it seems right now a three month treasury paying 5.5% looks pretty good and owning gold might be a good idea and reducing risk might make sense. i think that's what investors are starting to realize. stuart: do you want to buy oil, crude prices are jumping on this hamas attack. >> i would i would rather play it through the oil producers but whenever there is war you to see inflationary pressures especially in the middle east. oil should continue going up. maria: we should point out all participants are not even not work today it is columbus day and we are seeing the bond market close before the holiday. tomorrow will be much more participation. thank you very much, the breaking news continues on fox business. "varney & company" is up next. stuart: a grim picture emerging in israel. more than 700 israelis have been murdered by hamas terrorist.

the worst atrocity against use in the holocaust. rocket attacks hit tel aviv and jerusalem. that means all of israel is on the firing line. troops and equipment are staging on the gaza border. probably moving towards a ground invasion. israeli defense minister says we are fighting human animals and we act accordingly. gaza is now under complete si siege, no food, fuel or electricity. any ground invasion complicated by hamas hostagetaking. over 100 believe held including americans, fast-moving situation. we will update throughout the show. no surprise investors in the selling mode, no safe havens will get to them but the dow looks to be losing a couple of hundred points in the opening bell the nasdaq down 100. the price of oil up whenever war breaks out there is immediate concern of oil supplies, you look at $86 a barrel as we

speak. up $3. gold is a safe haven moving up still below $1900 an ounce but 1861. there is other news the mayor of new york city want to write to work for migrants and being sharp at bidens border policies. an anxiety over the known terrorist who crossed her southern border. the fear is some will be activated as part of the war in the mid-east. one last one. trump's is this the horrible attack on israel would never have happened if i were president. chance,". monday october 9, 2023, "varney & company" is about to begin ♪ ♪. stuart: israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has declared war against hamas terrorist asked her the provoked attacks on israel.

>> israel has can gain full control around the gaza border in israel's defense minister order to complete blockade of the gaza strip, no electricity, no food or fuel everything is closed. we are fighting human animals and we act accordingly. at least 700 israelis including nine americans were murdered by hamas and the surprise attack saturday morning. dozens taken hostage. that complicates any plan for israel to go into gaza, the wall street journal reported late yesterday iran helped hamas plot this out since august. if that is true israel could retaliate against iran that is a much wider war, earlier 12 rockets fired from lebanon from has blot into israel as more rockets flew into southern israel were trey yingst was. >> huge rocket bras targeted the

city of hash code we saw multiple impacts across his heavily populated area. we took cover next to a building but you can see the rockets coming off the gaza strip and slamming into buildings of this community. >> is a u.s. sends warships and aircraft to the easter minute entry mediterranean, hezbollah dragging the united states if we get involved. stuart: donald trump responded to the attacks on israel on the social media platform. the horrible attack on israel much like the attack on ukraine would never have happened if i were president, chance. charlie hurt joins me in new york. do you think trump is right. >> without a doubt you're dealing with the neighborhood the understands strength and strength only. the idea you'd have the biden administration pickup or the obama administration left off with the effort to empower iran and last month greenlining $6 billion worth of money going to the iranians supposedly for

humanitarian aid but we know what iran thinks about humanitarian aid and what they do with humanitarian aid. as part of a much larger scheme by the bite of administration. obama administration to handle whole thing over to iran. stuart: i think the latest episode demonstrates the weakness of this administration which is demonstrated since day one, day one and energy independence then we have the afghan withdrawal, then putin invades ukraine. now hamas is attacking israel. this is because we look weak. am i wrong on this? >> i think every decision was a decision to withdraw the united states from a position of power, not just in terms of dealing with external situations but in terms of power to determine our own destiny and to have her own ability to protect ourselves and they withdrawn every bit of

that. actors like iran and hamas see this as weakness and weakness for israel so they attack and that's what happens. i think donald trump is right and i would say the exact same thing about putin in ukraine. i don't think that would've happened if donald trump was still there. stuart: you can't say what the endpoint is going to be at the fast-moving situation. >> part of it a lot of them thought that donald trump was crazy and all you have to do is believe 10% that he is crazy and that will pay key people in good order. stuart: you never knew what he was going to do. >> you never know what joe biden is going to do either but for other reasons. >> peace through strength under trump. stuart: reagan to. got it. moving on. china responding to the attacks in israel, what are they saying. >> the calling for a cease-fire. here's the quote we call on

relevant parties to reclaim call, exercise your strength and the hostility to protect civilians and avoid further deterioration of the situation. the fundamental way out of the conflict lies in implementing the two state solution. go ahead. >> what you mean to state situation how could he have two states, one of them gaza and the other israel when one tries to invade the other and kill the jews. >> if that were on the table last week it is no longer on the table. it is an absolute impossibility. let's remember when people are injured in gaza is called collateral damage. when people are injured in israel it is intentional. stuart: i want to interrupt one more time. senator schumer is in china, what is he saying. >> is calling out china saying that response is not enough you need to say more and condemn this. not to mention hamas as a designated terrorist group they

don't even mention hamas calling for a cease-fire on the solution. rightfully so senator schumer scheduled to meet with xi jinping and china and the rest of asia for an economic trip is calling him out. stuart: democrats are split. >> this is to be a problem for them going forward, they're going to have to figure out their fissures over this issue. stuart: ilhan omar, aoc calling for a cease-fire. >> not to drag this into something more domestic but it is true, these are the same people who were for open borders. suddenly get politicians in places like new york waking up saying wait a minute we don't know who's coming across her own border and between now and next election day you can have a lot of people changing their position. stuart: thank you very much for being here. an important day, back to the futures market, red ink the dow is up 160, nasdaq and 100. jeff sica with this this mor

morning. i was expecting a bigger selloff you do not know how it's going to close this afternoon but do you think there will be more to come. >> i was expecting a bigger selloff two. one thing that you know the market has been dancing on razors edge for quite a while now so it is been all about oil and interest rates and now you have the most important ally in the middle east, israel that is going through the most serious situation that they've ever been in in the market has to digest that. here's where i think were at it's going to be dependent on the response to iran and it's also good to be very depended on what the saudi's do. if the saudi's pullback on production, keep in mind the biden administration made us slaves to opec they take away all of her ability to negotiate we are puppets to opec. it's what saudi arabia is going to do if oil prices keep moving up the markets will be in

trouble and if there is a lot of talk about retaliation against iran and what that will mean so the markets need to digest that. to me i think were in a bondable spot and i think we could see a massive selloff. but then again the fed could come in and back off interest rates. stuart: i think they will back off interest rates, why would they raise them again in the near future when you have a situation like this, i don't think they will. >> the fed has blood on their hands. stuart: a bit strong. >> they raise interest rates a lot they raised interest rates to the point that is becoming unsustainable for borrowers now they're faced with a situation that had they destroyed the consumer to the point that they cannot do this again and will conflict in israel get them to take a look at the unintended consequence of interest-rate increases which i believe were too quick and too short of a period of time.

they should've started this years ago. stuart: could they lower interest-rate. >> i think they can lower interest-rate. i honestly believe they can lower interest-rate and i think they could do it in early 2024 if they really focus on productivity and production. if they don't you'll see a credit crisis like we've never seen before. stuart: nice way to open the show on a monday morning. you tell it how you see it. we appreciate it. tensions high as dual rallies between hundreds of pro-palestinian and pro-israel demonstrators took place in new york city yesterday, new york post reporter jon levine was there. he will tell us what he saw. congress stuck at a standstill without a house speaker with the latest attack on israel and americans reportedly taken hostage as well. republicans this seems you have to get it together.

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critics claiming the administration of unfrozen assets of $6 billion in exchange for hostages last month. the wall street journal reports iran helped plan the attacks against israel for weeks. edward lawrence at the white house. what is the administration saying about this. hedging their bets on who might be responsible for this, we have seen the attacks on social media and we know 700 people have been killed inside of israel with others taking hostages. the state department says nine americans are among the dead.

president joe biden condemning what happened in israel and this attack but not pointing to who is ultimately to blame. >> the united states stands with israel. we will not ever fail to have their back. we will make sure they have the help that the citizens need and they can continue to defend themselves. >> representative michael waltz on the house foreign relationships committee and intel committee points a finger directly at iran. >> at the end of the day this is 100% iran. hamas doesn't fire a bb gun without iran giving us the permission and resources and greenlight to do so and to now find out they were weekly planning meetings, extensive coronation with iranian regime. we have a lot to unpack.

>> the attacks come three weeks after joe biden released $6 billion to iran as well as five iranian convicts to get five american hostages. the administration says the money will only be used for humanitarian reasons over the weekend president biden says hedging on the blame, listen. >> in this moment we don't have anything that shows us that iran was directly involved in this attack in planning and carrying it out. that's something were looking at carefully and we have to see where the facts lead. we know that iran has a long relationship with thomas in long support. >> we have not heard an update from the secretary of state as of yet. president biden has no public events on his schedule as of right now. stuart: i think the secretary of state should read the article tying iran directly to the attacks on israel. just a passing thought. >> i think you're trying to

figure out how to messages going forward in addition to the atrocities that are happening. i think there's going to be pressure in the white house that is building on what to say in how strongly to come out and come out against thomas and how strongly they come out against iran. stuart: are you expecting the statement from the president today. >> the pressure has to be there and i asked specifically if the president is going to change his schedule and, on say something to the american people especially that nine americans are dead in this assault. i have heard nothing yet as of that. you have to figure the pressure going on inside of the white house. stuart: back to you later. the attacks in israel have compounded worries about her own border, texas congressman pat fallon joins us now. as of july 100 well over 100 known terrorist to have clusters of importer. what happens if one of them commits an atrocity inside of america. >> that's why we need to secure our border is unfathomable to me

that joe biden has instituted so many policies that don't work. now i find interesting that border wall does work and they don't just want to build bridges they want to build walls, isn't that interesting only 160 terrorist people on the terrorist watch list but there are thousands of chinese and russian nationals out of come up across the border in the last couple of years and recently that number has spiked tenfold. stuart: any terrorist attack from a border crosser would be devastating for president biden. last word on the subject. >> he will be fire coming next november probably want to be be the democratic nominee from the southern border, no doubt. stuart: in my opinion this is no time for a speaker fight, the house has to take action, can you elect a speaker quickly. >> we get approved to the american people in the next 48 hours that we have adults in the room and the gop conference, it's very simple we have two

candidates i'm supporting steve scalise that i love jim jordan as well so we can go wrong either way and we can have a conference tomorrow. whoever wins in the conference, all 222 should walk out on the floor on wednesday and vote for that person. republicans and democrats do it across the country. state capital we need to grow up, respect the process is in the conference rules and get all the business of governing. in leading the free world. >> congressman on our screens at the moment were showing the new york stock exchange which is observing a minute of silence for what is happening in israel. one more question, israel and ukraine need our military help, can you get our military budget increase significantly, quickly. >> i certainly hope we can in the new speaker of the house will work on that. >> is a very dangerous world, one last thing the iranian money from importing the oil in 2020

president trump was in office is only 8000000000.500% increase. >> 400,000 barrels of oil a day and up to 3 million barrels a day that brings me a direct result of president biden. thank you for joining us, we always appreciate you being h here. presidential candidate nikki haley going after anthony blinken for denying any ties between the hostage deal between iran and the attacks on israel. what did she say. >> the ministry should is going out of the way say in the hostage deal struck on 9/11 and also included $6 billion in unfrozen funds has nothing to do with the weekends attack orchestrated by iran. nikki haley is not having any of it. watch here. >> i think was your responsible for secretary blinken to say the $6 billion does not weigh in. let's be honest with the american people and understand

hamas and iran know their moving money around as we speak because i know 6 billion is going to be released. that is a reality. money has been flowing to iran and that is the problem. when iran gets money they use it for hate. stuart: if you couple this with the easing of the sanctions even if the 6 billion was not touched, it gives iran breathing room knowing it is there, knowing they have access to it and strategy of appeasement towards iran that they could do more nefarious things. stuart: money is fungible it finds its way all over the place, it is not easy to do that. what the iranians mean using the money for humanitarian purposes is not the same thing we would mean by using it for humanitarian purpose there would be all kinds of things that humanitarian purpose. >> knowing that they have $6 billion for food and medicine they can use other money for weapons and rocket. stuart: i think you have the point, check features really fast coming up for a commercial

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stuart: i thought the selloff would be much worse, the dow done 120, the nasdaq out 90 with a few minutes to go with opening bell. i'm looking for safe havens and i see defense stocks going straight up. are you with me on this. >> absolutely among others that the great place to be for a couple of reasons to get continue to grow and plate and to pay dividends and unfortunately geopolitics being what it is is a growing business. stuart: raytheon i always think of rtx. they are the principal missile makers. >> among others, the thing about defense stocks people don't get they make missiles, airplanes is that in the other thing. in fact are all interconnected these are all derivative a.i. and comp located systems. they are one and the same but you gotta be big and strong and have a consistent backlog of supply and science. both of those companies do.

stuart: here's another safe haven will stocks as long as oil keeps going up. >> i personally own chevron i've been out that long time i hate being proven wrong $100 oil especially with the violence of israel in gaza over the weekend that is horrific anyway you cut it. the thing is bad policy is contributed to that, it is a longer-term relatively safe haven. i think earnings could save the stock market if they have to. stuart: were coming into earnings season. i'm not sure when it starts but is it late this week into next week i think. >> we are going to come into the financials first, i don't know off the top of my head when j.p. morgan reports but were coming up on that. that is exciting we will see real companies put up real numbers. the wannabes are going to get punished i think investors need to make a very careful choice what you want to have for the long-term and shed because the risks are not the same. stuart: back in the day many, many years ago whenever the world was on fire we had really

serious inflation you bought gold but gold is only at 1858 up a mere $13 when there's a war in the mideast, what is going on. >> there is a couple things, the security i station over stock market, use of collateral, gold is not what do you think it is. hurricane katrina wiped out an area the size of great britain they were not trading gold for cheeseburgers it was diapers, medicine and bullets. if you look at where our world was going and needs liquidity and finance. that will be companies that are must-have like apple and microsoft were the technology for cybersecurity. that is the new gold, people don't think of it that way but i submit from an investment perspective. stuart: looking at the price i think you're probably right. the bell is ringing that means that trading is about to begin. two seconds they have to press the button and off you go, the dow industrials opening lower

about 112-point, that is just one third of 1% now it's down one quarter of 1%. bring up the full screen with all of them and there is a preponderance of sellers but there is still a few winners even on a day like this, the dow is down 80 points. the s&p 500 on the downside to the tune of 17 points, .4%, the nasdaq was that, down as well, 100 points, three quarters of 1% down for the nasdaq composite. that's a big tech from top to bottom they are all down, apple 176, off about 136, microsoft 3284, et cetera, et cetera. they're all down. let's take another look at the defense stocks. i looked at them before open the opening of trading six haven. >> wells fargo is saying this, they say we doubt is really

conflict changes the defense spending outlook. but it could change obviously if the conflict widens. so what does it look like if iran gets more involved if israeli response to iran. one other thing, lockheed shares up out of the whole group they expanded the stock repurchase by $6 billion and raise the quarterly dividend. two pieces of good news for lockheed's people to forget an increase in the defense budget i think defense stocks will do well but that's an open question will the democrats agree to more defense spending, probably not, that is my opinion. the price of oil moving up to $85 a barrel this morning, the oil companies. >> a wider conflict in the middle east if iran in the straight of hormuz that's where the oil goes through a vital transit point. around 20% of global oil supply goes through the strait of

hormuz. oil could be held hostage to all of this. what happened today opec came out and said not just here in the u.s. but around the world demand is increasing they raise their demand forecast so the world is using more oil at the time when there is less oil. saudi arabia pullback, iran, the issues that we have now. of course we are not fracking more in the u.s. stuart: the last couple of weeks we put cruise lines on the screen. it occurs that oil at $85 a barrel is bad for the cruise line. lauren: cruise line should be done today, significantly. look at royal caribbean down 4%. wells fargo cut their price target, on rural caribbean, they are just waiting details on the distraction on the eastern mediterranean and cautious about inflation. the higher cost of everything including fuel. stuart: show me airlines. they cannot be doing well. cancel then goes, delta down

five, major carriers have either canceled or reined in their flights and obviously from the faa advising extreme caution virgin atlantic is operating some flights and this is telling and they are adding more flights to bring in reservist back. it is the biggest mobilization ever in israel because this is their 9/11 their second war. stuart: let's get to a stock that has nothing to do with oil, the mideast, gaza or anything else. >> that's why thought tech would be up today. stuart: disney up almost 1%, this is activist investment. nelson's border piece of disney. >> he does not like the share price at a decade low last week shares at $78.73. he's had enough he's not convinced by the reorganization

and cost turnaround plan by ceo bob iger so his fund management increase the stake in disney to two and a half billion dollars and they want to bid for multiple board seats including one for nelson himself according to the wall street journal. stuart: i wonder if he wants to get rid of bob iger. >> i been reading he has not been not dramatic in his request this far. stuart: dramatic okay. read walgreens, pharmacy is there a strike. >> there could be the pharmacy workers, the technicians, they might walk out between today and wednesday according to several reports. why, overworked they're supposed to fill prescriptions but now the required to administer vaccines as well they have to ring up your order when you're at walgreens. a lot of people get online at the pharmacy to buy toilet paper and not anything that the pharmacist would help with.

they are set up the most workers across the country are saying enough is enough. stuart: look at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. check the big board, look at this on a day with a war in the mideast. the dow industrial open down a mere 14 points. how about that just a fraction. >> we indicated to open down about 200 and almost positive this early monday morning. bond market is closed. stuart: can we see the dow winners, there are some obviously. chevron, imaging, boeing, boots and honeywell. the s&p 500, where are the winners. lockheed martin, defense stocks taking up the positions. nasdaq composite quite a few, diamondback energy, baker hughes, crown strike, amgen, i better check gold that is a safe haven. it is up but not that much.

.7%, 185870. bitcoin i have not quoted that this morning up 274 hardly a change at all. oil $85 a barrel, a moment ago because of attention to the mideast up because the price of oil your 8595 now. nat gas is up as well. sorry it is unchanged, dead f flat. the price of a gallon of regular gasoline nationwide it is down 2 cents at $3.70. california it is down to $5.80. coming up for this coveted desantis called out house republicans over the speaker fight, watch this. >> the people that are struggling to buy groceries and the people that cannot afford a mortgage or new car they do not care who the speaker of the house is. they just want to see the job get done. stuart: and my opinion it's time to get the house in order. eric adams wrapped up a trip to

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to healthcare. stuart: h hamas fires rockets al across israel. the defense minister has order to complete siege of gaza. trey yingst on the ground. give me the latest. >> good morning as we speak israeli tanks and soldiers are staging on the gaza border preparing to enter the strip waiting on the final command to do so. israeli defense minister says there will be a complete siege of gaza. we do expect days and weeks of

fighting between hamas militants and the israeli military, all of the siding on saturday morning when islamic jihad and hamas entered southern israel slaughtering innocent israelis in their homes taking dozens captive and firing thousands of rockets into the jewish state, earlier today the rocket fire continued. take a look. >> massive rocket fire into southern israel, you can hear the explosions overhead. hamas has launched a huge barrage. stay down. there has been impacted straight here, the black smoke rising up. one of the rockets fired from the gaza strip slammed into a house behind me. secondary explosions taking place. many things on fire we can see debris on the road. paramedics and firefighters ran into the building, they're not sure who was inside. this was not an area evacuated.

it is chaos but an example of what is taking place and southern israel. paramedics bringing in structures to try to evacuate anyone who is wounded inside. as we were driving you could see people in the neighborhood running toward the building into the fire trying to look for people that might have survived. >> everyone was so scared. people are crying and we had to find shelter in less than 20 seconds. this is the way we have to protect ourselves. >> that was one scene and southern israel. we expect to see more of the rocket fire throughout the day even a few moments ago mortars were launched at this position and we could hear explosions overhead as israel's missile defense system work to intercept the fire. a nightmare situation for the israeli population and we are learning that rocket fire has

started from lebanon 12 rockets hitting israeli communities in the north and infiltration attempt by palestinian groups there. stuart: a broadening of the war, trey yingst in the middle of it. steve moore joins us this morning. i want to know the effect of the war on our economy. i am assuming this war will not be over quickly. >> first of all if i sound a little inferior did this morning i am, the last two years you and i have been talking about this about this insane war on american energy. you look at the terrorist groups like hamas. we know there funded primarily with petrodollars. so by my estimate so your viewers have an idea of how this cost the american economy put money into our enemies it is $100 million a day because of the reduction in america oil output that were putting in the hands of people like putin and

the terrorist groups. this is a self-inflicted wound and if we really want to fight back we should be producing more oil and gas, what is the effect of this on the economy. i'm surprised as you are that there has not been more we are down 18 or so on the dow. about little surprised about this. these kinds of terrorist incidents and a full throttle war is going to be negative for the economy, no question about it. the sectors were i would expect to see some abrupt changes, i do think you will see the oil price spike up. were at $86 a barrel. it wouldn't be surprised if we see that go up to $100 a barrel sometime soon if this disrupts oil supply and the middle east. whenever you have an incident like this and you have all sorts of economic uncertainty. as you said we don't know if this will go on for weeks or

months or how long. gold is always the refuge of people who are worried about the international situation. where we at with gold i think it's up a bit so far i would expect the gold price to rise as well. stuart: if this war goes on for some time. weeks for example could that push america into recession. >> that is a great question. i'm not going to say recession but i do think this is going to have a negative effect on the inflation nation that we have become. we finally made progress bringing inflation down from 9% to 4%. if i'm right and the oil price goes up it's one of the drivers of inflation it affects everything that we produce from our food to travel cost and everything. i think this will have an effect on a higher inflation rate and by the way how will the federal reserve react to this. are they going to raise interest

rates in the situation where we are in a war situation. a lot of unknowns right now but clearly the impact in the short term is going to be negative. stuart: i understand entirely, you cannot make a forecast down the road because you don't know what is going to happen but you can say in the short term it is already a negative. i think we can leave it at that. thank you for being here, always great to see you. it is day 25 of the united auto workers strike. the union just rejected the new contract offer from mack truck. lauren has the strike been extended yes 4000 workers are on strike, this is from a different part of the uaw they work for mack trucks, big heavy duty trucks owned by sweden's volvo. what is interesting the company and the union reached a deal 20% pay increase over the life of the contract, no increase in your health insurance premiums

but 73% of the union voted it down and with that voted to strike starting today, why. they are emboldened because of the uaw strike against the big three at dozens of plans. stuart: day 25 and it's extended. chevron, here is why the dow industrials are only down a few points. chevron and amgen are adding 50 points to the dow they are both winners today they are both dow stocks. that's why you have a limited loss on the dow industrial, chevron, amgen both up significantly. it is been downhill for the biden president day one as three year slight to constant crisis, the president will be judged by all of this. that will be my take at the top of the next hour. presidential hopeful robert f kennedy junior to make a historic announcement today. widely expected he will make a run as an independent. jeff flock has that story after

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stuart: democrat presidential candidate robert f kennedy junior is expected to make what is campaign to make it a historic announcement today. jeff flock is in philadelphia. is this a third-party announcement. >> i don't think there's much doubt about that, he's come to philadelphia, behind me using the podium that he will make a speech at noon eastern time across the street from the liberty bell, the birthplace of american democracy. kennedy has not done while running as a democrat, real clear politics average last poll had him at 14% or so but there is some polling that indicates he resonates better with republican voters. it might be an interesting third-party run, it's also an interesting time. usually third-party kidney disease don't have a lot of traction but a recent gallup poll said 53% of americans say they want to see a third-party

candidate not that they would necessarily vote for it but they want one, 58% of republicans said they would like to see a third-party out there, the question is who does he help or hurt among the two front runners president biden former president trump. kennedy for his part says he isn't it to win it because he does not like either one of them. >> i am ready because i expect to win the presidency. i am not running to help donald trump or anybody else. i don't like donald trump's policies and i did not like his lockdown policies and i don't like his environmental policies. >> perhaps in his way some of his own policies, he suggested wi-fi could cause cancer and perhaps the drinking water has chemicals in it and turning children transgender. some of the conspiracy theories out there have given a lot of folks and other people say that makes him less of a credible

candidate. we will hear what he says at noon eastern time today. we will let you know how it turns out. stuart: thank you, see you later. check the markets 25 minutes in. the dow is down only 40, the nasdaq is only down 68 points. gold is moving up and not exactly surging, $15 an hour for 1860 not that much of a safe haven. bitcoin at 27 for, very little change, oil watch that it is moving up 8552 as we speak. as for nat gas we don't count much on that but i know it's important but it does not move that much is up a fraction today. still ahead kt mcfarland on the new world order, joe concha on the squad, they call for a cease-fire just to solidify hamas' gains. and kiron skinner that iran planned and corrugated the deadly attack.

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