portnoy. i know we all have covid the take but have to say looks like we are not going back to anything like normal anytime soon i think we are going backwards. "my take" on that moments away with the second hour of "varney & co." coming up. ♪♪ welcome to allstate. (phone notification) where we've just lowered our auto rates. ♪ ♪ . . now, get new lower auto rates with allstate. because better protection costs a whole lot less. you're in good hands with allstate. click or call for a lower auto rate today. we did it again. verizon has been named america's most reliable network by rootmetrics. and our customers rated us #1 for network quality in america according to j.d. power. number one in reliability, 16 times in a row. most awarded for network quality, 27 times in a row. proving once again that nobody builds networks like verizon. that's why we're building 5g right, that's why there's only one best network. ♪. stuart: good morning, everyone. 10:00 eastern. let's get straight to money, shall w

dave portnoy and barstool. bertha coombs is here with more.t is happening on this tuesday morning? >> good morning, brian boston fed area president is adding his voice to the growing number of central bankers saying the fed should dial back the extraordinary support for the u.s. economy by this fall. speaking with the press, hawks said it should reduce the $120 billion bond purchase in september. >>> and canadian pacific is boosting the offer for southern. that makes it a battle for the canadian national railway. the board met yesterday to authorize a bid to authorize at $300 a share price or $27 billion. the journal adds there is no guarantee canadian pacific will follow through with the bid. >>> and "the new york post" is reporting that major league baseball is speaking with barstool sports of having games streamed on the site's platform with the partnership creating a new broadcast with the focus on in-game gambling according to the report, the talks started recently and agreement is not a certainty the mlb currently has national tv deals w

we will get barstool's founder dave portnoy to give more on this this morning.rth reading the entire article it's awesome. great message. talks about playing on team sport. how you rely on each other. you don't blame one player if something goes wrong. go out there and. brian: unless the referee blows the call and ruins the game. steve: are you blaming somebody? brian: umpire blows calls. why are they arguing so much if they don't blame anybody. steve: hello. brian, to tom brady. brian: tell him i'm busy. he is not the only one with a job. ainsley: thank you, jillian. steve: meanwhile, switch geemplets the new york city police department made an arrest in that brutal hammer attack last weekend on that subway platform. ainsley: the suspect was already arrested twice this year. dolls that surprise you and released. brian: unbelievable. interest story for cutting you off twice. carley shimkus soft on crime approach. carley: the nypd arresting the man accused in a vicious hammer attack on manhattan subway platform. jamar newton is the man seen in that video. of the

i think portnoy might have his hands full with koepka who managed to win some majors.let. handing out a lot of money to my buddies because my handicap is too low. but i'm getting there. stuart: let es see if we keep the mood going tonight at 6:00 p.m. on fox news. "special report." >>> get back to lauren. she is with me this morning. start with movers, virgin galactic. lauren: the space company, right? they were down 11% yesterday too. this is really ugly selling. the news they were cut to underweight by morgan stanley. look, we had the great space taurus flight with richard branson. it will be until the summer of 2022, that they're able to launch another one after this september. there will be a prolonged period without spaceflights, without energy if you will. stuart: i want a winner. i think we found it, fubotv. they are the sports streaming platform, doing well up 8%. you see, i told susan earlier this morning, there is money in soccer and that's what they do. lauren: there is money betting on soccer. betting on soccer through your tv. they put out great numbers. t

you've got to keep john and dave portnoy out of the same room, because those two big personalities -- great to have you, jay, john. we'll be watching the consolidation and the real competition here. >>> up next, the golden flash crash sends gold bugs running for cover. what does it signal for the precious metal, if anything? we've got the ceo of one of the biggest gold miners in the world, barrett gold. he's next. closing bell ringing in seven minutes. we're coming right back. the dow now down triple digits, a loss after about 121 points. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ (vo) the rule in business used to be, "location, location, location." now it's, "network, network, network." so you need a network that's built right. verizon business unlimited starts with america's most reliable network. then we add the speed of verizon 5g. we provide security that's made for business and offer plans as low as $30 per line. more businesses choose verizon than any other network. we are open and ready for you. . . if you wake up thinking about the market and want to make the right moves fast... get decision tech from fidelity.

penn national, dave portnoy, that is a $2 billion deal there, hitting wall street forecasts down a little today with people seeing the stock has rallied so take some of that money off the table and let's check on security company cigna, higher medical costs with bottom line, the stock is in line with the losses we've seen across the board. ashley: lots to talk about. now this. the who said the delta variant is in 135 countries. they are calling for a moratorium on boosters to allow more countries to get first doses. doctor mark siegel, how worried are you about the delta variant this fall? it is everywhere. it is the main virus we are seeing in the united states. are you worried? >> i'm concerned but i want to take a step back, the announcement, meeting with the head of china at the beginning of the pandemic instead of warning the world now saying don't take a booster so the rest of the world can have -- he's right about one thing, the vaccine rollout in the rest of the world is really terrible. one% in africa, 10% in india where the delta variant came from. we need more but the united st

in case you missed it, we had bar stool dave portnoy on the show yesterday. what he said about robinhood. >> i didn't invest in it out of principle, but they are killing it. not much you can say right now. i guess he went. stuart: he would not put any money into it because it's a democratized investing. you are into that. >> i am, but i'm still-- still scarred from the gamestop stuff. i think sums weird stuff happen, i like taking money but i still have principles, stuart. stuart: memorable quote. taking a look at the wild ride that thing has been on, actually not that wilde. it's settling down at $56 a share. stuart: let's move on. let's get serious. draftkings will acquire golden nugget online gaming. $1.56 billion in a stock. today a new announcement it's called draftkings marketplace. this is interesting. let's bring in the ceo of draftkings jason robbins. jason, explained to me what draftkings marketplace is. untold it's all about and ftes. are you going to start in exchange for nft's? >> that's exactly what we are doing, starting a marketplace and we ac