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world tonight ♪ stuart: good morning. it is 10:00 eastern, let's get straight to the money because we've got a selloff on our hands and we are down 350 points on the down dust real's, that is 11/3 of 1%, nasdaq composite is down more, one hundred 67. big tech early this morning a couple winners, now we've got just one, meta platforms which is up one%, the rest of them down sharply, the 10 year treasury yield, this is the problem for big tech and the nasdaq generally. interest rates are rising, the yield on the 10 year treasury getting close to 4%, 3. 94% to% to be precise. as for bitcoin, backing away from the $25,000 level, 24/6 is where we are. we've got important numbers for the real estate industry, the latest reading on existing home sales. what do you have?

ashley: listen, we were expecting a jump of 2% which would have been significant. instead it came down 0.7% on an annualized basis or annual rate if you like that, being 4 million units so disappointing, we were hoping to break the trend, we been down for a while now but the existing home sales as we know is the biggest part of the real estate industry but headline number down 0.7%, 4 million units on annual rate. stuart: i remember in the good old days of the real estate boom in the first decade of the century when you had maybe 5 or 6 million existing homes sold on an annualized basis. now it is 4. thank you very much indeed. now this. let's be clear. ron desantis has his eye on the oval office. he has a plan, timeline, his

campaign is taking shape. if his performance in new york is anything to go by he is off to a good start. he came to the city and focused on crime, education and immigration. key issues all across the country. i wish he had gone to california. they could learn a thing or two in florida but he started his pro police tour in new york city. he came to the belly of the beast and told them what they were doing wrong, then he went to chicago. he knows where to go with his message of crime and education. as we reported yesterday, in 55 chicago public schools not a single student met grade level expectations in reading or math, not one. desantis has not yet declared his candidacy but he's way in front of the pack. 's got something solid to run on, florida's success, the promise here is he would run the country the way he runs florida. donald trump is not been silent. he called the governor

theysanctimonious, lacking in class and loyalty, desantis has not responded, he doesn't need to. 's track record in florida speaks for itself. second hour of varney just getting started. byron york with us this tuesday morning. i think desantis is off to a good start. what say you? >> i agree with you. we shouldn't expect any formal announcement from him until may probably. when florida legislative session is over desantis is promising big things but when you look at how to run for president without officially running for president, i think he's off to a good start. he has a book coming out. that's a real telling sign. at the end of this month. i think is doing the things you do, one thing he hasn't done is

go to iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. is not doing this quite so overtly but is spending more time on issues. stuart: it is the issues he's picking on which i think our winning issues and other candidates don't have that track record, crime, immigration, what's the other one? those are the issues. how quickly they forget, what was that? education, thank you very much. he's got the right issues. >> this is kind of a return to those days when many of us who cover political campaigns thought governors made the strongest candidates because they had executive experience, than donald trump kind of through that model out the window, but now you have desantis with a successful first term, a really big reelection victory and what he hopes, 3, more legislative

victories in florida. you have a guy with a really substantial base, foundation to run for president. stuart: was into this exchange on msnbc yesterday. a guest accused nikki haley of using her skin color to launder white supremacy. >> the alpha current with brown skin. for weitzer premises and racist she's the perfect candidate. instead of applauding her i am disgusted by people like nikki haley who know better so i see her and feel sad because she uses her brown skin as a weapon against poor black folks and for brown folks and she uses her brown skin to launder weiser promised talking points. stuart: that was an extraordinary attack on nikki haley. >> not at all surprising. this is quite common and it is going to increase and it is going to increase as men and

women of color rise in republican politics. senator tim scott of south carolina might run for president. if he does, you will hear that stuff all the time, same as your hearing with nikki haley. they are five black republicans in the house of representatives. your hearing about them. i think there is a style of criticism on the left that uses any person of color who runs for office as a republican as a sort of trader to his or her race, and that is not going away. it is acceptable say that on the left. stuart: may be acceptable on the left about not in other places. thank you for being with us. i know we will see you soon. whoopi goldberg echoing don lemon's attacks on nikki haley on her age, actually. take us through this one. ashley: nikki haley responding to the latest attack from the

view cohost, whoopi goldberg, who claimed the republican presidential candidate is not part of a new generation because of her age. watch this back-and-forth. >> it is time for a new generation of leadership. >> or not a new generation, you're 50 one. what are you talking about. [applause] >> compared to do you see that a new generation. >> but it's not new generation. she may be younger than most of those people, but her rhetoric is the same. the same -- >> it is not new. this happened when i ran for governor. i had this on my life, when i was first elected governor there were some minority democrats who said she's not a minority, just conservative with a tan. they will come at me with everything but none of that phases me. if my age is all they have it means we are winning and i am okay with that. ashley: haley calls out the

strip mainstream media hypocrisy saying when democrat kamala harris ran as a vice president on nominee she was lauded for running as a woman of color, while haley, a member of the indian-american community is being attacked for allegedly using her brown skin to score political points. stuart: don lemon has been off the air at cnn since his remarks on haley surfaced last thursday. when is he coming back? ashley: he will be back tomorrow morning and apparently he will have to undergo formal training after sexist comments he made last week, he had a frank and meaningful conversation with lemon who has been absent on cnn's morning show since last friday. lemon remarked on air that 51-year-old nikki haley, quote, isn't in her prime saying a woman is considered to be the

prime in her 20s, 30s and maybe 40s. the comments came after he responded to haley's call for mental competency tests for politicians older than 75. they cnn anchor later apologized on twitter and then to cnn staff before being yanked off the air, but he's back on as of tomorrow morning. stuart: he dug a pretty deep hole. dug it in himself. let's get to the markets. why not? scott shelladdy, i will go off the track a little bit here. we've got the situation developing, we've got putin ranting in moscow, rattling his nukes, president biden responding to that in a couple of hours, china may come in to help the russians, the tension is rising in this new global order and i'm wondering if it's not part of the reason for the stock market decline today. what do you say?

>> reporter: higher rates for longer which a lot of folks will try to blame this on, that's been around blooge-calling for a long lantern, four or five weeks, it's not going to be soft, it's going to be long and the latest tells us the fat but at a time we've drained our strategic oil reserve to 1983 levels, but the relation is larger than in 1983 at a time when we have our troops having a difficult time recruiting and we don't have a southern border and a lot of folks are coming through that we don't know who they are, we could have a trojan horse situation down there. doesn't feel like -- we are lurching from strength to strength, lurching from weakness to weakness and i feel something in my gut is telling me that this isn't adding up to be a very good situation. these global political situations are starting to stack up and we are not looking

too good and that has to have the market a little concerned. stuart: in your opinion, how long will inflation hang around? when i say hang around, 5% or 6% inflation will be with us for how long? >> might not be five but the lower you take cpi, the harder it is to get it lower, it's like losing that last 10 pounds, don't ask me how i know but those are the hardest 10 pounds to lose, same with the cpi and ppi. this is going to probably be the number one issue when it comes to the election, october and november of 24, this isn't going to go away anytime soon. if i just it is 8 interest rate hikes since we started last march and on top of that we only brought down our cpi from 9. one to 6. 4, that's 2. 7%. maybe we have some sort of come to jesus where those rate hike start to kick in. however, i still think again, we are starting -- we are

hitting the calais. the clay. stuart: i'm going to end this because we just got something coming at us, thanks for being with us. the wall street journal reports china's leader xi jinping is preparing to visit moscow for summit with putin in the coming months. doesn't that ratchet up the tension all over again? of china and russia get together against america and europe, that's another reason the dow is down 500 points. the dow took a leg down when that news from the wall street journal was announced. we are down 1.5%. it to selloff. al gore, known as a climate change warrior, turns out the green friendly firm that he co-owns is investing in companies that pollute the earth. we will have that story. florida governor desantis says it is unacceptable give you train a blank check, with no clear objective.

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stuart: the report came in the wall street journal about 20 minutes ago, the report is the china's xi jinping plans to visit moscow. there to tie up happening here between russia and china in the face of america, europe, in the ukraine. that is why the market went south of the dow dropped 500 points. tension on that level. a realignment of superpowers facing off against each other, that has the market really upset, dow down 500 coming nasdaq down 200 points. greg abbott, governor of texas discussing strategies to secure the southern border. casey steagall in west texas ahead of the meeting, what can we expect? >> reporter: there are a lot of items on the agenda, certainly a lot of stuff to talk about in

terms of how texas is securing its own border and what gabbana that is governor abbott calls president biden's absence. later today the governor will be joined by two state lawmakers, also director of the texas department of public safety, dps, the head of the texas military department and also his newly appointed border czar, a retired bp agent tapped by abbott to help curb crime and accelerate building the state's border wall as governor abbott and gop lawmakers seek an additional 4. $6 billion in funding for border security. close to $4 billion has already been spent on operation lone star which officials say has resulted in the apprehension of 350,000 migrants and more than 362 million lethal doses of fentanyl. texas dps says since this crisis began, more than one. 2 million known got aways have

been reported so it is not known who is slipping into the country. agents say in the del rio sector they recently caught three convicted child sex offenders trying to illegally cross. one had been previously deported in 2022 from the us. meantime, single adults account for the majority of crossers, more than 534,000 and counters since october 1st, that the 23% increase for the same period of time last year so as we said, there is no shortage of things to talk about as leaders gather here today at the texas dps regional office, start at 3:00 eastern this afternoon. stuart: congressman andy biggs joins me now. we will get to the border in a moment but i really want to ask about the news we just received the china's leader xi jinping will travel to moscow meeting vladimir putin in the coming months.

sounds like they are ganging up against america and europe, escalating the tension that is already there. what do you think president biden should do? >> i think what biden should do is what he should have been doing all along, reaching a diplomatic solution to the dispute between ukraine and russia. he has failed utterly to do that. instead of return ratcheted up, going to ukraine offering another $500 billion is a huge huge problem. we have been fighting a cold war with china for several years, but now we are in full on proxy war with russia and it will take great diplomacy to try to ratchet this down. stuart: are you blaming president biden for this escalation here? >> i am blaming president biden, absolutely. it is his foreign policy that allowed the russians to invade

in the first place. i also blame putin, putin is not blameless here, neither is zelenskyy. here's the deal what is going on. the year before russia invaded, trump stopped that through diplomacy and diplomatic relationship with putin. biden failed utterly because he set it up with the afghanistan failure. the lack of foreign policy leadership of this administration, the bad guys of the world, to exercise the worn ukraine. stuart: if our president backs away now and does not deal with more lethal weapons to ukraine and doesn't let them win, don't we lose? doesn't everybody lose on that one? >> can you tell me what the win strategy looks like? nobody can tell me what the win strategy looks like. stuart: you push all russian troops out of the territory that they have occupied for the

last year. that is defined as the objective. do you oppose that? >> that's not going to happen. stuart: why won't it happen? >> this administration, you are the first person who articulated. i said in briefings this administration has not said that that the goal. they said the goal is to protect the sovereign border of ukraine. we can't even protect our own border, we are sending money and weapons over there. we depleted our weapon arsenal and we are now importing ammunition and sending it to ukraine. house that a win for the united states? it is not there. stuart: so you say no more? no less? >> that is right. no -- i'm telling you they need to be encouraging diplomatic solutions. this administration has never

once said we should resolve this issue peacefully and ratchet this down. instead they are going to ratchet it up and you will see more and more people die through violent means, more and more people through private asian instead of trying to ratchet this down. stuart: thank you for being here today. what happened is you articulated an argument and debate which is going to be powerful in this country in the next hours and days. it's a big deal in my opinion. you went at it and we appreciate that. thanks very much. good stuff. governor newsom of california has announced california is cutting some assistance from migrants in his state. what's he doing? ashley: ashley: california faces a $22.5 billion deficit so the governor says the state can no longer afford to contribute to medical screening centers near the southern border.

these centers provide a wide array of medical services for migrants including covid testing, vaccines, treatment for any injuries they may have suffered in their journey, screening for chronic health issues like diabetes or high blood pressure. the migrant assistant program also provided food, lodging and travel that is very excessive, the state has been covering all of this and also spent more than a billion dollars since 2019. now the state planning to phase out medical support, the future of other services will depend on federal funding, just can't afford it. stuart: united airlines is making it easier for parents to book seats next to their young children without paying a fee. we've got details on that. the governor of florida says critical race theory is teaching kids to demonize law enforcement. roll tape. >> they are teaching kids to demonize and hate law

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ashley: a selloff, the dow is down 500, the nasdaq town 200, the reason for the most recent downturn is the wall street journal reports china's leader xi xinping will travel to moscow for summit with putin in coming months, sounds like the two are getting together to oppose the united states and europe, the market doesn't like it. united airlines says it is easier for families to book trips together. easier how? ashley: united says this new technology will open up more states so children concert with an adult in their party without paying a fee. the airline says will show parents or other adult travelers accompany a child younger than 12 to access preferred seats and regular economy seats if needed at the time of booking so they can all sit together.

the change applies to travelers with standard and basic economy tickets and will be fully up and running next month. airlines in recent years have been charging travelers to book for third location seats on flights but others like delta say it already blocks off certain rows of seats so families can sit together with part of this in response to president biden's complained about those fees that airlines charge. ashley: thanks. schools getting rid of honors classes in the name of equity. i want to know what the reaction of parents and students is to the no honors class? >> they are outraged and confused and the school district in culver city, california it is just the latest to aluminate honors classes in the name of racial equity. the school district explained its reasoning in a resolution that passed last week writing, quote, african-american black students are consistently underrepresented in gifted and

talented education programming, honors and they go on to say in 2022, opportunity gaps led to over half of culver city unified school district, african-american and black students not meeting the state's english language arts standard, and 3 quarters of african-american and black students not meeting the math standard. parent hear about this and agree the achievement gaps are a problem but parents also say that a laminating classes for high achieving students, the honors program doesn't help encourage all students. watch this. >> if you want to provide equal opportunity to all students, we want to provide students based on their individual need, the way this plan is drafted, in terms of achieving equal

outcomes, by getting rid of honors. >> reporter: culver city is the latest to drop honors classes in america what he. another district made similar moves but many have also reversed course after outrage from parents. honors courses reinstated in san diego, rhode island, madison, wisconsin and new york city. here is one parent who led the charge to get honors classes back in the big apple. >> to close the educational gap for higher level students, they had a problem raising the floor fast enough rather than trying to lower the ceiling. >> reporter: parent in culver city want to be heard on this, they started a petition. there are thousands of signatures on it. they want more talk on this. stuart: it's a big issue. the governor of florida, ron desantis was in new york city

yesterday. he warned police officers about critical race theory saying that is teaching young kids to demonize law enforcement. watch this. >> we thought critical theory across the board and you hear about that. what some people don't know, some of this critical theory may -- they are teaching kids to demonize and hate law enforcement. they will teach these kids that law enforcement are looking to mow down innocent people and they are creating a hatred for people who wear the uniform that is simply unacceptable. stuart: look who is here now. the perfect guest for the story, carol markowitz. carol left new york city schools couple years ago. was equity, crt, one of the reasons for your leaving? >> we have to look at it as a -- one large woke situation that is engulfing schools.

the segment you just had about not having honors classes because of equity, this is all related. it has taken hold in new york city and they believe crazy things like police officers are bad, equity, only be achieved by lowering the ceiling and having fewer honors classes. all of this is part of one bad thing that is happening so absolutely that had an effect. i have a police officer friend who left new york city because his daughter was learning about how to hate police officers. stuart: have you seen any instances of crt or other odd theories in florida? >> no, i happen. my kids and i are very on alert for it. i don't assume because governor desantis has made this kind of thing not legal in schools, that teachers are going to follow it, you see it all the

time on tiktok, teachers sneaking into the curriculum anyway, i haven't had that experience yet but doesn't mean i will relax and not worry about it. i will watch out for it. stuart: you are not coming back to new york city either except a family visit now and again. >> i will come visit you. stuart: i will buy your lunch. come and see us, see you again soon. joe rogan defending governor desantis after donald trump's recent ad tax. what is joe rogan saying? ashley: he was talking about gop front runners for 2,024 and he was asked about trump's nickname for ron desantis. watch this. >> called him ron they sanctimonious. >> he needs to come up with another -- he's losing his touch with the nicknames. >> it's not a good when you can come up with because ron is too good with that base and his

success in florida is pretty unparalleled. ashley: not the first time rogan has come plummeted desantis, last june he said the governor would work as a good president, his leadership in florida is admirable, something about that. stuart: the nba getting even cozier with communist china. former nba player in es planter friedman, the and group, we will deal with that in the next hour. more cities in america want to raise the minimum wage. economists are worried pay hikes could spiral out of control. grady trumbull has the story after this. ♪

stuart: got to bring you up to speed on rapid development on the international front in the market from. early this morning putin of russia rented against america in his own state of the union message. shortly, president biden will be responding to putin's rent. he's in poland at the moment and we will respond directly. a few minutes ago we received a news from the wall street journal the chinese leader xi jinping will visit moscow for summit with putin. that implies they are getting together to oppose america and europe, a realignment on a major scale and is a huge increase in tension. that is one of the reasons the dow is down 400 and the nasdaq is down one hundred 72. it is also one of the reasons the yield on the 10 year treasury has gone up and getting perilously close to 4%. the two year yield is way above

4%. 470. that's a problem for the market. we got this for you as well. state police in new york an investigation into governor kathy hochul's security detail. what's this about? ashley: state police investigators looking at whether the troopers assigned to governor hochul have been cheating taxpayers by claiming there on the clock and they are just blowing up their shift, the probe reportedly focusing on members of the governor's detail stationed in new york city and whether they had colleagues sign them in and then didn't show up for their shift, the truth is under scrutiny, they've been removed from their post and could face disciplinary action if these allegations are confirmed. stuart: i want to bring you up to speed on another major story that started at 10:00 eastern this morning, you reported it, only 4 million existing home sales on an annualized basis

for this year. stuart: ashley: that was a 12 year low, thanks to charlie brady, our senior editor, 12 year low. blue and very important another reason the market is selling off as it is. i want to keep pace with the news develop into going on through the show. then we got this one. more cities proposing a minimum wage increases and more government handouts to keep up with inflation. grady trumbull is on capitol hill, take us to the story. >> reporter: keeping up with inflation is the stated goal or it could make inflation worse, the pencil us, this year alone almost half of the states in the us increased the minimum wage as well as here in washington dc. new york governor kathy hochul wants to raise them in wage and the empire state even more, her proposal would tie that minimum wage to inflation and could see it rise to more than $16 an hour in the next 3 years.

>> they are really doing is taking the minimum wage up as far as they can politically, pushing it above where it should be and than trying to lock it in. it is more government interference in the economy. >> reporter: other cities and counties are trying something different, just giving out money through universal basic income pilot programs. a number of them are using federal taxpayer dollars from the american rescue plan to hand out as much as one thousand dollars a month to low income families like in the case of chicago, that's the largest ubi program to date. in response to critics of the program, mayor lori lightfoot says she is the mayor so she knows what the people need. the chief criticism of course is it just incentivizes work and a large number of economists say it can also make inflation worse. stuart: thanks very much.

keeping up to speed with all the developments we are getting, xi jinping will travel to moscow in the coming months, he's got a summit coming up with putin. obviously they are getting together to push the war in ukraine. republicans like congressman andy biggs on the show a few moments ago say now is the time to stop sending aid to ukraine. he wants to negotiate a peace deal. brian kilmeade on today's developments after this. ♪ inner voice (kombucha brewer): if i just stare at these payroll forms... my business' payroll taxes will calculate themselves. right? uhh...nope. intuit quickbooks helps you manage your payroll taxes, cheers! with 100% accurate tax calculations guaranteed. among my patients, i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely.

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develop or worsen. serious allergic reactions may occur. watch me. stuart: got to tell you, there's a slew of negative news events hurting the market today. home depot and walmart presenting disappointing results, both of them down sharply. then we got news that existing home sales came in at an annual rate of only 4 million, that's a 12 year low. then we heard from the wall street journal xi jinping will visit moscow in the coming months, they are getting together ganging up against us and we've got a market selloff. 10:51. here is brian kilmeade just arriving. i just spoke with arizona congressman andy biggs.

listen to what he told me about aid for ukraine. roll it. role it. you are saying no more? that is it? >> that's right. i'm telling him they need to be encouraging diplomatic solutions. this administration has never once said we should try to get these sides to the table and resolve this issue peacefully. stuart: a little context. i just delivered the news that xi jinping is going to get to their with putin ganging up against us and i asked the congressman what should our response be? and he says negotiate peace. what say you? >> i can't believe -- can he not think this thing out? if mexico is more powerful than us and they took texas should we negotiate? or should we try to get texas back? you have one country invade another country, just take -- already took a portion of it, now they took 25% of it and

started a coup in moldova, that's a fact, they have a plan on the table to take belarus by 2030, you have these other baltic nations who say their elections have already been meddled with and they have the threat of physical violence and physical invasion, that they can have those countries back so you think it is up to us to go up to the modern-day hitler and stalin combined and say i have a great idea, let's talk peace? that will really work. i am wishing the world that andy biggs and others that that would work but the other side is the aggressor. they are the one invading and chopping up a free country, trying to reconstitute the soviet union. does anyone read a history book, you understanding short-term history, let's see how that goes. or member they took crimea you know what barack obama did? don't worry about it. we need some weapons to fight, we are not giving you weapons to be provocative. when barack obama took over,

let me get the missile defense out, reset relations with vladimir putin, because obviously george bush was the problem, you know what happened? they did their invasion and went into syria. that happens when you get an evil person a chance to talk piece. stuart: what surprises me is the politics of this, there seems to be far more opposition to giving aid to ukraine among republicans than there is among democrats, democrats seem to be behind giving the f-16s, giving modern weapons. the political divide that i was not expecting and don't understand. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarty are pretty much for aid. it should not be a blank check. i'm not helping their pension funds but i'm forgiving them bullets and armaments and get them patriot missile and help them rebuild. i'm for protecting them helping them with their hospitals because 625 have been blown up.

do you know what these evil guys are doing? they are going into families, stealing their children, bringing them into russia and giving them to russian families. they are destroying apartment buildings with civilians because they can't meet their military, and you want to say perfect time to get a stack table and start talking peace. and what world will talking piece to vladimir putin be effective? in what world are you watching this happening in this world and thinking all we need to do is get a good partner to shake hands and build trust with vladimir putin? i wish we were in that world but he only understand strength and force. stuart: i think i agree with you. i really do on this one. i want to bring this up, ron desantis was in new york city yesterday and he drew a response from mayor adams who told desantis we are going to teach you some values, new york city values. what do you make of that exchange?

>> we won't get into detail but he said ron desantis, welcome to new york as he is going to wear the 3 is overrun with crime, philadelphia, new york and chicago, and say to himself how about the good cops come with me, $5,000, we got a thousand of you, more new yorkers anyplace else, he is saying i don't think criminal first. bail reform is wrong, mayor adams ignores the fact that he knows bail form is wrong, and crime is out of control, he knows he's losing everyone to florida but put all that aside to take a shot at one of the most popular republicans of the country and ron desantis says i know you know better and i know you are smarter than that and you know what is wrong, albany is wrong and to mayor adams's credit if he had his druthers there would be -- bail reform would be blown up and we would go back to the way we were doing it.

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