stu. at the end of october, hong kong pivoted to a pro crypto stance to restore the city's credentials as financial center and regulators are formulating a plan to let retail investors trade digital tokens like bitcoin and ether on exchanges on the futures commission providing safeguard like knowledge tests, risk profiles and reasonable limits on exposure. now a consultation period will end at the end of march, march 31st and the plan is to allow retail trading in the new licensing regime for crypto exchanges on june 1. hohong kong's new approach could open a path to mainland chinese investment if beijing loses the ban on the crypto market. don't hold your breath. hong kong trying to reinvest itself a little bit. stu: don't hold your breath, we use that expression a lot on this program. ashley: we do. stu: it's valid too because it's quite accurate. ash, thanks a lot. now this, a business owner in ohio says he can't get back into his office after the train derailment and his building was a

stu said this stu is the battalion commander at the advanced age inventories group. he was a battalion folks, and this is in his book. so when you it you'll see the steps. and it hit me hard. one of the instructors at the infantry school said to stu after he made that video, sir, i agree with your comments. but these statements can the battalion it could used against this by our enemies now how can anything that he put in the book used against our enemies. you know it can be against us by our enemies the lack of leadership that we have right now the military. that's what could be used against us. but soon response to that is what really hit me. and stu said to him in reply if i see your leaders can address our internal, then we shouldn't be talking about our enemies. and the reason that hit me hard is because that's exactly what's going on right here in america right now. all of these people that run around and tell us how conservative they are and how big of a patriot they are, they get our votes, time, the election around and then they forget who the hell we are. s

stu? it, ashley. thank you. >>> illegal migrants unhappy with their treatment or the treatment from new york officials reportedly they're heading to canada. we'll tell you who is footing the bill. >>> global oil markets bracing for volatility after europe banned all russian refined oil products but despite sanctions russian oil is still flowing in and out of the country. madison alworth has the full story after this. ♪. ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com. ♪. stuart: okay. the dow is down 200, the nasdaq is down 130. that's what the market is doing right now. and there is this, europe has impose ad ban on russian diesel fuel and other re

was stu a classmate of mick jagger?s about five years older than me and left before i arrived at my college. we just had the same tutor, that's all. susan: i didn't see these questions beforehand. that was quite funny. stuart: wasn't it? jagger is 78 i believe. this comes from mark. he asks: what would be your ideal vacation? this is good. ewe start, ash. ashley: all right, no internet. tropical beach, i like one of those bungalows out over the ocean like in the mall dives. that would be just about perfect. stuart: lauren. lauren: can i come, ashley. tulum, mexico. susan: hawaii is what i'm deeping about and my own private island at some point. stuart: i'd like real peace and quiet out in the country. it's that simple. here we go, this is interesting, from chris: on a personal note, my wife would like to adopt you as her grandpa. please let us know when you might be available. i personally just like to hang out and watch some soccer, futball, with you one day. i'd like to know how old this youngster is. lauren: me too.

stuart: not bad. >> so, stu, you're getting, you're hyperventilating, stu.hat context and that perspective. st the -- the problem in the economy is housing, it's manufacturing, it's the fed tightening, it's the inverted yield curve, it's the slump in the money supply. but so far our friendly consumer is okay, not bad. stuart: okay, all right. i will stop hyperventilating, and we're especially pleased to see you wearing a white shirt as opposed to your perennial pink. [laughter] nonetheless, are you -- >> blue. it's blue stripes. stuart: oh, okay, i missed that. at my age, you can't see clearly. [laughter] are you telling me me that we're going to avoid a nasty recession? are we going to have a soft landing? what kind of economy are we going to have for the rest of the year? >> well, those are hard questions. i'm not that bullish on the economy because, look, you've got a big slump in manufacturing, you've got a huge slump in this housing. so those are, you know, majors. the supply side of the economy not looking good at all. regarding the consumer, okay, as

that's stu shaking no.are the leader in artificial intelligence, it's time to prove it. stuart: okay. what else did you bring? we've gone through baidu -- susan: we haven't gone through baidu because this is the google of china. they're up # 1% because they say they're launching their own artificial intelligence bot called ernie. they'll likely complete internal testing in march before it's made public. baidu's, what, a third of the market cap of alphabet, only worth $300 billion, but one advantage for baidu and china when it comes to artificial intelligence, they have less strict private data-scraping laws meaning buy cue will have a larger data set. and as you know with a.i., that is imperative in order to get the right thinking. stuart: that's very interesting. let me go back to microsoft and their talks with, they want to take over activision bliss articled. any developments there? >> they did have better all thep 4.5%. here's what i wanted to ask a microsoft investor like stu. you still have a $20 pric

>> i feel like a broken record here, stu.'ve been calling for the big rally, it's happening, and i think what you're seeing here right now is the fed pretty much said yesterday, jay powell is open to a lot of different scenarios here basically saying that he's willing to pivot and that's all we want to hear right now, is the fed going to be tough with the monetary policy or loosen it up? looks like they'll loosen it up and inflation is coming down and bullish for markets for the rest of the year. stuart: think this is a fed-based rally we're seeing? >> i think it's partially a fed based rally but the acknowledgement that the economy is not in bad shape. if inflation is coming down like the fed intended to do, wages are staying strong and profits have been reasonable this quarter, it just speaks to an economy that's not falling off a cliff, which i've been saying against the tide, stu, but that's basically what you're starting to see now. stuart: you always have to remind us you said there's a rally coming, there's a rally com

a sign of the types literally, stu. one for you, talking about the surge in artificial intelligence, ai. is ai soon going to be taking over my daily chores? ash? ashley: well, we all hope so. pull up the lazy boy and researchers from the university of oxford are suggesting by 2033, that's ten years from now, many household chores will be automated, decreasing the average amount of time we spend on domestic task by 39%. researchers are 65 ai experts from the uk and japan to predict the degree to which every day tasks will become automated in five years and within the decade. here we go, they say time spent doing house work will decrease by 44% over the next ten years, time spent washing dishes will decrease by 47%, amen. and cleaning and cooking by 46%, you can see there the laundry 43% and task that's predicted to be the most taken over by automation on that graphic is grocery shopping, 59% of the burden being put on robots and algorithms. stu. stuart: thank you, very much, ashley. mike murphy still with me. you worried

we always appreciate it. >> thanks, stu.markets real fast because i see some green for the nasdaq. it's up 50. s&p is up 5, dow is down about 50 points we're still waiting for jay powell. he's going to be speaking around 12:40 or 12:45 today. what he says could move the market. here we go, the tuesday trivia question. this is really a good one and i haven't got a clue what the answer is. which animal did not live alongside dinosaurs? crocodiles, sharks, whales, or lobsters? we'll see if ash knows the answer, after this. but you can invest in them. at t. rowe price, our strategic investing approach can help you build the future you imagine. ♪ allergies don't have to be scary. . . psst! psst! all good! oh yeah, that is them. (that is howard) yeah, that's on howard's campus. ohhh, she's so powerful, she carried on the family legacy. we were blown away. (chuckles) i not only was a student and an undergrad, but i've been a professor there for twenty years, so it's really a special moment to know that i had a family member who ove

stu.art: looking at movers with lauren. we have union pacific up 10%. they have a new ceo. lauren: they're looking for the new ceo. the current ceo lance prince was under pressure to step down after a hedge fund called for him to be replaced. i guess they're listening to the activists. number one on s&p 500. stuart: up 10% just for that? my goodness me. lauren: they're thinking whoever comes in can make changes. for instance, operate fewer trains, longer trains to haul the same amount of stuff. stuart: fubotv, sports streaming. lauren: what a story. they're down 13% on a weak full year forecast. i'm thinking world cup. all those people who signed up to watch it in the past quarter. that happened. it doesn't matter anymore about what happened. past earnings. it is all about the forecast for the future. investors don't like it. stuart: down to $2 a share? >> you remember how hot this stock was? stuart: 40s. we had the guy on the show. not now. lauren: fubo it is down 72% over 52 weeks, fubot

those are bashed words indeed, stu. certainly barbed words, brian. >> chinese communists are liars because the president walked into all of this pause he did fail on so many of these ground. don't give your enemies the content they need to give you a bad pr campaign. do the right thing. sadly i think the chinese are lying on so much of this they have nailed him on where he has failed. stuart: that was a poignant statement, was it not? all right. thanks very much. >>> fingerprints of unvaccinated teachers in new york city were allegedly sent to the fbi with problem codes flagged on them. i will speak to a new york city teacher who was fired for not getting the jab. ii will ask her if this affected the chances of getting a new jab? >> former president jimmy carter his family announced he would enter hospice care at his home. i will have more on the announcement of our oldest living president next. ♪. thinkorswim® by td ameritrade is more than a trading platform. it's an entire trading experience. with innovation that lets

stu. stuart: so do i.one, governor desantis said former disney chief bob chapek complained about his own woes. ashley: yeah, former disney ceo called and complained about the pressure he was facing over the state's new parental rights bill that critics dubbed don't say gay bill. this revelation is made in desantis' new memoir released tomorrow and called the courage to be free, florida's blueprint for american revival. strong title. in one chapter though, desantis claim that had chapek didn't want disney to get involved in the theme and get ago lot of pressure to weigh in against the bill and desantis writes that chapek and disney "ultimately caved to leftist media and activist pressure and pressed the false narrative against the bill". chapek left late in 2022 and replaced by the predecessor bob oil aiger that came in and didnt like the company embroiled in the controversial issues. stu. stuart: see this about a california man setting the world records for visits to disney? ashley: remarkable. three years

ashley: yes, it is, stu.comes could significantly reshape online speech and content moderation. at the very heart of the legal ballots is section 230 of the communications decency act, a nearly 30-year-old federal law that provides very broad protections to tech platforms. now, one case involves a google subsidiary, youtube, and whether it can be sued for allegedly poo moting trorrist videos. the second case, similar, will decide whether social media companies can be sued for aiding and abetting a specific act of international terrorism. the cases carry significant stakes, of course, for the wider internet. they could also lead to major changes of sites including facebook, wikipedia, youtube to name just a few. stuart: next one, ashley, a new report raising are red flags about al gore's to eco-friendly investment firm. what's the problem? ashley: an analysis by bloomberg focused on the equity fund set up by generation investment management, that's the green-friendly investment company cofounded and run by for

>> politics, stu.at a slew of possible 2024 gop rivals calling his former u.n. ambassador nikki haley, quote, overly ambitious and accusing florida governor ron desantis and virginia governor glenn youngkin of being ungrateful for his help in getting them elected. trump spoke for a half hour with hugh hewitt saying he doesn't believe they should run against him because of his relationship but acknowledged that's not going to stop them. listen. >> coso, you know, i helped all those people. i took mike out of -- nikki's stuff is something that's a very tough thing to suffer from. she's overly ambitious. ron desantis got elected because of me. you remember he had nothing, he was dead, he was leaving the race. he came over and he begged me, begged me for an endorsement. >> most polls have shown trump and desantis the comfortably ahead of the rest of the field in a hypothetical primary, but desantis pulled ahead of trump in some all pulls, including one in new hampshire. boy, politics is dirty. stuart: it's

and a third point, stu.now you get i don't want to say mad at me, but you raise your eyebrows when i become somewhat heated. joy behar is a horrible human being, and the fact that she said that just underscores how horrible a human being she is. these people are going through a life-altering situation, stu. their whole world was upendedded, not their fault at all, and she has the temerity to say something like that. it is a horrible ting. -- thing. it shocks me this is part of the news division at abc. that's sick. stuart: okay. i think we know where you're coming from there. >> it's wrong, stu, it's wrong. stuart: one more for you. we know pride, he's prone to quaffs. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre had one of her own. >> today as you all saw, president obama if announced that -- pardon me, president biden -- [laughter] whoa! that is news. [laughter] i know, i know. we're going back, not forwards. we've got to go forwards. stuart: i don't want to be snarky, this is a minor slip of the tongue.

good morning, stu.orts say ftc believes the deal would give the intercontinental exchange that owns the new york circuit stage too much power and multitrillion u.s. market and come with experience ever pence of higher home prices for consumers and competitors in the marge data and services industry. the ftc investigating the proposed $13 billion deal since it was announced nearly a year ago and could lead to a lawsuit, but the bigger picture here, administration's antitrust enforcers continue to be busy and ftc challenging deals with microsoft's takeover of video game giant activision blizzard and jetblue and spirit airline and corporate consolidation a dirty term and the biden administration. stuart: exactly. thanks, ash. some very large companies are targeting both conservative employees and customers. >> this is amazing and they've canceled the business or can deny relationships and don't like politics and don't like business with them and anyway the people promoting their social agendas and ideologi

. >> thanks, stu. serious subject here, more than 2,000 people are dead after massive earthquake, i think there's two of them actually, struck turkey and syria. ashley, the latest, please. ashley: yeah, the bbc has it at 2,300 now and 150 in turkey, 800 at least in syria and that number as you can imagine continues to climb with thousands more trapped and injured. the initial tremor of 7.8 hit central turkey and southern turkey and northwest syria in the early morning hours, collapsing buildings, burying residents under all that concrete mangled metal. a second tremor, 7.5 reported soon after the initial quake and the race onto try and rescue those trapped while authorities are urging residents to stay away from the damaged willeddings and thousands of buildings have collapsed and the rescue effort could be hampered by bad weather, heavy rain, temperatures in the 30s expected going on now and in some areas, heavy snow could also fall so it's a race against time. the u.s. has already said it is ready to

stu. stuart: one you've got to tell me about. dairy alternative company, oatly using labor on packages that will give the product as climate footprint. what's this all about? ashley: it's a swedish company saying it's already added climate footprint labels to some of its plant-based dairy alternatives on u.s. shelves. it's the first for a major food brantley and fou oatgurts help them compare the climate impacts of different products in the grocery aisle. you've been waiting for this, stu, the same way to see labeling of fat, sugar and other nutritional information and oatly plans to add the label to 12 more products by 2025 including the popular oat milks, but is this about climate change or is this more about boosting profits by pushing a product that claims to have a smaller carbon footprint? things that make you go, hmm. stu. stuart: it's virtue signaling. that's what it is. ashley: that too but they're trying to push everyone into their product on the back of climate. stuart: fair point. now this, half a million workers are

stu. stuart: got it, thanks very much, ashley.5 so here is the trivia question of the day: which future president's plane was shot down in world war ii? richard nixon, gerald ford, ronald reagan, or george herbert walker bush? i know the answer to this one for sure. ♪ less sick days! cold coming on? zicam is the number one cold shortening brand! highly recommend it! zifans love zicam's unique zinc formula. it shortens colds! zicam. zinc that cold! we got the house! . . then we deliver to your new home - across town or across the country. pods, your personal moving and storage team. >> transportation secretary buttigieg just started to speak. he is in east palestine, ohio. ash has been polling it. any headlines, ash? >> yes he actually opened it up to questions. first question was why didn't you get here earlier? he said rook i had to balance the situation. he wanted to be on the ground that is how he is wired but wanted to allow the ntsb to do their job which he says they are doing. he praised the residents of east palestine sayin

and a really nice way to start the day, at least for your morning commute, redwood stu city, you're still at 36 degrees. fremont sitting at 35. that's 37 dublin. you're at 35 right now in some spots in the north bay close, if not to freezing santa rosa down at 32, the late show at 37 degrees. now skies are clear, aside from a little bit of fog out towards the central valley, that's prompting a dense fog advisory for solano county. the rest of us nothing but sunshine. and with all that sun today, temperatures will start to rise here shortly. eventually taking us to the 60's this afternoon. reyna. john, thank you for that. will we are recovering. we had an earlier accident right near the toll

right to "varney" & company we go, stu take it away. stuart: good morning, maria, good morning, everyone. we have a lot to deal with. covid, the lab leak, musk, real change at twitter, inflation bites and you feel it, but you know, it's monday morning and you want to know how your money is doing after last weeks stock market selling. that's a pretty good gain you're looking at right now going up for the last half hour specifically. we're up 250 on the dow, and up 150 on the nasdaq. i'll call that a modest rally after last week's big losses. interest rates though keep going up. that's what the fed wants and that's happening. the 10-year treasury yield at 3.91% this morning, still pretty close to 4% and the two-year getting very close, otherwise backed off a bit. it was close to the 5% level. you're still low at 4.77 right now. as for politics we've got a blockbuster report in the "wall street journal." it says the energy department has started the origins of covid and concludes it most likely came from a lab leak from wuhan, china. when

>> reporter: quite possibly, stu. the u.s. on its debt as early as june according to a new study from the bipartisan policy center. that same study found that the federal government will take in $2.5 trillion between now and june but will spend half a trillion more than that in the same amount of time. summarizing the government spending problem in a nutshell. this study even more dire than the congressional budget office's warning that the u.s. will default between july and september. the committee for a responsible federal budget calling that the report really, really bad. >> it was chilling, and hopefully this will get lawmakers to the take seriously the negotiations that they're in the midst of on how to raise the debt ceiling. there should be no talk of default. it's really dangerous. but the idea of raising the debt ceiling while doing something important on the budget and on the debt is a really good idea. >> reporter: and while president biden has falsely accused republicans of wanting to cut social security, a new was

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stuart: i'm going with number four, 93 -- well-done, stu. you got it.ees fahrenheit, okay? we use fahrenheit in america. celsius almost everywhere else, isn't it? thanks to mike murphy joining us for the hour. ashley, good stuff, thanks a lot for being here. my time is up. that is it for "varney & company" literally three seconds it is "coast to coast." neil: oops, it happened again. home prices falling for the sixth straight month of december. what is a homebuilder to

she says it's unlikely that biden's rambling state of the union inspired americans, stu, to finish the and liz peek joins us now this morning. liz, great to see you. your reaction first to the president's speech last night. >> ashley? joe biden had a really difficult task last night which was to present the state of the union as strong when it isn't strong, when 75% of the country thinks we're on the wrong track, consumer sentiment is in the gutter and his own approval ratings are really in trouble, the state of the union is described by a lot of people at a recent cbs poll as divided and weak, so does that sound like a strong state of the union? no. when you don't, when you're not winning, when you're agenda is not working, what do you do? you lie about it and unfortunately that's what he did last night. ashley: you know, it's interesting foxnews.com interviewed some speechwriters. david wilsol, who was a speechwriter for mike pompeo said, "hardly ever has a president said less in more than an hour of speaking than joe biden did last night." i'm assuming you'd agree with that summatio

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chipotle, expensive rice and beans as stu likes to call them, lawn are.new brand -- launching a new brand starting at the end of the month. formesa fresh eatery, they will sell protein, grain and greens bowls, we are toll. the stock up about a quarter of a percent. >>> all right, now this: energy experts are sounding the alarm about energy problems in california. listen to this. >> the california power grid is stress thed pretty much to the limit, and the natural gas power plants which are always the backup have been scheduled to be shut down. ashley: what a mess. you can thank the green energy push for all of that. we're going to have more on the story coming up. also, white house economic adviser cecilia rouse claims the inflation and jobs reports are showing the fastest recovery in 30 years under president biden. congressman max miller is here to respond to that. and people in eastern ohio living in fear right now after that toxic train derailment that sent flames and thick black smoke into the air. the governor insists it's safe for people to go home,

stu? stuart: i don't know what to do with an ice storm that sweeps across the south.ne. grady trimble, see you again laider. -- later, thanks. the dow is now down just 124 points, and the nasdaq actually eking out a tiny gain. still ahead, ronna mcdaniel will join us, wyoming senator john barrasso, jocko willink and kennedy. the 10:00 hour is next. ♪ what a man gotta do, what a man gotta do -- ♪ to be totally locked up by you? ♪ thanks to a deluge of new government subsidies. and while that may not be the best use of your hard earned tax dollars, it does give you a unique opportunity to invest in the mega-trend, even in a down market call today. to learn more about this space and get my number one stock .. on the solar energy boom. call 18778226036 or visit solar boom investor dot com. known as a loving parent. known for lessons that matter. known for lessons that matter. known for being a free spirit. no one wants to be known for cancer, but a treatment can be. keytruda is known to treat cancer, fda-approved for 16 types of cancer. one of those cancers is advanced no

. >> reporter: it is the, stu.s way into that meeting, president biden made his first public comment about this new china-russia coziness, and it's the clear you'll see here it's complicated. >> reporter: mr. president, any reaction to putin taking -- [inaudible] pulling out of new s.t.a.r.t. >> i don't have i'm. i don't have time. >> reporter: the russians said they were going to welcome china's offer to get more involved in ukraine in a significant way, that mean means china's top diplomat is defying america's top diplomat. >> secretary blinken has had a very candid discussion in munich with his counterpart and made clear to the him that there would be ramifications and consequences. >> reporter: i'm told those ramifications and consequences for china will remain unknown until a formal announcement of help for russia in the war is made. at the moment president biden is meeting with the eastern european flank of nato that make up the bucharest nine. they're all nervous he's going to keep moving west through europe

stu take it away. stuart: good morning, maria, good morning, everyone. the balloon is still making headlines its been an international incident for a week. navy drivers are now checking out the wreckage after the air force brought it down off the coast of south carolina. the president is trying to play this positive, but he's taking a lot of heat. senator ted cruz says biden's delay in taking it down is " telegraphed weakness." obama's defense secretary asked why the balloon was "simply allowed to cross the country." right before tomorrow's state of the union message, the president has another political problem. he also has a chronic polling problem too. in an abc news washington post poll, 41% say they are financially worse off now than two years ago when biden took office. after two years of trump's presidency, only 13% thought they were worse off. the poll also showed 58% of democrats, repeat of democrats, do not want biden to run for re-election. all right, to the markets. a little more selling today. investors still trying to figure out what the fed

remember the lows at 103 when i thought stu "varney" could buy in?ve made 100%-plus at this point. stuart: another one that i missed what can i say. >> you like to bargain. stuart: i want to get back to meta. am i write? are there more job cuts at meta? >> this report in the "wall street journal" is indicating that, that we're probably going to see another round of layoffs after 11,000 job cuts last year, so the journal reporting that the parents of facebook, instagram, what's app, meta giving thousands of its workers sub-par performance reviews. around 10% are under performing so right now meta employs around 70,000 so can you imagine another 7,000 job toss go? this is also a year of efficiency as mark zuckerberg said on the earnings call so he needs to preserve cash and why the stock is up 40% on this year they already said they likely will do another round of layoffs if the under performers don't go on their own, and they have been , you know, pretty pressur ing the middleman agers saying if you don't get back to making stuff just leave the compan

>> reporter: it's possible, stu, because unlike previous attempts to ban tiktok, this time around theat bill you mentioned in the house introduced by republican congressman mike gallagher and democrat congressman would ban tiktok unless it sells to a u.s. or european company. republican senator marco rubio and independent senator angus king who caucuses with the democrats have proposed a similar bill in the senate. for years republicans have been sounding the alarm about the national security threat of tiktok owned by cheese -- chinese parent company bytedance, of course. now those on the left are joining the push. >> i think what's changed is the level of chinese activity in the united states. i just think it's downright dangerous to have a company that potentially is a pipeline to the chinese communist government that's collecting data on americans. >> reporter: in addition to those national security concerns, law enforcement officials say tiktok is increasingly being used by adult predators to lure children according to the "wall street journal": despite both concerns the social me

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stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, maria. good morning, everyone.

i am not bowing down to you but even one of the fox news reporters called me stu from the white houseou, that is good. >> it was all in a row and i feel like i was next after them and i was like ashley i made sure to emphasize your name. >> you should've called me stu. >> i should've. >> we are both the same we were both born and raised in england but were north american citizens i think pretty much because he's a southerner i'm from the midlands of england a very different place. this is for you as well as. always a good job on stuart goofing off somewhere. we hope you get a salary bonus, what about your take, you're alright ashley, do you want a bonus? >> no bonus, that's fine you don't want me to do my take is going to be ten minutes wide big money is ruining it to be a ten minute rant i can promise you that at least. stuart: i think you should do that on monday next week. okay. here's another one stuart you have a great team with ashley, lauren and susan did you handpick them, no they were forced upon me. next case. stuart: that is not true we have a great team, we all get along s

in addition to work attract stu. dents of specialized universities and teachers in russia, a new officialport has appeared phygital games a new direction combines classical and virtual competitions. for example, if we are talking about football athletes. first , the best in the game on the console are determined, then they go to the real field. this format is getting more and more followers every day. a major phygital tournament is planned for next year. athletes from other regions have already started training in kazan. how is preparation for the krasnoyarsk territory going? vlada kopylovskaya will tell you, he is pumping his boxing skills for seven years at his 19. he is already the champion of russia, a master of sports in boxing , he played football, he played the button accordion, he practiced modern ballroom dancing, but we dance here in the ring. i like it more, to my liking, for the sake of a dream. one day climb the olympic podium. dmitry trains daily when there are no real opponents. with a digital shadow of a virtual fighter , he is provided in krasnoyarsk by enthusiasts, figur

also tax loss harvesting which stu will tell you about.ng down their tax obligations last year, and then they're buying it back, back into their portfolio. so that's the same thing with tech and growth stocks as well, why the nasdaq can and the broader markets have outperformed. ashley: fascinating as always. susan, thank you so much. appreciate the summarizing all of that in such quick a amount of time. lots to talk about there. >>> coming up, nikki haley kicked off her presidential campaign, and she's taking aim at the, quote, permanent politician. listen. >> the permanent politician will finally retire. we'll have term limits for congress and mandatory mental we end ten city tests for politicians over 75 years old. [cheers and applause] ashley: ah. is it time for the country to see a new generation of leaders? we'll get into it. >>> four congressional farmers all agree about what ease raising prices on their farms, but they all have a different idea on exactly how to fix it. so what because one california congressman want to see happen?

ashley: stu's favorite, lauren. yeah. they just announced they are bringing a bing a.i.t pot to phones -- chat bot to phones. microsoft also announcing a new voice chat feature so hat the app can function like a robotic virtual assistant. ing dogget is investing 100 million in supply chain hubs to speed up their delivery. they report holiday earnings next week, that should be interesting, up slightly today. and this is interesting, subway is planning on building ev charging stations at some restaurants across the country. the stations apparently will include wi-fi, restrooms, picnic tables and playgrounds. that infrastructure starting to build up ever so slowly. all right. lauren: i think that's a great idea. a playground and a relatively healthy sandwich plus a charging station. ashley, thank you. see you in a bit. >>> the next book you read could be written entirely by 56789i., chatgpt authors are taking over kindle store, and we're on that. >>> tesla shareholders have a big problem with elon musk's $55 billion pay package. lawyers say void it immediately. >>> and righ

. >>> hÁblenos de stu historia de vida.vida. ¿cÓmo estÁ tu corazÓn? ¿cÓmo entras a la casa de los famosos? t e vas a dar la oportunidad de buscar a alguien. >>> no salgo a buscar a nadie, todo di debe llegar a bien. no de la carencia si no de la abundancia. ¿crees que sea en la casa de los famosos?. >>> no lo se. >>> no se pierdan a una las representantes de miss venezuela de lunes a viernes y domingos a las 7/6 centro. ana mÉndez, telemundo. >>> por quÉ cÉsar bayona no se lo pierde. sobre todo anoche que nos tuv juan el hermano de lupillo, iba a partir al otro. al rey grupero. hay intensidad. al final fue broma. >>> vÍ, fue broma >>> los mantenemos nervios os. >>> no se lo pierda si quiere saber de quÉ hablan a las 7 de la noche. >>> e exactamente. hablaremos de este niÑo nue atacada por un puma. >>> 9 estados republicanos se bloquee el programa daca. vamos a ver las reacciÓn de los soÑadores y quÉ panorama podrÍan esperar de acuerdo a los expertos. regresamos en breve, quÉdense con nosotros. ♪ ♪ sientes la garganta raspos

the author ghost science, stu hannigan, joins me now from leeds. stu hello mollie.ing so give us some context. you delivering food parcels at the very beginning of the pandemic and this was supposedly going to people who were self—isolating and couldn't get out even to the supermarkets. that's right. isn't it? well, that was the that was the original remit of the project. jeff and the demographic changed very, very quickly . there are lots and lots quickly. there are lots and lots of people in leeds in towns and cities nationwide who they just don't enough money to support themselves and to support their families so their started finding to ask for to ask for support. and we were delivering we delivering food and medicine to those people , too. yes and to those people, too. yes and you were obviously very, very shocked by what you saw . just shocked by what you saw. just looking the back of your book, many of the scenes i saw were horrifying. and in parts of the city, i was confronted by levels of deprivation that are unbelievable in the 21st century. it's a very it

everybody for joining us we'll sue eagain tomorrow, joey jones, john lonski, ashley webster is in for stu. take it away. ashley: thank you, maria. good morning to you, good morning, everyone i'm ashley webster indeed in today for stuary varney. let's get right to it. what a game. i'm tired this morning and i stuck with it the whole way. how could you not. the kansas city chiefs celebrat ing a big super bowl victory after defeating the philadelphia eagles. quarterback patrick mahomes coming up clutch in the comeback what a game that was. now, to more serious news. the white house says another object has been shot down. this time near lake huron in the great lakes region. it's the fourth object to be shot down in a little over a week. what's going on? americans are concerned about this , so do we need to hear from our commander-in-chief? congressman mike waltz says absolutely we do and he'll be here to make his case. senate majority leader chuck schumer says we need to look into banning tiktok across the country. tommy harry reed en will be here to talk about that and let's take a look at t

lauren, you have some movers let's begin with stu's one of his favorite. i won't say.ren: would that be microsoft? ashley: it be. he's smiling right now. it's up more than 3.5%. lauren: 272 a share. so they have chatgpt obviously and they have invited some users to use bing search that already incorporates chatgpt into it so invitation only and it's a preview. are people really going to stop using chrome and safari to use b ing because of the ai potential? i think the answer might be yes, because they are seeing a lot of sign-ups already. i don't know. i'm not going to switch over. anyway, i wasn't invited also. ralph lauren, bank of america upgraded them to buy. they gave them a price target of 145. they say all this cautiousness is already baked in. speaking of bank of america and upgrades, fastly, that it's a company that helps app developer s double upgrade at b of a to buy. they say look investors get in here, get in on the ground floor and they like the diversified products and the turnaround by the new ceo who came over back in september from cisco. ashley: who

for the implementation and promotion of our truthful true uh foreign policy line, the people of popro stud know the truth and such events, like a wire session and the obse is uh, a good opportunity for those who are capable of listening to us to the last session of the parliamentary ensemble. in november , the organizers did not give us visas. tell me what does it depend on? why wasn't it issued before? and now suddenly gave? you know, now we still have a situation where many people think that russia is somehow crushed there has no arguments. and let us remember that after all, the osce is an international organization. let's get them here better, uh, submissive, so to speak. oh, this is some uh, harsh rhetoric. i think it's probably like this for a wedding, but they're the same fucking arguments we have and the real situation in our performances. i am much more than ours. uh, opponents could assume this situation is not only building in uh parliamentary opsi assembly. let's remember, uh, the main organization on the planet, the main international organization. united nations a and on inv