>> trying to say that joe biden's presidency is doing well is like the captain of the titanic coming out on the deck as it sinks and saying, folk, i have great news, we have decided to identify this ship as a submarine. >> cons consumers are strapped d

half the population is going into debt to keep up with holiday shopping. >> don't do anything. if it ain't broke, don't knicks it. leave it alone. >> we're going to make sure the world knows where we stand and what i don't want to be defined by are the lunatics showing up and siding with hamas. stuart: there you go, it's led zeppelin. i knew that. i knew that. i'm not joking. jimmy, i knew that . i knew that was led zeppelin. that's my generation. >> two for tuesday. stuart: check the markets. modest rally, dow's up 100, small gains for the nasdaq and s&p. all green left hand side of the

screen. big tech, mixed bag earlier and same story and microsoft, meta, apple up and amazon, apple down and microsoft new high, 381. 10-year treasury yield down to 4.35%. might be that's why stocks are rallying just a little. now this, it's no fun being overweight or outright obese. we americans have the highest obesity of any country. discrimination happens. some states are trying to do something about it. new york for example, has passed a law banning discrimination in the workplace. okay. i can see two problems with this. first, it's a lawyer's charter and guaranteed gusher of money. you don't like your job, you're overweight and leave and file a lawsuit on the grounds your prior was nasty to you or didn't

accommodate your condition and put that in front of a jury and you win. you're now a protected class. second, the problem of compliance. that is employers have to make sure your obesity is accommodated. that's expensive and another regulation that makes running a profitable business more difficult. remember americans with disability act, whole armies of professional litigants made of business of filing noncompliance lawsuits and same thing will happen with obesity compliance suits. as i said, it's difficult being obese and fitting into society, i got it. it's also difficult as an employer to get the help you want and getting the job done. you're hindered by all kinds of rowstrictions on who to hire and who to fire. a balance is surely required but the plaintiffs bar will not find the balance and looking for 30% of the take plus expenses and obesity discrimination is their new industry, but it won't make obesity discrimination go away, will it? third hour of varney starts now.

stuart: all right, jimmy failla is here. what's he going to say about this fat phobia? what do you make of it? >> first and foremost, i'm here as proof that fox doesn't criminate against overweight people. i'm gainfully employed and have been for over three years despite the protest of the cafeteria staff. here's the truth and this is why this is such a scam, okay, obesity is a serious health problem in this country, okay. we have the fattest country in the world for lack of a better term and this type of lawsuit does nothing to address the health complications that come from being obese. it's lawyers masquerading as, you know, heros, as protectors of the overweight but if you want to help the overweight, you help lower the health outcomes by getting them into better shape. this sen couraging more of the health liability. you know, i grew up in an era, stu, you know, i grew up in an

era of bullying. as a kid, he was like 300 pounds. i only lost weight because every day when i got dropped off at school, the minute i got out of school, you slob, how much did you eat and i'm like, all right, mom, see you at 3:00. rough them up but now it's a better direction and encouraging people to go in a better direction. the litigation only makes lawyers money, not going to help the people. it's a sam. stuart: you're an original thinker. >> i'm prepared this. is a heavy issue in more ways than one i might add. but i take this seriously, it's a racket. stuart: i think there's a great deal of discrimination of people overweight. >> of course, there is. your life is harder but we can improve that condition not by encouraging you to make it harder by gaining more weight and suing for being obese doesn't make you get in shape. i'm trying to say for that. i'm trying to care for the

physical people struggling with obesity. stuart: another one, headline observe, please. earth to democrats, biden presidency is a dumpster fire. human warning signs do you need? that's quite a statement from usa today. what's going on inside the white house these days? >> that moment in the wedding where it's about to start and the minister says if anyone has an objection, speak now or forever hold your peace. the whole church is screaming. the band isn't even playing their instruments. they're like, hell, no, we can't do this. the organist is like should i start playing? i'm not sure. the answer is no. nobody wants to see this happen again and gosh love the people that are out there trying to make the case for biden. it's like you're trying to sell bruises and a lifeboat from the die tannic. think of the dinners -- titanic. think of the dinners monday to thursday. there's no case. everyone in the church knows that and i'm speaking now and i will not hold my piece. stuart: you sure did. jimmy, you're all right. see you later.

back to the markets murphy is here. there's some sanity. you know, looks to me like the market wants to go up, and i think you'll agree with that. >> i will, you look, stuart, all the concerns that were out there, most of the concerns out there were kind of one after the other just clearing that concern and that's why the market is sitting here just off 52-week highs. stuart: up 100 points, 35,000 on the dow, 14 on the nasdaq, and 4,500 on s&p. okay, wants to go up. black friday spending. what do you make of that? it was mostly online spending. that's what it was. >> now with technology, everyone can spend and get deals and sit in their homes and do shopping at their home and we're at a place and things that are being purchased delivered to your home in enough time for christmas. it's an easier way for people to shop. the biggest thing, stuart, people were spending money. people, the american consumer

overall, you can't question their health right now at this point. you can say, well, maybe next year, maybe this, maybe. but right now, this is a good position. stuart: we have record credit card debt and 1.08 trillion and up 48 billion in the last quarter and doesn't apply for interest rates on credit card that are 20% on average now. that's not good for consumers. >> it's not u but i think there's a lot more consumers out there right now. looking at that number, you're not comparing apples to apples and the population has grown and more people out there spending money and increasing and it would be better if nobody spent money and we'll get to that point and working and have jobs and spending their money and they'll pay down the credit card. stuart: is there a single catalyst that will move this market ahead in the immediate future? >> tough to say. there's nothing really out there we're waiting on that will just spike the market. sometimes that's the best rally

to see just a slow and steady grind tire. if you look at s&p 500, we're a few points away from 52-week high. catalyst, a technical breakout and if a lot of technicians, professional money managers put that money to work they were waiting for january, february march to put to work and more coming into the market hitting new highs. stuart: seen microsoft? $382 per share? >> i have. stuart: that's not one of the winners you gave to me. >> you had it before. stuart: i did. but i noticed uber going to 55, 56. you gave me that and made me money. >> 356, a lot more to go -- 56, a lot more to go and we can talk black stone. stuart: it's now $106. i got it way back down there in the 30s. that wasn't entirely you. >> that's a discussion for off camera. stuart: you've got a deal. you're with me for the hour,

lucky guy. stay right there. lauren is looking at movers including 3m. lauren: no. 2 on the dow and appeals court handed them an appeal in the chemical lawsuit they've been facing and over 11 million ohio residents cannot move forward as a group and class action and alleged 3m and other companies made foams containing pfas that seep into the ground water causing cancer when used. that's the lawsuit and big win for 3m goating out of the class a.c. stuart: how is affirm doing bay now pay later. up is 11% yesterday and 5% today. lauren: new here . extending cyber monday gains and jeffries upgraded to hold and not buy. cost of capital for affirm is stabilizing and more customers are using it and we've seen them report these numbers and 40+ percent increase in the number of people using holiday purchases with buy now pay later. stuart: coin base.

lauren: arken invest sold $5.3 million worth of holdings and not really for a bad reason. shares are up 60% this month alone and they're at 18-month high and on this news, the stock is still up almost 4.5%. stuart: murphy is sitting next to me shaking his head. you can't take cryptos. >> i it's not that i can't take them, people see a stock like coin base going up saying in is great, i need to get involved in something like this. it may do well, but i think the -- if cryptoconcernty becomes a scape l, i'll argue it won't but if it did, people can trade at charles schwab or wherever they're trading money. don't want them to lose money in crypto. stuart: macys workers went on strike and want something done to combat the brazen thieves that threaten their safety. we'll have john ka when they coe

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stuart: this just coming into us, israel says hamas has indeed breached the ceasefire. what are you hearing, trey? reporter: yeah, stuart, earlier today israel said hamas breached the ceasefire deal in gaza and three explosions and exchange of gunfire this. took place at two different locations in northern gaza on day five of the ceasefire and raised questions about if the hostage exchange for prisoners would move forward tonight, but israeli media reporting the hostages are being transferred to the red cross and israellys anticipate they'll we sense of aloha ten additional citizens part of the broader agreement extended for two days. overnight 11 israelis released for exchange at 3: 1 ratio for palestinian prisoners and released hostages brought here to tel aviv to the ichilov

medical hospital and some of the children mall nou nourished and needed treatment. families across the country starting to breathe a sigh of relief as certain loved ones are coming home and see in the video u one family, the brodich family smiling and playing with their dog. it's not all smiles from everyone. some families are still waiting for their loved ones. >> they've lost their home and nothing to come back to. every family that you see, those children receiving that dog and they have no home to go back to. no -- nothing that they knew from their previous life exists. reporter: so many people lost everything, not just homes but also loved ones, many of these

children are turning to israel as part of the ceasefire deal. returning to no parents. stuart. stuart: thanks very much indeed. there's been a confirmed 7 p attacks on u.s. forces in arrack and see ya and eric schmidt joining me now. are with you senator tom cotton with a much, much stronger response to iran? >> i am. strength is its own deterrence and when you don't enforce the sanctions like oil sanctions on iran, they have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend funding terrorist activities like hamas. what's the real world result of that? it's children being killed, people being decapitated and we were in a private screening of some of the horrific screens earlier today. all the senators were invited. this is terrible stuff, a terrorist organization that's funded by iran. when they're attacking u.s. interests, we have to respond

and make sure it done a lot happen again. if you want to prevent escalation, you have a response that makes sure they don't tonight do do what they're doing. stuart: the war at this point is not fullyics tended into lebanon or the gulf and maybe our restraint is responsible for that lack of broader war. >> that's the goal of everybody is no further conflict and that's how this thing will escalate and we don't want to see that >> aran has to understand we don't get to do this and cut off the money and stop releasing billions to the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world is iran and they have to know the united states means business. stuart: got it. mr. senator, you're trying to get back pay for the soldiers discharged for not getting the covid vaccine. the military wants them to come

back into the service. i have to and you this, what happens next time if there's another pandemic and the death rate is 20 or 30%. would we still -- would we allow free choice? you don't have to get the vaccine? that circumstance? would you do that? >> well, we always have to protect people's freedom of religion, under the first amendment, they can object to certain things, that's obvious. let's deal with this. this was a vaccine, stuart, that it didn't prevent transmission. they knew that. you're talking about, you know, the death toll for people who were in their 80s was much different than kids who were 8 yet the response here was the same. the biden administration politicized this and did it with cms and ho supra aural headphones and trying to force a medical procedure on 100 ml people and talking about the military setting and those individuals fires and essentially discharged and

disrespected and volunteered for the country and we ought to be asking them to come back and get back pay and full resistance ration and apology. we have readiness issues and recruitment challenges and across the board including in the army. thought to recruit these folks and we ought to be apologizing to them for the political act it was a couple years ago now. stuart: you want back pay and re-instatement to rank and apology. what have you heard from the pent gone? pentagon? >> i asked secretary austin about this and he was defiant and they're not going to do that and they have this letter by the army, it doesn't go far enough and are you going to get back pay and restore rank and get an apology? we'll wait and see. early december is when we're heaping to get a response. i'm not going away on this. there's real readiness challenges and 8,000 people were fired and heros that volunteered to serve their countries and they deserve better than that and we have to stay on it. stuart: great point.

eric schmitt, missouri republican. thank you. donald trump hinting at for more the military. ashley, what is he saying? ashley: campaigning in iowa this year, trump said he was prevented during his presidency to use the military and stop violent in cities and states. he calls new york city and chicago crime dens and says next time he's not going to wait to deploy the military. he hasn't exactly spelled out how that would work and legal experts say under the i thinks recollection act that was first -- insurrection act passed in 1792, presidents can call on reserve or active duty military units to respond to unrest in the states. it's an authority by the way that is not reviewable by the courts so in theory, trump very well could call on the military to help cities struggling with violent crime or as we've seen at the southern border. the former president already has

signaled a very aggressive agenda if he wins for mass deportations to travel bans imposed on certain muslim majority countries. stu. stuart: got t thanks, ash. quick check of the markets, please. the green is still there. dow up 120 and s&p is up 8 and nasdaq up 23 points. got it. coming up, hunter biden is offering to testify before the house-over sight committee. beyond that, his lawyers want it to be a public testimony. why is that? we'll have the report. the media research center says president biden's political opponents have been censored 162 times but biden has only been censored seven times. media guy brent bozell on that next. ♪

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blackstone is holding on the books, they'll sell and gain is redistributed to the shareholders. stuart: what's the best -- buy the best index like spdr, that's making up the and p500. do you buy that now? >> yeah, i buy spy, which is the s&p 500. there's a lot of different companies with the s&p 500 index but that's the way, stuart, for anyone watching your program at home, they want to own the top 500 companies out there. one click, it's very low cost, low fees, and you have all of big tech, you have all of energy, you have all of pharma, all different sectors. you don't have to sit back and say should i move out of this or into that. you set it and forget it. stuart: all bases covered. for anyone watching out there, there's a million people out there watching us. >> at least, maybe two for this hour. stuart: could be with you on. hunter biden has offered to testify before congress at a public hearing in december.

hillary vaughn with me now. hillary, there's a different between a public hearing and a closed door meeting. that makes a big difference, doesn't it? reporter: stuart, it does because we do not get eyes or ears into a closed door deposition but we do in a public hearing and his lawyers are now requesting that he's willing to show up and testify in person in front of the house republican impeachment inquiry into his business deals and whether or not president biden was involved. after the house oversight subpoenaed hunter biden is asked him to show up for a closed door deposition on december 13th, his lawyers said they don't want to do it in secret and want everyone to see and hear what hunter has to say telling them this, we've seen you used closed door sessions to manipulate and misinform the public and we propose opening the door ifs you claim your efforts are important and involve issues that americans should know about, let the light shine on the proceedings. that is not going to slide with republicans.

house oversight chair james comer responding saying "hunter biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else. we expect full cooperation with the subpoena for the deposition but also agree that hunter biden should have opportunity to testify in a public setting at a future date". across the capitol in the senate, senator josh hawley thinks this should be done out in the open. >> the american people have a right to see and should evaluate for themselves. if you do this in public, there's inevitably bunches of leaks and so and so said this and so and so said that and do it in public and let the public see and open the door so you all can report on it. reporter: of course democrats jumping on this rejection of immediate open door testimony. the top democrat on the committee jamie raskin saying this shows republicans are not

interested in the deals. stuart: brent joins me now. what are you in favor of, a closed door meeting to ask any questions you'd like or open public meeting where the public can see what's going on? >> well, i think both. we understand why hunter biden is saying this. he wants the attention. he's pretty good on his feet. i think he's going to be able to make this a show. with all the democrats supporting him against the republicans. you know, the republicans just don't have a good track record in these hearings. so i think it should be a closed door hearing as they want, and it should be a open hearing to let him have a public say. stuart: got it. next one, brent. biden's political opponents have been censored by big tech 162 times. biden himself censored only 7 times. i guess you can say the big tech is firmly on biden's side; right? >> you know, that's extraordinary. we looked at this since the beginning of the campaign through thanksgiving.

the number one most censored man is vivek ramaswamy because he's taken the position questioning the biden position on climate change. number two is rfk jr. who has taken it 17 times and taken a position questioning the biden administration on its covid mandates. no. three is nikki haley interestingly enough. the majority of it is because she is the least pro life republican candidate calling only for a ban on late term abortions and for that she was censored six times by youtube. here's the interesting one that i think, if you look at all the censorship taking place, it's not coming from tiktok, it's not coming from twitter or x, it's not coming from facebook. 22% of it is coming from youtube. 69% of it is coming from google. google owns youtube therefore

91% opportunistic the cent correspondentship coming from one company and one company a-- censorship is coming from one company and that's google. stuart: what do you mean, a video is not displayed or banned? >> yeah, biden was censored over really silly stuff, production technicalities having to do with a couple of his videos. but in the case of rfk jr., if he talked about either covid, questioning covid, the administration on covid or even talking about his opinion of his own father's assassination, if it went against what big tech, what google thinks is truth, he wasn't allowed to have a say. this is all about free speech. i mean, i really -- it shouldn't matter to us what the position of vivek or rfk jr. or nikki haley. ron desantis was censored seven

times because he questioned this administration's childhood mutilation policies on transgenderrism and for that he was censored. you're not allowed to have a opinion on google. stuart: this is fascinating stuff. brent, thank you for bringing to our attention. fascinating indeed. thank you, brent. >> thank you for having me. stuart: how about this, sports illustrated has rep reportly ben published ai generated ads and publishing them. ashley: what a story. it comes from futurism.com and investigations claim a number of head shots from sports illustrated authors could be found on a website used to buy ai-generated head shots. remarkable. the report found no evidence that the writers in question actually exist outside of si's website, but if you click on those names and pictures, you'll see a complete biography with lists of hobbies even. biography basically of someone that the investigation claims is

just not real. not long after futurism published the story, the sportss illustrated union released its own statement saying it was horrified adding if true, these practices violate everything we believe in about journalism. we deplore being associated with something so disrespectful to our readers. si's parent company, the arena group, has not responded to the report but futurism claims that the ai-generated authors previously seen on sports illustrated sites were, well, removed without explanation. i'm wondering how many more of these stories we're going to see as ai gets used more and more. stu. stuart: yeah, a lot more i suspect. thanks, ashley. ashley: yeah. stuart: 93% of the grocery stores in manhattan, new york, have been hit by shoplifters this year. john catastrophe runs a grocery store chain in manhattan. i know he hired security guards to take on the scripters.

he's gone -- shoplifters and he's on the show and who has to pay for them too. crash and grab, people are driving stolen cars into store fronts then stealing everything in sight. full report from the store that got hit in chicago, next. ♪

stuart: there's been an up tick in thieves driving stolen vehicles through store fronts before looting everything in sight. it is called crash and grab. kelly sabery is in chicago with

more. what's behind the crash and grab? reporter: yeah, stuart, it's evolved from the smash and grab and business owners getting to their store fronts only to find extensive damage from people ramming cars into the store front in order to loot the store as you mention. now, take this example out of st. louis, a group of teenagers rammed a stolen car into a gun shop stealing almost $30,000 worth of guns to sell and leaving $200,000 worth of damage to the building. they leave the stolen cars in the store and run off with the resellable goods and police say a lot of cars are kias and hyundais thankses to lack of antitheft device that ex existsn most other cars. law enforcement in chicago say over 600 kias and hyundais were stolen just this past august. a bakery is one of four on the corner where we are targeted just a week and a half ago. the kitchen is shared by multiple stores here and the

thieves broke in through the window and vandalized the property attempting to find a cash register but none of the businesses here have a cash system. the bakery owner said it feels as though society is getting worse and people are self-focused. >> has a huge impact on me. i'm not -- it's not a huge money making business. so any expense is more than i can handle reporter: any type of damage and any type of new security will be a blow to their wallet. now, at this point if they want to add security guards or add steel-filled pillars for people not to drive into the restaurants or bakeries here, it'll cost them a lot of money, stuart. stuart: kelly, thanks for being with us and welcome to the fox family. great to have you. see you later. thank you. stuart: 90% of grocers in new york have been hit by

shoplifters this year. john catastrophe is o store owner and joins me now. you hired security guards to combat the shoplifting, how is it going? >> we have things under control. we have security guards and employees with us -- great employees for over 34 years. they've learned how to control our stores. they know how to control shoplifters. i mean, the old joke we used to tell, we carried rocky bats and it was a 6-foot bat. i never hit anybody but guess what, when those shoplifters saw the bat come out, they left. stuart: how much is the security guards costing you? >> a few million a year. i mean, if the store is doing $250 million a year, it's costing between shoplifting and security guards extra 5%. stuart: that's it? manageable. controllable.

>> it's $10 million. $12 million but things are out of control. stuart: yeah. >> rite aid closed all their stores in manhattan and closing the rest, they're bankrupt. drugstores have everything locked up. things are out of control. stuart: do you have stuff locked up? >> nobody is getting arrested. stuart: do you have stuff locked up even with security guards? >> we have some stuff locked up, yes. the other pro problem is the poe officers, great police officers and leaving in droves. 2500 left in 2023 and guess what, they're saying why should i take a chance on arresting somebody and losing my pension when they're not going to stay in jail anyway. stuart: did you see this in seattle? macys workers in the seattle suburb walked off the job this weekend and protesting because they're saying nothing is being done to protect us, the shop people, from the dangerous thieves. the story really is that police won't arrest anybody. >> they won't arrest anybody

because there's no d as that are going to prosecute. and if you're not going to arrest and the das are not going to prosecute, there's no law and order. we are going to be living under the law of the jungle. stuart: do you think new york city is still spiraling down or beginning to stabilize and show signs of life on the upside? >> it's not stabilizing. stuart: it's not? >> people are afraid to walk around after dark. gets dark now at 4:00, 5:00. used to go to restaurants till 10, 11:00 at night living in new york city. people are scared to walk around. stuart: do you notice a difference in sales after it gets dark? >> there's none. or very few. stuart: not that bad surely? >> they are but sales are down after dark. stuart: it's a terrible thing. i love this city. i've lived here for years. >> we all love this city but we've got to make a comeback. what commissioner sewall said

and commissioner brat ton last night on my show, if there's 3,300 criminals, if we took those 3,300, put them in jail, guess what? new york would be the way me and you love it. stuart: would be nice to see, wouldn't it? >> why 3,300 instead of 8 million. stuart: john, you made your case and make it again next time. >> thank you. stuart: people thought disney's troubles were behind them when bob iger returned and kelly o'grady has the disney report next. ♪ you can't buy great conversations or moments that matter, but you can invest in them. at t. rowe price our strategic investing approach

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executive bob iger set to address employees in a company-wide town hall today. kelly o'grady is with me. kelly, do we know what he's going to say in >> stuart, we're expecting oil and gas industrier and a number of senior -- stuart, we're expecting iger and a number of senior leaders to expect the building by opportunity meeting and it's a

pleating for employers and -- meeting for employers and investors and wall street is watching and the company has yet to fully turn around. some parts of the business are doing well but the movie studio and can tent engine that feeds other parts of the business are flailing. disney's wish and marvel bombed at the box office and disney seen a number of other flops partly driven by the pursuit of woke content. >> they kept on producing these woke movies and people weren't going. they just kept on producing them, expecting people to adjust their values to the company. well, that didn't happen. and so shareholders are beginning to ask synergy home we ever really went down this road. jot company admitted that esg activism hurt shareholders and said "we face risks relating to misalignment with public and consumer taste and preferences for entertainment, travel, and consumer product that impact demand and profitability of any of the businesses".

along with structural and cost challenges, that's teeing up a fight with activist investors and value act capital and try and fund management and built up large stake withs the ladder seeking board states and we're expecting iger to get asked questions about that and business funda fundamentals andg elephant in the room, who's going to succeed him? i worked at the company ten years ago and as much of a mystery then as it is now. stuart: thank you. mike murphy with me, would you buy disney stock? >> no, i don't believe in what they believe in and the company changed and the report there, that should be underlined. they no longer delivering to the public what the public wants. they're catering to a very small piece of the public, and i think people like nelson peltz that's been an activist and they're going to make headway and his chief job is increasing shareholder value and increasing

this piece of the poke population, he's -- woke population, he's not doing that. stuart: time for the trivia question and it's a good one. with no obvious answer, what's america's favorite ice cream? choices are vanilla, chocolate, cookies and cream or strawberry. murphy and ashley will give us their tentative answer when is we come back. ♪ ..

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stuart: a pretty good question. what is america's favorite ice cream flavor? vanilla, chocolate, cookies and cream, strawberry. ashley, you are always first. go. ashley: i will take a scoop of each one. there's no ice cream i don't like. how about vanilla? stuart: i can understand that. >> not number 4, strawberry. i will go with 2. using my kids as a guide. stuart: you do eat ice cream on occasion. >> vanilla over chocolate. stuart: you are not a big dairy guy. so you are going with chocolate. i am going to go with vanilla. the answer is chocolate.

vanilla used to be popular in 2008. the 10th most popular was dark chocolate. we've got you. remember the old days in england when you had three choices of flavor, you had velma, strawberry and chocolate. that is it. ashley: that was it. three flavors. stuart: all three flavors together was called neapolitan. so now you know. thanks, mike. for playing along with us. and five seconds, coast-to-coast starts, three seconds now, here we go. neil: nikki is looking nifty. the koch network just endorsed her. the financial juggernaut has tens o