stuart: 11:00 eastern, monday, november 18thment straight to the markets, please. we've all got green and dow turned positive and solid gain for nasdaq up 148 points. a minor reversal from last friday's selling. nvidia reports after the bell on wednesday is down $1 at 140. 10-year treasury yield is going up, it's up again this morning. 446. now this, the kamala harris campaign gave a lesson how to respond an enormous amount of money and lose an election. reminds me of inflation reduction act: spend enormous

amount of money and increase inflation. it's dangerous to give democrats a lot of other people's money. harris campaign spend $1.5 billion in 15 would he bees. call it 100 million a week. where did all the money go? here's is a partial, repeat, partial list. al sharpton did softball interview on msnbc. his network got $250,000. lady gaga, john bonjovi, katie perry, bruce springsteen did concerts and were not paid but support staff got $100 million. $2.5 million spend on marries' event on oprah winfrey, 50 million for the door knocking operation, 12 million on polling. $111 million to produce ads that asked for even more money, fundraising ads, $111 million. 25 million went to chair of the

pennsylvania democrat party. he had complained publicly about being left out. they paid him to keep quiet. $25 million. $900,000 for ads on the las vegas sphere. 70 million on mail. come on. that's a partial list. it's actually in full a very long list. it has to be when you're throwing around $100 million a week; right? jennifer o'malley dylan in charge of it all and frequently clashed with top democrats about how and where to spend it all. they just shoveled it out the door. just like inflation reduction act. democrat lawmakers were given over $1 trillion and became a grab bag of left wing demands that has nothing to do with reducing inflation. in phaco, it made inflation worse. arguably the harris campaign's billion spend made her less likely to be president. at stake was the democrat's ability to shape an enterprise worthy of the presidency. the voters saw it, didn't like it, and donald trump is now president elect. third hour of varney starts now.

stuart: joe concha is the gentleman on the right hand side, $100 million a week and democrats still lost. did they learn anything, joe? >> we learned a holt. you need a it up hour to go through all the things they spent money on in the span of 15 weeks and especially towards the end of the campaign. you brought up before, jen o'malley, dylan that ran the campaign and stephanie cutter and david pluff. we were told they were campaign geniuses because they ran the obama campaign 12 years ago. sure, they ran this and they'll probably never work on another major campaign. i hope the team that posted your monologue was one of your best and you broke it down so clearly. i hope they posted on social media and everyone should see

that. for starters, meeting him at mar-a-lago over the weekend and these two call him hitler, a fascist, natzi sympathizer and going r them and xenaphobe and going for the comments on the page this morning, their viewers in full revolt over the meeting at mar-a-lago and two weeks ago on your show and said msnbc losing 60, 70% of audience and turns out i was right but happened sooner than expected. stuart: they lost 50% of their audience, i think. >> in some parts though, the audience drops going to 60 or 70% whether you're talking about the key demographic, weekend viewers, prime time. it varies but overall, yeah, the number is more than half and that ain't good.

stuart: okay. former white house prez secretary jen psaki said the democrat haves no clear leader. watch this. >> i think democrats are in the wilderness as you said before. there's no clear leader of the party. joe biden will be out of office shortly. kamala harris just lost the election. there's a lot of governors and other people that might emerge. there's no clear leader of the party right now. that to me is a opportunity because people have to decide, nobody's given it; right? seize the mantle or don't. stuart: joe, we've got aoc, gavin newsom, they're trying to emerge as leaders of the trump resistance. does the party go further left from here or try to move back into the center? >> may must go to the center, stu. that's the only way. the problem is the republicans now own the center and own obviously the right. in other words if democrats suddenly decide that okay, we're going to say we're tough on crime or we're going to be tough on the border or we're going to lower inflation by not raising

taxes and reigning in spending, republicans in donald trump, elon musk, vivek ramaswamy, jd vance, the whole administration coming in, i don't know where democrats go because if they try to be republican light and try to go to the center and try to claim all the issues, they lost all those issues when they ran a couple of years ago on open borders and more spending, more government, less police. once you do that, it's hard to put the tooth paste back in the tube, and they may take a generation before democrats can get into major parts of power again. after donald trump in four years and he's successful, jd vance could be your 40th president and from there, who knows how long it'll take before democrats can find that leader that they need. if it's aoc, they're definitely in trouble, that i know. stuart: that you know. joe concha, thanks for joining us. see you again real soon. back to the markets and now we have not exactly a sea of green but all the indicators in the green, dow up 7, s&p 26 and

solid gain for nasdaq 157. jason catastrophe joining us this morning -- jason katz joining us this morning. donald trump wants to build a strong stock market and keep a strong stock market. would he change policy if the market falters? >> i mean, trump has been so clear about this. his self-imposed score card is, what, the stock market. he doesn't want any self-inflicted wounds, especially at the behest of one of his own policies. so, yes, tariffs could be a negotiation ploy, but i don't think he's going to bite his nose despite his face. the minute we get a meaningful downturn, we'll get one because they happen but a meaningful one will be met with a tampering of some of his approach. stuart: you see the s&p 50 500 hitting 6,600 by the end of next year. that's a 700 point gain from where it is now. what's that, 12, 13, 14%? >> not quite that high.

some odd percent. stuart: i don't do math, you realize that. but that's a significant gain on top of the gains we've had in 2024. >> certainly pails in comparison to double digit 20 some odd gains this year and last year. i'm asked by clients all the time how do we have additional gains and the answer is a few fold. number one, the markets will look through some of the short term economic sacrifice that comes with the necessity of this cost cutting that musk and company will bring to the table. corporate earnings getting a boost from corporate tax cuts and lastly deregulation will lead to innovation and it's going to lead to this boom in mna activity and that should be very good for equities. stuart: okay, the sec commissioner or nominee for the commissioner, brendan carr, taking on amazon, alphabet, meta

for cent correspondentship. calls them censorship cartel. that's not good for big stocks, is it? >> hardly should this come as a surprise to anyone. anyone that thought a deregulatory business friendly trump administration would go easy on tech are sorely mistaken. while on one hand they're going to be tough with respect to censoring free speech. on the other hand to my earlier point, they're going to encourage by-backs and going to encourage innovation merger and acquisition. they're not going to look to break the companies up. they're going to tighten the vice a bit with respect to censorship. stuart: no breakup, change the censorship rules. >> and earnings going into the stock prices. stuart: got it. jason, thank you very much indeed. a rival to spacex is known as expiration company. they're raising money to develop reusable space capsules. madison, how much has the company raised? >> they just raised $160 million. that brings the total to it

$208 million. they're using that money to develop a core product that's a reusable capsule that launches into space repeatedly carrying people and cargo. right now there's only two companies that do that, and they're both here in the go to and from international space station and talking spacex and northrup gunman. bayer based out of europe, germy, france and italy and want a source in europe considering the only two that exist are here in the u.s.. the goal is run the maiden flight to iss in 2028. most of their funding came from the private sector. venture capital firms were lead investors. there's a lot of activity going on in space right now. nations like china, u.s., and india all going out on missions. one of the most ambitious projects is the nasa-led gateway, which would be the first space station to orbit the moon.

tc said they've signed $800 million in contracts to use their capsule, which is called nyx, and hasn't even left earth yet and clearly investment is heating up. stuart: private enterprise running the space business. >> leading the way. stuart: you can invest in it. very interesting stuff. thank you very much, madison. coming up, bill maher ripping democrats for going after the man that opposes trans-athletes in women sports. they're going after him. >> stop screaming at people to get with the program and instead make a program worth getting with. what good is liberalism if you don't win elections? stuart: we have maher's full scathing criticism for you. trump's pick for attorney general matt gaetz facing scrutiny for resigning from congress days before ethics report was about to be released. could it stop him from being confirmed? look who's here, dana perino is here on this set with me in this studio, and she's next. ♪

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broke yesterday that president biden is giving ukraine the green light to use u.s.-supplied long range missiles to fire them deep into russian territory. trump's pick for national security adviser mike waltz was on fox this morning and here's how he reacted to that topment. development. take a listen. >> this is a development but it's tactical. president trump is talking grand strategy here. how do we get both sides to the table to end this war? what's the frame work for the deal, and who's sitting at that table? those are the things that i and president trump of course will be working with -- reporter: in the meantime, trump keeps adding more and more people to the new administration and putting together more than 20 picks since election day a couple of weeks ago. some expected to have bipartisan support and stuart, you mentioned others are more

controversial and some democrats saying they're not qualified to be in leadership positions, but donald trump jr. says being controversial isn't necessarily a bad thing. >> we're obviously going with the strongest candidates first. some of them are going to be controversial. they're controversial because they'll get things done. the swamp doesn't want that and we're going all in and make sure those people have the best chance at getting confirmed. reporter: in the meantime, one of the biggest positions we're waiting to hear on is treasury secretary. we have new names in the mix now. according to the new york times, trump is reportedly considering kevin warsh, a and mark warden, a former billionaire and ceo of counterfeits gerald and investor scott bessent. waiting to find out that big time important economic pick. back out here live this morning. trump confirmed on truth social

he's planning to declare a national emergency and use military assets to help carry out his plans of mass deportations. back to you. stuart: there's news for you. bill melugin, thanks very much indeed. talking about polling and a polling miss. veteran pollster anne stelzer is quitting and moving an after her poll in iowa missed by 16 points. >> great to be with you. stuart: the pollster claims this was planned long before the poll came out. but hasn't she lost some credibility with a 16 point miss? >> certainly it's not the way you want to leave, she didn't necessarily stick the landing and announced retirement several months ago and we knew this was coming. it's not like she's retiring because of that particular poll. while that poll was terrible, the ones previously were

incredible. she was really kind of the gold star of polling. an example. for example, everybody that thought that obama could never beat hillary clinton in that primary, she nailed that one. also she called indiana down to the exact number in indiana when obama won indiana, which was kind of unheard of at the time. and also she said that joan earns would beat -- joanie ernst could beat tom har tom harkin as was the one she was embarrassed by. stuart: she's a die in the woods democrat. >> no, all these things she said republicans was going to win for the last eight years. all of a sudden she became a crazy activist democrat in the last six weeks of thelection? i highly doubt it. she said this poll was an outlier. the thing is she could have buried it. could have not put it out. she could have decided not to do

it but she didn't, and i think that shows integrity and if you have an entire career where you've had great success and have one miss and had to -- she doesn't feel good about having to leave knowing people are calling her a democratic activist and had this wonderful career. imagine if that happened to you. i would have call it had like i see it either way. i just remember the anne seltzer poll is really good and that's why that one got so much attention because it's like what is she talking about. this isn't possibly true and she said this seems like an anomaly, it's obviously off. here she is. she has to leave now and hopefully have a great retirement and i don't know if she's got children and grandchildren. i just hope she has a good time in her life. i don't want to be judged on one bad thing i do in my career. stuart: that was a fine rebuttal. >> and it might be agreeing to come on this show. stuart: i've been put in my place.

it's not the first time. great to have you on the show. come again soon any time you want. >> is that it? stuart: yeah, that's it. you had your thing. and what do you make of the new spokesperson? >> karoline leavitt? stuart: yeah. >> she's young but age isn't just a thing and she's work sod hard and had a newborn baby and came back to work a week later and have a huge amount on her plate and main thing is one, protect your integrity and two, have really good people around you and three, have a seat at the table. she's already got a seat at the table and the other stuff is up to her. stuart: you've got a seat at this table any time you like. dana perino, everyone. all good stuff. >> thank you. stuart: arizona democrat senator elect, rubin gallego, calling out his own party's failures. ashley, what is he saying? ashley: well, saying latino voters ignored by the democrat party and said his party failed

to understand the key issue in that community. what he told cnn, listen. >> you have a lot of ivy league candidates that hire ivy league latinos that don't come from working class background and most latinos are working class. a lot of times, you know, we knew something was bad with the latino community when it comes to their opinion of the economy, i'm very much connected to it. i think a lot of politicians didn't want to hear what was actually happening out there. ashley: ivy league candidates and exit poll shows republicans made significant gains among key democratic voting blocks such as hispanic and black men. in fact, the data shows trump gained 14 points with hispanics nationwide and registered 55% of hispanic men. that's a 19 point jump from 2020. remarkable. stu. stuart: quite a performance. ashley, thanks. do please check netflix.

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stuart: spirit airlines, filed for bankruptcy. lid i can't recollects what does this mean for anyone that booked a ticket on spirit? reporter: stuart, there's encouraging news. anyone planning to travel on spirit airline this is thanksgiving holiday, effectively means nothing for them. the company says they'll still honor all tickets, credits and points as normal. but the analysts i've been speaking with say longer term and bigger pictures. spirit airlines moving forward and have to scale back on amount of service they're providing and scale down the fleet and have fewer planes and operation. take a stem back and consider how we got here and filing for bankruptcy protection and two attempted business deals that failed. one was with frontier airlines and that was an acquisition that frontier airlines wanted to make and biden administration blocked

jetblue's proposition of spirit airlines earlier this year. analysts i've spoken to this morning say that deal with jetblue in particular would have been great for consumers and would have delivered them for options. jot biggest impediments to grow is pilots and airplanes. spirit had both. the consumer would have another global option. reporter: stuart, spirit struggled since the pandemic to turn a profit and the travel herrera looking for budget option and after the deal with frontier and jetblue failed, spirit was turning to cost cutting measures and starting next year, they're going to lay off some of their employees, not sure how many and exactly which ones we're waiting for with the news to unfold and they're now

seeking bankruptcy seizure disorders protection and they'll become another target for acquisition and under a new administration, trump administration will follow that as it develops too. stuart: that's more like it. let them merge with somebody. trump's picks for his administration is being viewed as a move against the dei agenda. madison, how are democrats responding to anti-woke nominations? >> stu, they're bracing and some of the president elect's nominations are going to reverse the dei policy and this morning showing to head the federal communication admission brendan carr posted coming to the topic of dei, fueta. that means outside in spanish.

it's diversity, equity and inclusion as the request for 20256789 they've got a trump fecta and overhaul them and in part, they're setting up sites specifically on the justice department, department of education, and the pentagon. the defense secretary nominee and fox news host pete hegseth could implement changes within the military if he's confirmed and it's frank siller this one and last week. >> this is someone who is known to be a wh white supremacist and extremist and platform book is about his opposition to the advancement of black officers to the top brass. reporter: first lady jill biden's press secretary slamming in characterization and said this on x. opposing dei initiatives does not make you a white supremacist. vice voices like this on the

left is turning the democratic party into a joke and vilifying them and tevin there's good reason to oppose them and represents everything the democratic party should be running away from. la rosa suggests fighting back with strategy and tactics and not using defamatory language. stuart: thank you. bill maher ripping democrats for going after seth moulton for transgender@ leases. >> stop screaming at people for going after the program and instead make a program worth getting with. what good is liberalism if you don't win elections. congressman moulton sounds reasonable but his sam pain manager resigned in -- campaign manager resigned in protest. let me make this as plain as i can to the smart people. the campaign manager that resigned, yeah, let that person go. stuart: that's pretty emphatic. kennedy is here. what do you make of all this? >> a hat, a broach, a paper airplane.

i think bill march is right herd needs a critical analysis of the democratic party and what hills they chose to die on and those hills are the ones that didn't allow them to acknowledge people's pain. you know, it's like we've talked about this, people felt condescended to and wasn't just the pocketbook issues and anyone that's apparent and a parent of girls and looking at your children playing basketball or volleyball or soccer, some of these contact sports, it's a little terrifying to think that, you know, someone who has gone through puberty as a male might do more harm to your daughter than other biological females on the field. that's a parental issue. that's something that exists outside of party, but there are democrats who wanted to shove that issue down our throats to the detriment of transgender people. they actually created a harsher environment for transgendered people. stuart: they d. now listen to this one, governor jd pritzker

of illinois, he's promising to keep illinois open to transgender treatment. illinois' one of several states that encourages children to seek out the so called gender affirming care. pritzker wants to keep on doing that even for minors. that's extraordinary. >> he has a very close family member that's transgendered, and that's great. i'm glad he is an ally for his cousin. having said that, again, as a parent, i'm a little dubious of using children as experiments like we did in covid because, you know, we're seeing the long term ramifications of keeping children unsocialized and out of school, and many of them are still paying the price for that. they're ignoring a lot of data, particularly that's coming out of europe that says, you know, maybe we need to treat broader mental health issues and going straight for gender affirming care and going straight for

surgery. you shouldn't be experimenting on children like that and that could be the course of action broadly for so in children. sure, there's particular cases but parent haves to be involved. therapist haves to be involved, and we might have to take a different look at things instead of using emotional family issues to craft policy, which can in the long run be harmful. stuart: waiting for a slew of lawsuits down the road. >> they've already come up and -- stuart: they have. >> it can be heart breaking. family members need support, other family members don't need surgery. stuart: correct. thanks so much kennedy. all good stuff. the union representing the dnc blasting the party's leadership. what's this for and all about? >> all about layoffs. so they're upset because the union that represents workers at the democratic national committee are blasting party leadership following large layoffs that happened in the past several days. in a statement, the union says starting on wednesday night, permanent employees were

notified of their termination effective friday with no severance pay. dnc leadership has not said if there's going to be more layoffs, more could be coming. the union goes onto say the cuts go beyond the typical campaign turnover. saying and really pulling no punches "despite record breaking fundraising, dnc failed to provide any financial support to those who have tirelessly served the democratic party and its mission". dnc dismissed hundreds of employee this is past week and most of the people that were let go were only hired to work through the election, but some were considered the permanent employees, and they were expected to work between election cycles so not expecting to be fired. this is another sign, you talked about this earlier, that the debt from the kamala harris campaign is truly significant. stuart: spent $125 billion in 15 weeks and it's extraordinary. thank you, madison. new york times tried to debunk rfk jr.'s claims that some of

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yo, i'm mr. healthy and maybe put down the burger for a bit. it looks like a bad move. i wouldn't do it when i'm mr. healthy and eating the junkiest thing alive. only thing i have to look forward to now in life, stuart, is eating. no, i'm not a health nut. i wake up at 10:00 a.m., stuart, and i start thinking about dinner. stuart: portnoy is very honest, isn't he? rfk previously complained about the food options on trump's private jet. speaking of which, kennedy claimed z that the popular breakfast cereal fruit loops contains more artificial ingredients than sold in canada. dr. marc siegle joins us right now. what's wrong with fruit loops and extra ingredients? >> before i get to that, got to let me weigh in on that plane. i actually disagree with portnoy. i have problem with rfk jr. hoisting a hamburger once just to show his sense of humor

maybe, which we are sorely needing right now. by the way, there's a lot of protein in that burger and your other option on that plane, stuart, you need to know, is kentucky fried chicken. i happy to be a fan of chicken. finger licken good. i'm all in on that as long as he doesn't make a habit of it. as far as fruit loops are concerned, here's another thing fruit loops using blueberries and carrots for colors. we don't know what that is here in the united states. we're talking red dye and blue dye and yellow dye and all associated with a tension deficit disorder, adhd in kids and another chemical called bht that supposedly preservings freshness. preserving freshness with a chemical. he's right on track with this

food issue. stuart: okay. we've got a new study, lots of new studies, and finds that weight loss drugs reduce alcohol-related hospita hospitalizations. it's a miracle drug by the sound of it. doctor, where's the connection between weight loss and the drugs and less drinking? >> well, stuart, we have weekly outsider segment and also a weekly ozempic segment and i'm wondering if you're trying to push me in that direction or not. i will say this, these are looking more and more like miracle drugs because semi-glue tides and ozempic and wegovy decrease hunger in the brain and delay gastric emptying so you feel more full. both effects could decrease theoretically your desire to drink or what we're calling in this study alcohol use disorder looked at over 200,000 people in finland on this. i didn't know there were over

200,000 people there by the way and they found that the rate of hospitalization from alcohol use disorder was down about 30%. so this is a really significant finding for finland and sweed and applicable across the board. it's more for drug and alcohol use. very good for addiction. dow 30 and more green than red. stuart: dow is up 33 points, 43,000, 479. on election day, voters in deep, deep blue california rejected far left politicians like george gascon and london breed in san francisco. jason rantz calls this a seismic shift in politics. jason makes his case, next. ♪

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stuart: chuck schumer added anti-semitism awareness act into the national defense authorization act. it's meant to protect jewish students from violence but critics say it goes too far and

would allow the government to police speech. jason rantz with me. do you think this anti-semitism bill steps on free speech? >> it doesn't. it actually pretty clearly does the opposite of that. all it's doing is offering a definition of anti-several semitism for the government to look at when they're making claims or investigating claims of discrimination. that's all it does. if you go into the bill it system, it says the first amendment is not chosed to be used in a way or this bill is not supposed to be used in a way that would dismiss concerns of free speech activists. the idea that the first amendment is going to be trampled on. no, quite literally says you're not going to be able to use this bill to trample on first amendment rights. it set as basic stage for what anti-semitism is and you've got folks that claim that any kind of attack on zionism is not anti-semitism. it very clearly is anti-semitic

but if you can't agree what the term is, this helps get us to that position. stuart: just a moment ago running video on left hand side of the screen of a bunch of neo-gnat seizure disorderses -- i'm going to call them natzis walking through the streets of ohio. those were swastika flags and i'm astonished this is happening in america, jason. what's going on here? >> i don't know what's going on. the idea that this is happening is of course despicable and disgusting and i'm glad everyone is saying the exact same thing, it's despicable and disgusting and not like anyone is sitting back and defending this and saying it's not an appropriate display of political and hateful positions. they're all being condemned and i don't know if it's part of some larger position of natzis moving in this country. i doubt it. it's a very small group of people that feel like they can get a lot of attention by doing things like this, and glad the attention is all negative. stuart: they feel free to be out on the streets with swastika

flags. i mean, there's a danger here we lose the streets. >> there is, only if we ignore it; right? i look at what happened back with antifa violence and everyone on the left was pretending it didn't happen and it emboldened it and got worse and everyone speaking loudly and clearly this is unacceptable and despicable will do enough to be a disincentive for this to spread. stuart: is there a new trend in california where a lot of leftist politicians were voted out, george gascon for example, london breed in san francisco. is this a trend that will last? >> so it could last if the results are positive. so democrat voters, wasn't republicans but these are democrats that decided to get rid of gascon, get rid of major london breed and recall the mayor of oakland and da in alameda county. they're all very, very far to the left. so now it's time for the more moderate democrats who have taken positions to show actual results. if they're able to show results then all of a sudden everyone

knows, yeah, look, we kind of tried far left stuff. doesn't quite work. now let's go in the better direction. i'd rather them go to the right but i'll take a moderate democrat at this point in california. stuart: fair enough. jason rantz, thanks for being with us. see you again real soon. >> thank you. stuart: it's that time, time for the monday trivia question. emerald is the birthstone for which month? march, may, july, or september? the answer when we come back.

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ireland loves green, emerald is green -- >> what about irish? stuart: i'm wrong. [laughter] chop me off in my prime. it's may. here we go. the answer is may. emeralds are meant to represent rebirth. they're also a meant to bring foresight, good fortune and youth with. i should try to remember that next time i buy any precious gems. you know, we're almost out of time. bitcoin did cross $9 2,000 today, we thought we'd close out by telling you that. ashley, thanks for being here on the trivia question. i think you knew the answer -- >> i said i got it from my brain which was given to me by someone else on set right before. stuart: our floor manager knew the answer and told everybody. neil starts his program in 3, 2, 1. neil? if. neil: i wonder what the month is for cube -- cubic sirh sirh --