lauren: welcome back.peed bump, i guess you could call it a speed bump in elon musk's flight plans for twitter's blue check mark, so he's holding off on re-launch ing the blue check verification subscription until there's "high confidence of stopping impersonation" it wasn't off to the best start so they made the announcement in a tweet of course also saying he could use different color checks for organizations and individuals, okay? at the same time, there are growing concerns about the safety on the site, after twitter security and privacy leaders quit, in the days after elon officially took over the company last month, so, you have impersonators, cybersecurity anxiety, should twitter users also flee the nest like half of the engineers apparently have? we have that question to the ceo of cybersecurity company shark tank star robert hershevek. robert, thank you. fox business exclusive we should mention that. i always like talking to you. what do you make of what musk is doing? >> it's a crazy time there.

lauren: pizza? >> i'm meat and potato girl, lauren. dinner early you can absolutely do pizza later on that. would be fine. nobody would be offended. dolly, jenny, good to see you. >> happy thanksgiving. thank you. lauren: four minutes before the closing bell, the dow on pace to finish highest before able. the rally is coming up just 85. s&p higher by 20. nasdaq up 100 points. as we've been saying this is the highest since september the 12th. breaking news, "wall street journal" right now reporting that the u.s. is on the cusp of granting a license to chevron so it can pump oil in venezuela. that policy would open the door for other oil companies to do business there after years of sanctions. chevron's stock down 1% but it happens to be our closer's pick. let's bring him in. crested capital cio, founding partner, jack ablin. jack, good to see you. >> nice to see you, thanks. lauren: i'm assuming you like chevron because of its dividend but you might look this news from the "wall street journal" too? >> it is certainly welcome news. not

lauren? lauren: you know, i just wonder if investors want even more than the iconic bob iger to turn the disney ship around. jackie deangelis, thank you very much. [laughter] another big story we're following, digital world acquisition or dwac down 1.6%, better than earlier when it was down about 7%, after the new twitter ceo, elon musk, reinstated former prime minister donald trump's twitter -- president donald trump's twitter account. dwac plans to take trump's truth social firm public. trump says he has no reason to return to twitter, january 2021 is the haas time he was on. and according to regulatory the filing, trump is obligated to make any social media posts first on truth social. still, investors are not convinced this merger will go through or that trump stays off twitter. and elon musk is mimicking the former president in a way saying you're fired to even more twitter employees if that is even possible. susan li in the museroom with the very latest. -- newsroom with the very latest

lauren: revenue rose 72%.eo says consumers are spending money on services and spending to go out and experience something. also active drivers, they're back at 2019 levels because inflation is pushing people with other jobs to get side work. to seek -- to s add to their income any way they can and getting new drivers. stu: fox? lauren: ad spending up 8% because of political ad spending ahead of the election and up $3.19 billion. >> we do well in politics. lauren: and sports too. stu: eli lily, they're down sharply. lauren: they cut their four year profit forcast for the third time and cost them $100 million and blamed lower insulin prices and generic competition for line of cancer drugs. stu: johnson & johnson made a big -- they're buying this medical company bio-med, avionmed, they've evolved in heart, lung, and kidney transplant. >> lauren: they make the medical devices and heart pump is popular and look at stock, it's up 50%. j&j is buying them because next year they're going to separate their businesses an

thanks lauren.phael warnock and herschel walker headed to a runoff. this seat could determine which party gets control of the senate so when is the runoff? connell: husband december 6 mark it on your calendar, stuart. that'll be on us pretty quick so these two candidates get right back out on the campaign trail and erase where we've already seen $250 million or thereabout s spent to this point , so it's a fair bet you'll see millions and millions more flowing in here, to the state of georgia. senator warnock certainly knows that and sent out a tweet to his supporters saying let's do this again meaning get out and campaign and he had a button where you can click to donate, encouraging people to donate to his campaign, and it's not his first runoff. last time he spent $59.3 million just in two months between november and january then, and kelly leoffler, his opponent spent 4.8 million so that's 100 million plus between the two of them, now he's back at it. >> we got a soldier on for a few more weeks,

what is he going to do, lauren? lauren: very specific.e is removing eric swalwell and adam schiff from the house intelligence committee and ilhan omar from foreign affairs. >> eric swalwell can not get a security clearance in the public sector. why woe we ever give him a security clearance and the secrets to america. i will not allow him to be on intel. adam schiff who lied to the american public time and again. we will not allow him to be on the intel committee either. congresswoman omar, her anti-semitic comments have gone forward we'll not allow her to be on foreign affairs. lauren: so if he is indeed speaker those three will lose their posts in january. he accused all three of them either being compromised or biased. minced no words. ashley: minces no words. i think he is onto something. lauren, thank you very much. get back to the markets why don't we. alan knuckman joins me. good morning, alan. where do you see opportunity? where do you see opportunity in this environment right now? >> i see a lot of positives we've had a nice month

i'm lauren simonetti and joining me today, dr. nesheiwat, michele tafoya, kara frederick, >> dr. nesheiwat: five. happy thanksgiving. >> dr. siegel: was my turkey? >> not the best place to begin on such a nice day, but two years of the bite administration. the honeymoon. mike is over and it appears that president biden has a real love-hate relationship with the media. he's relied on the cross to promote his leftist policies. he combat the mic becomes becomes combative even though he has not been as available as his predecessors. he is old 19 news conferences and that is half as trump or obama in their presidencies. when he is available, incentive answers, this is what the media gets. >> president biden: i'm not supposed to be answering all of these questions. i'm going to get in trouble with my staff. go ahead but pretend i didn't answer you. i will take your questions and as usual, they gave me a folks. they gave me a list here. i'm not much to take questions, but go ahead. >> there have not been many candidates campaigning with

lauren: yeah.the holiday season of about 700 million, wall street is looking for more like 860 million. the translation is is this turn-around plan under the relatively new ceo barr rhode island mccarthy -- barry mccarthy not working or not working fast enough? outsourcing all of their customer service, all of their manufacturing, all of their delivery, raising prices on some of their equipment, and now they're actually renting that equipment, and the stock is still down in a big way. they say they want to be cash flow positive sooner than, i think, wall street thinks is realistically possible. ashley: yeah. down 12% today. all right, show me restaurant brands. they own places like burger king, tim horton's. are more people going out to eat fast food right now? lauren: it's a bargain, right, compared to everything else. so restaurant brand say they see all of their divisions, i'll throw popeye's in there, doing well. bk world wide same-store sales grew more than 10%. 3% at popeye's. so people are g

lauren, the number please. plea. lauren: okay.ortgage rates they went down a bit and hovering near 7%, ashley, 6.95% from last week and shall i remind our viewers and if you took out a mortgage, 3.9%. that's red hot. it's hot no more, sorry. ashley: yeah, more than doubling. lauren, more info. the month of october was $54.04. the prices paid component and in september it was $68.7 and road -- 68.7 and the market is coming off the lows and maybe this sends the signal to the fed that inflation is still an issue, clearly with prices paid. they have to keep hiking and we were spending so much on services and it was a growing and booming part of the economy and overall number came down just a bit. ashley: elon musk met with left wing about victimses to discuss twitter's content -- activist to discuss the twitter content issues. hi, brian, do you think this will help ease tension from the left? what do you say? >> no, no it won't. nothing will ease tension from the left. i don't get -- okay, i get that elon is going to hear out all thes

lauren: we could.emembers asking the white house for better access to semiconductors to better manage the supply chain which is getting hit for having not all components for resin, for instance, that they need for the devices. stryker raised prices for the knee and hip joint replacements. abbott can't meet demand for blood sugar monitoring devices in some countries. the supply chain is with us impacting health care. stuart: it affects all kinds of industries. lauren: we're three years in. stuart: three years in. it is not over. lauren, thank you very much indeed. respiratory illnesses are indeed on the rise across the country. some drugmakers warn of possible shortage of crucial antibiotics. madison alworth has the story. what is the problem, madison? reporter: stuart, exactly what you guys were touching on, so many kids are getting sick with rsv and the flu and there is not enough medication to keep up, a really important one experiencing a shortage is a a amoxillin running low in the united states. t

thank you, lauren.is, the houston astros make round one with a second no hitter in history and a combined no hitter. what's it like to strike and what that could mean for your holiday travel plans. that's next. ♪ ashley: you are taking a look on a sunny day at the philadelphia international airport. that's sort of like a good day for flying. lauren: they gave the public feedback on the seats to be shown more and more. they got 26,000 submissions and most commonly used word was forture. the wide in the airplane seat is 17-17.5 inches and the distance between you and the seat in front of you as little as 28 and used to be 35 inches. this is insane. i say there's no leg room. imagine what a normal sized person feels like. it's so controversial. passengers are saying it's unsafe if they had to exit the plane fast. six democrat senators are usualing the faa issue urging the faa to change it. ashley: i'm 6'1 and i can tell you it's absolute hell. there's no other word for it. especially if i'm trapped on the

lauren, i bet i know which county it is. lauren: miami-dade. stuart: correct. 30% of their 1 1/2 million or so voters have cast a ballot so far, 30% early voting ended last night. so this is where we stand. registered republicans are leading, they have cast 180,000 plus votes, democrat 174,000, unaffiliated thousand, 106,000. what does early voting mean, in person and mail-in. in-person republicans showed up more, 33,000 more voted in person than democrats. democrats mailed in more, but overall slightly more republicans voting early, which shows enthusiasm on the ground, right? the republicans outreach towards the hispanic voter. stuart: i saw loads of people lining up outside of early voting stations where i was in florida last couple days. line out the door. loads and lloyds of people lining up. lauren: that is remarkable. wait until tuesday, tomorrow? stuart: so easy. it is configured you can do it very easily, quite quickly, the line moved. it really is. lauren: weird to talk about early voting to say republicans are leading, they are in miami. usually flip

thank you, lauren.ee zeldin getting big turnouts at his rallies, even in up state new york where cath reigns kathy hochul isfrom. does that spell trouble for hochul? we'll get into that. president biden will campaign for democrats in illinois today but next door in wisconsin, where the senate race is neck and neck, he's nowhere to be found. are democrats in fight races ignoring the president? we'll have that report as well. kim truss el will have advice for republicans. if you take back the house and senate, she says don't waste this opportunity. kim is here next. ♪ as a business owner, your bottom line is always top of mind. so start saving by switching to the mobile service designed for small business: comcast business mobile. flexible data plans mean you can get unlimited data or pay by the gig. all on the most reliable 5g network. with no line activation fees or term contracts. saving you up to $500 a year. and it's only available to comcast business internet customers. so boost your bottom line by

lauren: alexa.ow we're sending alexas off reviewing it per the journal and the stock is up in a big way because that saves the money. they are also pouring all this money into this new robot it's called spare row this big arm that is going to work in their warehouses. what does that do? in the long run, that saves you money because that robot is cheaper than a human worker. stuart: okay, and the stock is up what, 13% that's a gigantic move for amazon. lauren: yup. stuart: the buy now pay later people. lauren: good job. stuart: they are up -- lauren: 22% simple reason. yields are coming down, cost to finance is hopefully, hopefully getting cheaper. stuart: can you show me a loser today? lauren: wework. is it still down? stuart: it is. lauren: down 3.3% it was up volatile today. so this is the rent office space for the most part. they say they are going to close 40 of their under performing locations in the u.s. part of a cost cutting plan that investors apparently are not sharing. they are still unpr

-- lauren: yes. -- giving you more interest than -- lauren: so goldman sachs' consumer bank market is offering high-yielding savings account, interest rates of 2.5%, and that is an all-time high. that's a record. so that account, your savings earn 2.5% interest. stuart: so identify not -- i've got to have an account with -- lauren: yes. you were just talking about mortgage rates. affordability about has been decimated, but there are 4 million americans who are paying under 2.5% because they took advantage of cheap interest rates. so the point of this story is finally you're earning significant rates on a savings account, and that's more than a mortgage for 4 million people. stuart: so if you've got a mortgage rate that you're paying now that's under 2.5%, you can go to this wall street investment bank, open an account and they will pay you more than the mortgage rate of 7% interest on your savings, is that it? lauren: no, not more than 7, it's #.5% -- do. stuart: that was a nonstory. [laughter] i'm v

lauren, take a guess. lauren: i'm going to go with venison.g to go with duck, but we're both wrong. the answer is turkey. lauren: that was my second guess. ashley: turkey. it was a trick question. lauren: i knew the answer to -- >> i can't believe it, turkey wasn't there at the first thanksgiving? that's incredible. ashley: i know, right? david: that's a great trivia question. thank you very much, ash

stu: lauren. lauren: nope. stu: susan? still holes and sayses stu to susan lending transfers in the future. stu: forgive me for asking. i don't mean to pryor. which crypto did you buy? susan: again, i mentioned and only bet with money you can afford to lose and that's bitcoin, either and small portion of dogecoin. mike: never owned crypto and never plan to. stu: man, you're dull. three strikes and you're out. randy, who voted to keep randi wiengarten in power. i'm with you, mike. 100%. anybody else with me on this? lauren: i love teachers and respect them. unfortunately the unions need to reform themselves a bit here. stu: okay. you know -- i want to thank everybody for being on friday feedback today. i want to leave a little bit of time to talk about the world cup. lauren: oh, boy. susan: of course. stu: what do you mean oh boy? lauren: it all goes above my head. stu: it does not. starts on sunday and qatar has just banned alcohol. now, what's your real opinion on that, ash? ashley : i think it's ridiculous and another ex

come in, lauren. lauren: my eye roll here too. ashley: okay.on't get this, because you can watch the trade at 9:00 eastern on television as well as on the computer. if you go to macy's.com/nft. you don't need a ticket if you do so on on the computer, and you don't need a vr headset. you don't even have to log on, you just go to that web site. you can sit home, you don't have to stand in a crowd, you avoid traffic and the cold worth. you can participate in, i guess, some voting on the balloons, etc., if you par partake in the online metaverse version, but the tv's just fine to me, it really is. ashley: yeah, me too. you get a front row seat -- we're all missing it, apparently, but we've let people know that it is happening. thank you. >>> now this, the mayor of new york city eric adams, just ordered a new round of spending cuts, the third time since taking office earlier this year. joe borelli is the minority leader on the new york city council, and he joins us this morning. joe, look, the city is blaming the budget cuts on inflation and the mig

lauren: yes. stu: i get seasick. lauren: really? would say there's hardly anything playing right now that's attractive. i was looking to take the kids tonight and i'm like, oh, gosh. this is tough. web bush said it's going to get better and added i max to best idea list and say they're going to $20. a theatrical rebound and hopeful it'll happen here and in china. stu: student debt borrowers. they're talking about how they're going to use their extra cash once biden's handouts go through, they may not go through, but what are they saying they'll do if it did go through? lauren: because of the texas federal judge is saying this is unconstitutional. 73% of anticipated recipients said they're going to travel. go to restaurants and buy new technology. let me explain how it happens. you don't get $10,000 and get it in monthly installments and balance reduced by about $300 a month. stu: you don't get cash? lauren: no, just installments. you're supposed to invest that and make better investments maybe buy a home or something and not go on v

lauren is back.ing at the election breakdown, what was the single most important factor for voters lauren: fox voter news anallal sis says inflation. 51% said that. 42% said inflation is important but not the most important factor. flip the screen, 54% blame president biden's policies for high prices and as a result 81% of them voted republican but look at what happened as we're talking about and trying to figure out what exactly hap happened, maybe we don't vote the way we feel or is this a wake up call? this election could be a wake up call. stop the spending in washington. fix the economy, and maybe move past. stu: this is wishful thinking. charles: we see that all the time. someone comes up in a parking lot with a clipboard and survey, you go in the store and spend all your money. i'm afraid inflation is killing me, i may lose my job, i'm going in this store and spending my last dollar. >>> buying this $7 avocado. charles: we do that a lot of americans say one and do another. stu: governor abbott

what do they want to know, lauren? lauren: staffing, i think.e is lance it fromz, he's in d.c. for hearings december 13 and 14, so that's a week after the potential strike by the rail unions that of course can cripple the economy. both the unions and the companies are impacted by low levels of staffing, so lawmakers want to know, well, what's this thing called embargo es? that's when a rail company meter s traffic. they need to control congestion. it's fancy for , we don't have enough workers to manage the railcars that are moving goods ink across country. so far this year, through september 30, there were 1,100 embargoes most of them by union pacific. the numbers were half of that in the prior-year, so lawmakers want to know why is this happening and what can we do to fix it and it's a similar issue to what the rail union workers are complaining about, that they are being worked to the bone. there's just not enough staffing and there's huge demand. ashley: yeah it's going to cost 2 billion a day when they get hit with this strike. crippling. la

what east she saying, lauren? lauren: not here.dropping next weekment. >> i'm, like, she ain't joining the beverly hills housewives, everybody. [laughter] >> i never heard that. >> she's meghan markle. >> yes, you mean really that this is my audition for housewives of montecito? is this the moment? there will be no reality show, but i think it's so funny. >> i know. lauren: their the life does seem like a reality show. we might find out more about it because harry's memoir, the tell off-all, "spare," is due in january, ashley. ashley: i cannot wait. i'm sure stu already has his order in. lauren: he would never buy it. ashley: that's true. show me the dow 30 stocks, if you can, it's all been very flat so far as investors wait to hear from jay powell this afternoon. the dow off 140 points, down under just half a percent. some of the leaders on the dow, microsoft, apple, visa. they are leading the way, but again, the exchange itself down 140 points. >>> now this story, whole foods will stop selling maine lobster ises in order to prote

good morning again, lauren. lauren: good morning. stu: what's the closing argument?ren: he told a crowd in philadelphia look past inflation because republicans want to end democracy. >> i understand that democracy might not seem like a top priority right now, especially when you're worried about paying the bills. we've seen throughout history, we've seen around the world. when true democracy goes away, people get hurt. they have real consequences. governments start telling you what books you can read and which you can't. reporters get locked up if they're not toeing the party line. corruption reigns because there's no accountability. lauren: that's extreme. stu: what? lauren: republicans are the party of free speech last i checked. and it's not just president obama saying this, clyburn called republicans the party of hitler on fox news sunday. stu: he came right out like that or just compared it? lauren: compared but it was stark. he said the end of the world is not here if republicans win congress, but compared the party to the party of hitler. lauren: oh dear. stu:

lauren: it's sleek. stu: elegant. thanks, lauren.up, don't forget to send in your friday feedback. you can e-mail your questions, comments, critiques, anything you'd like to varneyviewers@fox.com. president biden returned home. when he returned home he found that republicans had taken back control of the house. democrats hold the senate. this is going to make it harder to pass his agenda so what's next for the president? a report after this. ♪ municipal bonds don't usually get the media coverage the stock market does. in fact, most people don't find them all that exciting. but, if you're looking for the potential for consistent income that's federally tax-free, now is an excellent time to consider municipal bonds from hennion & walsh. if you have at least 10,000 dollars to invest, call and talk with one of our bond specialists at 1-800-217-3217. we'll send you our exclusive bond guide, free. with details about how bonds can be an important part of your portfolio. hennion & walsh has specialized in fixed income and growth solutions fo

tell me more, lauren.n: black friday weekend, online, ashley, a record $9.55 billion was spent. i mean, are you kidding me? that's an increase of about 4.5% from last year. what happened to inflation? this is according to adobe analytics. the most popular items electronics, toys, and exercise equipment. what's interesting though if you look at store traffic the people that actually showed up that increased by about 3% as well so we're going to the store and we're shopping on our phones too ashley: i have a feeling that lauren simonetti contributed to that 9 billion-plus. lauren: you're correct. ashley: [laughter] somewhere your husband has just fallen face-first on to the ground. let's bring in matthew shay. yeah, let's bring in matthew sha y, president and ceo of the national retail association. what are expecting in terms of sales today, of course it's cyber monday, but based on the numbers lauren just gave us, people are spending. >> ashley, good morning. i think lauren got it right. that reflects exact

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lauren: yeah.t was a good way to skirt the question are you running. so will trump and desantis primary each other? you know, ron desantis is only 44, and he's beloved in florida. does he wait it out? i think what's most telling here is biden won't say if he's running because he doesn't know. he's generally aloof, and i make the argument that a lot of people went to the polls on tuesday, and they said, well, we don't hate him. let's just stick with what we have, whereas in 2020 there were a lot of people who did not like president trump, so therefore, hay voted for biden. >> i think biden's absence is the reason that democrats did better. they blame him for the problems that they hate most, not messily the lower-down candidates -- necessarily the lower-down candidates. so him not being there was good. but this idea of it's going to be fun to watch desantis and trump, you know what's fun? watching politicians take questions and debate each other which both of those gentlemen do. stuart: there's an a

thanks, lauren.ormer president trump went after governor desantis again, he said desantis has "the advantage of sunshine where people would go no matter who the governor was." he also called him "just an average governor." mercedes schlapp joins us this morning. look, mercedes, there is a clear split in the gop. it's desantis versus trump whether you like it or not. who are you with? >> well first of all i wish i could be the peace maker to unify the party because we need to make sure that herschel walker makes it to the finish line in georgia. we have this runoff happening december 6 and you're going to need both donald trump jr. and a ron desantis to go and campaign and help get the base out, get the voters out as well as making sure that that campaign in georgia is well- funded, because it's going to, you know, warnock won the last special election. this is going to put herschel walker in a tough position. stuart: mercedes i'll put it to you. what herschel walker needs is the backing of governor k

lauren, who is it? lauren: ron desantis.usk headline, an hour has passed this is what elon wrote, i was a significant supporter of the obama-biden presidency and reluctantly voted for biden over trump. all that was part of a twitter conversation with a conservative who then asked him, would you back desantis? and musk said yes, yes i would. why? because he is chief twit and freedom of speech is important. he thinks 2024 need as sensible leader and he believes that is desantis. ashley: fair enough. that is his opinion. next one for you, actress alyssa milano getting heat for her criticism of elon musk on twitter. what is the story? lauren: big oops. alyssa milano, i give back my tesla. i bought the vwev. i love it. i'm not sure how advertisers buy space on twitter, publicly traded products pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy. doesn't seem to be a winning business model she writes. she thought she was so brave, so forthright. until many users gave her a history lesson like this one. volkswagen was literally found

lauren: one-day. stuart: 1,400. lauren: in one sector. stuart: more to come.that's why he's out of resources. he's out of choices. he's busing them out, flying them out when he can. he needs help. that's an invasion. stuart: thanks lauren. check futures, please. i see some green on this friday morning. dow up about 170 at this point, nasdaq nice gain, up about 111. the opening bell is next. ♪ when you're ready come and get it ♪ (fisher investments) it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same, but at fisher investments we're clearly different. (other money manager) different how? you sell high commission investment products, right? (fisher investments) nope. fisher avoids them. (other money manager) well, you must earn commissions on trades. (fisher investments) never at fisher. (other money manager) ok, then you probably sneak in some hidden and layered fees. (fisher investments) no. we structure our fees so we do better when our clients do better. that might be why most of our clients come from other money managers. at fisher investmen

the fact is that ---lauren: it's been awhile.tu: a lot of top -- >> a lot of top line growth but bottom line doesn't justify the valuations. don't have to abandon your microsoft but other places within tech and big data and you talked about cybersecurity and robotics and nuance there. stu: we should check them all out. thank you very much, indeed. let's have a look at apple. where is it now? apple on the downside, $1.50 down. lauren: they're getting more from the report and they'll focus on the unit that houses alexa as well as retail division and human resources. stu: am i right in saying that $1 trillion is being wiped off amazon's basic market capitalization this year. lauren: yep. first company to have that much wiped off in such a short period of time. time. stu: did you see that coming? i didn't. >> no, it got there really quick. large numbers. lauren: amazon is not going away. stu: of course not. lauren: to amazon, it's become a verb basically we use it so much. stu: that's true. tell me about bed bath and beyond. still ar

lauren: sure did.king the first admission by someone implicated by washington for interfering in american politics. he wrote on russia's version of facebook, we've interfered, we're going to continue to interfere, and then he added cryptic comments, we're going to remove both kidneys and the liver at once. it's menacing, it's unnecessary. over the summer the state department offered a $10 million award for information on political interference, and they named him. the white house says they're not surprised that he has fezzed up, and they're -- fessed up, and they're not surprised he's vowing to do it again. be on the lookout for potential misinformation and disinformation this election. stuart: why is the justice department sending election monitors, i think it's to 24 states? lauren: half the country will have these in-person federal monitors at polling locations. they're looking for potential civil rights violations, voter intimidation. they're going to be in 64 different jurisdictions in 24 states.

lauren: yeah.now because it can't be drank in the stadiums, and they spent $75 million on the world cup sponsorship. i was thinking about it, there's no breweries in qatar, so they likely shipped it via sea, then had to refrigerate it. i mean, this is expensive. to be told 48 hours before the game, the world cup began that they would be banned, i wouldn't want to be bud budweiser, ashley. ashley: absolutely ridiculous, in my opinion. at least someone's going to get it can -- lauren: who's the winning country though, many your opinion? warren ash well, that's it. i think it's going to be brazil or ap argentina. how about you? lauren: got it. brazil and argentina sounds fantastic, ashley. i'll second you. ashley: all right, there you go. lauren: you know what? brazil. there, i said it. [laughter] ashley: well done. team usa, by the way, plays wales in their first match today, 1 p.m. eastern on fox and the fox sports app. do not miss it. >>> more than 2.5 million people will board planes the sunday af

lauren: health and human services commissioned a report on longer covid.s is serious, you had a prior diagnosis, prior infection, still experiencing symptoms. all sorts of symptoms. and because of that they have ptsd about getting infected again so they mask up, get vaccinated, do whatever they can so they don't have to get covid again and have more long covid symptoms. this report concludes we have to respect those people and we do but to protect them masking in public should be reinstated. ashley: all right. we will leave that. >> a lot of people are saying enough. ashley: enough is enough. now the story. tsa agents made a frightening discovery after spotting some orange hair poking out of a passenger's suitcase. looks like the cat's out of the bag. is that a cat scan? i'm done with the puns. that story coming up next. now, stuffing a turkey to sweet potato by families paying 20% more to put thanksgiving dinner on the table. grady trimble will tell us how inflation is gobbling up our budgets, that's next. ♪ as an independent financial advisor, i stand by

lauren simonetti, good morning. tell us about the victory. lauren: amazing.christian pulasek literally sacrificed his body to score the sole goal of the game, ash. take team usa to the elimination round. there it is. there it is. so the u.s. now plays the netherlands saturday at 10:00 in the morning. he has a pelvic injury now because of that. he says i'm playing saturday. we'll see. so, ashley, not only were americans cheering for our team, but so were some iranians. a resistance of iran member says this. the defeat reflects the degree to which the iranian people loathe and detest the ruling. protesters felt sold out when the players had to sing their national anthem and when they didn't their families were threatened so when they were forced to in yesterday's match if you look at pictures and we were showing them at the top of this segment they seemed mad. they were just mouthing the lyrics. so this world cup is very much about what's happening, yes, on the field, but also and maybe more importantly, ashley, what's happening off-the-field. ashley: so much d

lauren: yup.lauren, here at home some people are now suing for being fired after not getting the vaccine. what's the story there? lauren: christian employees at t akeda pharmaceuticals in massachusetts are suing the company saying look, they were fired unjustly and takeda allowed them to request religious exemption but they say the pharmaceutical didn't grant anybody any religious exemptions. the plaintiffs say that the issue they had with the covid vaccines is that they were developed with aborted fetal stem cells, although none are actually present in the vaccine. they are seeking unspecified compensation damages including lost wages. this goes one year back plus legal fees. this was a year ago that they were fired and now you see this lawsuit. ashley: all right, lauren, thank you very much. coming up, intelligence committee chairman mark warner is crossing party lines with this warning about tiktok. take a listen. >> i think donald trump was right. i mean, tiktok is a enormous threat, so if you

lauren: very interesting.be waiting until november 8th and he can do whatever he wants and let whoever he wants back on. stuart: you never know. lauren: we have a ruling from the supreme court, they ruled on the tsa mask requirements. is the mask requirements staying in place? ashley: yes it is. california lawyer jonathan corbett argued during the pandemic the tsa did not have the authority to mandate masks on airlines and surface transportation on buses and trains but the us court of appeals for the dc circuit ruled the tsa has the authority to maintain security within the transportation system including a mask requirements. corbett went to the us supreme court to review their ruling but the high court's is denying the request and leaving the appeals court ruling in place, the tsa stopped enforcing the mask requirements in april of this year after the mandate was struck down by a federal judge in florida. hard to keep up with sometimes but there you have it. stuart: they have the mask requirements in place fo

all right, come in here, lauren. they just get fed up answering the phone of people complaining? lauren: probably. they're going to complain more now. the computers will get mad so if you have an issue at frontier you have to talk to that chat bot who i wind up talking to all the time at many different companies and websites and they just give you links that don't answer your questions. so, you know, if you're one of those people who actually gets on the phone and you say representative, representative, agent, agent, or just press 0, you can't even do that anymore, because there are no humans that can answer your phone call at frontier going all digital. it's a cheaper airline, discount carrier, so this saves them money and in return, keeps fares low. i don't think this is going to go over well. ashley: no, chat bots saying, lauren simonetti is back on. you probably have your own, you know, chat bots just for you, lauren. lauren: the worst is when they ask you to prove that you're not a robot, but sometimes, the ques

take us through it, lauren. lauren: are prices coming down?es, these are september numbers so you've got to go back a little bit, but prices fell across 20 major cities, 1.5% between august and september. second steepest decline in 2009 and annual basis, prices are not falling and rises 10% but the pace annually is the slowest that we've seen in two years. ashley: yeah, pretty much kind of confirming what we know about the housing market. interesting, lauren, thank you very much. back to politics. president biden turning to congress to avert a rail strike. what does he want, lauren? lauren: he wants congress to intervene. here's his statement: i'm calling on congress to pass legislation immediately to adopt the tentative agreement between the railroad workers and operators without any modifications or delay to avert a potentially crippling shut down. congress has the power to adopt an agreement and prevents this. should set aside politics and politics andpartisan and delive. congress should get this to my desk well in advance of decembed disru

lauren: any moment.me tell you what her spokesperson said, she took him 2 versions of her speech last night. she was waiting to see the outcome of the house races, if you haven't been called, democrats have 211 seats, they cannot take the majority right now. she's caring for her husband, paul, he was just attacked at home, she's 82, right? and her decision impact other key democrats, stay lawyer and jim clyburn, hakeem jeffries is a moderate from new york, often clashes with the squad. is considered her preferred replacement should she step down, bring you more as we know it. stuart: hakeem jeffries got a lot of money from spf, sam bankman-fried, wonder if you will give it back. former house speaker paul ryan says trump is not going to be able to beat biden in 24. with record high mortgage rates, difficult for the average guy to afford a home. gerri willis tells us where it's getting harder to buy a piece of the dream next. ♪ ♪ (vo) businesses nationwide are switching to verizon business internet. (wilde

lauren: it lauren: it is up 1%, northcoast research are going $60 a share because demand is holding on and they are spending more. stuart: we used to have a producer who always mocked him sonoma because they told $40 -- lauren: one of mine is. stuart: it is down 5%. lauren: they withdrew future guidance. analysts are losing faith. jpmorgan, they say they have higher end consumer into demand is finally starting to break. stuart: was at $40 or 30? it was $40. probably 50 by now. the university of notre dame requires students to get a covid booster shot even if working virtually. we've got that story. the former president of levis was pushed out of the company after she spoke out against school closures during the pandemic. she has a new book about it. jennifer say is on the show. president biden will tout his administration's economic progress as several major companies, disney, amazon, jpmorgan, prepare for a fresh round of layoffs. gerri willis has the full story after this. (vo) businesses nationwide are switching to verizon business internet. (wilder) it's a perfect fit for my small

lauren: yup.ere's just something in the batteries? lauren: not that i know of. that's a major warning and that's scary. stuart: it's hard to put the fire out because it's a lithium battery and they don't get put out easily. lauren: right as we saw in florida, in the aftermath of the hurricane. remember that video? stuart: as i walk around new york city these days you can get run over by the electric bike delivery guys they are all over the place. lauren: they are relatively cheap, you can get to where you want to go fast but this is certainly a risk. stuart: you don't have to pedal but now you can't put them in your apartment. we got that one. volvo has an announcement on the pricing of their electric vehicles in the future. what's the price? lauren: volvo says by 2025 the price of an ev for them costs the same as one of their gas-powered cars. that's a bold prediction because 2025 is right around the corner, and the batteries the most expensive part of an ev. you see lucid, rivian, their stocks a

lauren: so it seems. keep ising myself what would i do if i worked at twitter would i be one of the 2300 people that hit the button saying i commit to twitter 2.0, that hard core work where you work through the weekend, many of them did work through the weekend. just three weeks ago, ashley, twitter had 7500 employees and they've been decimated and musk told staff yesterday, okay, no more layoffs are planned. in fact, he's looking to bring in more engineers because half of temporal integration have reportedly -- them reportedly left the company and says a lot of talk about twitter headquarters going to texas where his other companies are. he says, no, we're staying in san francisco for now. speaking of, i was looking at numbers, since musk took over twitter, tesla, the public company, his main company, that stock is down 25% since october 28th. tesla makes up a bunch of elon musk's fortune. he's lost $100 billion this year. that's it. ashley: when you're busy somewhere else, other businesses sufferance th

lauren: i say ralph lauren a perfectly acceptable.n says say whatever you like because shares are going up 22%. there price target is 132. holiday shopping, ralph lauren is a beneficiary, same propellants on. they sold equip it on amazon, you had black friday, cyber monday, what was one of the top purchases? exercise gear this is up 6.4%, up this week by 7% and look here, these are the oil tankers, they are up, some are up 3%. jeffries turns. . it is getting cold, supply is tight, we are talking about the you buddy deb been coming. all this means prices will go up and these names will be beneficiaries. ashley: interesting stuff. scorpio tankers staying. thank you very much. mask mandates are returning to other countries for air travel, phil keating is in miami. could mask mandates come back here? >> anything is possible but it does not appear that's going to happen for the time being. call it the virus trifecta or triple threat of illness but health experts are warning you could get sick this holiday season especially as holiday trave

good morning, lauren. lauren: good morning.hey're about 20,000 votes apart, but it's enough to give the democrat katie hobbs victory over kari lake in arizona's closely watched governor's race. kari lake, trump supporter, election denier. she tweeted last night, arizonans know bs when they see it and also said third world countries run elections better than the state of arizona. this is the deal with arizona's electorate and why it's purple. a third republican, a third democrat, and a third independent. in that state, super high inflation. you have the border issue because it's right there and swing voters still went with the democrat, went with katie hobbs, pro democracy enter abortion stance. >> and -- lauren: kari lake. stu: she was supported vigorously by donald trump. i want to bring in ted cruz and she's a republican from the great state of texas. senator, good morning. kari lake. she was trump's pick and trump expected to announce campaign for 2024 tonight. do you support him making that declaration tonight? >> well, we'

i have gone out four times, and i am feeling a momentum behind lauren taylor. that is what i'm hearing at the door. that is what i'm hearing when i'm talking to people at the grocery store, at the coffee shop. so i'm feeling somewhat optimistic. >> i can tell you as someone who has done the job, you are hearing what candidates know you want to hear. but i know all four of those candidates well. when you look at their actual histories, lauren taylor is going to be the strongest on public safety and that is a big concern of mine. >>> and public safety is definitely top of mind for a lot of people in the east bay there. i want to talk about one of the measures. it is a bonded with for affordable housing and waiving roads. do you expect oakland residents to approve this measure? >> i hope so. it is my highest priority of every ballot measure. measure you is what we need to keep fixing our roads and to build the affordable housing that is the permanent solution to homelessness. and it won't raise your taxes. the city council passed a law that requires we can't issue

lauren: yes. i grew up a theater kit. i grew up going to a.c.t. because i am a san francisco local. . it is really exciting for me to be involved with them in this capacity. kristen: ok. it's fabulous. "a christmas carol is beloved. i have seen a.c.t.'s ve rsion many a time. what did a.c.t. want to do with this particular performance? lauren: essentially, we want to make sure that this specific performance, our expectations for audience etiquette or the way that audiences traditionally are supposed to engage with theater, that those expectations are relaxed. one audience members to feel like they can come and be themselves and have a meaningful and enriching experience in the theater. that does not judge or stigmatize whatever way they prefer to engage. we are changing a few elements of this performance to be mindful of some of the supports that certain audience members might benefit from. we are allowing talking or vocalizing during the performance. there is going to be movement spaces in the theater, if anybody feels like they don't want to stay

lauren: okay the rally holds. the dow is up 500 points. lauren? lauren: yes?tors seem to like the idea of gop clean sweep of congress. lauren: check on the white house know more spending. nothing gets done. neil

lauren's got the movers, one of which is zoom, and it's down again. lauren: yeah. 9%.rokerages cutting price targets, you can zoom in a tesla soon. they're working together so you could be driving and, like, working from your car. >> is that safe? lauren: i doubt it, although if you have a fake -- well, you know, that's a very good question -- >> if the car's self-driving, you could be okay. lauren: i mean, i've done it now, i just don't put the video up on my phone. but maybe there's a way you can trick your background. stuart: i had a car not too long ago where the screen would not play a movie as you were driving. >> yeah. stuart: you could get the map up there, but you couldn't get a movie on. if you were not driving and another set in the car, you could watch the movie. lauren: technology tells you what you can and cannot do. stuart: apple down again, 1.8%. lauren: yeah. good news and bad news. lockdown was lifted for their major supplier for the expensive models are, the pro and the pro max, they lifted a 7-day lockdown. however, that plant -- which has become an

lauren: uh-huh.ng to throw my mother under the bus, years ago our dog got sick and my mom said, i love you, but not that much. we're not going to do that surgery. stuart: you did chuck your mother -- >> i know, i'm sorry. i said it. it was that expensive. stuart: okay. tell me about avis budget group -- [laughter] lauren: sorry, mom. okay, down 9.5%. huge u-turn. they see a big demand in both commercial and -- bookings, now it's down in double digits. this could if be a short squeeze because this report card was pretty good. stuart: i'm just recovering from what your mother -- lauren: i know. i don't think she's going to talk to me later. the dog was very old and had a lot of problems. stuart: goodyear tires. lauren: executives are worried about inflation still showing its ugly heading also weakness in europe and a strong u.s. dollar. so old and new challenges responsible for a 15% decline. stuart: do you have a dog in your family at the moment? lauren: no. no dog for me. i are have three children --