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>> i'm skeptical as to whether any of these will take place before the election. it would almost make the election the real trial and the american people the real jurors. >> i think this is a messy sprawling case. i think the georgia prosecutor obviously has it in for donald trump. i think she has a lot of work cut out for her. >> joe biden himself said, you know, we probably shouldn't have call it had the inflation reduction act because it's not reducing inflation. thanks, joe. welcome to the party. >> if you want nvidia, buy before the earnings. it's a long term hold. lauren: sugarland. all i want to do. stuart: sugarland. okay. lauren: reading from the top left hand corner of the screen.

>> cheater. stuart: it's 11:00 on the east castoffs america and it's wednesday, august 16. to the markets. first off, the dow industrials now up 130 points. minor loss for the nasdaq and minor gain for the s&p and dow doing okay. big tech, mixed picture and at the top of the list, microsoft and apple both up. alphabet, amazon, meta all down. yield on 10 year treasury not been doing much today. it's down a fraction at 4.20%. now this, the president took his bidenomics road show to wisconsin. that's a key electoral state and it's the site for the first republican debate one week from today. the event marked the one year anniversary of the inflation reduction act and it did not get off to a good start. roll it. >> joe biden, y'all. >> uh oh. well, i'm a little underhelmed, aren't you all?

i think i messed up. stuart: after that, the president made dubious claims, he used signature whispering tone to claim inflation is done and going lower. has he seen gas and diesel prices recently? interest rates are moving up again, 7% mortgages and that's got the housing market stalled. youngsters kept out. the average age of a home buyer these days is 36. the highest in years. to deal with inflation, consumers now dipping into things on credit cards and racked up a trillion worth of credit card debt. hardship withdraws from 401(k)s rising rapidly and in short, one year of inflation reduction has not done much for middle america. for the future, first understand that the inflation reduction act is really a climate spending bill. biden's trying to convince us that spending hundreds of billions of dollars on transitions to green energy will cut price.

i want the president to deliver his speech and unconvincing performance and i just can't see this president holding down that job for another six years. third hour of varney starts right now. martha mccallen joining us on the set. is -- martha maccallum is joining us onset. is anyone buying the bidenomics? >> you can make that argument over the last couple of numbers that's finally starting to happen and for so long, that was not the case and inflation was way out pacing wages, but we see steadily things are more expensive for people across the map. they don't feel like this is over. they don't feel like bidenomics has kicked in.

40% approval numbers in that range. 38, 39, 40 for the president on the economy. this is going to be a big test for him in the presidential race. stuart: it's a shock every time you go to the grocery store. i'm sorry, it just .s every time you go, it ads up and ads up and adds up and it's so different from a couple of monthsing a. >> it is. stuart: at this particular time move on to the fox news power rankings and something we come out with occasionally and there you have it. the front runner by a long way is trump dominating as front runner and desantis and tim scott a close second. that's where we stand a week before the debate. how is it shaping up? >> really well. we'll have a very lively discussion and all though president trump is obviously in the lead and he's beating everybody by 30 some points, there'll be a competition ultimately between him and one or two other people so whether he's on the stage or not, he

will obviously be present in the state because he's the front runner and these individuals will be asked what they think about the way that president trump is running the campaign, about the troubles he faces and where they see their lane and where they see themselves beating him. is it better to take the chris christie route and go harshly against the president and make that argument or better to present yourself as someone that can fill his shoes and keep going, which desantis was the person that was trying to take that route. he has struggled with it. you see desantis and tim scott in that contender lane right now. that could change dramatically next wednesday night depending on what happens. stuart: i can't see donald trump sitting on the sidelines watching some place at home on television and not wanting to get into that debate. i can't see that. >> i think it would be best for him to be there in the middle of that stage. i think he's the front runner but he's, you know, he's the

leading candidate and he's going to have people coming at him. especially everything go going on right now and the amount of time on the lawsuits across the country, it's probably a opportunity that he doesn't want to miss. he'll be in front of millions of people and have a great opportunity in the heat of all of what's going on to stand up for himself and tell everybody what he thinks. stuart: how long does the debate last? >> two hours. about 100 minutes of speaking time. stuart: get in there and the first five minutes he wanted to be in. >> absolutely. i think he's likely to criticize those that told him not to be in there when he starts watching all the action take place. he's a good debater and it's been a strong forum for him. obviously would be very lively. stuart: martha, thanks for being with us today. we'll be watching you this afternoon 3:00 p.m. eastern on the story on fox news. back to the markets, tepper with

us for the entire hour. i want to talk retailers. home depot, tj maxx, target, wal-mart, tomorrow hawaii are these reports all telling you? bring them all together. >> don't count the consumer out just yet; right? obviously most of this data is pointing towards a very strong consumer and you think you have the consumer on the ropes then all of a sudden he does his best rocky balboa impression and throws hay makers and retail sales x autos up 1% yesterday. the consumer is certainly pivoting and the consumer is much more frugal and price conscious today than ragaini yearing a. tj maxx, another beaten race quarter and you have people kind of going for that treasure hunt experience, value shopping, things like that . when you look at home depots, home depots numbers yesterday, one of the things they mention is that consumers are focusing more on smaller projects than

the bigger more expensive projects so much more price conscious consumer right now. stuart: consumers want to spend but racked up enormous trillion credit card debt and rating it. >> then you throw in in october the student loan payments come back online and the average monthly payment is $380 a month. i read a study saying two-thirds of pce growth over the last few years is attributable to the student loan payment moratorium. a lot of consumer spending is because of that. stuart: i didn't realize that was such a big deal. >> yeah, we'll see how things pan out in the fourth quarter. stuart: do men shop in tj maxx? lauren: or home goods? >> i do not. i do not. i actually don't -- that's what amazon is for. i want that on my doorstep. i don't want to go into a store. stuart: don't they have a seat

next to the door so guys can sit while everybody else goes shopping? i'm speculating. lauren: i want to call todd out for making that comment, but i do go to all the stores and i don't see chairs that men can sit in. it's not a department store. it's not a mall. stuart: i need the chairs. moving on, you're looking at movers and what's with progressives? lauren: peopleups are up in july, big time. 21% from last year and progressive wrote nearly $6 billion worth of premiums and the stock is seeing its largest percent increase of almost 9% since march of 2020. stuart: sounds good to me. what do we have on lift? stuart: the new york city mayor eric adams and taxi and limousine commission proposed ride share emissions in the city are zero emission, emission freebie the year 2030 and lyft is down 3.33%. stuart: solar edge. lauren: bank of america is on the sidelines and -- they're solar panels and cut them to neutral and price target from 320 all the way down to 181 and

that's more than you're at now. nonetheless so bank of america checked in with a lot of installers and distributers and they said sales were soft. stuart: any interest in lyft or uber? i ask because i bought uber some timing a. >> we own uber and they're a bit more diversified and uber eats and stuff like that. yeah, if it came down to the two, i'd go with uber. lauren: uber is barely down on this report because it's diversified. >> black car criteria must be very loose nowadays. i've gotten into black cars with mcdonalds french fries in the backseat. got to raise your standards, uber. come on. stuart: jab at uber. thanks. now this, i've been saying it all week, taylor swift is bigger than the beatles? did i say that? no, i contested that. lauren: i think you said that. stuart: i'll see if kennedy agree withs that premise. she should know, she used to be an mtv star and kennedy will join us later.

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stuart: chris christie pulling ahead -- of ron desantis. what's going on here? >> these pools move around and it's a two person race and the internal polling shows vast majority of current trump supporters, 80+% second choice is desantis. either trump loses support or he's not. if he does, it's all going to desantis for the most part. that's why this is headed. stuart: are you pinning your hopes on new hampshire and iowa that trump loses badly there and your guy comes up? >> well, he has a great shot of winning both. i think he wins iowa certainly, which will change the outcome and new hampshire but, no, he's got the resources and the gandler game and infrastructure to take this deep into super tuesday and then after super

tuesday. another reason why this is a two-person race. he's the only one that has those resources available to do that. stuart: you've seen the latest fox news power rankings, trump dominates is clearly the front runner and desantis and tim scott are behind. but they are way behind. how did that happen to desantis? how did he lose so much ground? >> people are desantis or trump. he's had indictmented over the past six months and trump people are trying to decide between the two have knee jerked over to trump because they're upset and they should be upset about what's happening. i think that's the way to explain that is those indictments have certainly in the short term helped trump. stuart: you have a new op ed and you're saying the republicans won't start winning till they stop wining. you want to explain that to us, hall. who is wining? >> a lot of people.

there's a lot of talking heads going on and a lot of complaining about what's happening to trump. i get it. people republican set, but complaining about it nonstop over the next 14 months is not going to win the election. i mean, what's happening to trump right now, the dye has been cast and he'll spend the next 14 months in court, in and out of court, his cost, his legal fees, all of that and resources are focused on that and not on running against joe bind. this will be a referendum on trump if he's the nominee and not a referendum on biden and that's a huge mistake. stuart: why doesn't your guy come out nor forcefully and criticize and go after trump. >> he went after him on policies and not building the wall and those things. it's not personal stuff. stuart, i want to highlight one other thing, even if trump were to pull this off and win against joe biden, he's got two years

and then he's a lame duck. it'll take him a year with the republican senate if he's able to get one to get his people in place to do anything and then do we really want to look up in four years and have 16 people on the stage again spending hundreds of millions attacking each other. the power of incumbent president is really important. if you have incumbency, there's a lot of power. we need someone that could serve eight years. desantis could serve eight years and the best governor in the country. why would we pick someone that can ultimately after two years is done versus someone that could go eight years. it'll take that long to dismantle the deep state. stuart: the first debate, gop debate is one week from today. fox is handling it. do you know what ron desantis' strategy will be firing and attacking other people or what?

>> trump is prepared to be attacked and either way he's prepared for a trump appearance or nontrump appearance, and i think he'll do extremely well. i mean, if you've seen his latest interviews, i mean, he understands these issues, he understands what needs to happen. look, he's served in congress so he knows how the swamp works up there. he knows how to dismantle this thing and he can really get it done. what he did in florida, he said exactly what he did and did what he said. there's no other governor that's done that. i mean, we have a candidate that actually gets done what he says he's going to do. stuart: are you backing desantis all the way through no matter what? >> oh, i'm 100% behind desantis. look, i'm not a never tramper. i have a america first etf. the ticker is maga. i've liked trump. i'm not a trump hater. people need to understand that, but i've been involved in four presidential campaigns, and i can see what's going to happen here. we have our best shot with the desantis. if trump is the nominee, it's very likely we lose to biden and

even if he does pull it off, it's going to be a problem from day one because he's going to be out of there in one term. i think we just are not going to be able to get done what we need in one term. stuart: in 30 seconds, what do you most dislike about trump? >> most dislike? look, i'm frustrated that a lot of, i think, what's going on right now, you know, he could have avoided. for instance, the documents in his home. why didn't he just return those? that could have avoided the whole thing and same thing with pence. he gave them back immediately. biden gave them back immediately, all though he held them for years but, yes, it's unfair what's happening. i totally get it, but a lot of this he could have avoided and i think there's going to be real proproblems in georgia. you've got 18 overs under indictment. what is that da doing? they'll sit and say, look, you've got three of yuppies guys going to cut a deal and rest are going to jail. the first three that steps forward, we'll see people turn.

this has to be a referendum on biden and we have to have a different candidate. stuart: hal, thank you very much and we'll see you soon. >> thank you. stuart: now this, vice media made a deal with a saudi-backed publisher. come on back in, ashley. is vice now censoring stories about saudi arabia to kind of protect them? ashley: yeah, reporting guardian use that had weisbached off stories by the reporters and vice backed off stories and put them in a less than flattering light. vice signed a deal with m bc group and a publisher controlled by the saudi government and alleges stories involving saudi culture being delayed, canceled or deleted after being published including one about young saudis standing up for trans rights. another story allegedly kiboshed was a film about saudi crown

prince that was deleted from the internet after being up loaded. the guardian report goes onto say that vice is another example of the wealthy saudi government buying up a struggling brand that can further its global influence. interesting, stu. stuart: did you see that nemar is going to saudi arabia for a great deal of money? for the benefit of our viewers, he's a brilliant soccer players and used to play for paris and is a brazilian and they bought him in saudi arabia. i don't know the price. ashley: they're buying it up. stuart: move on, thanks, archlet get to the markets real fast. what do we have? i see green now for the dow. yes, it's-up 100 points. nasdaq is down 16, s&p down -- i'm sorry up 6. show me google, please. the new york types reports they're working on an ai assistant that gives out life advice. i'm not sure what kind of life

advice -- what's that? >> look, we could all use a pep talk from time to time and especially when that alarm goes off. you're the man, you're going to get a pep talk. there's a lady that can't afford a flight and the air fare and hotel to go to her friends' destination wedding and she's asking how to properly tell her friend that she can't make the wedding. look, i feel like in today's day and age with all of the communicating we do via text and e-mail, i think people are less effective communicators today than they were 10, 20 yearsing a. not to mention the fact that when you send a text or an e-mail, there are so many types where the tone can be completely misinterpreted and there's benefit in this. stuart: that's true. okay, you first. now this, tourist cans now get a

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>> i figured we talk about them. it's the biggest sourcer of uranium in north america and nuclear clean energy play and the one year anniversary of the inflation reduction act has nothing to do with reducing inflation and more of a clean energy climate change bill than neigh and talk about that and camico we own that and up about 50% already this year and that's our number one energy position and we think that's one that thr the course of the next years. stuart: why do you like top golf? >> top golf and callaway make golf clubs and apparel. have you been to top golf? stuart: no. >> okay. 99% of the people at top golf look like they've never swung a golf club before. what they've done is expanded its total addressable market to include everyone. not just the 10 or 20% of the population that golfs. that's driving a lot of free cash flow right now since they're all of a sudden ahead.

and they're going to continue to roll out about a dozen new location as year. stuart: you're in it? >> yeah, we bought that last week. stuart: you're going to stay in it? >> just bought it last week. hope to be in it for awhile. stuart: listen to this one, gen z youngsters may have phonophobia. 87% of them would prefer to talk to their friends and family via text rather than over the phone. some of them say talking on the phone gives them anxiety. look who's here. kennedy's with us. it's you. you're on. >> hi, stu. stuart: are teenagers losing their skill to talk on the phone? >> some of them are, and i think it will be to their pearl. peril. >> i two teenage daughters, one is a phony and loves talking on the phone and talks to her friend all day and night and i can always get ahoed of her by -- ahold of her by calling her. the other, might be a spy.

i'm not sure for whom, i hope it's us. she's like a ninja and floats through the house silently and only texts. if you can get a text back from her. now, my sexy american boyfriend has a 16-year-old daughter who would never text him back. know what he did, he followed her on snap chat and can get ahold of her any time day or night. >> that's the secret. >> i like talking on the phone. you guys are texters because you're secretly gen zers. i love -- when i have a long drive, i can talk to my mom for like an hour and a half and it's fantastic. i love a good long catchup and only a few people left in my life who will talk on the phone. dagen mcdowell is one of them. she'll talk to you on the phone. she'll pick up and have a conversation and i am leaving her in the l stuart. stuart: really? now you're talk. if you take a phone call, you can't get away from it. you have to keep answering questions or filling in the blanks. if you get a text, you can take your time about replying, if at all. that's what i want. >> that's what's so rude about

it. it's called leaving someone on read. when you have read their text and you don't respond, it makes you a jerk and that's what teenagers do to torture each other. they leave each other -- i will also say gen zers and younger millennials as well. it is a form of passive aggressive dating torture. it's awful. call people and pick up the phone. stuart: sounds extreme to me. >> we'll overcome ai if we continue to have this verbal audio tactile relationship with each other . if we go pure digital, the rorobots win. stuart: do you want to follow up on that or leave it where it lay? >> we can end it. stuart: one college is offering a course to analyze taylor swift lyrics. another university is holding a psychology class centered around taylor swift. kennedy, you were an mtv vj as i recall. answer the key question here, is

taylor swift bigger than the beatles, and yes and totally different than the beatles. >> when the beatles burst on to the scene and transformed music and culture, to which they deserve so much credit for the evolution of rock and roll. stuart: i was there. >> you absoluterly were there and i heard you ghost wrote so many songs on the white album and don't get credit or royalties. stuart: keep going : >> however, taylor swift has so much competition from so many different genres and platforms, and people are bombarded and the fact that she's able to through her hard work and her artistry command this kind of attention and give her fans back so much, elevates her to a level that i think she deserves the analysis that she's getting in colleges and also it's a way for universities to sort of -- universities to sort of backdoor shake conspiracy and silvia

plath and other lit area unites to what tay did in their theme to what taylor swift dissects in her lyrics and incredibly personal and at times historically significant. stuart: taylor swift is a brilliant artist and her music is fine. the beatles were wide ranging and so many different forms of music and new instruments for heaven's sake and new rhythms. >> and so does taylor swift. stuart: taylor swift? i don't think so. >> absolutely. stuart: surely not as inventive or do situate. >> don't make that lack of statement without having all the facts at hand, stuart. stuart: game, set and match. you're a swiftie issue aren't you? >> no, i'm not. my daughters are big taylor swift fans. they had tickets for the concert in 2020 that was canceled due to covid. they ended uptaking i think it was 150% credit that they could use through ticket master to then purchase tickets for the

next round of concerts and they've been boxed out for two tours in a row now unfortunately. stuart: how much would you be prepared to pay for a ticket? >> i would take your credit card and pay $10,000 a ticket. thank you 24 advance. that was very kind of you. stuart: thank you, kennedy. seriously. a new poll shows half of us have tried marijuana. that's the highest number ever recorded. the more shocking statistic is how many people use it every day. pot heads out there, listen up. the entire police department in a small city in minnesota just resigned. they don't have enough applicants to fill the job and mad about their pay. full story is after this. ♪

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stuart: there is now a tour that highlihighlights squaller of san francisco. tell me this is not a joke. ashley: no, it is not, stu. in new york you can take a trip around the statue of liberty. in la a tour of celebrity homes. in san francisco, you can get a close-up view of abandoned sharps, open air drug use and hopeless encampments. a local resident fed up with the lack of action by the local government is offering a $30 tongue and cheek guided tour called the doom loop walking tour. unidentified guide claims to be a karol reigns leading city commissioner and asked the question how can can a city with a $14.6 billion annual budget be a model of urban decay.

paying customers get to see the most blighted and crime-riddled areas including tenderloin, union square and mid market. tickets for the mile and a half doom loop tour have already sold out. so there you go. you can see it in all its glory. stuart: thanks, ash. now this, an entire police department in minnesota, a small town, just called it quits. the city says they have zero application for any new cops to come on board. madison alworth with me. this isn't just a local problem, is it? >> right, that's shocking to hear, but the reality is we're dealing with this across the u.s.. departments struggling with retention and as a result then having people come in is also an issue. this really started back in 2018 but in the past couple years it's gotten much worse. 65% of police agencies reported an increase in retirements between 2020 and 2022. this part is even more concerning, 66% reporting an

increase in resig resignations d people leaving before their pensions kick in. like i said, the problem is there aren't young officers stepping up to fill the gaps. i got these numbers that you're seeing here from a police source here in new york city. these are the numbers of people that took the nypd civil service exam to become police officers. in 2021, over 14,000 people took that test. the next year, less than half took that exam. for the exam given in march of 2023, my source told me the nypd expect 3-d thousand to take it and only -- 3,000 to take it and only 1,300 1,300 did. then you have towns where everyone in the police department is leaving. >> i think we're all a bit behind sided by it -- blinder sided by it, but we're resilient and we're going to move forward. >> so the police chief and all of the officers resigned citing low pay. police chief josh smith, who will continue to serve until

august 23rd said the pay of $22 an hour is just not competitive when you look at other departments nearby that make $30 an hour. higher pay is working for some police departments. going to reference a story that ashley just d san francisco. so the city supervisors raised police pay, retention bonuses and overtime. now the latest class of recruits there, it's the largest the city has seen in three years, but even with that they are still 600 officers short in san francisco and the remmed number is 2,182. stuart: wow, $22 an hour and that's in the minnesota town. they can get 30 next door. >> if they go next door. that's what a lot of officers did. stuart: they all left at once. >> yes. stuart: that's leaving the city high and dry. >> the mayor said they're going to work hard to fill the gap but clearly small and goodhue and everyone is struggling. stuart: madison, thank you indeed. this is the time when we show you the dow 30 and give you a

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stuart: a new gallop poll shows half of us, 50%, have tried marijuana. only 4% of people had tried marijuana when it was -- when gallop first asked the question more than 50 yearsing a. come a long way. 17% of people surveyed this year say they smoke marijuana every day. one marijuana stock pomoxus siden dynamic -- por poseidon cs

is closing because of liquidating a sets. what about investing in marijuana. you don't touch it, do you? >> in full transparency, we encapsulation brands so -- constellation brand and we bought them for corona and modello and there's a brand on growth that never works out. it's a very challenging industry and the two main catalyst haves never come to fruition and the first being federal legalization and hasn't happened. and the second being that safe banking act that there's been discussions for four to five years and never important enough to actually pass and without that, these companies, they have no abscess to traditional banking and make it is very tough for them to grow. stuart: the illegal market is still alive and well as you can tell every day you walk around new york city. >> you can smell it. stuart: you can indeed. going onto this one, mind med. that's a company conducting the largest clinical trial using psychedelics to treat mental health disorders. robert bar row is the ceo of

mind med and joining me now. when you say psychedelics, are we talking lsd and magic mushrooms? is that how it is? >> yeah, thanks for having us. yes, our pipeline is filled with drugs like lsd and specific form of mdma showing enormous problem in treating mental health disorders. stuart: how do they help and what way and what disorder do they help with? >> absolutely. we're dealing with one of the biggest mental health epidemics of all time with growing rates of depression and suicide. the way we perform is bringing patients into a clinical setting and under very close medical soup vision to administer lsd and then monitor the subject for a day. think of it more like surgery and the patients come in, receive care and what we're seeing is even after a single administration, many months of angseizure disordersty and depression. depression. stuart: i hear a micro-dose and

is that how you administer psychedelics? is >> certainly interesting mechanisms and dosing reg mines being explored and our clinical trials and the way we view them being used and fda approved one day and administer doses that are not micro-doses and in the realm of therapeutic and have a perceptual alteration and significant reduction in anxiety and depression and hold a promise in stemming the tide of mental health epidemic we're facing here in the u.s.. stuart: how much time is left on the large clinical trial? >> we're coming up quickly on completion of enrollment and dosing and we'll have clinical trial results by the end of this year. we believe lsd is the most studied and satisfactoried come bound in the drug class and we

think it'll be back front and center of entire psychedelic drug class and pipeline for mental health disorders. stuart: those two psychedelics, lsd and cillo psychoen mushrooms is the mainstay of your products? >> lsd is furthest along product and separately working on specific form of mdma we're developing to help with core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder the applications could be very reigns leadinged and could -- varied and hugely impactful and treating diseases where there's no available therapies or the available therapies are very underwhelming in terms of magnitude and durability of their response. stuart: how close are we to products being on the market easily available >> well, we're going as quickly as we can and there's an urgent need and faster than anyone in the field in terms of execution and clinical trials and drug development takes many years and while we're coming up on a

clinical readout and there's further work to be done. in the years ahead, we hope to make further progress and have to patients as soon as we can. stuart: robert bar row, thank you for joins us from mindmed. thank you, sir. >> thank you. stuart: this is 11:55 and the we understand trivia question, here it is. good one. what's the most popular college major? history, health professions, business, engineering? the answer after this. ♪ ..

stuart: what is the most popular college major? history? health professions? business? engineering? you are first, ashley. ashley: i will go with number 3, business. >> business is broad so that is got to be the one. stuart: i go with engineering. wouldn't you know it? it is business. that is the popular? art history, we are on solid ground with the business. quick check of the markets. the dow struggling to a small gain of 23 points, nasdaq down 72. that's it for "varney and company". great show even though it is midsummer. we have the summer doldrums. rest assured we will be excitable tomorrow. coast-to-coast now. ♪ happy birthda