stuart: this is something of a shriek. i deeply respect our refi franklin by a long way but i will move on before i say something important. it is 10:00 eastern. to the money, we have had a turnaround, we opened higher for the dow, at least 100 points, down 41, sharply higher for the nasdaq, the gain has been cut a little, we are up 85 as we speak. the yield on the 10 year treasury is below 3.5%. big tech a mixed picture. they were up earlier and are still up but not as much. meta is up one. 8%, microsoft is up one%. bitcoin, haven't quoted that, 23,000, just holding, just above the $23,000 level. latest read on new home sales.

lauren: 66,000, the expectation was 617,000, that the big drop of 3. 5% from november but what came down in a big way was the median sales price, $442,000 compared to 470 one last week. it came 35. stuart: that the big drop. that's the median selling price of new homes. that's quite a drop. thanks very much indeed. no immediate impact on the stock market that i can see, down 50 on the dow, now this. in a couple hours the president will speak about our economic progress since he took office. it's a distraction from his document fiasco. he will spend his time attacking republicans but got to say it, over the last two years biden has presided over a vast expansion of government spending and debt, spending and

debt are the legacy of the last two years and that puts our economy in danger. numbers are astonishing, we've never seen anything like this, 2. $2 trillion on covid relief, one. $9 trillion for the american rescue plan, one trillion dollars for infrastructure, one. $7 trillion for for the omnibus spending bill, total of $7 trillion. vast spending, vast borrowing, 30 one. $4 trillion in debt and shelling out roughly $400 billion in interest every single year. this is what the fight in congress is about, spending and debt. the republicans want to bring both down but biden will increase both spending and debt. there will be no acknowledgment that biden's economy is headed for trouble because of biden's policies. it is those fiscally demented republicans who are responsible, this president will do what he always does, blame someone else. second hour of varney is just getting started.

stuart: byron york with us this morning, do the republicans have the unity and strength to force a cut in the spending? >> they do if they are unified. they just control one house of congress, the house of representatives but that is enough to make a significant dent in spending if they are unified. obviously what we just saw in the election of a speaker shows they are not totally unify. on the other hand they had a few good votes since then but it requires with such a narrow majority it requires everybody to be on board. stuart: at the end of the day we have to say there will be no default on our national debt. they will come to an agreement

at some point. there will be one gigantic fight before we get there, right? >> year. it is going to take a while because congress only operates on deadlines. how many times have you been reporting on congress as some meeting or bill goes into the night and all the next day and all for sort of thing. if you tell numbers of congress you need to pass something by next week, the real deadline is around june, what will happen? will will get pushed to the real deadline, not going to happen anytime soon. stuart: president biden can't shake off the media. >> don't have anything to preview at this time, but as you know, i know questions were shouted earlier, the

opportunity you have takes all your questions, he has over the past 2 weeks. stuart: i don't understand it. why can't the president be transparent about it and come out and say look at this, why can't he do that? >> they've been exactly the opposite. it is really, it has hurt them. when the news first broke a lot of people in the press went out of their way to try to explain to the public that the biden case was far, far different from the trump case. it was kind of an implicit defense for biden but the white house has since stonewalled on this issue so much that every day, we are hearing questions at the white house briefing about this, and every day, the spokeswoman stonewalls and so many times, she refers people to the white house counsel's office, no reason the white house counsel couldn't just walk in the door and talk to everybody at the briefing.

instead, the white house has chosen total lack of transparency in this and it does hurt the president and it will keep hurting him for good reason because there are answers the public should have. >> will get in the way of his agenda at some point. see you soon. >> back to the markets, we have a turnaround for the dow which is now down 47 points. it was up earlier for the nasdaq, solid gain, 92. 5 points. we got a strong start for the year for stocks. does it continue? >> looking at history, going all the way back to 1950, as you know, i like those long term trends and what is happening, when we have a strong santa claus rally, a strong start to the year the first few days and a strong all of january, added to a negative

year before, we are batting 9 for 9 in how many times the market is up for the whole year in the following year in this 2023 year. up big double digit gains on average so seasonality is with us, the good gdp number this morning, the surprising gdp number is helpful and i think all of those things are coming together to are really volatile -- stuart: volatility, but at the end of the day we are up on the year. you like lockheed martin and general dynamics, you've spoken about them on several occasions and both stocks have done well, very well, what do you see for the future of these two stocks? >> most of them have done something similar. at the beginning of the year with people looking at a market moving back a little bit, people have been jumping out of

the stocks, the defensive stocks, not in the terms lockheed and general dynamics are, they have been piling back in to a more jumpy stock like tesla and big mega tech companies you and i like to talk about. what happened? a 20% pullback of rate time to buy them. if you believe like i do that we will get a bouncy stock market most of the rest of the year, having a couple of these dividend yielding strong stocks that will sell fighter planes in lockheed martin's case and general dynamics, to the world in a time of conflict, that is probably a good place to have a good chunk of your money. stuart: see you there, lockheed martin is up $7, one. 5%. thank you, see you soon.

back to the markets. i want to do this. tell me how people feel about inflation. what do they think will happen? i don't know if this is a valuable indicator, who cares what people think will happen in the future? what do they think? lauren: when we get university of michigan studies the fed looks at that. this is not university of michigan study but it does say these higher costs, americans think they are here to stay, that inflation is never coming down, 62% expect everyday costs will increase this year so here's the data refresher, the president is likely to tout this this afternoon. in december, inflation did fall by 0. one%. it is up 6. 5%. stuart: that is what you will hear about. lauren: the numbers are still big. stuart: you are looking at the movers, stock is from the past. >> memory devices it will make a data storage still popular.

sherwin-williams, we start with seagate, it is number one in the s&p 500, i just checked, they have stronger revenue and raised forecast for the year. 6 brokerages are positive. there you go. stuart: sherwin-williams is down sharply. >> forecast for your profits below estimates, this is what the ceo said after earnings, housing will be under significant pressure this year and continued high inflation via head wind on the potential side so the years not looking good for the people who spruce up your home. >> we spent a lot of time talking about layoffs but as i understand it, chipotle is going to be hiring people. is that accurate? >> 15,000 and soon because they are gearing up for burrito season, that's what they call it, there busiest time of the year, march to may so they want those hires ready, the busy season. stuart: will they split the stock? 1500? >> all the other guys that want

1000 eventually split. stuart: more approachable for retail investors. >> picking up on the e-cigarette maker jewel, i know they are in talks with big tobacco companies to do what? lauren: we don't know, the wall street journal is reporting they are talking to phillip morris. austria has a 35% stake. japan, tobacco. austria has a 35% stake in jewel. stuart: lauren: is jewel worth one more puff? the fda told them in june get your product off the market, we don't like how you market to teens, if they appeal you can buy their products when you go into the store but their sales are down 25% in the past year. if you look at how 3 a, 35% stake they took four years ago that has been marked down by 97%. do they want more? do they want more?

stuart: good question. meta is going to reinstate donald trump on facebook and instagram after being banned for two years. willis help his 2024 campaign? good question. we are on it. former speaker pelosi's husband paul sold $3 million worth of google shares weeks before the justice department opened its antitrust lawsuit against google. no wonder senator josh hawley name to stock trading band bill the pelosi act. some schools are not telling parents when they call their children the wrong gender or name in class. >> have come across parents who said they haven't discovered until the parents meeting when a child is being called the wrong gender, the wrong sex or the wrong name by a teacher. because the child's identity in school, the school hasn't told the parents. stuart: douglas will take us through his new fox nation

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accountability office reported that those school dress code policies may be racist writing, quote, while school district often site safety is the reason for having a dress code, many dress codes include elements that may make the school environment less equitable and safer students. among the examples measuring student's body for skirt height, the part of education welcomed the report with the spokesman saying, quote, the office for civil rights continues routinely to address this, nation with respect dress codes and we look forward to evaluating effective ways to share more information with school communities regarding ways to fulfill student civil rights on this important issue. the gao report found 80% of black schools enforce a strict dress code compared to 33% of predominately white schools. supporters of a dress code say it allows children to focus on learning without distractions, yet enforcing a ban on wearing a hoodys lead to multiple

fights inside and outside the school. >> until we have no teachers or staff to safely propose always we shouldn't be considering worrying about what kids are wearing. i care if they come in pajamas, at least they are here. >> district are confronting dress code and uniform enforcement since students returned to in person, in school learning. stuart: thank you very much indeed. now this. a non-binary teacher in california admits to helping students change their gender identity without their parents consent. douglas murray joins me now. how are schools getting away with this? >> reporter: schools are meant to request the permission of parents, got a headache or something like that. meantime, you can change the gender of a child, a boy is a girl and parents don't even know. it is quite astonishing, isn't it?

but in the previous segment, you just say and do absolutely anything in modern america. stuart: how did this start? >> it started the same way as the previous segment, call everything racist and you can win. the new gender rights movement decided to roll through everything in american education, started on university campuses and the school level and they are getting away with it, in my own analysis because the adults have vacated the classroom, quite literally, the adults vacated the american classroom. stuart: but isn't there a revolt against this? >> there certainly is. blue when i read news articles from all over the place where school boards are saying you use the bathroom of the gender to which you were born. >> and parents are revolting against this, quite understandably and about time. adults have to reassert themselves on this, you cannot

hand over american education to the most insane people in the country. we won be careful what you say there. this too. a school board member in iowa is getting ripped online after she posted this on her facebook page, quote, the purpose of public education is not to teach kids what parents want, it is to teach them what society needs to know. what do you think of that? >> she's onto something. there is always attention about this, whether or not parents hand over their children to the school in order to raise their children or not. they hand over the children to educate the children as long as they've been educated, that's been one thing but obviously in this case, said the quite that out loud. it is true that society needs to produce children who are useful in the workplace and that's always going to be attention with a certain type

of parent. stuart: need to learn how to read, write and think. >> if you look at the education statistics in america, where we are in terms of the amount of money put into the education of children in america versus where we are in literacy among developed countries we are not doing well. stuart: you have a new episode, un-canceled history. this is all about tearing down monuments to teddy roosevelt. >> every episode i have done a different -- people need heroes in america, founding fathers. each time i interviewed a major historian on an individual, thomas jefferson, george washington and the most recent one was will my client on feudal roosevelt. it interesting getting the history right. an hour to each episode. getting the history right, learning about these people,

understand them, theodore roosevelt, his statue came down where we are in new york a while ago. he runs against all sorts of things in our own era that are deemed suspect very manly, thrusting, ambitious, always moving forward and all this sort of thing. i asked the principal what do you make of this, he said i see history as being you put stuff up there and forget about it for a wild, you might need it again someday. i say with theodore roosevelt, maybe he doesn't fit all our 2,023 nuances and prejudices but some of the things that made him great we might need again someday in america and i think we do. stuart: that is good stuff, appreciate it, thank you very much indeed. the full series of the miseducation of america available right now on fox nation and don't miss the exclusive live summit tonight,

7 p.m. pm eastern on fox nation.com. an adult woman was arrested after enrolling as a student at a high school in new jersey. adult woman. how old? >> she was 29, her name was jai junction, she was arrested and charged with a false birth certificate so she could enroll in this high school in new jersey. she was a student there for four days before the officials and authorities and guidance counselors caught up. what is her motive? no idea. but the students are in shock and fear because they were friends with her, she texted some of them. she has their information. why would a near 30-year-old go back to high school? weird. stuart: thank you. new york city has a plan to house the migrants coming from the southern border. we will tell you where mayor adams is putting his latest mega migrant shelter. my next guest wrote a book on

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lauren: they are going $68 because of the initial recovery they are seeing. stuart: 68 is all you get. back in the day, by microsoft, going to 300 and -- lauren: these are different sources. stuart: president biden heading to virginia today to speak about our economic progress under his administration. grady trimble in springfield, virginia. the economy, is it really as rosy as the president will make it out to be? >> i think it is safe to say president biden might overstate how strong the economy is in his speech today. new gdp numbers show the economy is growing at a slower rate than the previous quarter. gas prices are on the rise again. tens of thousands of tech workers have been laid off in the first month of 2,023.

the white house insists the economy is in good shape, and says it is republicans who will, in the president's words, wreck it. >> does the administration view calling out republicans as a tool? >> willing and the president is willing to work with congress in a bipartisan way. he will also call out republicans in particular in the house who are saying they want to cut social security, who said clearly they want to cut medicare. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy has made clear, cuts to those programs are not on the table. the gop lawmakers agree it is up to them terrain in government spending which has totaled $5.8 trillion since president biden took office. president biden is expected to claim that that spending has helped the economy. stuart: thank you very much.

look at this headline. with president biden, george soros, finally have a president he could control. matt palombo wrote that, he's the author of the man behind the curtain and he joins me now. you wrote the book. how much influence does george soros have on president biden? >> quite a lot. biden's stability plays a role in that. biden has been a democrat his whole life but i would say compared to where he is today, he was more of a centerleft figure. he is more -- every cartoonish 20-year-old progressive policy but influence plays a role. stuart: soros seems to want to affect local elections. that is where it is easiest to change, not the big national election, as much as district attorneys and local officials, that is strategy. >> i did an earlier series on that.

that got the most interest. we are blessed because a lot of these elections, he set money on fire, don't tens of million 2 hillary clinton and john kerry, it went nowhere. with local elections he's boasting 90% success rate and the genius of it is you don't have to go through state legislature, you have the economy, they will implement whatever you want, there is 75 of these people nationwide, back with $40 million, one in 5 americans including in manhattan, are living under a soros backed da and there's a lot of overlap in their policies. stuart: an amazing success rate when you think about it. >> he will donate so much to a candidate his opponent will drop out instead of even bother. stuart: the levels are always

low in these local elections. less than 20% of the election. >> people just, you should pay more attention to local politics, that is what helps you but it's the opposite in those races you can get these nut jobs and office. stuart: democrat congressman adam schiff just announced he will run for the california senate seat held by diana feinstein in two years. what is your comment? >> he will probably win. obviously i am against it. he can't be anywhere near a senate seat. stuart: meta just announced they will reinstate donald trump's facebook and instagram accounts. he has been banned for two years. what will that do to his 2024 campaign if he posts on facebook? >> from facebook's perspective they are a stagnant platform. unlike most social networks, average user demographic is

more in line with the average republican. it would help him there but the eagle element of if you were banned do you want to come back? and i don't think the deal with truth social has gone through and it could keep him from posting but i'm not sure. stuart: any comment on trump's running? >> i say go for it. i'm not explicity backing him or the centers. anyone but biden would be an improvement but i like the guy a lot. stuart: i can't see a biden/trump matchup. can't see biden running again in 2024. >> less horrifying than a harris trump matchup though that is an easier match to win i guess. stuart: thank you very much, appreciate it. donald trump hosted a dinner with social media influencers. who are we talking about?

lauren: very popular on twitter, pokes fun at woke gender and sexuality issues and the babylon be satire publication. get close to the influencers which are usually millennials, because he wants their vote. how about a trump marjorie taylor green ticket in 2024? how does that sound? taylor green is said to be angling to be his vp according to steve bannon and if you look at the power moves she's made ahead of that, she supported kevin mccarthy for speaker and that annoyed the party but she wanted key committee placement and got them. she is on oversight, homeland security. in other words she has the ability to investigate biden on big republican issues. she annoyed the house freedom caucus, voted for mccarthy, supported him, got the committee assignments she wants and now said to be wanting to be vp.

stuart: i've gotta teaser story. lauren: politics isn't fun anymore? stuart: not right now. uber eats delivery guy crashes a college basketball game, trying to find the person who ordered the food. he is wandering around. really crazy situation. he was there. look at it. lauren: what happened? stuart: we will tell you about it, stay tuned for that. southwest airlines accused of deceptive scheduling after the chaos unfolded during christmas week. madison -- madison alworth has the report next. ♪

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2 million people. stocks recovered after the initial meltdown over the holidays. they were down once again today. they reported earnings loss. december disruptions reduced pre-tax profit by 800 million plus an additional 390 in extra costs mainly from compensations we talked about. the rest of the airlines are all over. we see american doing quite well. they saw stronger holiday season. everyone was impacted by flight issues but they rebound a lot quicker than southwest which had 3 days of cancellations. they canceled over 16,700 flights from december 25th through the end of the month and they delayed over 13,000. the airline maintained they did not engage in unrealistic scheduling, saying, quote, our holiday flight schedule was offered to our customers with the backing of a solid plan to

operate it with ample staffing, we have continue to cooperate with any inquiry or request from government oversight or elected officials. regardless of what the investigation finds, there will be rough skies ahead for southwest. in the earnings report they say they expect a loss of revenue for q1 up to $350 million and obviously all those customers stranded over the holidays, curious to see what comes of this investigation. we one a tough time at southwest. there passengers. thank you very much. gas prices up another $0.02 overnight and up $0.40 in the past month. looking at an average of $3.50 per gallon. do you think, don't want you to forecast but you think this uptrend may continue? lauren: the weather has been mild so people are going places. it's not just having the commodity, you have to refine it. what happened in texas? near some of the refineries?

tornadoes taken off-line. that is what you are dealing with. heating oil, those prices are up $0.12 on bad weather in some parts especially in the new york area, heating oil, some residents paying $5 a gallon. stuart: we've got that. beddoe o'rourke said he returned $1 million donation from sam bankman-fried but he's holding onto his son for the money. movers of the senate until committee have been denied access to documents found in the president's house, they will shut down the senate if they are not unblocked. former acting attorney general matthew whitaker has the whole story after this. ♪ ♪

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this is about him being blocked from looking at the document and the president's hands. lauren: he and congress have been stonewalled and he wants to review classified documents. >> the administration is stonewalling congress on classified documents, at donald trump's residence and president biden's residence which is unacceptable. i am prepared to refuse consent or fast-track any nominee for any department or agency and take every step i cannot every committee on which i serve to impose consequences. lauren: so really wants to slow the senate, already slow down senators sworn in january 3rd, they have taken one roll call vote, they took one on monday to confirm the defense secretary. stuart: that is all we've got so far. former acting attorney general

matthew whitaker joined me now. can they shut the senate down and should they? >> good to be with you. really, the senate works through all the senators getting along, the cooling of the house's cup, supposed to be the saucer getting down and doesn't get too excited but obviously this divided government is not working quickly anyway so it will be interesting how much time, i think he can and it is necessary. stuart: this is an example how the stonewalling by the president and the documentation was spilling over into other aspects of political life and legislation. it is no longer under control, is it? >> no, it is not. president biden didn't want this story to see the light of

day, they try to keep it close with the department of justice, to not that the american people know this happened but the most important point is the contents of those documents is important, not only in the donald trump case but the joe biden case. of those documents and any application to hunter biden and his business dealings, that is a different story, really, truly, an inadvertent mishandling of random documents and that is what senator cotton is trying to get to. stuart: what is in those documents, what is it related to? next one. nancy pelosi's husband paul sold 30,000 shares of google stock just weeks before the justice department open its antitrust lawsuit against google. where do you stand on banning stock trades? >> this is a longtime pattern,

trading these stocks right before bed news comes to the company sent stock prices. members of congress if they have access to this, should not trace them and since these keep happening, i think they should not be allowed to do these favorable trades, should b etfs and that type of thing so they can't try to time the market. stuart: back to the document story if i may. the stonewalling has been going on for some time. the longer the stonewalling goes on the more there is a suspicion that there is a cover-up going on. the cover up is often the worst part of any scandal. do you see it this way? >> i see two things at play. one thing is ask the question as you did, what are the content and why won't they share this with congress but also boils down to ongoing

committal investigation, typically doj has not shared updates or information in an ongoing, investigation. vice president pence controlling classified documents, interesting if special counsel ordered an investigation on him and it points to merrick garland trying to be too cute with the original special counsel, getting himself in a bind. stuart: matthew whitaker, thank you for joining us, hope to see you soon. in november, beto o'rourke returned a donation from sam bankman-fried. was that accurate? lauren: not all of it. i praised him when this story happened. this was before the ftx fiasco and he said i had -- i didn't shake his hand so didn't feel comfortable taking it. then came the ftx fallout and the washington free beacon is

reporting beto o'rourke has $1000 left so he returned 900,000 and the camp says we are going to earmark this for victims of the collapse. stuart: he will distribute that. lauren: they have to give it to the court. just an excuse. stuart: thanks. lisa booth, brandon judd and theologian jonathan morris. the biden administration wanted to be known as the most transparent, hasn't turned out that way. the white house's stonewalling over the document looks real bad. that is "my take" and it is next. ♪ ...

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