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>> even secretary of state john kerry is jumping on the climate change band wagon. roll it. >> in a sense climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps even the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction. charles: and called the climate change deny the flat earth he society. this is leading up to a big giant tax. >> everything is a big giant tax

with the democrats concerned. this is a slap in the face to everyone who died in 9/11, all the emergency workers that went in, anybody affected by terrorism. for him to sit there and say because the sun is a little too hot according to al gore is the same thing as a terrorist coming in and spreading fear and havoc amongst us. i think that john kerry should be ashamed of this company and i hope he gets the backlash, this is an irresponsible comment. charles: the president of the united states said in the state of the union address said there is no climate change debate. this is a man made phenomenon and we must do something about it right now, wink, wink, higher taxes, higher fuel bills and energy bills. >> that's one thing we know about this president he only watches i guess one news source because every other news source is still having the debate, especially those reliable like the one we're on. charles: i hear you. stimulus working, right? not if you look at the participation rate. it was 65.8 back in february of 2009.

it fell to 63 last month, 800 billion dollars later. that's what we've got. at least the president thought it was funny. roll this. >> shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected. charles: and president obama got a nice chuckle out of that. and let's go to peter barnes in washington where they're still arguing whether stimulus worked or not. peter, what's going on? >> well, charles, five years ago today president obama signed his 787 billion dollars economic stimulus bill into law and five years later the debate still rages about its effectiveness. the president and many democrats say it helped to bring the economy back from the brink of another great depression, helped to save or create millions of jobs that might have otherwise been lost. republicans and critics say it spent money on the wrong things. did little for significant job creation and unnecessarily burdened the taxpayers with more government debt and cost more than originally estimated.

830 billion dollars. critics note among other things it helped invest in companies like solyndra which went bankrupt and cost taxpayers over $500 million. they say that the stimulus act did not bring unemployment down to 5% by the end of 2013 as promised in this famous chart we all saw. remember that? >> i remember that. >> you got it. it was 6.7% at the end of the year and charles, one of the architects of the plan, white house economist christina roamer said that in late 2012 her biggest regret about the stimulus bill, it wasn't big enough. charles: well, you know what? peter, here is the thing, there was nothing new-dealish about it and nothing that stands out with that respect. it wasn't eisenhower, roads, projects which we were told or hinted it would be. there was no hoover dam. there is nothing you can really pinpoint as a success and af i'

got to tell you the white house put out a report and put out a new metric. 6 million job years. so, that's a full-time job that lasts for one year. so, essentially they're saying they created a bunch of temporary jobs. >> we have a term in washington, it's called me-go. it means my eyes glaze over. charles: i hear you. a lot of things have glazed over recently. peter, nice see you. >> charles, thanks. charles: yes, the markets may be closed, but there are big headlines out there. how about this one, a possible tesla apple partnership? we're going to explain next. [ male announcer ] a body at rest tends to stay at rest...

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apple's chief of mergers and acquisitions met with tesla's elon musk it's a secret meeting, but talk of a partnership or something more. that's intriguing, but we want to talk about the idea of these two behemoths getting together. >> there's reports that they're actively talking instead of suggesting you guys should look at that. i think it works on both sides. i think it's for apple the brain trust since steve jobs passed away and elon musk, the genius-- >> and you say the industry has been talking about it. from the layman's point of view, you don't see the connection. one company makes electric cars and the other-- there's always the idea that there would be synergy there? >> not synergy, but genius, but you need with a company, a ways to think of fresh things. charles: even though it's a tech

company. elon musk probably holds a lot of the cards here. >> what you're buying with the company is is one guy. and like with apple it was a vision with one man, the ipad and the iphone, ham pred-- i don't want to say they're hampered, but they're a big company. >> and he hasn't litany fires. he comes on stage and everybody yawns and they're struggling. a lot of people think it's the cheapest stock in the market because there's no charisma, no new new thing. >> and everybody keeps talking about an i-watch. are they going to do an i-watch? >> it feels like it's anti-climatic. and if it's better than the i-watch that scotty tried to get me to wear. what's the-- apple, kindergarteners can

identify it. but tesla, not a lot of household name recognition. is this a reverse benefit for them? >> that's a great point. they could use benefits and there are reports of challenges that some of the cars might have and well, some of the cars could be catching fire and is there an issue with the company in general? it's a trust. >> and on friday didn't stop the stock from playing around the 200 mark. i think the fire story may have played out right now. do you have something real quick? >> it's not just tesla, that's the meeting, but let's talk about the other brands, and the hyper loop and all of the innovative ideas. so i think this is the beginning of something much bigger and tim cook has promised new devices % and new updates for apple. i doubt it would be that fast. charles: ladies and gentlemen, this is jo ling kent. glad you weighed in. and elon musk is the big brain and innovator that apple needs. next for you, jeremy, you were big on this wearable technology

thing, but the fitbit bracelets tracks activity and gives you information. and i heard about the rashes. do you have the fitbit rash? >> growing pains. charles: and this is going to be the topic of dating, do you have the fitbit rash, wear it as a badge of honor. >> i think it's a small thing, it's the manufacturing issues that they're having and chemicals in there reacting with a few people and i'm optimistic that the company is going to move past it. charles: okay. >> in the meantime, watch out for those. >> you've got the band, and we haven't had any issues with them yet. charles: interesting, i think weight watchers reported earnings and said that they blew it. the stock got crushed and they blame things like the new fit bands that are destroying their

model. rash or not, it's been a success. and another one for you, jeremy, google bought slick log-in that makes sound based password systems. explain this to us. >> it's kind of mystifying, right? there are a lot of different ways you can identify people. i read the other day that ear wax has a lot of personal information, it can detect your piet. beyond voice recognition, besides password. intriguin intriguing, replace your password with your voice. >> and the target scandal, every day feels like another massive breach of our security on the internet. so, it might be, it might be worth it, i don't know. >> it sounds convenient if you have an issue like do i with siri, i hope this one will like me more. >> my siri and i have daily

debates. charles: and the rest of them will be more. >> and the famous marty mcfly lace up sneakers. you remember "back to the future", jo ling, you're too young, you don't remember it, but-- >> oh. charles: do you remember it? >> of course. >> come back to me when there are hover boards. charles: the hover boards were cool. but it's interesting, though, a lot of times life imitates art. in this case the movies. we almost all of these things we're starting to see that are coming to reality we saw in the movie before. like sometimes ten years ago, sometimes 20 years ago and it feels like the old axiom if we could imagine it even in a movie or a book, at some point man can make it come to fruition. >> oh, yeah, remember the tom cruise minority reports, the big panels. people are working on those. elon musk is working on those.

>> might be the apple version. >> and kick starter and the on-line fund raising, they say the hackers access user names, e-mails, addresses, phone numbers, even pass words, but didn't get your credit considered information. jo ling kent is working on that. >> it was wednesday night and they announced to customers, donated to kickstarter campaigns and got an e-mail on saturday saying don't worry everything is okay, but you've had your information hacked and everyone needs to go on and change passwords. the question is the larger phishing issue and last week we found out about the target thing, that phishing led to the security break. charles: explain what phishing is. >> malware laced e-mail and the credit cards were not accessed, but was there something else behind it that allowed people to get information that could be used to get your payment information later on?

it's accessed from one similar pot of information at ki kickstarter, it's linked to a lot of famous people's accounts and big movies and small nonprofits causes, it could have tentacles in many places. charles: i remember when the target thing broke, initially denials, we didn't lose this, didn't lose that and eventually we found out they'd lost everything. so people should be concerned with this if you're involved with kickstarter. >> be concerned and do everything that everyone tells you to do. check your accounts and change your passwords. >> people see kickstarter as a safe place to raise money. charles: i'm getting the wrap signal. can you tell me what are some of the things you've donated to. >> some of the art projects my friends are working on and they've a lot of companies that spun off from the idea and working on it. charles: jo ling, thanks a lot. with the snow and ice covering

the country, people are thinking of ways to get away. has it helped or hurt the travel industry. bob lanier is joining us today from sunny miami. okay. bob, i've heard some people say that they put off travelling during this whole polar vortex month that we've been in, almost two months. and some say they want to get away from it all. tell us where we are right now? >> well, actually travel is fairly strong, it tons of people are travelling, especially of course people in the cold areas want to get away and visit down in miami, visit the florida keys and other warm destinations, but travel is definitely up. the demand is up. so, that's very good news to the travel industry. charles: what are the things driving this? because it seems pretty interesting. i see where expedia, which i think is your parent company, has done extraordinarily well and priceline has done well. and orbitz, their stock had a

gigantic percentage move. >> people are doing more travelling and looking for values. and there's get-a-room focuses on flash sales and travel vendors are reaching consumers using the latest technology to get them special deals. what flash sales do, that a hotel will put on a special sale for a limited period of time. say, you have four hours who are 12 hours or 24 hours to book it. you can usually stay whenever you want, but they'll give you a great deal to make a decision right now. now, vendors are also using e-mail personalization, they'll send you a specific e-mail for places you want to go based on your travel habits, but because of all the great technology right now, travel vendors can really get you deals quickly, show you where the deals are and people love it take advantage of the special offers and that's what's going on. people are booking special deals, people are going, and

there's not been a lot of new construction over the last several years for lodging. and so, as demand has picked up, supply is limited. that means there's compression, which means prices tend to go up. so, now, what we're telling people now, book as far in advance as you can, don't wait until the last minute because it's busy out there. charles: it is, bob. listen, we'll let you go and i will admit i'm very jealous and envious that you're in miami and i'm in the frigid cold and i may have to go on your website before the day is over. >> come visit here, lots of people travelling and great deals. charles: we know that, thanks a lot. the legal pot business, you want to talk about something else exploding, recreational marijuana now legal in two states. after the break, one person who hopes to cash in to this. ♪ all i need is the air to breathe and to love you ♪ ♪ all i need is the air that i breathe ♪ ♪

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>> new york governor andrew cuomo recently announced plans to loosen restrictions on medical marijuana in the state and that could be good for those suffering from cancer, glaucoma or serious illnesses, but not everyone wants to smoke their medical marijuana thanks to a company called bait and tell, they have the co-founder and ceo. he's here this morning with what i'm calling a fancy bong, does that offend you when someone calls it a fancy bong. >> it doesn't offend me, but we like to call them water tools. [laughter] >> i'm sorry. >> water tools. charles: go, i'm sorry, it's a great --. >> well, a bong, a fancy bong, it has certain connotations and we want this to be used as a

medical device and we want new gno nomenclature. charles: is this something you thought about? >> no, i've been vaporizing since 1997. the items available did not work, and finally i took many apart and saw how they were made and viperizing is supposed to be better for your health and i looked inside and many didn't separate the air path from the electronics, so inhaling that, along with your medicine, could be potentially dangerous, so we wanted to take it from the beginning and redesign a vaporrize er from the ground up. charles: it's not just for medical marijuana there are a whole lot of other applications? >> absolutely. my father is an herbologist, and

we have different blends and lavender, peppermint, ginseng. and we like to compare it to an herbal red bull. instead of drinking it through your g.i. track. have a few inhales of the ginseng you can feel the energizing. charles: or as they said in my neighborhood, straight to the head. let's talk to the marijuana, the legal medical marijuana thing, that's really where you start to see dollar signs? >> i saw dollar signs, but this is actually a project of passion for me. i myself am allergic to alcohol and gravitated to medical marijuana for injuries and that would be the healthiest ways for people to consume medicines. i don't know any other medicines to smoke or combust and we thought it was safer. >> let me ask you quickly, medical marijuana can't you take a pill form, doesn't have the

same effect as doing it like this? >> that's a question good. there's a thc on the market and there's a hundred different c canavanoids. >> you're talking about medicinal purposes. and how do you feel about recreational. you can't guarantee they're using it for medical purposes. do you feel you could be used because you have good intentions for those that are doing it for recreational purposes? >> i think that's a very good question. at the end of the day you'll have people that abuse prescription drugs or anything else, but our thought process is if you're a medicinal user or recreational user or someone abusing it at least there's a

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>> remember when we told you about the ambassador to norway being unable to answer questions to the country he was appointed to? take a listen. >> generally norway has and is proud of having a very, open,

transparent democratic parliamentary government. charles: as it turns out, norway's actually a constitutional monarchy rather than a democracy and it didn't end there. the ambassador to argentina acknowledged he hasn't set foot in the country and isn't fluent in spanish. and it seems the only requirement is to be a big time friend and funder of the president. >> jay carney, it doesn't-- paraphrasing, it it doesn't help you, but it doesn't hurt either. that's the way the administratii'll say about pres in the first administration he only had about 37% of the appointments big donors to the campaign, however, in the second term. 53% ands' continuing to make mistake after mistake. charles: and this guy from argentina raised half a million. robert parker, raised for iceland. never been there before. you've got colleen bell, i think she did the bold and beautiful

and gone to hungary and called the ruling party extremists. they're going there because they bundled a bunch of money. doesn't it diminish the need for ambassadorships? >> to their defense they say they go to ambassador school for a couple of days and it would help if they new the language. >> we'll have turmoil in countries we never thought we'd have to deal with and makes the ambassadorships more important and we should put people who are competent and represent the united states. >> they used to have the 70/30 rule and 70% of the ambassadors were diplomatic and 30% were bundlers and went to the smaller nations. they've flipped it on its head. thank you, scotty. and creating awnton abbey"

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larry summers, former treasury secretary under president clinton and former economic advisor to president obama making an unfortunate and seriously inaccurate analogy about income inequality, saying that america faces a quote, "downton abbey" economy, with a sharp increase in income and family incomes don't. sandra, your position on this? >> they were the creators of their time. if anything else "downton abbey," not only did they have the responsibility of creating jobs and referencing "downton abbey," so many people watch the show, they found they were wonderful to their people and they were in a way, social workers to the people that worked in their home. so, i think if anything, that helped resurrect the few that the 1%, you know, they were responsible for creating a lot of the jobs during that time. >> i guess so. >> and they are today. >> if i was to sort of, you know, if i was a friend of larry

summers and trying to help spin this, old europe was known as a place where the rich stayed rich and poor stayed poor. and when tollfield came to america, everybody he bumped into thought they woucould be r. and if you weren't a noeblt o--a nobility or a friend of nobility, you didn't. >> and in "downton abbey," weren't people that built up the business and they were respected in their time of putting people to work. >> and in the show there's upward mobility and they can grow and they encourage it, not discourage it. this comes after social media blew up this weekend over comments billionaire sam zell made about the 1% quote. the problem is that the world and this country shouldn't talk about envy of the 1%, it should

talk about emulating the 1%. the 1% work harder and they're much bigger factors in all forms of our society. i know you're a fan of sam zell. >> i am. he's a chicago guy and a guy who's worked hard his entire life to-- and guess what, he's finally coming back on all the targets on the 1% saying, hey, a lot of the 1% worked hard to get where they are and it didn't happen by luck. it didn't land in their lap. unfortunately, it's being perceived as those who aren't in the 1% don't work hard, charles. hey, guess what? he's shooting back and firing back as you're saying, it's finally good to hear these guys. charles: i love the fact that he's fighting back now. and you hear the mainstream media, the 1% are paranoid people, were are they freaking out? to your point, they've worked hard and they have coat tails and are stories that used to inspire us. >> that's what he's saying, we can learn from the rich and he specifically said that, we're

victims of intolerance, referencing the 1%, that it's politically convenient now to blame the 1% for the country's problems and i think those are two big things that he's hitting on. >> we have congressman marsha blackburn here, income inequality is the battle cry of the left. they've got the platform and the soap box and they're pushing hard on this and i think they've been successful with respect to main street. a lot of people are starting to feel like, you know, maybe the 1% have it all and the tables are tilted in a way where we can never succeed. >> you know what is happening, people have always appreciated that in our country, the status of your birth does not determine the outcome of your life. and they like that, they believe in the american dream. >> i do want to jump in because i don't disagree with you, but do you think that he recently that's continuing to change? >> i do think that what people are doing is looking back at what has happened over the last few years, and when you talk about income inequality, what so

many people will say to me, i don't want it talk about minimum wage, i want to talk about maximum wage. how do i earn the most that i can possibly earn. and they're also beginning to look at what has happened since president obama took office. wage stagnation. and their buying power is going down and their wages are going down. the or day i was out in my district in some of my counties and somebody said, tell me how they've changed looking at the consumer price index and saying whether or not we have inflation. i feel inflation in my life, but i listen to it tv and they're telling me, oh, there really is not a lot of inflations, but that's not right. see, people are figuring this out and i think it's why they're not trusting what they're hearing coming out of washington. >> politics of fear, envy and hate are despicable and ultimately do backfire on

whoever. >> they do. charles: now, congressman blackburn, you made big headlines overnight and you had a big debate with bill nye the science guy. >> you don't need an aboph.d. t what's going on. we have overwhelming efforts that climate is changing and that you cannot die any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing. >> what we have to look at is the fact that you don't make good laws, sustainable laws when you're making them on hiypothess or unproven science. >> would you say that the anti-arctic has less ice than it used to. charles: congressman we know it's coming up to an attack. and you're laughing boughts the photo he showed wasn't the antarctic. we know this is building up for a gigantic money grab, a tax on

businesses, household energy bills going higher and how will they sell that as fixing the problem if we all agreed to be manmade. >> if you agreed everything he said was right, was true, which it is not, saying it is, how do you address this if you've got other nations, china, india, that are not going to participate and do what the u.s., what the climate elite would like to see done? so the problems not going to get better. you know he was attacking coal-fired electric production plants yesterday. well, there are 1200 on the books for germany and poland and other countries, how do you address it? the point is this, when you look at the issue you're not going to fix it bypassing laws and rule and regulations in washington, even gina mccarthy who heads the epa says if she achieved all of her 26 goals, it wouldn't have an impact on climate globally because the other countries are not going to do likewise.

>> to your point, last year, the fastest growing source of energy was coal around the worrell. >> that's right, congress has taken action, it's not the action they wanted. we voted against cap and trade. we voted against-- they're doing it true the regulations just like they did with obamacare. charles: another one, a major, major blow to the united auto workers and the employees at the volkswagen plant in chattanooga voted against unionizing. the uaw lobbied hard and had the support of volkswagen executives and yet, they still lost. and first going to rich edson, this thing isn't over yet? >> this is far from over. first off, when you look at the specific vote, this is something that could be challenged with the nlrb because some of the statements that politicians made before this, they could be nlrb push for a second vote. we've contacted them and they've not gotten back to us. on this broader issue, the uaw says for a year they won't

campaign to organize this particular chattanooga vw plant, but that doesn't mean they won't continue efforts in other plants, nissan plant in the state and mercedes benz plant and that continues, their membership has fallen from a high of 1.5 million in 1979 to 4 400,000 now. and trying to get the union into the foreign auto plants and just because they're not campaigning for the next year in the chattanooga plant doesn't mean it's over, charles. charles: congressman, this is your state. what's your take on this one. >> the uaw had access to the workers the at the plant, they opened it up, they made their campaign, three-day vote, 89% of the workers participated in the vote and the uaw lost. i think that people like their jobs. they like having vw there and they don't want to change the work culture they enjoy. charles: about a week ago this felt like a tossup or that the uaw would win, in part because

the volkswagen executives were so open to it, they were openly saying we like to idea, it works in europe and it would be great for us. and what changed it? what tilted this in favor of the no vote? >> i do believe it was that people at that plant want to be incented when they do well and they don't trust to have a union to go in and lobby for them on getting their contracts. they want to be able to it handle that individually. just like people don't trust government, they don't like big bureaucracy. we're moving to a time in our society when people want to be able to make those decisions, have that control. charles: they made that decision there. stay right there, congressman because the new lego movie comes in first place yet again at the box office. second time in a row. a lot of people disagree with my take on the movie, but after the break, someone who does agree. a reminder, "varney & company"

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>> well, i received a lot of criticism over my talking about the lego movie being anti-business. charles: the movie has a president called villain president. >> and could you cancel my appointment, a little deadly. charles: looks a little like mitt romney. >> and as a result, fox business is mad, not because of the hypocrisy inherent in the movie's premise, but because it's teaching kids that enormous conglomerates are bad. and this to say.

designed to sold more lego toys would be laughable coming from everyone let alone a television network that pro claims to employ experts in the subject of business. john hayward with brightbart. thank you for joining us. i cannot believe the firestorm that the comments make, every outlet on the left has a comment on it. i'm glad you had a chance to weigh in. tell us more. >> i thought it was a delightful movie, it's entertaining, a sharp, witty satire. it's not anti-capitalist, it's anti-crony capitalist, it's the way that government and business fuse together and that's the point of the villain. the villain is more business, an evil overlord and remodels himself to president villain. and his servants are micromanagers, this guy is all

about forcing everybody to live according to his plan and nothing to do with capitalism, he's the antithesis of it. charles: john, here is the thing, my big beef, the bigger beef i had, i'm used to hollywood and whether it's crony, anti-cronyism, crony business, whatever it is, anti-capitalism, anti-republican, anti-america, anti-constitution, i'm used to that with movies in general, but when they start to aim it at kids that's when i get worried. >> i agree with that and i can see the criticism. now, on the surface it seems kind of like a lazy critique of big business and so on. it isn't. i think it's subversive in the tr truest sense. word. and your michael moors are going in and thinking it's an anti-capitalist diatribdiatribe little people living our lives, we have a right to ambitions and the rights of labor, and kids are just going to enjoy it, it's a funny comedy, but there is a

serious and i think very valid philosophical point being made there. who is the enemy of ambition and dreams at this point? it's the government. charles: john hayward, couldn't have put it better myself. and congressman blackburn is here and 800 million later, five years, the stimulus doesn't appear to be stimulating. the president thought that was funny, roll it. >> shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected. charles: no, it wasn't and take a look at the participation rate. in 2009, it's nearly 3 percentage points lower now. i call the stimulus an unmitigated disaster. do you think i'm being too harsh? >> not at all. it's taxpayer dollars, not government money. it comes out of our pockets into the treasury and then the president has invested in a lot of unproven theories. he's put money that didn't work out and it's not a laughing matter because as we mentioned

earlier, vague stagnation, jobs still are not abundant. the economy is still struggling. charles: i get the sense that they know what they're going to do with this money, even though they always pitch us something different. this was pitched as a shovel-ready, gigantic construction project. in fact, one of the statements the president made is that 400,000 men and women are going to it work rebuilding troubled roads and bridges and repairing fally dams and levees, for 2013, we had a rating, the american society of civil engineers. and the best scores were the bridges with a c-plus. and this is disingenuous, but it feels like it's designed to be disingenuous and that's a despicable point. >> i think that's fine that people have lost trust in this administration. they say one thing and they do another. as your mother told you, actions

speak louder than words. and the actions this administration have taken have not been something that has yielded more jobs growth and greater income for the american worker uso the president now is going to pitch more of these sort of bills, some will include congress and some he won't, including a billion dollar climate resilience fund. >> just ridiculous, you know. you can't go out and do a climate study and say, this is going to fix the weather events. you have an endangered species act that is harming the situation in california. if you want to do something about that, you know, let the water start going into that area. there are things the president could do and to throw a billion dollars, i think that's insulting to the farmers in that area. charles: we've got a minute to go. i want to ask about congress in general. it feels like you guys are playing it safe, you know, not really trying to get out there on things that maybe you believe

in in your heart and soul, but you think are maybe losing public relations things and of course, i'm referring to the debt ceiling, the quick passage of the budget and it just feels like maybe taking a safe route and that's starting to anger a lot of your pure constituents. what would you say? >> i think that my constituents like the fact i'm fighting to reduce spending and we're going to be on that cutting 1% of everything the federal government spends, a penny on the dollar and as we move into the summer with the appropriations process that's where we're' going to disallow. charles: a little pushback, a little spine. >> yeah. >> feistiness. charles: we're looking forward to it. and take a look at this, it's a special baseball hat designed for pitchers to protect them from the line drives. will any player want to wear them? that's next. ♪

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hamilton. that's right, on president's day, a $10 coupon. the only problem is, alexander hamilton who appears on the $10 bill was never president. [laughter] the promotion is $10 off any $40 purchase began on saturday. sandra any reaction to this? >> and he had a huge part in united states history. the first treasury secretary. charles: ann money. >> chief of staff for george washington, but never the president. and this reminds me of the jay leno skits, and jaywalking and he goes out and asks simple u.s. history questions. and american people struggle with history. i feel that foreigners know our history and it's kind of pathetic. oops on the part of groupon. charles: they're standing by their statement though. >> never president. charles: yeah. all right. well, you know, there have been numerous reports over the last year, serious injuries done to major league pitchers due to lack of head protection. my next guest said with the the

next thing, he joins me from st. louis, we see it all the time, almost every night on sports center, right, stacy, somebody hits a line drive and the pitcher's first creaks is to duck and often their heads are hurt badly. it's not hard to dispute maybe there's a need for this. explain how it works on your end? >> we have a technology, an iso blocks. it's a sheet of substrate of foam underneath it and did can diffuse the blow. we've been able to put it in a light weight form and many of the prior attempts by major league baseball and the companies worked with, the hat was too heavy. ours only odadds 7 ounces to th hats and they won't realize it's there. >> one of my problems with this, and i grew up in a sports family, and baseball family, you start to fear because of the

added safety measures, i'm all for the safety at the younger level. these guys are pros, paid millions to go out on the ball field. you start to feel like it it it changes the feeling of the sport a little bit when you add things like these type of helmets? >> yeah, growing up in st. louis and we're fervent baseball fans here, you see a lot of pushback on the eye test and what the hat looks like or different technologies, but i think what you'll find, it's going to look different until it doesn't look different anymore. there were pushback with the face masks in hockey or in football. they'll adopt it for the youth and as they metric laulate thro the minor leagues. charles: i'm not sure. do you have any contracts with the leagues? >> what major baseball has us

do, we're going to meet with each of the team and working directly with the equipment managers and the players and we're going to fine tune the hats to each of the player's needs and custom fit each. and you'll find there'll be embracement of the technology and the hats. many of the players are fearful uhere is the thing though, and you know, it won't be a great pr moment for you, but some pitcher is going to throw one right down the middle and there's going to be a grand slam and when they come back and that the next batter is up they've taken your hat off because it changed the balance or made it it too heavy and put back on the old hat. there's going to be a major indictment of your product on tv, are you prepared for in? >> we certainly are. it will take time for them to go through change, but like we feel, over time they're going to embrace the technology.

it's something needed in the sport and as we fain tune our hat for each of the players needs they'll like the safety they feel on the mound and again, the early adopters will probably be some of the pitchers that got hit and in the youth leagues and through to the majors. >> how much does it cost to make and how much are you selling this for? >> we lost him. charles: lost him. >> because he didn't want to answer that question. charles: my next question is i hope you're not working on flash for quarterbacks in football. john kerry, you know, john kerry, he compares global warming and climate change. get this, terrorism, you can't make this up. we play the found bite for you after the break. ♪

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>> they can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps even the world's most fierce. charles: joining us from washington is jason matera. i am sure that this does not surprise you. it is amazing how they are laying it on pretty thick. >> anyone who will compare terrorism, the real threat we have of terrorism today to climate change, to global temperatures, really should not be taken seriously. i wish that this administration would speak with the same clarity and intensity when it comes to radical islam. the people perpetuating real terrorist events. they call those man caused disasters, workplace violence.

the largest weapons of mass destruction according to john kerry. it is so embarrassing that he is actually saying that. charles: he is actually condemning america's success. all of this global change and what is happening to the planet is essentially the salt of america. we are the ones that are destroying this country. we get in our cars and we try to succeed every day. >> even further, it is repugnant for anyone in the white house to dissuade them from embracing cheap energy beard you think the impoverished people care about wind mills or solar panels? no. they want the same living that we have. they want income mobility. they do not want a lecture from

john kerry on electric plug-in cars. we are concerned about global temperatures and carbon footprints, what is the carbon footprint of john kerry hopscotching across asia? charles: i think he had a pretty big one before he got the job. one in four americans do not know that the earth revolves around the sun. i am not making this up. are you there, jason? there was a survey done, the national science foundation, they found that 26% of people did not know that the earth revolved around the sun. these are americans. [laughter] >> it goes into your previous segment with groupon and alexander hamilton. does this surprise us anymore?

it is not even newsworthy anymore. charles: a guy like john kerry can go to the same people and tell them anything. if you do not have the basics down, certainly, anyone can come and tell you anything. >> you are absolutely right. i think the left likes to use the language of climate change. it used to be global warming. you have people experiencing these record frigid temperatures and ice and snow. i think the left tries to play off people's emotions and spend in a way that they can gobble up as much as possible. in reality, it is just their power. charles: stay right there. do not call it a hero for the four shootout goals. according to him, the american

heroes are wearing camel. that is not me. >> i love this. he basically said that term should be reserved for someone other than a hockey player. kudos to him. charles: amazing. beautiful thing. jason, what do you say about this? >> i think it was fantastic. it was very classy. it allows people to go and really pursue our ambitions and dreams. it was the best way to and what was truly a historic moment to feeding russia. charles: absolutely. i think we all agree on that. the reality tv show mob wives,

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it was really dedicated to our parents and our grandmother that passed. charles: you guys all in the kitchen at the same time. listen, i am a casual observer of this show. you definitely have the spine. >> i do not feel that anybody should be taken advantage of or walked all over. i have a bit more of a loud voice than anybody else.

do not let anyone walk all over you. be you. do not be afraid of anything. >> this is the fourth year. charles: absolutely amazing. it just keeps going stronger and stronger. what do you contribute to the successes? it kind of makes people really interested. >> i always wonder how real the tv show is.

going back to my ex-husband to became a federal informant. i came on the show with hopes that this was going to be a way for me to work out a lot of my depression.

if anybody, if they are doing what i am doing and watch me and don't fix themselves, that is the problem. the show itself may sort of in force some of the stereotypes.

>> women now are learning that. they are now learning how to stand in the middle. that makes me very happy to see progression. charles: this is just the way it happens to be halted. >> i wanted the family. i really fell right into that. obviously, growing up watching the movies, you think it will be like that. charles: you just brought up dependency and things like that. how are you doing? >> i am doing well. literally, it is like one hour at a time. charles: you guys are

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looks like they made a call to months ahead. target was updating their payment terminal. they said that there could be some issues. they brushed off the security team. two months later, a hundred million affected. it just makes you wonder who you can trust. you are swiping your credit card just about everywhere these days. people have major security concerns right now. they got burned this is a big thing. charles: u.s. speed skater's blamed their slow times on there under armour bodysuits.

sandra: you have to feel bad for under armour. the athlete did not perform so well. they blamed the outfits. now they have gone back to the old outfits. maybe they just skated slowly. charles: we sought with lulu live in, we saw with abercrombie and fitch, they paid a heavy, heavy toll. sandra: i think that there will be some dip in sales. charles: your take on barney's new time. that is next. ♪ with scottrade's smart text, i can quickly understand my charts, and spend more time trading. their quick trade bar lets my account follow me online

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moving to 11:00 a.m. eastern. we go a full two hours. here are just some of the things you had to say about it. i live on the west coast and watch your show every morning. i am very disappointed you will be moving to a different time. it will take away about an hour of your show for me. robert seems happy for our move. sandra: it will be stuart varney and is also cast of characters. there will be two hours instead of an hour and 40 minutes. charles: we will rock and roll. we will make tv history. in the meantime, though, we will pass it to dagen mcdowell. dagen: rate news for me. [laughter] charles: i am sorry.

dagen: you can come visit me in my office before the show. [laughter] dagen: thank you, charles. soul-searching down south. former white house chief of staff is here. another massive data breach. this one at kickstart her. what you need to know to protect yourself. a billion dollars in government stimulus. how it could play a critical role in the midterm elections. all of that and so much more on this hour of markets now. ♪