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puckett full of sun shierntion am i right? [laughter] >> that is so funny. stuart: sorry about that, natasha. >> -- sunshine out there. stuart: bail me out of this. it is 11:00 eastern time. it is wednesday morning, september the -- 6th. to marks, the dow industrials down a half percent, the nasdaq down well over 1. s&p down almost 1%. red ink. take me to big tech, please. i imagine that all are down and, yes, they are. microsoft, meta, alphabet, amazon, apple all on the down -- look at apple, it's down, what, 3% today. check the 10- year treasury. this is why you have i some downside move in tech stocks. the yield is up to nearly 4.30. tech stocks don't like that. that's the markets, now this. most youngsters are now back in school or will be by the end of this week. the news is education's in crisis. it's the not widely known, but

academic standards continue to slide. according to a respective study group, our children are still losing ground, and there is no accountability. the teachers union lobbied their friends in the white house and got $1232 billion for pandemic school relief. where ooh's the performance? what did we get for our money? not much. schools across the country are convulsed by arguments over bathrooms and gender preferences. so many schools seem to believe that children can just choose who they want to be. a girl in spring, a boy in the fall, that as' called gender seasonal i city. or a cat. that's a flurry. and some schools are accommodating this kind of thing. what do you think that does to the learning experience? and there is in no, zero, grading. a growing number of school districts will not give a student a grade of less than 50% even if the work is handed in late and of low quality. don't hit the books? you don't immediate to.

watch out, here come the masks. an elementary school in jan enforces a mask mandate on third graders. senator rand paul points out not a single healthy child has ever died from covid. what do you think masking young children does to the learning environment or the child's mental and social health? it should be said that we're awe all still feeling the effects of the pandemic and the lockdowns. the absentee rate is too high, too many of to us dropped the discipline of school atten dance. but there is no excuse for ignoring the sad state of education today. it should be addressed and forcefully in next year's election. that's my opinion. third hour of "or varney" starts right now. ♪ ♪ stuart: martha maccallum joins us here in new york city, sitting almost next to me. we had a former education secretary, betsy devos, on the show earlier.

listen to what she had to say about the decline in education in america. roll tape, please. >> it's very clear that the teacher unions and the whole cabal that supports the teachers unions have continued to lead the way on keeping kids out of school during covid and now continuing to poll nonsense day after day. the system, the government-run education system for k-12 kids has failed millions and millions of them, and families have finally awakenedded to that. and parents are finding their voices. stuart: martha, that's pretty strong stuff. do you think the problem starts with the unionsesome. >> well, the unions have failed the students of this country, but the unions are in place to protect the teachers. [laughter] not the students. and that's a problem with the construct. and so now what you have are empowered parents who are trying to balance that out and represent the students, right? but the failure and the crisis level of american education is

so severe in this country, the united states of america has school systems in several placee listened to all of this when we were working on the debate -- that have zero proficiency in eighth grade in math and english. you know what i'm waiting for, stuart? i'm waiting for one of these parents to sue -- stuart: yes. >> -- the school system for failing to educate their child. this is a public taxpayer-funded school system in this country. they got $122 billion during covid. where are the programs that should have been happening all summer long? in fact, they should have been happening for the past two summers to make sure that kids get caught up, right? if that's where that money should have gone, but, no, the teachers weren't working this summer because their contract only goes if here to there. but someone needs to bring, i think, a suit against the public school system and say this is your responsibility. this is a government responsibility.

to give kids 180 days of school a year and to make sure they're educated. if you're failing on that, it would be interesting to see a legal test. constituter institute or it really would, won't it? take them to court. where you been? >> yeah. they're failing at their job, their public duty, right? stuart: our money, you failed. >> exactly right. keep migration out of the public schools. they're slipping 2-3% because kids are finding other ways to be educated. families are home schooling, sending them to catholic schools, religious schools, private schools, wherever they can, but a lot of people don't have that pg option. and that's why the charter schools are so important. stuart: an upcoming book claims president biden vented to his friends that he was sick and tired of being treated like a toddler. when asked about it, the white house dismissed the claim. >> reporter: president biden is the old earth president in u.s. history -- can oldest. why does white house staff treat him like a baby? >> no one treats the president of the united states with, the commander in chief, like a baby by.

that's ridiculous. stuart: peter doocy comes right out with it, doesn't he? >> we love peter. stuart: the concerns seem to be growing bigtime. >> well, you see what's happening in the polls. you've got two this -- two-thirds of democrats in the recent "wall street journal" poll that say they believe he's too old for office. it really is about the mental acuity. it's not about the age, the number itself, and i think if people were asked do you think he's up to the job -- which we have seen in other polls -- you would see similar numbers, right? but it is, obviously, a very difficult question for the white house to answer a, but it doesn't -- given the other things that we've seen about how grumpy the president get and how annoyed he can get, this part of this story does not strike me as disingenuous. i would imagine he probably was very angry about being second guessed about what he said about putin and how he must go. that's always tricky territory. remember when barack obama stood in front of everyone and said assad must go? assad is still there, last time i checked. so that's always a dangerous

territory. stuart: you just sat down with al a lex murdaugh's surviving son buster. it's a fox nation exclusive. i've got a sneak preview. watch this. >> when you look back at this trial, they didn't find a murder weapon, they didn't find any bloody clothing, there were no witnesses. a lot of digital evidence -- >> yeah, crappy motive. >> you think it was a crappy motive? >> i was there for six weeks studying it, and i think it was a tilted table from the beginning. stuart: martha, he wants a retrial. he alleges the county clerk tampered with jurors to secure a book deal. you've been following this since day one almost. what do you make of that motion for retrialsome. >> well, this retrial motion is based on a shocking release yesterday from jim griffin and dick harpootlian, alec murdaugh's attorney, it charges that the cost clerk -- county clerk, she was interviewed by

some of the producers on this documentary team, but she was almost giddy about the outcome. and in her book, her book was a gift to this retrial. you know, they were going to do an appeal anyway. she wrote the book, and in the book she said when we all went down to the property where it happened, we all made eye contact, we knew he was guilty. this is the county clerk. she wrote these things in her book. so at the very least, there will be a hearing about the potential for starting this process all over again. none of that changes the evidence that points to his guilt, but it's a procedural issue that a may get him a new trial. remember, he's got about 120 charges that are financially related as well, some of which he admitted guilt to on the stand in the murder trial. i doubt he's going to get out of jail anytime soon, but this is a huge twist in a case that has had many of them already. it's another big one. i i have jim griffin on today at

3:00. stuart: we'll watch finish. [laughter] and we're glad you're on top of it. that's at 3:00 this around. >> always good to see you. stuart: much obliged. let's turn to, why not, the ladies of "the view." ashley, how did they react to the fact that trump and biden are tied in a potential head to head matchup? >> well, you know what, stu in "the view" has always been a favorite source of sound, nonpartisan and well thought out reasoning. case in point is the discussion over donald trump's strong showing in the polls despite his massive problems with the legal issues. take a listen. >> donald trump is still polling near 60% in the gop primary, and i've been asking myself how is that possible? we're the party of law and order, and i could put the blame at a some of the gop candidates running against him. from march of 2024 to july, he is going to be on trial in two different trials in washington, d.c., so that's from super tuesday to the nominating convention in july. the flipside, which i pose to

you guys, why the hell is he head to head, neck and neck with joe biden? >> well, at this point their heads exploded, and they went to a commercial break. i kid, but maybe they should be canning why trump maintains solid support and why joe biden is failing to inspire voters even among his own party? stu. stuart: thanks, ash. we've got to get back to the markets because of all that red ink. mark tepper with us morning. you say bidenomics is a hoax? >> without a doubt, my man. stuart: make your case. >> yeah, yeah. so, look, with all of the victory laps that we see from kjp, president biden and sometimes kamala if she speaks about how strong the economy is, how many jobs they've added, we know right out of the gates that they haven't added 14 million jobs, you know? they have from the depths of the pandemic, but they haven't when you look back to pre-pandemic levels. there's three things that really stand out when you look under the surface. first thing is that every single

jobs report this year has had negative revisions the month after. every single job rot. that -- report are. that's almost statistically impossible unless there was some political motivation to massage the numbers that were released and then revise them lower when no one's paying attention. that's the first thing. sec thing, we are losing -- second thing, we are losing full-time jobs and adding part-time jobs. we're adding part-time jobs, with people working multiple jobs that doesn't speak to the strong economy, that speaks to expenses being too high. and then this is an american last economy where if you are an american-born worker, there are fewer of you in the work force today, there are more foreign-born workers in the work force today. stuart: tepper, you make a strong case. keep making it, because you're here for the hour. thank you very much, indeed. >> thanks, stu. stuart: two different groups of tourists were robbed in san francisco, broad daylight over the weekend. one family was away from their car for 10 minutes when the

thieves broke in. we've got the full story for you, extraordinary. secretary nebraska blinken, secretary of state, that is, landed in ukraine early this morning. he's there to see how their counteroffensive is going with. we'll give you the latest. cuba claims that it just dismantled a russian scheme to recruit cuban citizens to help fight the war in ukraine. sounds like desperation to me. jennifer given breaks it all down -- griffin breaks it all down next. ♪ you can't buy great conversations or moments that matter, but you can invest in them. at t. rowe price our strategic investing approach can help you build the future you imagine. t. rowe price, invest with confidence.

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in ukraine. jennifer griffin has the full story. what more do we know about this, jennifer? >> reporter: cuba's foreign ministry said it uncovered a human trafficking ring coercing cuban citizens to fight in ukraine for the russian military, another sign that russia is having trouble finding recruits to fight its war. the cuban government is working to, quote, neutralize and dismantle the network. cuba's foreign ministry said, quote, cuba is not part of the war in ukraine, it is acting and will firmly act against those who within the national territory participate in any form of human trafficking or mercenarism or recruitment purposes. this is an embarrassing revelation for cuba, a longtime ally of russia, which welcomed sergey lavrov in april. >> translator: foreign policy means a significant increase in attention to latin america and, of course, a priority attitude towards our longstanding strategic partners, including

cuba which is close to our heart. >> reporter: the trafficking ring was targeting cuban citizens both in cuba and in russia. cuba said it had already begun prosecuting cases. both the pentagon and state department would not comment on the cuban recruits, but following the assassination of jeff againny prigozhin -- yevgeny prigozhin, brigadier general pat ryder says the wagner group is essentially gone which means putin may have trouble finding conscripts. >> the wallner group is essentially -- wagner group -- at one point in time, they were the most effective combat forces russia had on the ground in ukraine, and and they've essentially been removed from the battlefield as anything even remotely being significant. so the broader issue here is russia seeking out rogue regimes. >> reporter: the cuban government has been trying to stay neutral in ukraine, but this revelation could backfire. the two countries have had close ties since the 1959 cuban

revolution and in the cold war. this latest development has the attention of the u.s. government. stu? stuart: it does. jennifer, thank you very much, indeed. former cia analyst laura baldwin joins me now. laura, this seems to me like an act of desperation on the part of the russia -- russians. what do you say? >> on the part of the russians, yes. on the part of the cubans, i love the way they're trying to shape the narrative as though they're the victims. the phrase, you know, i mean, the phrase human trafficking, that's usually reserved for child soldiers or women being forced into prostitution or sex slavery. the cuban government is not the victim here. stuart: okay. got that straight, thanks very much. [laughter] with we need to straighten that one out. that's a good thing. have western companies completely exited russia? is anybody still there? >> absolutely. today in russia you can start your day with a dunkin' donutss' coffee, you can stroll over to your desk at wework, maybe have

sbarro pizza for lunch and go to tgi friday's for dinner. and if you want leftovers, you can put those in tupperware because tupperware is still operating. that's easy to say. on the other hand, withdrawing from a foreign country is a come are my candidated effort for -- complicated effort for large multi-nationals. more than a thousand american andal a lie-owned companies have already withdrawn completely, and then yale school of management has a terrific sort of grading scale from a, we're out, to f, we're still selling pizza in russia. you know, this is -- we know how it's going to end, it's not going to end well for the russian economy which is going to, you know, it's a march towards nationalization with a new law that allows russian citizens to essentially apply to temp in court, if you will, to take over not just controlling operations, but actually ownership shares of foreign companies. stuart: that sounds an awful lot

like an economic crash coming for russia. is it that bad? >> absolutely. it shows just also how, not only how weak putin is, but his fantasy of returning russia to the soviet union. you know, he's trying to bomb ukraine but actually he's turning the economy into rubble. it's going back to the soviet union, and this time nationalization doesn't even have a plan. just haphazard. stuart: well, are we talking seriously about regime change in the effect of an economic collapse. >> in terms of a putin regime change? stuart: yeah. >> i think it's too early to say that. i mean, you know, we in the west have used sanctions to some degree of success but also some ineffectiveness because, look, it's easy to say, oh, the oligarchs, the top business people, they can stand up and put pressure on putin. to some extent they can, but at

the same time these individuals have families, they have workers. i was just talking yesterday to an american executive who had had a very successful career in moscow for more than two decades, and he's fled back to the united states with his family because it was no longer safe to stay. there are, you know, and these are patriotic americans, patriotic frenchmen, patriotic british citizens who have had their livelihoods destroyed by vladimir putin. stuart: what's propping putin up? oil revenues? chai? -- china? north korea? >> i would say the security services. i mean, yes, the strategic partnership with china is certainly a help, so are all of the energy reserves. but ultimately if the security services would rise up against putin, that would bring him down. i think that's going to be the best option. and we need to watch for changes in those organizations, and we

did see some after prigozhin's failed uprising. stuart: that would be the best option. yeah, i can vote to that one. laura ballman, thank you very much indeed for joining us. you know what you're talking about, that's a wonderful thingment come back soon. >> i will. thanks, stuart. secretary of state antony blinken has arrived in kyiv, ukraine. ashley, what can we expect from the visit? ashley: well, blinken is reiterating u.s. support for ukraine. it's his third trip to the ukrainian capital since the start of russia's full scale invasion in february last year. blinken's first stop, by the way, was at a military cemetery where he laid a wreath in honor of ukraine's fallen soldiers, but he's also been meeting with a slew of ukrainian officials including president certificate e eleven can sky, more importantly, to get an a update on the progress, so ukraine's counteroffensive. some good news, some bad news on that front. the pledge, by the way, of more support forkey comes as the numbers -- for kyiv comes as the

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gen-zers. the second is app store economics are going to be improving, so in the e.u. they are no longer allowing apple and google to take 30% off the top. so that's going to flow right down into match group's margins. and then the third thing is they're rolling out different premium pricing tiers, sub gyms-based -- subscription-base models to gain more revenue per user. stuart: so you see it at 60 or over soon. >> we think it has a path to 75. yeah. stuart: whoa. constellation brands, the conglomerate of liquor people. >> your steady eddie, you know, beer company that pays a dividend, right? great company. i think you guys covered this maybe last week, that modelo has finally overtaken bud light as the number one beer in america. look, no -- modelo's partnership with ufc has brought in a whole new crowd of drinkers, obviously to. one of the most important things, we know that it's taking market share, but the brand's preference score has been

exceeding its volume share which means that it is highly likely that modelo will continue to ping market share versus its competitors. stuart: it's more than just beer, isn't it? they've got wine and liquor. >> yeah, those are their top two things. stuart: change the subject. philadelphia's police chief, daniel outlaw, will step down later this month. jeff flock's in philadelphia for us. how bad has crime come under her tenure? danielle outlaw. >> reporter: it's improved recently, but, yeah, it's been a rough ride. you know, she is someone who has been, you know, a rising star in law enforcement. she was for 20 years on the beat in her hometown of oakland, california. she rose through the ranks, became a commissioner of police in portland and then the last three and a half years here. but, yeah -- [laughter] she had to a face a lot, everything from the pandemic to the george floyd riots, and, you

know, she is one of eight big city police commissioners or superintendents or police chiefs , whatever they call them, to have stepped down in the last couple of years. it is difficult not only, stuart, to continue to attract police officers, but to attract folks that want to lead the police department. it's a tough job. a lot of them have stepped down because they've just had enough. as i said, in fairness to commissioner outlaw, over the course of the past year violent crime is actually down here in philadelphia. homicides, shootings down double digits as well as rape and aggravated assault with a gun. finish that said, property crime is way up. retail theft bigtime and car theft the has doubled again this year. last year we said it went through the roof. well, i don't know where the roof is, but you better build it higher. and, of course, it's not just philadelphia. just to give you one other perform of one of those cities we mentioned, austin, texas. the latest controversy there,

they said instead of calling 911, call 31 # if you're getting robbed. they clarified and said, yeah, call 9 is 11, but you may have to wait on hold. stuart: that's just not, that's not what you want to hear, obviously. jeff, thanks very much, indeed. great report there, thank you. we've got a sheriff in washington state issuing this warning to smash and grab thieves. watch this. >> if you flee, we'll chase you. we'll conduct a pit maneuver. we will use a tactical vehicle to pin your car in. if you flee on foot, we'll chase you on foot too. stuart: that's the sheriff, sheriff derek sanders, and he's with me now. you sound like you're just plain fed up with not chasing down criminals. 9 is that right? >> yeah. washington state does is have the most restrictive pursuit policy in the entire country. stuart: any results so far? >> as of right now, we unincorporated thurston county has not taken any more of these

smash and grabs, but we will be watching carefully. stuart: i are to suggest to you that if you engage in an aggressive chase, you could get sued. if the chase goes wrong, the aclu will be all over you saying you did the wrong thing, you shouldn't be doing that. you realize you could get sued? >> absolutely. and one of the things that we to with our deputies is we make sure all of them are making the best decision at the point in time. >> they're engaging that that pursuit. it is our belief that the two people on this planet who have the best possibility of making good decisions during the pursuit are the deputy involved and -- [audio difficulty] stuart: okay. you may not realize it, sheriff, but your video just froze. but we did catch the most part of your answer. are you restricting -- this is not just smash and grab thieves that you're chasing down, it's all shoplifters, isn't it? >> no, not for shoplifting. shoplifting is not a pursuable offense in washington state under any interpretation.

so this is strictly speaking to individuals who are using vehicles for robberies. stuart: that's it, that's all you've got. you can only do it then. my goodness me. sheriff, i'm sorry, aye got to leave you, i'm afraid. i'm sorry it's so short, but keep it up, sir. please keep it up. bring some law and order to washington state, why don't you. thanks very much, indeed, sheriff. all right, now this, this is crime-related. tourism in san francisco got a rude awakening after visiting the beach for just 10 minutes. take us through the story, ashley. it's extraordinary. ashley: yeah, it's extraordinary and horrible. welcome to san francisco, a family of tourists from malta, of all places, went to the beach for just 10 minutes, as you say, but when they returned, they found their rental car being vandalized, shattered glass and even worse the thieves took everything inside which included passports, cameras, phones, ipads, laptops, luggage, the lot. it was the family's second day, by the way, in the city, and they were already contemplating

returning home because of this devastating theft. horrible. nearby, by the way, another car belonging to tourists also hit with thieves stealing luggage and and a backpack. locals say that san francisco used to be a tourist mecca, but it's becoming, quote, the forgotten city. in august the san francisco pd reported merely 16700 car break-ins -- 1670. that contributes to nearly 10,000 thefts from vehicles. so that's a big issue in this city. people just don't want to take their car into the city because they know it could be targeted, and can these poor tourists from malta, devastating. they lost everything. stuart: i used to live there. i was five years living in the city of san francisco, loved it. and it was not like this. ashley: yeah. stuart: of course, this was 40, 45 years ago. thanks, ash. ashley: that's true. [laughter] stuart: would you take a flight without a pilot? some plane makers are now designing cockpits that need fewer or zero passports -- pilots. we have the story.

the airline troubles continue. tuesday united temporarily grounded all flights across america. they had an equipment failure. grady trimble will have the latest from reagan national airport. grady is next. ♪ to fly ♪

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♪ stuart: flying blind. airline trouble, you can i say that again. united airlines issued a national ground stop briefly yesterday. grady trimble at reagan national for us. what happened, grady? >> reporter: stu, it was a tech issue caused by an internal software update at united. took about 40 minutes to get the problem fixed and to get that ground stop the lifted. the good news sod the at this

airport -- today at this airport and at airports across the country we're not really seeing any major residual delays and cancellations. but this isn't the first time a tech problem has grounded flights this year. you'll remember back in january the faa issued a nationwide ground stop for all airlines because of its own technical issues, and that one did cause a travel mess. on top of that, near misses on runways across the country have increased nearly 25% over the last decade. transportation secretary pete buttigieg telling americans just a few days ago that flying is still the safest way to travel, but he did acknowledge he doesn't know exactly what's causing these near misses. >> as we've worked through the data and assessed what has happened in these cases, the truth is there is no single cause or single issue that explains it. sometimes we have seen issues with pilots, sometimes we have seen issues with controllers, sometimes we've seen an issue

with ground crews. >> reporter: passengers and politicians alike are looking for answers. just yesterday house oversight chairman james comer and a group of republicans requested information from the transportation department saying recent issues are, quote, placing the safety of americans at risk. it's also worth mentioning that united raised its third quarter fuel price outlook citing a jump in jet fuel prices 20% from mid july. we've seen it before, stu, but often times higher jet fuel prices means higher airfare for us. if stu? stuart: airport that the truth? grady, thank you very much, indeed. ashley, i want you to come in on this one, please. ashley: yeah. stuart: you and i, i presume, often have trouble with jet lag because we occasionally make very long trips to australia or new zealand. ashley: yep. stuart: i understand there is a cure for jet lag? ashley: well, there is.

it doesn't involve alcohol, by the way. new research shows eating a big breakfast once travelers reach their destination could help to avoid jet lag. researchers from northwestern university and the santa fe if institute built a mathematical framework actually to determine how travelers can best reset themselves in a new time zone and fend off jet lag. it's not easy. the researchers say beginning the day with a hearty breakfast can help travelers reset their sir decade circadian rhythm. on the other hand, constantly shifting meal schedules or having a meal at night, for instance, is discouraged because it can lead to misalignment between internal clocks. and, by the way, i just throw this one in as an aside, researchers also found that older travelers are more likely to need a few more days to perk up than their younger travel companions. i just threw that in. stuart: thank you very much, indeed, for that ashley. i shall ignore it. [laughter] one more for you. could we soon see flights with

just one night if. ashley: yes, we could, especially in europe where regulators are actually being pushed pretty hard to allow passenger planes to operate with only one pilot in the cockpit for the majority of a long haul flight. what could go wrong? some plane makers are even designing cockpits that need fewer pilots and, ultimately, no pilots at all. in the past many our craft had two pilots and the flight engineer. remember those days? two-pilot cockpits are now the norm, but on longer flights crews can even have three or four pilots to allow them to row tate and not overshoot their maximum flying hours. the idea of just a single pilot not sitting well with the airline unions who call it dangerous. they say the concept purely commercially driven with enormous risks for passengers, pilots and the cabin crew. but the push towards reducing the number of pilots onboard may take on new urgency. why many airlines complain they just can't hire enough pilots to keep up with demand. there you have it.

stuart: all right. thanks, ash. i've got to tell you, mark i wouldn't having any problem flying with one pilot. >> nor would i. i are a client who has a turbo prop aircraft, one pilot, and i'm like, oh, man, that sounds kind of scary. but if something, god forbid, were to happen to that pilot, there's a button you can press and it emergency lands at the nearest airport. so, no, i'd have no problem with it at all. stuart: one of them. marks, thanks very much, indeed. msnbc fawning over the transgender student, a biological male, who join a so record i think at the university of wyoming. watch this. >> -- who is a student at the university of wyoming and made history last fall as the first openly transgender woman to join a sorority. the very brave woman at the center of it all -- stuart: that student has been accused of peeping and making many girls uncomfortable. jason rantz on that next. muck finish. ♪ ♪ i'm begging you to beg me.

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stuart: a transgender student, a biological male transition dog female, joined a sorority. some members of the so -- sorority filed a lawsuit. they claim langford had become advisely a-- visibly aroused around the sisters, made them uncomfortable. now watch msnbc's interview. roll it. >> a student at the university of wisconsin made history as the first openly transgender woman to join a sorority. the very brave woman at the center of it is joining me now. it takes a brave and unique person to do this, to be a first. stuart: jason rantz with me now. a brave woman? any comment? >> yeah. not all heroes wear capes, i guess. you've got leftists who are so obsessed with signaling their support for transgender individuals that they pretend they're somehow e e so involved on gender identity and these issues, but they often overlook issues that probably should not

be overlooked. this particular individual has been accuse of being a peeping tom, of taking photographs of some of the sorority girls and making them deeply uncomfortable, and it feels absurd that we're going to pretend someone who is accused of this is somehow heroic because of a stance they're taking that just so happens to take a away space. safe spaces from women. stuart: but wait a second, jason. the judge dismissed the lawsuit. langford is in the sorority. >> correct. the judge dismissed the lawsuit as whether or not she is allowed to join, but that is separate from some of the allegations made against this individual and the conduct. i to do think that it's up to the sorority girls to, if this happens, to actually press charges, specific clue go to police and report some of the conduct. peeping tom is illegal behavior, so go ahead and report that. and go about it that way, because it doesn't seem like any sorority or fraternity for that matter will win some of these

cases in front of the wrong kinds of judges who seem to just ignore the fact that there are clear differences between men and women. stuart: this is your territory too. kings county oversight chief, basically the county watchdog, thinks america's criminal legal system is racist and broken. he wants radical change. okay, jason, what kind of change? >> well, what he wants to do is effectively dismantle and defund police departments, replace officers responding to 911 calls with social workers of some kind. he's been going off against police and sheriffs' deputies which is what he would oversee as a civilian oversight director for a very long time to the point where i did a report a few months agoen on his twitter feed. it was just filled with anti-police vitriol. this is the guy who is now in charge of overseeing investigations into deputies. so in other words, the guy who's constantly complaining about them is the one who would

oversee whether or not they might keep their job if some complaint is leveled against them. when you have someone who wants to take policing out of the criminal justice system because he believes that it is inherently corrupt and just part of this white supremacy culture, this is not the right position for someone like this to have. but in king county where seattle is located, unfortunately, that kind of anti-police sentiment is very top of mind. stuart: we've heard about it a lot, jason, from you. thank you very much are, indeed, jason rantz. see you again soon. it's that time, the wednesday trivia question. it's another good one. i have no idea about this. what is the most popular color for a home's exterior? light blue? white? light gray? you have white? cream -- offwhite? i have no clue. we'll look it up during the break, but we'll be right back with the answer. [laughter] ♪

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stuart: i'm going with off right cream. they off-white green, according to the national association of realtors. they have an exterior color, one in 5. >> yellow. >> purple. stuart: wrong. it is brown. thanks for sticking around, don't forget to send in your friday feedback, varneyviewers@fox.com. we are down 200 on the dow. time is up for me. coast-to-coast starts now. dave: member the toxic train tragedy in ohio? president biden will