eed toto retire, and when can you stop working? thank you for joining us, have a great evening, "making money" with charles payne up now have a good york. have a great weekend. neil: welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. if the economy is off to the races why is so many still down for the count? because even though the recovery is well along two out of three americans in a new fox poll still think we're in a recession. that could explain all the tepid spending and that surprising full percentage drop in retail sales last month. it could also explain why the likes of best buy and tiffany's and even intel are all lowering their forecast, convince that had those big job gains the administration likes to brag about are not coming with big wage gains. incomes are flat. now, former best buy

brad anderson and swiss chairman believe the economy itself could be flatlining. craig, that's been a concern with you for a while. more so now? >> yes indeed. you stole my thunder. you cited the numbers. retail sales are down. year over year they're up a bit but not anywhere they should be with a fed fueled recovery. look at job growth, yes we have 250,000 jobs terrific. but real wages dropped. hours worked dropped. consumers are getting more in his pocket because of gas prices, that's not translating into them spending it in the retail sector. i think the forecast will change dramatically for 2015. i'll be curious what brad has to say about it as a retailer. he has to feel the effects straight across-the-board. neil: it doesn't jibe with

numbers that otherwise look good. when you look at these polls, there are others that confirm this. malaise or we're not feeling it. when two out of three aren't feeling it, that's quite telling. >> yeah. i think retail sales are very telling. that's consumers acting with their pocketbook. that's close to the ground. it's a strong sign of a lack of optimism. those are comparison sales against the year before, which was terrible. i was hopeful from what we saw in the fall that we would see a pretty robust recovery in the holiday season, the fact we haven't is that we'll see diminished gdp growth. we'll see gdp growth compared to the world will be well. neil: dubai those numbers that they were that soft? (?)

i just -- it doesn't make sense to me. but maybe they do. what do you think? >> the consumers had -- a lot of consumers have lost spending power. and they've lost a lot of spending power. things like how many hours you work, and what do you see on the horizon. a lot of companies are still -- big companies can still cut labor and improve profitability. that has an impact on consumer's ability to spend. theres a warning sign in looking to what the consumer is seeing close to them. that doesn't mean we'll grow as fast as we could otherwise. >> well, brad said it all. it's confidence. is the consumer confident enough to go out and take that pocketbook and spend that money? with lest hours worked and the potential of layoffs and oil prices coming down, which is a wonderful thing, a lot of people will leave the fracking sector. look at the steel companies. they're cutting back

because they're using less pipe. and look at rig and some of the guys that are drillers. so i think neil, what is happening is the average consumer desperately needs to feel confident that we're on the right track. if you look at right track, wrong track poll, that in my opinion, i know this will sound partisan, until we see a change coming out of the white house, you'll see people not have the sense of confidence necessary to open up that wallet and spend that money. look mr. obama has had trade bills stuck in the senate that he hasn't allowed harry reid bring to his desk. now he's threatening to veto the keystone pipeline that creates jobs. i think if we see confidence come back, we could have a good 2015. brad is right. the consumer is worried about the money being cut back from their paychecks and the hours being cut back.

neil: guys, thank you very much, i think. in the meantime, do not think you feeling terrible will keep janet yellen from pulling the trigger. tumbling oil and gas prices might prompt rates going up sooner than later. to the fox biz all-stars. >> yeah, the market could fall. interest rates going up -- neil: even if it's well-telegraphed. >> yeah. the word on wall street does act like kryptonite. rate hike. the question is when. the fed funds future predicts -- they're saying 80% chance in december. we talked about quarter point rate heights but not in the first half or the second half. so the question now is of timing. because the fed doesn't want to be seen as derailing any recovery. neil: what do you make of what they're saying, that by looking at the potential, i guess

inflationary effect right now is going to add a lot of juice to the economy but not pay attention to the other polls that show wages stagnant all the other stuff. >> there are deep structural problems. median income is staggering. it's at 1995 levels. real unemployment, that's a terrible picture as well. 113one third of americans have given up looking for work. neil: were you born in 1995? >> i was not. but i had a computer and i can look. neil: who decides this? tracy. >> i think it's confident. lizzie is right. we'll see this into the year. i can't imagine the market will fall out of bed about this. my god we've been hearing about this -- neil: what about the notion that this is petering out? >> you're afraid to go to the mall there's shootings. you don't want to go outside, there's protesters in the streets. all these reasons to stay home.

sure, i have extra money in my pocket because gas is cheaper. but things have gone up. rec seats to play ball. food is going up. neil: whoever collects in my town, they should have bats made out of gold. holy. >> automatic withdrawal. >> millennials are skeptical to get into the market to begin with. you're seeing a younger generation that's tepid -- neil: two out of three bummed out to the point they think it's a recession? >> we all talk about how lousy that retail number -- neil: i don't buy it. >> let me give you the number. take out plunging gas prices, retail sales are up 5%. that's pretty decent and sweet. when you include plunging gas prices the retail number looks lousy. oh retailers aren't going up. consumer spending is lousy.

it was wrong. it was wrong -- neil: you bring added value. >> i hope so. >> neil, when they survey for a recession i'm not sure that's the right word people want to say. i think people want to say, i still feel like crap. but i don't think we're in a recession. >> look at this number. i'm sorry to jump in. neil: no, you're not. you did. you did. >> i'll apologize again. 2008, we had 138 million payroll. we went up frac toural 2 million. trillions of federal reserve support. 2% rise in payroll employment? that's it. that's why people are feeling lousy. >> average households have close to $15,000 of credit cards. that's over an extended period of time. neil: didn't we chop that down to size? >> you owe that money

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neil: well, let the cyber war games begin. president obama and james cameron said we'll be -- but is it too little too late? former cia officer gary says it might be because the bad guys are likely already here and we certainly know they've already done a lot of damage. very good to have you gary. what do we do? what's the purpose of this joint american british undertaking? >> first off the us has been involved in cyber

warfare for a while. we're good at offense. the problem is that, we have not worked along a spinal cord of the internet of the united states to do some of the hardware that we need to do to help defend this thing. so we're vulnerable. our opponents know we're vulnerable. there's actually been reporting that there's malware already inside the grid. so we need to work on this. neil: if there's malware in the grid really just three basic parts of it. could shut down a lot of utilities. >> big problem with the grid. we do a lot of things with the british. the british were with us side by side when we invaded afghanistan. i get the whole thing of trying to do this and getting publicity on this. the reality is: we have the firepower here on the offensive side. we just to have spend the money and work with the private sector here to do this. we'll need a little bit of government investment into this. neil: i get the idea we'll be

big on this razzling and dazzling this joint hacking exercise to show how good aware at getting the bad guys. that's almost a target for the bad guys. they would love to hack into that, wouldn't they? >> of course. we don't want that. we need to be serious about this. what are the vulnerable parts in the civil sector that put america at risk? we need to work on that. one who has done a great job on covering this is judge piro. she's right on. neil: if this is happening so routinely, whether it's centcom or whether we've done this through every major bank, the defense department itself, are we already way behind? >> we're way behind -- part of the problem on the grid is there aren't the parts needed together if there's major damage to it to replace them. is one of my

understandings. we're very far behind this. we need to sprint to catch up. we're not there and we're vulnerable. neil: a lot of people are nervous about this environment. even the attacks in paris. they remember the government collecting phone records and all that stuff. and it's a push and pull. right? >> yes, it is. the united states people need to recognize, we are at war with isis. we are bombing them. you cannot expect that they won't respond to us. to think that would be arrogant and foolish. they are working against us. we've just seen what's happened in europe. we've seen the raids in brussels. we saw the attacks in paris. we have jihadists coming off that battlefield. this will be a problem for decades that we'll face. and every town, county, and state in the united states shouldn't wait for the president and shouldn't wait for homeland security. deploy your forces out. protect yourself in shopping malls. any place with large americans coming together, put your security out there. don't wait for the first

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neil: when it shakes like that it's a sign i'm angry. it's time for neil's spiel. al sharpton calling for another emergency meeting, not over eric garner, but all those white guys garnering those oscar nominations. the rev won't have it. it's time to fight lily white. or until he gets some green. hollywood green. charles says something doesn't add up and it's not the oscar list.

it's this guy trying to crash another party. charles, great to have you. his theme he's stressing not a single minority nominee in all the major categories. what do you make of that? charles: listen, there aren't. but to what degree is this of such a degree of significance that it captures the imagination and the anger and the sweat of people, particularly black people. neil: twelve years of slave was dominating everything. charles: of all the things we need to do as human beings, as americans, as black people, an oscar snub? an oscar nominee snub. where does that rank? does it rank? it doesn't. neil: "selma" didn't get a nod. maybe an issue because of its actors, but it

stands out in that respect. do you think as an african-american it is a slight? >> hollywood has been able to perpetuate this myth that they're the nice white people as opposed to all the movies they put out every year the tea party people, they've always made sure to tell black people, we have your back. we like you. sometimes when the list of sony executives came out, it's interesting to see how they really feel. neil: and how they really feel about president obama. charles: yeah. it's interesting in that respect. i thought denzel washington got robbed on on -- my movie didn't make it. this movie didn't make it. neil: like i believe "the interview" was a great funny movie. charles: there is something to say about the make up about the executives and the people who make these choices it's 97% right. charles: how would that explain

12 years a slave? >> maybe they like the movie. neil: i can say it as a white guy. are we overreading it? if a great movie is a great movie. "selma" may have had a shot or two until issues about its actors came up. who knows. he's feeding the beast. charles: he's feeding the beast. a lot of movies, you know win and someone quibbles with the script or accuracy. "selma" is recent history. people have different opinions about lbj and martin luther king. wow, you talk about a waste in energy. almost every major industry has the same ethnic disparity. is this all racial? is there something we could be doing? if we could put the same energy into getting a great education to whole family formation and going to college, this

would be irrelevant. our numbers would be represented so much better in all of these industries that we wanted have to ask for a nominee or a nomination here and there. neil: do you think what happens though in this environment sharpton scares hollywood like he scares sony? had to go across the country to kiss his ring and god knows what else. then the attacks disappeared. i don't know whether a check changed hands. i'm wondering if hollywood will have to do something like that to get him off their back. >> there have been a lot of industry shake downs for justice. usually a few people pointing the finger -- neil: does it do anything about minority hiring? >> it never does anything about that. drive around new york city when you see a movie. even if it stars denzel washington, maybe one guy will be black. these shake downstairs are specifically designed for one person

and that's it. (?) it's done in the name of all black people. it's not justice. it's a waste of energy. neil: people say gee, i never thought about it, but look at that, they are all white. charles: it's painful. you have to say. if i'm 21 years old. i have to say wow, what the heck is going on? how come there's no black people. then sharpton says it's because of racism. the way to fix that is to become a force. how do you become a force? become intellectual organized force that you can't be turned down because your skills are so great. lebron is the highest player in the nba is because he is great at basketball. be great as an executive and no company can turn you down. be great at other things and no one can turn you down.

it's a matter of saying internally let's refocus our energize, put the emphasis on changing the industry and putting out young kids, so many of them that are so great that they can't be ignored. neil: no doubt about that. thank you very much. meanwhile, can the president veto himself? the guy says i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. 3rd and 3. 58 seconds on the clock, what am i thinking about? foreign markets. asian debt that recognizes the shift in the global economy. you know, the kind that capitalizes on diversity across the credit spectrum and gets exposure to frontier and emerging markets. if you convert 4-quarter p/e of the s&p 500 its yield is doing a lot better... if you've had to become your own investment expert, maybe it's time for bny mellon a different kind of wealth manager

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consumers. at about 2 trillion a year now. if they were a country, they would be the tenth largest country in the world, between italy and india. it's a huge impact on the economy -- neil: the president seems to know that. he agrees with a lot the white house wants to cut. but not all the republicans want to cut. >> the house just passed the regulatory accountability act to bring control to the regulatory state. the reason that matters a lot is because president obama -- now i know this is the pen and phone era of issuing more rules and going around congress and all that -- but president obama issued four not one, to reign in the regulatory state. he did this back in 2007. he joked about getting rid of one rule that was treating spilled milk as oil. he got a lot of attention for that a couple of years back. these executive orders of his is to enhance cost-benefit analysis. to get more public

comment in the process. to say hey, we don't have to regulate -- neil: it's something he supported. it was something that as a senator he was coming up with. the idea -- >> exactly. neil: you might prove the worth of a regulation and that it will not be dewill dela tierious but he forgot his own pen. >> of course, this was were a statute if we were to codify these kinds of regulation and reform, we would see a change. the regulatory act is bipartisan and it would do that. in the future, we should look for do democratic representatives and others want to go to the mat for enhancing the regulatory state we have. we're at a good opportunity to reform. i'm not pessimistic about this. we don't to have regulate in the future the way he we did in the

past. >> for the president to say, even though i agree with 95% of the regulations, i want to dial back. i'll veto it. wayne, thank you very much. the president's my way or the highway approach, when it comes to issues that matter, he ain't jazzing the american people. most folks think the president has failed or mostly failed on everything from improving the country's image and race relations to health care and immigration. there are many other issues. to my fox biz all-stars on why the president can't put down the veto pen and maybe just try try to pick up the peace pipe. tracy. >> i don't know. at this point, it has to be ego. because everything he came to the table he said he would do, he has not done at all. he did not come to the white house to defeat jihadists, he didn't. he came to the white house to promote equality across-the-board. maybe that's what he's done at this point. but he hasn't helped

race relations at all. he hasn't helped the economy the way he wanted to. he wanted to help the middle class. and every one of his policies have backfired and made the rich richer, at the end of the day. he's been giving out money -- neil: i know you're a hater, but things are better than when he took office. but he's not a total abysmal failure. >> i don't think we can give him credit for that. give the federal reserve credit for that. >> he's one of the worst presidents we've had. i don't say that because i happen to be on the other side of the aisle. i look at bill clinton fondly and admire him. tracy, you've hit on race relations. he's been a provocateur than president. he had an opportunity to make a difference. he didn't. 64% of people think he failed. neil: the two sides are so close on that. >> exactly. but for him to denigrate our system of government and bypass congress.

neil: because congress doesn't work with him, he says. >> this has been the mo for the president ever since he took office. instead of negotiate this president has done things like debt commissions. neil: very good -- and the debt commission, marvelous ideas now collecting dust on a shelf. >> right. ignored. ideas ignored. neil: is it too late for the peace pipe? >> no. not too late. let me make this analogy. the paris rally is what -- i am not available for the paris rally. not available for congress either. we can't expect anything more from what we're already seeing from the white house. >> what's so surprising though, he came in not want to negotiate and comprise. understandable. he had all the branches of government. to not shift when the power dynamic shifts is

what's surprising. neil: here's where i hope things shift. remember congress' ratings are low too. they are close on a lot of these fixes for health care and immigration. fix the medical device tax. so -- but i don't know if he's going to put the veto pen down and just pick up the, you know peace pipe. >> why should he? he has nothing to lose at this point. he can be arrogant and all powerful from here until he walks out of the door. neil: is there another french word for that? >> no, i don't think so. you watch msnbc or bill maher, the president can take credit for everything. he and the congress, $7 trillion. that's what happened. that's why we feel like the economy -- neil: the unemployment is half what it was. you're a hater. hater. hater. >> the fed not the president. >> 7 trillion dollars' worth -- >> what do we have to show for it, not much. neil: my god. all right.

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neil: all right. never mind it's san diego. you would think by the chilly reception mitt romney was getting from the bigwigs there. he might as well been in buffalo. even though a lot of these former guys aren't going to be buffaloed. to michael on why for romney the third time might not be the charm or at least as easy to sell. michael, that's what's happening. right? people are saying, what? >> well, look i think mitt romney is a very capable candidate. and i think he would be a great president. but come on, neil, the third time. it will be tough out

there to convince voters why it's different this go around. neil: just a week ago before he met with these donors, he was like a saint to the party. maybe because no one thought he would run. but everything he got right. everything he said about putin, as soon as he hinted he would run, boom, that was off. >> right. neil: where are they gravitating? >> i don't know. i think mitt looks at the field and thinks he can do a better job. but the republican party is scratching their head saying, come on, really a third time? neil: let the voters decide. do you worry they crowd each other out at least in the early caucuses, primaries? >> from a fund-raising standpoint, you have a problem early on. you have large pockets of wall street donors that can't make a decision when you have so many people running right now with no real front runner. neil: what are guys like you waiting for? to see who gets traction? >> for sure, i think the republican party has to

coalesce behind a candidate they want to get behind and support. neil: they were coalescing around jeb bush. for a while, chris christie. that's a lot less now. >> romney, chris christie and jeb bush are all -- neil: they're all the mainstream crowd. >> they're all favorites in the new york community of donors. until this shakes out you'll see a lot of capital -- neil: they're all guys. she challenged barbara boxer, ran an interesting campaign. listen to what she had to say about this race. carly. >> i haven't made that decision yet. i can tell you i'm very seriously considering running. neil: why? >> because i think we need different experience. different perspective and a different voice. neil: would she stand out because at this point she would be the only woman? >> it would certainly be different and it would add to a broad playing field already. neil: that would torpedo the war on woman argument for

republicans. right? >> she's certainly capable -- neil: who is your dream candidate? >> i like wisconsin governor scott walker. i think he's a balanced candidate. i don't know if he gets it this go around. i think he should try. he should try hard. i would support that. if he doesn't get it -- neil: you didn't mention christie. >> it's a mixed bag with christie. a lot of difficult challenges to get past that we went through. we talked about this last time. if he can get past that he would be a good candidate. neil: what about rand paul or ted cruz? >> i prefer walker over those two. neil: really? >> i do. neil: you don't want to go too far out of the establishment. i don't mean that as a pejorative because those other guys i mentioned the pauls and the cruzs are outside that. and the critics say they can never win. >> i think jeb bush has got a good shot at this. neil: you don't think the bush thing would be a stigma?

the name itself? >> i don't. they understand the infrastructure. the process. they've been around this. they'd have a strong run against the democrats. from a balanced point of view makes me like walker a little bit. neil: as a former romney guy you're saying a friend and admirer. >> he's capable. great job. it will be tough for him. neil: you're a gentleman. thank you. in the meantime, free health care, free college, free internet. where was this when i was in school? anyway joe is wondering why are the rest of us you show up. you stay up. you listen. you laugh. you worry. you do whatever it takes to take care of your family. and when it's time to plan for your family's future we're here for you. we're legalzoom,

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guidance blocks on fox news. neil: why can't i get the -- >> you won't find fox business now. wait until the government takes over. what is this guy thinking? you couldn't get anybody to answer the phones on obamacare. then in new york city, these municipal id cards. you can't get through on the phone. you're an illegal immigrant, you you want a card, can't get through. neil: press one if you're about to commit suicide. press two if you'll have a heart attack. with this push for free internet, and we have the idea of free college, first couple of years. maintain a 2.0. how many will maintain that? [laughter] why? leaving aside we don't have money. to what end? >> i think he's taking our eye off the ball of security and what really matters, and that he can't handle a lot of things. neil: you would leave it

unfettered. >> you can't. net neutrality doesn't make any sense. he'll get the fcc to come in just to have faster internet, even if you can't afford it. it's called free enterprise. it's called free enterprise. neil: i still think the whole world is going wi-fi. remember not too long ago, you couldn't find wi-fi -- >> yeah. to your point, i have no idea why the president keeps doing. why he went to cuba. opening up with cuba. now they're doing -- where is joint chez more? get measure back. (?) she's a criminal. neil: there's a strategy to it bottom line. the cuba thing is happening. the cheaper or even free internet for a lot of folks is happening. but the entitlement fortunately is in overdrive. >> i know. and it's the worst thing for the country. it really is. he's throwing it all out there -- neil: if you do it for him, you do it for me. it's a me too. >> the strength is, the president, he'll say something like a blanket immigration amnesty.

now you can't because of security. i kind of thought, yeah, amnesty for some illegals. you can't do it now because of this horrific security problem with terrorists, but he throws it out there because it sounds good to the people. then when the g.o.p. goes up against him, he looks like the bad guys. he's so smart. neil: you sound callous. meanwhile, chris christie is saying something that he doesn't know, joe. christie is saying he hasn't made up his mind about a 2016 race. in the process of that, he was sort of ripping the local media pitching about the attention he gives the national media. then calling the national media essentially prima prima donnas. where is this going? >> i have such great respect for you. neil: you're about to put me on. >> you're rushing down.

it was after the jerry jones thing with christie. i could see it in your eyes. you went like this. you know i'm a christie fan. and in the jumping up with the whole hugging. it was great. that's it. he's done. look at the state of the state. it was brilliant. it was brilliant politics. neil: he never talked about the state. >> it was brilliant. he didn't talk about the transportation trust fund. he didn't talk about the failure of atlantic city. neil: it read like a presidential -- >> he was brilliant. neil: then the colorado and nebraska and iowa. >> i went to chicago, but not jersey city. neil: so he's running? >> i'm telling you -- neil: what are his chances? >> i think the g.o.p. self-destructs and he surfaces to the top by default. neil: how does he do that? romney and bush cancel themselves out? >> he didn't talk

substance, but it was very presidential. the democrats never jumped on him. they never jumped on him. he does his homework before he goes in. i wish we had a president now that did that. neil: you don't think he's a little thin skinned. >> i like that. neil: pointing at his chest. >> can you imagine what al-qaeda will think of this guy. my goodness gracious, not chris christie. neil: not the first person to say that he rises. >> i'm telling you what, and i thought about you. when i'm watching the stage, i'm going, this is the great. he's not mentioning the problems that we have the debt -- it was brilliant. neil: you want him out so you can run for governor. >> yeah, that's it. neil: and new jersey is the highest name recognition. so you could just waltz into that. that's why you're pushing him out. >> this got me excited too. he talked about a

republican conservative. conservative. he really it. talked about the inner city. in camden, new jersey. one of the most dangerous cities in america. these are republicans helping inner city youth. neil: you're in the tank for him. >> you think so? neil: yeah. >> i like it. it was different. it was great. neil: you know -- >> the sport of politics. it's genius. as are you. neil: joe piscopo great show. everybody calls in. first i thought it was joe talking to himself. you are on fire. meanwhile, if you think plane crashes are a problem now this one kind of scares me. i'll give you a hint. it's like a volt, at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda.

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>> that has people we are they talking to their google glass giving orders and so forth. [laughter] neil: issue number three electric cars experts are saying the planes running on batteries are the future. and i don't want to be saying the you won't believe this. >> the battery is dead. >> it will take a lot of this going, but you have to believe that that is where we are going. it makes perfect sense, it's the revolution evolution, but unless there are plug-in stage stations it's like cloud nine.

>> a kind of don't want to be in the air we want to do it in the air, i'm going to take a truck instead of a tesla plane. >> what about the backup battery and backup gas. and that includes the future. cost could go back. >> but if we have these planes to boot you know how it goes. neil: event before it is sold out. i mean, don't forget about it.

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