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♪ stuart: we're plague idealogues for you -- playing adel just for you. lauren: i guess i'm a huge fan. stuart: straight to the money, the dow down 20, nasdaq up 50, not that much movement. the 10-year treasury yield. interest focused on that because it's going up. you're now up 4.35% as the yield on the 10 year. that's the highest in some time. price of oil pretty steady in the low 80s, $80.78 per barrel. bitcoin struggling to stay above 26,000. it failed and down to 25,981. realtors, pay attention, please. we have latest read on existing home sales. these are important to the realtor business.

what's the number? lauren: angel life fell more than expected, 4.07 million homes sold on seasonally adjusted basis and a fall of 2.2% from the prior month, the median home price, $406,700. that is a decline from the prior month when it was the second highest level on record. stuart: just to repeat, we are selling existing homes at a rate of -- annual rate of $4.07 million? lauren: correct. stuart: that seems extremely low number. lauren: yeah. lower than we've thought the low number would be. stuart: there you go. scott shellady with me this morning. i need your comment on this number. we're only selling 4.07 million existing homes on animal yule basis. i said to lauren, that seems like a very low number to me, what say you? >> it's because it is a low number. that's how simple that is. you had it maybe on your show and maybe not, redfin said only

people moving now, stuart, are those that have to move. there's a standoff with those that have low marges, not want -- mortgages not wanting to lose and those that want to sell and not come down in price. clearly they're coming down in price a bit. at some point in teenager tough pay the piper and can't have mortgage rates over 7% and expect a boomingousing business. i can understand why new -- booming housing business and i understand why new homes are selling better than existing homes because you have some builders buying points down or helping finance and giving buyers two years at a better rate or a lot of upgrades or both. at the same time there's no way that you can expect a housing market to be really, really gang busters with interest rates where they are. that's one of the things -- that's nature. you can't break that law. i know we keep trying to break the laws of nature with a lot of thins with the administration, this is one you can't break. stuart: next case i want to talk about dikiest sporting goods. the stock is plunging -- dick's

sporting goods because they slashed their outlook because of rising theft. it's come to this where a major retailer said we have trouble ahead because people are stealing. it's come this this. extraordinary. >> i don't want to jump the shark but we're slowly but surely sliding into the a moral abyss. it's absolutely wrong and the people doing it know it's wrong, but know there's going to be no consequences and it'll continue and be rewarded because they can do whatever they want. you've seen the stories like the shopkeepers trying to stop them and scolded and/or fired or put under some sort of review by the government authorities for something they might have done toes robber. we've lost the plot. it is clown world 2.0 with what we've seen happen with the organized retail theft. there's been reports by the way that the car cartels are are mid

some of this too. what we've seen happen is putting them in the bottom line and reports and something has to be done and starts with the ags. nobody wants to seem to come down on these, folks. just like we convinced ourselves that defunding the police was a good idea. that was the dumbest idea i've heard in my simpleton mind in my life. i don't know how that got oxygen but here we go once again and doing ideas and breaking laws of nature and people think it's a better idea and thomas sole says replacing th things that work wh ideas that don't and that's happening. retail theft, student loan announcement we had this morning. i was incensed all morning in my dressing room thinking about what we're going to do on my show today because i can't believe they're still pushing this through after the supreme court said they can't do it. it's amoral from the top down. stuart: scott shellady, thank you for being with us.

now this, if there's one campaign promise that joe biden will keep, it is ending the border wall. as he said many times, stop the construction, don't build another foot. he's going to great lengths to make sure that promise is kept. the trump administration appropriated $15 million for construction, 450 miles of wall were built, and a lot of construction material was gathered at the border, ready to government the republicans proposed legislation to use that material to finish construction. oh, no, the democrats can't have that. they're selling off the steel beams at discount prices and get rid of all the stuff so the wall will not be built. governor of texas placed floating barriers in the middle of rio grand to stop the migrants wading across. oh, no, you can't do that. governor an bot didn't get permission and according to the biden administration, they raised humanitarian and environmental concerns.

when are they showing humanitarian concern for the thousands of migrant children not been accounted for. this is what biden 79s, open the flood gates. that's the front page of the new york post. the reporters watched hundreds of migrants cross into america, some expected to be challenged by border patrol but they walked on in prevent wall building and remove barriers on the rio grand and open the flood gates. that's what biden wanted, and that's what we're stuck with. the second hour of varney just warming up. lisa booth, good morning to you. welcome back to the show. this is the promise biden is keeping at all costs, isn't it? >> absolutely and new york post you referenced and one of the illegal immigrants was quoted saying i thought there would be more security. to your point of your tape, this

is a choice. this is a decision the democrats have made that joe biden made and not even catch and release anymore. it's welcome and release. customs border protection should stand for customs border processing. we are funding this as a country. we are encouraging this. halting deportations and getting rid of remain in mexico, they're choosing in chaos and destruction of america. it is with intent. stuart: lisa, how come biden and the democrats don't seem to pay any political price for this? >> well, that's a good question, stuart. i would like to see them pay next november but, who knows, when our top guy might end up in jail is what they're trying to do with him. i don't know what will happen with the election, but hope that the price to be paid is then. democrats like eric adams admitting how horrendous this

all is and won't walk back things like sanctuary city and won't call for increased border security and won't do the right thing and call for the right things, but new york city is becoming impoverished as a result of all this and even more importantly there was one guatemalan migrant recently arrested for allegedly raping and killing an 11-year-old girl. he came here through a sponsor so lord only aknows who we're allowing into this country through this mass chaos, this really invasion that is happening at the southern border and the most depressing, most diabolical aspect is it's a choice. stuart: there's no accountability. it's just not there. >> none. stuart: lisa, sorry, i'm out of time. >> it's infuriating. stuart: yes, i'd love to let you go on for this. >> i >> you know i could. stuart: i know. back to the markets and lauren is looking at movers. the dow is down 20, nasdaq up 53, not that much change.

nova vax. lauren: updated covid vaccine works against the newest subvariant we spoke about yesterday. that vaccine due out this fall, nova vax shares up 6.3%. stuart: dick's sports goods talked about shrinkage and target talked about it in the past. lauren: big time and put a dollar figure on it. look at that, 3.8% to the downside and they'll cut their rating on target to neutral and price target is 134. yes, i know that's higher than the 122 years at now. stuart: okay, hasbro. where is that? , 167 and b of a is going where? lauren: to $90 and highest target on the street and ohio% up from here and hasbro number one on s&p 500 and the reason is licensing revenue that comes from their app monopoly go. they get royalties continually from that. very optimistic. stuart: okay, workers demanding higher salary just to start a new job? how much higher are we talking

about? lauren: nearly $80,000 to leave your old job and take a new one. stuart: that's not across the country for every job. lauren: up 8% from last year. for college educated workers, it's 98,0 98,600 and nearly $100 to lever your job and get a new one. lauren: i don't nerve nucleus any company that will pay that and companies are starting to pull back, in fact layoff workers and i was reading a report in the wall street journal saying new highers are getting 5% less than last year. might want it but doesn't mean you're going to get it. stuart: ceo of ibm is saying that -- warning about job losses. is this ai job losses? lauren: yeah -- well he thinks back office white collar workers affected by ai first, by they're not going to be displaced. they're going to be augmented and more productive because of

it. the ceo said ai is providing more labor. not human labor but providing more labor that enhances gdp. kind of makes sense, don't be afraid of ai. ibm is definitely not afraid. they had watson, the super computer trained on jeopardy questions and beat a human over a decading a. stuart: i'd forgotten that. thanks, lauren. handing your baby a phone or tablet to play with may seem harmless but new research found screen time can case development delays. we'll speak to a tech expert about -- that's a startling study. learn more about that. listen to president biden compare the devastating hawaii wild fires to a small kitchen fire at his house. just watch this. >> i don't want to compare difficulties but we have a little sense, lightning struck

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time to hear from all the candidates and find out who they are. listen. >> i'm going in with an open mind because i don't know a lot alaska the other candidates and i've been watching the other side just as well, what's going to happen. >> i'm looking to >> to see alle candidates. >> governor ron desantis said he's ready to battle it out. >> i'm going to make the case that under joe biden this country is in decline and we'll send him back to his basement in delaware and reverse the decline and i've proven i'm the guy to do it in the state of florida and won't let people down as the next president.

>> rnc released list of eight candidates that qualified for the debate. they're all listed and former arkansas governor asa hutchinson just qualified the other day and said the best advice he's going to follow: don't be boring. >> people want to see a real debate between the candidates in the sense of what's the contrast, you know, how do we differ between each other? in the fall election. >> all the candidates here, stuart, are preparing to be up on the debate stage and an the milwaukee area including vivek ramaswamy that'll have a debate party here. we'll watch for the other candidates and check back in. stuart: alexis, tha thank you vy much indeed. republican carlos gimenez from the great state of georgia joining me now. you'll be in the debate room and

seems like you're his biggest fan. >> oh, no, i'm not his biggest fan and biggest fans out here in the state and i expect to be joined by other members of the florida delegation as well as other members from around the country that'll be there in supporting the president tomorrow. stuart: is trump-appointed making a mistake by not attending the debate himself? >> i don't. i think he's spot on. he's about 40 points ahead of everybody else and let them battle out for second place. and maybe he can find himself a good vice presidential candidate amongst the ones that are here. or will be in milwaukee to debate, and this will be a good, i guess interview for them to be on his ticket as a second person. stuart: what's the strategy behind mr. trump turning himself in in atlanta on thursday right after the debate.

what's the strategy there? >> i am not privy to that so i don't know what the strategy is. i think he had until the 25th to turn himself in so that would be the 24th, a day early. so again, you're going to have to ask him, i was not involved in those conversations. stuart: do you think maybe he's doing it to steal the thunder away from the debate the previous night? >> that would be a surprise. no. so maybe all cameras turn to the president once more and albeit not in a good situation and all cameras turn to him and talk turns to him again. so another example of this politicization of the judicial system here in the united states and one thing we'll correct once we gain control of both the house or actually remain in control of the house stuart: he

warned they'll lose up and down the ballot in 2024. you disagree, congressman? >> sure, we heard in 2016 and didn't turn out too bad in 2016. no, i disagree. look, we have a clear vision we need to let go of all the burr don some regulations that the biden administration continues to put on the person people and unleashing for entrepreneurism and improve our economy and he deuce the prices.

we need to become strong at home and abroad and change how america is viewed around the world so all those things are different what president biden is doing to america today and come in and change course as fast as we can to restore american greatness? >> congressman, i look farred to seeing you and hearing you in the spin room tonight. stuart: congressman, thank you very much indeed. secretary of commerce gina when is she going and why? lauren: next week, august 27 through 30th to shanghai and beijing and why? she'll meet with senior chinese government officials and u.s. business leaders. the goal? stuart: stabilize. lauren: can you stabilize relationships because china's economy is suffering and a bit of desperation and a lot

happened and her department put export controls on advanced to china and our president called china's president a dictator and all has an effect. with china's economy being so bad, maybe a bit more hope for relations. stuart: thanks, lawn. now this, here we go again. mask mandates are making return to the workplace and some colleges too. hillary vaughn has that story. country sensation oliver anthony turns down major record labels to go at it solo. john rich was topping the charts without a label says this is a very good idea. the man himself with guitar walking across the studio and will be seated next to us. good to see you, john. welcome. ♪

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morning. lauren: in august there's minnesota more than 39,000 insurance registrations for tesla in china. that's more than doubles since last year. a new catalyst going forward for tesla. stuart: okay, nvidia, did it turn negative? it was way up this morning and now it's down $8, that's not bad. lauren: hit an all time high and turned lower ahead of earning ands year over year growth of 308% for earnings. stuart: that's the expectation. lauren: 67% for sales. if you ask someone like securities, they believe that ai demand for you'd ya will ex-cedd ply by 50%. stuart: that's fascinating. i heard the stock was at almost $500 premarket. lauren: some think it's going to $750. stuart: nay do. macys down 10% earlier and down 10% now. lauren: kohls down 7 and nordstroms also.

macys warning of weak consumer spending in the back half of the year. that's when you do most of your business, christmas, hanukkah. stuart: they didn't mention shrinkage. that's a big problem. lauren: doesn't mean it's not happening but they didn't mention it. stuart: oliver anthony said his song isn't just for blue tape. >> i don't know how to pronouns and this is something touching me globally and people are desperate for something positive again. stuart: it struck a word. actually the i don't think cord with the left. left leaning media and new york times writing the song's populism unmistakably leans right ward resulting in original track perfectly primed for hyper

polarized moment when conservatives perceive embattled. country scar john rich join -- star john rich joining me now. what does that say to you? >> he writes a song that puts into lyric and melody how people feel. he sounds exhausted. he sounds upset when he's singing the song. he sounds shredded and i think most americans regardless of politics feel exhausted, shredded, upset, sad. no good outlook for the future and he put it in a simple song and absolutely nailed it. that's why it's having that kind of success. stuart: despite big offers, oliver anthony has reached no. 1 status without a record label. you've got to new record, the country truth, that's also no. 1, and you also don't have a record label. how do you do that? >> yeah, his song is no. 1 and my whole record is no. 1 of all genres, not just country. that's a hard thing to do.

it shows that artists don't have to sell their soul to the industry to get their music out there anymore. most artists sign a big record deal and that's why he hasn't signed one, and i hope he doesn't. if he had that exact same song or i had my song called i'm offended and i'll play it for you in a second, if i was on a label and wrote that song or he wrote his, you'd have never heard it. the labels will never let a song like that out their front doors. it would be shelved and off the market and never heard of it. stuart: label removes some part of creativity? >> 100%. they own your voice and likeness and in perpetuity throughout the universe. you could come with something, if they don't like t it's not going to be heard. stuart: how do you get out there so much and become the no. 1 record? stuart: stuart varney called me and said be on my show. it's friends like that. dan bongino and rumble truth and they all put big presses behind my record and made sure millions of people heard it and decide

they like it to download the record or oliver anthony. at the end of the day, different ways to get to crowds other than the music industry. stuart: okay, one of your songs is titled i'm offended. would you just give me 30 seconds of i'm offended. >> of course, here's the chorus. ♪ i'm offended, you're offended, let's all get offended ♪ ♪ i'll order us a beer, we can sit down here and scream yeah we cuss and fuss and fight. i'll order us a beer and sit downright here and string and yell and cuss and fuss and fight. lauren: he's good. stuart: that was really good. that was a first. >> nothing funny going on in the world and i wanted to put out a song is that made people smile like that for a few minutes. stuart: you made us smile. i'm offended. lauren: i'm offended. >> i'm offended that you're offended and you're offended big time. stuart: it's released now?

>> out right now and no. 1 record in all of music and download it anywhere you get your music. stuart: the country truth? >> yeah, that's right. stuart: john, it was a real pleasure. thank you for being wonderful us. >> good seeing you. stuart: good stuff. next case, existing home sales game into annualized rate of just over 4 million, a very low number. mortgage rates at highest level since 2000 and is housing at a standoff standstill? we take that on. remote work, rampant crime turning much of san francisco's financial district into a coast town and a doom loop, walking tour sold out. claudia cowen has that story after this. ♪

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stuart: modest gain for nasdaq and fractional loss for s&p. mixed picture. companies fleeing new york city for states like florida and texas. we spent a lot of time on those stories. lauren's back with me. these businesses, many of them that moved out were financial firms. what's that costing new york city? lauren: almost a trillion, $993 billion in losting a sets from the -- lost assets from the end of 2019 till now as 158 wall street-type firms moved out. one-third of businesses went to florida. north and south carolina and texas also popular and you know the reason, less taxation and less crime and more freedom. better weather. stuart: a trillion worth of assets walked out? >> and same amount of california in the same time period stuart: i didn't realize it was that much. thanks, lauren.

remote work, rampant crime and open air drug market turning san francisco into a drug town. claudia is in san francisco for us. what happened to the shiny reputation? it's been trashed, hasn't it? reporter: it is tarnished indeed, stuart. san francisco was a place where visitors left their hearts and people wanted to live and work, but now headlines like this one in the atlantic say that it's in a doom loop caused by people abandoning the city leaving fewer residents to pay taxes and deal with crime and feels free to steal even in the middle of the day and with people sitting inside one of the cars while rapes are down compared to this time last year, murders, robberies and car thefts are way up. figures show more than 4,000 people live on the streets of san francisco and those sidewalks are so dangerous.

employees at nancy pelosi federal building near open air drug market advised to work from home. remote work policies devastating downtown and almost a third of san francisco's office space is sitting empty and nordstroms, whole foods and dozens of other stores closed leaving san francisco on the brink of economic catastrophe. city leaders are working with business owners to improve conditions and help them rebound and ikea is opening a store this week in one of the hardest hit neighborhoods but a full recovery could take years. for now, one enterprising tour guide is cashing in on the so-called doom loop offering an up close look at all the worst the city has to offer. open air drug market, abandoned tech offices, and deserted stores. it is sold out.

back to you. stuart: claudia, thank you very much indeed. next case, those existing home sales, we gave you the number at the top of the hour. down to 4.07 million and that's on annualized basis and 30 year fixed rate mortgages jumped to highest since 2000, 7.48%. mitch is the housing guy and joining us know. housing market is the virtual standstill. >> can't sell housing on the market and not for sell. that's what's happening. what's the knock on effect of that and lowe's and earnings and home improvement and knock on effect of not selling homes and downstream economic output that we're not getting and people buy homes and fix them up and spend money and buy furniture and not getting economic lift from selling extra 5.5, million and a half homes. stuart: what would it take to

get the market moving again? >> lower mortgage rates. >> the demand is there and we have a house in new york, met new neighbors the other day, bought a house a monthing a. people are buying houses where i live in florida. people buying ho houses and thes literally nothing on the market. what's been there is stuff that's been there for a really long time. the scrapers. there's a lot of good news and get materials and lumber and refrigerators again and if you're so inclined to build a home and what's interesting and new home sales tomorrow and home building market is doing really, really well and home builders see a opportunity to create supply, and what they're doing though is they're making small -- the homes they're building a bit smaller to keep the price down.

special real estate is tanking. is that accurate? >> yeah, break commercial real estate down and for the most part and retail shopping centers are doing okay and retail has been through apocalypse after apocalypse and survived all of them. the sector that's really struggling is office buildings and truly, truly struggling. it's the triple whammy and less demand and front pushing yet and banks are petrified to lend and if you're holder of office building and you have a loan that's coming due in a couple of years and you'll see more and more and those props going back to the lenders and no prospect of refinancing those things.

>> that was a place that tourists used to go too. stuart: mitch, thank you very much indeed. appreciate it. the luxury market in miami is booming. i'm told that it's billionaires who are boosting the prices of luxury real estate there. you want to give me some names. lauren: heard of indian creek, billionaires bunker? that's where jeff bezos. i thought it was me since i don't know florida as well as you guys. okay, you will now. jeff bezos bought a $68 million mansion. there it is. reportedly he's interested in another one nearby. indian creek is a man-made barrier island with own self-governing body, own mayor and law enforcement. julio igesias, tom brady and ivanka trump and others live there. didn't ken driven start this with a record deal in coconut grove, $106 billion.

stuart: bezos pace $168 billion for the mansion? lauren: so i heard. it hasn't been refuted. looking for another. >> 20 homes and have their own golf course. pretty exclusive. lauren: i have problem with that. he does well. good for you. stuart: thank you, everyone. president biden going to great lengths to make sure republicans can't use material to finish the border wall. we're all over that one. donald trump hasn't campaigned much in iowa and hasn't stopped him from dominating the polls and brian kilmeade on trump's growing support, that's next. ♪

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auctions off millions of dollars of unused border wall material and trying to stop republicans from finishing the wall. what do you make of that? >> talked to senator tom cotton who's a lawyer and lindsey graham and i don't care, republican or democrat. we paid for that. 400 miles laying in the desert and starts picking up the pace with the government auction, pennys on the dollar, stuart, to get rid of these pieces of fence, which are 28 feet high and eventive. they -- effective. they funnel and with the fences come the technology and roads on both sides to let the border patrol do their job better and more effectively, and he realizes this past the democratic-controlled senate in route to passing the house in a few weeks and picking up the pace. that's diabolical and evil and petty because he knows it helps his border patrol to have a fence, but he also knows it's donald trump's thing because he talked about it. that's how much he hates trump more than he likes us. stuart: you know, let's turn our

attention to mr. trump-appointed for a second. he's only campaigned in iowa a few times since the start of the 2024 season. it's 23409 stopping him from -- not stopping him from dominating in the poll and beat ron desantis by 23 points. what do you make of trump's strategy to skip the debate and turn himself in to the fulton county jail the next day. trying to divert attention from the republican debate? >> sure. no doubt about it. he's saying to himself, you know, i'm winning by 20 points. let's say someone scores big on me, i will regret that moment. when you have an unscripted moment for two hours, that's why i'm not going to do it. i hung up with colonel allen west that down trump was supportive of him in the ax and lost his life. saying you've got to show up. if you're the big guy, take on those guys and they brought up a great point and in 1980, ronald reagan was so far ahead and didn't debate george h.w. bush

and he won hey and then re--- iowa and reagan gets back in and had to reclaim momentum and made him his vp. it's somewhat of a risk for trump to jump in and do this again, but i would love to have seen him down there. i think it makes everybody better. i think trump is saying this is what i do theirically, i'm sure he's -- theoretically, he's probably pretty proud of his record and defending his record and some people say, wait a second. he's getting himself in legal jeopardy, that's easy out. people get into him at a case and say hey, guys, i can't engage because i'm in the middle of being railroaded with four separate cases. stuart: any chance that trump could turn up at the debate stadium and say, hey, let me in? shows up at 8:30, 8:00 at night for the debate beginning at 9:00? any chance he shows up? >> will he sign that form that says i will support the nominee when he's already on the record saying there's about four people going for this nomination that i

could never support. so would he sign that? that'll be key too if he does in fact show up. it'll be dramatic, that's something he'd do. i think for a guy running for the third time, i don't know if he'd do it. he didn't benefit from missing the last fox debate. i don't think he's going to go to the last fox debate and said i'm going to miss the first few and governor sununu writing in the editorial, whatever happening after iowa is get in or get out because that's the only way to stop donald trump because he's become not anti-trump but convinced trump can't win the general. i used to think this till the indictments were handed down and a lot of people on the fence or said i'm done with this see such injustice and are pulling back and taking another look. stuart: did you see vivek ramaswamy preparing for the debate? he was playing tennis. he posted a clip and had a three hour practice session on monday. posted that clip.

he's the most interesting candidate, isn't he? >> in a way. but his foreign policy is absolutely comic book. i mean, israel, we're going to stop funding. you can take taiwan in 2028. hey, russia and china props not to be partners and keep 20% of ukraine. that's idiotic, but he's playing to the part of the republican party that says i don't want any part of the rest of the world. i want a fortress for america. i think anyone that -- anyone that understands the world we live in, that's impossible and can't retract and expect to be dominant and playing to that part of the wow. party. to me he's too smart and i know he can't believe that. stuart: you're right and i miss that had on foreign policy. brian, we're out of time. thank you very much indeed and see you again real soon. >> go get them, stuart. stuart: oklahoma governor kevin stitt visited oklahoma and i want his take on the wall materials being sold off.

hoping biden won't watch the republican debate tomorrow and tech policy expert cara frederick on montana trying to ban everyone in the state from using tiktok. 11:00 hour of "varney & co." is next. ♪

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