>> if up to line up all the things that donald trump has done that aren't the way other people do t i agree, there's a lot of things people don't like about him. but at the same time there's a lot of people that like the strength he shows. >> americans aren't buying whatever it is that joe biden is selling.

a guy way to invest in america, stuart, lower taxes and that budget is a declaration of a war against american business and investors. if you want more of something, you tax it less. >> the storm is coming because there's a quick fix. i think it was a sugar high and i think we've got to be very, very cautious going forward. there's a storm coming, but i'm not so sure it's a category 5 in the months ahead while we won't see a lot of bank failures, we will see a lot of commercial real estate failures and that's what the economy has to contend with. stuart: it's a really nice day in new york city today. that's the statue of liberty and the sun is shining and it is 11:0 00 in the morning in new york. let's get to the markets. first of all the stock markets and dow industrials is holding

onto a narrow lead and up 130 points and open 200 points higher and nasdaq slipped into negative territory and now down 11. how about the 10-year treasury yield and that is going up and just shy of 3.5% and that's maybe why the nasdaq is not -- is a little unhappy and higher interest rates and show me the big banks because it looks like a certain softening in the banking crisis and all of the big banks are up and most of them in percentage terms. all right, now this. 30 years ago bill clinton won the presidency on the back of the slogan "it's the economy, stupid". apparently joe biden agrees and will tout investing in america. 20 states in three weeks of campaigning and vice president kamala harris goes with him and first lady jill bide and nearly a dozen cabinet members and looks like the start of the reelection campaign. i hope he takes questions and on the economy he's got a lot to

answer for. inflation with price increases are still swamping wage increases and we are getting worse off, especially lower income people who are supposed to biden's bedrock support. the vast cost of going green, all those mandates and subsidies will bust the bank and lead to very inflation the president wants to bring down. goldman sachs said gotting green would cost $1.2 trillion. that's three times what biden planned and he thinks that kind of spending cuts cuts inflation, get out of here. there's desperation. how foreign policy is basically retreat in the face of china that's aggression and border policy is nonexist tent in the face of a -- nonexistent in the face of a migrant surge. it's spin. repetition of false claims and we'll cut the deficit by $1 trillion and we'll cut the cost of families, not much.

no wonder his approval rating on the economy has sunk. it's in the tank and down to just 31% approval. if it really is the economy, stupid, this administration is in deep trouble. third hour of varney starts right now. steve forbes with us this monday morning. biden relying on the american people this monday morning to buy the message. i don't think they are, steve. >> no way. the fact he's going around and tout ago miserable record and say you don't believe your own eyes or declining paychecks and the fact that jobs are harder and hard tore find and stock market -- harder to find and stock market holders is declining and banks not lending as much and that'll hurt capital investment and inventories in the like and he's like herbert hoover in the great depression

saying prosperity is the aftermath. i don't know what they think they're doing. stuart: if we get the big tax increases and the huge spending, what happens to the economy and inflation? >> well, what happens to the economy is the economy tanks and for awhile inflation looks good and when people are going out of business, prices go down. going out of business sales and people can't buy as much. but the economy would be like the 1970s and trash the economy and prices come down somewhat and then the economy comes back a little bit as the fed gooses up and prices go up again. that deadly pattern is about to hit again and these people are absolutely oblivious to it and i'll predict biden won't be on the ticket in 2024. stuart: okay, we'll investigate that one. what makes you say that biden will not be on the ticket in 2024? >> in addition to the other troubles is the economy is going

the wrong way and democrats will suddenly realize this guy has taken the blame and he'll drag us down. remember a lot of senators, democrat senators are coming up for reelection in 2024. he's going to say i did my part. economy is great, i'm going to retire in delaware. stuart: nice idea. quick one. how do we balance the need to have trade with china and at the same time the need to go up against china and take action against their aggression? how do we balance the two? we want the trade and we want to go after them. >> on the trade side, do what we did on the cold war and the soviet union and sense of technology not given to them and a defense budget recognizes how bad the world is today. his defense budget in real terms is down at a time when the obligations and needs are going up. so you have a defense punishment that reflects real estate reality and do more patrols for example in the south china sea, which is critical and sending arms to china instead of just

talking about it and basic things. go back to iran like the 1980s. don't give reagan credit but follow him and this country will turn around quickly. you won't get it from this crowd in the white house today. stuart: we've got to wait. >> we have to hold the line for the next 18 months and the tax increase may not happen and it'll dampen investment and what if the democrats win in 2024 and what would that leave the economy? you'll make big investments and you'll be a little cautious. stuart: good story. steve forbes, all good. new this, espn honored the transgender woman swimmer leah thomas celebrating women's history month segment. watch this. >> transgender person to ever win ncaa division i championship. >> i'm very humbled and honored to hold that title, and i can

only hope that i'm able to give other trans people the inspiration and motivation i was given. stuart: that did not go down well. swimmer riley gains tweeted this "leah thomas is not a brave, courageous women that earn add national title. he is an arrogant cheat that stole a national hit trillion a hard working, deserving women. the ncaa is responsible. if i was a woman working at espn, i would would being out. you're spineless espn". there you go. sandra smith is with us and she's a former college athlete. >> never former, always college athlete. athlete. stuart: whatever you say. >> i ran a sub6 minute mile over the weekend so still have it. stuart: whose side are you on? >> i'm not taking sides and i've spoken with riley gains at length on our program about this

and he's a rather frequent guest at this point and had her on last week and she said this is a matter of basic common sense and said people will label something as anti-trans and exclusionary and in reality it's not those things. it's pro woman and quite the contrary she told me. it is inclusive. and that pro woman statement is really something i think a lot of women who are watching on -- at this, they worry. they're worried about the future of women's sports and there's no easy way to tackle this. almost anyone involved in this debate will confess this is a very difficult decision for all sides on how to handle this. maybe you have in your mind what a perfect collusion is, but everybody's different. everybody is different, but right now women sports are threatened by this. there are great cyclists out there just last week that are throwing their arms in the air saying i cannot compete or practice hard enough to win

against a man. stuart: it seems in various sports a variety of sports, it's not an anti-trans feeling but a requirement of fairness. if women athletes are supposed to compete against men who identify as women and say they're trans, they can't win. that to me is an issue of fairness. >> caitlyn jenner is on the show saying trans gender hijacked women's sports. stuart: difficulty is deciding what point in the transition does that person no longer become eligible to compete with women? i don't know where that point is. is it te testosterone level? >> riley gains gains as also te locker room issue and the surgical transition and they're in the locker rooms in some cases and this is extremely difficult for people to deal with. stuart: think there will come a

time with a separate category? >> some see as a perfect selection and transgenders don't see that as perfect. because they want inclusion and equality. it's a tough one. stuart: you're ideally suited to address this. >> i will take it on any time. any time we'll run right around 47, 48th street and do a big loop. stuart: i don't think i could do it. honestly, i don't think i could do that. >> i think you could. i think you have it in you. maybe not a subeight min but you could. >> i think she's setting you up. stuart: we're not going to try that but the ratings would be fantastic watching me drop dead outside. 1-3:00 p.m. eastern only on fox news. lauren is watching the movers and new ones today including buy due that's down.

>> bottom line is we're making progress with the world artificial intelligence. lauren: it's not ready for prime time. stuart: that's an interesting development. public display of that thing. how about coin base, they're down today? yes, they are. lauren: by over 9% and bitcoin is under 27,000. and barclay's came out and lowered their price target on coin base by $16. from 86-70. kathy woods came in and bought up coin base and again on friday. ouch, exactly. stuart: good of kathy woods on this show. stuart: we'll try, thanks, lauren. if you're not worried about ai taking your job, maybe you should be. more than two-thirds of all workers could see their jocks affected by artificial intelligence. we've got the story. comedian john stuart think

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by the way, that's three times what the biden team says it's going to cost. jeff block is with us. you're -- jeff flock is with us. you're looking at the numbers. how much will this cost the taxpayers? reporter: oh, who cares, stuart. it's a beautiful, sunny day here and shining on the solar farm behind me. what more do you want? what can i tell you? i don't know how much it's going to cost but i can tell you what it's already cost and the heartland institute has done a study since president biden took office and look at number of the average house how old spend $2,300 on increased energy costs in the last two years and that's broken down $650 extra peer year per person on gasoline. it's on household for nash rale gas and over $1700 more for home heating oil and the heartland is

a free market think tank. the biden energy agenda said things about federal tax and emissions and the gas stove restrictions you're talking about and the oil and gas lease problems getting them done and the cost to it. that's all contributed to this. we talk to a fellow with the new york state home builders association. he says he really worries about the impact familiarly on middle and low income people. listen. >> >> they should be neck and neck. reporter: this one story, we love this one and forensic of cars and did a study out in california and they found that the town of atherton,

california, never been there, they have more electric cars per capita than any other place, 14% of the cars are electric. the average house sells there are $7.5 million and average income is $50 million. the study mainly it's the rich folks that have the electric cars and they can afford them. that's why i'm drive ago gas car, old ford explorer, yes, sir. stuart: you're going to leave it there, jeff, before you poke me? reporter: i better. stuart: yeah, you better. jeff flock, you are all right and we'll see you again soon. my next guest doesn't have much time for the president's green agenda for the glean energy coals and carry sheffield is with us and which rare earth minerals is the president blocking and why? >> unfortunately it's all of the above. we're talking about copper, lithium, anything that's used

for these components for all this. it's an excellent segment setting upright before the expensive cost of this green energy and joe biden has and joe biden is talking out of both sides of his mouth and said he wants to be a clean energy leader for the united states when in actuality he's blocking the leases and the access to the mines on american soil below the soil where these minerals are located and for this new york post op-ed, the governor of alaska is frustrated and angry with the joe biden administration and they release add report in 2021 mentioning alaska only once as a footnote and mentioning other countries like australia, dozens of times and so he said this is really the priority is to have foreign countries, we saw it also even with oil and gas turning with venezuela and domestic production? stuart: everybody else can mine

it but couldn't mine it here enough in america that we desperately need. make nososense to me. carrie, another subject for you. listen to john stuart about crt and critical rare theory, roll it. >> i don't think half of the republicans would do it or mean it. i think it's the reason that's hard not to be angry about people that try and distract from the real things that people face with weaponnized nonsense. stuart: weaponnized nonsense. that's a strong stuff coming from john stuart. what's your judgment? >> the pandemic revealed what was taught to american students and it began at the lawsuit level and adapted for k-12 levels and divide children by race and privilege and it's a

projection of dr. king and democrats and liberals want to keep poor and minority children trapped in failing schools and that's the real issue. they try to use the crt initiatives to fail over the education policy and fail labor policies and look at what happened in the poorest most violent african american neighborhoods and they're all run by progressive ideologies and it's disingenuous what he's saying and he didn't actually understand or mention anything about the intellectual history and what happened in frankfort, germany and the explicit sole of destroying western civilization and ignorance and he's retired or semi-retired and more time on his hand or what he's doing. stuart: good way to end it. carrie sheffield, thanks for being here and we'll take that to heart.

>> thank you. back to the markets and let's start with dow industrials now still higher but just 140 points higher. we have the nasdaq slipping south about a quarter percent and show me the regional banks first of all, please. they're all up this morning including first republic, which had been a big loser last week up 13% today and there's some resilience emerging in the regional banks and also the big banks as you can see on your screen right now and regionals move on to the big banks and they're all higher today so there's some feeling, some confidence that's been restored to the banking system on a monday morning or is it difficult time after the weekend. the most areas are higher today. we finally know how many people stopped working from home in 2022. ashley, you've got a number for us, please. ashley: i have all sorts of neighbors and labor department says millions of americans stopped working from home in 2022. they didn't give the exact number, but they used

percentages about 72% of private sector companies with lit toll no tellly work among employees in august to september of 2022. that by the way compared to about 60% the year before and that means teleworking levels and bloomburg reporting that data from college towns and government centers and tech hubs offer the highest number of remote jobs make sense and lansing, michigan, you mentioned this earlier in the show and about 39% of all postings followed by topeka, kansas, at 32%. but i think the headline there is we're almost to pre-pandemic levels when it comes from working from home. i thought there were more people at home. stuart: onestly, ash, i think ik it's surprising there's millions and millions of people working from home that didn't come back and millions are still at home. ashley: yes, indeed.

stuart: a lot of jobs could be remote or whatever. a lot of jobs could be effective and changed by ai. ashley: you bet ya. about 80% could have a tenth of work tasks affected by chatgpt and half of workers may find half of duties impacted by gpt or general purpose technologies and the analysis found higher income jobs is interesting and more likely exposure to ai and industries and researchers stress that exposure don't have quite the tasks fully automated workers and complete ago large share of their test and you can have other time on your hands to do other work apparently, stu. stuart: think we're safe, ash?

ashley: i hope so. i think so. but, you know, you and i could have an ai double that could probably dot show. i hope not. i like artificial intelligence. i could use it. next, the march madness final four is set. we'll tell you which team is favored to win it one mayor quit in the middle of a budget meeting. you've got to watch this. >> i'm concerned because this is simple math and we're not doing well and the general mayor is the former mayor of clear water, florida. more after this. ♪

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commercial for ice cream? by the tag team. i knew that, can't fool me. that is miami in florida. they're celebrating after the university of miami hurricanes big win on the basketball court. we've got that. they are in the final four, come on in, ashley, and tell me who else made the final four. new to the book he says. ashley: the hurricanes play uconn in the final four and san diego state takes on the knight ninth seed atlantic and uconn a five and a half point favorite in the final four and san diego state a 2.5 point favorite and connecticut is the highest seed still standing and the favorite to win the tournament and san diego state is the highest on the left bracket and followed by miami and fau, biggest outside bet right now but never count them out in the final four. they're not supposed to be there.

everybody's bracket got blown out this year. stuart: when can we get back to premier league soccer fans? ashley: hopefully next weekend. stuart: that's right. the markets not as strong as they were when we opened up with dow is up 250 now up 170 and the nasdaq is heading just a bit south. susan's back watching of all things the entertainment stocks. susan: betting on cinderella underdog, florida atlantic and the story came out of nowhere for a ninth seed and my bracket is blown out. stuart: you follow baseball, don't you? susan: yeah, they were playing in madison square gardens over the weekend. get back to stu with the premier league soccer. streaming studio stocks, up 12% this quarter and continuing that rally today and all in the tail wind of roku, up $75 in their view and big box office receipts we've seen this month, not just john wick four

over the weekend taking in $73 million but think about the success of creed 3, antman, and the wasp and that says that movie studios are getting people back in to watch in theaters then of course they can augustment with streaming as well and -- augment with success of streaming season 4 and they make deal making look way too easy and don't throw out a number of $10 million. susan: that's hbo max and that's not how it works and being in the markets, we care about that stuff. stuart: we co. tell me about the banks and there's some relief to it. susan: some relief and up 16% of first republic and some gain haves been cap add bit and relief rally underway as buyers on the market for distressed banks and bank loans and north carolina bank first citizens buying large chunks of silicon valley bank at a discount and includes they'll take on the $119 billion in deposits and

$72 billion in svb loans and getting a at discount of $16.5 billion and not bad and fdic says ultimately this svb rescue will cost the government and deposit insurance fund around $20 billion or so, which is around 10% of the entire insurance fund itself. regional bank says all up and up today and first republic hit a record low last week and it's down 90% and the fact there could be buyers up there and we know that first republic has been in discussions for a possible sale, fundraising, and by the way first citizens and i find this extraordinary in this story that first citizens was the 30th largest bank in america. now they're buying the remnants of the 16th largest bank in america. stuart: yeah. susan: after this deal, they're in the top 25 now and goes to show if you don't manage your risk no matter how big you are or your balance sheet is, there is -- you could see a down fall. stuart: that was the measure for svb and didn't manage the risk. what did you have on tesla?

susan: top performer on the nasdaq and up 2.5 and barclay says worth 275 and 50% worth the upside to a buy. deliveries beat in the first quarter and looking at $425,000 and price cuts only tesla can afford the price cuts more than every other car maker and we know that they're set to report those delivery numbers on the second weekend of a quarterly month. stuart: fabulous rally for tesla. susan: bitcoin, down four binance. stuart: under 27,000. susan: yeah. stuart: got it. thank you, susan. my next guest is the former mayor of clearwater, florida. last week he quit the job because of the city council's plan to spend money on a new city hall. watch this. it's good stuff. >> i'm concerned where the city is going because this is simple math and we're not doing very well on the test. but i can tell t i am not the

person and i'm a busy guy and in good conscious for my family, for my own health and other things, i can't remain. stuart: that is mr. frank hibbard joining me now. you call the spending by the city council reckless. why was it reckless? >> the list was a quarter of a billion dollar deficit. and we're talking about building a new city hall and what we call a municipal services building and only 26 years scold no one wears their house down after 26 years. most people haven't even paid it off. stuart: is it republican-led city council? >> we're nonpartisan and you're not supposed to know what party anybody is involved with. i am a republican, but this is -- this goes beyond which

party you're affiliated with and goes to common sense and creative and finding solutions. stuart: any regrets, your honor, because you're no longer the mayor and puts you out of a loop when it comes to making financial decisions. >> well, sadly this is a discussion we'd had and this may be the only way that i could get through this citizens to get the story covered and they're the ones that will have to stop this. i think from the feedback i've received, they'll they probably will. stuart: are you for desantis or trump? >> i am not for trump. we'll see who else enters the race and i will make a decision once i've seen all of our choices. stuart: okay, last one. no regrets about walking out the door. >> no regrets.

there'll be things that i'll miss and i've been involved in and there's certainly things i'll miss and sometimes you have to stand by what you believe in and that's what i did last monday. stuart: okay. i can call you your honor in the past tense i guess. frank hibbard, thank you for joining us this morning. thank you, simplet now this, cleanup underway after tornadoes devastate parts of mississippi. this is video you've got to see. watch this. >> i know we can rebuild, but what you do with the devastation and all this? stuart: it's just heart breaking. fox weather's robert ray has a report from the disaster zone ♪fter this

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stuart: 26 people are dead after

devastating tornadoes ripped through the south. robert ray is with me. how is the cleanup going, robert? reporter: yeah, stuart, good morning. it's just beginning. the sounds of chain saws, four wheelers and other vehicles removing debris like this. state court, take a look at -- stuart, take a look at this, this entire town goosander 2,000 people of rolling fork, mississippi, destroyed and all the scenes look like this, block after block, stuart. the power of ef4, 166 miles per hour or more. nearly 16 city blocks of new york wide as it came through here. looking at situations where i'm standing right now, this giant tree on a home. speaking to survivors. i just spoke to a gentleman that lives next door, darren mcgee, he survived and his house is destroyed and crawled out of

scenes like this on friday night not knowing how he got out of his house because of how shocking and traumatic the scene was. all of this just strewn everywhere right now. 25 people dead in mississippi, you see this mattress all taken apart. it is sitting on this tree and wood pierces homes and individuals and one person lost their life in alabama and again in mississippi and, stuart, fema is on the ground. they are trying to get people immediate funds in the short term. they are going from situation to situation and setting up tents. people are going to try and get help from them. the governor of mississippi tells us that they're in it for the long haul. it's not going to take, you know, weeks. it's not going to take months but this will take years to totally rebuild and this town

leveled and all taken away and rebuilt from the ground up. those people that surveillance ration of independenced and kids and elderly and not having anywhere to leave right now and start this week off and they have incredibly long road ahead. live on fox weather and they're going to help these people and move forward and get the community going. stuart. stuart: robert ray, thank you for joining us, robert. good stuff indeed. there's an operation called barbecue relief and its founder is stan hu h hays and he's joine now. are you setting umm for barbecue relief in towns like rolling forks. is that where you're operating? >> we're out of yazoo city right now and it's set up and taking meals over to rolling fork and up into silver city. we were on the ground saturday and provided about got us going

as our equipment was rolling in and going they got up up and going with cooking and this is lunch that you see on the screen, a pork loin sandwich and a hot side. stuart: may i ask who's paying for all this? >> this is our sponsors and the generosity of people across the country that want to help and give back to the community. anybody can donate by going to obr.org and they can also go there and register to volunteer and we're going to need people throughout the people week and the time ahead. it's over in the area as well to see on the other side of the state. stuart: you're a good man, stan, and you're doing fine stuff. we really admire you. keep it up. i'm sorry it's so short, but we wanted to get you on the show. you're on and doing great. stan hayes, everyone, barbecue

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on this bus fair, mr. varney. departing in august, the 56-day trip will span 22 countries taking families from turkey's largest city istanbul through the balkins and the uk capitol and journey of 7,500 miles and the fare includes daily breakfast along with 30 lunches and dinners and all hotel stays and two month bus tour may not appeal to everyone, but we're told the vehicle that can carry up to 30 passengers is described as a special luxury bus designed for comfortable long distance travel. we'll find out i guess. the trip being offered by indian expedition company called adventures overland and begins august 7 and arrives in london on october 1, good luck. stuart: all that time on the bus, okay. thanks, ash. a new report claims harry and meghan's eviction is just the

tip of the iceberg. neil sean, royal watcher is here. how else is king charles planning to slim down the monarchy? >> i love the boat tour. we should go, but yes, looks like pack up your bags and go. big movements and everybody is basically saying harry and meghan are evicted. they're not necessarily evicted but it's a waste of space and don't want to be here and they've made it vocal and you have other opportunities like what charles is trying to do, which is rather different to later monarch queen elizabeth is he's realigning the monarchy and realizes that people want to see cost coating and over the weekend it broke that perhaps even the queen's dedicated royal aid, angela kelly, may be asked to vacate graceson favor apartment in w windsor and peope are shocked but if you're no longer in the job, where else to you get to keep the apartment when you quit the job?

that's what one side is saying and the other side is saying what about loyalty, dedication, service. but charles is doing things his way and let me tell you, over here when it was announced regarding harry and meghan, lots of cheers to be honest because they feel obviously that this is part of the plan property and if they're not coming back and don't wish to be here, why should they have that permanent base and offer add small room at buckingham palace, no problem. stuart: have we heard anything more about whether harry and meghan will go over for the coronation? certainly about eight weeks away or something? >> exactly. yeah, harry's in town right now for the liable case against the associate newspapers and we were at the high court this morning and he popped up and didn't need to be here and he wanted to make a mark and close quarters when you're there and didn't seem too put off by all the clicking cameras and seemed near reigns e that the king won't have time to see harry. he's flown 6,000 miles to be

here today but can't make the six miles back to windsor or whatever he takes and seem as real mess. such a fame that doesn't happen on a serious note and the bottom line is harry is here. there's always open if he's back in town. stuart: neil sean, thank you very much indeed. >> always a pleasure. stuart: the monday trivia question is there: about how many items are in the met robin lou poll tin museum of art, 1 million, 1.5 million, 2 million, 2.5 million? don't look it up but the answer after this. then we partner with family owned mills from maine to mississippi to manufacture our cotton into quality american made fabrics that become . .

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and 100% us based customer support. starting at $20. consumer cellular. ♪. stuart: honestly i haven't got a clue about this one, how many items are in the metropolitan museum of art collection? i have no clue. are you going to guess, ash? >> i'm going to guess. i will go with the most, 2.5 million, number four. stuart: i will do the same, go with 2 1/2 million. 1 1/2 million. still a very large number. 1 1/2 million. thanks, ash. all good stuff. that's it for "varney & company." "coast to coast" starts now. neil: the good news on banks, well they're looking good today. the bad news on banks because of everything they went through it could be too little to late. to hear minneapolis fed president neel kashkari this increased the economy falling back. he actually used the wor