out of poverty by building skills, connections and confidence. today, carlos and his family are thriving. and so are his cashews. go to technoserve.org and donate today. it's a different way to make a difference. >> i'm supporting jim. what we've got to do is lead, lead these people together. and that's what we're looking for, is somebody who can actually tie us all together and make us we before me and not me before we. >> there is no american leadership in general. it is weak. the policy decisions here in the country have facilitated this, no border. the signaling to people here and around the world is that america doesn't matter. >> this attack was so big and so dramatic do that you're hearing many calls in israel and elsewhere for the complete elimination of hamas.

>> geopolitical events like this don't typically create long-term issues for the market. they create short-term chaos, which we did see, and we may see again if this starts to heat up. stuart good morning, everyone. it is 11:00 eastern on this friday, october the 13th. massive protests erupting in the middle east from yemen to the west bank. a former hamas leader declared today a global day of jihad. israeli forces warned a million gaza residents to evacuate within the next 24 hours. the idf is preparing to launch a ground invasion. however, hamas is telling gaza residents, hey, stay put. here at home major the cities on high alert. police across the country ramping up security. the fbi urges the public to be vigilant. that's what's happening right now. on the markets we see some selling on the nasdaq. yeah, we do, down 10. nasdaq's down 97 points. a modest gain for the dow, just up 51.

show me big tech the, please. mostly down. in fact, down across the board. we have microsoft, apple, amazon, alphabet with, meta, all of them losing ground. the 10-year treasury yield had been coming down, still coming down, and that's not helping -- i would have thought that might help the nasdaq, but apparently not. the yield is now 4.63%. and now this. late thursday congressman steve scalise held a closed door meeting with his republican colleagues. he was trying to rev up support for his bid to become speaker. it dragged on for hours. according to one participant quoted in "the new york times," the meeting degenerated into a series of slights big and small, worthy of festivus, that is a parody holiday. precisely. the house gop has become a laughingstock. scalise withdrew, the house does not have a speaker. as of now, israel is demolishing gaza, americans are being held

hostage, our cities are under terror threat, and the republican party is bitterly divided to the point where it cannot govern. there are consequences. robert gates, former defense secretary, writes this in foreign affairs magazine: disfunction has made american power erratic and unreliable, practically inviting autocrats to place dangerous bets, end quote. we are vulnerable. our enemies are watching and laughing. voters are watching too. i doubt they're laughing. the politicians they elected to govern are not governing. in fact, republican division may well shut down the government. and you know exactly who'll get the blame for that. at a time when the administration is failing on so many levels, voters want and need a viable opposition party. one year from now every house member faces the electorate. the democrats will have to defend a failing administration. the republicans will have to defend a failing party. steve is hilton with me this morning -- steve hilton with me.

come on in, steve. do you think i'm being too harsh? >> no, you're exactly right, stuart. it is not at all what people expect. however, there is a reality here. this kind of instability is what happens when you have very small majorities because it gives power to just a small group of people. you saw that in the u.k., actually, when theresa may, if you remember her, threw away a manageable majority and had a tiny majority in the house of commons, and then you had shut chaos for years and years -- absolute chaos. we're seeing that now. they have to get their act together. whatever their differences are, policy, personality differences, they have to understand that the country needs a strong the, united are republican party to fight the absolute calamity of this biden administration on every single level, economic, foreign policy, you name it. and so my view would be just put it all aside, just agree just for the next, for the rest of this session, until at least 2024. get behind someone who's got the

energy and the strength to lead and have the argument afterwards. but just do it for the next year or so. stuart: i've got a prediction. democrats will be called in to help them create, choose a speaker, and they will demand an enormous price from the republicans for doing that. that's what you get from this kind of confusion. what do you say? >> exactly. and what's that going to do for the prospects for the republican party next november in the elections when people say we voted for the republicans, but they're so incompetent the, we end up with democrats in charge? stuart: right. >> absolutely ridiculous. tour constituter it is, unkeyed. >> they really need to understand how serious this moment is and get their act together. stuart: the president is heading to philadelphia this afternoon touting bidenomics. just look at -- [laughter] stop shaking your head for just a moment. look at this fox poll. he's losing on all the major issues including the economy. of i'll put the poll up -- there you go. every single issue, russia, economy, border security,

inflation, he's underwater, significantly underwater. >> yeah. stuart: he's got a tough job selling bidenomics today, hasn't he? >> well, yes, because it's a disaster. they keep scratching their heads in the white house and media going, oh, why are people so unhappy with the economy when the data, the numbers are so good? the numbers are not so good. if you actually look at what's happened to people's incomesnd the biden administration, they are down an enormous number, $3,600 an average for a household. down. that's how much they've been hurt by this inflation in real terms. under president trump you saw the lowest paid workers doing best. it was the blue collar boom. here with biden the lowest 10% are doing worse. 6% down in terms of their incomes. and now the price you pay for the inflation that they unleashed with their reckless spending is interest rates going up to try and tame inflation. so now what do you have? mortgage rates at their highest for nearly a quarter century. so no wonder people are fed up

and just look at bidenomics, and when they tell them they're better off, they just is laugh. it's a joke. stuart: i have have to say that god's gift to the democrats is the house republicans. i mean, i think that's -- can you say more than that? steve -- >> exactly. stuart: -- you have a great weekend, and we'll live to fight another day next week. >> absolutely. thanks, stu. stuart: yes, sir. back to the markets, please. let me show you what's going on. first of all, we've got a minor gain for the dow, up 13. a significant loss for the nasdaq, down over 100. s&p is down over 15. and here is jonathan hoenig who joins us every friday. and we always ask him, bring along some exotic investments, please, and he's done just that today. jonathan, the first one you came up with is arc israel innovative technology. tell me more. >> i don't know if it's exotic, i actually think it's a tremendous opportunity. look, this islamic terrorist attack in israel is unspeakable

evil, almost unthinkable, but i wouldn't put israel down, not one moment. it is the rational, advanced civilization in the middle east. and, in fact, in 75 years they've created one of the top 20 world leading economies. israel is in a bear market and, certainly, this middle east unrest could put a little bit of pressure on those stocks, but izrl is about the highest of high-tech stocks you can find in an etf, and if you really are in it for the long term the, never bet against israel. it is the shining example of a western democracy in the middle east, and i think this stock goes up over the long term from here. stuart: izrl, got it. next one, cvoe holdings. that doesn't sound exotic. >> at this time of unrest and up is certainty, investors are looking to hedge. cboe is the country's largest option exchange and, basically, stu, this is a takeover opportunity. the head of the company recently left because of personal problems. the industry itself is condom

sol dating. -- consolidating. cme is just about 30% this year, so cboe, i think it's an option, a takeover target, and we like it over here at capitalistpig.com. stuart: next one is truly exotic. >> getting a little less exotic. these stocks are cheap. i'm talking about emerging markets. by one measure they're as cheap as they have ever been going back to 1987. is so dirt cheap. and i think a tremendous opportunity. in fact, pakistan. just had its paris ipo on american -- first ipo on american markets just three days ago. a lot of these emerging markets are becoming slightly less emerging. pak trades at half the price it did just two years ago, and i do think you want emerging markets especially now given how dirt cheap they are. they're stuart you know we have viewers who tune in just for your exotic picks every friday at this time. >> keep watching.

stuart: ceo you later. jonathan hoenig, good stuff. come on in here, ashley. oh, wait a minute, my prompter says you're taking a look at hormel foods as in spam, right? ashley: yep. sticking with the exotic theme, stu. [laughter] another bad day for hormel. goldman sachs just cutting the price target to $29, that's down from $33, and hay call it -- they call it a sell. they recently had the worst close in five years. the stock continues to pall down as we see, down nearly 5%, just above $30. your beloved microsoft, stu, just closed its $69 billion deal to buy activision are. the acquisition has been through a litany of legal troubles, but the deal given final approval from from britain's competition watchdog after nearly two years since the deal was announced. they got through the british red tape. the stock just down half a percent, not really reacting. and netflix down today, but this is interesting, the streaming

giant is taking a page out of disney's book. the company apparently is planning to launch a number of brick and mortar stores in 2025. they'll be with called netflix houses, and they will offer special merchandise and food based off the streamer's most popular shows. the stock itself down 2% today but interesting. stu. stuart: i'll say that's interesting. very good idea, if you ask me. ash, thanks. coming up, not too late to send in your friday feedback. e-mail questions, comments, concerns, etc., to varneyviewersfox.com. and if you want to make a comment about spam, by all means, do so. chaos on capitol hill. steve scalise withdraws his name from the house speaker race, so what happens from here? i'll ask congressman chip roy coming up. and israeli forces telling the citizens of northern gaza, hey, evacuate with, get out within 24 hours. they're ramping up attacks on a hamas in gaza. and, by the way, hamas is now reportedly preventing these people from evacuating, forcing

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they are doing so. it sounds like they were discouraged by the hamas leadership from leaving gaza, but not physically stopped, i guess is a good way to to put it. the sun is going down, the rockets will continue to come out as we have seen the drill repeat over and over because as the civilians leave, that doesn't necessarily mean that the hamas militants have left. a lot of those militants are changing into civilian clothes and blending into the population. you may hear some banging in the background, the outgoing israeli artillery fire continuing to soften the battlefield. one of the frequent targets of the rockets is the town of ashkelon, new video of rocket making impact. i'll tell you, i had a conversation with the mayor of ashk kelon, he's lost pairchtion with the israeli army. he says it's time for them to do whatever it takes to stop the rockets. [speaking in native tongue] goo too bad the army is not hitting them in a meaningful way.

i do not see a normal country letting this happen. civilians are being hurt. we saw the a atrocities that started a weeking ago. they are continuing. >> reporter: the israeli air force is hitting gaza city. 750 airstrikes overnight. the town continues to be pummeled. the civilian population certainly has taken, taken quite the brunt of this. there are civilian casualties, upwards of -- more than 1,000. i forget the latest number. i've got a palestinian contact saying most of the high-value hamas targets have gone into hiding. the lower e level operatives with hamas have slipped into civilian clothes and blended back in with the population. one of the things we have is video of these leaflets being dropped. that is how the israeli armed forces are communicating to the people of gaza that they need to move. there's a great deal of confusion with the palestinian

population in the city of gaza because they got conflicting messages with hamas leadership telling them not to leave. the israeli defense force says we're coming in, and they need to get out for their own safety. stuart? stuart: all right. mr. tobin, thank you very much, indeed. pete hegseth is with me. he has extensive experience in the mideast and in israel and, pete, i believe you have actually seen and and gone to these tunnels that hamas digs. describe it. >> terror tunnels down in the south. i've been down this multiple times. hamas, for years, has spent millions of dollars, it was supposed to be for humanitarian aid, and i think we have some of this footage. building tunnels from which they hope to strike southern israel. it tons out the attack didn't -- turns out the attack didn't come from tunnel, but the the idf has had to year after year identify and destroy terror tunnels built by a hamas. this is the one we were in, but some are large enough to drive vehicles in. the whole goal was always to psychologically terrorize the israeli people with the belief that in the middle of the night,

hamas fighters could pop out of the ground from gaza and terrorize these communities which is precisely what happened from a different way. i think part of it is that that they focused so much on tunnels that what happened above the fence and elsewhere was more low tech when they have a lot of high-tech trying to identify these tunnels. but when you get a sense that there are 300 miles of these types of tunnels inside gaza, it gives you a small glimpse of how challenging, utterly incomprehensive urban warfare will be in gaza. stuart: well, the idf, israeli defense force, has to go into gaza, and it's got to get rid of those tunnels. i can't imagine the problemses of fighting house to to house with tunnels everywhere. that's a huge complication finish. >> ask any guy that went house 40 house in -- house to house in afghanistan is. now add a modern city on top of it. a lot of the buildings in iraq and afghanistan, 2, 3, 4-story buildings, you're talking about

15 stories aboveground and and tunnels underneath with booby traps, rubble, ieds, suicide bombers, with snipers. immensely challenging which is why it doesn't surprise me that the israeli army has told the population, get out, because the only way you can approach that is saying anyone who's on the streets, who shows their face, has to be considered an enemy combatant for the israeli military. stuart: didn't the ma screen -- marines successfully fight house to house in fallujah, iraq many and i think they lost 100 marines. >> oh, yeah. it was one of the deadliest and bloodiest battles of the iraq war. there were also no civilians at that point. it was all mujahideen, jihadists, half of them hopped up on drugs with, you know, lots of training, hell bent on paradise, which means martyrdom and death. you're going to have a hard core group of hamas fighters willing to do that. the question is how long do they hold out, and what a kind of intel does the idf have about

the tunnels. if you clear a building and there's a tunnel underneath it and you can refill that building, they're fighting over and over again city blocks they thought they'd cleared. stuart: that's amazing. what's the morality of what israel is about to do in gaza? there will be large numbers of civilian casualties. women and children, probably. there already have been. what's the morality of that? you and i have both christians. how do we, how do we view this? how do we view the morality of this situation? >> first of all, of you have to view it through the lens of why this is happening in the first place, which is sheer evil and targeting of civilians. israel's not going block to block in gaza if not for the murder and mutilation of 1300 israelis. so the responsibility lies at the feet of hamas, first and foremost, full stop. and at the same time, that's why you're hearing israel say, move out. civilians, get out. this is why we should be putting a ton of pressure on egypt to make sure that checkpoint is open so the palestinians that

want to flee can flee. because i know as christians or as jews, there is a dedication to preserving innocent live -- life. people who are not guilty should not be found in the crosshairs. at the same time, hamas uses human shields and they have hostages which makes it impossible in the meantime. just kind of house to house combat with preparatory strikes that you've been showing, airstrikes, is going to mean civilian casualties, it just is. especially with an a enemy who hides weapons and soldiers in schools and hospitals. it is the only choice. stuart: now let's bring this home to washington d.c. we don't have a speaker. there's chaos in the house of represent the tyes. i'm fit can be -- representatives. i'm fit to be tied because i think it's an embarrassment. i don't think you feel as strongly as i do, do you? >> you know what? the republican party -- no, i don't. [laughter] is guilty of having independent thinkers who have principle. the democrats are very good at -- stuart: they were elected to govern, and they can't govern.

>> they can't govern anyway because they don't control the senate or the white house. so for the most -- i'm not a hair on fire at this moment. stuart: you're not? >> it's not going to be scalise, maybe it's going to be jim jordan. stuart: i'm shocked. >> congress can't pass bad legislation in the meantime. i know that's a little bit of a surface-level view, but it is -- maybe we'll get a better speaker out of the entire process willing to hold democrats' feet to the fire, and maybe that's jim jordan. i don't know, but i'm just not concerned about it right now. stuart: you were really good on israel and the tunnel fight. that was excellent. then we get on the gop and the house, good heavens, man. it's the not important to you? get off my set. >> it's a lot of insider baseball. they'll figure it out eventually, they will. stuart: what about next year in the elections in. >> what are they going to do in the meantime to secure the border? they can't do anything in the house to secure the border right now. they can't change the biden administration's foreign policy or bidenomics. there's very little in the near

term -- i would love to see them pass a resolution on israel, but at this point the real leverage is with the white house. stuart: you know what's going to happen? the democrats are going to have to come in to help them choose a speaker -- >> that would be terrible. stuart: now you're talking. >> i agree with you on that. stuart: you can see. pete, you're all right. thank you very much, indeed. good stuff. all right, become we just told you that the house is still without a speaker after steve scalise withdrew his name from the race. that means any additional aid to israel tied up. so what can be done from here? aishah hasnie has the capitol hill story after this. by the way, republicans are scrambling to pick a new speaker. personally, i think the republicans are a laughingstock in washington no matter what pete hegseth says. congressman chip roy is next. ♪ ♪

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stuart: on the markets i see some red for the s&p and the nasdaq. quite a lot for the nasdaq, actually, it's down more than 1%. a fractional gain for the dow industrials, up 4. ashley's got the movers. start with american airlines, please. ashley: yes, indeed.

the carrier just hit a 52-week low after yesterday's close, but susquehanna has cut the price target from $19 to 13. it's down another 2.33%. analysts say, look, we're not close to getting back to normal yet, and things could get worse before they get better for the airlines. again, that stock down $11.77. meanwhile, progressive reporting earnings today. the insurance company says net premiums earned jumped 20% from a year ago to $14.89 billion. they're on pace, by the way, for an all-time high after posting this earnings beat. they are up more than $10 today. and another earnings beat by unitedhealth. the health care company projecting that medicare enrollment will grow faster than the general market. and most importantly, they say medical costs are stabilizing. they're not growing faster than anticipated. that stock up 1.5%, stu. stuart: thanks, ashley. the house still does not have a speaker.

that means any additional aid to israel is tied up. that's going to be a problem, obviously. i believe they're in a meeting right now, the house republicans. they're trying to figure it out. they're just trying to figure out whether they can get a speaker or not. i'm going to go back to the markets for a second, i want to take a looked at the 10-year yield. it's at 4.63%. look at the 2-year yield, please. that's to above 5%. this is not helping the market at all. i believe the 2-year is just about 5.04. there we go, 5.04, that's correct, and the price of oil roughly $85, $86 a barrel. those are the numbers which are moving. now, let's get back to capitol hill. aishah hasnie joins us. aishah, house republicans met in private this morning trying to figure out a speaker. anything come of it? >> reporter: yes. stuart, good morning to you. it looks like they're going to break for a few hours and come together again around 1:00 this afternoon to meet again in

conference and perhaps take a vote within the conference on jim jordan before they actually go to the house floor. we don't know if there will be an actual house or speaker vote today. there are a few members that are out both on the democrats' and republicans' side, so we wait to see what happens with that. just something very important to point out, if we don't have a house speaker, the house and the senate cannot move towards sending any more aid to israel, and we are expecting the president to request more aid as early as a next week although senator marco rubio did say this week that there are some funds already available for israel right now that the president can draw down from are. >> they are guaranteed every year $3 billion every year between now and 2028. so that's already in place. we're not starting from zero here. i think what will happen at some point as this unfolds is israel may have some specific munition needs that they need resupply, and i think you'll have ample support in the konked to do it.

in the congress to do it. >> reporter: there is chaoses in congress right now. the senate has its own drama. senator john fetterman is calling on the full chamber to expel former senate foreign relations chairman bob menendez after a superseding indictment accused him of being a foreign agent of egypt. it's a huge, huge concern here on the hill because egypt is now caught up in this mideast turmoil. the white house acknowledging yesterday it is a serious matter for the president. the biden administration though, meantime, is also facing growing calls to refreeze the $6 billion that were sent to qatar for iran while putting out two different messages here. in public the administration is saying, look, we retain the right to refreeze these funds, but privately the deputy treasury department secretary actually told house democrats that the u.s. has already come to some kind of quiet agreement with qatar to not release those funds. we are seeing some senate republicans come forward and say that they will introduce legislation as early as next week ore freeze those funds --

to refreeze those funds. they say they have the constitutional authority to do so but, again, nothing can move in this congress until there is a house speaker, so intense pressure on house republicans right now to get their act together. stuart? stuart: intense pressure, indeed. aishah, thank you very much, indeed. ashley, come back in again, please. i have a question. is this speakership drama hurting republicans? ashley: well, it is, the to your point, stu. according to the latest fox news poll, just 30% of those surveyed approve of the job being done by congressional republicans. in fact, only 37% gave democrats any credit. 66% disapprove the republicans' job performance, 60% were not impressed by democrats. so no one's really winning here. one last note, 40% of republicans were critical of their own party's lawmakers compared to 23% of democrats. but the sentiment is clear. stu. stuart: got it. take a look at this, everybody. it's a docking truck, and it was seen driving around harvard

university. it displayed the names and photos of the students who signed that letter blaming israel for the hamas attacks. we've got some details on that for you. an israeli student at columbia university assaulted. c.b. cotton is outside the university with the latest. she'll join us after this. ♪ ♪ it's easy to get lost in investment research. introducing j.p. morgan personal advisors. hey david. connect with an advisor to create your personalized plan. let's find the right investments for your goals okay, great. j.p. morgan wealth management.

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♪ ♪ stuart: take a look at. our reporter, mike tobin, who is on the ground in israel, sent us these pick chi concern pictures. you can see the streets very crowded as palestinians begin a mass exodus. looks like they are not listening to hamas terrorists who told them not to move. lots of them are moving.

sal r are utzig is a -- sam joins me now. why have american colleges become so anti-semitic? >> well, as the leadership institutes' campus reform's reporting has discussed, the rot goes pretty deep here. the thing that keeps a lot of these tribes of the far left, of the old doctrinaire if leftists, the racial justice people is in many ways anti-semitism. it is a binding factor for all these different interest groups. and we're seeing that come into the real world today. these future lawyers, these future doctors, they're supposed to be deciding ethical codes, and how are we supposed to trust hem when they're rejoicing in this sort of cold-blooded slaughter? stuart: explain the connection between the social justice and racial justice movements and anti-semitism. what's the direct connection there? >> well, among many of these racial justice groups who take their lessons in many ways from

anti-semites like louis farrakhan, they conceive of jew, as white when it's -- jews as white went it's convenient for them to be accused of colonialism and oppression and all these other buzzwords. but when it's time to accuse conservatives of anti-semitism, they're another oppressed class all over again. they're like sort of slowinger's oppressed -- >> rodinger's oppressed. stuart: is there any specific organization which is behind all of this? >> well, the rot goes all the way back to the old school marxists who used to take their line from the soviet union. now it's the people who have been indoctrinated by these professors who are in groups like students for justice for palestine, which justice in some air quotes there. these organizations are deeply embedded in college campuses all across america. and don't get me wrong, while there are plenty of courageous

students who have been standing up against these organizations including harvard where just as there was this letter, just as all these organizations signed this letter that accused jews of being at fault for their own massacre, some people today stood up against that. but these people are few and far between, and they often risk both professional and social ramifications of standing up for these jews that are being massacred. stuart: sir, i don't know whether you're jewish or not -- >> i very much am. [laughter] stuart: okay. got that sorts out. -- can sorted out. have you experienced direct anti-semitism at george washington law school in. >> just the other day there was a masked proprotest of pro-palestine and in this instance really anti-jewish protesters. and because of these masks, because they're cowardly enough not to show to your face, every day when jewish students are walking to class, walking to any sort of social activities, they have to wonder, is that person next to me, sitting across from

me, are they someone who rejoiced in the murder of jewish babies? i don't see how we can expect any student to have a comfortable or a positive education e aal experience with that sort of aura of anti-semitism. stuart: i always hi of george washington university law school as high end, so to speak, a prestigious place. is it thoroughly ineffected with anti-semitism? >> i would say it's it's ineffected as much as any school across america is. and again, don't get me wrong, there are people standing up against this. but the leftist infiltration of many of our institutions is deep. even just with last year, you know, justice clarence thomas was driven out from teaching his class at george washington because of this sort of leftist activism. it's not just in specifically anti-semitism, it's in a consistent aura a of intolerance. stuart: sam, thank you very much indeed for being on the show today and telling us exactly what it's like. we do do appreciate that, sir.

come back anytime you like. >> thank you. stuart: i want to get back to this: one israeli student was assaulted at columbia university in new york city. the suspect was arrested and charged. c.b. cotton joins us from columbia university. it seems the tension overseas is spilling over onto our colleges right here, correct? >> reporter: stu, that's right. tensions are continuing to rise at college campuses across the country. you mentioned that israeli student who was assaulted here at columbia university. well, less than 24 hours after that happened hundreds gathered facing off in dueling protests on columbia's campus yesterday. one student estimating nearly 500 gathered to support palestine the. at another protest at hunter college across town, students telling fox's lawrence jones why they think israel's to blame. >> israel is notorious for creating propaganda that cites their one-sided massacre against palestinians. >> i support decolonization and

the liberation of palestinian people and the end e of a mass genocide in the gaza strip. >> reporter: there were clashes at universities across the country yesterday, stu, as part of a call by the national students for justice is and palestine organization. backlash has been swift though for students at harvard university who signed onto a joint statement blaming israel for the attacks. harvard's president says in her third message that the university rejects terrorism but embraces free expression. listen. >> from that commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. we do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views. finish but that is a far cry from endorsing them. >> reporter: and, stu, with protests expected to continue today, many campuses are tightening security and limiting access. finish back to you.

stuart: thanks very much, c.b. now let's get back to ashley here. and i want you to tell me more about these harvard or students docked after signing that anti-israel letter. what do we have on this? ashley: yeah. a doxxing truck basically drove around the campus at harvard university with digital billboards that displayed the names and photos of students who signed a letter blaming israel for hamas' violent attack. the display, by the way, was under a headline that read harvard's leading anti-semites. the nonprofit news watchdog accuracy in media organized the truck saying it's going to continue its campaign to expose anti-semitism. the truck, by the way, also displayed the web site harvard hates jews.com which leads to a forum that encourages users to send an e-mail to members of harvard's board of trustees. also in another development israeli billionaire and and his wife are resigning hair post ifs on the executive board of

harvard's kennedy school in protest. they called the lukewarm response by harvard's school president claudine gay to the students' anti-israel letter shocking and incense thetive, and they resigned -- insensitive. stuart: got it. ashley, thanks very much, indeed. show me the dow 30, please. we always say the same thing, give you a sense of the market. looks to me like that's a pretty even split. half the dow 30 up, half of them down. the dow itself is up 68 points. we're going to take a short break from the serious news. don't go anywhere because friday feedback is next. ♪ ♪

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it multiple times a week. watch this. >> how often do you think the roman empire? >> [inaudible] >> what do you think about? >> how often do you think about the roman empire? >> never. >> why? >> die do you think about it? >> why do you never think about it? >> how often do you think about the roman empire? >> a a lot. >> really? >> yeah. at least once a day. >> seriousliesome. >> absolutely. stuart: what on earth is going on here? ashley, how often do you think about the roman empire? >> only when i slap on my gladiator gear and, you know -- [laughter] no, i don't at all. but funny enough, you know, i'm just thinking as that was rolling that i was looking at netflix, and funny enough, the movie gladiator popped up. that was a good movie with russell crow -- crowe, but hardly ever. of. stuart: strangely enough, i just

happen to be reading a book about the roman empire. i, claude yous. since i'm reading about it, i guess i'm thinking about it constantly. is that the right answer? i don't know. ashley: weird. stuart: yeah, weird. thank you very much. [laughter] this is from tim. stuart, i waited until after your friday show for what i hope will make you even more proud of your business sop's efforts. i received a sampling of chardonnay and cabernet. my goal was to try your son's efforts and see what i might get for a unique holiday gift. what you didn't tell us, tim, whether you liked any of them or not. you said you got 'em, you received them, and there's the pictures, they are there. that's all good. i want to know if you liked 'em. send us a hedge for next week -- ashley: still waiting, stu, still waiting. stuart: okay. takes a long time to get them over are from australia. okay, okay, i'm moving on. ashley: okay, fair enough. [laughter]

stuart: a lot of responses about which shoe our viewers think is uglier, crocs or birken stocks. first response from sharon. they're both very comfortable, but when it comes to an ugly contest, crocs rule. bet ety -- betty jo, the wickerren stock -- birking stocks sandals expose dirty, ugly toes unless they wore dork key stocks. europeans do that, don't they the, ash? europeans wear socks with sandals. ashley: they do. and they go out proudly, unfortunately. i refer crocs. i've never liked birkenstocks, and i totally agree with betty jo. keep the feet out. i'll go with the crocs. stuart: i'm not saying anything more, but i happen to agree entirely with you. ashley: thank you. stuart: this one comes from ken. uh-oh, we're talking about taylor swift again. respectfully, taylor swift is this generation's birth --

britney spears or madonna. i highly doubt we'll be talking about her 50 years from now. for now, of course, or leapt it be. that, of course, is -- let it be. that, of course, is a reference to the beatings. what do you say, ash? ashley: you know, definitely is eclipsing britney spears and madonna, to be honest with you. taylor swift is something like we've never seen before, an absolute economic and social juggernaut, so, you know, i think she's going to live on. stuart: she's the g.o.a.t., greatest of all time. okay. andrea writes: i want to seven your kudos to your production crew -- the production crew wrote this -- getting this story on the air from the start. live shots, war zones, graphics, scripts, everything that makes your she so professional. these people are an integral part of making your show so good. a are you kidding me? i've never said otherwise. there they are. that's the control room.

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stuart: we asked how long is the golden gate bridge. i think it is 0.9 miles. what have you got? ashley: i will go with number 2. 1.3 miles. stuart: the answer is 1.7, got that completely wrong. thanks for everything. we've got the war in the middle east, the market is down. we will pick it up on monday morning. that is it for "varney and company" for today. i've got to count this down accurately. 5 seconds to go. i've got to say coast to coast starts now.