>> she's the only one that that the has probably benefited from joe biden as president in the country because i now she has a nomination she would never have otherwise. >> the market's going to have a definite negative reaction, i think, if we get a harris win

considering we aren't really sure where she stands on anything. >> when tim walz comes out on stage with the with the double hand wave and the prayer clutching the heart and the leg wave, that's real good for donald trump. >> you had pink, or you had kerry washington, so if we want to talk social class, it's got to go both ways. >> this is like an arsonnest who swipes a firefighter's uniform form, goes out and says i am now your savior. ♪ i'm back, back in the new york groove. ♪ i'm back, back in the new york groove ♪ stuart: well, i'm back. yes, i'm not exactly in the new york groove, but i am back from chicago, and it's t great to be back in new york on a beautiful, sunny day like in this. it is 1 is 11:00 eastern time, friday, august the 23rd, and let's check the markets. we heard or from powell, jay powell of the fed, that is, last hour. he indicated that rate cuts are, indeed, ahead.

the dow initially rallied 4000 points. we're -- 4000 points, we're now up 330. the nasdaq is still up 1 of 4 points -- 164 points. big tech had been up across the board, still is except for microsoft which is down a buck at $414. the 10-year treasury yield had been coming down. yes, it is down, back to 3.80%. now, we're getting new information about the investigation into trump's assassination attempt. as we've told you, at least five secret service agents have been put on leave, one from trump's to personal protective team, four from the pittsburgh field office. this is a developing story, following it all day long. now this. we took the show to chicago, and here's what we saw. a well organized and well exout cuted convention. executed. it was controlled. the speeches were on message. the vibe was youthful. it was a giant sigh of relief that the aging president had left the stage. the democrats are walking away

from chicago in high spirits. and yet it felt empty. the event lack ared substance. i'm not talking about the absence of policy. that's troubling enough as a it is. i'm talking about the forced enthusiasm that popped up everywhere. you had to be happy. you had to join the kamala club and show your vigorous support. of course, it's like that at any convention, but this one had an urgency to it. the democrats have to construct a new candidate only 30 days after she got the job. they are reinventing her, and the convention was the coming-out party for the leader they have created. but who is the new kamala? how is she different from the old kamala who for many democrats was just not up to the job? will the kamala harris please stand up? probably not. you don't create a whole new candidate and then allow anything to put cracks in the new image. that's why the convention was so tightly controlled. they had to get everyone onboard the happy land of kamala

worship. donald trump bad, kamala harris good, and don't look under the hood because we don't owe net -- know yet what to put in there. just keep smiling and waving. well, now comes the hard part, convincing voters that a president harris would really be an immaterial -- improvement on vice president harris. the convention failed to make a convincing case. third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ stuart: steve hilton joinses us this morning. you didn't like kamala harris' speech last night, did you? [laughter] >> okay. let's, let's start -- let's sort of build up, stuart. let's start with the smaller things. this speech p i thought, was a complete disgrace. it's the kind of speech that brings politics into disrepute, the level of dishonesty, the brazen, shameless dishonesty was on a scale i've never seen. look, i know this business, i used to write these kinds of

speeches. of course the job so to put forward the best possible case. but we would never have dreamt of the just out and out lying and falsehoods you saw with some small things you could say, well, that's just a ridiculous, verifiably false statement when she says, for example, criticizing donald trump's correct plan to close town the department the of's, the department of education that fund our public schools. it doesn't. most funding from our public schools comes at the state and lowballing level. and hen the more -- local level. and then the more serious ones where she accused donald trump of end couraging -- encouraging putin to invade ukraine when everyone knows it was the appeasement of iran. biden himself saying if it was a minor incursion, it would all be okay. that that's what encouraged putin to invade ukraine. and then you move to the general theme of the speech, this idea that that the change that the country's looking for when she's in power now. and the final point, the whole

convention, the carnival of dishonesty that we saw there all about this big lie that actually you can just delete policy positions that were there practically five minutes ago a without explaining what the new position is and what it's based on. she should have been campaigning for these kinds of changes trying to force her party to change over the last four years. maybe then we could accept it. it's so dishonest, it's a disgrace. stuart: wow, you really didn't like it, did you? now we're getting right to the nitty-gritty. california's governor, gavin newsom, he argued that trump is the one who put the u.s. on the wrong track, not biden and harris. watch this. >> why? why is it on. >> we've been polarized and traumatized. the last three and a half years have been difficult the -- >> that's the biden-harris -- >> trump administrations, covid -- >> -- incumbent is biden and harris. you're erasing the last three and a half years. >> i think it's more

directional. i thinkst been a challenging time for this country even before biden-harris were elected. stuart: wait a minnesota -- [laughter] steve, whoa. did he just brush over the fact that harris has been in office for the past three and a half years? just brushed over it. >> i know, it's just hilarious. you know it was interesting, i had this moment of -- i thought maybe the sunshine has broken out, we've got actual honesty from gavin newsom yesterday. in another interview he was asked why is there so much homelessness in california? he said because of our policies. so i thought, fantastic, he's now out there telling the truth. but, of course, there this shameless gaslighting. what is he talking about? by the way, taking it back to covid. who was it that ensured that we could quickly get out of the covid pandemic? it was donald trump with the way he got the vaccines so quickly. mean, just every single thing about that you saw from gavin newsom, totally dishonest. and, by the way, these are the people that endlessly lecture us all about the truth and honesty

and how outrageous the lies of trump rah. what a joke -- trump are. what a joke. stuart: you are on target this morning, young man. that's really good stuff. steve hilton, see you again soon. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: yes, sir. let's check the markets. powell said he sees a clear path the lowering interest rates. the market likes it. we're up 350 on the dow. had been up 400, but we'll take it. nasdaq up 184, had been up 200. we'll take 184. that is a rally. look who's here, the man himself, jonathan hoenig. [laughter] no doubts about it, this is a rally, right? >> yeah. to me, stuart, what's most interesting isn't what's going up, but what's going down, and that is the u.s. dollar. gold back up odd to, silver back up today and so many of the international stocks that we've been talking about. i know it's not sexy, it's not, you know, high-tech and transistors and a.i., but so many of those foreign stocks particularly in europe are screaming higher. and many of them aren't even at their 2008 highs.

as usual, i'm trying to look off the radar screen for our viewers, and that's where i'm looking this morning. value international, to me, that's the most interesting and where the opportunity is in this rally. stuart: wait a minute, jonathan. you think that the europeans are finally getting it together and europe the is going up? -- europe is going up? >> well, the stocks are after a, my god, stuart, a decade of outperformance. you left europe at just the right time. the average a european if household only has about 61% of the gross disposable income as a u.s. household. europe is regulated, it's bureaucratic, it's quite poor. people are excited about investing in apple and facebook but not so much see men's and airbus. that's the opportunity, stuart, because value is in now, international is in with this weak dollar. so i'm looking at european stocks. in particular, this might if seem a little bit exotic, but spain. is -- have you ever been, or stuart? stuart: of course i have. there's an etf, ewp, that's the one? >> yeah.

spain, yeah. i mean, it's so sexy, stuart. the mat da doors, the p if aella, the language, the peopling, but the stocks have not been sexy. ewp trades back where it did in 2005. i like it because it's full of financials and utilities, lower interest rates are helping you fittings -- utilities and real estate as a well. you want to be exotic, what could be more exotic than spain? ewp, i own it personally and like it for the long term. stuart: where do you think it's going? it's $33 a share now. where's it going? >> there's to -- no tops in a bull market, but last time european stocks outperformed, they end up -- went up for four or five years. u.s. stocks have outperformed by over 100 over the last decade and, again, there's no price target, but i think it could easily double over the next 3-years. stuart: jonathan hone in-- hone i, good stuff. >> thanks, stu.

stuart: a lot of socks are moving including the home builders like toll brothers. lauren: new highs for them today. home sales for july soared over 10, and if rate cuts begin in earnest, i mean, mortgage rates are going down. just focus on dr horton for one second, this is part of the kamala harris trade. this is a home builder that caters to the first-time home buyers. if she puts through her, you know, here's money for your down payment -- stuart: well, for the first time homeowners as opposed to home buyers, although the i suppose the two are the the same thing. [laughter] just manipulate picking, it's a friday morning. lauren: the f if d -- fda has approved moderna's next covid vaccine. it will be available in days. 20 of u.s. adults got the last booster -- 20. that was more than i expected. 20%. stock's up 2%. stuart: las vegas sands, we need

a loser. sands is a loser? lauren: a downgrade at a ubs to neutral, price target is 50, but it was the at 70. they believe the recovery in macau is more protract thed from here. china slowing down their economy. stuart: coming up, a migrant who was accused of beating two new york police officers was set free without bail. surprise, surprise, he immediately committed another crime. we have the full story for you. at least five secret service agents have been put on leave as part of the investigation into the attempted assassination of donald trump. this is a story we're following. kamala harris has a laid out a vague vision for her foreign policy goals. can we expect the same weak foreign policy that president biden delivered? i'll put that question to retired lieutenant colonel james carafano. he's next. ♪ ♪

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stuart: all right, some money coming back into dow stocks. we were with up 400, we're now up 400 again, so we've come all the way back up again, 41,146. that's happening now. that is a rally. we're just getting this coming at us, the department of justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against real page. that's the real estate software company. the government says they enabled landlords to collude to raise rents all across the country. last night kamala harris outlined her foreign policy vision. gillian turner joins us. did we get any specifics, gillian? >> i would say we got a couple, stuart, more specific, certainly, than we have seen so far since she replaced biden at

the ticket. take a listen to this, this was arguably her biggest applause line of the entire evening. >> president biden and i are working to end this war such that israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in gaza ends and the palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination. [cheers and applause] >> well, self-determination for palestinians requires, of course, a two-state solution but more immediately, the complete withdrawal of israeli forces from gaza, something israel hawks have been very quick to pounce on. harris also played the other side though. listen to this. >> i will always ensure israel has the ability to defend itself because the people of israel must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called hamas caused on october 7

including -- [cheers and applause] unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people -- >> harris also really for the first time took voter on a tour of some major global hot spots from ukraine to iran. she also took credit for system of president biden's -- some of president biden's signature decisions. >> five days before russia attacked ukraine, i met with president zelenskyy to warn him about a russia a's plan to invade. i helped mobilize a global response, over 50 countries, to defend against putin's aggression. >> there true, but we also do know, institute, that three days precisely before putin ultimately launched his full scale invasion into ukraine, harris was at the munich security conference in germany where she publicly threatened him with economic sanctions, warned him not to the invade. obviously, to no awe say is. stuart? -- avail.

stuart? stuart: thank you very much, indeed. retired lieutenant colonel james care pan know joins me now. -- carafano joins me now. can we expect the same foreign policy we got with biden. >> well, yes and no. yes because it's the same people perform there's a common thread between obama, biden and harris, and it's all the same people with a very common strategy. and it's particularly focused on russia, iran and china which as as has always been the main focus, but their difference is engage and align. you engage these countries, you figure out what the problem is, give them something and hope it stops. so that's not going to change. but here's what is going to change, there are so many elements of the biden, obama, harris policy that are just unsustainable. she just mentioned one of them, israel. if you listened to her speech, all the things that she wants to do, all those goals are actually incompatible. if you have a strategy that isn't suitable, feasible and acceptable, then it can't actually work. it's not really a strategy.

so a strategy of letting iran run wild in the middle east, that won't work. their energy strategy won't work. we're never going to get to to net zero. several things where harris, unfortunately, is going to end up living with the consequences of over a decade of these policies where they're just bumping up against reality and completely failing. stuart: a hamas leader reportedly asking for a guarantee of survival in exchange for a ceasefire deal. are we close to a deal in your opinion, kohl mel? >> well, i'm concern colonel? i'm not really sure a deal at this point means anything other than people can say, or oh, look, we got a ceasefire. gaza's already been destroyed. you've got to figure out how to rebuild it. hamas has been greatly reduced in power. you have to figure out how to keep them from coming back. iran is still running wild in the region. it's like we've moved on with the problem, right? the problem is now a different thing, but they're all focused on the ceasefire. if. stuart: it seems like a

stalemate in the middle east. a war has not broken out really, a shooting war between israel and iran. hezbollah is exchanging rockets with israel, that's fairly quiet. is there a stalemate here? >> no, there's not because as long as iran is flush with money which, let's be honest, they are because the u.s. gave them so much sanction relief that they literally have a huge war chest, and it's literally a war chest. and as long as they're unbound and they can do what they want -- and they can always a play the nuclear card whenever they want -- iran can find ways to punch at israel. and israel, look, as golda meir once said, all a they can ever do is punch back. they cannot take the first hit. so i don't think it's safe in the region as long as we have a policy which doesn't deal with iran. stuart: i'd like you to sort this one out, colonel. president biden changed our nuclear strategy. he's preparing for coordinated confrontations with russia, china, north korea. china says they are gravely

concerned. sort it out. what's going on here? >> well, so i can't really talk about the strategy because it's classified and none of us have read it, but if it's what they publicly say which is, look, we have to defer simultaneously not just -- deter -- russia which we did in the cold war, but china which will have a nuclear capability equal to russia and the united states, and then you've got north korea which is a regional problem and then potentially you might even have iran, and so it's it's not just that, you also have to defend things which is missile defense. so having that shift if they're doing that, that's good. there's two things -- there's good news and bad news. the good thing is ten years ago the orthodoxy from the obama people let's just get rid of nuclear weapons. that's completely died. democrats, they're okay with the triad a, they're okay with nuclear modernization, that's good, they're okay with missile defense. that's all great. here's the oh thing that's of -- the other thing that's of

concern, integrated deterrence. not with nuclear weapons, right? it's a whole mix of everything we do. this is complete fairy dust and nonsense, and it's the now orthodoxy in the pentagon. and it's actually very, very destabilizing. the only thing that deters a nuclear weapon is another nuclear weapon. so we have to have a strong nuclear policy. they're doing better, way better than obama did because reality has forced them to change their policies. we'll see if it's good enough. stuart: okay. now you've got us all worried. james carafano, thanks for joining us. sew you again soon, james. the dow is getting close to rah rah a 500-point gain, up 470, to be precise. nasdaq um 1.3%. up 11.3. show show me the banks. jay powell says we're on a clear pathway to lower interest rates. banks apparently like it. most of them up 1 or 22%. the yield on the 10-year treasury, that's now at 3.80 right there, and the yield on

the 2-year treasury, has that broken below 4%? yes, it is. that's sharply lower, down to 3.9922. coming up, a democrat from california says donald trump and the republicans are making two major mistakes with the campaign. christina p if ascucci, former u.s. senate case, is here to tell us what those mistakes are. miranda devine says crime-filled chicago represents everything that's wrong with the democrats in one failed city, but the democrats didn't mention crime during the convention. miranda's here to take that on next. ♪ you've been hit by, you've been hit by a smooth criminal ♪ ♪

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violated crowdstrike, some of the other partners and government representatives. full transparency here. stuart: all right. meta? if. lauren: they have canceled their plans for the premium mixed reality headset that was expected to compete with apple's vision pro. stuart: the canning goggles, right? lauren: yeah. stuart: i just can't see masses taking up goggles, people going around like this. lauren: for $3500, no, i can't either. stuart: all right. the investigation into trump's assassination attempt, five secret service agents put on leave. david spunt following the story. what more do we know, david? >> well, stuart, of the five we know that four of them are in the pittsburgh field office, that's close to butler where the rally was on july the 13th where the former president was almost killed. one of those four in the pittsburgh field office is the special agent in charge, all placed on administrative leave. the fifthth person is secret

service agent on the former president's personal security detail. in donald trump's security bubble, if you will, someone that travels with hem all a over the country and really all over the world. we don't have those names to pass along, but we do know they are on administrative leave. they've not been fired. it's the part of this investigation. this is an internal investigation, stuart, but the -- by the u.s. secret service. i want to point out there is a criminal parallel investigation that's being conducted by the fbi, and you could say largely the department of justice because the fbi falls under the department of justice. attorney general merrick garland was just asked by our colleague jake gibson about two minutes ago about this, and attorney general garland, while he didn't know the particulars of the five secret service agents, he says clearly there was a problem that a day in butler, and the investigation will come out what needs to come out in that investigation. but the bottom line here is we have five secret service agents, and we're told that that number will likely go up.

that number is as of monday, a few days ago, and we're trying to get an updated number. and i'll leave it with this, stuart, the former president yesterday in arizona -- and he said it many times over the past few weeks -- he's praised those secret service agents that got on top of him to risk their lives to save his life. but, clearly, there has been some accountability at this point with those placed on administrative leave. stuart: david spunt with the story, thanks very much, indeed. a migrant accused of beating two nypd police officers was arrested again and then set free without bail. what's happening here, ashley? ashley: yeah. new york's soft on crime policy at its finest, stu. the 24-year-old was arrested on august 12th, charged with identity theft and possession of stolen property after he robbed a woman in manhattan and then tried to use her credit card. but because the charges are not bail-eligible, ayala, guess what? released on his own recognizance. but here is where it truly

becomes clown world. ayala had already been arrested in may following a near-riot at the roosevelt hotel shelter where several migrants allegedly ganged up on two nypd cops. both were injured including one bitten on the arm. at the time he was charged with assault but let go on supervised release despite having a previous criminal record which included domestic violence. but, yes, he's back on the street. if insanity. stuart: agreet. you're right. thanks, ash -- agreed. take a look at this op-ed in "the new york post". crime-filled chicago displays all that's wrong with democrats in one failing city. miranda miranda devine wrote that and joins me now. why haven't democrats addressed the issue of crime in chicago? >> i mean, they've had pure power for almost a hundred years, why would they bother? i think the poor if citizens of chicago don't really have much, much option. they just have to put up with soaring crime and rising debt and crumbling infrastructure.

all the things that their policies bring to make their people miserable and or of course, i think it's very apt that the, the nc convention was held there -- dnc convention was held there this week and you could see the showcase of those policies that a kamala harris and tim walz want to bring to the rest of the country. stuart: trouble is, nothing changes, because it? -- does it? this has been the story for a long, long teem, failing big cities. nothing gets done. >> yeah. and, you know, you have elections and, sure enough, the democrats keep getting voted in. i think there's apathy, there's -- voters are just sort of so disillusioned now, they think nothing they do makes any difference. stuart: is there no sign of any change? here in new york city we've got real problems here. we've got migrants all over the place. we do have a crime problem. we've got a financial problem with all the migrants, but it's highly likely that a democrat will be elected the next mayor. >> absolutely. and, you know, if you look at the voter urn theout, it's minuscule.

i think bill de blasio, or you know, the are dreadful -- stuart: the worst, the worst. >> i think that the voter turnout was something like 25% for his last mayoral election. if people just realize that the system is rigged and there's nothing they can do about it. stuart: i remember donald trump sort of standing up in front of a largely black audience and said, vote for me. what have you got to lose? [laughter] >> and you look at the vox pops being done in chicago right now with a whole lot of black people on the south side, and they're all to don lemon and all the other liberal journalists' surprise saying we're trump 1000%. stuart: one day things will change, and i hope i live to see is it. miranda devine, thanks for coming in the studio. >> thanks so much. stuart: google just made a deal with california. they're going to give newsrooms in that state hundreds of millions of dollars. we will tell you why. we've told you before about this, rising prices in california leading people to

pack their bags and hit the rad. max gordon spoke with people who fled the golden state. we'll find out how happy they are or otherwise with their choice. ♪ so much for my happy ending. ♪ so much for my happy ending ♪

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'990s and early 2000s. california people are pack up and leaving what i call the formerly golden state. max gorden has the story. you spoke to some people who fled. i take it they're all happy with their choice? >> reporter: yeah, stu. well, the folks that i talked to seem pretty happy with their decision. you know, here in california especially for families, home ownership just seems out of reach. prices are too expensive, and then the cost of goods, that has been steadily going up over the past couple of years. now, get this stat right here. between april 2019 and may of 2024, food prices were up 27% and gasoline was up 29% according to the public policy institute of california. home prices in the golden state are also some of the most expensive in the nation with an average sale price of $838,000 july of this year according to redfin. nevada and arizona are popular destinations for people moving out of the state because of their proximity, job tons and

lower taxes. -- job opportunities. states in the southeast have also been hot spots for wayward california a januaries. according to u-haul, for four years in a row california has been the state with the largest net loss of one-way u-haul equipment, folks getting out. i talked to the mother of four who moved from l.a. to south carolina because they wanted to buy a house. she told me houses in south carolina were a third of the price of comparable ones in l.a. county. >> i think for normal people hitting that point in their life where they want the stability of home own home ownership and they're really making a logical choice, i think it's really hard to just look at all the a factors honestly and make a decision to the stay unless you have a really compelling reason to do so. >> reporter: but the california exodus has also a had an impact on home prices in other states. according to redfin's chief economist, this has been especially evident in florida and,. and texas. >> these places that were previously a really good deal to

move there, you're not saving quite as much money. and the property taxes are up because home values are up. >> reporter: now, could the golden state finally get its glimmer back? new laws are supposed to increase the housing stock of affordable houses here in california, and for the first time in several years in 2023 if california actually gained in population. stu? stuart: got it. max gorden, thanks very much. now, former u.s. senate candidate, democrat from california, christina joins me now. christina if, people seem to like it when they've moved out of california. do you want to respond to that? >> well, stuart, look, i understand california's become completely una affordable. i'm not going to mince words with this. think about this fact, it is so unaffordable in california that first responders, firefighters, for example, they actually have moved their a families out of state to place like idaho. they fly in for their shifts because that is more cost

effective, and that is a problem. when i ran for u.s. senate, this was one thing i campaigned on, basically it's a supply issue. there's two ways to solve it. first, you have to forget out these interest rates. they are just exacerbating an already horrible issue and, two, further development process by cutting the extreme regulation we see in california that crippled the affordable housing crisis. stuart: last night kamala harris celebrated her record before becoming vice president. watch this. okay. but she was celebrating the way she handled law enforcement, handled the jobs that she had in california. you're a former tv news anchor, i believe, and you introduced and interviewed harris. in california. what do you make of her policies, her performance when she was in law enforcement in california? >> yeah. i first interviewed her about ten years ago, and i think one thing is undeniable, she had very compelling presence when

she was in person with you, and you knew that she was going to rise in her career. when it comes to her policies, i think something that's clear -- and, you know, look, i am a democrat, but i'm a very pragmatic oning independent-minded in many ways, and i do think she has to do more to show where her policies stand more. this whole week at the dnc was about celebrating. the energy was undoubtedly electric, but she will have to share where she stands on all these issues today, and i'm really looking forward to seeing that the, especially what she has to say about the border because we know that that has been abysmal the last few years. stuart: it would be interesting to see what she's got to say. maybe you could do an interview with her. that'd be a first, wouldn't it? christina, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, stuart. good to be with you. stuart: lauren's looking at the deal that, google has made with california's newsroom. lauren: first in the nation public-private deal. it's to to found journalism and preserve local news organizations. funded by google and the state of california.

$250 million over five years. it goes to the state's media outlets, about 18000 million to the newsrooms -- 180 million, over 600 million to a.i. programs. they're going to launch an a.i. accelerator to support -- the. [laughter] the journal is' work. but many journalists say, hey, a.i. is taking my job instead. it's just weird. stuart: news from google. news from zuckerberg. lauren: yeah. but the regulations in california kept changing, and google was saying, welsh at one point you want us to pay the organizations to the use and link to to some of their articles, and then what are we supposed to do? this is what they came up with in the end. stuart: all right, i can see it. thanks very much, indeed, lauren. let's check out the dow 30. i think we're going to see a lot of green. yes, we are. most of the dow 30 are on the upside this morning, and the dow is now up nearly 400 points. you're above 411,000 on the industrial -- 411,000 on the industrial average. let's get a sense of the market. that's what we just did. don't go anywhere, friday

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communication, but we also get to know what our friends and family like to do in their spare time which can get a bit tiresome. but overall, how could we live without it these days? stuart: look, i've got a far-fetched family all over the world. it helps me keep in touch with everybody on a daily basis. what do you say, lauren? lauren: i miss encyclopedia britannica. do you remember? you had to write down notes because you didn't want to write in the book. stuart: when i first came to america, i had a guy knock on the door to rye to sell it to me. -- try to sell it to me. that's how long i've been here, a long time. [laughter] robert, a longtime resident of illinois who escaped to indiana, wants to know if you visited any of the great chicago bars and pubs during your stay. as a matter of fact, i did. there's a bar called gibsons. it's a great place. lauren: were any soccer games on that you were able to watch? stuart: no, but it was a great

bar. gibsons. i can't remember any of the others that i went to. this is from gary. stuart, i'm amazed at the hours you must be keeping this week. do you get to take a nap in the afternoon? if yes, i do. i take several. well, that's not quite true. [laughter] my habit is i do take a nap every afternoon. i get up at 2:54 every day, and i work through til about 1:00 in the afternoon, take a brief nap and then get up and do it all over again. how about you, lauren? lauren: i nap from 9-12 every day. [laughter] stuart: oh, that's cruel. that is cruel. lauren: it is the easiest one of my many jobs. ashley: no, i don't. i'm not a big napper. i wish i could be, but i'm just not. stuart: let me tell you the secret. you only do 10 or 20 the minutes. it's got to be a cat nap. if you go into an hour's worth of deep sleep, when you wake up, you feel like death warmed over. you do not know what day it is, and you can't get back to reality until it's time to go to bed again. lauren: so multiple 10-minute

naps a day work? stuart: yeah. it's easy. you lie down, close your eyes and, bang, you're asleep. [laughter] this is from elizabeth. we love hearing the songs your show chooses to go to commercial with. is there any song that has special meaning? for me, it's start me up, the rolling stones. that seems to be the perfect music for our show. ash? lauren? lauren: ashley likes tom petty. i can answer for you, ashley -- ashley: i do. tom petty, david bowie. number one, my childhood. lauren: i'm going with the beatles only because i always look over to stuart, and he gives me trivia on the beatles. stuart: yeah, i do. it's good stuff, isn't it? moving along here, this is from kevin. love playing the trivia every day. what's a piece of random trivia you'd like to bring up in conversations? well, i'm afraid i'm a geography nut. i like to play capitals, what are world capitals. let's play it now. okay. lauren, what's the capital of

kirk stand? [laughter] lauren: bishkek. stuart: okay -- oh, she's right. [laughter] we gave lauren the answer just to make sure -- lauren: but, wait. what is the capital of uzbekistan? >> cash can. ashley: baku. lauren: i have not a clue. stuart: look it up, you people. [laughter] what is it? oh, we've got to move on -- [laughter] apparently, it's all over. [laughter] we really messed that up, didn't we? lauren: sorry. stuart: let's see if we can get the answer to this one. where was george washington born? 1716, 1724, 1732 or 1740? the answer when we come back. ♪ ♪ if

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stuart: when was george washington born? 1716, 1724, 1732, 1740. what have you got? ashley: i'm going with 1732, number 3. stuart: lahren? lauren: i will take number 2, 1724. stuart: i'm going with you, 1732.

i overheard our audio guy say that. is right. he was born february 22nd in virginia, became leader of the continental army at the age of 44 and was elected president in 1789 at the age of 57. there you have it. a final check of the market. it is still there, not as strong as it had been earlier in the day, dow is up 300, nasdaq is up one hundred 82 points. time is up for me. coast-to-coast starts now. it is yours. neil: are following the record rally, we are treating a hair breath away a second ago, gold in and out of record territory, obviously anything hinting of economic growt