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>> we're looking at the end of 50-year career from joe biden who will be george washington in this hall tonight. they're going to do everything to raise him up and phrase him. >> this is a diabolical scheme to win over 40% of the u.s. population that are renters. fixing prices on food stores like kroger, they've tried this in venezuela, argentina, old soviet union and under nixon and it's failed every time miserable. >> they want to reset the price of everything and that appears to be a socialist idea and leads to misery for citizens. >> her campaign received a boost of momentum for voters that might not have been excited to vote for the democratic ticket with joe biden at the top. at the end of the day, it's an election about issues.

stuart: character the markets, nice gain for the dow, up 200 and nasdaq coming on strong too. this follows the strongest week for the stock market this year and we're up again this monday morning. show me big tech, please. it was a mixed picture just a few minutes ago. it still is. alphabet, nvidia, amazon up and microsoft and apple are down. the yield on the 10-year treasury in retreat. we're now down to 3.87%. stock market likes that. now this, donald trump is doing counter programming as the democrats meet in chicago to anoint their presidential candidate and surround her with

lofty but vague policy goals. trump has a message of his own. today has been make america wealthy again. that goes straight to the heart of inflation delays and hurt voters so much. tomorrow the theme is make america safe again. he's going after the crime spree that appears on the local tv screens every night. on wednesday, make america strong again and only a few days past the third anniversary of the afghanistan debacle and obvious sign of america's weakness and thursday make america circuit court again. a ref reference to the pourest border friday, it wraps up with make america great again. how many want our country to be respected again. trump has a knack of hitting americans on the head again and these are going after all the weaknesses in the last three and a half years of biden and harris

administration. he won't get a fair shake. media hates him and media loves harris. yet again, trump faces uphill struggle to get message across to stop the leftist drift of the democrat party. this election really is a turning point. third hour of varney starts now. stuart: we have kayleigh mcenany with us today on the show. >> great to be here. stuart: is trump able to get it past the blockade that the media will impose on his message? >> not this week. this week is lost essentially as is any convention and going for the convention and air time and coverage and it's spatter to go out to the battleground states

and bringing concrete sis so i think the messages and bringing local -- messages and the debate and relegate the pol policies ad forcing kamala harris to drill down and can't do that, you'll see her sinking the polls. stuart: not a major league interview between now and interview. >> her team said anonymously to reporters we'll do it around labor day possibly. then jd vance went out with a very sophisticated pressure campaign and taking questions where is kamala harris walking over to her plan. that put pressure on her and after trump's press conference she did a gavel and said she'd like to do an interview before the end of the month. time is ticking and the end of the month is coming quick. maybe we see one by the end of the month. but after that disastrous economic rollout, maybe not. stuart: south carolina senator lindsey gram said the 2024

election not going to be about abortion. roll it. >> we'll continue to have this discussion and not going to win or lose based on abortion. we're going to win or lose based on changing the polycitra correct reigns leading of this country -- policy and trajectory of the country and lower gas prices and control the border and lower food prices. stuart: the fox power rankings show immigration and the economy on a top two issues for voters: abortion is third. kayleigh, republicans can't ignore abortions, kay they? >> abortion eclipsed the sienna poll as number two in all the issues and one of the wedge issues that kamala harris will drill down on and pro life lost every ballot initiative in the states and if you ignore the issue, you lose. certain governors owned the issue and did pass pro life legislation and didn't stop talking about it and dewine went onto win election by almost

double digits and kemp went onto win by 7.5% and ignoring is the worst thing to do. put forward a pro mother strategy. how you can economically empower women and that's the anecdote to what you're seeing from kamala harris. stuart: the midful the chicago convention and i get the feeling this will turn into one big love fest for kamala harris. how about you? >> yes, you campaign in poetry and govern in clothe, overdose on poetry. that's what you'll hear on the stage behind me from kamala harris and joe biden and everyone. a lot of poetry and short on policy. stuart: must be terrified that the pro hamas demonstrator or two get inside the convention and that would upset the apple card. >> 36 uncommitted delegates. are they going to be loud or hold back? no one wants to see division on display this week. stuart: thank you, kayleigh. >> thank you, stu. stuart: we'll make sure to watch you on outnumbered 12:00 p.m. eastern on fox news. thank you, kayleigh. >> called ambush, remember.

stuart: that was my nickname for the show. thanks, kayleigh. better check that market, a nice gain for the dow industrials and up 202 points as we speak. and the nasdaq gaining ground and now it's up 0.4%. pretty solid. jason katz with me to look at the market. all right, you say that the melt up, which we have seen and we are in could take a pause. why? >> stu, the melt up for the mag seven may take a pause. not that the other parts of the market. the fed is having its cake and eating it too. two weeks ago we sat onset ask talked about the recession fears gripping the market. that's been flipped on its head and as a result, the path of least resistance has been to the upside. but look at 22 times earnings, further multiple expansion will be very hard to come by. but rates are coming down and the rest of the market should

see flows meaning small cap, mid cap and above all equal weight s&p should see that money rotate. stuart: jason, i'm in the middle of a democrat convention and hearing a very left wing policy rollout for the democrat party. does that have any influence on stock prices? it it appears that kamala harris may form the next administration. is that a big worry for inv investors? >> it will be or could be a lot can and will change between now and then. you and i have stalked about ad nauseam and construct of congress that the market is most focused on. i will say this, if we ski corporate tax rates go from 21-28%, if we see buy back tax going to 4% from 1%. if we see the marginal tax rate go up, then the market could start ringing its hand. it's pre-ma sure to make

preptous movement in a -- precipitous movement in a market before then. stuart: we have a ways to go on the upside in will you close it out with that? >> without e we'vuation. go e -- equivocation. go equal or go home much the other stocks look more attractive. stuart: isn't that the truth. jason, thank you for joining us and always appreciate it. >> thank you, stu. stuart: back to lauren. looking at a -- here's a pointer, djt down 2.7%. lauren: timely mover. the democrats kickoff their convention where you are. media and technology falls and not just today but seventh consecutive session. this is obviously a proxy for the popularity of donald trump. it is on track for it is longest losing streak since march. however, after a good week of coming together, perhaps for democrats, you can see this thing change and we've we're back up again because it's a proxy for how he's doing

politically. stuart: you want to talk about amd not because of stock price movement but what it's doing in the marketplace that has a big deal for the chip business. lauren: near $5 billion deal to buy zt systems that makes ai hardware and allows them to roll out ai chips superfast to meet demand coming from companies like microsoft. amd are making an expensive purchase, those shares are higher today. stuart: how about sweet green? l it's up 236% and down 6 today. lauren: piper sandler moves to the sidelines and cuts them to neutral not because they don't like the stock and big expensive salad is great. love the innovation with the robotic kitchens but it's gone too far too fast. stuart: expensive salad, got it. thanks, lauren. house republicans released a near 300 page report laying out a list of biden's impeachment

offenses. where does it go from here? i'll put that to ari fleischer. jd vance said he and donald trump are working hard to expand voter base beyond maga loyalists. >> she caused policies that led to a rapid increase in inflation and a rise in chaos around the world. we need to get that message out there and i feel very confident the american people will elect donald trump in november. stuart: is that enough to help donald trump win in november? antony blinken is in israel saying this maybe the best and last opportunity to get the hostages home. are they being optimistic because of the convention in mmorgan ortagus takes that on nec.

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stuart: the manhattan district attorney's office responded to trump's request delaying sentencing till after the election. right now that sentencing is set for september 18th. prosecutors said they do not oppose a delay. they are prepared for sentencing and scheduled and lead the decision up to judge merchant. israel police confirmed the bombing in tel aviv was a failed terror attack. alex hogan is in tel aviv. who's responsible, alex? reporter: hi, stuart. hamas and islamic jihad claimed responsibility for this con if i wered terror attack and one person was killed and the man carrying this bomb and went off before he reached a moray populated -- more populated part of the city. today some of the big news we're watching u.s. secretary blinken and -- antony blinken here

meeting with the country's president, prime minister and minister of defense aiming to push forward some of the ceasefire talks heading into the very high stakes week of negotiations. >> the focus is intensely getting hostages back, getting ceasefire done. it is time for everyone to get to yes and to not look for any excuses to say no. reporter: they'll be joined in cairo and going in doha, qatar, and hamas said it adheres to israel's request and specifically benjamin netanyahu demand that israel be able to remain in a quarter, that's the piece of land that separates gaza from egypt.

reporter: we look to potential ceasefire negotiations and blinken said really this is the last ditch effort, the last hope to be able to broker a ceasefire put ago lot of pressure today on both israel and hamas to strike the deal. stuart. stuart: alex, thank you very much indeed. more on that. secretary blinken said we're as close as ever to a ceasefire in israel. former state department spokesperson morgan ortagus joins me now. morgan, is blinken being optimistic to try and influence the convention here in chicago? governing he s. i think they want to bring the five americans home that are held hostage and going for bringing the americans home for almost a year. do i think they have good intentions of wanting to get

them home? yes. have they gone about it entirely the wrong way? also yes. any time there's a successful exchange of hostages and there's military and this process since october 7 placed zero pressure on iran and able to export energy and able to export the killer drones that have killed americans in jordan, which go after american u.s. navy ships in the red sea and i could go through a laundry list of things happening and ultimately only get a deal whenever hamas feels military pressure and when iran also feels military pressure. iran doesn't feel the pressure and biden's own administration admits going through the nuclear weapon.

it's really the only solution. you agree? >> i totally agree. we need to stop treating hamas and hezbollah like the nation states and these are terrorist groups and what do they understand? the end of a bullet. stuart: mark kelly is comfortable with ukraine using american weapons inside russia. >> they're not holding russian territory for a long period of time and set putin back on his heels and trying to characterize himself as somebody that is going to try and protect russia. citizens are staying a seeing results and staying at risk and ukrainians did something unpredictable and can change the tide of how this conflict will play out. stuart: morgan, should we send more weapons to ukraine? a lot of republicans don't want

to see that. >> what i think is this administration should stop enacting policies where they send weapons to ukraine and then put both of their hands behind their backs. you know, senator mark kelly, he's been where i was two years ago where i said if you're going to send military aid, by the way, i remind everybody who have conveniently forgotten that we in the trump administration sent military aid and weapons to ukraine, the problem has been that this administration delayed everything they sent over, f16s, himars or send -- delay and once they send the military equipment over, stu, they tied ukrainian hands behind their back in order to fight the russians and this war has gone on for two years because the biden harris administration has done everything they can to delay the war. they want ukraine to manage the war. they don't want it to win. putin should have never invaded in the first place and they didn't learn that lesson. they haven't learned the deterrence lesson and you have to ask yourself how is this same

group of people who failed to deter putin from invading ukraine and deter xi jinping from invading taiwan in the harper laneses are administration. they've not -- harris administration. they've not learned any lessons. stuart: morgan ortagus, thank you for joining us. ashley, come back in again. how are they creating a buffer zone? ashley: they're taking merri more andmore territory and ukraw up more brinells over the weekend and -- bridges over the weekend and troops press on with a daring incursion that began two weeks ago. president zelensky said his forces are getting stronger and yes, indeed, to your point, stu, he sees the territory as a buffer zone to prevent future attacks by russia. maybe a bargaining chip. in a video addressed sunday, zelensky said the goal is to destroy as much russian war potential as possible and

conduct maximum counter offensive actions. should be said that russia struggled to keep back this event despite russian president putin holding security meeting ands ordering border guards and the military to repel the attacks. putin calls the incursion a major provocation and of course he's raising fears of the kremlin and will escalate the war against ukraine. stu. stuart: you may hear background noise in the middle of convention in chicago. there may be a few ammonisments and the price of gold -- announcement and price of gold $2,445 per ounce and fresh high and hit it today. some of the treasuries and i'll start with the 2-year treasury just over 4%. 406 to be precise and 10 year way below 4% moving down to 3.87%. we now owe collectively more

than a trillion dollars. we'll break down the personal debt crisis for you. conflicting narratives about biden's departure from the race. politico says he's getting a hero's good-bye but the types says it's a coup. bill hemmer will take that on. bill is next. ♪

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stuart: on the market this is morning, a very strong gain for the dow, a lesser gain for nasdaq and s&p and dow up 196 points, 40,800. one of the main movers of that dow move is the dow stock that would be mcdonalds, which is up 2.7%. lauren, what's with the gain like that for a company that size? lauren: $5 value meal was a smash hit and they're bullish on mcdonalds after the meal deal and $320 price target and advise the chain to be more careful with price increases in the future and have menu items that are medium priced so make diners feel like they're getting a bargain when they come in. stuart: by the way, lauren, that's a mcdonalds move and dow stock that adds 50 points to dow industrials.

then restaurants. lauren: olive garden and never ending pasta bowl and $13.99 and the same as two years ago. stuart: we'll take it. lauren, thank you very much indeed. now this, new polls show vice president harris leading trump in the sun belt state. that would be arizona, georgia, nevada, and north carolina. lay it out for me, ashley. ashley: the new york times sienna college and in arizona, harris has 50% support to trump's 45%. in nevada and north carolina, the candidates are basically neck and neck with harris leading 49% to 47% on the tarheel state 39-48% in nevada. meantime, in georgia, trump leads harris by four points, 50-46%. and by the way in may, when he

was up against biden and leading an average of 10 percentage points in arizona georgia and nevada, north carolina wasn't included in that poll but bottom line, harris is closing the gap and also making gains among women and independents. stu. got t thanks issue ashley. stuart: jd vance is expanding his message beyond the gaga base. >> we're doing exactly that. if you look at what president trump's been saying at rallies and i've been doing at my rallies and press events is making a very simple argument that when kamala harris became president or vice president i should say, she kansas city chiefs arkansas caused policies that led to a rapid increase in inflation and a rise in chaos around the world. once we get that message out there, shannon, i feel very confident this the american people will elect donald trump as president. stuart: we have bill hemmer, the

man himself. is trump expanding his base and if so, how's he doing it? >> we have a a jewish american on the program earlier and i was 18 voting for democrats all my life and he's 50 years old now, and he said there's no chance i'm voting for this ticket and maybe that's the expansion he's talking about. it's in our own polling and two americans that are most intriguing. african americans have not left the trump team. they've gotten stronger for kamala harris but only by three or four points and other thing in our polling, we show trump up eight among independents and in 2020, joe biden won independents by 15 points. so if that strands stands up, you can see how expanding the base with the possibility. one other thing, yesterday harris and walz made four stops in pittsburgh, allegheny and one

in beaver county. if donald trump went to beaver county today, stuart, he'd get 15,000 people for a rally. they had about 150 people in the room. they're going for the rural vovoters and maybe their thought is if they can peel 2 or 3% of rural voters across the country in the battleground states back to the democratic ticket, maybe they stand a better chance of winning. but outside of that, my view in pennsylvania, you get pittsburgh, philly and erie if you're a democrat. that's now you win the state. stuart: biden gives his farewell speech and politico is calling this a hero's good-bye. the new york times says it was a coup in the first place. is this going to be a real source of tension within the party going forward? >> it's a water thing, stuart, a sitting u.s. president that might be on the ground here for eight hours. he's leaving. heavyweights going to

california. axios has a scathing piece out today and behind quotes and not attributed to anyone but his friends and advisers are stunned and poed about the way he was pushed out of the race and they see fawning coverage of harris and they're not fooled by the patronizing praise of biden, that whole mount rush mother county by publish officials that were knifing him just last month. so they're going to do a handoff here. we'll see how it goes. >> we're on fox business and we've been covering these since 2000 and eight years ago was the last in-person convention. apples to ams in philadelphia at the dnc on the noor, the one one issue dividing delegates was tpp, trans pacific partnership. half of the delegates were

bernie bros, men and women holding the signs that were against tpp because hillary clinton they view supported it. and eighth years later it's life and death and war in the middle east ask quite a contrast eight years later and dozens of delegates that will express themselves and how they do it and how tv covers them is something to watch. stuart: pro hamas delegates? >> not necessarily pro hamas but those that don't want this administration to give the israeli government anymore weapons to fight this war. stuart: democrats want no show of that on the floor. >> we well know there's tens of thousands of people bussed into chicago and see how they react today. stuart: thank you, bill. see you later. >> thank you, stu. stuart: we're here live throughout the democrat national convention and fox business will

be airing full speeches starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern each night. gen z voters revealed what heir looking for in a president. lauren. lauren: someone real and not a hollywood celebrity. you're hearing from a young man and a former bernie sanders supporter about why he converted to donald trump. watch here. >> people like me, we don't just want to see tiktok videos of politicians and celebrities and young people today we're no longer buying that. what we've seen in the past three and a half years and it's just a blanket promise for votes that these policies that they are no longer afraid to call themselves socialists and these socialist policies have ruined countries. lauren: they don't care about the celebrities and all about the policies and i ask you this since you're there, any incslings that beyonce might show up this week, stuart? >> not that i know of but plenty

of gossip and hopeful at that for the democrats as far as i can go. lauren: we'll see if the voters even care. stuart: booed point. former chief of staff to president biden admitted that kamala harris failed to meet expectations as vice president but new york times painting this as all part of a learning curve. new report ranking countries by how competitive ai industries are. where america is positioned on that list and that is next. ♪ is it possible to be more capable?

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top country withs the most advanced ai. all right, ashley. where does the u.s. place on that list? ashley: we're number one, stu. the study focus #-d on private investment made over the past decade and number of ai startups and available ai specific jobs. the u.s. plowed 335 billion into investment and ai technology over the past decade and 67.2 billion in the last year alone with 5,500 startups. they had 71,000 job openings for ai this year alone. these numbers easily eclipsed other countries such as china, uk, south korea and japan. in fact, china has a valid investment made in the same period and far fewer startups and job openings and unknown how much is that technology has been

stolen. stuart: thank you, ashley. stuart: families are going deeper and deeper into debt. kelly o'grady joins me now. kelly, how much debt does the average consumer have. >> $6,329 and up from 5950 as career and consumers are spending and putting it on their credit cards and zoom out to get the overall picture and we're seeing record credit card debt of $1.14 trillion and increase from 5.8% from the same time last year and even more troubling is concern surrounding making minimum debt payment and 13% of consumers worry they're not going to make a minimum payment in the next three months and highest level since

april 2020. remember all that uncertainty with the pandemic and picture seven more dire if you look at young adults. 20% saying they're not going to make that payment and becoming even more problematic and hitting 24.92% last week and not making the payment and getting out of the debt grows harder and harder. consumers are feeling that pressure and this week we're going to get a further read from retailers, macys and target reporting this week and wal-mart beat them and higher income consumer trading down and becoming more price sensitive and consumer with the lower income bracket that feels the brunt of interest rates and main street, stuart, tends to have a different perspective than wall street investor. back to you. stuart: former obama senior adviser david axelrod has a new warning for democrats. lauren: there's enthusiasm

around kamala harris, the party shouldn't get too confident. >> this is still a very competitive if it is and who wins and may well be president trump because it's an electoral college fight and good to be enthusiastic and enthusiasm is really, really important for the democratic party. you have to be energetic action to inwith the election. electoral college votes and harris 262. it'll be tight as a tick and rose said it all could come down to pennsylvania and he says the most disciplined campaign wins. the dow indeed is up 188 points and mcdonalds is a dow stock and

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stuart: kamala harris went off script over the weekend. it didn't go really well. watch this. system of articulation what we stand for around the globe in terms o f a democracy. as a democracy. we know there's a due alty to the nature -- duality to the nature of democracy and on the one hand incredible strength when it is intact. what it does for its people to protect and defend their rights,

their liberty and freedom. incredibly strong. and incredibly fragile. stuart: former white house press secretary ari fleischer joining me now. if she's producing word sackmary lads like this, how is she going to do in a debate? >> well, my slogan is let kamala speak. i think this is one of the reasons she was such an unpopular and unsuccessful vice president and people saw her in the raw. saw how she spoke and her brain and saw her. and ability to threat them together and come out with incoherent conclusions and we got a glimpse of it and been so remarkably disciplined and on script since she became the nominee, and this is one of the few instances in where we see who kamala harris is. yeah, that debate, stuart, will be huge. of course any interview with the legitimate journalist is significant and no one has seen her in almost a

month. stuart: think her handlers will let her do an interview with a quality journalist? >> no, what they're going to do is do a short six, seven minute interview on the fly and a favorite reporter throwing softball and lollipops and horse racing questions at her. how do you think your convention bump was? silly things like that as opposed to saying to her, why did you walk away from all the positions you held? why don't you believe in medicare for all anymore? why did you say get rid of all private insurance? those are the probing questions that explore her mind that get to the core of her policies in who she is. worries me most is any politician who can walk away from all the positions that we took yesterday will do the same and walk away from all the positions that they take today. you can't trust that poll cigs. that's how i fear she is. stuart: but the media will

always protect her because they want to beat trump no matter what. that's the situation; right? >> that is the terrible problem we're in in america today with the media changing so much in the last 20 years. they're always liberal but now they're activists and they're activists to defeat donald trump above all. and that means barely scratching kamala harris, barely asking any hard questions. barely exposing stories about her and keeping the focus on what's wrong with donald trump. the media is in the tank and one of the biggest reasons america is a divided country. stuart: the house gop impeachment report found that president biden committed "impeachment conduct and defrauded the country to enrich his family". the white house responded to the report dismissing it as a failed stunt. but, ari, at this point, it doesn't matter as far as election is concerned, does it?

>> no, it really doesn't and focus on president biden and hunter biden is legitimate focus because of ethical issues and policy issues and still the president for roughly five months and is and should be focus on them. it really won't significantly alter the outcome of the election. the report is whether it's impeachable or a statement that's unethical, which is what i think it is. unethical. we do know that then vice president biden got on the phone with his son's business clients. he set it up. he got on there. he participated. vice presidents should not do that and he denied doing it and said he had no knowledge of his son's business and we find out as a fact he was on the phone calls so there's certainly ethical issues here. stuart: ari fleischer, you got it right. thanks so much, ari. see you again real soon i do hope. >> thank you, stu 6789 stuart: okay, everyone, ignore the background noise right in the middle of the convention in chicago. there'll be background noise. take a look at this headline

from the new york times, vice presidential learning curve. how kamala harris picked her shots. lauren, biden's former chief of staff admitted harris failed as vp. lauren: in-depth, well sourced article talking about her missteps and she grew into the role of vice president that included as you know the bomb shell quote from ron chain. he said we were all united behind the idea she should be successful, but we didn't find a path to do it. there's a lot of enthusiasm for her, and i didn't think we did a good enough job of selling her. the article details her insecurities. she was insecure about her laugh. that interview with lester holt on the border, where she said i haven't been to europe either. but the article concluded saying, yeah, she found her stride with three bangs, abortion, gun control and the supreme court. stuart: thank you, lauren. it's that time, here is the monday trivia question.

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stuart: another good trivia question. how many democrat national conventions have been held in chicago? six, eight, 10, or 12? what do you say, ash? ashley: um, boy, i'll go with number two, eight. stuart: lauren? lauren: number one, six. stuart: i'm going to go really high number. i'm going to go with 10. reveal, please? the answer is 12, for heavens sake. chicago is also hosted 14 republican national conventions. the last time the dnc was held in chicago was 28 years ago in that memorable year 1996. who could forget, 1968 i remember it very well. all right, sports fans, the retailers are on the upside this morning. times up for us. neil, it's yours. neil: all right thank you, stuart. be safe out there. we are following up on what you've been following, stuart in this market that is forgetting what happened two weeks ag