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very interesting song for this month, september, september the 11th, 22 years on. dow industrials up 50. nasdaq up 67. very modest feigns. show me big tech today. we have winners, losers, amazon, meta, microsoft up. amazon down just 37 cents. where is the yield on the 10-year treasury? has is reached 4.30? yes it has. that is not good for the big tech companies. 4.031% on the 10-year treasury and now this. there is a reluctance to discuss publicly the president's age and acuity. it's not food when the commander-in-chief is in obvious mental and physical decline. it is painful to see, but it can't be avoided when examples of his decline. in vietnam sunday the tired president mum gelled through answers to press questions and

had to be rescued by his press secretary. watch this. president biden: i'm going to go to bed. >> mr. president? ♪ stuart: hear that, really didn't catch it. kjp had to come in on the loud speaker and call it quits, call the press conference off, usher the president out. he stumbles off the stage. the president of the united states addressing the world, says he wants to go to bed. his handlers are trying to protect him but there are so much he can do. he cannot stay silent and out of sight in a presidential campaign. the president turns 81 in two months. his decline has started and can only accelerate. headline in "the wall street journal," democrats start to panic about biden. privately some want him to announce he will not run for a second term, leave office now is the democrat here row who beat trump. the journal called it a party freakout. no wonder. a cnn poll, a cnn poll, has

trump beating him 47 to 46. his approval rating is all the way down to 39%. that means 61% disapproval rating. and a journal poll showed that thee out of four voters, that is 73% say he is too old. i sense this is coming to the boiling point. every time he appears in public, every time he makes a statement his frailty is on display. we're all reminded kamala harris as she says ready to take over. third hour of "varney" starts right now. ♪. steve hilton has joined us in new york. i'm not persuaded him to leave california full time but we got him in new york for at least the day. welcome to the show in new york. >> fantastic to be here with you on a very special day, stuart. i was watching some coverage

earlier. it just brought tears to my eyes. i remember experiencing all of that from a long way away in england and to be here in new york on this day is quite something. stuart: can you tell me what is the endgame here for president, is the endgame president harris? >> there is one person that thinks that is kamala harris. stuart: that's true. >> i think very few others including most democrats, particularly on this day, to see what we've just seen, on a day we think about america's role and reputation in the world, what america means to the world. that is what we're putting out there. it is absolutely pitiful. stuart: i get the sense that it is building and building, within the democrat party. it is not a public discussion, a very private discussion and they're passionate about it. they really need to make a change here. >> they do but can't make themselves to do it. there is one roadblock to that, biden himself. he is not listening to any of

this chatter he would go out gracefully, be the hero, many would dispute what heroics he could be praised for. he is not interested in that. this is the point, stuart, do not understand underestimate joe biden's vanity and narcissism. he has been plotting and scheming to get to the oval office since his '20s, 50 years. not to do anything with it, just be president. he will not just give that up, even obviously to everyone he should. in the end they can't force him out. as much as they may want him to realize reality he needs to agree to that in terms of kamala harris, the thing that is most interesting there in the terms of the dynamic is there are plenty of other candidates who want the job. gavin newsom you saw him out this weekend. he is actually playing it i think pretty cleverly. he knows if he moves against either joe biden or kamala harris, the party won't love him for it. he is positioning himself.

he is saying here i am. i'm ready if you need me. stuart: steve, i want you to listen to what the positive of california, gavin newsom says about a potential trump re-election. watch this, roll it. >> i don't, i hope we don't have to experience that. but i worry about democracy. i worry about the fetishness for autocracy we're seeing not just from trump but around the world, notably across this country. i made the point about desantis. i think he is functionally authoritarian. i'm worried more in many respects about trumpism, what transcends well beyond his term, time, tenure. i think vending against in donald trump's heart is more of a threat. stuart: a fetishness for autocracy. >> he says you can look around the world. you can look around the country. he doesn't have to look very far. he only has to look in his own state this weekend an astonishing story on the front page of "the new york times" about the autocracy going on

inside the university of california system. it is such a great representation where the left is these days. they have turned into thought policing. you only get hired in the university of california system once regarded as the greatest in the world if you sign up to propaganda and group think of the far left. you can't be hired, you can't be promoted. if you want to look at autocracy, authoritarianism right there in california. >> we're firing you up, steve. better stay for the hour. >> always a pleasure. stuart: we explode the next 60 minutes. stay there please. we have new numbers how californians feel be reparations. do they support it, lauren? lauren: actually no. 59% oppose it according to a uc berkeley poll. california established what, two years ago this reparations task force. research the issue, figure out the solution, maybe that could be the model to lead the nation for other places looking to do

reparations. turns out people overwhelmingly are saying no thank you. what did this task force recommend? a million dollars to each californian that was descendant of a slave. alongside other perks and benefits like eliminating child support debt and free tuition to public colleges. stuart: 59% oppose it,. >> 28% ported l support it. stuart: who are the 28%, steve? >> i don't know, far left democrats. people pushing this on the left, white, upper class, luxury leftists i call them. the people who don't face the consequences of any of these policies. by the way one thing i would add, on top of the state plan there is a san francisco reparations task force, another five million per person. $97,000 annually for two 250 years apparently. elimination of all debt, buy a house for one dollar. tucked away in the reparations report, we should thorough of

our coverage, 28% want no consequences for public urination. lauren: where do you stop? someone says i deserve this, maybe you do, but you have to stop somewhere because money doesn't grow on trees. stuart: i was kicked out of three newsrooms in san francisco in the 1970s because i have a british accent. >> racial wealth gap is real. black people in california else elsewhere have economic disadvantage. help them own their own home, start their own businesses, pay less taxes. all the things the left in california oppose. stuart: capitalism. we better get to the markets, we spent nearly eight, nine minutes on politics. can't forget the money. look at this the dow is up a mere 28. nasdaq up 77 points, very, very

modest gains. son katz with us this morning. i'm sure you saw this. jason. secretary yellen feels very good about a soft landing for the economy. how about you? >> hard to make a case for the a hard landing. soft landing is now entering into the equation. you have to take what powell and yell enfor that matter by a grain of salt. by definition her job is to be a cheerleader. on the other hand powell's job is to be debbie-downer. the more he is down on the economy and inflation, natural bond markets do a lot of heavy lifting. at the end of the day it is hard to make a case for a really bad economy when you have 3.8% unemployment. you see a trough in earnings and earnings revisions are to the upside. stuart: i read your stuff. you say the fed will talk tough but will not walk the walk. in other words, you're saying, at least one more rate hike is to come? >> possibly or maybe no more

rate hikes. there's definitely a catch 22, stu. you really have a lot of conflicting information out there in terms of more people entering the labor force. wages coming down a little bit. last week the service sector saw an increase in pricing. so the better the news is, the less of a chance of a hand landing, less of a chance of a hard landing, that means rates have to stay higher for longer. we're at this tipping point. i guess at the end of the day who really will decide if we're going into recession or not? it is powell and company. knowing that to your earlier point they will talk very tough. i'm not so sure they're going to walk it come november. certainly they will not do it next week. stuart: i will be interested in the cpi numbers on wednesday. that will move the market i suspect. >> core number. stuart: thanks very much, jason. lauren is looking at movies, movies, looking at disney and charter. did they reach a deal?

lauren: "wall street journal" yes they have, they reached an agreement that will store popular channels like espn ahead of "monday night football" in a few hours and abc to spectrum's nearly two million subscribers. this blackout lasted one week. stuart: if you couldn't watch aaron rodgers debut for the jets on "monday night football" you already. lauren: you missed the open. stuart: they're moving. lauren: spirit is up 1 1/2%. the news jetblue will sell spirit assets in boston and new york to allegiant, another rival carrier. they're working to win approval for their $3.8 billion takeover of spirit. they have to sell some of the assets so they're less big if you will. stuart: i noticed uber is up this morning. i bought that a couple months ago. i'm above water. why are they up today? lauren: ever hear of taskrabbit?

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country. the chair of the house select intelligence committee, some migrants, yes they're seeking a better life but others he says intend to do us harm and that's where the threat lies. turner says biden policy along the border or lack thereof has created a human tragedy of trafficking and a drug trade that has killed thousands of americans. even some democrats believe the border crisis is a threat to national security, even some democrats. new york city mayor eric adams has repeatedly called on as we know on washington to take action to stop the steady stream of migrants. stu. stuart: thanks, ash. new york's mayor adams calling out the administration on the migrant crisis. i says this is a federal issue, not a local issue. madison all worth reports. what is the mayor doing about it, madison? >> reporter: well, stuart as you have mentioned he is asking for more help from the federal government but in the meantime while this crisis rages on he announced 15% budget cuts to all city agencies.

so that 15% will be reached over a period of time. the first cut, 5%, needs to be done by november. we are talking about all city agencies from the nypd to the health department. all of this a direct result of the financial toll the migrant crisis is taking on the city. while the mayor increased frequency and intensity of his calls to the state and federal government for help, residents are frustrated with their response and local business owners like joe who is also lady gaga's father, say it did not have to come to this. >> i think, i think the mayor's got only himself to blame for this. the budget cuts, i mean, look, as far as i'm concerned there is not enough police officers now, there is not enough trash collection, et cetera, et cetera. now we're going too cut it again? that is why the city is deteriorating. >> reporter: he has seen this deterioration first-hand. the stratford arms hotel which

used to be dorm housing for arts college on upper west side of manhattan has been converted to a migrant shelter. residents in the area complain of late-night street partying and fights. police confiscating illegal motorbikes, having to arrest a migrant woman after assaulting the a police officer. moving single adult migrants used to live here to the tent city on randall's island, move migrants into the neighborhood. outside of new york city the biden administration is considering forcing migrant families to stay in texas. lawmakers on federal and local levels called to speed up work permits for migrants in order to lessen the financial burden on cities. others say doing so would further incentivize more people to come, it would worsen the situation. since last spring, new york city has seen over 110,000 migrants pass through. currently 60,000 are in the care of new york city. stu? stuart: madison, thank you very

much indeed. john catsimatidis joins me now, a prominent guy in this great city. john, is this city being destroyed as mayor adams says? >> we are systematically destroying our city. it is crazy what's happening. i suggested to mayor adams take rikers island, not randall's island where we're hurting our own kids, take rikers island, change the name to ellis island go. put them all on rikers island. vet them. yes, immigration. we want immigration. we don't want drug dealers. we don't want terrorists. and you know what they're doing, stuart? they are emptying out the jails in all countries in south america, sending them to america. now what i heard the other day. they're emptying out the hospitals with aids people, aids and sending go to new york.

they are going to cure you. meanwhile we both have a lot of people that are gay and, they have sex with these people with aids from america they will get sick. stuart: wait a minute. next week the president arrives in new york city. he is going to a u.n. summit. he is here to raise money. campaign financing, he wants donations. i want to know the name of those new yorkers who give money to a president who is in fact following policies that wreck new york city, are you with me? i want to know who is giving him money. >> i don't know who is giving him money. stuart: we should know. >> there is a way to find out. there is always a way to find out, what i'm concerned about he is in alaska today. russia is cutting oil production to raise prices. it is up to $90. opec nations cutting oil production. it is up to $90. why is he going to alaska cutting our production? it is going to cost the american

people money. stuart: you're in the oil business. >> yes i am. stuart: you run refineries, is it? >> we run refineries and pipelines and we buy all our oil, are you ready for this, from canada, north american crude oil. we sell gasoline made in america. produced, taken out of the ground in canada, produced in the united states. stuart: you see oil prices and all prices going up? >> it is out you out of control in alaska. you know who is controlling it? there is world war going on, not bullets, economic war. because of these oil prices we took a trillion dollars worth of money from north america, moved it over to asia, you know what russia is doing with the money? russia is using to it fight the war in ukraine and fight the war in africa. they got seven countries. stuart: sifting right next to you is steve hilton.

normally is in california. he is in new york today. i have got the price of gas in california right now for regular -- >> we know. stuart: 5.43. >> it is heading up. just before i get to that, just on this migrant point, what we're seeing here in new york with this ridiculous response from mayor adams, new york's numbers a fraction of what border states had to deal with for years, arizona, texas, so on. this huge fuss. what it shows these democrats are my sprayings nimbys. all for asylum-seekers immigration as long as it is not in their backyard. stuart: i have to go. thank you, john. steve stay here. gavin newsom has a plan if senator feinstein vacates her seat. >> it is my job. responsibility. we'll do it. >> abide by your pledge. >> interim appointment.

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into robot taxis. the dojo of mojo is tesla, the car company. stuart: i got it. the stock is up 21 bucks, that is extraordinary bolero. lauren: the bowling alley company. they heard of luck ski strike. recognizable name. >> i would have gone with the cigarettes. stuart: a cigarette brand a long-time ago. they're bowling alleys now. >> yes. stuart: sorry i interrupted. lauren: bowlero reported terrible numbers. opening more luck ski strikes even though the numbers were bad. stuart: covid cases are on the rise. some schools are indeed revisiting masks. jonathan serrie with us. where is this masking happening, jonathan or the report well one place it is happen something silver spring, maryland where a public elementary school imposed

a 10-day mask mandate in one classroom where at least three individuals tested positive for covid. here in atlanta, morris brown college recently came out of a two week mask mandate. administrators there imposed the mandate after reports of positive cases among students at neighboring institutions. while an uptick in covid related hospitalizations prompted some individual schools and colleges to reimpose mask requirements some state governments are pushing back including florida whose top health official who reiterated his opposition to mandates. >> these people who want to control your behavior, they want to control all of our behavior to what ends again, nothing pretty at the end of that road. that's their, that's one of the avenues that they take. >> reporter: all they straighted covid hospitalizations nationwide a fraction of what they were during previous surges. federal health officials say a

combination of vaccination, natural immunity and improved treatment puts the nation in a better place. >> that doesn't mean that there is mandates but please know what tools are available to protect yourself. we just want you to be healthy and i want you to be with your family at thanksgiving. >> reporter: the new director of the cdc recommends people take voluntary precautions based on what's going on in the community as well as their personal level of risk and level of risk of those around them. stu? stuart: jonathan, thanks very much indeed. look who is here now, dr. nicole saphier. doctor, do we really need kids to be masking up again? >> stu, certainly i can tell you i won't be putting my children in masks anytime soon and was just mentioned yes, hospitalizations slightly increased. remember there are less than 25% of what they were in 2021, less than what they have they were in 2022. while they are increasing a little bit, they are going to

plateau soon, they will go back down. by the way we'll have another rise in the winter. this is the ebb and flow of respiratory season, cold, flu and covid season. we're going to have to get used to this. i agree with the new cdc director. i haven't said that much the last few years, this is all about individual risk. there is no place for mandates when it comes to masks or boosters. individual risk assessment moving forward. stuart: doctor, i'm sure you saw the president's performance at his press conference in vietnam yesterday. it was a very difficult performance. his frailty was definitely show egg. i want to bring you on the show you have ideas about our aging political leaders. how do we make changes, how we check up on them, what is your ideas? >> that's right. so i wrote a piece for foxnews.com, this is a growing concern. i'll be honest as a physician and as a human being watching some of these interactions with senator biden, senator feinstein, mitch mcconnell some more they're clearly struggling. we have an aging political

class. so moving forward, let's take the senate for example, over a third of our senate is over 70 years old. 2/3 of americans over 70 have some sort of cognitive decline. so statistically speaking some members of our senate definitely is some cognitive decline. we have to demand from our politicians psyching election, seeking re-election we need them to have live events. you need to have debates. president biden is refusing to debate. he didn't do much debating in the last election cycle. i think that in person events are crucial for the public to see our politicians and how they interact. we also need to support the open transparency of physical and cognitive valuations from all politicians. this shouldn't be age based. you can have cognitive physical decline of any age. we need to avoid ageism but be transparent with the american people about reality of cognitive decline. we need a strong conversation about term limits.

continuing the same people is not only stagnation of thought but also puts at risk our aging political class. stuart: doctor, you make a lot of sense. thanks very much for being on the show this morning. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: see you again soon. thank you, doctor. governor newsom talking about what he would do if senator fine stain vacates her seat. lauren: h. lauren: he doesn't want to get involved shaping up to be a pretty messy democratic primary for feinstein's seat. she is 90. three democrats are running to replace her, congresswoman barbara lee, katie porter, congressman adam schiff. >> i don't want to make another appointment. i don't think the people of -- stuart: you would end up appointing both seats. >> if we have to do it we'll do it. >> abide by your pledge? >> interim appointment. don't want to get involved in the primary. lauren: primary march 5th. he doesn't want to get involved. stuart: look at this, communist revolutionary group burned

american flags outside of jason aldean's concert over the weekend. screamed anti-american slogans. this is about his new song. you remember that, try that in a small town. texas senator ted cruz will be here. he will respond to those protests and a lot more. he is next. ♪. ♪

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♪. stuart: yes, it is 9/11, 22 years on. i want to bring in retired green beret, john paluska. john, i want you on the show because you were the youngest volunteer on 9/11, 22 years ago today. take me through your story, please. >> yes. so i grew up in iowa. then migrated to new york city,

went to fordham university up in the bronx. i had two tickets to yankees game. i thought that was going to be my day. unfortunately i woke up to the news to the events that were occurring. i knew help was needed. i didn't know which capacity. kind in very early chaos after seeing the second tower fall from the top of my dormitory i went down on the empty subway, found myself being asked to help in the recovery and rescue efforts. so i spent six days on top of ground zero, you know. unfortunate bagging a couple of victims. you know that really changed my life as a brand new freshman. stuart: did you then go out and join the army, become a green beret because of what you'd seen? >> yeah, i think many military members were influenced by that day, but for me, had much significance, walked off the actual pile. so the next month i went to a recruiter started enlistment process.

i served in the army for about a total of 15 years, until i was medically retired in 2017, deployed to iraq, afghanistan a few other occasions. stuart: i want to add to your story. i believe you've been helpful getting afghan intelligence people out of afghanistan back to america. did you handle, was it mr. habib? >> habib. stuart: you got him out? >> yes, so himself and me. he is a very smart individual as a intel sergeant. habib unfortunately is not eligible for the special immigrant visa we've been working for because he has been on a number of al qaeda hit lists, we got him through iran and turkey, now he is hiding in a safe location. he is still at risk being extra ex interest serving myself and many veterans want to insure there are reasons for 2977 victims and for those that we

served alongside for the last 20 years. stuart: john, a remarkable day. thank you for being here. we appreciate your service and your experience. >> thank you. stuart: thank you, sir. coming up texas senator ted cruz will be here in new york. we'll talk to him about biden's disasterous response to the border crisis. the senator is next. ♪.

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♪. stuart: 22 years on since the attacks on september 11th, 2001. jacqui heinrich at the white house. jacqui, how is the president commemorating today? >> reporter: well, stuart, this year the president becomes the first since the attacks not to spend the day on u.s. soil. air force one is not going to touch down in alaska until later on this afternoon. he will be meeting with military families later on at a refuel stop on his return trip from asia. however the white house has defended the criticism that has been coming at the president over this, over his plans not to attend any 9/11 observances at

the memorial sites in new york city, virginia, or pennsylvania, pointing to 2015 when president obama participated in a moment of silence on the white house lawn before heading to ft. meade and also 2005, when president bush marked the anniversary in the same way. vice president hair rivers and second gentlemen were at the 9/11 norm medical this morning and first lady jill biden participated in a wreath-laying at the pentagon. >> the president is going to mark the anniversary of september-venth attacks in alaska as you just mentioned with servicemembers and their families as he has done every year, as he has done every year he plans to honor the lives lost and family and loved ones still feel the pain of the terrible day. this is something he feels is very important to do. >> reporter: before departing hanoi president biden visited the memorial for the late senator john mccain who was a prisoner of war there for about five years after his skyhawk

dive bomber was shot down by the north vietnamese during the vietnam war. >> how does that make you feel, mr. president? [inaudible] president biden: [inaudible] >> glad you could be here? >> reporter: president biden will return to the white house a little bit after midnight tonight, stuart. stuart: jacqui, thank you very much indeed. senator ted cruz republican from the great state of texas joins me now. 22 years on since september 11th, 2001 what are you doing to come mem rate this day? >> i'm here in new york. i started this morning at a fire station, engine 54, truck 4, battalion 9 which lost 15 firefighters on september 11th they had a memorial i was honored to go to pay my respects, remembered not only those brave firefighters

but the families who were there grieving. i just came from st. patrick's cathedral. we had a mass to remember 343 firefighters who lost their lives on that day as they demonstrated extraordinary heroism. i got to say, stuart, one of the things that i talked about at the memorial this morning is there are some young people who don't remember 9/11, seniors in college weren't alive. stuart: it is not mentioned in schools these days. >> if you're a young professional, you're 25, 26, 27 years old, in all likelihood you have no memory of what happened on september 11. those of us enough to remember that day, won't ever forget the ongoing horror. on september 11th, in washington, d.c., my apartment was less than a mile from the pentagon and my wife heidi was working at the white house. the look of horror as we saw

that day play out, first, when the first plane hit the first tower and the confusion you will remember, nobody knew, is this an accident, was this a cessna, did a pilot have a heart attack? then with the cameras live everyone watched that second plane hit the second tower. you saw it was a full on jet airplane, you realized in an instant what it was and, and we staired at ongoing horror as the flames rose, the image they don't show on tv anymore, people at the top of the towers as flames got closer and closer, choosing to jump. you would see body after body of people falling, 100, 110 stories and dying and then the moment, the moment that i think is indelibly scarred into our hearts is when the to you he collapsed. stuart: it is. >> across the globe millions of people said the same thing, said, oh, my god.

you realized you were watching thousands of people being murdered in an instant. and it is the most serious act of terrorism this nation has ever seen but it is also one of the most extraordinary moments of bravery, 343 firefighters who run, ran into the tower as everyone else was running out and the police officers and first-responders, that is who america is. stuart: compare new york city 22 years ago and new york city today? 22 years ago, america was the lone superpower. >> yeah. stuart: we had been clobbered in new york city and came back strong. >> yeah. stuart: new york city today is a shambles have you been walking around? have you seen it? >> it is heartbreaking. i was visiting with many new yorkers how it seems the younger new yorkers have forgotten the lessons of the 1970s, have forgotten how bad the crime can be. have forgotten how bad things can get. we can clean this up.

we can fix this up. we saw mayors, mayors like rudy giuliani come in and put the criminals in jail and clean up the streets and make it so that people felt safe to walk on the street and i got to say that there is something else looking back 22 years ago, not only can the city be safe and our other great american cities, san francisco, chicago, l.a. can be safe too, not only that, remember the unity we had on september 12th. remember are when george w. bush stood on a pile of rubble with a bullhorn and a man called out said we can't hear you. but president bush said we can hear you, and soon the whole world will hear you. it was an extraordinary moment where there were no political parties. we weren't white or black or hispanic. we weren't red states or blue states, we were unified as one nation with a level of resolve that was extraordinary and i hope we can get back to that. i hope we can remember that

being an american is, is fundamental and ties us together. stuart: but new york city is dealing with a tiny fraction of the border problem that cities in texas are dealing with every single day. >> look, you're exactly right. i know you have seen many times mayor adams talking about how 110,000 illegal immigrants is destroying new york city. i don't disagree with him, but it is a tiny fraction, we had 7.2 million illegal immigrants coming into this country, the vast majority coming through texas. i got to say last week we saw this astonishing proposal from the biden white house, let's keep all the illegal immigrants in texas. stuart: stay in texas. >> it is illegal, hypocritical and wrong. stuart: i'm out of time. always appreciate it, sir, many things. more "varney" after this.

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