believed i could help this country. >> i want to make sure that a kamala harris wins. >> reporter: so the map is ultimately going to the decide which running mate would give democrats the best shot at a 2270 come november. -- 270. we have not yet heard from the president who still has to explain the decision made ending his 50 years in public service with a tweet on sunday. that will come tomorrow in the oval office address, stuart. stuart: it was the tweet that did it. thank you very much, indeed. now, kamala harris has enough verbal commitments from delegates to secure the democrat nomination. bill hemmer joins us this morning. are the democrats as unified as

they like to appear? >> great question. on sunday afternoon, i was making a bunch of phone calls and a lot of people were lukewarm on kamala harris on her possibilities and chances of being successful. man, that changed in 24-36 hours. i really think yesterday afternoon when pelosi chimed in ors ors it was over. and now we just wait for barack obama. does he wait until chicago to make a big speech for harris -- stuart: will he endorse her? >> yeah, but what's striking to me is that you went through all these primaries, biden won everywhere except, i think, guam or samoa, right? [laughter] went everything, and they just do the rope a done and swap folks out -- rope-a-dope. interesting piece in "the new york times," very long, very detailed. was it the right move, your question, and was it too quick. his conclusion that all of this is risky, and when you consider chicago four weeks away, he's right about that.

the there is some risk, for sure. stuart: it's very recent, just sunday afternoon, that the president stepped away from the campaign. are there any reliable polls so far in the last two days putting harris against trump? >> yeah, it's a great question can. we had a poll earlier about the demographics, how biden compares to kamala harris, you know? if among african-americans, among people under the age of 30, etc. they were pretty close to even in the numbers. i think she was up by 4 points on independents over biden, but they were pretty close. michael whatley runs the are rnc, and he was on our show, and we said when do you know a reliable poll that can reflect the series of events we've just gone through over the past ten days. he said the polls are happening in realtime. i would argue give it, give it til monday or tuesday of next week and let's see how some of the stuff settles in. stuart: karine jean-pierre is on "the view," her first public appearance if since biden

dropped out. she said biden is still very much the president. she also said biden believes stepping aside was the right thing to do for the country by handing over the reins to someone who is incredibly qualified like harris, okay? [laughter] i don't think she wants to hold a press conference because she would be asked about her role in covering up biden's true condition. >> look, there's a lot of questions involving that. you're right about that, stuart. those questions will continue, and they'll go to the right people in the right time, we'll see how they respond. for kamala harris' campaign p i expect joe biden 2020 without the basement. i expect it to be a lot of item prompter -- teleprompter, a pop culture interviewer or something online. probably, you know, a network correspondent to interview her once every 30 days. i think the possibility of extemporaneous remarks on her behalf, they will try and limit that which is what they did in 2020, and it proved -- stuart: do you think biden, the president, will campaign actively with her? >> yes.

i imagine he'd show up. stuart: i don't mean to be facetious, but if he can, he will. >> the one thing biden always did in 2020 and has been doing over the past year is making the easy drive from if wilmington or reto 40 both beach, delaware, to philadelphia. because in pa, philadelphia is where democrats win and lose that state. stuart: bill, you know it all about this election. i like the electronic board -- >> it's coming back. [laughter] better than ever. stuart: very useful. if bill, you're all right. thanks very much,. >> see you, guys. stuart: today kamala harris is hitting the campaign trail, first time since becoming the presumptive democrat nominee. ashley, where's she heading? ashley: wisconsin, where she will lay out the case against former president trump and, of course, tout her pretty impressive fund raising haul. the vp if scheduled to hold rally in mill day key -- milwaukee. it also marks her fifth visit this year to wisconsin, a

must-win state if she is to take the white house in no. -- in november. harris is expected to frame that race against donald trump as a prosecutor versus a convicted felon if while highlighting her support for abortion access, gun safety laws and voting rights. harris, by the way, will be joined today by a host of wisconsin officials including democrat governor toni theny if evers and democrat senator tammy baldwin who, by the way, is facing a very tough re-election fight. stu. stuart: thanks, ash. coming up, "the boston globe" editorial board says democrats need to take a deep breath and pick a new candidate. seems too late, doesn't it? karine that jar is on the editorial board, and she's going to respond to that. taiwan expanding military exercise as china ramps up pressure. they're even holding drills for civilians to make sure they're prepared for an attack. we have the latest from taipei next. ♪ ♪

stuart: the dow jones average is up 74 point, the nasdaq's up 100 to. i see some green on the left-hand side of the screen. listen to this one, apple is reportedly moving forward with plans to make a foldable iphone -- you like that? lauren: yeah. because when you want to hang up on somebody, you can ?aipt shut. [laughter] stuart: i got that. it's similar to to galaxy z flip from samsung. this phone from apple will have a top-down fold design, could be released as early as 2026. apple's stock is up over just one percentage point. taiwan's military and civilians are holding drills to how to respond to an attack are from china. al -- alex hogan is in taipei for us. >> reporter: well, it's mull my range drills, but one thing to know, a typhoon that is

rolling in over taiwan, and that the has canceled many of these drills aimed at preparing the island in the event of a potential attack by china. these are the exercises, the 40th year that they are doing them, and one thing specifically that they are focus on this year is the response time for a specific attack. >> we have to consider about the risk management. so that's a very important factor for us. >> reporter: here the military is converting this taxiway into a makeshift runway in the event of an invasion, they say an airport like this would be one to have primary targets. >> it's very important chance for us to -- our operational plan for how to protect taiwan. >> reporter: meanwhile in northern taiwan, civilians took part in drills to too. so for 30 minutes citywide

sirens blared and some residents are taking this even further. they're signing up for month-long weekend courses where they can learn about modern warfare or and how to better protect their families. so in these courses, stuart, you're not only learning first aid and about psychological warfare and packing, they're also learning about what they should do if all of the internet went out on the island and how they would find their own families. stuart? stuart: alex, we hear you. thanks very much, indeed. want to get back to that big i.t. outage of last week. lawmakers want the ceo of crowdstrike to testify. has he agreed? if. lauren: not yet, but republican members of the homeland security committee told him they need to let them know by tomorrow if and when he can appear before their committee. they want to know what cause canned 8.5 million windows devices to bug out.

airlines, banks, stock exchange, hospital outages have been described as the largest i.t. outage in history. it hurt crowdstrike too. shares are up today the nicely, but the last two days they lost 23%. stuart: didn't cathie wood buy -- lauren lauren $the million worth -- 12 million if worth. stawrpt stuart all right, thanks very much. murphy, how are you -- were you affected by the i.t -- >> yes, like some of our service providers were down which impacted us. but, you know, we're -- we invest in private companies, so it's not really realtime movement, so it didn't impact us too much. but it is scary, the impact that just one incident if can have across all of industry and and all of our lives. but i think the stock the here after the selloff that lauren just mentioned is really interesting because, a few things. they have 18 if market share. so they've grown -- 18 if market share. they have great earnings, great margins, and as far as the is ceo goes, his reputation is that

he's an extremely hard worker. so the idea that he wouldn't appear before congress, i think, is kind of off the a table. i expect him to be there, and i expect him to do a great job when he's there. stuart: let's see what happens to his stock. >> yes. stuart: thanks, mike. the world's second largest cryptocurrency, etherium, will be accessible through spot etfs. explain and tell the me more, ashley. ashley: yeah. by the way, ether is the latest digital asset to be the legitimizedded as an investment, as an etf on major public exchanges. the crypto industry seems to be counting on exchange-traded funds to take ether prices to new highs. some traders eyeing a new record, expecting ether's price to surpass its november 202211 all-time high of $4800. right now it's $3400. gray scale investment offering a so-called mini ether etf that could be priced at less than a

mcdonald's big mac. the investment offer as basically fractions of the cryptocurrency and is separate to gray scale's main ether etf. it's just another way to attract investors as the crypto world expands and expands. suh? stuart: and trump's a crypto guy. thanks very much, ashley. show me the dow 30. i say this every -- i need a new script, to get a sense of the market. right now we've got an even split roughly between winners and losers. the dow is up 85 points, 40,500. vice president will hold a private meeting with israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, but she will not preside over his speech to congress. that's a public snub. the boston globe's california run that a jar -- karine hajj jar takes it next. ♪ to be anything... -left over? -yeah. oh, absolutely. ♪

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stuart: israel's prime minister, benjamin if netanyahu, is scheduled to address congress to. vice president harris will not preside over that address. instead, she asked to hold a private meeting with him. speaker johnson and majority leader steve scalise ripped into harris over that decision. roll it. >> madam vice president, you say you want to be the leader of the

free world and yet you can't bring yourself to sit behind our most important and strategic ally in this moment? that is not a good look for you. it's not a good look for america. >> it's disgraceful. why will she not come and show support for how greatest ally in the middle east while they're at war from terrorist organizations funded by iran? stuart: well, that's a clean-cut opinion p. let's bring in boston globe editorial board member carine hajjar. what message do you think this snubbing of netanyahu is sends to be to israel? >> i have to agree with speaker johnson. i think this projects weakness, and it's dangerous at a time of war especially with one of our greatest allies in the middle east. and this is going to be a big question she has to answer going forward in her campaign. vice president harris is going to take a lot of heat on israel, and americans are going to want to know if she's going to to stand by our allies. snubbing him in this way certainly doesn't help. stuart: snubbing him, surely, is all about domestic politics. she wants to win michigan and minnesota. that's what it's about, i

presume. >> i mean p it definitely is an impossible situation for her but, bottom line, this is our national security. this is one of our allies in the middle east, and she should be there. law enforcement lawrt -- stuart: where does it leave jewish voters inside the democrat party? >> i think they're torn especially now that there's talks about a possible vice president josh shapiro. that would be very interesting. i think overall voters are in limbo based on what they've seen on campus over the last year, and it's going to be the a toss-up in this election for her. stuart: perhaps not a fair question, but jewish folks tend to vote democrat, 70. if -- 70%. will the democrats get 70% of the jewish vote this time around? i'm not sure, count me skeptical just is because of what's going on and year especially on cam -- campuses. i think it's going to be a very difficult political line this year. stuart: there was an editorial that reads take a deep breath,

democrats, then pick a new presidential candidate. that didn't happen. too late, isn't it? [laughter] >> we weren't urging them to necessarily go with somebody else, it was more a call the take deep and make this look like a process, make this look transparent. especially as democrats are talking abouting with the party of democracy and are hitting republicans on that and criticizing them for being anti-democratic, you'd think you'd want to avoid any visibility or any invisibility around what's going on in the smoke-filled back rooms. so it was more a call to be transparent, reach out to delegates, earn that vote -- which kamala harris has said she wants to earn that vote. but what does that the look like? everyone has filed behind her o- stuart: she's got no challenger. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. stuart: now this, june 2020 kamala harris promoted a bail fund that released men accused of rioting, sex offenses and beating women. lauren: let's start with the summer of 2020.

how can we forget the george floyd protests? harris fund raised for the minnesota freedom fund, there you have it. a daily caller deep dive of the work showed it bailed out rioters like thomas mosley who damaged a police precinct, a man accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl, a man accused of assaulting a 71-year-old woman after a breaking into her homing, just some examples. while the harris campaign will paint her as a prosecutor and trump as a felon, remember, harris spent millions of dollars bailing out felons. stuart: was that the daily caller dug into shah? lauren: yeah. long piece, very detailed. stuart: here we go, it's time for the tuesday trivia question. the first cloned animal was a is sheep. what was her name? dolly, shelby, doris or dorothy? if i happen to be absolutely certain of the answer -- lauren: and told us all. stuart: and by told you all. [laughter] and we'll tell the whole world when we get back. ♪

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stuart: i am firmly convinced i know the answer to this. the first cloned animal was a sheep, that is correct, it was a sheep, what was her name? i did blurt out the answer to every buddy. are you going to go with your own suggestion? neil: lauren: it is dolly.

you said dolly, right? >> number one, dolly. stuart: correct. the answer is of course dolly. they took out her cells from the original dolly, combined those with eggs from a separate sheep and placed the egg insider third sheep and the clone, dolly, was born. got that? >> that was a long time ago, that was years and years ago. stuart: i was in england at the time. it was in the 70s. i came to america in the early 70s. 15 seconds to go. want to say anything? >> watch for earnings report as the market continues to move. stuart: i almost took neil's time a but it's yours. neil: i remember that very well.