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live from the dnc stuart varney, we'll be right back. . it's time to grow your business.e. how? godaddy. coding... nah. but all that writing... nope. ai, done, built. let's get to work. create a beautiful website in minutes with godaddy. too many of our fellow americans are struggling every day to just get by. to put food on the table, to pay the rent, and to get the healthcare they need. these oligarchs tell us we should not tax the rich. the oligarchs tell us we should not take on price-gouging we should not and an medicare to cover dental hearing and vision. and we should not increase social security benefits for struggling seniors, i've got some bad news for them. that is precisely what we are going to do. bernie sanders at dnc failing to pits out harris in office nearly 4 years with ability to do all that to help average american-endorsed her price-fixing proposal, my next guess as op-ed on foxnews.com this morning about harris' price-fixing plan titled kamala harris you can't run from america's cost-of-living prices your price-gouging claims equal no sale heritage f

host stuart varney live at dnc stu your thoughts.nsight when joe biden dispearce all kamala from here out even if we don't get her to answer questions last night all emotion no policy opera tlifrd what may have been best speech probably best reception walz made a series of false claims about future republican policy, clinton looks frail my opinion pelosi had to bring up january 6 official good-bye to biden as a great president, i want to bring up something else, i bring up the failed protests i am glad they failed, the numbers of he protests not great, displayed just extraordinary stuff i am glad they fizzled who wants a terrorist group disrupting any convention did you see about migrants sorry to bring up i have to i know early morning you got to do this fbi investigating the possible contamination of democrat breakfast beau faa with magazine ots maggoting. >> zero impact engulfing i didn't know that you know mark penn told us, said there is a reason you don't hear the word "israel" i have done conferences liking this conventions gi

[laughter] ashley: i don't know what you mean, stuart varney. f course, i think the standout is the 100 meters, men's dash, you know? usain bolt and all that. stuart: lauren? lauren: women's gymnastics. love, love, love watching it. i don't know which is my favorite event in women's gymnastics, but i truly love watching them. stuart: all right. this is from jim, paying homage to our dancing people in the commercial breaks. if it were up to me or, i'd give emmys to your production team for their bumper music alone. they rock it every time. what was the last song that got stuck in your head? actually, it was a beatles' song is, now and then. that's the new beatle' song. it did stick in my head for a while. ashley? [laughter] ashley: it's embarrassing to admit this. st the theme song from antique road show -- [laughter] i've been watching it, and, you know, it's classic. so there you go. i'm being honest. stuart: what have you got, lauren? lauren: i beat you, ashley. i can't even say this on tv, sir mix a lot, baby got back. ashley: wow, a classic.

stuart varney. rebecca a, the market has recovered but not by 1,000 points.: excuse me. hold on, guys. i do want to bring in some breaking news right now. we have several, several, several reports out this morning that vice president kamala harris has chosen item walz to be -- tim walz to be her vice president. again, minnesota governor tim walz according to multiple reports is now vice president harris' pick to be her vice presidential candidate. he was elected in 2018, reelected in 2022. he also served six terms in the u.s. house of representatives. he is an army a national guard veteran, and, rebecca, excuse me, trisha, he was also a high school teacher. your thoughts in the final moments of our program. >> they are going to make, the democrats and media are going to make this the most genderrized election in american history. this is about the economy, the economy, the economy, it's a referendum on the last four years. rl. cheryl: also reports she has not called tim walz as of yet, but reports that tim walz is the pick. my pick is stuart varney for the ne

host of varney and company, stuart varney joins us now., give us this -- so these aren't all illegal immigrants. some of them just migrants with green cards, right? >> yes. but illegal migrants. qualify for the program. blue states are bending over backwards to help migrants. in all kinds of ways, food, cash. in california, free healthcare and now this move to help migrants with home ownership. in oregon the program is $30,000 grant. that's not a loan which has to be paid. that is a grant. that is taxpayer money and migrants qualify for this $30,000 grant. in california, they are expanding the eligibility of loan for home own, extending it to migrants, again, they are bending over backwards, not just by cash and food and healthcare but putting them into a home. i think it's going to make native born americans rather sour on the whole idea of millions of people coming to this country illegally and getting this kind of help. >> lawrence: i want people to come to the country. i love the idea of when people i just want to come to america and w

"varney & company" is up next, and stuart varney, happy friday, mr. varney. e. from the harris interview last night, my values have not changed. i'll be clear on this. we need a new way forward. well practiced talking points, desperate to avoid the flip-flop charge. in 20 odd minutes' worth of tape, harris and walz ca

"varney & company" is up next, and stuart varney, happy friday, mr. varney. stuart: right back at you. good morning, cheryl. and good morning, everyone. from the harris interview last night, my values have not changed. i'll be clear on this. we need a new way forward. well practiced talking points, desperate to avoid the flip-flop charge. in 20 odd minutes' worth of tape, harris and walz came up with unsatisfying, vague platitudes. we're going to take you through the interview. i'd personally love to know what parts of the tape were left on the cutting room floor. trump noted it was a taped interview. he said harris did not look like a leader, and he revealed a new family-friendly policy. he would make invitro fertilization free. trump campaigns in pennsylvania today. he'll likely go after harris for her frack flip-flop. that's a key state, fracking is a huge $4 billion a year industry supplying tens of thousands of jobs to the western part of the state. let's get to the markets. key inflation report, the personal consumption expenditure gauge commonly known a

i, stuart varney, father, grandfather, heterosexual male and host of varney will be right back. rt: chris bedford joins me now. do you understand all those pronouns, chris? >> i think i heard you say she? that's the pronoun of being in -- xi in there, that's the pronoun for being in charge of china. what you have is part of the democrats policy and part of the agenda that they're pushing. this has been something that kamala harris has been doing for years. the first time i ever saw the trans slang, which is white -- trans flag white and blue with pink triangle was in front of her senate office. i need a phone application to take the picture of the way the flag in the window and front of senate office to try and identify what exactly it is. it's difficult to keep up. stuart: it really s. i am not part of the modern world. donald trump says harris will deliver the death of the american dream. >> she wants to end detention of illegal alien migrants, releasing vicious monsters into the communities to rape, maim and murder our population. she endorsed defunding the police and no cash

i'm going to hand it over to stuart varney, this market is all yours. stuart: good morning

stuart varney, over to you. stuart: all right. good morning, cheryl. good morning, everyone.

maria: "varney" & company picks it up live in chicago stu take it away. stuarta, and good morning, everyone. he spoke late in the night by design the last thing the democrats want is an aging

i am ashley webster in the first stuart varney. the dow up 0.1%. the nasdaq down half of 1%. nothing to concern the markets about the fed holding back on a rate cut. look at the 10 year treasury moving slightly higher but it turned negative down two basis points on the ten year. look at the price of oil, ever so slightly lower down $0.17, just above $78 a barrel and bitcoin down 59,476. that a look at the markets. now this. nikki haley making an urgent plea to donald trump and republicans last night, stop whining about kamala harris and focus on the issues that matter. >> the campaign is not going to win talking about crowd sizes or what race kamala harris is or talking about whether she's dumb. you can't win on those things. the american people are smart. this is a winnable election. you need to focus, who is your target market? your target market is suburban women, college educated, independents and conservative democrats. that your target. the target issues are the economy. we are in a knife fight. right now we need to be focused on who we need to be. ashley: former arkans

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stuart varney is here to help us break down how her and biden's policies have led to record level inflationel ceasefire talks continue today without hamas and pete hegseth will join us live. it is friday on all american concert series with warren zeter, see you at the top of the hour. see you in a bit. you know that thing your family does? someone made it a thing, back in the day. but where did it come from? and how did it get aaaaall the way to you? see for yourself at ancestry. >> take a look at this dramatic body cam footage showing the moment a mother was saved from submerged car thanks to the quick thinking of her kids, good samaritans, and the police. watch. >> there's somebody in there. >> in the car. >> what's going on. >> she is having a seizure. she is stuck. she is in the water. >> come on. here, i got to punch. here. >> and while driving her two kids john qwetta win bush suffered a seizure drove deep into aened pot. you saw it there. her kids got out got help saving her life. right now we are joined by the good samaritan who save that mother from the sinking car. and, john, what

i'm going to hand it over to stuart varney, this market is all yours. stuart: good morning, everyone. it is a white knuckle monday, dramatic selloff or stock markets all around the world is started friday with a week jobs report, it looked like a recession was coming. over the weekend warren buffett revealed he cut his apple holdings in half and he was a net seller of stock for some time, that is not send a positive signal. overnight japan's market dropped 12.4%, that is the worst one-day drop since 1987. here's where we are among the dow, the s&p and the nasdaq, the dow likely to be down about 1200 points at the opening bell in the nasdaq down a thousand, and percentage three or 4% down at the opening bell, all sectors have been hit, look at big tech all of them are down in nvidia is down roughly 33% from its high. heavy selling and crypto as well, if you look at bitcoin is down to 49000. way down, interest rates also falling sharply this may be a flight to shape into safety tenure dropping to 3.69%, the good news that mortgage rates are falling, the tw

my pick is stuart varney for the next three hours on fox business. [laughter] stuart: good morning, cheryl. and good morning, everyone. we're going to be up to speed on this possible naming of tim walz as kamala harris' vice presidential running mate. we're going to go running with that shortly when i find out more details. elsewhere, here's the question, do we have a bounceback after monday's big selloff on wall street? yes, we do. but it's modest. it's early. who knows how we close. the dow was down over 1,000 the points monday, today it's up, what, 130? the s&p was down 160, 3% yesterday, today it's back up 17 points, that is .35%. the nas the damage -- nasdaq way down yesterday, up a mere if 60 points today. not much of a comeback. now look at google. a judge says the company illegally ran a monopoly on search and text advertising. we do not know what rem doty the judge will -- remedy the judge will choose, but the stock barely budging this morning. no serious recovery for bitcoin, it's at a $54,800. yesterday it was down as low as 48 grand. inter

if you feel good and you have confidence, i'm stuart varney the best host in the business marc siegeltor, we know are worth and t makes our stress levels and blood pressure go down, how do you like that. stuart: this is from brian brenberg's high school yearbook photo that was it, what do you think that picture says about his longevity. >> he has not aged a bit. >> according to wisconsin he is going to succeed, he is absolutely going to succeed. look at the profile, look at brian's profile. it's unbelievable, the ratings are going up right now looking at his profile. stuart: you're saying all the right things, that's very good indeed, thank you very much. he's probably going to invite me on a show, guaranteed. >> of a funny story, real quick i was supposed to play in the segment so i asked my father to send me a picture of my high school graduation and he sent me my college graduation he didn't even know the difference and i did not notice until five minutes ago. >> doctor thank you for being with us your good sport and we always appreciate that we will see you soon, brumberg you're a

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stuart varney, over to you. stuart: all right. good morning, cheryl. good morning, everyone. a bombshell admission from mark zuckerberg. officials from the biden administration pressured him to the censor covid information. he says they were frustrated, but he refused. but he did admit that he did censor the news about hunter biden's laptop. it was not russian disinformation, it was real and he's sorry he, quote, demoted the story. tulsi gabbard, who ran as a democrat for the presidency, now supports trump. she says she wants to help put him back in power. within the last week9 another prominent democrat has stepped forward tones doer trump, rfk jr. another rewriting of the script from kamala harris. she will say it is trump who is the deficit bomb. that's the same as blaming trump for the border crisis or for inflation. axios reports that harris will sit for a formal interview later week. let's get to the markets. about 160 tomillion americans have at least a small piece of the market action. they've done mostly well because the market has a rallied. this morning though, we'

stuart: more "varney" after this. (♪) (♪) (♪) (♪) ah, these bills are crazy.n 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: california raised the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 the an hour just this past april, and now the state may increase wages again. max gorden joins us now from los angeles. max, what do they want to the raise the wage to now? >> reporter: hey, good morning, stu. well, california's newly-created fast food council has the ability to raise the minimum wage for workers by up to 3.5% each year. now, they just met yesterday. they didn't take any action, but when you go through the drive-through, you might already see the price of your hamburger or whatever you're ordering has increased due in part, likely, to this new $20 the minimum wage fo

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no insults, plee.z send all of it to starny viewers at -- varney view isers at -- lauren: insults coming in. [laughter] stuart: time's almost up for "varney & company," but "coast to coast" starts as of now. neil: so, stuart, you had a premise if with the e-mails, no insults? [laughter] because that's to all of my my e-mail right there. stuart: realize, i'm encouragin- neil: i have some i could pass along to you. no cult subtles, look at that. oh, neil's on. [laughter] thank you, my friend. all right. well, nothing insulting about the market right now, across the board gains, and a lot of its has sort of changed the thinking. we had a bigger drop than expected in jobless claims. we're going to tell you more about this. stuart, of course, elaborated on it for you, but the whole view of the market has gone now from fearing inflation and any type of number that might hint at it like the jobless claims numbers, and now relief that's strong enough to indicate there's no recession on the horizon. see the 1800 in just the last week? we're keeping a very, very close eye on that because stocks are up and look at the y

third hour of varney starts now. stuart: clay travis with us so morning.y, what questions would you ask kamala harris? >> first of all, i think the whole interview should be live, and we shouldn't have any edited segments at all. so we should see every question day that bash asked or -- dana bash asked or kamala gives and start off with you selected tim walz as your running mate and raised money to bail out all the looters and rioters and violent protests that did millions in damage to min y'all luisa including -- m minneapolis and burning down the precinct and do you regret raising money for the protesters and regret saying police should be defunded? open right then and there. i would then follow up with you criticized donald trump for build ago wall and it was racist and subhuman and crazy vanity project. you now support build ago wall on the border. is that because over 10 million illegals have come into the country on your watch? why have you changed -- at least 10 million illegals, why have you changed your policies on that? those would be the first t

third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ stuart: look who's here. steve hilton joins me.ld cnn she would enforce the border laws. are voters going to buy that? >> of course not because she's had all these years to to enforce the border laws. and we know from her track record that that's not true, and we know, look at all these issues where she's just saying things that she thinks are going to get her through the next few weeks. but you know that in her heart as a far-left democrat politician, she doesn't believe in it, and if she is always ends up pandering to the far left. that's her record. and so you can expect, once the election's out of the way, it goes right back to the far-left positions that are her true positions. stuart: steve, listen to the what harris had to say about her day one agenda. roll it. >> if you are elected, what would you do on day one in the white house? >> well, there are a number of things. i will tell you, first and foremost, one of my highest priorities is to do what we can to support and strengthen the middle class. when i look at the aspirat

stuart: we shall see. it is politically impossible to cut spending. the votes aren't there. >> the varney hurt administration would be a monarchy. we would become -- stuart: you mastered my british accent. >> i'm not a monarchy. stuart: wait a minute. you are with me for the hour. more on this. let's move on. musk's conversation with trump was played by check issues which what happened? rate lauren: a 40 minute delay that musk blamed on a cyber attack. musk has endorsed trump recently and his first question was on the attempted assassination and musk hopes to give trump a fair and free forum for independent voters to hear something they may or may not like. >> we had a massive malware attack, as this massive attack demonstrates opposition to people just hearing what donald trump has to say about to have this conversation, hard to catch a vibe about someone if you don't hear them talking in a normal way. when there's an adversarial interview no one is themselves. this is impact open-minded independent voters trying to make up their mind. lauren: there is frustration. time magazine put kama

third hour of varney starts now. stuart: we have kayleigh mcenany with us today on the show. >> great to be here. stuart: is trump able to get it past the blockade that the media will impose on his message? >> not this week. this week is lost essentially as is any convention and going for the convention and air time and coverage and it's spatter to go out to the battleground states and bringing concrete sis so i think the messages and bringing local -- messages and the debate and relegate the pol policies ad forcing kamala harris to drill down and can't do that, you'll see her sinking the polls. stuart: not a major league interview between now and interview. >> her team said anonymously to reporters we'll do it around labor day possibly. then jd vance went out with a very sophisticated pressure campaign and taking questions where is kamala harris walking over to her plan. that put pressure on her and after trump's press conference she did a gavel and said she'd like to do an interview before the end of the month. time is ti

third hour of varney starts now. stuart: liz peek with us this morning.t do you make of the harris walz pick? >> oh, i think you laid it out very well. he's extremely to the left. the fact that the mainstream media pounced on this pick and started talking about him being a moderate democrat. that's what the los angeles times had to say, the washington post sort of followed the same line talking up his small town roots, which are true. and his military service, that's a very continue verse y'all topic, that we don't have time to get into but everyone should look it up. this guy is a horror show in my view and a real problem. stuart: that bad? a horror show? >> well, look, stuart, there's nothing sensible about the guy and from the point of view of the kamala harris campaign, what he did, the way he got elected in his state is basically getting elected in the areas that joe biden did and he did not do at all well in the parts of the state that donald trump won. in other words his margin of victory is only the same as joe biden, which tells you he is not goi

third hour of varney starts now. stuart: jimmy failla with us.s a former new york city cab driver. he knows about this kind of stuff. >> how about it. stuart: how do we get rid of entitlement mentality? >> well, to be clear, you got to hold people accountable for things they do wrong like student loan forgiveness is a scam because you're passing the burden on to the person that didn't make the commitment. there's no way that's going to engender more responsibility. if we have student loan forgiveness, why not blackjack forgiveness? where is that bill being passed? it's just as absurd or student loan forgiveness. a person made a financial decision that might have had negative consequences and that in itself is supposed to be a teachable moment to measure twice and cut once before making a financial commitment. everything we're doing in the name of forgiveness as you know is not actually absolving the debt but passing onto taxpayer and more importantly it's not addressing what we call now the root cause, which is the soaring cost of tuition. if you

third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ stuart: mary katharine ham with me here in chicago.is' strategy the ignore and deny any and all problems? well, it's the not just any and all problems, the entire room is ignoring the last three and a half years, right? obama's big line in his speech was we don't want a sequel. y'all are the sequel. the harris-walz would be the sewell to the biden-harris -- sequel to the biden-harris administration. it's quite rehabbing mark, they're saying just ignore that we've been in power for three and a half years. i'm not sure it's going to work outside this room. they are excited about it inside this room which is funny because, again, this is y'all's work you're ignoring. [laughter] stuart: i don't think it's going to work during the debate either, but there you are. >> that's when she's finally going to face some tough questions. stuart: will ve get tough questions from a abcsome is. >> look, they're going to be tougher than she's gotten so far, and she does not handle any question so far, even just how are you going to the pay for this. she

let's hand it over to the "varney & company," stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, maria. and good morning, everyone. inflation worths -- reports can move markets. here's what the producer report said. prices paid by business went up 2.22% over the last 12 months and up 0.1% in july. that's good newses, means inflation is cooling. perhaps nudging the fed into more interest rate cuts. all right. here's the markets' response, plenty of green out there. the dow up about 100, the s&p up3 3, solid gain for the nasdaq, up 177. that's close to 11. interest rates coming down. the yield on 10-year treasury well below 4%, you're now looking at 3.88, and the 2-year also below 4% this morning, it's t back to 3.98. as for bitcoin, not that much movement. we're looking at $58,000, 59 right now. oil, well, that is creeping up as israel puts its military on high alert. 9 throughout the week we've been told that a direct attack from iran is very close. the u.s. has assembled a huge firepower system in the region to support israel. 79.73 on oil. gold right now, $2,509 an ounce, that's a fli

maria: "varney" & company picks it up live in chicago stu take it away. stuart: good morning, maria, and good morning, everyone. he spoke late in the night by design the last thing the democrats want is an aging president in primetime. he was in tears. delegates chanted "thank you joe." he said "i gave my best to you." the "wall street journal" summed up this morning with these words. poor, unwanted joe biden. tonight, the annointment of kamala harris begins. the pro-hamas demonstrators didn't get inside the convention but we talked to some of them and they displayed ignorance and hatred. today donald trump continues his counterprogramming and his theme at an event in michigan will be keeping america safe again. separately the fbi says iran hacked the trump campaign. to the markets. strong rally yesterday. no pullback this morning of any significance. the dow industrials, the s&p, the nasal down slightly. s&p just north to the tune of a quarter point. the price of gold, very close to yet another record high. 2,564 per ounce today. bitcoin moving up $60,000 and c

"varney & company" picks it up. stuart sure good morning, everyone. let the campaign begin. kamala harris has launched her bid for the white house. she's offering a path away forward but failed to say how we get there. it was light on substance, light on policy, and she attacked trump with a series of what are politely called falsehoods. her speech was well received, however. democrats are leaving the chicago convention in a giddy mood. they believe their candidate can win. trump pushed back quickly. he's not going to cut social security or medicare, and he's in the going to enact a national abortion ban. he asked, what is she complaining about? she had three and a half years and didn't do anything. he says harris should immediately close the border. well, he's going to to glendale, arizona, today. he will be at the border. president biden, he's in california on a 32-week -- 2-week vacation. to the markets, it looks like a friday morning summer rally. remember, this afternoon jay powell hints in veiled language where interest rates are going. it is assumed they're going down

third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ stuart: steve hilton joinses us this morning.n't like kamala harris' speech last night, did you? [laughter] >> okay. let's, let's start -- let's sort of build up, stuart. let's start with the smaller things. this speech p i thought, was a complete disgrace. it's the kind of speech that brings politics into disrepute, the level of dishonesty, the brazen, shameless dishonesty was on a scale i've never seen. look, i know this business, i used to write these kinds of speeches. of course the job so to put forward the best possible case. but we would never have dreamt of the just out and out lying and falsehoods you saw with some small things you could say, well, that's just a ridiculous, verifiably false statement when she says, for example, criticizing donald trump's correct plan to close town the department the of's, the department of education that fund our public schools. it doesn't. most funding from our public schools comes at the state and lowballing level. and hen the more -- local level. and then the more serious ones where s

second hour of varney just getting started. ♪ stuart: look who is here again.harlie hurt joins me in chicago. any affect of these pro-hamas to most rations on the convention? >> very little and i agree with you, that's good news. obviously if you are a republican you might have been rooting for a repeat of 1960 a but i'm glad that it hasn't happened because it does prove your important point which is hamas is a terror group in anybody in our country would be supporting this is a very bad thing for the fabric of our country. stuart: their failure is a success for us, success for america. >> also makes you wonder to what degree may be democrat leadership could have put a end to the stuff early if they had the ability to put a end to it when it mattered to them in terms of their convention. stuart: internal failure amongst the demonstrators. minister ater waltz made his pitch to the dnc last night. watch this please. >> it is an agenda nobody asked for. it is an agenda that serves nobody except the richest and most extreme amongst us. and it is an agenda that does

second hour of varney just getting started. ♪ stuart: look who's here. jason chaffetz.ters accept harris flip-flopping on so many issues? >> reporter: they shouldn't. who wants a candidate, the word you used is deception. that's the right word. we don't know. she won't do it in writing on her website. i want to hear from the candidate themselves. that's why you go through the rigorous process, got to answer questions to voters and the media and she's done none of that. when she did it in 2,000, one of the most radical left-wing people out there she was polling at i believe 6 places behind andrew yang of california. that's how bad she was received by the democrats. they are afraid what she might say and reveal but shouldn't we know what the president feels like an actual beliefs? at this point we don't. stuart: why can't she do a solo interview? she's on cnn with tim walz. why can't she do it alone? >> i don't think she is capable of it. she's not drawn by policy or principle. that is consistent. she's one of those candidates that flops and flips depending on the whims o

third hour of varney starts now. ♪ ♪ stuart: do you think the image of the golden state?ocial security followed by or accompanied by california operating and 1984, the travel executive that ran the olympics in 1970s montreal olympics were a financial disasser and they wondered if he could survive. he turned a profit and brought in good capable teams and california upgraded lax and it was a very modern airport. stuart: last time it was upgraded? >> i think so. find dust balls from 1984 olympics there. the key thing is that follow through getting it is act together starting with the homeless and hope the olympics spur to changes in governance in california and that'll be gold medal for everybody. stuart: the french want the olympics to continue and they're going to stop and arguing and disagreeing about politics and they love it to continue and what do you think of the olympics? i thought they were great and very inspiring despite that beginning with that last supper bit. rest of it was absolutely superb and i love watching it and how the athletes ope operated and hw they h

third hour of "varney" starts right now. ♪ ♪ stuart: general jack keane joins me now.is america's military prepared to to take on the global challenge? >> well, first of all, let me just commend you for what -- that synopsis you just provided because i think it's incredibly accurate. i've been on a congressional commission looking at the united states' defense strategy for over 18 months, and our fundamental conclusion is that we are in a period of time where the threats that you just mentioned -- china, russia, north korea and iran -- are the most serious and the most dangerous we've faced since world war ii. and the reason is they're collaborating, cooperating together. they've become considerably more aggressive, and you just gave examples of that aggression. and why is that in why are they more aggressive? because they believe there's a lack of will in the united states to confront them because we're focused inward. and we couldly -- secondly, they know full well there's been erosion of u.s. military capability, and we're not as a dominant a force as we used to be

"varney & company" picks it up. stuart sure good morning, everyone. let the campaign begin. for the white house. she's offering a path away forward but failed to say how we get there. it was light on substance, light on policy, and she attacked trump with a series of what ar

"varney & company" picks it up. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, everyone. it's called volatility. sharp ups and downs for stocks. trairsd like it, nobody else does, and it's not over. wednesday closed with another sharp decline. today the market markets reacted to the initial jobless claim,s, those numbers just 233,000 jobless claims, fewer than expected. that suggests the economy's not too weak. investors like it. the dow's going to open with a gain of about 130, and look at thats in damage go, up nearly 2000 points. -- nasdaq -- 2000 points. -- 200 2000 -- 200 points. the32-year just over 4, you're at 4.05. how about that? bitcoin gaining some ground as well. it's moving up to 57,9000 as we speak. j.d. vance takes his campaign straight to the vice president. he marches down the tarmac at the airport many in wisconsin right next to harris' air force two plane and demands she answers questions. he missed her. her motorcade had just depart. after her wisconsin event, harris said her goal was to bring down price on day one. when the event was over, she refuse

third hour of varney starts now. ♪ ♪ stuart: steve forbes is with us this monday morning.i'll start with -- i want to bring in jason katz on this as well. have price controls ever worked? >> no. roman emperor that try it had a couple thousand years ago failed miserably. they base their currency, very, very simple and the governments always have scapegoats and roman times it was christians and media times it was riches and today it's big pharma or big whatever much the only big thing the left believes in is government. stuart: got it. jason. are price controls, the whole idea of price controls bad for business and bad for the economy? and bad for the market? >> it would be a colossal mistake. businesses sometimes a game of opposites. if you curb prices on food in particular, you're sourcing a lot less goods. if there's no competition, then consumers have less of an array to choose from and prices go up. stuart: that was the conclusion of "the wall street journal" editorial today. you do this -- stop this merger and food prices go up. that's their conditionings too. that's a

"varney & company" tick -- picks it up now. stuart: good morning, everyone. we're going to the start with the very good news. evan gershkovich and paul whelan are free and home in america. they were greeted by the president and the vice president. a joyful reunion with family and loved ones, but in moscow putin was on the tarmac. stuart: the dow off 450 at this point, the nasdaq down a whopping 437 points. in percentage terms the nasdaq's down over the 2.25%. just look at apple and amazon briefly. both reported, both are big techs. they reported late yesterday. they're being swept down yesterday in the downdraft that's covering the the well market. here's the real sensation of the morning, interest rates at new and far lower levels. will you look at that? that is the 101-year treasury. -- 10-year, the yield down to 3.86%. i think you told me that it was, what, 4.919 a week ago? lauren: one week ago 4.19. historic. stuart: that's a huge drop k. move to the 2-year, you're all the way down to 3.95%, down 19 basis points. that's huge. bitcoin, not much action so

"varney" & company picks it up right now. stu take it away. stuart: you're right, maria, who is running the country and good morning to you. good morning, everyone. tonight, the main event. kamala harris makes the political speech of her life. we're told she will discuss her middle class upbringing, the evil past versus the hopeful future, and patriotism. wednesday night, governor walz staked his claim as harris' runningmate. he made false claims about trump and gop policy. but you know? it was oprah winfrey, i think, stole the show. it was a well-delivered speech about a principle but not about policy. the crowd loved it. this morning on fox, trump replied. he denounced harris as a radical left lunatic and linked her to the ruin of san francisco. all right that's dealing with politics now let's get to the money. it is widely assumed that the federal reserve will soon lower interest. that's baked into the market. yup the rally continues. dow up maybe another 50. nasdaq up about 70 points and the early going this morning. bitcoin has moved above $60,0

second hour of varney just getting started. ♪ stuart: katie mcgee white joining me here in chicago., after tonight, do you think we'll see much of joe biden again? >> maybe from the beach, stuart. i don't think that he's going to be necessarily involved in democratic party politics moving forward, and that's sort of awkward unspoken fact of this convention a. lot of people we've spoken to thus far at my hotel this morning and arriving, nay don't want to talk about the fact that what's undermining in convention is a scandal upon a scandal. first a scandal of joe biden's diminished mental capacity, that they tried to hide and the scandal of the coup that now even joe biden is being forced to pretend didn't happen and he'll deliver a speech later tonight and he's not going to mention the fact that party leaders pressured him to drop his reelection bid. but the fact remains that they d. stuart: tonight is good night. good-bye for the president. they'll send him off on vacation and california just to make a lot of money. not make money, raise a lot of money. that's his function in the pa

let's hand it over to the "varney & company," stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, maria.

third hour of varney just getting started. ♪ ♪ stuart: jimmy failla with us this tuesday morning.rris paint herself as a moderate after bibbing ago very liberal guy as a running mate. >> tim walz, one of the defund the cop in the village people. this guy is out to lunch. it is not a centrist pick in any sense of the word. look at record of governance, he was a guy forcing elderly residents into nursing home withs covid patients and letting people out to riot and burn down minneapolis. that's who tim walz is. might be responsible for the only time in history a little cesars pizza got cooked all the way. but the city was on fire. was andrew cuomo busy? same level of government and it's being done by the media. louisiana week that poll surge where she seemed to climb up ten points but that's a bad sign for you as a candidate if you have no public presence credit your poll numbers are going up. what they're telling us is this is faux mentum and it's created the perception that people are behind her from the media. if they were behind her or believed in her or her record, biden would h

varney & company." stu is live from the democratic convention in chicago. take it away. stuart: good morning maria, good morning everyone. this is kickoff to the democratic convention. this is when they say good-bye to joe biden and first lady jill. this marks the end of the biden-harris era. the beginning after whole new period for the democrats. they're heading to the left suggesting they have unity behind price controls, rent controls, massive spending, massive giveaways. far left policy. the big worries for the democrats appearance of hamas demonstrators inside the convention. security is extremely tight trump begins counter-programing. put out a series of themes each day this week. make america wealthy again, safe, strong secure and make america great again. he takes his counter-programing to chicago where his campaign will go right at the democrats. let's get to the markets where the stocks are coming off the best week of this year. they're doing well so far. my nor gains. green on your screen. it is monday morning. how we start. the dow up maybe 16, s&p up four, nasdaq u

thank you for joining us, "varney & company" pix it up now. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, maria. good morning, everyone. stock market plunge if monday, modest recovery tuesday, today we're in mild recovery mode. look at this, the dow industrials will open with a gain of maybe 300 points, the nasdaq up 250. not bad. that is modest recovery mode. bitcoin, they're coming back up a little, i'm hooking at at a 56,8. no, 57,3, that's the latest price on bitcoin. however, interest rates are moving up. the yield on 10-year treasury getting closer to 4%, you're with at 3.93 right now, and the 22-year right -- 2-year just a tad the over 4%. politics. the harris-walz team made their first joint appearance if last night. a very supportive media and the latest fox news power rankings show harris closing in on trump. but last night there was little about a policy from either harris or walz, it was mostly trump bashing. fox has dug into tim walz's record as governor of minnesota. the conclusion? he's way out there on the left. and together, he and harris are the most left-

"varney & company" picks it up. stu, take it away. stuart zero good morning, everyone. we're getting the first indication after what candidate -- of what candidate harris will do about inflation. she will call for a crackdown on price gouging. it's not wild government spending that creates inflation, she says, oh, no. it is excessive profits. tomorrow harris revealings hersc policy. walmart offers lower prices and still makes a good profit. their report morning very positive, especially its e-commerce business, up 21% globally. that this stock going up $5, that's about, what, 8.5. now listen to this, retail sales overall double expectations. up a full 1%. the market likes walmart's results and definitely likes the strong retail sales. good news is good news. the dow up maybe 400at the opening bell, s&p up 50, nasdaq on a tear up another 220 the points. that reflects the continuing big tech rebound. interest rates are moving up in participant because jobless claims came in less than expected. the 10-year's moving back closer to the 4% level, and the 2-year is back above