chester arthur, franklin pierce, martin van buren, benjamin harrison? oking it up police? ashley: i have no idea. i got number 2, franklin pierce. stuart: going to have a stab at it? lauren: number 3, martin van buren. stuart: i will go with number one, chester arthur. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. chester arthur when president garfield passed away in september 18, '81. the new york supreme court judge, the oath of office in arthur's new york city home. in new york city, how about that? a different place back then. ashley, lauren, thank you for taking care of business. it was a wonderful time. thanks for the support and help. i have to count down to the very second, i've got 13, 12 to go because i've got to get up to 12:00 noon. that is it for "varney and company". coast-to-coast starts now. neil: on the verge of the government shutting down and then autoworkers strike on top of twin jolts for an economy that has absorbed many of them. a stock market that has had to absorb a few of its own, rocky

presidency because he doesn't win a majority in the electoral college and then by 1828, jackson and martin van buren are starting to organize the democratic party, which is really the first mass party in the u.s. and there is some opposition organized and that eventually becomes the whig party. the whig party collapses in the 1850s over slavery, the republican party replaces the whig party by 1860 and for the last 160 years, you have the democrats and republicans, the two major parties. >> a gallup poll from just this past may, they do this on party identification in this country. 30% of respondents saying they identify as republicans, 27% saying they identify as democrats, 41% saying they identify as independent. do you believe those numbers are accurate and what does that say about us? >> so, when you ask people how they identify, yes, a lot of people identify as independent. a lot of people don't like to call themselves democrats don't like to call themselves republicans. those numbers have been in the 40s for about two decades now and they tend to go up and down a little bit but basically states

realized as i began to do more the research that , actually, in new york city, afong moy met martin van buren. he was the vice president for jackson. it was clear that the she had seen him probably in that early salon period when she was in new york in 1834. he may have mentioned this to jackson. so andrew jackson knew about her, maybe because of van buren, but also because she was i -- widely touted and seen as a big attraction at this time in america. and so, she did go to the jackson white house. we don't have any record in his accounts of what he said to her, all we have is the newspaper account of what transpired. apparently, jackson, for some reason, assumed that afong moy was an emissary and would have the capacity to go back to china and alert her fellow women who have bound feet that this was an unnecessary and improper activity, and that they should stop it. that she should go back to china and let them know that. i am sure it was kind of amazing for afong moy to hear those words since she was not going back to china and was not an emissary and cannot do that. it was interesting tha

realized as i began to do more of the research that actually in new york city afong moy then met martin van buren. and he was a jackson's vice president. and it was clear that she had seen him probably in that early salon period when she was in new york in 1834. and he may have mentioned this to jackson. so, andrew jackson knew about her. maybe because of van buren. but, also because she was widely scouted. and seeing as a big attraction at this point in america. so, she did go to the jackson white house to the presidents house. and we don't have any record in his account of what he said to her. all we have is the newspaper account of what transpired. and apparently jackson for some reason assumed that afong moy was an emissary , and that she would have the capacity to go back to china. and to alert her fellow women who had bound feet that this was an unnecessary, and improper activity. and that they should stop it, and that she should go back to china, and let them know that. it was kind of amazing for afong moy to hear those words. and she was not going back to china. and was not an emissary, a

and personally, i think it's pretty low to drag martin van buren into this [ laughter ] life's hard enough with that silly haircut. according to reports, fox news ceo suzanne scott did not tell tucker carlson why he was being fired but said that the decision was made, quote, "from above." but come on, we know all the decisions at fox news come from below. [ laughter and applause the georgia -- the georgia prosecutor investigating former president trump's alleged interference into the 2020 election said yesterday that she would announce potential charges this summer. i like that we're spreading out trump's crimes in just, like, microdosing indictments. [ laughter ] you know, 'cause, like, when netflix drops an entire season at once, sure, it's fun that weekend, but then we have nothing to look forward to once a week is way better. [ laughter ] it's like trump is the abbott elementary of criminals. [ laughter ] a man in idaho recently set a guinness world record after he passed a 40-pound weight from hand-to-hand 100 times that story again, not much to do in idaho [ laughter ] he didn't even

and personally, i think it's pretty low to drag martin van buren into this [ laughter ] life's hard enoughquote, "from above." but come on, we know all the decisions at fox news come from below. [ laughter and applause the georgia -- the georgia prosecutor investigating former id