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debate about the biden record and hang it around item walz's neck and, by extension, kamala harris'. stuart: it's 11:00 on the east coast on this tuesday, october the 1st. we have big news to start the day. start with israel. a senior white house official says iran is preparing the imminent launch of a wristic missile to a-- ballistic missile. the the u.s. embassy has a directed employees and staff members to shelter if in place until if further notice. separately, reuters reports the israeli military says it's targeting lebanon's capital, beirut. all of this has significant fallout on the market. look at to 10-year treasury to start with, people moving money into this is a safe investment. that puts the price up and the yield down. that is a flight to safety. same story with the 2 2-year treasury. money moves in, price goes up, yield comes down. flight to safety. the vix, that is a measure of volatility. a strong performance there there, it's up 16.

and the price of oil is up as a well because it's t in the middle east. $70 a barrel right now, up 3.7%. the other big story of the day, the port strike. 36 ports shut down. more on this throughout the hour. and now this. all the smoke is a basketball podcast. the hosts, matt barnes and steven jackson, invited cam kamala harris -- kamala harris to be a guest. she accepted. find a friendly venue, no hard questions, reach black men, a group which has been wavering recently. she talked about being a basketball fan when she was san francisco's district attorney. oh, he took public transportation to get to the games in oakland, the common touch. she used the personal touch to relate to her listeners. she talked at length about how she had to explain to her now-husband, doug emhoff, what it was like to be the child of divorced parents and how she developed a strong relationship

with his children. blended families, she said, are a beautiful way to live, to build and grow your family. she was presenting the personal side of herself to voters. fair enough. who you really are is important in elections, and hearst' handlers are molding -- harris' handlers are molding and shaping that image. but she has to make people feel confident in her as president. that means facing the big issues head on through serious questioning. you've got to the face your detractors head on to show that you've got what it takes, that you would be competent. this is what her handlers are desperate to avoid. with just a month to the go, they're trying to skate her through under the radar, cover the gaffes with friendly banter that give nothing serious away. if the reinvention -- it's the reinvention of a candidate, an escape from three and a half years of failure on the issues confronting us all. if that was the intent, the interview with all the smoke was not successful. the comments were heavily negative. you cannot make a candidate look

competent without challenge, and that's manager the harris campaign will never allow. this is the tightest basement strategy in the history of presidential politics. four weeks to go. third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ ♪ stuart: jimmy failing -- failla with us this morning. can harris ride out these next five weeks complete are he avoiding serious stuff? >> she's certainly going to the try to, but that the interview was an air aball, okay? -- air aball. people at this moment in time are looking for obvious answers. they're looking for substance. and we've watched this play out over every interview she's done. they ask her about the tough issue, but they don't press her for an answer which is why every one of kamala's answers when it comes to serious policy really sounds like she's trying to convince a bouncer to to let her back into the bar she got thrown

out of. it's always framed in a we're not fighting against, we're fighting for. i grew up in a hid manying class family. been middle class family. i don't need to know the name of your pets or what your lawn looked like. i need to know what my bank can account's going to look like if we put you in power. stuart: you've never seen a presidential candidate who doesn't face the media. >> i know. and what i want to say the her campaign is because they're paying a prevent defense, what you're doing when you're ahead and you're trying to run out the clock. i think they're in a game that they're losing, because i don't believe people looked at her and go, oh, no, she's got this. even when it comes to storm relief. i know they put out a statement, they're making an effort, but there was a reluctance to get them out there right away. trump is very fluid. something happens, he talks. something transpire, he shows up. they have everything filtered through a focus group. and that's the biggest challenge.

you don't read the room, you lead the room. there's an instinct to the job, and she hasn't demonstrated it. stuart: you've got to lead the room. >> lead the room. stuart: harris is reaffirming her support for legalizing marijuana. watch. >> i just feel strongly people should not be going to jail for smoking weed. and we know historically what that has meant and who has gone to the jail. second, i just think we have come to a point where we have to understand that we need to legalize it and stop criminalizing this behavior. and so -- and i've actually, this is not a new position for me. i have felt for a long time we need to legalize it. that's where i am on that. stuart: wait, wait, didn't she put people in prison -- >> yeah. she bragged as the attorney general of california for throwing people into jail for smoking wield. and the reason it was controversial in 2020 the is, if you remember, okay, having that that on her record as something she thought was an accomplishment. she then went on to brag about smoking weed in college while

listening to tupac and biggie, two rappers who had yet to record an album when she was in college. so there's a triple fraud here -- [laughter] it's like a russian doll box of stupid. and her weed comments, essentially only establish or -- i do believe her when he says she smoked weed. she might be smoking it right now. but the only other people smoking it are the ones that take that as a serious person. it's your third position on the issue. it's a game of twister right now. stuart: i'm going to have to make sure that i watch you on the weekend on fox news saturday night, 10 p.m. eastern. jimmy, thanks for being with us this morning. good stuff, man. back to the markets. look at them go down. we've halted -- we've come back a little bit from a -3000 on the dow -- 300. the nasdaq's down 346 points. okay, that's the immediate news about the possible missile attack the on israel. the port strikes have begun, and that may be having some impact on the market as well.

mike murphy with us for the hour. i think the big negative today is the possible attack on israel. i'm not so sure that the port strike has yet become a negative for the market. what a say you? >> i think we started out the day where that was kind of the main focus, and that shifted very quickly. so right now it's taking a backseat. i think the timing of the port strike was really handled well by the strikers, by the union, because we're not -- they're not going to be on strike for the election. there's going to be some sort of resolution or someone will have to then -- but right now we talk about what can derail the markets. a lot of times it sounds like a broad or maybe a copout, but geopolitical events. here we have a potential major geopolitical event. stuart, what should people do at home? should how you call up and sell everything you have now, wait for things to settle down in the middle east? stuart: what should you do? >> absolutely not. stuart: your advice is stay in.

>> well, because we've had turmoil, conflict in the middle east for as long as i can remember. it's not going to be resolved tomorrow or the next day. it may heat up some days. we don't want a global world war or any sort of massive escalation over there, but i can't control that. so i'm going to stick with my game plan, and i would urge people to do the same. stuart: got it. stay with me for the hour, please. big news today to. lauren, will you look at tesla for us, please? lauren: big drop. down almost 4. wells fargo added tesla the what they call their tactical ideas list for this current quarter. that that doesn't have to be a positive. they actually have a sell rating on tesla and a $120 price target. they're skeptical about the 10-10 robotaxi event -- stuart: they think it's going to go down to 120? lauren: yes. stuart: that's news. >> tesla has been up the past couple of days. stuart: that would take a a lot of money out of musk's pocket, i believe. apple is down 3.5%.

lauren: barclays adds to the chorus saying there are indicators or that show there is weak demand for iphone 16 orders. you got another one from barclays today plus a fire at an indian manufacturing plant that makes parts for the iphone. not a good look for apple. stuart: i've got to believe the defense stocks are up. lauren: they are, bigtime. north run drum man up 3.is %. -- 3.1%. ubs says it's going to $614 a share. stuart: who makes rockets? i'll buy that stock, because i think that's a pretty good bet right now. [laughter] >> elon musk. stuart: okay. coming up, the port strike in full swing. it's going to hurt the truckers. the president and ceo of the american trucking industry will join us. i want to know, do you support the dock workers on strike? he'll answer. charlemagne the god says trump's ads have been effective. >> i don't know if it was the backdrop of football, but when you hear the narrator say kamala

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stuart: i think it's time we updated the developing situations, plural, in the mideast. a white house official says iran's preparing to launch a ballistic missile strike on

israel. the israeli military has reportedly begun targeting lebanon's capital, beirut. trey yingst joins us from haifa. is this becoming an all-out war between iran and israel, trey? >> reporter: stuart, good morning. the short answer is we don't know, and and we do expect some sort of iranian retaliation a for the israelis taking out hassan nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah, their largest proxy in the middle east over the weekend. and just overnight the israelis took the. current conflict up a notch by launching a ground raid into southern lebanon, targeting a variety of hezbollah positions there. and so the iranians in some sense feel they have to save face and support their largest proxy and, remember, they still feel that a tab is open on the killing of the leader of hamas who was killed in tehran at the inauguration of the new president. so the situation is very dire for the region. we understand israeli air defense is on high alert, and

they are preparing for the possibility that even tonight iran could launch a ballistic missile attack toward the country. stuart? stuart: i just want you to speculate for one second, trey. supposing they launch the missile and it got through and it hit israeli territory. that would demand an extraordinary response from israel, wouldn't it? >> reporter: look, even if they don't hit israeli territory, there will likely be a response from israel. we saw a similar attack back in april, around 300 ballistic cruise missiles and drones launched toward israel. the majority of those incoming to yenning tiles were intercepted by coalition forces, and still the israelis responded. but the response was interesting because it was a strike against a missile defense system outside of iran's one of the largest nuclear facilities, it was meant to send a message, the israelis have the ability to the strike their nuclear facilities and will do so according to officials if the situation escalates to that point. stuart: this really goes all the way back to october the.

th -- october the 7th when hamas attacked israel. you know what happened after that. you've got a new book out called "black saturday: an unfacilitiered acod of -- unfiltered account of the war on gaza." tell me about it. were you there? were you in the middle of it, trey? >> reporter: black saturday is about the day the this war began. my team and i were in southern israel as the massacre was unfolding. we reported live on fox bringing these images to our viewers as we tried to understand the story that was unfolding. and so "black saturday" is an opportunity to dig deeper, to the understand what it felt like to be on that morning from the perspective of all of the people involved from soldiers the police officers, hostages who were dragged into gaza and later released as part of the november if ceasefire deal, palestinian civilians and others who are involved in this stir. and it really is interesting -- in this story. it really is interesting to read today given the context of what's unfolding before our eyes. we are at the brink of a larger

war across the middle east. the israelis are striking the lebanese capital of beirut already today multiple if times. we understand that iran could attack in a matter of hours, and there's also an understanding that the israelis are still facing threats from if places like yemen where the iran-backed houthis have launched missiles toward tel aviv just this week. the dynamics playing out on the ground today go the whole way back to october 7th, to black saturday when this war began. stuart? stuart: a very timely book and well written too. trey i didn't think, thanks for joining us -- trey yingst. congressman darrell issa a with me now. iran's preparing this attack on israel. if that missile fakes -- takes off, what do you expect israel to do? retaliate in some way, surely. >> well, of course, institute. the fact is, if you're in a war, fight it. if you're in a war, bring it to an end. they haven't won the war. as a matter of fact, iran keeps stepping up the war through its proxies and even on occasions directly.

that's the situation israel's many in, that's the situation lebanon is in as we peek peek speak -- as we speak. they've had an occupying force of hezbollah in their own country for over three decades. it hasn't been ended. it won't be ended until the lebanese armed forces takes control of this country again. and i'm not sure when that's going to be. we are in a war, and people in a war fight it. they don't just deep talking about not escalating and so on as the current administration here does. stuart: what should the united states do? if we've got plenty of military power in the region. should we use it directly against iran? >> well, she -- we certainly have tools to the cut off iran's funding, to cut off their oil supply, to make it hard or -- on iran as they continue to supply their proxies. we also have every legitimate right to to attack their proxies and particularly the houthis in yemen who have and continue to the fire on -- to the fire on unarmed ships in the red sea.

so whether it's protecting the suez which is important to almost the entire world or our various allies as they try to transit there, we have a good reason to be in the fight. maybe not in gaza, maybe not in lebanon, but we do have a reaso, stuart, we are the largest supporter of the lebanese armed forces and lebanese institutions. we have a long relationship of trying to the help them get their country back. this may be an opportunity to to actually seize back control of lebanon by people other than hezbollah. stuart: well, the situation as it stands is that a missile attack on israel may be launched within the next 24 hours by iran. israeli forces are now attacking beirut, lebanon's capital. two ships were set on fire in the red sea today by houthi rebels. it would seem that the the wider wars has started. it's not about to start, it's

started. would you agree with that in. >> absolutely. that's why i said when you're in a war, fight it, which is what israel's doing. it's not what the u.s. is doing. we certainly have the ability to make the red sea both safe for transit and completely impenetrable for the proxies of iran. stuart: congressman, thanks so much for joining us today on a difficult day. we appreciate you taking it straight and telling us all about it. we appreciate that. congressman, thanks a lot. >> thank you. stuart: back to the markets, you can see the impact of this development, lots of red ink right there. you're down 300 toon the dow, almost 400 points on the nasdaq composite. check out the cryptos. are they following stocks? yeah, to some degree. bitcoin is down to $62,000, etherium at $25 the 12. the price of gold, i would expect it to go up. yes, it's up $25. getting close to $2700 an ounce. again, this is all all about the mideast and developments there. coming up, the administration is doubling down

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stuart: on the markets we've got a lot of red ink. dow is down 2600, nasdaq's down 381. developments in the middle east very troubling, and the market is reflecting that. but mike murphy is here, and he's got stock picks. he's picking stocks which he thinks are going to go up. start with nike. >> earnings out today after the close of the bell and, you know, came under a lot of pressure earlier this year. if you step back, stuart, in the last quarter the stock was up over 16, so i think they've found their footing. they still have almost a huge hold on the global footwear market, and they continue to innovate, they continue to expand. i don't think nike's going anywhere. the next move for this stock is over 100. stuart: you don't care about the

port strike? could affect them? >> if it does, it's for a matter of weeks and, you know, i wouldn't be investing in this for weeks. stuart: got it. sports betting. draftkings. you like 'em. >> i do. you know, you look at -- i feel like football right now is hotter than it's ever been, it's bigger than it's ever been. and the amount -- although there's a lot of competition in the space, i think you can argue it's just really put draftkings in a spot where they can continue to monetize what they have. they can continue to monetize the user base. the stock is down from 422, 43 last week -- 42. a little pullback to 38. the idea that people are going to be using draftkings, spending a lot of money on draftkings and, therefore, increasing their profits, they's a certainty. stuart: tell me again where it's going. >> it was 50not too long ago, i think it gets back there. stuart: that would be nice. j.d. vance and tim walz face off in tonight's vice presidential debate. alexis mcadams is with us. what are the candidates'

strategies? >> reporter: hey, stuart. when you look at the j.d. vance team, they say he is going to wipe the floor with tim walz, and that's exactly what they expect him to do tonight. watch. >> senator vance is completely prepared for this. all of the pressure is on governor walz. he represents the most radical wing of the democratic party. >> reporter: walz is, according to media reports, very nervous for this debate. but his team says he does come prepared. they say he's had a long, you know, history going on with politics, he's been a teacher, a coach, he knows how to talk to people, and he's going to plan to be just himself up on the stage. vance is expected the slam walz as a weird and radical liberal, okay? in no matter the strategy on east side, both campaigns say this debate could be pivotal. >> i think it's a good reminder that this is going to be a really close race. i think when we look to the -- can to the fact we have only 36 days or so left until the election, the candidates are going to have to be out this earning people's support.

>> reporter: cbs news says this debate's going to be different than what we saw last time around. the moderators are not going to do the fact checking, it's the up to the candidates to fact check each other. something that's happening outside here in new york city, you can hear some of the horns and some of the chaos here behind us, outside of the cbs headquarters where this debate is going to happen, it's now been interrupted -- the traffic has at least -- by climate change protesters who want that to be the main discussion tonight. we'll keep january eye on that. stuart: alexis, you did very well. a fine report in a difficult situation. alexis mcadams. now this, we've given a brief overview of the fox power rankings. they represent the state of play in the election. harris still leading trump in the polls, but trump has a clear reed -- lead on the top issues. bill hemmer knows more about that than anybody else in the world. what's your take? >> the other thing about alexis' report is that this debate on

the, the microphones will be live. okay? so who's going to go low first? if. [laughter] right? it's a real good question. i think on the fox power rankings the economy is consistently number one, and we've seen that. abortion's going to rank up there, but it gets half the attention that the economy gets. and i think what j.d. vance wants to do tonight, if he wants to be successful, is tie tim walz to joe biden and kamala harris. that would be considered success. and walz is going to try and turn the trick on j.d. vance. i don't know if it's going to move the meter, but with it will move the meter if someone make makes a mistake. stuart: the mics are open. so you can -- >> move the needle. yeah, that's right. and some are suggesting that tim walz is okay going low. i went back to look at some of his debates from 2022 the 2 and. >> d. vance's as well. tim walz is entirely capable and very fluent with policy in minnesota. we'll see how that goes tonight.

and j.d. vance has a lot of experience as well. i think it might be the best debate we get this entire stop sign because it's only the second of two -- stuart: it's the last confrontation -- >> outside of joe biden back in june. stuart: these are rarely a game-changer. do you think tonight's could be? >> it could be if you step in it. but we'll see if someone makes a mistake. stuart: okay. charlamagne tha god says trump's ad on harris supporting taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners, charlemagne says that was effective. half a after okay, watch this -- [laughter] >> i'll tell you what, that that ad a they was running during the football games this weekend claiming the vice president supports funding gender transition surgeries for all prison inmates and migrants in the u.s.? that was nuts. i don't know if it was the backdrop of football, but when you hear the narrator say kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners? hell, no, that ad was effective. stuart: it was, wasn't it? >> i remember the first time i

saw it, i think it was about two weeks ago on a saturday afternoon, early afternoon, i saw it and was like, wow. that stopped me. it's a really hard thing to do in a battleground state like ohio when you're watching ad after ad after ad, it becomes, you know, background noise. but this one had an impact. and i guess it was -- you know,, the way they ran it, they had her words plus the interviewer, then they went back to her again. i thought it was the most effective ad i have seen thus far -- stuart: e wonder what kind of audience we're going to get. 60 million last one? >> 67. i'm saying the over-under's 40. do you want the over or the under? stuart: i take the under. what do you think? >> i go under too. stuart: if 40 is the under -- >> i'll say 42. stuart: lauren? >> i'm going with over 40. stuart: really in. >> yeah. i think this one's going to come down to style. walz has 20 years of experience politically, vance has 2.

if vance is the better debater say most people, but walz could be more likable. and that might -- in clip culture, you go online -- >> i find them both to be highly capable based on what i've seen thus far, and with an open microphone i think it will be a must-see debate. lauren: the can the moderators silence the mic -- >> that would be arbitrary. that would make an interesting debate -- lauren: i think they can. stuart: we'll cover it here, sports fans. thank you, bill. programming note, watch the cbs news vice presidential debate tonight here on fox business starting, of course, at 9 p.m. we've got pregame cover average on "the bottom line" 6-8 p.m. eastern on fox business. a republican group spending millions of dollars to help nominee mike rogers flip the michigan senate seat. how much money have they raised,

ashley? ashley: national republican organization pouring in $2 2.5 million, stu, into gop nominee mike rogers' senate campaign in michigan. that money, by the way, comes from the senate leadership fund. it's a super or political action committee. if affiliated with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. now, the spending is part of a $67.5 million this in new spending on advertising in senate races in michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania. as for the rogers campaign in michigan, the money will be greatly appreciated. why? well, the former seven-term congressman has been significan, elissa slotkin, the three-term democratic congresswoman. it is a race the republicans believe is very much in play, and that is why the money is pouring in stu. stuart stouter okay. montana is actually bringing in more money, about five times more money, than the that race there. ashley: that's a big one.

stuart: ash, thank you. we do want to mention that baseball legend pete rose has passed. he was a friend of the show. in he said, did you run hard to first? and i had to the think about it. i didn't because i was mad i didn't hit the ball harder, and i said, no, i guess i didn't. he said, don't embarrass me in this town like that. [laughter] stuart: really? if. >> when you hit the ball, you run until the umpire says out or safe. he said, i'll sea you tomorrow. i said, okay. i've never not run a bull out -- ball out since then. i even run down the corridor to get here. [laughter] stuart: pete rose was 83. there will be more "very varney" after this.

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stuart: back to the breaking news. iran is preparing to -- well, there are reports from a u.s. official that iran is preparing to the launch a ballistic missile strike on israel. meanwhile, israel's military has begun targeting lebanon's

capital, beirut. on the phone, national security expert rebecca heinrich is joining us now. how will israel respond if this missile is launched? how does israel respond? >> i think that if israel is on the receiving end of -- remember, this would be the second time iran has directly launched missails at israel -- missiles. the first time israel was very restrained. it utilize ared its missile defense system and had a precise and limited retaliation strike, communicating to the iranians that they can, they are able and have the ability to reach out and destroy what they want to in iran, just a matter of what they want to hit. i think, stuart, that this time they will be much less restrained and will, i think, be completely justified in finally eliminating iran's nuclear program. if. stuart: should america continue to call for restraint, a ceasefire and des calculation? should -- deescalation? at the moment, that is our line. >> no. our line should be iran should

not do this. iran is the aggressor. iran is the greatest source of instability in the middle east. iran is guilty of funding and supplying if training terrorists throughout the region through decades who have attacked american forces, american civilian, our allies. iran is the greatest source of instability in the middle east. right now the momentum is at the back of the israelis. the israelis have had very successful counterstrikes, attacks against hezbollah, against the i houthis, against hamas. and now the united states with should be publicly communicating to iran to stand down and giving full military and diplomatic support to the israelis. stuart: we hear you. rebecca, thanks for joining us on short notice. always appreciate it. now, the other big story of the day is, of course, the port strike. jeff flock at the picket line at the port of newark in new jersey. jeff, what are you hearing from the workers? it doesn't sound like they want to go back to work. finish. [laughter] >> reporter: well, they, i think that's probably unfair, stuart. i think they would love to go

back to work. all they need is money. so there you go. and, of course, you've heard what, as we've heard, what some of the salary commands are. we think it's somewhere around maybe $70an hour. now they make about $39 an hour as a base wage. sounds like a lot of money. of course, as you know, you live in new york and new jersey and unlike in middle america, perhaps, the cost of living is a bit higher. the other big factor in addition to the money, of course, is automation, and that is something they're very much to opposed to. last night when the strike began, we spoke, fox busied, exclusively with harold dagget, the longtime president of the longshoremen's association who explained they're dead set against automation and not just here in the u.s. listen to what he told us. >> if it was the up to them, they'd eick lo to see you -- like to see automation up and down all the way down to houston. well, that ain't a never gonna happen with me. [cheers and applause] and when we finally do get a

contract, i'm going to go to portugal with every union in the maritime to take these companies on over automation. and if you want to put a pier automation in chile, we'll shut them down for three weeks around the world. >> reporter: that that's an ominous warning around the world. for now it is the only here along the atlantic seaboard as well as the gulf coast. but as you know, stuart, that's a whole lot of stuff. about half the stuff that comes into this country stands -- comes from and through those ports. united we stand, says the young lady, and everybody seems to be supporting it. at least on day one of the this strike. they are united. stuart: i think they knew that you were live on fox business, and that's when the chanting started. you can't hear a word i'm sayin- >> reporter: everyone's a fox business viewer, stuart, what can i tell you? stuart: so true, young man. jeff frock, you did well, son -- jeff flock. thanks for joining us. kris spear is the president and ceo of the american trucking

association. chris, do you support the strike? it's going to hurt you guys in the trucking business. >> absolutely. and we're sitting idle and we're talking 95% of the trucking companies that a make up our membership serving the ports are 10 truck it is or less. these are independent contractors, owner-operators, you know in they're not going to be able to shift their business. this is deeply impactful on trucking and any ore mode in the supply chain that's now going to have to spend day days catching up as a result. the longer this strike goes, the more it's going to be, you know, felt. so we're very concerned about the impact it has not just on trucking, but the economy. you're looking at inflation driven by less choice and higher price at the shelves. that's really not what this country needs at this time. stuart: if the strike were settled on the union's terms, as i understand it, some of the workers could make, like a crane operator could make a half million or dollars a year: is that accurate? >> that is accurate. and same on the west coast.

look, this is not a poor person's union. this is one of the best pay packages out there. and so to suggest that these focus are hurting as if they're working fast food, that is not the case. you do have six figure jobs throughout this union. you've got crane operates making more than $300,000, so a 77% pay increase which is what they're asking for puts them well over half a million dollars. if you're down in north carolina digging your community out of the mud, i don't think you care too much about someone whining for 500,000. stuart: they'll be really angry, these folks in north carolina around asheville, if they find the supplies they need to recover are being held up by some very rich and striking dock workers. last word to you, chris. >> well, i think that's right. and, you know, this is a very unique 600-mile swath of devastation that we're trying to support with food, medication, water. unlike other areas like florida where we're there in hours after the disaster, we can't even

penetrate the circumference of this damage because of the significance to the roads, the the flooding, the mud. so a lot of this is being flown in. so it's complicating our ability to help these communities. having 36 ports strike, this is not a good time for this to happen, and it makes you wonder where is this president and vice president putting their priorities? is it in the pocket of big labor bosses or in real, hard working people and communities that need help now? trucking industry stands ready to help real america. we mope this administration -- hope this administration will do the same. stuart: chris, thanks for joining us. chris spear, the american trucking association. appreciate it. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: look at the dow jones industrial average, down 150 points now so it's cut its losses, and we've got about a, let's see, just about two-thirds of the dow 30 are down, one-third up. very roughly speaking. and then there's this, new data from i.c.e. shows 13,000 illegal migrants quite a bitted of

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♪ if. stuart: the texas department of public safety recently caught a group of 230 illegals, among them were 27 so-called special interest migrants from afghanistan, pakistan, iran and egypt. also, reportedly, 13,000 people convicted of murder have been released into this country over the years. texas congressman tony gonzales joins me. the white house says this was falsely -- this number, 13,000 -- was falsely represented. how do you respond to that? >> thank you for having me, stuart. you know, this border crisis is worse than we even thought, and the fact that the white house is playing russian roulette with american lives is dangerous. you know, who cares i now we got here? they are in the white house right now. it is their responsibility to keep americans safe. it's also my responsibility as a member of congress to make sure

that they're transparent, they're holding -- that we're holding them accountable, that i.c.e. has the resources and the policies to actively go after these people that are illegal in our country that in some cases are murdering and raping our american citizens. we have to tackle this. for them to just brush it aside as if it is political theater, it's wrong. stuart: well, the the administration is saying, look, look at all these murderers and criminals who have come into this country. it goes back decades. therefore, that's a bogus number. do you know how many murderers and criminals came in during the biden-harris years? >> i, you know with, i don't. i don't know the specific number of how many come over. but the bottom line is i don't care if these murderers came over during george washington or joe biden's administration. these murderers are in our country. i mean, these are convicted murderers that we know about. so what i've been trying to tackle is just instead of

pointing fingers as whose fault it is, how about we just go out and keep americans safe? it's this administration's job to do that, and they're failing at it. i was really pleased to see the level of detail the i got, but i was also shocked. 600,000 criminal aliens? i'm talking convicted criminal aliens. it should give everyone pause. stuart: yeah. texas arrested more than 20 suspected tren de aragua gang members. we need to listen to governor abbott, what he had to say about biden's handling of the gang. watch this. >> there was an open door for tren de aragua to come into the united states, to wreak the carnage they are doing. biden and harris are doing nothing about it. the only person stepping up to do something about it is the great state of texas, and we're going to track them down and eliminate tren de aragua. stuart: congressman, we've seen members of this gang take over hotels and harass residents. why is it up to to texas to handle this alone?

>> it's really unfortunate. we feel like we're going it alone. this isn't just a texas issue. you see what's happened in colorado, new york, florida. they're terrorizing folks everywhere. one of the things that i have pushed for so to label these organizations, tda, these venezuelan gangs, as transcriminal organizations. finally, the administration if did that a few weeks ago, but we've got to go a step further. we have to create these task forces that a give the resources to actively go after it where you pool state, federal and local law enforcements to go out, find these individuals where they are and remove them. the the other thing we have to do, stu, is we have to win elections. if we want this, look, if we want this problem set to go away, donald trump has to be the president, and republicans have to control the house and the senate. stuart: understood. congressman tony gonzales, thanks for joining us. always appreciate it. >> thank you, stu. stuart: why don't we switch gears? it's time for the tuesday trivia question. not a bad one. i happen to know the answer, at

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animal to across the brooklyn bridge? murphy? you start. >> first animal across the brooklyn bridge, elephant. . number 3, elephant. stuart: i'm convinced it was an elephant just to show it could carry a heavy animal. on my right? what? a rooster? get out of here! emily roebling -- i forgot you. sorry. very sorry. >> i was going to say rooster. stuart: well done. i've got to check a few things out, big items of the news, iran launched a missile attack on his will, the u.s. navy positioned 3 guided missile destroyers, israel's military is tapping lebanon's capital. big move on the port strike. is yours. stuart: neil: are watching rea