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♪ oh, ain't she sweet ♪ stuart: oh, dear. you didn't have to go back this far for the beatles. this is one of the very, very first recordings. [laughter] that is old. i mean, that is really old. that's over 600 years old. -- 60
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years old. it is 11:00 eastern time, one week to the election. on the markets, we've had a turn-around. we were all in the red to start with, now we're all in the green. not by much except the nasdaq, a solid 67 points higher. show me big tech, please. most of them on the upside, but it is a mixed picture. no if, they're all a up. -- all up. the yield on the 10-year treasury hovering right around 4.30, it's now at 4.31. and now this. the hearst campaign is not doing well with men, so they need to ramp up their appeal to women. they've enlisted the help of various movie stars including julia roberts. i'm gown to run an -- going to run an ad for you. it's about a women cheating their trump-loving husbands at the ballot box. we don't actually have it. it's a little demeaning, as if
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women should be scared of their a male partner, as if they have to cheat to keep the political peace if at a home. that is not quite the kyle male-female balance, now, is it? political differences are inevitable, but it's come to something when women are pressured not to vote for trump and to keep their vote for harris a secret. don't you get tired of rich hollywood people telling you what to do and how to do it? julia roberts is a great actor, and and i'm sure she is passionate about her support for women -- a woman president, but that doesn't translate to changing minds or votes. voting is secret. why should you be encouraged to lie the your trump-supporting husband? jimmy failla is with me this morning and has something to say about this. [laughter] we couldn't run the ad. i'm sorry, we had a technical glitch. but you see a woman -- two women going, saying good-bye to their husbands and and then going into the ballot box, and so the husband is saying you'll get it right, honey, won't you? she clearly marx us for harris,
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she comes out and, don't worry, honey, i got it right. >> i watched the ad twice because i hate myself right now -- [laughter] because it really is a hard ad to watch. and julia roberts is out to lunch on this one because she is so preposterously out of touch9 with the plight of what a regular women are experiencing under the current administration if and the potential next administration. meaning if groceries are 30% higher, do you think it affects the lady that was in "pretty woman," which, by the way, the democrats want to call pretty person now? spoiler alert, it's a 40-year-old movie. you should have seen it. but the point is every time they trot out a celebrity, they're just highlighting how out of touch they are with the actual life experience of everyday americans. and that's who's making the pitch for kamala. it's people who talk down to people. think about what she's e saying there. if you're with a woman, you can't advocate for who you want to vote for. you don't is have that kind of strength, so you can lie to your
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husband and sneak off like voting some kind of an affair. it's the same conversation they had with black voters, with voter id. kamala is still the telling that lie even though georgia's early voting law just broke every turnout record nobody to be man. but what did they say? -- known to man. oh, a license, you don't have one of those. as if black people don't open bank accounts, board planes, get a vaccine, so the are there no vaccinated black people because they don't have ids? they infantize them. stuart: give you an idea, and you just run with it. >> i'm on fire right now. stuart: kamala harris was caught on a hot mic admitting that her campaign is struggling to win over male voters. why do you think harris is having such trouble with men? >> i honestly don't know because tim walz put tampons in every bathroom. doesn't that get the guys beyond board? i'm kidding. i watched the video with
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gretchen whitmer, and i'm glad she recognized there were cameras shove involved before gretchen started feet feeding her doritos. they're targeting men as who they want them to be -- stuart: yes, exactly. >> that's what's wrong about this. marketing used to be about catering to your customers if' preferences. they're trying the change them while simultaneously getting them to vote against the guy when because cater not so much towards masculinity, but towards american exceptionalism. nobody wants to be scolded. we're over that now. stuart: lauren -- lauren: what? stuart: you've been making faces. >> i'm feeling the masculinity -- >> i'm a chips and dip, but it's a different kind of club. >> jimmy is on point more than usual today. [laughter] lauren: more than usual. [laughter] >> it was great. stuart: jimmy, we will be watching you on every weekend on fox news saturday night, it airs
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at 10 p.m. eastern, you're a great guy. thanks for being with us. back to the markets, please. not that much price change for any of the indicators or. identify got the dow up a huge 1.50. there you have it. dow's up a point, now it's down a point. s&p up 8 and the nasdaq clinging to a 69-point gain. mike murphy, big tech companies start reporting today. what are you looking for? >> price movement if -- after the numbers. from last quarter when they announced, stuart, a lot of big techs haven't moved much at all. take meta out of there, there's really been very little price movement. so what are they going to the tell us that's going to kick us to new highs, that's going to help push this market to new all-time highs. for google, for an alphabet that we're going to hear from if today, what do their search number, advertising numbers look like? that's the stuff queue want to look through. and -- you want to look through. and a.i., art official
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intelligence -- artificial intelligence. how are all of the big tech companies doing in the a.i. field, that's something we're going to look for if. stuart: i was astonished to find the magnificent seven, top seven tech companies, all american, they are worth more than the stock markets of britain, canada, germany and japan combined. that's an extraordinary statistic. >> well, it's funny, i can remember being live on the air with you talking about what will be the first trillion dollar company in the stock market, and i said facebook, at time, so i was incorrect. now you're talking about what will be the first $, 4 trillion -- is apple going to get to $4 trillion before microsoft and nvidia a? so these companies have grown, but i think it's really tough tt that they're slightly overvalued, but to say they haven't grown into these valuations would be a big mistake. and i think they still have a lot of, they've gotten so far into our lives that there's so many additional levers they can pull to continue to generate revenue. if.
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stuart: the yield on the 10-year treasury last month, 3.6%. now 4.3%, huge rise in the yield. because that worry you for the market? >> it does. we touched on it briefly last week when we were at 4.1 and climbing. now we're at 4.3, and it's really hard for me to see the market at new, sustainable new all-time highs as the 101-year yield -- 10-year yield continues to climb. i didn't think we would see 4.3 this quickly. now, does an election result that brings us president trump back in, you know, one thing he's going to talk about very quickly is our rates are too high, we're not competitive, we need to get rates lore. if the 10-year starts to get back down towards 4% and lower, that's going to be a big boost for the market -- stuart: you think the treasury market would respond to a trump win and trump having a go at the federal reserve, jawboning rates down? do you think the yield on the 10-year treasury would fall because of that? >> i do. and i just look to recent history because, again, we sat here when he was talking at his
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first president city about how rates need to be lower, and we kind of said, what's this guy doing? but he was absolutely right, i would argue, in what he was saying. to get us competitive on a world basis, we needed to reduce our interest rates at home, and we did. stuart: if he could cut energy prices in half, cut the price of oil and gas in half, i can see it. i can see rates coming down, but that's an awfully hard row to the hoe, isn't it? >> i think if he cuts energy prices -- half maybe is hard, but he's going to just unleash energy. like, you know, we've -- the current administering has done its best -- administration has done its best to hold that down. i think he's going to open the spigot, and you're going to see prices come down quickly. stuart: got it. we shall see. lauren's looking at the movers. do we have real movement in xerox? yes, we do, down 21%. lauren: they make office equipment, and they lower their annual revenue forecast saying sales are going to fall 6%.
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fewer going to the office, more people store their documents in the cloud. less demand for their business. stuart: how about vf corporation? louvre. lauren: look at this, 232% gain for the owner -- 222 gain. they swung back to to a profit in the last quarter. they're holding less inventory, doing more direct to consumer. at least six brokerages increasing their price target. stuart: i don't like the look of ford, it's back to $10, i believe. lauren: yeah, 9% decline. they see sales at the low end of their previous an yule forecast. they lost $1.22 billion on evs in the quarter. their net profit fell 25% because they had to write off costs related to the canceled three row electric suh. stuart: they're going to need a subsidy. their going to help that harris -- they're going to help that harris -- >> before you knock if evs in general, i think this is mess management by ford.
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this you have to look right at -- this, i think, is company-specific. and all the big car makers tried to catch tesla. they were all going to catch tesla, take tesla market share. look at tesla's performance, look at ford's performance. one's being run by a genius, and the other company should stick to what they're good at. they should get costs back with, get their supply chain in order and do a better job of selling what the consumer wants from them. lauren: -- the. [inaudible] private businesses in terms of ford and gm and some of the others. they were taking the government money, taking the government's directive, and they pushed too hard a when the market wasn't ready for full evs. stuart: lauren, thank you. coming up, a jewish man in chicago shot while heading to synagogue over the weekend. the fbi's investigating. the community calls for hate crime charges. jon levine is fired up about this, he's going to join me shortly. the pentagon has confirmed 10,000 north korean officials are in russia and ready the
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stuart: there is are an investigation underway into pactly what information was collected by chinese hackers who targeted trump and senator chuck schumer. gillian turner joins us from the state department. how long has this hacking been going on, gillian? >> reporter: well, stuart, we're learning it's actually been underway now, the operation, for months. the big development i want the flag for you this morning is that it's now understood that chinese hackers actually accessed audio.
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so not just call logs and things like that, but audio of u.s. officials who right now remain unnamed. but we did confirm last week that the targets of the chinese hackers had included former president trump, senator j.d. vance, "the washington post" if is now reporting today and yesterday that a senior trump campaign official was also targeted to try and get that the audio. here's state department spokesman matt miller yesterday. >> when it comes to chinese hacking and chinese interference in our election, the secretary has made quite clear as recently as september when he met on the margins of the united nations' general assembly in new york that any attempt to to interfere in our election is something that the united states would take with the utmost seriousness. >> reporter: now, trump himself has yet to speak out on this specific reporting and the information into the chinese hacks -- investigation into the
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chinese hacks, but his campaign is blaming his political opponent. they put out this statement. quote, this is the continuation of election interference by kamala harris and democrats who will stop at nothing, including emboldening china and iran, attacking critical american infrastructure to prevent president trump from from returning to the white house. trump himself speaking on the trail over the weekend stuck to his usual criticism of chinese economic policy. take a listen to him. >> they robbed us and ripped us, and i don't blame them. they get away with it, you know, but they didn't get away with it. you know, i charged them more tariffs than china has paid in a thousand years. >> reporter: well, the fbi is now investigating exactly what china was able to access. they are working hand in glove with the biggest u.s. providers including verizon who was the specific target in this attack. it's important to note, stuart, that for chinese officials even getting access to a campaign official's phone logs to see who they called, how often and when
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is a literal treasure-trove beyond their wild imagining of information and intelligence, could lead to all kinds of other information getting picked up. so we are learning eventually here, if this is all heading to concern they also a got audio are from trump campaign officials and possibly democrats as well, it's a major, major story, stuart. stuart: yes, it really is. gillian, thanks for bringing it to us. congressman if darrell issa joins us now. that's a serious thing. if the chinese can hear the audio conversations of leading american politicians, how do we stop it? >> one of the things that's most important is that we cannot allow huawei and the other chinese chips to be part of our infrastructure because that is a back door separate from some nefarious hacking. because we always use the term hacking, but when it's built in the way it is in chinese systems that are being sold around the world, they have unfettered
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access, and we usually don't discover it. stuart: don't we have our chips there? >> you know, we have a set of disciplines that should prevent it. but i can tell you as we speak qualcomm and other major suppliers are onshoring and changing to protect from these kinds of actions. and, you know, around the world we're trying to convince our allies, particularly the so-called five is, our closest allies, not to use any huawei equipment because, in fact, it comes with those kinds of bugs in it. stuart: got it. the pentagon and nato, they've confirmed that around 10,000 north korean troops are in russia ready to fight in ukraine. how do you think the biden-harris team should deal with that? >> they should deal with anytime if mercenaries are brought in. they're unlawful combatants and, in fact, hay need to be treated that way concern. stuart: what does that mean? >> what it means is that the idea that we won't escalate as they escalate continues to be a
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problem. if stuart, there's a lot of way ways to deal with russia, but the best way to deal with russia four years ago was to continue to restrict their flow of oil, something this administration hasn't done. the the russians have increased their oil output by more than a million barrels a day. that is billions and billions of dollars every month that is fueling their ability to to fight this war. stuart: donald trump has just begun speaking at mar-a-lago. not sure -- he's addressing some remarks, there's a crowd there. they're clearly enthusiast in. there may be some q&a with the crowd. we will keep you informed as to what's happening there and mono, to have any headlines as they come to us. congressman, we've got new defense intelligence report that says china's going to double its nuclear arsenal by 2030. that sounds like we're in a new arms race. are we prepared to pay for a new arms race, america? >> we are behind in modernizing our nuclear weapons meaning that what we have is sitting there, it's very sold. it's so old that it needs to be
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refreshed, remade, but it also needs to be modernized. russia has been ahead of us for a long time. china is now getting ahead of us in sheer numbers. it is a deep concern. are we in an arms a race? we are in an economic race that if we don't win it, we can't win the arms race. stuart: are we prepared to spend more on our military? >> we are currently not prepared to spend even what it takes for the wars we're in. it's one of the reasons that we need to grow our allies, and we need to cut off the funding that china and russia live -- and iran live off of as nefarious with enemies. it's the reason that when trump didn't get to continue the abraham accords and other admissions that were causing iran and other countries not to have weapons of war, we have been moving backward. we need to restart it, and we need to restart it sooner not later. stuart: got it. congressman, thanks for being
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with us here in new york. >> thank you. stuart: i've got to check the price of gold, close to a record high. up $20 thed today, just ahead of the election. well, the election could have a big implication for the dock workers' union. lauren: yeah. stuart: they're trying to negotiate a new contract. what's at stake, lauren? lauren: yeah. they extended the current one. they're going to to get back with to the negotiating table likely mid next month right after the election so they can determine who are we dealing with, what are the politics of this. so the thinking goes like this, if kamala harris wins, the doc workers will have the support -- dock workers will have the support of her administration. if trump wins, the union believes he will not be as support you have, and he would -- supportive, and he would give the foreign shipping companies the stronger hand. so the current contract is extended through january 15th, just 5 days before the inauguration of a new administration. the proposed 622% wage -- of 62
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wage increase brings the base pay are from 39 to $63 other 6 years concern over 6 years. they wanted no automation. i was at my kid's soccer game, and i met a dock worker, and we were having a civil conversation. and i said that's a tough sell, no automation. and he said that's what we are demanding and nothing less. i was, like, that's going to make your industry a dinosaur. didn't care. job security. stuart: no automation, you intend to then't continue like that? that's not good. >> it's not good. they have a very weak hand because they can threaten to halt everything at the ports, but they did it once before. we got through it, we got past it, the market will look ahead of that. especially if trump's in office, i wouldn't expect that strike to to go very long. stuart: got it. thanks, mike. coming up, new york is starting to bus and fly migrants out of the city and back to texas. thousands are still here. what's this all about? i'll ask "the new york post" if's jon levine about it. but first, the latest poll shows
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trump is and harris in a dead heat in michigan. trump is leading on the key issues though. will that give him the edge he needs? the full analysis from if michigan next. ♪ ♪(voya)♪ there are some things that work better together. like your workplace benefits and retirement savings. voya provides tools that help you make the right investment and benefit choices. so you can reach today's financial goals and look forward to a more confident future. voya, well planned, well invested, well protected.
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stuart: this is the one of my favorite times on the show, when mike murphy gives us his stock pension. the tow down 75, and the nasdaq's -- up 76, but i want to know what mike murphy thinks is a good stock for me to buy right now. >> here we go, sofi. they beat on the top line, they beat on the bottom line this morning, they raised guidance going forward. and most importantly, this is no longer just a lending business, this is now a diversified financial company. sometimes, stuart, you get good news -- [laughter] and the stock market gives you a gift. the price goes lower. it rallied premarket and now the, success' selling off 7.5% -- the stock's selling off 7.5%. absolute buying opportunity, and the thing i like most is the ceo with, anthony know toe's, comments on not just are where
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sofi is, but where they're going to be for 20225 the and the tailwinds the company has. i love it. stuart: to you own the company, you've got a 7% drop right here. so you're with encouraging me to buy the dip. >> absolutely, buy the dip. [laughter] stuart: okay. snapchat. you like that one too. >> we've talked about this before. they're going to be announcing earnings. big earnings week kicking off, and snapchat will announce after the chose of the market today. stock -- the close of the market. the stock sold off so far a lot this year, up high teens very recently, but i think they still have the user base that people want, that advertisers want. and at some point, like uber and facebook did, snapchat's going to figure out the are correct way to monetize their loyal user base. they're going to get a lot of ad dollars, and i think the announcement today will push the stock back up into the high teens over the coming months. stuart: you own a little of this? >> i do. stuart: stay right there, more later. elon musk sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence.
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i thought musk was a fan of a.i. lauren: he is. but he does assign a 10-202% chance that it can go bad -- 20%. still, he plans to double his a.i. company, xai. he touted the rapid improvement of artificial intelligence saying it's getting ten times better per year. i mean, that's incredible. and he says it'll be able to do everything that we can co, that a human being can do in one year, possibly two. and then he talks about opt miss, his human marked for identification robot -- optimus. -- humanoid robot. he predicts the world will have 10 billion of them, costing $2020-25,000 each, and some countries could have more robots than people. stuart: that's his protection for 2040. lauren: take the it with a grain of salt, he does overpredict, but i believe in elon musk, and that's what he believes the future is. >> if you believe in that, then you also believe in tesla stock price. i think one goes hand in hand if he's making these robots and
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telling 10 million of them, that's a lot of money there. stuart: put me down as a skeptic. >> okay. stuart: now let's get back to the election. please, can we get back to the election. real clear politics shows trump and hearst virtually tied in michigan -- harris. alexis mcadams joins me from detroit. what are the campaigns doing to win over last minute voters? >> reporter: hey, stuart. things are heating up here in battleground michigan as both candidates are making their final push to voters. we were here the oh day when president trump held back to back rallies. he was telling them that he was going to make detroit geap great again. this comes a vice president cam kamala harris sat down for a peer with the sate's governor -- we're with the state's governor. [inaudible conversations] >> yeah. >> oh, we have microphones -- >> oh, hi. >> -- to everything. i didn't realize that. [laughter] okay. well, now you tell us.
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>> no f-words. >> e just it would all the family secret ands. >> reporter: family secrets no more, i guess, on that hot mic. harris also courting the union vote, trying to connect with blue collar voters, a key demographic she is struggling to win over. but we know president biden did very well with that group in the past years. in recent days former president trump held two rallies in michigan. trump won back in 2016 in this state, but president biden carried michigan in 2020. trump has promised to revive detroit's economy by bringing back the auto industry. >> i am proclaiming that by the end of my term, the entire world will be talking about the michigan miracle and the stunning rebirth of detroit. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: the latest fox news power rankings out just this morning show the michigan senate race is shifting in favor of republicans, okay? that is a big change there over the past several months. it's been close, but now it's considered a toss-up.
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between democrat elissa slotkin and republican mike rogers. slotkin has warned supporters that harris has been underwater in this state as the race is tight not just locally, but also nationally. so they're doing a final push here on the ground for that race. more than 250,000 people voted early over the weekend with more than 11.5 million -- 1.5 million absentee ballots already submitted. so that's a small look at the voter turnout just for early voting. back9 out here live, we can tell you you just have to flip on the tv to see how close that senate race is, because every single commercial is about that senate race. people here are, like, ready for this to kind of wrap up. we'll see what happens in the coming days. stuart: you should see pennsylvania. alexis, thanks very much, indeed. have you heard about this? new york city has sent 4,500 migrants back to texas. they're giving them free plane and bus tickets. jon levine joins me now.
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jon, i don't understand this. we're sending them back? are they forced to go back? are we going to send all of them back? because there's tens of thousands still here. >> obviously, stu, this doesn't really solve the problem because they're still in the united states. if you read the cat in the hat, they clean the spot, it just moves to another part of the house. we're doing whack-a-mole, okay? so they'll leave new york, they'll be in texas. they're still here. i mean, the only real answer here is some form of deportation which has been promised by trump and his people should they be elected. you know, it's crazy to me though that coming into the united states illegally is a crime. illegal immigration is a crime and credit so many people -- and yet so many people respond with the idea "24" there must be if some kind of bathway -- pathway to to citizenship. we were never respond to any other crime with rewarding the criminal. if you broke into an apple store, i wouldn't say you need a pathway to an iphone. it's completely ridiculous. it must be punished as a criminal activity. they need to leave. stuart: it'll take us years to
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recover from this open border. decades, probably, if we can recover at all. that's the wrong thing to say. we will recover, but we can't get it under control for a long time to come. >> we can recover if we have the will to recover. stuart: okay. next one. it's for you, jon. the fbi's investigating after a gunman shouted al lieu act bar in a shootout with police in chicago. the suspect also shot a jewish man who was walking to his synagogue saturday morning, shot him. people seem emboldened to carry out this kind of thing. >> i mean, there's been a hamas rally in america every single day for a year. you have open support for terrorism across our country, so of course people are emboldened to the act like hamas. has anyone screamed in an american street allahu akbar and then something good happened? i don't think so. it's been reported that 57 percent of american muslims support what hamas did on october 77th. you can google that. -- 7th. and it's a real problem. i don't know what we do about that, stu.
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stuart: what's happening down at columbia university these days? >> look, the situation is better there than it was where we were a year ago, but, i mean, they still have student groups that openly support violence, and they still -- they suspended a lot of students, but a lot of them have slunk back in quietly. and i don't know that the institutional and structural problems that led to the issue last year have really been addressed. it could all ignite again at any if given moment. stuart: the the atmosphere in new york city has not improved that much. >> no. stuart: some plaintiff -- of my jewish friends are telling me bad things are happening. >> no, it's not improved at all because we have not addressed the structural problems for why the issue was happening in the paris place. stuart: jon levine, thanks for joining us. see you again soon. mcdonald's reported this morn morning it's giving us some insight into how the consumer is doing. we'll take a look at how much you are paying for a big mac compared to to four years ago. the stock is up a fraction. remember this? the iconic maga dress, the
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that's 1-800-763-2763. stuart: right now donald trump's speaking at mar-a-lago. so far he has said harris has obliterated our borders, his words. he said the economy and inflation are important, but there's no bigger issue than the border. trump also said inflation is decimating our seniors, and that's why he talks about no tax on social security benefits. he's got a lot more to say. bring it to you when we get it. show me mcdonald's. their earnings report shows global sales are down and u.s. sales are holding steady. the stock is just up a fraction.
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madison alworth with me. we'll dig into the numbers in a moment, but do you have an update on the e. coli problem? >> reporter: yes. so mcdonald's ceo started the earnings call today by apologizing to customers for what they experienced and says that he expects restaurants to resume selling those quarterpounders on sunday. that was the item that was linked to e. coli. the ceo also saying they linked the cases to slivered on ons specifically from taylor farm colorado springs. those onions have been removed from the supply chain, and they have stopped sourcing onions from that farm. that e. coli issue is not going to be captured in the books until next quarter, but q3 had problems of its own. it was the second straight quarter of decline in quarterly sales. consumers are struggling with food inflation. under the biden-harris administration, eating out costs have risen 24%, and specifically fast food restaurants up even more, 24.5%. this means that even fast food
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has become unaffordable for some. >> consumers, especially those in the low income category, were choosing to eat at home more often. this trend continued in the third quarter. qsr traffic has remaining pressure reflecting industry-wide challenges. >> reporter: and you can see why. take a look at the cost of a big mac. four years ago service the an average price of $4.39. if you want one today for lunch, stuart, it's going to cost $a 5.69. in fact, it's even more expensive here in new york. so i went out the talk to americans about their fast food choices, and someone told us they've actually cut back from having three meals a day to just having two wheels a day to make things -- meals a day to make things more affordable. >> i adjusted my eating habit9 because of the cost of food. if you eat three times a day ors it's going to cost you more. so maybe i eat around 12 and then i eat around 5. >> we'll do more fast casual,
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more chipotle now than probably going to a sit-down restaurant. >> the fast food, i think that it's too expensive for what it is. where i think i got a burrito, potatoes and a taco, and it was, like, almost $is 11, 12. >> reporter: so the majority of people said affordability of food will be an issue they're thinking about, but that chipotle ad, the second person we heard from, he's a north carolina voter, and he says there are other issues at play that matter more, is he's voting for kamala harris. stuart: is he now? >> reporter: yes. stuart: thanks very much, indeed, madison. remember this? take a look at this, in 2017 singer-song writer or joy vila wore a a make america great again dress. the owner is being forced to remove trump signs from his business. he joins me now. andre, did somebody complain
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about trump signs? >> hi, good morning, mr. varney. thank you for having me and also good morning, america. yes. there's actually a lady that came into my store, i was actually having a meeting with my web site designer, and this lady just apparently, hi, are you andre? yes, i am. how can i help you? can i help you with a gown or -- and she said i am very, very offended. i cannot believe that you have your trump sign and your trump flags, and she wouldn't leave my store. so that was the beginning of it. and if i have to call my friend aide a rah rah, please help me, i'm in a business meeting, ma'am,, can we resolve this some other time. and she just started drying and really, really offended, you know? -- started crying. i couldn't believe that it was real in our country, this liberal lady just totally wants me to take my signs off. stuart: but you did take your signs down, right? >> i did -- well, there is some ordinance that i didn't know
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because of her she complained, so i'm allowed to have 8, and 8 feet on the sign toage -- 8x8 feet, so i have until october 31st. it was -- i had the signs for so long, and it was quite fascinating that because of my trump signs and the election season -- i'm not implying that they're targeting me, but i've had those signs. now because of this lady, i have to take my trump signs, at least part of it. stuart: okay. are you a trump supporter yourself? [laughter] >> yes, i am. i made the trump dress because i was part of the hollywood scene. and after i made that dress, i literally lost all my lgbt friends, how can you be a republican, and how can you support president trump? president trump is such a nice man. i've e met him at mar a are lag go. he count drink, he doesn't smoke. when he was president, the country was very wealthy. now we can't even afford groceries and gas prices with the biden and harris
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administration, which is so upsetting -- stuart: and one person comes in and complains about your signs, you've got to take them down. >> yes, sir. stuart: i'm sorry i'm out of time, but we're very interested to the hear your story. >> of course. stuart: sign of the times. >> thank you, sir. stuart: wish you the best of luck. >> thank you. thank you, sir. trump 2024. [laughter] stuart: all right. fox business special election night coverage begins november 5th, that's election day, of course, 5 p.m. eastern. if all right. show me the dow 30. i want to see the split of winners or and losers. it's an even split. mostly red but quite a bit of green up there. the dow's down only 18 points. iran says there will be unimaginable consequences, their words, after israel's latest attack. the white house is calling for an end to tit for tat attacks. sounds like this conflict isn't close to being over. morgan ortagus next. ♪ ♪
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stuart: listen to this, donald trump's still speaking at mar-a-lagos. he has announced under a trump administration or the assets of criminal gangs and drug car cartels will be seized and will go to the compensation fund for victims of migrant crime.
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he's still speaking. iran is threatening unimaginable consequences for israel's latest attacks. the white house says these airstrikes should mark the end of the tit for tat between the two countries. morgan ortagus joins us. first of all, if trump wins the election, because a ceasefire look more likely? if -- does a ceasefire look more likely? >> oh, what a good question. possibly. i think, first of all, you have these two sides, but especially iran which has been threatening the utter existence of the state of israel for 40 years now. listen, i'm coming to you live from riyadh, saudi arabia. i'm in the region, i'm talking to everyone in the region. the sentiment here, stu, is -- not amongst everybody, but from most people i'm talking to is to let israel finish the job. these people understand what a threat hezbollah, not just a threat. they have been actively undermining the legitimate countries, hamas, hezbollah, the houthi, they've been undermining
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these governments and peoples now for 40 years, and people in the region are, quite frankly, sick of it. i don't think that a ceasefire will necessarily happen on day one. it depends on, you know, what trump decides to do to really put iran in their place. so perhaps it can happen if israel decides to really go after iran in that lame duck period after trump wins and before the inauguration a, if that happens. i do expect that you'll see a lot happen before trump is inaugurated because, honestly, people will be worried about what happens when he gets in. stuart: real fast, i've just got 30 seconds. you say you're in saudi arabia. are the saudis in favor of letting the israelis finish the job with iran? >> you know, it's interesting, they're obviously not going to the talk openly about israel, but they are -- listen, what they are fed up with is what is iran has done to the region. if you talk to the lebanese, they are in the same place. i still think that there's hope
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and a brighter future for the palestinian people it's not going to come from hamas or abbas, and nobody knows that more than the saudis. stuart: thanks for taking the trouble the to be the with us today from saudi arabia. >> of course. thanks, stu. stuart: i'm going to the touch on the cryptos for a second. bitcoin is now $72, 300. any chance it gets to all its all time high, 73,7, i think it is? lauren: likely. increased ownership and, obviously, with the support of the federal government that would come in either a harris or a trump administration. so both wall street and silicon valley are optimistic that the new resident of the oval office will be less antagonistic to their industry. there's a group that represents crypto, it's called fair shake. they've spent $200 million on this election, 2024. that's like the same as the oil groups and the labor unions put into their political doe can nations. so they've got -- donations. so they've got their ear. stuart: thank you lauren and mike. you're not leaving us yet.
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stuart: a tough one. how much money did americans spend on halloween last year? ashley is not with us so he can't be first. standing in his place is mike murphy. ladies first. >> since stuart is in charge, i was going to pick the highest number, americans spend a lot of money even though people might be coming back. stuart: what have you got? lauren: $15 billion. stuart: i will go for $14 billion. according to lending tree, spending is expected to decline. coast-to-coast starts with ashley. it is yours.

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