>> there just wasn't a candidate that stuck out and said this was a home run. if you're making umm a 30, 40 point differential inside the republican primary, you need a home run. >> they tried to overdo it. tried to sell too much of their resume and talked about the other guy instead of what they

bring to the relationship. >> this is when you buy; right, when stocks are down, that's when you buy. stocks are down because bonds are going up. >> government is having to issue a lot of debt just to keep its doors open and with inflation remaining sticky, the buyers of the debt are demanding higher interest rates. i think rates are going higher, the market isn't going to like it. >> the difference can't be more clear between what joe biden and all of his cohorts in office have offered, which is total focus, bought and paid for by the teacher'sdownon, seeding to their demands versus focus on students. stuart: good morning, everybody. live from california. it's 11:00 on the east coast. what is it? just after 8:00 here in

california. sunny california. september the 28th, all day. check the markets, please, we have some movement and some green, not much. we've got some. dow's up 72, nasdaq up 27, s&p up 13 points. big tech about an hour ago all down. now, mostly higher. meta is up, alphabet is up, but apple 170 right now, microsoft at 311 and amazon 124. where's that 10-year treasury yield? well, above 4.6%, 465 as we speak. that's not helping big tech at all. lou basenese joining me for market coverage this thursday morning. lou, i keep going back to this but what is wrong with 5.6% on a six month treasury? >> nothing, and i'm going to keep saying it's boring. i don't like to be a boring guy. let's not overwear that. stocks are down and there's a

government shutdown looming and more buying opportunities ahead and i would argue this is a dazed and confused market. stocks are falling as if a recession is imminent but then oil topping $95 as if there's no recession in sight. i think investors are trying to find out what's the new normal and the new normal is what i've been saying is going to happen. one more hike from the head and fier interest -- fed and and higher interest rates and i think you should be looking at forever growth trends enduring once we get through to the other side and also in the bargain bin. go ahead. susan: we keep going through the negatives. that's the function of stock market analysis. climb that wall of worry. stuart: yields and possible recession and government shut down. show me a positive. where's a positive in the pockmark at the moment? >> listen, i think the positive is not evident immediately in the stock market but in innovation.

look at all the technological innovation happening and what are the biggest trends persisting through the negativity and artificial intelligence, which is really innovation and semiconductors. it's psychoer security and see a company -- cybersecurity and companies like sisco making improvements to defend the digital landscape against cyber thieves. the innovation that underpins the chips act that is evident in patent filings and that's the positive. when we look back and halt innovation and our company looks for the innovative up and comers based upon patent filings and that's the earliest indicator of what's to come in the markets down the road. look for gdp necessarily corporate earnings and that's happening in corporate america. stuart: don't play the qs and that's going nowhere. picking individual innovators. that's your story?

>> you have to be a stock picker and not an index player. s&p 500 driven largely by seven stocks and that's -- you're really better off finding individual undervalued names that are innovating and have a lot of upside versus overvalued names like nvidia and we hope they go higher. that's the greater fool theory. i don't play that . stuart: are you still in nvidia? were you ever? >> no, everyone else but me was in, adam johnson, keith fitzgerald, my buddy mark tepper. there's plenty of stocks and they're like sweet hearts. you lose them and miss them when they're gone. nxpi. it's a stock i own and firm doesn't do much with it and it's cheaper and levered to artificial intelligence but every other big tech friend out there from 5g to automation to electric vehicles, you name it. xpi trades at a fraction of the valuation of nvidia.

stuart: brilliant, lou. brilliant. a man bringing sweet hearts into a stock market discussion. that was classic, man. absolutely classic. >> i'm here for it. stuart: no, stay away from that. we better go tolt stock market and individual movers and shakers of the day, lauren, the auto makers please. lauren: there are ratter reports that the -- reports that the uaw targeting a 30% pay increase for their members and enough to satisfy members and attract new members and the initial request was for a 40% pay bump and the auto makers offered about half that. so if this holds true, you're going from 20-30 and that might be enough to opened the strikes? we'll see if the strikes do expand tomorrow. then you have -- stuart: going from 20-30 and now you're talking about very significant increase in the cost structure of the established auto makers. i mean, i'm wondering if the stock can handle that.

lauren: good question. we've already heard from ford and the ceo talking about bankruptcy if they met every single one of the union's demand, and that brings me to my next mover, which is an ev company neo and holding talks with mercedes benz and the stock is up 4%. so a legacy auto maker mercedes would invest in knee owe in ev -- neo for all their technology and we're seeing the trend and collaboration between the legacy auto makers and the newer startups who need cash to battle tesla, tesla is a big winner in these uaw strikes. finally take you to the favorite, the cruise line, stuart. norwegian is up 3%. i couldn't ignore it. jp morgan says the cruise lines could still have room to raise their prices further. we will get more collator tomorrow. carnival -- clarity tomorrow and carnival reports and stock up

27% in 2023. stuart: you made your point. >> thank you, lauren. stuart: elon musk is going after alexandria ocasio-cortez after she compared the migrant crisis to ellis island and what he had to say actually. governor nikki haley confronted vivek ramaswamy after he said he wanted to ban tiktok then he joined it. roll tape. >> i honestly -- every time i hear you, i feel a little bit dumber for what you say. we can't trust you. we can't trust you. you wanted to ban tiktok now you're on it. stuart: vivek ramaswamy is here to respond to that next. ♪

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changes fast. house speaker kevin mccarthy warned gop members about a shut down today and he's now talking to senate democrats including kirstin cinema about an emergency spending bill coupled with border security. >> i don't think anybody is stronger or the country is better if you have that and i think the difference here is i've had conversation with democrat senate sores even as early as today that want to do something on the border. this is a place to get a short term stopgap and get something on the border. reporter: the senate and house are working on different interim plans and stopping boarding security and cutting spending and some republicans will not support a continuing resolution known as a cr. cr renews most old funding on a temporary basis to avoid a shut down.

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stuart. >> we've seen this movement before. stuart: ramaswamy takes hits across the debate field et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. vivek ramaswamy joining me here on the set in california. why are you being the target? >> i've unexpectedly risen from 0.0% in march to where we are now. i app the outdoorer and would be the young ere president elected if ever elected and i'm a leered from a different generation. it is up to me wees the voters across this country to earn their trust that, yes, a young commander in chief and outsider to politics and someone from a different generation can actually reunite this country and lead us forward. i personally believe that's exactly what it's going to take. i think it's going to take, stuart, somebody that's best days are yet ahead in life and

seeing a country who's best days are yet ahead of itself. do i take a lot of personal fire? yes. i'm not running against any of those candidates. i'm running for this country and that that is what i'm keeping in mind. stuart: governor haley went after you for changing stance on tiktok. hold on, watch this. >> i have a radical idea for the republican party, we need to win elections. and part of how we win elections is reaching the next generation of young americans where they are. >> this is infuriating because tiktok is one of the most dangerous social media apps you could have. >> yes, it is. >> every time i hear you i feel a little dumber for what you say. the tiktok situation and chai no knows what they're doing. we can't trust you. we can't trust you. stuart: hold on a second before we get into that. governor haley want as complete ban on tiktok on principle because you don't want to do

business with the chinese communist party. you turned around and said, tiktok's okay but not for those under the age of 16. that's your position? >> well, i think we're not going to beat china by becoming china, and you look at that bill through congress and i think it had way too much expansive government control and i've said addictive social media products should not be used in kids around the age of 16. tiktok and includes other ones too. we have to say that kids aren't the same as adults and if you can't smoke an addictive cigarette by the age of 18, shouldn't be using an addictive social media app under the age of 16 either. we have to be level headed. nobody is harder line on china than me. we have to win to do this. stuart: the social media genie is out of the bottle. stopping youngsters under the age of 16 from having anything to do with it, that's almost impossible. >> i respectfully disagree with that, stuart. narrow characterizations about the ages we're talking about, it's harder --

stuart: they get around it. >> today the way the apps work and can detect the age of the person using it and it's less challenges than cigarettes in the prior century and these are the solutions we need to protect the children and the next generation that go beyond political partisanship and that's what i'm uniquely bringing to the table here and stuart: governor haley took another jab at you. watch this. >> it's frustrating for me when people don't realize how dangerous the chinese communist party is. you have 150 million americans using tiktok right now and they have access to your phone, to your camera, to your e-mails, to your contacts and financial information, the idea that you have a candidate who was opposed but now says i'm going to get back on it. that's a bad precedent for anyone american to think it's okay but it's not okay.

>> we're in the reagan library and reagan said about the soviet union. he said, we win, they lose. that's my strategy on china. not one social media app and defense industrial base and pharmaceutical supply chain and semiconductor supply chain and declaring independence from the climate cult that shackles the united states leaving china untouched and i've offered depth greater than any other candidate in the race for for examplely how we'll do that, while -- exactly how to do that while advancing the american prosperity and that's how i'll legal as commander in chief and taking someone coming for a different organization and the ussr doesn't exist anymore and the communist chinese party is the top threat that we face

today and we're kickly dependent on them. in a way we never were on the soviet union and i've been talking about this in my books and otherwise and leading us to declare independence from china. stuart: vivek ramaswamy, great to have you on the stage last night and here today. thank you very much, vivek. >> great seeing you, stuart. stuart: thank you. go to last night's debate some more. why not. the candidates discussed plans to solve the border crisis. watch that. >> our laws being broken every day at the southern border, every day. joe biden and his crew is doing nothing about enforcing that law. >> go back to remain in mexico policy instead of catch and release, go to catch and deport. >> i favor ending birthright citizenship for the kids of illegal immigrants in this country. >> that is why as commander in chief i'm going to use the u.s. military to go after the mexican drug cartels. they are killing our people. stuart: senator ted cruz,

republican from the great state of texas joining us now. mr. senator, were you satisfied with any of the candidates answers? were they being realistic in suggesting you can deport 5 million people? >> well, stuart, great so be with you and saying nice job. it was a rowdy evening and i thought you did a very nice job. it was not an easy task and if you get lonely and miss it, i'll try to yell over you if that helps bring you back to the debate stage. stuart: bring it on, senator. >> look i thought all of them when it came to illegal immigration and the ideas they put out there that they're reasonable steps there's one very simple step that's critical and follow the damn law. what's caused this crisis is we have a president in joe biden who refuses to follow the law. who utterly defies the law, joe biden came into office two and a half years ago and he inherited incredible success. we had the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years

and all joe biden had to do was not screw it up. just continue to follow the law and his very first week in office he halted the construction of the border wall, he re-instated the disastrous policy of catch and release and he pulled out of the incredibly successful remain many mexico agreement. that is what caused this border crisis. the challenge right now, hour constitutional system is not designed for a president that ignores the law and refuses to follow it. you look back to barack obama. i'm not a fan of barack muhammad ali to put it mildly. but on im-- barack obama to put it mildly. by in large he followed the law and by daca, he deported millions and the left got very mad at obama and called him the deporter in chief. what joe biden is doing when they apprehend someone they give them a court date sometime years in the future and let them go and the vast majority is never

seen again. you cannot solve the border crisis unless you enforce the law and i actually think any of the candidates on that stage would enforce the law in a fundamentally different and more real way than joe biden is doing. stuart: senator, forgive me for digressing but i think it was you who suggested that the demodemocrats are in such troube that by next year, they'll have ditched president biden and parachuted in michelle obama. i believe it was you who said that. any further comment? >> i talked about that at length and every week i do a podcast, monday, wednesday and friday and it's a verdict with ted cruz and i did a podcast on exactly this topic and we're seeing more and more democrats getting nervous about joe biden. we're seeing more and more members of the corporate media places like the washington post and cnn getting nervous about joe biden and throwing out trial balloons he's too old and not up to it mentally and getting

worried about the mounting evidence of corruption from joe biden. i laid out and think the odds have risen dramatically. that at the convention next summer, the democrats decide to jump joe biden and the parachute in in my smell obama and the only one that come come in and not infuriate the other democrats waiting in the wings and it would be profoundly dangerous. stuart: the dress code reversed and senator fetterman made a joke about the original. is this a slam on schumer that proposed the dress code change in the first place? it's been reversed. >> of course it is. it was idiotic when schumer changed the dress code. we've dressed in formal attire on the senate floor since literally the dawn of the republic, since the beginning of our nation. and i found it bizarre when schumer changed the dress code

and he did it because overworn senator john fetterman that didn't want to wear a suit. i can tell you the other 99, all of us are going to wear a suit and tie or if you're a woman, the professional equivalent of a suit and tie. it was just weird. it showed a a disrespect from schumer for the institution, for the institution of the senate. it showed a disrespect for the role of the senate so i'm very glad that unanimously we reverse it had and it was a dumb idea and a dumb idea reversed. stuart: mr. senator, always a pleasure. thank you for being here. see you soon. >> thank you, sir. stuart: iowa caucuses set for january 15th, less than four months away. who do voters there think won the debate last night. brian brenberg in a diner in that crucial state. brian and the diners join us, next. ♪

stuart: major topic in last night's debate: the border. bill melugin is with us this morning. what did the candidates say on the border last night?

>> all the candidates agree that the border is absolutely that chaos right now and they all have different ideas on what they should do to fix it. they're also all calling out president biden starting with senator tim scott. take a listen. >> joe biden should not be on the picket line. he should be on the southern border working to close our southern border because it is unsafe, wide open, and insecure. >> another candidate that talked about the border last night was nikki haley and i visited with her down in eagle pass back in april. she came down to the border and pitched hiring a lot manufacture border patrol agents and ending catch and release and instead switching to catch and deport here is part of what she said last night. >> we need to make sure we put 25,000 more border patrol and ice agents on the ground and let

them do their job. border patrol agents aren't allowed to do their job. go back to remain in mexico policy instead of catch and release, go to catch and deport. >> and vivek ramaswamy believes we should end birthright citizenship. >> we have to seal that southern border, building the wall is not enough. they're building cartel-financed tuns underneath that wall and seem trucks can drive through them and use our own military to seal the swiss cheese of the southern border. reporter: meanwhile president biden is in arizona today in the phoenix area just a few hours away from the southern border and no galless area and the president has not plans

whatsoever to go down and see that border. back to you. stuart: why am i not surprised. bill melugin, great stuff. thank you. come on in, brian brenberg. you're talking to voters at a diner in all important state of iowa. did the people in that diner think anybody won outright? reporter: i d. randy and barb are here with me. did you think anybody won that debate last night? >> no, too much bickering going on. reporter: too much bickering. any performance out of anyone that you thought they're showing me a little bit here? >> i did. reporter: what did you think? can you name name s? >> i can't remember that guy's name. reporter: shall remain nameless and had a good performance. barb, what were your big impressions from the debate last

night? >> too chaotic. just -- can't -- they're talking over each other and can't hear what any of them have to say. reporter: what did you want to hear, barb. what issues did you want to hear about? >> more about the economy. we are living on a fixed income, i bought groceries yesterday, i had to pair my list down from $375 to $275 and that's just ludicrous for two older people to eat for ten days. >> you've got to make ends meet and grocery prices are so high. >> only so much to go till the end of the month and doesn't carry over very much. reporter: are your minds open to change, randy? where are you right now? are you leaning one way or the other? where do you stand? >> well, i'm going to probably vote for trump again. he did a lot for this country and i just like trump. reporter: that's where you are right now. >> say he should have been there last night but the way things went last night, why even have these debates.

they're arguing all the time. they don't shut up. reporter: when the dinger happens and the thing goes. barb, is it important for the former president to be on the debate stage as people make their decisions? >> not necessarily because i think everyone knows where he stands and so i don't think it was necessarily him having to plead his case at this point. reporter: okay. so, you know, this is great. we're having a serious conversation about debate and we got this french toast coming in and the bacon coming in. i've lost all focus, stuart, i can't remember what we're talking about anymore because my nose is in charge now. stuart: well, that was the perfect arrival of breakfast if you ask nerve nucleus and tell barb, i did my best to bring a sense of order to the debate. i obviously failed in that respect. thank them very much for watch watching. appreciate it. reporter: they're big fans, stuart. see you. stuart: now he tells me.

i would have given them an extra five minutes. you're all right. see you later. they sent gavin newsom to the debate last night. why did they do that? was it a smart move? steve hilton reports or deal withs it. the workers are set to escalate the auto workers strike tomorrow. jeff flock is in michigan with the latest on that. we'll be back. ♪ after advil. feeling better? on top of the worlddddd!!!

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>> i'll say this, joe biden should noted be on the bickering et line. >> if i was giving advice to the workers, i'd say go picket in front of the white house in washington dc. >> why are the workers actually

there? it's because of all the spends he's pushed through in the economy that's raised the inflation. >> that's why they're striking because they need two-thirds less workers to build an electric car. joe biden, this strike is at joe biden's feet. stuart: there it was. republican candidates talking about the uaw strike, which by the way is entering its 14th day today. the union now threatening to expand the strike if there's no progress by tomorrow. jeff flock in centerline, michigan. jeff, where do the negotiations stand right now? reporter: stuart, there was a report in the last hour that the auto workers reduced demands on salary to 30% invests opposed to 40%. however, we talked at fox business to a source familiar with the negotiations who pushed back hard on that saying that that report is false. and that the headline on it they've changed their demands to be a misleading headline. in addition, tomorrow at 10:00, shawn fain issue the president

of uaw will hold a facebook live and last week on friday when he did that and expansion of the strike and source close to the negotiations at uaw tell fox business that indeed if l progress is not made, they'll strike more plants. a truck attempting to get into this factory by stellantis and the workers are blocking the access to the plants even if management people are working inside there. i talked to afl cio president and she says she's in town to support the strike. she says the nation is backing the strike. listen. >> we're here braining the solidarity and support of the labor movement because what the uaw is standing up for is exactly what we're seeing all evidence of infection cross the

country in so -- across the country in so many industries where workers are fed up. stuart: sewer, you and your colleagues made the strike question one and maybe question two as well at the debate last night. we heard what some of them had to say. at the same time former president trump was in town talking to some union auto workers as well as a nonunion crowd and nonunion parts facility. he told them if president biden's green agenda didn't continue with -- continue withs regard to electric cars, detroit will essentially be boomed. listen. >> he wants electric vehicle mandates that will spell the death of the company. >> it doesn't make a damn difference of what you get because in two years, you're all gone that be out of business.

business. reporter: surprisingly, president trump saying that shawn fain said he was a good man after fain criticized him the day before. sounds like a new donald trump to me. stuart: nicely said. jeff, thanks very much indeed. quickly, i want to dot market check because we've got a rally on our hands for the dow industrials. just a few moments ago we started to move up quite sharply and s&p up 52 -- 32, sorry. i think i know why, oil's come down to $90 a barrel and the two-year treasury, that yield has come down significantly and stocks up, yield down. moral in the country. still very low. ashley, come on in, please. is this all about finance? ashley: it certainly is. it's about the economy, stupid; right? moral in the tank and higher gas prices and multiple student loans and a potential government shutdown and according to a morning consult poll and high

income households and earning more than $100,000 and dropped 4.3% this month compared to 2.8% decline among middle income households and half a percent dipped in low income households and 13% by the way of low income households say they've seen that income, their income, drop over the past week compared to 10% in the middle income bracket and even 20% of high income workers expect to see their income drop in the next four weeks and bottom line, stu, when your money doesn't go as far, that's bad for m moral. stuart: thank you. president biden criticized for not critting the border during his california -- criticizing for not vieding the border during california and arizona trip. steve hilton is fired up about that and wearing his standardrt t-shirt.ne that's next. ♪ network.

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♪ stuart: president biden is campaigning in soft and average today. he was in california yesterday. matt finn in tempe. all right, matt. two border states but no time for a border visit? reporter: stu, the president was fundraising across california and arizona over the past three

days, but not visiting the border. in fact, where we stand right now in the phoenix area, we're less than three hours to nogales and yuma, arizona, which have critical hot spots for the immigration crisis. the president is not scheduled to visit either location, and in doing so the president is defying elected officials here in arizona and all over the country who are demanding the president spend some realtime at the border. a yuma county supervisor says he's invited the president several times to visit yuma, which has seen some of the highest numbers of illegal crossings and an opportunistic ed in the arizona central newspaper insists president biden should be using this arizona trip to visit the border reading in part "what an ideal week for the president of the united states to visit a border state such as arizona. a mass of humanity is moving across the u.s./mexico boarder and the u.s. federal government has lost control. the data shows the white house policies designed to stem the flow of illegal migration have failed.

the former acting dhs secretary and many other crit ibrams say biden is not going to the border because it would expose his failures. >> he doesn't want to go to the border because he doesn't want to hear from border patrol agents and experts that their failed strait jim jordan is not works -- strategy is not working and they'd want him to change course and those are difficult conversations and his people in the white house will keep him far away from that i'm sure. reporter: now, in a new agreement with mexico, the united states, mexico now says they'll deport certain migrants from the northern cities and take into custody migrants that have been expelled from the u.s.. today, the president will continue his fundraising and he's expected to announce the new mccain library here in the phoenix area, stu. stuart: matt, thanks very much indeed. look who's here now. we're in california so here's the california guy. his name is steve hilton of course. no border visits california or arizona. the migrant crisis ignored when he went to new york. fired up about this.

>> i am. welcome to california, stu. i wore my california t-shirt for you. i know how much you love my dress code. stuart: non-on this program, believe me. >> the stray jim jordan on the border if -- strategy on the border for the biden administration and democrats generally seems to be captured in a phrase that debbie wassemman-schultz said last week. what you're seeing is different than reality. their late rale i can't tell jim jordan is don't believe your -- literal strategy is don't believe your lying eyes. we're not going to do anything to stop it but tell you what you're seeing is unreal. it's unbelievable. stuart: it's catastrophic. 50,000 people walked across the border in the past week. if that pace keeps up on annual basis, 2.5, 3 million people in the next year. that's impossible. >> it's absolutely stunning situation. no sign of anything being done and by the way, their central

argument, which is we can't do anything because congress has to act and all the republicans fault for blocking our policies. hang on a second, last week they issued a massive change in immigration status for hundreds of thousands of venezuelans and they did that without going to congress. they just did it overnight. if they can do that, why can't they secure the border without congress? stuart: quick thing about last night, the biden campaign sent california governor newsom to the gom spin room after the debate. why would the biden campaign do that? why introduce a guy that should be the campaign -- the democrat? >> he's clearly the preeminent candidate that was ready to replace biden. i think it was probably gavin newsom that volunteered to go and a very, very good move for him to look 100% supportive of joe biden and not joining in the correspondent rhus or whispers -- chorus or whispers saying the guy's got to go and the loyal foot soldier that the

guy has to take over. stuart: it's a difficult task. >> very hard. stuart: wouldn't be a norral day if we didn't have a headline from elon musk. sorry, i've jumped over something here. who is the loser in last night's debate? >> it's very clear to me the loser was mike pence. he was absolutely out of it. he seemed like a deflated candidate, his answers were weak and his whole presentation was weak. i don't understand why he's still in the race. he's got no chance and he's better off just getting out now. stuart: strong stuff, steve, thank you for withing here. dress code and all. as i said previously, it wouldn't be a normal day if we didn't have a headline from elon musk. ashley, what's his problem with aoc? ashley: well, basically he thinks she's an idiot. in a video posted to her instagram account, aoc said today's influx of migrants into new york city is nothing compared to the number of people who came through ellis island more than a century ago. well, the liberal lawmaker says more than 12 million immigrants

passed through ellis island between 1892 and 1954 but that statement immediately ridiculed on social media with critics pointing out that millions of myomigrants did come legally through ellis island as opposed to the millions illegally crossing the southern border and many unvetted who simply just disappear into the shadows and, yes, elon musk jumped in on x saying "she's just not that smart". i'll leave it right there, stu. stuart: oh, i really think you should leave it right there. thank you very much, ashley. here it is, the thursday trivia question. which president named camp david after his grandson? fdr, harry truman, dwight eisenhower or robert kennedy? steve will play along and since he doesn't have a smart phone, he cannot look up the answer. the answer when we come back. ♪

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stuart: we did ask, which president named a camp david after his grandson. ashley, you are first. ashley: i have absolutely no idea. i will go for number one. fdr. stuart: interesting. all right. >> i'm doing that on the grounds the name has been around a while. the oldest one there,

historically. stuart: i'm going to do the same thing. the oldest one there because i think camp david has been around a long time. it was eisenhower. dwight eisenhower. okay. name the compound in shangri-la, if they are named it, eisenhower renamed it in 1953 after his grandson. >> that's a good move. it doesn't work. stuart: send your friday feedback, e-mail us your questions and comments, varneyviewers@fox.com. that's it for "varney and company". and five seconds, miraculously, coast-to-coast will appear now. adam: the day after the debate who is still dancing with the stars? who might be next? a couple contenders. let's start contending