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be talking about. >> i always thought inflation was going to tick its head up again and we're starting to see that. the producer level kind of forewarned you what's going to happen three or four weeks down the line when it goes from the producer into the consumer's hand. >> inflation is here to stay and really has more to do with we cannot get spending under corral. i don't know if weave hit that tipping point but we're close. >> all that government spending stoked inflation and how can you add more kerosene to the fire and say the fire is going to go down. people understand what's happening. ♪ stuart: good morning, everyone. it is 11:00 on the east coast of these here united states. it is friday, august 11. on the markets, very much a mixed picture. dow is up 90, nasdaq down 66. there's a feeling of kind of

summer dull drum about the market today. show me big tech, most are down this morning except for apple, which is struggling. it's up a mere 32-cents. all the rest are down. the yield on the 10-year treasury coming in now at 4.21%. little change. now this. this, on november 4, 1979, iran took 66 americans hostage. they were held for 444 days. the iranians figured out how to exploit hostage taking and helped ruin the presidency of jimmy carter and they're still at it. news this week five americans held in iran is part of an exchange. price for getting them out: $6 billion. they know how to exploit hostage taking. this time it's for money, which they'll no doubt use to attack americans. this deal establishes a market price for hostage takers.

shall we say a billion each, please? that's dangerous. every thug want as piece of that action. it's not just because of the pandemic in the past and jay ginning threatened to -- beijing threatened to take hostages. north korea was always a dangerous place and the u.s. soldier that voluntarily ran cross the d mz i can't help but think things would be different if donald trump was president. like him or not, he was a tough guy. foreign dictators didn't know what he'd do if they challenged him. who could forget the precision strike that killed general soleimani, iran's terror chief. biden shows weakness. nothing that a dictator liking more than to humiliate a american president. third hour of varney starts right now.

stuart: arelatively constant low with us this morning. does -- david arelatively constant low with us this morning. does -- avello with us this morning. does biden make us look weak? >> most take that americans are for and screw up the implementation and started with afghan tan and the most re--- afghanistan and now it's that . this could be a prelude to biden and his team's desire to get a nuclear deal done with iran. for four years during the trump administration, we united the middle east against an aggressive iran and now with $6 billion, they get to cause instability in the middle east, which for the last few years had not been the case. welcome to the biden doctrine.

stuart: yeah. we're paying ransom and they'll use the ransom money to attack america and also israel. very probably. i'm sure israel is -- hate to say a loser in this prisoner -- this swap. they are. they lose ground here. most of the middle east lose ground here; right? >> absolutely. the entire middle east now becomes more unstable cause iran now has $6 billion to do what they want to bring instability thanks to the u.s.. as you know next month is appropriations in the u.s. congress. if our focus isn't completely on putting more money in the defense department and hopefully more money in the state department, we are missing the boat. i mean, stuart, if joe biden's economic policies weren't enough to thousand him out of office, certainly his foreign policy is enough to throw him out of office.

stuart: turn to domestic politics and cnn confronting the administration -- or biden campaign, about trump's rising poll numbers. watch this. >> he has been indicted now three times, probably a fourth at the end of next week. polls show that he's tied with your candidate, with the president. that's got to be a warning sign. well, again, we'll stay focused on ensuring that we're commute indicating what this president has delivered for the american people. stuart: david, that really wasn't a very forceful response. that was kind of flat. you're a political strategist s. do you think biden will be forced to pivot and ditch the basement strategy? >> well, he's trying not to ditch it and hence why he's out on the bidenomics tour telling folks what his economic policies are and the challenge for him while they're acknowledging that the economy is going to be a big concern of voters next year and they're on the wrong side of it, they're going to ultimately try

to argue for policies that aren't working. and/or at least policies that most persons would be opposed to if they got to make the decisions on it. it's an upside down. just as we were just talking a minuting a about his foreign policy ideas are upside down. remember, it was former cia director and defense secretary robert gates that said every time joe biden had to make a foreign policy decision, he made the wrong one and this was before he was president of the united states. stuart: let's not forget that. david avella, thank you for being with us. have a great weekend and see you soon. >> you too. stuart: back to the markets and it's a mixed picture. dow is up and nasdaq down 80 and s&p down 7 and the gentlemen on the right hand side is jonathan hoenig. i read your stuff, you're worried about rising interest rates. tell me more. >> yeah, stuart, look, stocks get the focus and we cover them extensively here and interest

rates are the most important number in the economy. they affect everything and keep in mind it was that rise in interest rates last year that precipitated the fall in tech stocks but a fall in markets writ large and interest rates rising again and even better leading indicator are utility stocks and sensitive interest rates and a lot at 52-week lows and pnm and he as well. i'm concerned about the nasdaq and i'm concerned about interest rates and i don't think inflation is gone just yet. makes me course on stocks given the fact that rates are rising. stuart: are we on the verge of credit crunch? we've been warning about a debt no, ma'am that's going to ex-ploid and saying for years and years and years and that credit crunch is now much closer than it was? >> well, look, stuart, the national debt is up by about a third in -- third in five about five years and every day average americans and credit card debt at all time high and hardship

withdrawals from ho 1ks up 36% and irony is -- administration never wanted to admit a recession everyone going to debt and borrowing from the retirement and americans are hurting. stuart: every week an exotic investment. what do you have for us today? >> check out rise, r-i-s-e. this goes up when interest rates go up. it's exotic and consult with a financial adviser and read the fine print. there's not a lot of instruments that go up when interest rates go up and keep many mind, interest rates go up, your bond investments get annihilated and rise could be one opportunity to make money even if rates go up. stuart: okay. we'll look at it. jonathan hoenig, have a great weekend, young man, and see you again soon. >> thank you. stuart: now, we're looking at movers and marathon oil is moving up and you're going to tell us why. lauren: oil is up today. we got very optimistic demand forecast for two groups and opec

plus and global inventories could fall sharply and marathon up 2%. stuart: i want to know about videos. what's dan ives saying? lauren: he still thinking when we flip the board that nvidia going to $4 490 a share, he's a bull. he says the ai cycle isn't a hype and spending on ai will hit $800 billion in the next decade. $800 billion. stuart: he's still a bull? lauren: yeah, but morning star is saying the opportunistic schism they're not saying bubble but there's overconfidence in the market right now. which one is it? nvidia stock down about 2% today. stuart: yes, it was straight up. came back down to low 400s. down a bit more today and he thinks going to 490? lauren: 490 and right now it's at 411. yeah so it's down by almost 3%

today. stuart: what do we have on vf corporation? lauren: the chair of the board sold shares of $19 each and sign of stock up 4%. stuart: thank you, lauren. now this, it'll take trillions of dollars for the airlines to clean up their carbon footprint. guess who's going to be stuck footing the bill? yes, of course, you, the passengers. we'll tell you all about it. a congressional candidate was dropping out of his race due to a lack of joy. hours later he walked it back. we've got his excuse. the mayor of new york has a warning about the migrant crisis. roll it. >> we have created a funnel. all the bordering states have now took the funnel right to new york city. if you decimate this city, you're going to decimate the foundation of what's happening. stuart: new york needs help from the feds but how much are they actually going to give? grady trimble breaks down the numbers next.

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this crisis actually costing us overall? reporter: stu, new york mayor eric adams says his city alone will face a $12 billion bill to cover the cost of these surge of migrants in the big apple. that $4 billions in additional funding that the president is asking for pails in comparison to what one city, new york, needs. it's also a fraction of what the president is asking from congress for aid in ukraine. this week, yes, the president was asked about the united states role in helping myograns, specificsly those pleaing extreme weather. here's what he said. >> look, i think the united states should do everything it can to help people who are in desperate need and have no other means available. we've always done that. it's who we are. we're the united states opportunistic america. reporter: republicans blame the biden administration border

policies, but some say the federal government already has enough money. >> flat configuration my view, we should be able to find these goals he has for fighting the war in ukraine, the border improvements, and fema for disasters out of existing money we've negotiated with between president biden and speaker mccarthy. reporter: other sanctuary cities like chicago and los angeles are overwhelmed too and they've declared a state of miranda emergencybecause the shelters ae struggling to keep up with the surge. stu stuart: thank you, grady. new york's mayor asked the feds for money. now he's getting ready to ask the state government for more money. he says the city is at risk of being decimated. watch this.

>> we've created a funnel. all the bordering states have now took the funnel right to new york city. new york city is the economic engine of this entire state and country. if you decimate this city, you're going to decimate the foundation of what's happening. look at chicago, los angeles, houston, and now you're hearing governor ovmassachusetts. stuart: robert ortt new york state senate minority leader and he's joining me now. sir, will the republicans in new york stay approve money for the migrants in new york city? >> thank you for having me, stuart. no. the republican conference in the senate and i hope any colleagues in the assembly and across the state, we just voted on a budget, a $229 billion state budget that included a billion dollars specifically for new york city to deal with the crisis. it is a crisis that's a result of the failure of democrat open border policies and sanctuary

city policies. new york cities sanctuary city, they don't work with federal law enforcement as far as ice and customs and immigration officials. this is what being a sanctuary city looks like. this is what open boarders policies looks like. they're demanding millions more and the mayors and others can ship them all over new york state and that's happening including the western new york where i represent where a migrant was just charged with a rape of a woman in front of her 3-year-old child. that's the crisis. stuart: that is indeed a crisis. but look, okay, are you going to try and stop the migrants from funneling out to up state new york. >> they have issued policies of issued resolutions and trying to stop the mayor or stop the companies that was busing the

migrants to the communities and some communities like erie county where the allegation of rape occurred, they've welcomed these folks, their county executive welcomed them. again, this is usually following counties, cities, elected officials and joe biden all the way down. who said we want to help these folks and bring them here but they don't have the money or resources to do it. you're seeing the chaos that's ensuing. stuart: what do you say to this: they're here. they're not going back. they are going to stay so why not let them work. >> forfolks that want to work, that's one thing and we're finding these folks aren't working and many aren't working and not being forced to work. they're not being made to work. they're not even being helped to work. they're being the policy of the state of new york has been let's find them a hotel room and find them a place to sleep and that's been the end of the help that we

are offering these migrants, and i would argue that if you care about the migrants, these policies should concern you as well because how are these folks being helped? they're being bussed all over new york state and sleeping on the streets and they're sleeping in shelters that new yorkers wouldn't even want to spend time in. and they're not being provided a opportunity to realize the american dream. i don't think that's beneficial to the migrants and it's certainly not beneficial to new yorkers or americans. stuart: do you want to make a forecast of where things are going? look down the road a year or whatever. because the flow is not stopping. the flow actually continues. what's new york or the city or state. >> this is what we on the republican side have called on the mayor of the new york city and governor, if you want more money and we have to stem the

flow and to your point, stuart, if we don't, even if we spent $12 billion, $100 billion, if they keep coming, it's never going to be enough. you're going to overrun the city and again, it's 23409 gob that be fen official for the folks coming here. some of whom are trying to find a better life. nor is it beneficial for new yorkers or americans who are here paying these taxes and footing the bill. that is a real concern that i have and you have and i know your viewers in people across the country have. stuart: thank you for being here today. a democrat in california canceled his campaign because of what he called a lack of joy. he's walking it back. what's his excuse? lauren: he said it was all a big mistake. his name is adita pie and running to unseat congresswoman michelle steele and his campaign sent an e-mail telling his sporters he was dropping out of the race because "if i were fortunate enough to be elected,

i'm certain i would be unhappy in congress". pretty strong words. eight hours later they sent a second e-mail saying the first one was a mistake by a staffer that no longer worked for the campaign. bottom line is he's still in the race. he admits he did write the original note as kind of an mri for the soul, some emotional processing. it was never meant to get sent out. now that you know how he really feels, why don't you vote for him? stuart: somebody press reply all. don't ever do that. thanks, lauren. check the markets, please. have a look, where are we now? we are up for the dow, 35 points and nasdaq down 45 points. driverless taxis got a major win in san francisco. lauren: they got the green light to operate in san francisco with zero restrictions and that means way mo and cruise cars can pick up passengers anywhere in the

city at any time of day with no human safety drivers. this was very heated. remember the orange cone protest, random people going up in the city and putting orange cars on the hood of autonomous vehicles and because it'd mess up the radar and couldn't turn it on at all without a human being coming to fix it. so many were upset and think it's scary to have this on the streets of san francisco. they had six hours of public comment, and it was approved in a 3-1 vote. i wonder if you'll be asked for a tip? stuart: good question. lauren: getting into an autonomous vehicle with a human driver, the phone will ask you to tip probably. stuart: taking a big step forward in san francisco of all places. lauren: if anyone does it, glad it's san francisco. stuart: as long as it's not new york. next case, middle age people are skipping church saying they're too busy. maybe the pandemic has something to do with that . we'll get into it with jonathan morris and this too, at least 55

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♪ stuart: i thought that pink paradise put up a parking lot, i thought it was joanie pitch el. counting crows has done a remake. national airport and 81 degrees and we thought we'd take to tennessee. next, costing you serious money and costing airlines serious money to cut back on carbon emissions and costing us serious money too. lauren: yeah, cost to savuation industry is 5 trillion if they want to reach their goal of being car gone neutral by 2050 and comes from mckenzie. they say all the investments needed to go green will likely wipe out global airline revenue for a if he can dade. wipe it out.

revenue for almost a decade. all those added costs trickle down to you. higher prices and if you thought those post covid price hikes were temporary, they're not. in the transition thanksgiving the uncomfortable truth and unspoken truth with so many policies that everyone wants to be -- to do things great for the environment but at what cost? stuart: at what cost to you? big bucks, got it, thanks, lauren. this is useful. stories on movers and is to bees that are moving today and there are some. general motors. lauren: gm down and ford down too. yesterday each stock fell around 5% as well and this is the fear that this looming uaw strike adding $80 billion for gm, ford, sensorineural leeanne tis. stuart: yellow bankrupt and they're trying to extend for negotiations on the bankruptcy loan till next week and ex-employering two additional

options with better financing terms and stock down. stuart: deadly wild fires on maui and 55 people have died and thousands of people, 100 of people are missing and thousands have been evacuated and max gordon is on maui. reporter: heart break on the island and i'm standing 13 miles away on the town of lahaina and a roadblock where officials are stopping anyone that's not a resident from coming in and they're barring people from going to some areas and it's a very active situation back in the fire zone. there's fires all over maui and in all, fire fighter haves not contained a single one of them. the weather has been cooperating and things are starting to get a little bit better.

the most destruct and i have fire on mow wee's west side and ripped through the community fed by dry conditions and fierce winds caused by hurricane dora passing hundreds of miles off the coast and according to hey's governor and fire destroyed more than a thousand buildings in lahaina and banon tree and peaceful island paradise take a listen to thornhill tore one resident. >> people lost everything, homes, jobs, their cars, their pets there's people missing. reporter: there's a lot of hurt on the island and making things more difficult. communication is extremely difficult, cell towers, phone lines all got burnt up in the blaze. officials are trying to establish hot spots and a lot of people have mott been able to make contact with their friends

and loved ones and they fear the worst. back to you. stuart: max, good stuff. thank you indeed. a tragic story indeed. amanda, did you yourself have a narrow escape? >> i did. we saw, we smelled the fire, saw the fire, my brother and i were packing. my boyfriend was outside watching and had given us the okay to keep going and was okay, let's go, let's go. we've been in the house maybe seven minutes and about that time we left and went down lahaina luna road and it was just chaos and got stuck in the traffic multiple times and had to hop over into on coming traffic and there was no traffic and i had to just go around. people were sitting ducks and just waiting and i've had, you

know, certain life experiences that i understand that. stuart: all right. wow. frightening, absolutely frightening. i understand that. what's the situation now? is there power? can you communicate? >> so, lahaina does not have power or cell .s they are cut off from the rest of the world. we're trying to bet supplies and friends doing runs and driving around the backside and from what i know, they're not allowing anyone into lahaina and myself and the group of friends i'm with, we have power and we're safe and have access to everything we need and have all the family so lahaina is not doing great right now. stuart: will you return to lahaina and rebuild? >> i do have intentions of going there and making sure my friends are okay and helping with cleanup and now i don't know what part of the island i'll live on yet but, yeah, i have intentions of going back.

it's my home. stuart: i want to say thank you for coming on the program this morning and telling our viewers what it was like. we feel for you. we wish you the very best for the future. thanks for joining us. aman darks thank you. all right. i'm going to really change the subject now. prince harry revealed the place he could live happily and it's not america. what he said. arch bishop warns the catholic church is under attack and how should they respond? they broke out church going habit if you want to put it like that. i'll sea if our resident theologian jonathan morris agrees with me. he's next.

stuart: prince harry has revealed the country in which he would be happy to live. i know it's not america so where is it? lauren: maybe he's fed up with california or california is fed up with him. it's japan. listen to what he told a crowd in tokyo. >> every single element of the japanese culture is really unique and very, very special. i noticed it my first visit four yearsing a when i came for the rugby world cup and i would happily live here if you'd have me. lauren: he particularly likes the cuisine, kobe beef. he said that on a solo trip to japan. no meghan. she stayed behind and went to a taylor swift concert instead. stuart: the arch bishop of san francisco says the catholic church is under attack and he tells fox "we have to realize that we're being explicitly

attacked. when i was young, that didn't happen and sacred symbols being dis-crated and we're being -- desecrated and we're being explicitly insulted and that's the new reality we're trying to adjust to". resident theologian jonathan morris joining me now. what should the response be? turn the other cheek? >> i couldn't agree with the arch bishop. he's been aal worth defender of the faith and even under great attack and san francisco is not flown to be very helpful to conservative causes including religion. what he's saying, it's interesting and he says we need to educate and not easy right now but we need to educate our people of what it means to stand up for the faith. the good news i would say is just as culture has changed so radically and we've seen a drop off of church attendance by 20% in just under 20 years, that is a massive cultural shift but

just because -- just as we've seen a change going downward, i believe it can change on the upswing. social media has the power of transmitting new rales and new ideas and destroying old values and we can use it and other things to have the pendulum swing. i believe that there will be a rebirth in spirituality and religion in the not too distant future. stuart: what's happened? look at this, wall sprite your honor said middle-aged americans aren't going back toture and have pandemic broke the friend of going regularly and they're too busy they say. they broke the habit but it's not coming back. why not? >> it was interesting and especially in the catholic church and say you've got an obligation to attend church and then all of a sudden for a year and a half, it was like, well, it's dangerous. no longer obligatory. shut the doors that happened too quickly and for too long.

people said, we can take a year and a half off. why not take this week off as well. i have to make decisions like that as a family person with children and it's not easy to go to church on a sunday. stuart: true. >> when you have an excuse or change habit, just like going to the gym and stop going for a few months, it's harder to get back than if you're going every single day or every single week. stuart: think folks will come back? >> i do. maybe in a different form, but i think culture can shift and people and the deepest core of who we are we're seeking meaning and purpose. we're seeking animals to life's existential questions and that will not change with culture. stuart: i believe the term congratulations are in order. your wife gave birth to another baby. a boy. >> she did. congratulations to my wife that did all the hard work on this. stuart: caitlyn, if you're watching, congratulations. >> i think she is. you have a picture! stuart: of course. >> how did you get that? stuart: this is television.

we get pictures. this is my first born son andrew. it's andrew gram and this is timothy william. stuart: timothy william. hold on, there's a story about timothy william's birth. tell us. >> oh, we almost -- my wife almost gave birth on the highway with me driving. there was a massive pileup on the west side highway and had to go about 150 blocks. thank god to the nypd. we got off the highway and i pulled up to them and said, sir, my wife is going into labor, you've got to help us. they were amazing. they went flying up opposite traffic and got us there and parked my car for me, we went through the emergency room and this little guy was born very heartily after. stuart: what a great story. thanks to the nypd. broke out of traffic and went straight over to the cop car. >> i believe it was prove den issue and there was a police car coming up to us.

we pulled right up, rolled down the window, sir, my wife is in labor and about to have a baby. come follow us. boom. stuart: really? just like that. >> just like that. stuart: the lights were flashing and went the wrong way down the one way street? >> 100 blocks up broadway against traffic. stuart: wow. >> of course some people tried to jump in between us. welcome to new york city. that's the other part of the story. but we had some sharp words with them and kept going. stuart: congratulations, jonathan, to you and your wife, caitlyn. best of luck to you. >> thank you. >> thank you, sir. sir. stuart: it's that time showing you the dow 30. giving you a sense of the market. my sense of the market is that it's a mixed picture. half up, half down for the dow 30 and dow is up a mere 60 points. don't go anywhere, sports fans. friday feedback is next. ♪

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♪ stuart: the national. that's my generation. that's back in the 60s and very early 19 60s. lauren: that's my scene. stuart: almost euphoric and lovely stuff. sports fans, 91 degrees right now and here is friday feedback. are you ready for this? l am i ready? what are the questions? stuart: mr. varney, your frugality is legend. inuring minds want to know do you clip coupons? no, i don't. i can't be bothered quite frankly and you'd save a little but i don't do it. lauren: going to buy it online, do you type in coupon code for that retailer? stuart: i don't shop online. others do it for me. lauren: i type in coupon codes but don't clip them. stuart: doyle, what did stuart's parents think of world travels

at relatively young age? i had wonderful parents. when i was 16, i had 30 shillings in my pocket about $10 i suppose and i set off to hitchhike as far as i could. how far could i go on 30 shillings. i went through wales and said i was aplite kansa cadet and got a ferry to the island and huge circle of the ireland and northern ireland and told the same story in northern ireland and said i was a police kansas city chiefs debted on a fishing program and let me go free to scscotland and hitchhiked back o where i lived and knocked on my parent's door for after two weeks. they were mad. lauren: he went that far on $10 by lying. stuart: this is from andy, new jersey is now the only state in the union you cannot pump your own gas?

would you object to pumping your own gas to save a few cent s? joe, i would i ick lie this -- i like having my gas pumped. lauren: agree completely. i grew up by new jersey and new york and if ever we went home, having gone through new jersey, we got a full tank of gas, we got in trouble. it was cheaper and you didn't have to pump it yourself. stuart: russ, come on, stuart, don't knock cruising till you've tried it. we cruise a lot and can still watch "varney & co." almost every day. i'm very pleased to hear that, sir. i did once go on a cruise. what bothers me is the idea of being locked up on a floating tin can with a couple of thousand people that know me and i don't know them. what do you say? lauren: fair enough. stuart: okay. lauren: i want to be back on monday. stuart: you're wonderful. stuart: kr, i was never so happy to see a usa team lose. good riddance, megan. wait a minute, i'm never happy to see a american team lose.

i agree with you about megan ragaini pea know. her action in -- rapinoe, her action in wpm's sports has been debt remittal. lauren: i don't agree with her politics but the way she does things. she has a right to do it. you know, they occupy, they're heros to many people, and they decide to use that platform for another reason. stuart: you want to come back on monday morning? intensely annoying and very bad for soccer. this is from andrew, does stuart or anyone else on the show have a pet and if so, are they rescues? i do have a pet. it's a purebred collie dog at my farm. she's not a rescue and next probably should be. lauren: i have three. stuart: if you've got a pet, they're telling you can we have

a dog. can we have a dog? would you get a rescue? lauren: we're hands down -- i haven't even considered it because we're not getting a pet. if i get a rescue, i'd get them a dog they wanted if i was going to get them a dog. stuart: diplomatic response. lurks it's not discussed like a hard no. they can have a fish. stuart: a fish. a goldfish. thanks, everyone, who sent in their friday feed back. really good stuff and we always appreciate it. thanks for taking the time. now it's time for friday trivia question and this is a crazy one. how large was the first computer? 6,000 queer feet, 10,000, 14,000, 18,000 square feet? i know it was big . lauren: i didn't know. stuart: that's a building for heaven's sake. the answer after this ♪

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i think it was the whole building. lauren: you're right. stuart: 18,000 square feet, that's gigantic. it was created at the university of pennsylvania, unveiled to the public on february 14th, 1946,. lauren: happy valentine's day. stuart: yesterday dave portnoy was here. he loves taylor swift. watch this. i've got to ask you about taylor swift. >> love her. stuart: yeah. you're really a big fan. why can do you like taylor swift so much? okay, brilliant artist. anything else in. >> she's always been kind of true to herself concern do toothout the interview is has received 2.4 million views on tiktok. whether it was taylor swift or dave, i don't know which it was. lauren: maybe you. stuart: great show today. "coast to coast" starts now. ashley: coming up on "cavuto coast to coast," a fresh read on inflation data as we see wholesale prices rising more than expected in july.