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be talking to brian pena just a minute. it's a near christmas while the streets are not as full as they will be over the coming days partly because of this bad weather it is a very festive spirit here at fox news headquarters. good morning, everyone it is 10:00 o'clock eastern time i am david asman info stuart varney let's get straight to your money we're in the green we agreed last week in the week before, it was a great month, december has been great so far inward from the fed that they could be lowering rates next year, the ten year treasury was up a little bit the rate is up five basis points and trading below or% at 3.96, right now oil is up significantly today, almost 4% jump in oil if there's more economic progress that these are to be spending a little bit more for oil because we get him to use more of it, bitcoin is down $560 and had a nice gain and we

had the latest read with the homebuilders sentiment. >> it is 37 better-than-expected increase in five months lower mortgage rates lower than seven, that is good for the homebuilder and less expensive for them to build a home in the buyer, most expensive for them to finance a home, a win-win for everybody. david: ryan payne joining me now and. when interest rates go down it's obviously better for anybody who is buying anything with credit and that includes homebuyers that might be a good year for the homebuying market. >> absolutely you have a thin supply right now so you have so many people looking for home and we've been undersupplied for a decade now the affordability went to the roof and mortgage rates at 8% a month ago, having mortgage rates come down definitely eases the affordability and also people who have been sitting in the

home won't move because they have been locked-in and it might give them incentive to move out in the market moving again. >> you talking about the go i remember you arguing with somebody on this network i don't figure was this particular program you had an optimistic tone for the person you arguing with. it looks like you were right. there is a lot of bumps in the road and a lot of red flags but generally speaking you have to bet on the u.s. economy. >> it's hard fighting off a pessimist i'm tired fighting them off fall year you really can't you look at the productivity gains which is great when you look at inflation, companies are able to manage their margins better and unemployment stayed so low and resourceful companies have been a growing revenue and expanding their margins this year, that's what you see the surprises in the stock market. david: what is really frustrating how much more we can be growing if we we were to ged of the regulations that have come aboard the past couple of years we could be growing much

stronger. any red flags that you see. >> only think is optimism in the market has gotten extremely bullish to the point of an extreme and typically when it gets to the extreme we get a pullback but right now you're sitting up $5.8 trillion in cash a lot of people have been sitting in cash it's great to get the 5% of your money market but we know next year that the fed may cut six times so that's 5% money market could be. half% by the end of next year. david: why is there a reason to buy bonds. >> you can lock in bonds a longer-term rate we know short-term is coming down but it's also a great opportunity to get into stocks were starting to see interest rates like real estate, financial stocks, bank stocks have all done phenomenally well because of interest-rate sensitive and rates are starting to come down. >> before the lower rates, it is time to lock in when you say longer-term are you talking more than two-year bonds. >> 5 - 10 years you have a historical, rates are a lot

higher than they were in the last decade tenure at 4% is much better than it's been in a long, long time even if it's down from 5%. david: thank you for being here. good for you for sticking to your guns. sometimes it turns out you're right when you're doing that. >> fisher you were either bullish or foolish. >> you were looking at some movers. >> another piece of news on apple down over 1% there is a report that china's iphone band has expanded to include more chinese agencies covering a reported eight provinces, back in september china started banning certain officials from using iphone they wanted to gear you towards a huawei and other local brands. david: netflix. >> 4883 and change. in the uk they also cut down password sharing and not have the numbers to prove that since

they did that in late spring subscription spiked by nearly a quarter for the uk subscribers. david: masonite. >> ticker symbol is door because they make doors and the stock is down 11% after announcing a deal with a competitor pdg innovation the make patio doors, windows in cash and stock deal valued at $3 billion you have m&a this monday morning. david: one company is looking into artificial intelligence to prevent future layoffs. what company. >> deloitte consulting recruited a lot of employees, what's happening in the economy is slowing down and there is concern they might not see as much demand for the consulting services. to prevent collateral damage they are using a.i. to scan workers skill sets and productivity levels and move them to more challenging or and demand positions in that basically keeps everybody

productive and it cements your job security, a.k.a. limits mass layoffs that's how they use a.i. earlier this month we told you that ernst & young is laying off their partners. as the economy slows the high-paying white-collar jobs are being eliminated partners. >> welcome to the a.i. world thank you very much, the irs whistleblower joseph zigler claims there is evidence linking president biden to burisma officials. >> the evidence was overwhelming, this was about access to the administration, access to hunter biden to the administration ended seen through the countless of e-mails that have been turned over and there was former head of ice that was pulling immigration systems for burisma officials. , there is a lot of different things that are included in that

and the evidence clearly did not support removing political figure number one. david: charlie hurt joining me political figure number one is joe biden the head of ice pulling immigration info for burisma executives. it sure sounds like they were getting special treatment, i wonder why. >> exactly. an interesting tactic for democrats you hear all the time hunter biden is involved in all of the shady deals and doing all the stuff with foreign governments and getting paid but has nothing to do a joe biden on so many levels it does not pass the smell test and this is another example of it where you have clear evidence of foreign entities who hired hunter biden impeded menorahs amounts of money and no expertise but who got special favors from the government. one example of many where that is the case and i don't know how

much more of a diagram that you need to draw flowing money from foreign entities that were paying for access into joe biden's pocket or the biden families pocket but this is pretty obvious to me. david: if her easement officials or executives are getting a payback for what they were doing with hunter, that seems absolutely like there was a parade quote pro. >> you would call bribery in the constitution. in talking about impeachment. it is like the word is bribery. even if it is not, even if you were able to produce those specific examples where the administration give special favors to people who were paying hunter biden. the idea all of this is going on under the no's of joe biden and hunter biden on air force two around the world china to drum

up business and hunter biden clearly using his connections in order to get people to pet him, that is also bribery and that's also something joe biden should've known about. david: then there were the pesky e-mails that were done very often between joe biden and business partners of hunter, there were 347 e-mails between joe biden and this one business partner particular eric schwinn, 55 of which it was not that he was sw cced on it was joe bidend eric swearingen. >> to me it is screaming evidence. in the other part if this is simply a matter of joe biden dealing with his financial advisor who advised him on investments for his family why use a pseudonym, that's a crazy thing about all of this and even

that to me given eric swearingen's involvement in every aspect of hunter biden's companies which dealing with collecting money with foreign governments for access to the iraqi government as joe biden is vice president. even if that were the case it still doesn't pass the sniff test. david: the question is, the information about these e-mails came in the form of data searches. i don't believe it includes a content of the e-mails. is there any way congressional investigators again to get the content of the e-mails. >> now that we know that the e-mails exist it's kind of like everything that's happened at every step of the way with this investigation, now that we know that these things exist the next step is obviously tracking those things down and i don't have the federal government can prevent congressional investigators from getting actual material and once we see the content of these e-mails we will know a whole lot more and again, if joe biden has

nothing to hide then he should be all in favor of letting investigators see these things. david: then we have what hunter did last week essentially to say to the investigators that wanted him to report to the committee, no way i'm not doing it i'm here in front of the capital but i'm not going in front of your committee hearing. even democrats are saying that was not a smooth deal like jen psaki said the over the beacon. >> is a clear example of obvious contempt of congress in previous congress has put people in jail for this at least they put political opponents in jail for this but to me this is the rocky part of all of it and it's so frustrating to me. this will not happen the reason it will not happen is because the justice works for the biden administration and the department of justice will not. out of the contempt charges against somebody that is politically aligned with the white house. it's a sad state for us.

david: charlie hurt it's never sad to have you on the air, it's a pleasure to see you, have a wonderful. under christmas. >> defense secretary lloyd austin is urged benjamin netanyahu to scale back their bombing campaign in gaza is that a good strategy i'll be asking brent sadler coming up. israel uncovering the largest ever home lost tunnel. we will take you inside with shocking new videos. israeli troops trapped gaza bin laden, that report also next. ♪ (adventurous music) ♪ ♪ ♪ be ready for any market with a liquid etf.

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the dow is up 12 and appoints the s&p is up 17 in the nasdaq is up 60 the nasdaq is the strongest mover let's get back to the war in israel israeli forces have uncovered the largest ever home lost tunnel near the gaza border they also trapped hamas leader known as gaza's bin laden. greg palkot is in southern israel. >> we will get to the latest in the fighting and also the diplomacy. secretary of defense austin is in town today speaking with israeli leadership, his message probably something like cool it a bit with their war, we witnessed this war raging up-and-down the gaza strip, some claim terror stronghold hit. the toll on all sizes growing in 18000 people have been killed

many women and children 80% of the homes and buildings damaged or destroyed. austin that would injure him and yet yahoo the defense minister and others no arguing as it has in the past and indiscriminate warfare that creates more enemies a tough urban combat. admit there is israeli successes in the past couple of days they have been touting over the weekend they uncovered a massive hamas tunnel network near gaza's northern border with israel they found a million dollars stashed away ended israeli money and hamas handout and say they're getting closer to the leadership of hamas that they're still trying to explain how those three hostages were mistakenly killed by soldiers late last week, the house of the people worried, take a look and listen. >> the families of those held hostage in gaza bring it in their message front and center camping out day and night in front of israel's defense

ministry. >> of long days of israel hamas wargo want these people get more desperate. about what is in danger that they might be killed and already dead and must be returned. those pressing the war are not they get enough about the captives, their loved ones. >> i want the government to show was out there going to take out the people in gaza we are here to fight for them in to remind our cabinet and this must be the first priority. >> bring them back home that has been a rallying cry for a long time really intensified over the last couple of days calling for a pause in the fighting so more hostages can be freed since benjamin netanyahu sticking to his guns we will see how much secretary defense austin can move the pie minister.

we could get some word on that and just a bit. david: greg palkot, wonderful work, thank you very much for that. meanwhile in the larger scene of the mid east crisis oil and gas bp said they're going to be pausing all of the shipments through the red sea because of the escalating attacks but the who houthis militants the ninth shipping company to do so. the op-ed in the wall street journal. the houthis assault on wall street they pinpoint every and on the set of the problem. when sadler joins me now. thank you for being here there is no question that this is all being directed by iran. >> absolutely not, iran has applied the weapons, it appears that there offshore based ship in the red sea for many years intelligence and timing for these attacks are definitely supporting and benefit from it the houthis has benefited from iran's support, no question.

>> one of the attacks on the ship happen to be an empty ship under japanese flag had no israelis on board they entered the ship by helicopters these are very sophisticated not the houthis militants of the past the ragtag army they were trained and supplied by somebody outside of their sphere and specifically the iranians. >> absolutely they have attacked shipping in the past they attacked the saudi ship years ago, they develop the capability and certainly in lead with iranians getting the sensors and weapons to launch attacks to get to the red sea. that has a massive impact on global shipping were just now starting to feel it. >> the biden administration is been very reluctant to take on iran directly. it appears because of international shipping, that is a whole different league of spot attacks on u.s. bases that they

may be getting ready to do something, do you know what that is and will it be enough to stop the attacks from the houthis. >> the biden administration has been shooting behind the dock and misunderstanding how to deter the iranians and their proxies from continuing to escalate these attacks. with that being said it appears the u.s. navy is giving more options to the president to decide to start applying some cost on the houthis' directly in the iranians. we had a group move out of the iranian golf and towards the horn of africa. yet more naval destroyers moving into the red sea from the north, it looks like there is firepower coming to bear which could indicate action but it can also be provided the president more options. david: finally the attempts by the biden administration to scale back bombing campaigns in gaza we have secretary of

defense lloyd austin going there to urge benjamin netanyahu to scale back their operations will that interfere with her primary mission of getting better hamas and gaza. >> i think it would. the secretary of defense was an operational leader he was a general in the u.s. army. i hope he brings a tactical experience to the table when he talks to the israelis and understand what their predicament is right now the quickest destruction of hamas as a functioning governing body in a military threat in gaza the quicker that is done the better for u.s. interest and the more likely they will get the hostages out but the longer that the fight is prolonged the more likely that this proxy fighting continues putting americans at risk not just those that are held hostage, the eight that are there in gaza but the record soldiers and citizens of the middle east. david: brent sadler thank you so much for all of that. switching gears the anti-obesity drug market is projected to hit $100 billion in the next ten

years and weight watchers is looking to capitalize on it after spokesperson oprah winfrey admitted to using weight-loss medication. we have a report. people are considering taking a break from ozempic to indulge during christmas and new year's celebration is that a wise move. doctor marc siegel dealing with all of that coming up. ♪

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david: i'm hoping to get nio. >> two-point to billion dollars cash infusion according to the wall street journal from an investment group backed by abu dhabi they are struggling to produce affordably intake on tesla the cash sunday nio up five adequate percent. david: what about snap, up 4%, demand for digital advertising should increase in this not priced into shares there given the price target of 23 up from $9. david: terrific. now this weight watchers is trying to capitalize on the weight-loss drug industry after the chief spokesperson oprah winfrey admitted to using weight-loss medication, she is looking different. gerri willis joins us now. it is great but at the same time

it's a little startling. >> i am obsessed with the story and i been looking at all the pictures of oprah she looks like a 20-year-old, i have to tell you she lost so much weight, sharon osborne, tracy morgan, all these people, hollywood loves this drug. i have to tell you maybe the most famous dieter in the world when she makes that choice it really matters she's admitting she's taken weight-loss drugs to slim down and manage her weight. oprah winfrey who turned 70 next month says she uses as a maintenance tool in addition to diet and exercise. normally this is not big news that a celebrity is taking wegovy, ozempic or mounjaro for weight-loss they surged in popularity this year end into jackson for type two diabetes that's what it was supposed to be used for the opera publicly back in the drug certainly significant, she is a major investor in spokesperson for weight watchers a company that spent six years advising people

to count the calories and use willpower, not anymore. this represents a massive shift for the company which is launching the own subscription program to facilitate those who use the medication, they will daily nutritional targets that are still doing that kind of thing activity, list of go to foods if on ozempic and personal coaching trackers for food and weight. it's an open question whether weight watchers can turn the weight-loss drug into gold, the company whose tagline used to be it's a lifestyle is incorporating the new drugs into its programs at an estimated 24 million people or 7% of the u.s. population could be using the drugs by 2035 according to morgan stanley weight watchers is making a big bet by putting the full backing behind the drugs. david: i can't help to think back when they thought essentially speed was a way to lose weight and everybody was taking it. of course the after effects were

horrific. i'm not saying it's going to happen with these drugs, we hope for the best but there are still worries in the back of my head. >> what other problem there shortage of the drugs to people who have diabetes that really need them are having a hard time getting them. david: i'm not a doctor and you're not a doctor but that's a great report now we have a doctor to tell us how safe this is. doctor marc siegel joins us now. great to see you. what about a general question do you think there could be a problem down the line with using the drugs to lose weight. >> this could be several problems but i want to say first i have to emphasize what jerry just said which is diabetics this was approved for diabetics in 2017 and integrate drug for diabetics because it improves insulin function, sugar function and when you lose weight as a

diabetic most type two diabetics helping with glucose control it's a great for diabetics at a normal shortage for diabetics. in terms of your question what does it mean down the line. we have to figure out what the long-term effects of slowing food going to the stomach, that could be a problem for some people. the other issue would you stop ozempic there is a rebound you're almost committed like oprah said as a maintenance program, who exactly is prescribing this, do you need it i love it for the morbidly obese i can get weight off any other way, they are risk of hypertension, heart disease, stroke, cancer so i love this drug but for the right people, the biggest problem is telemedicine and online ordering and doctors not being in the loop. oprah did not mention her physician. david: you mentioned going off the dragon having severe consequences the people are now considering people on ozempic thinking about taking a break for the holidays where everybody wants to eat as much as they can is that a good idea or is there

dangers involved. >> first of all if you're on the drug to begin with there is a reason and if you stop it's a glp-1 agonist if you stop it you can get nausea and g.i. side effects and when you show up at christmas dinner. by the way can you imagine the flipside pumpkin pie at the door there's a bunch of ozempic sitting there, take a shot on your way out for the next three days you won't eat anything, ridiculous this is self-medicating and it's a very bad trend. as you say is exploding in the shortage is only getting worse. david: we have another one british medical experts say adults that are 65 or older shouldn't worry about carrying around a few extra pounds. they say losing the weight might not improve your health. again were not talking about obese people but people who are heavier that they them wannabe might not be such a bad thing. >> that fits together with the first story that was out of the

uk added the university of plymouth and looked at it very carefully read all to you why this is the case. i'm all for weight loss and exercise and diet and if you need to something did addition like wegovy or ozempic, i use that. here's the point if you're over 65 and you're suddenly going through huge stress starvation diet or fasting diet you're putting great stress on your body and you might end up bringing out another medical condition. as you get older you gotta be gentler. another point were talking about body mass index of 25 and 30 that is not so overweight. if you're mildly overweight were a little bit overweight work on lifestyle changes rushing to a drug and trying to lose weight right away or going to an emergency diet that can cause you a huge health issue. david: you are the best thank you so much for being here doctor marc siegel we appreciated. the homelessness in america rose 12% this year hitting the

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what is behind the surge? >> we are looking at a number of reasons, one potentially being the lack of affordable housing in the country as well as pandemic aid expiring and also more migrants in cities like new york city, chicago and areas of massachusetts taking up some of the space and shelters, let's take a look at the numbers the department of housing and urban development homelessness has increased in it shows over 653,000 people experience homelessness at the point in time make it at the highest number recorded since the survey began in 2007. take a closer look at the demographics of the population. veteran homelessness increased slightly by 7% unaccompanied youth expressing homelessness rose 15% and homeless adults over the age of 54 account for more than a quarter of all homeless adults.

>> absolutely there are quite a few more people to over the age of 55 that are experiencing homelessness, up into the 80s. it's pretty sad to see that when individuals are in the prime of their lives and they should be having the best experience they may have worked their entire lives. >> linkin park community services has been a capacity since 2019 that is a shelter restated outside of right now. new york city and los angeles account for one out of every four people who were counted in the homelessness count also suburban and rural areas are seen an increase in homeless people as well. david: thank you very much. ceo jim tobin joins me now. a lot of people have said that rent, the extraordinary high rent rate that is gone up over the past several years are

partly to blame for this, do you think that could be true. >> i think we seen rent has increased over the past several years especially as opposed pandemic government support followed away from rent but is also a function of supply and demand and when you don't have quite enough housing in the marketplace to meet demand you can receive rent increase like we have the last several years. david: i have heard that people like you are expecting rent to go down a bit and months to come, is that true. >> i think that's true were starting to see e-zine and grant and shelter inflation particular that's one of the more stubborn pieces of inflation that the fed has been watching. they have signaled over the last couple meetings that they're starting to see shelter inflation start to unwind so i do expect rent to fall in the short term. >> homebuilder confidences up a rose 3.2 december 237, that is good news. >> really good news. attending a four-month slide in

our builder index the nhp wells fargo housing market index is vitally show with a little bit of a rebound we've been expecting this and haven't quite seen it yet, these numbers were still a long way from neutral territory which is a reading of 50 but even the three-point jump shows that the last fed meeting six or eight weeks ago when they signaled were in the tightening phase that is what is leading us to the spot and after last week's announcements not only did they give us an early christmas gift with announcing three rate decreases in 2024 but also showing we are there expecting inflation to moderate into 24 leading to a rebound year for home construction in the country. david: i'll take the good news, thank you very much. if you are think about buying a gift card for someone this holiday season you may want to think twice, working to tell you

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told asians you are not allowed, jewish people not allow, blacks, hispanics the media reaction will be apocalyptic and rightly so the irony is that the mayor's own husband would be dan enter band from attending the party, at last check is a white guy that's not going to fly overall is one heck of a month for the boston area first with the president of harvard say it's okay for the genocide of jews as long as it's in the proper context and now we have the mayor of boston openly practicing segregation probably doing so she put up photos of the party afterwards as if it was a big middle finger to half of the councilmembers that weren't allowed to go there this is the year 23 that were talking about this stuff it's really incredible. >> she is not getting the negative feedback there's a lot of negative feedback from you and other people not just in the fox universe even outside in the more liberal media. not of it is effective she's not recognizing that exist.

>> that's precisely right received a lot of bias of omission around this particular story and i would think the new york times or the washington post or cnn.com or the boston globe for that matter would have some sort of op-ed condemning this action and behavior, it sosilence of the lamb social get away with it and run for reelection and given that his boston she will probably win again this by doing something like this. david: this infuriates me and all that live in new york, chicago or l.a. take a look at the headline from nbc news, most people think the u.s. crime rate is rising, they are wrong. most of us that live in a particularly blue city knows that it is rising and knows that we walk around with the trepidation that we don't have an years previous, this is essentially saying don't believe your lying eyes. >> yes, look at gallup it's not just republicans or

conservatives who think the crime is too high, 50% of democrats, 78 of independence think that crime is rising and they don't feel safe in their communities. most feel this way not because of being trained work addition to the media but they've experienced that crime or they know someone close to them that has, people are moving out of cities like san francisco, chicago, new york for places like ford, tennessee and texas due to high taxes but really because of high crime if you look at the approval numbers of democratic neighbors, san francisco, london, 36%, brandon johnson, chicago, 28%, these are democratic cities overwhelmingly elected these people and even they've had enough and crime is always listed as the number one reason why, when you want to buy spam or twitter paper at your local cvs and that's locked up because of the crime problem is so bad you cannot spend that. and i love my spam. david: is it extraordinary.

amazing times and at the times people don't realize that they're not opening their eyes and seeing what's right in front of them. thank you very much for that. i appreciate it. smash and grab robbers ransacked a smoke shop in washington state over the weekend. >> i cannot say i'm shocked in a stolen kia they stole the car and then they drive right through the smoke shop metal barrier, right through they crashed through the window and they get out of the car and slipped through the mangled mess and then they stole as much as they possibly could this whole incident took under three minutes. it took the owner of the shop 16 hours to clean up and i cannot tell you how much money it was brazen and traumatic and the criminals get away with that they have not been identified despite all the cameras because it covered up. david: tell us about the scammers targeting gift cards from stores. >> they go to the store, they take the gift card, they write down the gift card number in the penn number then they returned

the card to the shelf, they wait patiently, this time of year everybody's buying customers, a customer purchases the gift card, the criminal see it's been activated and then steals the funds on it, watch. >> and handed it off as a gift, she did not use it right away but unbeknownst to me, the gift card had a ready been scammed. i gave it to her, she went to target to try to use it and she was at the cash register checking out and she was told a 0 balance on the card. >> that's really embarrassing if my mom gives me a gift card and i address it with my mother but if you're getting it from somebody or not that comfortable with what you do this is target, apple, amazon gift cards you name it. david: it's an insult on the theft on two sides not just one on the gift card giver, the person whose trying to use it, it's horrible. thank you. still ahead tomi lahren on

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more -- >> where i come from, we have to make sure the u.s. leads the way. >> right now, if you're joe biden, you have a problem and everybody knows it. to your earlier question, what's going to change? it's incumbent upon him to say i'm out. >> said this four times,