>> he was president for four years. people saw what he did and did not do. and if at least on a policy level on a lot of these top issues, they liked it. >> america is not run necessarily by politicians, but instead by entrepreneur, by

can-do people who get things done no the matter what the government says about jobs numbers. >> she's the crypto candidate, by which i mean no one knows who she is for -- [laughter] there's not a lot of policy here at the convention. they're going to win on vibe ises. >> it's quite clear, pull the wool over the eyes of the american public. lie to them, gaslight them. >> hamas is a terror group, and the idea that anyone in our country would be supporting this is a very bad thing for the fabric of our country. ♪ tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies. ♪ tell me, tell me lies ♪ stuart: the okay, producers, you really have to the explain yourselves. why are we playing little lies right in the middle of the democrat convention? that's a very pejorative choice of music, in my opinion, but well done. it's 11:00 eastern time, thursday, august the 22 2nd. a little bit of red on markets, dow's off 600, nasdaq's down -- 60, nasdaq's down 23. big tech, apple, nvidia -- i'm

sorry, yes, apple, nvidia, alphabet on the upside, amazon and microsoft are lore. microsoft off $2. the yield on the 10-year treasury has been moving up, and it's up again this morning. you're now at 3.if 86, just a few days ago it was3.. -- 3.78. now this. when the bad news rolls in in this election year, the democrats deny and ignore. case in point, the report that the economy added 818,000 fewer jobs than reported. here is secretary that of commerce if gina raimondo interviewed by abc. >> when you hear that, do you potentially think that those new numbers could be a liability for this campaign? >> not. when i hear that, first of all, i don't believe it because i've never heard donald trump say anything truthful can d. >> it is, though, from the bureau of labor. >> i don't -- i'm not familiar with. that. [laughter] stuart that's extraordinary. how come the secretary was not

familiar with the jobs report? just ignore the bad news, move on. what will harris do? how does she pivot from claiming we have a booming economy to acknowledging that the jobs market is weaker than reported? answer, she doesn't pivot. she just ignores the problem and takes no questions. inflation is not transitory as a biden suggested. the biden-harris team did not create millions of jobs, they actually added far fewer. there's a big difference between creating new jobs and adding back jobs after the pandemic. ignore and deny. but let's carry this through. the economy is clearly weakening, but kamala harris wants to impose a raft of new taxes on the corporations and on the wealthy. if ever there was a recipe for inflation, raising taxes in a slowing economy will be. ignore and deny will be the answer to problems. and don't, whatever you do, answer questions from anyone who knows anything about the economy and how it works.

third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ stuart: mary katharine ham with me here in chicago. is harris' strategy the ignore and deny any and all problems? well, it's the not just any and all problems, the entire room is ignoring the last three and a half years, right? obama's big line in his speech was we don't want a sequel. y'all are the sequel. the harris-walz would be the sewell to the biden-harris -- sequel to the biden-harris administration. it's quite rehabbing mark, they're saying just ignore that we've been in power for three and a half years. i'm not sure it's going to work outside this room. they are excited about it inside this room which is funny because, again, this is y'all's work you're ignoring. [laughter] stuart: i don't think it's going to work during the debate either, but there you are. >> that's when she's finally going to face some tough

questions. stuart: will ve get tough questions from a abcsome is. >> look, they're going to be tougher than she's gotten so far, and she does not handle any question so far, even just how are you going to the pay for this. she can't even answer that, she just goes return on investment which just means she's going to allow the more money into this economy that is losing jobs, losing steam. it's not a great plan. stuart: it's not. let's move on to. pennsylvania governor josh shapiro spoke last night. he said we would have freedom under democrat leadership. roll it. >> the kind of real freedom that comes when that child has a great public school with an awe isome teacher because -- awesome teacher because we believe in her future. real freedom, real freedom that comes when she can join a union, marry who she loves -- [cheers and applause] start a family on her own terms, breathe clean air, drink pure water, worship how she wants and live a life of purpose where she

is respected for who she is! [cheers and applause] stuart: that speech was very well received. you could tell that the audience liked it. do you think the democrats have any sense of remorse that they didn't pick shapiro to be the vice president? >> i'm not sure they do, and i'm going to tell you why. first, let me say, i hate this argument about schools from them. they, this party has lost 20 points in the head to head republicans and democrats on the issue of education because they all backed closing schools for 18 months, and there's a giant learning loss problem that's going to last decades in this country that that they're not addressing. and that is on their party. it makes me upset because my kids were part of that err era -- era. but i don't think they're upset for this reason: he's good, right? he's not just good at speaking, he's good at being a governor. and he's good at being a above -- governor of a swing state where republicans do not dislike him, and he governs

well. i don't think that's the value this democratic party is interested in. i think they're interested in a governor walz who likes to reward his friends, bully people, tell some lies about his personal bio and sort of buddy-buddy up with the elites in his party. and being an effective governor is not the recipe for success in this party. stuart:. shapiro likes school i choice, walz does not. >> yes, so i do -- i have to give him that. stuart: -- absolutely not. not even mentioning the fact that he's jewish. oprah winfrey made a surprise appearance if last night. she called out j.d. vance's childless cat lady comments. watch this. >> they are the best of america. [applause] and despite what some would have you think -- >> usa! usa! >> -- we are not so different from our neighbors. when a house is on fire, we don't is ask about the homeowner's race or religion, we don't wonder who their partner is or how they voted, no. we just try to do the best we can to save them.

and if the place happens to to belong to a childless cat lady -- [applause] if well, we try to get that cat out too. if. stuart: you know, her speech had zero policy. it was all image. it was very, very well delivered. what a say you? >> look, i was expecting it to have sub instant the really, but i think it was a soaring speech. i think people in the room really responded to the the it. i think vance's comment using that particular language is something that's sticking with people, and they obviously love it as an attack. it's not great. also not fair to the lady they cut to to right after she used that line on the camera in the feed -- [laughter] so i just want to shout out her. but, look, this whole shebang has not had policy, right? outside of the economic policy in that she, if you can call that it that, she announced in north carolina. and i feel like people who understand basic economics like you and i are sort of drowning in the nonsense.

and i think we're going to continue for a little while. stuart: mary katharine ham, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. stuart: always a pleasure. back to the markets, a downside move on the dow to the tune of 50 points. fractional loss really for the s&p and also for the nasdaq. lou basenese we me now. the number of jobs added revised down 818,000. we got very little reaction from the market. is that because rate cuts are already baked in? >> i do believe that is case. you remember about a three weeks ago a we were panicking because we thought the economy was collapsing and people were calling for an emergency fed cut. i think it's a foregone conclusion we're now going to get a cut in september. these weaker than expected jobs numbers, look, we know the labor market's cooling, it's just not collapsing. i think that's the saving grace. as long as the fed acts, investors will be appeased and happy to keep buying into this market. stuart: if we don't get, i mean, in the unlikely vent that we don't get a rate cut in september, what do you think

happens? >> yeah, i don't think that's even a possibility, and that's coming from the guy who said we don't need a rate cut even this year. i think we need it, it's going to the happen. if we didn't, that would be powell trying to really stay out of this election. i don't think he could, i think that would just signal too much to investors that he's way behind the curve. now, he was late to the start hiking rates, i don't think he wants to to commit the same sin twice. so i just don't see that happening. stuart: yeah. you've got a stock pick for us. i don't know much about it. it's called itrom.. -- itron. is it a utility? >> it is a technology utility play. believe it or not in this digital age, there are certain areas obviously market that are still resistant to change. and utilities, the utility infrastructure, the grid is one of those places. itron, you've got to go where the growth is in this market. you were talking about it before, we've got to focus on growth in the economy because it might not happen throughout the economy. they're growing double digits on the top line.

on the bottom line as well, seven consecutive quarters of growth. reasonably valued here at about a $5 billion valuation. most likely -- utilities are often associated being boring, but this is anything but a boring growth stock. stuart: we'll take it. thanks very much, indeed. lauren's back looking at zoom. that was the darling of the pandemic. well, it's going back up a little bit now. lauren: yeah. it was at $568 a share at one point, i think, fall 2020 to the. if network serves. -- memory serves. now it's at $67. look, guidance was strong, they're bringing in new customers with their new products that include artificial intelligence, and they're winning over enterprise. businesses are paying more than $100,000 a year. that segment grew 9% in the quarter, and they do represent a third of their total revenue. stuart: what is advanced auto parts? [laughter] lauren: a car part retailer. they had a dispinting report --

disappointing report card. , stock's down almost 18%. but here's the deal, they announced that they were selling their wholesale parts distribution business to a private if equity company for $11.5 billion. -- 1.5 billion. you're thinking they'd put that cash to good use. shares initially moved higher and 15 minutes later they reported earnings, and investors did not like what they saw, so down goes the stock. stuart: kind of whip saw, i guess. urban outfitters. lauren: retailer. they own anthropology. same-store sails -- sales disappoint, they might have to the start with markdowns for customers that want value. stock's offer 9. stuart: taking a beating. lauren, thank you. since the democrat convention began monday, there have been at least 22 shootings in chicago. a former chicago police chief says democrats are ignoring it. if. >> what we have here is the united center is a castle. it is surrounded -- the elites

are mt. castle, they're having their party. they're surrounded by mot -- moats. stuart: this is gianno caldwell's hometown. what does he think? the he's going to be on the show. reportedly, no pro-palestinian delegates have been invited to speak at the convention. aoc says the knc must -- dcn must change course. jon levine fired up about that, and he's with me in chicago 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

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where does the women vote stand now? >> reporter: it stands with kamala harris. really stably with kamala harris. take a look at these numbers. women favor vice president harris over former president trump by 10 points. gap is even bigger when you look at black women who prefer harris over trump by 40 points. this all has also turned into female fund raising dollars for harris. the harris campaign has said that women made up 60% of their donors in july. that was a month that saw the campaign bring in $310 million. but there are some women that don't want the democrat party to expect their vote just because they put a woman to lead the ticket. take a listen to the what some female voters told don lemon if about who they intend to support in november and why. >> i'm supporting trump. >> you are? >> uh-huh. >> because? >> because it has to change. it has to change, and now i vote more for what fits me better as a person rather than voting for a black person or voting for the first woman. >> what do you think about

kamala harris? >> i think she phony and fake, you know what i'm saying? i'm saying, you know, what are you, you know? so i'm not feeling her. people get mad about it, i'm just not feeling her. >> reporter: there is a lot of talk as to whether or not harris is in a grace period because her campaign is so new. we'll see if things change after a today's speech. that policy part is going to be important in the equation, because right now women feel harris -- although some said they didn't -- and i think it's just a matter of knowing what she stands for and if that aligns with what female voters want. stuart: let's see if there's any policy tonight. don't hold your breath. madison alworth, thank you. "the washington post" reports pro-hamas if delegates will not get a speaking slot at the dnc. jon levine with me here in chicago. you're not surprised by that, are you? >> i'm pleasantly surprised they're not speaking. i thought they would be at the dnc. we're witnessing a war between the pro-hamas democrats and the pro-israel democrats, and there

are sort of wins for both sidesful this is obviously a win for the pro-israel democrats, but there was a win for the pro-hamas democrats in passing over josh shapiro in favor of tim walz, and joe biden himself stepping aside for kamala harris who they described as more movable on the issue. stuart: i don't think the democrats wanted my kind of hostility inside the convention hall. >> right. stuart: they didn't want that. >> and i think it's been a very tight convention. there have been, obviously, protesters outside, but it's been pretty calm on the merchandise. it's been totally muted otherwise, and i think today is really the big day, and i think a lot of people are keeping their powder dry for today because, obviously, kamala will be speaking. and we'll see if they can keep it together one more night. i think the hostages, the family members of the hostages this spoke was very, very moving, and i think they're really trying to signal to democrats that they are pro-israel. stuart: i'm going to to get to that in a second because they did speak last night.

aoc, she wants the dnc to change course writing the on, and: just as we must honor the humanity of hostages, so too must we center the humanity of the 40,000 palestinians killed under israeli bombrd bardment. no surprises there. >> this is just stupid. 40,000 palestinians have not been killed. those numbs come from hamas-controlled health ministry which famously does not distinguish between militant terrorist fighters and civilians, so we don't even know how many of those are terrorists. and it goes to the point of why are you even trusting hamas' numbers at all? would we trust al-qaeda to give death statistics about casualties in afghanistan? i don't think so. it's just silly and understood stupid. and, by the way, the democratic party elevated a a oc by giving her a prime time speaking spot on the same day they put biden at almost midnight. that also smalls the priority of the party where they go in the future.

stuart: the parents of the hostage in gaza, they gave emotional speeches last night. watch this, please. >> anyone who is a parent or has had a parent can try to imagine the anguish and misery that john and i and all the hostage families are enduring. [applause] >> there is a surplus of agony on all sides of the tragic conflict in the middle east. and a competition of pain, there are no winners. we must save all these univeries. in an enflamed middle east -- stuart: it seemed like the remarks were well received. >> it was incredibly moving. it's a signal by the chem until accurate -- there are some serious people in this convention who know there's a problem with jewish voters, and i think this is a very, very serious effort to make sure they

sort of definitely stay on the team because i know we've talked about this. there has been polling showing that jewish voters are getting a little bit shaky, especially they don't trust harris in the same way they trusted biden, they certainly would have preferred josh shapiro, hay didn't get that. i think there are people here who know that's a shaky part of the coalition hay need to shore up, and i think they did a good job last night with that. stuart: appreciate it, jon, thank you. congress has subpoenaed several columbia university officials. surely this is about a these pro-hamas protests, right? ashley: you're absolutely right. a total of six subpoenas including those for interim president katrina arm zonk and the can co-chairses and vice chairs of the university board of trustees. the investigation into anti-semitism wants to know how the university handled the anti-israel protests and anti-semitism on campus. three deans at that university resigned after engaging in a texting exchange that was described as a unprofessional and antisemitic.

the house is asking for communications for specified custodians, border trustees' meeting minutes, notes and summaries and information on disciplinary cases relating to the protest encampment. finish the house is accusing university administrators, stu, of slow-rolling the investigation at the same time repeatedly failing to turn over necessary documents, but they say hay will not give up. they will not give up. stuart: ashley, thank you very much, indeed. i want the take a look at one particular if stock, meta platforms. it's on its way to a record close. it's had a meteoric rise just recently, and there it is now at $537 per share. real close to the record. coming up, a taxpayer-funded group in oregon offering to give $30,000 to new home buyers, but there is a catch. you cannot be an american citizen. what a story. the democrats are trying to win over middle class voters, but most of the speakers at the

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money on that stage. and that was just just yesterday. you know, you've got millionaires, billionaires, even ivy league degrees. the headline speaker of the night, vice presidential candidate, and minnesota governor tim walz, he's trying to contrast himself with his republican counterpart, vp nominee, republican jd vance. financial disclosures show wallace is worth a few hundred thousand dollars, with a few investments and government

pension. vance is a multimillionaire author and investor and went to yale law school. now i grew up in butte, nebraska, a town of 400 people. i had 24 kids in my high school class, and none of them went to yale. democrat speaker yesterday featured yale alums former president bill clinton, senators cory booker and amy klobuchar, democratic party chair jaime harrison. there was also harvard alumni and transportation secretary pete buttigieg, among other ivy league graduates. many of them and others are wealthy, including illinois governor j.b. pritzker and heir to the hyatt hotel fortune. house speaker nancy pelosi. don't forget oprah. vance, the author of hillbilly elegy, has even before running for the senate, told his personal story of growing up with modest means attending yale law school and gaining notoriety and wealth, and says it's an example of the american dream. i grew up in a

very poor family. i was raised by a grandmother who didn't graduate from high school, much less from college. i would think tim walz would want to praise people who sacrificed to give their children and grandchildren a better life, not put me down. but i guess this is the political order of the day. so wallace was the headliner. fox news polling shows 16% of registered voters really don't know who he is. twice as many republicans, though, have a negative view of vance. at 21% than democrats have of wallace at 10%. stuart, thank you very much indeed. richardson. next case. cnn's van jones admitted that harris has a problem with black male voters. she's got work to do. clawing back some of these young black men who want to hear that i want you to be successful economically, to be a business owner, to be an entrepreneur. it can't all be government programs. gianno caldwell joins me now. gianno why is trump gaining support among black men? is he still gaining support among black

men? well, polling recent polling from sunday shows that he actually is continuing to gain support from black men. and i'm going to tell you his story, i think resonates with a lot of folks within the african-american community. and they saw what he did during his first term. and people want that back. if you look at the don lemon video and many other videos that are going on across the internet, they show that black folks, many of them african-american men, want trump in a second term. you know, i think it's really interesting what the democrats have been attempting to do in this dnc meeting, which is to say, and i use this analogy, it's like a repairman that comes to your house. he fixes the refrigerator, and then he makes it worse because he didn't really fix it. and then he says, hey, you can rehire me to fix the refrigerator again. absolutely not. you're fired. we're not bringing you back. and that's what they're attempting to do. they've created a major pretzel for themselves by initially saying that things are bad, even though they said they

>> it can fix the issue right now. it's insanity. stuart: chicago's former chief of can detectives says delegates are isolating themselves from the realities of chicago. watch this. >> the reality of life is three blocks away. so what we have here is the united center is a castle. it is surrounded, the elites are in the castle, they're having their party. they're surrounded by moats, literal and physical, you know? they are surrounded by hundreds of police officers. >> gianno, this is your hometown. are democrats ignoring and maybe burying the issue of crime here? >> you know what? if they can attempt to bury the issue as we see black bodies

literally littered through i the streets of chicago. and a lot of our potential in the city of chicago is in graveyards. and it's unfortunate that they are able to sit in a bubble with law enforcement from across the country. but if you go outside of that bubble, you got people who are in fear to walk down the streets of their own communities. and you know my brother was murdered two years ago a june 24th, and since then i've been out for justice, and i created the caldwell institute for public safety to go after progressive prosecutors who have implement inned these policies such as no bail -- implemented these policies. i encourage people to support our efforts there. this is something that is not going to sustain. they can pretend that the issue doesn't exist, they can pretend that crime is actually down as cities withhold their data from the fbi to create this rosy picture. but people know, people are in fear whether it be in chicago, new york, philadelphia or many of these urban centers or even some small towns, they know what's going on. and the nightmare that they've experienced on a day-to-day

basis is something that they recognize and believe more than what democrats say when they say you're safe and there's really no issue i here and it's a republican bogeyman. it's a lie from the left, and they're being exposed daily. stuart: gianno, on social media you've at least floated the idea of running for office a, are you considering it? >> this is a very unique time. i've been passionate about chicago, about my community. never would i have ever considered running for mayor because it's not been something i've beenst interested in, but we are in unique times. i lost a family member due to violent crime, i started caldwell institute.org where with we need to do some real work, so is that something i'm seriously considering? i'm thinking about it because we need change, and we need change now. stuart: gianno caldwell, we wish you the very best. you're a good man. >> thank you. stuart: thank you, sir.

pro-hamas protestses continue around the dnc. ashley, how many arrests have been made at the convention so far? ashley: well, through the three days not including today, at least 700, we believe, pro-haman arrested. that's according to chicago police. most of the arrests were made during an unsanctioned protest outside the israeli consulate last night. that's with where police say they were confronted and attacked by groups who simply refused to leave even though they were not permitted to be there. elsewhere, by the way, more than 2,000 palestinian protesters marched towards the dnc arena, and that a protest yesterday remained largely peaceful. organizers drew on the area's palestinian community, one of the largest in the country, by the way, by bringing in buses from suburban moss ifings. the pro-- mosques. the protesters, meantime, condemned democrats for not speaking out against the war in gaza. but i think the number of arrests, to your point from earlier in the show, stu, is a

lot less than they were fearing. but we'll see, there's still a day to go. stuart: i believe there is a sit-in in progress by uncommitted dell gates. i'm not sure where it is, but it's within the convention area. ashley, thanks very much. coming up, crypto firms spending an unprecedented amount of money on this election. we'll tell you how much and where that money's going. donald trump wrapping up his counter-dnc program tour. today he's going to the border. he wants to make the point that harris, as he says, has completely failed as border czar. that story is next. ♪ ♪

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stuart: all right, how much red ink do we have? a lot. the dow is down 100 points, the nasdaq slipping, it's off 146 points, .if 8 82%. where's the price of gold this morning? it is down $32 the 2 aen ounce, back to 25 the 14.

show me the 2-year treasury yield. the 10-year's been going up, the 1 2-year is back at 4%. the market does not like that. a new report shows the crypto industry has spent an unprecedented amount of money on the election. where is the crypto money going, ashley? ashley: friendly candidates. $119 million so far this year all basically to give a crypto-friendly candidate a boost and defeat the crypto skeptics. this according to the progressive watchdog group public citizen that says the unprecedented spending equals nearly half of all a corporate money contributed to this year's elections. critics say the cryptocurrency companies like coinbase and ripple spend millions of dollars to silence the critics and basically buy deregulation. and they say it's made possible after the u.s. supreme court ruled that the government cannot limit campaign spending by corporations or outside groups.

if republicans have mostly embraced crypto while democrats are hoping that kamala harris will be more accepting than joe biden. stu. stuart: thanks, ash. today donald trump goes to the border. he will be in arizona. aishah hasnie joins me. what are we going to hear from trump today, aishah? >> reporter: hey, good with morning to to you. he's going after the jugular here. president trump is going after vice president harris' weakness, her biggest weakness really, on the day that she makes the biggest speech of her life. according to the latest fox news poll out there, trump holds a 14-point lead on immigration over vice president harris. so he knows this is his strong suit. trump is promising to seal the border day one. he's going to activate a historic deportation effort if he's elected. meanwhile, the harris campaign is referring to her as a border state prosecutor who went after the cartels. heir also slamming the president over -- they're also slamming the president over the failed bipartisan border bill. here's his response to that. >> if they want to fix the

border, they don't need a bill. the president of the united states, which is what i did, i didn't have a bill to close the border. i closed the border. i had the safest border. i had the least drugs coming into our country in 38 years. if. >> reporter: so the democratic party's new platform stands to benefit potentially from millions of illegal immigrants by endorsing a bill, a different bill, that would allow them to become lawful prospective immigrants. basically, stuart, what that means is it would pave the way for those people to achieve citizenship and gain voting rights. so trump begins his border tour this afternoon near i tucson. we've got a crew there, and he'll cap things off through arizona with a rally in glen kale tomorrow. stuart? stuart: thanks, aishah. if now this, can can you get this? a taxpayer-funded group is offering $30,000 to new home buyers. lauren, you cannot apply if you're an american citizen. what's with that?

lauren: why would an american citizen apply for a taxpayer-funded program to get $30,000 for a new home? i mean, it's wild. the group is call called hacienda community corporation. they offer payment assistance in oregon to daca recipient, aasylee, green cardholder, basically, any non-u.s. citizen. this is state-sponsored discrimination, stuart, that's whats it is. i mean, it's crazy. that's their goal. they want to open up housing and the american dream to non-u.s. citizens. stuart: okay, i guess that's the reason -- that's why we have an open border, because eventually these folks will vote democrat because they're the people that let them in. that's what this is about. lauren: part of me wants to say crazy things happen in oregon, but i think this will go far beyond oregon. there is a critical shortage of houses across the united states, particularly in oregon, and then they're giving 30k to non-taxpayers. stuart: which will raise the price of houses -- lauren: for everybody else.

stuart: pathetic. lauren, thank you very much, indeed. don't forget to send in your friday feedback. we want to know what was your favorite moment of the convention here. send your responses and questions to to varney view isers@fox.com. fox sports guy alexi lalas, he's republican and went to the rnc, now he's here at the dnc to see how the other side does things. it's the final day of the convention, was he impressed? if he's next. ♪ take me to the other side. ♪ sparks fly like the fourth of july. ♪ just take me to the other side. ♪ i see that sexy look in your eyes -- ♪ and i know we ain't a friends anymore. ♪ if we walk down this road, we'll beis lovers for sure ♪ you know who knows what she wants? if if

♪ ♪ stuart: you may have heard him trying to 'em tate a british accent -- imitate a british act a sent -- [laughter] iowa alexei lawless is with me now. -- alexi lalas, you said you were coming to the democratic convention because you went to the republican con. venn. how to you like it so far? >> i've been here all week in chicago it's been good. aside from the first night

ridiculousness getting many, it's been good parties. i went to joan jett last night, so that was fun. these speeches have been at times interesting, maybe when you segment them out. evidently, they did not get the memo if about keeping it short, don't bore us, get to the chorus people out there, but that has not been on displayment although last might walz, i thought he did a good job of keeping it succinct. i don't agree with anything he says, but at least he was nice and short and sweet and got to the point, i liked that. we've had a good time, everybody's been good. you know, i want to compare and contrast. stuart: i've enjoyed being here, get a sense of history, because this is a historic -- >> it's also a bubble. this oxygen everybody's breathing, and tomorrow morning the it's gone and they're back to reality. stuart: let's get serious. the new coach could be announced for the u.s. men's soccer team.

he's a former premier league manager. do you think he's going to teach the american men a few tricks? >> i may be wrong, but my little brain tells me the premier league is over there in england, right? so it must be good. stuart: of course. >> he coached over there, he must be good. look, i think this is going to be good for the team. they need kind of a kick in the ass. they need somebody to come in, they need a catch che. people -- cache. if people recognize they doesn't slouch, they have to do more than maybe they have done in the past. this is what mauricio does for this u.s. team. he walks in, like e said, a respect for what he has done. less than two years before the world cup in the summer of 2026, which, by the way, it'll be on fox. you'll be flying around in your helicopter to the different games -- >> stuart: can can you get me tickets? >> absolutely. no problem. anywhere you need to go, it's

going to be fun. stuart: it's going to be huge. 48 teams is it? >> the biggest world cup ever. last time was 19994, and sitting here with you because of that summer, i lived the power of what it can do to an individual. we're going to do it again bigger and better, and i can't with wait. stuart: before the the 1994 world cup in america, the americans wanted to change the size of the goal so that more goals would be scored. they wanted to make it more than two halves -- >> why coyou say the americans like that, with kind of disdain? it's just ridiculous. yeah, we want to do different things. we think about things in a different way. we think outside of the box. you talk about it every single day on your show, people saying i want to come up with the next invenn. i'm going to do something different. well, when it comes to soccer, football, whatever you want to call it, we might if think outside the box. just because you brits did it, all right, doesn't mean that it's the way that it should be done. stuart: okay.

decaf, baby. decaf. [laughter] if you're all right, thanks very much for being with us. >> you're awesome. i love you, man. i watch you every day. stuart: don't forget, fox business coverage of the dnc, "the bottom line" is starting here at 6 p.m. eastern. and we have full coverage of the speeches including vice president harris. that starts at 7 p.m. time for the thursday trivia question. here we go. that's the national anthem in the background, by the way. what's chicago's population? 2.7, 2.8, 22.9 or 3 million --2.9 or 3 million people? the answer when we come back. ♪ muck if ..

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ibly1 before the break we asked chicago's population, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 or 3 million? perhaps we should stand up because they are playing the national anthem in the background. ibly5 this is the legal population. number one, 2.74 million, number one. ibly1 i cannot hear a word of what you are saying was the

crowd noise is too much but it's a great sound. what your pick? ibly2 i want to say 3 million. if you round them all the answer is 3 million. so there you are. ibly1 i believe it is 2.84 million. 2. 7 to 4 million. chicago is the third most populous city in america, 30 ninth most populous city in the world, that's wonderful music, don't know if you can hear it but it is truly beautiful. that's it for us from chicago. time to turn it over to neil and coast-to-coast in four seconds, two seconds. it's yours. ibly28's great. thank you very much. we are looking at the same thing you are looking at. a mixed market today, two big events, everyone focused on kamala harris's big speech tonight but the one that