stuart: welcome to "varney and company". here's what you will see today. stock market rally, a president declaring war on 80 million americans and the taliban and flag flying over kabul 20 years on. we better start with money. after four down days we see green across the board, the dow starts 2% below its all-time high. it will be up 170 points.

significant gain for the s&p and the nasdaq. look at the yield on the 10 year treasury. we are highlighting this. earlier this morning we got a report, producer price inflation, strong inflation signal, not that much reaction in the treasury market. 45-9 to be precise. wall street taking a backseat today to the action now. president biden's covid plan takes aim at the 80 million people who are unvaccinated. they got to get the job or lose their job, that is the centerpiece, maximum coercion. president biden says it is not about personal freedom but personal freedom is the essence of our constitution and the 80

million unvaccinated many are minorities. is a democrat president going to force them out of their jobs? the president is trying to change the subject, move the conversation away from the afghan debacle. into the couple weeks ago biden was expecting to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 as the president who went america's longest war. he did but the way we left was the humiliation. instead it is the taliban and flog that flies over kabul on september 11th, the islamists who will celebrate but we will never forget what the islamists did. we will not be distracted. it is friday september 10th, 2001. "varney and company" is about to begin. ♪♪

stuart: today, tomorrow marks the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. pete hegseth is at the 9/11 memorial. you served in afghanistan. how did that feel for the people who attacked us are celebrating on this anniversary? >> the bidding, deciding to form their government in september 11th like that date was chosen to commemorate a date hundreds of years previous when the last islamic caliphate attempted to take over the west. the taliban and our enemies have a very long memory. the question is whether we can and do as well. listen to the press secretary describe the taliban at the podium as professional and businesslike. there is a fundamentally unserious way in which a lot of

people in our country want to view the same enemy that brought these towers down 20 years ago. that gets me talking about 9/10, the day before 9/11, when we didn't have the mindset of al qaeda, or the threat they brought to the west. if we don't hold our elected officials accountable to a standard of believing in our country leaving no one behind we will bring ourselves back to a 9/10 mindset which makes us vulnerable was we have a president who doesn't seem to understand that but today and tomorrow, we will remember all the heroism and sacrifice, folks on flight 93 who were the first counterattack, to execute it and save the lives of thousands, countless others in washington dc. we will not forgetting your viewers don't forget and that

is what today and tomorrow are all about. stuart: we will not be distracted, turning away from this was where were you on 9/112001? >> everyone remembers where they were? i was a college student. i had enrolled in army rotc so that day and the days thereafter brought more gravity to the decision i had made to serve, reality that war could be in the future which we didn't realize at the time could be imminent. a lot of the campus, a liberal campus, erupt inflaming america first, even their 20 years ago. we are a generation away which is why we have to fortify the next generation to understand the nature of the evil, and be worthy of the sacrifice and what it is all about.

stuart: we will not be distracted. pete hegseth at the 9/11 memorial. we will look at the markets. this friday morning, we have a modest gain pretty much all around. david, vaccine mandates, back to school mess, inflation, terror threat. wall street seems to ignore it. is this the wall of money flooding the economy? >> it is mostly corporate profits. you had incredible profit growth from the engine of capitalism that drives our economy. all the negatives you spoke to, some worse than others as market circumstances but you have to look at these things how much better things could be. we get surprised markets are doing well when it is the negative things and realize

things would be better. markets and the news cycle are never that correlated. >> tax hike that may come down the pike at us, a dark cloud on the future. >> it depends what happens, divided government is going to protect us. there could be some modest marginal tax increases none of which i, all of which i am against but extreme and nonsensical things are not going to happen. the market knows it and we have james madison to thank for our system of government. stuart: where were you on september 11th, 2001? >> my wife jolene and i celebrated our twentieth wedding anniversary a couple

days ago and were flying to tahiti for our honeymoon. we landed an hour after it happened, calling back home and hearing news reports, pandemonium and it was a difficult way to start a honeymoon. for travel, the travel industry, we made a decision to do our best to enjoy our honeymoon but we love our country, and echo everything he said, felt it then profoundly, i feel it now. we won't never forget. how it but ended our honeymoon, this was an absolutely dark moment in american history and the only thing that could be darker is any of us to forget the nature of the enemy and us to ever forget those who sacrificed, incredible days we look back on tomorrow and appreciate you asking the question. stuart: see you again soon.

there is other news. president biden put in a call to china's president xi jinping, first time they've spoken since february. what did they discuss? 90 minute conversation. >> where they could find common ground, climate change, don't think so, covid, don't think so, it was mutually described as a candid call, president biden was annoyed lower-level talks are getting nowhere see was testing personal diplomacy. i have these relationships with world leaders, not sure he did. there is no face-to-face meeting set up. stuart: that is all we know, nothing came out of it the we know. lauren: aggression in the south china sea, treatment in hong kong or taiwan. we when i think xi jinping wants to concentrate on his domestic economy and domestic control. it is friday morning.

we have 20 minutes to go before we open the market. we have a rally in progress across the board. not that strong but pretty good. president biden, got to put it like this, he did and about face on mandates. >> this is not about freedom or personal choice. it is about protecting yourself and those around you. stuart: didn't like it back in december, he wants the vaccine mandate now. is that a flip-flop, we are on it. americans are ready for football, reportedly set to bed $20 billion on games this year. what is behind that, i ask the ceo of draft kings. ♪♪

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about-face as 80 million americans are unvaccinated. his tone is very strong and he went a lot further than many people expected just days after the afghanistan withdrawal and two days before 9/11 if we are looking at the optics of this announcement. he spoke on getting more americans vaccinated to beat covid as best we can but it was a strong tone and a lot of people say why weren't you this strong last week. stuart: let's bring in doctor matt mccarthy. the president piled on mandates for vaccines, even masks. my question is when and how does this all come to a end. >> reporter: it was clear that no end his insight. the vaccine mandate in december

of 2020 is when we had vaccines authorized for emergency use and we are in a different position today with an fda fully approved vaccine. i advise lots of different workplaces. what i tell the ceos is you should institute a vaccine mandate. this is an act of leadership. a lot of them are on the fence, a lot are saying couldn't we strongly encourage it and the thing is we had nine months of strong encouragement and i will disagree with the president on one thing. he said this was not about freedom. i think it is about freedom. i think about all the parents seeing kids go to school in masks, having their classrooms disrupted, small business owners who can't get their business to flourish because they are not getting the full vaccination effort of their employees so overall i thought it was a strong message, it was the right message, forget who the messenger is. the content of the speech is appropriate.

in terms of when this is going to end, it is not going to go away. one of the big messaging mistakes we made was saying we were going to reach heard immunity at 65%, 70% people get vaccinated. that was never true. this is going to become an endemic virus we have to learn to live with and we've got to figure out a way to coexist with it and we've got to get the messaging right, a strong message from the president and i think vaccine mandates are going to be the way to go. stuart: but it goes on forever. other societies impose draconian restrictions and every time they lift those restrictions covid comes back so back go the restrictions. seems like we are in the same situation, that it never really ends. the restrictions on our lives never really come to an end. that is my problem. all in favor of vaccination but

i want this whole thing not to go away but for us to get to the other side and understand that we will never get to 0 covid. where do you stand on that? >> completely agree with you. a year from now we are going to have the ability to vaccinate every man, woman and child in this country if they so choose. to me that is when we are on the other side of this and the restrictions need to go away. we will start vaccinating kids in spring of 2022. a lot of parents don't want to do that. i plan on vaccinating my kids but a year from now, everyone 6 months or older will have the opportunity to be vaccinated. then i think the restrictions need to go away and we say you had your chance. if you want to live with covid, you want long covid, you're willing to roll the dice so be it but my kids don't need to be wearing masks when they get on a school bus and my waiter doesn't need to be waiting is wearing a mask when i go out to dinner, we will get to the other side of this but it is

going to take a while and having the opportunity for everyone to be vaccinated. we will get to the other side of this. stuart: always a pleasure and thank you for being with us. very important day to be on. left-hand side of your screen. the dow going up 170, nasdaq 68, that i would call a rally. nfl back, tom brady led the way to a game-winning drive in an opening night victory over the cowboys. jason robbins is the ceo of draft kings. of power in the land of online gambling. football is that, means big bucks to you. how did you do last night? >> we are in the quiet period but we expected big things that are pleased. stuart: that is a diplomatic response and i admire that. the companies offer the same odds.

how do you cheat an advantage over someone else? >> it is really important. we have been rated the highest user experience in the market. something we focus on. a variety of the markets, you can offer more in the setting and games and things like that, that is important. being able to have a strong emotional strategy to start the season where we had one dollar and $0.73, paying out $54 million and in the next motion. a great response. stuart: $20 billion wagered on football this season. are you allowed to comment? >> that is not my number.

a lot of it happening in the illegal markets, tough to measure. i don't think the regulated market will reach those numbers that we are path to get there. it is a legal market around that. stuart: you are not allowed to tell me how well you did, the stock is up 64. we can read a lot to that. "the opening bell" coming up. it opens in 8 minutes time, modest rally on our hands. ♪♪

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stuart: the opening of the market up 160 on the nasdaq, plenty of green. show me netflix, $598 a share, mark mahaney think network has more to run, somewhere to go on

the upside. >> a breakout in netflix shares. 9 to 12 months, survey work recently in the us, an increase in stabilization, what matters is the content is late. and at the heap of them with the money highest and the globally most popular show after stranger things itself come back next year along with ozarks. and it strengthens and shares continue to strengthen. stuart: is it correct to say

netflix had direct content to individual subscribers anywhere in the world? is that accurate? >> they are spending $17 billion a year on content and next year 18 billion. the flywheel they set up, more subs, more revenue, more content, something for everybody on netflix. a lot of competition in this space and a record high for us and they subscribe to not one but 3 subscription services, they subscribe for both, netflix wins as part of the streaming bundle. stuart: netflix to $6.95. i've got a minute left. would you tell us where you were on 9/11/2001? >> i worked in morgan stanley in midtown manhattan but i was

on a business trip that morning when my mother-in-law called me and said you know what is happening and i saw what was happening. of vivid memory. stuart: were you stranded in san francisco? >> your memory is correct, it was 3 days later. stuart: traumatic experience for everyone and we shall never forget that. "the opening bell" will ring in a minute. the covid speech from the president yesterday and the events in afghanistan having no impact on wall street whatsoever. can't find any connection between these monumental events in politics and diplomacy and war and terror compared to wall

street itself was earlier at 8:30 eastern time received news of 8.3% inflation year over year at the producer price level. it is the basic cost from the manufacturers going up 8.3%. despite that, no impact from interest rates, inflation indicators remain virtually the same. it is 9:30, we are off and running friday morning, expect to see a gain of 200 points. left-hand side of the screen, 27 of the dow 30, all the stocks that have opened our in the green, 28 are up, the dow is up 191 better than half of one%. look at the s&p, what is the percentage gain, better than the doubt,.15%, 25 point gain

and the nasdaq doing better than that up.58%. i have to believe big tech is doing well, big tech certainly hire, microsoft, apple, amazon, facebook on the upside. microsoft not quite back to 300 but pretty close. show me a winner. i will show you a firm. one of the biggest players in the buy now pay later in the see, they must've had a blockbuster earnings report. >> revenue grew 71 and double the number of users from 7 million. what can you do to bring in more users? they have a debit plus card, you buy now and pay later and buy things like you would regularly buy things to the bank account. straight price target from 150.

stuart: to your bank account, by any other name. >> i imagine it would look like that. a new product. stuart: that would be a firm 17%, a cybersecurity company, stocks up to present, they've got to be doing well in this environment. >> the best pure play in its very early innings. looking at the horizon, cloud security, 320 price target, room to run, early innings. stuart: put them on the screen up 14%, entertainment restaurant chain. >> they closed during the height of the pandemic and came up strong, they updated their menus, all the contactis

ordering payment options. i will give you pre-pandemic numbers. their revenue in the past 8:45% from 2019. it hit a record. the brand is back, investors agree with 15% share game with the stock price. stuart: that is a complete recovery. let's get to the meme stocks. amc and game stock, did they see particularly game stock, do they see a dip in retail buying and recovery? neil: share prices down on game stock, they finished higher but initially a lot of regular investors said what is going on? we may do a meme stocks because things you get out of this, a 7 minute earnings, no turnaround plan but they bought the dip which was interesting. some of the other meme stocks unlike game stock and amc have been more popular not today you are looking at two on the

bottom, more popular lately among the redit crowd. stuart: groups of stocks you got to check every day, got to check big tech and the meme stocks and cryptos. it has been a volatile week but it might not be over. i hear the word collapse. who is saying it will collapse? >> hearing that from head of the central bank, bit coin might collapse. people will lose money and the market cannot develop without support from regulators. they like and crypto to stamp collecting, not going to adopt like el salvador has because it is too volatile, it hurts your purchasing power from bitcoin and crypto currency when you don't know what the cost would be when it fluctuates on a

daily basis. we will not use it is legal tender. stuart: you need some regulation, some stability. it will not collapse. lauren: some cryptos, all cryptos absolutely not. stuart: dow is up, when is on the screen right now. goldman sachs rounding up the top 5 or 6 and freeport-mcmoran, we have a micron tech at the bottom in the s&p winners list, that is headed by applied materials, micron etc.. none of the big techs on the nasdaq list of winners, the dow

is up 176, that is half a percentage point. up 174, 55% higher, the yield is one.32%. the news of 8.3% producer price inflation did not affect interest rates this morning with gold $17.93, oil $69 a barrel, and natural gas may be down a little but the price of $5 is very high, highest in 7 years. that suggests inflation this fall and enter when you have much more expensive natural gas, national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is $3.18 and california is still the most expensive in the continental united states, $4.40 a gallon.

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of the global revenue going to the canter fitzgerald relief fund, cindy crawford, tony blair, peyton and eli manning and many more handling the transactions. ♪♪ >> reporter: while canter fitzgerald hires dozens of children of employees who lost that tragic day. just 6 years old when his father died in the attacks. >> he worked in it, a computer guy. >> reporter: often worked in investment banking. >> it will be somewhere comical for me to start my career and grow. >> reporter: so many children don't remember 9/11, too young or weren't there for it but

they live every day with life changed because of it. everything from going to the airport or how you think about certain things, lasting impact on society and it is beautiful it doesn't, 70 children were hired by cantor fitzgerald. stuart: joining me now is the executive director of the national fallen firefighters foundation. how will firefighters commemorate those brave men and women who charged up 2000 steps at the world trade center? >> the foundation working with firefighters to do 9/11 memorial stair climbs. they replicate the 100 stories in the city of new york fire department to face that day. they climbed those steps in remembrance of all individuals who died in the 343 members,

each person climbing carries a badge that has a photograph in the name of 343, names and photographs of loved ones they may have lost in the line of duty in the safety sector but made an impact on their lives. there open to anybody who want to climb as a way of remembrance and paying tribute to sacrifices those individuals made. stuart: have you done it this year or every year? >> the stair climbs started in 2005, a group of firefighters in denver, colorado came up with replicating the 110 stories. they said this might be a great way for the nation to remember the fallen but also raise funds. and the national fallen firefighters foundation, from

9/11, the support we provided our use each and every day, they were helpful in the larger incidents like prescott, arizona, charleston, south carolina or west texas at the fertilizer plant explosion. stuart: we will not forget, thank you for being with us. appreciate it. >> most of all people can learn more about the foundation at firehero.org. stuart: thank you. actor steve boucher me reflected on working as a volunteer firefighter. >> he suffers ptsd from that experience. >> have not experienced any health issues, but definitely

posttraumatic stress absolutely. i was only there for five days but when i stopped going and try to live my life again it was really hard. i was depressed, anxious, couldn't make a simple decision, all those things. it is with me, there are times when i talk about 9/11 and am right back there. this is a big part of me. maria: a milestone year. we did not speak to him from a podcast but the milestone years are tougher. it has been 20 years but people reflect in a different way. stuart: he is a comedian.

he is deeply affected. stuart: i will change the subject completely and look at this. diners in los angeles robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight. is this what it is like to live in california. broad daylight, guys with guns on the street just like that. if this is what is like to live in california steve hilton will join us with some comments and continues remember 91120 years on talking to sean parnell who watched 9/11 unfold and promptly enlisted. he is here next. ♪♪ give me one more day ♪♪ one more day ♪♪ one more day ♪♪ one more moment to say goodbye ♪♪ goodbye and strengthen client confidence in you. before investing consider the fund's investment objectives,

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stuart: as we remember those who lost their lives on september 11th we think of the men and women who rose to the challenge and joined our military. sean parnell is one of them, you are a retired infantry captain but you enlisted on day

one 911, did you? >> i was a young sophomore trying to wrap my mind around how to teach second grade and i woke up in this college -- i had a little bit of a hangover, staggered over to the tv set, turned on, watched it for her to life in time to see an airplane crash into the world trade center. that moment i was shocked to my core and anyone who lived through 9/11 filled a range of emotions that day. i was scared but angry. a lot of things affected me that day but what affected me the most was how ordinary americans responded, police officers, firefighters, ordinary citizens who instead of running away from the planes that they are watched one american after the next run headlong into them in an attempt to save people they never met before in an act of selflessness i had never witnessed before.

i went down as a recorder, wanted to join the infantry to be part of america's collective response, goes airborne, pretty perfectly good airplane and go to ranger school to be the best i could for my troops and two years later got my chance in afghanistan, college kids, combat leader in afghanistan. stuart: how do you feel now that the taliban and are flying their flag over kabul on the twentieth anniversary of the attack on our country? how do you feel about this? >> it is soul crushing because never in my life what i have expected an american president to bend the knee to the taliban and in the enemies of this country. we blood the ground read in afghanistan for 20 years, the taliban were responsible for hundreds if not thousands of american deaths and it is hard to watch our country retreat,

surrender to the taliban and give that country back to our enemy. stuart: i may be a little harsh here but i think that the president's covid speech yesterday afternoon was an attempt to distract our country from the humiliation in afghanistan. am i being too harsh? >> know especially in his hyperpolitical world we live in, here is what i will say. the american people, our eyes are open. we are seeing the horror play out on our television sets. we see this does times economy. inflation the likes of which we haven't seen since 2008, lackluster job reports, feel are seeing the disaster of the biden presidency and not buying this distraction. most people are laser focused on 2022 and making sure we get some balance, in the house and senate so that we can stop the

radical biden agenda. stuart: thanks for your service to our great country and thanks for being here on an important location. we lost much of the rally, we are up 20 points on the dow, we had been up 200. the nasdaq holding onto a solid gain, half a percentage point. up ahead, rob o'neill, lee greenwood, martha maccallum, governor of nebraska pete ricketts, second hour of varney up next. ♪♪ ♪♪ it's not easy to be me ♪♪ ♪♪ away ♪♪ away from me ♪♪

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s&p clinging to a small gain. the nasdaq holding on to a very solid gain, t up a half -- it's up a half percentage point. look at the 10-year treasury yield, up at 1.32%. and big tech, looking like they're doing pretty welled today, all of them on the upside, microsoft, apple, alphabet, amazon, facebook, they're up today. and now this. the president's covid speech was a change of the subject speech. ing hammered by the afghan humiliation, he wanted to look strong and determined right before the 20th anniversary of the attacks. what we heard though was blame aimed at the 80 million unvaccinated americans. he said patients with the unjab is, quote -- patience with the unjabbed is, quote, wearing. thin. if they don't step up, they'll lose their jobs. that's the centerpiece, mandatory vaccination. in december he said, no, i don't think it should be mandatory.

well, now it is. this are not go down well. many of the 80 million are minorities who, for whatever reason, refuse the jab. if a democrat president -- is a democrat president about to preside over a surge in minority unemployment? the president appeared angry but not about enthe taliban, we have to do business with them. look at this, two journalists whipped for covering a women's demonstration in kabul, but our president is angry at 80 million americans, he's angry at republican governors who put freedom and liberty first. and the president was, shall we say, economical with the truth. he took credits for the vaccines trump had developed. he said covid had caught us flat footed. that's wrong. personally, i'm in favor of vaccination but not coercion. one last point. delta is actually beginning to retreat. this week the number of new cases started to fall. president biden will take credit.

he will say his plan did it. he's the president who vanquished the virus. second hour of "varney & co." just getting started. ♪ ♪ >> this is not about freedom or personal choice. it's about protecting yourself and those around you. we've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us. these governors won't help us beat the pandemic, i'll use my power as president to get them out of the way. [inaudible conversations] stuart: constitutional, indeed. that was a print good question, i would say -- pretty good question. if you missed it, president biden is forcing private companies with more than 100 workers to either require the jab or mandate weekly covid

tests. all right, take a look at this tweet, please. white house chief of staff ron klain retweeting msnbc. it reads, quote: osha doing this, vax mandate, as an emergency workplace safety rule is the ultimate work-around for the federal government to require advantage vaccinations. a work-around. tammy bruce joins us. that tweet, tammy, shows that the white house went through loopholes to get this mandate done. ted cruz said they've got no authoritied to do it, it's unconstitutional. what say you? >> well, i think that's correct. we've seen that before from this white house with the eviction moratorium. the supreme court said you can't do this, and then they went around trying to figure out how they could pull it off. you know, the constitution and the bill of rights are not suggestions. they're our founding documents. this is what we are -- and they're very simple, very basically you can apply them, and it's something that, of course, the founders expected and that we, the normal, the

sovereign expect you to follow as well. it's not a suggestion, it's not something you can do when you're in the mood, it's something you're supposed to do all the time. so this is troubling but, of course, it's not surprising when you've got individuals who are doing things to win a news cycle. and you put it perfectly, stu. the speech yesterday was a distraction speech. it was something that was to take people -- making him look like he's tough and he's daddy, you better do what i say, but already they've failed on the persuasion front. you're not going to get more people to believe you with threats. effectively, my patience is wearing thin or what else? and what are you going to do if it doesn't? the news flash for mr. biden and everyone is that our patience is over. this is done. klain, i think, is one of those major individuals -- clearly, the chief of staff -- who is running the white house, who is unelected, whom we cannot

punish. and this is also inappropriate, possibly unconstitutional when you've got a president who is not in charge. and faced with anonymous individuals controlling what he does, that also is not what the american people voted for. so clearly he knows this is going to be challenged in court. i think clearly he knows it will not be able to be applied because it is so is -- the antithesis of what this nation stands for and certainly is not constitutional. i think it's fair to say. stuart: tammy, i'm asking all of our guests today, where were you 20 years ago, 9/11? >> i was in los angeles. it was a little bit after five in the morning, and my -- sleeping. my phone rang, which was unusual, so i thought it was an emergency. and a friend was -- i knew who it was. he didn't say her name, but she said wake up, we're under attack. and the phone hung up. she lives in new york. and i thought, i didn't know what was going on, jumped up, of course, turned on fox, and it became apparent what was

happening. in los angeles it was very, very -- it was a different experience. there was this feeling of literal helplessness. i know new yorkers felt that as well, but there was the sense of what do we do 3,000 miles away? here we are, and suddenly any animosity we had toward new york evaporated. [laughter] suddenly all my friends and everyone i knew, it was like we are all new yorkers, we've got to get there, we've got to do what we can, and that became the focus of all of my friends in the entertainment industry, in just life in general were this has got to be something we stand up for, and we came together. it was one of those moments. stuart: we were united then. out came the flags. >> we were. stuart: we were united. tammy, thanks for joining us. very important day. >> thank you, sir. stuart: jen psaki will not say if the president was wrong to declare victory over covid back in july. roll tape. >> the president said he gained the upper hand against the virus

in july. was that premature? >> well, the reason we're here is because people have not gotten vaccinated, 80 million of them, not because of any other reason. so what our objective is from the federal government is to continue to take bold and ambitious steps to get more people vaccinated and protect more people. stuart: the reporter referring to the president's fourth of july speech where he celebrated independence from covid-19. there is one major school district which has mandated the vaccine for students 12 and older. los angeles? >> absolutely. the l.a. unified school district, second largest in the country, says when students return from their winter break in january, they must be fully vaccinated to come to campus and to go to class. this impacts 225,000 students. here's my take on this situation. this means that the government and the school district is your kids' doctor. some parents will accept that, some point. the ones that do accept it and do get their children

vaccinated, will they still have to wear masks? because if i'm getting my kid vaccinated and they're still in a mask, i'm going to be mad. stuart: i can see your point. well said. back to the markets now. the dow has turned negative. in fact, we're down 60 points, and the s&p's also on the down side. jonathan hoenig joining us this morning. you're telling me we should find out what herd is doing and -- wt the herd is doing and do something else? what's the herd doing? >> well, i mean, we're all dumb money, right? the herd is the dumbest of all of us, and if you look at the fund flow, stuart, they're in the stock market. the first six months of 2021 you saw the biggest equity fund flows into mutual underever, double from the 2017 level. just to give you the opposite scenario, stuart, back in 2010 that was a good time to be buying, you saw 33 weeks of outflows from equity mutual funds. so the fact that so manies investors -- you know, there's an old saying, you want to do

the hard thing. the fact that so many investors are now getting into stocks, to me, is one indication that we should be getting out or at least lightening up in terms of risk. stuart: is that what you're telling your clients? get out a little bit because there's something bad coming? is that what you're saying? >> stuart, we've been very unsuccessfully shorting a lot of these big cap names like apple, like microsoft. and that's where a lot of the money's been doing, either to -- going, either to those big cap tech stocks or the most, i don't know, off the wall, cockamamie investments like these nfts, stuart, cryptos where people are paying millions of dollars for literally, i don't know, gifts of gorillas and such. this is a good sign, in my estimation, that the top is closer than the bottom in this market. stuart: if and when the correction comes, nas ity correction -- nasty correction, does bitcoin go up or down? this is a correction in stocks.

>> bitcoin actually peaked, stuart, back in april of 2021, so we still haven't reach reached those peaks despite if a huge mauve -- huge move off the bottom. keep in mind, bitcoin was 7 or 8,000 just two years ago. we've come to assume that 30, 40, 50 is a floor. i don't think so at all. i think you'll easily see it back down there 10, 15,000 within a year or two. stuart: i'm asking all of our guests, and i hope you can share with this us too, where are you on 9/11/2001? >> well, stuart, i was sitting in front of my trading screen at my office. all of a sudden became completely awash with red. i obviously knew something was up and, stuart, identify never nor gotten -- i've never forgotten the 3,000 americans that were murdered that day by islamists out of the blue. i've never forgotten it, stuart, and i've never forgiven those

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♪ stuart: if you're just joining us, we've been -- the market's been open for 45 minutes. we opened with a veryhold gain, but we've retreated. the dow industrials are down 50 points. the nasdaq's come down a bit too, we're only up 41 points there. that's the market, that's money. now this. family members will read names of the victims of the 9/11 attacks tomorrow, the tradition resuming after being paused louisiana year for covid. but -- last year for covid. the new york police department is preparing for an elevated threat environment. lydia hu is live outside 1 world trade. the latest, please, lydia.

>> reporter: hi, stuart. that elevated threat environment follows the recent bombing at the kabul airport as well as the resurfacing of propaganda that celebrates the terrorists who hijacked the airplanes on 9/11. officials say the call to action by terrorist groups is louder this year than in years past, but they also add that there are no specific and credible threats. >> there's no information that a terrorist attack is imminent. is the threat raised as a result of what's happened in afghanistan? in my opinion, yes, no question about it. as i said, they will be able to come together in a safe haven environment and plan and plot. >> reporter: now, among the many tools the nypd will be using this weekend, there will be bomb-sniffing dogs, a heavy weapons team, license plate readers in addition to heavy police presence. now, stuart, events tomorrow

start at 8:30 in the morning. the reading of the names of victims of family members, you mentioned there will also be six moments of silence acknowledging when each tower was struck, each time they fell and the crash of flight 99 -- 93 and the pentagon. the projection of two beams of light 4 miles into the sky to honor the lives lost and celebrate the unbreakable spirit of new york. and, stuart, president biden will be visiting all three sites of the 9/11 attacks, here, the pentagon and shanksville, pennsylvania, tomorrow. stuart: lydia, thank you very much, indeed. i want to bring in the navy seal who killed osama bin laden, rob o'neill is with us this morning. maybe i've got a rather strange question, but what were you doing or where were you on september the 10th, 2001?

>> good to talk with you again, stuart. i was at seal team two. i joined the navy in 1996, and we had just finished a rotation in kosovo which was a peace-keeping mission, but we considered that the closest combat in our careers. we'd gone back to germany, and i was living there and going into work checking e-mails on september 10th. the next day, september 11th, i was again checking e-mails in the office, and it went to break news, and the world changed. stuart: the world changed for you and the seals at that point, because you realized something had really happened here. >> we realized that after the second plane hit the south tower, that everything just changed, that that that was al-qaeda. someone did say within osama bin laden within half a minute, and we're no longer going to deploy to train with our allies, and we're going to fight these guys and bring justice to them in the form of brutality. stuart: was there immediate ramping up of seal team

activity? >> well, we started getting more prepared to go to the desert than opposed to going to train in the jungles or something like that. we just weren't quite sure right away what it was going to be. once we pip pointed that they were in afghanistan, they started sending in intelligence spokespersons, army special forces and our amazing bombers with payments in them. it was probably going to be forever. stuart: would you fast forward to the moment that you shot bin laden? just take us through that, please, because it's very important. a lot of people want to know more about that, the moment itself. >> when we went in, we went in, it wasn't the way we planned it to be. i'm so proud of everyone ahead of me. we went upstairs, ran into khalid bin laden. it was down to two of us, one guy in front of me and then me. my guy was to squeeze his shoulder to let him know to go

up. he knew there were suicide bombers, but he thought we could get 'em if we went now. i squeezed him. i was more of a let's get it over with, i'm tired of thinking about blowing up. there was a curtain at the top of the stairs and tackled a few people he thought were suicide bombers. because he went one way, i went the other, and when i turned that corner, there was osama bin laden about 3 feet away from me. standing up. i was surprised how close he was. i figured he would have barricaded, but he was right there. he was maneuvering. he wasn't surrendering. he was tall and skinny with a gray beard, recognized his nose, assumed he was a suicide bomber and i've dealt with them before. it's very fast, loud, scary and permanent, and i knew i needed to shoot him in the face, so i did three times, and that was it. stuart: you were only 3 feet from him? did you instantly recognize that's him? >> i recognized his nose, and i knew that was him. if he was surrendering,

hopefully, you know, with a shirt off showing he didn't have a suicide belt. i may have taken him alive. but he had, basically, a second to convince me not to kill him, he didn't and i killed him. stuart: what were your orders? were you supposed to take him alive? >> it was a kill/capture mission. if we can capture him and not put the force on the ground or any civilians on the ground at risk, you can take him. so high risk though he didn't have a lot of time, and he didn't convince -- he was doing something that wasn't surrendering, and i had to treat him as i was in contact and in imminent danger, and i had a positive identification, and so i took a shot. they were easy shops. stuart: whatever you say, rob. love love rob o'neill, you're something else. we thank you for being on this program, and we salute you. thank you, sir. >> thank you, my friend. stuart: to nearby what a guy. now this, the white house praising the taliban for its

evacuation efforts in afghanistan. lauren, what are they saying? >> the taliban cleared those foreign nationals including dozens of americans to leave. i'll show you the quote. they have some flex, and they have been business-like and professional in our dealings with them in this effort. this is a positive first step. okay. peter doocy waveed an fbi wanted poster yesterday and asked this. >> reporter: the taliban is business-like and professional, their interior minister has an fbi wanted poster. he's got a $10 million bounty on his head. what's the business? >> in order to get those e people out, we had to work with some members of the taliban to press them to work in a business-like manner -- >> reporter: the statement says this is a positive first step. towards what? >> towards getting additional people out who want to leave afghanistan. >> okay. so we're working with the taliban because we have to, but we conveniently blame the taliban when we have to too, and i'm speaking of tony blinken,

the secretary of state, who at first last week said the reason six charter flights can't take off is because the taliban is stopping them. but then it's, oh, wait, you're looking at the documents. stuart: it takes a long spoon to suffer the devil? i believe that's the case. all right. deal with that. now, here's what's coming up later in the show. diners in los angeles robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight. what on earth is happening? i'm sure california governor newsom doesn't want to talk about this. he's just a few days away from his recall election. i'll talk to steve hilton about it in the 11:00 hour and, yes, we'll be back. ♪ ♪

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increase of 36% from last year. stuart: who says? >> american gaming association is. when you look at the country, 26 states, more than half, have legalized sports betting. several others, i think five other states, will do so by february. that's super bowl time. so it's going to be huge for the nfl. when you look at their partnerships with draftkings, fanduel and others, betting revenue can bring in $270 million this year for the league. stuart: and 45 million, again, says who? >> american gaming association. stuart: okay. let's see about that. look who's here now. perfect timing, adam greenblatt, he is the ceo of bet mgm. what do you think? 45 million americans will bet on nfl games this year? sounds is rather high to me. >> it's a, it's a wonderfully ambitious number. what we know is that this season's going to be the biggest by far. whether we achieve that number or not, all i know is that it's

going in the right direction, and we remain very excited about claiming our share. stuart: are you allowed to tell me how you did last night with the first nfl game of the season and brady was playing? >> i absolutely am. it was a runaway success, so much so that on the first day of the live market with we took more action and had more live players in the state of arizona than in the state of colorado, tennessee and michigan which are our states where we lead. stuart: that's your latest expansion, right? arizona. you went live thered yesterday i think for the first time, correct? if where are you expanding to after this? >> after this we're looking at the state of maryland, looking beyond that to louisiana, further north ontario in canada and then as we look into the new year, it's the people in new york. stuart: new york, okay. now, what does the state get out of this if they accept your

gambling, you're gaming -- your gaming in their state? what do they get? >> well, it's ultimately two things. one, tax dollars which are, obviously, critical in this time, but also it's what regulating sports betting does is bringing into light what really is going on anyway. and it gives -- it affords this player protection. so we're able to look after our customers through the use of responsible gambling tools and, of course, compliance. stuart: what's the biggest sport? i take it it's football, american football. but what about a baseball, basketball and even, dare i suggest, soccer? premier league soccer? >> well, nfl is king. football king. we see a lot of interest in college football also. after that it's basketball. but we of do have some unusual ones. table tennis is very popular in the state of colorado. so there are ancillary sports in

addition -- [laughter] stuart: i'm sorry, i don't mean to laugh, but, adam -- [laughter] why is table tennis big in colorado? >> i think it's a hangover of covid. so when all the u.s. shut down last year, in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king, and what we had was table tennis, and it seems to have stuck. stuart: does it ever occur to you that you are making an enormous amount of money from a vice? i do consider gambling a vice are. yes, it's entertainment, but it's a vice also. any concern on your part? >> we insure that we give our players leisure opportunity, leisure activity, and we encourage very actively our players to play in a responsible way to insure that it is just that, a leisure activity. we make available tools to allow players to control their play, to control deposits and even take a timeout.

stuart: well, adam, i think you're golden. i think you're in an expanding business, and you can't go wrong. thank you very much for being on our show so regularly. >> thank you for having me. it's a pleasure. stuart: you got it, sir. thanks a lot. the pittsburgh steelers have reportedly agreed to a four-year contract expansion with j. watt. -- t.j. watt, what's historic about it? >> the price tag. 80 million is guaranteed. what if he gets injured? still gets $80 million and $28 million a year after that. he is the highest paid defensive player in the league. stuart: these guys are almost up there with premier league soccer players. they're not quite there yet. >> and he's not single. he'll be married soon, in case anybody's wondering. [laughter] just in case. stuart: all right. let's get on with this. i'm going to show you a very

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stuart: you know that song. "god bless the usa." it was released as a single for the first time way back in 1984, but then it became the soundtrack for america after lee greenwood sang that song during the world series games following the 9/11 attacks, and the man himself is here. the legend himself, lee greenwood, of course, and he's on your screen is, right-hand side of the screen. 20 years ago you performed at yankee stadium. i believe that was the first live public event after the attacks on america. would you take us back and describe that moment, please? >> yeah, i'd be happy to. you know, it's interesting. if you look at it through my eyes and what we were dealing with, we had already sang the fireman's memorial at yankee stadium prior, bette midler, i and marc anthony had sang songs for the 343 firemen we lost.

i also sang at the policemen's memorial at carnegie hall, so when i was asked to sing the fourth game of the world series, i decided to go ahead and go all in. and as you notice, if you youtube that, it's the red, white and blue jacket i'm wearing. the only thing i think about as i look back on that 20 years ago is i had black gloves on my hands. i was very cold, and i wish i hadn't worn the gloves. other than that, it was an exciting moment. it was an emotional moment, and tomorrow as we honor the 9/11 attack, the victims that were there, the 3,000 citizens we lost, i will think about that moment an awful lot. stuart: we were together then, no question about it, that unified the country. you could feel it back then. but, lee greenwood, do you think we're still together now? >> well, it's an ebb and flow. i don't know that america -- and people asked me the other day, have we ever been more divided. and my answer would be do you

not remember the civil war or vietnam, for instance, which tore this country apart. there's an ebb and flow to it. as conditions change and more we're affected by international conditions than just national ones, there's a feeling of patriotism, then there's a feeling of government control and things just kind of ebb and flow that way. so my job really as an entertainer, singer, writer, author is basically to bring the country together, and i always try to do that. and i hope that the more you hear my song, "god bless the usa," i hope they do find unity in it. stuart: will you be performing that song tomorrow? >> at several places, actually. i have a show today here in nashville where we're live streaming it as johnny morris from bass pro will be giving a home to a wounded warrior. tomorrow morning at memory gardens in tampa, i will be doing a tribute. and then i fly to arlington,

texas, at the leavitt pavilion with my band and putting on a full show the same day. so two shows on 9/11. stuart: lee greenwood, god bless the usa, indeed, and we thank you very much for being here. always a pleasure, sir. >> thank you, sir. stuart: thanks very much, lee. >> thank you. stuart: then there's this, 20 years ago the new york mets hosted the atlanta braves just ten days after the 9/11 attacks. connell mcshane is live at citifield. what's the feeling there today? >> reporter: well, it's interesting looking back on that time because the mets and the yankees have a series that begins here tonight. i was speaking to some of the players involved in that game, many of them don't remember big parts of it, but they all seem to remember it was more than just a baseball game. not just because of the way it turned out, but to your point, because it was played just ten days after the city and the country was attacked. september 21st of 2001, shea

stadium, queens, new york. >> the question was not only are we going to play, but are we going the play in new york? >> there was still a lot of speculation, a lot of trepidation being the fact that shea stadium's right next to laguardia airport, and there was still that fear of what could be next from the air. >> reporter: the decision was made, play ball, with a special message from the baseball commissioner's office. >> we were told that more than likely the bad guys were going to be watching us somewhere in some cave somewhere, and we were told to put on that happy face. >> reporter: the game itself was close with the mets trailing the braves 2-1 in the eighth inning, up comes mike piazza with a man on base. [cheers and applause] >> this one has a chance, home run! mike piazza and the mets lead 3-2! >> the family that had lost

fathers and husbands and wives, that there was something about that that gave them just a tiny bit of spark if or gave them an opportunity to try to forget everything that was going on for just a split second and kind of live in that moment. >> when he got to the dugout, some guys were crying. some guys were hugging each other and with tears, you know? the fans -- there were so many tears in the stands -- >> reporter: and i understand why. listen, it was only a baseball game -- >> i know. it was only a baseball game. >> reporter: but -- >> but -- >> reporter: but, right? >> yeah, absolutely. but. absolutely. it was so much more than a baseball game. >> reporter: yeah. the present day mets and the present day yankees, cross-town rivals, they begin a series of three games tonight here at citifield including a game played tomorrow on the 20th anniversary.

and bobby valentine, mike piazza who hit that home run, they will be here, and so will joe torre, former general manager of the yankees. should be another emotional night. 9 stuart? stuart: connell, thank you very much, indeed. and do you remember this? former president george w. bush was called to throw the first pitch at the 2001 world series. lauren, i think that was another iconic moment. >> he was encouraged to throw the first pitch for game one of the yankees/diamondbacks, and he said, no, no, i'm throwing the first pitch for game three in the bronx, and he did so wearing an fdny over a bulletproof vest. >> the president of the united states. [cheers and applause] and it was a good pitch. he said he never felt an adrenaline rush like that. he had the crowd with him.

it was such a unifying moment. the collective will of the people were with the president of the united states. stuart: it was an iconic moment, it really was. i've got to draw your attention to the market because what we're looking at is a 300-point swing for the dow industrials. we opened at 9:30 eastern this morning, what's that? about an hour and 15 minutes ago. we were up almost 200 points. now we're down 130, and the nasdaq has turned south as well. i'm not sure if there's a specific reason for it, but there's a down trend as we speak. next case, the president's draconian mandates have a lot of governors furious. so far the governors -- we're going to put them on the screen, all of them there -- they're prepared to challenge the white house's new orders. the governor of nebraska, pete rickets, he joins me in our next hour. brad blakeman worked for the bush administration. he was evacuated from the west wing of the white house on that day, 9/11. he's going to share his personal story after this.

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♪ stuart: i've got what might be an explanation as to why the market went up at the opening bell, then turned south bigtime. it may be the reading on inflation which we received early this morning. 8.3% inflation at the wholesale -- at the basic price level are. that's a very strong form of inflation. maybe somebody put it in a headline a few minutes ago. the algorithms, the computers read the headline and sold. we've come back nicely. we're now down 100 points, and the nasdaq is back up ever so slightly. what a day. i want to bring in former deputy assistant to president george w. bush. brad blakeman if joins us. twenty years ago you were evacuated from the west wing of the white house on that day, and i know that you tragically lost your nephew. can you take us through the day, please, brad? >> sure. it was a day like any other, it was a beautiful day in washington as it was in new york. we a started the day with a 7:00

senior staff meeting in the roosevelt room. of course, the president was in florida speak at an elementary school on his education policy, and then we returned to our offices to work. i always had my television on because i knew that anything that happened in the world would affect the president's schedule which i was in charge of. and i typically had the president's schedule for 21 days. we knew exactly what was going to happen. except 9/11, that schedule went out the window when we scheduled by the minute if after the attacks. but after the second plane hit the towers in new york, i knew america was under attack. i spoke to my assistant, i went -- walked down hallway from my office in the west wing to the situation room. they were watching things as america and the world was in realtime because there's, obviously, a delay in what you see and what you know. and then there came a time when we were told to gather in the dining room in the west wing for staff, and we were told to evacuate, that a plane was coming for the white house. we evacuated, and i was

responsible at an off-site location for about 150 staff, and we continued to work from there. and then my sister was calling me because her son tommy if, who was a senior quota officer in new york just blocks away from the trade center, was not responding to calls. we found out later that he was, in fact, saving people in the south tower. he was told to leave but refused, and he died saving people. my brother was calling me because he was on the board of the port authority of new york and new jersey which owned the trade center and concerned about my nephew. and finally, when i returned to work the next day, the 12th, i told our chief of staff that we're concerned about my nephew, and he said did you tell the president. i said, no. and seconds later the president called me at my desk, and probably for the first time said we're going to find the people who did e this and bring them to justice, and we're going to pray for tommy's safe return. and who two minutes later,

stuart, he was at my desk saying those very same things. so i have a very special connection to 9/11 having within in the white house, having lost a loved one and seeing firsthand as a family member our nation rise to the occasion with the the leadership of president bush to go after those who sought to do us harm and to prevent harm from continuing on our country. stuart: if you were in charge of scheduling for the president, did you schedule the bullhorn address from the rubble of the world trade center? >> well, you know, the day after the chief of staff and the president were concerned when cowe go to new york, and i said -- do we go to new york. and i said you have to go as soon as you can, but we can't go with the typical footprint of a president because it was still a recovery site. so just a handful of people went to new york with the president. it was totally, totally unscripted. what you saw is what happened, and the president's words, the bullhorn was there. nothing was planned other than

an otr, an off the record movement, to try to keep it secret when the president would go. that's why i didn't go. there was a need for me to go. waymented to go -- i wanted to go because my nephew, they were still looking for him, but it wasn't my place. what you saw from the president, it came from him. stuart: right. i think president bush united us then. but i'm not so sure we're united now, and that's a fact. brad blakeman, thank you very much for sharing a very difficult situation with us today. brad, thank you, sir. >> thank you. stuart: appreciate it. still ahead, martha maccallum, arizona congressman andy biggs, steve hilton, nebraska governor pete rickets all here as we reflect on the 20th anniversary of those terror attacks. ♪ ♪

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>> the taliban and there and return along memory. the question is today and tomorrow we remember all americans who did, all the heroism and sacrifice. >> i feel it profoundly and we will never forget. this was a dark moment, the only thing that could be darker

is for anyone to forget. >> wanted to join the infantry, afghanistan and 2006. >> los angeles was a different experience but there was a sense. >> i knew i needed to shoot him in the face and i did 3 times and that was it. ♪♪ the stars and stripes ♪♪ the eagle flies ♪♪ stuart: 11:00 eastern time. tomorrow marks the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, remembering that day throughout the hour. let me relate what is going on in the money in the market. the dow industrials down 130, slight loss for the s&p, slight gain for the nasdaq composite

up 10 points. the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 is a solemn event, those lives through cannot forget 3000 people killed, the twin towers brought on by islamists. what happened next was an extra ordinary display of unity, members of congress gathered on the steps of the capital sinking god bless america, flags appeared everywhere. president bush grabbed a bullhorn, stood in the rubble and said the bad guys would be hearing from us and did. special forces flushed bin laden out of his cave, chased him down and killed him. that was not the end of the story. forces stayed in afghanistan until 10 days ago, we got out but left thousands behind and handed our enemies a victory. on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 the taliban flag will fly

over kabul and islamists would celebrate. i will repeat what i said an hour ago, president biden's covid speech was a delivered attempt to divert our attention from the really aiding victory of our enemies but we will never forget. that is my take. martha maccallum joins us now. who would have thought 20 years later the enemy would be celebrating their victory in afghanistan. >> reporter: bitter pill to swallow. i can't believe it to be honest, when i see those flags flying over kabul, through the last 20 years starting with september 11th, 2001. this is a particularly painful anniversary for families of those who died on 9/11 because of what happened over the last several weeks. i've been covering the story for 20 years and starting on september 11th.

and at cnbc, covering the story throughout the day, in shock and horror, like everyone else. obviously as you know it deeply touched the financial industry, all the neighborhoods around new york city where we lost 12 parents to children who were very young at the time, this is very personal and a battle i look back on what president bush said at that time, answering questions from reporters, we will not negotiate and there is no calendar and there was no calendar for a long time, the clock started ticking and we see what happened with this exit and most tragic bookends is the loss of these 12 marines and one navy corpsman trying to

help people get out and the building behind me they were on their way to work, they were in osan, their lives were cut down because people hated our way of life, hated the freedom we stood for and those terrorists still hate it today and when i see the loss of life at that kabul airport, sadly growing again instead of diminishing based on exit from afghanistan. stuart: no question there was an extraordinary feeling of unity 20 years ago, the president was on the bullhorn, you know the story, we were unified at that moment. you are there at the memorial, downtown manhattan where it was 20 years ago. is there steel a feeling of unity? >> reporter: everybody knows there isn't. there is even a different way of looking at september 11th and one of the things i remember that was the beginning

of that was the memorial, the museum and arguments that happened over whether it should be more inclusive about terrorist attacks, i think about peter king who i will talk to at 3:00 who oversaw a counterterrorism investigation, they didn't want to focus on individuals and ideology that took these towers back and ride it out. and effort that began long ago to tramped down where this evil came from. it still exists today. it is about islamic terrorism and the threat that continues to present in the world. as recently as the attacks in 2019 in pensacola. this ideology has not gone away. we need to be accepting of that and understanding, this thread exists as well.

i want to say something about people having a hard time, and those who survived who were here because it is hard for them, as they confront this an adversary, and we must never forget but it is difficult to remember for a lot of people and i want kids to understand what happened, watch the documentaries. i can hear you is about president bush's visit. stuart: i was going to talk about that, documentary on fox nation that highlights president george w. bush at ground 0 following the attacks. role tape from your documentary. >> i can hear you. the rest of the world here is

you and the people, people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. stuart: i love that clip. tell me more about the documentary. >> i cannot watch it. i've watched it so many times without getting chills. it is so visceral. you can hear in president bush's voice that he wants to reach those people working so hard, so desperately exhausted digging through the pile and he spoke to them in such a potent way, that is the moment, the grief and devastation, seeds of resolve come from that moment, and that makes it so important, everybody takes time on fox nation over the course of tomorrow to take a look at this. i heard brad blakeman talking a few moments ago and they understood people needed to hear from president bush and did it in the most potent and appropriate way.

stuart: thank you for being with us. watch that documentary. martha maccallum. thanks very much. let's move on to lauren who is with us in new york city and ashley webster. let's look at where we were on 9/11, 2001. lauren: i was on a ship, a semester at sea program from canada to japan so i was in the sea of japan before you had the news at your fingertips, we didn't have a computer or blackberries or iphones. my godfather, i did not know if my family was okay and friends were okay and we waited for teachers and professors, giving students news and seeing if they needed to go home and i remember we were rerouted

because of terrorism in the world. we were supposed to go to kenya and as we were sailing in, it was safe for us to go so i felt the scary effects for americans traveling around the world. stuart: ashley, what about you? ashley: the today show, when it happened, the initial pictures from the trade center, there appeared to be a small airplane, how could someone hit the train center in a -- the trade center in a small plane? then it became absolutely shock followed by horror and eventually anger and i don't know of anyone else but there were other cities, there was talk about the sears tower could be targeted in chicago, the space needle in seattle. the whole country was under attack. being in the news business i threw my clothes on and got into work as quickly as

possible but i will never forget that day and i will never forget, as i watch that video it brings all of that back out. can't believe it happened. stuart: it was a remarkable feeling. we were under attack and everybody knew it. it went right to your heart. everyone knew. thanks for being here, there is more a little later on. let's get to a different subject. larry elder attacked by a woman wearing a gorilla mass, governor newsom silence, steve hilton will surely have a lot to say about that. president biden's approval rating sinking in swing states down to 41% in arizona and a republican from arizona here to react, united nations says afghanistan is teetering on the brink of universal poverty. a report on that too.

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>> reporter: the talent ban is businesslike and professional. what is the business? >> to get those people out, you had to work with members of the taliban to press them to work in a businesslike manner to get them out. stuart: that was fox news's peter doocy challenging them for calling the taliban

businesslike and professional. a un report claims afghanistan is on the brink of universal poverty. >> reporter: an amazing report when you think of the last 20 years. pakistan is ramping up neighbor to neighboring afghanistan, because of this you ministering crisis, two planes have taken off from islamabad and landed in kabul providing medical and food supplies. officials said this is the beginning of their effort for the afghan people. the country does have a direct interest in reducing the amount of refugees flowing over the border with afghanistan. officials are preparing for the possibility of 700,000 afghans giving them a solid in the coming months. where we are right now, taliban fighters in pakistani border guard standing feet away trying to process individuals who have the right documents. it comes as the united nations

is looking at the past 20 years in very concerned, the next 20 years could be detrimental for the afghan people. we are getting new images today two of those journalists and women who were beaten in kabul by taliban fighters, trying to crack down on media quickly drawing international condemnation. with many humanitarian stories we see, politicians around the region trying to fix many of these logistical problems. it is civilian to pay the highest price for this taliban rule and the international focus on afghanistan that remain not only american citizens trapped but vulnerable afghans. stuart: thanks, appreciate it. anthony blinken will testify before congress next week following the botched afghan withdrawal. congressman andy biggs, will they push him to resign? >> he certainly should resign,

there may be a push on him but we want him to answer a lot of questions as well. a lot of democrats are dissatisfied with anthony blinken as well. stuart: the president's approval rating is down in swing states including arizona. 's approval rating has dropped to 41%. this is all afghanistan or is it problems with his handling of covid? >> it is a multiple thing in arizona. we sit on the border in one of our sectors over labor day weekend, 2500 individuals were apprehended coming across the border illegally so we are feeling the brunt of an open border in arizona so that is one thing and the other thing is the afghanistan thing. we have a huge population of

veterans and as they see what is happening in afghanistan that has pushed them away from president biden as well. a few things are driving the downward spike or downward trend. don't forget inflation is hitting us here. we feel that have a lot of people that are very upset and understand it is president biden owns that. stuart: do you think the president's covid speech was an attempt to distract from other problems, border and afghanistan? >> i really do. i think first of all we knew he was going to do a mandate because he promised he would do a mandate, so did the cdc administrator. he has trouble with that, new a mandate might be coming. the timing of it was to offset what you say. stuart: where were you 20 years ago on september 11th?

>> we were on vacation in hawaii, the time difference is very different. my wife is watching tv. is this a disaster movie? and it wasn't. it was amazing to see. amazing. stuart: after the attack america unified. i saw flags everywhere. member of congress stood on capitol hill and saying god bless america. what is your reading of our unity now? >> we are not very unified. i thought that speech was divisive and i think the policies of this administration have been divisive. for a guy who promised we would be unified to continually attack different people who disagree with him the way he

has has created disunity far more - this moment maybe tomorrow we can reflect on the unity we had 20 years ago. stuart: congressman andy biggs, appreciate it very much. new disturbing photos show two afghan journalists who were severely beaten by the taliban and they were beaten for covering a woman's protest in kabul. lara logan explained what happened in afghanistan. >> they are being beaten, killed, have pictures of afghan women lying dead on the streets, you reports from intelligence sources, 12-year-old boys being beheaded. what is happening now is beyond the pale, beyond anything we could describe to you and it is

being hidden by the taliban and the biden administration. stuart: tomorrow they will celebrate a victory. dozens of afghan reporters have been beaten despite the taliban and's claim under the new regime. biden and china's president xi jinping held their first phone call in 7 months. what do they talk about? ashley: they spoke for 90 minutes discussing in part the need to avoid conflict and competition and the result in a fractured stalemate. the trump administrative and used sanctions to hold china accountable for trade and human rights violations but biden stressed the need for peace, stability and we are told the conversation centered on economic issues, climate change, covid 19, high-level meetings in the past month between us and chinese officials have gone nowhere and the chances for diplomatic breakthrough appear slim at

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♪♪ an american soldier, my brothers and sisters. stuart: the statue of liberty on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. we told you our stories. >> everybody remembers where they were that tuesday morning 12 years ago. we've not hurt your story.

stuart: i was at home. i live in new jersey at the time. i was at home, turned on the tv set. i was watching fox and friends on fox. i saw steve doocy and brian kilmeade talking about the second plane going in. it was steve doocy who said for the first time that is a terrorist attack and he was right. and then i left the house and went straight to my two young daughters's school because i wanted to bring them out because we were under attack so off i went to the school, the school was locked up but the principal came to the door and said nobody is coming in and nobody is going out. we don't want to panic the kids and i thought that is fine and dandy, that is the right thing to do. they stayed in school. they told them kind of what was happening and then they went home as usual in the afternoon. no panic. nicole: life changed forever. stuart: back then they were younger, 4, 5, 6 years old and they felt it, they knew

something had happened. it was all in our household for the next week so we knew. steve hilton is with us. before we get started i want to know where were you 20 years ago, 9/11. >> i remember it so clearly. i was at home in england in those days in london. i had to be at home. i injured my leg. i was on my couch at home and i remember clearly the lady who is now my wife wasn't my wife then, she called and said turn on the tv, just turn it on and i started watching those unbelievable images and the other thing i remember, in england, we didn't have the direct impact as you were describing but the panic, the fear, the chaos was everywhere.

friends of mine calling me from paddington station in london, busy railway station. there's a time difference, this is getting into the evening rush hour and people saying we heard there is an attack on paddington station and do we need to get out, it was a crazy time. it was the day of the annual labor party convention, tony blair was the prime minister heading down from london to brighton to give his annual speech to the convention and turned around and went to downing street and prepared what he was going to say. we can criticize the mistakes that happened thereafter but one thing i remember is how clearly and quickly tony blair understood the gravity of what had happened and this changed so much about how we approached the world. those are my main memories from that day. stuart: tony blair stood with america very firm, steadfast with america, good man.

let's get serious, security footage shows three people robbed at gunpoint, this is broad daylight, sitting outside in a café, melrose avenue, los angeles, broad daylight a couple guys take everything they've got just like that. that is a busy california street, what is going on? >> i will use another phrase we used a lot in the uk, the loonie left, the lunatic policies of the left have gone to such a degree in california where there is no restraint and people understand when you have people like george gascon in los angeles who was put there with next was admission to be on the side of criminals, not on the side of regular citizens and the law is being recalled, there's an effort to recall them as there is with gavin newsom. this is why you have people saying we had enough, not just republicans, democrats,

independents, this has gone too far. there is no order, no decency on the streets, the homelessness out of control, the crime out of control, what is going on, this wonderful state is falling apart. stuart: president biden is going to california to campaign for newsom the day before the recall election, do you think biden can help newsom in california? >> know. i don't think he will help just as i don't think kamala harris who was here two days ago helped either because it just reminds people of all the things they don't like about the current leadership of the country and find themselves together in this way, doesn't help anything but it is going to be an uphill struggle to get gavin newsom recalls because of the inbuilt advantages the democrats have in terms of voter registration. they had many years of uninterrupted one party will and the fundraising advantage

because newsom is treated not like a candidate, he's allowed to raise a limited money, getting it from big business, hollywood, big tech whereas the individual candidates on the other side have the normal candidate rules, larry elder, he has government unions on his side. it will be an uphill struggle, what you are seeing in this recall movement is this rebellion against the one party will. a real people powered movement. there's going to be change in california because of things, people had enough of it and one day there will be change. stuart: los angeles unified school district, they voted to mandate vaccines for students age 12 and up. you are shaking your head but they're going to do this. they are destroying public education in america. >> they started buying destroying the quality of it because all the data shows

actually the worst performing schools are in those urban areas, particularly badly affected, the exact people they represent most and they care about most, black kids, latino kids, severing the most, the educational gap on top of years of educational failure, now they are just prioritizing politics, the leader of that union saying the other day there is no such thing as learning loss when they shut down the schools, no such thing as learning loss, doesn't matter because the kids learn things like the meaning of the word insurrection so it is all fine. stuart: what is even more insane is newsom might not be recalled. he may be governor two weeks from our 10 days from now. that is incredible. i've got to repeat what i have been saying to you for a long time. i may not live to see the day a republican wins a statewide

election in california. i'm still going to say it. >> i will challenge you. i'm working hard to bring that day closer. i have a podcasting california from california -- those who had enough of this one party rule, millions of people in california one day we will prevail. i'm telling you. stuart: i will tune in to the podcast. we will be watching you on the next revolution sunday at 9:00 pm eastern on fox news. one state is considering a bill that would require proof of vaccination, where that could happen. at least five republican governors planning to sue over the vaccine mandates. pete ricketts is exploring his options, all options and he will join me next. picture-perfect day in new york city on the eve of the attack that changed everything, looking at the 9/11 memorial in

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how much a burden this is going to be for them and the impact on small business in particular and workers saying this is something i want to make a personal health choice about, i don't want the program mandating this for me, we are looking to see everything we can do is on the table to push back. stuart: yesterday's covid speech, i have been saying i think that was a distraction to get the public away from the horrors of afghanistan and the taliban and victory in kabul and concentrate on covid. i think it was a distraction. what say you? >> you wonder about the timing of this after president biden said he did not believe we should be mandating vaccines and with the disaster in afghanistan you have to wonder if that is what the white house is thinking because this is not

in line with what we are trying to do to bring people together vaccines, vaccines are the most effective tool we have with the virus and want people to get it by mandating they will have the opposite reaction, not building public trust to mandate these vaccines, people who haven't gotten them, talking to them and sharing data not by having heavy handed government but this is not the soviet union. stuart: he almost declared war on 80 million americans, unvaccinated americans, really went after them. many of those 80 million are minorities. he's going after minorities. are they going to lose their jobs? >> this is one of the things people talk about, the mayor of boston said this was discriminatory because many minorities, especially blacks

said i don't trust the federal government, i will wait and see on this. telling them they may have to give up their livelihoods and this is what it boils down to. americans across the country make the choice of do i give up my personal healthcare choices or feed my family and it is wrong. stuart: thank you for joining us. appreciate you being here. check out walmart, amazon, kroger, all playing a role in biden's covid 19 plan. what are they doing? ashley: they all agreed to sell at home rapid covid 19 tests to the public at costs. they will be available for purchase online and in stores with a discount of up to 35% for the next three months as part of the biden administration's effort to expand access to affordable covid tests and the administration is going to use $2 billion from the defense production act to procure 280

million rapid covid tests. stuart: i to get to this one, house democrats floating a bill that would require proof of vaccines on public transit. which state? ashley: virginia democrat pushing a bill that would require proof of covid 19 vaccine or negative test within 22 hours for all travelers and workers on domestic airlines and amtrak, the so-called safe travels act would require all airport and amtrak employees and contractors to show proof of vaccination or submit to weekly covid testing. a lawmaker calls it common sense that americans want to return to normal, congress can help make people feel more comfortable traveling again by putting basic requirements in place to prevent the spread of covid. stuart: i've got to show you

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you watch much college football, you did talk about the wisconsin game, i watched it briefly, just intrigued that massive fans have a good time. he do you watch sports? lauren: they are always on in my house. different games on. i bet you watch college football. ashley: i love college football. stuart: you said i would watch today winks if it was the only sport on tv. ashley: at 3 am. this is from bill. you said ashley, watch out, you said ashley was an excellent dancer. got any video of him cutting a rug? all yours.

ashley: i had to dig deep but i did find some. i am looking so concentrated. i did a dancing with the stars in nashville and had to do a dance at halftime at a vanderbilt basketball game. i was terrified but had a professional dancer with me, we practiced for 6 weeks. i got through it but i am one of those guys who is on the dance floor but has no business doing so. stuart: you look pretty good and we never knew. >> my job is on the floor. i knew you had many talents but i didn't think that was one. ashley: it is difficult work. stuart: my parents were ballroom dancing teachers, took me to blackpool which is the world championship of ballroom dancing. i was there in 1959. this comes from charles. instead of trying to force or shame americans into taking the covid vaccine do you think the government should pay people to

get vaccinated? no way, make it available. you wanted you take it and if you don't want it you don't have it, simple as that. ashley: government pays, profiting from other people's money. stuart: socialists run out of other people's money. we have time for this one from brad, you use the phrase you are all right a lot. what are your criteria for someone to be all right? i have no criteria. it is for of the moment, just need to end an interview and i like the interview i say you are all right. it seems to stick. is that okay? lauren: you never said -- ashley: as long as they agree with you. stuart: the friday trivia question which i do not understand. which the has no land boundary, the answer when we return.

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stuart: i've got to tell you, i do not understand which sea has no land boundary. i never heard of such a question, but the answer is, reveal, please -- >> oh, you were right. stuart: the sargasso sea. it's located entirely within the atlantic ocean. it's between the united states and africa. did you know -- >> never heard of it. now i know. stuart: i've heard of it but couldn't place it. i didn't realize it's a sea surrounded by water.

how did it get there? how did it happen? >> how do they not flow into each other, right? we're going to get a lot of tweets about this, how do you not know. stuart: exactly. folks, thank you very much for being us on a very important occasion, right before the 20th anniversary of 9/11. we hope you enjoyed our coverage of it. time's up. neil cavuto, it's yours. neil: thank you, stuart, very much. have a good weekend. we are following the commemorative events as they get closer and closer to the 20th anniversary tomorrow. we have a lot more to tell you about that and what the country was rivetted on in this last day, you know, 20 years ago, september 10th, 2001, was, of course, a monday, a very different day than the day, obviously, that would follow. we're going to go back in time and yet let you relive what was on our minds and in all the nation's newspapers at the time. i will give you a hint, terrorism wasn't. in the meantime, i