♪ imus in the morning >> we're going deeper and deeper and deeper into debt to china? the obamacare website is still anything, but secure. and some big named stocks will be moving big time today. good morning, everyone. we now owe china 1 trillion, 317 billion dollars, that's a record. so are the interest payments that will flow to them from us. they promised an obamacare security fix. they still have not delivered. that's what security professionals will tell congress today. you're info is not safe. on the corporate front, best buy sales down. the stock drops 20%. j.c. penney closes stores, lays off 2000. the politicized national labor relations board goes after wal-mart, no surprise there,

but some amazon workers reject unionization. thursday, january the 16th, "varney & company" is about to begin.

>> in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from 5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents, number 43 added 4 trillion dollars by his lonesome. so we now have over 9 trillion dollars of debt that we're going to have to pay back, $30,000 for every man, woman and child. and that's irresponsible. it's unpatriotic. stuart: oh, that was then candidate barack obama calling our national debt unpatriotic, 2008, but look where he's taken us six years later, the treasury department mistakenly leaking startling numbers of china

china's debt. remember, please, they are correcting interest on that debt every day. that's money that flows out of america into china and their ownership of our debt gives them massive leverage over america. remember this ad put out by citizens against government waste? >> . [laughter] >> very funny. it started to look like that scene may not be too far from the truth. and japan owns 1.1 trillion dollars worth of our debt. all right, time is money and we say it every day. so, here, 30 seconds worth of headlines all from hollywood. big time movie producer harvey weinstein, the and who brought us violent movies like "pulp

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comment? >> two stories here, number one, it shows that this year, we're going to rely increasingly upon the health of the foreign economy, chinese being one and japan the other and europe. we're going to need them to stay healthy and continue to buy our bond so we can continue our growth. stuart, why is everybody mad about the fact, how does the treasury let that out a day before it's supposed to come out. there's two stories here and i'm worried about the second one as well. stuart: we've got you, scott. get to that opening bell and we're down 14 points after 17 seconds worth of business. the dow at 16,-- >> what bothers a lot of people, our debt, the leverage it gifts to foreigners and the interest payments we give to china and japan. what do you make of this?

>> as much as we talk about america's success, if we want to you can is seed -- to succeesucceed, we better hopy keep buying. stuart: it doesn't affect our markets immediately, right, keith? >> that's correct, this is an economic, fundamental issue, not necessarily a market issue, so if you can recognize the two, it's the more they spend, the better off we are. stuart: it's a political issue, too, to some agree. i've got corporate stuff to deal with, weak sales in the all important holiday season for best buy. down it goes. nicole, how bad? >> wow, this is a tough day for best buy shareholders. it's down almost 31%, they started a heavy promotional environment on black friday that continued right into the holiday season to try and compete against names like wal-mart. it did not do well for them. on-line was the one bright spot for best buy, but obviously, and also tight supplies,

another thing they spoke about for best buy. >> ouch. >> just like that. and profits down and goldman sachs made 2 1/4 billion dollars profit in the last quarter of last year. and where did goldman >> not even 1/2 of a percent to the down side. and bonds is their weakness and that's usually a source of gains for them, but not this round. fixed incomes and commodities and that dropped 15% and they reported a 21% drop in quarterly profit. and some of the other guys actually did well in those areas. >> i've got more big names, marisa mayors first hire is out at yahoo! the stock is down nearly 2%. keith fitz-gerald, are you buying yahoo!? >> no, i'm not. i think they have problems. i like what marisa mayors is

doing, i wonder if it's her and her direction or yahoo! itself. stuart: j.c. penney is closing 33 stores, they're trying to stop the bleeding. usually moves like this help a company's stock. is that right, keith? would you buy this stock? >> usually it does, it's iconic brand and actively looking to short it, i think it's dead on arrival. stuart: the danger that j.c. penney works away from retailing. >> i don't think it's here in five years. stuart: facebook losing cool with some youngsters, we've heard this story before. according to a new report, 11 million youngsters have abandoned facebook since 2011. sandra smith is here, do you think that's a big problem for facebook? >> let's be sure here to point out that investors have not-- don't think that facebook lost its cool. the stock is up 82% since it went public. these numbers if true, because these are not facebook numbers, but taken from the advertising platform on the site, could be

devastating for facebook. not only the 13 to 17 range has lost a quarter of users over the past three years, but college students, down 59% over the same period. high school students down 59%. who's on it and who has grown the demographic? it's mom and dad and grandma and grandpa. >> hold on a second. mom and dad and granddad and grand pop. here's the ones with the money. teenagers don't have money. >> teenagers have lots of money and they spend lots of your money, stuart. come on, you have six kids and you know they're out there spending the money and the advertisers want the younger demographic and right now they're leaving. >> there's no need to get personnel. hold on a second. another social network also may be losing its cool. snap chat, and here is why. senator rand paul announcing he's joined the snap chat community. in part because he doesn't want the nsa to have access to his posts. i don't think that's-- >> look who is joining snap

chat. >> that doesn't make snap chat lose its cool. >> so this is a little bit after questionable move. because you know how snap chat works. >> i do. >> you take a picture and it goes away, take questionable photos. stuart: i know, i know. >> since he announced he's going to start doing this tonight, he's got 700 likes. so people obviously think it's cool for senator paul to be cool on senate chat. stuart: i think that young people think rand paul is cool, regardless what he does with snap chat. they like the guy. >> if he's not there, he's got to be somewhere. stuart: and nlrb, claiming 19 employees were fired as a result, what's your comment on this one, sandra smith? >> so, they're organizing the-- this was all -- this is one of the biggest things that could be run against wal-mart ever by the way. at first size and scope is what i'm talking about. this is our wal-mart.

they've been pressing on wages, on benefits and easier for them to organize the union. wal-mart responded and said bring it on. you can't expect the workers to come and go as they please which they were during the protests and not be held for it. >> as i said earlier, this is a politicized move against wal-mart. the nlrb is highly political. they're very much pro labor. we could have expected this. it could damage wal-mart, you think? all right, we'll see. this is from the other side of the fence, amazon. workers there, a very small number of workers, in a warehouse, voted to reject an initiative to form a union. keith fitz-gerald, what's your comment on that one? >> good, i don't think they should. amazon is a capitalist thing and money is going where it's traded best, they don't want that in their house. stuart: you're such a conservative, i'm surprised you live in oregon, it's extraordinary. are there any other

conservatives in oregon? a couple bopping around there. >> maybe mai'm the only one, i don't know. stuart: and amazon, we know they're working on projects, delivery drones, got that. vending machine for the kindle e-reader. but there are reports that amazon has a brand new product coming down the pipe one they're calling bigger than the kindle. who better to look at this than the editor and chief mark spoonhour. what have they got? >> could have a few things up their sleeves, couple of things we're hearing, the smart phone for amazon kind of deliverying products at chief prices. if you're a prime member today. you can get cop tent for free. and the carriers, they worry more about growth than profit a and--

>> that's a possibility for a smart phone? >> yes. stuart: and they could feed their content to you on their smart phone. >> and also make it easy to shop for stuff on their smart phone. stuart: of course, another extension into the hardware arena. >> that's right. stuart: possibility number two? >> think of a set top box that could compete with apple tv and r row-- roku. they're creating their own content and tv studio similar to what netflix is doing. imagine that coming into your home and competing against the likes of apple tv or roku. if they're smart they'll find other ways. let's say they're watching live tv and seeing something you like. adding something to the wish list so everyone knows about it or buy it from the couch. if anyone can do it, they can. stuart: that's fascinating. from a business standpoint because that puts them into the living room and makes it easy for you to take the content and buy through them. i got that. from a personal standpoint does

this mean a set top box with one remote? >> i hope so. stuart: so do i. >> i'd love to see some live tv pass through. xbox is doing it today because they're combining the games with live tv. so i think that amazon could do something like this, too. stuart: how secure are you in making this speculation about a smart phone and a set top box? >> i think they're both fairly likely for 2014 because a lot of hires they've made the last couple of years, they've hired people away from windows phone, from palm and other places like that and doing that for a reason and it's not just to bolster their tablet business. one last juicy bit of gossip from cbs and one saw a son aman person around a glass competitor. the way they can consume content wearing video goggles on the plane or train and feeding amazon content to your retina. something they could explore

for 2015. it could be on the horizon. stuart: you think one of those things are coming. >> yes. stuart: yes. >> i do. stuart: you're on videotape saying that. mark spoonauer. thank you. we've had two back to back days, the dow went up triple digit gains and now we're down 60. and google is extending its reach, first robotics companies and now they're branching out into hotels? we'll have the details next. those litt things still get you. cialis tadalafil for daily use

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>> two days of triple digit gains and today holding above 16,400 as of now. the price of gold, where are we? 1242, not much change, up $3 an ounce this morning. target executives going to testify before congress in february over the data breach that affected 100 million people. target stock is down on this. and the syrian electronic army threatens microsoft with more hack attacks. i do own microsoft stock and it's down one cent. no impact from that syrian electronic army news. google is working on providing 360 degree looks for hotels. does that mean trouble for hotels.com?

and let me see if i've got this right. i can go on google maps, i look at a hotel, they give me a 360 complete round view of the hotel room i'm thinking of. then i can go to google wallet and book that hotel room. that's a nightmare for hotel.com. that's a-- >> and how huge the travel industry is. expedia inc. is the parent company to hotel.com is the largest global travel agency in the world and yet we only make up 3%, just 3% of the 1 trillion dollars travel industry space so there's so much room for players to grow. i think that's the first important thing. stuart: that's a very honest admission. that's very honest. i was expecting you to say, no, no, google, we don't care, but that's very good. make your second point. go. >> okay.

the second thing i say is content is obviously important when people decide where to book a hotel room. i travel, you travel. i'm sure the viewers travel. we want to know as much as possible about a hotel where you get there. nobody likes a nasty surprise, right? so photos are definitely important and we have high quality photos on hotels.com and we actually just released an updated iphone and ipad app, almost exclusively featuring high fault photography, but you know, stuart, it's not just photos that are important, guest reviews, guest reviews are super, super important to people and what i say about hotels.com is that we have over 10 million verified guest reviews and that word verified is really important. so, what that means. stuart: how do you verify is. how do you verify? >> it's a great question. so, a customer actually has to book their hotel through hotels.com, they actually have to stay at the hotel and then after their stay is completed,

we e-mail them a specific link to leave a review for that hotel. they can't just come to hotels.com and leave a review for any hotel, you actually have to stay there. just another piece of content. >> i would have thought that the principal storm of competition is price. i mean, you can compete on price, i take it? >> oh, definitely. so, price is really important, but something that, you know, often working in the travel industry and family and friends say what tips can you give us on getting great deal and travel. price obviously matters and you have to be competitive on price, which hotels.com is. but other things matter. too. so we have a loyalty program called welcome rewards and my husband always jokes at a cocktail party, i've become a walking advertisement for welcome rewards for hotels.com. it's the best in the industry.

stuart: i'm sorry, i'm out of time. you just delivered a terrific, terrific commercial for hotels.com. you come again soon. >> thanks again, stuart. stuart: it's a pr nightmare for sea world. a documentary exposes what it says is behind the company, mistreated whales and after the break more on fox business. ♪

>> talk about expanding your customer base, linkedin have as pointed the first in china chief. and united melt says that -- united health says it's going to be better, the question is will they get a bailout from obamacare? the website is far from secure. tens of thousands of people's personal information exposed and the administration is doing little or nothing to prevent it. i'll have my take on that. 10:25 this morning. a pr nightmare for sea world

all starting with a documentary. that film exposes not only mistreatment of animals, according to the movie, but an unsafe and even deadly work force. one worker was killed by one of the whales. elizabeth macdonald is here with exclusive information on this. first up, the feds, seems like they are going after sea world. >> yeah, that's right. osha is saying unsafe working conditions for employees at sea world. sea world is battling osha in federal appeals court right now and court documents that fox business has obtained show that basically what sea world is telling the trouble about its whales not being aggressive, that its whales not, basically putting the workers in unsafe conditions, that's what sea world is also telling fox business. these documents show this, that the whales, including tilikum, the one that killed this

worker, sometimes lunging towards control trainer. and that's six months before the trainer was killed. stuart: so they are defending against is attack from this movie from animal rights activists as well. now, the ceo claims that that movie, i think it's called "black fish" is that right? >> yes. stuart: he says look, it's an activist movie. that's all it is. it looks like the guy is in damage control, isn't he? >> yes, this is a classic story how does a company handle a hit to its brand. they say it's unfair, it's slanted and we rehabilitate animals, 23,000 last year and doing the while trainer shows for decades. here is what's at issue, osha says you cannot train out of a killer whale its predatory instincts. so that it's still not hitting the stock. the stock is up in trading day. >> it's a publicly traded stock. i think it's up today. whoo ill--

while we're looking at that. i believe some musical acts have canceled going to sea world. look at that. >> the stock is up over 4%. what's happening is sea world is out recently pre-announcing just revenues, just sales numbers, record sales numbers for 2013. not pre-announcing profit, not pre-announcing costs, that's an issue. what you're seeing here music acts are canceling. reports indicate trace atkins, willie nelson, pat benetar and heart. we're doing a two-part series, first is quality of earnings concerns sea world, blackstone bought it, took it public and loaded it up with a lot of debt and that's an issue for sea world, a lot of that debt is coming due over the next six years or so, so we need the cash flow to come in the door. stuart: it seems like the defense is working at the moment. >> you know, i tell you the numbers they're using is the own version of cash flow, so it's inflated that adjusted

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speak to good morning, everyone. welcome to our second hour. we ask this question, will african americans deserted the democrats this year? no work, no welfare.

how do you feel about that? two products preying on fear. folds soaked to clean your disease plagued cell phone. congress right now here's about obamacare security. your info is not secure. ♪ ♪ stuart: try this for size. here is a big eye-opening number. that is how much america's that china owns. it is a new record high. remember, they will collect interest. the money flows out of america

and into china. charles: it is very expensive to run the welfare state. pennsylvania, the chinese invested $40 million. they are buying america on the cheap. they are very smart. our government cannot -- >> eight equals the size of spain or indonesia. will china have to sell its treasury? especially if inflation kicks in. it is an overhang issue. stuart: we borrowed that kind of money from them. they have leverage over us.

>> would they damage their own holdings, though. stuart: i have to move on to what i will call the stock of the day. best buy. weak holiday sales. how bad is it now? nicole: a tough, tough day. down 31% at the open. it has improved slightly. walmart did not do well. they just did not have the supplies in tablets and folds of the like. online was the only bright spot. stuart: 28% down for the stock is tough. well said. goldman sachs made $200 billion

ofit. that profit was down. charles: it is not necessarily a big deal. what are they buying? they can make money when main street is not making money. goldman sachs is near all-time highs. if they run into trouble tomorrow, everyone watching the show will have to write a check to them. stuart: they make a lot of money. it is extraordinary. two headlines on obamacare for you. a group of cyber security professionals warning the government you fail to fix security problems on that website. there is a hearing into that going on right now.

more than 20 vulnerabilities are still not fixed. should the government keep on advertising and saying come on in, sign up for obamacare. >> no, it should not. you have a government mandated insurance. the information has been at risk of cyber attack. there is a new legislation from -- charles: it will not even get voted on. stuart: they do not have to tell you they lost to her

information. basketball legends to promote obamacare. magic johnson. the ads will begin airing thursday. charles: it is their prerogative stuart: i wonder if they are getting paid. >> big people at high places owing him a favor. stuart: some democrats are clearly abandoning president obama. yesterday, the president met in north carolina. even presidents former reverend blasting the president.

montana's former democrat governor wants to run for president. >> brian, if you cannot think of something nice to say about something, change the subject. stuart: here is crystal right. i have a serious question for you. do you think the african american community will walk away from the president this election year? >> i think black americans are getting really disgruntled at our promise maker, our president called barack obama.

you have high unemployment which has consistently been in double digits since the president took office. at the same time, you have black americans, as you know, voted for the president over 90% both times. what do they get out of it? we have immigration. all of these things do not really affect the prosperity of black americans. i think blacks are scratching their heads. stuart: i do not think you thats will jump ship and suddenly stop voting republican. you are a conservative. i think the best you can hope for is african americans stay home. they do not vote. >> no. i believe in the constitution.

i would never encourage any american to stay at home and not vote. stuart: i am saying that may be what happens. >> i think it is possible that black americans may stay at home during the midterm election. depending on who the nominee is, they could very well stay home in 2016 bid i think we are looking way ahead of this. it creates a door opening for the republican party. what are we doing? we are sitting on the sidelines. frankly, we need other faces, i talk about this a lot, i love you, stuart, i love all of my white friends, but that is not enough. we need to go ask for votes. [laughter] charles: i grew up from harlem

and bronx, if you listen to our conversation, you would have thought they were in the tea party. when you mention it depends on who is running, it depends on who is running on each side. i think it depends on who the candidate is for the republicans, as well as the democrats. stuart: which republican candidate do you think african-americans would go out and vote for? >> i think before governor christie had these issues, he was definitely in the space of being taken seriously by black americans.

i think rand paul is a contender. i think we need to put aside the speculation of who is a front runner. what happened to her? senator barack obama slipped in. we the people are going to decide. i think it is premature to be talking about front runners. stuart: crystal right. conservative black chick. thank you very much. after the break, profiting off year. cashing in on the polar vortex. the fear factor may be working. that is next. ♪ hopes on a feeling will go i'm high on believing ♪ ♪ that you're in love with me both go the logo

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stuart: a little violent, wouldn't you say? that was from "pulp fiction." mr. weinstein says he will produce an antigovernment movie that will make that nra wish they were not alive. he does not believe that we need guns in this country. we often give our next guest a hard time. this time it is the fear of the polar vortex. welcome back. >> i do not create fear. it is clinically proven. you get better. it is really that simple.

people purchase the product because -- stuart: the polar vortex that a 30% increase in flu cases, if i am not mistaken. >> this has to do with reality. it got really cold across the country and people got sick. across the country, states went from high alert. people are sick across the country. they should be going to their pharmacists. they should be getting their flu shots. stuart: prophase labs. let's do some research. >> i am not here to promote my stock. i do not want to provoke my stock.

i would not do it if i did not believe in my brand. >> you are an articulate spokesman for the product. stuart: you came in from the outside. they brought you in. >> i actually provided the original working capital. charles: that is when all the zinc -based stocks were going through the roof. >> we had consumers started starting to purchase the stock. marketing had dried up. i came and turned around the

brand. we have grown each and every year. stuart: you are up against the big guys. >> the big guys are providing, for the most part. you take them and you feel better for two-four-six hours. those products are symptom relievers. after the product wears off, it you have to take it again and again. stuart: you are the most articulate promoter of your product and company. >> roughly 1 billion calls every

year. we are talking seven-nine days. you could save 304 billion sick days. as i'm walking off the program, i run into charles in the hallway last time. charles said this is great because the staff is all asking for you. >> you know you are a popular guest would you bring free samples for the crew. 2 i love being on the show. stuart: charles will make us some money.

charles: bring your own device. i have an apple, someone else has a samsung. it is driving everyone nuts. the device management. i think it will be huge. the problem is the height. i think it is starting to actually happen. markets to client. it is one of the few times it is not a yellow flag. i think this could be a $30 stock. exchange.gov. i think that is healthcare .valve. far from secure.

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stuart: breaking news, mitch macconnell says 40 senators will file a revolution of disapproval . coal stocks have been hammered under the obama administration so far. they are up. you have to look at best buy. weak holiday sales. down it goes. 26%. companies are trying to make money off of them. do you think they are profiting from fear? plus, talking about the push to require people who work that are on food stamps. the obamacare website is still not secure. your info remains at risk to

hackers. should the administration keep urging people to sign up? the simple answer is no. it is wrong to force people to diebold should in very personal information without taking every possible step to keep it secured. security experts say your info is still not protected. they say the floors have not been fixed. david kennedy runs a respected security company. he took a few minutes to write a software program. he plugged it into the healthcare .gob website and he came up with 70,000 personal records. he did this after a fix had been promised. some of these experts will be testified before congress what a contrast with targets

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stuart: that an lr delta is accusing of retaliating against workers who participated against protests. a quick take on that. charles: they will never stop going after walmart. it is par for the course, if you will. stuart: next, amazon workers, they voted to reject an initiative to form a union. charles, i was surprised by that. charles: only 27 workers. the vote was 21-six.

it was overwhelmingly a rejection. they make good money. these guys, i think, listen, they had a choice. the union is pretty bruised up right now. stuart: more stock stories for you now. charles: six times last year. here is another sweet thing about this. stuart: i like that.

jcpenney closing 33 stores. that puts 2000 people out of a job. charles: it should have been massive. these kind of baby steps open them up for scrutiny. i think they have a big enough balance sheet to turn it around. stuart: according to some studies, your smart phone could have more germs on it thinner average public restroom. companies are already capitalizing on this.

it is called the phone soap. it uses ultraviolet light to clean your vote it charges your phone at the same time. come on in the phone scope soap cofounder. >> thank you for having us on. i have one of these things. your phone fits in there. it has ultraviolet light here. it cleans it. it charges it. serve, how much? >> they are $50. you can find it directly on our website. stuart: are you playing on fear? your phone is dirtier than a public bathroom. >> well, so, our bodies are good

at taking care of bacteria. the normal amount of bacteria is actually good for us. the idea is there are a couple services that we have created, the phones that are one of them, that have a high amount of back area. we are trying to level the playing field. stuart: i think you are playing mostly to the germ phobic's. the people that are extremely worried about germs around them. that is a relatively small market, is it not? >> larger debut with think. there are germ of obex and there are those that are concerned with general hygiene. when your hands get dirty, you wash them. winter keys get dirty -- when your teeth get dirty, you brush

your teeth. it saves clean until you would get them dirty again. we have designed it that everyone has a habit of charging your phone. this allows cleaning to be part of that habit. stuart: all right, we hear you. we appreciate you being with us. thank you very much, indeed. more proof that 3d printing is the next big thing. the software company, adobe,

they say you will be able to design something on photoshop then printed out using a 3d printer. i think, charles, that opens up 3d technology to a much bigger market. charles: it could be this christmas, if not this christmas, the next christmas. stuart: you can design what your product will look like in function. charles: one of the names --

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♪ stuart: yahoo! second in command marissa mayer's first higher out after failing to increase ad revenue. big numbers from goldman sachs. it was down, however, in the stock is down two dollars. 1.3%. best buy reported weak sales for the all-important holiday season. the stock is down 26%. facebook may be losing its cool.

youngsters have abandoned the network. facebook stock does not care. up $0.30. link in has appointed its first china chief. look at it go. 5% higher. next, welfare, should you have to look for a job to get it? ♪ mine was earned orbiti the moon in 1971.

afghastan, in 2009. on the u.s.s. saratoga in 1982. [ male announcer ] once it's ened, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a serior level of protectn. and because usaa's commitment to serve current and former miliry members and their families is wiout equal. begin your legacy. get an au insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. stuart: look at this. netflix gets its first ever

oscar nomination. i doubt it has had any impact on the stock. more than a half percent. nicole: we are talking about the first oscar nomination. kevin spacey, house of cards, nominated for an award. netflix very relevant in the award ceremony. stuart: i think it is a fascinating company. we have star parker with us. she is a former welfare cheese.

i take it you think that the work requirement is a good thing for food stamp recipients. i am glad that congressman steve sutherland brought it up on the floor. we have allowed government to go unchecked. they are reckless men. work is important for self-worth stuart: when you were a welfare

chief, you were very good at it. i have heard the story. you knew how to milk the system. >> it is simple to get around it. the fact that we require it as american people, 90 million people on food stamps is not healthy. yes, there are ways to get around the system, if you will. most americans are not looking for ways to get around whatever type of flaw is in place. you have to get up off the couch. you have to be this. stuart: if i say i think the

rules on allowing people to receive food stamps should be really tightened, back to where they were before president obama loosen the regulations, if i say that, i am called harsh. i am taking food out of children's mouths and i am a bad guy. can you get around the demagoguery? >> i hope that steam holds his ground on this. we have done it for 50 years. the end result is chaos. we have to stop this from spilling out. stuart: i asked this of crystal wright.

do you think african americans will walk away from the democrats and walk away from president obama? >> i think they are stuck in yesterday. it is like your family. the more he does, the more he gets away with when it comes to this community. i do believe that the senate will change in the next election cycle and we will be able to slow down this tyranny that he has against american culture. stuart: tyranny that he has against american culture. >> it is inconsistent with the very things that will help the black community on an economic

path of success. the news that they hear is from the left. the hard-core left. welfare is not good for any community. charles: you watch stuart varney all the time. we will just keep pushing it out. stuart: you can come back any time. a double standard for eric holder.

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>> benghazi was preventable. al qaeda not on the run, so says the intelligence committee.

jack keane on this report. the obama administration's web of lies. tonight, 7:00 p.m. eastern. please be with us. ♪ stuart: just in the last couple minutes, the dow has taken a small tumble. we were down 60, now we are down 90. charles has a opportunity on ebay. it is putting your money into something that is on. charles: something that could be a huge investment. here is the thing, that is a guy named stuart varney. that is on ebay. [laughter] >> the bidding has not necessarily been "fast and

furious." stuart: i did not know about that. how much would you bid? charles: i would start at $20. i will get this thing really going. stuart: that is all it is worth? that is from my days with another network. autographed, did you say? is it? who is selling it, do you know? my wife. [laughter] stuart: get it off the street. that is not a bad picture. should we move onto something else? charles: i think we should. stuart: concerned about a probe and conflict of interest. an obama supporter that donated

to the president, she is running the internal irs investigation. charles: both men make contributions to the president and democrats in 2000 through 2004. she has been a firm, solid supporter. this outcome could be negative for the president. it is just, it is unfathomable that you could play someone -- i am glad they are pressuring them. at least the american public should know that this will not be, by the way, on the other hand of this, the irs is being in their face. we are bringing in all the troops. we make sure that we snuff out the two-party vote in the midterm elections and presidential elections. stuart: eric holder has two

investigations into governor christie. stuart: i would call that a double standard. thank you, charles. we will have your take on the picture of me in a moment. [laughter] m ♪ ] this is the story of the little roo over the pizza place on chestnut street the modest first floor bedom in tallinn, estonia and the southbound bus barreli down i-95. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those who believed they had thpower to do more. dell is honored to be part of some of the world's great stories. that began much the same way ours did in a little dorm room -- 2713. ♪ this mag moment ♪

stuart: a few minutes ago we showed you an autographed picture of me that one of our producers found on ebay. we asked you, hold up would you buy it for? be there it is, there's the picture, it's autographed. here's what rob says. i'm tempted to buy it, definitely a classic. okay, rob, how much would you pay? kathy says, that photo is priceless at any price. okay. how much? gregory says, looking to make some money on your autographed photo? write a book. everybody else does. good point. but how much would you pay? the bidding has begun. >> i think you got a buyer. stuart: i did? >> yeah, drum roll.

$12.18. >> yeah! stuart: why $12.18? >> the bidding process, i don't know. someone priced it at $12, someone said $12.01. stuart: you've got to remember supply and demand. there is an endless supply of pictures of me. >> with your autograph as well? stuart: probably not, no. >> that adds a little value to it. stuart: only $12.18? [laughter] >> do something crazy, hijack a bus or something, you know what i mean? stuart: i should bring in a picture of me on my hong kong id card which shows me with a full head of hair and a very youthful look. >> i do have one better though. stuart: what? >> the one on the tractor with the flip-flops. stuart: stop it. out of time. dagen, connell, get me out of this now. connell: took our line there, charles payne. thank you very much, sir. we do have breaking news. dagen: that's right. in just a few moments, we expect the hear from outgoing federal reserve chief ben bernanke, this expected to be his last public appearance as the fed chairman.

onnell: we'll be taking that live and the q&a, but, first, a few other things to talk about, including another obamacare bombshell of sorts. as a matter of fact, at this hour they have experts giving what might be considered to be alarming testimony about the administration's failure to patch several critical flaws in healthcare.gov's site in terms of cybersecurity. for more on this let's bring in government technology expert and street cred software ceo nick selby. let me ask you about a couple of words that i just used in terms of describing what's going on in the hearing. number one, to say it's a bombshell, was it okay to say that? and number two, to describe what's going on there as alarming. was it okay to say that in your view? >> oh, i absolutely think that it's both a bombshell, and it's alarming, and the problem is that the bombshell was dropped in november by many of the same people. they weren't believed, and really ther