remember, the president is a personification of how the american people want the country to act. that is why donald trump is succeeding. dagen: happy day. big hugs. a big hug and a handoff to mr. stuart varney. stuart: thank you very much. the reviews are in. they are not good for the president. good morning, everyone. no change in the fight against terror. that was the message to france. mr. obama said that the parents climate conference is a powerful rebuke to terror. what do you think the answer to that was? ridicule from the right and mockery from some of the left. however, it is thanksgiving week. we bring you good news. gas prices at the lowest in seven years.

the vast majority of states, you will find gas somewhere at $2 a gallon or less. come on in, everybody. this is my first thanksgiving as a genuine american. varney and company is about to begin. ♪ all right. welcome to the show everyone. a strange response from protesters in chicago after release of a dash cam video showing a white police officer killing a black teenager. the footage shows the death of a 17-year-old at the hands of a police officer. charging with murder earlier tuesday. we will have more on this coming up in just a couple minutes. let's get on the latest russian shootdown on a fighter jet in

turkey. if they were shooting at the pilot, the video is authentic, had is a war crime. russia's ambassador says the second pilot was killed on the ground by g hyde in the area. vladimir putin has almost consequences. that is the latest on that. come on into the markets. stocks stay strong. can you say safe haven? technology, still near the all-time high. same story with facebook. close to an all-time high. it goes up again today. 106, probably. oil. look at it now. $42 a barrel. want to get at that good news on gas prices.

205 is your national average for regular. get a different driver, america. the lowest-priced gasoline is found in texas. $1.46 a gallon. france president is waging war. world tape. >> next week i will be joining the president and world leaders in paris. what a powerful rebuke. the world stands as one and stands that we will not be detoured from building a better future for our children. stuart: you heard it. the latest poll from fox news. 24% say that terrorism is the

most important issue facing the country. terrorism is the number one issue. only 3% say climate change is the most important. katie is here. it seems to me that president obama is out of step with much of the country. what do you say? >> what is new. president obama is out of touch on a lot of cases. stuart, this is a very important thing to point out here. you have the president after the worst terrorist attacks on france saying attending a conference about climate change will offer a powerful rebuke to isis. let's take a look at where we are with isis. christianity in the middle east will be extinct within five years. the worst crisis since world war ii. we have isis controlling territory from libya to iraq.

launching attacks from their safe haven in syria did get the president of the united states, at a time where we need leadership, is standing by in talking about claimant change. we are exterminating christianity from the middle east. stuart: i sensed disappointment from the president's statements and speech yesterday. just put up on the screen for a second a headline from the washington post. president obama is called mr. o bummer. that is extraordinary stuff. the washington post generally goes to the left. you get back kind of headline. that is an extraordinary statement. >> we have also seen a lot of

members of president obama's party coming out and directly criticizing president obama's policies on isis and handling not only the aftermath of the paris attacks, but handling how they will prevent attacks happening here at home. there are 1000 fbi inquiries into isis cases potentially here in the united states. that is a major problem. in the white house briefing this week and lastly, josh earnest joining in that criticism. the president is out of touch with the country as a whole. stuart: i would love to see hillary clinton questioned on this. i do not know if that will be happening over the thanksgiving holiday. >> probably not. enjoy your first thanksgiving as your first american thanksgiving. stuart: i will. believe me, i will.

our own ashley webster has been in europe for us since the paris attack. today, we have a development on the migrant story in europe did come on in, ashley. what is this about? >> reversal of policy. very interesting indeed. it simply cannot cope anymore. receiving refugees at the rate of 10,000 a week. 190,000 this year alone. they said no more. they will start imposing some tough legislation. give out only temporary residence. not allow refugees to bring family to sweden. check id on all of those transportation. just basically saying we cannot cope anymore. after the paris attacks, in

sweden just this past weekend. a very interesting and telling reversal of policy on the refugee situation. stuart: ashley webster right now paris. turkey shoots down a russian fighter jet. now, russia has deployed a missile cruiser to the mediterranean. john bolton is with us now. world war iii. hash tag world war iii. that is trending online. that sounds like a gross overreaction to me. i have heard that reaction use frequently in the last couple of days. >> i think it is a reflection on the inadequacy of our system. world war iii was the defeat of communism at the end of the 20th century. look, the conflict that we are seeing in the middle east right now is extraordinarily complex. many different aspects to it.

as a reflection to the larger challenge of radical islamism is him around the world, i think it has been around for some time. we just had not realized it. stuart: now we have russia and turkey, i am going to say at each other's throats, i think that is a pretty legitimate thing to say. fighting over territory and isis. that fight will get lost in the fight against russia and turkey and the sod and iran. all of these forces fighting in that area. not actually fighting isis. am i right? >> a lot of things going on at the same time. this is very serious. a reflection of russia's clear policy under putin to replace the united states. remember, when russia built that new airspace a month or so ago, that was another way of

encircling turkey. now, they are back at turkey, two. this conflict has to do with turkish support. speaking ethically. i think russia will probably retaliate against the rebels. not against turkey directly. it is an indication of how russia is now part of the problem, but also how it continues to increase in its influence. stuart: ambassador, john bolton, thank you for joining us. it is thanksgiving week. we wish you and yours a wonderful thanksgiving. >> to you, too, stuart. stuart: elon musk. joe ling kent has the story. jo ling: winning the states race.

elon musk not happy about it. that is just putting it mildly. blue origin successfully landed an unmanned rocket back on earth in west texas after traveling into space this week. musk initially tweeted before adding this little dig. he tweeted again. maybe i am unaware that it began in 2013. orbital manned landing is coming next. so far, spacex has failed to land to larger falcon nine rocket vertically. they will try again as early as next month. stuart: let me get this right. a space program of his own. musk, multibillionaire, he has a

space program of his own. this guy, what's his name, matusz help. he will not take it anymore. >> i have put rocket into orbit and he has not done that. stuart: go for it, boys. jo ling: yes. stuart: thank you. chicago is on edge following the release of a video of the man getting shot fixing times by a police officer. that officer is now facing murder charges. we have more on that next. >> an extraordinary moment. look at what is happening here. (trader vo) i search.

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>> we are seeing an extraordinary moment. look at what is happening here. >> look at him. look at him. a cop out there accused of doing nothing wrong. >> a silent protest with a police officer. stuart: that was from the kennedy filed last night. right in a cop space. staring him down. looking like you try to be provocative. would you give us your assessment to what happened in chicago last night. >> good morning to you, first of all, stuart. it is really indicative of what is happening here in the united states over the past three or four years. police department have department have to do a better job policing themselves. cities and elected officials need to do a better job when

they decide to do their investigations. the only reason we saw what took place last night and chicago is because it took them 10 months to do their investigation. that is why we saw the reaction last night, stuart. stuart: the response, and i do not mean to downplay it, if the reaction of the black community is always going to be violent confrontation, that is a problem; is it not? >> it is a problem. i do not think that it will always be violent confrontation. i said for the longest, we need elected officials. we need leaders to bring people together. not keep us separated. stuart: what about president obama here? has president obama brought us together in the last seven years?

blacks and whites? >> no. that is my opinion. i have said it before. absolutely not. i think president obama has done the best he could. the best he could is not ready enough. that police officer in that young african american man last night. you know what the label with that is america is in crisis. that is what we see all across the country. black males, police, white males. it will be like that until we get some leadership in the white house. stuart: ain't you very much, indeed. we will see you again soon, i am sure. >> happy thanksgiving. let's not forget that. happy thanksgiving. gas has not been this cheap since 2008. we will tell you where it is below $2 a gallon.

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stuart: check this out. the golden state warriors. they won their 16th game in a row to start the season. the third team in pro- american sports to win this mini games to start the season. now my favorite part of the entire show. gastown another penny overnight. $2.05. how about that. patrick is with us. he is the gas buddy guy. all right. first question. where is the cheapest gas in all the land? >> $1.46 in texas. $1.46 on thanksgiving. that was something that was supposed to happen on christmas. stuart: how many states have an average price of $2 or less? >> wide a few.

almost half now. the median price is $1.98. under $2 a gallon. over $2 a gallon. stuart: how about a word from our viewers on tactics. what you really should do is fill up as late as possible. it is going to be cheaper. is that good tack it? >> it is. the situation with russia and turkey. oil prices react into that yesterday. a little bit of a penny increase here and there. nothing to get too excited about.

generally us waiting is better. make sure you are looking on what side of the line you want to fill out. look at new jersey and new york. new jersey much cheaper. stuart: if i were driving up or down i-95, i am going to make a point of gassing up in south carolina. i think that is the cheapest state in the land. >> very close, stuart. among the nations cheapest yesterday. a slight pump up. filling up in new jersey if you can make it all the way to south carolina. gas buddy. thank you for joining us. have a good thanksgiving.

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>> all right. wednesday morning, we've gotten seconds to go and this market will be open, closed tomorrow, of course, but it will reopen on friday. not much of a session on friday, but they have to open, you cannot close the stock market for more than three days. so, friday they'll open up. we just opened for trading this wednesday and we are ever so slightly higher. we're looking for a gain in the next couple of minutes of about 40 points. let's see. dangerously close to going negative there. oh, dead flat is how i -- 0.73 up. i'll call that dead flat. let them all open, says the producer. okay, i'll let them open. and after the russian plane stocks near record levels. we've got to talk about that. let's bring in cheryl casone, dan in chicago and shah galani in new york. all right, shah galani, where is your 20% decline you've been

confidently reporting the last month and a half. >> we're not there yet. as i've been saying, we have to get to 18,000 and hold otherwise a chance of slipping backward and haven't been near and hold it so that remains to be seen. the fundamentals of the market are terrible, it just keeps going higher. cheryl: that's just 165 points away. >> it's going to hold there, too, it doesn't have to not only get there, but hold there. i know, i've been wrong. [laughter] . >> i'm sorry. stuart: thanksgiving week and not attacking, but questioning, where is-- >> my position, i think we have a chance to slip back. stuart: dan, come in, please. the story, front page wall street journal, u.s. corporate profits during the third quarter posted their largest annual decline since the recession. do you think we're going to go down, dan? >> if you're a betting man, i think the odds are probably to bet on that side.

it's going to take some significant economic news to push us above the level that shah is talking about. i'm comfortable with the positions now, but if i were forced to put on one, i'd put on a short position, because if we have any bad news, significant bad news not what we've seen in the past, i think you'll see a pretty big break, i think we could see a break. stuart: you've got some support there. >> the chicago crowd. stuart: hello, everybody, we don't show charts very often, don't like them, however, we'll make an exception for raytheon, they make missiles. a nice pop the past month because of what's going on in the mideast, no doubt. dan sechich, defense stocks, right before the long weekend and the long holiday, what do you say? >> you know, i don't see the problems escalating to the point where they're going to have long-term effect on this, no, i'm not buying defense

stocks now. firstoff, it's too late. and if we see any type or indication that this is going to escalate further and i don't see it, then maybe i would do it, but not right now. stuart: tell me about 0 oil, because we had a pop yesterday because of the shootdown in the mideast. today, i believe we're down at $42 a barrel again. is that pop, the mideast pop, dan, is he over? >> i think it's over and i saw an article yesterday, it's interesting, supply is there. we talked about this before. there's plenty of supply and it's going to keep on coming. now, around the u.s., you were talking about gas prices and almost universally near me, now it's 1.99. i paid 1.86. it should be a good thing. as far as the long-term effects go, we're going to stay in this 40 to $55 range for some time now. stuart: okay. as a newly minted american, i do understand that this is a retailing environment, this is the time of year when you get out there and you shop.

how about wal-mart? i am a wal-mart shopper. shah galani, do you like wal-mart, the stock? >> in spite of its 3 1/4% dividend, not really. stuart: not really? >> they've got-- >> and letting the audience no, not really. >> and this bribery investigation in mexico and in trouble in brazil. nothing has been proven yet. they're down in china, down in u.k., and-- >> shah, i disagree. wal-mart is doing so much work right now to change their stores, to change their on-line presence, to retail to customers in a denver way. -- different way, they're in a lurch and i think they'll come back out of that. will the stock reflect that? it doesn't right now, but if they make the moves and it's successful we could have a different wal-mart come january.

stuart: if you don't like wal-mart, if you're keen on wal-mart, do you like amazon? >> i love amazon, i hate the stock-- if you own this stock, you love it, it's up 140% in the last 52 weeks, they're everything that they should be. increasing their presence in entertainment and payments, increasing their presents in payments and huge on the cloud. stuart: huge in the cloud. >> the company is great, and that's a charge and a half. >> it has had a tremendous run. cheryl: that chart to me-- >> will you stop on amazon this weekend or a wal-mart? >> yes, a little of both. stuart: i don't believe a word of it. >> i'm not you. i've been to wal-mart and target, i love super target. stuart: i bet i shop at wal-mart more than you. >> i live in manhattan, i don't have a wal-mart. i miss wal-mart.

stuart: i've got to move on it. the industrials are flat. we're nearly six minutes into the trading session this wednesday and there's not much movement amongst the dow industrials, we're up five points, that's it. look at tesla, billionaire space race between jeff bezos and elon musk of tesla. the rocket had is successful landing and musk is not happy about it. do you care? >> it's fun to watch these two go at it, but i don't care. cheryl: the fun part is watching two geeks on twitter, yesterday, my rocket is better than your rocket. seeing elon musk and bezos fight. stuart: hewlett-packard and hp, two stocks to watch. nicole: hp, inc. and hp enterprises. it's the last time they report together. look at hewlett-packard, hpq,

down 12 1/2%, no one wants pc's anymore. revenue dropped 14% and it's down five quarters in a row. they cut their forecast, that's the big loser. on the other hand, we did see up arrows here for hewlett-packard enterprises, which is business and enterprise software, so that's a winner on the other side of the coin. i'm thinking santa might walk by behind me as well, but we do have santa here today for macy's parade. stuart: looks like a lot of tourists going past you right there on the new york stock exchange. that's all good. welcome to new york, everybody. big tech names, we check them every day and start with apple. where are we this wednesday morning? well, apple is virtually unchanged at 118. it's been dead flat for a couple of months now. 112, 118, that's the range. how about netflix, it was getting awfully close to a new record high just in the last-- netflix, yeah, at 124 this morning, it's up a buck 40. do we have facebook, please?

last time i checked, it was 106, 107, close to the all-time high. 106 this morning. big tech stocks. yahoo! down-- no, it's not. it's dead flat. $33 a share. what's this, executives leaving the company? >> just trying to retain top talent and she's got a problem. maris sa mayier, she's had dozens of executives, they don't believe in her relationship, they think she needs to go. she's been asking several employees, top employees to sign three-year contracts that they won't leave her as she tries to turn the ship around. she's got a lot of problems right now. stuart: show me apple again, please. i think that apple may be a huge christmas play. what say you, shah galani. >> they certainly talk down their numbers, but i think if we have an exceptional quarter the stock will probably make new highs. stuart: nike, a new all-time high leading the dow, nike is

right now. look at it go, it's coming, i promise you it's going to come, we'll get there. two subscribe r-- tivo subscriber growth, that's hit a record. higher costs eat away its profit and tivo is down, not much, 7 cents all you've got. john deere, profit and sales down, not as bad as the experts thought it would be. not sure if we've got john deere, but who is here? his name is marshal cowan, this is one of the guys that knows about retail stocks and with us this morning. aptally timed in this thanksgiving week. >> look what's happening, when you really recognize the consumer, you've got retailers who have been basically making it not black friday, not black friday weekend, it's now black november. stuart: that's true. >> you've got retailers that are going to beage chaed in some case because they got a little bit of the early business and some are going to prosper well through the holiday. stuart: surprise, surprise, i read your stuff. you like target?

>> i do. they're doing a great job with getting back in the game. they're got great price value. look at what they're doing for the holiday in relationship to sales. they're not giving away the house, but yet, they're putting value on the equation. 61% of consumers tell us they are going to buy on sale and get the great deals. >> amazon up eight bucks at 6:79. you like it, and you think it's going further up? >> amazon will be the number one retailer for holiday. the number one retailer for holiday. think about what that means? that means on-line not only is a big play, but amazon will be a great part of the equation. stuart: gross revenues for on-line sales at amazon will be higher than any other retailing operation bricks and mortar. >> that's huge. yes, it is. >> can amazon go beyond $700 a share? reach for the moon here. >> you have to realize here at some point they're going to have to be held accountable to start to maintain that profit

level that they have to show. volume is great and connectivity with the consumer is great, the other key thing they'll recognize, we also have amazon prime. 24% of households are utilizing amazon prime with another 30% with the potential for growth opportunity. >> you heard that. >> 24%? all american households? >> we have two different organizations. civic science and npd, 24% of households, not individuals, but households use amazon prime. they love the two day shipping and free shipping and the added benefits with the streaming windows, but this is an opportunity for on-line to really make it stick this year for the holiday. >> so department stores, not so good? >> the biggest challenge is going to be department stores and yet again, that, you know, the teen retailer for holiday, simply because it's really about recognizing when you promote early or when you promote heavily, we've got some shores that are showing us, 50%

often tire store for some of the apparel specialty retailers, that's a sign that they've got a challenge. >> marshal, you've got me going on amazon there. 24% of households use prime. that's unbelievable. thank you for joining us. happy thanksgiving, young man. >> i've got news from the russian pilot who survived being shot out of the sky by turkey. cheryl: we're getting comments from the pilot. first, importantly, he said there was no visual or radio warnings from the turkish jet that he needed to get out of turkish air space, of course, he would say that. and his partner didn't survive, renew the region like the back of their hand and they were definitely not in turkish air space, that's what he says and it wasn't possible that they could have gone into turkish air space. and the russian pilot says he's back home. >> that's the point, isn't it? they rescued him and got him

back home. cheryl: russia says this. stuart: and check out the secment. we're virtually dead flat, down one point this wednesday morning. now, i've got it, nike. i knew i'd get it eventually. 133 per share, and it's up 55 cents. i believe that is a new all-time high. and that's it, everybody, back in a moment.

>> why don't you or some of your supporters or some of the people in your organization just get a sign, a big sign, a walk outside in new york city or washington d.c. and say, hey, you, isis, we're coming to get you. >> stuart, thanks for suggesting that, i will take the lead and we will get the sign made and we will do it right here in washington d.c. stuart: well, he followed through with it. he did it. it doesn't look like the turnout was that big, but he's

back today and congratulations, sir, you did what we suggested and i think you're a brave guy. congratulations, sir. >> thank you, you are-- i'm proud what you suggested. you've got to do it and we did it and thanks to stuart and to jamie for giving us the support that you gave us. stuart: look, i think you're a brave guy and i think a lot of people are intimidated when it comes to doing what you did. i have to point out that the turnout wasn't huge. i mean, you got maybe a few dozen people there. what you really need is 10,000. are you with me on this? >> i'm with you on this. this is the beginning. this is the starting point. we did it in two days and as shah noted, stuart, american-muslims are afraid to do demonstrations and they hear don't rock the boat and don't mess what is good. most of them are not bold enough to do it and i think

we're gold enough to take the step and behind us, there were three other groups did it and you will see a momentum gaining, and you're responsible for this good momentum to create an america where all of us can live together in harmony. and send a clear message to those terrorists, al qaeda, isis, and all of those terrorists that we don't like them, we don't want them. we want them done with. stuart: and you're worried when you look in the camera and say you're responsible. be careful here, be careful. >> i mean, the isis, they are responsible. no, you are responsible for creating this movement. i appreciate that you're a catalyst for this, and although we're planning to do it the end of december, the conversation we had caused us to do it immediately and that was before thanksgiving. and it's a way of-- >> now, after you did what you did. after you were out there with your sign. do you get threats? do you get people going after you?

>> not really, but i was advised by a few people not to do it, don't rock the boat, don't mess with it, don't hassle with it, and we've got to do it, needed and necessary and we chose this location, lincoln memorial for a clear purpose. this is where martin luther king started the civil rights movement, that changed the nation, and we wanted to pick the same to change the nation towards better-- to include muslim americans as a part of the mainstream society, where muslims are no more -- it's all of us. stuart: all americans. >> indeed. stuart: when are you going to do this again? >> we're going to plan it in january and i don't promise a million people, i will promise at least a thousand people to join me there and it will pick up momentum in different cities around the country. you come on the show and we'll tell where you'll be demonstrating and see if you can get some turnout. sorry to cut it short.

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>> so with the power vested in me as, i guess, a presidential candidate, i pardon you and you are free to go. >> i now pardon you, mr. turkey. >> jenny, you are now pardoned and set free to live a wonderful life. stuart: oh, that was some of the g.o.p. candidates holding their own pardoning of thanksgiving, look, cheryl, i thought that was awkward. >> awkward. >> i taught carly was going to kiss the turkey and adopt it. >> cute, but awkward. >> you can't take it too far. it looked like ben carson was

trying to bless the turkey in a circular moment. marco rubio pulled it off, but the other two. >> when fox business first launched it was a time when jeff flock was in a turkey processing plant. if you really want to see this, watch this. >> this gentleman here, vacuuming out the carcass. like a giant hoover, vacuum cleaner. what are these folks doing. >> helping to remove the feathers that the machinery isn't getting, the pin feathers. >> this is where the business starts. how long does it take to get from this process into the bag ready to go for sale? >> about four hours, about four hours, killing time, half our dressing time. >> that was years ago and we're still running it, not sure whether we should do that, but flock, don't ever go into a

turkey processing plant with a camera again, got it? >> i need to deny the fact-- people have accused me of being paid by the beef and the pork industry council for playing that because consumption of both was up that year at thanksgiving, that's not true. stuart: where are you now? what are you doing? it looks like reagan national to me or chicago, is it? >> it's o'hare in chicago talking holiday travel today. i would rather be, i think, at the turkey plant. the funny part of that is the next hour, had they let me go on the air the next hour, i with as going to show the barrel of beaks, claws and entrails i thought was interesting as well. stuart: it was cheryl on the air at the time, you visited the processing plants. you realize that and she's making faces. cheryl: jeff, i about hid under the anchor desk, i could not

contain myself. it was with tom sullivan and we were dying over that. >> here is the deal, the line in television, i recognize it and sometimes you don't know where that line is until unformer, it-- unfortunately it's behind you somewhere. stuart: we're glad to see you at o'hare, jeff flock, everybody, fresh from the turkey plant. see you later. france's president hollande, he goes to the white house and he wants american military support from isis, what he gets is a statement about the paris climate summit and terror. marsha blackburn coming up. and a cartoon displaying republicans as an isis executioner? millennials are all about free speech as long as it doesn't offend them. second hour of "varney & company" two minutes away.

>> "varney & company," hour two with the big stories, president obama meets with france's president hollande, the president wanted more support, american support to fight terror. instead, president obama called the paris climate summit, quote, a powerful rebuke to terrorism. a sharp reversal from sweden on the policy of migrants, they shut the door shut. they say they need a respite. millennials say they'd like the government to limit speech they deem offensive. dear lord. second hour of "varney & company" starts right now. ♪ i have this breaking right now. it broke there at 10:00 eastern. freddy mach, 30-year fixed rate mortgages at 3.95%. down a fraction. cheryl: cheryl 3.95% and last

week 3.97%, a tiny, tiny bit. we're expecting the fed to hike rates and the mortgage market will follow that rate hike. that's going to be the spring. >> so cheryl casone on this thanksgiving week forecast higher mortgage rates by christmas? >> no, after christmas. >> i'm not going to ruin anyone's holiday, i'm not the grinch. let's wait until january. >> check out the big board,s because we've moved a little higher. we're now up about 20 points and puts the dow at 17-8. i repeat. that's one good rally away from 18,000. i've got nike 133.76 look at it go, what a stock. and talk about what a stock, how about amazon? $678 per share right now, it has more than doubled since black friday of last year.

it's up 7 bucks this morning. the price of oil on the down side today. up yesterday, down today by 2 1/4%, we're at $41 per barrel. ♪ >> i was preempted on my own show. sound the trumpets, you can do it again, if you like. ♪ . [laughter] >> it's a holiday feeling, get out and drive, everybody. the national average for regular is $2.05 a gallon. i like it. watch this. cheryl: amazing. stuart: this is gas prices average below $2 in 22 states, those are the states where the average is below $2 a gallon. and if you check out most states, you'll find at least one station at $2 or less. cheryl: 70 cents lower a gallon from last thanksgiving. 70 cents a gallon, huge drop. stuart: yeah, i mean, i'm saving-- i'm filling up my wagon, with my chrysler town and country

and filling it up for 30, $35 a shot. that's it. cheryl: that's great. stuart: i love it. got breaking news for you, here we go. wednesday lunchtime, authorities in tunisia say a bus explosion in the capital city of tunis was the work of a suicide bomber, 12 people killed on the presidential guard bus and prompted a state-wide emergency. i was looking at an alert that crossed from the associated press and they've claimed responsibility for the bus attack in central tunisia. the russian pilot who did survive being shot out of the sky by turkey, that pilot says there were no radio warnings about flying in turkish air space. the pilot was rescued from rebel territory, and a defense department official says if rebels were in fact shooting at the pilot as he felt, and came

down on his parachute, that means the video is authentic, that's a war crime says the u.s. defense department official. and the second was killed on the ground by jihadis in the area. vladimir putin has promised serious consequences. all of that is a background to this. president obama says the rebuke to terrorism will be paris climate summit. roll tape. >> next week i will be joining president hollande and world leaders in paris for the global climate conference. what a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children. stuart: all right. you heard it, congress woman marsha blackburn from tennessee. good to have you on this thanksgiving week. >> good to be with you. stuart: the president says that

the climate change summit in paris is a powerful rebuke to terrorism. what's your response? >> i think it is very sad that this is something that our president would say. the thing that is most frustrating to my constituents, while i'm out and about this week, is the fact that he's very timid how to take isis on and how to define our enemy. it is radical extremists islam. and he needs to be able to say that, to define the enemy and say, look, we're going to turn this climate summit into a summit of how to eradicate radical extremism from the face of this earth. we are going to protect people that are peace loving people, but look, all of you terrorists we're coming after you and we're going to destroy you and your network. stuart: that's what you want to do. >> yes. stuart: that's your position. >> yes. stuart: can you do it? does congress have any say in this at all?

>> well, we have passed the ndaa, the national defense authorization act. we continue to work through the channels that we have, whether it is homeland security and dealing with the syrian crisis or through our foreign relations, working to get aid and comfort in the area and this is another thing, stuart, the president to say, look, as we assembly all of these 140 world leaders, we're going to talk about the refugee crisis and looking at that region of the world, where, what countries can take these refugees and how do we support them as a global community, how do we go in and support them in that effort? we don't need to be bringing them here because, guess what? we still can't vet them. we don't know who they are. stuart: it's-- president obama, when he goes to paris, he's going to commit american taxpayer money to go towards climate change mitigation in other countries.

i'm told it will be about 3 billion dollars. that will be the initial request. congress could say no. you could cut off the purse strings right there and stop this outflow of our money to other people about climate change. >> and we have done this before repeatedly. the house has voted to defund efforts that the epa is carrying out and we'll vote to do away with what he's trying to do, reminding you, the copenhagen summit, the last one that they had, that was in 2007, and a group of republicans that went over there, remember, it was that select committee on global warming, we went over and we were successful in making certain that there was not an agreement that came out of that. the president is focused on this. i think i think it is misplaced priorities. the biggest threat we have is national security, it's dealing with radical islamic extremists. he needs to use this opportunity.

we will do our part to defund and to pull this back and to disallow what he is trying to do, but, stuart, it is, i tell you what, the focus needs to be on eradicating these terrorist networks, whether it's al qaeda, boca haram or isis. stuart: i recommend you read the editorial by dana millback right there on the left and he says, look at that, president obama, barack obama, not a good response to yesterday's statement. marsha blackburn, i'm out of time, thanksgiving week a lot of news. >> happy thanksgiving. stuart: and do you, too. thanks very much. check the big board, we're up, but not much. ten points higher. and market watcher is here, jeff. i've got a bone to pick with you. not a turkey bone. you've been on this program for a couple of months saying here it comes, hook eke eke eke ekeh-

here it comes. we're falling off, what happened. 17-8. >> we started going down, we had some violent selloffs, what happened and what the investors and especially the bulls need to be thankful for, janet yellen stepped in yet again and her cohorts, with the fed. with the dovish stance, they're going to artificially extend interest rates for an extended period. most of them are looking at what janet yellen is doing prolonging the inevitable. we thought they were going for the credibility and do what they said they were going to do, but they didn't. as a result of that, we get this other false rally. >> you don't think they're going to raise interest rates next month? >> no, i don't. the market is in line with that? >> they're not going to raise interest rates. that's why stocks are strong. >> yes. >> it's the fed. stop peddling the interest rate increase, that's what's doing it.

>> yes, and i listened to everything she says, that janet yellen says, and the bottom line. she continually hedges herself to make it clear about growth. and when we have the bad geopolitical events and dismal economic reports, it's very clear that she's paying attention to them, but she's scared to death because if she raises rates, you have the whole world in peril and she doesn't want to-- >> she's in a terrible corner. the fed painted itself into that corner. >> absolutely. >> you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, but they're in that corner. so, you're not wrong. you just are postponing the day when you're right. >> exactly, that makes me feel better about myself. i'm not wrong, i'm early. rather be early than late. stuart: you're sticking to it. >> absolutely. stuart: when the fed does turn around and raises rates, this market heads down big time.

>> i'm sticking to what's happening before then, people are going to start to look at what's happening in the economy and whether or not, i mean, revenue was terrible last quarter. they're going to look at what's happening in the economy and look at what's happening in corporate america and they're going to say this rally is unsustainable. the fact that the worst the news gets, the better the market does, if that doesn't concern people, that, i don't know what will and that's something to look at. >> so, should i sell my microsoft today and sort of walk away from the markets until way into next year? >> i would say that if you-- if you've made money in this market. and it's important at this point to not be greedy, to take some of your gains, be willing to sit with the dreaded cash, and wait, because if you don't. you're going to have no, nothing to buy in. >> there's nothing dreaded about cash. >> you know what i mean, the market-- >> i understand these things.

>> when you have the average mutual funds with zero cash, with a lot of-- there's not a lot of people holding cash right now. so, i would say that cash is king. >> okay. >> no question. >> the very articulate jeff, happy thanksgiving. by the way, i've got a stock, winner. deere, profits, it's a question of expectations, deere is up $2, 78. how about hewlett-packard, weak profit forecast, what's going on? two stocks now. cheryl: this is hpq. this is the stock, focusing on printers and in a mobile, digital world, this company is still going to be struggling and, yes, the profit forecast was weak and disappointing for investors. the other one though, if we have that board, they may not, is hewlett-packard enterprise, that one has a shot here because they're going to business and it's catering to enterprise systems, and businesses, that one is up.

>> that one is up, that's 2% higher. that particular half. >> hq and hp. >> and slamming shut the previous open door policy on migrants. the prime minister says the country can't do any more to help and the two biggest daily fantasy sports websites in court in new york city today. they say they're not gambling sites. new york city disagrees. more varney after this.

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>> e. coli, that outbreak is getting worse. this time it's linked to another big name, costco. jo ling kent, the story in case you missed it. jo: the rotisserie chicken salad, pulling it off the shelves after an outbreak.

five people have been hospitalized. chipotle closed some stores after an an outbreak. here is a look at the costco stock. amazon have told some customers their account pass words may have been compromised. it's unknown how many people were affected, but their pass words may have been shared or stored without proper security and looking at amazon stock right now as always and it's 1.1% ahead of the black friday. larry ellison is making changes on his hawaiian island of lanai. he's been closing down major resorts for renovation, 90% of hotel rooms on the island have

been unavailable, hitting the tourism history pretty hard. causing the unemployment rate to almost double. stuart: he owns the entire island, doesn't he. >> back in 2012 he bought it. stuart: thanks, jo. >> thank you. stuart: sweden closing its borders to migrants. former u.s. ambassador to denmark, james kane is with us. you're ambassador to denmark in recent years. this morning, we find that sweden, previously an open door policy to muslim north african migrants, shut the door and they can't do any more. that came as a shock to me, mr. ambassador, to you? >> they had no choice. it's a wonderful country, but small country of 10 million people. they had 190,000 people, that's like 7 million coming to the u.s. as refugees. and sweden as a generous, maybe

unrealistic policy of welfare berths and eventually they realized the system would break down and ruin the economy, they had no choice to shut the doors, they'll go back to what they call the eu minimum policy, but these scandanavian countries have been generous with the welfare benefits and the open door policy can't work more mathematically. stuart: you know europe. you know what's going on there. what are they going to do with this migrant crisis? the barriers are coming up, the frontiers are going up again, border checks and the rest of it. what are they going to do? give me the long-term outlook here. >> stuart, you would hope that this is a short-term problem. we have to remember that the reason we have these refugees crises is because countries like sweden, countries like our allies in nato, countries like america, for the last seven or eight years have refused to confront the actors in the middle east, i'm talking about bashir assad.

talking about iraq, and talking islamic extremism, refused to confront them on their home turf and allowed civil wars and genside to erupt which resulted in this refugee flight. what we eventually have to do. we have to help return stability on the ground in these countries so that these refugees, who most of them don't want to stay in germany pan sweden forever, they'd like to allow them to go back home again. >> so, mr. ambassador, could you say that in part, this is president obama's fault? this migrant crisis? >> oh, absolutely. stuart. it's the fault of our administration in washington. it's the fault of our allies in europe. the fault of those who refused to confront bashir assad, who refused to -- to force him to change his policies, to eliminate the conditions on the ground that have allowed isis to rise, which is what's driven out the syrian citizens who are

now refugees in europe. so, absolutely, i would say categorically that this refugee crisis is a consequence of failed policies in europe. sweden is a wonderful country, won't get me wrong, even countries like sweden have to realize that policies of neutrality and being willing to stay out of the fight in the rest of the world, simply do not work in the long-term, you've got to confront evil where it is, and in recent years it's syria and iraq and other places in the middle east. >> thank you very much for joining us, sir. very important stuff. >> glad to be here, stuart. >> thank you. stuart: we're going to talk free speech in a moment because the church of england, anglicans, featuring the lord's prayer, they want today run it with the "star wars" movie. they said no, they were afraid to offend non-christians. that's england for you. next.

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no outrage. we'll talk to a woman who says all stores, all of them should be closed on thanksgiving. we wants you to stay home so they have no reason to open. what exactly are you allowed to say? must we all be sensitive to people with different beliefs so we don't speak freely about anything because we don't want to offend? surely, if you can't speak freely, if you can't engage in discussion, our basic freedom has been lost. well, the british, they pride themselves on free speech, rightfully so, but look what just happened over there. the church england produced a commercial for prayer, the lord's prayer, church leaders thought it would bring a moment of calm, spiritual reflection to a country racked by terror, they wanted to run it when they aired the new "star wars" movie. they were refused. you can't run that, it would

cause offense to those of different faiths, that's what it's come to over there. non-christians might be offended so shut it down. one day, perhaps, people will understand that it was judeo christians who created the freedoms the pc police so willing any destroyed. let's bring it home. why is donald trump so popular, because he's deliberately politically incorrect. he tramples over the sensitivity of others, he's prepared to lose votes among those he offends because he knows so many voters have had it with tiptoeing around the issues. our freedom of speech is worth a lot more than someone else's sensitivity. tomorrow most of us hopefully will be with family and friends. i have a feeling that this year, real free speech will make a comeback around the dinner table. it should because if there's one thing we should all be truly thankful for, it is the freedom to speak freely.

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stuart: i have numbers on the amount of oil in storage. an extra 961,000 barrels in storage. not as much as expected. 4195. a big building gas. that is interesting. that could bring the price of gasoline down. i have two breaking stories from overseas. isis has taken responsibility for yesterday's bus bombing. twelve dead. a suicide bomber attacked a presidential guard us. there is now a nationwide state of emergency there.

there were no radio warnings about flying and turkish airspace. other people say there were plenty of warnings. that pilot was rescued held by russian and theory and forces. one of russia's ambassador says the second pilot was killed on the ground by jihad in the area. astrid webster is there. what is this about big government over there? >> it is perhaps they'll jump being the poster child for government gone wrong. it really does them getting away with what they did and right under the nose of those people trying to find them.

belgium is three different languages. multiple government agencies who often do not talk to each other. six separate police department in brussels alone. it turns out that the mayor of brussels was given a list of 18 names. they are on the terrorist list and they are dangerous. in both of the parents attacks. here is the cake into the story. they lived 150 yards across the square from city hall. stuart: all right. we heard that one all right. i hope you are coming on soon for thanksgiving. i hope so. thank you. checked the big board. i will call this a modest game. 178 is the story. major averages now up 2% since

the paris attack. bob dole is here. i am returning to this story constantly. the lead story in the "wall street journal" today saying corporate profits with the biggest annual decline with the recession. the dow industrials close to record territory. you want to explain this to us? >> on the other hand, the profit story is not a surprise. it has come from the rise in the dollar and the fall in the price of oil. at some point in time, we expect year-over-year comparisons to become neutral. earnings will be growing again. modestly, not a big number. supporting the stock market where it is. the s&p 500 is higher then a u.s. treasury bond. stocks have growth to them and bonds do not. just a few minutes ago, we had a

market analyst on the show. you are in a lot of microsoft stock. why don't you sell some of it and take it easy over thanksgiving. there is a big risk in the market place. are you saying the exact opposite? >> my view is we will be in a. here continued sidewise, trading action with volatility. both the bulls and the bears. i cannot find a lot of reason why you should run out and sell microsoft. if you did not own any microsoft, telling you to run and buy it today, it will not necessarily go up a lot. i do not know where earnings are going. see if they are okay. not great, but good enough. it will take some time. a frustrating.

for the bulls and the bears. stuart: you are just the guy to appear bright before the thanksgiving day holiday. we can relax. bob dole. trillion dollar man says we are okay. you can come on this program any day you would like and reassure me. >> you are kind. happy thanksgiving, stuart. now, this one. ivy league school cornell displayed these pictures at an annual social justice roundtable. the republican elephant assaulting a woman. some would say that this is free speech. look at this. 40% of millennial say that they would oppose free speech if it is offensive.

one of our favorable lineal, if not the favorite, he is right here this thanksgiving. charlie, let's deal with the cornell thing first. it is astonishing. certainly assaulting. no crack down. not at all. >> we broke the story on one of our websites. designed to expose these biases that have been going on. let's look at the double standard here. jesse waters goes to cornell. he is ran off campus for even interviewing and talking to students because they consider fox news to be a propaganda machine. couple weeks later, they are pairing the gop to isis. they call that free speech. really fascist rule. protecting people that believe in this.

it is free speech unless you are conservative. stuart: that number. the gray pall. exaggerated poll. >> it is still astonishing. stuart: it is okay to limit free speech. >> i disagree with you. therefore, you should be silent. it is a generation that we have created that you should be silent. not because i am offended, but because you disagree. stuart: it is incredible to me. the 1960s. a guy who stood up and started the free speech movement. those same people became professors.

those professors are the one fighting against everything. they are pushing their agenda on the next generation. any sort of free discourse. indoctrination on our youth. stuart: you are out of college now. >> i never officially enrolled. i am a 20-year-old entrepreneur. i love every moment of it. organizing thousands of young people on college and high school campuses. >> congrats on being a u.s. citizen. time for the sector report. i know cheryl is on the balcony behind me. what do you got? >> didn't you notice i was not sitting next to you anymore wish mark the consumer discretionary sense.

an interesting conversation in the last hour about amazon. i wanted to look at the stock more specifically. it is up 577. to the point that we had in this discussion, though rise in this stock. i know you have your doubt about amazon. the prime users that he was saying is up more than 20%. stuart: 24%. that is incredible. >> i thought that it would have been higher. prime has become so incredibly popular. stuart: i think that it is the stock of the year. all of them in prime. thank you very much indeed here it a billionaire space race. blue horizon. backed by amazon. successfully late -- successfully landed a rocket. we have the tweet to prove it.

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a private space travel company. it successfully landed a rocket. i do not think anyone has done that before. cheryl, elon musk has his own space operation. he is not happy. >> he took to twitter. initially he said congratulations. then he starts to tweet out, well, wait a minute. i will translate did and paraphrase. this is from elon. did it three years ago and it is still around. you know, look, we did this for the first time. this is that elon musk. maybe he is unaware. stuart: he went ballistic. >> this is freaking out and being angry. i think that there are egos

involved. he took the high road after all of this. stuart: i am just pleased to see private enterprise getting into the space business. look at this, please. a long list of stores being closed on thanksgiving. kelly. she is with reasons for the season. welcome to the program. you say nobody should open for business. nobody should go shop there either. am i right? >> that is right. you are pushing people into online shopping, aren't you. [laughter] >> that is not the goal. the goal is to respect the traditions that we have set aside for thanksgiving to get the inks and asked people to

spend time with their families. i do not think people should do that on thanksgiving either. this is the day that we have really set aside to be with our families. stuart: i am a newly minted american. >> i have heard. congratulations. am i un-american if i shop online on thanksgiving wish mark >> i will not go that far to say that. i would appeal to you to look at what matters. honor the life of your family. especially the life of your children. it is even more important to me than ever that they see what matters in my society. shopping is not, i think, the most important thing that we can

be doing on this day that we have set aside. stuart: my twin baby granddaughters with me for thanksgiving. they are only seven months old. i will try to phd's in american on thanksgiving. i will not, to not do online shopping, but i will give it a lot of thought. welcome to the show. time is up. i like your idea. i think your heart is at the right place. thank you. we have ices using encrypted messaging apps to coordinate and workgroup. silicon valley may be unknowingly supporting terrorism did after this. ♪

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just one of the highlights from a jampacked first two hours of irony and company. tune in every day at 9:00 a.m. eastern chart. how about this. supporting ices. eric schipper. do we need to open this up to stop ices? >> free reign right now. they really have no oversight. they are using apps that are created many times in silicon valley. they are using apple and iphone which is encrypted to be able to send any kind of messages without our u.s. intelligence being able to access it. essentially, we are giving it free reign. sitting around saying how stupid our leaders are to allow this.

frankly, it needs to stop. >> they will disagree with you. this is not a good idea. letting the government have opened reign on our information he had not just terrorists. >> well, there are ways to do this so it is not complete opened reign. we are talking about doing it with subpoenas was some type of good troll. we do not want a disaster in the united states. we are seeing some catastrophes. some armageddon. what we do know is when we did have access to certain data, we have been able to stop a tremendous amount of destructive things from happening in this country. we need to be able to get access to this information. the ceos in silicon valley are literally ripping off the security of the american public.

>> the security of the american public. that means then. they are ensuring that they are not having to spend extra money.

stuart: has anyone mentioned the iran nuclear deal recently? two months ago, president obama scrape together some support. just enough to get together with congress on a deal that is already raveling. since then, not a word. the deal is part of the obama legacy. so too is his retreat from the middle east. he pulled our military out. ices moved in. christians were slaughtered. mr. obama wanted a legacy. diplomacy were placed war. instead we have war and terror.

another part is climate change. candidate obama talked about a new start where the oceans would stop rising. he would be the president that save the planet did that is not working either. next month he will commit america to a nonsensical plan. reducing the planet temperature less than 1 degree by the end of the century. america will take a hit. is the president smarter than the rest of us? he sees the wisdom of the policies and we mere mortals do not. he does not listen to opinions that differ from his own. what he is really doing is running out the clock. he can see he is almost out of time and he knows if he can just get through the next 11 months, he will be a will to say he stuck to his principles. his heart was in the right place. his policies have been a disaster. it is the next president that

will have to clean up the mess. we the people will have to live with the legacy of what is essentially a failed presidency. ♪ we will have more on my taken just a moment. first, updates for you. protesters marching down the streets of chicago last night. the demonstrations did stop traffic. mostly peaceful. there were some arrests. a release of a video from october of last year. a police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times. that officer has been charged with first-degree murder. russia says those surviving highlight of the military jet shot down by turkey has been rescued from rebel territory. that pilot says he was given no warning by the turks. he was not over turkish

airspace. the russian ambassador of france says the other a.m. and was wounded as he parachuted down and was killed on the ground by "jihad in the area." vladimir putin says there will be consequences. back to my take. i am not the only one questioning the president's actions in the face of terror. this headline on the washington post left the opinion. barack obama. president obama. while "wall street journal" dan henninger is with me. >> even writers like data are beginning to notice something is been going on. i think that it is true that people are beginning to wonder whether the president has essentially checked out. a statement like the paris massacre last week.

i do, personally, think that barack obama is in some sense depressed. he is not depressed that things are going well, he is depressed that the world is not going the way that he and should. just as you are suggesting in your commentary. they are not doing what he has been telling them to do. he feels that the world is ran by an arc of history. the way of bending spoons. it is not working now. there is another reason that is political. you have to remember that barack obama is a man of the left. the american left does not want to reject american power overseas. they do not want to do that for reasons of ideology. they also do not want to do it so they can put it into the great needs of obamacare. what is hillary clinton going to do about that. stuart: top-level democrats.

peeling away and expressing concern about president obama. where does that leave hillary clinton? she has to move away from him. how did she move significantly away from him? >> she's sort of sounds hawkish on foreign-policy. you cannot ignore the world is coming apart as it is. her followers and advisors keep telling people, president hillary clinton, much wrong or on national security that barack obama has been. the left is where he is, not she is. she has to thread that needle somewhere between recognizing the world where it is and not alienating obama's left wing supporters. stuart: a huge chunk of the democrat party which is on the left. way out there on the left. >> i do not think it is a huge

chunk. virtually, the whole party now. barack obama has been president for nearly eight years now. he has remade the party in his image. they control an important post in the democratic party. they have been pushed away. joe lieberman, they ran a primary against him and drove them out of the party. stuart: things seem to be spiraling down for the president. climate change, terror, it is spiraling down. it is not gaining strength and momentum. it is going the other way. >> i think that you touched on it. he will not listen to anyone. reality for barack obama is himself and what is in his head. he sees what is going on out there is kind of a distraction. i admit, the world is going to remain a dangerous place. he is just not listening to anyone other than valerie

jarrett and his wife michelle obama. stuart: thank you very much for joining us. >> appreciate it. stuart: check that big board. a modest gain. the price of oil is down. hot that much. about 1%. $42 a barrel. time to sound those trumpets, please. gasoline dropping about a penny a gallon a day. the national average is now down to $2.05 a gallon. i love it. listen to what gas buddy told us. >> 22 state state this morning under the $2 a gallon average. i just looked at numbers now. the national average is $2.05, the medium price is $1.98. under $2 a gallon. last year, 100% of stations were over $2 a gallon.

stuart: don't you love it. moral of the story, get out there and drive. it is cheap. president obama. congressman brad sherman. democrats. serve. welcome to the show. good to have you back, sir. >> after listening to the gusting hatred of president obama -- stuart: this is not -- >> hatred and very few facts. i disagree with the president on many foreign-policy issues. stuart: it is not hatred. please do not rant me with that brush. i am not a hater. flat out. >> 100% negative statements. stuart: i would really like you to take that back. >> it sound like hatred to me, but i do not know you well enough. stuart: it is not hatred.

he is failing. >> some of his policies are succeeding. some are failing. some are somewhere in between. stuart: let's get specific. you voted against the bill in the house to pause taking in refugees from north africa. you voted against that. you do not want that. >> you have not read the bill. i voted against the bill because i read the bill. you need to read this section of the bill. nothing to do -- there is nothing to do with a pause. what it does is the director of national intelligence, the director of the fbi and the secretary of homeland security has to personally review each file. what does that mean? they will just rubberstamp it. that is not what the bill

intends. they spend a couple of hours on each file. if that happens, and objective beyond what isis could have dreamed of. isis could not simultaneously incapacitate the head of the fbi's national intelligence and the department of homeland security. this would incapacitate all three leaders. what you are talking about is why i did not vote for a bill that was not before us. a bill that you would have written. you have to read the bill before you say i should have voted. stuart: let's put it like this. would you favor a pause at this time in the influx of refugees. >> the bureaucracy, of course. even though it is a two year process that we could do even better. looking at one happening, there

are 13 million europeans that visit our country every year. not too years, not two minutes. the vast majority of those that are carrying out terror in europe have european passports. you have the whole congress focusing on whether you can take a two year process and make it better and not make it better, but make it worse in that particular bill. a two-minute process for 13 million people. stuart: at this particular moment, after all the attacks, the congress says, why not pause. just take a breath. as you said, take a breath. >> the administration is taking a breath. the bill did not say take a breath. the bill said incapacitate. the leaders of our three most important -- stuart: i don't think it said incapacitate.

>> how many hours are there in a day? how many files need to be reviewed. if you think the director will just throw the files away and not look at any of them, he has a chance to save a life every time he spends a couple hours reviewing a file. he is a human being. after you see the picture the boy on the turkish beach, you know the effect of this bill, if you read section to be, is to take a full-time reviewer of files. stuart: it is a fair point. it is a humanitarian position. with you all the way. if i opposed that, do not call me a hater. i am not. i am an immigrant and a newly minted citizens. i am not a hater. >> you have a low opinion of the president. i think like all of us, our hearts go out to the syrian refugees.

keep in mind-- stuart: as a newly minted american can't just taken the oath of this country, to be called a hater on my own program is really hard to take, sir. very hard to take. >> the show overall shows -- stuart: we appreciate you being with us. i do hope you can come again. >> i look forward to it. stuart: senator ted cruz closing in on donald trump and i was. gaining ground on the polls. a task or supporter tells us why in a moment. ♪

stuart: we have a couple of big names that are at or near all-time highs. 134. look at amazon. still going up. it is near its all-time high. it has been very close to $680 per share.

two big-name stocks. politics. donald trump in the lead. ted cruz. right behind him. twenty-five trump. twenty-five ted cruz. look who is here. the author of children of monsters. nothing to do with the current election campaign. is that right? glad to hear that. how do you account for ted cruz surge in iowa? >> i think, possibly, the passage of time. getting to know the candidates better. everyone knows him. the other guy is already less known. >> he was almost in the president face. tell me to my face.

that is an emotional moment. >> talking about the republican primary electorate for sure. an old friend. i like him and i admire him. stuart: you went to college with him? >> no. i am a journalist. i took a brief leave of absence. we met there. we bonded as they say. >> what you like about the guy? other than he is a reagan republican. >> a very sound understanding of the world. he has a very good ability to articulate what he knows. in politics, you really need to be able to talk. heaven knows that he can. stuart: christianity to his politic lowlife? >> i think so. you said political life. maybe i should not have answered

so soon. he is practicing politics now. of course. stuart: the most conservative? the most conservative of the candidates for the republicans? >> rob away. the truest blue. i know brad has been the republican color for a long time. i still think that it ought to be blue. thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it. thanks giving. i cannot believe i am saying this. time for takeout. takeout on thanksgiving. the boston market ceo is next. ♪ looks like some folks have had it with their airline credit card miles. sometimes those seats cost a ridiculous number of miles... or there's a fee to use them.

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stuart: thanksgiving tomorrow, of course. here is george. the boston market ceo. he is on the show promoting what i consider sacrilege. you are promoting taking away thanksgiving lunch. you brought it with you. >> we also promote and dining. and lot of a lot of people that

are traveling tomorrow will come to our restaurants and the great turkey meals. stuart: you have one of these on camera right now. the potatoes, the turkey, the gravy, the stuffing and the cornbread right there. how much is this in most of the country? >> it is $11.99. in new york city, it is $12.99. stuart: you will sell 1 million of these? >> people coming to buy their packages. stores that comment. last-minute rushes. they are going to a friends house. they would like to take something with them. stuart: do i have to order in advance? >> arrive at one of the restaurants. stuart: you are the ceo of boston market. you will be serving in the restaurant? >> i am the big chicken out boston market.

the gm's are our ceos. we are there to support them. i have fun working with them on thanksgiving. that is what we are there for. it is our biggest day. stuart: we -- >> we work all year. you have to be there for the super bowl. stuart: you have restaurants in new york? a lot of people in the macy's thanksgiving day parade did they have nowhere to go afterwards. i am giving a commercial here. i think that it is terrific. 1299 in new york. thanksgiving day lunch served for you. absolutely terrific. president obama says we can rebuke terrorists.

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border control a big issue now. allowing free travel within the euro zone. some 26 countries. some of those countries within the zone have are ready put a border patrols in violation of that treaty. european commission says the zone is, as he put it, partially comatose. he says if we don't have that, there is not much point in having the euros. some big comments being made. border patrol, very, very big issue. stuart: yes, it is indeed. ashley webster, thank you very much, indeed. france's president is waging war against isis. president obama taking a different approach. roll tape. >> it next week i will be joining president hollande and other leaders in paris for the global climate conference.

what a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be too detoured from building a better world for our children. stuart: andrea, welcome to the program. >> thank you for having me back. stuart: can you constrain yourself. >> i am so scared. nothing scares me and nothing scares jihad more than talking about the weather. stuart: that is a good line. [laughter] stuart: it is amazing. when the left says that terrorism fuels, or i should say climate change fuels terrorism, i always wish that it was the rovers. then they would be willing to fight it. the response to what the president had to say yesterday has been drastic.

dana milbank, who is a large leftist, the man is on the left, fair enough, he comes out with a headline saying barack obama, president obama or. that was directly related. look at that. >> i've been calling him old bummer for a long time. i also think it is not just the weak response from president obama. it is also the reports this week that he may be pressuring the military in the intelligence to downplay isis. not just ignoring the threat, but trying to make it go way for political reasons. i think that this is incredibly dangerous what the president is doing. i am just very concerned about protecting the homeland. stuart: it is thanksgiving.

you know that, obviously. the white house is giving guidance to what family should talk about over thanksgiving dinner. here is josh earnest. >> people are sitting around the thanksgiving day table talking about these issues. i hope it is a question that will be raised in asked by members around the table. if we will have a serious discussion in this country about national security, let's talk about some pretty obvious things that congress can do. stuart: sounds like respiration to me. talking about congress as we are eating the bird. >> last time they wanted us to talk about obamacare. they wanted us to sign up family members. i believe i was with you on this show. stuart: was that the pajama boy? >> we do not need that. we have the president and josh earnest. they are sucking their psalms. stuart: i am a little opposed to president obama's policy.

>> guess what, i do not even care. these are serious issues. we are joking around. you have a president that refuses to seal the border. this is so troubling. this russian jet come i think is the biggest story of the day. i will go after some republicans on this. i will be very politically incorrect on this. turkey should be thrown out of nato. they do not care about the security of the left. they are not our friend or our ally. i do believe putin. they should have never shot down that jet. their country was not in any danger. you know as well as i do. turkey and russia have been historical allies because russia backs orthodox greece. why would we go to war.

a country like turkey that has an army of 500,000 men. it has not helped wanted to defeat isis. they do not care about the security of the left. they are not on our side. we should kick them out of nato today. stuart: strong stuff. i will get more of this when i watch you at 12 noon on the fox news channel. >> i will be there and i am ready to go. i love it here. stuart: watch out. >> careful. stuart: uneasily watching the events in europe and the middle east. some starting to wonder, could this be the start of a new war. here is ambassador john bolton earlier on our program this morning. >> that is a reflection of the larger challenge of radical islamism is him around the world. i think it has been a world war for some time. i just do not think we realized it until 9/11 happed here.

>> joining us now from d.c. general, i am hearing this expression. world war iii. i hear it a lot. that is an overreach, isn't it? >> i think that it is. it could be spain as far as a prelude to world war ii. it is very serious. comments about turkey, i would not throw them out, but the fact was that this was a contrived shootdown by the president of the russian to 24. it is a very dangerous indication. it was irresponsible. he was in turkish airspace for 17 seconds. seventeen seconds. that is not a violation of airspace. i hear other people say they violated and could attack them. i was a commander in alaska for four plus years. i intercepted more russian

aircraft than any other living general officer active duty or retired. i assure you, i know the rules of engagement. this was a gross violation. it was preconceived. preplanned. it should not have happened. nato ought to tell the president knock it off. stuart: that is some strong stuff. you are saying it was deliberate. it was planned. they saw this coming. what do you think the russians will do about that? >> let me tell you. the president will rule the day. they have moved as for hundreds. they are moving now. that will be a huge problem for any airplane that does not have stealth capabilities. i assure you. the next three months, the turks will probably lose an f-16.

>> there is a bombshell for you. the escalation is right there. you can see it coming. last word to you. >> i think we ought to get together with the russians. serious is not a place that we want to have a world war four. let's get it settled. it may mean an accommodation with the sod. hold our nose. the fact is, whoever replaces the sod will not be any better. we have seen that before. why do we think that there will be a democracy in syria all of a sudden? look at what they tried to do in egypt. we know what kind of government we will need beer and let's have one that we can work with. let that one that is not flooding refugees into gear up. all of those implications are happening in europe right now and in the world.

>> we ought to have you on the show more often. you have a lot of interesting stuff to tell us. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. the fec says it has impose $100 million worth of fines for obama phone fraud. they have not collected a dime. full story in a moment. ♪

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stuart: millennial's so politically correct. they are starting to oppose free speech. look at this. a new poll finds 40% of millennial's opposed what they deem offensive free speech. listen to what c kirk had to say about that. >> a generation that we created that you should be silenced. not because i am offended, but

because i disagree. that is scary. stuart: that is right, cheryl. shut up because i do not agree with you. trish: this has been a growing movement. a politically correct way to live your life. shutting down anyone that says anything politically incorrect. that is freedom of speech. i have a right to my opinion whether you like it or not. that is the beauty of america. if you look at the entire world right now, we are number one when it comes to the freedom of speech. stuart: we must not forget it. you solve the problem i open discussion with different points of view. i do not like what you are saying. i cannot bear to listen to it. you cannot do that. >> they are weak weekend they are afraid to debate a little bit. maybe that generation is too sensitive.

>> you are too sensitive that i cannot express my opinion. >> they were 10 years old. they could all got a trophy. >> well said. the sec allegedly failed to collect more than $100 million worth of penalties imposed on companies that defrauded the obama phone. all over this story. obama phone comes out. $100 million worth of fraud in the system. the government goes after various companies. give the money back. you have nothing. waste fraud and abuse.

fundamentally built into the infrastructure. they are getting away with it with impunity. stuart: which is the biggest company that is guilty of this kind of fraud by shin mark it is owned by a mexican billionaire. one of the richest people in the world. there is one company that i was looking at. $52 million in revenue. i spoke to one of the employees who was telling me that he was being trained to forge signatures. getting $3 for every phone that he hangs up. they get spots with $1 million. i do not think they will like that behavior. phone companies and agents reaping in the money.

they are penalized for doing what they are doing. any idea how much he has made it by shin mark. >> i got three oh obama phones without even qualifying for one of them. they hand them out on the streets. you sign up for it. they did not check any of my identifications. i think that this is frustrating. it shows that intractability of these federal programs. they want to expand the program. >> obama phones still in place. it has not gone away. it has not dissolved. >> no. expanding it to include broadband. we hear them saying we are performing it.

no, full of fraud and abuse. one of the richest guys in the world. how much does he get? what was their revenue? >> in a single year, half a billion dollars. under the obama administration in a single year. this is an incredible -- we are all paying for it. a universal service on the scene. that is your money going to fund this program. it is the fax. ipay it every single phone bill. >> that is paying the phone companies. making a ton of money off of it.

giving phones. it works for the corporations to make money off of it. this is a welfare program that began for the poor. stuart: they want to expand it. expand it to free internet. >> people are pushing back. i do not think that it will work. this is the obama administration which has taken step after step to expand welfare. i just do not see them showing restraint. stuart: the obama phone. you need a phone so you can apply for a job. >> this was back in the 1980s. talking about landmines. it is called the obama phone program because in the obama administration we sell way more people get all welfare. we saw how much this program

cost tax payers. this is a problem we know about. they are not fixing it. stuart: if you see on the left side of your screen, that is the podium. the president of the united states will approach that podium shortly. coming out of that meeting, going to the podium and making a statement. this could be very important. coming under a great deal of pressure after his statements yesterday with french president hollande. the paris climate change conference. approaching the podium. i believe you are still with me. >> yes, i am, stuart. that is possible.

>> well, i think it is possible. i do not think that it is likely. i have had too many disappointments in the past. the fact is the american people are now realizing that this president is not serious about destroying isis. stuart: the president is about to appear. media operations like ourselves, we get a two-minute warning. we received the two-minute warning a couple minutes ago. then that two-minute warning was canceled did i do not know the precise factor when the president will approach the podium. i hear something going on in the background. we are expecting the president momentarily. general, if he were to make any change, presumably, it would be about american military support of france in middle east fighting isis. if he makes a change, that will

be where the change will occur. correct? >> correct. if he changes the rule of engagement to be -- that would be a major move forward. he has put handcuffs on our advantage. we have flown 8016 months. the russians have done 4000 in two months. they are using the laws of international armed conflict. that is why they have been more effective than we have. stuart: that would be the rules of engagement. we fly 100 soldiers and only drop bombs on 25 locations. >> precisely. stuart: do you think that there could possibly be, if we are going to make a change, the change could be there. >> if it is, i approve it. will it go after the right targets?

there has been a lot on that. throwing out a bothered numbers. a lot of those targets that we have hit have been empty factories. m.d. buildings. it looks good from a assessment. hitting nothing. stuart: general, could i ask you to hold on there for a second. i will go to jeff flock. he is at the airport in chicago. i was expecting to see crowds lining up. looks kind of quiet to me. stuart: you are disappointed. >> no. no. i have never seen a day before thanksgiving that looks like this. it is a ghost town appear. nationwide. total cancellations 20 cancellations.

that is all for the entire day. this is happening all across the country. cheap gas causing people to go ahead and drive for what. we have ghost towns at the airport. i do not know what is going on. stuart: it is now so well organized, security is moving so smoothly. they should be behind you lining up. already going through security. maybe we do finally have our act together. i do think a lot of people would have been scared off by the travel alert. stuart: people are just not showing up. they have their tickets. >> i spoke with two people that said they had to go somewhere. it is always a mess around the holiday. it is cheap gas. what the heck.

if you do not like to go that far, maybe it is not that bad about idea. stuart: hold on there for a second. i have to take a commercial break. all kinds of developments after this. ♪ ..

stuart: lunchtime yesterday the president of the united states had a news conference with president francois hollande of friends and our president said in as many words we are not going to be sending any more military force to help the french in the middle east. today president obama has been meeting with his national security team had is about to make a statement in front of the podium any moment now. we are waiting for that statement. what do we got here? cheryl: we already know he was meeting with the homeland security team the day before the holiday weekend begins tomorrow is thanksgiving, that is one of the topics we know. what i think the president will do, there will be a laudable but the appeals everyone go about

your business, kiss your neighbors, kiss your kids, have a great holiday, go about your business, he will be mr. reassuring president. that is what we are going to see and -- stuart: a few moments ago, we talked to tom mack and any and i was suggesting will the president change course? will he give more military help to the fringe. cheryl: this will be homeland security, is a holiday weekend, it is thanksgiving, this has to do with the travel warning which seems all little late to the party with for americans and comes out and says go about your business. stuart: i don't remember the president reversing course on policy decision the day after he made that policy statement. i think i am agreeing with you. cheryl: there are a lot of questions what this travel warning is, americans getting on planes to see their families

which they should. stuart: moments from now, don't know how many moments from now, that door will open, the president will walk in and approach that podium and neil cavuto, you are going to take us through it. neil: i am ready for it. it is delayed two hours we will stay on the podium and we will never leave it. enjoy your first thanksgiving, united states citizen. be good. i love you. in the meantime we are waiting to hear from the president of the united states, we are expecting a security announcement, he is meeting with his security team, might be an update on new restrictions, warnings to look around, to be aware, to watch when you are flying, all that sort of stuff. connell mcshane on what we might be hearing from the president and what is at stake the day before turkey day. connell: we are on high alert but not necessarily a of the ordinary for president to have a meeting like the one he is having today with his homend