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it's heart breaking as is department of justice to see the doj and fbi having been so politicized and weaponnized. voters need to hold people accountable. >> house intelligence committee pursued this and made public this was a russia hoax. people know concludively adam schiff knew the answer and tended to elect the american republican and subset of migrants that will go to work and get in the system and work and they're not paying taxes. >> if you're putting people in free hotel rooms, of course they're going to come to new york. nasdaq up 116 points and

close to 1% and 42 up for the dow and 22 up for the s&p. show me big tech. doing well this morning i think. yes indeed it is. amazon up $2 and alphabet and apple $1.74 and meta up just 15-cents but i'm sure meta shareholders will take it. 10-year treasury yield going up and look at that, you're at 3.64% right now. now this. vote by in the 21st censure reigns leading has nothing to do with -- century has nothing to do to vote a certain way and that's something to do with yesterday and it's the basic policy and they identify a group of people that need something

and then promise to use taxpayer money to take care of it. the politicians get the vote and the politician gets elected and taxpayer forks over the money. that's it. take reparations for slavery. representative cori bush demands $14 trillion. california recommends $360,000 per black person. the principal of whether any republican -- principle of whether any should be pay is no longer discussed and just should be paid. in california, last october 18 million residents received checks between 200 and $1,050 depending on income and it was a gas rebate. the money arrived in october right before gavin newsom was reelected governor in november.

what about the trillions sent outside as stimulus checks and it bought a fauvettes and the $400 billion student debt forgiveness program, that's one of the most expensive vote buying operations on the table. that is democrat politics today. how many votes can be -- can we buy with somebody else's money and dam the don defenses? dam the consequences? third hour of varney starts right now. ♪ stuart: all right, good morning to pete hegseth joining us this thursdayment good morning, pete. >> morning, stuart. stuart: good morning to you, sir. the democrats vote buying policy, does it work? >> that's why they do it. they do it because it works. they don't have anything else to

offer. here's the thing. the promise is what's important to them. the virtue signaling is what's important and most obvious of which was the student loan debt forgiveness to young people they knew in the back of their mind it's unconstitutional and knew it was something that was not going pass muster and same with reparations. $14 trillion. the idea that california will take the lead on it, which was never a slave holding state. how do you determine who pay it is and who doesn't? how they qualify. that doesn't matter, it's smoke and mirrors and stand in front of a podium and say free money is coming your way. illegals, free money, free cell phones, free hotel rooms. vote in the future and then they leverage that, stuart, by watering down am of the voting requirements and then it ends up being republicans are trying to turn out voters. and the left turns out ballots. and ballots are -- if you focus on low propensity voters time

and time again, get a ballot from unenthusiastic voter if they're told certain things will be coming their way, it's all tied to keeping power, stuart. you're right and they'll come up with even more digital schemes. stuart: fbi whistle blowers testified on capitol hill about the weaponization of our government. watch this. >> it's up to members of this committee, currenter and former fbi employees to ensure that the weaponization of our own government against the people comes to an end no matter the personal cost. >> shutdown differing viewpoints is any analytical or investigative body and chilling effect across the work force. stuart: the whistle blowers are saying they retaliate against people like them. okay, pete, if we weaponnized our government, how do we unweaponnize it or fix it? >> you need really strong unafraid political leadership at the top. i actually -- not to get partisan about it, but i think testimony like this strengthens

the candidacy of donald trump. somebody that was the chief target of the politicization and shown the courage and backbone to go right into the middle of it. he was a political novice in 2016. in 2024 he would not b. going into the brock seizure disorders for roots and depoliticize it and god bless the whistle blowers. they're the men and women we talk about all the time. great men and women in the fbi are being smothered by people obsessed with january 6 and wanting to turn everyone into violent domestics extremist and say that's the biggest problem we face. it'll take leadership. stuart: yes, indeed. there's a new special on fox nation called lost victory and take as deep dive into the vietnam war. i have a clip. roll it, please. >> for every aircraft that's viable off this airport. get out there and take out all

the tools and nothing we can use for the operation. >> shortly after the helicopters took off, he says the sky lit up. >> then we income and got out of here and we all broke off and first rockets with boarders were hit. stuart: pete, the lost victory implies that the u.s. won in vietnam? >> we didn't luis a single fight on the bat the field but this is about the ted offensive in 1968, which was a military and tactical victory for us and our ally in vietnam and strategies teen and i can political defeat and turned the tide in the view of the war domestically. god bless the vietnam vets talking about their story and sharing what they went through and see things you've never seen and really pilot toll moment in

the -- pivotal moment in the war and catch us and others off guard and we recovered every city and base and walter con cite and others here decide the wharves turning in the other direction and it was a political victory in the viet congress in this moment. stuart: thank you, pete. we abyline. thank you. silent victory, fox nation. check the markets, please, gary kalpbaum is with us. gary, you're concerned about the accumulation of $50 trillion worth of debt. that's your concern; right? >> longer term than numbers are staggers, stuart. one thing we're not hearing a lot about. the biden proposal $6 trillion in spending and in 2019 the year before covid it was only 4.4 trillion. that's a 50% increase in the

size of government pretty quickly and i'd like to know where that fun is coming from. the poor and down trot and gargantuan and i don't know where to start on this but they're taken over in ways unimaginable years ago stuart: are you sticking with big tech? i remember last time you were on big tech had hope for you on the markets. >> stu, two weeks ago i said to you, i love the action in big tech that's all we've been buying, we've been putting some good points on the score board and it's really getting going now and this week the semiconductors joined in and they're up 7% this week. a name like netflix is up and i love the action. anybody thinking we're going back into bear market and dropping the lows and they're not looking at the markets and i'lled a one more thing, i think there's a chance that the worst of the financial crash and the

financial stocks could be over also and if that's the case, that's not an anchor on the market anymore. i'med aing -- i'm only -- i'm adding and upset that i have cash leftover and all the big names and now the middle size names are starting to get going and it looks to be going up. stuart: gary kaltbaum, see you again. thank you, indeed. lauren: they have news, ad supported tier launched with 5 million active users and it's a new tier and new market for netflix and disney has thousands

more paying ad supported subscribers on the tier and advertisers are looking at this saying you have the content and overall subscriber base and now there's a new way to get to customers and subscribers that we haven't been able to get to before in the median age of that ad supported tier is 34, which is pretty good. that's the average for the advertiser. stuart: mark mahaney suggesting you buy netflix for weeks now. lauren: grand theft auto hinting at huge sales growth next year and the sixth edition might be coming out. they didn't announce that but there's speculation that grand theft auto 6 will come out soon. stuart: we earlier showed micron on the upside and that's the government of japan is doing it. lauren: building high-tech chips in japan at the hiroshima

facility there and good way for japan to get into the middle of u.s. and china. stuart: most popular newspaper in chicago calling out the new mayor and said his office is pushing deeply radical executive orders after just days on the job. british telecom firm bt costing 55,000 jobs and slimming down their human work force and investing in ai. we'll see what former labor secretary elaine chow thinks of our jobs and ai. thousands of illegal migrants crossed the boarder and happening daily. latest on the border situation in arizona right after this. ♪

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including this morning. take a look at this video arriving at about 8:00 a.m. and 38 migrants on board with a mixture of men, women and children. the mayor's office tells us between 40 and 50% of hotels that can and will house migrants are full and they're running out of options. here's the mayor. >> we've reached out to our hotels. many of them are saying we don't want to get into the shelter business and many have hie too high of price points for taxpayers to pay. >> stuart, this is after the city removed migrants from a school gymnasium yum and didn't rule it out again if numbers continue to spike, and that's exactly what's expected to happen. listen here . >> by july of august, we'll have close to i would say 100,000 people here. we're drowning, the city is drowning and this can't go on

for much longer, absolutely not. reporter: stuart, the city expects between 12 special 13 as coming up. stuart: joining me is the supervisor for yuma county in arizona, jonathan. would you describe for me the situation yuma county right now. >> i'm standing on 11 road at 12 and seven eighths in the county and approximately 4-600 people cross here every day. the administration claims that the numbers were down and this represents a tenfold to 20 fold greater number than we saw under the last administration. we've been as high as 1600 per day in the last two weeks where our averages before, the week

before that were about 300 so our numbers continue to fluctuate. border patrol tells us we'll continue to see the numbers but there are people in mexico who are waiting to cross or trying to figure out who to do so they don't get expel and some people are being expelled but every day from yuma, we ship out 10 to 14 buses to different places around the country including washington dc. stuart: have you ever thought of sending some of them to california, which is after all a sanctuary state and san francisco and los angeles are sanctuary cities. why don't you bus them out there. they asked for them? >> they actually have done that in the past. the asylum seekers over there filled up their ngos and they've dealt with the majorities of the russian and ukrainians coming across and we've shipped them to border patrol sectors in

colexico and el central because of the sheer numbers and the amount that are in custody, nobody can receive any additional people. we have to decompress first stuart: are you getting any federal money to take care of these folk s? >> so far, our hospital remains with a $26 mi26 million+ outstag bill and they're not being reimbursed and one ngo work withs fema and had last claim of 300,000 denied by fema. senators kelly and sinema and our federal delegation from yuma are working on that to make her whole, but she's been the one who has received these people from border patrol custody and shipped them out to different places primarily phoenix and tucson and we have 700-800,000

known giveups across this border in the last 18 months. stuart: how close are you to collapse? >> unfortunately -- well, fortunately we're not going to collapse. everybody has come together, the cities, the county and the ngos to decompress and move people out of yuma. the challenge is how much longer can border patrol and local law enforcement sustain such a massive influx. we heard new york complain, that's affecting us here as well. stuart: thank you very much for joining us, simplet important subject and we appreciate you being here, thank you very much indeed, sir. jonathan lyons. tell me about new york city mayor eric adams, rikers island is a prison and youred an option for migrants? ashley: desperate times and measures and they toured the infamous jail last week to really assess whether asylum seekers could be sheltered there as a last ditch option.

adams' office has not confirmed the report only that all options are being considered, probably rikers. the city has been housing close to 41,000 migrants and about 150 emergency sites mostly hotels that are being set up across the five boroughs and efforts to bus those migrants up state, we know they've been met with resistance and restraining orders and another 4200 migrants arrived in new york city last week and another 15 buses scheduled for this weekend. think of rikers island, it's not the greatest place in the world, let's be honest but all options are being considered. stu. stuart: yes, they are. chicago's new progressive mayor started on the job and already under fire. what's he done now, ash? ashley: brandon johnson faces accusations of being a radical and a puppet for local unions and an op ed from the board and the most prom nathanial hackette newspaper claims johnson was --

prominent newspaper claims johnson was celebrating his inaugural speech and his office was churning out a batch of deeply radical executive orders that signaled trouble ahead for anyone worried about tax increases or concerned with the fiscal stability of america's third largest city. it goes on by the way to he was hand picked by the chicago teacher'sdownon and creating a new deputy mayor for labor relations calling it a gift wrapped present for the chicago's teachers union while creating a potential disaster for the fiscal stability of chicago. the op ed was not flattering. stuart: the president says he'll not accept work requirements for federal welfare programs and left no room for nerve nucleus goriers with republicans and why

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drawing in more subscribers for them but for me, i think and would love to hear your opinion, disney is rallying on this journal report that they're working on plans to stream espn directly to customers in the next few years and instead of bundling up in the cable packages with the worst core in history to start the year. it's code named flag ship and remember, what does this say about the end of era in cable and the fact they get the most dollars for any cable company and channel in the cable packages and get about $10 per subscriber ands average channel gets 50-cents. disney and esp n said we're ready to cut the cord early, what does that say about transition? stuart: to me sounds like a smart move. susan: really? stuart: sounds like it and don't know the industry that well but wouldn't that make sense? susan: if you look at latest numbers still 75 million across the country. lowest penetration rate since

1992, which is two years before direct tv started and if disney and espn goes early and say we're done with cable, we're moving directly to streaming, that would be huge industry shakeup and disruption. stuart: you realize we're on cable television as we speak. susan: you can watch this content on different screens in the future. stuart: this is very true. ai chip race. susan: i've been telling you about this and mark zuckerberg made my point that if you own the super computers, chips and foundations and you have a better chance to win the ai future so zuck up loading this on instagram. this is a photo of what's going into the new ai supercomputer at meta. 16,000 nvidia chips will be used and called the research super cluster, which will train meta's chatgpt competitor and as i mentioned to you, nvidia kurt king of ai monopoly calls it the doubling at 2023 but as i said speaking of conned tebrese tent

and i've been excited about this and biggest tech giant realizing their own chips and infrastructures and building out their chips and apple making their own chips and whoever has the chips with the foundations has an advantage in the ai future. stuart: that's a great report on tech and -- i'm sorry, the streamers and ai. susan: oh, wow. stuart: looking pretty good i'd say. susan: what coffee have you been drinking? stuart: tea. susan: it's not tech stocks but the opposite of tech stocks and i have to say one of the best lines you ever threw at me throughout the years on this program is when you told me instead of body wash, use a bar of soup and that was very old school and bath and body works sell as lot of them and they've sold more since they hit record

low and down to $1 for the stock and penny stock with 26-cents right now and after a surprise departure and ceo said guided after the infamous i did parturiof adam newman. stuart: young people use a bar of soup and old folks don't. susan: best slide ever on the five year program. stuart: president biden pushing back on work requirements for federal aid. watch this. jay voted for work requirementss that exist and possible there could be a few others but nothing with consequences. stuart: we need a former labor secretary on this and we've got one. elaine chow joining us on this. madame secretary, why is the president against asking able-bodied people to work just 20 hours to get welfare

payments. what's wrong with that? >> well, i think that's a very good question because studies after studies have shown that when social welfare programs are accompanied by work requirement, their recipient gets back into the work force sooner and gets -- also at a better rate and better job. what we're seeing is that the longer a person stays out of the work force, the harder it will be for that person to go back into the work force and work is good for whole host of reasons and for addressing of course monetary benefits but also psychic benefits as well. they kind of give us purpose, get us into the office and get us into a routine on a daily basis and they help people become happier so there's a lot of psychological impacts about the positive benefits of work and what's been talked about are aable-bodied people who are not, who don't have any dependents

and not that they have to take care of children that they would be neglecting their children, quite the contrary and they're basically asking for 80 months out of the, 80 hours out of every month, which is basically half the month. this will be something very good and when -- stuart: this is america. we're not some neo-socialist state in america and we should work for the money. the chief executive at open ai sam altman sounding about artificial intelligence on our jobs. watch this briefly. roll it. >> there'll be an impact on jobs and we try to be clear and it'll require stuart: he wants the government to step in. do you think the government should step in and regulate ai to protect jobs? >> maybe at some point, but i don't think we know enough at this pointment right now there'y

wildly spread that this is going to be an incredibly impactful development on the work force. goldman sax did a study that said 300 million jobs could potentially be impacted and that productivity increase could increase by about 1.6% and gdp growth will be impacted by increase of 7% and we're talking about major major demographic shifts on the work force and for the first time white collar workers impacted and we told people the way to stay relevant is part of the work force and it's if you learn to understand information technology and now we have a new technology ai that basically impacts information workers. and that has tremendous

implications for our economy. stuart: it's not all negative. there's lots of positives here. >> yes, lots of positives but the transition will be difficult. i think the massive scale in which this potentially can impact the work force will be of such significance that the government is going to have to take a look at it. but what it should do is the issue requiring deep thinking and right now we don't understand this enough to know what to do. stuart: no, we don't. that's true. elaine chow, thank you for joining us and being here. appreciate it. i'm going to really change the subject a lot now. adult dancers in los angeles about to form the only strippers union in the country and we have a list of their demands. 7/eleven -- one 7/eleven in philadelphia is losing 30,000 a month from crime and theft, stolen merchandise, shrinkage. is the city doing about?

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stuart: crime crisis here. better take a look at it. left hand side of the screen. masked men stealing designer handbags at a mall in new jersey. ashley, how many bags did they take and how much were they worth? ashley: 25 and $125,000. that makes them very expensive indeed. snatched off the wall as employees coward in a back room. it happened just before 11:00 a.m. in the middle of the day when four men wearing dark clothes and masks stormed into the dior store at the mall at short hills in new jersey. store worker by the way managed to call 911 but by the time the

police arrived, the raid was long gone and over. you grab and run. they could be seen running away before they jumped into a black suv and taking with them 25 stolen purses valued at $125,000, that's an average of $5,000 per bag. wow. police by the way still looking for the designer bandits. but that's pretty bold and brash, and they've not found them yet. stu. stuart: why am i not surprised. thanks very much, ash. a moment ago we told you about a 7/eleven in philadelphia, which is losing $30,000 a month to crime and theft. jeff flock has the story. what do you have for us, jeff? reporter: i've got the man that's losing the $30,000 a month. he's vincent emmanuel and he's been in business at 7/eleven for 43 years? >> since 1981 i've been a franchise here. reporter: it is out of control now. >> well, somehow with this

[inaudible] and covid scenario, this whole thing has become a totally out of control situation here. reporter: you have one franchise, one store. >> one store it. is all i have. reporter: this isn't wal-mart and can't figure it as a cost of doing business. it comes out of your pocket if someone steals. >> absolutely. i have a family and go to work every day and need to feed my family it. is all i have. reporter: 131 theft incidents reported in philadelphia this year only 63% of them prosecuted. are we not doing enough to prosecute people that are guilt? >> somehow all of a sudden there's a different culture about it. we feel it's okay. you're taking from somebody who have it. the realities that i get up and go to work just like you and everybody else. all i'm trying to do is try to make a living out here and the whole culture has change that had you have t i'm gone that take it. that's somehow brazenly become like that . reporter: there was a wawa store in downtown philadelphia and skids came in and raised heck

and stole stuff and knock it had over and people are being forced out of business. >> the numbers of 7/elevens in philadelphia has gone almost in half from what it was before. we're at 1.65 stores and looking at probably 35 -- 30-35 stores and wawa is dropping too and most of the time. reporter: are you scared? >> of course. every day that you're out here you're scared because these days you call 911, they don't answer the phones and sometimes they're too busy and cops are engaged with other stuff and stuff like that. because of that, it's like a life and death situation in philadelphia omitterring these stores. reporter: -- operating these stores. reporter: vincent emmanuel, came here 40+ years ago for the american dream. three daughters and two of them are doctors. he's still in business here in philadelphia. stuart: yep.

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in a statement wall greens said it "disputes liability and certainly did nod admit fault but settled the case allows it to focus on patients, customers and communities". $230 million to the city of san francisco. stu. stuart: a lot of money. all right, ash, now this. dancers at a los angeles strip club will soon form the only strippers union in the country. they want safer workplace conditions, better pay, health insurance. the dancers will join the actors equity labor union and recognizes 51,000 members in the entertainment industry. look at this, it's a homeless camp and it has taken over the front of a small business in los angeles. the owner is george frim and he's now suing the county. he joins 34 now. george, welcome to the program. what do you want out of this lawsuit? do you want the people to be moved or want money?

>> good morning. well, it took too much work for us to get to where we are in the lawsuit and we care about lives that we're seeing suffering every single day on the streets and we see the city and county are not doing enough. especially i would say the county because they're not addressing mental health and they're not addressing people that are overdosing and people selling drugs. stuart: okay, george. i hear you, but i want to know what you want. do you want these people to move from the front of your building or do you want money? compensation? which is it? what are you asking for? >> >> you know, the city is using my location for putting showers, blocking our business. i'm losing money on a daily basis. i would ask you, stu, do you

think it is fair of me to take care of a problem that's been 120 years in this city and then go bankrupt at the end of the day or should they pay me my damages? what do you think? stuart: it's not me. what do you want? are you asking for damages? >> of course we are asking for damages because we lost money, we lost ten years of our life and they put us in danger and they knew these people are dangerous and they knew these people are criminals and know these people are selling drugs and knew these people are stopping the business. they knew all of it. they came in and used our property. stuart: you filed the lawsuit, what's the response? >> well, we filed the lawsuit in early 2020 and basically we reach an agreement with the city and supposedly the city supposed to remove 60% of homeless that are not needing medical help and 40% are supposed to be the

county's responsibility and they need more than just a place to stay and eat. stuart: have they started to move people yet? >> they claim they d. their numbers are a little bit awkward and they have a problem with counting. they honestly don't know how many people they have on the streets and they have so much and they're so mis-organized and a little bit of mismanagement or misuse of funds so -- stuart: will you consider leaving los angeles if they don't fix this problem? >> i moved from lebanon here because i was fed up with failed policies and i changed my language, i changed my type of business. i changed everything in my life to start from zero to move here and then i started this business in 2011 and in 2014 i started having the homeless problem. i complained, should i run away again and go to a different

state and then what about if i have to run again. i mean, i cannot keep on moving from country to country or state to state. stuart: you're staying? staying and fighting? >> i think i should as an american, i should not be terrorized somewhere something like that. stuart: okay. george, i'm sorry, i have to go. we appreciate your difficult position. keep in touch with us. i want to know what happens. thank you so muchs sir. >> thank you. stuart: 11:55, thursday trivia question and a very, very good one. in which state is the world's shortest river? i guess it depends how you define river. iowa, montana, washington, west virginia? which is it? ♪ - what? - especially when it comes to your finances. - are you a certified financial planner™? - i'm a cfp® professional. - cfp® professionals are committed to acting in your best interest. that's why it's gotta be a cfp®. if your child has diabetes, you'll love how easy dexcom g7 is. it's on. and, he's off.

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everyone's financial goals forward. pnc bank. stuart: which state is the world's shortest river? those are the four states to choose from. ashley, what have you got? >> the only one i live h lived in montana. it is beautiful, quirky enough, go with 2, montana. stuart: go with west virginia. you got it right. montana, the river is 201 feet long. crazy stuff. "friday feedback," send in your questions varneyviewers.com. time's up for me. "coast to coast" starts now. neil: there is something going on the debt ceiling, enough that both sides are expressing optimism. that could be a good sign or a bad sign. welcome, e