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satisfaction when this came out in the mid 1960s. 11:00 eastern time and january the 22nd. here we go. check that market, please. dow is coming back a little bit and it was up 200 now up 155 and nasdaq up 30 points. coming back just a little. big tech when we opened the market, all of them were higher and not so now. apple, alphabet, meta on the upside. amazon and microsoft are down. microsoft was up $400 this morning and now down 350, 395. 10-year treasury yield coming down and above 4%. 409 to be precise. that's the markets on this monday morning. now this, it is very hard to see how donald trump could fail to be the republican nominee if nikki haley could pull off a very late surge in new hampshire and the race may not be quite over. that's a very big if. the latest monmouth poll has

trump with 52% and haley with 34 and this was taken before desantis dropped out and included with 8% and threw support to trump after vivek ramaswamy dropped out last week. voters are likely to go to trump further enhancing his lead. haley's home state and again, trump already has a commanding lead. hard to see a path forward for haley if she can't win her home state. i'm not going out on a limb when i say trump's got this thing sewn up, my opinion. if it becomes a biden versus trump election in november, trump's energy and biden's total lack of it will be center stage. sure, there'll be policy fights but each is a vital important in politics and think of con vasting images and biden frail, trump robust. in new hampshire, trump's engaged and energized and sat for hour-long interview about lawrence jones on "fox & friends" and articulate, entertaining and funny. if you're not a trump hater, this guy is very easy to watch.

biden, not so much. it's painful to watch our president stumble through a speech. he doesn't sit the lengthy interviews because you can't do interviews via tell prompter and if he's not on prompter, his handlers are terrified what he'll say. he's at the beach all weekend and not back to ole awful till noon today. the democrat primary is not on the ballot in new hampshire. that tells the story. trump stormed through the caucuses and primary and reduced to write in campaign. third hour of varney starts now. stuart: steve forbes with me this morning. trump has this race sewn up, what say you? >> certainly looks that way and it'll present a very interesting situation and looks like in the next couple weeks this thing is wrapped up, she drops out and the question among the democrats is are they going to stick with

biden? i think you're going to start to see things happen where joe biden will not be the democratic nominee. as you say, they cannot put them out there in public for more than five minutes without handlers trying to make sure he doesn't do something embarrassing and people are going to say four more years of that or formore years of kamala, no way. stuart: biden was the candidate that the president's people wanted to run again. they think they can beat trump. >> >> i think when the frailty of trump on the roll he's on now and little polls showing it's not an easy thing anymore that biden is no longer seen as a sure thing against donald trump and they'll move to get biden out of way and something's going to happen whether it's public where he freezes up with mcmcconnell a few months ago and can't stick with him. that's a whole new dynamic. if biden sticks in the race, you'll get third party

candidates whether it'll be a credible one, that'll mix things up too. stay tuned. a lot of fireworks are coming. stuart: two new hampshire primaries in the year 2000 and 19696. >> 1996. you didn't win, what's it like campaigning in new hampshire? it's cold? >> it is cold and go through all sorts of events and that makes them retrospect and not so much at the time maybe and one of them i was at was a pancake event. when it came time for me to flip the pancake, sadly it went on the floor and people said that's where your candidacy is going. stuart: brutal. it's like the nfl without the rules. it can be rough. but you get to know the american people in a way you never will. stuart: it's democracy. it's a wonderful thing. in >> in new hampshire and iowa, they're interested and ask you

questions and they want to know. what about this part of the flat tax? what about personal camps with social security. they're curious? they want to know. what was it stuart: what was it like when you had to drop out. >> like attending your own funeral. attending your own funeral. they're not there and keep trying to make light of it or make sure you thank all the appropriate people. then you take time off and lick the wounds and move on. stuart: did you finance your own campaign? >> largely, yes. so i think my kids were very proud of their father running for president, but i'm sure they had mixed emotions as they saw their in inheritance go for brochures and ad leaflets and such. stuart: your big point was the flat tax. >> yes, and since then over 20 countries adopted it. not this one, yet. that's why i think ron desantis went ron and not made vague references but a center piece. lauren: do you think nikki haley

should have debated in new hampshire because that's what the voters there wants to see. then i also want to ask two local papers and one being the boston globe and they're making a plea with voters to support nikki haley that's going to save the country. that's how they're spinning it. does that set off alarm bells for you? >> save the country. joe biden working overtime to make sure there's no opposition on the ballot by the republicans and can't throw trump in jail or dean phillips from minnesota. so the answer is you take that with a huge grain of salt. but the fact of the matter s i think people do want a contest out there and i think donald trump is ready to discuss issues and keep in mind that third party thing. that's going to be a factor. will joe mansion run? will somebody like the founder of starbucks that toyed with the idea several years ago as a third party, would he do it? stuart: biden versus trump and third party comes in, trump wins. >> i would have thought.

trump could win with or without a third party. stuart: you're right there. two state. thank you, sir. back to the markets, please. i still see the dour with 150 point gain and nasdaq up 45. jason catas katz with me this mg d jason katz with me this morning. doses ai improve product and profit margins? >> stu, ai is going from concept this past year to product this year. it's not just those that create the ai products that stand to benefit. companies that embrace ai are going to extract great margins s and find they already have leverage it had and earnings aren't proven. think about t for the end user for my company is not a great big spend and you can get a lot, you can do a lot more with less as a result of ai. it's no accident last year 75% of the companies beat earning ands not an accident so far this quarter and 80% have beaten. largely because of leverages

technology ai in particular stuart: would you say next week we get big tech names coming out with their earnings? we've got to see ai add to their bottom lines otherwise those stocks go down. what do you say? >> radical e we'vuation and that first shot is always sixth avenue. it's deserted. there's a last mile opportunity here with ai with a wider acceptance of it and exponential growth of what? data. that data needs to be stored and access and who's going to benefit not joust cyber and data storage and multimillion infrastructure funds and data center reach that are doing what? going scout buying some of the class b and class c office building ins the surrounding areas in the shot you've just shown and it's almost like the

same commerce and warehouses and logistics and they values went up exponentially. stuart: thank you very much. all good on ai. got to pursue this thing. jason katz, everyone. thank you for joining us. see you. lauren, spirit airlines, are they still around? yes, they are. lauren: don't count them out. spirit up 10% and jetblue appealing thing that blocked 3.8 million merger and spirit up on friday and revenue was stronger than anticipated and like i said, done count them out of 10%. stuart: i never heard this before and new star energy and fuel storage and pipeline operator and there's monday mna for you. you lauren: they're buying -- sonoco gas station owner buying up 14% this. is basically sonoco trying to buy diversification. stuart: gilead.

lauren: yep, gilead science down 9.5% and lung cancer drug that missed the main goal in the late stage trial and that dents investor confidence on how the company will generate significant sales in oncology. stuart: high flier and up today. thanks, lauren. republican primary is a two person race between nikki haley and donald trump. now nikki is calling trump's mental stability into question. how about that, roll tape. >> are we really going to go into a situation where we have wars around the world and trying to prevent war and going to have someone that we can or can't be sure that they're going get confused. stuart: we'll bring you the governor's full comments a little later. biden administration dedicated billions to build the ev charges across the country, but the plan is facing serious problems. there's a lack of demand and regulatory red tape. we'll break it all down for you. president biden finally admitting the border not secure. sheriff mark daniels county is right on the border. i'll ask him what he makes of

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teenager driver. reporter: yeah, a clear indicator was a number of migrants crossing daily are low and in other places along the u.s. border the crisis continues and the patrolling is a lot of military presence and take a look at live drone footage of what texas governor greg abbott's military department has done to fortify the park. the spot here is known as one of the busiest crossing points for illegal immigration and texas dps tells us the low number of migrants crossing right now is seasonal and once that warm weather comes, they do expect to see an influx once again. the mail tear was putting up over the weekend adding razor wire and texas kicked out border patrol from state topers arresting migrants with the razor wire charging with criminal trespassing and texas military and two man boats patrolling the river from front -- from evening till morning.

another deterrent for those migrants and house foreign affairs and tooks vote tour of rio grand and migrant crossing ands chairman mccaul gave us an insight with president biden and national security chairman. >> every democrat there agreed we needed to secure the border. including the president of the united states it was broke and needed fixed and we need significant changes. reporter: both republicans and democrats need to work together on the crisis to see change. >> when you're letting millions of people in, they got to sleep somewhere and it's not fair to the people that have been waiting for affordable housing here, u.s. citizens. reporter: another topic is drug

smuggling into mexico and other congress members are in mexico city and meeting with obstructiobradorand stop the fll coming into the united states. stuart: danamay rendition of anthony, thank you very much indeed. how president biden responded to the crisis at the border. roll tape. [inaudible]. stuart: okay, sheriff mark daniels from arizona joins me now. sheriff, the president just said it's not been controlled for ten years. give me the money. what's your response to that? >> well, this is the first time that in three years since he's been the president that he even admit that had. you put that in perspective what his secretary of homeland security mayorkas has been saying for three years based on

insults and more to sheriffs and governors and mayors doing everything to secure the border including cbp about agents and if mayorkas saying the border is effectively secured numerous times and the president finally says it's not, puts a real pinch right there. also in my town, we've been assaulted for three years on this. stuart: you're the sheriff of the county right on the border, i believement i keep hearing that some of the towns on the border haves been turned into war zones. is that accurate? tell me more about that. >> it's very accurate. every day, and i get frustrated,er day there's the tragedy and pursuits that you saw in texas, that happens here. we put 400 some people in jail last year and my jail for pursuits. 566 smuggler drivers in my county. 2,884 people booked in my jail for border-related crimes in my county in the last two years. the bottom line, they change the quality of life we have here, sheriffs around the country have been addressing this with the

president trying to get him to work with us to include secretary mayorkas and these are the tragedies we're seeing every day. it's frustrating. stuart: do you want a wall? put up a wall and return to mexico policy? just completely reverse policy? where are you coming from on this? >> well, we have to engage it and work together. state and local and federal agencies have to work together. if we're not working together, there's situations like this. governor abbott in texas is going what he's doing and took it in his own hands as we're doing in my county and our governor of our state, if we're not doing that, if we rely on the white house and congress even, we're in trouble. it's not getting fixed on the border. stuart: in your county, you're taking things into your own hands. what are you doing? >> we have safe street operations, financial crime operations. to give you an example, last two years it's cost my county just in jail costs, $9.4 million on border-related crimes in the jail alone.

programs -- the building i'm in is the new border operation center dealing with intel, human trafficking and all this. we get lit toll none when it comes to federal support or federal funding to address any issues down here. the state of arizona, my county, my mayors, we're doing everything we can to protect our citizens while the federal government stands up and points fingers and the blame game. we have to unit on this because every day is a tragedy. stuart: they come through your county contraindication for cerumen removal right? they don't come in and stay. they come through and head north some place. >> arizona leads the nation in fentanyl and coming through every day. the other thing about it is just on street releases bay border patrol since may of 2023, in six months, there's 650 state coordinated and local coordinated buses take migrants out of my county and been processed to ngos. whether it's fight and flight pursuits, street releases, it's not a good scenario and it's about time president biden actually acknowledges it's not working but we need his leadership to help fix it.

stuart: got t sheriff, thanks for being with us today and giving us an accurate picture of what's going on on the border. thank you, sheriff, good stuff. >> thank you, sir. thank you. stuart: senator john fetterman is breaking with his own party on immigration. he's a democrat, what's he saying? ashley: yep, a progressive democrat. fetterman says the border crisis is threatening to destroy the american dream. he says hundreds of thousands of people still approaching the southern border listen to what he told cnn. >> i think two thing cans be true at the same time. you can be very supportive of immigration but we also need to have a secure border. i really think about immigration and we want to provide the american dream for any migrant, but it seems very difficult when you have 300,000 people showing up encountered at a border to do that. ashley: now, fetterman who's wife arrive in the u.s. as undocumented immigrant at age of p insists -- 7 insists he's a proponent of legal migration,

but he went onto say he doesn't understand why it's a controversial issue to say we need a secure border, which is what we've all been saying, stu. stuart: yes, indeed. thanks, ashley. check the market again, please. dow is up 138 points i think it is. we've got green left hand side there. dow is up 130 and nasdaq still up 70 points. very modest rally. the dow though, 38,002. coming up, exxon suing investors over extreme climate agenda. president biden losing support with black voters and some are going to trump so what's behind that shift? i'll ask the president of the black conservative federation, next. ♪

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stuart: the dow is up 150 and nasdaq up 70 points, s&p up 16. big tech, kind of a mixed bag there this morning. most of them are up, apple, alphabet, meta on the upside. amazon, microsoft on the

downside. 10-year treasury yield has been edging lower. it's now up 4.09%. not much change today. bitcoin looks like it's been testing the $40,000 level and just holding above it, $40,466. nikki haley is questioning whether trump is mentally fit for the presidency. ashley, is this a campaign strategy? looks like it. ashley: so, yes. certainly appears to be. in fact, haley called for federal office holders over the age of 75 to take a mental competency test taking aim while both at joe biden and donald trump. she stresses the point of interview with cbs news questioning trump's ability to serve. watch this. >> he says i'm the one that kept security from the capitol on january 6. i was nowhere near the capitol on january 6 but, margaret, don't be surprised if you have someone that's 80 in office. their mental stability is going to continue to decline.

are we really going to go into a situation where we have wars around the world and we're trying to prevent war, and we're going to have someone that we can or can't be sure that they're going to get confused? ashley: at a campaign rally in new hampshire trump went after haley calling her a globalist fool and suggested he would not pick her to be his running mate. haley says, look, the presidential contest should not be a show down between two men near or above 80 years old. hear a lot more about this as the campaign goes on. stu. stuart: guaranteed, thanks, ash. the biden campaign is trying to explain a dip in support from black voters. listen to this. >> when it cops to african american voters, i want to be clear about this, no administration as done as much for the african american community as president biden and vice president harris. all the work this administration has done to make their lives better and has to be in just position to the contrast of what other republicans are putting

forward. stuart: i'm joined by the president of the black conservative federation. deonte, the gentleman said this administration -- no one has done as much for black folks since this administration. >> no one has done the least for black americans but the biden administration. president trump has done the most. we talk about home ownership up. we talk about historically black colleges and permanent funding for them and criminal justice reform and opportunity zones and tax reform, we also talk about unemployment rate being at all time low. so i say that no one has done more for the black community than president donald j. trump stuart: can you put numbers on this. if the election were today and biden versus trump, what proportion of the black vote would biden get? he got 90 mercer in 2020. 90% in 2020. what would he get today? >> i definitely know it won't be

90 and it'll drop way below 80, 70, 60. we're seeing 20% in 2020 opportunistic black men voted for president trump. right now the democrats have a war on black men, and we need to stand up for black men. they're the forgotten community. president biden in 1994 had a tough on crime -- his crime bill that attacked black men. kamala harris was attorney general and had a tough on black men the democratic party told black men their opinion doesn't matter and doesn't get to decide whether a child is aborted or not. the democratic party removed black man from the household. there's been a war on black men from the democratic party, and they are leaving. 24% in 2020. i see 50% of black men voting for president trump in 2024. this is not the same democratic party as it was in 2020. america has woken much and they've seen what joe biden has

done, and they're not happy. stuart: if you -- you're suggesting that biden would get only 50% of the black vote. even if he got 70% of the black vote. he still couldn't win. you need that -- bind needs 90% of the black vote to win, am i right? >> absolutely. i believe that president trump will get at least 50% of the black male vote this time around. it was 20 last time and it's going to shoot up. black americans are tired. they're tired of having to work three jobs, they're tired of dealing with the migrant issue in places like chicago and new york, and they're sick and tired of not being able to afford groceries and not be able to afford to put gas in their car to travel. stuart: you're going to host an event the day before the south carolina primary. trump, i believe, is the keynote speaker. how big of an event is that thornhill tore going to be? how many people can you draw? >> this will be our biggest event at black conservative federation, and our theme is restoring the american dream and

today, right now, the only person that can do that is president donald j. trump. we're going to be in columbia, south carolina, we're going to be in south carolina where the next day we'll have -- it'll be official that donald trump will be the party nominee for the republican party. so we're finalizing it at our event. stuart: got it. deonte, thank you for being with us. appreciate t sir. biden might be in trouble in michigan. take us through it, ashley. ashley: well, democrats sounding the alarm about a number of resent polls showing joe biden trailing donald trump by nearly double digits. biden working to shore up his support in the state, and is expected to address the united auto workers union at its political conference in washington and that's an effort to try and secure the union endorsement. biden may get help from improving economic indicators on inflation of wage growth as well

as issue of abortion rights in the state of michigan. and expanded access to mail? and early voting and counting on those. the conflict in gaza, no doubt has alienated young voters in arab americans in michigan and polls have shown trump gaining support among black voters to your point with the previous guest. meantime, surveys in other battleground states including arizona, georgia, north carolina, and nevada have all shown biden trailing trump. only in pennsylvania do polls show biden with a very slight lead over the former president. stu. stuart: got it, thanks issue ash. coming up, pennsylvania tried to ban young people under 20 from carrying guns during emergencies like covid or blackouts. now the courts are getting involved. we'll bring you their decision. drivers are largely rejecting electric vehicles. that doesn't penothey're refusing to go green entirely. they're embracing hybrids and jeff flock has the latest from a car dealership in new jersey. that's next.

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stuart: still showing green on a monday morning. that's the way you like to start the new week. up 100 for the dow and 60 for the nasdaq. ford cutting back on production of f-150 lightning of the electric truck. not enough people want to buy them. jeff flock at a ford dealership in new jersey. if people don't want evs, what do they want, gas guzzlers? reporter: i know what you want and that's right here, the gas powered version of f-150. most popular truck vehicle in america. they sold 700,000 of these last year across the showroom, maybe you see the lightning. how many of those did they sell last year? about 24,000. i've got veronica with me and

she's the youngest woman ford dealer in the country. young people are supposed to embrace the evs. how come no? >> that's what we all think would have happened, but at this point in time, the infrastructure is just not there. i think that people are realizing that they're just having to go with the hybrid right now. reporter: you say hybrid, stuart asked what do people want instead of evs. you say hybrids? >> absolutely. moving more towards hybrids and it's a lot more efficient and it also leaves out the whole thing about charging and needing to find a charging station. you have the option of gas as well. reporter: look at numbers, stuart, this is november, last month we've got good data. market share for hybrids have almost doubled and ev sales were up too and hybrids are really getting traction. >> yeah, absolutely. the whole entire industry is not growing as fast as everyone anticipate asked we have to do what we have to do and take a bit of a step back and go back

to hybrids because that's really where it's going to grow right now. reporter: you're okay with that? >> yeah, absolutely. customer is heap, i'm happy. reporter: veronica maoli, youngest woman ford dealer in the country and probably one of the most honest ones. no offense to the other guys. stuart: careful, jeff. you're dig ago hole right there, lad. reporter: i know some of those guys. stuart: i know you do. jeff flock, good man. see you later, jeff, thanks a lot. the lack of enthusiasm for evs is really not good news for the administration. how much money has the biden team spent on their ev charging products so far, ash? ashley: about 300 million and that's just a drop in the bucket because they allocated 7.5 billion and only two charging stakeses built with

experts citing a lack of demand and regulations and union requirements for stalling construction. and despite subsidies pushes costs down for consumers, the market share of evs sold in the total auto market last month as you can see, just 3.6%, which shows government et icks don't fly with u.s. customers. don't tell us what we need if infrastructure is not there and how ironic if the regulations and union issues are getting in the way anyway. stuart: really. this is a related story. exxon is suing a group of activists investors on what grounds, ash? ashley: well, they want to prevent these investors, activist investors from voting on a climate proposal that would be slated for the company's shareholder meeting in may. the oil joint claims the investors are driven by extreme agenda and their proposals do not serve investors interests or promote long-term shareholder

value. the company also arguing that shareholder haves already rejected the so-called scope 3 targets and filed a complaint in the u.s. district court in texas asking the court to prevent a vote on that plan. the activists want exxon to set up scope 3, which targets to reduce emissions produced by users of its products. exxon says, no, the activists become shareholders solely to campaign for changes calculated to diminish the company's existing business. they want a ruling by early march. the meeting itself is in may. the shareholders meeting, exxon down a bit today, but they don't say -- don't vote for something that's going to hurt the company. that's the bottom line. stuart: all right, gambling with that one, ash. it's that time, show me the dow 30. this is kind of a mixed picture. i'm looking at 31 stocks up in the dow 30 -- sorry, what am i talking about here.

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stuart: a federal court made a landmark decision on gun rights in pennsylvania. i believe this has to do with teenagers, ashley. what's the story? ashley: yes, a federal appeals court says young adults aged 18-20 years old cannot be arrested for openly cash reigns leading guns in public during a declared state of emergency as you said. that would include events like covid-19 pandemic, life threatening storms, blackouts and the court found young adults enjoy the same second amendment rights as other citizens just as they do with the right to vote. the dissenting judge in the 2-1

decision said he did not believe the 19th century founding fathers considered people under 21 to have full legal rights. proponents argue that it would be a deep perversion of the institution to exclude young adults from second amendment protections. pennsylvaniaens must still be 21 to apply for a concealed carry permit. stu. stuart: thanks, ash. back to extraordinary statistic. december was the 53rd straight month that more than 1 million firearms were purchased in the united states. aiden johnson is the director of federal affairs of gun owners of america and joins me now. aiden, why are gun sales up so much? >> well, i think we've got a variety of factors at play. first of all, americans are witnessing a spike in violent crime and also watching woke prosecutors fail to put the criminals behind bars. they're not feeling safe, and therefore they're going out and exercising their right to self-defense and saying i'm going to purchase a firearm, and i'm going to use that firearm to protect myself, my family, the people i love and my home

because if i'm caught up in the violent crime situation when police are minutes away, those seconds are going to count. i think -- stuart: every time that gun control in whatever format, whatever format it takes, every time it make as headline, gun sales go up because i figure that people fear they're going to have their gun rights taken away from it. that's the bottom line from this, isn't it? >> absolutely. i think people when a democrat politician talks about taking away second amendment rights and americans go out and realize i'd like to have one and protect myself before that's taken away. i think that the biden administration has initiated a number of gun controls at the federal level. he's banned up to 40 million pistol braced firearms, which were approved for sale for the last ten years. that's been joined in court and only fueled purchases of the firearms now that the companies are able to sell them again. we've seen state governors just outright say you can't carry in albuquerque, new mexico, and

when people say their rights being taken away, they want to go out and exercise them even more. stuart: one line of attack on the gun industry is trying to raise the cost of am new in addition. i know -- ammunition. i know it's gone straight up in price and is that a deliberate tactic on antigun folk s? >> absolutely. biden administration reduced ammunition gun ports and training am in addition and they're going after training exports and playing with the markets in order to influence the second amendment in order to go after the firearm industry. they're also attacking the firearm industry with their zero tolerance policy and shutting down gun stores for harmless paperwork mistakes and going after am new i ammunition and mt even more expensive has long been the tactics. one senator increased the hollow

point and elizabeth warren has her plans to undermine the second amendment. stuart: can you fight them off? >> eastern certainly trying tooth and nail in courts and the state legislature. stuart: you should be a bigger point about america being unique in the right to own a firearm. i'm from overseas and come from a co country where funs are not allow -- guns are not allowed, certainly not pistols and this is the only country in the world that allows their citizens to be armed to protect from their own government. you should make a bigger point about that . >> we're happy to and glad our founding fathers saw fit to protect the right to self-defense and said it's necessary to the security of our free state. stuart: got it. aidan johnston, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. stuart: markets, here we government up 130 on the dow and 70 on the nasdaq.

green on a monday morning. goldman sachs and united health both dow stocks and up and add 70 point-blank layupses to dow industrials and without those two stocks, the dow would be up in the neighborhood of 50 points. here we go, time for the monday trivia question, another good one. which state has the most active, very important, active volcanos? hawaii, alaska, washington, california. the answer when we come back. ♪ j.p. morgan wealth management knows it's easy to get lost in investment research. get help with j.p morgan personal advisors.

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volcanoes. i'm getting going number two, alaska it's so huge the chances of having volcanoes go it up a little more. stuart: the reason i'm going to go with number three is mount saint helens in washington, that was a gigantic explosion, unfortunately however, we are both wrong, no, you got it right, the answer is alaska, listen to this the state has over 130 volcanoes, 54 of which are consumed to be active, it's a gigantic state that is spread out. you can avoid them if you wish. i gotta get this, just coming into us, the pentagon happy press secretary says there have been 151 attacks on u.s. forces from iranian proxies and iraq and syria, that means there have been 11 more attacks just in the last four days. this to the u.s. service members injured in saturday's attack with brain injuries, they returned t