we have got a pretty good rally underway. we are about 30 minutes away from the opening bell. tune in on sunday morning, i will talk with 2024 presidential candidate robert f. kennedy jr. he will be joining me on "sunday morning futures" at 10 a.m. eastern. i also have part two of my interview with president trump. we will also take a look at economic issues, and this morning we are anticipating a major week next week. we've got technology earning, we've got economic data, the meeting of the federal reserve where we will get another rate hike. the tech earnings will likely set the tone for the morning. this morning, nasdaq up 104. todd piro, john lonski, thank you so much. i'll see you tonight on "wall street," 7 p.m. eastern. tu, take it away. stuart: good morning, maria. good morning, everyone. it's happened again. the president stumbles and slurs his words during a speech. early this week he did the same thing at a meeting with israel's president. concern over the president's

ability to do the job, that concern is not going away. hunter biden's story, that's not going away either. senator chuck grassley has fbi documents involving hunter and joe biden. there are text messages from an inform the minute claiming hunter's dad would fix any problems. to support the embattled president, the democrats have been reduced to shouting down biden's leading opponent, robert f. kennedy jr. he was testifying about censorship. he couldn't get a word in edgewise. all right, to the markets, the dow has gone up nine straight days, longest winning streak in years, looks like we're up again certainly at the opening bell. dow shows a gain of about 100, s&p 20, nasdaq up also 100. rebound from yesterday. bitcoin, we're now talking $29,800 # per coin. little change. okay, treasury yields, where are we in the 2-year, 4.83. the 10-year, # 3.84, 3.82, around about that level.

not that much change. a.i. to the white house today. the president meets with seven leading a.i. companies. they include microsoft and meta. a.i. czar kamala harris will not be there. the president will make remarks later, that will be around 1:30 ian today. on the show, senator manchin in a third party run. if the no labels campaign takes off, our guest says it's a disaster for democrats. reparations. there's an election coming, and democrats are pushing make good payments all across the country. it seems we're discussing how much to pay rather than whether to pay anything at all. and then there's this too, dr. scott bleier, for $120,000, he will change your body happy to look like barbie. i think i've got that right. what a show. friday, july the 21st, 2023. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪

♪ here's to another week gone, raise 'em up and sing along ♪ stuart: it's friday. from rascal flatts, the lead singer was doing the fox square with concert this friday morning. got rained out but he was there. let's get right at this, president biden stumbled and slurred his words during his speech in philadelphia yesterday. let's give you the videotape. watch this. roll it, please. >> inflation has slowed every single month in the last 12 -- on a yearly basis for the last 12 months. how many times you realize that recession's coming -- you read that recession's coming? wall street -- [inaudible] they don't see inflation coming down. it's the lowest point, lowest point in over two years. u.s. has the lowest inflation rate of any major economy in the world. stuart: that wasn't real strong. kim strassel is the editorial

writer for "the wall street journal," and she's got a new book, by the way, it's called "the biden malaise," and she joins me now. kim, biden's age problem, it's not going away. this is a real -- it's a democrat dilemma, isn't it? >> well, it's becoming a mounting problem for the white house because now what we're seeing is the frequency of this and the degree of it, and it's becoming imprinted on the american mind. you know, if you think about it, the white house can no longer claim that these are the results of biden as' problem with stuttering when he was young or that he's always been a gaffe machine. this is very different. this is both mental on display, physical issues on display, and that's why you're starting to see all those press stories even in the mainstream media questioning his ability to keep going. stuart: i want to move on to this, because i think this is really big news. fbi officials have testified that they knew the hunter biden laptop story was real. but on the same day, "the new

york post" shared their bombshell report, the fbi told twitter to censor the story. you've followed this since day one with. it seems to be breaking wide open right now. is that accurate? >> yes. you know, we learned some of this back when that judge, that federal judge issued that injunction against the biden administration from censoring anymore on social media companies. but what we now know for certain is that they had the laptop for a year. what was revealed now was that they knew it was accurate, that it was real. and they deliberately said nothing. when they were being asked not just by twitter, but other social media companies, what are we meant to do about this hunter biden story, they could have stopped all of this. by the way, they could have also made a statement that would have corrected the record president biden was claiming this was russian disinformation, those 51 intelligence officials who were suggesting this was russian disinformation. they let all of that stand the

instead of telling the american public the truth. stuart: you've got a new book, "the biden malaise." can you give me 30 seconds on what is the biden malaise in. >> it's showing the comparison between the biden and the carter years, and and a lot of them are really notable. inflation, obviously, foreign policy debacles. but it's making the case, stu, very important point, that that comparison is very unfair to jimmy carter. stuart: ah, yes. interesting theme. [laughter] kim, thank you very much for being with us. we always read your column every single time you put one out, and i hope to see you again real soon. kim strassel. >> thanks, stu. stuart: futures, please, that's a nice show of green. dow's up 90, nasdaq's up 107. of course, we were way down yesterday, especially the nasdaq. a little bit of a bounce today. seven executives from big tech companies will meet with the president today. they are going to discuss artificial intelligence. jackie deangelis joins us. in fact, she's going to stay for the entire hour. >> glad to be here.

well, this is a really interesting story. you've got kamala harris talking about a.i., right? and when she was talking about it, she made this whole sort of, it was a word salad where she said a.i., it's two words -- stuart: i do remember. >> and so you're just with sitting there and and saying, what has this woman done? she's taken on abortion as her champion issue, but she's certainly not making progress on anything else. she is not going to be a part of this. right now when it comes to the biden administration thinking about reelection, one of the things they have to think about is how she is perceived about the american public. it would be better to keep her on the sidelines for now. stuart: i'm told there is something about taking a robust technical mechanisms so we know what's real. >> right. stuart: they're trying to get into that? >> look, they have to unlock the pieces of this and figure out where we go in the future. this has a lot of potential, but it could hurt this country as well. stuart: good to see the top guys are getting together on it,

that's for sure. jackie, stay there, please. >> sure. stuart: a new poll says 47% of people would consider voting for a third party candidate in 2024. look who's here, joey jones. he's at a restaurant in dayton, ohio. great to have you on the show, joey. you've been talking to voters all morning. has anyone mentioned no labels or a third party run? >> you know, the main thing that was mentioned was anyone but biden, and that was in the context of would you support a third party candidate. the two themes that came up was anyone but biden and someone with honesty and integrity. nobody would really label the candidate, you know, some said vivek, ron desantis, donald trump were all folkses they like, but when it comes down to who they really want, it's anyone but biden and someone with integrity, and i think that's a pretty wide lane for a third party candidate. stuart: would the folkses in that restaurant lean towards trump, do you think? >> absolutely. there are trump t-shirts, trump hats, a lot of trump fans.

but i think the main takeaway is as much as they like president trump, they really feel like anyone could do better than president biden. stuart: i have to say something. i've got two points here, joey. first of all, happy birthday. and secondly, congratulations to the manager of the restaurant where you are now who got engaged on live fox television this morning. >> yes. [laughter] yeah, it was quite an amazing moment. it was really beautiful, and she was surprised, he was nervous. it was really neat to see the staff of the restaurant come and celebrate with them. you can tell they really take care of their staff here. this is the kind of community and the community establishment that we're fighting for in this country. and to see their life come together, it was really amazing. stuart: normally on this program we deal with a lot of outrage, politic, money and all that kind of stuff. what a real treat it is to deal with some happiness on a friday morning just to get us going. >> that's right. stuart: i love it. joe with by, you're all right. thank you very much, indeed, for being on the show, and happy

birthday. 19 again, what a guy. >> thank you, bro. [laughter] stuart: check futures, please. i like what i see, of course, we were way down yesterday especially on the nasdaq. but with we bounced back 1100 points -- 100 points this morning. and as for the dow, or you're up about 10 is 4 points -- 104 points, that's in the very, very early going. we'll see how we close out this friday afternoon. coming up, john kirby rushes to defend biden's mumbling during that meeting with president herzog. roll it. >> why is it so hard to understand what the president is trying to say there? >> i think he was very, very clear. he's been very clear publicly and privately with the israeli leaders about what we're trying to do here. stuart: did we see the same clip? i'm not so sure the president was that clear. more on the mumbling a bit later. democrats try to censor and remove rfk jr. from the hearing on censorship. democrats fighting kennedyss. florida congressman greg steube's reaction to that coming

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>> reporter: yeah. stuart, that is a lot of people's take after the hearing yesterday, and even democrats admit that they were trying to silence rfk jr. with. they did not want to hear what he had to say, and they didn't want him talking here on capitol hill. but democrats i talked to say that's not censorship. >> oh, that's not censorship. censorship would not be allowing someone to speak. he can speak. that doesn't give him necessarily the ability to have to do it in the halls. >> we were trying to make sure that he didn't cause more harm with his outrageous testimony. >> he can say whatever he wants and wherever he wants, but he doesn't get a right to testify before a committee of congress. >> i'm not going to respond to a loaded question like that. you've already decided your own answer. >> reporter: this hearing was focusing on the weaponization of the government to censor people for so-called covid misinformation, in many cases questioning or challenging what the narrative the government wanted to promote was.

it's not just government censorship though that kennedy is calling out. his organization, the children health defense, is suing a collective of news organizations and tech giants for working together to squash what they saw as fake news. kennedy claims that led to a media blackout of stories about to covid that dared to disagree or question covid vaccines and policies. the group being sued, the trusted news initiative, includes mainstream media groups like the ap, reuters, "the washington post" and tech giants like google, youtube, meta and twitter. >> my children are vaxxed. i'm fully compliant with the vaccine schedule myself except for covid. i, i took flu vaccines for 20 years straight. i have never been anti-vax. i have never if told any -- i have never told the public, avoid vaccination. >> reporter: we did reach out to the trusted news initiative, stuart, for comment on the lawsuit are. we have not heard back.

stuart? stuart: hillary, thanks very much, indeed. listen to house minority leader hakeem jeffries and how he characterizes rfk. roll it. >> the republican hearings that have unfolded over the last few days and throughout this entire congress are a malignant clown show. robert f. kennedy jr. is a living, breathing false-flag operation. his whole campaign is being run by right-wing political operatives who have one objective, try to take down president joe biden. stuart: this is great stuff, isn't it? congressman greg steube joins me now. sir, what's going on here? we've got democrats yelling at a kennedy? you've got to love it. >> yeah. i mean, you just can't script this in a hollywood theater. i mean, it's just amazing. and now he's a false flag operation for republicans when he's a democrat, comes from a

very esteemed democratic name in the history of our country. he's running for president against joe biden. what we showed at the hearing was three days into the biden administration the biden administration and white house was attempting to censor him on social media platforms because they didn't agree with him. and so what you've seen from from this whole thing yesterday with the way that the democrats have reacted to him is if you don't tow the progressive line, if you don't fall in line with joe biden and the progressive left, they're going to attack you whether you're a republican or a democrat. they don't care. stuart: congressman, senator grassley has fbi documents revealing a $10 million bribery scheme involving the bidens. isn't this really getting painfully close to the president now? >> well, you now have direct evidence and facts that support the fact that joe biden himself was paid money in a bribery scheme. it's not just hunter and then filtering it through and laundering it through 22

different llcs and disbursing it to the biden family. it's going directly to joe biden. i'm working on an impeachment resolution on all the things the republican majority has uncovered through our investigations. there's still more we're uncovering. the oversight committee's till going through the different llcs to see what financial records they have the tie it to the biden family members. but we now know that joe biden and and his family got over $20 million from china, ukraine, romania and and all these foreign entities, some of which while he was vice president and some actions that he took when he was president. stuart: do you think the public has a taste for impeachment after what we've seen in recent years? >> well, the democrats impeached president trump just for making a phone call to a foreign leader. the thing we have here is actual facts and evidence of bribery and corruption. the challenge is the mainstream media ya isn't talking about any of this. the whistleblowers, the mainstream media's not talking about it.

thankfully the, there's networks like fox business that's talking about these things because it's important the american people see the type of corruption the biden family has. i think we can pass an impeachment resolution pollutioe house, but you're not going to get the votes in the senate, and that's the challenge. stuart: what are you going to do in the immediate future about all this evidence that's coming out, especially if you can't get the media to report on it? what are you going to do? >> we're going to keep doing our investigations and show the american people through these different hearings that we're with having just the facts and evidence. i mean, yesterday going through the missouri v. biden opinion and laying out all the evidence that they have that the white house was directly involved in censoring american speech. and at some point it'll get out there, and the americans will start to understand just how deep the level of censoring was going on and that this white house was a attempting to take away their first amendment rights. so so republicans will continue to have these hearings, to do the investigations and show the

american people what exactly is going on. stuart: congressman greg steube, thank you very much for being with us. always appreciate it. thankses a lot. >> good to see you. stuart: congressman james comer says there is more to come in the hunter investigation. he wants criminal referrals? >> he does. there could possibly be 6-10 charges recommended to the justice department. that would be really significant. obviously, we've got this latest bombshell in the fbi file talking about the informant's comments that specifically refer to joe biden. it cost 5 to pay one biden and 5 to pay the other biden. he calls hunter biden stupid. he says the head of burisma has 17 recordings that include joe biden in them. so we really need to piece this apart and get to the bottom of it. the house is working on that now. 6-10 criminal referrals. stuart: i believe there's 17 tapes that you're talking about. >> yes. stuart: i think they're in ukraine. >> yes. so this is the ukrainian head of burisma conducting these

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8. but you just raised your target price from 400 to 550. mark mahaney, that was a bold move. finish. >> well, good morning, stu. your words are always very kind. let's see, on netflix, yeah, we started off tech earnings season yesterday with both tesla and netflix trading progressively. netflix probably had the highest expectation of any of the stocks i cover, you know, just so you can look at the stock price, the share -- the chart year to date. stock was up over 50%. expectations were high going into a print, and you have to ask yourself, did they just have a fundamentals correction or an expectations correction. you can buy the last arer, you can't buy the first on a stock that's had a big rise. i think it's more of an expectations correction. i think they're still going to have revenue growth acceleration in the back half of the year, margin expansion. they materially increase the level of cash flow that they think they'll generate, it and looks like paid sharing has

worked really well, the crack dowfnlt we think there's about 100 # million accounts globally, including some of my son, who use a host account and don't pay for it or don't -- netflix doesn't get directly paid for it. and that'll change. so i still like the business. it's not one of my top picks, and it's not one of my top picks, it hasn't been for a while because of this big rise in the stock. but if you pull a stock back like that and especially if we were to get below 400 #, probably would become one of my top picks again. i think you want to be long the asset and realize this is an expectations correction. stuart: uber, i believe it's still your top pick for large cap stocks. >> yeah. stuart: uber is up 4% this week. are you happy with the 4% gain this weak? where's it going? >> i don't know about any one week, i try to be long term about it. yeah, we made it our top pick, it supplanted meta for us us. when stocks gap up, they usually come down on our list. that's what happened with netflix and ask meta.

this is why i like uber. you've got three value catalysts coming up. i think they're going the finally reach gap earnings profitability, i think they're going to attack that and sustain that -- awe attain that and sustain it. third, they're actually going to meet all the criteria by tend of this year to be added to the s&p 500. i think they'll be a great candidate the next 12-18 months. stuart: you're such a good man. i bought the stock last week on your recommendation. mark mahaney, i think you're great, and iment expect to see you back real soon. mark, thank you, sir. >> have a great weekend. stuart: you got it. you too. here we go, we're five seconds away from the opening of the market on a friday morning. always a special day. we're expecting a modest day certainly for the dow at the opening day. he presses the button, that's the nasdaq, by the way, and we're off and and running. the dow is up 100 points. when we've opened, we'll show you the dow 30 stocks. let's get that going. are there you go. they're not open yet, but they will be very, very soon. all right, move on -- there you

go. the vast majority are in the green, that means they're up. modest rally in the very early going. s&p 500, where's that this morning? a couple of seconds here, ask and we're up about one-third of 1%, just a bit more than that. the nasdaq composite, i'm expecting a gain there after yesterday's big selloff. modest gain so far, up .60%. now, i really want to see big tech, because the technology companies, the big ones, they've been taking it on the chin this week. but looked at this, a modest rebound. modest at best, actually. alphabet is up almost 1%. apple, 199 4. amazon, 130 #. meta, 303. microsoft, let's see if we've got that, 347 there, up a small amount after a big drop yesterday. then we have american express. they reported this morning. they saw record spending. so, jackie, why are they down? >> well, they missed on their revenue, and that was a problem because there are different segments to this business, obviously. the good news coming out of it was9 that the consumer was strong, but you can read that

two ways also and and say the consumer 's using a lot of plastic and racking up debt, is that really good for people's individual budgets. and the company as a whole, because some people may default on that debt. we are sort of a nation of, oh, i borrowed that, but i don't want to pay it back. there are two aspects. stuart: that's right. [laughter] i borrowed it, so why should i -- >> you wrote me. stuart: let's go to microsoft and activision. is the ftc still trying to block the merger? >> so lena khan is pausing here, and this is an about face for her. obviously, she was moving forward saying i don't want to see a merger. the courts temporarily said let it move forward, and and now she seems to be dropping the case which is interesting, you know? a lot of people say, yes, you want to see competition in the marketplace, but this isn't necessarily a merger that bars competition, this is just the ftc and lena khan trying to, basically, do a power grab. stuart: she basically walked away. >> right. stuart: okay, got it. blackstone. i own a very small sliver of

blackstone, done well in it. the stock is down a little bit this morning. did they get a downgrade? >> so jpmorgan down graded to neutral from overweight, but still price target 111, so there is some room there as you can see. the concern really here from j or p morgan on blackstone is about their real estate income trust and what's going to happen with commercial real estate in the city here, something we've been talking about. it seems like things might be getting better, but i think we're at this halfway point in the year where no one really knows where we're going to go. so people are cautious. stuart: by the way, $106 a share, blackstone still yields 3.78%. >> that's amazing. stuart: which which ain't ain't bad. >> right. stuart: what's this about amc? >> this is a great story. stuart: they used to charge people more for good seats. have they stopped that? >> well, it's amazing to me that they would even think about doing that. yes, they are stopping because post-pandemic everyone's watching things at home. some movie buffs still want to

go to the theater, but they want to pay premium for a seat that might be empty anyway if they just showed up? they were talking about discounts of a dollar or two if you were going to sit in the neck-craning seats in the front. honestly, stu, i don't know about you, i just want to watch it at home and not deal with people. stuart: yeah, i know what you mean. [laughter] i'm reluctant to go out in crowds. csx. now, they are a railroad operator, and they are down 4.5%. >> yeah. so csx missed its revenue expectations also when it reported earn eking. this is sort of one of those cautionary trails where you look at the transporters and say if things are moving around less, are we -- to our previous conversation -- ready or going to see some sort of a slowdown. this is what that people are kind of looking at. but you can see the stock that -- has taken a hit today. stuart: they've never appeared on our show on a regular basis. they're a giant railroad, hardly ever see them on the show. tell me about pfizer's plant

in north carolina. i know it was badly damaged by a hurricane, but does that affect drug supplies? >> the problem is we don't have a lot of clarity on that right now. we don't these any reasons in this country to have supply chain shortages of the drugs and supplies that we do have. we know the bulk of this stuff is coming from china and they could pull the plug anytime. this is the kind of thing that's definitely concerning. we're going to have to monitor this one and see where it goes for pfizer. stuart: so far no the reaction on the stock whatsoever. jackie, thanks a lot. show me the big board, please. we're almost five minutes into the session. where are we going? we're up about 60 to points, 35,280, that's the level of the dow industrials. by the way, we've had nine straight days of wins for the dow. >> amazing. stuart: if it closes like this, it'll be ten straight wins. that's pretty good. >> yeah. stuart: longest streak this years. intel. i missed my chance. [laughter] i was going to buy intel. it's so depressed.

it's a chipmaker. it's got all these great projects. it yields quite a lot in interest with, dividend. i didn't buy it -- >> well, i think you probably still have time. look, some analysts are saying tech will continue to rally into the second half of the year and hold this market up despite economic slowdowns and other worry, right? there's two sort of disconnected stories here. >> chevron, cisco, salesforce and apple is up this morning, 194 on apple. okay. s&p 500 winners, am i going to buy anything on this list? i don't know. no, because i don't know any of them. [laughter] let's go to the nasdaq composite. i'm more likely to get in there. here we go. lucid, airbnb, texas instruments. no, sorry, i don't see buying candidates there at all. elsewhere on the markets what do we have in the 10-year treasury yield, that was, early this morning was going down, till down, 3.81. the price of gold still holding $2,000 an ounce, just, 2,004.

bitcoin holding at 29,8. oil holding at $76.25. nat gas, not much change. down a bit this morning. and the average price for a gallon of regular just creeping up, it's now $3.58. that's up another 2 cents from yesterday. california, $4.88 is your average for regular. biden claims his clean energy agenda will bring more jobs. we will definitely check out that claim. and it is barbie release day, making this song a hit once again. play that song. ♪ i'm a barbie girl in the barbie world ♪ stuart: okay, enough. [laughter] we don't have to play it all the way through. here's what i'm going to tell you. one plastic surgeon is creating his own barbie world, offering patients a way to turn into a real life version of barbie. it's not cheap. but the doctor is here.

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stuart: check those market, please, you'll like what you see. we're not quite as up there as we were when the market opened, but the dow's still the up 80, nasdaq's up 70 points. take a look at mattel, a mice gain today. well, not that much, .4%. please remember the barbie movie opens in theaters today. speaking of the movie, jackie, how do -- [laughter] hold tight. how do barbie fans respond when asked how barbie affected their childhood? >> barbie's got you tongue-tied. one in two women compare the way they look to a barbie doll.

they're still doing that. 5 if -- 53% of gen-z they say think barbie represents the real body type. 699% say -- 69% say it leads to unrealistic body images. but many of these women who responded to the survey also said that their sentiment around barbie was very nostalgic, because it reminded them of when they were younger. and and also barbie is changing. you've got career barbie, all different kinds of barbies. they've filled out a little bit, so i feel like barbie is trying to mold itself to the present day. stuart: how nicely put -- [laughter] >> how am i boeing to put it? stuart: we need somebody here, we need a plastic surgeon. i think we can all agree on that. we've got one, by the way. he says he can turn anyone into a real life barbie for $120,000, and the doctor is here. his name is scott bleier, joining us in new york city. okay. for $120,000, you say you can

turn people into a barbie hook a like kind of thing or a barbie shape? >> it's pretty much the whole barbie experience head to toe. you get your nails, your hair, you get picked up to the surgery in a pink corvette e, and whatever you may need, body surgery, face surgery, we will get you close -- and there are a lot of barbies, as you guys point out. stuart: how many people have shelled out $120,000? >> believe it or not, a lot of interest all around the world. stuart: how many people have paid? >> we have three people so far and one ken yesterday with. it's a little bit less. >> why is it less? >> less -- stuart: what would it take to make me into a ken? facial surgery or anything else? >> you've got the silver fox thing going, which works, but if you did want to do the ken, or i'd to to do the six-pack

etching -- stuart: you can actually do that? the. >> oh, yeah, certainly can. stuart: you can do this and -- >> yeah. and you can inject it into the muscle, and that gives the appearance of a stronger, bigger chest, arms, quads. and and we can put it in the jaw line, the cheeks, the chin. >> i mean, he's got the jaw line and the chin. >> you're correct. [laughter] stuart: you're a marketing genius. >> oh, i appreciate it. stuart: to come up with this when the barbie movie was released, that was genius. >> we've been making barbies for years. stuart: you've been making barbies for year years? >> of course. stuart: that's a line, that's a good one. what surgeries would be involved in the female barbie makeover? >> so it's tailored to whatever they need and what they look like. you get to choose two body surgeries -- three body surgeries and two face surgeries. for many of these women, it's lipo where we put the fat in their butt.

stuart: what? >> sure. a brazilian butt lift. stuart: a brazilian or malibu butt lift by putting extra fat into one's rear edge. >> that was a very eloquent way to put it. [laughter] stuart: what about your insurance? >> will insurance pay for this? >> no. stuart: insurance is not going to pay to make me look like ken. >> no, i don't think so. stuart: what's your insurance coverage? >> oh, your guarantee? stuart: no, mistakes. >> oh, malpractice. >> yeah. we all have malpractice insurance. stuart: astronomical payments? >> not terrible. it's fair. stuart: i've got to sum it up, but you've got three paying customers and one ken makeover -- >> just booked him yesterday. stuart: just booked him yesterday. and your name again is dr. scott bleier. >> better known as doctor be fixing. stuart: and you're on long eye hand. >> yes. stuart: i wonder if this show will generate any extra business? >> i sure hope so.

stuart: thank you very much for coming in. >> thanks for having me. stuart: we appreciate it. politicians -- this is a segway -- >> yeah. stuart: politicians are getting into the barben hmeimer trend. loaded question, jackie. >> you would think maybe that's how it's shaking out, but they're being more diplomatic than that. i'll read you a couple of tweets. kyrsten sinema is saying she was going to do both. a lot of people want to see both of these femmes and think they're great. chris van hollen saying we can both be barbies. cortez masto, i'm a barbenheimer are, and john fetterman was asked if he would go to see barbie, and he said, if you say so. so i guess he's going, i don't know. stuart: it's an extraordinary amount of must be dismy for a movie. they much spent a fortune.

i wonder if the box office will come through. >> we'll see. a lot of potential money to be made here, especially if it taps into the nostalgia of older baby boom generations. proof will be in the numbers. stuart: i was astonished that three people have paid $120,000 and one person has paid $100,000 to become a ken or a barbie. great coverage. thank you very much, jackie. coming up, it's not too late to be on the show. you can send in your comments on barbie and oppenheimer if you'd really like. e-mail your comments to varneyviewersfox.com. back to school's upon us, and no youngster's backpack will be complete without crayola. lauren simonetti, our own lauren, went inside the factty to give us a look at -- factory to give us a look at how the colorful magic happens. great story for friday. lauren has the report next. ♪ ♪

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stuart: crayola crayons have been a classroom staple for more than a hundred years. the factory e produces about 3 billion of these things every

year. look who's with us now, lauren simonetti. she got an inside look at the factory, she's in pennsylvania. okay, lauren, show us how they're made. >> i just want to point out that this big box was my favorite as a kid because it had the little pencil sharpener in the back, the crayon sharpener that i thought was the greatest. i have to start out with two-thirds of the materials for every crayola product sold everywhere are sourced right here in the usa. that's a huge deal especially when you're at ground zero. this is the pennsylvania plant. it makes 13 million crayons a day, stuart. that is a lot of coloring by a lot of boys and girls. this is the iconic product. the pack of 24, it is in every classroom desk in every kid's backpack. [laughter] this is actually the top selling item in all of retail minus food. the top selling item. so they haven't changed it.

why touch it if it's not broken, except it was maybe 2017 they decided to make a change, and they took dandelion out and added this one, they added blutiful. this is the factory where all this happens and all the ideas come from. you can see you have man is and machine working together to produce 3 billion crayons a year. so you ask what about artificial intelligence. okay, they're thinking about i. they might use it in some of the sensors and maybe some of the customer preferences, what color might sell better in what region. 186 different colors to choose from. if these are the misfits. these crayons over here. i think you're a blue guy, stuart. i'm not sure. so these are the ones that some of them don't have a wrapper, few they don't have a tip. they just, they put them separately, and enthen they melt them all over again, and they don't really get rid of think of the waste. it's pretty impressive. what truck me about coming

here -- struck me about coming here knowing that every crayon is made right here where where i'm standing that it seems very organized and almost very quaint. but i guess that's what it means to be made in america, right? these people make decent salaries, some of them are making more than you'd ever imagine, and it's, it's a happy atmosphere. stuart: lauren, when you were a youngster and you were using crayola crayons, did you ever chew on one and your mom came along and said, don't do that? >> this is what i did. i broke 'em. and my mom would yell at me. i can break with these because these are the misfits. or i would take the wrappers off so you'd get one like this. but now because of sustainability, the kids actually melt the crayons and kind of make artwork out of them. that's a whole other trend. were you a crayon eater, stuart?

stuart: i'm afraid i was, yes. worse, i used to i chew on the end of a lead pencil which was probably extremely bad for me. but i'm still around. [laughter] stuart: is blue your color? bring some back for me, see you on monday. >> there's four shades of blue -- stuart: get 'em all. >> get 'em all. done. done. stuart: thank you, lauren. see you again soon, i do hope. come back monday. see ya. anything to add, jackie? >> yeah. i see that story and i'm thinking to myself, good for you, crayola crayons, for not manufacturing in china. i'm sure they could have done it for less there, but they chose to stay in the united states. i so wish other companies would bring that manufacturing home. it would strengthen our economy to a degree that just would change everything. stuart: we're watching you on "the big money show," 1 p.m. >> i'll see you there. stuart: 1:00, jackie will be there. still ahead, rob o'neill, the man who shot bin laden.

kennedy, what does she think of $120,000 barbie makeover? sean duffy on the democrats in disarray and and utah congressman burgess owens. he does not like reparations. the 10:00 hour is next. ♪ morning. ♪ ..

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