quarters they ever had. sandra: on fire and what the facebook also. speaking of, you like bit coin. liz: of funny story that somebody made an engagement ring out of a bit:. it looks like a computer chip. don't know how attractive it is or what the value would be on a daily basis. but toys are so volatile. sandra: today, $500. maria: thanks for joining us, good to see you. time for "varney and company". have a great show. stuart: rebound. the economy, twitter stock, not the market. good morning, everyone. started last night, good numbers from twitter, that stock is up 20%. release this morning the economy expanded an annual 4% pace. that news was taken for a while and ran with it, the bull run didn't last. we will tell you about it. how about terrorist money? wears a coming from? european government, says the

new york times, $125 million. we have the report. the head shaker of the day, conspiracy theorists jesse ventura wins $1.8 billion for the widow of a navy seal. you can be sure we will have a report on this disgrace. "varney and company" is about to begin. here we go. a strong rebound for the economy in the april through june quarter. look at that. 4% annualized growth. clearly we are not going down the recession road. some market watchers are throwing cold water on this rebound. you will hear from them throughout the show. 4% annualized growth q 2. the market liked it initially. health-care stocks are dragging the market down. a full explanation of this dragging down, we are up 150 points from the high this

morning. the improving economy pushed interest rates higher. the yield on the treasury's back above 2.5%, 252 right there. stock of the day, no question, is twitter. big winner, the ongoing analysts were expecting a loss, the company posted a profit. the world cup helped it grow its user base, 16 million extra users in three months. the stock is up 20%. we will take on the issue of terror financing. the new york times reporting european governments pay ransom for hostages under the guise of humanitarian aid. the money goes to terrorists coffers. al qaeda and its direct affiliate's have taken in at least $125 million from kidnappings of which $66 million was paid last year. here is the breakdown of ransom payments. almost 16 million came from france. switzerland, 12 million, spain, 11 million, austria 3 million,

germany not a full listing of accounting that they paid out some big bucks. joining us from capitol hill senator john arrest those who is on the senate foreign relations committee. senator, does the payment of such huge amounts encourage more kidnapping? >> i think it does. we are seeing kidnappings focused on people from the countries where ransom is paid. we refused at least until recently to negotiate for deal with terrorists but look where the money is going. they're using it to recruit others, using it for training and using it for weapons used by the terrorists. stuart: can you do anything? you are on the senate foreign relations committee. can you do anything but publicize it? >> we want to make sure that the u.s. doesn't do this sort of thing but we saw this with president obama when he released five terrorists from gitmo and returned for the u.s. soldier

and that would encourage the terrorists to try to take u.s. hostages. that is my concern so i would say the answer is do not negotiate with terrorists, do not pay ransoms because those people looking to get the ransom money, they know who pays and that is to their targeting and now looks like specifically of french. stuart: did you know about this before hand? you are on the senate foreign relations committee, was this a shock when you saw it in the times? >> was a surprise to anyone on capitol hill to see how much money is involved. when you see three suitcases with $5 million, the way the money is counted out on blankets and the way the countries who are paying it tried to disguise it by having it listed as humanitarian aid. stuart: you have an editorial in the investor business daily. you are pretty harsh about harry reid. you say he is blocking progress on energy, jobs, corporate taxes. make your case, you have

thirty-second. >> dozens of bills have passed the house that are sitting in the senate right now and passed with bipartisan, good numbers of democrats and a majority of republicans that can put more americans to work today if harry reid would allow a vote. he is not allowing the votes. there are ten right now that would improve jobs and the economy that have to do with education, energy, health care, government red tape. we should pass those before we go on recess. stuart: white house is out with a statement saying the president is trying to get these measures especially infrastructure spending. he is trying to do this. >> harry reid takes his direction from president obama. the president has his fingers crossed on this one. he does not want bills coming from congress to the desk. we are seeing president obama

telling harry reid to continue blocking amendments and bills. they are stacked up in the senate. of the president wanted to act on these you could be a short harry reid would call for the votes. we could get 60 votes today on each of these ten bipartisan bills if harry reid will allow the vote in the united states senate. stuart: thank you for joining us. let's get to that gdp report, 4% annualized growth in the spring months. complete reversal of earlier retraction. the administration taking that clearly, dialing up the rhetoric again. the economy could do even better if congress does its part to help studding with taking steps to make sure working out roads and bridgeses is not brought to a halt but to make further progress the president is pressing ahead on his own authority taking investments in american manufacturing and energy and infrastructure. mary kissel with the editorial

board is here. what you think of the 4% annualized growth in the second quarter? >> with apologies to larry david you have to curb your enthusiasm with this number. it is a good number but the first quarter was terrible and when you the emanual ice figure you are talking 2% annualized growth over the last two years and even that has been ratcheted down 2.2%. a lot of this was inventory buildup. stuart: when you say was a rotten first quarter, got that. the second quarter just made up for all the stuff we didn't do is then. we did in the second quarter. does it go for the third and fourth quarter? >> we hope is but a larger picture is you are looking at 2% annualized growth comment and we are in the fifth year of a recovery. this is not a normal recovery. unfortunately, it will be difficult for the economy to achieve this growth rate over the next --

stuart: dow industrial average's close on 80 points. was up 70 points when the market opened a couple hours ago because of the strong gdp report. is it possible everyone is wearing the federal reserve reported 2:15? is that holding it down? >> what was important is what he just said to you, as that there are bipartisan bills in the senate expediting exports, and reform, all sorts of things where there is a bipartisan majority. it is a great number but i wish we could do more. congress is ready to do more. the president is banking on the american people are not looking at what is going on. stuart: the market did turn south about the time the president put out that statement. that is very interesting. check the share price of twitter, made a ton of money last quarter and signed up an extra 16 million users and they

claim and to 71 active monthly user's. you say this news from twitter google. make your case. >> there are two reasons this is bad for google. the reason this is bad for google is advertisers are moving dollars from search into social and the reason for that, new capturing demand, and it was fantastic for creating brand awareness. we have dollars coming into social, hurting google. the other reason for that is google operates the biggest display network. what we are seeing is the cp ands for display ads continue to go down. advertisers are looking for ways to drive more engagements because people don't click on ban ads. advertisers are moving away from

native forms of advertising. that sponsored stories, tweets and publishers are taking those display tags and removing them from their sites so this is a very small part of the market. overtime it will impact google. stuart: if it is bad for google is obviously good numbers from twitter. how good are those numbers? how good are they? >> 120% and revenue growth this quarter is impressive and let's not forget that i was here last week talking facebook's revenue growth. you are seeing advertisers start to understand the social space, investing more money in it and it is driving the results they are looking for. stuart: it was a surprise. stuart: we will get 20%. i don't see -- >> it is 33% in after-hours.

i don't think anybody predicted that. stuart: kid murphy, appreciate your help on social networking issues. you know what we're talking about. come and see us again soon. the health insurers, this is the group dragging the market down. why are they down? >> let's start with that. health reform, and united health, and it is down 6%. talking about profit in the second quarter falling due to the investments they make. with president obama's health care reform, the new laws that are in place take a look at names like well point and etna throughout the day. they started in the green and well point in new high through the day. just before 9:45 when we get a conference call, and that dropped the market into the red as well and there's a great and

today charge showing the crisscross on the unchanged line. stuart: hold on a second. i have mary kissel here, you are shaking your head. >> the irony is amazing. these health-care insurers are the one who got in bed with the obama administration. stuart: they got loud profits -- lousy profits, they both get a bailout. they are going to get government money. >> the irony is incredible. of the one i got you. what is with amgen? >> we talk about arthritis drug, a new cholesterol drug in the pipeline. as of 5%, they have been cutting their work force and plan on cutting the work force 15%. stock hit a new high, and first quarter insiders. it is not a big deal, not to see this great move and as they noted they were flashing 2400 to 2900 jobs primarily in the u.s.

this year and next. stuart: the success of the arthritis drugv embrol intrigues me. the national labor relations board takes a swipe at mcdonald's and its franchisees'. opening the door to a flood of lawsuits may mean unions, the businesses could be affected. the judge on that is next.

the to check the date board. 6800 is where we are right now. the stock was up earlier. not now, though. discussed stories for soda stream. a 10% gain. look at mcdonald's. that stock is down.

here is the opinion. they are joining for labor and wage violations. this extends liability. now they can go after that deep pockets of mcdonald's, the corporation. i will express the opinion. it is a politicized grueling. >> it is written by people who share presence mindset that the purpose is the instrument to be to expand this. no question that. it is usually to expand the domain of management. nevertheless, this is an opinion

from general counsel who conduct and investigation through 181 complaint filed by make donald. that the mother should. that place is not owned by mcdonald's. it is owned by a company that has a relationship with the donald. these companies file labor complaints that gives the mothership. 61% of them are valid. 60% of them are not. mcdonald's, the mothership, exercises such control over the franchisees that they should all be characterized as one big corporation. therefore, the mothership can be liable for labor violations.

stuart: it is a franchise operation. >> first of all, this is just the opening game of the lawyer. it issues a ruling. then there is an appeal to that ml larvae itself. it will be many steps before these labor unions could claim victory on it. stuart: it shows where the nlrb is coming. >> precisely. that is exactly what it does. it will also be a full employment act for plaintiff lawyers. exactly. they will come out of the woodwork to file these

complaints. it could be anywhere. stuart: these are the lawyers that contributed. >> the whole point of this is to give entrepreneurs an opportunity to run a small business. what is this going to do? if it raises the legal costs, it will force them to charge more. not just to their customers, but the owners of their businesses. you were talking about hotels. all kinds of businesses are franchise businesses. the department of labor, he is a boston university academic. he has made his name on sustaining franchises.

>> they are watching us now. more sleepless nights come to pass. there are entrepreneurs all over the country who are franchisees of other entities that that nlrb will continue to look at. everybody's cost go up. >> homebuilders, hotels, restaurants. >> something that probably will not go up, union dues. stuart: are you a lawyer? >> i am still a lawyer, but i am very skeptical. >> i was rehearsed very frequently when i drew these cases out.

>> you see the balcony in my court. you might as well put records. stuart: i am waiting for a public administration to say that we are on call. >> i suggest that you do not hold your breath. >> a really good pr. this is the future of advertising. it just may bring a tear to your eye. i will bring it to you next. >> she has cancer and she has an operation on tuesday. >> i want to thank you. descartes comes out for you

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profit. now it is down. look at it goes down. fort team percent. that is a hit. take a look at the big health insurers. looking to be related to obamacare. down they go today. new e-mails show white house advisor played a big role in getting a taxpayer bailout for the health insurers into the obamacare legislation. she simply pushed it into the legislation. >> the larger story here is it runs into the white house. obamacare is working. we know that is not true. they wanted more money because

they have to push up prices because they are getting people to old, 26. another reason why republicans think they will win the senate in september. remember, it will never get repealed. stuart: when and how much will be paid to the insurer errs. >> these are called risc core doors. the premiums will go up for the recipients. they do not like these bailouts either. if they want to repeal them, the insurers are the ones that have to pay. politically, that is difficult for them. here is the quote.

it has been more than 40 years since congress passed a current ban on marijuana just to prohibit a substance far less dangerous than alcohol. they should repeal the ban on marijuana. we are joined now by a man who is against the sale of the local marijuana on a state and federal level. i will raise three points that are favored by those that want legalization. .1. marijuana is not as bad, not as dangerous as alcohol. the question is not whether it is safer or not, marijuana is dangerous on its own. i will offer you a rattlesnake or a cobra. which one is safer? marijuana is a very dangerous drug.

it should not be legalized. >> one is stoned and one is drunk. we have people driving on streets that are high. marijuana, and alcohol is dangerous. stuart: i am glad you are with us. these are important. if i am not hurting someone else, why does it matter? >> that is a ridiculous question. that is if you can smoke dope and get high and not hurt anyone else. addiction and dope and drugs are not a separate situation.

general mccaffrey said that an addict commits 100 crimes a year. are you kidding me? it is an all inclusive crime. yes, sir, even the dog in my house suffered. it is an all inclusive problem, sir. stuart: what about the tax revenue? at the moment, it is illegal. make it legal and you get tax revenue. >> they say the same thing about alcohol and tobacco. alcohol use is costing the state $185 billion a year.

they are only collecting 14.5. that could cost us $200 billion a year. listen, follow the trend. you really think that by legalizing marijuana it will be different? president obama, get your act together, my friend. stuart: would you ban alcohol and tobacco? >> absolutely. it is all dangerous. it is taking lives. it is ruining families. it is ruining communities. i am just so sorry that our federal government have elected to take the money and run and not care about the lives of the

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the irony here is airbnb was found about five years ago and san francisco when the cofounders could not make their rent. stuart: i used to live there. believe me. look at netflix go off again today. and talks for seinfeld. if this happens, you can stream and pinch watch seinfeld on netflix. >> yes. if you like seinfeld, yeah, it is a win for netflix. stuart: you are so coldhearted. >> fraser was better.

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let's bring in stephen moore. he rejoined us frequently. i have never believed we were about to expand. after that, should i change my mind. >> what is negative two plus four. >> we are still at that rut. this was a good report. most importantly, businesses started to spend again. it is a positive report. if you look longer-term, we cannot break out of the 2% rut. a big surge in the economy.

stuart: you have a nice job. >> government. government is doing everything it possibly can. the gas industry, the oil industry. what is washington doing right now? the epa trying to impose new regulations to slow down that industry or even to kill it. you talked about obamacare and its impact on employment. all these things of these things are a wet blanket on the economy. we love the free market system and entrepreneurs. i would love to see this 4%

sustainable. that is exactly what we need to get america working again. stuart: mary kissel and i were talking to him. there are countless bipartisan bills that have gone through the house. waiting to be adopted by the senate. these are bills that will increase spending on infrastructure, for example. >> charter school expansion. the keystone pipeline. >> let me add another one to that. a big one that should be front and center right now, stuart and mary, reducing our corporate income tax rate. it is a travesty that we have the highest corporate rate.

this is happening all over the country. stuart: the president does not want to do anything about it. it is congress. it is republicans. the american people look to the president for leadership. it has been harry reid. why can't we get a roll call vote in the senate. it is a no-brainer. it is a project that doesn't need to cost the government a penny. stuart: the president wants to keep taking money from various

wealthy greenies. >> i agree with that entirely. guess what also grew in the second quarter? government grew again. stuart: this full calendar, just look at the calendar year 2014. another repeat performance. i will say we will get up to 3% growth this year. stuart: all right. >> 3% would be a big improvement. thank you very much. stuart: thank you very much, indeed, sir. new at noon, the latest hearing on capitol hill.

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debate? jesse ventura takes $1.8 million. i've got an opinion on that. looking for a republican in congress. yes, we are looking at about 4% gdp growth rate. welcome, everyone, to the second hour. ♪ stuart: 168 is where we are. down the health socks with. now look at the 10 year treasury

yield. the yield went back up. all the way to 2.53%. a big loss for prices. twitter. there is a winner. >> we are seeing the stock story today. of 20%. they did really stop the slowdown. that was a major concern. they rose better than expected 24%. circulated about a world cup. that is part of it. i know that you enjoyed that. i almost want to say i have two

pages of it. every analyst on wall street raising their price target today. remember the highs were above $70. stuart: hold on a second. a new hour. he is looking grim. he is shaking his head. >> with you by a company for $20 billion. all of these analysts are playing this game. i would facebook another story.

i am told that twitter makes half the amount of money for each user on facebook. if that is an accurate statistic, i take your point. >> they only make $121 million. they make no money. that is how investors need to look at this. today, we are trying to do the same thing. trying to get more business from snap chat. they do not make any money. buyer beware, facebook is a whole different story. they are making money. righ now, you have a promise. stuart: breaking away from the markets for a second.

the hearing is going on now. our viewers are fired up about the irs scandal. you are pressuring the attorney general. get a prosecutor. get to the bottom of this. >> it will be years under the curtain. we went back and forth, stuart. no one will be prosecuted. when the president. judges the outcome of the case and basically sends a message to the attorney when he says there is no corruption. when the lead attorney is a

contributor and lastly, when james cole, the number two guy at just in our committee, i ask him when did you learn about the lost e-mails. he said when the press report came out. we want those e-mails under the frequent information act. we have had some success with that. >> my vote is let's use all options. i agree with you. i am all for those.

this is targeting your most fundamental rights. a political fashion against your over map. that is why this is so critical. stuart: i will go further than that. i think the president political opponents were intimidated. i think that election was interfered with. >> when the questions were how often do you meet, who is the head of organizations? the chilling impact is unquestionable. that took place right before the election.

take a look at the share price of facebook, please. they are telling users download a dedicated message app if you want to keep using the service. that means they are splitting that app. the stock is up. have i got it right? they split the app. they are breaking out the messaging app. it is going to be a standalone app. instead of having one facebook app, you will have two apps. stuart: i am told that this is unpopular with users.

also some of the older users may not be so happy about it. they do not want to have so many apps on their phone. younger users maybe not so much. they do not mind making the changes. >> they are not doing this to annoy older people and turn on younger people. they are doing it to make more money. mark zuckerberg has said he really wants to invest in messenger. here is a way to do that. younger people are interested in this sort of thing. a lot of those younger users are shying away from facebook.

>> explain it to an older photo like myself. what is the difference? >> a way to constantly connect with your friends. totally free. they can target things with ads and things like that. >> another place to put ads. exactly. this is two different places. >> my grandchildren are from australia and new zealand.

>> i like that. stuart: next. individual stocks. amgen hitting a new high. the stock hit 131 earlier. now it is 129. a tobacco company. profits down. hurt by lower east egg sales. buffalo wild wings. disappointing. all you have to do is say disappoint. what are you laughing at?

>> i like the sauces. look at this, please. 18% of the population, 57 million people. older folks are moving back in for economic reasons. the pressure on that middle generation is enormous. >> people like me, i am a baby boomer. and lots of us are taking in our parents. that is the multi generational thing. >> a lot of mouths to feed.

and lots of responsibility. >> i have friends of mine that are moving back to dallas from california. it will never happen in my household that my in-laws move in with me. [laughter] it is not happening. stuart: i think it is that for housing. a tremendous dream. they cannot make things be. younger people cannot find jobs. there is no choice other than somebody finding a much smaller home.

>> may be rewards in the next world. stuart: house speaker john boehner. talks of impeaching president obama is a scam. fundraising for the november election. we will discuss that after this. ♪

stuart: i want to get back for the gdp number. the expansion rate for the economy. from chicago, trey can at the show. >> number one, what time is the president press conference?

i will be coming up. just in the second now. the best thing to happen to gdp numbers, the midterm election of 2010. by the way, make sure you turn off his microphone. you will not give any grades to the idea that this is a solid rebound. >> i am not this man is saying it. are we going to continue to be applied to?

i have a sneaking suspicion that all we will do is continue to move the goalposts. we expect rates to rise. retired people right now should be throwing their televisions off of the balcony when they hear janet yellen talk. we do not need consumption. stuart: ed is here. >> first of all, they changed the algorithm. you look this up. it is factual. >> if you look at it, that outgrew them sheet, name one policy that the president has put in place that will help the

economy. stuart: this is just a rebound from the negative news in the first quarter. replacing what we did do in the first quarter. >> as smart as it gets in this business. like i said, keep an eye on bond prices. keep an eye on what janet yellen says. we are paying zero interest rates because that is all i can afford. >> government spent a lot more. really start looking at those numbers. it is hard to compare one quarter versus the other.

listen to house speaker john boehner. >> it is all a scam started by democrats at the white house. >> richard fowler is here. welcome back to the program. can you name a single congressional republicans that has said we will impeach the president? >> i can name a couple. the list goes on and on. stuart: i think you are building the case based on a couple of

random comments here. building the case that the republicans want to impeach the president and they are doing it to raise a lot of money. i think that is what is going on here. >> i think they want to sue the president. they want to have endless committee hearings over and over again about the same topic. i think that democrats are capitalizing on the fact that republicans are such -- stuart: could it backfire? you are raising a great deal of money. it is not going down well. you are making a lot of money out of this. i really think it could backfire. >> if it does backfire, it will

not backfire until all the other stories backfire. i have breaking news about a new lois lerner e-mail. there is a 60% chance. a 60% likelihood that republicans will sleep and when the election with the senate. >> look at what is happening. democrats are leading. whether it is in georgia, kentucky, louisiana, north carolina. it will be a very small margin.

it has everything to do with the emerging elect or it. seniors and independence are now leading 60-70% towards republicans. they are heavy dude -- heavy-duty voters. >> i hear that, stuart. you are not holding young people. a lot of them do not have home telephones. on likely voters showed up at the polls. i think in this particular election, there is so much at stake for those voters. stuart: student loan bailout.

>> it is not a bailout. stuart: if you could gin up impeachment talk, i can certainly go full bore with student loan bailout. >> it is not a bailout. it is refinance. stuart: it is just my judgment, richard. [laughter] stuart: good to have you here again, sir. >> see you soon. conspiracy theories. jesse ventura awarded money after suing the estate of a navy seal. my take on this -- >> it is torture. i can speak from experience. >> what are you suggesting happened? >> the government does things to get us into wars. they do not follow any of the

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stuart: conspiracy theorist jesse ventura wins in court. he is taking $1.8 million from the widow of a navy seal. here is my take. jesse ventura appeared twice on this program. that was more than enough. in his very loud voice the claim the government brought down the twin towers on 9/11, an inside job, he says, without presenting a shred of evidence. chris, oil was a decorated navy seal who wrote a book about his exploits. in that book he said he had a fight with jesse ventura in a bar. jesse ventura e rose had bad mouthed the seals and america, hence the fight. jesse ventura suit claiming he never said that and that the book had ruined his money-making opportunities. jesse ventura won. two problems with this. first, how could a jury believe jesse ventura? we had him on tape bad mouthing america calling it the fascist

states of america and he called the seals contract killers. he is believable? i should add chris kyle only appeared at the trial in a deposition that was taped before his death. the jury believed the conspiracy theorists and took money from a hero's widow. second, i have trouble seeing people like jesse ventura win anything. he would say anything for attention and money and his statements on 9/11 are in my opinion detestable. after the verdict jesse ventura put out a statement saying there are no winners here. he may be right about that but there was one big loser. it is you, jesse ventura. you are a disgrace. (vo) rush hour around here

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stuart: new developments in the irs scandal, newly discovered e-mail exchange that reveals lois lerner's clear animosity toward conservatives. here's a little from the e-mail obtained by house oversight chairman dave camp. the direct quote, we don't need to worry about alien terrorists, it is our own crazies that will take us down with there's a lot more of this. liz macdonald has seen all of this and will report, what else does she say? liz: we are confirming the house ways and means chairman, louis

lerner also referring to conservatives including the tea party crowd as, quote, blank holes. you imagine what that means. stuart: that is in the e-mail? liz: that is in the e-mail. we are confirming this. stuart: she is saying, she is denigrating conservatives using a nasty name and then, don't have to worry about alien terrorists, this bunch we have got to worry about. liz: mr camp is using this in a letter he sent to eric holder, the attorney general saying we need a special counsel now because this reveals a personal animus and hostility, toward conservatives and tea party groups. whether eric holder will return to this remains to be seen, we will be checking on that and bring you the latest on it. stuart: i will give you slim and none chances eric holder appoint a special prosecutor. >> this came up dated 11-9-2012. now within the time period the e-mails were lost.

these are e-mails ways and means continue to pull out from lois lerner's computer account. november 12th of 2012. stuart: would have been after the election of 2012. liz: is not a miss is the mysterious period of missing e-mails. that is good stuff. we have been covering the topic of federal legalization of marijuana. listen -- the new york times says yes, go ahead and legalize it. on the show earlier this morning bishop ron allen had something to say about that. >> marijuana and alcohol, the question is not that one or safer than the other, scientific facts prove marijuana is dangerous. stuart: what does dr. keith tableau think of federal legalization of marijuana? what do you think? >> i don't think that is going to happen any time soon that the feds will legalize marijuana.

i think they should. most drugs should be legal and the revenue we raise should pay for treatment because marijuana is going to cause a lot of people have trouble with their mental health and we need to educate people. stuart: that is what i want to know about. you are a psychologist and you are telling us frequent use of marijuana at any age results in mental problems. spell it out, what problems? >> not for everybody. people can use alcohol, many dabble in cocaine, that is the truth but people think it is innocuous to use marijuana when i have seen people get depressed from it, become psychotic from over use of marijuana. i have seen people lose their motivation, i have seen people develop anxiety disorders from

over use of marijuana. these things happen. they will happen in large numbers and we need to get ready. stuart: you should know the dangers of front before you get into it. i want to get your reaction to that restaurant in california. they banned diners from bringing their children into the restaurant. we don't like crying kids, they spelled it out. how do you feel about that? >> it is unfortunate but it is their right of the restaurant owners want to run their businesses that way, if people don't shun them and they can continue to turn a profit that is up to them. is an adult only restaurant. i don't think children are protected class in their regard. stuart: dating site of k cupid says when it comes to experimenting on their own users of that site, that is okay because the users have agreed to the terms and conditions right up front. i know you hate social networks, and i know that.

i presume you hate the idea they will use their users as guinea pigs. >> listen, stuart, i don't think people read the fine print. can you imagine, when facebook did this they manipulated news feeds to make people feel better or worse and noticed they could make their moods change. here okay cupid, they want to study their customers to see when they feed them profiles of mismatchedes what happens? things can happen. you can end up wasting time with a bad relationship, you can end of thinking of yourself i can't find anyone i care about. this is not okay. i am not sure this shouldn't require the same informed consent that a medical experiment requires and that is a much higher level. stuart: three subject, i agree with you and two of them. >> tell me which one you don't. stuart: won't do that, keep the audience guessing.

>> torture. stuart: i hardly think so. >> it could be the social network thing. we don't always agree on that. stuart: i have got to think about this. come back soon. >> i don't think you are boating for jesse ventura if he runs for president. stuart: did you hear what i had to say? >> i did. stuart: when you agree with me? >> i think the man at tends to paranoia. stuart: that is a clinical description. very good. another form of agreement. we will see you soon. timothy, a youtube star makes a lot of money, six figures, putting that to good use pairing--paying off his parents mortgage and recorded their reaction. >> that is for the house. there you go.

[laughing] >> this is a fun story. of feel-good story, a 28-year-old whose parents come from thailand, he quit college, said i want to make money in the entertainment business, posted these videos on youtube to make money from the advertising and made money on education. people disagree gum and worked out. stuart: he got our attention, he really did. they are telling me time is up. shares of twitter surging. mobile ad snaking the company a lot more money. is it time to believe the hype? that is next. you make a great .

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down 2.5%. take a look at dreamworks, dreamworks to the downside hitting a new low. the company, the sec is investigating the write-down on tour boat, the film, the 2013 film release, looking at that and the revenue dropped 43% for dreamworks. it is under pressure. look at stern mover, sales slipping, demand for guns slipping, competition has been very aggressive with the price reductions. the market down 3.4%. goodyear tire and the pressure down 8% after weaker sales. more "varney and company" coming up and the real halftime report too.

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stuart: welcome to a special real halftime report looking at sectors. nicole petallides at the exchange, ed butowksi in new york and wall street journal's spencer jacobs here too. social media. do you believe the hype on twitter? >>, all of a sudden believe the hype more than it did. twitter has underperform facebook since its close on the first day of trading by 50 percentage points including 20% drop it had today. the news was better than expected. if you want to use a benchmark it is valued at $100 per active monthly user versus $150 for facebook. it is relatively cheap. is it worth it? difficult to say because social media is difficult to value. it doesn't make money but

facebook is wildly overvalued any traditional metric you would use for a brick and mortar company, i personally am skeptical. stuart: saved the best for last. you wouldn't buy twitter. what about facebook? >> hard to say. but facebook, absolutely, it is a traditional company that is in respect to making money. you want to buy companies that make money, the don't have a promise. what i by facebook? they are hitting on all cylinders, that revenue, earnings, doing a great job. stuart: give us a progress report on the other social media stock? nicole: that cleared this morning, social media doing very well. we hear about user growth for twitter, took the whole group up with it but that was a surprise, the active users. they didn't think they would throw down, the question is whether that will continue after the world cup.

looked at linkedin, yelp is up 6.5%, groupon pulled into the red but linkedin of 3%. stuart: nice gain for linkedin the next sector is big tech. how about netflix, they are in talks to big seinfeld to the customers, is that a big deal? >> you could only -- you can't -- >> you can watch it on channel 11 in new york. you can stream it buds that involves big money. hbo sold a bunch of old shows that had been off the air for many years, to amazon for $350 million, that is the phrase being discussed. netflix spends $3 billion a year on original content. a very big price tag, very big chunk out of its budget but it needs to have these shows people preferred to binge watch to keep

people coming in. that is the bottom line but it highlights the rising cost of content and competition for the content and dangerous thing about netflix is people don't appreciate how quickly costs are rising. stuart: seinfeld doesn't come in she. next tech stock, amazon. they are talking about lowering their book prices to create more demand. they say that would bring in more money. >> it might. possibly if we price everything exactly the same will we have broader distribution? will more people participating buying books? and the tax code, reduce taxes and we will get more people participating in pain taxes. amazon needs revenue. amazon scares me to death when it comes to the tech stocks because they are bellwether and if they don't perform well lot of other companies come down as valuations change. amazon needs money, amazon needs to make money and i am not a buyer of amazon.

stuart: when i came in this morning i saw garland's doing well. now it is down. what is going on? >> the only thing i can say is profittaking, looking to figure out why it was moving in negative territory, they don't just make gps system, and fitness watches. it is down 4.4%. it did well for the latest quarter. stuart: next sector utilities. this is your turf. electricity prices at a record high. listen to what the president said about this at the beginning of the presidency. >> under my plan of a cap and trade system, and electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. stuart: what do you say about utilities now? >> regardless what the president says or what he thinks he said,

knows the difference these days? i am a buyer of utility stocks. it is not my entire portfolio. i have been waiting for long time but what i'm looking at is the problems i see in the world are from outside our borders in europe and other places so your insulated a little bit when you are buying utilities. anyone afraid of the market but wants to be invested, look at x el you, i'd buy it all the time, full disclosure on that end. i will continue to buy a you have a 4% dividend and potentially growth and you can rest well with it. stuart: got it. that is it for the real halftime report, thank you what randolph for being with us. is being called the worst hand in professional poker history. something you will probably never see again. more on this after the break. >> out of the tournament!

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busting his opponent. look at this. >> flushed out of this tournament. flushed out of this tournament! >> $1 million, wiped out. >> what are the odds of that happening. >> the final thing happening, one in 49, a 2% chance to win a 2% chance to lose and a 96% chance to tie. stuart: somebody del two aces, they go all in.

is the $1 million buying and a guy with two laces losers. ever seen that? >> i have never seen that before but there are worse things that happen to people all the time in poker. a great story. stuart: what could be worse than being dealt two aces, put a million dollars in and you are all in and you lose? what is worse than that? >> a pair of bases and the of the guys have two 3s is a bad b also. anytime you have a pair of acess and lose that is a bad b. stuart: a million dollar buying and you lose it, i can't believe that. thanks to your expertise, out of time. more varney next.

stuart: my time is up but dierdre bolton has a lot of it. dierdre: i certainly do. legendary take investor roger a macamee will tell me what he

thinks about amazon's global push and the cheapest tech stocks in the market. one of the most active investors in the countries here as well, he and sweater shares and we will get the results and the future of the social blogging co. and speaking of tech, reverend jesse jackson says the obama administration needs to scrutinize the industry's lack of diversity. twitter, facebook, and the news to give labor force stats. my exclusive conversation with him later this hour. first job for the first time as a public company twitter delivering for its investors. it reported a 124% increase in year on year revenue, 89% from ad revenue of, of that, 81% came from mobile labs. the stock is still soaring but still if you compared twitter to facebook you will see twitter still relatively small. take a look at the stats. facebook