i'm ashley webster in today for stuart varney.ake a look al these markets, red across the screen and dow off 235 points and s&p down about eighth tenths, same story on the nasdaq. let's take a look talking of the nasdaq at the big tech names, they have been down since microsoft, amazon, alphabet and more down around 1%. parking lot of that is the ten year -- part is the ten year treasury yield has spiked a little today and up six basis points at 3.88%. guess who's here? good friend todd pyro who's been aal worth throughout the -- stall worth throughout the show and president biden's office and a few highs and lows and does any moment stand out to you this year? >> there's one i can't get over still and it's sad on so many levels. take a look. >> i want to thank all of you here for including bipartisan elected officials like representative government, senator brawn, senator booker, representative -- jackie, are you here? where's jackie? i didn't think she was going to be here. >> yes, ashley, sadly jackie is not going to be here be

susan: stu varney might be a fan of costco where he greets his fans but people like stu varney don'tonline. that's the problem for cost koenen. they saw -- k costco, they saw a 10% drop in sales and online sales has been and had been a bright spot for costco and this was a bit, i would say surprising for investors. november sales also slowing down by the way and i think that's a problem. sales growth is decelerating and not a good sign heading into the holiday shopping period and covid lockdown boom meant bulk buying, discount buying might be over but costco the stock has outperformed this year and only down 5% compared to the broader s&p, which is down about double digits, 10+%. ashley: everybody needs a 50-pound bottle of ketchup. susan: check out hot dog and coke combo. ashley: snow flake, the cloud company had an okay report card. they're up 4% today. susan: yeah, so initially down, a reaction but now up because people dug through the details. i thought it was fantastic. the cloud warehouser, yes, they're cautious with their outlook, but makes it easier for them to beat. their fo

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i'm david in for stuart varney. bankman-fried is back in new york. meanwhile two of his associates, ftx cofounder gary wong and alameda research co-ceo caroline ellison both pleading guilty to federal charges. look at futures and doesn't look like a good start for the day and dow town 228 in premarket activity and look at nasdaq down at the bottom, over a one% fall again premarket and anything can happen and we follow it all. as congress is getting calls to account for an enormous $1.7 trillion, 4,000+ page spending package, it's loaded with pork and could hit a roadblock and cause a government shut down before the christmas. we have the details. we have congress till tomorrow night to pass the bill and meanwhile republicans and democrats at an impasse over title 42. we have all the details on all the developments inside the beltway and a possible bomb cyclone and arctic outbreak put 215 million americans under weather alerts. it's a good thing santa doesn't mind traveling in the cold. it is thursday, december 22, just three days, folks, before chris

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i'm david asman in for stuary varney. title 42 is going to stay for now the white house asked the supreme court to delay the lifting of title 42 until after christmas. this coming as the surge of migrants is showing no sign of letting up at all at the border and the "wall street journal's" kim strassel calls a 4,000 page $1.7 trillion spending bill "one of the ugliest least transparent bits of law making i've ever seen" that i couldn't agree more with what kim had to say and we'll be taking on the spending bill throughout the show and meanwhile twitter files part eight has dropped and reveals that twitter aided the pentagon 's propaganda campaigns all over the middle east. let's check in on the markets right now. we've got a small rally going on the dow, well, actually it's more than a small rally. it has increased quite a bit. the dow is up in pre-market activity by 345 and the nasdaq is up as well by 58. that's a half a percentage point gain, and here is the good news for millions of travelers hitting the road this week

"varney" & company begins right now. david asman in for stu, take it away. david: maria thank you very much good morning, everyone i'm david asman in for stuary varney the supreme court has halted the end of title 42 at least for the moment. it is a temporary stay and the white house has until 5 p.m. eastern today to respond. meanwhile, vice president harris says it's congress that needs to lead if and when title 42 does end, but wait a minute. wasn't she appointed border czar we'll get to all of this coming up and sam bankman-fried is closer to being extradited to the u.s.. he's expected back in court early this morning to finalize details of his transfer we're going to bring you news of all that when it happens. let's take a look at the markets right now. we see down arrows but its been flirting with the green arrows ever since the pre-activity began. the 10-year treasury yield let's see which way it's going. well it is up and as a result of that we may see downward pressure certainly on the nasdaq , and bitcoin, if we can take a look at where that's tradi

yes, sir, thank you, stuart varney a good morning.e got a really wild story for you. how about this? a family running a craft store in new hampshire accused of being part of an international smuggling operation for russia. go through it, please. lauren: this is straight out of the show "the americans" i don't know if you have seen that. good show. alexi braymen indicted for smuggling weapons grade technology to russia and he used that home, his suburban house in new hampshire as a clearing house to do so. if you consider the war in ukraine, the sanctions on russia , he's charged with making it possible for putin to source hypersonic and nuclear equipment that he can't get because of sanctions. stuart: good lorde. lauren: he's seven people accused of getting it in a sting operation, getting it to russia. stuart: that is a wild story. lauren: the neighbors describe them as a nice family, they operate an online craft store. stuart: smuggling for russia. allegedly. lauren: allegedly. stuart: all right, lauren more on that later i'm sure.

"varney & company" bins -- begins right now. stuart: good morning, everyone. jay powell got the ball rolling wednesday when he took on what was perceived to be a hawkish tone. it proceeds today. down another 350 as of this morning. the s&p down nearly 100 yesterday, 2.5%, down again this morning 38 points. nasdaq down 56 after a 3% drop yesterday. lots of red ink. looked at big tech which took it on the chin yesterday. all of them are down again this morning except for meta platforms which, actually, a nice spark there, up 2%. you have the same interest rate spread again indicating recession. the 10-year yield's 3.51. way below the 2-year which yields 4.26. recession indicator. we say it every day. and yet again bitcoin stays put at $17,000 -- 16,9, to be precise. go figure. by the way, news organizations have asked the courts to reveal the names of all ftx account holders. that's dynamite. those names are revealed, a lot of investors will suffer reputational damage, and big plaintiffsmenting firms -- investment firms may be sitting on undisclosed losses. chao

good morning, everybody, i'm ashley webster in for stuary varney. no cat videos unfortunately, but there is this story. it stays in place for now. the supreme court blocks the white house from ending trump's title 42 but it's only a temporary fix. the biden administration a few more months to get a plan in place to deal with the migrant crisis that is simply overwhelming our border. we'll get into that. meanwhile the chaos continues for southwest out of the nearly 4,200 flight cancellations today , more than 2,500 of those are on southwest airlines. we will press the airline for answers as is everyone else. it was a smooth flight though for president biden as he kicked off his vacation in st. croix, how nice. the white house calls it a " working vacation" for the president. there's absolutely nothing on his schedule. working on his tan, perhaps, or his surfing skills. let's take a look at the markets right now. mildly higher. the dow, the s&p, and nasdaq showing, well, the nasdaq flat but the dow and the s&p slightly higher in the pre-market. take a

i'm ashley webster in for stuary varney. so 263,000 jobs added last month the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.7% and guess what labor secretary marty walsh will join us to talk about the very latest numbers. meantime, as maria just showed you, futures falling on this report. a hot report that may force the fed to do more rate hikes, at least that's what some investors believe the dow off 402 points in the pre-market, the s&p and nasdaq down 1.5-2%. also big reaction in the fixed income area. the 10-year speaking, 10-year treasury yield speaking after the stronger-than-expected report although perhaps turning just a little lower now but up at 3.58% meanwhile take a look at bitcoin continuing to hold study right below $17,000, down just 59 bucks at 16, 892. now this. the ceo of apple, tim cook, refusing to answer questions when asked why apple restricted air drop access to protesters in china. he did, however, meet with lawmakers abdomen -- and we're going to tell you how that went. meanwhile residents in los angeles cou

maria: have a good day everybody see you tomorrow dagen mcdowell, mark tepper, todd piro, "varney" & company begins right now. stuart: good morning, maria, good morning, everyone. ten days to christmas, christmas day that is but most of us don't have much cheer for the economy. the vast majority sees the economy as just fair or poor, and, three out of four say inflation has hit them financially, and jay powell says a recession is certainly a possibility. all right this time yesterday, the market was going straight up on the expectation that powell would signal easier times, but he was not to be and the selling continues today. plus, retail sales actually dropped last month, and that is not helping. the dow is looking at a 350 point drop. 50 points down for the s&p, nearly 200 down for the nasdaq. here is the recession indicator, actually it's one of several. the 10-year yield way below the two-year. the 10-year coming in at 3.47 and the two-year at 4.20. gas prices, well that's good news down another $0.02 overnight the average now is 3.19. i've counted 19 states where the average is

stu: in adelaide, south australia, called varney wines. susan: gold coast.uested a bottom panel until your suitcase. stu: of course i did not bring any back with me. you know why, don't you? because you cannot bring liquid on a plane with you and i never, ever check bags. lauren: two weeks australia and new zealand with just a carry on. stu: that's right. i did it all. if you need something -- -- ashley: amazing. stu: not getting into it. if you need something, buy it. do you really want to check bags on a flight like that? wait forever to get them back on the other end and they might lose them. lauren: ashley, social security two weeks. why are you agreeing? ashley: well, the britts are famous -- my cousin visited me for three weeks and showed up with a backpack and show managed to be perfectly fine. must be a british thing. susan: i would need check in luggage. women usually do. lauren? lauren: for two weeks, i'd have to check. stu: that's true. i could not say that. women need a second bag, you can't say that. lauren: we confirmed it. stu: i'm very happy

second hour of varney just getting started.ammy bruce is with me this friday morning. >> i'm excited. stuart: this is a huge deal from twitter. why are we only hearing about it from fox? >> shadow banding is not new. it's done in different ways throughout the media so when you don't hear about the twitter files that was legacy media's way of shadow banding a story. they use to be able to create the reality of what people should pay attention to him a who doesn't matter, who doesn't have a voice, very few people around the world certainly here in america when it comes to controlling the nature of media and was twitter, this is one of the major issues, one thing to do it when you want to control moderation but they lied about it because it didn't apply to everyone. only applied to conservatives so they were concerned about the nature of what was being said as long as it matched the narrative, that is an industrywide problem and that is what makes this a big deal, it attacks the nature of what media in america has been doing. my c

i'm david asman in for stuary varney today. well twitter users have spoken they want elon musk to step down , as head of twitter. musk polled users, asking them if he should stay in charge. we're going to see what musk's next move is. this happening as the latest batch of twitter files shows the fbi pressuring twitter employees for answers on foreign influence. let's check the markets on this monday morning. the dow is down a little bit, the other indexes are about flat it's a kind of a slow day in this holiday week. meanwhile, bitcoin is still holding below that $17,000 level , and sam bankman-fried is going to be appearing in court in the bahamas shortly. he is expected reverse his earlier decision to contest extradition to the united states we're going to have the very latest on this and an exclusive video obtained by fox it shows extreme overcrowding at the border patrol central processing center in el paso, texas, where, by the way, it is below freezing this morning. this is where just two days from title 42 being lifted.

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christmas, maria, merry christmas, everybody and good morning, i am lauren simonetti in for stuary varney today. we have to begin with unfortunately the weather. the massive storm sweeping ink across country bringing record breaking cold, life threatening wind, chills to 150 million people, it is snarling traffic and unleashing chaos and misery at the airports. drama on capitol hill. the senate has passed the massive $1.7 trillion spending bill. it is now in the house where they are expected to vote on it today. chad pergram will give us the state of play. ftx's sam bankman-fried has post ed a record $250 million bond and his holdup right now at his parent's home in california. let's get to the markets. stocks in the green after the big sell-off that we saw yesterday. where is this santa claus rally? is it coming? the dow up a near 23 points. the s&p 500 completely unchanged , as is the nasdaq. let's take a look at the bond market and the yield on the 10- year treasury. 3.72% up 3.9 basis points and bitcoin once again in the range, high 16, it's 16, 844. some new york politicians giving t

i'm in pour stuart varney. let's get straight to your money.ne reason it is happening is the 10-year treasury yield is up a little bit. usually of course nasdaq has hit harder than the other indexes when the rates rise as they are. oil, if we take a look at that, it is coming down, up about a buck 1/2 up to $75.50 for a barrel of oil. bitcoin, well it's down, it is trading within that 16 to 17,000 level. it is now at 16726 per coin. we just got the latest read on homebuilder sentiment, number, lauren. lauren: surprisingly fell, down two points to 31 in the month of december. so we have seen homebuilder sentiment fall unprecedented seven months in a row. david: never happened. lauren: never happened. the lowest point since 2012. you know the reason, rates up and up. cost of materials are high. homebuilders are not confident. david: ouch that does hurt. now watch this. >> we are definitely pursuing the department of justice and a also the fbi, luckily the january 6th committee established some great legal precedent shows congress has full access.

third hour of "varney" starts right now.tuart: joining us this morning, no less than guy benson, sitting right next to me here in new york city. what a pleasure. >> it's great to see you. i was hoping you'd just keep debating the height of the christmas tree. i was riveted. lauren: go out and measure it. stuart: it's just around the corner. >> it is. lauren: count the light bulbs. stuart: why do you think republicans did so badly if you can say that in the mid-terms. why? >> well i think let's talk about georgia and what just happened this week, and there's a very clear pattern that played out in that state which is a microcosm of our natural politic s that's been one of the ground zero battlegrounds now for a number of cycles. the republicans swept, stuart, every single state-wide office in georgia. all of them except for one which was the senate race, which was of course the runoff and it was a tight loss for herschel walker , and because of the system that they have down there, if it's too close and below 50% for either c

varney. if we want our blue check marks. >> yes, 8 bucks an month. using iphone 11 bucks a month. if you do a business show, if you are commenting on business news, you cannot ignore elon musk, he makes headlines every single day. he loves to be the center of attention. is he a major league disrupter. he has three headlines today. first of all, as you suggested, is he going to reform or revamp twitter blue, it launches today. 8 bucks a month. 11 bucks if have you got an iphone. 280 characters? no, 4,000 characters. that he was the revamp of twitter blue. okay. fair enough. that's just a technical thing. the second headline is musk says he wants his personal pronouns, he stated his pronounce prosecute fauci. and he promises more to come from the covid files that could be a blockbuster. that's a huge headline biggest of all, in my opinion, he says these twitter files show that michelle obama had a hand in getting trump dumped from twitter. can you believe that? >> brian: january 6th. you have t

thank you i'm ashley webster in today for stuary varney. get ready for the surge. title 42 could end as soon as today and that's got border officials worried about more chaos coming after border authorities reported a record number of encountered in november with migrants. the administration claims however they have a plan for when title 42 ends. problem is they haven't released any details. that's not good at all. the number of flights being canceled was significant and as you can tell, massive bomb cyclone wreaking havoc for those millions of holiday travelers. by the way we'll head to buffalo , new york where they got walloped with four feet of snow even by buffalo standards that's a lot. the newest twitter files reveal the white house pushed the platform to sensor messages from users that they deemed misinformation. vivek ramaswamy will be here to take that on bruno it's not all gloom and doom this morning there is some glimmer of hope as wall street kicks off the final week of trading for 2022. the dow is higher the s&p ever so slightly and the nasdaq ever so

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"varney" right there.s and communications from nine top officials including fauci and health and human services secretaries xavier beserra. investigations into the chinese origins of covid largely going new where. why? beijing has refused to cooperate big surprise. stuart: i don't think that will change either. thanks, ashley. another study, new one and it shows more than 3,500 people have died from illnesses related to long covid. dr. siegel joins me now. first of all, doctor, what is long covid and secondly what illnesses are we talking about here? >> great questions as usual, now, long covid, we're still figuring out what to say that is but it's persistence of the virus at more than three-to- six months affecting different systems of the body like including lungs, heart, brain, kidneys, liver, and also pancreas. that's what we're looking at. now the 3,500 deaths the cdc is reporting there, stuart, this is really important, are from the beginning of 2020 to the beginning of 2022. most of that is delta or

have a great day everybody we'll see you tomorrow "varney" & company begins right now. stuart: yes it does, good morning, maria, and good morning , everyone. it is election day in georgia. democrat raphael warnock goes up against donald trump's hand picked candidate herschel walker , a lot at stake here including trump's standing as a presidential candidate and his position in the republican party the polls are open. oh, we got a bombshell from the irs. they're warning you that they are following all transactions over 600 bucks on paypal, venmo, or any other payment system. they are looking for income that they can tax. you've left an electronic paper trail. watch out. president biden heads to arizona today. he's pushing the expansion of chip manufacturing in the u.s.. this morning, taiwan semiconductor announced a tripl ing of its spending here. $40 billion on two chip plants in phoenix. the president will be just a few miles from the border but he has no plan to visit. to the markets. not that much action in the early going today for stocks plenty of selling yesterday

it is 10:00 eastern, i'm ashley webster in for stuart varney. we are in the green modestly so, dow reporting on points, s&p up a quarter 12:45%, nasdaq, look at the 10 year treasury yield. down a basis point, 3.83%, moving slightly lower, there you go, down $1.64, taking a look at bitcoin, up $16, up $53. some other numbers, the latest read on pending home sales. lauren: they fell by 4%, down 38% on the year. appending home sale is pending when the contract is signed and the deal is not closed. rates have come down. why are these sale still bad? there's a lag between rates, maybe next month it will be better. ashley: next one, a new judge in the carmel case against sam bankman-fried. lauren: ronnie abrams recused herself because her husband is a partner at a law firm that advised ftx last year. this is assigned to lewis kaplan who is handling the defamation lawsuit filed against donald trump. ashley: now we know why. looking at some of the movers, let's start with a company called work horse. lauren: the electric delivery truckmaker, investigati

-- varney wasn't the only one throwing shade at trump after warnock was declared the winner fox host ingraham and former trump white house aide kellyanne conway complained that for some reason republicans weren't as good at using mail-in voting as democrats. >> we need to not just compete for votes, for ballots we need to compete for ballots if we don't bank ballots early, we're going to keep losing >> we didn't >> there's not -- but we didn't. >> but we didn't do it in 2020 because everyone said, "don't vote early," because that's corrupt. >> not everyone. >> well. well -- a lot of people did at the very top of the republican party. >> yes, big name people did. >> seth: oh, did a lot of people at the very top of the republican party say mail-in voting was corrupt huh. i wonder who those people were even when they're obviously talking about trump, they can't bring themselves to say his name from now on whenever someone says trump's name on fox news it's going to sound like this -- [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] it's so amazing to watch these people suddenly start complaining abou the conseq

i'm david asman in for stuary varney today.ter users have spoken they want elon musk to step down , as head of twitter. musk polled users, asking them if he should stay in charge. we're going to see wha

"varney" & company begins right now. david asman in for stu, take it away. very much good morning, everyone i'm david asman in for stuary varney

i'm in for stuart varney another couple days. 10 year treasury as we look at the markets is down a little bit. that might have to do with the fact the markets are up, the nasdaq although we had some earnings report from nike and fedex, nike is still up 50%. if we can look at the oil price which is affecting drivers as we go into the driver season it is up to% to $77 a barrel but gas prices are down, that's good news for drivers. we will get into that a little later. bitcoin if we can look at that is down a little bit just below the 17,000 mark, $16,774 a coin, taking a look at markets overall, the dow is holding onto its 300 point lead the nasdaq is up 67 points and we just got the latest read on consumer confidence. lauren: the december number stronger-than-expected, 108.3. energy prices have come down but not like that, we came over one week. neil: what about existing home sales? lauren: much worse down 7.7% in november 20th annual rate of 4.9 million units according to the national association of realtors. we've seen the bigge

join us, stuart varney is a u.s.itizen, help us kickoff this monday morning, we'll see you in a second. hi. i'm shannon storms bador. when we started selling my health products online our shipping process was painfully slow. then we found shipstation. now we're shipping out orders 5 times faster and thanks to shipstation's discounted rates we're saving a ton. honestly, we couldn't do it without shipstation join over 100,000 online sellers who get ship done with shipstation go to shipstation.com /tv and get 2 months free. ♪ >> griff: we're back with a developing story over 40,000 residents in are out of power after being taken out by gunfire. several communities affected by what they say was intentional vandalism at two power grid stations. residents are under a mandatory curfew of 9:00 p.m. as officials say it could take until thursday for full power to be restored. as of this morning, around 37,000 are still in the dark. >> ashley: elon musk teasing the release of even more twitter files hunter biden story. ranking

and no, stu varney was not there to cover that event. there you are.eave you the markets moving higher. dow up 400 points. i've done my best. edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. edward: we'll see if we keep it going here.

we're right coming up to 10:00 eastern and, yes, i'm ashley webster in today for stuart varney.he markets moving higher and all the major exchanges down more than 1% and the dow up 272 points and the s&p 500 up one and a third percent and nasdaq up nearly 2%, 191 points on the nasdaq. 10-year treasury yield coming down 3.2 basis points at 3.85%. take a look at big tech name ifs we can. apple managing to snap a four-day losing streak and moving higher up two and a third percent. meta also up strongly 2.6% but amazon, alphabet, microsoft all moving higher. bitcoin also moving higher, up $15 at 16,625. all right, chaos at the airports and if you think it's over, it's continuing for yet another day. 3,000 southwest airline flights have now been canceled today alone. but remember this, transportation secretary pete buttigieg said travel issues would be better by the time holidays rolled around. roll tape. >> do you think this issue will be sorted in time for the holidays? >> i think it's going to bet better by the holidays. we're really pressing the airlines to deliver better service

i'm ashley webster in for stuart varney. let's get right to the markets and the markets closed yesterday and they're open today. last trading week of the year. the dow up ever so slightly. we see the s&p down a quarter of a percent and nasdaq down almost 1%. take a look at 10-year treasury yield and that's been on the rise and take a look at big tech, meta, microsoft, amazon, alphabet and apple all moving lower and apple down 1.5%, more than $2. now take a look at 10-year treasury yield up nearly 7 basis pointed earl already and just right there at 3.82%, 10 year yield on the rise. that's bad news for those big growth stocks on the nasdaq. the latest twitter files show that the white house encouraged the company to suppress certain covid content. hillary vaughn is in washington dc this morning. hillary, exactly what content was suppressed? reporter: hi, ashley. this latest release of internal twittedder company files shows that both administrations under former president trump and president biden tried to insert politics int

i am david asman in for stuart varney. the dow is down 333 points.taking it hard down 187 points. that a 13/4 of 1% loss on the tech heavy nasdaq, the 10 year treasury is up but not that much, one basis point. there are other factors weighing on tech. oil is up less then one% but that is a $0.64 rise to $78.90 a barrel. bitcoin trading in that range, a little down by $11, sixteen thousand six hundred seventy two. this just in from fox news on that spending package. the senate has set up a tentative agreement to finish the omnibus spending bill by midday or early afternoon, the senate has agreed to vote on 14 amendments, most dealing with border issues before going to final passage. the results are in on elon musk's twitter paul about the $1.7 trillion spending bill. we should mention this is not a scientific poll but it is an important poll. >> he asked should congress approve this omnibus, 70 one% said no. then he added railroading through this giant spending bill but almost no one has read is unlikely to be in the best interests of the people. that

that is stuart varney.t: sec chair gary gansler left out details of a meeting with george soros. high profile people. we have a report on that for you. washington state will pay the health insurance for illegal migrants. we will tell you how much the plan is going to cost taxpayers. the latest twitter file dump shows the furious debate to band donald trump's account despite no policy violations. we will deal with that next. ♪ ♪ ♪ what's going on? where's regina? hi, i'm ladonna. i invest in invesco qqq, a fund that gives me access to the nasdaq-100 innovations, like real time cgi. okay... yeah... oh. don't worry i got it! become an agent of innovation with invesco qqq as a business owner, your bottom line is always top of mind. so start saving by switching to the mobile service designed for small business: comcast business mobile. flexible data plans mean you can get unlimited data or pay by the gig. all on the most reliable 5g network. with no line activation fees or term contracts. saving you up to 60% a

i'm ashley webster in for stuart varney. let's get to your money. the markets after yesterday's nice rebound throwing it back out the window, the dow off 200 points down 0. 6%. the s&p the same amount, the nasdaq down 1%. let's look at the 10 year treasury yield. as stocks have gone down we've seen the yield go up 7.4 basis points heading back up to 3.89% on the 10 year treasury. that hurts the big tech growth stocks and they are all in the red. microsoft, apple, amazon down 1.5%, meta and alphabet. all those big stocks taking it on the chin. look at bitcoin. that has been down slightly lower, $200, 16,400, down three. now this. as we approach the new year let's look back at this administration and its handling of the biggest issues, roll the tape. >> i think i was wrong then about the path that inflation would take. >> president biden: i don't think there'll be a recession. if it is it will be a slight recession. >> we are seeing a significant challenge at the southern border. >> president biden: shut these plants down all across america. >> we bel

i know a lot of children watch this program "varney & company" did you do you have to be asleep whenives very important question. >> well, of course, you have to be asleep otherwise santa will -- will wait until they're asleep to deliver presents for the holiday season for christmas. david: i know your jets are up to speed but how fast do they go follow of sleigh? >> that's after classified number few one can tell you is f-18 i fly can go to had 1.8 times speed of sound that's not enough we have to put special devices in the aircraft to make the aircraft go faster. so it is faster than that so a lot of faster than that. >> a lot of kid are worried that storm will mess things up. is that a possibility? >> you know what, our american fighters are all weather fight source you can rest assured throughout the u.s. that canada conduct our mission again this year like clock work. david: serious business lieutenant colonel maxim we thank you for that report appreciate it. let us know if anything happens after christmas. good to see you hope to see you next year by the way. >> thank you david

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second hour of varney just getting started. i want to pick up with ben domenech, with costs like this, 1 billion for 17,000 at a new surge, surely it will hurt the president and the democrats. what do you say? >> i think democrats on capitol hill who are up for election next cycle are very concerned about this particularly those in border states but also those, it has its effect as you said in the previous segment, the fentanyl crisis is extending into communities across the country but democrats leadership in the form of president biden has been unwilling to go back on the policy approaches he has used throughout his career that have encouraged this type of lawlessness, disorder, chaos at the border and what we see are these flows driven by economic interests, job opportunities and the like and they are not fleeing the war, they are not fleeing a horrible authoritarian regime and of course the profit for all of this human trafficking is going to these cartels. it is a huge problem the biden administration continues to ignore a

and, yes, i'm ashley webster in for stuart varney.s we take a look at the markets, gaining a little more downward momentum, off about 120 points, the s&p down half a percent, nasdaq also down three-quarters of a percent. investors very unsure as hay look ahead for 2023. only microsoft very marginally on the upside, the rest of the tech stocks are down, meta, amazon, apple, alphabet. let's take a look at the 10-year treasury yield. that was coming down, but now it's heading in the opposite direction. it's up another 2 basis points at 3.86, almost 3.87%. all right, now this: former congresswoman tulsi gabbard confronts congresswoman-elect -- congressman-elect george santos for lying about his education and work background. >> do you have no shame? do you have no shame and the people who i now you're asking hem to you, to be hair voice for them, their families and their kids in washington? >> i can say the same thing about the democrats -- >> this is not about the democratic party. >> i think we can all admit that once in our life we mad

second hour of "varney" just getting started. ♪.t: all right, matt schlapp with us this monday. matt, seems to me twitter was acting like an agent for the democrat party. that is the way it looks to me. what can you do about it? >> well, i think there are serious legal issues here, stuart. so i'm not a member of doj. unfortunately we have more like dnc operatives running the doj. corporations have very strict rules about what corporations can do to facilitate federal campaigns. it seems very clear to me one of twitter's main goals was to do everything they can to elect socialists and elect democrats. and i think there should be some state ags and some other legal officials that need to start looking at this behavior, this really, i mean, if anything else, elon musk is a whistle-blower. stuart: that's right. listen to this one. he is calling the woke mind a virus. he said it needs to be defeated or nothing else matters. what is your reaction to that, matt? >> i mean i just can't tell you, i feel like, i feel like he is the one honest

i'm daled asman in for stuart varney.d of a flat day for the markets although they took a slight tick downward. the dow is now in negative territory, but just slightly so. the nasdaq is over a percentage point in decline, down about 121 points right now. show me big tech the, let's see all of the losers and, unfortunately, they are all losers right now from alphabet, apple, amazon and meta. meta's taking a big jump to the down side, down about 2 the.8%. and the 10-year treasury's up, that's one of the reasons why tech the socks are getting particularly -- stocks are getting particularly hard hit. sam bankman-fried has arrived at the courthouse in the bahamas as democrats say they will not use my campaign doe nations from disgraced founder sam bankman-fried, but will they give that money up, and where has it all gone? steve moore joins me now. "wall street journal"'s kim strassel says it looks like sbf used stolen money to fuel politics because it was all getting comingled into the same pile. shouldn't politicians give eve

i'm david asman in for stuart varney, and i think it's fair to call a santa claus rally.usually hold off on rally until we get above 2%, but 555 points to the plus side on the dow, about a 1.7% gain. and it's true for all of the indexes. in fact, the nasdaq which had been the poorest performer is now over 1.75 percentage points higher at 186 to the plus side. all the big tech companies are in the green right now. it is a good year, a good day for the tech stocks. the year itself is not so good, but the day at least. the 10-year treasury, by the way, one reason we were hiking the nasdaq was up is the 10-year treasury is down just about 2 basis points, so not enough to really affect the market. now this, moments ago sam bankman-fried arrived at the courthouse in the bahamas. he's expected to officially waive his right to challenge extra decision, and he could be extradited as soon as today to the united states. come in, mark tepper. mark, how is all of this affecting the crypto market? >> look, obviously investors are a little concerned. they're trying to liquidate their ac

by the way if you're in new yorf the tree and send it to us at "varney"viewers@fox.com.d new now this , the vatican issued a 46 page guide for ethical investing. this after 10 church officials with r charged with financial in pro pry." jonathan morris is our resident theologian. let's get to the ethicallism, how do i invest ethically according to the vatican. >> it's kind of a more late term is a multi-billion dollar business, right now. it's a big deal. people say, if i'm putting money into something, i want to make sure i'm not supporting something i don't believe in, number one. number two. how do you as an individual investor decide what is ethical or not? of course that's according to your own values. what the church has said is we're going to give guidelines for churches or for religious institutions, that they can hand over to their money manager s and say this is what i believe in. so first, you have to have something you believe into answer your question, and it's not just about making profit. so i think overall, it's a very positive thing that the church is off

"varney" & company is about to begin. ♪ let it snow, let it snow, man it doesn't show signs of stopping stuart: it's cute, isn't it? it's not snowing in new york city. it was snowing in jersey, six inches up at my farm upstate. anyway, good morning, everyone. starting this morning with a brand new batch of twitter files these are all about former president trump, so tell us, lauren, what does michelle obama have to do with this? lauren: she pressured twitter to stop enabling trump's most russ behavior and permanently ban him so we got two additional data dumps friday, friday revealed twitter executives held regular meetings with the fbi, dhs, and dni, and even joked about that internally, saying things like and i'm quoting, very boring business meeting, that is definitely not about trump,wink face. that was friday. saturday, the twitter files shed light on why trump was banned and the decisions made by the select group, with personal political bias, and lopsided policy enforcement to keep and kick the former president off of twitter. stuart: thanks lauren, a pretty good run down of what

e-mail us at "varney"viewers@fox.com. i'm almost out of time for this thursday, and i'm going to tap dance for the last five seconds and then i'm going to say "12 noon" neil, it's yours. neil: all right, thank you very much for that, stuart. fascinating programmed to. we're following up on what could be the first disruption to the s&p days of selling here. a lot of this built on this notion that maybe we've overstated how bad things could get. who will know better on that front than probably one of the most legendary investors on the planet i'm talking about sam zelle, our special guest coming up momentarily, equity international is the vehicle to which he has found bargains and billions and he is our special guest so just a few minutes, first to connell mcshane monitor ing these markets. where we stand obviously this year, not great, but not nearly as bad as we were, and what's driving things today. connell: a little rally mode, hey there, neil, today at least for now as we settle in after a slow start all of the red pop

"varney" & company is about to begin. what a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man ♪ stuart: what, what's that song? lauren: what a man. i requested he's back. stuart: what time is it? what day is it? i don't know but it's great to be back and ladies and gentlemen , i do want to take a brief shining moment to say thank you very much to the entire team. they held down the fort while i was away for a couple of weeks. thanks to ashley, lauren, susan, for all their hard work. lauren: you're welcome. stuart: thank you very much indeed. more thanksgiving later on in the show. elon musk slamming the media, and continuing to lie to the public. roll tape. >> a lot of liberal news reporters came out and really slammed matt taibbi which really was really shocking. what was your response to that? >> well, i think both people should be looking and wondering why they were deceptive, why did they deceive the american public , and instead of trying to redirect blame to matt taibbi, they need to be accepting some responsibil

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