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campaign and not alienating the trump campaign but demonstrating a level of independence and a stroke of genius. >> there's not a recession out there and there's a number of fed officials who've actually ratcheted back. >> i'm worried about the banks in here. something is up and if the financials keep doing what they're doing, i'd say worried about the market though i do have pockets of -- stuart: whip it by devo? how come you know that? >> i loved this song in high school. lauren: know it or read it? >> no, we listened in high school and it was great, great fun. stuart: high school? >> yeah. high school. a lot of new wave music in high school. this and tainted love. stuart: that's new wave? >> absolutely. stuart: i guess i'm old school. 11:00 eastern time and that would be thursday, august 17th. let's go. market showing a mixed picture, dow up 50, nasdaq down 50.

no clear trend. show me big tech, please, al wow. get up $1.73, microsoft, amazon, meta, apple down. microsoft below 320. check the 10-year treasury yield. it's moving up. yes, it is. it's reached 430. that's not good for investors. the people will not like that. 430 on the 10-year. now this. latest fox poll shows the rise and rise of vivek ramaswamy. trump is still way out front and he's down three points since the last poll. desantis still second but he's down six. and look at ramaswamy, up six points and now in third place. i'm not surprised. he's a self-made 38-year-old with seemingly boundless energy. he's not afraid to engage on contentious issues. watch this.

[inaudible]. >> i don't have any negative view of same sex couples. i believe that we live in a country where free adults should be free to dress and behave how they want. you don't be oppressed for pushing that onto others and kids are not the same as adults. stuart: way to government he'll do any and all interviews on understood friendly territory. remember his interview with don lemon on cnn? lemon lost. he's the first guy and opposed affirmative action and gender affirming care for minors. he detests wokism and defends free speech and said he'd pardon trump if he were elected president. what a contrast with biden. he's less than half biden's age and roadwayly shows. he'll go anywhere. the exact opposite of biden's basement strategy.

i've got to leave it there and third hour of varney starts right now. stuart: deroy murdock is here and best dressed man in america. >> thank you so much. stuart: what do you think of vivek? >> he's an incredibly impressive man and i heard him speak at a dinner about six weeksing a and incredibly well spoken and knowledgeable on a whole host of issues. he probably took 20 questions and answered them all very clearly and smoothly, and it's amazing. he's making his first bid for a public office. he's now ahead of mike pence, he's ahead of tim scott, ahead of nicky haley, un ambassador. he's doing very well, and he's -- stuart: think he can win? >> i don't know, if he doesn't win, this isn't the last we'll hear of him.

one to consider if he doesn't make for the president seizure disorders, is go back to ohio and run for u.s. senate and he can win that seat and be u.s. senator vivek ramaswamy and that would be impressive enough. stuart: i'm sure that message will get to vivek ramaswamy because he listens to everything, this guy. i want you, deroy, to listen to what a senior biden official, john podesta, had to say about the wild fires in hawaii. watch this. >> to stop ease disasters from getting even worse, we have to cut the carbon pollution that's driving the climate crisis, and that's what the inflation reduction act is all about. stuart: that was kind of a shameless plug, wasn't it, for the inflation reduction act. john podesta, what do you think? >> i thought the bill was supposed to reduce inflation but turns out it was a trojan horse for global warming. the expert and ran through the un climate models and says the inflation reduction act reduced temperatures by the year 2100 by

0.009 degrees. stuart: that's lundburg we've known very well on this program and ran the biden game plan through his computer systems. >> through the un systems. stuart: yeah and figured out by the end of the censure reigns leading, we'd have reduced -- century and would have reduced by what? >> 0.0009 degrees and turning from 72 down to 71.999 degrees. if you think global warm asking going to kill us and we're about to die, this bill does nothing about it. spent a lot of money and have windmills and people get rich but in terms of reducing temperature on earth, which was the whole idea, this doesn't accomplish it. huge waste of money that doesn't achieve what the green people say they want to do. stuart: that was john podesta and not heard of them for a long, long time. works in the white house. >> amazing. stuart: i don't know whether he was the campaign manager in 2016 for hillary clinton. >> he was, his computer was

hacked because his password was password. stuart: that's right. didn't he have a hand in paying for the steel dossier? >> campaign manager i'm sure is in the middle of all that and started the whole three years of disinformation on where they left about donald j. trump being a kremlin agent. stuart: we missed him from the white house. >> he popped up out of nowhere. stuart: deroy, see if you can fix your wardrobe for next time. >> good to see you. stuart: dow up about 30 and nasdaq down about 45. not that much price movement today and rather say the market has stalled recently. bring in eddie gifford making first appearance on the program. tense up and big time now. i believe the market has actually stalled and can you give me an aggressive stock to buy that breaks out of the store? have anything in mind? >> well, i think that you're right when you say that thing haves stalled. we're in a scenario where things

are teetering and don't know if they're rolling over or if they're breathing. if we're going to believe we have upset potential on the other side of this. we should be looking at the ev space and people say not tesla. not tesla and talking about rivian. we think rivian has good upside here and it's right at 200 day moving average and it's got a lot of speed behind it and my my wife keeps saying our next car needs to be an electric suv or truck. i'm personally looking as a consumer and look at the stock, it's gotten battered with a lot of other stuff this month. we think it could be a good move. stuart: you're a brave man to pick a stock like that all the way down and go bottom fishing. what about meta? >> so meta is an interesting story from the standpoint it's come back pretty good and had a good rally and wish we would have bought it at 80 and

everybody wishes that but when we look at the business itself, the instagram and facebook and now threads, we think that that gives a lot of opportunity for businesses to advertise, and the reality is i think everyone thinks that inflation is going to stay higher for longer than anyone wants to admit. what that means is that businesses need to generate more income to make sure they can pay their bills and pay their employees. how do you do that? you've got to generate business and one way is through ad space. stuart: how about a home builder. you have a couple home builders in mind you'd like to buy now, quite aggressively. pulti group, you buy something >> yeah, we like home builders right now and the primary reason is that when you look at what's going on in the real estate market in general, everybody at least in america has the 3% 30-year fixed mortgages and they're not up and moving and going anywhere any time soon unless they're forced to; right?

they get a good job offer and even in that scenario my recommendation to advisers is rent that and go maybe buy something somewhere else. so the builders control the market right now, and the fact that they control the market means they control pricing and a lot own mortgage companies also and so they're able to bring the rates down to below market rates for consumers to purchase and so as long as rates stay elevated and lumber costs are bouhlel low, when they are -- low, which they are, we think builders is the place to be. can't escape a big cataclysmic fall but we like home builders right now. stuart: you like rivian, meta, and home builders. we'll leave it at that. eddie gifford, thank you for being on the show. >> thank you, appreciate it. stuart: back to movers and wal-mart was moving significantly earlier, now it's down. what's the story. lauren: it was an impressive earnings report. i don't have a story for why wal-mart is down. they did raise their full year

outlook for the second time, but i think there was hopes they'd raise it even more. i wanted to talk about was also target and children's place. just look at children's place up 5%. all three comments on back to school and they're all good. they accelerated in the month of july and wal-mart echoed the same thing and overall the back to school season is shaping up to be pretty solid and indicator of how holiday sales will be. stuart: i see wing stop. that's literally chicken wings. lauren: literally and new board share buy back and up to $250 million and ipo eight yearsing a, total shareholder returns exceeding 850%. lauren: i don't know why, are we worried about covid returning? the cdc says a new variant, eg5, is the dominant strain in the

u.s.. hospitalization rates up 17% between june and july. i have seen more people wearing masks lately. stuart: i have but not sure many people have going to go out and jump at another vaccination. lauren: oh. stuart: not so sure about that. lauren: with you on that. correct. stuart: take a look at this, sorry to say, this is disturbing video and good warning here a. woman dragged through a parking lot by a thief trying to steal her purse. police say she should have just let them have it, the purse that is. we've got the story. vivek ramaswamy admits he didn't vote in elections between 2004 and 2020. we have his excuse. the latest fox poll shows 51% of voters believe the way that the department of justice is treating the former president trump is motivated by parties and politics. mark meredith has the report from the white house next. ♪

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stuart: dow up 19 and nasdaq down 49. vivek ramaswamy didn't vote in seven elections between 2004 and 2020. ashley, good morning. did you tell anybody why he didn't vote? ashley: yes, good morning, stu. he was disillusioned and how he put it to sean hannity on fox news. listen. >> i was a .d person in my -- jadded person in any 20s and like many people in their 20s, i'm not a professional

politicians. ashley: entrepreneur and gop candidate voted for a libertarian in 2004 and didn't vote in another presidential election till 2020 when he supported donald trump. ramaswamy by the way said he wants to raise the nation's voting age to 25, but make exceptions for those 18 and older that serve in the military, work as emergency responders, or take a naturalization test. interesting stuff, he's always very direct with his answers. stu. stuart: i wonder if he expects to capture the youth vote by telling them you can't vote anymore. that's a big one. ashley: good point. stuart: quick programming note for everyone, larry kudlow has exclusive interview with donald trump. here's what trump had to say about inflation and energy. roll tape. >> inflation was caused in my opinion, by energy because it's so big. when they stopped drilling, we had it going like nobody -- you were a big part of it. you had a big thing going for selling all this to europe and

all that and we would have made a fortune. it was so sad to see what they did. they cut it off. and again, we were drilling much more. we were a bigger force than russia and saudi arabia individually in a year and a half, we would have been a bigger force than them combined, and we would have made so much money. stuart: larry says trump was in fine form. the full interview with donald trump today at 4:00 p.m. eastern time right here on fox business. let's get to the trump indictment. brett tollman is a former u.s. attorney and joins me now. brett, is the prosecutor taking a big risk using racketeering charges in the georgia case? >> you know, a rico case is a very complex prosecution, and it requires that you have all of your ducks in a row. and i say that because the number of areas in which you can

appeal a badly, you know, performed rico case are exponential. your facts have to satisfy that there's a criminal enterprise. there's a reason why it's a conflict prosecution because you're typically going after very complex organizations, an enterprise that's established to appear as being legitimate, but underneath is operating, you know, criminally. this has never been applied in a case like this where you have lawyers, representing a client who are attempting to legally challenge an election. so i think it's a problem, it's going to be a double edged sword for georgia, and i think the risk is not going to, not justify the reward -- the reward won't justify the risk in this case. stuart: brett, the trial is set for march 4. that's the day before super tuesday for heaven's sake.

all 19 of the defendants will be tried together. i think it's going to be a circus and it's really the court injecting itself into the political process. what say you? >> i can't imagine this trial goes forward on that date with 19 defendants, there are so many motions that can be brought prior to a jury being impaneled and receiving this case. now, if they want to try and ramrod this case through and avoid, you know, thoughtful analysis of all the motions that are coming, they risk an overturning of any conviction they do get. this is going to be a case that could drag on for a really long time because you are forcing facts that don't justify the application of the statute they're trying to prosecute these defendants. stuart: do you think any of the trials will take place in full or before the election? >> i think there's a strong possibility the washington dc

case goes forward. you have very little motions -- very few motions you can file in a federal case. you have a judge that wants to push that case along. you have facts that are, you know, let's face it, this is one in which a dc jury could be impaneled fairly quickly and you could see donald trump get convicted, taken into custody immediately, and sentenced and be running for president and appealing his conviction inside a prison. stuart: i don't think america is happy with this. i don't think america wants to see all these trials and tribulations for a presidential candidate, and the sitting president is under investigation as well. i don't think america wants this. last word to you. >> we don't want this. what we want is a justice system that doesn't ignore something so blatant as the biden corruption that is unfolding before us with whistle blowers and real inogen

june underlying crimes being covered and you happen at the same time using statutes to go after alerting political opponent. i mean, it's outrageous and offends the majority of americans in the country. anyone trying to justify it has to perform legal and factual angling that discusses those of us have brought these kinds of cases in the past. i hope it's sorted out and we move on as a country from this ugly chapter. stuart: good indeed. brett tolman, thank you, sir. >> yes, sir. stuart: both 2024 front runners facing multiple investigations. mark meredith at the white house are joining us. do voters show interest in these investigations? >> stu, they're paying attention to the details coming out drip by drip. good morning to you. reporter: the white house insists that president biden is

focusing on his day chop. that's the chopper, not the leaf blower and the president is heading to pennsylvania. sorry about the noise. he's not talking about hiss son, hunter biden, and the scandals involved and talking about the polls and fox asking registered voters how they feel about the investigations into the first son. 50% of people say they do think something improper happened and those numbers are up quite sharply from earlier this year. last month federal prosecutors and hunter's lawyers were shocked after a federal judge threw out a plea agreement, which would have kept the first son out of jail. now that we've got a special council appointed, this probe could drag on longer and the white house not speculating on what melee ahead. >> i will -- may lay ahead. >> the president loves his son and he's proud of him overcoming his addiction and how he's continuing to build his life, but i don't have anything else to add to that. >> republicans say they have plenty of questions about not

only hunter's behavior but how federal investigators conducted this investigation and one urging the white house to be more forthcoming especially because of next year's election. >> the american people need to know whether the president is crooked or not. we need to know there's an election coming, he's the sitting president. certainly he would want his name cleared if anybody would, i would think. >> so what are the next steps going to look like? today the chairman of the house oversight committee, stu, james comer of kentucky, sent a letter to the national archives and asking for un-redacted e-mails than to when then vice president biden was in the white house and congress will keep digging in addition to the justice department probe. stu. stuart: mark, thank you very much, indeed. target stores seen violent shoplifting more than double in the first five months of this year. the chief executive says losing all that merchandise sun

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stuart: i love the musicals but you don't even nope what you're looking at and that's santa monica, california n heavy fog. only 65 degrees right there, right now and middle of august. the median home price in los angeles is close to $1 million. close to zillow, it's about $992,000. that was in july. home prices in la have increased more than 30% in five years. still in la, i got to get back to this video. an elderly woman dragged by a purse snatcher. ashley, this is ugly but you've

got to tell us what happened. ashley: ugly with a u. it was 11:00 monday morning broad daylight and all caught on video and the purse snatcher violently dragging a 75-year-old woman to the drowned and she hung on trying to clutch her purse and does for several feet. until the clerk breaks free and un-s are off with the bag. people tried to help but he got away. the elderly victim is okay and police warning the public that when confronted with a thief, no possession is work risk r your life for and the criminal in this case still on the loose. ugly in deed. stuart: if you fight back, you're the one that gets sued. dear lord. ashley: that's right. stuart: thank you, ash. move on, stu. the markets, check them, please. dow down 16 and nasdaq down 64 and some red ink on the left and side of the screen but not much.

shoplifting and crime hurting the bottom line of businesses all across the country. grady trimble with me. how much money has target lost from shoplifting this year? reporter: stu, i can tell you how much they expect to lose for the year. half a billion dollars just this year because of shoplifting and organized retail crime. in an earnings call earlier this week, target's ceo says that theft is up 120% in its stores in the first five months of the year compared to the same time last year. he also says dealing with this increase is getting more and more dangerous for employees. here in the nation's capitol, at least one city council member wants mayor mural browser to call in the national -- bowser to call in the national guard and she's resisted so far. one giant super market here in the district says it's on the brink of closing after losing half a million dollars in product because of theft.

the supermarket tells us we've invested a host of measures to mitigate the issues at this store and across many stores, but we need the help and partnership from the community and local officials to truly combat the theft and violence that continues to escalate. a small business owner saying his restaurant has been hit five times this year. >> they're chasing shooting ands drive byes and real victim crimes and things are low on the totem pole they can address and a lot of police today feel very handcuffed themselves. they can't dot policing they used to do. reporter: in los angeles, you've probably seen this video of a mob of more than 50 people ransacking a nordstrom there and mayor and lapd holding a press conference on the topic in about

a half hour. we should mention wal-mart reported earnings this morning. they say they've also seen a small increase in theft in their stores but not to the same degree as target. it's more in certain cities in certain stores flash shelton is a handyman and removed squatters from his mother's home and using it to help get squatterrers out of other's homes. flash shelton joining us now. would you tell us your personal story, how did you get the squatters out of your mother's house? >> well, squatters took over my mom's house after my dad passed away. we were trying to sell the home. i called local law enforcement and as soon as they saw there was furniture in the house, they said that i had a squatter situation and they had basically

no jurisdiction and they couldn't do anything. so i dissected the laws over a weekend and basically figured out that until there's civil action, the squattered didn't have any rights and if i could switch place withs them and become the squatter myself, i'd assume those squatter rights and just in case they had a fake lease like i hear some do, i had my mom write me up a lease, we got it notarized. i packed up my jeep, drove up there and paced out the -- cased out the joint around 4:00 a.m. and waited till about 8, 8:30 in the morning and three cars pulled out of the driveway and i made entrance to the house and put up cameras and waited for them to come back. they didn't have a lease so that never came into play, but when they came back, i just laid it out for them, told them that it was all locked up, cameras and the only way they would get back

in the house is if they broke in on camera and i would prosecute, and i told them they had a day to get their stuff out or the furniture was not theirs anymore. stuart: you couldn't have gotten them out unless they had left in their three cars in the morning. you couldn't bang on the door and walk in and tell them to get out, you couldn't do that, cold you? >> no, the -- could you? >> no, the law would prevent me from physically removing them. however, being that i wasn't the homeowner, i had more rights. as a tenant, i would have more rights than them. if they were there, then i would have just entered the home with a lease in hand, i would have just showed them the lease and walked past them and said, you know, i don't know what you're doing but i'm moving in, this is my house now and i probably would have just done anything and everything i could to make it miserable for them so they'd leave on their own. stuart: are you running a service now helping other people get squatters out?

>> yeah, so more importantly to that is i'm trying to change the laws. that's my number one focus so in helping others right now since i feel bad i can't help everyone, but if we can change the squatter laws, i feel like that's the way to help everyone. so every time i help someone rather it's a -- i do zoom consultations and ask people to make a donation to the cause and when i can physically go out and help them, it is something i'm doing to help people now. as many as i personally, possibly can. stuart: well, flash shelton, we think you're doing the right thing and you've got a lot of support from me and that's a fact. thank you, flash. good luck to you. good luck to you. >> thank you. stuart: now this, it's becoming a trend among democrats, reminding audiences to clap. roll tape. >> i -- that's an applause line. [ applause ]. >> and i thought you might clap

for that. [ applause ]. >> that's an applause line. [ applause ]. stuart: nancy pelosi had to call for applause twice in the same speech. we'll show you the full clip. democrats on capitol hill celebrating the one year anniversary of the so-called inflation reduction act and we're rapidly heading towards a government shut down and all about spending. hillary vaughn has the report from capitol hill next. ♪

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stuart: i'm sure you've heard the debate on whether august is too early for pumpkin spice. what about christmas? lowe's and home depot started

selling holiday decorations on their website. too early for the holiday s? e-mail us at varneyviewers@fox.com. the threat of a government shut down because we can't agree on spending. hillary vaughn on capitol hill. how much time does correct me if i'm wrong have to strike -- congress have to strike a deal? reporter: stuart, till septembeg the government is funded for and we heard from chuck schumer saying he's reached an agreement with speaker kevin mccarthy for a short term fix to prevent a shut down and give congress more time to hash out spending levels, which means republican hopes of cutting government spending as an inflation fix is put off for now. but democrats at the white house why'd yesterday celebrating cutting costs for consumers as the so-called inflation reduction act turned one year old yesterday. >> the shock of president biden's pen one yearing a today,

we've achieved monumental victory for america's families. our country is facing so many challenges and uncertainties. right now our families are feeling the inflation reduction acts impact. reporter: while price hikes have slowed down, economists are debunking democrats claims that the inflation reduction act had anything to do with it. a pen wharton budget analyst saying it was mostly other factors that brought inflation down. the ira has just not been a significant factor. republicans in the meantime are blasting democrats for taking a victory lap while families are still being crushed by high prices. >> that's not bringing down the cost of energy nor inflation. it might be off a little bit, but people are still paying more now and probably will continue to pay more for all their cost of goods and service and everything they need including groceries.

reporter: stuart, republicans were hoping to use the threat of a shut down at the beginning of october as a way to get a lot of spending cuts agreed to but really they're kicking the can down the road with a short term spending fix, putting it off until potentially december. stuart. stuart: i got it, thanks, hillary. ashley, come back in again. we have something for you. you've got something for us actually. an embarrassing moment for nancy pelosi at the white house. tell us what you got. ashley: if you're giving a sense of aloha speech about inflation reduction act and the audience isn't clappings, you have to give them a prompt and nancy pelosi has it down to a science. >> we can all agree we have a moral obligation for strong community for future generations. that's an applause line. many of the recommendations on the wall including clean energy

tax credits sprang -- were present in that legislature. you know that because you did a similar thing in the earlier congress, thank you for your leadership. that's an applause line. ashley: pelosi touted what she believes to be the benefits of the inflation reduction act that she described as remarkable accomplishment. yeah, you didn't clap now, i guess. zuricstu, back to you. stuart: nicely handled, ashley. nicely handled. 11:46 and move up on the dow 30 sense of the market. that's a pretty even split. the dow is down 37 and same -- half are up and half are down. there you go. attorney general of new jersey does not think schools should have to tell parents if their child wants to change their gent gender identity. parents disagree. we'll hear from one mother who's

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>> one school district in v will defie governor youngkin's policies on bathrooms and pronouns. ashley, tell me more. ashley: fairfax county public schools in northern virginia and administrators say forget the state's new rules and the law is on their side. the district says after con ducking a legal re--- conducting a legal review, they believe they're in line with the law's actions. virginia now requires school eightyivities to be separated by sex. student participation is restricted to the sex that was assigned to the individual at birth and it also requires students to use a bathroom that corresponds with their sex assigned at birth. the state says the guidelines make it very clear that parents have the right to make decisions with respect to their children, but apparently fairfax county disagrees. there's more to this story and more to come, i'm sure.

stu. stuart: i'm sure. thanks, ashley. three school districts in new jersey have been sued by the state because of their gender policies. listen to what attorney adam shelton had to say about this on this program yesterday. >> schools shouldn't be in the business of putting children in danger, but they also should not be in the business of hiding information from parents. that's what the new jersey attorney general wants is schools to hide information from parents. stuart: dana russo is a new jersey mom and joins us now. do you think schools should require teachers to tell parents about gender identity changes? >> isn't it common sense? i mean. we're called for absolutely every little thing that happens to our children in school. and when it comes to -- stuart: can i get into this for a second? if my kids are doing something at school they shouldn't be doing, i'm called in for a parent teacher conference. but i'm not called in if one of

the children decides they want to change their gender. i'm not called in for that. it's kept secret from me, that's joust in the right; is it? >> let me ask you if you were called in for a parent teacher conference and your child had a different name in school, they'd be lying to your face. stuart: i guess so, yeah. it's not right. jaire you know, again, we elect local school boards in our local towns because we need them to vote for us for what our beliefs and our values are and when they do that and they're just bullied into compliance by the state, what's the point? you might as well get rid of local school boards and let the government run our schools. stuart: do you think you're endangering trans-children? >> absolutely not. when you can sit there and say allowing parents to be involved is the danger of the child

and¬ the mental health aspect of it, these children need therapy. if your child is -- i hate to say it this way but if your child is home at john and identifying at jane in school and you have have no clue, you should be thankful the school is calling you and you're un-aware as a parent and you all could use therapy. stuart: kids can only use the bathroom of their birth gender, separation of the sexes in sport, no trans in women's sports. where do you go with that? >> 100%. all of it. all of it. none of it -- the woke policies -- this is just the beginning of them trying to hide it from the parents. if you're willing to hide that information, which is just so important and so imperative to a child, what else are you hiding from the parents? you know, it's also discriminatory against another child that maybe dent want you to call their parent because they're failing class. how far are you willing to go because now you're discriminating against that child and just not call their

parent but you're going to call the parent who's child says please don't call, i'm failing g and there's repercussions if i fail. stuart: this is a healthy debate and we thank you for coming on and engaging in this debate. it's very important to us. >> thank you so much. more parents need to speak out. stuart: absolutely they do. dana r russo, thank you. >> thank you. stuart: it's time for the thursdays trivia question. where did the civil war begin? gettiesburg, pennsylvania; clark, north carolina; fairfax county, virginia; or charleston, south carolina? the answer after this. ♪ so, i got this app from experian. it's got everything i need to help my finances. got my fico® score, raised it instantly, i even found new ways to save. all right here. free. and fast.

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stuart: where did the civil war start? get his work, north carolina, fairfax county, virginia, charleston south carolina? anyone over 50 would get the answer right because they went to old-fashioned american public schools. if you're under 50 i suspect you get the answer wrong. you are over 50. ashley: you put me on the spot. i'm going to go with clark, north carolina. it is the only one of the four

i don't know. the others are very well known. i'm going for number 2. we when you are wrong. i'm convinced it is charleston, south carolina, fort sumter. there you go. charleston, south carolina, 1860 one, confederate troops fired on fort some term marking the beginning of the war. i had a great day. send your friday feedback, time is up for me, coast-to-coast now. ♪ adam: quick, what do kung fu panda, subprime mortgages, george w. bush and today's bond market have in common? i will give you a few seconds. let me know when you have an answer. kung fu panda, subprime mortgages, george w. bush, today's bond market. we are out of time. actually, three of those four items i just mentioned occurred in summer of 2008.