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disappear. the fear amonging we've seen before -- >> economically illiterate, the nice way to argue would be, okay, a keynesian, he thinks government spending is good, but i think it's worse than that. he doesn't care about the actual working economy and the private sector. >> joe biden has proven he has in interest in securing our southern border and keeping our citizens safe, and he's made every state a border state. >> now he knows the price of poker $1,000 per gag order violation, congress that is expected to make him stop. >> unfortunately for joe biden, he's surrounded himself by really a jv team that has gotten further ahead based on affirmative action. ♪ i can't get no satisfaction. ♪ stuart: this is one of my favorite songs from way back when, 1963. i can't get no satisfaction. >> how about it? stuart: i still, 60 years later -- >> welcome to the club, stu. lauren: with your name on it, can't get no satisfaction?

stuart: i am satisfied with that, i must say. it is 1 1:00 eastern time, tuesday, april the 30th. the dow is down 150, nasdaq down 64, s&p down 16. minor losses, frankly. show me big tech, all over the place. we do have two winners, meta and apple. alphabet, amazon if my beloved microsoft has dropped below $400 a share. how about the 10-year -- 10-year treasury? yield 's going up. we're at 4.66 on the 10-year and above 5% on the 2-year. not good for stocks. now this. overnight students and activists broke in and occupied a building at the columbia campus in new york city. the authorities have lost control. they would not have lost control if any group other than jews had been targeted. if white supremacists had targeted black students, the police and/or the national guard would have been called in immediately. there would be no negotiation over white supremacy demands and

no suspensions either. expulsion and/or prison time would be the order of the day. same if gays, women, muslims, trans if or any other minority if had been attacked, insulted and driven off campus. the authorities would have dealt with the situation immediately. it would not have been allowed to first. but at columbia and other universities, it's jews that are attacked and the authorities negotiate. this is shameful. when asked what should be done, the white house press secretary ducked the issue saying only that universities and colleges make their own decisions. quote, we're not going to weigh in from here. seriously? would she be saying that if any group other than jews were being attacked? the president himself would deliver an address to the nation. in red states like florida and texas, it's the antisemitighten -- anti-semites that have been run off campus, but in blue states like new york, there's a double standard. third hour of "varney if" starts

now. ♪ ♪ stuart: jimmy failla joins us this tuesday morning. why won't the white house take a hard line against these anti of jew protesters? >> oh, yeah, 100%. the big issue here for the white house is, obviously, a political one, okay? they have a significant con stitch went city in deerborn, michigan, that loves everything that's happening on these campuses, and they don't want to run the risk of alienating those voters. they're having this no-show problem in the primaries, but that's not real leadership. that's what drives me crazy. we know everything about this is wrong. i can tell you this as a exceed january, when you go to the school like columbia, okay, they don't have comedians because they're been telling us speech is violence. sorry, funny guy, you can't do sure -- your jokes. anyway, aye got to go, we're having a death to israel rally on the clock, okay? i want to point out this never

happens at my alma mater, nassau community college. you're not going to see us camping out unless they run out of beer with on nickel beer night. nobody's chanting anythinger -- anywhere, no tonights, no nothing. stuart: jerry sign fed, he's blaming the extreme left for diluting modern comedy. watch this, roll it. >> nothing really affects comedy. people always need it, they need it so badly, and they don't get it. you just expect there'll be some funny stuff we can watch on tv tonight. well, guess what? if where is it? this is the result of the extreme left and pc crap and people worrying so much about offending other people. stuart: you're right. i mean, he's right actually. you watch tv at night, the networks, nothing's funny. >> no, very few things unless you're watching fox news saturday night on the weekends -- [laughter] but i appreciate you mentioning seinfeld, because it's nice for me to give the smaller acts a

big bigger bounce. let's talk about it. the reason nothing on tv is funny anymore is it's not getting filtered through the lens of will people laugh, it's new these other lendses that have nothing to do with comedy, is this joying punching up or punching down? is this in line with our dei initiatives here at the network? real comedy doesn't have a political party, it is a party. and the reason a guy like sign fed is as frustrated as he is he knows to become a star comedian, you don't lead the room, you lead the room. you do instinctively what you think is funny. you set the term terms of the negotiation. he grew up in an era where you could do that, where larry david could do that the on curb. when you look at the networks that aren't allowing the creative guys to read the room, instead being forced to read the corporate boardroom, everything that comes out is just an algorithm of focus group, and it's garbage, so is he's right. stuart: when does it end in. >> in all honesty, the market ends it. necessity is the mother of

convention, and as you're seeing ratings go down and flee the traditional media platform for alternative sources of comedy, you realize, you know, the networks are going to have to have that come to jesus moment, okay, where they do kind of take the creative reins off a little bit. and i do mean this, the success of shows like mine and greg's are forcing that hard conversation for these networks, because they realize people tune in to comedy because they need an escape from all the political regulation in their life. and if you can't get that escape, okay, you wind up feeling the same way after a watching comedy that you do after watching hard news. that's why stephen colbert's show are $25 to get in and $200 to get out. of it's hard to watch. after laugh. stuart: jimmy, we'll watch your show every saturday night, fox news saturday night at 10 is p.m. eastern with jimmy failla. good man,. thanks, jimmy. mike murphy we me this morning. our big story is amazon reporting after the bell. give us your insight, murph.

what have you got? >> so let's look at what the stock has done leading up to the earnings. it's climbed and climbed and kept climbing. so the numbers are expected to be good, so they're going to have to come out with a number that really impresses wall street to stay up here and hit more all-time highs. if they don't, it's going to sell off a little bit which is also fine because long term for the people watching the show and investing at home, long term amazon is a growth story. amazon is something that you can buy at this level today, you can buy it tomorrow after the earnings. over the course of the next few years, amazon is a company you want to own. stuart: you think so? this thing is a solid company. this is going up. >> absolutely. stuart: tell me about a apple. they report after the bell thursday. what are you looking for? >> so, you know, people talk about iphone sales, people talk about china. i look at a more of the big picture and try to block out some of the noise because it's tough to say the new ipad will sell x number of units, but when you look at apple which has had a really bad 2024, the stock has

sold off quite a bit this year and now had an upgrade yesterday that got it moving back up in the right direction, apple is a company that will be trading higher post-earnings at some point. so if you're looking for apple and you say, hey, now it's down, i'm worried about it, if you want to own a quality company that that will continue to put out strong the earnings over the course of the next several years, you can buy apple on any pullback which you have right now. stuart: do you mind if i ask you a question about, i call them goggles, those things, what are you thinking? can you really see -- [laughter] >> i think -- stuart: can you see that? >> if you notice, i didn't use the word end novation when i talked about apple, because i don't see that as innovation. maybe it dis ainvolves into it, but that's not going to replace nip's iphone in the near future. i think what they're doing with their services business is great for the bottom with line of the company, but the $3,000 goggles, i don't own -- stuart: they'll be throwing a fit if they realize i'm calling them goggles. they're a headset, all right?

you've not bought one yet? >> no. stuart: no plans? >> no one's asked for them. [laughter] lauren: oh, boy. at i one point mark zuckerberg was hoping tim cook could sell a lot of them, because people would say facebook is selling them for $300. stuart: i hope on on thursday we get some update on how many of the goggle sets they've been selling. surely, they'll do that, won't they? >> they don't always break out each division of the company -- lauren: well, it's wearables. stuart: the analysts should ask them. stay with me for the hour, please. lauren are, you're taking a look at tesla. where is it today? $184. lauren: down about 5%. they're chopping away at that major 15% bounce yesterday after elon musk got china's blessings to bring it full self-driving technology to tesla's biggest foreign market. but today investors are saying we need more details about how exactly you're going to bees e cute this and if it's really going to benefit your bottom line, and the information is also reporting there are

hundreds of layoffs, additional layoffs, happening at tesla. stuart: molson coors. are they recession-proof? lauren: no. last quarter they were -- stuart: oh, 6%. lauren: yeah. that's a decline and a half. the past quarter was not a. plop. he were helped by -- problem. they were helped by steady demand. april and the second quarter, much more cautious. analysts are saying that they're losing market share now. the consumer has slowed down. stuart: tell me about walmart -- lauren: so they're trying -- stuart south it's moving. lauren: it's down 1.3% they're trying to bring in more high-end, high income consumers with more private labels. there's one called better goods, basically chef-inspired food, but it's cheaper. stuart: good luck with that. lauren: sign of the times. stuart: below $60 a share. thanks, lauren. coming up, anti-israel protests at george washington university have been going on for six straight days, a few

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♪ stuart: israel will enter rafah and eliminate hamas with or without a hostage deal, that's the latest warning from prime minister netanyahu.

jeff paul is live in tel aviv for us. how soon could we see a rafah invasion, jeff? >> reporter: well, yeah, stuart, despite what israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is saying, negotiations are still very much ongoing. in fact, u.s. secretary of state antiany blinken is expected right here in tel aviv, israel, later this evening fresh if off a visit to both saudi arabia and jordan. at the same time, the u.s. military is carrying out work right now in the mediterranean sea to complete its building of the temporary pier. these are new images provided by u.s. central command showing the work that's being done on that a floating pier. eventually, it will be docked at a port in gaza with the purpose of helping deliver humanitarian aid e to civilians there. that's where the war is nearing the 7-month mark right there in gaza. thish df just released this video from yesterday appearing to show an airstrike targeting hamas infrastructure. prime minister netanyahu says

they need to enter rafah in southern gaza. the ground operation appears to be on hold at the moment as mediators work on a new ceasefire agreement. however, the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees says the timing is critical. >> just to let you know that people have not yet been asked to emigrate from rafah, but there is a sense that if there is no deal this week, that this can happen at any time. >> reporter: of rafah and other areas in southern gaza like this refugee camp are full of civilians where focus often line up for necessities like water. there's currently more than 1 million palestinians in southern gaza soaking shelter from the war -- seeking shelter from the if war. there is reportedly a deal on the table that could involve the release of hostages taken by hamass in exchange for the release offing palestinian prisoners currently being held in israel. this could delay that ground

operation in rafah. u.s. secretary of state hasn't really gone into any specifics about any sort of particular deal, but he has said that it is an or extraordinarily generous offer by israel, and he's pushing a hamas to accept it. stuart and. stuart: jeff, thanks very much, indeed. joining me now is retired u.s. army colonel joe pacino. based on what netanyahu has said, is the hostage deal a no-go? >> i don't think it's a no-go. i think they're going to arrive at some kind of deal. right now netanyahu is trying to determine what israel can get for a limited ceasefire, and so here you're talking about less than 6 weeks. how many hostages remain alive, i think that's part of the calculus, you know? a deal will likely involve the return of fewer than 40 hostages. right now israel and u.s. central command believe that more than 30 of the hostages are dead. we've got to think about it this

way, stu. there's pressure every day to keep these hostages aalive. it's not an easy thing to maintain a large number of hostages in in this kind of bombed-out landscape here. you have got to get food in, you've got to getaways out, they're underground. if. stuart: okay, so -- >> all that is part of the calculus. what can israel get for a limited ceasefire here. stuart: but if there is the a deal of some sort which leaves rafah in place, then hamas leadership and some of its fighting brigades remain intact in rafah, and that could be construeded as a hamas win. what do you say? >> a temporary hamas win, yes. and i think netanyahu is going to cede that win, that temporary win, because he's got to get the hostages back, you know in he's always said that there's two prongs here, there's two goals, the elimination of hamas and the return of the hostages. okay? so you can do the first part or

at least part of the the first part, get some of these hostages back and then refume the rafah operation. resume the rafah operation. i've always a thought that once hamas feels that this rafah attack is truly eminent, they're going to agree to a deal. they're going to agree to a ceasefire. right now, you know, the attack is not imminent, you know, the idf has been setting this up for weeks now, they've been talking about it e for weeks. they've got -- they still have to move some members of the population up north before they can go in, but that's going to be critical in terms of the timing of this ceasefire, and i do believe they're going to land on a temporary ceasefire. stuart: okay. change the subject for a second. the u.s. military has revealed that the estimated cost of building that pier if off gaza to supply gaza people with food and drink, $320 million ifing. can you tell me exactly what this pier's going to do? because it seems like e a major

undertaking for the u.s. army. >> it's a major undertaking, it's a lot of time, $320 million, not a lot of money when you think about the amount of budget allocated to that part of the world. it's going to bring in 150 trucks of food every day. so that's basically going to double what's going in by ground from the north to the south every day. so it's a significant amount. significant amount of aid to feed a population that really needs it. stuart: but it could be blown up, couldn't it? i mean, somebody could blow this thing up relatively easily, couldn't they? they could grind in that axe. >> yeah, absolutely. right. i mean, it's at a great risk. the troops there are at great risk and, of course, the aid workers who are distributing this food are at great risk. to the entire thing is a vulnerability. stuart: got it. sir, thanks very much for joining us this morning. we appreciate your presence. >> thanks so much for having me. stuart: sure thing. the houthis attempted more

attacks in the red sea. tell me what happened, ashley. ashley: yeah. it happened off the coast of yemen. the ship ship is a multiflagged, greece-owned bulk carrier that suffered some damage in the attack. the crew in this case was unharmed, and the vessel managed to carry on to its next port of call. the u.s. military also says it has shut down another drone in the area, and an italian ship was targeted between the red sea and the gulf of aden can. by the way, the houthis have launched more than 50 attacks on shipping, seized 1 vessel and sunk another since november. but it can also be pointed out that the number of attacks have started to drop off in recent weeks. but it is more than being a pest, it's a threat to shipping in that area, stu. the tour stouter yes, it is. -- stuart: yes, it is. thank, around. back to the markets, dow off

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stuart: on the the markets right now, red ink. down 300 on the dow, down 120 on the nasdaq. again, it's that employment cost index that did it. it's gone up. not good for investors. mike murphy's with me and, guess what? he's brought with him his stock picks, and we're starting with snap. did you know it was going to go up 4% before you recommended it today? >> i didn't want. but remember, we've talked about snap several times here, often when it's down below 10.

they announced good earnings, they announced a profit, so i think -- they also talked about the ad revenue increasing, so this is the story. they have the users. they haven't figured out how to monetize them in a profitable way yet until this quarter. so i think this shakes -- shapes up a lot like uber and amazon that a we've talked about. if they can continue this for one more quarter, the stock goes a lot higher than 15. stuart: 20? >> higher. stuart: 25? >> yeah. stuart: okay. i'll leave are it at 25. sofi. what do they do and why do you like them? >> sofi is a new age, for millennial, a new finance, a new bank, a new financing app a but they're involved a lot in student loans, and that's put pressure on the company because, as you know, if you have a student loan, you no longer have to repay it. so that's created some downward pressure. they have a great management team. the former cfo of twitter is now their ceo, so i think what they're doing, they, again, have the user base. i think they're the new banking arm for the younger generation. so watch it.

they announced earnings and the stock sold off from just about $8 to where it is today, 6.70. i think it sets up really good here. i think we'll be talking about sofi for a long time to come. stuart: interest rates not a big deal for sew pie? hurts them, doesn't it -- sofi --? >> not really. as interest rates have gone up, jpmorgan is about to hit a new all-time high today. stuart: all right,ing mikes, thanks very much. gnc, they want to cash in on the ozempic craze. how are hay doing that? lauren: they have glp-1 support sections, literally aisles filled with products you might want to take if you're on ozempic or wegovy or. mounjaro, and they're training their employees to help too. it's all part of a wellnesses category. sometimes when you're on these drugs, you report side effects like losing muscle, gas gastrointestinal problems. gnc is going to sell you things to make you feel better as

analysts say 9% of the u.s. population will be on some sort of weight loss drug. stuart: 9 percent by 2030? that that's a lot of people. that's a lot of people, i'll leave it at that. lauren, thank you. now astra the zen ca has admitted that its covid vaccine can cause a are rare side effect. that is known as tts. doc siegel joins us this morning. what exactly is tts, doctor? >> well, that's blood clots with low platelets, but let me tell you, this is a business segment. let me tell you why, because this information has been known since march of 2021 when all the western european countries pulled this vaccine off the market, stuart, and it was never approved in the united states by the fda. so this is not something that we don't know about a, it's something we knew about and it was associated with what's called an a a dno virus vector vaccine. this was not an astrazeneca seek

seen, by the way. it was created at oxford university university, and astrazeneca marketed it. my point is a business point. if your a company marketing a vaccine with a known side effect and countries are pulling it off the market, would you please get out in front of it and admit it, not wait three years? that's bad business. very bad business, and they should not have done that that. stuart: and because they waited, do they now face liability lawsuits? >> i think they do. i would think, i would think they do. not in the united states, because again, it was never approved here. we had that with the johnson & johnson vaccine, very similar. in the astrazeneca can/oxford vaccine, they used a chimpanzee for the vector, here we used a human. but the j&j shot was pulled also, and that as has a similar side effect. i think by not coming up front with this, they face liabilities. i agree with that. and, again, for the future, people want transparency, stuart. you've talking about that forever on the show here. we want to know -- everything

has side effects, all medicines. you try to hide it, nobody will trust you. stuart: i'm going to change the subject. we often hear that a we're supposed to take, what, 10,000 steps a day to stay fit. however, there's an exercise physiologist at a nyu who says it's more important to move every 30 minutes. what exactly does that mean, move every 30 minutes, doctor? >> that's completely right. nyu exercise physiologist has it right because the real issue here is about a sedentary behavior. it's not about how many steps you take. if you lie on your duff all day, you have a risk for obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. if you simply get up, walk around your olive farm, whatever you do, you know -- stuart: wait, wait -- >> i like, by the -- stuart: wait, wait, doctor. you know what i do for a -- >> tree farm, tree farm. stuart: you know what i do for a living. i sit still in this spot for three hours -- can actually more

like three and a half hours every single day. do i have a problem? [laughter] >> well, i would get up on breaks, by the way, stuart. but you should exercise before or after, you know? you don't have to do it during the show. i don't want to see an empty space where you're supposed to sit, but of course you have to sit there for three hours. that's not the issue. the issue is that you find 30 or 45 minutes a day to find some kind of exercise that raises your -- stuart: wait, wait, wait, doctor. you've got to exercise, as in move, or every 30 minutes? are you kidding he? >> no! no, no, no -- well, that's one way to look at it. no. i'm saying 30 minutes or more per day you have to do an exercise that raises your heart rate. that's what the studies show. that's what the studies show, not that you have to i move every 30 minutes, more that you have to move at least 30-45 minutes once a day. and, by the way, for the weekend warriors out are there, i don't like that either. don't do it three days a week,

shoot for seven days a week. i want regular exercise in your routine 30-60 minutes every single day of the week. if. stuart: okay. doctor, you're not exactly are setting my mind at rest. i shall continue my 10,000 steps' target and see how we go. dr. siegel -- >> well, that's not bad. but i like the other way. [laughter] stuart: okay. i'll get up and walk around the studio every half hour, i promise. prompt. be good, doctor. see you again soon --? >> after the show. good to see you. stuart: i've got to bring murphy into this. you're a big fitness guy. >> i am. stuart: you go to the gym, don't you? >> i do. stuart: i just a want to get into this for a second -- [laughter] how many days, consecutive days, have you been to the gym? >> so my, for 2023 my goal was to go 365 days straight, which i did, and i carried it over to this year, so i'm a year and four months in at this point. stuart: you go every single day? >> i haven't missed a day. stuart: you work out seven days a week no matter what --

>> yes. stuart: even if you're traveling? if. >> traveling, yes. lauren: how long are the workouts many. >> it varies. it could be as short as 25 minutes, it could be longer on the weekends when i have more time but, yeah, so i've gone every day -- lauren: i know. stuart stuart wait, wait, wait, you do this intermittent fasting, don't you? >> i do. stuart: hold on. you've eaten nothing so far today. it's now 11:35 today. you've eaten nothing. >> no. stuart: when will you eat first? >> i go to church after the show, so when i get back to my office around 1:00. stuart: and what will you have? >> the same thing every day, a salad from sweet green. [laughter] stuart: okay -- lauren: and did you work out this morning or will you work out after you eat? >> always in the morning. stuart: before you came on the show? >> yes. stuart: go ahead. >> as far as the fitness goes, we talk about ozempic and all these weight with loss drugs, but if people just use common sense and move their body whether it's 10,000 steps or do something physical if as far as

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stuart: democrat lawmakers looking to ban hedge funds from owning and controlling chunks of the housing market kelly o'grady with me now. they want to take hedge funds out of the single family home

market, is that it? >> reporter: that's exactly it. and if they're going to do it by fines and and forced sales. this is just proposed legislation at this point, but the purpose is to stop wall street from push out the average american home buyer. it's called end hedge fund control of the american homes act, and a federal tack of $20,000 per single-family home owned above 100 homes, and that revenue, by the way, would be reserved for down payment assistance programs and would require investors to sell at least 10% of their inventory per year with. they would have to sell those to families or nonprofits, non-investors. and, by the way, this isn't just going after hedge funds, it's also private equity investors, businesses, corporations. senator merkley is one of the democrats leading this charge. he shared this: it's past time we give every american family a fair chance to become a homeowner without unfair competition from hedge funds and other investors seeking sky-high returns for tock holders. legislation -- stockholders. legislation has been introduced across ohio, nebraska,

california, new york. the investors though are pushing back saying, well, this helps those who can't afford to buy in certain areas the opportunity to rent. however, we found a startling statistic that underscores wall street is gobbling up the most affordable homes as well. so take a look at this. 26% of low priced homes that were sold in the fourth quarter were bought by real estate investors. that's in comparison to 18 of overall homes bought by those same investors, so they're overindexing on properties first-time buyers would potentially targeted there's republican support as a well, but i will note fun of these measures have ever made it past congress. stuart: got it. kelly, thank you very much, indeed. mike more if my we's with me. i object. there's nothing wrong with putting capital into the housing market. >> i agree. do you remember the time the government got involved with business and it e worked out really well? stuart: no. >> no, me neither. stuart: i'm much older than you too. >> yes. so i agree completely that when you pass a bill that on its face

sounds like it's trying to do good and trying to help people, but ultimately, the free market is the best way to help all people. so let the hedge funds get in there, let them make their money where they're going to, buyer es are still going to find home toss buy. stuart: presumably, they want to raise the value, so they invest in the home. they do it up, they fix it up. what's wrong with that? >> couldn't agree more. stuart: good lord, murphy. are we in total agreement? now this, by the way, g7 companies, advanced industrial countries, have agreed to shut down coal plants by 2035. ashley, i want to know what the phaseout is going to look like. can you tell me? ashley: no. [laughter] that's a good question though, isn't it? a plan that is basically, as always in these things, long on words, short on details. the goal, as you say, is to phase out coal plants within the next 12 years or 11 years, actually. climate czars say coal is the most climate-polluting fossil fuel and must be eliminated to

save the planet. but you know what? tell that to countries like japan that has 32% of its electricity from coal last year. so they use coal for electricity, 32% of it. and then there's china. it continues to open new coal plants at a record pace, india, pakistan, south korea all also opening new plants. but the g7 says coal has to be eliminated, and the epa, oh, yeah, just announced new rules that requires coal-fired power plants to either capture nearly all of their climate pollution or shut down by 2039. again, short on details. good luck with china and india. stuart: good luck, indeed. ashley, thanks very much, indeed. now this, an 18-wheel self-driving tractor-trailer just completed a successful test run in texas. how long will it be before we see these huge self-driving trucks on the roads as common place? lauren: it could be 3-4 years.

stuart: you're kidding? lauren: i don't believe it. there's a company called aurora, and they want to put thousands of these autonomous big rigs on our nation's highways to run 24/7, move goods and do so much faster with no human safety drivers. now the testing has a human just in case. when i'm driving next to a regular truck with a real driver, it's like the worst thing for me. i either speed up to go ahead of it or stay really par behind it. can you imagine being next to a big truck, looking up and being, wait, wait, where's the person? if this is crazy. stuart: yeah, it is. lauren: a federal database end keeps track of the testing, and since 2021 they found there have been more than a dozen crashes involving self-driving tractor-trailers in tests. there's a human driver there, so everything's okay, but it always involved the other driver, like the regular car driver with a real human being in it. if so they're trying to say that the technology is safer, but i don't know if people believe that. stuart: any if thoughts on that, mike murphy e? >> i do, i think we're moving toward some sort of driverless

automobiles. like when you get into an airplane, it kind of goes on cruise control, the pilot sits back and it kind of flies itself. we're getting there. stuart: okay. lauren: but we're not there. stuart: not there yet. [laughter] show me the dow 30, please. i see a lot of selling, and why not? we're down 322 points. the dow barely above 38,000. i just see 2, 4, 5 winners out of the 30. and there's this, georgia's attorney general says the state, his state, will not tolerate anti-semitism and illegal occupations on college campuses. the attorney general will tell us how his state is handling these anti-'s israel protests. he's next. ♪

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stuart: the university of georgia had campus police arresting several people for violating school policy. they were participating in these protests. chris carr is the attorney general of georgia can and joins me now. mr. attorney general, how are you dealing with these protests on campuses in georgia? >> well, thank you for having me on. very simply, you have a right in this country to peacefully protest, and and i'm going to underline, italicize and bold the word peacefully protest.

if you have no constitutional right in this country to engage in non-peaceful action. you don't have a constitutional right to take over the campus. you don't have a constitutional right to take over a building. you don't have a constitutional right to stop the functioning of the university or hinder or the ability of students who, like right now exams are starting at the university of georgia, stop them from doing the thing that today went to the university to do, and that's to get an education. so i actually commend the president of the university of georgia, those in law enforcement. and it's hard for this georgia bulldog to praise a florida gator, but i think the philosophy that ben sasse and the folks at the university of florida have taken as well has been appropriate. stuart: right. >> you know the rules. if you violate the rules, we're going to hold you accountable. institute so what's wrong with the authorities in new york and massachusetts? are they afraid of the students? are they afraid of taking serious action? >> well, i'm going to say it's a lack of leadership. and i'm going to say it's

cowardly, you know? you have an an obligation to protect students. you have an obligation, absolutely, again, but if you're a private university, again, it's a privilege to attend a university. knotts a right. it's not a right. so why the leadership at these universities aren't accept thing up and -- stepping up and making sure they're protecting the 99% of the students rather than letting the 1 percent hold the universities hostage. but that's not what's happening at the university of georgia. and i'll tell you we've got a situation here too where we've got a group of individuals who are supporting a, folks overseas that don't believe in religious freedom, they don't believe in educational freedom, they don't believe in a number of the things that we believe here in this nation, and they are threatening our jewish student, and they are threatening to eradicate an entire group of people. that is unacceptable, and we will proudly stand up for our jewish students here at, in the

president state of georgia. stuart: georgia is one of several states suing the administration over its expansion of title ix which governs college athletics. why are you sue iing, and what changes do you want to make? >> well, one because what the administration's trying to do, they can't. they've tried many, many times. stuart, here we are in a a world where you've got campuses that are being overrun, you've got a border crisis. every time somebody goes to the grocery store, they're paying more and more. we've got troubles around the world. and what does the biden administration do? the 50th anniversary of title ix, and they are going after and attacking and undermining women's sports, and they're trying to insure that boys can use girls' bathrooms. it is incomprehensible to me. it's also a unconstitutional. we've fought this before, we're going to prevail again. stuart: got it. mr. attorney general, thank you very much for being with us. short, sharp and to the point on two important issues. we love it. thank you, sir. see you again soon. >> thank youment. stuart: got it. it's that time, the tuesday

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stuart: what is the most visited city in miami, orlando, los angeles, new york city, could be any of the four. los angeles, specific population. and latin america goes in and out. >> legal tourists. stuart: you are first. which city is it. ashley: i was going to go orlando but despite the crime and all of that, new york city placed on size. lauren: i am between orlando and new york city. i would go with orlando. stuart: why not? murphy.

>> it is new york city. the greatest city in the world and most tourists go there. stuart: i read that somewhere. the answer is new york city. $68 billion tourist industry, visit 11 million international travelers. i wonder how many will come this year. crazy people walk all over the place. thanks for sticking around for the entire hour. we went to hear from you. would you feel comfortable having a driverless truck on the road with you? big truck right next to you, no driver. do you feel comfortable? send your thoughts to varneyviewers@fox.com. coast-to-coast starts right now. ashley: are not so happy meal to report.