Government and well talk about this till christmas or new year use the two sides arent close. Looking at all at stops that joe biden pulled out in order to protect his family and in order to protect his son, hes a guy that has to win is joe biden. Youve seen cameras with trump on the campaign trail. The only argument is trump hasnt attended the two debates. Desantis has any chance, its policy, policy, policy. This isnt a victimless petty crime. This is violent organized crime. These stores close and it destroys the communities. Stuart i believe this is a very appropriate beetles song to be playing on this day and itll be a is upny day and tomorrow as well. Pretty good id say. 11 00 eastern time, monday, october 26789 check the markets, please. October 2, check the markets please. Dow down 120 and nasdaq up 60 points. Show me big tech and a moment ago they were all up. Every single one of them is up and alphabet up 2 . Not bad at all. Meta is 305. Check the 10year treasury yield going straight up. Strong gain on the upside and im surprised that the nasdaq is doing well and Interest Rates go up like that, youre at 467 on the 10 year. And now this, after the passing of diane feinstein, the democrats are rushing to name her replacement. Identity politics is front and center here. California Governor Newsom makes the choice and his pick ticks all the right boxes. Shes female, black and gay. Newsoms office proudly announced shed be the first black lesbian to serve in congress and first openly lgbtq senator from california. It seems that among democrats ticking boxes counts for everything these days. But thats the problem with this administration. Biden pays more attention to identity than competence. Identity may serve political goals, but it doesnt necessarily produce efficient administration. It is his identity pick for Vice PresidentKamala Harris at the heart of so many worries about joe biden himself. Identity may have helped her get the vip job but for the top job, youve got to have more than just race and gender. Lbutler will be sworn in tomorrw or wednesday and shell serve briefly filling out feinsteins term but my guess is the democrats will want her to stay. Female, black, please bean, among democrats hard to beat. Third hour of varney starts right now. Stuart Mike Huckabee is here with me, the former governor of a. C. Do you agree with me, this is about identity . Stu, i always agree with you. In this case, its really legitimate and the Biden Administration is like buying a crayon set with 64 different crayons and more interested of whats in the box but cant sign name with a ballpoint pen. What wed love for people to be is just competent. Be able to dot job. You know, i would never be picked in a Biden Administration. Im white, im straight, im old, im male. I mean, i uncheck all the boxes, but thats the problem with identity politics, you care more about how something looks than whether or not it functions. Stuart thats it. You missed one out, youre a christian too, i believe. Yeah, that really messes it up, doesnt it . That just finishes me off. Stuart youve lost that box, im telling you. Lets get serious. Governor bill maher says its time for President Biden to step aside. Watch this. Someone has to convince President Biden that if he runs again, hes going to turn the country back over to trump and go and go down in history as ruth bader biden. The person who doesnt know when to quit and so does great damage to their party and their country. You can be a National Treasure and still be too old for the job. If im on a plane and the pilot says this is your captain, buzz aldrin, im getting off. Stuart that was funny but raises a serious point. I want to ask you, do you think biden will be the democrats candidate in 2024 . I think so unless they can find some way to get rid of him. It could be the corruption uncovered in congress but, you know, he seems to be absolutely determined to be the nominee and to get a second term. I think jill is pushing for it as well. Kamala harris is certainly pushing for it because shed like to stay in her job. But democrats are not happy with their choice. Now, frankly, stu, i hope he does become the nominee and stays in the race because bill maher may have it right, its probably the best way for trump to get back into office, and id love to go back to pol policiesd border security, Energy Independence and see gasoline cheaper, and id like to see just average working class americans be able to buy a house and a car, neither of which they can do right now thanks to the incredible failure of bidenomics. Stuart yes, i was getting to that. You know, some deputies, quite a few actually are openly criticizing bidenomics and the branding of the team as bidenomics. Its backfiring, i think, because people are not buying it contraindication for cerumen it; right . No, theyre not not buying it; right . No, because they can look at their own lifestyle and see its been affected. They cant buy the house they could have bought just two years ago. They cant buy the car that they would have bought two years ago. They just cant. When people talk about bidenomics and how well its working and liberals are going on television trying to tell us, hey, what are you gone to do, beef me your or lie believe me or your lying eyes . It just doesnt work and atsome point selling bidenomics is like trying to sell tickets to the titanic and telling them, its going to hit the ice burg, its going to sink, but by golly its a heck of a ride until that moment. Stuart you know, weve agreed on all three subjects we brought to our attention and that means we agree in full and youre on the show again next week. Governor, it was a pleasure and hope to see you again real soon. Thank you, sir. Thanks, stu. Stuart Governor Desantis going after Trumps Campaign strategy. What is desantis saying, ashley . Ashley hes attacking trump for not showing up to the gop debate suggesting the former president was adopted joe bidens basement strategy. Take a listen. With all due respect to donald trump, were not going to beat the democrats by adopting joe bidens basement strategy. You cant just be missing in action. Youve got to show up, youve got to earn peoples votes, and if youre not willing to do that, voters will take notice. Ashley desantis made references to trumps age saying the we need somebody that can serve two terms. Stu. Stuart that is a reference to age right now, thanks, ash. Back to the markets and we have jason catastrophe with jason katz with us this morning. No government shut down and where no bounce for stocks . Markets expect this a symmetrical response and the alternative would have been far worse; right . Relying on private data instead of the governments data coming to cpa and jobs. Stuart thats right, if they shut the government down, thered be no inflation numbers. Thats precisely correct and not to mention thered be less confidence in the u. S. Debt thats already been severely damaged and now were faced with the fact theres not this shutdown or the can has been kicked but the fact of the matter is were still staring at the same person in the mirror. Were faced with subborn inflation and the feds reaction function to that and uncertainty with respect of whether theres going to be a recession. Nothing has really changed relative to friday. Stuart we are just kind of bumbling aloaning. No huge gain or along. No huge gain or drop and nice even steven along she goes . Thats the new normal. Thats what i think were going to expect and fairly muted returns. The multiple on the markets seems elevated at 18 times earnings. But if you back out the magnificent seven, youre looking at more like 15 times earnings and this Earnings Period will be the first positive Earnings Period in three quarters and three negative quarters and a meager 2 year over year growth and next year upwards of 12 Earnings Growth and multiple the market is reasonable so i wouldnt retreat, i wouldnt do that. I would rather repurpose within the market. Stuart okay. One other factor, as of now, Student Loans have to be repaid. Right. Stuart i dont know how much money thats going to take out of the economy. Any impact on the market . 1. 7 trillion in total loans and there are 40 million americans being affected by this. In fact, the average monthly bill is going to be 350 and for 10 of the country, its going to be more like 700. This is yet another test on that consumer thats been incredibly resilient and i think the consumer take as hit. At the margin, believe it or not, this helps the inflation fight because it mutes growth but on the other side of the coin, 2 is the consumer and drives the earning and on the other side of the coin, earnings come down a bit and feeds into what i said earlier, a market where youre going to have very meager type of results for the foreseeable future. Stuart are you an economist on the one hand and on the other hand . Play it down the middle. Stuart just joking. Jason, thank you very much, sir. You bet. Stuart now this, white house banning senior officials from traveling to any senior conference that promotes fossil fuels. Officials must get approval before attending International Energy engagement. The moment a store clerk in california is set on fire after he tried to stop somebody from stealing. Just appalling. President biden signed the short term funding bill over the weekend. What happens from here . Peter doocy will try to explain it. Biden wants a separate bill to address more military aid to ukraine. Watch this. I hope my friends on the other side keep their word about support for ukraine. We cannot under any circumstances allow american support for ukraine to be intented. Stuart support to ukraine appears to be dwindling in america, kt mcfarland on that right after this. To duckduckgo on all your devie duckduckgo comes with a builtn engine like google, but its pi and doesnt spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cooi and creepy ads that follow youa from google and other companie. And theres no catch. Its fre. We make money from ads, but they dont follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. Municipal bonds dont usually get the Media Coverage the stock market does. In fact, most people dont find them all that exciting. 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We cannot under any circumstances allow american support for ukraine to be interrupted. Stuart kt mcfarland with us and appears support for ukraine is dwindling in the United States. Does that threaten the country and their war effort . Yeah, and its dwindling because President Biden has failed to make the case. Whats the money going for . How does this war end . How much longer are we going to keep supporting ukraine . Or is it another forever war . Were kind of in this weird position where theres two options given. One, you either continue with this biden says and continue to support the war basically a forever war or do you pull the money out and then watch potentially ukraine collapse and then russia move in. Those are two really unacceptable options, but thats whats driving the division in the Republican Party and all republican candidates agree on the economy, they agree on woke culture, they agree on the border but not on ukraine and increasingly the population of the United States is questioning ag ukraine. Stuart looks like stalemate. Is that where were going from here . Yeah, its a stalemate. As long as russia has the income that it gets from high oil and natural kasam prices, it gas prices and has the money to continue to pay for the war. As long as administration gives money to e ukraine, they have te money to continue the war. No one thinks theres an end in sight and both sides are digging in. Its like the first world war, trench war fair and fighting over a couple of feet of territory and nobodys getting anywhere. So i think somebodys got to figure out what is our goal, how much is it going to cost, and how long is it going to take, and what do we expect the American People to do. Right now the American People have paid 1,000 per household for the war in ukraine. Again, no end in sight. Stuart extraordinary. Cia official says china is growing every which way on Artificial Intelligence. Is there a way to tell if theyre actually ahead of us on ai . You dont know because nobody can count on what chinas numbers are, but theyve made a goal and their goal is called ai2030. They plan by 2030 to be the words leader in artificial intense. Theyre put ago lot of money into research and development, not only artificial intense but quantum intelligence but quantum computing and its the underpenny of Artificial Intelligence. I dont know if theyre ahead but theyre not behind and thats the worry that the United States is not putting reservice connected and have Development Money into Artificial Intelligence research or quantum computing like we could be doing and should be doing. Stuart is biden pushing back on china sufficiently, you think . Theyre making aggressive moves in every which way direction. Are we pushing back in a way that makes you comfortable . No. I think were talking about it, but i dont think theyre actually doing it. I mean, if you were doing it, youd increase defense spend, double our research and development budget, get tough with china on a lot of trade issues and theyre not doing any of that. Stuart not a good picture were presenting this monday. Stalemate in ukraine and falling backwards a little against china, not putting in the effort. Can you give us any bright spot this is morning, kt . I know this is a spur of the moment question. Youve got to make miasmal, can you do it . You bet its because theres an election in 2024, and these issues are being debated by the American People, and the American People are a lot smarter and have a lot more common sense than the people in washington. Im ready for a change. Stuart that was good. That was very good. You didnt know that question was coming, spur of the moment stuff. Excellent, brilliant stuff, you should get back in government. Kt mcfarland, you, madame, are all right. See you soon. Ashley is with us, whats this about meta using peoples instagram posts . I have an instagram post. I dont post much. Many is training for ai . I dont get it. Ashley surprised you have that, stuart varney, i dont know why. Meta admitted it is used masses of publicly available instagram and facebook posts to train the ai models. The company said its tried to exclude data set withs a very heavy amount of personal information but if you dont like the idea, of your info being used to train ai programs, consider this meta says you own all the content and information you post. Okay. If you make a post public as many do by default, it becomes available for all sorts of purposes that you cannot control. Meta believes its use of posts to train ai is covered by the legal doctrine of fair use. Guess what, you can be sure all of this can head to the court, make the lawyers rich. Stu. Stuart weve seen this movie before. Countless times. Its always the same one. Thanks, ash. Check those parks, please. Why not. The dow is down 70, nasdaqs up 114 points. I like that. 0. 87 up on the nasdaq and s p up a tiny fraction. Thats it. Coming up, h and m using new technology to stop shrinkage or known as shoplifting and what theyre doing to their clothes. 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Be able to integrate my appointment app. Godaddy was able to provide everything that i needed. The whole image of who i am and what empire is is presented through my godaddy website. Stuart on the markets this morning, a very nice gain for the dow industrial sorry, for the nasdaq composite. That is up over 1 and big tech is up pretty much all across the board. The gain for the nasdaq even though the 10year treasury yield is going up. Thats not the relationship weve seen in the past when that yield goes up, nasdaq tends to go down. Today, yield up, nasdaq up. 4. 67 is the yield on the 10 year right now. As for the price of oil, its dropped to 88. 90, 88 per barrel on oil. The government averted a shutdown right before the deadline on saturday. Thats what happened. Peter deuce jim jordan at the white house peter doocy at the white house for us. Peter, tell us, what was in the spending bill and noticeably absent . Noticeably absent is money keeping weapons flowing into ukraine for their fight with russia. I hope my friends on the other side keep their word about support for ukraine. They said theyd support ukraine in a separate vote. We cannot under any circumstances allow american support for ukraine to be interrupted. I fully expect the speaker to keep his commitment for a secure passage and support need to help ukraine as they defend themselves against aggression and brutality. Its unclear if theres enough support for that ukraine money because for now, Speaker Mccarthy sounds like hes supportive of people if the party that plan to vote against it. Theres no american dying in ukraine, but every single day its the equivalent of airliner crashing and dying in america because of the fentanyl. Weve watched the Border Agents be beat up, Human Trafficking happening, and this president thats been in Elective Office for more than 50 years, hes gone to more dinners with Hunter BidensBusiness Associates than he has visited the border, only one time. President biden will convene the Cabinet Meeting here at white house later on this afternoon and we would expect to hear more about ukraine because thats what the president talks about than the border, which the speaker and House Republicans are talking about. Stu. Stuart got t peter, thanks very much indeed at the white house. House republicans want to expel congressman matt gaetz. Jason smith is with us and hes the chair of the powerful house ways and means committee. Congressman, gaetz is involved in an ethics investigation and says mccarthy has not given him much support. It seems like his opposition to the speaker is personal. I dont think he should be basing these things on personal disputes. Our number one priority is members of congress delivering for the americans struggling, stuart, to put food on their table, clothes on their backs and gasoline in their cars. Why theres an open while theres an open border bringing in fentanyl thats killing americans every day. That is what the American People are focused on, but they dont need to worry about personal differences between one member of congress and another. I mean, i hope my colleagues just wake up and stop wasting time and deliver for the American People. Stuart was there any win in the shambolic behavior over the weekend . My win for republicans at all . Absolutely, stuart, when you look at it, the house of representatives controlled the day and in fact we made the senate to support our legislation and our legislation is funding government for the next 45 days and Disaster Assistance for the numerous areas across the country thats faced horrible disasters and during that time frame, we have to finish our work and that is the continuation of the appropriations process and the house of representatives has funded more than 70 of government and the senate has not even passed one aprop rations bill Appropriations Bills and lets go to conference and make the final results. Stuart you have to have democrat results and cant pass the spending bills and the far right holdout and call them what youd like. Theyre not going to let you. Well, the far right are the ones saying lets pass the individual spending bills and we have passed four of them. One of them was defeated so weve had five on the floor and were going to continue to bring up a couple more spending bill this is weekend and were going to continue to work through the process. Weve had hundreds of amendments on these aprop rations properties appropriations process but weve passed more than 70 of appropriations of the discretionary spending. Stuart what happens on novembe . Thats the 45 day period. Will we see exactly the same thing all over again . Hopefully well have all 12 on the house and senate and passing counter parts and in conference and getting to the final results and thats how the legislative process is supposed to work. Well see what happens. Stuart i dont mean to push too hard, congressman, but see how frustrated people are when this kind of thing happens. When theyre moving to push aside the speaker after people are frustrated by this and a bright face on this and youve got to understand the mood is rough. Im glad you see that im okay. The fact that one of my colleagues wants to waste time with a motion to vacate with the speaker of the house, the only way a motion to vacate can ever be successful is because if matt gaetz joins in with 200 democrats and the democrats motion to vacate and they want to stop the policies that we are moving forward with and they want to stop the investigations and they dont want the American People to see whats going on with the president s business dealings with his son. Like the speaker just said, the president has had more dinners with Hunter BidensBusiness Associates. And business dealings than he has even going to the border. Stuart that is true, sir. One for for you, congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez is defending congressman jamal boman after pulling a fire alarm during the vote. Roll it. Theyre file ago motion to expel a member who in a moment of panic was trying to escape a vestibule . Give me a break. So the idea that there is somehow any kind of equivalence to someone thats actively trying to clear up a situation that he himself admits hes embarrassed, he released a Statement Last night, he apologized. Stuart well, congressman, id like to see bowmans phone regards and did the speaker tell him to delay the vote. Flip that switch. Id love to know. Its embarrassing that aoc would make that statement and the democrats all planned to obstruct and to slow down the process. We had a vote on the floor that the democrats made a motion to adjourn 12 hours before government funding was going to expire and they didnt want the republicans to bring that with the continuing resolutions to keep government open for 47 days and the reason why they didnt want us to it because they wanted the ukraine funding more than the funding to secure our southern border and the fact that aoc is defending him whenever he obstructed the official proceedings of Congress Much like other people that are still sitting in prison, theyre so used to a twotier League System that they think even members of congress should be treated that way as well. Stuart congressman, well leave it right there. Jason smith, always a pleasure and thanks for being with us this morning, sir. Appreciate it. Ashley, please return and tell us what President Biden did have to say about the spending bill. Ashley a ha, President Biden blasting republicans for taking nerve nucleus yore graces to the brink of negotiations to the brink of the shutdown deadline. Im sick and tired. Im sick and tired of the brinksmanship and so are the American People. Ive been doing this a long time and ive never quite seen a Republican Congress or any congress act like this. This maga republicans brought us to the brink, threatening to default on americas debt for the first time in 200 years and would have caused a gigantic world crisis and help with home and abroad. Ashley the president also expressing that lack of supplemental aid in ukraine and were talking about it and take up a separate bill and just to funnel more support to keith. Stuart question, is your collegeaged youngster too far away from home . Some parents are hiring professional moms to cook and clean for their children. We told you about target closing nine more stores because of crime. Now theyre getting the department of Homeland Security involved to stop the theft. Whats with that . The story, next. About a cashew farmer from mozambique named carlos. Carlos lifted himself out of poverty with the help of techoserve. Go to technoserve. Org and see how you can support struggling farmers like carlos. Its a different way to make a difference. Stuart i like this song. The gambler, kenny rogers. Thats las vegas, 62 degrees right now. Were plague the song because the power ball jackpot hit an estimated 1. 04 billion and no one won on saturday. It is the worlds ninth largest lottery prize of all time and if theres a sole winner, they could take the all cash option that would be estimated 478 million. In other words you lose more than half of what youre supposed to have won. There you go. Check the markets, why dont you. The nasdaq is now up shy of 1 so its come retreated a bit. Youre still at 103 points higher. Target is teaming up with the department of Homeland Security to combat soaring shift, shoplifting. Shoplifting. Ashley, how is target combating this . Ashley its the Homeland SecurityInvestigations Division to combat retail theft and begs the question what will they do . Exactly what that entails is unknown. Why . Well, they dont want thieves to be tipped off. What it does do is speak to the extreme measures, retailers are being forced to take. According to the National Retail federation they lost 112 billion last year due to theft and the Federation Said those losses hurt retailers and communities as well. Numbers are proxies for the tragedies playing out in the communities and in the stores ss and in the neighborhoods. The loss of jobs, the loss of the Employee Benefits that go along with the jobs and the tax base and the consumer choice. Ashley it is far ranging and tactor says it has invested heavily in strategies to prevent threat and using third party Guard Services and theft detern tools and locking up merchandise and training store staff and managers to protect themselves and deescalate potential theft issues and businesses are forced to close stores above all else. Target will close nine st storen four states by the end of the month and saying in a statement we cannot continue to operate these stores because theft and organized retile crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests and contributing to unsustainable Business Performance and target by the way is not alone. Walmart, walgreens, macys, best buy all closed or planned to close stores targeted by organized theft rings. Progressive das in cities like chicago, new york, portland, california, are being blamed for effectively legalizing shoplifting while not prosecuting thefts under 950 or letting criminals off with a slap on the wrist. As a result looting has become a regular problem and large criminal groups hitting stores and theyre absolutely helpless to stop the mayhem and guess what, in the end, it is us. Lawabiding customers that end up paying more. Retailers are forced to raise prices to offset their losses. Its a mess and seems to be getting worse. Stu. Stuart seems like it. Thanks, ash. H m turned to technology to combat theft. Instead of using plastic security tags on clothes, theyre using tiny chips so that inventory can be tracked in realtime. In other words they can come after you because theyll know where you are with the clothes. Interesting. Disturbing video shows a store clerk set on fire, really . After he confronted a serial shoplifter. This is brutal stuff, ashley. Take us through this. Ashley yeah, as brutal as it comes. It happened in california close to the bay area and store clerk confronting an alleged thief and in the middle of a tussle, the suspect doused the clerks head in lighter fluid before segment them on fire with the flames consuming the clerks head and the corker suffered second and third degree burns to his face, neck and shoulder and chest and been in the hospital since the horrible attack and will have to face several surgeries and the suspect in this has been arrested and faces charges including assault with a deadly weapon, battery, arson, and robbery. But truly, a sick attack. Stu. Stuart you got that right. All right, folks, its that time when we show you all 30 of the dow stocks. We like to say gives you a sense of the market. Looks like theres quite a lot of selling. I would say onethird up, twothirds down and the dow is down one quarter of 1 . Listen to this one, 97 of youngsters use their cell phones during school hours, and most teens check phones up to hundreds of times a day. Education specialist erica donalds deal withs that and shell join me next. Nice footwork. Man, youre lucky, watching live sports never used to be this easy. Now you can stream all your games like its nothing. Yes [ cheers ] yeah woho running up and down that field looks tough. Its a pitch. Get way more into what youre into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. Heres why you should switch fo to duckduckgo on all your devie duckduckgo comes with a built n engine like google, but its pi and doesnt spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cooi and creepy ads that follow youa from google and other companie. And theres no catch, its fre. We make money from ads, but they dont follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. Stuart some parent haves found a new way to take care of their children while attending schools far, far away. Ashley, tell me about professional moms. Ashley where he markable. Mindy horowitz is a mother in missouri and began a program called mindy knows and essentially provides a second mother for College Students living far from their families and began in 2019, its now offered to four schools nationwide so what do students get . Well, the socalled second moms might pick up descriptions assemble furniture or offer advice to parents on the best local doctors, restaurants, hair salons even, give me a break. Could include birthday cake or chicken soup when students are sick in other words giving far away parent as peace of mind. What does all of this cost . Theres a monthly option for around 49 based on location but also there are packages for the semester, a year, four years. Northwestern by the way being the most expensive, they charge a minimum 55 a month. I call that the very definition of coddled. Yeah, say you, stu . Stuart sink or swim and off you go. Its the world. Experience the university of hard knocks and its a great place. Well get emails on this im sure. Thanks very much, ash. 97 of children aged 1117 use their cell phones during school hours. What do we think about that . Education specialist erica donalds is with me. Is there something wrong with that . Should it be phones or no phones in school . Where do you stand on this . Well, phones should definitely be prohibited in schools, stuart. We have got to get serious about returning academic rigor and merit and academic proficiency to our schools. We just saw that in 40 of baltimore schools, none, zero, students were able to pass the math proficiency exam. The same number in new york is 38 . We see multiple schools in minnesota, up to 70 schools that have 0 proficiency. These cell phones are a distraction and theyre not helping our students learn and after covid with a learning loss that weve seen, we absolutely need to get back to a scholarly learning environment and eliminate the distractions that do nothing but cause drama and bullying, and weve seen schools that eliminate them like our schools in florida who see much less drama and issue less distraction in their classrooms. Stuart a blunt answer. Thanks very much for being with us. Ive got one more question. The Education Department wants colleges to increase their diversity efforts. Those efforts would include boosting scripts for example, outreach to scholarships for example and outreach to minority communities. Where do you stand on this . Should we be actively recruiting diversity . What we need to get back to is merit in education. We have to focus our students on merit. Im traveling the country with the leadership institute, talking to parks and they want to see rigor and honesty back in our academic standards and california and florida eliminated racebased admissions back in the 90s and both have seen equal minority enrollment in our education institutions. In fact, in florida, we saw an increase in minority enrollment. In california, all though some were entered into less prestigious institutions, those actually aligned with the academic performance in high school. Weve got to get back to meritbased admissions and hiring for that matter. But most of all parents want honesty about how their children are doing in school and where they should attend college. Stuart okay. Excellent answers on both questions. Not going to say extreme view but a strong view on both of those issues. Thats you, isnt it . That is me. I stand where i stand. We all have to be high academic standards has to be the priority in america or well never be able to compete with the rest of the world. Parents want this. Thats what theyre telling us across the nation in poll after poll and trying to get out of the feeling schools talked about and thats why School Choice is so important across the nation. Stuart erika, always a pleasure having you on the show. Give my regards to your husband, congressman donalds. Thank you so much for having me. Stuart nebraska has a new law regarding genderaffirming medications for youngsters. Tell me the new rule, ashley. Ashley yennis, transgender youth wanting gender affirming care have to wait 12 days before starting puberty blocking hormones or medications and transgender minors to undergo 40 hours of of gender therapy that are clinically neutral before receiving any medical treatments and medical identity and its a new law that took effect sunday and also bans genderaffirming surgeries for transyouth under 19. It also requires the states chief medical officer to spell out when and how those youth can actually receive other care but by the way, at least 22 state haves enacted laws restricting or banning gender affirming medical care for transgender minors but most of those states now face lawsuits. Of course. Stu. Stuart of course. The last three hours and not the last 30 years. Thanks, ash. Quick check of the markets and here we go. Nasdaq holding onto rather small gain and up 45 points and thats as the yield on the 10 year rises and gain on the nasdaq compared back and dow up close to 200 points and here we go, the monday trivia question. Number one, what was the first song played on mtv . Video killed the radio star by band i believe called the bug les, celebration by cool and the kang, another one bites the dust, i know that one by queen, and jess jesses girl by rick springfield. The answer when we come back. When you automate sales tax with avalara, you dont have to worry about things like changing tax rates, exemption certificates or filing returns. AvalarAhhh Ahhh Ahhh ahhh stuart before the break we asked what is the first song played on mtv, video killed the radio star, celebration, another one bites the dust and jesses girl. I know one of those, what is your answer. I will bet the house on this because im a huge music fan number one video killed the radio star which is ironic song to play on mtv. Neil i am definitely going to go with you, you know what youre talking about, there you go. Thats what are the most repetitive songs ever around. Stuart rerack the prompter i gotta read this. Radio killed the radio star, british band i might add on all the first 1981. Well done. We started it out again. Time is up for varney company. If you stick around for another five, three, two, one. Coast to coast starts right now. Neil it