elizabeth: let's welcome to the show gop pollster lee carter. lls, you watch the numbers, you listen to what voters are saying. how does this play out, the biden corruption scandals? how is it going to hit his pollsesome because now you've got "the washington post" fact checker, glenn kessler, giving joe biden a big four pinocchios over claiming hunter never made any money from china, pointing out hunter in court directly contradicted that. hunter saying he earned, like, $2.4 million in 2017, $# #.2 million in 2008, most of that came from china and ukraine. >> yeah, it's really fascinating how this is all playing out right now because when you look at how people are reacting right now, about half of americans, a little bit more than half, 51 percent of americans believe hunter biden is receiving favorable treatment because his father is the president. a majority of americans, two-thirds of americans, believe that this is legitimate, that there's something really to see here. a third, only a third think this is politically motivated. that's very,

here with the dials is partner and president at maslansky and partners lee carter.ek is like shining. nikki haley is shining this morning if you go on social media and you read all the comments online. vivek they sparred over their -- his foreign policy. >> yeah. >> ainsley: she disagrees with him. can we play this? y'all look at the dials. republicans are obviously the red and the blue are the democrats and yellow independents. so, listen. >> look at what putin did today. he killed prigozhin. when i was at the u.n., the russian ambassador suddenly died. this guy is a murderer. and you are choosing a murderer over a pro-american country. >> i wish you well on the boards of lockheed and raytheon. >> have you put down everybody on this stage but you know what? you want to go and defund israel. you want to give taiwan to china. you want to go. >> i'm going to address it? >> under your watch you would make america less safe. you have no foreign policy experience and it shows. >> and do you know what? >> it shows. >> ainsley: lee, he doesn't want to fund ukraine and he w

. >> joining us this morning with dials from last night pollster, lee carter going to be here for theest of the morning good morning, good morning. >> let's start with florida governor ron desantis slammed "bidenomics" let's see how people reacted. >> we must verse "bidenomics" so that middle class families have a chance of succeeding in we cannot succeed as a country if you are working hard and you can't afford groceries a car, or a new home we also cannot succeed when congress spends trillions and trillions of dollars, those richmen north of richmond have put us in this situation, finally we need to lower gas prices going to open up all energy production we will be energy o dominant in this country. >> reactions from voters the red line republicans, yellow independents blue line democrats not surprising democrats gave him a d, weren't so keen on slashing "bidenomics" republicans independents very much in line the only problem for ron desantis high point of night not much to remember about him, everybody agrees, among his base republican voters "bidenomics" is terrible he didn't add

lee carter, for someone so young, always good seeing you, thank you.may we age gracefully altogether. speaking of age, a big issue in 1984 for ronald reagan when running against walter mondale and he had come off the first debate the a lot of people began to say are not looking too good. >> you are the oldest president in history, some of your staff say you retired after your latest encounter. i recall president kennedy had to go for days on end, in any doubt in your mind that you can function in such circumstances? >> i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. neil: even walter mondale laughing, he knew he had lost in a landslide. that was then. our laughter with us now, former reagan economist. we forget sometimes, got to have substance and facts, got to be speaking from your heart as well and sometimes you have to have fun even making fun of your self. a lot of people say these candidates, many of us know very little, they have to do some of that tonight and th

elizabeth: joining us now, gop pollster lee carter., this is two weeks before the first showdown teen republican candidates, and here again are the voters' top concerns. we see it in poll after poll, it's the economy, it's the border, it's crime. lee, this is common sense stuff. voters are clearly saying to d.c., we're not happy with what you're doing down there. you're focusing on climate change when, you know, this is what's, what we are worried about. i mean, what more do they need? a 2x4 to the head? [laughter] >> it could be that, or it could be a big loss in november of next year. it is going to be something, and the bottom line is this, the american people are more pessimistic today about the economy than they have been despite the fact that joe biden is saying that the economy's never been better, that things are turning around. people actually feel worse today than they did a month ago. they're not feeling the turn-around quite yet. when you look at immigration, even democrats are now talking about how bad with it is. more tha

. >> trace: yep, some punches thrown, bill melugin live in milwaukee, let's bring in lee carter president partner. lee great to have you on. i want to play this sound bite, rnc chair ron a mcdaniels on what she hopes will handle tomorrow night. >> in my dream world it would be joe biden, i don't love seeing republicans attack each other, it's fine to contrast issues but i want to keep focus on what our pledge was which was beat biden. >> trace: according to others they're not running against joe biden right now they're running against each other so that's kind of where the knives come out, lee. >> yeah, there's no doubt about it. i wouldn't recommend anyone run against joe biden. his popularity numbers speak for themselves. he's at the lowest approval rating of recent history of presidents, approval on the economy is down at the floor. and so no one really needs to be reminded how bad things are. what they need to know is if they vote for one of these candidates, what does it mean for them? and that's really what the job of each of these candidates is tomorrow, is to lay out the path, to

liz: back with us now is lee carter and fox news contributor liz peak. great to have you both on.ee, let's first start with you. growing speculation hillary clinton may run again. the clintons restarted clinton global initiative next month in new york city. they end that had seven yearsing a in 2016 when hillary launched presidential campaign. lee, what do you think? >> i can't imagine it's true, but there's an appetite among democrats that somebody other than joe biden run. 60% of americans want to see somebody other than joe biden run and hillary clinton can't help herself f. you look at polling back in february, they said she was a third most popular candidate behind biden and harris. i could see why she might want to, but i don't think that she has a shot. liz: what leigh just said, liz. the clinton global initiative and foundation considered incubators for potential white house workers and hillary white house run. think she'll run again, liz? what do you think? >> i don't think so, and the reason is jeffrey epstein, liz. i think the clintons are much more involved in jeffrey

joining us tonight pollsters doug schoen and lee carter. thanks both for being here.night. you don't see a big shift, a big move, but there is a little movement as you get ready for this first debate. a big moment in milwaukee. >> yeah. just a little movement. i think the big move that we are watching is vivek. and he is out there. his message is being heard and he is having a great surge of momentum. it's hardly enough to take on donald trump in this moment. what you have got to hope if you are one of these candidates you will have breakout moment on august 23rd at the debate. they have to lay out their plan on why it is going to be better for america if they are in charge. they can't just be fighting with each other. they can't just be taking each other down. they can't just be talking about how bad it is. they are going to have to have a plan. they have to define their lane and why they will be better than flynn else that's out there. that's really tough. the momentum certainly is with donald trump. >> bret: yeah, clearly. doug, on the other side, also in our poll

we have lee carter coming up., right now, who does an actual news reporter, who is she going to be talking about? >> ainsley: let's ask alexis mcadams is live there in milwaukee and she is going to break it all down for us. >> good morning. brian kilmeade doesn't sleep. i have heard that before. i just saw him in the spin room talking to the candidates. there were a lot of fiery exchanges out there on the debate stage. we will get to those in a few minutes. really, voters wanted to hear what these candidates were going to do differently for america. they got to hear a little about abortion, economy, some people had some standout moments. during those fiery exchanges most of the candidates on the stage did talk about vivek ramaswamy saying he doesn't have really any experience out there in the political world. that's where ramaswamy prides himself on, listen. >> now is not the time for on the job training. we don't need to bring in a rookie. the last person in one of these debates, bret, what's a skinny guy with an

i want to bring in lee carter because she is kind of our other election voting polling expert in this and leah. i'm you know, i'm looking for fallout as you go down the line because i think it's fascinating. you move forward, and i touched on this with brett a little bit earlier. as you move forward, it seems and caitlin was kind of some kind of stay with us and point this out, it seems as if every time there's an indictment and every time a prosecutor gets up there and kind of reads this thing and people tend to be underwhelmed by the actual appearance of the d a. in the president. the former president's numbers just keep going up. what do you think? well, that's definitely what we've seen. i mean, when all of this started with the manhattan indictment trump's polling was about 30 to 40% now he's well over 50% we've seen an increase in his polling numbers between 14 and 18 points. just since that first indictment. it's somewhat counter intuitive, but it starts to make sense. if you look at some of the numbers underneath it. eight in 10. americans right now believe that there is a two

cheryl: lee carter, todd pyro, mark tepper, that is it for me, stuart varney, take it away. stuart: good morning and good morning everyone. a very big news day, three huge stories, stunning nvidia, a spirited republican debate and russia, superpower in abject disarray. let's start with the money. nvidia leads the ai revolution in computing power, it away analysts expectations with another blockbuster profit report. more portly, it says good times will continue. just about everyone has raised the price target, premarket today, 500 one dollars a share, up $30. the dow industrials down slightly, s&p up slightly, look at the nasdaq. racing ahead to the tune of one hundred 40 points, close to one%, interest rates continue to soften, the 10 year treasury yields, got up a bit this morning, 422 but down from last week. the two year, that is below, it is now 5. 0 one% interest rates edging up. let's get to politics. "my take" from the leading candidate at the debate, desantis, strong and forceful, tim scott didn't get much time, strangely he missed the postdebate swing room. vivek ra

lee carter is with us. we have daniel lipman and washington correspondent. lee and daniel, welcome.you first, lee. the significance in the timing of the president's ad buy. what due make of it? >> it's perfect timing. he has to make his case on the economy. 34% approve his handling of the economy. 10% of americans say this economy is good or excellent. he's got to convince people other ways. he can't tell them they're wrong. not to say that it's not true. the economy has never been better. he says i believe the best days are ahead of us, not behind us. 70% of americans disagree there. you can't make your case by going in the face of other people's reality is. i don't think it's effective. he knows what his weak point is. this is it. >> neil: daniel, when you hear the white house tell it, they think is economy is better than portrayed or better than americans feel it is. they feel the trend is their friend. it's picking up steam. more jobs. we're seeing inflation coming down. not to where it was but not as high as it was. that will win the day. what do you make of that? >> well, it's

polling expert lee carter, guy benson and others, "the faulkner focus", top of the hour. >> dana: nfleft in explosion and mourning after an explosion levels the house he bought for his father. >> sad story here. titans quarterback was not at the home when the explosion happened but returned after. this is the heartbreaking photo showing farley surrounded by what remains. in a series of instagram store eaves he wrote he wasn't supposed to go out like this. pop. daddy, a legend. i love you for life. first responders say a family friend was injured and survived and managed to walk out of the home shortly after emergency crews arrived just after midnight on tuesday. caleb farley's father was later found dead in the debris of the home. he was only 61 years old. >> there could not be anyone left in it alive. that was my first thought. when i found out someone walked out of it i was amazed. we have had tornadoes in our county before that have destroyed homes. this is the first one we've seen that actually exploded like this with this kind of destruction. >> after tuesday's practice titan's h

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. >> sandra: lee carter on potential fallout from all of this, great to see you.t was jamaal bowman, he's a member of the squad, he is considered one of the far left democrats and is telling the white house to wake up and pay attention, show some leadership. because he represents new york. new york is dealing with this scum has different just outside of new york city, this is a migrant crisis spiraling out of control, they are kicking children out of soccer fields to house more and more migrants who are coming here every single day. >> is much as everyone would like you to believe it's a partisan issue, 82% of americans say the immigration system is broken. people are supporting reform and they say this president is asleep at the wheel. 52% of americans say the president is choosing to ignore immigration as an issue. is a really big problem for democrats, whoever can go out there and talk about a solution it's viable as the one is probably going to win on him issues of immigration because immigration just isn't about immigration it's also translates to a number of

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joining us this morning, gregory faranello and lee carter.mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ maria: we've got more connections to report between joe biden and hunter's business deals. fox news digital revealing that eric schwerin who is hunter's long time business partner visited the obama white house and joe biden's vice presidential residence at least 36 times between 2009 and 2016. the president of the government accountability institute, peter schweizer, joined me on sunday morning futures on sunday saying schwerin was in control of the biden money. >> i would add the next shoe that may drop is there's another individual involved with hunter biden named eric schwerin, he moved money around and based on the hunter biden laptop he had access not only to hunter biden's accounts but also joe biden's accounts. maria: joaning me is ten -- joining me now is t tennessee congressman tim burchett. we know that eric schwerin is going to be testifying in front of jim jordan's committee. what are your thoughts on what we're learning now about h

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i want to bring in lee carter because she is kind of our other election voting polling expert in this. and i'm looking for fallout as you go down the line because i think it is fascinating you move forward and i touched on this with bret a little bit earlier. as you move forward, it seems and caitlin was kind of so kind to stay with us -- us and points this out. every time they read this thing and people tend to be underwhelmed by the actual appearance of the d.a., the former president's numbers just keep going up. what do you think? >> it is definitely what we have seen. when all of the started with the manhattan indictment, trump's polling was about 30 to 40%. we have seen an increase in his polling numbers between 14 and 18 points. it is somewhat counterintuitive, but it starts to make sense if you look at the numbers underneath it. eight in 10 americans right now believe that there's a two-tiered system of justice that is meant to benefit one side over the other. 80% of americans feel government is not there to fight for them. only two in 10 americans trust the department of justi

lee. on the desk tonight, mike khouw, carter worth, and brian stutland we start off with the market wobbling a bit the s&p and nasdaq ending a five-week winning streak the nasdaq fell over 2.5%. next week we'll get inflation and cpi and consumer as disney, ralph lauren week after it's the big boys, walmart, target, macy's, home depot, and many more let let's kick it off with the charts carter, what are you expecting here for disney? >> first let's look at the disparity or divergent between the s&p 500 consumer discretionary sector and -- sector you'll see on the first chart these two lines. one is the actual sector as producted by standard and poor's, up 30% year to date. and of course that's dominated by amazon, tesla, home depot and mcdonald's the consumer line, that's the same sector, but every stock is given equal weight, so foot locker gets same as amazon that's a much different story. this is as big as important as it gets. not so much in terms of market cap, but it's dow stock, one of the great brands of all time, and it's on the ropes. look at the next chart. same lines right at a le

lee. on the desk tonight, mike khouw, carter worth, and brian stutland we start out of tonight with the marketobbling, the s&p down over 2%, while the nasdaq fell over 2.5%. next week the latest readings on inflation with cpi and we'll also start to get our first reads on the state of the consumer as retail names start reporting, disney, ralph lauren, capri, all next week, and then the week after it's the big boys, walmart, target, macy's, home depot, lowe's and many more it has been a mixed bag for retail this year carter, what are you expecting for disney >> yeah, first let's look at the disparity or divergent between the actual s&p 500 consumer discretionary sector and the equal weight sectors, you'll see on the first chart of the screen these two lines, one is the actual sector as constructed by -- up some 34% year to date and that's dominated by amazon and tesla. those four almost 50% weight the real message of consumer is the other line, that's the same sector, but every stock is given an equal weight. so foot locker, if you look at the same as amazon much different story but disney, i m

lee. this is "options action. on the desk, mike, carter, and brian.e are going to start a big week of earnings on deck with big box retail front and center, home depot, target, tjx and walmart some of the big stocks ready to report all of these names have underperformed the broader market, but could there be a retail revival for one of them the chart master is looking at the technicals carter, what are you seeing and what name? >> sure, bit let's drill down on home depot just to put this in context, walmart is making a 52-week high they are all different, has been a laggard. it's down 22% from its high. the s&p is down only seven let's look at three identical charts so weekly bars, no drawings, no lines, no judgments. let's put some in. it'sration two what do we have? converging trend lines, strength that is enough to move up and out of the apex of that formation. another way to annotate it, third and final chart, would be as follows whether you want to call it a cup and handle, double bottom, doesn't matter, it is the element or the definition of a t

lee than steve. steve has been to president carter since 81. he helped research and edit carter's book, keeping faith, and has really had a hand in every book too. carter has written or projects or classes at emory university, so sit back, enjoy its time to learn a lot about president and mrs. carter. steve stanley. thank you, tony. thank you, tony and it is really quite an honor for me to be invited to to come here. and i appreciate it. i especially appreciate it because i don't know what percentage of my life has been in the research room here but i would say pretty close to 30% now. well, start out back. in 1987. that's when research room opened at the jimmy carter library. you weren't here for that. that occasion, but was the year, i believe, when you decided to work on the carter's. what made you to take topic up? the summer of 1987, i was involved in a seminar on religion and politics in western society. i just finished a book and i was just looking around. another topic writing a presidential biography course was beyond my imagination. b

lee tonight. this is "options action" from the nasdaq market site. on the desk tonight, mike khouw, carter worth, and brian stutland. hello. j, good to be with you. stocks finished solidly higher. fed chair powell warned rates could go higher to combat rates sending the market lower you but then the frowns turned upside down. okay, where does that leave us carter worth? make sense of it. >> sure. just as you say, the conclusion was thats after full today, but it was up almost 1%, down 1%, closed well. on the week before we look at the charts, that's the thing. the dow jones industrial average was down, the transportation ank down on the week, the russell was down on the week. the s&p up, the midcap unch. it's something for bulls and bears. we have a topping formation. let's look at that not only in the s&p and severalin aggregate. first line. minor reversal knowns a head and shoulder. let's look at the next aggregate. this is the next chart. nasdaq 100. you can't tell them apart. let's keep going. you'll see instance after instance, okay, this is the sector, right, that depicts all industr

i'm courtney reagan in for melissa lee, this is "options action" live from the nasdaq market site. we have mike khouw, carterorth, and brian stutland. a big woke of a earnings on deck big box front and center target and walmart, some of the big stocks ready to report, all of these names have underperformed the broader market but, could there be a retail revival for one of them? the chart master is looking at the technicals carter, what do you see and in what names >> sure, you bet let's drill down on home depot while they're all different, it's been a real lagger. in itself it's down 22% from its high, whereas the s&p is down only 7 let's look at three identical charts so, weekly bars, no drawings, no lines, no judgments. put some in. iteration 2, what do we have we have converging trend lines, we have strength that is enough to move up and out of the apex of that formation. another way to annotate it, third and final chart, would be as follows, when you want to call that a cup and handle, double bottom, doesn't matter what you call it, it is the element with a definition of a turn my thinking is one wants t

matheson, welcome everybody in for melissa lee tonight, this is "options action" live from the nasdaq market site and on the desk tonight, mike khouw, carter worth and brian stutland, welcome, gentlemen. good to be with you, if not with you virtually, we're here together. stocks reverse course today. they finished solidly higher. the fed chair powell said rates could go hightory combat inflation, but then the frowns turned upside down when the chair later cited, quote, especially robust consumer spending and early signs of a recovery in the housing market. okay, but, where does that really leave us, carter worth? how do we make sense of it? put a trade in. show us some charts. >> the conclusion was it was full today but almost 1% and then down 1% at the close. on the week before we look at the charts, that's the thing, the dow was down on the week. the transportation average was down. the russell 2000 was down on the week. thes&p up. the mid cap unch. we have a well-developed topping formation and let's look at that not only in thebseveral aggregates. march to present to the high, the market is up 20%. but it has this minor reversal known

as in this sort of goal lee baca -- goldilocks and the three bears, if nixon and the presidency after thatti point ws too strong and then cartervercorrected and was to weaken his manipulation ofho the symbo, presidents now have to think about how they will present themselves as just right. that is really constraining. carter is a really important turning point in how we think about the presidency and how we think about the post- watergate presidency. for us in this class, carter represents our transition between our constitutional unit building up there talking to these themes about how presidents have enacted their constitutional obligations. how they have navigated the demands of civil rights and federalism. now moving into a period where we will focus on the public residency. how do presidents relate to that really delving into that unit. if anyone has any final thoughts or questions. before we wrap things up here. okay. for next time, thursday, we are really peeling back. talking about how carter related to the new deal coalition and the democratic party. we have gone over that. we will really immerse ourselves and then on

lee her father in the making of american icon. please join me in welcoming joe and matthew. [applause] pics thank you tony. it's always so much fun to be the carter library print thank you for coming out tonight to ask questions about this really exciting timely deplete research and wonderful book. and matt, welcome to georgia it's great to have you here this week it so appropriate to have you here this week. as i was reading your book this week in preparation for tonighta i was also writing an op-ed in the "new york times" this week. i don't assume you saw the touch of a hot mess of the georgia republican party. it was amazing to read this article it's all about how they trump supporters are in such conflict with the governor. and there's real tense between the conservative and the ultraconservative and low and behold your book begins with the story and the california republican party , 61 or 1962 with there is a longtime republican party activists who is decrying the rise of the crane tracy jon birchers who are ruining the republican party and party andturning it into hot me. so tell us to the jon birx society was.en that seems to be so similar

lee, her father, and the making of american icons. so please join me in welcoming joe and matthew. thank you. thanks so much. tony is always so much fun to be at the carter library and thank you all for coming out tonight to hear and to ask questions about this really exciting and timely and deeply researched and wonderful book. and matt, welcome to georgia. it's great to have you here this week. and it's so appropriate to have you here this week. as i was reading your book this week in preparation for tonight, i was also reading an op ed that was the new york times. this week by michelle cottle. it was i don't know if some of you saw it, but it talked about the hot mess of the georgia republican party, and it talked about it was amazing to read this article because it was all about how the trump supporters are in such conflict with our with the governor and there's this real, you know, tension between kind of the conservatives and the ultra conservatives. and lo and behold, your begins with a story in the california republican party around 1961 or 62. and there's a long time republic and party activist who is decrying the rise of these crazy john birche

lee, her father, and the making of american icons. so please join me in welcoming joe and matthew. thank you. thanks so much. tony is always so much fun to be at the carter library and thank you all for coming out tonight to hear and to ask questions about this really exciting and timely and deeply researched and wonderful book. and matt, welcome to georgia. it's great to have you here this week. and it's so appropriate to have you here this week. as i was reading your book this week in preparation for tonight, i was also reading an op ed that was the new york times. this week by michelle cottle. it was i don't know if some of you saw it, but it talked about the hot mess of the georgia republican party, and it talked about it was amazing to read this article because it was all about how the trump supporters are in such conflict with our with the governor and there's this real, you know, tension between kind of the conservatives and the ultra conservatives. and lo and behold, your begins with a story in the california republican party around 1961 or 62. and there's a long time republic and party activist who is decrying the rise of these crazy john birche