ashley: good morning, everyone. i'm ashley webster in for stuart varney. travelers met with record-high gas prices on thanksgiving. the record was set back in 2012 of $3.44 a gallon and you'll be paying more for your turkey dinner but don't blame the white house. they're pointing the finger of course at vladamir putin. we'll talk about that. take a look at markets and we finished lower yesterday and in the premarket and dow up 153 points and nasdaq up half a percent. cbs finally confirms hunter

biden's laptop is real and only took two years and amazing what happens after elections are over. we've got a big show always and no different today. larry kudlow, miranda devine. brian kilmeade and jason chaffetz all will be along. it is tuesday, november 22, "varney & co." is about to begin. ♪. ashley: we're getting in the mood, don't you love it. quite the scene on the fox square with the lighting. check this out. five, four, three, two, one.

ashley: that's always a great time of year. that tree is 50 feet tall and decorated with 12,000 ornaments and 340,000 lights. hopefully one done a lot go out because then you have to check all 340,000. meanwhile the white house welcomed their christmas tree. a pair of clydesdale horses brought that tree by carriage. all very fancy. a fur grown in pennsylvania and standing more than 18 feet tall. the fox tree is about 32 feet higher than the white house. how about that? former attorney general bill barr has a new op-ed that suggests maybe it's time to move on from donald trump and make way for new leadership. mercedes schlapp joining us this morning. do you agree with the former attorney general? >> good morning, ashley.

i think everyone is spited to their -- entitled to their own opinion and there was a fallout between bill barr and president trump and trump people are loyal to him in terms of base and at the end of the day, we have to see how this plays out. ashley : there's nose that point to donald trump and say his endorsements were so so in the midterm and maybe batting 50%. what does that tell you? >> you have to understand that endorsements are part. equation. when you look at the fact that republicans won the majority in the house, that is a victory. that's going to help us slow

down and even stall to a halt biden's radical agenda and the democrat's agenda of more spending. the problem becomes that we have fundamental issues with the battleground states where the republicans have fallen behind when it comes to dealing with valid harvesting, early voting, mail in ballots. republicans were outspent two or three to one to democrats. these are fundamental problems that need to be fixed before the 2024 election in order for the republicans to really win these seats that need to be won in many of the states. ashley: right. well, donald trump blamed mitch mcconnell for the midterm disappointment. all of this does not speak well about the internal turmoil of the gop or is there turmoil? >> you bring up a great point, ashley, there is definitely a sense of tension and division in the republican party.

think it does start with mitch mcconnell obviously not putting in money in some of the critical races like arizona and instead spending his time in alaska where it was two republicans basically competing against each other. that was a waste of money. a lot more could have been done to fund the races. it'll be interesting to see what happens in georgia because of another republican lost will be a blow to the republican party. it's time to really look at -- analyze and see what needs to be fix so that the republicans are ready in 2024 because these democrats, they have a basement strategy. they're not doing much to campaign, it's a lot of focus on early voting and that is a big problem for republicans in many of the states. ashley: so much to talk about and it's only 2022. mercedes, thank you so much. always appreciate your input. thank you. democrat congresswoman jiah paul

weighing in on 2024. come in, lauren simonetti. does she think biden should run? lauren: absolutely. sshe's been converted. she was not my first or second choice but i'm a convert and believe he should run for another term and finish this agenda we've laid out. what the president understands is that you need this progressive base, young people, folks of color, and that progressive issues are popular. whoever is in the white house should understand that because it is a basic tenant now of how you win elections. jayapal is chair of the progressive congressional caucus. progressive issues are popular, ashley, because they're often free. likely leader of the democratic minority in the house, jeffreys might scale back some of this wish list because of the squad and members of the progressive

caucus as well. she says something that's true as midterm showed us but it'll be put to a test with republicans controlling the house. ashley: most definitely, lauren. thank you very much. got to get back to disney. quite a story unfolding there. david nicolas joins us this morning. the stock just slightly higher. good morning to you, david. does disney fix its problems with czapek gone because apparently they were heading in the wrong direction and that was clear. iger has come in and starting to undo things that czapek has done. >> i think their problems run deeper than czapek. i have a lot of respect with disney, what they've done with their parks, a great place to bring families and enjoy great times but they have a culture problem at disney corporate. they're pushing a woke world view and they're losing subscribers and pushing lgbt world view and antifamily world view. but the one world view they don't allow on their program is

a christian world view. i mean, we're celebrating christmas coming up here and a holiday that 2 b 2 billion peope around the planet celebrate. is there any meaning of the true meaning of christmas and jesus bringing hope? no, it's intentional and they're losing subscribers and their culture has gone so woke, ashley. you know the saying, you go woke, your stock price goes up in smoke and we're seeing that with their stock trading down 48%. they need to stop the woke focusing and focus on shows like blewy, which my -- bluey, which my kids love and it's a great family programming. they need to focus on that and turn the cobb price around, ashley. ashley: go woke, go broke. daviding look at stock picks. begin with tesla. where do you stand? >> i've been vocal on tesla and love this stock. elon musk has been distracted and twitter has been a distraction and we're seeing

that show up in the stock price. trading around $165. i think that's great support for this stock. if it trades below there around 150, i think you buy with both hands. we like tesla here, ashley, at these levels. ashley: very quickly, electronic hearts. >> ea. trading about 17 times forward earnings. this is a profitable company. about $2 billion in profits. we think this is an in. you could double your money on this over the next two years and a name lake that and tesla are two names to put work in at the lest levels. >> really good tips. we appreciate it. thank you so much, david. thanks for insight this morning. we appreciate it this morning. ashley: the news on twitter this morning is more layoffs but, lauren, these employees were committed to the new twitter? lauren: so it seems. i keep ising myself what would i do if i worked at twitter would

i be one of the 2300 people that hit the button saying i commit to twitter 2.0, that hard core work where you work through the weekend, many of them did work through the weekend. just three weeks ago, ashley, twitter had 7500 employees and they've been decimated and musk told staff yesterday, okay, no more layoffs are planned. in fact, he's looking to bring in more engineers because half of temporal integration have reportedly -- them reportedly left the company and says a lot of talk about twitter headquarters going to texas where his other companies are. he says, no, we're staying in san francisco for now. speaking of, i was looking at numbers, since musk took over twitter, tesla, the public company, his main company, that stock is down 25% since october 28th. tesla makes up a bunch of elon musk's fortune. he's lost $100 billion this year. that's it. ashley: when you're busy

somewhere else, other businesses sufferance there's no doubt about that. lauren, thank you very much. let's check the futures if we can. points higher getting underway on this tuesday session. that's what the premarket is showing us and the dow up 146 points and s&p pointing higher. coming up, do you remember when 60 minutes anchor leslie stall insisted that hunter biden's e-mails couldn't be verified? roll the tape. >> i think it's one of the biggest scandals i've ever seen and you don't cover it. you want to talk about -- >> well, because it can't be verified. i'm telling you -- >> of course it can be verified. ashley: well, donald trump sticking it to leslie stall. cbs news just verified hunter biden's scandal on his laptop, two years after dismissing it. miranda devine broke the news day one and she's here to take that on later in the show. pent up travel demand means more misery on the roads and skies

this season. ceo of price line is here and i'll ask him how they're preparing for 49 million travelers this week. it's coming up next. ♪

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muted losses and the dow up 153, nasdaq up three tenths, four tenths a percent. we're now two dais away from thanks giving and holiday travel is underway and we're at chicago's o'hare and looks busy. garret, how are the lines this morning? >> reporter: well, ashley, the good news is so far security lines and flights in general are running smoothly but the bad news is folks are paying a heck of a lot more to travel this thanksgiving. $350 per ticket on average, which is 43% higher than just a year ago. despite that, triple-a is expecting this thanksgiving travel season to be the third busiest since they started tracking these numbers. an estimated 49 million folks traveling by car, 4.5 million by plane and 1.4 million by bus, train, or ship. those are almost at pre-pandemic

numbers, which is notable since across the board right now, prices are higher for everything. >> people still want to go and people are paying, yeah, top dollar for flights and they're paying, you know, more for train tickets and all of that. they're choosing to prioritize travel in that time with family and friends and getting away and just making adjustments in other parts of their lives. >> reporter: that's what we're hearing from passengers as well seeing higher prices and more crowded airplanes as the airlines are cutting back on flight schedules. >> well, let's just say we'll be living off top ramen for the next couple months. >> my first flight coming into midway was completely booked and like 9:00 in the morning, which is kind of unusual, but i guess holiday travel is picking back up. >> it's not very fun but it is what it is. as long as i can see my family at the end of the night, it's all right.

>> everything was pretty smooth, all though this is just the beginning of it. i'm glad i'm through now instead of waiting a few more days. >> what's the holidays without family? >> reporter: what's the holiday without family? for one thing, it might be a whole lot cheaper but after the past few years, a lot of folks are willing to make the sacrifices to be with family. stu, ashley. ashley. ashley: ind indeed they are. i have to just look at videos of airports these days and my stress level goes up. brett, good morning to you, inflation has hit hard this year, we know that. are you seeing people cut back on travel at all? >> good morning, ashley. thanks for having me. our price line analyst tracks that we have not seen that yet. leisure travel is -- has rebounded nicely and continues into the holiday season and as far as we know what's on the books, things look good into

2023 as well. ashley: so the question is what can people do to save money when they're traveling? garret just reported the average ticket was $350. the airlines cutting back on flights and that means prices go up; right, because supply can't meet demand. >> well, demand is very high and the airlines have been sismatically adding flights to their -- systematically adding flights over the holiday period and despite that with the cost of labor and gas et cetera, it's driving costs higher. in order to save money, you need to look at flying off peak. we're really close to thanksgiving now so if you're a little bit late for that but as you look for next holiday season at the end of the year, try to avoid peak travel days if you want to save money. that's number one. two, look to bundle your flight and hotel together. you can almost always save more when you add those two items together as you travel today.

ashley: do people typically buy tickets early or there used to be a time when you called wait till the last minute a ask&get really good deals but i imagine those days are over. >> yeah, especially talking about flights, those days are over. you need to book two to tree the weeks in advance to maximize what you save on a flight and fly on certain days of the week and save money and business travel down significantly from where it was in 2019. that's one way to go if you want to save on flights. we have black friday and cyber monday coming up. we have a number of deals available that will help also add to your savings here at price line. ashley: very good. leave it there and be patient out there. brett, thank you so much and really appreciate it. >> you bet, thank you. ashley: one gas station chain lowering their prices for thanksgiving. that's a good thing. lauren, you got the details. lauren: it's the gas station sheets and prices are going to

be $1.99 for thanksgiving week. this is for unledded 88 fuel soe with more ethanol. they want to put more money in your pocketbooks so you can travel with the holiday. there's the rub, the white house keeps touting lower gas prices. chief of staff robert c lai n said one in ten gas pumps are selling cheap. karine jean-pierre is saying gas is cheaper than it has been all year. they're blame -l putin and looking at prices before they came into office is not what they're doing. ashley: there's statistics. what's that saying? i think dan lies is in there. either way, yeah, thank you much, lauren. check the futures. pointing to a higher start

getting going in a few minutes and the opening bell is next. ♪

ashley: all right minutes from the opening bell and look like we'll start slightly higher and not bad. half a percent on the dow and bring in scott rand to talk about it. good morning to you, scott. you say there's more downside risk than up upside right now d focus on quality, which is always a good thing i guess at any time. what should investors be buying right now? >> well, ashley, we've been playing defense so i think you have to continue to do that. quality for us is good cash flow, easy access to credit and companies were concentrated in large cap whereas when you're coming out of a recession or slow down, people are more willing to take less quality companies, small cap companies and others that have balance

sheets and don't look nearly as good but what we've been doing is, you know, we've upgraded healthcare and staples and updated utilities and started this back in march and april and did it in a few steps, and basically what we're doing right now is we're trying to hide in our discussions at the investment strike thaty committal level hasn't been how we get more defensive, how do we hide more? it's when is -- when rewe going to get more assertive and anticipate the recovery and we'll slip into a recession here late this year, early next year. it's probably going to last till the middle of next year, june, july, august, something like that. at some point probably halfway through that recession, it's grog to be time to -- the market will start looking ahead and things more optimistic and the fed done hiking rates and might even be close to cutting in the second half and that's where we're at right now and we've been playing defense but hopefully most of your listeners

have been doing the syme thing. ashley: yeah, you mentioned the fed, you can't hide from the fed very quickly we'll get their minutes tomorrow and maybe some more doveish congressmens, all though -- comments but i wouldn't hold my breath. >> no, i wouldn't hold my breath and i think we've seen a lot of speakers out last week for the fed and seemed to have said we'll have a 50-basis point hike in december. they also said that most of them said, you know, we're about 100 basis points away from where we need to b. that implies a couple of hikes here early in the year, which wouldn't surprise anybody. after that, you know, i think it'll be waiting to see when things are going to look a little bit better. ashley: scott, thank you so much. you talked us right to the opening bell. thank you very much. >> by, ash. ashley: thank you, there they are waving and jumping up and down and we think right out of the gate and the dow up about

200 points, not bad at all. chevron, the energy player up there and home depot, dow, walgreens and good stuff right out of the gate and take a look at s&p if we can up about half a percent. up 20 points at 3969 and what about the nasdaq and nasdaq loses about 1% in yesterday's session gaining back about a quarter of a percent in the early going today. we always like to take a look at big tech of course. let's take a look at those names. generally on the upside microsoft, apple, alphabet, amazon all gaining ground, modestly so and am son turning flat and let's get back to disney and all the goings on on the magic kingdom and have more people been fired, susan, that's the question today 1? susan: swift action by new ceo bob iker and re-ppop lysing the

organization and firing czapek's right hand man, kareem daniels head of media and entertainment and this gives back power to the creative and the division heads like the studios and espn. this is one of the worst moves under czapek, he was centralizing the spending and pnls under kareem daniels, that upset internal disney executives had a talk on wall street beside the swift action, which wasn't all that surprising, is that iger has brought back and in the job for three to five years and bob iger, he's a deal maker and bought marvel and lucas films and some deal of some sort and is it gonna be a selling or buying? i'll sell you that apple won't buy disney and not how apple operates and don't buy anything over $3 billion but there's whichwhispers on the next succer

and potential ceo and a lot of people saying we could see the first female ceo in disney and dana wall den is a leading candidate now and they need to fix that hole in streaming, which is the reason why that still had the worst stock reaction to earnings since the 1990s. ashley: fascinating stuff. czapek chai president elect suse summer quarter, profit beat, sales in line and not terrible but the days of 300% gains in sales, those are over. that's what, you know, nowitzki you had zoom doing over the pandemic lockdowns and basically became ubiquitous and instead of 300% growth, you're getting single digit growth and competition from microsoft,

cisco and google that built up the conferencing call capables. ashley: it's a good day when you use certain words. i love it. susan: i think zoom could be a takeover target now that it's more reasonable with the valuation targets. we'll see who has the money to step in. ashley: yeah, interesting. best buy reported before the bell as well. did they get a holiday boost? susan: absolutely. you have upgrades there for the full year. best buy is the biggest gainer on the s&p 500 this morning. better third quarter numbers. had a smaller drop with same store sales than expected and discounts helped customer traffic and foot traffic come back into the stores. that's why they're also raising their full year forecast with business being better than anticipated and a good sign by the way given that consumers are opening up their wallets at high inflationary slowing economy times to buy expensive electronics and dick's sporting goods had better results as well. increase in sales and profit and they raised their full year guidance. now, dollar tree, not a bad

quarter over the summer. you have full year earnings, you know, only being a lower half of guidance range and that was kind of disappointing for wall street and discounters as we know and high inflationary times have outperformed. walgreens getting a boost this morning and cohen raising to outperform rating. ashley: that's why it was leading the dow and bitcoin on a two year low and weighing on the other cryptos today. >> yeah, the bell weather, bitcoin, older crypto currency in the world. two year lows, 1.4 trillion wiped off asset class this year and combination of things whether ftx collapse or three arrows, a hedge fund collapsing and main concern bringing up gbtc, the gray scale bitcoin trust, this is the big scare right now on the markets. we have already had ftx but that contagion effect and gray scale last night after the market closed saying they are at risk,

while gray scale's parent has to plug a hole right now in another subsidiary, genesis. and genesis last night issued a statement saying they're at risk-over doing bankrupt and that'll impact the parent company of dcg because they need to find $1 billion somewhere. are they going to unwind the world's largest bitcoin fund, which at 643,000 bitcoins and they're not willing to show the reserves to investors so there's a contagion effect and concerns about the massive fund being unwound right now. ashley: oh, dear. this is an interesting headline. carl icon making a bet against game stop. susan: never want to get against one of the most successful wall street traders and the billionaire interesting and he's betting against game stop, the original meme stop but he's been building this short position for quite awhile now from time to time from what i read and game stop, he started building the position when game stop was at $483.

now, apparently he still holds a large bet against game stop, but we're in the sure how bill that position still is. has he sold off from time to time and whatever instruments he's using and carl icon has been right in a few of the shorts including herbal life with bill akmen and bet against other distributers and he knows how to make money and in for size and that's a big concern. ryan co-hind cohen should be co. ashley: indeed. fantastic run through, susan. thank you very much. take a look at big board, the dow up more than 200 points. not bad. up about six tenths of a serpent and finishing slightly lower than yesterday's session. take a look at some dow winners who's leading. walgreens boots, susan mentioned that stock getting an upgrade, up 2.5% and dow, home depot going along nicely. chevron up almost 1.5% and

health united health also moving higher. s&p 500 winners are best buy just releasing decent earnings and gap, underarmor, analog, technologies are all leading the way. best buy up 10.5% and as for the nasdaq winners, walgreens on there, csx, ross stores on this board yesterday as well. kraft heinz. there's your winiers. coming up. winners. take a look at this headline in the hill, trump may not make it to the primaries. does he have the right support to make it further? jason chaffetz taking that on later in the show. companies are boosting their salary budgets next year. that's the good news but is it enough to offset inflation? that's the other side of the story. larry kudlow blasting biden's climate reparations. he says it's a terrible idea and he's here to tell us why right after this. ♪

ashley: good morning, larry. okay, why is this such a terrible idea? >> it's another biden scam, green new deal socialism. let's take from the rich and give to the pour. but they won't let the pour develop energy, particularly fossil fuels, oil and gas energy even though they need it for growth and most of them would love to have oil and gas and in

africa by the way, which is an important target for these kinds of paris climate accord initiatives, they've got plenty of natural resources. they've got plenty of oil and gas. they love to develop it. this is just crazy. this is what they've done to the united states writ large around the globe and remember, ash, originally the paris accord wanted a $100 billion subcity give away and that never happened and no telling -- subcity and they didn't put a number or date on it and that great china building coal plants like crazy, they'll be completely exempt from any of this. so there you have it, ash.

>> the price of oil back on the rice after saudi arabia said they're planning to increase output. larry, isn't it time we stop waiting for the saudis to increase output and do it ourselves? it's so simple? >> yes, of course. look, the first bill from the republican congress should be hr1, which would be a bill to restore fracking, permitting, pipelining, refining. okay. let's open the spigots to oil and natural gas and we can restore the energy dominance set up by president trump and don't have to go around hat in hand begging the saudis for this or negotiating with iran or venezuela. you know, these things have energy implications, economic implications, and of course they have national security, foreign

policy, military implications. this is the nuttiest idea, green new deal socialism. the central plan is they're at it again. john kerry is at it again, and the irony is the so-called poor countries would love to develop and produce fossil fuels and they have under their grounds plenty of natural resources and we're essentially doing to them what we did to europe, which is in trouble. europe can't even afford energy right now and to ourselves. it's the nuttiest policy i've ever seen and central planning run amuck. ash, let free market capitalism prevail and let a thousand flowers bloom and let all of the above open the spigots, cut inflation and glow the economy from the supply side. this is nutty. nutty stuff. ashley: you're preaching to the choir, larry, i love to hear it. quickly, if hr1 is opening the

spigots, hr2 maybe secure the southern border? what say you? >> yeah, i like that very much, securing the southern border. and remember this, it's important for the gop to message growth and prosperity. we know what they're against, but we have to know what they're for. oil and gas production would be one thing. lower taxes, fewer business regulations would be another, but law and order is very important; right? crime is antigrowth and the gop has to back their message up with legislation that they'll be good stewards of economic prosperity with low inflation. that's exactly part of their

message. i couldn't agree more. ashley: very quickly, larry, you were part of the trump administration. there's somewhat of a battle going on within the gop for those who say donald trump should get out of the way in 2024. we know he's not going to do that, but is there a split inside the party? >> look, i think there's going to be a lot of competition in the gop presidential primaries and as a good free market advocate, ashley, i welcome competition and think it's the best thing. it's the political equivalent of free market capitalism. let a thousand flowers bloom. let a thousand souls emerge and let the best man or woman win. let the best message for economic growth and process parity and national security and america first win. let's see what happens with all these guys. i'm all for it. ashley: let the flowers bloom. we'll leave it right there. larry, you are always so spot on and great touchdown pass talk. thank you to -- to talk to and

of course we'll be watching you at 4:00 p.m. eastern, the great larry kudlow. isn't he fun? the bureau of land management is proposing new oil and gas lease sales. lauren, tell me more. lauren: whoa, okay. it's about 100,000 acres in two states: nevada and utah. they would be leased under the inflation reduction act. minimum bids will start at $10 per acre. it had been $2 for the past 35 years. the bureau of land management is initiating a 30-day period for the public and the whether you lawsuits toweigh in and come in. ashley: of course. very good, lauren. thank you very much. coming up, late night comics like steven colbert, jimmy kimmel and more attack republicans during every show but comedian jeff dunham calling them out. listen to this. >> i think the problem is that the comedians are picking sides and i don't know where they have to do that. pick one side and trash the other side.

pick on both sides just a little bit. don't be nasty and name calling. ashley: spread the wealth in other words. we're get into that. the world's most watched sporting event underway only on fox and also bringing in plenty of new fans thanks to sports betting. grady trimble is talking to fans as a record number are looking to win big and they'll have that report next. ♪

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that anybody can win on any given day. i want to show you maps to give you perspective of the rise of sports betting. last time around only three states had it. now look at the new map, almost half of the map has legalized sports betting. i'm with the manager of the sports pub here and you guys are kind of getting in on the betting yourselves? >> we are, good morning, grady. we're doing a gamble with the app and making it fun and engaging for all of the guests. >> reporter: not so usual to have this becausey of a bar at this time of day and what's the excitement level with this u.s. game yesterday? >> it's been fantastic and started on sunday with qatar versus equidorman and had maybe 10 -- ecuador and we had a full house for the women's game and

the u.s. played really, really well and that's very, very encouraging and this morning we were open at 6:30 and we've got a bunch of danish fans in here and looking forward to the next opponent. >> reporter: so am i and i see mexico fans here and big polish population in chicago too and by the way, ash, this might be the earliest i've been in a bar before. but in my defense, it's about 6:00 in qatar. ashley: i'll believe you, grady. great stuff as always. thank you, grady. the u.s. will be back in action by the way on friday. this time against england. coverage kicks off at 1:00 p.m. eastern on fox. don't miss it. that'll be a good one. still ahead, miranda devine, brian kilmeade, jason chaffetz and bill mcgurn, a great line up. the 10:00 hour of "varney & co." is next. ♪

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