in austin, you can live like a king. dagen: if you like living around liberals. >> keep it real, they say in austin. dagen: five seconds, lee? >> this week, it's time to start coming together. that's what i would say. dagen: well said. thank you, jack as well, stuart varney, it's all yours. stuart: thank you, it's good friday, holy day, special time for christians. we'd love to begin this day with something positive and uplifting. that's going to be toughment more terror arrests in europe, a new cell uncovered and the jihadis have been doing extensive surveillance of belgium's top nuclear scientists. late news, two americans among the dead in the brussels attack and criticism for president obama who went to a ball game and danced the tango in argentina as the terror news unfold unfolded. the cruz spousal spot, a new

low. ted cruz looks into the camera and calls donald trump an sniveling coward. stuart: i say enough already. now something uplifting. pope francis washing the feet of the poor, following the example of jesus. it was an important moment related to the news of the day, pope francis washed the feet of migrants. "varney & company" about to begin. ♪ >> fox news confirms, that the two victims i remember siblings who lived in new york city and also arrests of terror suspects and word of a new terror cell,

it's coming in thick and fast. we've had by my calculation, six arrest ins belgium and in germany two individuals we understand received phone calls from the bombers prior to the attacks on tuesday in brussels. we also understand we just heard an explosion during a police operations in the brussels borough of sarbeek. that's the same district when they went to the airport. and alex and sasha two siblings from new york, they were in the delta ticket line and alex was on the phone to his mother when the explosion went off and the line went dead. there are others missing including a couple from tennessee who had been living in brussels for some time. they have still not been found. stuart: okay, now there's a nuclear angle. have i got this right. ashley: okay. stuart: two of the bombers in

the brussels bombing. ashley: the two brothers. stuart: brothers, right. they had been conducting surveillance of belgium's top nuclear scientists. ashley: the director of belgium's nuclear program. stuart: they nt mra-- planted a camera opposite his house and shot hours and hours. ashley: and looked at his daily routine. two thoughts, one could have been a possible kidnap plot, to get access to nuclear atomic facilities or maybe trying to themselves get hold of nuclear material to create a dirty bomb, but we know the security damages of some 11 workers according to local reports have now been withdrawn from the power plant, which is to the southeast of brussels, close to the german border. >> no wonder europe is tense, to put it mildly. >> very much. >> and i want to bring you in, there's been criticism about president obama's response, he was in cuba and then in argentina, he went to a baseball game, danced the tango, et cetera, et cetera. now we find that two americans

were indeed killed in brussels, nine others seriously wounded. and the president does that. he's in for a lot of criticism this morning. do you share that? >> i do. the leadership is not just what you do specifically, it's the modeling of what's important. it's sending a message whether or not you take something seriously. if it's something that you need to act on or that maybe even having the enemy think that, oh, the president's going back, maybe we should expect some kind of reaction to this. so, it's not just depressing for americans, but for the enemy, it almost gives them aid and comfort. there's the sense that the american president has surrendered to us. ashley: just like nero fiddling while rome burned. >> well, nero fiddled and obama tangoed. stuart: and asking what the hell is he up to, and he was in cuba and argentina and even

pierce morgan is critical this morning. and i'm calling this the spousal spot. it's truly ugly. i was watching this unfold yesterday with several people, all of us cringed. here is ted cruz from yesterday, roll tape. >> it's not easy to tick me off. i don't get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. donald, you're an sniveling coward and leave heidi alone. stuart: okay, trump responded and here is his quote. i can't start the fight with lying ted cruz over the gq pic of mel lana, he knew they were putting it out, that's a new low, i wanted to quit already. an outright editorial opinion for me. >> everyone wonders why i'm not on the trump train.

i'm sympathetic i like mr. cruz, but this is why i'm not. both of these women are smart, they're in the arena, they can handle criticism on the issues and in the midst of politics, but where it deinvolves here is on their looks and that's where mr. trump goes, is that when a woman criticizes or upset he goes to the issue of appearance and this is where it becomes like a frat house and ted cruz had to respond. remember michael dukakis he came under a lot of criticism, people equate his loss in that year to his nonreaction to a question about violence against his wife and i think that most of us now realize we want to see how men are going to respond, but in a larger, elevated way as opposed to this devolved. stuart: my bottom line is hillary wins this one. my point of view. >> there are better ways to handle this icht the stock markets, yes, they are closed today. it's good friday, but we've got a reading on the state of the dmi.

annual growth coming in at 1.4%, that is, i'm going to say weak. let's bring in professor peter morici, professor of economics. good morning to you. >> good morning. stuart: that's a very weak performance, 1.4 annual growth and that same report showed that profits were down 5% last year, worst performance since '08, not a healthy economy. >> well, no, it's not an economy that's particularly robust. consumers slowed down a bit in the fourth quarter and that likely continued into this quarter. i'm expecting in the spring, in the second quarter, the economy to do much better and i'm also expecting corporate profits to then start to improve. but we're going to get some more discouraging information as over the next three months. stuart: okay, we've just heard, also, that the cost of obamacare is rising faster than wage growth. now, i know you're laughing, but doesn't that can account for-- isn't that the reason why

retail sales are dead flat. we're not shopping, we're not buying stuff, obamacare is a big problem here? >> well, obamacare is a huge problem. these folks that went on-line and signed up for this insurance, get hit with these big bills. these big monthly payments and they simply can't afford them so they buy fewer shirts, buy fewer appliances, so forth. you're absolutely on the nose. obamacare didn't lower cost, it subsidized and monopolized the industry both of which drove up prices more than they would have if he had just left things alone. >> when will we get to 4% growth. i want to know, when do we get 4% growth again? >> when we get the romney platform, that is to do something about china's currency. that's probably subtracting 2 percentage points from growth, the trade deficit. if we fix the trade deficit, we'd be growing like the reagan years. at this point reagan had a

range of 4 1/2% and barack obama half as much. stuart: he did it by cutting taxes. can we hear a word by cutting taxes? >> i don't think that we can cut taxes, but i like ted cruz's flat tax proposal, very sound. stuart: you don't know if we can cut taxes? get out of here. >> well, friend, we are going to have to cut spending. do you want to cut spending? we can do that, i'm happy to cut spending, in particular on education. i think we can improve our education by spending less money and then we can cut taxes, now i never hear the candidates showing a lot of courage on that, we have to cut entitlements. stuart: peter morici, you keep your tenure. you can come back on the show. >> i'm tenured, remember. stuart: see you soon. >> take care. stuart: real fast now, gas up again, 2.02. ashley: again? >> 2.02 is your national average, up another penny overnight. in case you missed it, $800

million that's how much the batman versus superman movie needs to bring in just to break even. not looking good though. lauren simonetti, what have i missed? >> that's a lot of money. the super hero movie is out today and the reviews are rotten. it's called a dud, forgettable, too long. clocked in at two and a half hours. get this, ticket sales are strong, pre-sales hit a record ahead of the easter weekend, so we'll see on monday. playboy is for sale, including the famous magazine valued at half a billion dollars. hugh heffner put the playboy mansion up for sale pending the buyer let him live there for the rest of his life. he's 90. the whole company might be up for sale and playboy is working with an investment firm to sell the whole thing. got something to say on that. ashley: i want to buy a house that-- where you have uncle heff

wandering around in the basement with his silk robe. stuart: that's a visual image i can do without. i'm surprised at what used to be called pornography is worth anything these days since you can get so much for free on the internet. >> and you read playboy in the articles because there's no more nudity as of the last issue. if there's a new owner, maybe the nudity comes back. one more story from mrpolitico. if you want to sit with hillary clinton and george clooney at a fundraiser next month. four times the average income there. stuart: how much again? >> $353,000. >> ashley and i agreed that we'd be the people at the table and not indicted anytime soon. oh! very good, very good! excellent report there, lauren, and comment from you, too. this could be the image of the day, hope it is. pope francis washing the feet

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stuart: an update for you from greg palkot. some clarification. earlier it was reported two americans killed in the brussels attack were the siblings from new york on your screen now. it remains unclear whether or not they were in fact american citizens. dutch officials say the two were dutch citizens, but they did live in new york.

all right, let's take a look at pope francis, washing and kissing the feet of hindu refugees. this is on holy thursday, we call it mourn day thursday in my church. the pope has been outspoken on the migrant crisis generally and now he's kissing the feet. ashley: well, this foot washing ritual has been done for many, many years and it was always performed on 12 catholic men who represented the apostles. since pope francis has come in, he says, no, this is going to be to include, as is the case here, he washed the feet of muslim, christian and hindu refugees, and he says they are all children of the same god and of course, this comes at a time when there is a lot of increased anti-muslim sentiment in the wake of the brussels and paris attacks, so he was making that point. stuart: i think we should divorce this from the politics of it.

forget the politics, this is a humanitarian, spiritual, christian gesture and take it as such. ashley: yes, yes. stuart: all right. we've got a new low in the campaign. i'm referring to the trump-cruz spousal fight which we've been yesterday, too. by ron york is with us from the washington examiner. i say this is disgusting, i think it's a new low and only helps hillary. what say you, byron? >> it's pretty bad. we've had low points in the campaign before. if you remember some of the rubio insult comic lines. but, yeah, this one is pretty bad. i think, well, we don't know exactly how it will end because it started in utah with a pro trump-- excuse me, a pro cruz group using an ad that featured a picture of melania trump. this is not some sort of peeping tom picture. it had been published in gq and trump responded strongly, attacked with lots of insinuation about ted cruz's

wife and now we just saw earlier, ted cruz called trump an sniveling coward and stay the hell away from his wife. will this go further? i don't know. stuart: can i just ask, forgive me, but i want to ask a personal question. when i was watching in exchange, this punch and counterpunch and ted cruz, sniveling coward, i cringed. i enjoy watching politics, part of it, when i see that i cringe, i hate it, and you? >> well, it is, like i said, we've had other cringe worthy moments, this has been a campaign i think a lot of us did not expect so, you know, no, i didn't actually cringe at this. it struck me as just another one of these things that comes, flashes up and we talk about it for a while and it kind of goes away. you know, if i could go to a slightly higher plain, i want to see watching in wisconsin what if any effect this whole brussels thing has on this

race. it had a big effect in the paris attacks, but we're at a different stage in the race, not sure how it's going to affect today. stuart: i would assume, perhaps a bigger presumption, that the brussels attack would be helping donald trump, but the spousal spat would not help either cruz or trump with women voters, do you sum it up like that? >> yeah, i would say so. look, i do think trump seems to be the bigger offender in the battle of the wives, but here again, kind of gotten away from a lot of stuff in the past. as far as the terrorism is concerned, remember back after paris, a lot of people said, this is really going to hurt, ben carson and donald trump. well, it hurt carson because he didn't seem prepared to deal with this, it didn't hurt trump, people liked his strong sounding response. we have two candidates trump and cruz, one-on-one and cruz

is a much stronger candidate. people don't worry, republicans don't worry about his qualifications for office as they did with carson. yeah, i think that's going to take over the race in the next two days if this wife thing goes away. stuart: i hope it does. ted cruz speaks at 11 being eastern time this morning, we'll be following to see if there's an end to the spousal spat or if it keeps going. >> we can hope. stuart: i want it over, enough already. thank you. >> thank you. stuart: and this, ben carson went on abc's ""the view," the host hostile because he endorsed donald trump. and whoopi goldberg says he's a racist and compared him to hitler. full story in a moment. ♪ don't let dust and allergies get between you

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you ally yourself with that. >> when i dropped out my first choice went with me. i was going to remain neutral, but then i realized that the political establishment was aligning to protect their turf and they don't like the idea of people who are not beholding to them and who cannot be controlled coming into washington d.c. >> this guy is, i'm sorry, he's a racist and he's not good for the country. >> what's the alternative? >> i'm sorry, i just, i don't understand. you're ben carson, you're so much better than this. >> well. stuart: well, that wasn't a terribly strong response from ben carson, was it? and very strong statement from whoopi goldberg. >> sure was and look, this is where he has an opportunity or he could have pointed out her hypocrisy and rudeness, not only attacking trump, but attacking him and his judgment and that's when anyone should push back and say look at what you're doing.

i've made this decision and maybe if you have so much regard for me, maybe you should consider what i'm thinking and what i'm doing, otherwise it seems like she's being a hypocrite. stuart: it's the same story, isn't it, that ben carson is mild-mannered, sits back, not forward, small voice, not loud voice. >> and this is an environment, our 21st century, you've got to be able to communicate why you're doing what you're doing. this is one of the reasons his campaign did not do as well. and people have questioned the nature of his decision making, but every time it's an opportunity, i wish he took more advantage of that. in this case, i think everybody looked a little bad. stuart: he had the opportunity to challenge the whole idea that trump is a racist. >> exactly. stuart: he didn't. >> this is referring to him as hitler. i mean, the denigration of real evil just because you don't like someone politically is what the left does. it's obscene, it reduces real crime and real evil, but this is the hysteria of the left as they begin to lose their grip.

stuart: i think you're right, tammy bruce. >> it's amazing, rubbing off from you to me, amazing. stuart: and ben carson will be on the program today talking about the whoopi goldberg challenge, if you like. 11:45 eastern today, this program. stock market's closed today, but take a look at this. this is how far we have come this year. ain't that a nice looking chart? look at the rebound. however, there are people who are called bears who think the market is going to go down. we have a bear to explain himself on this program next. and europe, they're swamped with migrants. two million in germany and reports of 800,000 in libya alone waiting to cross over. coming up shortly on the program, someone who is there with the migrants. she says this is the biggest humanitarian crisis since the second world war. i think it's a huge political crisis. too.

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maurice he talking about the economy. if you want to hear that kind of thing next time we will have the audio, tune in every weekday morning at 9:00 sharp, we are here. breaking news, updates from belgium, reports of an explosion during a police raid, one man has been detained, overnight there were six arrests in belgium, two in germany, one in paris and we have identified the two people, we thought they were americans, they are dutch citizens who were killed at the brussels airport attack. that is all going on. stock market closed today and as you heard, the other guy, the competition, they are on tape, we are live and we have our favorite bear with us, jeff siegel, relatively popular, he

is a bear, they are the people who believe the market is about to go straight down or go down a little bit ago down a lot but go down is the bottom line here. he has been saying this for a long time so welcome back on good friday. how much is it going to go down, when is it going to start to go down and why is it going to go down. >> i am getting less popular by the week. this week the market did not go up so i am gaining some ground. one thing i will say for certain is the rebound off of lows was artificial, completely fed induced, the market has been zeroed in on everything the fed does and i have been saying all along that one fact is going to ultimately weaken the end of this. the fed has the ability to do a lot of things to temporarily move the market up but it is unsustainable if you look at

things like gdp. stuart: then what is the crunch point? >> the crunch point is the global acknowledgment among investors that will all end to the door at once when they realize the fed is not only dazed and confused but have no idea what they were doing. stuart: they will head to the stock market exit. >> you have earnings declined, gdp declines, no fundamental reason for the market to be where it is yet the one single factor that has been driving the market is fed induced momentum and fed induced momentum does not have sustainability. stuart: they can print as much money as they like? >> they can absolutely but ultimately what is going to happen is as earnings continue to erode we are seeing a three quarter, in my prediction, my estimate a three quarter recession in earnings. if that keeps happening sooner or later companies are going to start to lay off people and we

will see gdp up numb one.4%, gdp up numb one.4%, plus you don't hear anything positive out of corporations. they keep lowering guidance, going forward and lowering guidance and when you have countries like china engaging in this currency devaluation and we are trying to keep pace with that where are we economically? e. stuart: i came on the show at 9:00 this morning looking for something uplifting. got news on terror god the spousal and this is picking up and going down. will you stay there? i want to hear more of this. look at netflix, double digit down this calendar year, hasn't made a new move, they are limiting mobile content for some people. no idea what that means.

>> i wish i could bring easter cheer to users, you have your ipad and mobile device and want to watch house of cards and it crashes or you see the speed and image slow, not so great. the first time, netflix is saying we have been slowing that down so you can -- don't get charged by at&t verizon if you go over these limits. in the past it was at&t and verizon taking the fall for this and netflix saying we are doing it so you don't get hit with extra charges by at&t and verizon, they are really mad about the saying you did this without telling anybody. stuart: don't forget at&t customers pay for unlimited data. they have plans and yet they are being penalized by netflix for having video quality. >> t-mobile and sprint, not happening to those users. stuart: i think i understand. if i pay somebody some more

money i don't get the interruption. would that be accurate? >> it seems that way. you have an unlimited plan. it is how much data you use. >> the hypocrisy of netflix, they lead the charge in net neutrality and they are the ones doing it. stuart: we are all down on netflix. >> this was a big disappointment. stuart: to go with the team, the ability to understand what is going on. i want to get back to politics. i really understand politics, donald trump, ted cruz, you know they are going at it. a personal attack, left, right and center. listen to what ted cruz had to say yesterday. >> it is not easy to take me off. i don't get angry often but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. you are a sniveling coward and

leave heidi the hell alone. stuart: we got that. here is how trump responded, quote, i didn't start the fight with lying ted cruz, he did. he knew the pack was putting it out. enough already please, the american conservative union joins us, the only winner in that nonsense is hillary clinton. and you say? >> can't agree with you more. this is not a good moment. i can understand everybody wanting to defend their wife. i would want to defend my wife but the fact is the spouse we should be talking about is bill clinton. stuart: i think it is a new low. why on earth do they do this kind of thing? i was telling our audience earlier i was watching this unfold yesterday with a group of people and all of us cringed. when this appears on the screen, oh please, not this.

surely your reaction was the same. >> absolutely and my wife was too. when you look what happened in europe this weekend the serious issues we have before us i think it is fine for these candidates to defend their wives and they should do that. it would be weird not to but let's move on. it happened, it is unfortunate, the super pack should never have run that ridiculous advertisement, donald trump sometimes should holster his twitter especially late at night and we ought to move on and these two gentle blue with john kasich should fight over the issues to the end of this process because at the end it is critically important that the republicans look like they have their act together and win the presidency. stuart: i will be interested to see how john kasich does in the next few primaries because he stayed out of this completely. he took the high road. good for you. that is what i say. thank you very much for joining us today. appreciate you being here. thank you, sir. let's get to the migrant crisis.

there is always news on that, flowing thick and fast, 2 million migrants are now in germany and we have reports today that there are 800,000 in libya alone waiting to cross over into europe. our next guest was among the migrants, in europe just outside in serbia after words. stephanie hammond, secretary of state john kerry at the memorial being established at brussels airport. i believe he is about to or just has laid a wreath. and walking away from it now, already laid the wreath there. he is in brussels, belgium. that is going on right now. stephanie hammond is the lady who has been with the migrants in europe, you see this as a humanitarian crisis. i look at the political side of this. you are on a humanitarian side. you are telling us on it -- a scale unseen since world war ii. >> this is the worst

humanitarian crisis of our generation, the syrian refugee crisis. when i was in serbia a few weeks ago, seeing refugees who had migrated across the mediterranean through greece to germany and sweden what really struck me was the limited decisions refugees have now to protect their families. stuart: i don't want to get into the politics but i might stray their. how many of the migrants you saw, that funnel going into western europe, how many of them are women and children? how many of them are young people in their 20s of military age? >> that was astounding to me. the checkpoints and processing centers, and seen the number of women and children there, 37% of

the refugees going to europe recently our children. what these parents wanted for their children, what do you want for your child's future, they said we want education, they even said freedom. we want that freedom for our children. stuart: where do you think this is going? i am asking you to speculate. western europe is not letting them in. the crisis is getting into very high gear. what is the end game? what will happen? any idea? >> we really need to keep our focus on where the majority of the refugees are. 98% of the refugees are in the middle east, in syria, surrounding countries like jordan, lebanon, iraq. we need to look at why they were fleeing in recent months, look at opportunities like legal work opportunities in places like

jordan so refugee parents can provide for their children. look at education opportunities. stuart: it is a mammoth undertaking when you are talking millions of people, appreciate you being here. it is a humanitarian story and we better not forget that. europe is on high alert. terror raids across belgium and france, explosions heard in brussels overnight during police operations. coming up next, police in america patrolling muslim neighborhoods. we will be back. e cashcards keep throwing obstacles at you? first - they limit where you earn bonus cash back. then - those places change every few months? i think i'll pass... quicksilver from capital one puts nothing in your way. you simply earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. you can't dodge the question...

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stuart: breaking news, the us confirms the second-in-command of isis has been killed. ashley: expecting confirmation from ash carter. this individual is a senior religious leader of isis, he was

killed in syria earlier this month, arguably the group's second-in-command, considered perhaps the next in line to succeed isis leader omar out big daddy and 8 -- baghdady and the minister of war was wounded as well. these special operations us-led operations in syria are really targeting leaders of isis. stuart: we don't know whether it was a drone or seals on the ground. ashley: i think it was an on the ground operation. dagen: a dozen top isis leaders have been killed list since last fall in airstrikes according to the pentagon. stuart: i will take that. staying on terrorism, senator ted cruz says we should, america, should patrol muslim neighborhoods here in america looking for islamic radicals. what do you make -- when i heard this i thought that was a rotten

idea. heavy police presence in muslim neighborhoods would clampdown. the muslim community would clam up and stop being cooperative if they see the police as an occupying force. what do you think? >> presented that way you are right. that doesn't work. it makes them clam up and feed into the victimization mentality but i don't think that is what he is talking about. he is talking smart police work like the nypd had that were dismantled because bill diblasio and others lost their spine and ability to do what is good police work which is on the beat, getting to know your communities, embracing those communities, understanding not all muslims are islamists but all is lammas are muslims, muslims don't have the capacity to monitor radicalization. for secretary clinton to say it is racial profiling, islam is not a race, it is an ideology. look at the san bernardino shooters. those terrorists were schooled

in the jihad ideology. are fbi should have been monitoring muslims that are looking at those ideas and if we can't monitor the ideas that precede them we are always going to end up doing postmortem instead of looking at the ideology and i think we ought to be monitoring, he is talking about monitoring those ideas and engaging our community in counter ideology and counterradicalization. stuart: the other day we had a lady from the muslim republican organization, forget the precise name of it but she said she wouldn't think of voting for donald trump. she doesn't like ted cruz because of what he said about patrolling muslim neighborhoods, she is a republican but she is in despair because she feels the republican party is anti-muslim. what say you? >> ultimately individuals like this are republican in name only. if you look at her positions, the republican muslim coalition, they are looking to use our community as a voting block or

not a voting block. look at the true conservative issues, strong defense, less taxation, the ideology should she puts forth are not necessarily conservative. as a conservative i would tell you mister trump has a lot of problems with lack of specificity, i am not in support of many of his ideas but ted cruz, marco rubio and the other candidates do speak to true conservative ideas. i think it is important for the community not to fall into this partisan trap of becoming victims. stuart: you and i are very much alike. we both like free markets, individual liberty and can we have a tax cut? we are very similar. is that correct? >> amen. we really are. stuart: popular guest on this program, come back soon. coming up the guy who says ted cruz is america's only hope for preserving religious liberty. and tonight a whole new show, wall street week, we are open

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i am serious. my uncle jerry from coldwater, mississippi, they are having a rough time over there. the methodist church and the left. stuart: they are christians. stuart: i am not questioning their christianity but i do question their ability to stand for religious liberty. right now ted cruz is the only guy who has not only said that but done it. he has defended a lot of these cases in the court so that is why ted cruz is the best hope we have. stuart: he is extremely religious publicly, he wears his religion on his sleeve. you know where he is coming from and he speaks in religious language. that put some people off. >> every christian ought to wear their religion not just on their sleeve but their entire body. it is your worldview, who you are as a person. that is reflective in your faith and what you believe. i think ted cruz, a devout man, religious man, but the way -- he

believes the way i believe, you can do what you want, live your life however you want, just don't tell me how to live my life and in this country we have people telling christians you can't be a christian in the public marketplace and that is wrong and unconstitutional. stuart: i hear you, i think you are right on that issue but remember a candidate has to win an election and if their faith to some degree clouds a certain portion of the electorate i would say back off but you would not. >> absolutely. this is who the man is, i say embrace it and ted cruz, if you are concerned about religious liberty ted cruz is your guy. stuart: my mother was a methodist. stuart: my grandmother. you are all right. happy easter. terror raids in brussels overnight, more suspect arrested and we now know that she hotties were surveying a top belgian nuclear scientist. new revelation from chelsea clinton, she says her mom is

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stuart: let's get to the latest in europe, morse terror raids overnight. you have the latest for us, more raids. ashley: it is going on as we speak, six people now arrested in brussels, there are operations going on in brussels, this is the area where the three bombers seen in that picture we have all seen were staying in a rented apartment, continuing to hit this area, six people taken in custody over the last 12 hours. explosions have been heard. some of those flash bang grenades police used to get into apartments. we had a man arrested in paris overnight who authorities say was in advanced stages of planning another attack in france. this individual was a convicted isis recruiter. word also the twee to people arrested in germany, these were two people who received phone

calls from the bombers in brussels prior to the explosion. stuart: you are looking at a live shot from brussels, imagine having that going on in the capital of your country. that is what is happening right now. radical g hottie cell behind the brussels terror attack may have wanted to go nuclear. joining me is a former advisor to the senate foreign relations committee. these two g hotties --jihadis were surveilling him, they had hours of videotape. what do you think they were trying to do? >> there are a lot of theories, were they planning surveillance? to kidnap him? where they trying to get into his work location? they have ten hours of footage of him at his home but not clear what their intent was taping

him. stuart: did they cancel the security at nuclear facilities? cheryl: that is what was going on. ashley: at the nuclear plant, 40 miles southeast close to the german border. on the inside, to get hold of someone to help them with their plants whatever they may be. stuart: it might not be an empty threat to set up a nuclear bomb someplace, this is a tangible conspiracy to get their hands on nuclear material which would simply play havoc in europe if it were released if it were known to be in their possession. >> exactly right. terrorism is about creating a climate of fear and concern, where these terrorists get their hands on radioactive material,

it is very hard and spreading fear that comes from radioactive material to be involved. stuart: you were senior advisor to the foreign relations committee. when you were in that role did you ever hear of anything like this, i am sure you were privy to some information the rest of us don't get, did you hear of something like this before? >> don't want to get to classified information but over the time i served in the justice department we often heard about efforts by al qaeda and other terrorist groups to create fear including getting radioactive material. they have a hard time doing this but no doubt they create big explosions whether it is a building or bigger with radioactive material so terrorists are always trying to create fear in the population. that is their target. stuart: any radioactive material set loose in the european capital anywhere would indeed create a great deal of fear.

thanks for joining us this morning, we appreciate it. liz: they are doing surveillance of the nuclear scientist, there is word they wanted to kidnap him. there is concern that material has been stolen in iraq. stuart: okay. if you look at this video. ashley: there appears to be a robot. one thing we do know is they have recovered a tremendous amount of weapons, guns, gunmaking material, bombmaking material and bombs themselves. how terrifying this is, it is absolutely remarkable the number of different locations they raided and the amount of weaponry they have seized. stuart: the robot is moving. belgium has lost a degree of sovereignty. there is an area in that country which the belgian authorities do

not control. it is controlled by muslims. ashley: they are overwhelmed in trying to get a handle on it. it is the symbolic center of the european union. the city and the country that is so crippled by bureaucracy that it is unable to figure out the intelligence they share with each other. stuart: they can't. one police authority cannot talk about intelligence to another police officer. you can't conduct a raid at night. liz: you can't wiretap a suspect or do surveillance. so just -- just to recap nearly a dozen, 11 belgian nuclear workers have had their work authorization taken away for fear they were working or getting insider assistance to extremists according to british reports. stuart: were they muslims? i am sure we don't know that. it is an obvious question, isn't it? am i allowed to ask that question? liz: yes you are.

stuart: well i will. i find this a very unpleasant subject. i want to bring you the latest in the ugly, very ugly spousal spat on the campaign trail. just watch ted cruz from last night. >> it is not easy to tick me off. i don't get angry often. but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. donald, you are a sniveling coward and leave heidi the hell alone. stuart: when i said just watch ted cruz i am not being critical, not taking sides in this, simply saying this dispute is ugly and wrong and i have had enough of it. jessica is a democrat. we are going to agree. i think -- >> two weeks in a row. stuart: i think hillary clinton is the only winner in this. >> she is on a number of levels.

this further sinks their ratings with women. donald trump has 70% unfavorable rating and 49% of republican female voters say they would never vote for donald trump and 20% for donald -- ted cruz. marco rubio was doing the best of anyone but he is no more. on the one hand you have these two guys fighting about who has the more attractive wife essentially and hillary clinton gets to stand up there and speak strongly about her record as secretary of state, she is on jimmy kimmel talking about how she has -- she looks great out of this. stuart: not talking about her performance as secretary of state or the email. >> once they are gone and you are dealing in ads from 15 years ago and finding the world's most unattractive figure of heidi cruz, she is an attractive woman. dealing with this is quite remarkable to me. stuart: it is a shock. something to our audience earlier, i was watching this

unfold yesterday with some friends. we cringed, we flat out cringed. i am a conservative. i would vote conservative. when i see my team doing this i cringed but i also cringe as an american. this is what is happening to our politics. >> this is why the world is laughing at us. it is not necessarily because of policy. it is because of the tone and tenor of our campaign. this is something that starts with donald trump and has seeped into other people. stuart: i don't care who it starts with. >> it does matter who it starts with. he leads the pack on the republican side. and square off against hillary clinton, his misogyny will radiate like a nuclear cloud when he stand on stage and said things like look at that face, who wants that face? you are going to have a tough time getting people especially female voters to support him.

stuart: i gave you three uninterrupted minutes. >> obama shouldn't have tango, there you go. stuart: back on the show next week. thank you very much. now this. obamacare has failed to deliver lower health insurance premiums. a new report shows costs have increased faster than wages and inflation, up about 28% from 2009-2014. with us now, distinguished fellow at heritage, steve more. i think this kind of report about the cost of obamacare is why the economy is slow and retail sales are not doing well because money is being sucked into healthcare. what do you say? >> you didn't save $2500 a year? here is the other link. you talk about the fact that these health insurance costs are

rising faster than wages, i would make the case why wages are not rising because as the cost of all these benefits rise, what do business hes do? they have to cut the wages to accommodate higher health care costs. you see the relationship? this is the biggest problem for hillary clinton, republicans say where are the wage increases? we have had ten years in this country where the middle-class has not seen an increase in wages partly because of these healthcare costs. stuart: also because we have 11 million illegal immigrants living and presumably working in our country providing competition for less skilled occupations. that is another, surely, another reason wages are stagnant, isn't it? i am i missing something? >> i think immigrants don't

produce wages. i will take you on on this. in the 1980 numplaps-90s we had the best period ever for the middle-class where wages and incomes rose dramatically. we had more than in any other period. if you got growth, good economic policy, you can have enough jobs for everyone but if you put my program in place, flat tax, pro-american policy, get rid of the regulation, we will have so many jobs we will need more immigrants. stuart: all right. i don't see how you can say that 11 million, i am not being pejorative, largely unskilled people, how you could say the influx of 11 million people in that classification of employment is not competition, the domestic population of low wages. >> i am not defending illegal immigration. i'm with trump and want to build the wall and keep out illegal immigration. when foreign people coming to this country and work hard to make a better living for

themselves whether it is your the mexican who comes in working in the fields in this country, there are benefits to the economy. if they are competing directly with low income americans there might be wage reductions but we approve it in this country. we can have high levels of immigration and economic prosperity. ronald reagan showed that in the 1980s. stuart: i did hear you say build the wall. i heard that. you will never get around that one. thank you very much, see you again soon. netflix throttling streaming speeds for at&t and verizon customers. that means -- i'm not sure i do -- we will explain. and on this holy day, people know the reason behind this. listen to this. >> what does the easter bunny have to do with jesus? >> he brings the eggs, jesus led them. don't let dust and allergies get between you

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>> why do you celebrate easter?

>> that is when jesus christ was born. >> what happened on easter? >> i am not sure. >> jesus rose from the grave after three days. >> someone rose on easter. >> who was that? what does easter signify? >> the beginning of a new mom opening of the womb. >> what does easter signify? >> jesus dying for our sins. >> you have a lot of this. what does the easter bunny have to do with jesus? >> he brings all the eggs, jesus led them. >> the easter bunny in the old testament or the new testament? >> i have to say the old testament. stuart: okay. you know jesse waters. he does that a lot. that stuff is edited. he was asking people the meaning of easter. lady of lords church is with us. you must have heard that excerpt.

it doesn't surprise you? >> no. we have a lot to learn about our religion in general. one thing john paul ii did was call the religious leaders together three times together to pray together and learn what we each believe. there is great ignorance about other people's faith and what it means. you know and i know that it is good friday when jesus was put to death for the sins of mankind and on sunday he rises from the dead. that is our christian faith. even among christian churches in seminary the comparative religion courses we know, what do we believe, and religion is so often a divider. stuart: but you know about another person's religion. don't you feel america is becoming more secular, very rapidly? i get that sense. i saw this in europe. 40, 50 years ago i saw the

increasing secularization of the continent. i get the impression the same is happening here. you too? >> i think so. people have where ignorance comes in. stuart: let me tell you last sunday on fifth avenue new york city, i attended church, numb 1500 people were there, packed for a two our service. it was inspiring, the middle of

manhattan, secular manhattan. >> i know this weekend i'll our churches would be filled. usually those churches are filled with cultural catholics. they kind of believe it once or twice a year they go to church but it is more to affirm their identity of catholics as i would affirm my italian identity or irishman. i am not sure it is deeply in faith. i am both. when you are irish the best of both worlds. stuart: good to see you this good friday. news this morning from netflix. i will try to understand this. they are slowing video speeds for some customers. i think i got that. jo ling kent, take me into the story. don: they are slowing the quality of videos you stream

from your mobile device. it will be lower quality for verizon and at&t customers because they say, quote, it is about striking a balance that ensures a good streaming experience while avoiding -- they don't want you to go over your monthly data and pay more in data. they are not doing it to t-mobile and sprint because those companies don't apply the same fines. they will slow you down themselves. stuart: if i have one of these things, i want to watch netflix on this thing, they will slow the speed in which it comes to me on this thing to become an at&t customer. >> 600 kb per second.

you should know that. as you look at two hours watching a movie on your phone in high definition and the definition you want according to the journal, that is an $80 a month plan. if you are planning for your family budget this is important, these numbers are important. stuart: there are millions of at&t customers. ashley: they are being punished. >> does netflix get to decide how customers view or decide how much they pay for a service they are paying for themselves. >> i got lots more for you.

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>> more regulations on insurance companies. >> never. they are losing a bundle. >> 33 doctor visits before the deductible kicks in. >> last one. >> that will cost $55 billion a year. almost as much as the medicare benefits. the government is telling grandma she has to do what's left. >> this will not, obviously, reduce the crushing cost of obama. >> no. she will up the coercion. she is telling voters that they ought to make history by a lack to her. remember history. the first time she proposed her health plan. she was going to automatically

enroll them. she was going to garnish their wages. [laughter] >> forcing her into one-size-fits-all health plan. >> you hate obamacare. >> good friday. happy easter to you. >> this is a tragic and emotional story. a legal battle over a young girl ripped away from her there family. she has a drop of native american blood in her. here is that emotional video. [inaudible]

>> senator ted cruz said the police should be patrolling muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized. >> good morning. he said, before they become radicalized. moderate muslim friends and brothers. i will go into the neighborhood where the gang czar. stuart: you do not want the police force to be viewed as an occupying force.

he said to attacks were adverted by having undercover's in the muslim community. >> i want to stop the attack before it happens. the only way to stop it is by good moderate muslims communicating with the police. the police are not our enemy. >> the new york city police force. do they have a large contingent? >> they have been putting it on which is great. you get this big bird mare out there. they do not need to go into muslim communities. just imagine if they had undercover's in there.

imagine if we get one of those criminals. he is looking at 20 years. we put them in as an undercover. what do the people not understand? >> over in europe, there are no go areas. are you telling me that there are no go areas in america? surely not. >> i am talking about muslim new york city policemen. we can communicate with our good moderate muslim americans. i need that to interact with our police. control about a muslim area. good muslim people can go and say i saw something over there. let's be real about what we are going to do.

i was there when those villains came down. complacency is in-depth. >> i love you guys. thank you for having me on here and. >> we will take it did thank you very much. i will talk about what i called campus lunacy. every university upset after someone wrote donald trumps name in chalk on campus. watch this. if you are a conservative, if you believe in limited government, if you believe in a strong military, you are viewed as intolerant.

i cannot believe an american campus has come to this. what the devil is going on, charlie. i thought it was an article from the onion. trained and conditioned to look around. they have been conditioned so if they come across anything in the conservative realm, you should not necessarily say i disagree with this, but you should silence it. it is a scary set of circumstances. stuart: the exact opposite of what a college should be.

it is a free exchange. routing yourself off. sensing yourself off from other people's opinions. >> look at what these administrators are doing at emory university. so offended i team trump 2016. it was written in chalk. they are offering counseling services. they are reinforcing the intolerance. it is all propagated by one ideological group. they are so intolerant. i disagree with you. therefore you must be silent. this is a very scary to read. thank you very much, charlie.

on the left-hand side of your screen. we will dip into that when he appears. a young girl with a small amount of native american blood ripped away from her family. foster family. because of the indian children welfare act. this is a story that caught my attention. a young girl being ripped away from her foster parents. we have phrase laws that allow this to happen. they have brought a class action lawsuit against this challenging the constitutionality and saying, why are we dealing with

these children? every other child is not afforded the same protection. because they are not of indian descent. the law is crystal clear. this act, when it was passed in the 70s, serving the best interest of the child. we have two competing groups right now. if we were to repeal this law, we need tribal support. the law is so crystal clear. often times, they do not survive motions to exist. >> the parents that did take back this young child in this particular example, the mother, i believe, was using drugs or had been. given up for adoption because she came in with a black guy and she had been abused. i believe the father, i think, i should check, i think he was imprisoned, and now they want the child back.

how could that possibly be in the child's best interest. it is in the best interest of the race business. >> that is exactly the argument that these cases are making. as part of these cases challenging the constitutionality, they are highlighting both cases. why retaking these children from safe homes and placing them in unsafe homes. there was a bill passed in the senate. it calls for criminal background checks. again, i bring that up to highlight that it is necessary to have tribal collaboration if any laws are going to be changed at all. stuart: we understand that. thank you for bringing it to our attention.

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>> watch out. i am not very good with technology. i am told that there is a new technology for atms. use your smart phone to get cash. not your debit card. we are told that this is safer and quicker. watch this. >> you login the way you normally do. i press this button that says mobile cash. it will generate a qr code. why did you just put your little atm card in there. take out your card and put it in the atm.

the card readers, where skimming can happen, that is where one of the work, places it is stolen. they are always open and they are unattended. >> they have to cut off your finger. in order to use this technology, you can fingerprint in. i think that this will be obsolete. they keep advancing it. getting the cash out by zapping. >> i will not be getting all hooked up on my smart phone.

i walk into my bank and i've write a check for cash and i handed over. >> credit cards.com did report a couple days ago. for small purchases under $55, more than half of the people still use cash.rong with that? >> young people do not. [laughter] >> there you go. look who is here. john stossel. he has a big show tonight. lessons from cuba. do not you the wave at a baseball game if you are the president of the united states and people in europe have been killed. >> the bigger one and there are many is that this embargo has not worked.

give it up. it gives an excuse to say socialism is great. it works. you are only poor and miserable because the united states has this blockade. >> they stole property from our people and would not pay up. >> we will punish you and we will protect american investors. >> nonsense. it was leverage and you know it. that is all they want. >> how well does it work? >> wait a minute. watch this. >> our thoughts and prayers remain with all those affect it by tuesday's bombing in brussels. as you know, this tragedy has hit our military community as

well. it is a strong reminder why we need to hasten. the united states is committed as ever to our european trans allies. we continue to do more and more to bring the full weight of our fast military capabilities to bear and accelerating the defeat of faisal. after the chairman spoke to our commanders this morning, let me update you. first, we are systematically eliminating i sold cabinet. indeed, the military killed several this week.

including the leader, senior leader who was responsible for some external affairs and plots. he was a well-known terrorist within the ranks. dating back to the latest iteration as al qaeda in iraq. operations to pakistan. the removal of this leader will hamper the organization's ability to conduct operations both inside and outside of iraq and syria. this is the second senior leader we have successfully targeted this month. after confirming the death of the minister also wore a short time ago. a few months ago, we started with a storage site where it holds its cash.

now we have taken out the leader who oversees all the funding prices for the operation. as i have said, our campaign plan is first and foremost to collapse the tumor in iraq and syria. in theory out, motivated vocal supporters that we support recently took the town. ultimately severed the main artery between syria and northern iraq. as a result, it has become much harder for the leaders and forces to travel. they have moved from their staging base and they are demanding to new positions as part of the early stages of

operation to collapse. they said the earmark more. now providing artillery fire request of the iraqis. helping support the advance. protecting their forces. both syria and iraq, we're seeing we are seeing important steps to shape what will become crucial battles in the months to calm. we have taken a significant number of actions. next we target the number of associates.

destroying a significant quantity of explosive devices and bomb making equipment that could have been used against our partners. we believe that these actions have been successful and have done damage to i sold. the momentum of this campaign is now clearly on our side. working with our coalition partners to build on this progress as our counterparts throughout our governments work to defend our homeland at another time. one final note before we turn to questions. yesterday i spoke with my counterpart. defense minister. we agreed to convene a u.s. golf cooperation council defense. on april 20 in riyadh. ahead of president obama --

stuart: ash carter outlining some dramatic moves in the fight against isis. some successes they are written including the death of, the minister of isis. what we were waiting for, ash, was whether or not we put boots on the ground. ashley: i do not know whether he is going to take questions. a presumption that it is done by u.s. special forces on the ground. on the ground, they are able to use intelligence. leading them to specific targets and the cabinet members. i think without knowing for sure, i think that this is on the ground taking out the target.

20% in theory out. there is concern as they get more desperate. preparation for the crucial atolls to come in the months ahead. crucial battles in iraq and syria. a lot more action on the ground. the people that we are supporting their in action. john stossel is still with me. you are a libertarian. you do not go out there killing foreigners. that is not our business. >> we are much too involved in that part of the world. one of the reasons they want to kill us is because they are there in our front yards.

yes, it is our job to killed them. he will not go to any more detail. not going to confirm or deny how did we get this guy. you have no problem with killing him. >> no problem. >> how do they know. many of our intelligence officials feared a terrorist attack was being conducted. beating up and killing isis. now, ash carter is coming out on this good friday. this is what we have been doing. not just limited to going after the finance minister.

>> he did not see whether they got him at all. what else has he been saying? captured to these little devices. >> yes. bonds making materials. they believe that they have isis on the run. the guy who pays the fighters and pays for workgroup met. can the person to the right that the check book? it is important. how significant is it. >> going after and destroying the cash. is it the ied's. >> yes. >> knocking off a bunch of that. >> there could be more activity in the future. they get more desperate. they could unleash more terrorist attacks.

stuart: john kerry today, the question being put on isis right now is partly responsible for what is in your up. that is the increase for eight terror attack in europe.

is this trump shaming, liz? >> that is going a little far comparing him to hitler. you know, ben carson really did not put up a good fight here. trump has bashed women. he has expressed racist reviews. why are you still supporting him? ben carson said there is no perfect person. did not take the opportunity to respond. >> he is very likable. fortunately, his message is just

lost because he is so relaxed and so calm in his demeanor. the message gets lost. to compare him to hitler is an outrage. that is over the top. >> ben carson will be on the show today. he will respond to the comment about 30 minutes from now. ben carson on this program today. to the brussels attacks. the latest on the arrest and everything else. >> the region of russell's is now over. several explosions heard. we have a mother person taken into custody. they believe they have carrying a large bag and leaving it in the metro station.

the light-colored clothing in that picture of the three people in the airport. where is that person on the right. another big attack. brussels and paris. not exactly locked down. machine guns all over the place. >> there could be a guerrilla plan in place. >> they could do that. the european union law enforcement agency. the threat of isis in europe is more urgent. what is the latest on that much of mark.

>> the finding, the iceberg effect. if you mention 400. i have seen it as high as 500. i have seen it as high as 600. the numbers vary widely. sharing between security forces. figuring out how many web from france. how many migrants. >> he has said that. westernized migrants. that is what he is calling them. >> piers morgan.

was not real popular in america. well, piers morgan is now criticizing president obama's russell attacks. what the hell is wrong with barack obama. why does he not seem to have a clue how to behave when major atrocities happened around the world. what are your thoughts on this one? >> once again he has turned his back on america. he was in cuba. i think that that is why american women in particular do not feel safe. ted cruz has been very strong in his criticism towards obama veered also in controlling this eerie and refugees coming into the united states. >> very surprised to hear him say something like that. thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. our next guest spoke with a

prominent author that was born and raised in a strict muslim family. he converted to christianity after really studying islam. >> i began to open up the pages to investigate the life of mohammed myself. i found many things that were very surprising. islam was violent at its core. dennis: interesting. you did that interview, i believe, with that gentleman. >> it is very interesting. he had the unique understanding of what was islam. his father is a retired u.s. navy commander. they still practice islam. he converted to christianity because he believes, at its core, it is not a peaceful

religion. >> the vast majority are peaceful. islam has always been defied. there are some to be sure. it got more and more violent. that is powerful stuff. >> the isis people are using those verses in the current ron to i tack and radicalized young muslims. this is very interesting. a consistent threat feared radicalized muslims being introduced. intentionally choosing to follow. he looked at the current ron. compared it to people. understanding my religion to be.

has he converted to christianity? >> he has converted. he is a medical doctor. like our friend. he came to the conclusion. there are many muslims that this will offend. i'm going to interview a young man in your minutes. a member of the community. very peaceful. showing why these are in there. the problem with the koran is it is not a narrative like the bible. you have peaceful verses along with violent verses. the deal said because it comes at the end of the campaign, he believes isis is practicing much more real islam. this is where the conflict is very hard.

>> a guest on this good friday. >> you can find that interview on fox news.com. >> we will. lauren, thank you so much. appreciate it. i want to get back to that very emotional story. the child that has that small amount of american blood in -- a small amount of african american blood in her. next, the lawyer that is representing the family. ♪ [inaudible] ♪

>> new e-mails discovered from hillary clinton's private e-mail server which date back to her very first days of secretary of

state. what is this all about? >> special, she did not use her personal e-mail account before march 2009. basically, weeks after she was sworn in as secretary of state. reportedly, she has used her personal e-mail account. basically, credibility. >> did not use this private server before. she did use the private e-mail server. that is it. >> i will get back to that. the last couple of days. the young girl. she has a small amount of native american blood and her family

tree. being pulled away from the family that was trying to adopt her with whom she had been with for a long time. all because of a race based law. representing the family, the foster family, the family which is losing this young girl. you represent them. is that correct? >> that is right. this seems like this is a brace based law. the foster parents are suffering. >> i think that that is right. a law that was passed with very good intentions. at a time when congress identified a real problem. the problem was discrimination against native american families that resulted in the defamation of the native culture over many generations. instead of first bonding directly to that problem, they

enacted a regime under which children who are defined as indian, which would include a childlike lexie, eligible to enroll in the tribe, a regime where they are treated as second-class citizens. they do not have the same rights as other children. stuart: it is always in the child's best interest, the judge always comes down on the side of what is the child's best interest. i simply cannot believe that it is in this child's best interest to be ripped away from the family she has ever known. >> although that is true for all american children including other children in california, the union and child welfare act makes it difficult were a court to consider an individual child's best interest. >> well, who does? is it a tribal council who does

this? >> these cases play out in state work. under the law, the tribes have a right to notice and they intervene in these cases. they put forward their preference as to who the child should be placed with. >> a family court judge. a real person that said that child will be taken from that family because of this law. there was a single judge who said that. >> that is correct. i am for the law and this is what the law says and this is what we're going to do. >> that is a good question. the pages have pursued successfully to appeal. the first family court judge said it was heart wrenching. devastating decision. she said in her written ruling. the most difficult decision that

she has ever made. what chance that the foster parents will get that young lady back. >> i am hopeful. as their legal counsel and having represented them on appeals. pursuing an appeal now. as immediate court. i think that there are serious issues in the case as to whether it can be applied to a childlike lexie. who does not have any prior connections, social or cultural. stuart: when we first produce this story, i was under the impression that your case, that is not true. how many other cases like this are there before the court that the moment? >> you know, we just do not know. we do not have firm statistics

on that. many, in california alone, probably hundreds of thousands of children that would fall within the definition of indian child in that are in foster care or adoptive placement in the state of california alone. could be taken away from their foster parents. that could have been. >> absolutely. back and happen regardless of the impact on the child. >> we wish you well. thank you very much for coming on the show. we hope you make progress in this case. >> thank you for having me. >> the more i get angry, the more i hear about it. >> it is hard to watch. nonetheless, you have to see that. >> you have to question these old laws that have been on the

books since jimmy carter. >> next up. john kasich. a problem for ted cruz. he is stealing votes away from mister cruise. we will do what that in a moment. ♪

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drop out now. let's make it a two-man race. get out of the way. is the establishment going to him and saying that? >> i think you probably notice what i have, stuart. and that is the establishment to the extent it exists is utterly feckless. they can't -- stuart: true. >> they seem to not be able to do anything. the one thing we know is decisio dysfunctional, it's

the establishment. stuart: all right, fred barns, i don't think there's a chance of kasich dropping out any time soon. i think he's taking this to the convention. that's what he wants to do. >> probably so. stuart: thank you for being with us this good friday morning. appreciate it. >> i enjoyed it. stuart: okay. this is getting ugly. you know, this spat between donald trump and ted cruz over their wives. it's a full on spousal spat. cruz calls trump a sniveling coward. more on that in a moment. and tonight, wall street week 8:00. the fox business network new hit show. watch it.

stuart: a reading on the big picture economy coming out this morning. it's not that good. in fact, it's rather weak. the growth rate analyzed just 1.4%. joe friedman is with us. the economics professor at umass. i'm going to say he is on the socialist side of the ledger. he is a socialist. you're nodding. so you're agreeing with that characteristic. i'm glad we both smile because we're on opposite sides of the

fence on this one. i just want you to explain to me. if hillary clinton is elected the president, and she spends a lot more money on education and health care, how does that give us more growth? because i want to see growth. i want 4% growth. i think that would really help the country. help a lot of people. give me 4% growth. i don't think hillary can get there. do you? >> i don't think she can either. i'm with you. i would like 4% growth or even more. my projections for the consequences of the sanders economic program, he plans enough additional spending to get us to over 4% growth. hillary doesn't plan that much. stuart: more spending? the more spending from the government, you think the better it is? >> yes. because business is not spending. business is not investing. corporations are making a lot of profits and they're banking the profits and borrowing back stock because they don't see opportunities. the europeans have been

conducting this with policies for the last five years. their economies are stagnant and the united states we have had too little government stimulus to get the economy back to the growth path we need. stuart: look, i hear you. obviously i disagree with you. i don't see where we couldn't stimulate the economy on the private side. if we cut tax rates for individuals and cut tax rates for corporations, that puts a whole bunch of private money into the economy. which i think does a lot more good than government spending at higher taxes. >> tax cuts would be better than nothing. i agree. but tax cuts to business have largely gone to bigger bank accounts for the corporations . stuart: but that puts money available for capital investment. what's wrong with capital investment? >> capital investment would be great. but it doesn't happen by

pushing on a string. the federal reserve has been trying to promote capital investment with low interest rates and abundant catch, and it doesn't work because businesses don't see opportunities for investments in the united states. stuart: okay. >> because the economy is not doing well enough. stuart: okay. hold on, professor. i'm sorry. i'm almost out of time, and i hate this. this is a good debate. i would love to keep it going. am i right in saying that when you look at bernie sanders' economic program, you think with his huge extra amount of government spending and taxes, do you think we could get to 4 and 5% growth with bernie sanders? >> yes. absolutely 4% for sure. stuart: okay. i'm sorry we have to leave it at this, professor. look, we really thank you for being on the show. we always have a smile about it. you're totally wrong but it's always good. [laughter] professor. >> always fun. always fun debating with you. stuart: you get tenure?

>> oh, yes,. stuart: i knew it. i don't. >> everything's a pension pla. stuart: all right, professor. we'll see you soon. thanks a lot. >> thank you. stuart: all right. i want to get back to the serious talk to the terror attacks in brussels. we have new information about those people who were involved in the bombings. they were also filming, surveilling belgium's top nuclear scientist. they were trying to get their hands on a dirty bomb. seems that way to me. sebastion is with me the author of the book defeating jihad. sebastion, welcome back to the show. great to see you, sir. >> great to be back. thank you, stuart,. stuart: the idea that these two brothers set up a camera opposite of the home of belgium's top nuclear scientist. ten hours of tape tracking his daily routine. that takes it to a new and

higher level. what say you? >> absolutely. this is what the national security establishment has been most afraid of after 9/11. 9/11 was an ingenious plot because you took mass transit vehicles, and you turned them effectively into weapons of mass destruction. but if you could actually get hold of high grade wmd materials, then that's a total game changer. the fact is the nonstate actors like al-qaeda or isis can't manufacture their own nuclear weapons. that takes billions of dollars. that takes a gdp type of budget. but if you can steal those weapons or the expertise, that's another matter, and it seems that these people had some kind of plan to do exactly that, stuart,. stuart: i'm looking to belgium in particular. it seems to me belgium has lost sovereignty in parts of its own country.

the suburb of malbeak, of brussels, police don't go there. that's an extraordinary situation to be in, isn't it? >> well, yes, there's a huge problem here. i think america is about a decade behind europe and belgium, for example. what we have is the utter failure of immigration policy and the idea that multiculturism and all cultures being equal doesn't mean you have to integrate into the nation's where you arrive has created these enclaves. malenbeke isn't a surprise to anybody in the community that this individual was able to hide out there for months as one of the most wanted men in europe. so i think now, right now, europe across europe, they are very, very aggressive reassess being their aptitude of the

immigration policy from all of these places from who couldn't feel bradford uk where they can hide out and recruit. stuart: 20 seconds. do you expect another attack in europe in the very near future? >> i think that we're going to see more attacks of this kind. not only in europe but if you look at isis activity inform america in the last 18 months, we've had 98 people killed or arrested in the u.s. who are connected to isis. unfortunately, we will probably see more of the same, stuart,. stuart: sebastion, thank you very much for joining us, sir. we appreciate it. >> thank you. stuart: to american politics. senator ted cruz and donald trump latest feud really low-life and disgusted. that's what i'm saying. i'm sorry i'm outspoken on this issue. it revolves around those two and their wifes. justin is with me. he was the top advisor for governor jeb bush's campaign. justin, i'm a little upset

about this. when i see trump and cruz going at it about their wives, i'm not laying blame on either side, but i think it's just a departure for american politics, and i find it cringe worthy. do you agree with me on this? >> i couldn't agree with you more. there's so many important topics with terrorism that we were just discussing, the economy, how do we get 4% growth? how do we protect the homeland? those are the issues the presidential candidate should be talking about. the wives are completely earth. so i think that it's a mistake for either candidate to do that. i think it's a mistake for the outside campaign groups like these super pacs to engage in that. and i think it turns off the american people. stuart: do you think that the reaction is being so strong, but a lot of other people that i talked to. the reaction's so strong that this really is the bottom and the candidates -- you don't sound convinced it's not the bottom. it's going to -- tell me that's not true. tell me it's not going to get worse from here.

>> i hope it's the bottom. i hope it's the last time we have something that's cringe worthy like you said earlier. but i have to chuckle to myself a little bit because, unfortunately, it's not even april yet. we're still in march and still have several months of campaign let of to go. so, unfortunately, -- and i have to say that, you know, donald trump is, you know, during the campaign said a number of cringe worthy things about senator john mccain and other issues. so i think that, unfortunately, -- i hope this is the last time but i'm not sure it will be. stuart: do you think the winner of this spousal spat actually is hillary clinton? last question. you've got 30 seconds. >> yeah. look, i -- she probably is the winner of it because, look, women are important constituency in the republican party and the general election in november. and i think to the extent that they're having this -- the republican candidates are having this about debate, i think it probably turns off women as much as it does men. but i think this candidates to realize they have a woman who's likely to be the

democratic nominee, they're being more sensitive to that. stuart: and you're a republican saying that. thank you very much for being honest with you. we appreciate that. >> great to be here. thanks for having me. stuart: up next. more trump shaming. this time, dr. ben carson on the receiving end. he's going to join us in just a moment the pursuit of healthier. it begins from the second we're born. because, healthier doesn't happen all by itself. it needs to be earned every day. using wellness to keep away illness. and believing a single life can be made better by millions of others. as a health services and innovation company optum powers modern healthcare by connecting every part of it. so while the world keeps searching for healthier we're here to make healthier happen.

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stuart: whoopee gollberg on the view yesterday called out dr. ben carson for his support and endorsement of donald trump. roll tape. >> you're ben carson. why would you -- why would you align yourself with that? >> when i dropped out, my first choice went with me. i was going to remain neutral. >> uh-huh. >> but then i realized that, you know, the political establishment was aligning to protect their turf. and they don't like the idea of people who are not beholding to them and who cannot be controlled coming

into washington d.c. >> this guy is -- i'm sorry. he's a racist. and he's not good for the country. >> what's the alternative? [clapping] >> i'm sorry. i just -- i don't understand. you're ben carson. you're so much better than this. stuart: dr. ben carson is with us as of right now. dr. carson. always a pleasure. welcome back to the program, sir. >> thank you, stuart,. stuart: isn't this how the left always tries to shut people up by saying that guy's a racist. if you support him, you're a racist be quiet. that's what happens. >> yeah. that tends to be their mode. and they don't want to hear anything that even resembles opposition of what they have to say. you want to talk about intolerance, that's where you see it. and that's one of the things i mentioned on the view. i said first amendment rights are incredibly important. they're foundational in this country. and where do you see them being trampled on? you see it at trump rallies.

you don't see it at hillary clinton rallies or bernie sanders rallies. this comes only from the left. and they're unwilling and unable to even understand the concept that they're being unfair. stuart: but she just raised her voice. you -- we've often spoken, dr. carson. you and i have often spoken about this. you are a soft-voiced guy. you sit back not forward. your voice is soft not loud. whoopi just rolled over you. he's like hitler. he's a racist. arguably she won that audience. >> well, that was her audience. there's no question about that. but there are millions of other people who had an opportunity to see a voice of reason versus a bullying voice. and i think it makes an impression on them too. and what i hope to do at some point is bring america to a

point where we're willing to engage in rational -- you know, conversation. we would lay our points on the table. we discuss our differences. but we don't become enemies about it. we don't try to demonize each other about it. we have to reach that level of maturity. and if we don't reach it, we will destroy ourselves. stuart: last real quick issues. the spousal spat between trump and cruz. i think it's really awful. i think it really drags the discourse to the lowest possible level. do you agree with me on this one, sir. >> absolutely. and i tried to talk about that, you know, when i was running. i said don't you guys want to talk about the issues? you know, there's such important issues that are facing our society. we're destroying ourselves with debt. nobody even mentions the fiscal gap. you know, and you look at our leadership issues around the world. if we want a top personality, we want to engage in personal attacks? it doesn't make any sense.

and yet we, the people of the population is partly responsible because we encourage it. stuart: it is good friday. and we know that you are indeed a practicing christian, and we thank you very much for being with us on this special day. thank you, dr. ben carson. >> always a pleasure. stuart: thank you. look at this. the baby. oh, look at that. that is isabel caplin born with a very full head of hair. she was born with that. isn't that incredible? she has, by the way, liz, what we call perfect anchor her. liz: she has a future. stuart: extraordinary. liz: i love it. after the break dog fish breuer is here. they have a new series of spring beers. one of them inspired by this song orange crush by rem. we'll be back you focus on making great burgers,

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stuart: does it sell well? >> it has been selling well for 17 years straight. stuart: so you taste the beer, market them toward the season. >> yeah. stuart: and then you do what? sell a million cases of beer? >> we're the first americans focused on the entire global of culinary to put into beer. and as you know the craft breweries in america are growing mostly on the strength of very flavorful beers. stuart: so there's nothing you wouldn't put in a beer. >> road kill or something. [laughter] . stuart: you should never say that. you're on videotape for heaven's sake. how are you going to market road kill beer? >> i said we would never put that in beer. but i am fearless when it comes to you will culinary. stuart: a man that sells a million cases of beer a year is surely going to get an off offer from budweiser. >> we've gotten offers from

multiple international. stuart: that's because the price was too low. >> no. my wife and i, my coworkers love what we're doing. stuart: if i offered you tomorrow morning $100 million for your entire operation, you would take it. >> i would not take it. i promise you i would not, stuart,. stuart: don't tell me bud offered you 100 million. >> i'm not going to tell you that because you told me not to. stuart: no. no. i didn't say that. >> to be honest what gets us going is come up with new ideas from recipes and be in control of our destiny and that's the same for all craft breweries in america. and i love my job, and i'm not going to be going anywhere. stuart: what a pleasure it is to be temperated with a man that's not temperated with $100 million

stuart: let us take you to oshkosh, wisconsin where ted cruz has the mic, he has the stage. we're going to follow this

because i want to know. is he going to backtrack on the spousal war that he's got going with donald trump? i wish he would. my time's up. charles payne, it's yours, charles. >> thank you very much and happy easter, stuart. stuart: you too. >> welcome to cavuto coast to coast. i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto. and just confirmed. a u.s. special ops team in syria has killed isis's second in command in a predawn raid yesterday morning. defense secretary ash carter saying this just moments ago. >> we are systematically let menating isil's cabinet. indeed the u.s. military killed several key isil terrorists this week, including we believe hadji who was an isil leader, senior leader serving as a finance minister. >> this also just in. three people detained after police in brussels conducted raids today and they are reportedly linked to a frenchman arrested yesterday for plotting a new