Monitoring this market today. Oil still pulling back, stocks down but off the lows after Consumer Confidence came in a little better than expected. Of course, this all highlights voter economic worries this election. In fact, in a fox news poll 85 say that they feel that theres more at stake in this election than ever before. To Washington Examiner Sarah Westwood who joins me now. Sarah, i guess every year we kind of feel like its the most important year, but i dont know if ive ever seen 85 of people saying this is it. Thats a big proportion of people. And there are two big reasons for that. Part of it is because both president s are running on creating the other candidate as a danger to america, right . Hillary clinton says donald trump is temperamentally unfit to hold the white house, donald trump says Hillary Clinton is too corrupt to be president. And the other big reason is were going to see a lot of movement on major issues over the next eight years, especially in the context of
Were looking for anything brand new in that plan. Shocking figures on debt and how fast its growing. Would you believe an extra 200 billion dollars in the last 50 days . Thats 4 billion a day. Technology gone wild . Facebook stock way up. Netflix way down. Zynga, the farmville company in full retreat. Death watch maybe . And apple fighting itself . Yeah, another big day so watch out. Varney company is about to begin. Good morning, on this wednesday, october 24th. Note the date. It relates to the big debt story. As of today, total debt 16. 2 trillion. Remember when it first crossed the 16 trillion dollar mark, it was september 4th, right as the Democrat Convention was starting. All right, do the calendar math. In the last 50 days we have added 200 billion dollars to the debt, 4 billion a day. 50 days, 200 billion, 4 billion a day, really, piling up fast. Ill have much more on the story in my take in our next hour. And the attack on the u. S. Mission in benghazi, libya is not a financial
Today, online sales may run close to 2 billion dollars. Will it last through the holidays . Weve got another north african economy in absolute chaos. Egypt torn by rioting after morsi takes dictatorial powers. They really need our money now. Watch out, everybody, Varney Company is about to begin. Get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, theyll find some retirement peopl who are paid on sary, not commission. Theyll get straightforward guidance and be able to focus on other things, like each other, which isnt rocket science. Its just common sense. From td ameritrade. As we said, call it a cave. Call it a shift. Call it negotiating, no matter how you slice it, the republican position on taxes has changed. Here is senator lindsey graham. When youre 16 trillion dollars in debt. The only pledge we should be be making to each
Truth will always matter, that journalism and journalist will. Im Shepard Smith. Goodbye. Greg wow. Im neil cavuto and like you have a little stunned and a little heartbroken. I dont know what to say. Shepard smith, as i said, just a few days ago on this very network. A decent human being, a heart as big as texas. I didnt say texas at the time. Just lower manhattan. It wow. A better newsman you probably cannot find. Again, a bigger more emotionally connected to humankind, you cannot find. Shepherd, i dont know what the
heck you are planning to do or where you will go but i just know you will be great at doing it and you deserve the best that life has to offer. Im sorry if im a little shellshocked here but im going to miss my buddy. All right. Onto the news at hand as shepard would say because Breaking News does change everything and we have a lot of it going on right now including stocks that are just taking off. Its the word right now, the tentative deal is to leave the dial up about
Would have ended after acquittal, think again. Mike emanuel on capitol hill for the House Speakers are spacing more questions today. That was done again in the east room, and that is in congress that stood behind him this whole thing come all but one. They let loose on the critics as well. President trump adam schiff is a vicious, horrible person. She wanted to impeach a long time ago when she said i pray for the president. She didnt pray. She may pray but she prays for the opposite. But i doubt she prays in our all. Speak about the president was never in any danger. There was no way that they were going to get the 67 votes necessary to convict him. As he went back to History Today in his east room address, the president seemed to indicate that his greatest threat that he faced as president was the former fbi director james comey. President trump had i not fired james comey who was a disaster by the way its possible i would even be standing here. We caught him in the act. Of course thi