>> this is not about about the hostages, this is not about rescuing the ohio angs, as sad as that may be. israel is going to wane hamas off the face of this earth regardless of whether or not there are talks with hamas or not. >> i guess concerns keeping the hostages that are stuck in gaza city, these wounds are still fresh for us. is so our main concern right now

is healing as tsa fast as we can, putting everything aside and doing what we do best. >> hamas lies all the time. they're genocidal maniacs who want to kill jews and end the israeli state. it is incumbent on every journalist to check them and check them again, because the terrorist group should not be trusted. >> i think right now he's undermining israel's position. we need warriors in this white house, not appeasers. and, unfortunately, i don't think we're going to get it. ♪ stuart: good morning, everyone. 11:00 is eastern time on this tuesday, october 24th. straight to the markets. dow's up close to 300, nasdaq's up 120 points. has a pretty good rally. but look at this, bitcoin, whoa, straight up today. $34,360. that's the price of bitcoin. again, i'll say it, straight up this morning. show me big tech, please. gains across the board pretty much. microsoft, alphabet, they're all up except for apple.

and don't forget microsoft and alphabet report after the bell this afternoon. quick check on the 10-year treasury yield, where is it? 24 hours ago it was close to 5%, now it's t at 4.87. investors like that. and now this. another biden foreign policy failure. venezuela. our president has agreed to ease sanctions many return for a promise of free elections. we get their oil, they get to vote. it's a lousy deal. biden is relying on a communist take dictator to keep his word. nicolas maduro has a history of suppressing any and all opposition. the united nations reported widespread torture of points. he stays in power9 with the help of cuba's secret police, and he's going to allow free elections? really? that's highly unlikely. and if he doesn't keep his word, biden says the sanctions will be snapped back. again, highly unlikely. what would it make -- what would make our president fall for a

deal like this? desperation. oil is still vital to the world economy, biden cut america's own ply so now we take the dirtiest oil in the world and enrich a regime that has ruined the country. maduro will get billions out of this. another enemy laughing at us. not only do we get dirty oil, we have also taken in a surgery of venezuelan migrants -- surge -- in september for the first time ever, more venezuelans came across the border than mexicans. 54,830 in one month, more than double the 22,000 who crossed in august. that is a surge. and that was surely part of maduro's plan; pressure biden with a flood of migrants. and it worked. biden signed a lousy deal. the third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ ♪ stuart: the expression lousy

deal caught the attention of the people sitting around this set. [laughter] jimmy failla, for one. think it was a lousy deal, do you? >> oh, 100%, and i say this as a guy who just bought a rolex in times square for $5, okay? i'll start here, this is why it's a lousy deal. we have oil. we have oil. you understand? we don't need their pill think oil. but -- filthy oil. but we are basically admitting we can't run our economy and infrastructure without our oil. but the people who are trying to legislate the climate industry9 and the new initiatives don't understand the impact they're having on the environment. what i mean by that is if we're producing fuel 42 cleaner than the places where we import it, we're actually causing more pollution by outsourcing production to a place like venezuela because we then need to use fuel just to get it back here. why are we trading anything for oil we already have? pizza hut isn't calling up

mcdonald's for mozzarella cheese. they have plenty. i'm proof. [laughter] stuart: you're making me laugh -- >> i have to. this is idiotic, okay? the level of staggering incompetence right now, and hen you say things like, oh, the sanctions, nobody takes anything we say around sanctions seriously. if you remember predating the invasion in ukraine, we were like, oh, the sanctions. putin won't go into ukraine. the minute he did, oh, we never said the sanctions wouldn't work. we're being laughed at right now. stuart: we are, indeed. can you make me laugh about this mess that's going on in the house of representatives in. [laughter] during the course of this show, two candidate for the speakership dropped out. >> so we're down to 71? stuart: no, we're down to five. and i believe you think that byron donalds is the man who should be the next speaker. make your case. >> i'll jump in, he's on my radio show a lot, and i have a good feel for who he is as a character. what i mean by that is the republicans need somebody in there, okay, that voters will

believe in. not a swamp creature who spent 20 years in washington on a salary of $170,000 a year who is somehow worth $52 million, okay? they need a guy that they believe is new and on the level and hungry for the fight, okay? if when you're a new guy in congress like b.d., okay, and you are an expert communicator and voters do support you, okay, that goes a long way when it comes time to cobble the votes together. the reason we're in this position right now is because nobody can, okay? that's the lost opportunity here, whether it's donalds or not, that they didn't televise this on bravo, because it's a real housewives episode. they should be pulling hair at this point. we're on, like, our hundredth vote. it's embarrassing. stuart: it is embarrassing. people say voters will forget about this nonsense, they'll forget about it. next year in november they'll vote republican, they'll do it. i don't think that's true. >> well, they definitely made a hard case against giving them full control of the government, okay in they were handed the

majority in the house in the mid the terms, what was supposed to be a red wave which turned into a damp rag, you know, just a little drip of water out of the wash cloth, but they're e not doing anything to leverage that majority. they're embarrassing themselves. it remains to be seen. i think i made the deal of the day on this rolex. failla comes out on top. stuart: you'll never get your money back. [laughter] jimmy, good to see you. back to the markets, why not? that's a rally, up nearly 300 on the dow. 130 on the nasdaq, better than 11th, soll gain for the s&p as well -- solid gain for the s&p as well. mike murphy with us for the hour. microsoft and google report after the bell this afternoon. looking for good reports? >> i am, stuart. i think the companies that have reported so far we've seen a lot of them come out with good earnings reports. i think roughly 20% of the s&p 500 has already announced, and a large portion of those have beaten estimates. but nows this is the major leagues. now we have microsoft, we have

google. i think after the recent selloffs they've had good quarters produce rallies in the stocks. great quarters produce if strong rallies in the stocks. so i expect all of big tech to do well. interesting though, look at apple who's leading the markets for so long, i think they really have to prove something in these i pone 15 sales -- iphone 15 sales because right now the market's questioning them. stuart: i want to see some progress on money made on a.i. by microsoft and google because they're into it bigtime. that's going to be important. >> it is. but i think part of the rally we saw earlier this year had to do with a.i -- stuart: it did. >> and remember, regardless of where where a.i. takes us, moth is going to be at the -- microsoft is going to be the at the cutting edge of technology, not only a.i., but the next cutting edge technology. it's companies like google and microsoft that are innovating, that are going to continue to make money. is so a.i., yes, whatever comes next after a.i., yesal. stuart: oh, music to my ears.

is good to have you on the show. stick around for the entire hour, why don't you? all right. lauren's looking at movers. i really want you to look at ge. lauren: it's amazing. raised their full-year profit cast, profit forecast, yeah, for the third time this year. stock surging 7.5%. aerospace division is their cash cow, they're spinning off, that lists next year on the stock exchange. stuart: tell me about zillow. lauren: 35% of prospective buyers would buy a haunted housr that's not why the stock is up -- >> what's the or mortgage rate? lauren: the extreme consequences we're making to get into a home. maybe the ghosts could help fix the represent situation. stuart: oh, so that's the story? things are so bad, you're looking at ways to get people -- i got it. travel zoom? never heard of them. lauren: up they go, up 27%, they

offer travel deals. they reported earns, stronger than expected, but also announced a share repurchase program of up to a million shares of outstanding stock. stuart: not in your stable, i think. >> travel zoom, no. nice move today. so i think you're going to see more of this, stuart, as companies do have cash, they're going to be looking to put cash to work in things like this, so pay attention. lauren: microsoft has $111 billion in cash. what will they is say on the call tonight? >> it's a wonderful thing. lauren: in trouble, people aren't googling. >> what are they doing with that cash, what type of short-term return are they getting on that money. stuart: good question. coming up, coca-cola quietly removing reference to its support for black lives matter. we have the story. squad member rashida tlaib refuses to accept the debunked claims about the hospital blast in gaza. she now wants an independent investigation into the bombing. really? israel's forces struck more than 400 terrorist targets in just

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♪ ♪ stuart: all right. news from israel, a ground invasion delayed. israeli military reporting they struck more than 400 targets in gaza within the last 24 hours. greg palkot joins us at the israel-lebanon border. any update on this delay, greg? >> reporter: the delay appears to be just making sure, stuart, that everything is in order and

the major issue facing the, or facing israel and its allies, or those hostages that are still being held by hamas. right now we are right up against the israel-lebanon border where we continue to see skirmishing between the israeli military and the iran-backed hezbollah militants.. right next door, or just a couple miles over our shoulder, hezbollah firing antitank missiles, mortars, rockets, israel blasting away with artillery-armed drones. they're trading fire, and israeli officials tell us what they're trying to concentrate on is getting to the hezbollah firing positions before they fire back. the latest that we witnessed just a couple hours ago, stuart, was an israeli helicopter knocking out a hezbollah position on the horizon this just on the other side of the border. again, this is not a full scale war, but certainly the potential is there, and absolutely tying down tens of thousands of

israeli soldiers as the casualty grows on this side of the country. 44 hezbollah militants killed, 7 israeli soldiers dead, civilians killed and injured as well. finally, evacuations due to these casualties are picking up, about 100,000 the israelis have been moved out of their home, over 40 towns and villages. we understand manager like 20,000 people -- something like 20,000 people on the lebanon side have is left as well, dodging the fire there. one final note, french president macron was the latest leader, stuart, to visit israel. he met with various officials today including israeli president herzog. the clear message to hezbollah, if you play with fire, you will pay the price. back to you. stuart: we can hear that. greg palkot, thanks so much. general philip breedlove joins me now. you signed a letter calling on president biden to to support israel and eliminate hamas. strong stuff.

question, can hamas be destroyed without a ground attack? >> well, first of all, stuart, thanks for having me on. and i believe the short answer to the question is, no. they're going of to have to go in to clean up this terrorist problem. this is not about the palestinian people who i don't think hamas is serving well either. but it is about a terrorist group. stuart: i hate to say this and it's very difficult, but hamas has just released two more hostages, fair enough. but hostage taking seems to be a very successful strategy. it's working. it's the working very much in hamas' favor at this moment. would you agree with that? >> yes, i would, stuart. and i think that, you know, we've sort of flirtedded with at the strategic level with iran and others, and i do believe that terrorists are seeing now

that hostages are a mod the city, that they -- commodity that they need to deal with big and strong nations. stuart: as a general you can a retired general albeit, what do you say to being more proactive against iran? we seam to be appeasing them at the moment -- we seem to be appeasing them at the moment. should we go after them? because they have, after all, attacked american troops. >> well, you've hit at the heart of the matter. there's been reporting across multiple outlets about the increase in attacks all throughout the region on u.s. troops in and around the area. not necessarily just in the vicinity of israel. and this is going to be the an important problem for our seniormost leaders. they're going to have to step up to this task. if we just allow are it, or worse if we appease those who support it, we're going to get more of it.

stuart: they'll tell you that you're just starting world war iii. how do you respond to that? >> well, isn't that what they always say? what a we've seen in ukraine and other places is when mr. putin continually reminds us that everything we're going to do is going to result in nuke hard exchanges and a larger, wider war is and, oh, yes, american soldiers dying on europe's battlefields again. and we allow that to deter us from taking actions we should probably take. then the north north koreass, the irans, the chinas of the world see how that works. threaten america with wider war and they will take different actions. and so this is not easy. ooh i'm not pointing out that our administration is not answering the call, but the fact of the matter is if we're going to allow ourselves to

continually be deterred by this kind of rhetoric, then we're going to get more and more of this kind of rhetoric, aren't we? stuart: one year from now almost to the next presidential election, will there still be war in and around israel? >> i certainly hope not. i hope that we can resolve this. stuart: but what do you expect? >> we will give -- i don't expect it. i want and expect our nation to support israel, to take the actions that it needs to quickly clean this up. stuart: and what do you think the reaction of american voters will be if it's a blood key mess and -- bloody mess and there are major casualties in gaza? what's the reaction of american voters to that? >> well, it's going to be tough. and this is exactly what hamas wants. they will not be concerned about their own people, they are certainly not concerned about

their hostages. the worse it looks on tv, the better for hamas. stuart: general philip breedlove, thank you very much for being on the show. come back soon, sir. thank you. >> thank you. stuart: we have congresswoman rashida tlaib calling for an independent investigation into the gaza hospital explosion. ashley, come back in again, please. she doesn't believe intelligence, does she? she doesn't believe the evidence. ashley: not at all. she refuses to accept both the u.s. and israeli findings that show islamic jihad terrorists were behind the deadly blast, she agrees with the united nations that an independent investigation is necessary. in a a statement, the michigan democrat said in part, quote, i cannot uncritically accept israel's denials of responsibility as fact. especially in light of confirmation from the world health organization that israel has bombed numerous medical facilities in gaza. hamas claims an israeli airstrike killed about 500

people at the hospital in gaza the city. that sparked riots across the middle east. but both the white house and the israeli government say the explosion was cause by a misfired islamic jihad rocket from the palestinian side of the border. but tlaib not gonna buy it, apparently. stu? stuart: all right, we hear you. thanks very much. check that market, it's tuesday morning. the rally is holding. dow up 200, nasdaq up 86 points as we speak. coming up, one blue state is suspending its basic testing requirements for high school students to graduate. finish all in the name of equity. we'll tell you exactly where that is happening. today we're going to hear from the attorney general of virginia on his investigation into social media and children's mental health. lydia hu will preview the big announcement, next. ♪ ♪

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stuart: mike murphy's still with us. [laughter] won't go away. and you brought some stock picks with him. that's a good idea on a day when the market is clearly rallying. first pick, spotify. >> it's had a huge win year to date, but it's still down almost cut in half from highs from a few years ago. so i think what the company's

doing right now, they're increasing their users, they're increasing their paid users, i think this is something to watch out for. apple music, apple's offering apple music, hasn't been able to pull people away from spotify, and they've been at it for a few years now. i'm going to say spotify's winning here. they're beating apple in the music game, so i'd look for them to expand similar to netflix, their stand-alone offering. the advertising dollars they can get on that platform, huge. although it's had a big run, i think there's more room for spotify. stuart: let's move on to verizon. you think of them as a high dividend payer with. >> high dividend payer, but to go along with that 8% dividend, you have a company that's growing, a company that's increasing users and is still year the date down almost 15%. so you're buying it on a selloff. but the question around verizon up until this point, i think, is do they have a business. what's their business going forward, and now i think they're showing they're able to bring on new customers, and they do have

a business. you can collect that dividend and hope for growth in the price of the stock. stuart: so you've recommend reed spotify which today is up 11% and verizon which today is up 8- >> correct. stuart: why didn't you tell us about this yesterday? >> if i was on yesterday, i would have, stuart. [laughter] stuart: thank you, mike. virginia's attorney general is set the make an announcement on his investigation into social moo ya and children's mental health. lydia hu with me now. dozens of states suing meta for harming the mental health of youngsters. tell me more. >> reporter: i was many touch with them just earlier today, and they were expecting this announcement to be about new litigation that's being filed, a new lawsuit filed against meta and other, meta and instagram, the platform that it owns and operates, by the attorney general of virginia and joined by other state attorneys general as well. the statement that meta shared with me was this: quote, we're disappointed that instead of working productively with companies across the city to

create clear, age-appropriate standards for the apps teens use, the attorneys general have chosen this path. now, stuart, today's announcement follows a two-year investigation into meta and specifically itself ins yam platform -- instagram platform, it also comes as there's other lawsuits pending, facebook, tiktok, snapchat and you talking about. the social media companies are trying to get that lawsuit dismissed, we expect a hearing later this week actually. but this is an issue that's coming up on the campaign trail. as you know, social media and mental health, lawmakers and candidates debate whether the government should step in and take action to protect youth from social e media with laws. in fact, you had a recent exchange with gop candidate vivek ramaswamy. listen. stuart: the social media genie is out of the bottle. stopping youngsters from having anything to do with it, that's almost impossible. >> i actually respectfully disagree with that, stuart. if we put narrow

characterizations about the ages we're talking about -- stuart: they get around it. >> people said that for cig is relate manufacturers, and today the way these apps work, you can absolutely detect the age of the american using it. >> reporter: that's what meta it would me today too. it says that they do keep age safe, but we're expecting to hear the other side of that from the virginia attorney general today. the press conference, tune in, 1:15 p.m. eastern. we're going to bring you the latest. stuart: they've been trying to rein in social media companies for a decade, and nothing's really been done. maybe this invest will make a difference. we shall see. actor kirk cameron is with us this morning. now, kirk, you are a father of six. what's your take on children and social media? >> i actually made a documentary about raising children in a social media world called "connect," and every parent that that has kids and remembers what they were like before social media a and after social media knows what this report is going

to tell us, that it is a train the wreck ready to happen. whenever you monetize children, if you can do it without directly killing them, people will justify ways of milling that how cow for every drop of money they can get out of it. stuart: so what would you do, kirk? >> it's problem mat problematic, but it's also technology we love. i love getting pictures from my kids and seeing what they're doing through social media, so it's something we've got to be diligent about figuring out because i don't think it's going anywhere. stuart: whashed we do, restrict access? age restrictions? how do you do it? >> well, my wife and i have focus on connecting relationally with our children. there's no substitute for that. and that's what social media, unfortunately, has done, it's been substituting real relationships, real face-time relationally is, it's essential. and we can't allow companies to monetize our children and give

them a fake, plastic way of connecting with people that actually disconnects them from reality and from relationships. stuart: well -- >> so i'm doing all i can to help kids through documentaries and through books. stuart: i'm, i'm really looking for some understanding of what you want to do here. okay, good to have face time with your children, absolutely ideal, perfect. but are you going to ban social media? something like that? >> no, we've not banned social media, and or our children are young adults now, so they're making their own choices. but we worked really hard to the use technology just like i would use an automobile or a firearm for the purpose for which it was designed and to do good with those things and to use them responsibly. so again, spending time with your kids is critical, reading them books is critical. that's why i'm writing children's books on morality and spirituality and doing all i can to let them mow that we were wired -- know that we were wire for relationships and that those

things are west cultivated in person. that heart to heart, face to face, life on life, not through simply texting and virtual connecting through social media. stuart: we just put on the screen your new book. it's called "the fox, the hare and the invention scare." i understand you're teaching children to love their enemy in a world torn by conflict. sounds like christianity to me. turn the other cheek? >> that's right. and love your enemies, do good to those who hate you and bless those who curse you. i think we need to give our kids a new strategy because if they follow what they're watching on the news in in and in israel and between the right and the left here in america, i don't think they see much of a future and a hope. but if we can turn it around and say, look, there is a better way, then i think they have got a chance at a bright future. so i'm encouraging people to go to bravebooks.com and get my

book for free when you sign up for the book of the month club at bravebooks.com. stuart: now you're talking. kirk cameron, thanks very much for being with us this morning. we're listening to you. >> good to be with you, sir. stuart: thanks a lot. new polling shows just how many americans support expanding school choice. ashley, i'm guessing there's a lot of real support for this. ashley: that's no guess, you're absolutely right. in fact, that polling shows at least 70% of americans believe expanding educational choices for families will help improve education overall in the u.s. a survey conducted by ugov show most americans across all demographics support more choices including 77% of parents of k-12 students, 72 percent of republicans, 69% of democrats. a solid majority, meanwhile, 67% also say that they support ending requiring students to be assigned to their neighborhood public school.

63% support expanding access to education savings accounts, and 66% support education tax credits. in other words, i think the message is clear. stu. stuart: you've got to tell me about this, it's one blue state suspending some is graduation requirements for students. that does not sound like a good idea. [laughter] who's doing this? ashley: no. high schoolers in oregon, they will not need to demonstrate basic competency in reading, writing or math in order to graduate. according to state education officials who say such requirements are unnecessary and disproportionately harmful to students of color. the essential skills requirement has been put on pause ever since the pandemic, and is last week the oregon state board of education voted unanimously to continue suspending the graduation requirement through the 20 the 27-2028 school year. five years. another five years. angry parents have been

submitting public comments opposing the move, urging the board members to reinstate the standards, is and a former gubernatorial candidate, christine crassen, says at some point a diploma's going to end up looking like a participation prize other than an actual certificate that shows someone is actually prepared to pursue their best future. remarkable, but it's happening in oregon. stu. stuart: i'll say nothing about this until tomorrow. [laughter] all right. thanks, ash. the governor of california, gavin newsom, kicked off his week-hong trip to china and hong kong. he vowed his state will always be a partner on climate issues. more on that coming up. house republicans finish the thursday round of speaker e voting. four candidates are left. three have left the race during this show alone. a full report on that next. ♪ ♪

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stuart: one of the standout financial stories of the day is this: bitcoin. it's gone to $33,400. earlier this morning it was above $35,000. that's a rally in bitcoin. no surprise, coinbase also a in rally mode. it's up 8% at $83 per share. oh, how about the markets, is in the general stock marketsesome dow's holding on to a gain of 200 points i. had been up more than 300. nasdaq's up 70, had been up 100, so a little pullback on the rally. now this, congress split on biden's aid package for israel and ukraine. they're split. grady trimble on capitol hill. first of all, grady, what do

republicans want from this bill? >> reporter: well, stu, they're divided on this issue. some say that the president should separate aid for ukraine and aid for israel into two separate requests. others, like senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, say the two wars are inherently interconnected, and it makes sense to package them together in this request like the president has. and still others in the gop say ukraine does need more money to fend off putin, but that the biden administration is asking for, quote, indefinite and increase canned aid with -- increased aid with no real plan. five republican congressmen outlined in a report this week that the the u.s. should be focusing more on delivering weapons to the ukraine and less on humanitarian assistance. >> any further aid must be tied to a winning strategy. this administration has slow dripped weaponry and capabilities to ukraine out of fear that putin might escalate. and in doing so, it's prolonged

this war and likely missed opportunities to make consequential gains on the battlefield that may have resulted in peace talks. >> reporter: some progressives are also criticizing president biden. senator bernie sanders says this: congress cannot approve billions in supplemental budget that only addresses critical emergencies around the world. we have crises here at home too; childcare, health care, housing, opioid addiction that need major funding now and must be included in the supplemental. so you see there president biden facing pushback not only there from he republicans, stu, but also members of his own party. so it could be an uphill battle to get this through congress, not to mention the fact the house needs a speaker to pass anything. stuart: exactly. you've got to have a speaker to to pass this. got it. all right, grady. i've got news on the speaker vote as well. after the third round of voting, there are just four republicans left running for house speaker. byron donalds, tom emmer, kevin hearn and mike johnson.

in other words, three candidates show. they didn't get the vote, so they're out. we've got four left. >> what do you make of this mess in. >> there's still 15 minutes left mt. show, is so let's see who's left standing. [laughter] you know, stuart, i think it's kind of an embarrassment. from an outsider watching this play out, it seems like this is a minority within congress who have realized that if i hold out, i can pretty much, like a child holding their breath, i can get what i want. so if i hold out, you saw it with mccarthy, he had to go through whether it was # 11 or 12 votes, and now people can be bullied out of the race or being told we're not going to vote for you, so you better drop out. i don't think it's the way democracy was meant to run. but i think as a republican party, we need to get together and say who are we going to vote for, who are we all going to -- so the pledge, people pledging to vote for whoever is the nominee, i don't like that typically, but i think in this

instance we need to elect somebody. somebody has to be there. so however they get to that point, they have to do it. so who the candidate is, i think, is less important than they're actually being a up winner, being somebody there as speaker. stuart: if they can't find a speaker in the immediate future and this thing drags on and on and on, at what point does the stock market react in any point at all or they just don't care? >> i don't think so because i think the, ultimately, there's going to be the minority and the majority. so at this point i don't think it's having any negative impact on the market or on investments at all. but as a country, we do need to have somebody sitting in that seat. stuart: yeah. and we're getting kind of, what did you say we got? tell me more? okay. let's -- roll that tape on former speaker mccarthy. >> i think this gets done this week. i think, i think we'll go a number of rounds here because of

the size of the number of people running, but i think tom emmer has a real lead here and probably best poised to bring the conference together. stuart: okay. that just came to us. they're trying to bring the conference together. they're still trying, they're still voting s and we'll see how that works out. thank you, mike, for your expertise in politics. [laughter] show me the dow 30, please, give you a sense of the market. i'm sure i'm going to see a lot of green, and, yes, there it is. at least three-quarter withs are in the green. the dow's up two-thirds of 1%, 200 points to the upside. and then there's this, the president of the students for justice in palestine group at youngstown university refuses to condemn hamas for their atrocities. watch this. >> are you willing as a group and as an individual to condemn hamas for their terrorist acts? >> we don't condone violence. the way you have been labeling it as saying both sides, we're kind of equating hamas with

israel. stuart: our next guest interviewed that hamas supporter. he'll tell us what else she had to say after this. ♪

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stuart: coca-cola has quietly removed any preferences to its financial support for black lives matter. ashley, why are they doing that? ashley: well, because a black lives matter chapter expressed support for hamasist es of course, as we know, killed at least 1400 civilians and soldiers earlier month in israel. coca-cola has quietly removed references to its financial support for blm if its official web site. it goes back to blm's chicago chapter that sparked outrage with the now-deleted post on x, formerly twitter, showing a photo of a paraglider with a text saying i stand with palestine. there it is. texas senator ted cruzed had blasted coca-cola on his podcast last week, and the company's web site apparently scrubbed reference to blm, it's no longer there. stuart: thanks, ashley.

mike murphy, do you think corporations are finally waking up to wokeness in. >> i hope so, stuart. the shorten answer is not all. there's still a9 lot of companies out there, disney's the first one that comes to mind. i think at some point you're going to see activist investors getting involved, people who own a company like disney the own their stock, and they see what their wokeness has done to the price of that stock the, i think you're going see lawsuits coming because not only the board, but also the ceo mistaking decisions at disney, they have a responsibility to shareholders to maximize profits for the shareholders. is so their woke stance has really not only hurt the company, but it's also hurt all shareholders across the board. so i think that's, that is, i think, the next shoe to tall here. stuart: that's coming down the pike. all right, thanks, mike. the president of the students for justice in palestine group at youngstown university refuses to condemn hamas for their atrocities. watch this, please. >> are you willing as a group and as an individual to condemn hamas for their terrorist acts?

>> we for nonviolence, if that a ooh's what you're asking. >> specifically, do you condemn hamas as a to have group? >> again, i think that's -- the way that you have been labeling it as saying both sides, we're kind of equating hamas with israel, right? so i think we need to understand that there's a power imbalance going on, and there's -- there are both sides, the is side of to pressed and the side of the oppressor. [laughter] stuart: oh, really? austin brown joins user he's a student at youngtown state university, and i believe you interviewed the president there. what else did she have to say? >> yes, stuart, i did interview her. i was mainly there to wonder what their group was doing being established so quickly after a terrorist attack had occurred. and what they were doing was they were painting the school spirit rock with a pro-palestinian message. and when i came up to interview the president, she obviously, as this video showed, refused to

condemn hamas. at various points she even deflected the blame back to israel and denied that hamas was a militant organization in the first place. clearly, this individual had a skewed perception of the situation. stuart: but does that individual have some influence at the university? >> certainly. i think that there's a broader e influence in general with ideologies like this. colleges, as we've seen, have become more and more left-leaning with activist professors pushing different ideologies in the classroom, the leadership institutes campus reform reported on an incidence at stanford where there was a lecturer who actually rounded up jewish students in the classroom to push a pro-palestinian ideology and tried to compare israel's actions to that of the holocaust. so clearly, there is a very divisive stance being taught, and students such as this president of the student organization are very susceptible to it. stuart: i'm afraid i'm out of time, austin. i wish i had more time, but thanks very much for coming on the show and pointing out what's

really going on in some of our colleges. we appreciate it. austin brown, we'll see you again. >> thanks forking having me. stuart: yes, sir. this is just coming at us, we're now down to just two speaker candidates after the fourth ballot. we've got two left. tom emmer and mike johnson. i guess you could call that progress. >> five minutes left, let's see. a maybe we'll have a speaker by the end. [laughter] stuart: more "varney" after this. ameritrade is now part of schwab. bringing you an elevated experience, tailor-made for trader minds. go deeper with thinkorswim: our award-wining trading platforms. unlock support from the schwab trade desk, our team of passionate traders who live and breathe trading. .. and sharpen your skills with an immersive online education crafted just for traders. all so you can trade brilliantly.

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stuart: how many brains do octopuses have. europe first. neil: i will go with number 3. number 2, three brains. stuart: murph? >> i will say one brain. stuart: you were going to say 8 tentacles. i will say 3. that would be number 2, three brains. 9. are you kidding me? 9. a central brain controls the nervous system, each of the 8 arms also has a brain. they have three heart and blue blood. thanks for beyond the show. coast-to-coast starts now.