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the only issue of this election, and it's not. >> they're on a one-way train track to nowhere. they are raising rates at a time where every element of this system is busted, stuart, and that causes me serious heartburn. ♪ but if you close your eyes, does it almost seem like -- stuart: it is 11:00 on the east coast. it is monday, september the 26th. first day of the week and, of course, this week follows some disastrous weeks for the market. we've been down, down, down. where are we now this monday morning? down for the dow but not by much, a 30-point loss. please look at the nasdaq composite, way down last week, up just 87 poarchts -- points this monday morning. big tech, kind of a mixed picture there. we do have most of them winning like amazon, microsoft, alphabet, meta platform is down 19 cents. the 10-year treasury, the yield is now 3.76%.

now this. it's only a distant memory. who remembers the berkeley free speech movement? if we should. 60 years ago mario savio led 500 students to protest the university's ban on political activity. imagine that. no politics at berkeley. well, that was three generations ago. savio's protest eventually ended the ban. free speech won. fast forward to july of this year and a clash in congress between senator josh hawley and berkeley professor keira bridges. there's a fascinating back and forth about what you are allowed to say. it showed where we are today on free speech. professor bridge withs asserted that trans men could get pregnant. hawley wanted to straighten this out and asked if a biological man could have a baby. that's not a question you're allowed to ask, apparently. professor bridges said that line of questioning is trans-phobic

and encourages violence. that was her answer. that's not free speech. what on earth is going on at our universities these days? three generations ago mario savio was arrested for demanding free and open political discussion at berkeley. his free speech movement won the day. today free speech is losing. you can't ask if a biological man can have a baby? democracy takes a hit if you cannot speak your mind. third hour of "varney" starts right now. ♪ ♪ stuart: miranda devine is with us this morning, thank goodness. what do you think mario savio would have to say about the state of free speech in america today, miranda? >> look, stuart, i think it's pretty sad. this is something that america bo all other -- above all other countries has safe guarded with

its first amendment to the constitution. america has always been the country where free speech has blossomed, and that's in part why it's been such a successful country. but there is really a concerted effort to shut down free speech and to, to basically for the biden administration in particular, to shut down their political opponents, to sic the fbi on to parents at school board meetings and to collude with facebook and twitter and basically big tech to shut down any opponents. for instance, alex berenson, former new york times journalist, got deplatformed by twitter because the white house demanded that he be targeted because they didn't like what he was saying about covid. and he managed to find out that that was the case by suing and finding these documents in discovery. and then you have, of course,

the hunter biden laptop containing uncomfortable, incriminating material about one of the candidates for president, joe biden, before the election. new york post wrote about it, and big tech shut us down. and so we see everywhere that free speech is under threat, and we have fbi whistleblowers coming forward and telling us that basically the security state is in cahoots with the administration, with politicians, with the government to curtail free speech of american citizens. and ors n. -- and, in fact, criminalize it. stuart: who would have thought that in 60 years we would turn absolutely full circle on free speech at berkeley, of all places. it's extraordinary stuff. better move on because willing toking this thing to death -- this progressing this thing to death. so-called maga republicans want to destroy the country. roll tape. >> what we see again with this

maga republican agenda is an effort to disrupt our democracy. i think it will always be important to call out any effort there is to destroy, essentially, destroy the united states of america. it is a danger to our democracy, it is a danger to our way of life. stuart: that is ridiculously extreme language. it is, essentially, very divisive. have at it. >> well, stuart, you know, this is very disturbing because this is the white house doubling down on the message that joe biden was putting out there with his sort of red-sanctioned speech the other day that was so roundly criticized for targeting his political opponents and, you know, he's been calling republicans semi-fascists and maga republicans and just trying to divide and conquer, i guess. and here you have a white house

spokesman basically laying it all out again and calling maga republicans -- undefined but, obviously, anyone who wants america to be great again, in other words, wants to boot out the biden administration and democrats in the november midterms -- can she's saying that they are a threat to democracy, a threat to our way of life, that they don't respect the constitution, that they don't respect free and fair elections. and in the same breath while she's attacking joe biden's political opponents, she's saying that the president wants to do everything in a bipartisan way. it's outrageous. it's outrageous that joe biden and his spokespeople are running around accusing the other side of being divisive and hateful when they are spewing forth from the white house, using that bully pulpit, they're spewing forth the most vicious venom

with really sinister overtones considering their control of the security state. every day they're doing that against american citizens. stuart: glad you're on the showed today, miranda devine. thanks for being here. i know we'll see you again soon. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: back to the markets. this is the monday after a nasty week and several nasty weeks recently. the dow is at 29,500, down 70. the nasdaq's at 10,900, mixed picture this morning. jason katz, are you waiting for, are you expecting a big capitulation selloff? >> look, stuart, this retest wasn't a matter of if, but a matter of when. especially with the dollar's surge or the parabolic rise in u.s. government rates. so the fear is palpable, and we may enter that capitulation phase. counterintuitively, that's what we may immediate to find a bottom. and i think that bottom could be

around 0% lower from here -- 10% lower from here. if we get here between now and, say, the midterms, we could be in a range between 3300-3800 on the s&p. stuart: pretty soon we're going to get earnings reports. could that be another selloff point? >> it could be a buying point. look, bottoms are a process. they're not a point in time. and earnings are, arguably, the most critical part of that bottoming process. lauren simonetti said it earlier today, the next moment of truth is earnings season. and from there it's the midterm elections. markets have largely, if not entirely, discounted the fed's next few moves. what they haven't discounted is what fedex said a week or so ago. so we're in conference season, not earnings season, and companies now have an opportunity to throw out the kitchen sink. so we're going to enter into a period that could either be binary in terms of whether we get to that 3300 level or not.

stuart: what do you think? sit on your hands, conothing in the -- do nothing in the immediate future, walk away from stocks? >> i wouldn't abandon your blue chip stocks, but what i would do stroke your we go -- yes, i'd put money into fixed income but not for the reasons are you've been espousing. a 2-year treasury at 3 mrs. percent is a no-plainer -- plus percent is a no-beaner. you're looking at high quality debt can trading at 80, 90 cents on the dollar. that bond matures at par and you get a mid single digit return are on the coupon, you're with getting a return from the spock market perspective. -- so don't abandon your high quality microsofts and what have you. but look at pixed income as an investment. -- fixed income. stuart: good advice, jason katz. see you soon.

>> you bet. stuart: we have movers, and and we're starting with pg&e. up, lauren. they're lauren the utility was added to the s&p 500 two years after exiting, emerging from bankruptcy. they were clobbered with the california wildfire if claims. they're being -- it replaced systems, so pg&e up 3.5. stuart: earlier you went through the gaming stocks, straight up because of good news out of macau. lauren: wynn resorts, jeffrey's just uptraded -- upgraded them to a buy, and the news is macau will allow tour groups from china to come back in in november, the first in three years, and as a result, they'll double the number of daily visitors to 40,000. business is back for now. stuart: aye been to the wynn resort in macau -- lauren lauren how does it compare to vegas? stuart: completely different. rather quiet because they don't have slot machines.

you know in vegas, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding? not like that in macau. far fetch, what do they do? lauren: online marketplace for luxury. citigroup with a sell, a $6 price target. they say they're going down, there's just no clear path to profitability. stu stuart listen to this one, a nostradamus book, whatever that is, predicted the queen's death, so they say, and this book is flying off the shelves. new study shows all the people who have had covid may be at significantly higher risk of developing alzheimer's. we've got the doctor on that. and the u.s. is promising, quote, catastrophic consequences if russia uses nukes in ukraine. our report comes to us from kyiv, and it's next. ♪

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♪ ♪ stuart: wreaking overnight, russia launches a drone strike near odesa as protests continue to break out all across big cities in russia against the mobilization. trey yingst is in kyiv, the latest from ukraine, please, trey. >> reporter: stuart, good morning. pressure is increasing on russian president vladimir putin as anti-mobilization protests continue to sweep major russian cities. we do know that the ukrainians are taking back some territory on the battlefield, though the war is intensify being, and russia is adding troops to the

fight. this man digs through the rubble of his home looking for photos of his child. homeless, we became homeless, the 44-year-old farmer says. the destruction across eastern ukraine is mounting as new scenes of devastation are uncovered. russian troops have lost more than 17,000 square miles of territory or they captured since the end of march. suffering heavy battlefield losses, vlad vladimir putin is forcing more untrained soldiers into the fight though with low morale and experience. these men are expected to be used as cannon fodder. ukrainian president zelenskyy encouraging the new soldiers this weekend to flee, surrender or die. [speaking in native tongue] >> if you come to take the lives of our children, zelenskyy says, i will tell you as a father we will not let you go alive. in occupied areas of ukraine,

voting is still underway on a sham referendum about joining russia. that polling is expected to finish by tomorrow, though even some of russia's closest allies -- can including serbia -- have refused to recognize the results. amid these referendums about annexation, tension here is high. over the weekend ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said he is taking the threats of nuclear war seriously by russian president putin saying there are no prospects for peace on the horizon. stuart. stuart: trey, many thanks right to us from ukraine. president zelenskyy says russia is not bluffing about their nuclear threats. roll tape. >> translator: he wants to scare the whole world. these are the first steps of his nuclear blackmail. i don't think he's bluffing. i think the world is deterring it and containing this threat. stuart: kurt volker is the former ambassador to nato, and

he joins me now. mr. ambassador, we, america, warning of catastrophic consequences to russia and putin if he uses a nuke. is that a real deterrent to putin at this point? >> i think so. i agree that we have to take it very seriously anytime someone's talking about nuclear weapons. we have to take it seriously. but if it's strategic nuclear use against us, i don't believe putin would to that. that would lead to the destruction of russia. tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield, the first thing is that it's not going to achieve the military objective. he's trying to advance and take territory. using a nuclear weapon there would make that territory uninhabitting and uncomfortable. second, i think the warning that we've given that there would be devastating consequences for russia, i believe their military's going to take that very seriously. they have their hands full trying to fight the ukrainians. doing a nuclear strike would

actually draw in others against russian forces, and i think until mean the end of the russian army. stuart: putin is losing badly, or so it seems to me as an outside observer. >> yes. yes, he is. stuart: he's coming across as an absolute monster. some people have said to me, look, should we take putin out? if we could, should we take him out? what do you say to that? >> well, yeah. i think the russians are the ones who are going to have to take him out. they can see that he is driving their country into a dead end. he's destroying the military, he's destroying the economy. he is alienating the population through this mass endescription now, and there's no end in sight because putin is not going to turn around. so i think the russians themselves are recognizing something has to change. i think if the u.s. were to do that, it could actually rally people against the west when this is really not about us at all. it is, as you just said, it's about putin's monstrous behavior. stuart: iranians have been protesting i think it's for 11

straight days now after a young woman was killed by a -- the morality police. now iran is accusing the united states of supporting the rioters and trying to destabilize the country. mr. ambassador, i think we should be encouraging the riots and protests. what's wrong with that? >> yes, we should. yes, i completely agree with you. and i think it's a missed opportunity in the past where we were not more outspoken. you remember during the obama administration there were massive protests, and we didn't say very much. this time we are saying more, and we should be saying more. we need to encourage these protesters. it is a horrible regime in iran. the people there can see that. just the example of killing this girl is only one example. there are thousands. and so, yes, we should be urging these protesters on. stuart: kurt volker, thank you very much, as always, for joining us. much appreciated, sir. >> my pleasure. thanks, stuart. stuart: back to the markets. monday morning and we've got

resumed selling, let's put it like that. we've got the dow now down 160 points, back to 29,400. and now i'm going to give a commercial to a book which i think is utter nonsense. prince harry and meghan markel are getting back to work in california. oh, sorry, this is the wrong story. i'm sorry, ashley. [laughter] i'm introducing something -- can. ashley: it's okay. stuart: i'm getting it all back. prince if harry and meghan markel are getting back to work in california. come in, ashley. what's their next project? [laughter] ashley: i'm glad you asked. markel has a cover of "variety" magazine that's going to debut after its release was postponed out of respect for the queen's funeral. the duke and duchess have signed a deal with netflix for content that includes documentaries, feature films, scripted shows, even children's programming. there has been speculation about

a reality-style show for netflix, but the couple never confirmed nor denied working on that type of project. they also have podcast deals with spotify. bottom line, royal family reportedly very concerned about being burned by harry and meghan again, and they worry about what may come next after being, quote, horrified by the oprah interview. so we'll see. stuart: okay. now, you tell me about this new book all about meghan and harry. what have you got? ashley: yeah. it's entitled in courtiers: the hidden power behind the crown. and in it meghan markle allegedly treated the royal staff horribly, was overly harsh and got cross with the servants while occasionally shouting at them. this is all contained in the book from people who worked with her. that's what they claim. the book also claims that markel forced prince harry to put out a statement confirming they were an item, that she was his girlfriend, and threatened to dump him if he didn't.

now, sources say the duchess of sussex clashed often with staffers over accepting free gifts from commercial organizations. the book claims that deliveries were constantly arriving at kensington the palace; clothes, jewelry, candles and so on. but royal protocol doesn't allow markel to accept the freebies which apparently didn't go down well. the book also claims that markel enjoyed the attention but didn't understand the point of going out and meeting with the public, shaking hands with countless strangers -- [laughter] and was once overheard saying, quote, i can't believe i'm not getting paid for this. [laughter] stuart: now, that book is a slam. ashley: there you go. yes. stuart: i'm going to get to this other book which i believe is utter nonsense. here we go. nostradamus book, for heaven sake. they're flying off the shelves since the queen's death. according to the interpretation, the french atrollier correctly

predicted the queen would die at the age of 96. nonsense. he also said prince harry would become king. the book sold 8,000 copies the week after the queen's death, 5 copies the week before. i don't know why we're reporting this stuff. next case -- [laughter] beto o'rourke blaming the president as more latinos start to vote republican. he says biden and democrats need to spend more time with voters at the border. yes, sir. we've got the story. the new covid booster shots were released three weeks ago, but only 2% of eligible people have gotten the jab. who needs a booster anyway? i'll ask dr. siegel. he's next. ♪ ♪ one more shot, yeah, and t all i got ♪

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role after 40 years. watch this. >> obi wan never told you what happened to your father. >> he told me enough. he told me you killed him. >> no. i am your father. stuart: he's the guy who said, this is cnn. [laughter] from now on, disney will use artificial intelligence to create darth vadar's voice. now you you know. back to the markets. let's see what we've got here. we had some green just a few minutes ago, still got some green now, but only for the nasdaq. oh, my goodness me, the dow's fallen out of bed, down nearly 200 points just like that. we've got some movers, a company which i am very familiar with, generac, the generator makers. what do you have? lauren: stock's up because you have hurricane ian hurtling towards florida and the u.s. coast, governor desantis declaring a state of emergency in all of florida's 67 counties.

stuart: how about amazon in when is the second prime day? lauren: it's october 11th and 12th, the first time ever they're having two major events in one year. amazon is up 1.5%, and this is a way for them to get more of your dollars as people are penny if pinching and deal with their bloated inventory -- stuart: it kills black friday. lauren: yeah. the christmas creep gets earlier and earlier every year. but this year people are budgeting more because they don't is as much money, and the retailers are stuck with stuff. stuart: show me apple, please, because i think it regained the 100 -- yep with, 151 at the moment. the story? lauren: they're going to make their new iphone, the 14, in india. and jpmorgan says in the next few years one in four iphones will be made in india. there's a big blow to china, and the reason is obvious. all those lockdowns all of a sudden in china, that hunters a

company like apple that relies on all of their plants to be open. stuart: i just wonder what china will say about this? lauren: what can they say? [laughter] they're still doing business in china, just maybe not as much and gradually moving towards india. stuart: i just wonder how they'll respond. lauren: more incentives? stuart: an fda adviser says healthy young people do not need to get a booster shot. one doctor says he's not sure the benefits outweigh the potential risks. look who's here, dr. marc siegel, just in. this -- doctor, this confuses everybody. >> well, you know, stuart, the confusion if is key here. and i have to be reminded that james earl jones was the king, literally, i saw him play king lear in shakes spear, at cutting through confusion. guess what? paul offat is not king lear, and and i have talked to him about this.

he's a pediatrician. his focus is on kids, and he's on the fda advisory committee. and hay didn't ask him whether -- they didn't ask him. they didn't ask the advisory committee. and albert bourla, the ceo of pfizer -- a stock, by the way, which is pretty flat -- was saying he can't get the booster because he just had covid. all of this confusion. let me cut through it, stuart, like you usually ask me to do. i want the booster available to me to see who needs it; people at high risk, people who are very elderly, people who have underlying conditions, people who haven't had covid in a long time or haven't had a shot in a long time. i want immunity onboard. it's a tool for a doctor and a patient, not a tool for a politician. the politicians keep confusing us. stuart: i think you've got it right, doc. next case, a new study shows older people who have had covid may have an increased risk of alzheimer's. it occurs to me that maybe we're

confusing this with brain fog, with which i'm intimately familiar, doctor. >> yeah. as usual, i notice this came from you, because you're always making me talk about alzheimer's, even though you don't have a single cobweb in your brain, not one. you have less than me, by the way. which is maybe ace -- saying a lot, i don't know. anyone who has underlying neurological issues to bin with may see them worsen for at least a period of time because of covid. we don't know if they go back to baseline or not. it's something worth watching. it's definitely not proof that covid worsens alzheimer's. the brain fog is of concern, especially long covid is of concern. it may be apples and oranges. it will make problems you already have worse. it doesn't mean that that's permanent. stuart: i understand there is something called a montreal test which is a valid and objective test for the early stages of alzheimer's. is that accurate? >> that is a really great

cognitive test. that's the one that president trump took, by the way, did so well at, talked to me on tv about. it's the one that fetterman in pennsylvania is not taking, by the way, after a stroke. that is a very good test for dementia and for alzheimer's, absolutely. it's one of the best we have. stuart: should i take it? you don't -- no! come on. the show you do every day is 100% -- can ask lauren. i mean, you have the brain of a 35-year-old, whatever that's worth. stuart: no, we're not going to ask lauren -- [laughter] lauren: i forget much more than i -- he does. i worry about me, not him. stuart: doctor, time's up. see you soon, thank you very much. let's get serious, florida under a state of emergency. hurricane ian getting closer to the coast. the florida martial guard has been activated -- national guard, some schools already closed for the entire week. we'll have the latest for you.

human smugglers now using private planes to transport migrants once they enter the country. this plane with 19 onboard was just stopped in texas. who's paying for this? the border report is next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ stuart: beto o'rourke is blaming the president, as in pride, as more latinos vote republican. it's all biden's fault. ashley, what exactly is he saying? ashley: well, o'rourke says the rightward shift of latino voters in recent years is all because biden and the democratic party have been ignoring that demographic. listen to this. >> candidate biden didn't spend

a dime or a day in the rio grande valley or really myrrh in texas, for that matter -- anywhere -- once we got down the home stretch of the general election. ashley: okay. in 2020 donald trump, by the way, carried 38% of the latino vote. that was a 13% increase over the level of support republicans received from that group in the 2018 midterms. and the trend appears to be continuing. the first mexican-born congresswoman to serve in the house flipped a house seat red in texas during a special election in june while two other latino women are also running as republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. o'rourke says he's not going to commit the same sin as other democrats have, which is to take the voters of color, black voters and latinos, for granted. stu. stuart: got it, ash. thanks very much, indeed. now this, an illegal immigrant is under arrest, accused of hitting and killing a sheriff's deputy in florida then driving away.

alexis mcadams is at the border in texas. alexis, what do we know about this migrant, and how did we met in the country? >> reporter: hi, stuart. good question. we know that he's crossed into the united states at least two times before this arrest, and one of those is right where i'm standing, in eagle pass, texas, walking right here into the country. but now he's back behind bars. take a look here, this is the mug shot we got a short time ago from that florida sheriff's deputy, deputy michael hartwick, a 19-year veteran of the pinellas sheriff's department. the police are trying to figure out how the man was approved to work at the construction site because he didn't have a valid license or the correct paperwork according to the governor's office. it happened at the florida construction zone on thursday night. deputy hartwick was there to keep the crew safe, but when he got out of the car, he was run over, and then the man hid in the bushes for nine hours before he was arrested. >> he has no qualifications to

drive a front-loader. you know, what he said is that what he told those people is back in honduras he worked some construction and he knows how to operate this thing. so they said, go ahead. >> reporter: this comes as smuggling cases are surging at the border. new dash cam video released by the texas dps shows a smuggler fleeing from state troopers there, riding until his wheels fell off and crashing into that fence. in the back of the truck, seven migrants were hiding, each one jumping out as the troopers chased them down. >> do you have an id? just not with you? >> no. >> reporter: so that man was arrested, stuart. and once the migrants get into the country, some of them being smuggled around on private planes to other states. just on friday texas dps found 19 migrants in mcallen, texas. they were from central america, but i'm told they were in the united states for several weeks and had been staying at a stash house in the texas area.

they were going to houston, then from houston they're not sure where else. this is the fourth bust at a private airport in texas just this month. back out here live, the question is who's chartering these private planes at these private airports? we're told from dps sources, stuart, that it is the mexican cartels who have sources and contacts here in the united states that make those people do the dirty work. stuart? stuart: that is extraordinary. alexis, that's a fine story and utterly remarkable. ash, come back in, please. california's going to start happening out state ids to illegals. who's paying for that? ashley: well, conveniently, the cost of the new program has not been revealed, but taxpayers, you know, will ultimately fit the bill. this new bill allows illegal immigrants to obtain state ids. california already allows illegals to get a driving lins. -- license. it is estimated that about 22% of california's nearly 11 million immigrants are in the u.s. illegally.

the legislation actually expands access to state programs, street vendors, for example, can more easily now get local health permits with a state id. undocumented students will have improved access to in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. what? critics argue it rewards people, of course it does, who enter the country illegally. they also question the cost of rolling out these new ids, though we don't know how much it's going to cost. that's california. stuart: and newsom thinks he's got a shot at being the president of the united states with a record like that? i just don't get it. thanks, ash. a top democrat in florida breaking party lines bigtime and endorsing governor ron desantis for re-election. not only that, dave kerner says he will campaign for desantis every day until election day. kerner joins me next. ♪ we're going to go at all, go big or go home. ♪ go, go, go big or go home ♪

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got that. fox weather's max gourden is in reddington beach, near st. petersburg. max, when might the storm hit there? >> reporter: well, the weather is expected to turn over the next couple of days with ian expected to hit this area sometime on thursday. people are are still hitting the beach though, soaking up those last few moments of sunshine. but evacuation orders are now going into effect. where we are in pinellas county, there aren't any evacuation orders just yet though they are expected. but in nearby hillsborough county, which is where tampa is located, there are mandatory evacuation orders in places closest to the water with voluntary evacuations in other places. 5,000 national garden troops have been mobilized here in florida with 2,000 from other states. schools here in pinellas county will be closed starting tomorrow, some schools used as shelters as the storm bears down. folks are getting their boats out of the water, filling up sandbags and boarding up

windows. we talked to one couple who were applying protective sheets, and they said they've lived in the house for decades but have never had a hurricane hit before, and they don't know where they're going yet but told us they'll likely be getting out. >> where are we going to go and what are we going to do, big question mark. never have we had the idea of what are we going to do. so i'm a planner. i taught 38 years, so i plan. >> reporter: emergency officials are also telling folks that they need to heed evacuation orders because first responders are also going to have to get out at some point. that means for the folks left behind, there's going to be no help. back to you. stuart: max, thanks very much, indeed. staying in florida, a top democrat in the state just endorsed governor ron desantis for re-election. that democrat is dave kerner. he is the county commissioner in palm beach, and he joins me now. okay, sir. have i got this right? you're endorsing a republican, desantis, and campaigning for

him every day until election day? what's so bad about charlie crist and the democrats? >> good morning and thank you for having me on the show. and, yes, i have endorsed governor ron desantis. i do so proudly, and i am very much committed to campaigning every day, as you highlighted, and making sure that governor desantis gets across the finish line with a big win. stuart: what's so bad about charlie crist and the democrats? your own party? >> you know, it's really not about charlie crist. he has a long record of service in this state, in elect elect office. but really what i'd like to do and what i've seen firsthand with my experience as a county mayor working with governor desantis has been is just, quite honestly, he's done an incredible job for the state of florida. of so it's more about his record of service, what he's done for the state of florida, how he's put floridians first. i'd like to focus more on what he's done for the state and why he should be reelected, and i do think he should be. stuart: how many other democrats feel this way? >> well, that's a difficult

question to answer. i don't -- i can't read the minds of other democrats. i know for a fact though in speaking for the last several years as the governor's been leading our state that there is a lot of what i call shadow support for this governor. i think that it crosses all political spectrums whether democrat, non-party affiliated and republican. but quite frankly, the largest growing sector of the electorate in the state of florida is the non-party-affiliated voters, and those are really the voters i'm trying to speak to, a holistic approach at who they should vote for to lead this state. stuart: you called out "60 minutes" for their hit piece on desantis, partnering with them. how did can cbs get this story so wrong? >> well, i can tell you that they got it wrong deliberately. as i heard about this story developing and that it had a specific focus or at least a specific outcome that they wanted to achieve, i actually

proactively reached out to the producers of "60 minutes," and i went on the record with hem for about 45 minutes in a conversation and point by point i disabused them of the notion that they were trying to put into the public sphere, and that is that governor desantis improperly or unilaterally made a decision to work with pub publix. that was an idea that was brought to me by the governor, and we were excited by the plan. we asked for that pilot program to be put here in palm beach county. it goes without saying that it was beyond success. it definitely took care of and concentrated on the most vulnerable in our community, those over the able of 65, and it was -- age of 6 5, and it was a huge success. "60 minutes" totally ignored the facts, and i felt it was very important to go forward with that. and quite frankly, they earned the negative reputation they received as a result of that poor reporting. stuart: well done, commissioner. thanks very much for being with

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stuart: leaves change color in the fall due to lack of what?

first to you, ashley. >> chlorofill, a guess. stuart: i will guess carotene. went with the obvious one. chlorofill. who knew these things. what the heck is carotene? neil cavuto, it is yours. neil: dashing in and out of dow jones industrials, finishing off of 150 would do it. in and out of that right now. meanwhile we're dealing what is, well-trumpeted as such, problematic month. september is generally considered the worst month of the markets. it is living up or i should say down to that with major drops in all the major averages. something would have to change mightily the last few days to reverse that. we'll keep an eye on that. you know the concerns of fears that int